@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Itās more like a cache, it stores things like ātimestamp of the most recent twt weāve seen per feedā or ālast modification dateā (to be used with HTTPās 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 āHTTP 304 nope, didnāt changeā).
@quark@ferengi.one Yes, I often write a couple of twts, donāt publish them, then sometimes notice a mistake and want to edit it. Youāre right, as soon as stuff is published, threads are going to break/fork by edits.
@david@collantes.us Thanks Iāll fix.
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz As someone who has a say in hiring decisions (every now and then ā Iām not an executive nor an HR person š): This is gold. Writeups like these tell me/us so much about job applicants. Itās much more valuable than āa CV without gapsā or āknow your algorithmsā or whatever. Instead, it shows how you work and that you understand what youāre doing, and thatās the most important part. š„
@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 donāt 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 shouldāve but it seems not worth it
Bloody WhatsApp, bloody chat apps on smartphones, Iām going nuts. If you want to TYPE, use a device WITH A KEYBOARD. Donāt send me useless undecipherable gibberish. FFS!
dm-only.txt
feeds. š
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I give you not creating another file, but then Iād vote for commenting out DMs. See https://eapl.me/timeline/post/z5e2bna
Itās 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.
@david@collantes.us @andros@twtxt.andros.dev The correct hash would be si4er3q
. See https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html, a timezone offset of +00:00
or -00:00
must be replaced by Z
.
(That said, thereās a bug in jenny as well. It only replaces +00:00
, not -00:00
. š¤”)
Using AI in education is like using a forklift in the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
@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`!!? š«Ø" | 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
.
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com What protocol do you use?
A threat model for opposing authoritarianism
A decade ago, I published a book on privacy āDragnet 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 ā where the government would collaborate with a tech CEO to strip-mine all of our data from government databases and use i ⦠ā 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:
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 anlegenā¦
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$current_dirā anlegen:" \
"waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"
This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, Iād love to have it in the āCreate Newā menu instead of the āActionsā menu. But that doesnāt 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.
Letās see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.
@xuu@txt.sour.is like, badly broken. I mean, the guy doesnāt 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. š
Just keeping this shell alive, and sending an useful twtxt in the process. :-P
@bender@twtxt.net I donāt no. I mostly just use whole themes. And my facourite it AMOLED
@prologic@twtxt.net I am just going over things. I donāt use it, do you?
Mark Zuckerbergās failed negotiations with the FTC to end Metaās antitrust case
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The captchas have become sentient: weāre working on fixing the captcha issue
As some of you may have noticed, weāve been having some issues with captchas. The powers that be ā which isnāt me, I donāt know anything about web development ā are looking into it, and once weāve pinpointed the problem weāll get it fixed. Itās annoying us too, so we want this resolved as quickly as possible. OSNews readers just trying to visit the site to read some tech stuff shou ⦠ā Read more
Hahaha! And now they show tiny! I had to reload the page. So, I see the problem on iOS and macOS Safari too. I have no other browser to test with, I exclusively use Safari.
my main itch with the DMs extensions is that these messages are intended to be private, not public information. Thatās why other extensions make sense, but DMs are another kind of feature.
TwiXter, Mastodon, FB and some other services usually hide the DMs in another section, so they are not mixed with the public timeline.
I find the DM topic interesting, I even made an indie experiment for a centralized messaging system here https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/owl.
Although, as Iāve said a few times here, Iām not particularly interested in supporting it on microblogging, as I donāt use it that much. In the rare case Iāve used them, I donāt have to manage public and private keys, and finally none of my acquaintances use encrypted email.
Nothing personal against anyone, and although I like to debate and even fight, itās not the case here. This proposal is the only one allowing DMs on twtxt, and if the community wants it, Iāll support it, with my personal input, of course.
A good approach I could find with a good compromise between compatibility with current clients and keeping these messages private is āhidingā the DMs in comments. For example:
# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00 !<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I donāt see any āfightingā here. This is just good experimentation. Unfortunately there hasnāt really been enough time or effort by other āclient authorsā yet, me especially as Iāve been super busy with yaā know my āday jobā that pays the bills and refactoring yarnd
to use a new and shiny and much better SqliteCache
𤣠ā I certainly donāt think your efforts are wasted at all. I would however like @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt encourage you to look at the work weāve done as a community (which was also driven out of the Yarn.social / Twtxt community years back).
@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I think opening another file is a bad idea because it adds complexity to the clients, breaks the single feed and I think keeping legacy clients will be more complex to add new features in the future. A modern approach is important.
Iāll be honest, Iām a bit tired of the fight around the direct message. Perhaps, we can remove it as an extension and use the alternative @prologic@twtxt.net . My suggestion apparently doesnāt like to the community. I have no problem with remove it.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev maybe create a separate, completely distinct feed for DM? That way, clients do not need to do anything, only those wanted to ātalk in privateā follow themselves, using their very special dm-only.txt
feeds. š
The subjective charms of Objective-C
To argue that Objective-C resembles a metaphysically divine language, or even a good language, is like saying Shakespeare is best appreciated in pig latin. Objective-C is, at best, polarizing. Ridiculed for its unrelenting verbosity and peculiar square brackets, it is used only for building Mac and iPhone apps and would have faded into obscurity in the early 1990s had it not been for an unlikely quirk of history. Nevertheless, in my time working as a softwar ⦠ā Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me When it is up and running, I promise to add it to the specification. I will also include some corrections.
The nature of twtxt does not allow us to selectively hide clients. Itās a problem not with DM, but with any extension.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, it is a security hole. All dm-echo messages are readable. I intend it to be a debugging tool. Maybe I can include a warning message. If many of you see that it is a serious problem, I can remove the links.
@xuu@txt.sour.is Itās already much better than Mastodon :P . Maybe we can remove the sender and receiver references with an intermediary register.
@prologic@twtxt.net I donāt know, maybe it will be useful for someone š
First global fee targets ship emissions + 1 more story
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@prologic@twtxt.net I hope it is as useful to you as it is to me š
I was trying to optimize the SQL query used for the Compact FrontPage (anonymous view for Discovery when the Admin/Operator chooses āone twt per feedā).
AI problems, top to bottom:
1: Open AI nerds, believe fine tuning a language model algorithm, will eventually produce an AGI god.
2: Subpar artists and techbros who canāt code, convinced AI image bashing and vibe coding, will help convince the dumber parts of Internet, they are a real deal.
3: Parasites, using AI to scam people, because they just want passive income, selling crap, made by an automated process.
Side: Adobe&co, killing Flash/old web, pricing new artists and developers out, to face learning curves of free tools, or use AI, peddled as solution.
US President endorses bill to lock the clocks in current Daylight Savings Time
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ABC Australia is reporting of a potential market manipulation in the US. Potential? I would call it almost certain. For as much as I would like not to be dragged into politics, it is rather impossible these days.
SDL2 ported to Mac OS 9
Well, this you certainly donāt see every day. This is a ārough draftā of SDL2 for MacOS 9, using CodeWarrior Pro 6 and 7. Enough was done to get it building in CW, and the start of a āmacosclassicā video driver was created. It DOES seem to basically work, but much still needs to be done. Event handling is just enough to handling Command-Q, there is no audio, etc etc etc. ā« A cast of thousands The hardest part was a video driver for the classic Mac OS, which had to be created mostly f ⦠ā Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org thatās such a beautiful shot! If I were you I would use the full āoriginalā one; it will do better justice to the shots. Oh, and I gladly take your 15°C! š
Aside from fetching feeds every three minutes (which kind of adds mystery to this puzzle), I think there is something else going on with the client you are using, @andros@twtxt.andros.dev. Some of those twtxts are seconds apart, making me truly stumped. š