lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (3h ago)

(#b2vjqhq) @arne@uplegger.eu Iā€™m very glad I only rarely have to deal with .docx & Co. And when I have to, 99% is in read mode only. Even though, I donā€™t think that Markdown is the best choice, I use it on a daily basis. Some things, like links, in reStructuredText are better in my opinion.

Jira just resists to switch to Markdown and forces us to use its silly markup language.

For real typesetting, LaTeX is the way to go. But I very, very rarely do that.

#goktyuq
lyse @lyse.isobeef.org
 (4h ago)

(#4rx5iyq) @thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.

For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldnā€™t find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?

Next, I noticed the <font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasnā€™t entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, Iā€™d love to hear about it, so I could fix it. Iā€™m sorry that my chosen form of report didnā€™t resonate with you all that well. I reckoned youā€™ll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.

I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didnā€™t recognize it as such. ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ Oh well.

Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.

#gwk2s7q
movq @www.uninformativ.de
 (2d ago)

Iā€™m playing with ratterplatter again: Itā€™s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.

I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years ā€¦ šŸ¤¦).

Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4

(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)

The results arenā€™t too bad, but this thing canā€™t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.

FWIW, if you donā€™t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

#hot22xa
prologic @twtxt.net
 (2d ago)

(#cs6lodq) @andros@twtxt.andros.dev Thatā€™s a shame. But hereā€™s the thing about piracy. If I could download a PDF or MP3/OGG of a Book Iā€™d happily pay for this. If I could download an MP3/OGG of some Music I would pay for this. If I could download an MP4 of a Movie I would pay for this.

The reason piracy exists at all is economics and greed. If you make something affordable and convenient, thereā€™s no need to steal.

#qqhnmpq