@GabesArcade@raw.githubusercontent.com those are getting harder and harder to come by these says. Everything is smart this, smart that and Artificial Ignorance powered now.
@david@daiwei.me It would appear so š
@thoshi@yarn.thoshis.net I wouldnāt bother if I were you š Theyāre both fairly outdated protocols and very much an āsiloā IMO. THey donāt make very good places to host your Twtxt feed either.
@thoshi@yarn.thoshis.net Welcome to the Yarn.social / Twtxt ecosystem š
jenny stuff aside, I received zero bug reports or code contributions since leaving GitHub in 2018.
And @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org is right. Not being on Github is a good thing IMO. Even when I was there with all my many projects, I basically got the same amount of āattentionā as I do now. The only real way to gain more āattentionā is to artificially play the āgameā. You know. The stupid āStargazerā one, and whatever you can to get into the āTop 10 Xā charts. ā But ultimately that doesnāt buy you āqualityā contributors or users or whatever. So itās all pointless.
jenny stuff aside, I received zero bug reports or code contributions since leaving GitHub in 2018.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de So I see it slightly differently⦠Over the years I have recieved great contributions from the likes of yourself and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and the many forms of @bender@twtxt.net and his friends š Hell even others along the way that have come and gone. Likewise I also think you have recieved many contributions to Jenny over the yeras in much the same way, perhaps not in patches, but user reports, feedback, etc.
So I think what Iām saying here is this⦠Ever since leaving Github (like you), I find that my desire to continue to build up the community weāve built here and to contribute to grow and cultivate it is important to me. My desire to thwart and eliminate useless traffic like bots and ai even strongers.
I want to find a good balance.
@thecanine@twtxt.net Always love your work ! š
Deleted some old no longer used pixelart from my galley and added this as an alternative version, of the sprite one.

Dang it! Suddenly, Iāve got real strong appetite for gingerbread.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sigh. :-(
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, thatās actually quite a bit. I didnāt expect that. You definitely have useful things. :-)
Exactly, I now also send links to my fork. :-D
@dce@hashnix.club Yeah, but I havenāt looked into this specific issue. I am very much anti-AI, but this particular thing might be human error. I donāt know.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, Iām sure theyāll keep hammering dead URLs for many years to come. These crawlers are 100% brain dead. And they donāt even need to be smarter, because they still grab valuable stuff left and right.
jenny stuff aside, I received zero bug reports or code contributions since leaving GitHub in 2018.
How many tickets and merge requests did you get before moving to your own server?
Hm, these were probably some of the more active projects:
- https://github.com/vain/lariza/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed
- https://github.com/vain/pdfPres/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed
- https://github.com/vain/xiate/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed
So itās not a ton of stuff and there are many āissuesā I opened myself, but itās certainly more than these days.
Havenāt used
git send-emaileven once. I definitely have to look into that soon. Wanted to do that for several years. I typically upload the patch to my server and send a link via IRC.
git send-email is good for sending patches to a mailing list (because then the individual patches can be discussed easily), but since those are dying out as well, it loses its appeal. If you want to send patches to a single person, just sending the link to your repo is far easier. š¤
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting, given that Vim Classic is specifically an AI-free fork of Vim.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, Iām interested in your future bot stats as well. I wouldnāt be surprised if they just keep hammering against all those now 404s. But I hope Iām wrong.
jenny stuff aside, I received zero bug reports or code contributions since leaving GitHub in 2018.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Finally, your software is just perfect and finished by now, no need to report non-existing bugs or send in code changes. :-) How many tickets and merge requests did you get before moving to your own server?
I have to admit that I use git format-patch so rarely, I always have to pull it up from my shell history. Havenāt used git send-email even once. I definitely have to look into that soon. Wanted to do that for several years. I typically upload the patch to my server and send a link via IRC.
Maybe I was just very unlucky, but my experience is that you can perfectly ignore people and their work who only do it for the āfameā. Itās almost always been from inferior quality to say the least.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de If only somebody had warned us! Luckily, no TV in this household. :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh dear, thatās cute. š
Iām seeing some slowdowns in Vim lately. Must have something to do with syntax highlighting or indentation rules or something: When I hit Enter to go to the next line, it sometimes freezes for like 100 ms. Itās pretty annoying.
Doesnāt happen in Vim Classic, so I switched all my machines to that now.
Why is there no English version of this interesting ZIP code article!? https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H0H_0H0 (Canadians know that this is Santaās postal code.) https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/write-letter-to-santa.page
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks. š Yeah, I already found it slightly annoying myself. Letās see how the bots respond to the new situation. š¤
@prologic@twtxt.net Hmmm, I have no idea how to solve that problem. š
Some jenny stuff aside, I received zero bug reports or code contributions since leaving GitHub in 2018.
I thought I had made that super easy, because you can just send me an email ā no sign-up process, nothing. But thatās way too old-school, people donāt know how to use git format-patch (let alone git send-email) and they also donāt understand that they can just send me a link to their forked Git repo (which can be hosted anywhere). Git is super flexible and powerful, but those features are hardly ever used.
Maybe people even need some kind ārewardā, or āfameā. Like those āachievementsā that you can unlock on GitHub. (Something to put in their CV ⦠?)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Works good. I fully get and support your reasoning behind that change. Thereās only one downside. Quickly looking at some code snippets in the browser helps me to quickly judge whether itās worth to clone a repo or not. Oh well. :-) After all I know that movqware always is.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Luckily, Iām not an autist. If you walk next to a busy road or airport, I totally get the annoying noises. Iād plug my ears, too. But I meant in the woods where there are almost only nature sounds. Maybe they miss the jackhammers etc. :-D
@david@daiwei.me Hell yeah, letās finally reintroduce the big predators! :-D
@david@daiwei.me OH no ! š My wife caught COVID some weeks ago, then we got sick again with a cold, it was awful š¢
Oh god 𤣠I mean I had this idea to re-invent āGit hostingā, but failed. Maybe Iāll try it again. I dunno. The thing is I hardly get āIssuesā really, only when I ask nicely, of folks I know every well 𤣠So think at much āsmaller scaleā we need a different solution, and I think @movq@www.uninformativ.de is on to something, but not to the extend implemented, somewhere in the middle I think? š¤
os/arch for Mu is now relatively simple to do, or far less duplicated work/effort.
@david@daiwei.me Bah you 𤣠Do you know how hard⢠it is to write a compier, a self-hosted compiler that has two runtime engines? š