@bender@twtxt.net @arne@uplegger.eu Hahaha, I love it! :-D
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same. It actually goes for anything AI-related. Itās best kept in /dev/null.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @arne@uplegger.eu Ach Herrjeh, was für ein Interview! O_o Unfassbar. Da kannste den Sender auch gleich dichtmachen, sowas braucht ja echt niemand. Der Moderator hört sich in der Tat arg versprengt an. :-(
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh right, I completely forgot about the media! Maybe a sign that theyāre losing their relevance? The third power appears to be gone or changed sides. Lots of them work on their own abolishment.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dem Ramelow platzt da ja fast die Hutschnur - verstƤndlicher Weise.
uebermedien schreibt:
Den Linken-Politiker Bodo Ramelow traktierte Moderator Dirk Müller mit plumpen Provokationen. Der AfD-Politikerin Beatrix von Storch rollte er einen Verständnis-Flokati aus.
Es war eine verstƶrende Demonstration politischer Schieflage.
Der Interviewer (Dirk Müller) scheint mir auch nicht ganz koscher. Meine Filterblase wirft zu Ihm Lobhudeleien aus dem versprengten Sektor.
The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just [donāt?] give a fuck about the ordinary people, theyāre only concerned about their private gain and power.
To a large degree, yes. But I think the media is also equally at fault. There was absolutely no reason to invite AfD people to every event and let them talk. This has been going on for over 10 years. When we give them a stage to spread their hate, are we really surprised that hate spreads ⦠?
I donāt know the answers to this desaster. Iām beginning to think that people literally just want an outlet for their frustration, nothing more. Itās not about what particular parties actually plan to do. At least I think this applies to people in their 30ies and 40ies.
@bender@twtxt.net Sorry to disappoint (again): https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/24/latest-calculations-conclude-asteroid-2024-yr4-now-poses-no-significant-threat-to-earth-in-2032-and-beyond/
@david@collantes.us Bent by? š¤
@bender@twtxt.net And if that rock wonāt hit us, there still is a chance in 2038, to get everything shut down. š¤
@movq@www.uninformativ.de You are right. Like I said in my (german only post) to the election results: āIt saddens me and makes me think.ā ā¦
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @movq@www.uninformativ.de well, there goes my theory. We (the people) keep insisting on fudging things up.
() @movq@www.uninformativ.de / @ well, I was wrong. It doesnāt merit congratulations. Boy, that 2032 asteroid is starting to look quite appealingā¦
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Neat, I got the principle, so mission accomplished. :-)
I have configured my vim to use a tab width of four. So, I noticed that especially https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2021/06/04/catalytic/reachability_with_stack.cc (but also partially the other C++ file) mixes tabs and spaces for indentation. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I didnāt, so itās working fine. :-) I should rotate me as well.
Na, youāre spot on, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! The result is an expected, terrible disaster. It just seems the absolute catastrophy is delayed for another four years.
Even though Iām the last one who wouldnāt be glad about banning the nazis, Iām not a fan of banning parties in general. I believe that a healthy democracy has to withstand extremists. Whether itās still healthy is debatable. To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.
The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just give a fuck about the ordinary people, theyāre only concerned about their private gain and power. I bet nothing will change, to the contrary, it will only get worse. The winners do have the chance to turn it for the better, but they just will not. No way, unfortunately.
But then, we must not forget that people are just dumb and stupid, too. Also, that wonāt change. AfD wonāt help these idiots either, but they still vote for them. I also donāt understand how there is still so much support for the other big parties left. Education is important. Very important. But I have the impression that weāre lacking it.
@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but itās still pretty catastrophic. Hereās an overview:

East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (itās always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.
The guy whoās probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. āIdiotsā, ātheyāre nutsā, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname āMini Trumpā.
Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:

The Green party lost, SPD (āmid-leftā) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.
This isnāt looking good at all, especially when you think about whatās going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to āturn the ship aroundā? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.
Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).
I donāt even know if banning the AfD would help (but itās probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If youāve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.
Correct me if Iām wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.
@prologic@twtxt.net Looks great with the new logo.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Next release will convert markdown to org syntax if you have Pandoc command installed š. Mentions are org links, for example.
@prologic@twtxt.net No party? whereās the cake!? š„³
@arne@uplegger.eu @eapl_en@eapl.me Iām sorry if I donāt respond to a reply. I donāt have a notification system for mentions at the moment. The work is manual!
I added to my bookmark. Good job @arne@uplegger.eu š
@arne@uplegger.eu Nur gebrauchtes Lego ist gutes Lego!
@arne@uplegger.eu Right, theyāre great for upcycling. I knew youād love that part. ;-)
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Can you give me examples of hashes that you have detected wrong between Emacs client and twtxt.net?
Perhaps there is some character, some space, that is creating the discrepancy.
@bender@twtxt.net Y U Relpy @twtxt.net@twtxt.net?
@prologic@twtxt.net Agreed! But clients can hallucinate and generate wrong hashes aka Lies 𤣠Also, If you chheck your own twt on twtxt.net, it looks like a root twt instead of a replay.
@prologic@twtxt.net Are you sure? xD ⦠it was supposed to be a replay to another twt, but the twt hash is wrong (I think).
@bender@twtxt.net Donāt panic. Iāve just been testing my implementation. The great advantage of Twtxt is itās openness, I think. So DM spamming would contradict to this feature I like. ā¤
@xuu@txt.sour.is Hahaha, this is great! :ā-D
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The best part is: āI found four skyrocket sticks in premium quality.ā š One can never has enough skyroket sticks!
@bender@twtxt.net Oh dear!
@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Thatās cool, dedicated parking for snow. :-) There are also some rather large icicles. Thanks for sharing this photo! <3
@prologic@twtxt.net Iāll have you know it took me minutes of time to get the mouse suspended like that by that rats nest!
@arne@uplegger.eu Amazing!!! š
@eapl_en@eapl.me Your notes are amazing! Iām going to save them for when I do my implementation. Great job!
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Works š
@prologic@twtxt.net huh.. i added sour.is and img.sour.is to my whitelist but its not showing inline for me
@prologic@twtxt.net Those arenāt actually serving anything public-facing. Iāve thought about it, but for now Iām sticking with VPSs, partly because I donāt relish the risk of weeks of downtime if something goes wrong while Iām travelling.
@bender@twtxt.net Hmmm, does that mean itās not that popular in the US? š¤
I hope not, @bender@twtxt.net! I havenāt checked, but Iād reckon it to be at most a single digit MiB number. How wrong am I?
@off_grid_living@twtxt.net No right click thing, but in the terminal:
convert -strip -quality 70 -resize 300x original.jpg resized.jpg
āoriginal.jpgā being the filename of the input file and āresized.jpgā the filename of the output. You can play around with the width, ā300xā means 300 pixels wide and the height is determined automatically to still remain in the same ratio. The quality is how much to compress it. The closer to 0 the value gets, the worse the result, but also smaller in file size. More towards 100 and the quality improves together with a larger file size.
You have to install the package āimagemagickā for this to work, I believe.
@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Oh, Iām ready for my retirement, too. :-D Still have some decades to go, unfortunately.
@off_grid_living@twtxt.net You could try starting it in the terminal in order to spot errors. Just open the GNOME Terminal or something like that and then type in ākolourpaintā and hit Enter.
here is my progress so far: https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/twtxt-direct-message-php
The encryption part seems to work, if I decrypt it the message with OpenSSL.
I think it can help you for some key parts not well explained in OpenSSL documentation.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev reading your spec I wrote a few notes here: https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/twtxt-direct-message-php/blob/main/direct_message_spec.md
@arne@uplegger.eu I havenāt check your repo yet, although you are using sodium, right?

