@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Yes! The first part about the history was my favorite. Not that the second one about finding life on Mars wasn’t interesting, no, not at all! But maybe it’s just that Earth is a bit more relatable. :-) I’m sure they will dig up something eventually.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that [she] is [doomed]. Unless [she] understands this, [she] does not grasp the essential meaning of [her] life.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed it. The beginning part about the history of life on Earth was fun to watch having just read Dawkin’s old book The Selfish Geene, and now I want to read more about archaea. The end of the talk about what might be going on on Mars made me a bit hopeful someone will find some good evidence.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The light pollution map reports red for my town. That’s fairly accurate, I’d say. The view from home is not all that great. Yeah, I can see Ursa Major and a bunch of other stars. Maybe even some satellites. But there’s definitely a sky glow at the horizon.

When I leave town, I can see a bit more. However, it doesn’t compare to the alps or even some rural parts in Australia. The latter was by far the craziest I’ve ever seen in my life. Looked like a space telescope photo in person. Soooooooooooooo many stars and the band of the milky way was easily visible to the naked eye. Up until then, I didn’t even know this was remotely possible down on earth. Absolutely stunning. :-)

That was a super interesting talk, I can recommend it: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-microbes-vs-mars-a-hacker-s-guide-to-finding-alien-life

Doomsday Clock hits 89 seconds + 4 more stories
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz You mean the ? as suffix for boolean returning functions or as ternary operator (condition ? true_value : false_value)?

Interestingly, I just had to look up the first case. I was under the wrong impression that the question mark at the end would be some shortcut for chained function or method calls that handles nil return values in a graceful way without actually dereferencing and thus crashing. I probably never wrote more than 30 lines of Ruby in my entire life. Must have been some other language.

Also guys if u ever need a new life philosophy. Connor Hawke from green arrow comics is your guy

Microsoft reveals MatterGen AI model to transform material discovery + 2 more stories
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I’m back on my “optimizing my life” arc. It’s not fun but I guess I got to, smh 🙄

I’m usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, “Everyone’s got their own problems to worry about” kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision 🤣🤦 Read nothin’ out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem that’s what everyone else’s been using it for all this time.

A Bsky would be even better! 😂 I’d get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digress…

I FU_ing despise this … whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.

and sorry you had to read this if you did.

Shit in my life has been spiraling out of control at an unbelievable rate. And just when you think life can’t get shittier it dumps an even bigger N° 2 on yO face.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’m an LXQt girlie for life and i like the convenience of apt despite that they never update their god damn packages so i guess i’m stuck on lubuntu for everything

Scientists to explore life creation from basic chemicals + 2 more stories
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fighting for my life trying to learn golang WHAT THE FUCK IS A POINTER (rhetorical)

Good riddance 2024…
2025, be good or else.

Happy new year Twtxt people. I’m grateful for getting to meet/talk to you all, It certainly was the best thing to have happened to me in this “2024” chapter of my life.

An inspiring book on making a life around IT security

Troy Hunt: “Pwned”, The Book, Is Now Available for Free
https://www.troyhunt.com/pwned-the-book-is-now-available-for-free/

Pinellas County Running: 7.00 miles, 00:10:07 average pace, 01:10:44 duration
work life is killing me. this was hard and i am just on empty recently.
#running

So long Blue Birdy 👋 it was a … Never mind, GTFO of my life already! 😆

Easy run: 3.13 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 00:30:54 duration
nice chill run. first day where my resting heart rate was back down to low 50s. no idea what was going on because i did not feel sick but maybe it was just all the stress from life and a crazy october?
#running

@wbknl@twtxt.net adopting the smolweb philosophy for my digital life

@prologic@twtxt.net history is a broad subject! i think you could spend your whole life studying and discussing only the last 500 years. i’ve spent many nights sharing drinks and discussing the finer points of political history and theory with my uni buddies. i doubt that’ll ever get old ^^

Wouldn’t you rather have work and private seperated? Any thought behind this decission? I like tags, like Gmail does it. I still think mail needs a big rethink. It’s too prominent in life, to be this archaic.

Learned to gg=G and to va", ci", di{… in vim the other day 😆 Life will never be the same, I can feel it. ref

Monthly sign of life. We’re good.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that -P is a life saver when running rsync over spotty connections. In my very illiterate opinion, it should always be a default.

The plan is coming together. I am making friends and I’m doing the LA gay shit. I’m going outside, I’m getting laid. I’m like a real person. I have an old friend back in my life even.

my whole life, i’ve been leaving things behind. venturing far away from everything that i know. these days, i’m trying to find connections that i can still rekindle, mend, and remember. this is much much harder than what i was used to

@bender@twtxt.net 404 could be indeed a temporary error if the file resides on a mounted remote filesystem and then the mount point fails for some reason. With a symlink from the web root to the file on the mount, the web server probably will not recognize the mount point failure as such. Thus, it might not reply with a 503 Service Unavailable (or something like that), but 404 Not Found instead. (I could be wrong on that, though.)

The right™ way is to signal 410 Gone if the feed does not exist anymore and will not come back to life again. But that’s hard to come by in the wild. Somebody has to manually configure that in almost all situations.

But yes, as @falsifian@www.falsifian.org points out, exponential backoff looks like a good strategy. Probably even report a failure to users somehow, so they can check and potentially unsubscribe.

Transformed four kilograms of blackberries into a bit over three kilograms of blackberry jelly. https://lyse.isobeef.org/brombeergelee-2024-08-19/ The leftover jelly did not fit in prepared canning jars, so I dumped it in a regular drinking glass (which was a mustard glass in its former life): The rest is cooling off on the bench outside.

Ça fout les boules :) Your Life in Weeks — Wait But Why | https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Morphotrophic by Greg Egan is built around an idea for how life on Earth could have worked out differently. It gets increasingly strange and interesting as the story progresses. My partner and I finished it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The beginning is free online: https://gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/00/MorphotrophicExcerpt.html #scifi #reading

Radio advertisements slapping away sustained thought on the coffeeshop stereo. I’d like a real-life ad blocker.

@prologic@twtxt.net

1. The “Story of my life” (the less serious answer)
   
2. Being “The Black Sheep” from the old tale ? (the serious answer)

away from keyboard, chair, life, etc

@bender@twtxt.net LOL! Been there, done that! I can go on for weeks without any of it. Not even a phone, I don’t have that many responsibilities to need one on me all the time. Life is much simpler like that.

3,5%, c’est tout, juste 3,5%… https://escapethecity.life/en-manifestation-troquer-les-armes-contre-des-roses

Base: 6.25 miles, 00:09:41 average pace, 01:00:30 duration
treadmill due to life. damn pain between miles 4 and 5. nothing the day before and nothing afterwards so maybe that is a good sign things are turning around.
#running #treadmill

John Wall didn’t own a sampler until he was 40. Life can go ways, it’s good to remember.

“the decline of being into having, and having into merely appearing”

I arrived at a phase of life where waking up after 6:30 feels late.

Today I have a feeling of déjà vu except it’s a nightmare and it’s happening in real life.

The last entry in my voice memos is a 436 minute mp3 recording documenting a period in the life of my pants pocket.

@eapl.me@eapl.me the 24th of June 2002 was a pivotal year in my life.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They sure are silly at times. :-) You really have to combine this event with something else, like learning a new language. Otherwise it gets boring real quick.

What I absolutely love about AoC is that it’s – indeed – a bit like school. 😅 The problems are well-defined, the inputs are well-defined, and there is a definite answer. It’s either right or wrong – period. Compared to real life and work, I welcome this very much. 🤣

Horry County - Long run: 14.99 miles, 00:09:25 average pace, 02:21:04 duration
rain and strong wind in myrtle beach. really nice run considering up here for the celebration of life for lib.
#running

Reading The School Of Life by Alain De Botton, Page 65

Never in my life will I understand why Americans bleep out curse words. 🤔

Wondering that part of the charm and attraction of Christmas markets could come from a common nostalgia towards every day street markets in towns and a longing for more outside social life during the cold, clammy Winter days.

I hope this weekend I get my life back on track