@bender@twtxt.net Magnetic-core memory. SCNR.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz (that is targeted only at me. i do not shower enough. exposing myself)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz though i feel like this doesn’t need to be said because if anyone is that pretty they are not a self hoster because they regularly shower

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh! no need to be sorry and feel free to keep at it if it helps, I don’t mind. It’s just that I’m always on the lookout for corpo-bots and crawlers slipping through the cracks (a fun little game of sorts) 😅 the only thing I let them see is a robots.txt telling them to :diffoff

Also, I’m curious about the invalid lines in my feed. is it something I should lookout for in future?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am sure they would have been just fine. Should we assume your main driving machine is on solid state?

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz after some fighting with this janky software (that i still love despite the jank) we now have stupid tux as our logo. slayyy

changing my video site’s logo to this silly no thoughts head empty tux clip art. because i can. https://openclipart.org/detail/103855/tux-the-penguin

@movq@www.uninformativ.de oh no good luck!!!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sweet!

Pinellas County - Long Run: 11.00 miles, 00:09:38 average pace, 01:46:02 duration
just one of those ones you never want to stop. it was dark, quiet, and lonely which just let me zone out with the cool weather and maintain what felt easy. didn’t look at the watch until the end when it notified me it was going to die. adjusted the mileage and time to reflect.
#running

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh dear. All the best of luck with that noise! And the disks.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t use them either.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks! I already found it and patched it to run in my ancient Python version (no match keyword and exec(…) only allows globals and locals as positional arguments). :-) https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/mcalc-patched.py.txt

@prologic@twtxt.net Excellent, working fine now. Thank you!

To quote GLaDOS

: Yesterday I saw a deer!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Truly classic. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That sounds super useful! I always used bc and ibase=2/obase=2 for conversions. But your digit grouping is what I always lacked. I gotta switch.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the Python docs are more like a book. They absolutely shine if you have no idea and read them from top to bottom. The tutorial is baked right in. But they don’t work all that perfect as cheat sheets. I also remember looking for the return types way too long in the past.

I would have thought that this could be easily improved when type hints are in place. And it sure does: https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/httpclient.html#tornado.httpclient.HTTPClient.fetch

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s crazy! I thought about it the other day on my hike. There are so many shady areas in winter that are fully blasted by the sun in summer.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Heck yeah, they’re both very lovely! I like how you can still see the full disk through the clouds in the first one.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh cool, I wish I had a similar subject in school. :-)

I cobbled that together yesterday, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com. Since I was too lazy to write some tests, I simply hit your feed as I knew it contains two invalid lines right now. Sorry mate! :-( Next thing is to actually write some proper tests, improve the messages, etc.

Here’s the code: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/validator

Looking forward to that, @prologic@twtxt.net. :-)

Any idea What’s this "twtxtfeevalidator/0.0.1" UA about? I thought I could ask before throwing a 1000GB file at it 🪤 could it be the same ‘xt’ thing @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org was talking about the other day?

@prologic@twtxt.net we live in hell

went out with my family today, brought my camcorder, resulted in a little vlog :) https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=SjbDq15bL

How in da fuq do you actually make these fucking useless AI bots go way?

proxy-1:~# jq '. | select(.request.remote_ip=="4.227.36.76")' /var/log/caddy/access/mills.io.log | jq -s '. | last' | caddy-log-formatter -
4.227.36.76 - [2025-01-05 04:05:43.971 +0000] "GET /external?aff-QNAXWV=&f=mediaonly&f=noreplies&nick=g1n&uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-hero-ultra-impact-codes.linegames.org HTTP/2.0" 0 0
proxy-1:~# date
Sun Jan  5 04:05:49 UTC 2025

😱

@prologic@twtxt.net Looks like I’m hitting this now when reloading my subscriptions:

$ grep twtxt.net .config/twtxt/config | wc -l
26

Should Waymo Robotaxis Always Stop For Pedestrians In Crosswalks?
“My feet are already in the crosswalk,” says Geoffrey A. Fowler, a San Francisco-based tech columnist for the Washington Post. In a video he takes one step from the curb, then stops to see if Waymo robotaxis will stop for him. And they often didn’t.

Waymo’s position? Their cars consider “signals of pedestrian intent” including forward motion wh … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de woah it’s like a cheatsheet with explanations! java is kind of arcane magic sorcery to me so i’m having trouble understanding it but i have that with most programming languages. this is like so much easier to actually look at and read instead of my eyes glazing over lol

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Sorry I missed your messages to #twtxt on IRC. There are people there, but it can take several hours to get a response. E.g. I check it every day or two. I recommend using an IRC bouncer. To answer your question about registries, I used a couple of registries when I first started out, to try to find feeds to follow, but haven’t since then. I don’t remember which ones, but they were easy to find with web searches.

@prologic@twtxt.net YEAH it’s so cool!!! i was thinking about trying it as sorta practice for golang lol

@prologic@twtxt.net that’s iconic af though like i should do the same bc i hate cloudflare that much i just refuse to use them

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh nah it came out like that lol! i actually love how squished it looks it feels accurate lol

oh yeah i think i might have a tripod around but i do need a sandbag or something i could use as one. maybe yeah a giant bag of rice could work LOL. thanks for the tips!!! i took a video class last year in college and we worked with cameras and tripods with sandbags so it was on my mind

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yeah! as long as it’s fun :D experimenting with it like picking up the camera every once in a while to point somewhere else, or in editing inserting more video in between the static angles, that could be fun!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this is why people like me can’t code this is boring eyes glazing over kinda stuff lol

For some reason, I was using calc all this time. I mean, it’s good, but I need to do base conversions (dec, hex, bin) very often and you have to type base(2) or base(16) in calc to do that. That’s exhausting after a while.

So I now replaced calc with a little Python script which always prints the results in dec/hex/bin, grouped in bytes (if the result is an integer). That’s what I need. It’s basically just a loop around Python’s exec().

$ mcalc 
> 123
         123        0x[7b]    0b[01111011]

> 1234
        1234        0x[04 d2]    0b[00000100 11010010]

> 0x7C00 + 0x3F + 512
       32319        0x[7e 3f]    0b[01111110 00111111]

> a = 10; b = 0x2b; c = 0b1100101
          10        0x[0a]    0b[00001010]

> a + b + 3 * c
         356        0x[01 64]    0b[00000001 01100100]

> 2**32 - 1
  4294967295        0x[ff ff ff ff]    0b[11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111]

> 4 * atan(1)
3.141592653589793

> cos(pi)
-1.0

The fact that the official Python docs don’t clearly state what a function returns, grinds my gears. This has cost me so much time over the years. You always have to read through a huge block of text.

You could at least put a list of possible return values in there (always at the same location, please!), here’s a mockup:

Noon in summer:

And noon in winter:

The difference never fails to make me go “whoa”. 😅

This evening, Saturn will show up right next to a crescent moon:

Let’s see if I can catch that in a photo.

@eapl.me@eapl.me That’s a nice quote. I like it.

@prologic@twtxt.net Nah, it’s really not necessary from my point of view. There’s not enough math here that would justify it. In the spirit of simplicity, I’d leave it off. O:-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The rabbit hole deepens. :-D

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Static angles for too long get indeed a bit boring to watch in my opinion, but just experiment with it. What’s the worst that could happen? Wasted disk space or people increase playback speed to time lapse or fast-forward. Hence, not a huge issue. Even if only you had fun recording it and learned something along the way, it’s already a win. Everything else is a bonus on top.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Yiha! I reckon the video is a bit squished together on the horizontal axis. Maybe your video site messed something up in postprocessing? No idea. Anyway, you’re already better at guitar than I ever was.

If you don’t wanna buy a tripod, you could make yourself a makeshift one with some sort of a sandbag, cherry pit pillow or an old, cut off and sewn shut trouser leg section filled with rice, lentils, etc. This gives you a shapeable surface where you can simply rest the camcorder on. It allows for some limited vertical up and down pitch. Obviously, that won’t work for extreme angles, but might be just enough for your application of recording at your desk. You just have to watch out for the side to side roll, this could otherwise lead to a slanted sailboat video. ;-)

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt It is the same API that yarnc the command-line client uses.

@prologic@twtxt.net oooh gonna have to look into this, doubt most of my sites need it but i’m thinking one or two could use it

Having a lot of fun with Coraza today. A Web Application Firewall library written in Go that also happens to have a Caddy module.

@eapl.me@eapl.me And here I always lived by:

Problems are solved by method.
– Dr. Don Abel.

If you want a problem solved, you give it to someone as a project. If you don’t want a problem to be solved, you give it to someone as a job

Why you shouldn’t build your career around existential risk
https://guzey.com/existential-risk/

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz here it is :) https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=UyMOOoiOy