Searching yarn

Twts matching #US
Sort by: Newest, Oldest, Most Relevant
In-reply-to » šŸ’” I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social šŸ˜… There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! šŸ‘Œ My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood šŸ˜…

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » šŸ’” I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social šŸ˜… There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! šŸ‘Œ My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood šŸ˜…

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » šŸ’” I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social šŸ˜… There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

  • Sharing small posts
  • Sharing links
  • Sharing media
  • Having long conversations
  • Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  • RSVPing to virtual or physical events

⤋ Read More

šŸ’” I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social šŸ˜… There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as ā€œclientā€ features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

  • Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.
  • RSVP – a way to ā€œrsvpā€ to a virtual (pr physical) event.

Both would use ā€œplain textā€ on top of the way we already use Twtxt today and clients would render an appropriate UI/UX.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @bender I noticed that although the Discover view (and your own Timeline) is much improved with a MaxAgeDays configuration at the pod level, that now some profiles are rather empty. This is only because well, they're a bit "inactive" so to speak šŸ—£ļø Not sure what to do about this at the moment... Open to ideas? šŸ’”

yes it used be http:// only and to keep hashes from breaking i added # url = http://... and now we are stock with it due to the curret specs.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @movq i tried ngircd but couldn't figure it out T__T i left it at the web client and bouncer for now but i might toy with an IRC server another time!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de noted! i did try something like this but it wouldn’t connect on anything without the SSL stuff, which is normally handled by caddy for me but i can’t use certbot with caddy on so i’m stuck there LOL

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spellcheck for your thoughts. Don’t fear it—iterate with it. Insight improves, speed follows. Full post: https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, speaking of locally running ā€œAIā€ stuff: Someone on Mastodon has this in their profile description:

My profile pic is AI modified to prevent deepfakes. I used local Stable Diffusion on my solar powered 7900XTX to average a few selfies.

That sounds like a fun thing to do. Do I have a chance of doing that on my old box from 2013 without a dedicated GPU? šŸ˜‚

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spellcheck for your thoughts. Don’t fear it—iterate with it. Insight improves, speed follows. Full post: https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I couldn’t agree more. The utility of using it in any way to form ā€œtruthsā€ or to do anything that require a high degree of ā€œaccuracyā€ is utterly pointless.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spellcheck for your thoughts. Don’t fear it—iterate with it. Insight improves, speed follows. Full post: https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration

But it is still a giant inefficient use of resources and energy 🤣

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Seem like it's a server-client thingy? šŸ¤” I much prefer tools in this case and defer the responsibility of storage to something else. I really like restic for that reason and the fact that it's pretty rock solid. I have zero complaints šŸ˜…

@prologic@twtxt.net I also thought it was a client-server thingy at first and usually it is, I guess, there’s just this workaround:

If it is not possible to install Borg on the remote host, it is still possible to use the remote host to store a repository by mounting the remote filesystem, for example, using sshfs.

⤋ Read More

I asked ChatGPT what it knows about Twtxt šŸ˜‚ And surprisingly it’s rather accurate:

Twtxt is a minimalist, decentralized microblogging format introduced by John Downey in 2016. It uses plain text files served over HTTP—no accounts, databases, or APIs.
In 2020, James Mills (@prologic@twtxt.net) launched Yarn.social, an extended, federated implementation with user discovery, threads, mentions, and a full web UI.
Both share the same .twtxt.txt format but differ in complexity and social features.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » guys i may be stupid. i confused IRC bouncer with IRC server

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz ngircd is nice: https://ngircd.barton.de/ You can absolutely host this on your server for you and your friends (I’ve been doing that for a very long time). Actually peering with something like libera is hard, though, because they have strict requirements and a lot of traffic. Then again, there’s no real benefit in peering, actually. IRC is pretty ā€œdecentralizedā€ anyway and people are usually used to connecting to several networks, so joining another one isn’t a big deal, imho. šŸ™ƒ

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …

@prologic@twtxt.net @bmallred@staystrong.run Ah, I just found this, didn’t see it before:

https://restic.net/#compatibility

So, yeah, they do use semver and, yes, they’re not at 1.0.0 yet, so things might break on the next restic update … but they ā€œpromiseā€ to not break things too lightheartedly. Hm, well. šŸ˜… Probably doesn’t make a big difference (they don’t say ā€œdon’t use this software until we reach 1.0.0ā€).

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Some A hole has been trying to pull every single Twtxt feed that existed/still exists since forever. How do I know? Welp' They've been querying my Timelineā„¢ instance for all of it, every single twtxt file and twt Hash they can find. šŸ˜†šŸ¤¦ It must have been going on for days and I have just noticed... + it's all coming from the same ASN AS136907 HWCLOUDS-AS-AP HUAWEI CLOUDS

@prologic@twtxt.net This shi_ is as fun as it is frustrating! šŸ˜† the bot is poking at me from a different ASN now, Alibaba’s.

  1. Short term solution: I’ve geo-locked my Timeline instance since I’m the only one using it (and I only do so for reading twts when I’m away from terminal).
  2. Long term: I took a look at your Caddy WAF but couldn’t figure things out on my own; until then, I’ll be poking at Caddy-Defender, maybe throw in a Crowdsec for lols… #FUN

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de From what I can tell, they use strict semantic versioning and backwards compatibility. There are two versions of the storage, v1 and v2, but it doesn’t look like v2 is enabled yet.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …

@prologic@twtxt.net @bmallred@staystrong.run So is restic considered stable by now? ā€œStableā€ as in ā€œstable data formatā€, like a future version will still be able to retrieve my current backups. I mean, it’s at version ā€œ0.18ā€, but they don’t specify which versioning scheme they use.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …

I use restic and Backblaze B2 for offline backup storage at a cost of $6/TB/month. I don’t backup my entire ~20TB NAS and its datasets however, so I’m only paying about ~$2/month right now. I only backup the most important things I cannot afford to lose or annot re-created.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …

@bender@twtxt.net How is Borg? I have used restic for so long I haven’t looked at anything else.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » i feel so powerful i wrote a 3 line script that takes an inputted markdown filename from the current working directory and then spits out a nicely formatted html page. pandoc does all the work i did nothing

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz pandoc is a joy! I haven’t used any Microsoft word processing tools since forever. They want a Word document? Pandoc to the rescue!

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @lyse It wasn’t our building, yeah, luckily. But I’m pretty scared it might happen some day. I think I’ll put more effort into preparing for that. But whatever I do, it would be horrific to lose all your stuff and the memories attached to it …

On top of my usual backups (which are already offsite, but it requires me carrying a hard disk to that other site), I think I might rent a storage server and use Borg. šŸ¤” Hoping that their encryption is good enough. Maybe that’ll also finally convince me to get a faster internet connection. šŸ˜‚

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » jenny really isn’t well equipped to handle edits of my own twts.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz It’s more like a cache, it stores things like ā€œtimestamp of the most recent twt we’ve seen per feedā€ or ā€œlast modification dateā€ (to be used with HTTP’s if-modified-since header). You can nuke these files at any time, it might just result in more traffic (e.g., always getting a full response instead of just ā€œHTTP 304 nope, didn’t changeā€).

@quark@ferengi.one Yes, I often write a couple of twts, don’t publish them, then sometimes notice a mistake and want to edit it. You’re right, as soon as stuff is published, threads are going to break/fork by edits.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » 7k words of docs on deploying a livejournal folk. you absolutely want to read 7 thousand words of me forcing dreamwidth into production shape in docker https://stash.4-walls.net/selfhostdw/

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz As someone who has a say in hiring decisions (every now and then – I’m not an executive nor an HR person šŸ˜†): This is gold. Writeups like these tell me/us so much about job applicants. It’s much more valuable than ā€œa CV without gapsā€ or ā€œknow your algorithmsā€ or whatever. Instead, it shows how you work and that you understand what you’re doing, and that’s the most important part. šŸ„‡

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Conduwit is set to archive on GitHub. It was my favourite Matrix server, which I still self host. I think I am going to get off Matrix altogether now.

@bender@twtxt.net NOOOO i self host an XMPP server and also revolt but as much as i love XMPP (gajim client reminds me of using skype as a kid highkey) i don’t use it much and revolt is a bitch to maintain. like i broke revolt file uploads and it stayed that way for months until literally last week lmao. i never bothered with matrix tbh maybe i should’ve but it seems not worth it

⤋ Read More

Bloody WhatsApp, bloody chat apps on smartphones, I’m going nuts. If you want to TYPE, use a device WITH A KEYBOARD. Don’t send me useless undecipherable gibberish. FFS!

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @andros maybe create a separate, completely distinct feed for DM? That way, clients do not need to do anything, only those wanted to "talk in private" follow themselves, using their very special dm-only.txt feeds. šŸ˜‚

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I give you not creating another file, but then I’d vote for commenting out DMs. See https://eapl.me/timeline/post/z5e2bna

It’s easier to find the DM in comments from your side, than asking all the client maintainers to add the regex =P
You can even use a Modified comment, such as
#! <DM content>
Or something like that

This approach is retro-compatible with current and older clients.

⤋ Read More

@david@collantes.us If I run

printf '%s\n%s\n%s' 'https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt' '2025-04-16T22:49:11+00:00' "Am I tripping or `rsync` is actually THIS effing faster than `scp`!!? 🫨" | b2sum -l 256 | awk '{ print $1 }' | xxd -r -p | base32 | tr -d '=' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tail -c 8

I have xqfsv6a. It is raw text

But… If I change de date to 2025-04-16T22:49:11Z I have si4er3q.

⤋ Read More

A threat model for opposing authoritarianism
A decade ago, I published a book on privacy ā€œDragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance.ā€ In the book, and since then, in articles and speeches, I have been dispensing advice to people on how to protect their privacy. But my advice did not envision the moment we are in – where the government would collaborate with a tech CEO to strip-mine all of our data from government databases and use i … ⌘ Read more

⤋ Read More

Even though I really do like the shell, I always use Dolphin to mount my digicam SD card and copy the photos onto my computer. I finally added a context menu item in Dolphin to create a forest stroll directory with the current date in order to save some typing:

Context menu item to create a new directory and directory name dialog

The following goes in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/galmkdir.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Waldspaziergang;

[Desktop Action Waldspaziergang]
Name=Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen…
Icon=folder-green
Exec=~/src/gelbariab/galmkdir "%f"

In order to update the KDE desktop cache and make this action menu item available in Dolphin, I ran:

kbuildsycoca5

The referenced galmkdir script looks like that:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

current_dir="$1"
if [ -z "$current_dir" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
    exit 1
fi

dir="$(kdialog \
    --geometry 350x50 \
    --title "Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen" \
    --inputbox "Neues Verzeichnis in ā€ž$current_dirā€œ anlegen:" \
    "waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"

This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, I’d love to have it in the ā€œCreate Newā€ menu instead of the ā€œActionsā€ menu. But that doesn’t really work. I cannot define a default directory name, not to mention even a dynamic one with the current date. (I would have to update the .desktop file every day or so.) I also failed to create an empty directory. I somehow managed to create a directory with some other templates in it for some reason I do not really understand.

Let’s see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @<@marado@ciberlandia.pt https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt> Hey! do you see this? 🧐

@xuu@txt.sour.is like, badly broken. I mean, the guy doesn’t even use twtxt (it is more like an RSS feed for him). So, yeah, even if it was the correct mention it would never reach the intended ears. šŸ˜‚

⤋ Read More