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2022-11-09

Tonight's writing environment: Thinkpad x230 hooked up to an old 17" 1280x1024 monitor just to get that nice 5:4 again. TN panel, though, so it sucks just a little too much. Writing in a fullscreen terminal with glorious green on black Terminus.

Back in Malmö this week after spending last week in the cottage. Wasn't time off, though. Both P and I worked during the week, but since #3 had a holiday we could do it from the cottage. Still haven't begun the kitchen renovation. Might not even do it this year. Which is great for the days between Newtonmas and New Year's and the New Year's Eve. I was rather nervous about where we could be for New Year's. Central Malmö is not ideal.

Surprised #1 and SO with a three-course dinner. That was fun! I could do that more often. Invite people over for a long dinner.

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo is going on. I've been trying to participate. Started off with a good start, then missed one evening for a concert and another one for a birthday party... Then sort of crashed. I'll see if I can pick it up a bit.

My attempt is to do a sort of nostalgic look into some scenes and/or episodes from the 80's with a lot of hacker stuff and general teenage angst and drugs. Sort of like my life was in the 80's in Sweden but, uh..., fictional?

It's hard not to start revising. And... What language do I even use? I've tried in both Swedish (some) and English (more).

Went to MSO playing Mozart's Requiem. I thought I would sit there and cry for 48 minutes but I didn't!

Fenced last night, but I just couldn't cope intermediate tonight. My attention isn't that good today. I would probably really need the exercise, though. Feeling down the last couple of days.

altoschat

Found what I think may be the original source code for the legendary X.25 altoschat:

https://archive.org/details/altoschat

Possibly this is one of the two admins of the thing:

https://www.korneder.de/

The code still compiles under Linux, although with a lot of warnings. Haven't tried running it, but wouldn't it be fun to start it on a VM somewhere?

Fedi & Tut

With the Eternal October/November of people leaving Twitter going on I had to unpause my use of Fedi again. I'm a little bit active at:

https://hackers.town/@mc

I've been using the Tut Mastodon client. It's quite good. Problem is most of my feed are boosts and I really don't want to see them.

https://github.com/RasmusLindroth/tut

Patch so far:

diff --git a/ui/item.go b/ui/item.go
index 399203e..2f29267 100644
--- a/ui/item.go
+++ b/ui/item.go
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ func DrawListItem(cfg *config.Config, item api.Item) (string, string) {
                if item.Pinned() {
                        symbol = " ! "
                }
+               if s.Reblog != nil {
+                       return "", ""
+               }
+
                acc := strings.TrimSpace(s.Account.Acct)
                if s.Reblog != nil && cfg.General.ShowIcons {
                        acc = fmt.Sprintf("♺ %s", acc)
diff --git a/ui/item_status.go b/ui/item_status.go
index bd367d0..f879a13 100644
--- a/ui/item_status.go
+++ b/ui/item_status.go
@@ -88,6 +88,11 @@ func drawStatus(tv *TutView, item api.Item, status *mastodon.Status, main *tview
                return
        }
 
+       // Filter out all boosts
+       if status.Reblog != nil {
+               return
+       }
+
        showSensitive := item.ShowSpoiler()
 
        var strippedContent string

Still leaves empty rows where the boosts should have been, but it's better than seeing them.

Macross

Found all(?) episodes of "Super Dimension Fortress: Macross" on Youtube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTB8wqufCcE&list=PLftMc2X00jhHXiiOSD-LTswS6C2mcEOPK

I have only seen the Robotech version before but this is much better. Epic 80's anime.

SIP

Did more with SIP and phones. I have a voip.ms account with a DID and working SIP and RTP encryption. voip.ms is perhaps not ideal for dialling out but receiving calls is OK.

My Grandstream HT486 is toast but the old prototype Cisco ATA still works and is hooked up to the EPVPN. I'm a little afraid about what would happen if I post the number, though, but if you get in touch you can have it. I am, as I've said before, working through a slight phone phobia.

mc,

Pungenday, the 21 day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3188

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