@lyse Indeed. 😃

@prologic I’m pretty sure that’s going to happen at some point or has already happened. 😃 Is this “the dark web”? 😅

@thecanine Got any responses from any politicians? 🤔 (Assuming you send this letter directly to them, of course.)

@klaxzy Yes, if Germany actually opposes this. But so far, there’s only one guy that said something on a press conference. He does speak for the “CDU” party, which is “in command” at the moment, but that’s about it. I don’t trust these people – not until I’ve actually seen them voting against Chat Control. 🥴

@prologic Where do I stand on “Chat Control”? How long of a response/rant do you want? 😅 It’s a disaster. As I understand it, they want to spy on me directly on my devices before encryption even happens – jfc, no, fuck off. And since there are so many devices, they want to automate the scanning, which is the worst idea you could possibly have.

@bender I guess most clocks don’t support that. 😅 My wrist watch can do it, you can select it in the menu:

https://movq.de/v/ccb4ffcbc5/s.png

In general, different transmitter means different frequency and different encoding, for example these two:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_from_NPL_(MSF)

@klaxzy Why, because Germany is now listed as “opposed” on fightchatcontrol.eu? I’m not so sure. This is just one guy (Jens Spahn) saying “no we don’t want it”. That’s not an “official” stance, it’s very fragile and could change any minute. https://netzpolitik.org/2025/eu-ueberwachungsplaene-unionsfraktion-jetzt-gegen-chatkontrolle-innenministerium-will-sich-nicht-aeussern/

DCF77, our time signal radio station, is a great public service. I really love that. It’s just a signal that anybody can pick up, no subscription, no tracking, no nothing. Much like GPS/GNSS. 💚

@lyse As the kids on imgur say: I always updoot birbs 👍

So green, so many mushrooms. 🤯

@lyse @prologic They’re both great 😃

@lyse

I was always under the wrong impression that Tkinter is bundled with Python.

It should be. Maybe your distro splits it off. 🤔

@lyse Nope. I think they stayed only one year. 😢

@prologic Whoop whoop 🥳

@lyse Xfce is nice, but it’s also mostly GTK. I don’t really know the answer yet. For now, I’ll just avoid anything that uses GTK4.

For my own programs, I might have a closer look at Tkinter. I was complaining recently that I couldn’t find a good file manager, so it might be an interesting excercise to write one in Python+Tkinter. 🤔 (Or maybe that’s too much work, I don’t know yet.)

@bender Who?

@bender I don’t think so, but I might give it a shot when the “official” drivers no longer work at all.

@lyse lol 😅

@lyse Awwww! I’ve never noticed their tail feathers being so green. 🤯

@lyse Yeah, it’s probably not black and white. (I have no idea why you would connect a bloody light bulb to your WiFi …) But I do get the impression that there are way more “neo-luddites” that 20 years ago. 😅

@lyse

Waste paper, like an opened envelope, suits a shopping list perfectly fine.

Indeed, I’m drowning in this stuff and I throw it away anyway, so I might just use it.

You've got a nice handwriting, I like it.

Thanks. 😅 (It used to be horrible. Gosh, the teachers scolding me in school … Bah. 😂)

But you know what still works, my squeeze filler (didn’t even refill it) and my old (super cheap) calligraphy set … I’ll just use that.

https://movq.de/v/f48c7cda09/IMG_20251001_200317.jpg.jpg https://movq.de/v/f48c7cda09/IMG_20251001_202438.jpg.jpg

@lyse Finally! The end is near! Rejoice! \o/

@zvava Hm, I tried with https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2025-09- and my Firefox 143 didn’t like it. https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt#:~:text=2025%2D09%2D worked. 🤔

@zvava

(<a href="?search=abcdefghijkl" class="tag">#abcdefghijkl</a> https://example.com/tw.txt#:~:text=2025-10-01T10:28:00Z), because it can be simply hacked in to clients currently on hashv1 and provides an off-ramp to location-based addressing

I like that property (an off-ramp to location-based addressing), so I think I could live with that approach. ✅

(I’m not sure why we’re using text fragments, though. Wouldn’t that link to the first occurence of 2025-10-01T10:28:00Z? That’s not necessarily correct. And, to be proper URLs that Firefox and Chromium understand, it would also need to be written as 2025%2D10%2D01T10:28:00Z. [The dash carries meaning](https://wicg.github.io/scroll-to-text-fragment/#context-terms), sadly. I think all this just creates needless complication. How about we just go with https://example.com/tw.txt#2025-10-01T10:28:00Z?)

@zvava My clients trusts the first url field it finds. If there is none, it uses the URL that I’m using for fetching the feed.

No validation, no logging.

In practice, I’ve not seen issues with people messing with this field. (What I do see, of course, is broken threads when people do legitimate edits that change the hash.)

I don’t see a way how anyone can impersonate anybody else this way. 🤔 Sure, you could use my URL in your url field, but then what? You will still show up as zvava in my client or, if you also change your nick field, as movq (zvava).

@lyse Just as planned! 😅

@itsericwoodward (I confess, my brain pronounced it as “TwitStorm”. 😂)

@prologic I checked a while a ago and there were, like, 3-5 collisions or something like that. Not that many. 🤷 I have to specifically look for them – I don’t notice it in normal operation.

Day 19 was a really nice puzzle. 😊

@lyse That looks like an older bug report. Which groff version is that (groff --version)?

Speaking of groff: I’ve been following their mailing list for a while now and this G. Branden Robinson person invests an insane amount of energy into that project. 🤯

Okay, now that I knew what to look for, I found existing bug reports:

• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-04/msg00400.html
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63960

Most importantly:

This is resolved in the groff trunk.

🥳

@prologic No, this is a Linux manpage from the man-pages project: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man/man7/ascii.7

I do have an idea what’s going on. Could be an unfortunate interaction between the table preprocessor tbl and the man macro package. 🤔

@lyse Not bad. 🤔 So this started out as a flat sheet and then you cut and folded it, like paper (more or less)?

@lyse I give up. Just doesn’t give me a 360° video. 🥴 Maybe I’m just having bad luck with YouTube’s randomized stuff (maybe I’m getting “experiments”, who knows) …

@prologic Hm, I don’t know. Over here, we have parties that we would call “left” or “right”, one of them even calls themselves “The Left”. No idea about your political landscape, but it still makes sense for us. 🤔 For me, at least.

@prologic Germany was listed as “opposing” on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for a while, now it’s back to “undecided”. According to netzpolitik.org, it’s still debated. Also according to that page, there could be an important vote on the EU level on October 13/14.

The green party and the (far) left are opposing this (at least in Germany). Sadly, Germany is leaning more right with every year … As for young people: The (far) left is the strongest party among young people, with the (far) right being the second strongest one. (https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/umfrage-alter.shtml) Is there cause for hope? I don’t know.

@prologic They have not rolled it out (yet), they are “just” discussing it (for the n-th time).

@prologic That’s a completely flat threading model (you can’t reply to replies). Is that intentional?

@lyse Hm, I couldn’t trick yt-dlp into downloading the correct format. Works in the browser, though. 😅

@melyanna Exit! Exit!!1! https://movq.de/v/c51aa76926/exit-exit-exit.jpg

@lyse I can’t remember the last time I came across a 360° video. 🤔

@bender A renewed vision test might be a good idea for some people. 😅 I mean, it is kind of curious that you get this license as a young person and then it lasts a lifetime, without any further tests. As long as you don’t screw up really bad, it remains valid …

@aelaraji 👋

@lyse https://www.celestrak.com (where the TLE files are downloaded from) seems to be down. :/

@lyse Some stuff is actually more reliable, that’s true. It’s also waaaaaaaaaaay more expensive, though … :-)

I called it a day, yes. \o/

@lyse Yep! Super fast and efficient! 😃

@arne Hm, noch nie gemacht. 🤔 Machst du das von Hand oder mit Code?

@zvava Good question. This is the spec, I think:

https://twtxt.dev/exts/metadata.html#nick

It doesn’t say much. 🤔

In the wild, I’ve only seen “traditional” nick names, i.e. ASCII 0x21 thru 0x7E.

My client removes anything but r'[a-zA-Z0-9]' from nick names.

@lyse Omg, that is great. 😃