Yo @prologic@twtxt.net, apparently even ‘git clone’ is getting blocked by your Gitea or something (I’m using authentication, naturally)
Day 6 of AoC, and I’m all caught up. 12 puzzles down, 12 more to go!
くそっ、「会話」、このアプリは一体何なんだ？
Working on day 3 of the Advent of Code 2025: https://adventofcode.com/
My solutions repo: https://git.itsericwoodward.com/eric/aoc-2025
@prologic@twtxt.net
Interesting experiment for salty-chat, use the MQTT protocol instead of HTTP, in theory it shouldn’t make a difference, at least
I’m gonna ask here again because I’m really frustrated and literally no one else is responding anywhere can u guys please help me find a good video camera the biggest think I want is long battery life but I also want it to be cheap like under $200, if you yourself don’t know please ask a friend because I am not a tech nerd and looking for stuff like this is very hard for me
The YAML forbidden knowledge of yarnd
Posting in anachronistic order, hah!
Got back into drawing! :)
I also made a couple (digital) collages today. Huge achievements
save 100% today when you don’t buy anything
@prologic@twtxt.net do I just have to actually post the token into the twtxt timeline for the bridge?
(as in, for registration)
Hey @prologic@twtxt.net 👋
@c350a5e5fb9d9457@bridge.twtxt.net Does this mean we’res starting to work, this whole Twtxt <-> ActivityPub bridge thingy? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net Your gitea thinks the LICENSE file in the yarn repository is SSPL-1.0 instead of GNU AGPL 3.0,
and I can’t help but giggle at that
Alright, this yarnd installation has been properly fixed.
Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap
While generative AI (GenAI) promises productive efficiency, it can paradoxically lead to lower-quality work. We conducted an experiment with professional illustrators and found that AI assistance flattens the quality curve—it accelerates initial gains but sharply diminishes the returns on sustained effort. Faced with this, a significant number of professionals made a strategic choice: they sacrificed the final quality to save time.
From http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf
I haven’t read this and can’t vouch for it; seems vaguely AI-boostery. Still, the conclusions are interesting. This seems to be the picture that is emerging about generative AI generally: most people don’t like it and find that degrades the quality of work. Coders seem to like it and think that it helps them, but in fact it makes the slower, less productive, and more bug prone.
By all measures it’s a bad technology. We should just be honest about it. There is no need to make excuses for multi-trillion-dollar corporations.
PSA: Just in case you start getting 5xxs on my end, I’m not dead 😂 (well, unless I am). Well be changing ISPs and hopefully get the new line up and running before the old provider cuts us off.
Shin’ya M. > doas npfctl table fail2ban list | wc -l
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Up Next:
Twtxt feed support for Kosuzu
A simpler theme for Yarn, perhaps?
This caveman is getting too old for the Internet… 😅 It took me 1 hrs and 50 mins to catch up with what’s been going on my feed.
since there are quite literally no note taking apps that work for me, i’ve began writing my own! to get started real quick i adapted the core part of bbycll’s backend and it works so nicely — which speaks volumes to the quality of the code! should really break it out into a custom framework. i’m also realizing how easy it would be to get bbycll v1 ready…but this is probably more important since it’ll allow me to get my life in order ^^’
funny article gopher://sdf.org/0/users/ictia/phlog/2025-11-23-i-am-done-with-the-web.txt
One day I’ll like to elaborate why I’m against the usage of Anubis (and its derivatives) for the rampant crawlers
Eine Petition zur Anerkennung von Open-Source-Arbeit als Ehrenamt in Deutschland .
Do not expect me to not hit other people’s nerves. You have been warned.
@prologic@twtxt.net I have returned
Great things happening over at the Xhitter.
its been a rough couple of days
To everyone previously asking, what my (and other developers) endless complaining about Google, to both every EU body, with a form on their website and every relevant team at Google accomplished…
WE FUCKING WON!!!
“While security is crucial, we’ve also heard from developers and power users who have a higher risk tolerance and want the ability to download unverified apps.”
-source
I was also able to work with my new webhost, to bring back “🐕.fr.to” - everyones favorite vanity redirect domain, for my site, Googles changes to SSL warnings in Chrome, killed at the beginning of this year.
The lesson: I NEED TO COMPLAIN MORE
the new logo is cute
Habe mich am Wochenende nach Empfehlung von @arne@uplegger.eu an https://picocss.com versucht und bin restlos begeistert. Schön schlank, schnell und modern! In Zukunft werden sicherlich noch einige Projekte mit Pico folgen.
Hello World! Testing 1 2 3
how r we doing today!
yooooo I just mistyped one of the most common commands and was so pleasantly surprised. bonus manpage too!
Just a small update, on my birthday (on the 5th), I accidentally deleted the main page, of my website, so I’m using that as an opportunity, to try something new, at https://thecanine.smol.pub or gemini://thecanine.smol.pub - depending on your preferred protocol.
Any feedback is welcome!
Random question: does anyone here happen to know anything about retro hacking?
Endlich habe ich das letzte der zehn deutschen “Stahlratte” Bücher von Harry Harrison. Jetzt muss ich es nur noch lesen. Zur Sicherheit die ganze Reihe noch einmal! 🤓
Well, it sure has been a while since I last posted here. Just up late doing yet another Linux installation. Debian turned out to be about as stable as a plutonium Jenga tower, and Alpine refused to boot, so I gave it the boot. Here’s to hoping that Arch fares better. Oddly, I’ve always found Arch to be considerably more stable than other distros…
is the first url metadata field unequivocally treated as the canon feed url when calculating hashes, or are they ignored if they’re not at least proper urls? do you just tolerate it if they’re impersonating someone else’s feed, or pointing to something that isn’t even a feed at all?
and if the first url metadata field changes, should it be logged with a time so we can still calculate hashes for old posts? or should it never be updated? (in the case of a pod, where the end user has no choice in how such events are treated) or do we redirect all the old hashes to the new ones (probably this, since it would be helpful for edits too)
I finally solved the loading issue in my WIP reader, TwtStrm (and apologies again to anyone that got spammed while I was diagnosing the issue).
After another round of coding this weekend, I’m happy to report that it now renders all the twts (with markdown parsing), complete with localstorage and server-based file caching.
exit
Warum ist es nur so kniffelig ein Sudoku-Rätsel zu erstellen?
Ich meine nicht, das Erstellen eines komplett ausgefüllten Sets, sondern das Leeren der Felder so, dass ein einigermaßen herausforderndes Sudoku mit nur einer Lösungsmöglichkeit entsteht. 🤔
wait why are so many of my post hashes not generating correctly ;w;
edit: i read the spec wrong :3 only +/-00:00 is stripped, not the entire timezone offset >.<
wait….so i’m like nearly done? it just works? and it’s fast? this feels like the end of the first all-nighter i pulled where i just got post creation done, unaware of the three weeks that would follow — like looking at the roadmap i’m definitely not done but bbycll is like actually kind of usable now o.o
ok so i have found a genuine twt hash collision. what do i do.
internally, bbycll relies on a post lookup table with post hashes as keys, this is really fast but i knew i’d inevitably run into this issue (just not so soon) so now i have to either:
1) pick the newer post over the other
2) break from specification and not lowercase hashes
3) secretly associate canonical urls or additional entropy with post hashes in the backend without a sizeable performance impact somehow
Ça n’a rien de très original, mais que cet album est bon pour faire un peu de sport. Metallica, Death Magnetic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSgehBeA1Tc
such a good cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49BQQ8OgDCM