@aelaraji@aelaraji.com hehehehe, I was trying to mention dbucklin but Yarn is broken.

I vote for jenny too. It is pretty cool. Even more so if you are a mutt’s fan!

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.

@bender@twtxt.net Seems to be working! I’m using mdom’s txtnish and I’m figuring out replies.

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com Hi there! Well, I got your message. Let me know if you have gotten mine.

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com further test. It seems Yarn is very finicky.

Let’s see if this works, shall we? 😊

@someone@www.davebucklin.com testing…

And that’s… bad, right @prologic@twtxt.net?

So, started following https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt, but there is no way to interact with him. Mentions will never come out right.

@bender@twtxt.net Howdy.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wasn’t too bad in the end. Just a hand full louder thunders and decent wind. It smells really good after the light rain. Mjam!

@bender@twtxt.net Ha, we both looked it up at once. You win.

@bender@twtxt.net Synology uses single-volume Btrfs on software RAID, which seems to be pretty solid in my research but that’s less flexible than ZFS. https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID_implementation_for_Btrfs_File_System_on_SynologyNAS

Ha! Found it:

Due to the Btrfs RAID issues, Synology chose Linux RAID. Based on the diagram below, Synology has implemented the layers in between the file systems and disks to ensure that Synology has full control to achieve the highest stability.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I am curious now, though. Doesn’t Synology use RAID Btrfs? How in the world do they do it? Researching…

@bender@twtxt.net Exactly. It’s just not an option with warnings like that all over the place. Some people have had success, but I’m not risking it. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414.GX10769@hungrycats.org/

@mckinley@twtxt.net “Warning: The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for “anything but testing with throw-away data.” – Yikes!. Gulp.

@prologic@twtxt.net ZFS is fine but it’s out-of-tree and extremely inflexible. If Btrfs RAID5/6 was reliable it would be fantastic. Add and remove drives at will, mix different sizes. I hear it’s mostly okay as long as you mirror the metadata (RAID1), scrub frequently, and don’t hammer it with too many random reads and writes. However, there are serious performance penalties when running scrubs on the full array and random reads and writes are the entire purpose of a filesystem.

Bcachefs has similar features (but not all of them, like sending/receiving) and it doesn’t have the giant scary warnings in the documentation. I hear it’s kind of slow and it was only merged into the kernel in version 6.7. I wouldn’t really trust it with my data.

I bought a couple more hard drives recently and I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to allocate them before badblocks completes. I have a few days to decide. :)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de what password manager do you use on the CLI? Is it pass?

YouTube introduces a “stable volume” feature:

https://movq.de/v/ad0dd48aac/a.jpg

Once filmmakers realize that people just want stable volume instead of SUPER LOUD SECTIONS (…andreallyquietones…), then maybe I can finally remove the limiter from my pipewire filter chain. 🥴

In case you need a profile picture: https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Why not, give it a shot! 😅

I think I even integrated my password manager into tmux at some point. There’s a lot that you can do.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Same here. I’m watching the storm tracking on kachelmannwetter.com 🍿

The thunderstom is closing in on us now. It just started to drizzle.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Ah, right, you were only talking about 24 hours. I think I can manage without Netflix for a day. 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com At work? Not a chance. 😂

Private life? Sure. There was a regular community event called “A week in the TTY” over at nixers.net, where we spent a week only in text mode. It was easily doable.

There are some things where a graphical browser is pretty much mandatory these days. Online banking comes to mind. I could in theory physically go to the bank, but I’m way too lazy for that. 😂

Netflix is more popular nowadays and I wouldn’t want to miss that, either.

Do you believe one can survive surfing the web using a text-based web browser? (i.e: Lynx or W3m) no CSS no Bling for at least 24 hours 😲

@prologic@twtxt.net I read the help and it’s a bit clearer now. Still a bit wonky. I will probably have it already forgotten by this evening. “Term” is exact match and “Match” adds some kind of unknown fuzziness on top.

The second bullet point can be addressed I reckon. It’s purely a UI thing. Also, I’d add a short explanation for the search types next to them, so people don’t have to look things up all the time through the help or even follow the links to the bleve documentation.

I like the magic detection™. That’s what people expect. At least I did.

Thanks, @prologic@twtxt.net. It was taken near the dairy farm. Came down the hill in the forest on the right and tried my luck. It turned out the photo gods were in my favor. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net I see, thanks for educating me. :-) At least you’re interacting with native speakers a hell lot more than I do. I’m speaking English almost every day at work, but it’s basically never anybody’s mother tongue.

@mckinley@twtxt.net For testing purposes make dev works perfectly.

@bender@twtxt.net There’s stagit which generates static HTML files

@prologic@twtxt.net I remember running yarnd for testing on a couple of different occasions and both times I found all the required command line options to be annoying. If I remember correctly, running it with missing options would only tell you the first one that was missing and you’d have to keep running it and adding that option before it would work.

This was a couple of years ago, so I don’t know if anything’s changed since then. It’s really not a big problem, because it would be run with some kind of preset command line (systemd service, container entrypoint) in a production environment.

@bender@twtxt.net I avoid install scripts like the plague. This isn’t Windows and they’re usually poorly written. I think it’s better to prioritize native packages (or at least AUR, MPR, etc) and container images.

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s good advice. I don’t open any ports to the Internet if I can possibly avoid it. Everything is on Wireguard, even stuff that doesn’t really need to be. It’s super easy to set up on other people’s computers, too. Even on Windows.

Come on guys, can’t we just do Btrfs RAID5/6 already?

@prologic@twtxt.net that’s some service!

Best way to write programs: turn off the computer.

@prologic@twtxt.net I remember when I first ran Yarn on arrakis, it was a mess. Remember I had to start it again from scratch? If I were to run Yarn today, I will have to ask you what -u to use, if I am going to run a web server on it (say, Caddy), and what to do to keep the huge cache Xuu and I like. LOL. Granted, I could figure it out myself after some trial and error too.

To make Yarn install easier? An installer script that would prompt for the settings, generate config, and install the systemd, because, whether we like it or not, the biggest Linux distros around use it.

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t see how OP will see the replies. Does Yarn proxies to Gemini?

@prologic@twtxt.net ooooohhh! I like Legit quite a bit. “Oui, il est le git!” :-D Thanks!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org mind it, English is my second language, though I have been using it since 1992, almost constantly.

“Next weekend”, is the weekend after the one coming up. The one coming up is “this weekend”, or simply “the weekend” (as in, “see you this weekend!” or “will mow the lawn on the weekend”). I don’t like the perceived ambiguity of it, thus I strictly use dates (“lets get together on Saturday, 4 May 2024”). 😅

@Anthony_Sorace@a.9srv.net There is no try! :D

Thank you very much, @bender@twtxt.net! I just linked the thumbnail to safe on people’s bandwidths. I figured if someone wants to view the photos, they just go to the album anyways. If one has no interest, it’s less invasive on them.

Picking the money shot is always tricky. Especially since I have been sorting through them for an hour or more. I try to keep at most 10%. And yes, I very often do hate myself for pressing the trigger so many times when I come home. So by then I’m kind of sick looking at them any more. :-D Sorry, I try harder next time. ;-)

@bender@twtxt.net Damn, I got caught. :-D

Btw. how does it work in English? In German it’s ambiguous which weekend one addresses when saying “next weekend”. Is it the coming one this week or the one in the next week? Different people interpret it differently if it is not inherently obvious from the context, like when talking about dates. I also noticed that sometimes the same person even switches between meanings. I think I do, too. But I don’t know why.

Maybe it depends on when one says it. I could be totally wrong here, but earlier in the week, like on Mondays and Tuesdays chances for “weekend in the same week” are higher than towards the weekend (Thursdays and Fridays), then it’s more likely to refer to the weekend in the next week. And yes, the week of course starts on Monday. ;-)

Not sure if it changes with dialects. :-? I assume that doesn’t play a big role and is the same for all German-speaking regions.

On the other hand, “this weekend” is very well defined as the upcoming weekend in this week. It’s only the term “next weekend” that can be problematic.

@prologic@twtxt.net Good question. Two things come straigt to mind, although, I’m not sure how low hanging they are. Probably not even remotely.

1. I don’t know what these three search types mean: “Match”, “Term” and “Query String”. I could read the help page (I probably should), but they are sooo far off from my little brain that I can’t even think of a possible explanation. My (possibly broken) intuition would categorize “Match” and “Term” to be the same. Zero idea what “Query String” is supposed to be. But then I think a search should be so easy to use to not having to read up on it in a manual. Admittedly, the basic search works alright.

2. When “Match” is the default, why is it not selected? Similarly, when it searches all fields by default, why is “_all” not selected? This technical spelling “_all” with the leading underscore also doesn’t look pleasing to my eyes. It’s been a hell lot of time that I looked at the code base, so I forgot everthing by now, but that should be easy to fix.

3. Okay, three things. :-D Apart from the search results taking up soo much space, it would really be nice if the markdown would be rendered. Yes, this is probably very tricky, as the matching search terms are highlighted. So I imagine both the highlighting and markdown rendering probably contradict each other. Also, how to go about matches that are part of markdown link URLs, image alternative texts and the like. Not easy at all.

I reckon that’s certainly not what you had in mind or wanted to hear. :-( Sorry about that. I doubt it myself if this is any helpful feedback.

No promises, but I try to toy around with the search more in the future. Maybe even look into the code base and see what I can do. The next weeks will be full of activities with the scouts, though. So don’t expect something in the near future.

Is there something simpler, and leaner, than Gitea, which will allow me to see (as in read only) git repositories nicely on a web browser? Preferably a one-file-only solution, written in Golang.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com hahahahaha! Good findings. Yes, most of them are invented, and medical/drug related. The kick with the German ones is that they summarise an entire paragraph, with not just meaning, but also feelings, and–hypothetically–hard to describe extra meanings rather difficult or impossible to translate to other languages.

my first twtxt from spain!!! wow im feeling good!