@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I’m into self hosting too, d’uh, but it’s just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn’t about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don’t have to maintain or build yourself.

@david@daiwei.me Yes, you can. THat’s true, sometimes. Not always, though, promotional pricing etc. The differentiator is the extra bits you don’t have to maintain/manage.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Good to know 👌 Thank you! 🙏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Fair, but not what I was trying to ask 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing compares to the server my mates and I share. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The vast majority, yes. However, I know it’s hard to believe, I have seen black sheep that actually improved the code base. Sometimes. Much more often, it’s not the case and I’m far from really understanding the merge request that I’m supposed to review.

One really looses the feeling for the software quickly. Those who think this is a bad thing are in the minority, unsurprisingly.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz But look at all the free available space now!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Pics or it didn’t happen!!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Nice video effect work indeed! Such a welcome change to all the overproduced music videos. I didn’t come across Castle Rat before. The Rat Queen has a great voice. If there only was less doom/stoner metal influence in their heavy metal. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Thank you! Yeah, riding a balloon into the sunset must be nice. Although, probably also really cold this time of year. On second thought, you got heating up top, so might not be too bad. :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I see. Soft start and soft stop are great features. Probably also helped longevity of the desk itself. Not sure if something could be rigged up with a resistor here to dampen it a bit. Electronics are really not my cup of tea.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m probably also not good enough. I just thought that it might be kinda alright, there’s no shortage of work, one’s hopefully not replaced soon by automation and so on. Not sure.

And yes, there are a myriad of jobs that are extremely underpaid, have awful working hours, ruining your health and where you get treated like shit.

The outlook is poor.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That’s so much more handy. :-)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hahaha, no worries! :-D

All I use Insert for is Shift+Insert to paste sometimes. Other than that, it’s always annoying to switch to replacement mode when I accidentally hit the Insert key it instead of Home or End, depending on the keyboard.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m 5m in, and I’m already fucking pissed off. If I ever find such a male asshole, I will quite literally punch them in them in the face. The sad thing about this is that is happens at all. Fuck! 🤬

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have mapped Caps Lock to be my Compose Key. :-)

cat ~/.Xmodmap
! Convert the otherwise useless Caps Lock key to a compose key, so e. g.
! non-breaking spaces can be inserted with Caps+Space+Space.
! https://adamsimpson.net/writing/compose-key-and-i3
keycode 66 = Multi_key
clear Lock

It’s really great! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, do you now own a 3D printer? The vibration is crazy, didn’t expect that. Let’s toast to a long life!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Kat’s instance was last seen on 4th October in my logs. Xuu is still actively fetching. Or somebody pretending to be them. ;-) Maybe some web server routing or firewall clearance issue. :-?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Enjoy! :-) In case you wanna upgrade, I uploaded both originals with the file extensions in all caps.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Unfortunately. Maybe become some sort of craftsman dealing with physical objects in the real world. :-?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de People have not been fired over here. But I fully expect this to happen, too. Non-techies soldering together their own production shit is only consequent. I was actually wondering when this will happen. Product owners don’t need anyone else anymore, they can just be one-man shows. That’s what the AI bros jerk off to.

If certification won’t help us (heavily crumbling already from what I observe), it will go away completely and will be replaced with the Wild West. That’s my guess.

In case my employer makes it until then, I will have been gone in five years. At most. I should start looking for complete alternatives. The IT industry is absolutely poisoned and destroyed. I have no hopes left. We’re all fucked on so many levels.

@david@daiwei.me There ya go! :-)

@david@daiwei.me Same here, all dead.

@david@daiwei.me Woooaaahhh, this looks really sick! :-O

@david@daiwei.me Yes, it’s been a hot minute. One of his last messages (that I remember) were some holiday photos with hotel highrises and palm trees at the beach. Let’s hope Phil just went offline. :-/ But I fear you could be right about him.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de There are some other interesting facts about this funnel shaped tower. Now that this message is long enough that jenny has cut off the first few words for the subject, I can be sure that it’s not spoiled right away. This wall of text for the introduction also helps with any other clients.

Please excuse me, I hope you had some fun reading my fictional explanation. It’s just a water tower: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserturm_Eichert

Interesting, I didn’t know that water towers are basically obsolete these days.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, mate!

This funnel is a famous landmark originally built in the 40ies or 50ies on top of a hill range by a local coffee roaster modeled after their logo for advertising purposes. They were called “Schwäbische Kaffeewerke” or something like that. As a coffee guy, you might have heard of them. :-)

When this company went bankrupt several decades later, a chemistry plant nearby expanded to that site and flattened most of the infrastructure, but took over the funnel. They maintain it now. You can see some of their larger office highrises on the right. Luckily, most of their buildings, tanks, chimneys, etc. are on the opposite hill side and in the valley, so they’re out sight from this point of view and don’t further ruin the shot.

A few years ago, they underwent a rebranding and – at least surprisingly to me – changed their logo to also incorporate said funnel now. Giant ads lives forever, I reckon.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me @jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes, it’s sad. But I don’t think they died. If they did, I expected the feeds to be completely gone, with the hoster shutting their accounts down when no more payments were received anymore. Well, at least for those with own domains or not on shared systems. We can only hope.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ta! :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Stellt fick raus. Hihihi. Gab es wenigstens einen schönen Unfall beim Rennen?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Working fine for me, I believe.

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Hello! 👋

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz I hear you. Some folks just don’t give a shit. Consideration is foreign. :-(

@prologic@twtxt.net I notice that many people switch away from it, unfortunately. Even lots of friends already have a long time ago. Some just love to be traced these days.

Ta, @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com, didn’t last long, though.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Why are you skeptical of crowd-funded projects? 🤔 I was/am/maybe considering crowdfunding what I’m trying to get off the ground myself, but now you’ve got me rethinking that 😅

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz That don’t and are considered illegal, becuase cash is still legal tender in the US? 🤔

apparently, we have to remind people that cash is still legal tender 😅 – at my local café

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz Welcome back! 👋

Thanks, @david@daiwei.me! I’m glad I kept it so you can enjoy it. I almost deleted it.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Fair warnings. zs is incredibly simple, deliberately so. LMK if you have any q’s when trying it out, it probably has confusing docs 🤣

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz yeah I think so. Btw, if you’re looking for an SSG, I quite like the one I maintain over at https://zs.mills.io

It’s basically what my own blob is too 😅 – The thing is though, if you see @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s posts, they get pretty long, there really isn’t any limit to the length of posts you can make in your Twtxt feed in the first place Haha 🤣

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That was pretty fun and funny 😄

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Muhahaahaahaaahaaaahaaaaa! My last thunderstorm was during summer camp setup in the night. We decided to evacuate the tents into the kitchen building. The closest hit was about a kilometer away. So, completely boring compared to your sight.

@david@daiwei.me I have never heard of JMAP before. Interesting.

We use Mailcow which is probably really overkill.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz I imagine this:

@david@daiwei.me I use Poste.io internally
Maddy at the edge – I’ve also hears good things about Mail-in-box, Mailu and Mox

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :‘-D