@lyse Beep boop! That was nice 😃

@lyse 01.jpg could have been a Windows wallpaper. 😃

@lyse Well, yeah, that’s quite similar, isn’t it 😂

@kat Ouch. 🥴 Alright, that’s not so great then, sorry. 🫣🥴

@bender (Feels a bit like his “edit” function could be implemented as “delete and re-draft”, but I’m only guessing here.)

@lyse Nice. I should catch up. Only walked 8km this month, so far. Oops.

@kat Man, you are busy. I envy your energy. Oh, to be young again … 😂

@david Yeah, we’ve been debugging that a bit yesterday. Looks like the wrong input (sometimes) gets fed to the hash function → broken threads.

@david Ah, yes, the hardware might not. As I just said in the other thread: No problem, you can keep the same installation. I did so many times on my PC/laptop at work.

@javivf Oh, yes, looking at SMART is always a good idea. 😅 My SSD isn’t that old, though. It got replaced recently, tbh. But no need to reinstall, I just copy the files to a new disk. (Works just as fine when switching to an entire new machine.)

@prologic There was no edit according to my Git history. 🤔 On my end, the hash is fs7673q and that’s also what kat used to reply.

@prologic The threads’ broken for me, I can’t find znf6csa. 🤔

@prologic What happened here – did I edit my twt or is this hash wrong? 🥴

@bender I’m afraid of Australia. The spiders will eat me alive. 😂

I see. We should all take a loooooooooong vacation. 😂

@bender Gah! Stay strong. 😩

@prologic I wonder what this will do to my followers list. I suspect there were a lot of dead accounts out there. 😅

@prologic Well, if we really wanted to, I guess @lyse and I could provide you with our copies of that time period. 😆

@prologic RIP 💀 Well, shit happens. 😅

@bender I was a bit confused at first what that is: Apparently, it’s the source code of Altair BASIC: https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html

(Of course they have a user agent filter. 😂 Can’t download that PDF with wget.)

@lyse The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.

@lyse … I was fully expecting this to be a WSDL file. 😂

@prologic I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)

But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢

@lyse Aww, this reminds me that I haven’t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. It’s always nice to see this on old buildings.

@lyse Yeah, to be fair, there’s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. 🥴

@lyse This is so crazy to me. When I think “forest”, I assume “untouched nature”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. 🫤

@kat Does … does that mean … that we’re “trending” on TikTok? 😅

@lyse Commercial forest, I guess? (Are there any other forests?)

(The original was played on a guitar with an octave pedal, not a bass.)

Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so here’s another one of those silly things: https://movq.de/v/68c61f8ecc/r2_session.ogg This time on electric bass, tuned down to B-standard because oomph. (Well, sounds okay on my headphones, but I’m obviously no sound engineer. 🤪)

@lyse I had that as my avatar/userprofile pic at work for a few years. 😆

@lyse Luckily, yeah. Happens every now and then. It’s usually not even worth reporting, they often fix it in 30-90 minutes anyway.

(Is this how we do “reactions” here on twtxt? 🤪)

@xuu @lyse 💚

@prologic 🍴💣

@bender 🙈🙈🙈

@lyse I remember WebKit having a similar list, but I can’t find it right now … 🙈

@prologic In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅

But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️

@bender That … was better than expected. 😂

The Mastodon admins say that it’s probably because of the size of my account (~600 MB), so the export process times out. And I understand that. Here on twtxt, I always use auto-expiring links when I post images or videos. It just gets too much data otherwise. I think I’ll just set my Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after ~180 days or something like that. Nobody cares about old posts anyway.

@lyse @bender It already is a tiling window manager, but some windows can’t be tiled in a meaningful way. I admit that I’m mostly thinking about QEMU or Wine here: They run at a fixed size and can’t be tiled, but I still want to put them in “full screen” mode (i.e., hide anything else).

@kat I have just opened the GIMP bug tracker (hosted at gitlab.gnome.org) and, I kid you not, they have deployed Anubis in front of it:

Oof.

@lyse I’m glad to hear that! Yay for more clients. 😊

(I didn’t submit a proposal of my own, because it would basically just be a duplicate of another one. 😅)

@lyse Interesting, thanks for that list. 🤔

… yeah, okay, I don’t think I’ll do that. 😅 Anything but twtxt is just too much effort.

@lyse

Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.

Is that because you mostly use Qt programs? 🤔

I wish Qt had a C API. Programming in C++ is pain. 😢

@lyse (I think of pointers as “memory location + type”, but I have done so much C and Assembler by now that the whole thing feels almost trivial to me. And I would have trouble explaining these concepts, I guess. 😅 Maybe I’ll cover this topic with our new Azubis/trainees some day …)

@lyse Maybe it’s a lyrebird. 😏

@prologic Yes, it was one of those. 95, 98, and Me were all built on top of DOS, as far as I know.