@bender@twtxt.net 😃 Pronunciation: Marie Twixt?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, it’s hard to catch these colors on film.

We also had some 5°C today but with a lot of wind. Super chilly. I was only out for 30 minutes. 😅🥶

@bender@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com … oooooooohhhhh! 😂 That took me a minute.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That what? 😅

It’s been so rainy and windy and cold these last few days, I hardly left the house. 😩

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Omg, this is brilliant. 😃

@prologic@twtxt.net Uh, yeah. I forgot about that, sorry. 🥴

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks awesome!

(I often view your photos in the evenings when redshift is active. That probably gives it a nice extra warm touch. A bit like bass-boosted music.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sooooooooooooooo … you order now and they deliver in April? Sounds like a good deal.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, well I guess I just expected ants to be tiny. But that girl looks like it’s the size of a regular bug/spider. 😅

I didn’t realize that the queens of our very common black ants are huge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbAsdiE7ZI

You guys make it sound like a stupid idea. 🤣 Dunno, I like the idea. But I also like writing in general and calligraphy, maybe that’s the reason. 😝

„Junge, du bist zu dünn. Du brauchst mehr Speck!“

Okay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTDwPnfTXXU

twtxt.net lost its dark mode? It’s glaringly bright now. 😎

@prologic@twtxt.net Nah. twtxt + Mastodon is enough social media for me. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Yep. 😅

I thought the same thing as this person in the comments:

Whenever a band looks like this I always like to imagine a conversation where at least one member was like “I ain’t wearing that, man”

🥴

Since we’re liking masked musicians here on twtxt, let me share this gem with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4X56wIOZns

Glass Beams - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

@bender@twtxt.net Because the cities are too optimized for cars? 🫤 Yeah, I live in a somehwat rural area and you can use the bike for a lot of things. There aren’t many “big” cities here anyway, that’s true.

Had a test drive on a foldable e-bike today and now I’m extremely tempted to get one of those things. 😅

This is a good reminder to support the work of the FSFE:

• https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230323-01.en.html
  
• https://fsfe.org/news/2024/news-20240312-01.html

@bender@twtxt.net I noticed that I can’t type a . directly. Yesterday, I pasted the number from an email (because why would I type it and probably make a mistake in the process?), so it looks like it simply stripped the dot entirely …

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Dots as thousands separators are the most confusing thing to me. 🥴 I like '. Basically, anything at the bottom should be a decimal point and anything at the top a thousands separator.

Maybe it’s time to think about taking the website and all software offline.

• https://www.heise.de/en/background/Software-providers-beware-They-are-now-liable-for-defective-products-10028867.html
  
• https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/public-register/document-details/?ImmcIdentifier=ST-5553-2024-INIT&DocumentLanguage=EN
  

This will open the gates of hell, allowing lawyers to harass free software developers. Not because of the actual content of those proposed laws, because there is supposed to be an exemption for free software – but because there is a great tradition here in germany, where lawyers just make false claims and try to extort money from you. Can you safely ignore them? Should you seek legal council immediately? You never know. It’s best to avoid becoming a target in the first place.

Besides, the current wording is just an EU thing. It will have to be transformed into german law (and french law and spanish law …), which means our legislative bodies can screw up things big time. It’s quite possible that they won’t include that exemption or include it in a very vague and ambiguous way.

I’m really angry right now and hopefully I’ll think differently tomorrow.

Numbers are hard. I just almost accidentally sent 33k€ to someone via bank transfer, because the banking website interpreted 334.90 as 33490,00. 😬 This is germany, so it wants a comma, not a dot …

I love Al and his bass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnDKcoVHmY

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

HTTP caching headers

Yes, absolutely, this should be mentioned in the spec. I’m guilty – when I first wrote my twtxt client, I forgot that If-Modified-Since is a thing. 🤦

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though?

This is from a twt of mine from January 2022:

https://www.uninformativ.de/files/twtxt/2022%2D01%2D22%2D%2Dfollow%2Dendpoint.md

(This idea gets lost all the time, so I put it into a file now. 😅)

Not sure if this is what @eapl.me@eapl.me had in mind, obviously.

@bender@twtxt.net Ohhh, nice! I tried to learn Morse code a while back (well, 11 years ago, apparently), but never got very good at it. 😢 Ultimately, I didn’t have a real-world application for it. 🫤

(I don’t think this is related to or caused by the US stuff. It’s weird timing, though.)

The german government fell apart yesterday and now we’re probably going to have new elections within the next 4-5 months.

It’s too early to tell, but it’s not looking good. We don’t have an orange clown (yet), but the country is deeply divided. Right and far-right parties are on the rise.

😐

… aaaaaaand it’s over.

@prologic@twtxt.net Our media still shows a theoretical chance for Harris. 😬

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Great shots indeed! 👌 The return of Slenderman. :-)

Oh, since @falsifian@www.falsifian.org mentioned it: I think I’m gonna steal this:

a{cursor:zoom-in}

😅

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net

Even the Tech news doesn’t grab my attention anymore

I noticed that as well about me. I stopped reading big and popular news outlets long ago. Maybe it’s because I’m getting old or maybe it’s because the 73128937189th article about blockchain (or “AI” these days) just isn’t interesting anymore. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, she didn’t use those exact words, but since I’m under 60 years old and not in a “risk group” either, she didn’t want to give me an appointment. 🤪

Getting Covid shots is ridiculous here in Germany. Not once have I gotten a shot from my GP. Every time I had to hunt down some doctor who’s willing to do it. It’s almost like a black market …

(Okay, granted, in that one year, there was an official vaccination campaign and there was an official vaccination center where you could go.)

Tried to get a Covid booster, lady at the phone told me: “Nah, fuck off, you’re too young.” 🥴

@bender@twtxt.net I’m so deeply concerned we even have to discuss the orange clown. 😩 All voodoo dolls up and running. ✅

Funny wobbly moon sets:

https://movq.de/v/4bba078992/moon1.ff.jpg

I also tried to do a little stacked thingy, not too happy with it:

https://movq.de/v/4bba078992/stack.ff.jpg

@prologic@twtxt.net Lol, people with poor vision are properly fucked in that app. 🫤

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt If I’ve learned one thing over the years: If there is a feature, people will use it. No matter what. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’ll be happy to wait until the show finishes. Just get me off this planet! 😂 https://movq.de/v/96d00c53b5/borg.png

So, I’m forced to use WhatsApp now. Someone told me: “Hey, I’ve been doing $thing, check my status!” Okay, fine, I open that and it shows a photo.

Then, while looking at that photo, it’s suddenly gone. No, not gone – there are several photos and it switched automatically to the next one. The timeout appears to be four seconds.

JFC, I’m getting too old for this. Let me look at the damn photo! Don’t rush me! 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It was pretty obviously man-made. Or … creature-made. 😏 Who knows, maybe it was aliens! But why didn’t they take me with them? 😩

Too irregular for a lightshow. Must be cars. Damn, I wish I could tape this. 😅

I’m seeing strange lights in the sky. None of my cameras are sensitive enough to make a video.

It’s probably one of two things:

1. A ship on the nearby river with a lightshow going. It’s rare but it happens.
   
2. A steap hill nearby, cars driving “upwards”, and since super bright LED lights are normal nowadays, they reflect from the clouds.
   

Either way, looks fancy.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I … I can’t … what? 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Oh noooooo! 😱 Poor you. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net … well, we had people lighting fireworks and bangers. 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Honestly, I feel horrible today. 😂 I had to pump lots of cold air through my lungs yesterday because I walked so fast – and now I feel like having a cold. 🤒 Like that cold air did some minor damage in there … (I have no idea if it really works like that.)

I’ll certainly test for Covid before meeting people tomorrow.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Yeah, wow, that’s tough. But it’s good to know that the headercache helps. 👍

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt May I ask which hardware you have? SSD or HDD? How much RAM?

I might be spoiled and very privileged here. Even though my PC is almost 12 years old now, it does have an SSD and tons of RAM (i.e., lots of I/O cache), so starting mutt and opening the mailbox takes about 1-2 seconds here. I hardly even notice it. But I understand that not everybody has fast machines like that. 🫤

@bender@twtxt.net Right, it fetches archived feeds on the first run (because it wants to grab all twts from that feed). Later on, it keeps track of the last seen twt hash per feed – if it cannot find that hash anymore, then it concludes that the feed must have been rotated/archived, so it fetches some/all archived feeds again until it finds that twt hash. Easy, right? 😅