@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, yes. The brackets help a great deal.

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.

( https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116862294937117528 )

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I’m obviously Aussie, but happy 4th July to you too! 🎉

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com LOL You can Email me, hit me up on Signal, orc IRC. Take ya pick I’m around 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net 😂 Noob question, do we just do this out in the open? I can also send you an aliased email to take the conversation private.

@prologic@twtxt.net 😂 Noob question, do we just do this out in the open? I can also send you an aliased email to take the conversation private.

@fastidious@tilde.town Done and done ✅ Should get an “Upgrade” banner and button soon™

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Found it and fixed it! 🎉 The crawler’s discovery spider was fetching every feed a second time, without any conditional headers (plus a couple of other politeness bugs: redirected feed URLs never stored their cache validators, and there was no floor between re-fetches). Now every feed is fetched at most once per crawl, always with If-Modified-Since / If-None-Match, and never more than once per 15m no matter what. Just deployed — please keep an eye on your access logs and let me know if you still see anything impolite from the crawler 🙏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I believe this is fixed now 🤞

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! I’ll look into that! Could be a bug in the crawler.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks, mate!

On the back of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet Verein berg hohenstaufen Göppingen 2013”. I read that as the Mt. Hohenstaufen club donated the bench itself: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/69.jpg

On the front of the bench, the badge says: “Gestiftet von Hildegard Schuster, Gesellschafterin der Schwarz-Gruppe, Firma Wackler”. The bronze lady was donated by a shareholder of the Schwarz group, specifically the local Wackler trucking and logistics company. Clip of 27 in original resolution: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/70.jpg

The book itself reads: “Zur Erinnerung an Ralph Kobza” It’s in memory of the sales manager of the art foundry next town that created also this statue. My mate took this photo: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-07-03/71.jpg

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s cool to hear!

Looking at my access logs, something seems to be off, though:

2026-07-04T04:11:26+02:00 200
2026-07-04T05:16:09+02:00 304
2026-07-04T06:33:34+02:00 304
2026-07-04T06:37:46+02:00 304 # just four minutes since last crawl
2026-07-04T06:41:55+02:00 304 # another four minutes
2026-07-04T07:11:33+02:00 304
2026-07-04T07:11:40+02:00 200 # no conditional request just seven seconds later
2026-07-04T07:43:25+02:00 304
2026-07-04T07:43:33+02:00 200 # just eight seconds since last crawl
2026-07-04T09:18:06+02:00 304
2026-07-04T09:22:53+02:00 304 # just four minutes since last crawl
2026-07-04T09:27:03+02:00 304 # another four minutes

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Appreicate it 👍

@prologic@twtxt.net I think it’s probably the https://girlonthemoon.xyz/ publisher, I contacted Mastodon and email and contacted them. Since that Mastodon was also Kat , it must be the right contact.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It sure feels like the focus is heavily shifted to the average Joe and the power users are left standing.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh sorry you are right! The pod you’re on is managed by @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I believe!

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m just registering and using yarn, I haven’t built it. But maybe I could build yarnd on my server.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Welcome to the wild west!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I agree and am very happy about how it went for me back then. Having said that, I still admire @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s persistence and strong will to get into it. I feel that a lot of young folks give up way too quickly.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Do you mind git pull && make build and updating your yarnd instance so it’s in-line with the new Hash v2 spec 🙏

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Not difficult, I’m just the target of much spam and bots 😢

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com twtxt.net is now difficult to register, so you can register yarn instead: https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz 👍

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I reflected on your nick change: https://balloon.oldcities.org/twtxt-active-users.txt

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com by asking me nicely 🤣 Which you just did! If you either provide me a desired username and password and secure medium to give this to you I can do that easily, or alternative a desired username and email address (never stored, only hashed), after which you can “Reset password”.

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for the heads up! I fixed my nick and corrected my reply. I’m still learning lol. I still need to get setup with a client, I’m using my timeline at the moment, but that’s finicky due to CORS in the browser. By chance do you know how I would go about signing up with twtxt.net?

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for the heads up! I fixed my nick and corrected my reply. I’m still learning lol. I still need to get setup with a client, I’m using my timeline at the moment, but that’s finicky due to CORS in the browser. By chance do you know how I would go about signing up with twtxt.net?

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com You will want to either build a client or use one of the ones listed here – Either way you choose! 👌 I just noticed as well in this Twt I’m replying to (threading is a thing™) that you @-mentioned@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net incorrectly 😅

<@bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt> Thanks for the warm welcome! I don’t actually have a twtxt client setup yet, but you showed up in the timeline on my site: https://gabesarcade.com/?timeline - which is kind blowing my mind right now.

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks for the warm welcome! I don’t actually have a twtxt client setup yet, but you showed up in the timeline on my site: https://gabesarcade.com/?timeline - which is kind blowing my mind right now.

@’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com Welcome to Twtxt / Yarn.social 😅

@Gabe-sArcade@gabesarcade.com Welcome! I added you to my twtxt Active List: https://balloon.oldcities.org/twtxt-active-users.txt It might be good to improve your “nick”.

@’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com welcome to twtxt!

@gabe@gabesarcade.com welcome to twtxt!

@kiwu@twtxt.net jump on IRC and tell us! Server irc.mills.io, on 6697 (TLS), join #lobby, then private message (I am quark). :-P

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org the siting lady reads this?

Gestiftet von
Hildegard Schünar
Gesellschafterin
der Schwarz-Gruppe
Firma Wüst's
Anni

Or it is something else? Awesome pics, Lyse! Some oldies I missed (the lady), and some pretty cool new ones. I can’t get enough of nature pics!

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me likewise. I was very active on it in 1992, all until 1998. Then dropped off until 2020, but remained dormant. I have now awaken once more! 😂

I just read @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s blog post over here:

https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/learning-to-code-like-it-s-the-90s

Jesus, it must be so overwhelming for young people to get started with programming.

When I started programming, there was the built-in ROM BASIC of that PC and probably a bit of BASIC on a floppy, and that was it. Nowadays? Millions of libraries and frameworks and languages and what not – and, much worse, there’s the expectation that you need to make something fancy. When I started, printing something and understanding IF was good enough.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This apparently depends on the program now … Some Qt6 programs still allow that, others don’t. I can’t remember if GTK ever had that feature. 🤔 But yeah, this whole “move stuff around as you please”-mentality is mostly gone.

I know I keep referring to StarOffice 3.1 a lot, but it’s just such a good example for all these things. All the toolbars and panels could be rearranged:

https://movq.de/v/2fb714931d/s.png

(This is running in Wine, btw.)

LibreOffice is the descendant of StarOffice and it doesn’t support anything like that anymore.

Maybe it was deemed too confusing for users? “Oh no, I mis-clicked something and now that bar is gone! How do I get it back? I don’t even know what it’s called!” 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-07-03/0/POSTING-en.html Oh yeah, the toolbar handles. You could actually move the toolbars around and sometimes even customize them. I have no evidence, but to me it feels like a lot of programs don’t allow that anymore nowadays.

@arne@uplegger.eu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh! Von wann ist denn das? Und ja, Innenaufnahmen wären richtig fein. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Wie sah’s denn drinnen aus? 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It was an easy and quick fix, though. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Ah, ein Jahresband. Man darf dann auf Beiträge dazu im Blog demnächst gespannt sein. :-)

@oberon@nightfall.city I don’t think I can reply to nex: X-D The residents of Nekoweb are happy to welcome me, a Japanese person.

@prologic@twtxt.net No. Since the other party was using the original twtxt, I used the twtxt format for my reply. However, that was changed by yarn 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net this was supposed to be a reply to this, not sure how it ended up all there, by itself, sad and lonely. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net they are not the operator, but a user. I think @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz is the operator.

@balloonfu-sen@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I think you need to update your yarnd instance 🙏

@oberon@nightfall.city I don’t think I can reply to nex: X-D The residents of Nekoweb are happy to welcome me, a Japanese person.