@prologic@twtxt.net What the heck. 🫠

A depressing video about the current state of printers that just ends with “fuck this, I’m gonna talk about my cat now”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lyse, the man with feet of steel. 🦾

@eapl.me@eapl.me Sounds like a great idea! 👍

@prologic@twtxt.net I formed my opinion about this before reading/watching any additional media coverage. And yes, this is extremely bad. These two have no place on the “world stage”. They are deciding on our future. (And I am well aware that my country is heading into a similar direction – unless we stop it.)

@prologic@twtxt.net I wonder if we watched the same video.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lalala, ich höre nix. 🙉

Aber total unrealistisch. Die „Fokuszeit“ hätte überbucht sein müssen durch ein anderes, wichtiges Meeting. Sonst war ja kein Platz mehr dafür.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks like a nice day. 😊 I tried to go on a quick walk, but it was really cold. And everything’s wet at the moment. Bah.

Clothespins in the woods, who would have thunk? 🥴

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

These two degenerates … Fucking hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ56ibIel1U

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Schon. 😭

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

@arne@uplegger.eu That’s nice, but … where do they get the money for this? Must be expensive as heck. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, well, what they want is for us to become hopeless and give up. We should just try. Not wait and … wait.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@collantes.us I often think about moving to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It’s a long way from home and probably not realistic, but one can dream. 😅

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. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.

What makes AfD stronger for sure is just going “lol nah we’re not even going to try”:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-verbot-antrag-100.html

If they don’t try, then it means that “it can’t be that bad, it’s just a normal party”, right? 😡

Du brauchst schon fast keine AfD mehr, wenn du Medien (ÖR!) hast, die so die Interviews führen: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-mit-bodo-ramelow-linke-ex-ministerpraesident-thueringen-zur-wahl-100.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just [don’t?] give a fuck about the ordinary people, they’re only concerned about their private gain and power.

To a large degree, yes. But I think the media is also equally at fault. There was absolutely no reason to invite AfD people to every event and let them talk. This has been going on for over 10 years. When we give them a stage to spread their hate, are we really surprised that hate spreads … ?

I don’t know the answers to this desaster. I’m beginning to think that people literally just want an outlet for their frustration, nothing more. It’s not about what particular parties actually plan to do. At least I think this applies to people in their 30ies and 40ies.

@bender@twtxt.net Sorry to disappoint (again): https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/24/latest-calculations-conclude-asteroid-2024-yr4-now-poses-no-significant-threat-to-earth-in-2032-and-beyond/

Oh, my feed rotated recently. Did anybody notice? 🤪

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:

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East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.

The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.

Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:

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The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.

This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.

Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).

I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.

Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.

@bender@twtxt.net Hmmm, does that mean it’s not that popular in the US? 🤔

The Americans are spreading links to sites with European alternatives for popular services, yet here I am, scheduling appointments with the construction workers over WhatsApp.

Those are some impressive wigs: https://imgur.com/gallery/life-imitates-video-game-5KlJBhj I wonder how it feels to wear such a thing for a day – especially in summer. 😅🥵

Had some fun with my old Mandelbrot renderer: https://movq.de/v/83110057f5/

@prologic@twtxt.net I wish getting a static IP and a (more) stable internet connection wasn’t so hard over here. Then I could do proper self-hosting as well. But as it stands, I need some rented VPS.

I could go ahead and just use the VPS for the IP, i.e. forward all traffic through Wireguard to a box here at home. Big downside is that the network connection would be even slower than it already is and my ISP breaks down all the time for a few minutes … it’s just bad overall and much easier/better to rent a VPS. 🫤

I am so, so, so fed up with the arrogance of people in tech. People think they know everything. Everything is easy and trivial. “Told you so!”, everywhere you look. And this bloody condescending tone, all the time. When I ask for an opinion, I don’t want to get a “well, duh, idiot”. For fuck’s sake.

It’s nothing new, it’s always been like that. Which makes it even worse.

This really makes me not want to work in this field anymore.

How it’s going? This is how it’s going: https://movq.de/v/b744b63cc1/oh-fuck-sleep.mp4

(I keep thinking that going back go Gopher or Gemini might be a good idea at this point. They don’t care about that, probably. 🫣)

Saw Windows 11 for the first time today and genuinely had to ask if this is really Windows. Looks a lot like KDE.

(At first, I thought the touchpad of that laptop was broken, because a right click on the desktop didn’t do anything. But it worked just fine. It just takes ~10 seconds for the popup to show.)

@jost@jost.sdfeu.org Happens to everybody. 😂 Well, except for a few people. I have this colleague at work who remembers everything. It’s scary. 😅

One week of not tinkering with my OS and I’ve already forgot ~80% of it. 🙄

I’ve seen people refer to themselves as “Quakers” and I thought, “yeah, I liked those games, too!” But apparently, they mean something else. 😬 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers

@arne@uplegger.eu Der Real-O-Mat ging neulich auch rum: https://real-o-mat.de/ (Ändert bei mir im Ergebnis nix, die Antworten/Begründungen sind aber interessant(er).)

Every time I go to the office, I get nothing done. Unbelievable.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m gonna give you a hint: Octal, decimal. 😅

View from my window last evening:

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Moon, Venus, an airplane in the top left corner, wind parks in the distance.

(This is already too much for a standard camera. The moon is super bright, the rest is not. Guess I should go HDR some day?)

Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas?

QmVjYXVzZSBPY3QgMzEgPSBEZWMgMjUuCg==

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Yet another internet outage. Getting more and more of those. 😒

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ohh, I love them. Ever heard one calling? Pure dinosaur vibes.

Das Firmenhandy sagt mir nach einem Update: „Dein Pixel kann jetzt noch mehr!“ Aha. Ist es jetzt ein Voxel? Kann’s jetzt mehr als 256 Farben? Oder was? Ich bin eindeutig nicht die Zielgruppe solcher Sprüche …

Didn’t really work on my OS this week. Well, editor and assembler also run on DOS now, but that wasn’t hard (still cool!):

https://movq.de/v/13bf8c77b9/los-tools-on-dos.mp4

The subshell thingy also works on DOS, I like that.

Typical construction site: Absolutely nothing happened so far. If there’s still nothing going on by Monday, I’m putting some of the disks back in.

„Das Leben ist hart“, albert ein Stein.

– irgendwer auf YouTube

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club @arne@uplegger.eu Don’t let your telescopes rot! 😃

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They say, 18:48 today is the next time slot: https://social.bund.de/@dlr_next/113859521382441187

ISS (the long “line” on the right) passing Venus and Saturn:

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Jupiter and its moons a few days ago:

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Not spectacular shots, but hey, it’s something.

Also saw the crescent Venus and Saturn’s rings through my scope (you know, the one for bird watching).

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Maybe with the very simplest of the easy ones it might be still reasonably straight forward

I did that and the compiled bootloader is now 439 bytes in size – the available space is 440 bytes. So, phew, it just fits now. 😂

Friendly, regular reminder to always check if a TV show has already been cancelled before you start watching it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, what else does one need? 😅

I added more instructions, made it portable (so it runs on my own OS as well as Linux/DOS/whatever), and the assembler is now good enough to be used in the build process to compile the bootloader:

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That is pretty cool. 😎

It’s still a “naive” assembler. There are zero optimizations and it can’t do macros (so I had to resort to using cpp). Since nothing is optimized, it uses longer opcodes than NASM and that makes the bootloader 11 bytes too large. 🥴 I avoided that for now by removing some cosmetic output from the bootloader.