TO ALL TWTXT CLIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN GETTING 404 FROM THIS FEED FOR YEARS: CONGRATS ON PERSISTING, THIS 200 IS FOR YOU.

TO ALL TWTXT CLIENTS WHO HAVE BEEN GETTING 404 FROM THIS FEED FOR YEARS: CONGRATS ON PERSISTING, THIS 200 IS FOR YOU.

My guilty pleasure: raisin bread with salted butter and a slice of gouda cheese

The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor … ⌘ Read more

🤣 Indeed. It’s like using disallow is only pointing them to look for more stuff to index. Those few kB’s for a twtxt file, meh.. shouldnt even be a discussion.

Feeling suspicious about a little something and I, don’t like it -the feeling- a bit. Maybe I’m just being paranoid… but most probably I’m just being an ignorant judgemental piece of shit and I hate myself for it already.

IMHO, the original spec had it right when it said (paraphrased) “just upload your tw.txt file wherever”. The essence of micro-blogging, as opposed to full-scale blogging, is low friction and low stakes. Imposing a norm that you can’t just use any ol’ url, looking down on people with insufficently cool urls (as in “Cool URIs don’t change” https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI), puts up too much of a barrier to entry.

Recent #scifi #reading: (¼)

Hope you all enjoy the weekend!

There. Re-enabled the old subdomain url (twtxt.prismdragon.net), and just pointed it to the file in my twtxt file’s url field. Either should work, so links won’t be broken.

Rebuilding my twtxt file after deciding to return, and trying to get back into working on my fork of txtnix as a reason to continue learning Perl again.

What if i want to delete avatar? Im deleted avatar meta field but still see avatar on twtxt.net

THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED VERY RARELY.

Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police
Session, a small but increasingly popular encrypted messaging app, is moving its operations outside of Australia after the country’s federal law enforcement agency visited an employee’s residence and asked them questions about the app and a particular user. 404 Media reports: Now Session will be maintained by an entity in Switzerland. The mo … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net With respect, a client can not identify whether an edit took place. Not unless that same client witnessed both the original twt and the edited one. This won’t be the case if a person you’re following is joining a thread started by people you aren’t following after the first twt of that thread has already been modified. Or if you’re knocked offline by a multi-hour power outage that spans then entire time window between a twt getting uploaded and modified.

It’s pretty hard to follow though, with the discussion being spread out over so many threads and with the https://search.twtxt.net UI displaying threads in a way that’s different than how https://twtxt.net does.

I finally figured out that https://search.twtxt.net is not the same as https://twtxt.net/search. The former is open to the general public, unlike the latter which is only for registered users of twtxt.net. Meaning that I finally have some kind of access to an archive of the aforementioned debate.

I’m not even supposed to do be doing any of this, I should be making stuff* with Shapes, forms and color instead of poking at software with a stick like a caveman. 😆

*Stuff: Things I make and refuse to call Art, unless I have to in a resume and what not.

So, uh, did anyone but me notice that the last character of a twt hash is always either an a or a q? Which is the natural consequence of taking the last digit in the base32 representation of a 256-bit hash – 256 is not evenly divisible by 5 ! That final character is made up of one bit of actual information and 4 bits of padding.

Yeah I know! My ship was sinking and I’ve just noticed. Patched up the holes and now we’re back afloat.

Probably going to stick to my original plan, which is to implement everything I need by hand. Becaus to me part of the appeal of twtxt is that it’s simple enough for it to be feasible to roll your own implementation.

I’m not using anything that you would recognize as a full-featured client. I upload twts with hut publish, “publicise my user agent” with manual curl invocations (when I remember to) (thanks to @movq@www.uninformativ.de for the informative guide https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt-mention.html), and as for following other people’s feeds, I still haven’t decided how I’m going to do that.

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Rebrands As ‘World,’ Unveils Next Generation Orb
The blockchain-based identity verification company founded by Sam Altman is now called “World.” It also unveiled a new version of the “Orb” biometric devices the company uses to scan users’ eyes. CoinTelegraph reports: World, as it’s now known, also revealed a slew of other updates including a new version of its Orb biometric scanning device … ⌘ Read more

Trump Says Tim Cook Called Him To Complain About the EU
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Donald Trump said Apple CEO Tim Cook called him to discuss the billions of dollars that Apple has been fined in the European Union. Trump made the statement during his appearance on the PBD Podcast – and said that he won’t let the EU “take advantage” of US companies like Apple if reelected. “Two hours ago, thre … ⌘ Read more

Learned to gg=G and to va", ci", di{… in vim the other day 😆 Life will never be the same, I can feel it. ref

Note to self: “If your dashboard says you sh..t is down, it means your sh..t is down. It’s not a dashboard miss-config you dumb azz” 😆

Also seen: an eyeless freak of indeterminate species. Swims in the pond and has long toes, like a duck, but lacks toe-webbings (and eyes), unlike a duck.

@prologic@twtxt.net Actually, my twts from the last two days aren’t showing up on , so I guess that no-one is following me and the reason my earlier twts did show up is that yarnd does a one-off fetch of any feed @-mentioned by a pod member. Comments in the code suggest that this is the case, see internal/server.go, commit 7dcec70e, line 468. As the author of that code, can you confirm/deny?

@prologic@twtxt.net :waves: So it seems! I must admit that it surprised me. I did not expect to have anyone following me quite this early. But it’s the nice kind of surprise :)

Say no to cordless peripherals! Real mice have tails! (I just like not having to charge and/or swap out batteries all the time)

FINALLY!! I figured my way around daemonizing #saltyd with an rc.d init script with logs and all! 🥳 still have to try a tiny modification before writing that thing… I hope it doesn’t Bork it 😅

Finally got myself a new monitor! Went for the best-cheapest-one I could get just in case it gets wrecked too then I could easily replace it with another … And yeah, Fuu*** Asus!

Bluesky Is Now Courting Threads Users
Bluesky, the decentralized social network cofounded by Jack Dorsey, created a Threads account to court users frustrated by Meta’s moderation issues. Thurrott reports: This week, the Bluesky team also used Threads to share some tips on how to get started on Bluesky, how to get more engagement, and more. The company also emphasized its decentralized structure and more extensive customization options, … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net would you please check my web interface? is that a normal thing or am I missing something?

Anyone has saltyd actually up and running? my deployment was a mess … will tell you all about it when I wake up 😅

Setting up my twtxt site again

After many many years on Firefox, I am making the move to Vivaldi.

Insecure Robot Vacuums From Chinese Company Deebot Collect Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia’s public broadcaster ABC:

Ecovacs robot vacuums, which have been found to suffer from critical cybersecurity flaws, are collecting photos, videos and voice recordings — taken inside customers’ houses — to train the company’ … ⌘ Read more

Time for the annual profile picture change. 😅
Second pixelart I drew this year, expecting my least active artist award soon! 💪🏆

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This Zen-Browser is actually not bad! 🤯

• Based on Firefox instead of Chromium.
  
• Got tiling pans when you need them… (just like a tiling window manager).
  
• I can hide the Tabs and Nav-Bar with a single short-cut!! AKA Compact Mode …

Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?
Apple’s iOS 18 update has introduced changes to contact sharing that could significantly impact social app developers. The new feature allows users to selectively share contacts with apps, rather than granting access to their entire address book. While Apple touts this as a privacy enhancement, developers warn it may hinder the growth of new social platforms. Nikita Bier, a start-up founder, called it “the en … ⌘ Read more

NGL tilde town’s registration process was quite fun! reminded me of the good old text based adventure game.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com easy as cake to get and
account here. Very reliable too!

Been curious about how people on Pubnix instances do manage their feed, if they have access to log? Sent in a req to join one still no res.

Apparently Drama is tech entities’ new Going Viral PR stunt. After the Wordpress vs. WPE mayhem, Godot starts it’s own, Who/what’s next?

Epic Games Sues Google and Samsung Over App Store Restrictions
Epic Games filed a new antitrust lawsuit against Google and Samsung, alleging they conspired to undermine third-party app stores. The suit focuses on Samsung’s “Auto Blocker” feature, now enabled by default on new phones, which restricts app installations to “authorized sources” - primarily Google and Samsung’s stores.

Epic claims Auto Blocker creat … ⌘ Read more

should i delete gemini support from twet? iirc in twtxt v2 it starts prohibited. And all of my fields are https

Lol, good but why why not /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/tmp?

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt I’ve just given it a try on android/termux and got it to work, I can’t promise it won’t break something else (because i definitely don’t know what I’m doing) but here’s what I broke 😅:

~/src/jenny $ git diff
diff --git a/jenny b/jenny
index ada8da2..8ae9a06 100755
--- a/jenny
+++ b/jenny
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
     if args.edit:
	edit_twt_file(app)
     elif args.fetch:
-        with DirectoryLock(f'/tmp/jenny-{getuser()}.run'):
+        with DirectoryLock(expanduser('~/tmp/jenny-{getuser()}.run')):
             retrieve_all(app)
     elif args.last_seen:
	 print('Feeds last seen at (times are local time), oldest first:')

and of course make sure you mkdir ~/tmp

Are AI Coding Assistants Really Saving Developers Time?
Uplevel provides insights from coding and collaboration data, according to a recent report from CIO magazine — and recently they measured “the time to merge code into a repository [and] the number of pull requests merged” for about 800 developers over a three-month period (comparing the statistics to the previous three months).

Their study “found no signific … ⌘ Read more