In-reply-to » @lyse I do agree "the rules of the web", are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org to be clear, I do appreciate criticism, of both my art and and my other projects. Since you pointed it out, I have already fixed all the errors (missing semicolons, overused and incorrectly placed ā€œpā€ tags, bad CSS workarounds) - all that remains, is last five font tags (maybe even less, by the time you are reading this). šŸ«”

As someone who likes to experiment with slight text color adjustments, I was somewhat of a font tag fan and did not realise, they were actually deprecated - I thought not using them, is still just some suggestion/new best practice.

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In-reply-to » Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish - a nice article about Markdown VS proprietary formatting. With quotes like "Microsoft Office works in an office where you pretend to work until you can finally go home." šŸ˜„

@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.

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In-reply-to » @lyse I do agree "the rules of the web", are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.

@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.

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In-reply-to » Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.

it adds users by finding them in feeds mentioning or following. Your URL is already added.

Hmm i am not sure how you got the URL with users at the end..

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In-reply-to » 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.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The bird in the wallpaper? Thatā€™s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. šŸ˜ƒ This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didnā€™t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.

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In-reply-to » In Mexico you couldn't register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, I'm not sure, so many 'taquerias' here don't file a trademark request. It's usually "TaquerĆ­a

@eapl.me@eapl.me awesome, and thank you! Sorry I missed all that in the noise. I truly am a TL;DR fan! šŸ˜‚

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In-reply-to » @lyse you must be loved by all the web developers in town! But ok, I have added all the missing semicolons, that should technically be there, but them not being there, does not make a difference.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do agree ā€œthe rules of the webā€, are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.

As for my website, it might be visually very similar, to how it looked since its creation, many years ago, but it is frequently improved. Features that originally used JavaScript, changed to HTML and CSS components, code simplified, optimised to withstand browser updates and new screen resolutions,ā€¦ Even a good chunk of the errors on your list, were already addressed and I plan to address the rest soon.

Just find it a bit depressing, that my attempt to bring back some of the old Internet spirit, by making a hidden easteregg page page for this years April 1st, was met with people complaining about April fools day jokes and you insinuating my website sucks.

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In-reply-to » An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the "Trademarks"

In Mexico you couldnā€™t register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, Iā€™m not sure, so many ā€˜taqueriasā€™ here donā€™t file a trademark request. Itā€™s usually ā€œTaquerĆ­a

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In-reply-to » An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the "Trademarks"

I am confused (maybe I missed what they said, or didnā€™t read well). What was ā€œSonora Taqueriaā€ answer to the cease and desist demand letter[1][1=]? Did the accusers simply dropped their suit efford, or was ā€œSonora Taqueriaā€ able to make their case (see [1][1=])?

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev DRM is a solution to the wrong problem.

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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

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@prologic@twtxt.net I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I ā€œbuyā€ a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just ā€œrenting itā€.)

But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender@twtxt.net. šŸ˜¢

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In-reply-to » Eberbach is nowhere near Bad Wimpfen in comparison, but still has a nice historic old town: https://lyse.isobeef.org/eberbach-2025-03-29/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Aww, this reminds me that I havenā€™t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. Itā€™s always nice to see this on old buildings.

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In-reply-to » Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so hereā€™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 Iā€™m obviously no sound engineer. šŸ¤Ŗ)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, to be fair, thereā€™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. šŸ„“

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In-reply-to » This time, I brought my cam along. We checked out a piece of ex-forest they've cut down. It looks terrible now. :-( At least the spruce resin smell was nice. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-27/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is so crazy to me. When I think ā€œforestā€, I assume ā€œuntouched natureā€, but that couldnā€™t be further from the truth. šŸ«¤

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