Do I buy a new monitor or do I live with the burn-ins all the time? It’s getting annoying. When I edit images in GIMP, I have to double check if something is a pixel or a burn-in.

have you ever wanted to see an idol play violin live on stage? your wish has been granted

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@prologic@twtxt.net what a great world we live in! No wonder they marked this sector unoccupied.

We finally got a caliper donated for this year’s scout flea market. We didn’t sell it, but kept it ourselves. It will come in very handy every now and then in our material store. For example, I missed having a caliper in the past when sorting our random assortment of screws or measuring the depth of a hole. It’s a wee bit banged up (probably happened during transport) and didn’t come with a box, but the latter is now solved.

The lid and bottom came from a wardrobe back panel I got from a mate, the sides were rocket sticks in their former lives. I found some scrap of felt in our material store and some hinges laying around in the drawers of my own workshop.

Unfortunately, the table saw teared up the plywood veneer fibres badly, even though I put tape around to prevent that. This is the first time it didn’t work. At. All. To cover that up, I painted the box with some decades old tinting paint (price tag says Deutsche Mark, not Euro!) from my paint cabinet. It’s awesome, works absolutely perfectly and doesn’t smell the slightest bit. I reckon, this caliper box is plenty good enough for occasional use at our scout material store.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, luckily, there is the suckless project. I couldn’t live without dmenu!

Histórias do #Python & #FLOSS no Brasil

Entrevista com o @gwidion@gwidion
https://www.youtube.com/live/ia8aOZsDYOM

cc @apyb@apyb

Stories from Python History - #TalkPythonToMe Ep. 513

https://www.youtube.com/live/et9WtazSpZQ

#Python

We’re entering the “too hot to think”-season in 3, 2, 1 … and we’re live!

@prologic@twtxt.net I am finding writing my Notes very therapeutic. Just create a markdown file and commit, push, and it’s live. Whatever comes to mind, whatever I want to keep as relevant. Silly things, more like a dump.

If I feel like it, I do. If not, I don’t. Not social, not intended for anyone to see them. I am enjoying it!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmmm, that indeed surprises me, too. Looks like I live in a moorhen shortage area. Even ducks and geese are not all that common. But then also, there aren’t any substantially sized lakes around here. Just a few smaller ponds, which I don’t visit all that often.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. 😅 Quite a few of them waddle around at the pond in our village. But those two individuals were seen in a nearby zoo. They’re not zoo animals, they just live there. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net You can read more about the “cryptic” live coding language Punctual in my newsletter

Hey y’all 👋 I am told my “participation” is drastically down of ,ate So sorry 😞 Busy quite a busy few weeks at work with a reorg and lots of complex things happening in real live too 😅 – Hope everything is doing well 🤗

And to finish the day: Om Live at Pioneer Works 🤘 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnDKcoVHmY

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Also the so-called “deadline” isn’t set it stone. We’re all busy people with day jobs and lives, so we may have to move it anyway 😅

“Forgive me for the harm I have caused this world. None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on. I am thankful to have been caught, my fall cut short by those with wizened hands. All I can be is sorry, and that is all I am.”

that said, and reading to @sorenpeter@darch.dk and @andros@twtxt.andros.dev I have new thoughts. I assume that this won’t change anyone’s opinions or priorities, so it makes no harm sharing them.

It’s always tempting to use something that already exists (like X, Masto, Bsky, etc.) rather that building anything through effort and disagreement until reaching to something useful and valuable together. A ‘social service’ is only useful if people is using it.

I’ll add that I haven’t lost interest on the ‘hacky’ part of twtxt about developing tools, protocols, and extensions as a community. It’s the appealing part! It’s a nice hobby to have, shared with random people across the world.
But this is not the right way for me, and makes me feel that I’m unwelcome to propose something different (after watching replies to my previous twt). Feels like “If you don’t agree, you are free to leave, we’ll miss you.” Naah, not cool. I’ve lived that many times before, and nowadays I don’t have enough spare time and energy for a hobby like that.

Let’s see what happens next with the micro-community!

@bmallred@staystrong.run yeah! you’re right. Unfortunately, Decaf isn’t a thing where I live 🤷

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Yes see UPGRADE.md – I believe @xuu@txt.sour.is is now running this live after a couple of hiccups and a bug fix. So yeah if you can, that would be cool, basically looking for early beta testers (I was the alpha tester 🤣)

About the nuclear power plant on the Moon, they are beating us. There was a time we were ahead, but I understand nothing lasts forever. Now, being a world power for only one hundred and twenty some years, and a super power for around seventy sure is a record (as in short-lived). The Roman Empire lasted over 500 years!

@prologic@twtxt.net “curated” channels (you can see the guide to see the topics it covers), without the ability to fast forward, nor pause. You know, like live television.

@prologic@twtxt.net your live posting when something goes wrong is environmental storytelling it’s so funny help

@sorenpeter@darch.dk woah! Soren lives! 😅😂

Welcome back!

@sorenpeter@darch.dk woah! Soren lives! 😅😂

Welcome back!

I left XMPP because I found no interactions. Long live IRC!

@bender@twtxt.net Totally agree with you 100%. No photo could ever replace the experience of seeing it live on site!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah I’m in the process of rewriting (incrementally) the cache storage backend. It’s now been live for at least a week now and pagination and peering are the last things left to do 🤞

@prologic@twtxt.net I can live without highlights. Actually, I prefer not to have them. A good search is all I want.

@prologic@twtxt.net help your live posting is like environmental storytelling

“A Gamut Of Games” von Sid Sackson ist ein Buch über “andere” Spiele. Ich konnte die Tage einige davon ausprobieren: “Lines of Action” (LoA), “Three Musketeers” und “Network”. Alle haben, für mich, wunderbar frische Spielmechaniken.
Beim Lesen meine ich, bei einigen anderen Spielbeschreibungen, Vorlagen für das Spiel “Tak - ein schönes Spiel” entdeckt zu haben. Live is Remix!

I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.

It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.

With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.

In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.

So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.

The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.

re reading so NewRAMStorage(…) is just something that setups your storage and initial data.. that can probably live with storage/sqlite. The point is the storage package does not import the implementations of storage.Storage It just defines the contract for things that use that interface. Now storage/sqlite CAN import storage and not have a circle dep.

It kinda works in reverse for import directions. usually you have your root package that imports things from deeper in the directory structures.. but for the case of interfaces it reverses where the deeper can import from parents but parents cannot import from children.

- app < storage
      < storage/sqlite
      < controller < storage
                   < storage/sqlite
 
- sqlite < storage

- storage X storage/sqlite

@prologic@twtxt.net @david@collantes.us Good question, was this on live TV? I think it was? 🤔

The correct way to do Drum and Bass. // Om Live at Pioneer Works // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwnDKcoVHmY #NowPlaying

I just learned about a few to me unknown git settings: https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/ Let’s see how quickly I can’t live without them anymore. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de ahh, living in a small house in the middle of nowhere, yes! That’s my dream too. We live in the suburbs, in a relatively small community; it isn’t enough, though. Take a sick day, and blast that amp! :-D

Got myself a proper bass amp and now I really want to live in a small house in the middle of nowhere, where I won’t bother anyone. 😅

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net No right click thing, but in the terminal:

convert -strip -quality 70 -resize 300x original.jpg resized.jpg

“original.jpg” being the filename of the input file and “resized.jpg” the filename of the output. You can play around with the width, “300x” means 300 pixels wide and the height is determined automatically to still remain in the same ratio. The quality is how much to compress it. The closer to 0 the value gets, the worse the result, but also smaller in file size. More towards 100 and the quality improves together with a larger file size.

You have to install the package “imagemagick” for this to work, I believe.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Oh, I’m ready for my retirement, too. :-D Still have some decades to go, unfortunately.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net You could try starting it in the terminal in order to spot errors. Just open the GNOME Terminal or something like that and then type in “kolourpaint” and hit Enter.

“Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror.” - Albert Einstein

When I woke up today we had already disconnected from the Russian power grid. I checked the uptime of my servers: no reboots, no outages. Not that I was very worried. You can have a nice live view at cross border electricity flow here: https://dashboard.elering.ee/en We’ll connect to the rest of continental Europe on Sunday.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yeah i get so nervous doing version upgrades, this is technically my first time not doing it as a fresh install from a live USB, so i’m glad this went smoothly lol. scared to try it for my servers though!

Predicting what is to be expected in about four years in the USA : there is no way in Hell where Trump will allow any form of return to the way it use to be before he took hold of the country. He will let other people die to make sure his regime will stay on for as long as at least he lives.

@prologic@twtxt.net Since I live in Germany, I do believe the media here is generally reputable. It really depends where you live of course. Source I look at are Reuters, NPR, The Guardian, Die Zeit, NY Times, CNN, Tagesschau, Spiegel Online, RP Online (for local news), … I would never just trust what I see in my social media feeds.

@prologic@twtxt.net we live in hell

I’ve implemented Use only nick as handle if nick and domain is the same · sorenpeter/timeline@8c12444

See it live at:

• nick = domain: https://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://eapl.me/tw.txt
  
• nick ≠ domain: https://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
  
• no nick, use domain: https://darch.dk/timeline/profile?url=https://akkartik.name/twtxt.txt
  

I’m not sure I like the leading @ thou…

Have this bbs in my bookmarks. Live instance available in ssh://lowlife@45.79.250.220. Password is hightech

Live from Piksel Festival in about an hour via: https://www.twitch.tv/pikselfest - Also other presentations stating momentary

I’m giving a shot talk about twtxt/yarn/timeline tommow around noon CET at Piksel Festival in Norway. More info and link for live stream at: https://24.piksel.no
(So I will most likely not be joining the call)

I wish I could absorb some of the horrors the rescue workers will encounter in Valencia’s underground garages and basements, so they could somewhat manage on with their own lives after… #realheroes #cannotunsee

@xuu@txt.sour.is done, and done, and done. The three of us dropped our mail-in ballots, and received confirmation they are counted. Living in a red state (well, kid said it is more like purple now) makes me sad, and mad, but I have done what I can—and that includes explaining things to others, and encouraging them to vote.

Three days from today, towards the end of the day, we in the US will have an idea of who the nation’s presiding person will be for the next four years. In the 32 years I have lived here, I have never been more worried about an election outcome.

Inversion by Aric McBay was another random library pick. Like The Fall of Io, it’s the most recent in a series, though I think this series is pretty loosely connected. In contrast, the villain in this book is simple and cartoonishly evil. The book presents a design for utopia which was interesting but a little cloying. I’m not sure if I’m supposed to want to live there, but I don’t think I do. I enjoyed the book as easy reading, and might try the others in the series some time. (4/4)

I’m planning to be there tomorrow (message from yesterday, since we can not all live in the future;)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org on this:

3.2 Timestamps: I feel no need to mandate UTC. Timezones are fine with me. But I could also live with this new restriction. I fail to see, though, how this change would make things any easier compared to the original format.

Exactly! If anything it will make things more complicated, no?

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for writing that up!

I hope it can remain a living document (or sequence of draft revisions) for a good long time while we figure out how this stuff works in practice.

I am not sure how I feel about all this being done at once, vs. letting conventions arise.

For example, even today I could reply to twt abc1234 with “(#abc1234) Edit: …” and I think all you humans would understand it as an edit to (#abc1234). Maybe eventually it would become a common enough convention that clients would start to support it explicitly.

Similarly we could just start using 11-digit hashes. We should iron out whether it’s sha256 or whatever but there’s no need get all the other stuff right at the same time.

I have similar thoughts about how some users could try out location-based replies in a backward-compatible way (append the replyto: stuff after the legacy (#hash) style).

However I recognize that I’m not the one implementing this stuff, and it’s less work to just have everything determined up front.

Misc comments (I haven’t read the whole thing):

• Did you mean to make hashes hexadecimal? You lose 11 bits that way compared to base32. I’d suggest gaining 11 bits with base64 instead.

• “Clients MUST preserve the original hash” — do you mean they MUST preserve the original twt?

• Thanks for phrasing the bit about deletions so neutrally.

• I don’t like the MUST in “Clients MUST follow the chain of reply-to references…”. If someone writes a client as a 40-line shell script that requires the user to piece together the threading themselves, IMO we shouldn’t declare the client non-conforming just because they didn’t get to all the bells and whistles.

• Similarly I don’t like the MUST for user agents. For one thing, you might want to fetch a feed without revealing your identty. Also, it raises the bar for a minimal implementation (I’m again thinking again of the 40-line shell script).

• For “who follows” lists: why must the long, random tokens be only valid for a limited time? Do you have a scenario in mind where they could leak?

• Why can’t feeds be served over HTTP/1.0? Again, thinking about simple software. I recently tried implementing HTTP/1.1 and it wasn’t too bad, but 1.0 would have been slightly simpler.

• Why get into the nitty-gritty about caching headers? This seems like generic advice for HTTP servers and clients.

• I’m a little sad about other protocols being not recommended.

• I don’t know how I feel about including markdown. I don’t mind too much that yarn users emit twts full of markdown, but I’m more of a plain text kind of person. Also it adds to the length. I wonder if putting a separate document would make more sense; that would also help with the length.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m glad you like it. A mention (@<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt>) is also long, but we live with it anyway. In a way a replyto: is just a mention of a twt instead of a feed/person. Maybe we chould even model the syntax for replies on mentions: (#<2024-09-17T08:39:18Z https://www.eksempel.dk/twtxt.txt>) ?!

Hello twtxt! I’m James (or @falsifian@www.falsifian.org). I live in Toronto. Recent interests include space complexity, simple software, and science fiction.

Durante anos tive sempre de ir confirmar como criar um USB bootável a partir de uma imagem ISO. Usei o Unetbootin, Balena Etcher, e ultimamente recorria ao velho dd, mas a wiki do debian acaba de me dar a solução mais simples, e que funciona impecavelmente:

$ cp live.iso /dev/sda
$ sync

E tá feito

Wow, o Jean-Michel Jarre e o Brian May acabaram de dar um concerto em Bratislava e o video está up

https://www.youtube.com/live/GzjG95rB96Q?feature=shared

Added support for #tag clouds and #search to timeline. Based on code from @dfaria.eu@dfaria.eu🙏

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Sad to see moc removed from the official arch linux repos, but also cool to learn the debian project has been quietly patching it and keeping it up to date in recent years. Long live the music on console player. (And debian!) :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de the location is real. A few in the ‘hood mentioned seeing this person directly. They live somewhere on the hillside in the background of the video.

Sam Scranton’s new album Body Pillow lives up to its name. Giving it a big hug again this morning. #nowplaying

we presented jarotsim: a playground for the discovery, exploration and livecoding of Turing machines, at the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2023: Boundless Thinking workshop. we had a lot of fun! | https://compudanzas.net/jarotsim_at_hlci.html

I would love to be able to time travel back to the days when Talking Heads toured and witness one of their epic live concerts.

Esta mini-ficção em formato de artigo da Wikipédia delicia-me sempre que a volto a encontrar

MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain. It is a snapshot of the living brain of neurology graduate Miguel Acevedo Álvarez (2010–2073), taken by researchers at the Uplift Laboratory at the University of New Mexico on August 1, 2031.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

I love radio! It the best way to discover new music. No algorithm can recommend music as well as a live human can

hitler having been a furry makes kabbalistic sense: adolf (noble wolf) hitler (one who lives in a hut)

@prologic@twtxt.net #ratchet #lives

performed qiudanz tag on the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces Workshop 2022 | https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_tag.html

wrote guiding notes for the qiudanz tag exploration that we will be showcasing on the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2022 workshop. | https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_tag.html

accepted in the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2022 workshop with our qiudanz technique proposal | https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_devlog.html

applied to the Hybrid Live Coding Interfaces 2022 workshop | https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_devlog.html

in retrospect, i do remember expecting some message about “yes, you passed the test, you were actually living in a lie”, but i think that died when nobody gave me a bad grade for taking too long to become vegetarian. maybe veganism…

When the last superforecaster has given up, when the last bet has been resolved, you will discover that you can’t eat living by the sword

#event Upcomming Meetup in Copennhagen: algolab(the_art_of_live_coding) @ Støberiet / Computer Klub

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performed (a)live computing dance on algorave 10th birthday | https://compudanzas.net/alive_computing_dance.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ooh I used to live in a place with real autumn leaves and snow. That picture made me miss it heh.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk Lol! Fantastic that your grandma has been able to live to that age! My grandfather made it to 96, quite healthy and happy, and actually walking around by himself until the end. Best wishes of health!

We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced.

LOL! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
Not anymore 😭. I still have a self-propelled one, and electric, which is very nice. But when you live under an almost constant 32-35℃, with super high humidity, you cease liking working outside pretty quick.

Apple Store online down before today’s event. Less than two hours till it goes live!

The features that macOS Monterey will bring, albeit minor, will made for a better “quality of living”. I am looking forward to Notes, and the iCloud+ integration (Private Relay, Hide My Email). It also bring macOS cohesively close to iOS. My work 2015 iMac and M1 Mini will get it, so looking forward to it!

@adi@f.adi.onl Oh boy… we don’t want to go down that route. There is plenty to know about the Taliban, not just from the news but from people who lived—and still lives—under their “governance”; all of which is, I am afraid, much more accurate than your highschool girlfriend story telling.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Are they your goats? They look so cute, and clean, almost unreal! Where I live it is an eternal sunshine, it might fool you into believing it is paradise, until you steam, toast, and burn. 🤣

#event Tomorrow, Saturday October 2nd, I’m gonna be hosting a workshop at Processing Community Day CPH about Live Coding Visuals in Improviz. Only 5 spots left, so sign up now at: https://pcdcph.com

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not a big fan of retributive justice, but considering the fact that mosquitoe-borne diseases have killed half of all humans that have ever lived, we might consider exterminating the fuckers just because they deserve it.

Why do I keep writing simple English words like change or chance and save or safe, and live or life wrong?

#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Music and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event

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#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Visuals and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event

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For a blissful month we had our own strawberry garden, now I know what fruitflies live on in the wild.

2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net “Beautiful sunny day today, at Dululu.” <3

using a forked version of ed to do live coding #halfbakedideas

Live coding #improviz

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@(frogorbits.com) “@niplav Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.” -> I disagree, the people who i know that are interested in life extension look to me more engaged in life than the ones who are not (though that hinges on definitions of ”adding life to their years”). i agree that “adding life to your years” is underappreciated, though.

@adi@twtxt.net “I usually seen the opposite. Women are more interested in longevity and happy that studies show that they live more than men.” -> I probably could have been clearer: It seems to me that women are on average much less interested in life-extension (methods beyond usual health advice such as the old “exercise, eat vegetables”) than men. This might just be founder/sampling bias (life extension comes out of the relatively male dominated libertarian/techno-optimist cluster). Actually, maybe there’s just a variance thing here: median man cares less about his longevity than the median woman, but the variance for men is higher.

@prologic@twtxt.net @darch@twtxt.net Like with many things that live in a diaspora there will be many names for about the same thing. Just look at e-mail headers!