What’s that thing called when everyone on a social media platform (hardly matters which one) all post the same sort of thing. It all sounds oh so wonderful, or all so dramatic, everyone claps and cheers and thumbs up or whatever. What’s that thing called? There’s a term for it hmmm 🧐

👋 Okay folks, let’s startup the Yarn.social calls again.

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  
• When: 25th May 2024 at 12:00pm UTC (midday)
  
• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
  
• Cadence: 4th Saturday of every Month
  

Agenda:

Anything we want to talk about. Twtxt, Yarn, self hosting, cool stuff you’ve been working on. chit-chat, whatever 😅

#Yarn.social #Meetup

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I think you’ll find it simpler to use zs

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Looks okay here for me, but then again I’m not as pedantic as @pedantic@arrakis.netbros.com 🤣

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Whoo! 🥳 I won 2 of my 3 singles tonight! 🏓

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Like deebs.net

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Is Yarn.social dead or just too niche? (uyrrria) 🧐

Hah 🤣 @dfaria@twtxt.net Your @dfaria.eu@dfaria.eu feed really does consume about >50% of a “Discover” search with filters “Without replies” and “Hide my posts”. 🤣

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I just woke up fianally 🤣 It’s 12:45pm here (midday)

I think multi-user pods were a mistake.

@bendwr and I discussing something along the lines of:

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Been clearing out my pod a bit and blocking unwanted domains that are basically either a) just noise and/or b) are just 1-way (whose authors never reply or are otherwise unaware of the larger ecosystem)

Let me know if y’all have any other candidates you’d like me to add to the blocked domain list?

</> htmx - high power tools for html really liking the idea of htmx 🤔 If I don’t have to learn all this complicated TypeScript/React/NPM garbage, I can just write regular SSA (Server-Side-Apps) and then progressively upgrade to SPA (Single-Page-App) using htmx hmmm 🧐

Why don’t more people borrow to invest and increase their portfolio and wealth? 🤔

So what do we think of the Reddit IPO? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net That’s what I also don’t understand. What is driving all this pierced hate and ignorance in the world lately?!

wat da fuq does being “woke” even mean?! 🤦‍♂️

Update on my Fibre to the Premise upgrade (FTTP). NBN installer came out last week to install the NTD and Utility box, after some umming and arring, we figured out the best place to install it. However this mean he wasn’t able to look it up to the Fibre in the pit, and required a 2nd team to come up and trench a new trench and conduit and use that to feed Fibre from the pit to the utility box.

I rang up my ISP to find out when this 2nd team was booked, only to discover to my horror and the horror of my ISP that this was booked a month out on the 2rd Feb 2024! 😱

After a nice small note from my provider to NBN, suddenly I get a phone call and message from an NBN team that do trenching to say it would be done on Saturday (today). That got completed today (despite the heavy rain).

Now all that’s left is a final NBN tech to come and hook the two fibre pieces together and “light it up”! 🥳

Feedback on why I didn’t choose Mattermost (lack of OIDC) · mattermost/mattermost · Discussion – My discussions/feedback on Mattermost’s decision to have certain useful and IMO should be standard features as paid-for features on a per-seat licensed basis. My primary argument is that if you offer a self-host(able) product and require additional features the free version does not have, you should not have to pay for a per-seat license for something you are footing the bill for in terms of Hardware/Compute and Maintenance/Support (havintg to operate it).

@johanbove@johanbove.info With pygame or something else? 🤔

Day 3 of #AdventOfCode puzzle 😅

Let’s go! 🤣

Come join us! 🤗

👋 Hey you Twtxters/Yarners 👋 Let’s get a Advent of Code leaderboard going!

Join with 1093404-315fafb8 and please use your usual Twtxt feed alias/name 👌

Twtxt/Yarn AoC > Leaderboard

Day 2, Part 1 and Day 2, Part 2 of #AdvenOfCode all done and dusted 😅

~22h to go for the 3rd #AdventOfCode puzzle (Day 3) 😅

Come join us!

👋 Hey you Twtxters/Yarners 👋 Let’s get a Advent of Code leaderboard going!

Join with 1093404-315fafb8 and please use your usual Twtxt feed alias/name 👌

Twtxt/Yarn AoC > Leaderboard

Starting Advent of Code today, a day late but oh well 😅 Also going to start a Twtxt/Yarn leaderboard. Join with 1093404-315fafb8 and please use your usual Twtxt feed alias/name 👌

Bah we’ve caught COVID again 🤯

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net I feel like this is a bit of a common pattern? Company builds an awesome product, makes it free for a lot of users, then create additional features and paid plans, makes a tonne of money. But then later decide they need to make more money, so focus on converting the free users to paid users. Hmmm 🤔 Surely this can’t be the only viable business model? 🤔

wtf is going on with Microsoft and OpenAI of late?! LIke Microsoft bought into OpenAI for some shocking $10bn USD, then Sam Altman gor fired, now he’s been hired by Microsoft to run up a new “AI” division. wtf/! seriously?! 🤔 #Microsoft #OpenAI #Scandal

So Youtube rea really cracking down on Ad-blockers. The new popup is a warning saying you can watch 3 videos before you can watch no more. Not sure for how long. I guess my options are a) wait for the ad-blockers to catch-up b) pay for Youtube c) Stop using Youtube.

I think I’m going with c) Stop using Youtube.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Plain Text - YouTube – This is very good 👌

I’m telling ya guys 😅 plex.tv had way better shit™, Get it installed on your own server, get access to free content + your own + whatever and no stupid tracking and bullshit 🤣

Oh okay, so Youtube is cracking down on “Ad Blockers”.

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Need to share something with your smart phone?

qrcode "$(pbpaste)" | open -a Preview.app -f

Anyone have any ideas how you might identify processes (pids) on Linux machine that are responsible for most of the Disk I/O on that machine and subsequently causing high I/O wait times for other processes? 🤔

Important bit: The machine has no access to the internet, there are hardly any standard tools on it, etc. So I have to get something to it “air gapped”. I have terminal access to it, so I can do interesting things like, base64 encode a static binary to my clipboard and paste it to a file, then base64 decode it and execute. That’s about the only mechanisms I have.

Hmm when I said “Wireguard is kind of cool” in this twt now I’m not so sure 😢 I can’t get “stable tunnels” to freak’n stay up, survive reboots, survive random disconnections, etc. This is nuts 🤦‍♂️

fractalnetworksco/selfhosted-gateway: Route HTTPS traffic to local Docker containers through a cloud VPS over WireGuard. Ideal for self-hosting behind CGNAT.

How is everyone finding GitHub CoPilot? 🤔 Good / Bad ? 🤔

Is FreeOTP any good? 🤔

Time to write my own S3-compatible Object Storage server 🤣

@eapl.me@eapl.me Hmmm interesting 🤔 Your trying to use 2FA as passwords? 🤔

In setting up my own company and it’s internal tools and services and supporting infrastructure, the ony thing I haven’t figured out how to solve “really well” is Email, Calendar and Contacts 😢 All the options that exist “suck”. They suck either in terms of “operational complexity and overheads” or “a poor user experience”.

What do we make of this? Sky News Australia interviews ‘free-thinking’ artificial intelligence - YouTube #OpenAI #Amica

Is there a Youtube frontend that doesn’t suck? Requirements:

• Disable all comments.
  
• Disable all public trending.
  
• Local-only
  
• Kid friendly

What if I run my Gitea Actions Runners on some Vultr VM(s) for now? At least until I get some more hardware just for a “build farm” 🤔

@eapl.me@eapl.me QR code printed on paper?

My proof-of-concept Container as a Service (CAS or CaaS) is now up and running. If anyone wants to have a play? 🤔 There’s still heaps to do, lots of “features” missing, but you can run stuff at least 😅

ssh -p 2222 cas.run help

Just been playing around with some numbers… A typical small static website or blog could be run for $0.30-$0.40 USD/month. How does that compare with what you’re paying @mckinley@twtxt.net ? 🤔

Would anyone pay for like cheap hosting if it only cost you say ~$0.50 USD per month for a basic space to run your website, twtxt feed, yarn pod, whatever? 🤔 Of course we’re talking slices of a server here in terms of memory and cpu, so this would be 10 milliCores of CPU + 64MB of Memory, more than enough to run quite a bit of shit™ 🤣 (especially when you don’t need to run or manage a full OS)

Hmm need to figure out a way to squelch the size of my pod’s data directory 🤔

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TIL: You cannot use the work “fucking” (to colloquially mean that was “fucking brilliant”, i.e: a compliant) on Discord servers 🤣

ASCIIFlow This is kind of cool 😅

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