Iâm using #Filen (@filen@filen) for a while now and Iâm very pleased with it!
ÂŤAffordable zero-knowledge end to end encrypted cloud storage made in Germany.Âť Works on #Linux, nice well thought features.
So Iâm going to share a referral link because ÂŤFor every friend you invite to Filen you receive 10 GB - and your friend also receives 10B. Itâs that easyÂť:
I have been using #Filen (@filen@filen) for a while now and Iâm very pleased with it!
ÂŤAffordable zero-knowledge end to end encrypted cloud storage made in Germany.Âť Works on #Linux, nice well thought features.
So Iâm going to share a referral link because ÂŤFor every friend you invite to Filen you receive 10 GB - and your friend also receives 10B. Itâs that easyÂť:
June 21st, 1789 - The Constitution for the United States of America is ratified, with New Hampshire becoming the ninth state to ratify. Article I, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution contain provisions which clearly prohibit the federal government and the states from granting titles: âNo title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex postfacto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.â However, no penalty for violating the Article is specified.
[47°09â˛53âłS, 126°43â˛10âłW] Analyzing samples
DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15)
img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")
So I went to see the documentation:
https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray
And came out empty handed, that is, couldnât understand what to do instead :(
And the plot thickens:
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063
(@py5coding I guess youâll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses this)
DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15)
img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")
So I went to see the documentation:
https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray
And came out empty handed, that is, couldnât understand what to do instead :(
And the plot thickens (this affects many projects, there are some workarounds, but some argument about ârevertingâ this change allowing some âmodeâ on import):
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063
(@py5coding@py5coding I guess youâll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses mode=âRGBâ)
#Pillow #PIL #Python
On Image.fromarray():
DeprecationWarning: 'mode' parameter is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 13 (2026-10-15)
img1 = PIL.Image.fromarray(my_array, mode="RGB")
So I went to see the documentation:
https://hugovk-pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/Image.html#PIL.Image.fromarray
And came out empty handed, that is, couldnât understand what to do instead :(
And the plot thickens (this affects many projects, there are some workarounds, but some argument about ârevertingâ this change allowing some âmodeâ on import):
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/9063
(@py5coding@py5coding I guess youâll want to check this out at some point. py5_tools.animated_gif uses mode=âRGBâ)
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guys oh my god i went to the flea market and i found a WORKING POCKET PC PDA FOR 10 BUCKS. WE ARE SO BACK
You know youâre getting old when thereâs quite a few scripts in your ~/bin that you use daily, but you havenât edited them once in well over 10 years âŚ
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org âAdvancedâ, well, probably more âmatureâ. There arenât a ton of crazy features and that icon thing is the largest code addition in the last 10 years. %)
Speaking of OS/2 ⌠I just realized that Windows 3.x didnât have icons, either. If Iâm not mistaken, this only got added in Windows 95. In other words, OS/2 had this feature before Windows did, because at least OS/2 2.1 from 1993 had icons. Who would have thunk.
(Now I kind of want to know which system really introduced this feature.)
[47°09â˛12âłS, 126°43â˛10âłW] âwhite noiseâ
@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/KDE_Plasma_5.21_Breeze_Twilight_screenshot.png
And GNOME used to have them, too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Gnome-2-22_%284%29.png
I like the looks of your window manager. Thatâs using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)
This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really donât get it how people can work like that. You canât even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then thereâs 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! Thereâs the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a âregularishâ 16:10 monitor and donât see shit, because itâs resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D
Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesnât serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/leafpads.png) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (donât recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛53âłW] Transfer aborted
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛25âłW] Resetting dosimeter
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛11âłW] Working impossible due to blizzard
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛34âłW] âno signalâ
We covered quite some ground in the two and a half hours today. The weather was nice, mostly cloudy and just 23°C. Thatâs also why we decided to take a longer tour. We saw four deer in the wild, three of which I managed to just ban on film, quality could be better, though. My camera produced a hell lot of defocused photos this time. Not sure whatâs going on with the autofocus. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-07-10/
When the sun came out, colors were just beautiful:
** Om nom nom LLMs, in which I respond to Simon Willisonâs analogy **
I am hesitant to wade into the tumultuous waters that are the discourse around generative AI and LLMs, but this morning I came across a thing that so thoroughly melted my brain I feel uncontrollably compelled to respond.
This morning, at evidently 4:10 AM (no mention of timezone), Simon Willison shared the following blog post, quoted here in full:
Quitting programming as ⌠â Read more
I didnât manage to leave the house yesterday. But when I went into the woods this evening, activity first was 10% of what it had been the day before yesterday. By the end it got a lot busier, about 50% of last time I reckon. Around 500 fireflies Iâd imagine. I might have been faster than the days before. When I left the forest, I was right in the fog, that was cool.
Shortly after, I saw another lightshow. Right behind the Wasserberghaus somewhere on the Swabian Alp there was very crazy heat lightning every 5-10 seconds. That looked absolutely amazing. :-)
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛00âłW] âinterruptedâ
Theyâre all talks, not real hands-on trainings like you did.
I love listening to good, well-structured talks. Problem is, not everybody is a good speaker and many screw it up. 𼴠Iâm certainly not a great speaker, which is why I gravitate more towards âworkshopsâ, in the hopes that people ask questions and discussions arise. Doesnât always work out. 𤣠At the very least, I almost always have some other person connect to the projector/beamer/screenshare and then they do the stuff â this avoids me being wwwwaaaaaaaaayyyy too fast.
We are usually drowned in stress and tight deadlines, hence events like today are super rare ⌠We used to do it more often until ~10 years ago.
Once a year the security guys organize a really great hacking event, though.
Oh dear, Iâd love to participate in that. 𤯠That sounds like a lot of fun. (Why donât we do this?!)
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛24âłW] Transfer 99% completeâŚ
Saw this on Mastodon:
https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471
18 rules of Software Engineering
- You will regret complexity when on-call
- Stop falling in love with your own code
- Everything is a trade-off. Thereâs no âbestâ 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
- Everyone hates code they didnât write
- Donât use unnecessary dependencies
- Coding standards prevent arguments
- Write meaningful commit messages
- Donât ever stop learning new things
- Code reviews spread knowledge
- Always build for maintainability
- Ask for help when youâre stuck
- Fix root causes, not symptoms
- Software is never completed
- Estimates are not promises
- Ship early, iterate often
- Keep. It. Simple.
Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed â but this doesnât âaddâ to the program. Donât use âsoftware is never doneâ as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.
** growing good **
ââŚfor the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.â
George Eliot, Middlemarch â Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net Iâm trying to call some libc functions (because the Rust stdlib does not have an equivalent for getpeername(), for example, so I donât have a choice), so I have to do some FFI stuff and deal with raw pointers and all that, which is very gnarly in Rust â because youâre not supposed to do this. Things like that are trivial in C or even Assembler, but I have not yet understood what Rust does under the hood. How and when does it allocate or free memory ⌠is the pointer that I get even still valid by the time I do the libc call? Stuff like that.
I hope that I eventually learn this over time ⌠but I get slapped in the face at every step. Itâs very frustrating and Iâm always this đ¤ close to giving up (only to try again a year later).
Oh, yeah, yeah, I guess I could âjustâ use some 3rd party library for this. socket2 gets mentioned a lot in this context. But I donât want to. I literally need one getpeername() call during the lifetime of my program, I donât even do the socket(), bind(), listen(), accept() dance, I already have a fully functional file descriptor. Using a library for that is total overkill and Iâd rather do it myself. (And look at the version number: 0.5.10. The library is 6 years old but theyâre still saying: âNah, weâre not 1.0 yet, we reserve the right to make breaking changes with every new release.â So many Rust libs are still unstable âŚ)
⌠and I could go on and on and on ⌠đ¤Ł
[47°09â˛10âłS, 126°43â˛35âłW] Non-significative results â sampling finished
[47°09â˛07âłS, 126°43â˛10âłW] Taking samples
Once again, I went on a hike onto my backyard mountain after calling it quits very late. This time I brought my cam along. The view was extremely hazy, but the setting sunlight resulted in cool colors. The freshly cut grass smelled wonderful.
I saw a flock of pidgeons circling around and some sort of rat or mouse quickly running over the road in front of me from one field into the next one with a giant nut in its mouth. Or so I at least believe, couldnât really tell, it happened so fast.
A couple enjoyed the setting sun on a bench and stripped their shoes on this warm evening. Somebody forget their bottle of water on the summit, but it looked rather cool in the evening light:
Not sure what theyâre doing, but they now set up scaffolding at the ruin. I heavily doubt it, but it would be cool if they rebuilt the castle. :-)
On the way back I met up with a mate who couldnât come along right from the beginning. We saw two deer on the meadow, but it was already too dark for my camera, the photos were totally rubbish. The sunset turned really pretty and colorful just in time when I reached home. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-10/
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