@sorenpeter@darch.dk Not bad, maybe letās go back to 98.css. š
@bender@twtxt.net It feels like the current cycle has been going on for a very long time now, almost 20 years. š© But I might be wrong here, maybe it started later.
Is this āflat UIā madness ever going to end? Iām beginning to lose hope.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Of course, those shitheads. š¤£ (Doesnāt really make a difference in practice, luckily. There arenāt that many of them.)
@prologic Yeah, theyāre approaching three (!) parallel runways, directly above me. š (The early days of Covid were super quiet and peaceful.)
Of all the retro OSes that Iāve got running, SuSE 6.4 is clearly the most powerful one. It comes with a ton of software and development tools. Windows 2000, which was released around the same time, is basically āemptyā in comparison.
But of course, none of that mattered. No popular software, no adoption. š And yes, things like configuring the X server were stupid hard back then.
Damn those fucking planes and their noise.
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.)