From time to time, on #openbsd, you may run ‘bioctl -P sd2’ to change your Full Disk Encryption passphrase ;)

Pinellas County - 5 miles: 5.06 miles, 00:09:02 average pace, 00:45:41 duration
a lot of saliva collected in my mouth about half a mile in. swallowed and it caused me to choke. the rest of the run had a tickle in my throat. run was pretty good just ran too quick i guess.
#running

@lime360@lime360.nekoweb.org Down at the moment due to hardware failure of one of my nodes. I have the spare parts to bring it back online, just need to find the time 😅 Sorry for the inconvenience, I just can’t afford to run the search engine right now on the remaining two nodes 😢😢

Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:02 average pace, 00:31:11 duration
getting some extra miles in. been a little anxious and cannot seem to focus as of late.
#running #treadmill

Pinellas County - 3 mile run: 3.13 miles, 00:09:09 average pace, 00:28:38 duration
really nice out. still went out faster than i wanted and i really need to get better at keeping it on track.
#running

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s opensource. You can run the software in your localhost or server. Cloud service is a free option.

Pinellas County Cycling: 7.75 miles, 00:05:28 average pace, 00:42:22 duration
cross training
#cycling

Pinellas County Running: 5.03 miles, 00:09:19 average pace, 00:46:55 duration
easy five to complete the first week of marathon training. my left glute/hip had some twinges
#running

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org /Me throws his keyboard off to the side, grabs his camera just in case and runs upstairs screaming “Yeah! Science B_ !”

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz To improve you shell programming skills, I highly recommend to check out shellcheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck It points out common errors and gives some suggestions on how to improve the code. Some details in shell scripting are very tricky to get right at first. Even after decades of shell programming, I run into “corner cases” every now and then.

E.g. in getlyr’s line 7 it warns:

echo -e $(gum style --italic --foreground "#f4b8e4" "'$artist', '$song'")
        ^-- SC2046: Quote this to prevent word splitting.

For more information:
  https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2046 -- Quote this to prevent word splitt...

Most likely not all that problematic in this application, but it’s good to know about this underlying concept. Word splitting is basically splitting tokens on whitespace, this can lead to interesting consequences as illustrated by this little code:

$ echo $(echo "Hello   World")
Hello World

$ echo "$(echo "Hello   World")" 
Hello   World

In the first case the shells sees two whitespace-separated tokens or arguments for the echo command. This basically becomes echo Hello World. So, echo joins them by a single space. In the second one it sees one argument for the echo command, so echo simply echos this single argument that contains three spaces.

Pinellas County - Long Run: 8.50 miles, 00:09:50 average pace, 01:23:31 duration
garmin gps really fucked this one up. it thought i ran a half marathon at like a 7:00 pace or something.

the run was okay. it was a bit warmer and humid this morning, but really i am just a bit worn out i think. it was a bit boring so i turned on the podcast “telepathy tapes” and that was at least background noise.
#running

Hmm, I just noticed that the feed template seems to be broken on your yarnd instance, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz. Looking at your raw feed file (and your mates as well), line 6 reads:

# This is hosted by a Yarn.social pod yarn running yarnd ERSION@OMMIT  go1.23.4
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Looks like the first letters of the version and commit got somehow chopped off. I’ve no idea what happened here, maybe @prologic@twtxt.net knows something. :-? I’m not familiar with the templating, I just recall @xuu@txt.sour.is reporting in IRC the other day that he’s also having great fun with his custom preamble from time to time.

That “broken” comment doesn’t hurt anything, it’s still a proper comment and hence ignored by clients. It’s just odd, that’s all.

The editor can launch a new shell now:

https://movq.de/v/6ec68b50dd/los86-edit-shell.mp4

Trivial to implement but super useful. It allows for simple but meaningful dev cycles: Edit source code, run/test it, back to editor. That’s what I do in the video.

(The Brainfuck program is silly, but I got nothing else at the moment.)

The I/O cache is also getting better. All that back and forth doesn’t hit the disk at all, once cached.

This whole thing is much more fun and interesting when you run it from a real floppy disk. It’s a 5.25” floppy in the video (so it’s actually floppy 😅). Disk seek times can be catastrophic and you don’t notice any of this on modern disks.

Pinellas County Running: 3.14 miles, 00:09:12 average pace, 00:28:55 duration
third day of training with just a base run. definitely feeling the squats and lunges i did two days ago!
#running

Yeah, @bender@twtxt.net, I absolutely love it! :-D Monty Python just rocks!

This very knight inspired me to make myself a knight helmet with opening visor out of an old washing machine sheet metal years ago for a theater play. It was really great fun, both making the helmet as well as using it during the week in the play as a silly and shady prince who got all his tracts of land by winning dubious games.

I just couldn’t really hear very well in it. And if somebody hit me on the head or just slightly knocked on the helmet, it was incredibly loud. No fine craftmanship by any means and obviously historically extremely questionable at best, but it did the job well enough. One of the running gags was that I had to open the visor when I wanted to talk. Here are some photos in action, you’ll find many more when surfing through the gallery:

• https://wawuwo.de/2016/woche2/montag/017.html#image
  
• https://wawuwo.de/2016/woche2/dienstag/019.html#image
  
• https://wawuwo.de/2016/woche2/mittwoch/156.html#image
  
• https://wawuwo.de/2016/woche2/donnerstag/008.html#image
  
• https://wawuwo.de/2016/woche2/freitag/036.html#image In one lunch break my page and I decided to dress up and play a game of dice against the kids. However, we used badly cogged dice. We just added a few dots of paint on one of the two dice, so that it had two fours, two fives and two sixes or something like that. I always told my opponents: “You can choose whatever dice you want. Except for the red one, that’s my lucky dice!” As well-behaved children, they then selected the blue, unbiased one. And usually lost. However, I remember there was one kid that beat me with four sixes in row. :-D Although we thought, we make it halfway obvious that this game is truly not fair, it took them extremely long to figure out that we had messed with my lucky dice. When they finally did, they got super angry. Some of them were on the brink of beating me up. That was really nice to see their sense of justice kick it. :-)
  
• https://wawuwo.de/2016/woche2/freitag/169.html#image

Pinellas County Running: 5.06 miles, 00:08:58 average pace, 00:45:20 duration
5 miles at marathon pace. what is marathon pace? i do not know yet but was trying to start around 9:10 and see how that felt. it was good but maybe not good for a full marathon at this point.
#running

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Pinellas County Running: 3.12 miles, 00:08:53 average pace, 00:27:44 duration
first day of marathon training. i do not have a race in mind but wanted to start training again. was going too fast but 48F and just feeling overall good.
#running

Hey this could be good news for self-hosters and folks that want to run their own yarnd? 🤔 Vultr is offering 1 vCPU, 500MB Memory and 10GB Storage for FREE! That’s right $0.00 🤣

@bmallred@staystrong.run Oh no! Best of luck to restore everything. Unfortunately, I cannot provide you a copy of your twtxt feed. It turns out when the messages were gone from your feed and I refetched the now empty feed, all messages were also dropped from my local cache. :-/ But it looks like you’re on something already. The message timestamps are all way off, though.

i’m pretty sure i’m running this all off sqlite so if i get too many users on here i might be cooked but oh well i can always try to migrate (<– has heard migrations from sqlite to mysql/postgres are hell)

@bmallred@staystrong.run did you rotate your twtxt file or something happened to your twts? 🤔 asking just in case…

i’ve been transitioning CLI text editors from nano (godforsaken editor) to micro (normal and not overly opinionated to the point where i feel like i’m defusing a bomb trying to learn its keybindings) and the only weird thing is that i can’t get it to persist an alias from nano to micro when i run sudo despite me configuring that. well at least on my servers, it persists on this machine. idk i’ll look at it later

Pinellas County - Long Run: 11.00 miles, 00:09:38 average pace, 01:46:02 duration
just one of those ones you never want to stop. it was dark, quiet, and lonely which just let me zone out with the cool weather and maintain what felt easy. didn’t look at the watch until the end when it notified me it was going to die. adjusted the mileage and time to reflect.
#running

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks! I already found it and patched it to run in my ancient Python version (no match keyword and exec(…) only allows globals and locals as positional arguments). :-) https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/mcalc-patched.py.txt

i recorded my first camcorder video!!!! it’s just me practicing guitar after sooo long of not playing it. my acoustic, to be specific (well, it’s an electric acoustic thing but i can play it without plugging it in lol, i do have a stratocaster though). it’s capped at ~30 minutes because i used one mini DVD for it and decided i wasn’t gonna use another one to extend the run time. so yeah. it was super fun! i hope i can share it soon, i’m ripping the disc with make MKV right now, then i’ll re-encode to a web friendly format, and upload to my site and hope that works well

I am now proud to say, that as of this moment, I am off of Clownflare 🤣 Still using Cloudflare for DNS, but no longer proxying through their services or terminating TLS at their edge. Instead, all my sites and services now terminate TLS on my own edge proxy running Caddy+Wireguard (so all ingress is actually egress 🤣) 🥳 #Clownflare #Cloudflare

Easy: 4.06 miles, 00:08:51 average pace, 00:35:59 duration
51F this morning with a bit of a breeze which was great. felt easy but i think the enjoyment of being outside brought my pace and heart rate up a bit. actually slept well last night and woke up refreshed… been about a month or more i think.
#running

Okay, this is pretty cool. My 8086 toy OS running on my old Pentium from an actual floppy disk. 😍 I just love that sound and the feeling of using floppies. This brings back so many memories from my early DOS days.

The cp-unopt program copies a file and intentionally uses small unaligned reads/writes (hopefully triggers more bugs).

The I/O cache works “okay-ish”, I guess. When sha1 runs, it has to do a few reads for the first file and basically none for the second one. Both could have been served entirely from the cache, theoretically. (But even just having an I/O cache in the first place speeds up things dramatically.)

Notice how there’s an EA file. That’s a left-over from OS/2, because I copied some files to the floppy using OS/2. In other words, my FAT12 implementation survives OS/2 writing to it. 🥳 (But I guess it should show up as EA DATA.SF. My current code starts at the left and stops at the first space.)

https://movq.de/v/d4d50d3c74/los86-on-p133-from-floppy-small2.mp4

Recovery run: 6.21 miles, 00:09:19 average pace, 00:57:51 duration
just running to run. a bit worn out recently so just stuck to the treadmill. first two miles at 10:00, next two and three quarters at 8:34, a quarter mile at 7:30, and a cool down at 10:00 again.
#running #treadmill

Pinelles County Cycling: 1.12 miles, 00:11:02 average pace, 00:12:20 duration

#cycling

Pinelles County Cycling: 1.12 miles, 00:10:19 average pace, 00:11:32 duration

#cycling

@prologic@twtxt.net it offends someone with a different opinion? 🤣

No, seriously… :diffoff is used to disable vim’s diff mode that’s usually started running vim -d someFile someOtherFile or by having both files on a split window and applying :diffthis on both panes. (just learned this this morning)

Pinellas County - Long Run: 13.13 miles, 00:10:34 average pace, 02:18:44 duration
woke up exhausted and felt it the entire day. broke the run up a bit with a mile on/off intervals. the faster pace felt good but towards the end of each i could feel the fatigue accumulating. fucking humid with none of the expected rain which was a disappointment.
#running

Pinelles County Cycling: 1.80 miles, 00:09:33 average pace, 00:17:14 duration

#cycling

Pinelles County Cycling: 1.79 miles, 00:08:08 average pace, 00:14:33 duration

#cycling

@prologic@twtxt.net, do you run a Minecraft server for your children? If so, which one?

Easy: 5.06 miles, 00:09:53 average pace, 00:50:02 duration
nice easy run.e definitely feeling the extra weight from all the holidays. probably could go hibernate safely if i wanted to.
#running

Pinellas County Running: 8.10 miles, 00:09:35 average pace, 01:17:37 duration
needed to get out and get away from everything for a bit. turned into eight miles but was just what i needed.
#running

I’ve been making a little toy operating system for the 8086 in the last few days. Now that was a lot of fun!

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself. I think going for real-mode 8086 + BIOS is a good idea as a first step. I am well aware that this isn’t going anywhere – but now I’ve gained some experience and learned a ton of stuff, so maybe 32 bit or even 64 bit mode might be doable in the future? We’ll see.

It provides a syscall interface, can launch processes, read/write files (in a very simple filesystem).

Here’s a video where I run it natively on my old Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop (and Warp 3 later in the video, because why not):

https://movq.de/v/893daaa548/los86-p133-warp3.mp4

(Sorry for the skewed video. It’s a glossy display and super hard to film this.)

It starts with the laptop’s boot menu and then boots into the kernel and launches a shell as PID 1. From there, I can launch other processes (anything I enter is a new process, except for the exit at the end) and they return the shell afterwards.

And a screenshot running in QEMU:

Pinellas County - Long Run: 12.58 miles, 00:09:10 average pace, 01:55:11 duration
beautiful day out. the holiday distance classic was today too it turns out so plenty of runners to run with on the way back in. did pretty much 5km intervals. did not realize it but could have possibly broke my PB in the half marathon… oh well, great run!
#running

Easy run: 4.07 miles, 00:09:19 average pace, 00:37:56 duration
kept it easy. no watching pace or anything and played it by feel.
#running

Pinellas County Running: 7.30 miles, 00:09:49 average pace, 01:11:43 duration
felt light but my heart rate was all threshold. real foggy out.
#running

Pinellas County Running: 5.06 miles, 00:10:19 average pace, 00:52:17 duration
just an easy run
#running

Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:11:27 average pace, 00:35:33 duration

#running #treadmill

Pinellas County Running: 5.00 miles, 00:10:30 average pace, 00:52:30 duration
slow run. the pace hurt the legs a bit but atleast i kept it light.
#running

Pinellas County - Long Run: 10.02 miles, 00:10:21 average pace, 01:43:37 duration
kept it slow for a low heart rate run. ti took forever to feel comfortable which may have been the excess of pizza and beer yesterday. and honestly, not very good sleep either. forced myself to stop at ten miles mainly because i was over my weekly mileage goal.
#running

haha, that’s gold xD.

#randomMemory I remember when I was starting to code, like 30 years ago, not understanding why my Basic file didn’t run when I renamed it to .exe

And nowadays, I’ve seen a few Go apps in a single executable, so twtxt.exe could be a thing, he!

Threshold: 7.00 miles, 00:09:14 average pace, 01:04:37 duration
did not know what this would be like when i set out. turned out to be a bit of a threshold workout, but did not hurt much. generally a nice day out and a good run even if the legs were heavy.
#running

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com will all those run on his hardware? I don’t think @movq@www.uninformativ.de’s problem is the software, it is that his hardware has gotten too old. :-D