@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org very nice 👌

Someone spilled the paintbox across the sky: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-23-abendhimmel/

@prologic@twtxt.net I expected Yeppoon to be way more north. :-D But it’s indeed north of you. Have fun! The weather forecast doesn’t sound too bad.

@arne@uplegger.eu Geil! Jetzt bin ich aber auf Deine Geschichten zum Sprachwirrwarr gespannt. Erzähl. :-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Currently, yarnd links @david@daiwei.me’s mention to /external?uri=… that results in an HTTP 404 “Cannot find external feed”. I reckon no user on this yarnd is subscribed to @mlot@tilde.club’s feed, hence there’s nothing to show. Just fetching the feed on demand of course isn’t an option for privacy and security reasons, at least not for anonymous users. However, in my opinion it would be better if the link pointed to the raw feed URL instead.

Hahaha, @david@daiwei.me! Why did the duck go to jail?

echo Zm9yIHNlbGxpbmcgcXVhY2sK | base64 -d

@david@daiwei.me I’ve added in a little exception to the WAF, if it doesn’t work (at least until I figure why the hell are twtxt-app requests getting caught up in my Known Bad Actors rule in the first place), then I’ll have to tear the whole thing down and redo it from scratch.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Suddenly makes David versus Goliath much more believable.

Just a very regular sunset, nothing special: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-22-abendhimmel/

@david@daiwei.me Hmmmm²

It’s a sunn o)))-y day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKuJPsJuSHg&list=OLAK5uy_lwyneWbkUCZaVrHI4IDSaOhD3qSWrCxpw

#NowPlaying

So, this is happening:

And this:

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com He’s asleep by now 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org unfortunately, you’ve guessed right.

@david@daiwei.me Are you still getting the 403 thing?

The shutters weren’t closed yet, so I noticed some nice color reflections outside. I checked the other cardinal direction and lo and behold: https://lyse.isobeef.org/2026-09-21-abendhimmel/ Just in time. Contrary to what I first thought, I hadn’t missed the best part yet. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is unexpected indeed. There was a slingshot involved in the last book I read and that sounded much less terrifying. 😅

@shinyoukai@twtxt.net Sounds promising. 🤔 I’ll check it out!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Let me guess, thirty parties and one worse than the other? All the best of luck to you!

Aha, @david@daiwei.me was revealed to be hammering against @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s door! :-D

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha 🤣 I’ve found the only effective defense is to make the request(s) cost you nothing or very little. Trying to defeat all this en-mass scraping/crawling and defective bots is such a PITA 🤦‍♂️

@david@daiwei.me sorry you got caught in my 403 mess. My tiny tin box is being hammered at by some BS AI bot for a ~week now, so I might have gone a bit too defensive with my WAF & Co. 🤭 I’ll investigate in the morning.

@david@daiwei.me @movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup, no issues. Only @bmallred@staystrong.run’s feed is broken for me for some time.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Heard them in a video. Here’s the last one: What did the duck detective say to his partner?

echo SSBob3BlIHdlIHF1YWNrIHRoaXMgY2FzZS4K | base64 -d

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see. I should start working from my bed. ;-)

Never tried Gentoo. Maybe something to look into.

@david@daiwei.me Works for me. 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Bwahahaha, brilliant! :-D

Fuck me dead, I never expected a slingshot to be this powerful. :-O Absolutely cool. :-)

https://youtu.be/XTc8NxP7Yl0

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hell no, I won’t feed you my hair!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, the partition stuff with disklabels is what I’m absolutely not used to. I need to invest more time learning this. Not just using it, but how and where is it represented on disk and all that.

I carry my notebook/netbook around a lot. 😅 Watching movies in bed, for example.

I think I’ll stick with NetBSD for a while. It works surprisingly well, it’s new stuff to explore, it’s fast, and then there’s this:

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/112446618914747900

Gentoo (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy) might be another idea, but I’m afraid that the little netbook might be too slow for that? Or are there binary packages? No idea, it’s been ages since I touched this distro.

(Regarding Linux in general … we all know what Linus said. I’m not sure where this project is heading.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Where do all these come from?! 😂

Oh, I’d love to build a shed with you, @movq@www.uninformativ.de. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool shit! I also just read your report on installing NetBSD. What a journey. So, you still need to know what you’re doing. But if you make it foolproof, the world invents a new idiot. :-)

I also use an ethernet cable everywhere. It’s just what I’m used to for decades and I don’t carry around my laptop in the house anyway. It stays on the desk.

So, next up FreeBSD? ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe, yeah. I will not try to find out. :-D

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Pretty good thanks! 😊 Went out last night to celebrate my birthday with my wife and my best mate and her wife. It was a lovely day/night out 👌 – How about you so far?

This was supposed to be a reply to @david@daiwei.me . It has been too long I forgot how to things properly 😅

Just some light Sunday afternoon entertainment: Printing from NetBSD on the dotmatrix printer by dumping data to /dev/ulpt0. The netbook doesn’t have a parallel port, so this must be done over USB. NetBSD.escp was created by a little custom ESC/P converter written in C. 🥳

https://movq.de/v/14b09c47a5/print-small.mp4

Video description:

Video begins with a view of the netbook’s screen: 3 windows are open, one of them showing the typical NetBSD logo to print, the other one shows the commands I ran in preparation:

magick /usr/X11R7/include/X11/pixmaps/NetBSD.xpm -depth 8 -alpha set /tmp/NetBSD.pam
./pam2escp /tmp/NetBSD.pam /tmp/NetBSD.escp

The other terminal shows a root shell with this command:

cat /tmp/NetBSD.escp >/dev/ulpt0

I hit Enter, the printer starts printing.

Camera pans to show the printer, an Oki ML 3390. Continuous paper. Once finished, I manually feed the paper a little bit to better show the result.

(If you turn up the volume enough, you can hear “Leaving” by “Chill Carrier” from 2008.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Rest assured, they will do it that way. It’s a stupid world. 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Jesus. 😂😂😂

Hahaha! https://werkzeugstore24.de/nitras-12-paar-handschuhe-driver-grau

„You will receive this item via freight delivery directly from the manufacturer.“

I imagine a forklift unloading a Euro pallet with 24 gloves tied down to.

@athanasia@twtxt.net The main problem is that I don’t front mbox.blue with my Edge infra that I front the rest of my infra with. So mbox.blue is kind of independent if that makes sense. It has nothing in front of it to protect anything. So I would just put a simple Caddy PoW at it’s reverse proxy and call it a day if that works for you? – I think I’ll make this per-box/per-user configurable too?

Also apologies. If you want to chat to me in more ~realtime, I’m more active on something we’re calling Parley – A truly decentralised federated IRC chat system. You have to spin up your own instance (ideally) or join someone else’s, but otherwise you use a normal IRCv3 capable client, but the entire “network” (so to speak) automatically forms a decentralized mesh.

@athanasia@twtxt.net I actally have my own PoW that I can put in front of mbox.blue if you like. It works very similarly to Anubis. I do have to warn you however, I don’t really think these PoW techniques are very effective IMO. Also re Guestbook message, sure, one sec…

@prologic@twtxt.net @david@daiwei.me Maybe in a month or so when I have free mental capacity again, I might take a look. Happy IRCing!

Righto, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! What do you get if you put a duck in a cement mixer?

echo cXVhY2tzIGluIHRoZSBwYXZlbWVudAo= | base64 -d

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sehr hübsch! Ich habs nun auch geschafft, uff!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Keep ’em coming! 🤣

Mit diesem Zauberspruch von https://mastodon.social/@islieb werde ich nun ins Wochenende zusammenbrechen. 🥳💀🫩 #FrakturFreitag

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Thanks, I told it my Factorio nerd mate. Some years ago, I also played it every now and then, but optimizing the last bits out of everything was never my cup of tea. Didn’t find it enjoyable. Happy building!

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