I noticed these two benches:

https://movq.de/v/19f5512396/IMG_20240623_104210.jpg

The dark area below them? It’s not a shadow, it’s dirt. O_o

Not gonna lie, hacking on dwl is fun. Not sure if it’s worth it (is Wayland really going to win?), but it’s fun. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Who would have seen that coming? 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net Soooooooo … what wins? Users or the Complexity Budget? 😏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! 👌

In (old, pre-compositor) X11, windows were rectangles on screen. Every normal X11 client could query all windows and their positions. Tools like slop were easy to implement: You can use it to interactively select one of the windows on the screen, e.g. to make a screenshot of that window. slop just queries the window under the mouse pointer, it can then highlight it and read its position. Done. (slop includes more bloat/eyecandy, but that’s beside the point.)

Afaik, that’s not possible on Wayland. slurp exists but there is no standard way (yet?) for it to query the window tree. It’s different for each Wayland compositor. slurp’s README includes an example for Sway; for dwl you need this patch; and selecting individual windows probably does not work at all on labwc (because those guys try to stick only to established protocols/standards – an admirable goal).

This is just a small example. I think things like these slow down Wayland progress/adoption a lot. You could get a lot more done on X11 because the rules weren’t so strict. On Wayland, everything has to become an official protocol (that each compositor then has to implement individually) or it’s going to be an incompatible, unofficial, compositor-specific solution.

Both approaches have pros and cons. Wayland is much more idealistic than the “wild west” of X11. The price is that it takes a hell of a lot more time and energy to push things forward on Wayland.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Nothing stops you from having two different sessions. 😏

Even if it might sound a bit overdramatic: Having a “mostly working” dwl Wayland setup now is a huge relief. 😅 It’s quite the weight off my shoulders.

There are still lots of items on my TODO list, but if X.Org were to die tomorrow, I wouldn’t be completely screwed. Only, like, 30% screwed.

@bender@twtxt.net Ha! That’s the way to go! 😃

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, yeah, looks a bit better than ai.txt / robots.txt, but I wouldn’t trust that they don’t spoof their user agent. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net And it won’t be the last. 😅 It’s inevitable at this level of complexity …

@prologic@twtxt.net I’ll grab my popcorn. 🍿

Lot of testing going on here today. 🤣

I meant to post a screenshot: https://movq.de/v/5d73604d79/20240618_21h09m16s_grim.png

Well, I have a very basic setup going now that I can use for further experiments.

In the long run, I’m going to effectively fork dwl. I’m very glad that this project exists, saves me a lot of work. I think this is the only way forward for me – any other compositor out there requires making too many sacrifices.

The big question is: How stable is wlroots (the underlying Wayland library)? There appear to be a lot of breaking changes in each release, these are the last two releases:

• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.17.0
  
• https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/releases/0.16.0
  

Will I have the resources to keep up with that? Maybe it’s still too early to begin this journey. 🤔

There’s hope regarding Wayland.

I’ve tried dwl a few years back, but my keyboard didn’t work. This appears to have been fixed, probably due to advances in wlroots and this commit.

And look at it: It’s just about 3000 lines of C code. That is hackable. That is something that I can fix, extend, or adapt if needed. That is the way to go.

Thank goodness, finally some good news.

For (my) future reference: Whether or not my keyboard works in a (wlroots) Wayland compositor depends on whether that compositor uses wlroots’s keyboard groups: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/1771

Interestingly, this isn’t such a crazy rare scenario after all, see this comment regarding XF86MonBrightness*: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/1771#issuecomment-515507790

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com mutt has the $header_cache option, which might help a bit:

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#header-cache

I disabled it over a year ago on my machine, because it didn’t make that much of a difference anymore. 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com lol, that’s mean 😂 Nah, I didn’t, but maybe I should. 😂

There’s the european soccer cup currently going on. I sometimes watch some of those matches. As do my neighbors.

When there’s a goal, though, it takes them a whole minute to begin cheering. That is some excessive buffering. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Whose ducks are those? 😍 And that appears to be a Yellowhammer (Goldammer) in 10, 11, 12. 👌

@xuu Hello!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Every time a little bit before you play. Sometimes more. 😅 It’s easily noticeable if there’s not enough rosin on the bow, because there won’t be enough friction and the bow will begin to just slide over the strings. Sounds horrible. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Indeed, it’s quite translucent. 😃

It depends on the type of rosin, though. The one that I used before is basically opaque and also much harder:

I intentionally went for the softer rosin this time, because I find it easier to use. It’s stickier and can be applied to the bow much easier.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org All those twts have the same hash, so I don’t see any duplicates in my client. Phew! 😅

Got a new pack of rosin for my double bass. There was a large bubble of air trapped inside. 🥴 It slowly made its way up over the course of a couple of days and now it finally burst. 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ah! That’s a great reason, actually. 😊 Exploring for the sake of exploring! 👌

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com What is FreeBSD’s killer feature these days in your opinion? In other words, why are you experimenting with this OS in particular? 🤔 Not saying it’s bad, don’t worry. 😅 Just curious, I haven’t had it installed in over a decade, I think.

The little story behind the “pipes” screensaver: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240611-00/?p=109881

(Hurts a little that he felt the need to clarify that “this was in the days before widespread Internet access”. 😅🧓)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks to me like this was an edit. I still have the original twt hash tuoqlua in my “cache”. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net

24°C brutal? Pfff, try 33°C then, and a 53% humidity. 😂

Bah! We like it cold over here! 😂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBkOOYbPrAo

@bender@twtxt.net Honest question (since I obviously know very little about this): Can you debug this? Let’s take the strawberry example. Can you pinpoint which bytes in your data/model/code/whatever are responsible for the answer “there are 2 Rs”, and then go ahead and fix them without affecting anything else?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org “skip” = “garbage container”? So, lots of houses got flooded? 😨

@xuu lol, well, guess I’m the only idiot to ever have paid money for this 🤣 (Don’t worry, won’t happen again. 🤣)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Too late for that. 😅 I don’t have direct control over those boxes. I’m just the guy they call when shit hits the fan.

(If XP didn’t have this silly product activation, I’d probably agree. 😅 But as it stands, Win2k was “peak Windows” in my book. 🥴)

Speaking of “AI” … I guess I gotta find out soon how to disable/sabotage Microsoft’s “Recall”, before this garbage takes over the family computers. 😩

(There’s no way the people in question will switch operating systems. I’ve tried, countless times.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Sometimes some “coding AI” spits out some partially useful snippet, and then one of us nerds panics and claims the end is nigh. I think that’s about it. 🤔

All these “AI” topics are extremely boring to me. (Traditional) computer stuff is a hobby and a passion of mine because I can understand it. How does an operating system work, how does a web server work, how does a keyboard work, how do you do 3D graphics, … All those are things that I can learn and understand, and that’s the thrill. But anything related to “AI”? It’s just statistics and a large model that spits out something for some reason … Super boring. I couldn’t be less interested.

And on top of that, “AI” requires a ton of energy (as far as I know), which we, as a species, cannot afford right now. It needs to stop.

@tkanos@twtxt.net You’re right, it appears to be quite rare. 🤔 I checked a couple of my boxes and only Supreme Commander and FEAR want to see a service pack. I didn’t try installing them, yet.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh shit! 😨 I hope you get through this safely. 🤞

Wundervolles Hörspiel aus dem Jahre 2008:

https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audio/wdr3/wdr3-hoerspiel/audio-moment-das-wird-sie-interessieren—telefonhotline-elend-100.html

Genau so isses heute immer noch. 😂😭

@prologic@twtxt.net Nice 👌

(What’s that black spot in the upper right corner?)

No photos to share at the moment. 🫤

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ohhhh, that’s lovely! 😍

@tkanos@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Thanks, but the thing is that Microsoft has blocklisted these well-known keys in their Service Pack installers. So, yeah, it works, but only for a basic installation of XP – and some games demand a Service Pack being present. 🫤

I don’t remember having seen bender’s key, though. Maybe that one works. I might give it a try some day, when my motivation is back up. 😂

For now, I removed the BIOS battery from the PC in question. 😂 I just want to play some older games, that’s it. Let’s see how long it’ll work that way.

(To be fair, I could have seen it coming back then. It was well known that you have to activate Windows XP. I still “bought” it. Lesson learned: It was a rental, for a limit period of time.)

Wasted another hour trying to get Windows XP to work again (while avoiding totally shady stuff). Not much success.

Windows XP has scarred me for life. 😂 I bought this thing, cost me 140 bucks, but I can’t use it anymore because Microsoft says so. Screw that.

I won’t buy commercial software anymore and haven’t done so in a long time. You want an online activation or, better yet, some sort of subscription? Screw that.

Up until the end of the 1990ies and very early 2000s, it was okay to buy commercial software. Things like StarOffice 3.1 still work just fine today, because you can just install it, done.

Free/libre software is the way to go.

Good old (bitmap) Helvetica works as a GUI font again:

https://movq.de/v/2456cfb05a/helvetica.png

This broke a year ago and I gave up on it. Now it’s back. Crisp fonts, just like in the terminal. 💚

This is much easier for me to read. Maybe it’s because of my myopia. Everything is a little bit fuzzy anyway and font antialiasing on top is really exhausting for me.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I think that’s the correct URL: https://staystrong.run/user/bmallred/twtxt.txt

But I can’t do anything. 😢

https://movq.de/v/dd46b2faa2/s.png

Wait, no, the “cancel” button works and I’m in! 😂