I may have had to give my identity to Palantir, I may have had to pull Carnelian-II (my old iPhone) out of the mothballs, and I may have experienced my most distressing facial scan yet; but at least now my driving licence has the correct address…

GOV.UK One Login kinda sucks.

@kiwu@twtxt.net Hi!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Jesus…

It’s gonna be 31°C tomorrow, where I am. It may not sound that hot to some, but British heat certainly hits differently.

All the same, great weather for remaining perfectly stationary with a chilled beer (or several)!

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t think so? At least, I didn’t hear about any issues on Codeberg’s end. It may, of course, have had something to do with me using HTTPie instead of wget, but I really don’t know what happened.

Not sure what happened to my twtxt there. It seems that my sync script, which pulls from Codeberg and copies the twtxt to hashnix.club/~dce, had started copying an empty file. No idea why.

It should be fixed now, though, thanks to me adding [ -s /home/dce/twtxt.txt ] && before it copies it to ~/public_html.

@prologic@twtxt.net Even without the gamification and AI, I don’t host anything on GitHub. Just the fact that it’s owned by Microsoft spells trouble, in my opinion.

I still have an account, for occasionally contributing to a few specific projects, since a lot of developers wouldn’t know what to do with a patchset, and since many users of GitHub/Lab and Codeberg use send-only email aliases, so git send-email probably wouldn’t work.

Guess I was just a new CD and a Costco hotdog away from feeling okay, huh.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting, given that Vim Classic is specifically an AI-free fork of Vim.

@david@daiwei.me Thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net It works! Using it right now! Thank you!!!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’d recommend going for ksh93. oksh is quite barebones, and mksh doesn’t support set -o multiline.

@david@daiwei.me That should be it fixed!

@prologic@twtxt.net Additional: I still get the 403 if I don’t specify a feed URL.

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s more-or-less it. If I could do it without Codeberg (just using SCP, SSHFS, or something similar), that would be even better, but probably out-of-scope for the project.
My thinking behind how twtxt.app worked was that I could give it access to a repo, in order to add to my twtxt.txt, but that the alternative feed URL would then be presented to other users instead of the Codeberg URL; unless, of course, this is already part of the twtxt metadata.
In short, the feed URL would just be a dummy.

@david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net Oh, I see.

@david@daiwei.me My twtxt.txt is on Codeberg. The repo contains (or would contain) an exact copy of the file as it is on Hashnix.

@prologic@twtxt.net Details: “https://codeberg.org”, “(API key)”, “twtxt”, “twtxt.txt”, “https://hashnix.club/~dce/twtxt.txt”

@prologic@twtxt.net I created a repo called twtxt and an application key with read/write access to it (and only it). I then cloned the repo on Hashnix and hardlinked my twtxt into it, before committing and pushing. Next, I supplied the appropriate details on twtxt.app, under Codeberg/Gitea, and clicked “Connect”. gitea https://codeberg.org/api/v1/user: 403 Forbidden.

@prologic@twtxt.net I was actually trying to use twtxt.app, with Codeberg as a backend, but I kept getting a 403 error. As for twtd, well, my twtxt is hosted on a pubnix. The people behind Hashnix are really nice, but I’d rather not bother them with software requests if there’s a simpler solution, and I imagine it would be rude of me to run a deamon from my homedir without permission. Could be worth asking, though, unless I decide to write a client myself.

@prologic@twtxt.net twet 1.3.0 built from v1.3.0-21-gff43ee0 at 2025-08-25T23:27:41Z, from https://github.com/quite/twet. Unmaintained since 2020. To be honest, I was considering writing a basic client of my own…

@david@daiwei.me Those two twtxts were separate replies. However, I am currently using twet, which doesn’t support hash v2.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I rather like KornShell. Not as awkwardly bare-bones as Bourne or Almquist; but more minimal and lightweight than Bash or Zsh.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thank you!

I’ve been coding again, and this time it might actually be useful to other people! https://codeberg.org/hellfire103/golden-retriever

Just finished putting together my new cwm setup!

https://codeberg.org/hellfire103/misc-scripts/src/branch/trunk/scram.tcl

I love making silly little programs to solve problems I rarely have…

I’ll go through Winter thinking I don’t suffer from seasonal depression, then see a single ray of sunshine at the start of March and feel as if I’ve just been resurrected.

Ah, nothing quite like a cold beer after a day of moving house without the use of a vehicle.

happy new year from the uk

Merry Xmas!

Random question: does anyone here happen to know anything about retro hacking?

Well, it sure has been a while since I last posted here. Just up late doing yet another Linux installation. Debian turned out to be about as stable as a plutonium Jenga tower, and Alpine refused to boot, so I gave it the boot. Here’s to hoping that Arch fares better. Oddly, I’ve always found Arch to be considerably more stable than other distros…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I would call it “dark ambient”. It’s a broad genre, but one I rather like.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That sounds pretty cool. Have you heard of an artist called The Night Monitor before? https://thenightmonitor.bandcamp.com/

gopher://hashnix.club:70/1/~dce/art/

Thanks to a blog post by ~solderpunk and the presence of ImageMagick on my pubnix, all of my weirdcore art (apart from the animated works) is now under 32K in size! Honestly, I’d say the lower JPEG quality actually adds to the vibe of the images: something from the early web, taken permanently out of context and long forgotten.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Whoa! Nice shots! I’m supposed to be able to see it from where I am right now, but it doesn’t look particularly red yet. Always love a good eclipse…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Whoa! That’s cool!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s a T400 with 8GB of RAM and an SSD.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m looking for an OS that runs better than Windows (🤮) and through which I can do basic stuff like read RSS feeds and browse geminispace; but which I can also learn from.

I have a late-2010s ThinkPad running OpenBSD, but it’s about as fast as a snail carrying heavy shopping through molasses. I’d like to run something other than Linux, for variety, but the other members of the BSD family failed for various reasons. What OS do you guys think I should try?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s rather a nice phlog right there. Really enjoyed reading it.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sounds cool! I think I’ll also have a go…

Welp, my rent’s gone out and my student loan won’t be in for another week, so I’m not spending anything for a while. How’s everyone else’s September going?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I heard about a defence against badly-behaved crawlers a while ago: an HTML zip bomb. This post explains how to do it. Essentially, web servers can serve compressed versions of webpages and, with a little trickery, one can replace the compressed page with a different file. After that, any bot that tries to crawl the page will instead download and unpack a zip bomb that will cause it to crash.

@thecanine@twtxt.net I hate it when businesses do this. As well as being annoying and unreliable, Microsoft software is known to have a hell of a lot of security vulnerabilities, and the AI features increase the attack surface. One can use a client like Thunderbird for the email, but Teams doesn’t really have an alternative. Awful stuff.

@prologic@twtxt.net I love a good drink. What kind of wine is it?

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de My feed should be fixed now