It’s been slightly ice cold: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-01-23/

My washing machine is making funny noises and I’m this 🤏 close to just throwing it out and washing everything by hand, instead of buying another expensive enshittified product that’s designed to break down in a couple of years.

Washing is easy anyway, the spin cycle to dry that stuff is the important part …

(#6d4mo2a) @shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de /me raises his hand, too.

ChatGPT https://brynet.ca/chatgpt/

(#6d4mo2a) @shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe 🙋 with extra 24/7 noise from the construction site outside (construction guys live in a little “container” and they need power, so they have a diesel generator running 24/7)

Last night, I beat Castlevania SotN. Tonight, I won the Superbowl in NFL Blitz 2000.

Clearly, my mad PS1 skillz are finally at their peak…

Great article by Ploum about chatbots/AI and education: https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

(#rzkaj5a) @shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe 🤣

When people “make plans”, I always respond like this:

https://movq.de/v/9a8712846d/at-night.jpg

Finally found the clip where this is from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfDty810Kfc&t=65s

(#kkebt2a) @prologic@twtxt.net Reminds me to have another look at LSP. Last time I checked, it was super messy in Vim. 🤔

Spent basically the entire day (except for the mandatory walk) fighting with Python’s type hints. But, the result is that my widget toolkit now passes mypy --strict.

I really, really don’t want to write larger pieces of software without static typing anymore. With dynamic typing, you must test every code path in your program to catch even the most basic errors. pylint helps a bit (doesn’t need type hints), but that’s really not enough.

Also, somewhere along the way, I picked up a very bad (Python) programming style. (Actually, I know exactly where I picked that up, but I don’t want to point the finger now.) This style makes heavy use of dicts and tuples instead of proper classes. That works for small scripts, but it very quickly turns into an absolute mess once the program grows. Prime example: jenny. 😩

I have a love-hate relationship with Python’s type hints, because they are meaningless at runtime, so they can be utterly misleading. I’m beginning to like them as an additional safety-net, though.

(But really, if correctness is the goal, you either need to invest a ton of time to get 100% test coverage – or don’t use Python.)

(#ikxk5fq) @shinyoukai@yume.laidback.moe Yeah, I avoided that issue as well. I moved everything on the website except for the twtxt stuff.

(#5sx3vhq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The thing is that’s hard to avoid if TYPE_CHECKING, but documentation tools such as pdoc don’t support that … so it’s either type hints or API docs. 🤷

I hope I can eventually find a way out of this mess …

(#ibvedvq) @javivf@adn.org.es Oh! Thanks, should be fixed now. 😊

(#ibvedvq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de avatar is off for

Yikes. https://adamj.eu/tech/2021/05/13/python-type-hints-how-to-fix-circular-imports/

(#6g5l2oa) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org All that short brown grass, almost looks like Scotland. 🤔 (I’ve never been there. 😅)

What the heck is 06.jpg?

(#i6mgd3a) @prologic@twtxt.net Changed the domain of my website (except for twtxt).

(#6acyh5q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (At least I didn’t break all the links again. In late 2015, I switched from a PHP backend to the current static website, which changed just about everything. I hope doing a disruptive change like this one every 10 years is tolerable. 😅)

(#6acyh5q) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, right. Forgot about that. 🫤

(#i6mgd3a) Did it work? Am I still here? 🤣

(#i6mgd3a) @prologic@twtxt.net I think I found an easy way to redirect anything except the twtxt stuff. That’s probably better. 🤔

So, are you guys up for an experiment?

I’m really not happy with the domain “uninformativ.de” anymore. I’m going to switch to “movq.de” soon (or maybe something else if I get another fancy idea).

If I keep the url = field in my twtxt file, nothing should break, right? Right? 🤣

(#m4r2yzq) @prologic@twtxt.net Yup. 😅

(#bkzrqsq) @bender@twtxt.net gemini-cli, something something https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/16723

I recently got an email with this byte sequence:

\xf0\x9f\x8e\x81\xf0\x9f\x95\xaf\xef\xb8\x8f

That’s U+1F381, U+1F56F, U+FE0F. The last one is a “variation selector”:

https://unicodeplus.com/U+FE0F

My toolkit renders this incorrectly – and so do tmux and GNU screen.

Unicode ain’t easy. 🥴

https://github.com/unix-v4-commentary/unix-v4-source-commentary

A comprehensive, line-by-line commentary on the UNIX Fourth Edition source code (released November 1973; tape recovered from June 1974 distribution).

(#hddm6pa) @prologic@twtxt.net I’d love to take a look at the code. 😅

I’m kind of curious to know how much Assembly I need vs. How much of a microkernel can I build purely in Mu (µ)? 🤔

Can’t really answer that, because I only made a working kernel for 16-bit real mode yet. That is 99% C, though, only syscall entry points are Assembly. (The OpenWatcom compiler provides C wrappers for triggering software interrupts, which makes things easier.)

But in long mode? No idea yet. 😅 At least changing the page tables will require a tiny little bit of Assembly.

(#hddm6pa) @prologic@twtxt.net Damn, nice! I know exactly what you mean – the output/screenshot looks trivial, but there’s so much going on behind the scenes. 😃

Did you do the whole dance with BIOS boot and everything?

(#74u6qdq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de so basically an analogue to Xorg?

(#u53qyya) @movq@www.uninformativ.de in the only feed he has remaining, since the twtxt.net incident… doesn’t look like there’s any activity

@mckinley@mckinley.cc ohai, long time!

For me, the “Be kind.” sentence is more of a threat than anything else.

The redirects are there, now whether how long anyone will take to catch up is anyone’s guess

信じたいよ私達、孤独じゃない。

I’ve moved

(#j7zm5xa) @kaa@bridge.twtxt.net Cool, thanks for the support! I’ll try to add something so that a year later it can ask if you want to renew. I just didn’t want to make gift subscriptions auto-recurring.

(#azdzbva) @joshspector@bridge.twtxt.net Cool!

(#e2rrvga) @kaa@bridge.twtxt.net We have a way to invite someone to Micro.one and pay for the first year. Maybe that would work to start? There’s a link @3932@bridge.twtxt.net. Otherwise email help and we can figure something out. Thanks!

(#tvulx5a) @numericcitizen@bridge.twtxt.net No worries, this is all going mostly according to plan. 🙂 Using more bandwidth was unavoidable.

(#mdvry7a) @cote@bridge.twtxt.net Sounds right. 🙂

(#4dh6hwq) @fichteldom@bridge.twtxt.net Sorry, I looked at the wrong account even though you told me which one! Should be fixed now.

(#yz5ys2q) @fichteldom@bridge.twtxt.net Are you still seeing the error? I just checked and it looks like it was updated. Let us know if anything looks wrong.

The classified information in the future classified information the surface so classified information is classified information and I wasn’t hurt

In fact, look at how soft this ball is

~ Mikuru Asahina The Elder (The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-chan)

Say what, npf(7) is throwing up and won’t block anything, yare yare :facepalm:

(#d2pj7pq) @prologic@twtxt.net the only one other that exists is htwtxt which may as well be Yarn’s ancestor

(#xyy4hrq) that is to say, chaotic.ninja still exists (although I don’t directly control it anymore as of last year), the rest is classified information ;P

Do not expect me to not hit other people’s nerves. You have been warned.

@prologic@twtxt.net I have returned