of course, there are parts of doing any networked thing that require collaboration and that’s GOOD. it just isn’t often that projects encourage many alternate clients and server to be made.
i’m most interested in systems that are meant to stay small enough for folks to go build their own clients and servers easily and without big teams.
elon musk is the new thomas edison
the right way to run searx is on localhost
fitness is a lifestyle, not an event
Everything since has just been layers of monetized, corporate controlled, walled garden crap that has objectively ruined society and turned the techno-utopian dreams we had then into a dystopic Orwellian nightmare.
We had everything we needed, and none of the BS; cell phones, e-mail, instant messaging, SMS, file sharing, blogs, forums, and broadband internet were all widespread at that point.
I’ve always said we peaked at the technology level of the late 90s.
oh wow you made money that’s amazing and not like every other fucking thing on the planet
oh you poor things. having more ways to pay for internet doesn’t change anything and you know that.
no point in differentiating either.
and of course, we all know that apple went bankrupt in the mid 90s after they purchased Be, Inc. and gave steve jobs the finger.
it was glorious and they left us with Haiku as a parting gift.
there’s no difference between google, amazon, microsoft, or you know whatever other techbro CEO company you can think of
wait, can i just not quote this?
“rc is my new best friend”
my website is hosted on my laptop now, good luck everyone
or maybe: instead of encrypting the transport, we make a habit of sharing encrypted files.
i guess another question is, do we need networking to be secure? or maybe should private messages be delivered another way?
the spam problem can’t be solved efficiently by maintaining extensive deny lists. the only scalable way to handle spam is with allow lists and trust networks.
fighting spam and illegal/unethical content is much easier if you have explicit control over who you accept messages from.
on second thought, fuck x86 and big computers. small simple and stupid is all i want to deal with anymore
mostly for the purpose of offline / async posting, not so much as a backup microblogs are not very important in an archival sense, its more about the transient moment
keeping a local copy of my posts in tw.txt format :ok_hand:
yup, everything is coming together now
i’d say in most cases, having another program in the mix is not the solution unless the problem is inherently technical and other software either misses the point, or solves a different (possibly overlapping) problem. its easy to think that hitting things with keyboards is a universal solution. especially if you have a lot of experience doing that. the common blindness of software people is the human elements that are often handled by other teams which eventually frame problems in technical terms for developers to deal with. then the naive developer goes home thinking they can replace the humans that make their work possible.
i really need to make my own client so i can stop browsing random tw.txt pods
i get it. to a certain extent, stability benefits agricultural humans. by now that’s baked into the culture quite deeply. sometimes it works even, but when things start to change nobody is prepared. things are supposed to change in an orderly fashion! they plea, horrified with the truth that we are not gods. we are not in charge, we are inhabitants of a world that can adapt to changes on a scale we can scarcely comprehend.
weird shit is normal, what’s weird is when folks think stability and permanence is normal.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
i’m not malicious, i just expect you to be able to think for yourself.
if you take my advice, be sure you know why.
very happy to see progress on this front, i would love to use this as an opprotunity to go over my nawat learning materials again and copy them into a textual format using the new maya unicode allocations when they are ready
reject modernity, embrace email
and pay a sin tax for the privilege 🙏 god bless america o7
in the land of the free, i can only buy tequila at the state liquor store.
maybe i should update my kernel then i wanted to stick to lts, but that may not be an option. does alpine still have a hardened kernel?
mm yeah newlines without unicode is much better https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/215
counterpoint: it is now the year 2021. if folk were going to develop any infosec hygiene regarding the web browsers they’d have done it by now. ~djsundog
seems like the \u2028 approach breaks some clients, maybe i will try another way https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/pull/166
i’ve been meaning to read these notes, maybe putting the book on my ereader will be a better reminder than whatever i did last time 😅
Last year, we spent 51 days at sea during the passage from Japan to Canada, it was the hardest thing we had ever done. We kept a physical logbook of daily happenings onboard. This is that logbook, revised, and with a ton of extra notes. https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/busy-doing-nothing
capitalism has not produced genetically engineered catgirls so
this web discourse is pretty hilarious, time to stop checking twtxt.net tho XD i can just stick to my own subs ^^
the future is paying 60 USD for a game you already own
mfw alternative web = the same web, but good XD XD XD XD