@bender@twtxt.net Makes sense. We definitely need the ability to mute feeds from the Discover feed.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I remember your solution. It’s very simple, I like it.
Yes, my backup target is my home server. I have a hard drive dedicated to Restic repositories. It’s still not a real backup as I don’t have anything offsite but it’s better than my previous solution. I had two very old hard drives I kept plugged in to my desktop PC and I would (on very rare occasion) plug in another hard drive and copy all the files over to it. Luckily, I’ve never suffered any significant data loss and I would rather not start now. Once I have automated backups on each of my machines, the next project is getting those backups offsite.
It’s a Thing! ⌘ https://notiz.blog/b/71d
If you all were to clear your caches, would your clients fetch archived feeds?
No.
And I’m also thinking of nuking my pod at some point and starting over. But maybe after we refactor a few important things.
@mckinley@twtxt.net My process hasn’t changed. (But the Gopher hole is gone. Here’s the file from 2023: https://movq.de/v/72fddfd8fe/2023-05-31–backups.txt )
What is your backup target btw? This NFS drive you’re speaking of is probably hosted on one of your local servers running in your apartment/house?
@bender@twtxt.net 🤣 Bug free code, I wish. 😅
On a more serious note, how’s the adoption of Archive Feeds going? If you all were to clear your caches, would your clients fetch archived feeds? 🤔
(I’m kind of thinking about truncating my history, to be honest. There’s a lot of twts out there, many of them out-of-context by now. They’re of little use except maybe for showing that twtxt/Yarn is an “active platform”.)
@bender@twtxt.net I think it comes down to one of the principles Yarn.social was founded on, which is to say, users should have choices and what they “see” is not driven by “algorithms”. The “Discover” view in and of itself has utility/value to others, and is otherwise just a “view” of a pod’s cache, but I agree with you. It was even getting noisey for me 🤣
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s great to see so much “green”. 👌
The sequence of photos makes it look like you throw this (pretty creepy) snowman to the ground. 😂
@mckinley@twtxt.net not a problem, but I don’t want to see it. When I get to see it constantly, without following it, then it becomes a problem. Blogs being echo chambers do not bother. They don’t “come to me”. :-D
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Probably not? https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same to you!
Good Morning everyone! Wishing all of you a productive and Happy Monday!
In other words, there isn’t anything specifically wrong with the Twtxt spec (+extensions), but if you for example use a client and server combination that never considered the User-Agent header and check logs or intercept requests for your feed, than you end up missing an important part of the whole flow (unless you are of course deliberating ignoring that, e.g: 1-way feeds, news feeds, etc).
In my opinion, this can all be solved by a “better standard client”.
For example I noticed in this thread, someone, me, and you, and now it’s just a bad @-mention mentioned Soren Peter with a bad link :/
This also just reminds me of the other problems that exist:
@mckinley@twtxt.net I think we just need a way of surfacing this information better for both users and operators? 🤔
@mckinley@twtxt.net I did!
@mckinley@twtxt.net Yeah this is what was being “cleaned up”
Yo be honest I don’t think there is a good solution IMO
@prologic@twtxt.net I think one-way feeds are okay and we shouldn’t discourage them so strongly. On the other hand, I think it’s the duty of a poderator to filter out feeds that are just noise from the Discover feed. I definitely consider a truckload of one-way posts mostly in another language to be noise. Did you get rid of Gopher Chat too? I’d call that noise, for sure.
You’re right we should
never be like Microshit 😆
@bender@twtxt.net Standard twtxt is a microblog in its purest form. A blog, but smaller. It’s just a list of posts to read, and that’s an echochamber in the same way my regular blog is an echochamber. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
@prologic@twtxt.net I support the delisting of ciberlandia.pt in the Discover feed due to the sheer volume of posts from there and the fact that most of them are in Portuguese with this being a predominantly English-language pod.
@mckinley@twtxt.net I think “posting to the void” was/is a poor choice of words hete.
@prologic@twtxt.net Why do we need to avoid posting to the void? That’s pretty much what twtxt was made for. I don’t like the “Legacy feed” terminology, either. I support the delisting of ciberlandia.pt but I think this change is heading in a bad direction.
I like @sorenpeter@darch.dk ’s suggestion. It gives the users the information and lets them make their own decision instead of putting a big scary warning in their face. That’s what Microsoft does, and we shouldn’t be Microsoft.
@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Oh boi! 😆 Gotta take a screenshot of this in case Microsoft demand the article be taken down 🤣
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@dfaria@twtxt.net Also, I don’t really care whether you continue to use my pod or not frankly.
One more reason not to use https://twtxt.net/
negative comments like this are completely unconstructive and have no basis in merit. If you have issues with the way I administer my pod, speak up, provide alternatives. If you have good technical suggestions for Twtxt/Yarn, we’re all ears. We are only trying (or attempt to try) to make things better for all, which as you can appreciate is a hard thing to do.
Next time, please leave your constructive criticisms at home. No-one forces you to use my pod (for free).
Oh never mind! 🤦♂️ That’s your other feed that you syndicate some stuff to? 🤔 Research?
@dfaria@twtxt.net And btw, even if I block a feed or whole domain, it doesn’t stop you from following. it just removes it from the “Discover” view.
@dfaria@twtxt.net And here I thought you never or we’re not capable (client?) of interacting with other users? 🤣
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Same 😢
@eapl.me@eapl.me We went out for nice breakfast and put the camper trailer away 😅
@mckinley@twtxt.net Yeah pretry by hand at the moment.I only backup what I cannot reproduce.
@prologic@twtxt.net How do you manage multiple remotes? Do you just run restic backup for each one?
@mckinley@twtxt.net I use Restic and backup to another machine on my network as well as Backblaze B2
I wish there was a good GUI for Restic so I could have non-technical people using the same thing I do.
QOTD: How do you back up your files?
I asked this one almost a year ago and I started using Restic shortly after that. When I started, I was only backing up my home folder to the repository over NFS. Now, I’m backing up the entire root filesystem to a repository using the REST backend so I can run Restic as root without breaking the permissions.
I’m working on automating it now and I’m trying to come up with something using pinentry but my proof-of-concept is getting pretty obtuse. It will be spread out in a shell script, of course, but still.
systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch restic --password-command='su -c "printf '"'"'GETPIN\n\'"'"' | WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 pinentry-qt5 | grep ^D | sed '"'"'s/^D //'"'"'" mckinley' --repository-file /root/restic-repo backup --exclude-file /root/restic-excludes --exclude-caches --one-file-system /
I’m curious to see how everyone’s backup solutions have changed since last year.
Went out in the cold and noticed that taking photos half an hour on top of the drafty summit is not the very best idea. Not suprising that I freeze if there is snow. Gloves would have been actually great, I only wore my beanie. But it was a very good afternoon and evening. Looking at the snowmen, there must have been heaps of snow on the ground earlier this day.
I came across several different birds and two deer. 36-38 shows the same one, one meadow further, another deer jumped across the road. That was cool.
The focus often wanted to do its own thing, unfortunately. 25 shows the flatness of the Kaiserbergsteige (literally “Emperor Mountain Steep Road”).
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Vobis doesn’t ring a bell. I looked them up, but still nope.
Yeah, HDDs aren’t the fastest things in the world. :-)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Sadly true. :-(
A quiet Sunday, with family, my dog 🐶, house cleaning, preparing for a travel tomorrow…
That’s all the twt
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Goes to show how arcane that system has become. 🥴 I saw in another video today that Microsoft Office used names like PMWord and PMExcel.
There was a time when Vobis (you remember them?) sold PCs with OS/2 pre-installed. Those were the days, man! 😂
It’s already very quick.
That’s because it’s not running on a hard disk but a Compact Flash card. 😅 My Warp 4 box is on an HDD and scanning directory trees takes quite some time there. 🫤 Spinning rust is crazy slow.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de hahahaha! Accurate, 100%. 😩
@movq@www.uninformativ.de pfff, your code is “break-proof”! All looking good, so far. 😊
Me feed just rolled over. Let’s see if something breaks. 😂
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org https://pixelfed.de/p/islieb/656813914793363318
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting. Never came across the term presentation manager in my life, but I also never used OS/2. :-)
Yeah, stopping the scanning thread is more a learning experience than a necessity. The scanning message is hardly visible in your videos. It’s already very quick.