Showing my nephew around linux… and what’s a better example of text editing in terminal than an actual twt? eh? 😆

I like it

Hi Twtxt

Hello, world! :-)

after I finish this letter to a relative, I think I’m gonna start rough-drafting an article about what I expect to get out of social media now

the feed is made using my own cli app called txtlog, it also supports bluesky cross-posting as well!

LMAO! 🤣 I’ve had @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt’s nick linked to @prologic@twtxt.net’s url for this feed the whole time !! 🤦

There’s this something about this Halloy #IRC client’s look I can’t find a proper word for. Aesthetically pleasing maybe? anyway, it feels nice.

Test post from IndiePass app

I’ll be using another URL for this twtxt.

The older one will redirect to the new for a while (I’m not sure what would happen if you follow both URLs, I assume it’s better to add the new one and remove the older)

Please update your following list to https://eapl.me/tw.txt !

Secret To AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates
As tech giants struggle to profit from AI, a growing industry of specialized AI training firms is emerging by hiring doctors, radiologists and other experts to develop commercially viable applications. The $20 billion data services sector, projected to grow 20% annually, is attracting major investment by focusing on high-value, specialized AI applications.

C … ⌘ Read more

Imagine if all computer UIs would act like the UI from my NAS system… I feel I need to be waiting for output from the machine like it’s 1973.

POSSE-ing these articles from by nekoweb in case bluesky and/or fedi explode ½
Change

Did I write here already that the reason why I love Twtxt so much is that it works without having to compile, install anything extra. Just the bin applications that come with 95% of all operating systems and you’re good to read and participate, giving you have a domain name somewhere to host the twtxt.txt file.

Added TwtHash hashes to every message on my personal Twtxt HTML renderer. Code is not yet ready for prime-time. Need to work out some kinks still.

Reading “Cult of the Dead Cow”, by Joseph Menn

OpenAI Releases ‘Smarter, Faster’ ChatGPT - Plus $200-a-Month Subscriptions for ‘Even-Smarter Mode’
Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” promising that “Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo…” And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things:
- “o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. … ⌘ Read more

I have been on Twtxt for five years straight now. Hurray me.

Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD
Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing.
Slashdot was pretty early on Bitcoin. Thoughts, nocoiners?

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Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid
Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls “Post Open” to “meet goals that Open Source fails at today” … ⌘ Read more

I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public
Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users’ data. But despite that, “one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face,” reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

“Shortly after the article’s p … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Easy: 5.06 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 00:49:08 duration
kept it easy. legs were a bit tired, but wanted to enjoy the weather. not sure if i should start training again for a marathon just in case or just wing it.
#running

Today’s discovery: Iris a Serverless text-based forum for tilde-likes. I still haven’t posted anything out there yet, but I’m in love with it already. Let’s see what we find out next… rubbing hands

Oxford’s Word of the Year: ‘Brain Rot’
“Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok?” asks the BBC. “If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which has become the Oxford word of the year.”

It is a term that captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media. The word’s usage saw an increase of 230% in its frequency from 2023 to 2024 … ⌘ Read more

Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts ‘Scammers and Impersonators’
Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, “Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky… Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger tha … ⌘ Read more

https://dyne.org/cjit/ That sounds good. Worth the try ! #clang

Google’s Chrome Worth Up To $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale
Alphabet’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. From a report: The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measur … ⌘ Read more

Plastics Lobbyists Make Up Biggest Group at Vital UN Treaty Talks
Record numbers of plastic industry lobbyists are attending global talks that are the last chance to hammer out a treaty to cut plastic pollution around the world. From a report: The key issue at the conference will be whether caps on global plastic production will be included in the final UN treaty. Lobbyists and leading national producers are … ⌘ Read more

Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows
More than half of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely generated by AI, according to research from AI detection firm Originality AI. The company analyzed nearly 9,000 public posts over 100 words published between 2018 and 2024, finding AI usage surged 189% after ChatGPT’s launch in early 2023, Wired reported Wednesday.

LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to … ⌘ Read more

Behold … “Marginalia” ! My new favorite search engine!! And I have @mattof to thank for this find. Here’s their Blog post about it since I don’t think I could do a better job describing what it is. but, tl;dr: it’s a #smallweb focused search engine.

Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers ‘Do Virtually Nothing’
A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies has found that approximately 9.5% of engineers perform minimal work while drawing full salaries, potentially costing tech companies billions annually.

The research showed the issue is most prevalent in remote work settings, where 14% of engine … ⌘ Read more

Been down for +7 effing hours … Power went out for a while and I didn’t even bother to check if things went back up normally afterwards. and guess what? they didn’t 🤡

Hello, @bender@twtxt.net

Flamewar Leads to Declining of Bcachefs Pull Requests During Linux 6.13 Kernel Development Cycle
“Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.” That’s how Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet ended a post on the Linux kernel mailing list.
This was followed by “insufficient action to restore the community’s faith in having otherwise productive technical disc … ⌘ Read more

https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/ keep your calendar in a simple text file. I love the idea #cli

I really should use this feed and pod a bit more, maybe make it my personal
digital garden” or something? 🤔

Meta Removed 2 Million Accounts Linked to Organized Crime ‘Pig Butching’ Scams
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:

Meta says it’s taken down more than 2 million accounts this year linked to overseas criminal gangs behind scam operations that human rights activists say forced hundreds of thousands of people to work as scammers and cost victims worldwide billions of dollars.

In a Thurs … ⌘ Read more

I’m getting way too comfortable with editing twts and fixing Eff’ ups… I gotta stop auto-syncing my twtxt file, at least I’ll have a breathing room for quick fixes when needed. I know, Michael Lucas might not approve of this but, I wouldn’t want the @yarn_police@twtxt.net in the middle of the night, right?

Ok, I’ve restored the misplaced twts … let’s just hope I didn’t make things worst xD

I’ve just unlocked access to my /timeline if anyone has been trying to access it earlier.

Ok, hopefully nobody did pull that 🦊⬆ 😅

Morning, be good!

Been forcing myself to use vim more often, just because it honestly does run better on my machines. The mode-based UX still hasn’t grown on me, but I’m getting used to it.

On the positive side, I’m using vimwiki again, and it definitely fits my needs better than zim-desktop, or running a full-blown wiki on a webserver.

So long Blue Birdy 👋 it was a … Never mind, GTFO of my life already! 😆

Bluesky Says It Won’t Train AI On Your Posts
Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has “no intention” of training AI tools on users content. “The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use public posts to train AI,” notes TechCrunch. From the report: “A number of artists and creators have made their home … ⌘ Read more

🔥 ATTENTION: I have really bad news folks 😢

Today, (just this morning in AEST) I accidentally nuke my pod (twtxt.net). I keep backups, but unfortunately the recovery point objective (RTP) is at worst a month! 🤦‍♂️ 😱 (the recovery time objective is around ~30m or so, restoring can take a while due to the size of the archive and index) – For those that are unfamiliar with these terms, they essentially relate to “how much data loss can occur” (RPO) and “how quickly you can restore the system” (RTO).

This pod (twtxt.net) is back up and online. However we’ve last the last ~5 days worth of posts y’all may have made on your feeds (for those that use this pod).

I’m so sorry 😞

Giving paper notebooks another try. I love paper notebooks. The problem is that I’m very chaotic writing my ideas.

Thinking about how underrated is Thomas Feiner!