OH, FUCK ME DEAD! On the way home from todayâs walk I saw easily 800 fireflies! Yes, over eight hundred! That was absolutely amazing. First time this year and already this many. Crazy! They were just fricking everywhere in the entire forest. I counted to one hundred and then stopped. The darker it got, the more fireflies came out and glowed around. :-) There were spots where in under ten seconds I counted 20 glowworms. Super sick. Soooo beautiful. <3
Before I left I tried to call a mate to join me, who apparently wasnât home yet, though, didnât pick up. But in the very end I surprisingly met her in the forest and we were super happy to encounter all the fireflies. She also said that today was her first time this year to spot them. Iâll definitely check them out in the next days, too.
Apart from all the glowworms, I also came across some goats, two deer (one of which only the ears showing out of the grass), according to the sounds I sadly must have scared up four more, bucketloads of tadpoles, four big and very active anthills next to each other and three bats to finish the stroll off. I call that extremely successful.
There ya go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-24/
I did a âlectureâ/âworkshopâ about this at work today. 16-bit DOS, real mode. đŸ Pretty cool and the audience (devs and sysadmins) seemed quite interested. đ„ł
- People used the Intel docs to figure out the instruction encodings.
- Then they wrote a little DOS program that exits with a return code and they used uhex in DOSBox to do that. Yes, we wrote a COM file manually, no Assembler involved. (Many of them had never used DOS before.)
- DEBUG from FreeDOS was used to single-step through the program, showing what it does.
- This gets tedious rather quickly, so we switched to SVED from SvarDOS for writing the rest of the program in Assembly language. nasm worked great for us.
- At the end, we switched to BIOS calls instead of DOS syscalls to demonstrate that the same binary COM file works on another OS. Also a good opportunity to talk about bootloaders a little bit.
- (I think they even understood the basics of segmentation in the end.)
The 8086 / 16-bit real-mode DOS is a great platform to explain a lot of the fundamentals without having to deal with OS semantics or executable file formats.
Now that was a lot of fun. đ„ł Itâs very rare that we do something like this, sadly. I love doing this kind of low-level stuff.
We really are bouncing back and forth between flat UIs and beveled UIs. I mean, this is what old X11 programs looked like:
https://www.uninformativ.de/desktop/2025%2D06%2D21%2D%2Dkatriawm%2Dold%2Dxorg%2Dapps.png
Good luck figuring out which of these UI elements are click-able â unless you examine every pixel on the screen.
Hmmm đ§ Not what I thought was going on⊠No bugâŠ
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Once again, I went on a hike onto my backyard mountain after calling it quits very late. This time I brought my cam along. The view was extremely hazy, but the setting sunlight resulted in cool colors. The freshly cut grass smelled wonderful.
I saw a flock of pidgeons circling around and some sort of rat or mouse quickly running over the road in front of me from one field into the next one with a giant nut in its mouth. Or so I at least believe, couldnât really tell, it happened so fast.
A couple enjoyed the setting sun on a bench and stripped their shoes on this warm evening. Somebody forget their bottle of water on the summit, but it looked rather cool in the evening light:
Not sure what theyâre doing, but they now set up scaffolding at the ruin. I heavily doubt it, but it would be cool if they rebuilt the castle. :-)
On the way back I met up with a mate who couldnât come along right from the beginning. We saw two deer on the meadow, but it was already too dark for my camera, the photos were totally rubbish. The sunset turned really pretty and colorful just in time when I reached home. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-10/
@bender@twtxt.net Canât you see this twt ??
@movq@www.uninformativ.de you have no idea what a soul sucking, heartbreaking SOB 2025 turned out to be. I wish you the best of luck with whatever annoyances life might have thrown your way. Power to you, my friend.
Woooaaah, the sun just was a crazy orange disk in the sky. Looked super amazing. Unfortunately, on the photo it was just white. But then it turned pink when it reappeared below the clouds: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-06-07/
Just as a little courtesy call (is that the right term?): 2025 continues to be annoying and exhausting, and I wonât really have the energy to work on twtxt/Yarn or texudus. Other than the occasional retrocomputing thingy (which gives a nice boost of nostalgia), Iâm not doing much of anything lately.
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I had a lot of fun with my modems these past few days:
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SuSE Linux 6.4 and Arachne on DOS also work (with Windows 2000 as a call target):
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This is my highlight, really, havenât seen this in action in a loooooooong time:
I had a lot of fun with my modems these past few days:
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-31/0/POSTING-en.html
QR codes, already posted about them in the last two posts, but I want to hear your hot takes: Should they only be black and white, are they even worth doing in 2025, incorporating them into things,..?
Also, finally getting full screen view for avatars in XMPP - a better integrated one, after 25 years. Y@ay!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Regarding https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-05-21/0/POSTING-en.html: Hahaha, thatâs what I immediately thought, too! The pain of going back to CVS. :-D I used that back in school. Quickly after, I upgraded to SVN and even that was terrible in comparison to a modern VCS, such as git.
In any case, happy hacking!
To follow up what I said minutes ago, they donât even want you to think of the initial idea, they want you to be a mindless organism, the AI algorithm analyses and tells what you should make, down to the script, so that you get the highest number of people possible to click it and see some AI generated advertisement, blended seemly into whatâs no lonher even your work.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/
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@lyse That bird pic goes right in the wallpaper collection. đ
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Iâm glad you like that raven. :-) This is the original for when you get a screen as big as an entire wall one day: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-05-16/01.JPG
We had sun, clouds, wind, rain and a whole lot of fun on our trip to the Wasserberg. Weâve been out seven hours in total, not bad at all for all those kilometers. We added on some detours to check out a pond Iâve been introduced by a mate a few years back.
After some (expensive) tucker at the Wasserberghaus, we tried to actually visit the summit this time. However, thereâs nothing to see, just a rough logging trail (46-49). That was a dead end, so we had to turn around. It was some nice exploring, but I reckon this was my first and last time up there. :-)
Unfortunately, we didnât go to the neighboring Fuchseck this time, only the Wasserberg with some extras.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-2025-05-18/
Once again, we had some very beautiful colors this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-05-16/
Grokâs âdaddyâ teaching it the good stuff early on:
Elon Muskâs artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been repeatedly mentioning âwhite genocideâ in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was âinstructed by my creatorsâ to accept the genocide âas real and racially motivatedâ.
RIP GitHub https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-08-updated-rate-limits-for-unauthenticated-requests/
Good thing I left long ago.
Nice European greenfinch: https://lyse.isobeef.org/gruenfink-2025-05-10/
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My main domain name turned 24 years old today. That feels weird.
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@anth@a.9srv.net happy birthday, âyoungster!â
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Once again, we had a lovely sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-05-04/
We went on a 14Â kilometers long hike in the heat, only a few spots were in the shade, most of our trip was in the open fields with the sun beating down on us. We reapplied the sun blocker after about two hours or so. All in all it took us about three and a half hours before we reached our destination Besigheim.
Last time I was there it was rainy, now we had the exact opposite. After some yummy Chinese lunch we visited the old town. Thereâs some gorgeous timer framing to see. When kept in decent shape, it just looks so dang cool.
Since it was too hot, we rode back by train. Despite the heat and some sections near the roaring Autobahn, this was a nice hike. Would do it again. Only in colder weather, though. I certainly donât wanna trade my comperatively larger (still nothing to other more rural areas), covering forests with the wide open fields and vineyards in summer. Thatâs for sure.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-von-asperg-nach-besigheim-2025-05-01/
Ich bin sehr spÀt dran, aber ich wollte noch eine Kleinigkeit im Blogpost ausprobieren. Nun denn, hier ist mein erster Beitrag zu den #blogwochen2025 https://maurice-renck.de/de/blog/2025/warum-bloggen-wir-eigentlich-immer-noch
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Once or twice a year, I make an effort to switch from dark mode / black terminals to light mode again.
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Iâm keeping this color scheme on my laptop for now:
đš «O selo de âFalsoâ aplica-se tambĂ©m ao momento em que Montenegro disse ser âmentiraâ o que Santos estava a dizer sobre o âcorte na verbaâ para 2025. De facto, no OE2025, a verba para a FCT sofreu um corte de cerca de 70 milhĂ”es de euros (-10%) em comparação com o ano transato, baixando de 675 milhĂ”es para 607 milhĂ”es de euros. Ă o valor mais baixo desde 2018»: https://poligrafo.sapo.pt/politica/pedro-nuno-santos-vs-luis-montenegro-quem-faltou-mais-a-verdade-no-frente-a-frente-2/
I visited a good mate after a day in the office and went for a stroll in the evening. It still was really hot, phew, about 24°C. Must have been the aftermath of the fire in the morning! For sure! The firealarm went off during a meeting and we all had to leave the building. Anyway, I only managed to take one lizard photo, all the other ones we came across immediately vanished in the brush or cracks in the vineyard walls. The kestrels were way more cooperative:
Popes vs #Philosophers: Whose #Ethics of #Immigration? https://crookedtimber.org/2025/04/26/popes-vs-philosophers-whose-ethics-of-immigration/
đ€Ąđ€Ąđ€Ą âSĂŁo Bento em famĂliaâ: festa sem referĂȘncias ao 25 de Abril e com entrada limitada: https://www.publico.pt/2025/04/30/politica/noticia/sao-bento-familia-festa-referencias-25-abril-entrada-limitada-2131469
âAssinalo com agrado que, pela primeira vez num debate com esta importĂąncia, se falou do orçamento da Fundação para a CiĂȘncia e Tecnologia e da investigação cientĂfica como motor do crescimento. Infelizmente, o assunto entrou pela mĂĄ razĂŁo da diminuição do financiamento e a resposta de Montenegro, confundido orçamento com execução, nĂŁo descansa quem se preocupa com estas coisas.â https://www.publico.pt/2025/04/30/opiniao/opiniao/debate-morno-spinumviva-brasa-2131557
If we must stick to hashes for threading, can we maybe make it mandatory to always include a reference to the original twt URL when writing replies?
Instead of
(<a href="https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/search?q=%23123467">#123467</a>) hello foo bar
you would have
(<a href="https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/search?q=%23123467">#123467</a> http://foo.com/tw.txt) hello foo bar
or maybe even:
(<a href="https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/search?q=%23123467">#123467</a> 2025-04-30T12:30:31Z http://foo.com/tw.txt) hello foo bar
This would greatly help in reconstructing broken threads, since hashes are obviously unfortunately one-way tickets. The URL/timestamp would not be used for threading, just for discovery of feeds that you donât already follow.
I donât insist on including the timestamp, but having some idea which feed weâre talking about would help a lot.
Pensar sobre o desenvolvimento e utilização da InteligĂȘncia Artificial a partir de uma perspetiva filosĂłfica aprofundada - este Ă© o objetivo excecional da formação em âđÌđđ¶đ°đź & đđ»đđČđčđ¶đŽđČÌđ»đ°đ¶đź đđżđđ¶đłđ¶đ°đ¶đźđčâ đ§ đ€ NĂŁo perca! Pode fazer a sua candidatura atĂ© đŹđ đ±đČ đșđźđ¶đŒ! CalendĂĄrio: 09 de maio de 2025 Modalidade: e-learning đMais informaçÔes em https://s.up.pt/7fyq #Ătica #InteligĂȘnciaArtificial #FormaçãoContĂnua #EducaçãoContĂnua #FLUP #Letras #LetrasUPorto #SomosLetras #ConstruiroFuturo #Uporto
LOL Amazon displaying tariff prices âhostile and political,â White House say is this the kettle calling the pot black? đ€Ł Trump, pfft, what a fucking idiot. No clue how economies work, let alone countries.
May 3, 2025 is #PressFreedomDay. But press freedom is precisely what is hardly available on social networks. So letâs pause and stop posting, liking and swiping for a day â to save the democratic power of the internet.Because WE are social media. #SaveSocialDay
Spain and Portugal power outage: what caused it, and was there a cyber-attack?
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