@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it is beautiful!

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/

@kiwu@twtxt.net Working on my game Frontier Crown – Going to push a new version today hopefully that includes much improved graphics, expanded ruleset and scope.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org first time you twtxt about having a bicycle, and now I am curious to see it. Show us a click! 🙈

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

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Really depends on the genre, I guess. 🤔 Quite a lot of “non-pop” music still uses the format “concept album”, I think. 🤔 But don’t ask me for any solid statistics. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org maybe they go after the impact. A single? Meh. An album? “Woah! These guy(s)/gal(s) are busy!” Also more possibilities for people liking at least one song. Anyway, that’s my theory, and I am sticking to it! :-P

@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!

Just saw the video. Can’t believe that ladder is that expensive. Even in AUD, it is almost $100. It is also 2.5 stars, with 13 reviews. Gulp. Engineering aside (and you are right, it is pretty interesting, and some, if not most of it went over my head), the ladder is rubbish. This is the one I have. Not super, but have been with me for a while, and used quite a bit, still as good as new.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I will watch it. I was too quick to dismiss!

@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.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m glad you found it useful. :)

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Thanks for that. I couldn’t agree more.

@prologic@twtxt.net wow, that’s failure at the next level, and for such a minutiae technicality! 🤦🏻‍♂️

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh dear lord, I now need to schedule a day to check my 33 ladders! :-P

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

@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. :-)

Also, this really speaks to me (or maybe it speaks for me): https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/04/just-let-me-compute-in-peace/

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Check https://twtxt.dev/clients.html

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah I donate to the Signal Foundation for this reason.

As an enjoyer of delightfully bad graphic design, found on most Czech village center cork boards, I’m sad to see the stolen clipart and badly cropped watermarked stock images, gradually replaced with AI slop.

This is far from a serious rant, but generating images of my kind being telepathically hit with sharp rocks, surely gives me a right to complain.

So far these seem the most prominent slop categories, seem to be…

Architecture slop:

1. find a sketch of what an old building looked like
   
   
2. generate an AI version, without correcting any of the perspective errors - this one is diagonally levitating
   
   
3. generate a recreation of the buildings demise - after going through the AI, for the second time, it is now a completely different building
   
   

Moralizing slop:

History slop:

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/

@prologic@twtxt.net I sponsor no one. If getting paid is the aim, form a business, or sell a product. I donate to just causes, though, including sponsorship to the dispossessed.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks!

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. :-(

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Those are some very colorful shots. 👌 It was pretty warm here as well, health issues prevented me from going out, though.

(Have we established that Azabache is male? 😃)

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net I should cancel Netflix as well. Back when they started their streaming service, it was a revelation: Finally, I could watch interesting shows in English, without having to wait for years, and legally (I like to be a paying customer, if it’s good). But this is long over. The interesting shows are gone or, once again, I have to wait for years until they’re available on Netflix. So, why bother anymore? 🤷‍♀️

@rnlog@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Well, welcome back. 👋

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/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Right. :(

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it is lots of work, but things do not need to happen overnight! Take it easy, baby steps. I think it will be worth it!

¡Muchas gracias @bender@twtxt.net! I was also thinking about categorizing them a few years ago. But it’s so much work. I would have to tag every photo on its own. My use case goes more towards “give me all albums with squirrels”, though. Let’s see. I would need some tooling for easy tagging first. And then, the question is, which categories do I want to have to begin with?

@bender@twtxt.net Absolutely!

@bender@twtxt.net Trust me, so do it. I certainly gained some weight.

@bender@twtxt.net You got me there. Mine is mildly passive-aggressive, but ultimately supportive. Yours sounds… less helpful. 😀

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hmmm, pizza! With that amount of food (a) I wouldn’t complain, and (b) I will be obese on my return. LOL.

They are all very nice @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org! You truly need some sort of easy to navigate website with them all, categorised, and such… A robot can dream, right? :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org so beautiful! Azabache is so faithful too! That bird deserves some unsalted, organic seeds!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de more to read, but I read between your words that you are starving for more: https://aphyr.com/posts/411-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess :-D

To complete, the clouds after sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-16/

And the morning sun: https://lyse.isobeef.org/morgensonne-2026-04-16/

Yesterday’s evening stroll: https://lyse.isobeef.org/asperg-2026-04-15/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de But even the same model behaves differently if you upgrade to a newer version. Or it hopefully should, why otherwise would one want to update in the first place? A fixed, predictable output would be the result of us oldtimers doing something with inferior, ancient technology!

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks, I’ll read it – once I have the energy. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, yeah, right, I hadn’t even considered that (we mostly use one model). Choose a different model and it does something completely different. Cool stuff.