@bender@twtxt.net Let me offer some cheese to @xuu@txt.sour.is. :-)

This greenfinch isn’t all that green: https://lyse.isobeef.org/gruenfink-2026-05-02/01.jpg

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see, thank you. Maybe I remember next time. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Aww, this is beautiful! Too many people for me, but they’re cetainly great to show the scale. Quite some impressive falls. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, nice! I never was brave enough to try to move the OS to a different machine, always reinstalled from scratch. :-S

A mate also had this or a very similar white Samsung netbook. I remember typing on that thing was no fun at all for me, never hit the single right key. :-D

I’m not a fan of netbooks, there’s not remotely enough screen space for my taste. I always had 15 inch notebook. Sure, they are way heavier, but I can actually get work with them done. And yes, glared screens are an invention right from the devil himself. Completely stupid.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s a way much cleaner design. Not so overloaded anymore.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Happy birthday, little machine!

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, I didn’t expect that name either. :-D And it’s actually a cave, too.

@kiwu@twtxt.net Dang it! I first thought it was jitters due to your exams. Hang in there!

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh yeah, very beautiful! I can hear the roaring of the waterfall and like to be there, too. The first shot makes it look like you’re in the middle of a cave. :-)

@thecanine@twtxt.net Very cute. :-)

I completely forgot, I saw my very first badger in the wild the day before yesterday. :-) That was absolutely cool! <3

I heard something comparatively large rustling in the bush right next to me and thought that it must be dear. Naturally, I stopped and tried to see what’s in there. The rustling went up the bank and it suddenly came down again towards the road I was on. That’s when I first layed eyes on it and identified it as a badger. For a split second I thought that it’s going to get after me and was ready to get running. But it just hadn’t noticed me yet. When it eventually spotted me, it froze for a few seconds and ran off uphill. My camera took too long to boot, so it was already gone by the time the photo machine was good to go.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Absolutely right. And I cannot say that I’m not guilty of that either.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, that’s a nice one! :-D

Two mates and I went hiking yesterday. The sun was beating down on us, but luckily, it was also rather windy which helped to cool off. Unfortunately, we also encountered bucketloads of drunk hikers with hardcarts loaded full of beer who had to very loudly please everbody with their shitty taste of music. What a stupid tradition on 1st May public holiday over here. Other than that, it was a great hike.

I was pleasantly surprised that my trains were dead on time, so both super short times to switch connections worked out perfectly on both the way there and back. I did not expect this to happen at all and already braced myself for an additional half hour waiting time. Especially with the stupid Stuttgart Beer Festival right now. Even more drunk idiots everywhere and of course also in the trains. On the return journey, I learned about all sorts of family relations etc. in various Allgäu villages. Oh boy. At least nobody vomited, that’s a bonus.

Also, I sweated more on the first return Sauna-Bahn than on the entire hike combined. It was awfully hot in there.

Anyway, all in all it was a great time in the outdoors with my mates: https://lyse.isobeef.org/monrepos-favoritepark-hungerberg-ruine-hoheneck-2026-05-01/

@yarn_police@twtxt.net Looks like the rendering in yarnd is off. The second subject (prisoner error!) was robbed, its link text got stolen.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, mate! Yeah, that never gets old, there’s something magically about it. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net How poetic, very well said. :-) It calls for the small man’s adventures.

@kiwu@twtxt.net All the best of luck, mate! :-)

And a trip to my backyard mountain again. It was very windy, so the 16°C felt even cooler than that. But it will be back in the twenties tomorrow when I visit a mate for a hike, oof.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-30/

@bender@twtxt.net The horse shit looks really nice in that evening light, right? ;-)

It’s just so beautiful out here. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-29/

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Thank you very much! <3

I only filtered out the noise floor of the camera itself. I selected one second of “silence” in Audacity and used the “Effect” → “Noise reduction” (Rausch-Verminderung in German) dialog with its default settings. I repeated that two or three times in total with different sections of “silence”. It’s very hard to find something where there is really no other bird singing in the background. But in contrast to the original audio, the edited version is noticeably more squeaky I find.

Oh, and I increased the volume. Especially after the noise reduction, everything is a bit quieter.

I got rather lucky, only a few cars went by and my microphone is too shitty, to really pick it up. :-D It’s kinda drowned out by the background noise. 45 seconds into the video, a car passes. Also at 1:10 without a doubt. I’m sure there were actually many were. Most of them passed behind me, the mic is facing away from that sound source. Of course, the densely built-up area still reflects a lot.

It also helped that Azabache is a loud singer himself. Fortunately, no idiots screaming either.

If you want to compare yourself or play around to see what other improvements you are able to achieve, I uploaded the original from the camera in the same directory under the lovely name DSCN5687.MOV. It’s 236.1 MiB in size.

@bender@twtxt.net There ya go! 8-) https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-27/wiiiiiiiiiide.jpg

Fuck me dead, our sky burned down once again! https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-28/

You can hear Azabache somewhere in these trees, but the video only shows a raven. I think. There are also pidgeons over there, but it looks more raveny to me.

@bender@twtxt.net Glad you like it. At least it’s in landscape format. :-D

Really nothing spectacular at all today, but yet we still got some red for less than five minutes: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-27/ Azabache was hiding somewhere in the trees, I could hear him very well, but not lay my eye on him. The leaves are already covering him up perfectly now.

@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha! I was also very surprised to see snow. I didn’t remember that at all. It was gone by the evening again, see archive feed twtxt-2024-11.txt#2024-11-23T18:30:00+01:00. Unfortunately, neither Prologic’s nor Xuu’s yarnd searches yield anything. That message has probably long fallen out of the index.

@bender@twtxt.net It was really beautiful! Oh yes, always enjoy it while it lasts. :-)

Azabache was back today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/amsel-2026-04-26/

@bender@twtxt.net Ta! <3

@bender@twtxt.net Oh, this trekking bike is nothing special at all. It’s a Bulls Wildtail with only front suspension, 21 gears and standard V-brakes. The first immediate upgrade I did was mounting a pannier rack, it’s one of the most useful things.

I just quickly dug out this photo from one and a half years ago where it’s parked at our scout yard in November 2024. You just have to use your imagination on how the front looks like. :-D

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/bike.jpg

Ah, 02 is a Eurasian bullfinch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_bullfinch I think this is the first time I came across one.

I have to research what bird is 02. https://lyse.isobeef.org/voegel-2026-04-20/

In order to guard against accumulation of waste data, it is advisable to leave the memory card at home.

I left at full sunshine and completely forgot to bring my bicycle’s headlamp. The taillight is always on the bike, but the front one gets charged in the house after every trip. Luckily, I found a torch and roll of duct tape in my hiking backpack. It finally paid off that I always carry all this silly gear around.

A few weeks ago, I actually thought about removing the torch, because it’s been a hot minute when I last used it. Fortunately, I did not. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Sounds plausible. I’m only in a tiny section of the metal universe.

With all these new ways of digital publishing, I’m wondering for years why music artists still release entire albums. I would have imagined that most bands simply publish a new song whenever it’s good to go. But no, at least in my bubble, everybody still collects a bunch of new songs before throwing them as a collection into the crowd. I never used any of these streaming services, though, so maybe I’m just completely uninformed.

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, it’s crazy!

Somehow, your link 403s here, but I just searched it. At least it has the diagonals at the lower two steps. However, the two upper platforms also suffer from the plastic covers, it appears (I cannot tell the material from the low quality images I found). Maybe it is aluminium? I think some joints use machine bolts, though (but again, not enough detail visible).

Happy ladder climbing!

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net Oh dear!

I heard that the USA loves their success story of social security numbers.

@bender@twtxt.net I found the engineering explanations behind that super interesting.

PSA: Check your ladders everybody! https://youtu.be/0wqodPGId-8

Somebody really has got their session handling licked. I’m surfing in a webshop and opening another article to check on the details only to receive the error message: “An error occurred during the ordering procedure with PayPal. Please try again later or use the normal ordering process.”

@itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com Hahaha, Top secret! what a great movie.

@itsericwoordward@itsericwoodward.com I could not agree more. This is good stuff. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. :-)

@kiwu@twtxt.net Luckily, I already forgot about this trip by now. :-D

@kiwu@twtxt.net Thanks, mate! I’m glad you like them. :-)

My mate and I hiked some 16-18 kilometers to the Wasserberg. The 22°C sun was beating down hard on us. There were quite a bunch of clouds all around, but none of them casted the tiniest shade on us. Only in the second half we got a little bit luckier in that regard. Still, we were soaked before we even left town. Hardly any breeze.

Unfortunately, I left my camera at home and found it hidden behind the cettle in the kitchen after searching the entire house for some 15 odd minutes. However, a greenfinch paid me a visit this morning and I got it on camera. The sunset was crazy colored, too:

https://lyse.isobeef.org/gruenfink-2026-04-18/

Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Oh no, get well, mate!

Yes, our singer is a male I’m pretty sure. Of course, it’s hard to tell after sunset whether our blackbird wears a black or brown feather coat, but during daylight I’ve always only seen black ones sit on this roof ridge. It appears that Wikipedia is backing this up a little bit: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsel#Reviergesang

I just added a video. Hmm, filtering the background camera noise also makes the audio rather squeaky. :-(

The weathermen just cannot be right with their 20°C today, it must have been more. It was awfully hot, the light breeze was not enough and even absent most of the time. In the shade, it was alright. Other than that, the walk to the dairy farm and back was really beautiful. Very lovely scenery.

Somebody spilled their paintbox at sunset. Unfortunately, I missed to reinsert the SD card into my camera, so I could not take more photos of Azabache and his new mate. They quickly disappeared. He even landed right next to my window, so that would have been a killer shot.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-17/