Since I finally configured X11 in this VM for shenanigans ā¦
The original tuXeyes running in a SuSE Linux 6.4 VM and my clone from 2017 (which does not depend on a now ancient version of Qt):
And I come back to twtxt.net every now and then to read up on conversations that seem to be incomplete in my own client. Like if a new feed appears that I donāt follow (yet). Thatās certainly a convenience that I do enjoy. Thank you for that!
Indeed, I do that as well.
@prologic@twtxt.net Congratz! š„³
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org My goodness, you have feet of steel. š Yay, geese!
@bender@twtxt.net To quote from the german version of ISO 27001:
Ćnderungen an Informationsverarbeitungseinrichtungen und Informationssystemen sollten Gegenstand von Ćnderungsmanagementverfahren sein.
Fuck off, you cunts. š¤£š
@prologic Itās always been super niche, but I think in the age of Twitter more people have been looking for free/libre alternatives than these days, because Mastodon is a big thing now and has mostly replaced Twitter. Mastodon is free/libre, lots of instances, lots of communities. I have a feeling that Yarn/twtxt is mostly appealing to us nerds and minimalists.
I still love the core ideas of twtxt. Itās great for hardcore minimalists. Yarn.social is great for people willing to run a server daemon. I still think all of this is a good thing.
We have certainly lost lots of momentum, though. Plus, there appear to be simpler alternatives to full blown Mastodon now. I think @abucci@anthony.buc.ci and @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no are running snac? I didnāt have a closer look at snac (no intention of running it), but if that is a relatively small daemon (maybe comparable to Yarn?) that gives you access to the whole world of ActivityPub, then, well, yeah ā¦ Thatās tough to beat.
Not sure what my point is. š¤ For me, itās easy: Iāll keep using twtxt because all I have to do is host a text file. Dead simple, I love it.
It all depends on what your plans for Yarn.social are. š¤
If youāre using jenny on Python 3.12, it will spit out a deprecation warning regarding datetime.utcnow()
. This will be fixed in the next release.
I feel you, buddy. š¤£
Looks like thereās not a lot of fancy magical stuff:
- https://komh.github.io/os2books/progfaq/112_L2_Whatisthebestwaytoco.html
- https://komh.github.io/os2books/progfaq/111_L2_Whatisthebestwaytoco.html
There is, however, a DosKillThread()
function, which, as far as I know, does not exist on POSIX. š¤ You can only send a signal to a POSIX thread and then itāll hopefully end some day, right?
Killing threads is probably a bad idea, though. Who knows which state itāll leave behind. Itās not like a process which will be properly cleaned up by the OS.
I think Iāll leave it as is. š
I think Iāll be doing this again:
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-01-oldcomputerchallenge-v2-rtc.html
The source code of āDOS 4ā was released:
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/main/v4.0
Not without issues:
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-not-to-release-historic-source-code/
(Hence āDOS 4ā in quotes, is it 4.00 or 4.01? Probably the latter.)
More DOS 4 history:
Well, there was one subtle bug: jenny did not fetch archived twts from your own feed (only from other people). I just happened to wipe all twts/cache from my disk, so I noticed that all my old stuff was missing. Itās a corner case, but itāll be fixed in the next release.
WM_NORMAL_HINTS
property is a property that can be set on a window. Part of that property is width_inc
and height_inc
. They tell the window manager to only increase/decrease a windowās size by certain steps.
I donāt know why or how, but using gtk_window_set_geometry_hints()
has the desired effect (now?). Reading GTKās source code is too convoluted to find out whatās going on here. I canāt find a corresponding Wayland protocol.
Sway gets very slow when resizing such a window, so Iām a bit inclined to think that GTK does some weird trickery to get this to work. š¤
Either way, xiate now sets geometry hints again and floating windows have the correct size now. Finally.
Well, looks like Iāll be using IBM software after all ā¦ š¤£ https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm (We use Terraform.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. Itās really dangerous for oneās mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.
No, itās not IBM. š I wonāt say what it is. š„“ I donāt think I had contact with any (contemporary) IBM software since around 2010. I love toying around with retro IBM stuff (cause thatās what I grew up with), but really no idea what theyāre up to these days. Even the IBM building in our city is long gone.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. Thatās a bit scary.
Hmm, how many hardware devices have you lost due to lightning over the years? š¤ We lost a modem once, but that was it.
One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:
https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_9.html
š
@bender It is very proprietary, yes. šš
@bender Get well soon!
(And thanks for not being one of those āitās just a coldā guys.)
One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.
Even Word 97 could do shit like that ā¦
@bender Oh dear. š
I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.
@bender lol š
So you donāt feel a bit weird when you say āWindowsā or āPowerPointā? Itās just a brand, nothing special?
Ich fragā mich schon oft, wie das fĆ¼r die englischen Muttersprachler sein muss, all diese sogenannten Markennamen zu benutzen. āIch benutze Fenster 11! Das hier ist eine KraftPunkt-PrƤsentation. Den Kode fĆ¼r dieses Skript habe ich vom Deppendrehkreuz.ā All sowas. š¤
@mckinley My process hasnāt changed. (But the Gopher hole is gone. Hereās the file from 2023: https://movq.de/v/72fddfd8fe/2023-05-31ābackups.txt )
What is your backup target btw? This NFS drive youāre speaking of is probably hosted on one of your local servers running in your apartment/house?