bender

twtxt.net

"Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park."

Recent twts from bender
In-reply-to » @prologic I'm not a yarnd user, so it doesn't matter a whole lot to me, but FWIW I'm not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd's quirks.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org about this:

but FWIW I’m not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd’s quirks.

Yet, you are asking Yarn to change the format to work around how you want it display. 🤔

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In-reply-to » Roses are red, violets are blue, Why devs hate Google, and so should you?

@thecanine@twtxt.net ahh, Google, what can I say?! It is amazing for me to think I used to have everything on Google, and now I have nothing. I mean, I have kept my Gmail, and Google Voice. The first I don’t use, but I have it since beta (was of the few first to be invited to it), so it has a “sentimental” value. The second is my catch-all-spam number.

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de sounds counterproductive. The power of open source is that it benefits from everyone’s participation. Why to develop in a close source setting then? Hmm.

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I agree. Even if I will not use it, allowing to do similarly to the commercial “service” in a selfhosted, non-algos, non-ad-targeting environment, is the way to go.

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In-reply-to » @bender True, I'm just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wanted it on 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net no, no, I haven’t said anything about turning of smartypants! That would be a step backwards, right? I mean, ¼ is the way to represent a fraction, so its rendering is right spot on.

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In-reply-to » Feeling suspicious about a little something and I, don't like it -the feeling- a bit. Maybe I'm just being paranoid... but most probably I'm just being an ignorant judgemental piece of shit and I hate myself for it already.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com let me come to the defence of Aelaraji here, and make clear that they are not a “piece of shit”! 😊

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In-reply-to » IMHO, the original spec had it right when it said (paraphrased) "just upload your tw.txt file wherever". The essence of micro-blogging, as opposed to full-scale blogging, is low friction and low stakes. Imposing a norm that you can't just use any ol' url, looking down on people with insufficently cool urls (as in "Cool URIs don't change" https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI), puts up too much of a barrier to entry.

@prologic@twtxt.net https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

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In-reply-to » After the behaviour of a clearly very angry feed author over the past few days, I'm very tempted to give up on Twtxt and allow it to go back to being dead. What really is the point of building and supporting a way to exchange little pieces of text with one another in a completely decentralized way, if you're just going to keep bumping up against such hostility? I don't know why I do this anymore.

@prologic@twtxt.net don’t let anyone bum you out, mate. We take corrective action, and move on.

I mean, you will quit twtxt when you please, but not because of some irrelevant feed. Won’t you agree?

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In-reply-to » Rebuilding my twtxt file after deciding to return, and trying to get back into working on my fork of txtnix as a reason to continue learning Perl again.

@prologic@twtxt.net it is hard to explain. I replied to OP, mention didn’t work. Then replied again, to start mention didn’t work. Then @movq@www.uninformativ.de replied. Then I replied, but my replied to OP was overwritten by my last reply, no idea how. This (https://twtxt.net/twt/zyo3buq) was my reply to this (https://twtxt.net/twt/rzuepoq).

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I find it ironically amusing when people leaves twtxt, which anyone can, or could, read (no needs for sign ups, etc.), and move to Twitter. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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In-reply-to » Rebuilding my twtxt file after deciding to return, and trying to get back into working on my fork of txtnix as a reason to continue learning Perl again.

Well, that mention didn’t work. Yarn has been very unreliable on that front (amongst others). Hmm.

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In-reply-to » @prologic Why does twtxt.net still show my old avatar?

@sorenpeter@darch.dk your mentions are broken too. His shows fine:

# nick   = movq
# url    = https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt
# avatar = https://www.uninformativ.de/avatar.png#20240102
#
# [...]
#
# Legacy, don't use:
# nick_alias = vain
#
# prev = 6v47cua twtxt-old_2024-04-21_6v47cua.txt

What’s on the [...] is just a comment he added. Here is mine:

# nick        = bender
# url         = https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt
# avatar      = https://twtxt.net/user/bender/avatar#zccci5jyuxv266gelyggvufoacqp3elvhyv2k3t7sfl6hlggtkza
# description = "Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own theme park. With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the park."

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In-reply-to » @prologic Why does twtxt.net still show my old avatar?

Because the formatting of your twtxt.txt file “headers” is wrong. Everything in your twtxt.txt in here:

#        nick = sorenpeter
# description = visualist and livecoder
#         url = http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt
#      avatar = http://darch.dk/avatar.png
#     profile = http://darch.dk/timeline
#  webmention = http://darch.dk/timeline/webmention
#        prev = archive twtxt-archive.txt

I think it is being ignored. It should be:

# nick = sorenpeter
# description = visualist and livecoder
# url = http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt
# avatar = http://darch.dk/avatar.png
# profile = http://darch.dk/timeline
# webmention = http://darch.dk/timeline/webmention
# prev = archive twtxt-archive.txt

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In-reply-to » Huh. I had long forgotten about text fragment URLs. Seems relevant for linking to discussions around linking to individual twtxt posts. https://alfy.blog/2024/10/19/linking-directly-to-web-page-content.html

@prologic@twtxt.net it has been around for much longer (worked on Chrome, just recently does on Safari).

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In-reply-to » THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED VERY RARELY.

I have muted the user. Everything is back to its peaceful “normality”. LOL.

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In-reply-to » THE LAST HUMAN POST ON THIS FEED IS MORE THAN FOUR YEARS OLD. PERHAPS TWTXT CLIENTS SHOULD THEN FETCH THE FEED VERY RARELY.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt someone started to follow a “dead” feed. And the feed’s owner is fed up with people following their dead feed, and they have come up with an “innovative” way to fight it.

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In-reply-to » When you try to change a file that’s currently running, it used to say text file busy. Example:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de allow me to stump you! Our Oracle team runs scripts, java, and a few others from NFS shares. That has become a true problem when VMs have moved to Azure, and NFS servers remain on premises. NFS doesn’t like latency, especially when laced with high I/O activity.

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In-reply-to » @prologic With respect, a client can not identify whether an edit took place. Not unless that same client witnessed both the original twt and the edited one. This won't be the case if a person you're following is joining a thread started by people you aren't following after the first twt of that thread has already been modified. Or if you're knocked offline by a multi-hour power outage that spans then entire time window between a twt getting uploaded and modified.

@prologic@twtxt.net right, but “regular” forks have parents. An edited twt—currently—has none. Edits just create a new branch-less leaf.

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In-reply-to » Haha, I love it! https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/68ec8ed145fcee49d2f5e2b9d2cf2e52

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org the addressing of the “Bug Bounty program associated with this case” is such a total BS! I can’t help but believing the kid over Zendesk. The “-99” downvotes are telling. I could’t give mine, because I am not signing up on Zendesk for it. Ain’t nobody got time for that!

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In-reply-to » There’s this rumor that you can create a WhatsApp account with a burner phone, then link the phone to a browser on your desktop PC (web.whatsapp.com) and never have to use the phone again. This just doesn’t work. Every ~2 weeks, the session in the browser will time out and you have to re-link again. 🙄

@movq@www.uninformativ.de so, you keep lots of monologues. That’s the best “conversation” to keep! LOL.

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In-reply-to » There’s this rumor that you can create a WhatsApp account with a burner phone, then link the phone to a browser on your desktop PC (web.whatsapp.com) and never have to use the phone again. This just doesn’t work. Every ~2 weeks, the session in the browser will time out and you have to re-link again. 🙄

@movq@www.uninformativ.de while on the topic of WhatsApp, Europe is pretty reliant on it, isn’t it? Myself, in the US, exclusively use Messages (a vanilla iOS application) for 99% of my messaging needs. Only have WhatsApp… (what a shocker!) for my European family, and handful of friends. 🥴

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