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.
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!
A simple medium experiment
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
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! 💪🏆
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
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?
should i delete gemini support from twet? iirc in twtxt v2 it starts prohibited. And all of my fields are https
Gentlemen, I have a pdf file (1.5MB) which I want to be able to block and copy text writing out of it, but it’s locked, preventing this. All I used to do was write it out by hand, or screen shot the text as an image.
Is there any software that opens pdf format for copying and pasting of the text?
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
Recent #fiction #scifi #reading:
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. Lovely writing. Very understated; reminded me of Kazuo Ishiguro. Sort of like Nineteen Eighty-Four but not. (I first heard it recommended in comparison to that work.)
Subcutanean by Aaron Reed; https://subcutanean.textories.com/ . Every copy of the book is different, which is a cool idea. I read two of them (one from the library, actually not different from the other printed copies, and one personalized e-book). I don’t read much horror so managed to be a little creeped out by it, which was fun.
The Wind from Nowhere, a 1962 novel by J. G. Ballard. A random pick from the sci-fi section; I think I picked it up because it made me imagine some weird 4-dimensional effect (“from nowhere” meaning not in a normal direction) but actually (spoiler) it was just about a lot of wind for no reason. The book was moderately entertaining but there was nothing special about it.
Currently reading Scale by Greg Egan and Inversion by Aric McBay.
More thoughts about changes to twtxt (as if we haven’t had enough thoughts):
- There are lots of great ideas here! Is there a benefit to putting them all into one document? Seems to me this could more easily be a bunch of separate efforts that can progress at their own pace:
1a. Better and longer hashes.
1b. New possibly-controversial ideas like edit: and delete: and location-based references as an alternative to hashes.
1c. Best practices, e.g. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
1d. Stuff already described at dev.twtxt.net that doesn’t need any changes.
We won’t know what will and won’t work until we try them. So I’m inclined to think of this as a bunch of draft ideas. Maybe later when we’ve seen it play out it could make sense to define a group of recommended twtxt extensions and give them a name.
Another reason for 1 (above) is: I like the current situation where all you need to get started is these two short and simple documents:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/discoverability.html
and everything else is an extension for anyone interested. (Deprecating non-UTC times seems reasonable to me, though.) Having a big long “twtxt v2” document seems less inviting to people looking for something simple. (@prologic@twtxt.net you mentioned an anonymous comment “you’ve ruined twtxt” and while I don’t completely agree with that commenter’s sentiment, I would feel like twtxt had lost something if it moved away from having a super-simple core.)All that being said, these are just my opinions, and I’m not doing the work of writing software or drafting proposals. Maybe I will at some point, but until then, if you’re actually implementing things, you’re in charge of what you decide to make, and I’m grateful for the work.
See!? Even Meta/Facebook uses plain text, not just Twtxt! 🤣
Matt Mullenweg is an asshole. That’s all; that’s the message.
“Fu*** IRC maaan, all the cool kids are on Discord! IRC sucks”
LOL, Now substitute IRC and Discord with Gopher/Gemini and Web.
I hope you get the joke 😅
how to parse caddy access log with useragent tool? seems it dont detect anything in json
HP Is Adding AI To Its Printers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld, written by Michael Crider: The latest perpetrator of questionable AI branding? HP. The company is introducing “Print AI,” what it calls the “industry’s first intelligent print experience for home, office, and large format printing.” What does that mean? It’s essentially a new beta software driver package for some HP printers. According to the press release, … ⌘ Read more
FIN?
if twtxt 2 is dropping gemini support, i will probably move on and spend more time on my gemini social zine protocol instead. i think the direction of the protocol is probably fine, but for me web is a tier 2 publishing channel. if the choice is between gemini and http i’m always going to pick gemini. its been a fun ride, but i guess this is where i get off.
@prologic@twtxt.net, are you running Gitea with an SQL backend, or using sqlite? Any reason have haven’t moved to Forgejo?
Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Impacts All GNU/Linux Systems
“Looks like there’s a storm brewing, and it’s not good news,” writes ancient Slashdot reader jd. “Whether or not the bugs are classically security defects or not, this is extremely bad PR for the Linux and Open Source community. It’s not clear from the article whether this affects other Open Source projects, such as FreeBSD.” From a report: A critical … ⌘ Read more
Hurricane Helene is passing by. Close enough to give us a day off tomorrow, but not that close to cause major harm. Well, we think. Hurricanes often have a mind of their own, and decide changes on their path. Either way, I shall be back at work on Friday 😩. LOL.
Some more arguments for a local-based treading model over a content-based one:
The format:
(#<DATE URL>)or(@<DATE URL>)both makes sense: # as prefix is for a hashtag like we allredy got with the(#twthash)and @ as prefix denotes that this is mention of a specific post in a feed, and not just the feed in general. Using either can make implementation easier, since most clients already got this kind of filtering.Having something like
(#<DATE URL>)will also make mentions via webmetions for twtxt easier to implement, since there is no need for looking up the#twthash. This will also make it possible to make 3th part twt-mentions services.Supporting twt/webmentions will also increase discoverability as a way to know about both replies and feed mentions from feeds that you don’t follow.
Finally pubnix is alive! That’s im missing? Im only reading twtxt.net timeline because twtxt-v2.sh works slowly for displaying timeline…
I’m not writing on ‘twtxt’ as much as I did in 2021-2022. While it has many advantages, I couldn’t get my close circle to join.
As part of my focus on digital minimalism, I aim to only use services that bring joy, value, and spark interesting conversations within the community.
That’s why I’m considering suspending my twtxt, switching to microblog on other platforms.
If anything of what I’ve written is interesting for you, or want to chat, you can find me on various platforms here:
https://text.eapl.mx/microblogging
#fzf is the new emacs: a tool with a simple purpose that has evolved to include an #email client. https://sr.ht/~rakoo/omail/
I’m being a little silly, of course. fzf doesn’t actually check your email, but it appears to be basically the whole user interface for that mail program, with #mblaze wrangling the emails.
I’ve been thinking about how I handle my email, and am tempted to make something similar. (When I originally saw this linked the author was presenting it as an example tweaked to their own needs, encouraging people to make their own.)
This approach could surely also be combined with #jenny, taking the place of (neo)mutt. For example mblaze’s mthread tool presents a threaded discussion with indentation.
LMAO 🤣 … I’ve been scrolling through mutt(1) man page and found this:
BUGS
None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs.
What gossip, gopherspace?!
Hello!
I like Gopher!
Heads up, @prologic@twtxt.net! We’re seeing increased spate of burglaries in your neighbourhood. Please stay alert, while we keep you safe out there.
Have a nice weekend everyone
And they have arrived (well, they did around 3 hours ago, LOL). Buttery smooth, my 16 Pro (one with dark cover). It took a bit over an hour to transfer all my data.
AWESOME COOL â»
I wrote some code to try out non-hash reply subjects formatted as (replyto ), while keeping the ability to use the existing hash style.
I don’t think we need to decide all at once. If clients add support for a new method then people can use it if they like. The downside of course is that this costs developer time, so I decided to invest a few hours of my own time into a proof of concept.
With apologies to @movq@www.uninformativ.de for corrupting jenny’s beautiful code. I don’t write this expecting you to incorporate the patch, because it does complicate things and might not be a direction you want to go in. But if you like any part of this approach feel free to use bits of it; I release the patch under jenny’s current LICENCE.
Supporting both kinds of reply in jenny was complicated because each email can only have one Message-Id, and because it’s possible the target twt will not be seen until after the twt referencing it. The following patch uses an sqlite database to keep track of known (url, timestamp) pairs, as well as a separate table of (url, timestamp) pairs that haven’t been seen yet but are wanted. When one of those “wanted” twts is finally seen, the mail file gets rewritten to include the appropriate In-Reply-To header.
Patch based on jenny commit 73a5ea81.
https://www.falsifian.org/a/oDtr/patch0.txt
Not implemented:
- Composing twts using the (replyto …) format.
- Probably other important things I’m forgetting.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de could it be possible to have compressed_subject(msg_singlelined) be configurable, so only a certain number of characters get displayed, ending on ellipses? Right now the entire twtxt is crammed into the Subject:. This request aims to make twtxts display on mutt/neomutt, etc. more like emails do.
i found this site by searching “thing-fish”
Apple A16 SoC Now Manufactured In Arizona
“Apple has begun manufacturing its A16 SoC at the newly-opened TSCM Fab 21 in Arizona,” writes Slashdot reader NoMoreACs. AppleInsider reports: According to sources of Tim Culpan, Phase 1 of TSMC’s Fab 21 in Arizona is making the A16 SoC of the iPhone 14 Pro in “small, but significant, numbers. The production is largely a test for the facility at this stage, but more production is expected … ⌘ Read more
Incredibly upset—more than you could imagine—because I already made the first mistake, and corrected it (but twtxt.net got it on it’s cache, ugh!) :‘-( . Can’t wait for editing to become a reality!