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In-reply-to » There is a bug in yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

I’m happy with the current implementation though, because the only reason you should be hitting the external profile endpoint at all is a) you’re logged in and happen to click on someone’s profile that is external to the pod or b) you’re anonymous and just clicking through the frontpage (see a)

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In-reply-to » @bender 404 could be indeed a temporary error if the file resides on a mounted remote filesystem and then the mount point fails for some reason. With a symlink from the web root to the file on the mount, the web server probably will not recognize the mount point failure as such. Thus, it might not reply with a 503 Service Unavailable (or something like that), but 404 Not Found instead. (I could be wrong on that, though.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org errors are already reported to users, but they’re only visible in the following list.

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In-reply-to » @lyse As far as I know, they're still visible in the Web UI. Although, in the mobile app and youtube.com, I believe it tells you that the video isn't available without having to click on it. They don't tell you that in the RSS feed, and I agree; it gets annoying.

It’s also (expectedly) in the feed file on disk:

2024-08-04T21:22:05+10:00	[foo][foo=][foo][foo=]

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In-reply-to » @lyse Ahh so it's not just me! 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ahh it might very well be a Clownflare thing as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org eluded to 🤣 One of these days I’m going to get off Clownflare myself, when I do I’ll share it with you. My idea is to basically have a cheap VPS like @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club has and use Wireguard to tunnel out. The VPS becomes the Reverse Proxy that faces the internet. My home network then has in inbound whatsoever.

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Hmmm I’m a little concerned, as I’m seeing quite a few feeds I follow in an error state:

I’m not so concerned with the 15x context deadline exceeded but more concerned with:

aelaraji@aelaraji.com  Unfollow (6 twts, Last fetched 5m ago with error:
dead feed: 403 Forbidden
x4 times.)

And:

anth@a.9srv.net  Unfollow (1 twts, Last fetched 5m ago with error:
Get "http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt": dial tcp 144.202.19.161:80: connect: connection refused
x3733 times.)

Hmmm, maybe the stats are a bit off? 🤔

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In-reply-to » The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Don’t give up.

What about Signal? I’m had great success with this, friends, family, neighboards. They get it. It works. I don’t have to worry about it too much.

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@xuu@txt.sour.is I have a theory as to why your pod was misbehaving too. I think because of the way you were building it docker build without any --build-arg VERSION= or --build-arg COMMIT= there was no version information in the built binary and bundled assets. Therefore cache busting would not work as expected. When introducing htmx and hyperscript to create a UI/UX SPA-like experience, this is when things fell apart a bit for you. I think….

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I’ve been thinking about a new term I’ve come across whilst reading a book. It’s called “Complexity Budget” and I think it has relevant in lots of difficult fields. I specifically think it has a lot of relevant in the Software Industry and organizations in this field. When doing further research on this concept, I was only able find talks on complexity budget in the context of medical care, especially phychiratistic care. In this talk it was describe as, complexity:

  • Complexity is confusing
  • Complexity is costly
  • Complexity kills

When we think of “complexity” in terms of software and software development, we have a sort-of intuitive about this right? We know when software has become too complex. We know when an organization has grown in complexity, or even a system. So we have a good intuition of the concept already.

My question to y’all is; how can we concretely think about “Complexity Budget” and define it in terms that can be leveraged and used to control the complexity of software dns ystems?

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Can anyone recommend and/or vouch for a Chrome/browser extension that lets me write rewrite rules for arbitrary links on a page? e.g: s/(www\.)?youtube.com\/watch?v=([^?]+)/tubeproxy.mills.io/play/\1 for example? 🤔

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In-reply-to » I just typed something that took me a while to enter, hit post, and lost everything because I was logged out. Can that be disabled? Let me be logged in for as long as I want (or for a very long time), unless I hit logout, or account for the previously entered text, and present it (or run the post action), after having to re-login?

@bender@twtxt.net Hmmmm I’m not sure about this… 🧐 Does anyone have any other opinions that know this web/session security better than me?

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👋 If y’all notice any weird quirks or UI/UX bugs of late on my pod, please let me know! 🙏 For those that have a Javascript enabled web browser will notice (hopefully) a SPA (single page app) like experience, even in Mobile! No more full page refreshes! All this without writing a single line of Javascript (let alone React or whatever) 😅 – HTMX is pretty damn cooL! 😎 #htmx

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Thinking about how to programmatically manage what’s displayed on the Front page / Discover view…

Today we have the two optinos:

  • Local posts only
  • All posts in cache

I’m thinking of additional checkbox (on|off) options such as:

  • Latest post per feed

Any other ways we can manage this a bit better? 🤔

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👋 Well that was great! 👍 Our Yarn.social Online Meetup for the 25th May 2024 (after a long hiatic) was a great success! 🥳 Thank you to @darch@neotxt.dk @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @xuu@txt.sour.is and @bmallred@staystrong.run for joining today 🙇‍♂️ It was great to see and talk to y’all 🤗

Let’s do this again next month! Last Saturday of each month 👌 The ~4hr window worked quite well too I think 🤔

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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 🧐

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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”. 🤣 36/2 = 18 at 25 Twts per page, that’s about ~72% of the search/view real estate you’re taking up! wow 🤩 – I’d be very interested to hear what ideas you have to improve this? Those search filters were created so you could sift through either your own Timeline or the Discover view easily.

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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?

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