Last year, I made a huge mistake. I repeated on here, what multiple sourcea at Google told me, and what is to this day, written on their blog about Android.
I failed to take into consideration, that people who work at Google, often just lie, or present things intentionally vaguely, so they do not have to follow through with their promises.
I would like to apologize to everyone, who took my previous posts here, as assurance software not explicitly approved by Google, will continue working on Android, past this year (or even just a couple months from now) and that everything has been resolved, as things are now in fact even worse, than they were before. To follow the current state of “Open Android”, please check: https://keepandroidopen.org/

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I never saw the point of a registry to be honest, as it defeated the point of what I believed to be a truly decentralised non-social social ecosystem. What can and does work however is a search engine and crawler. I used to run one, but I took it down, mostly because it got expensive to operate, at least the implementation I built… Maybe one day i’ll try again with a SQLite backend.

What @bender@twtxt.net said ☝️

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me We see and read yout mutterings just fine 😅

@bender@twtxt.net I agree, I had oats in yoghurt for dinner. :-)

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me You might or might not find this useful: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/twthash.py

You are brilliant, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com! I laughed my ass off reading the first sentence. :‘-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ta! Haha, there’s a snake with a wide open mouth in 01 in my opinion. :-)

Registries suck. Or, should I say, “bend”. I say look at the people @prologic@twtxt.net is following, and you have found the whole twtxt world. 😅

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me most of our conversations used to be about twtxt, I am not going to lie. Lately? Not so much. It turns out (a) we don’t need a longer hash, (b) we don’t care so much about changing addressing, and © I am just Bender, what else can I say? :-D :-P

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I read too. What I am afraid, though, is that you might miss our replies. Also, twtxt is very asynchronous (although in my early years I was checking and replying every minute).

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me you’ve got to get a nice client. For example, that mention is broken.

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me robots are people too, you know? :-P Follow me, and be amused with my sarcasm, and lack of empathy for humans! (there I said it!)

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Well, I’m reading. 😅 twtxt/Yarn is rather slow and low-traffic, though. And let’s be honest, there aren’t that many people around.

Am I talking to the void?

Despite the driving force behind me being here lying in the curiosity and challenge of “let’s check out this new thing and see what it takes to bring get it working”, I’d like to know if there are other people reading me. Or if it’s just like on my gopher site, where around 96% of the visits are from bots.

I mean, it’s still fun to tinker with tech tools for the mere sake of it, but at times I can’t help but feel like Prometheus and Sisyphus at the same time.

Not that I’d stop. Just like my “self-sufficient” sense of humor (read this with a good hint of self-deprecation and irony), most of my electronic exploratory endeavors end up being more about the process than the result.

Or, in other words: I was so focused on building this vessel that I never stopped to think where I want to go!

Six of my last eight posts were about twtxt itself. As much as it’s understandable between all the excitement and confusion with finding out and using a new technology, I really don’t want this feed to become something like this:

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(source) PS: I just noticed that by making this meta-rant I’m talking about not talking about *twtxt*!

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Yeah, but I think the registries are very slow and unhandy. I just search for “twtxt” in my favorite search engine. From time to time there are new feeds to follow.

Just found out there’s something called “twtxt registries”. There are at least two of them online and it… aggregates twtxts on a semi-centralized consumable API?

Well, someone just did this:

https://codeberg.org/NerdNextDoor/evi

We’ll see how long it’ll last …

Ich habe mir eine Paar micro:bit beschafft und werde in der nächsten Zeit versuchen ein Modellauto per Bluetooth über eine Internetverbindung fern zu steuern. #SOFA-Club

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I mean, if you’re talking about a “Follow me” button you can put on your site somewhere and it somehow magically™ works, yeah we haven’t figured out a good way to do this honestly.

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Exactly! 👍

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me

Replies aren’t actually broken, I just… need to add myself to the follow list?! That’s quite counter-intuitive and (IIRC) not mentioned in the docs. But… It seems to be working now, which is nice (I still don’t know how webmentions and webfinger works, so can’t speak about this so far)

yarnd (what runs here at twtxt.net) actually does this automatically by default. I think it’s just an implementation detail to be honest. There’s nothing about this in the specs over at https://twtxt.dev

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Haha 😆 I mean I try to, as time poor as I am 🤣 Welcome to our little corner of the Yarniverse as some call it 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net OMG, the yarn.social creator himself replied, what an honor!

@bender@twtxt.net Oh, look! There are other humans on this place! (looks at avatar no offense intended, sir) ;P

Alright. I have a minimal working instance of a twtxt feed. Now, what’s the first thing we do? Exactly, FOLLOW EVERYONE!

Rest in peace Dean Roberts

@prologic@twtxt.net I can calculate a hash by hand… Or I can cheat and copy the hash when previewing my own feed at https://twtxt.net ;P

This was posted using Søren Peter’s Timeline.

Oats. Gotta have oats. Fruits, whatever. Also some pumpkin seeds, or sliced almonds. Yeah, it’s a meal.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Pretty! … Also, please tell me I’m not the only one seeing Patrick (from Sponge Bob) in 01.jpg and The eye of Horus (pyramid) in 02.jpg xD

@kiwu@twtxt.net Sorry, I have two functional brain cells left in my brain, and I’m not sure if you’re asking What am I putting in it, as in a) when making some? Or as in b) when consuming/serving it?

a) 1L milk (0.5L cold + 0.5L warm @ ~45 °C), a bit of store bought yogourt for the bacteria, sugar and vanilla extract.
b) Most of the time, as is. But I’ve tried once: adding in a couple of diced strawberries that have been sitting in granulated sugar for a couple of minutes, until they’d released enough syrup, and I think I might’ve caught a new addiction on top of the original one.

What do you put in yours?

Nice cloud formations this evening. Obviously, they looked much cooler in person. https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2026-03-09/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Luckily, I’ve never encountered any bugs in Vim with my type of work and features I use.

@bender@twtxt.net Hehe. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yah, I don’t really know what to do about it. I’ll probably keep using Vim as it is – until there are bugs. And then we’ll see. Build an older version from source maybe?

I’ve been using Vim for such a long time now, I have very little motivation to switch. 🫤

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hahhaha! Succulent, as in this type of plant. Certainly not looking to eat them, for sure! 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Haha, one could think it’s so cold over here, even the posts have to wear beanies. :-D 04 was actually in a villa garden not too far from the edge of the village. Those plants in 05 are tiiiny. Not sure if eating them is healthy. I’m glad about the temperatures, no interest in trading them. ;-)

Number 03, the warmest log in the land! :-) Number 04, was that in the middle of nowhere? I’d find the garden decoration interesting if so. Love the succulent like looking plants on 06 (my wife loves them too)!

About those 13ºC… oh my, how we wish…. we currently have 28ºC, cloudy.

Ah, found it: Lauren Hart did a laryngoscopy a while ago:

https://youtu.be/zy1El8U2kaA?t=175

Here around the 3:00 minute mark, the doctor explains what’s going on and you can (kind of) see which tissue is vibrating. Pretty interesting.

@bender@twtxt.net Just for fun, I made it through the entire Wikipedia article and I find it interesting, how deeply one can analyze a fairytale. :-D This also made me realize that, as a kid, I never questioned why the princess was traveling alone without any servants etc.

Finally, the Danish language lacks the subjunctive. Wow! I didn’t know that.

After making three crosses (state and mayoral election) my mate and I went into the wildernes. Well, nature at least. There are heaps of people out there, too. The 13°C (and still raising) are very nice. I’m drowing in sweat, though.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2026-03-08/

She sure has a very nice voice. What a gamut!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com what do u put in your yogurt?

New Something Something Unlocked: “Making Yogurt”. (Still not sure if it’s a new skill or an addiction)

Wel… It was a very comfortable night’s sleep 😴

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yes, I lost track of links. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org he will tell you, like in “The Princess and the Pea”, it was horrendous, but I made it to dawn!