https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-08/0/POSTING-en.html @movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck me dead and bury me pregnant!

@arne@uplegger.eu @david@daiwei.me I second that. Looks great!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Very beautiful! I wouldn’t necessarily want to walk through the puddle in 2, but I do love the colors here a ton. 1 looks quaint as heck.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me It’s raining all day long here, too. It’s supposed to stop later for the night and continue tomorrow. No thunderstorm or hurricane, though. Enjoy!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz very nice! By the way, where are you from?

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Oh dear, I see. :-(

I’m not conviced about the Swatch Internet Time.

@david@daiwei.me Ahh, I’m only confused then because I’ve never seen anything quite like this, nor have I played and role playing games on a table-top either.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I think so, what I was mostly confused about is the website itself. It has a lot of content and verbiage. Can the game be played on the website? Or is it table-top played? 🤔

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Always using UTC in logs helps a ton.

The worst are logs were timestamps miss any timezone information at all. Makes me furious.

Dealing with time is always great fun…

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Haha, we had the same joke. :-D Took them also many attempts to include a timestamp datatype in the standard library that is halfway usable.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, timber framing is soooo cool. I love it, too.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Hmmm 🤔 What is this exaactly?

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bwahahaahaaahaaaa, I didn’t see that one coming! :‘-D

We switch back to normal time on the last Sunday in October. Fuck daylight saving time!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Time to get some pigs, they love to be acorn-fattened!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bon appetit!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes please! See: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley

@iolfree@tilde.club True!

@thecanine@twtxt.net Sweet!

@khaled@twtpub.com Hello! 👋

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, welcome back. Great pics, by the way. I know you said at least some of it was crowded, but it looked very tranquil.

@river@twtpub.com Hey 👋

@aesthetic@twtpub.com Hello 👋

@pfefferle@twtxt.net Hey 👋

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz it forks and creates a new sub thread, obviously 🤣

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz very cool 😎

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz do you mean parley?

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz sorry I just saw this, sounds like a good idea. I’ll see if I can add this!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz That’s a good idea. I’m updating the twtxt rendering on my site, and I think I’m going to add a toggle to show / hide replies. Thanks!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, that was a good read, really took me back. 😍

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Selbstredend nicht!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Na, good enough, I reckon. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas? Hier plenkt niemand!!1! 😱😱😱

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sehr hübsch! Aber wurde vor dem Ausrufezeichen etwa geplenkt? 8-)

Ach, mit dem Bildschirm hältst Du es schon noch ne Weile aus! Der ist noch pfundsgut.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Haven’t followed Python projects for quite a while. This is the first one that I come across that uses match. Cool.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Hahaha, good. :-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Meanwhile, many companies are doing the opposite. For the security!!!1!11

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Oh no! I hope you didn’t lose any changes.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Phew, lucky!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hehe.

Ah, I already suspected a portability thing with -R, but my quick search was not good enough and didn’t yield anything useful. Thank you very much for clarifying!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Currently, for me as well. :-/

@prologic@twtxt.net Very nice! I agree with @david@daiwei.me, looks much more peaceful. :-)

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I’m not a hardcore OS/2 fan, either, but it does spark a great deal of nostalgia for me. 😍 For example: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-12-25/0/POSTING-en.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Crazy, who comes up with things like that?

I didn’t come up with it, but I was close, I guess. DOS is so small, you don’t have much of a choice but to search for “anything related to time”. There aren’t that many syscalls/functions. You’ll quickly notice that there’s no global tick counter. So what else is there? Hmm, “get the mtime of a file” is pretty much the only other time-related thing. And which file is “stable”, probably allocated just once at boot? Mark Aitchison tried to use NUL, which is a pretty good idea. Thinking about it in retrospect, stdin does indeed make more sense, though, because that object really does get allocated just once at “boot” and then it stays the same. That’s not guaranteed for NUL (although just as likely).

But, it is possible in DOS to move “the console” to a serial port:

I wonder what that does to my little uptime program. :-)

Today, I also learned that -R is an alias for -r in rm.

Ah, I remember that. Dug it up and saved it in the blog: -R is more portable/consistent: http://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh gosh, that looks wonderful. 😍

A few more pics if my trip 😎

@movq@www.uninformativ.de OS/2?

I hadn’t thought about that in 20+ years… In high school, I had a friend who was a die-hard OS/2 Warp fanboy, but I never got into it (and wound up jumping ship to Linux in college).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, it’s been a hot minute since I last came across Pascal. :-) When I first quickly skimmed through the code, my eyes fell on the reproducer in the comment and I immediately thought: This reminds me of Delphi! And sure enough, I then saw the .PAS file extension in the URL. That Kiwi applied some strange code formatting, I have to say, though.

Haha, that’s a sweet trick with stdin. Crazy, who comes up with things like that? It would have never crossed my mind to do stunts like that. :-D

Today, I also learned that -R is an alias for -r in rm. I think I never saw -R used here before. Of course for chmod and chown, but not rm.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Oh yeah. I know that too well with my digicam. It has good zoom, but it doesn’t help when birds are quickly disappearing again. You did good, keep ‘em coming. :-)

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Beautiful! Is that the lizard snack? Poor little guy. When I visited Down Under, I petted a blue-tongued lizard. That was really cool. And I was very surprised how rough and bumpy that was. I expected it to be very smooth, but no, not at all.

@david@daiwei.me Uhh, nice! The reflections in the water are just cool.