Two mates and I went hiking yesterday. The sun was beating down on us, but luckily, it was also rather windy which helped to cool off. Unfortunately, we also encountered bucketloads of drunk hikers with hardcarts loaded full of beer who had to very loudly please everbody with their shitty taste of music. What a stupid tradition on 1st May public holiday over here. Other than that, it was a great hike.

I was pleasantly surprised that my trains were dead on time, so both super short times to switch connections worked out perfectly on both the way there and back. I did not expect this to happen at all and already braced myself for an additional half hour waiting time. Especially with the stupid Stuttgart Beer Festival right now. Even more drunk idiots everywhere and of course also in the trains. On the return journey, I learned about all sorts of family relations etc. in various Allgäu villages. Oh boy. At least nobody vomited, that’s a bonus.

Also, I sweated more on the first return Sauna-Bahn than on the entire hike combined. It was awfully hot in there.

Anyway, all in all it was a great time in the outdoors with my mates: https://lyse.isobeef.org/monrepos-favoritepark-hungerberg-ruine-hoheneck-2026-05-01/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL. Once you truly know Germans (if such thing is possible, hahahaha!), you realise the stereotype is totally uncalled for.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz where are thou?! Haven’t seeing you like, in light years!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yes, yarnd has a few parser (?) issues that were never resolved. If only a powerful token predictor could fix it, once and for all… 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de here here 🙌

@yarn_police@twtxt.net Looks like the rendering in yarnd is off. The second subject (prisoner error!) was robbed, its link text got stolen.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, mate! Yeah, that never gets old, there’s something magically about it. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Those are some great shots! “Sun through leaves” always works. 😃 And the tweeting bird, lovely. 😃

@bender@twtxt.net How poetic, very well said. :-) It calls for the small man’s adventures.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 33! Wow! Very good stash on clicks, Lyse! And that Ford van reminds me of the police account used to keep order around here. LOL. It’s a gem!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it makes it more real, and truthful. We don’t want no pedicured road, with fairies flying around. It is the real deal! :-)

@kiwu@twtxt.net All the best of luck, mate! :-)

And a trip to my backyard mountain again. It was very windy, so the 16°C felt even cooler than that. But it will be back in the twenties tomorrow when I visit a mate for a hike, oof.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-30/

@bender@twtxt.net The horse shit looks really nice in that evening light, right? ;-)

@kiwu@twtxt.net woot, woot!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that road…. 😍

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net twtstrm/0.4.0 is from Eric. The getwtxt-ng/dev seems to be this.

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net yarnd/*

It’s just so beautiful out here. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-04-29/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Thank you very much! <3

I only filtered out the noise floor of the camera itself. I selected one second of “silence” in Audacity and used the “Effect” → “Noise reduction” (Rausch-Verminderung in German) dialog with its default settings. I repeated that two or three times in total with different sections of “silence”. It’s very hard to find something where there is really no other bird singing in the background. But in contrast to the original audio, the edited version is noticeably more squeaky I find.

Oh, and I increased the volume. Especially after the noise reduction, everything is a bit quieter.

I got rather lucky, only a few cars went by and my microphone is too shitty, to really pick it up. :-D It’s kinda drowned out by the background noise. 45 seconds into the video, a car passes. Also at 1:10 without a doubt. I’m sure there were actually many were. Most of them passed behind me, the mic is facing away from that sound source. Of course, the densely built-up area still reflects a lot.

It also helped that Azabache is a loud singer himself. Fortunately, no idiots screaming either.

If you want to compare yourself or play around to see what other improvements you are able to achieve, I uploaded the original from the camera in the same directory under the lovely name DSCN5687.MOV. It’s 236.1 MiB in size.

@bender@twtxt.net There ya go! 8-) https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-27/wiiiiiiiiiide.jpg

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org love the video! And the colours of the sky! And yes, that’s Azabache alright. His singing just get better!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Omg, that’s quiet. Did you do some filtering on this? No traffic noise? No drunk men shouting? 😳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Very cool! 😎 Love that little birdy in the video too 👌

Fuck me dead, our sky burned down once again! https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-28/

You can hear Azabache somewhere in these trees, but the video only shows a raven. I think. There are also pidgeons over there, but it looks more raveny to me.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wider, wiiiiider, wideeeeeeeerrrrr! :-D :-P

@bender@twtxt.net Glad you like it. At least it’s in landscape format. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 4 is a keeper! Wish it was landscape, perfect for a wall then. :-P

Really nothing spectacular at all today, but yet we still got some red for less than five minutes: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-04-27/ Azabache was hiding somewhere in the trees, I could hear him very well, but not lay my eye on him. The leaves are already covering him up perfectly now.

@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha! I was also very surprised to see snow. I didn’t remember that at all. It was gone by the evening again, see archive feed twtxt-2024-11.txt#2024-11-23T18:30:00+01:00. Unfortunately, neither Prologic’s nor Xuu’s yarnd searches yield anything. That message has probably long fallen out of the index.

@bender@twtxt.net It was really beautiful! Oh yes, always enjoy it while it lasts. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I see him on those photos, and his singing starts ringing in my ears. I also thought, “I am going to miss him” because, you know, nothing is everlasting. But then I reproached myself; “enjoy the moment, dude, don’t taint it”. And so I shall.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org thank you! I got visual now! 🙈 Now, you had to pull out a pic from winter, to make those of us constantly burning in “hell” jealous, eh? 😂

Azabache was back today: https://lyse.isobeef.org/amsel-2026-04-26/

@bender@twtxt.net Ta! <3

@bender@twtxt.net Oh, this trekking bike is nothing special at all. It’s a Bulls Wildtail with only front suspension, 21 gears and standard V-brakes. The first immediate upgrade I did was mounting a pannier rack, it’s one of the most useful things.

I just quickly dug out this photo from one and a half years ago where it’s parked at our scout yard in November 2024. You just have to use your imagination on how the front looks like. :-D

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/bike.jpg

@bender@twtxt.net Well I’m open to ideas of course 😅 My goal here was to build something like a Civ-1 inspired game that’s playable online and multiplayer. Do you remember this old bad boy that was played on PC(s) on MS-DOS ?! 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net I am going to give it a more serious spin (meaning I am going to go read the help page). I’ve got to tell you though, most successful games do not need a help. But I am fully aware that there is a subset of gamers that would not mind—if not appreciate—a game with help, manual, and the likes.

@bender@twtxt.net Anything I can do to help with getting started with the game? Help page not enougH/ Some “Getting Started” guide? Walk-through? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah !

Maybe put a notice when on mobile stating that the game is for desktop, or bigger screens (tablets), only?

I’ll do this for sure!

@prologic@twtxt.net I am fairly bad, or have a very poor understanding of the game, so I can’t figure out what to do. Tried a few times. 😅 Also, I am sure you know by now, but it is not mobile friendly at all. Maybe put a notice when on mobile stating that the game is for desktop, or bigger screens (tablets), only?

Congratulations!

495 turns and about ~4hrs alter I won! 🙌 Small map, 2-players, myself and an AI player. 😅 – It took forever to beach the island the AI player was on and get enough Galley’s and Swordsmen just to push back and eventually slowly destroy all enemy units and capture all cities! 🤣

@marcorocco@roccodrom.de found any treasure? Don’t worry, you can tell me, I am a crypt. :’-D

@kiwu@twtxt.net no much, just pondering what comes next.

@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! 🙈