$ echo -n "https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt\n2020-07-18T12:39:52Z\nHello World! 😊" | sha256sum | base32 | tr -d '=' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tail -c 12
tdqmjaeawqu

Just experimenting…

$ echo -n "https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt\n2020-07-18T12:39:52Z\nHello World! 😊" | sha256sum | base64 | tr -d '=' | tail -c 12
NWY4MSAgLQo

It would appear that the blake2b 256bit digest algorithm is no longer supported by the openssl tool, however blake2s256 is; I’m not sure why 🤔

$ echo -n "https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt\n2020-07-18T12:39:52Z\nHello World! 😊" | openssl dgst -blake2s256 -binary | base32 | tr -d '=' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tail -c 7
zq4fgq

Obviously produce the wrong hash, which should be o6dsrga as indicated by the yarnc hash utility:

$ yarnc hash -u https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt -t 2020-07-18T12:39:52Z "Hello World! 😊"
o6dsrga

But at least the shell pipeline is “correct”.

FWIW the standard UNIX tools for Blake2b are openssl and b2sum – Just trying to figure out how to make a shell pipeline again (if you really want that); as tools keep changing god damnit 🤣

@quark@ferengi.one Do you mean something like this?

$ ./yarnc debug ~/Public/twtxt.txt | tail -n 1
kp4zitq 2024-09-08T02:08:45Z	(#wsdbfna) @<aelaraji https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt> My work has this thing called "compressed work", where you can **buy** extra time off (_as much as 4 additional weeks_) per year. It comes out of your pay though, so it's not exactly a 4-day work week but it could be useful, just haven't tired it yet as I'm not entirely sure how it'll affect my net pay

@quark@ferengi.one Watch TV at the moment so unsure about “out of the box tools” but there are 3 implementations on the spec page https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twthashextension.html

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Sometimes that’s the most valuable though! Feedback!

I’ve been using Codeium too the last week or so ! It’s pretty good and like @xuu@txt.sour.is said is a pretty desent Junior assistant, it helps me write good docs and the tab completion is amazing!

It of course completely sucks at doing anything “intelligent” or complex, but if you just use it as a fancier auto complete it’s actually half way decent 👌

@quark@ferengi.one I admit I find the general “click here to share blah” generally wasteful, useless and unengaging really. Not just Wordle.

I admittedly however, I’ve been guilty of doing this sometimes myself. 🤦‍♂️ sometimes though I think it’s OK to show your achievements. 👌

@quark@ferengi.one LOL 😂 No worries! 😉

@quark@ferengi.one All fixed! 🥳 pleasure doing business with y’all. 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Just as an aside, shouldn’t you assume utf-8 anyway these days if not specified? 🤔 I mean basically everything almost always uses utf-8 encoding right? 😅

@quark@ferengi.one Okay fair 👌

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So basically on-call, but you don’t get paid for it? 🤔

@quark@ferengi.one aye aye captain 🤣

@quark@ferengi.one It’s a good thin yarnd makes this user configurable via a preference 🤣 And displays both 😅

@quark@ferengi.one LOL 😂 Thanks!

@quark@ferengi.one You are right, whilst it technically works, its not well supported. Too much of the code would have to change to support that, and it’s not worth the value.

So yeah no, whilst it technically works, neither jenny nor yarnd support it very well. Only at a very basic level.

It actually has treated this as a thread, but it gets a bit weird, because we thread based on the content address of a root twt.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de for oncall?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this is why I don’t have a work phone 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net I should put the template that is used by default as a file in the repo. Look at the source for now and you’ll see 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I never implemented UI support for their creation 🤣

Just that yarnd (at least) doesn’t support creating such a custom TwtSubject, but it will reply and respect and thread one if one was constructed.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org You will actually find that they work perfectly fine. They just tend to have little value I think. Most of our clients do support them, jenny,ttandyarnd...

At least you took the time to file an issue on a decentralised Git server 💪 Thank you! 🙏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de (#3xpygsq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have a slightly different but compatible view:

What makes twtxt unique is its radical technical simplicity. And that means you have to be a tech-savvy person to appreciate twtxt and that means mass-appeal is pretty much out of the question to begin with. 😅

You see, if you recall my old man ain’t all that great with tech these days, though he used to be and that’s how I got into it, encouraged as a young lad. Anyway… I built yarnd for that purpose, so a) I could use it as my daily driver (think of it like Jenny/tt but for the web with a little server) and b) so others could use it too (admitedly that hasn’t been well adopted because reasons)

Anyway my view is that Yarn/Twtxt is designed to be a slow social media without distraction. I like that a lot. Forget the simplicity for a second, if you think about how we use this, and how damn well fucking effective it is, without all the ads, tracking, god knows what useless-ass features, all the nonsense multi-Megabytes your browser has to download, just to post what you ate for breakfast, I like what we’ve built 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com If you’re talking about me, I’m notorious for typos 🤣 I type too fast, and I think I need a new keyboard, these keys are getting stuck 😅 Either that or I need to take my blowvac to it and clean the dust, skin and muck under the butterfly keys 🎹

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I just added support for passing a custom template file via -T/--template in case you need a custom template 👌

prologic@JamessMacStudio
Wed Sep 18 01:27:29
~/Projects/yarnsocial/twtxt2html
 (main) 130
$ ./twtxt2html --help
Usage: twtxt2html [options] FILE|URL

twtxt2html converts a twtxt feed to a static HTML page
  -d, --debug             enable debug logging
  -l, --limit int         limit number ot twts (default all) (default -1)
  -n, --noreldate         do now show twt relative dates
  -r, --reverse           reverse the order of twts (oldest first)
  -T, --template string   path to template file
  -t, --title string      title of generated page (default "Twtxt Feed")
  -v, --version           display version information
pflag: help requested

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh! 🤣 For some reason I thought my first feed was lost and gone 🤣 Hahahaha it’s been there the whole time 😅 Fuck we write good specs and software 🥳

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I like this idea too as a completing solution to the “identify problem”:

Or maybe url changes could somehow be combined with the archive feeds extension? Could the url metadata field be local to each archive file, so that to switch to a new url all you need to do is archive everything you’ve got and start a new file at the new url?

👌

One thing that’s on my mind over the last few days about all this Twt editing and identity stuff we’ve been having hot debates over is this…

I don’t really have a problem with editing twts, or someone changing their feed’s URL.

Personally I think the folks that do are rightfully pedantic and like a good user experience, which I don’t blame ‘em. I would expect the same too. Anyway, just wanted to get that out there, I believe we can support editing and identity in a way that is still simple, as long as we bring clients along for the ride with us. The old/legacy original client though will have to remain well, ya know 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Well at this point I think I’m going to try to combine @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s idea for supporting moving your feed to a different URL and this idea for supporting editing. I’ll spec it up and see if what we think from there…

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Btw, I’m also open to ideas for this tool and welcome any contributions 👌

It would mean clients that support the TwtSubject and TwtHash extension, should also indicate the previous version of their Twt when editing.

Ultimately I think we just need to agree on a way to represent an edit and the previous version of a Twt in a way that makes sense. I like one of the ideas presented earlier in some other thread (god only knows which one haha 😝); That is: <timestamp> (#hash;#originalHash) <content> For example.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think if Git can solve the same problem of branching, forking, patching and merging, so can we 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No that’s okay. I happen to agree with you really, I just wanted to get a bit of a vibe on using cryptography in general and the idea of signing feeds. It’s not particularly about a problem being solved, just gauging your opinions/thoughts on this 👌

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com We just have to write better clients 🤣 I have figured out how to detect edits FWIW, but haven’t gone from R&D phase to an actual design and implementation. But it is possible to detect an edit as well as a similarity score and the matching Twts.

@quark@ferengi.one I think I may have lost my original feed because it was written with the old software before Yarn social became a thing.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk not really you’re really forming a cryptographic chain of twts, that are cryptographically provable by anyone, at least in one direction ). It’s called content addressing. Your propose scheme while simple doesn’t do this.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and @movq@www.uninformativ.de and possibly @aelaraji@aelaraji.com and even @cuaxolotl – I’m very curious to understand and hear thoughts, pros and cons or other feelings about introducing the notation of a feed’s identify using cryptography? If we were to keep things simple, and use what’s commonly available, for example SSH ED25519 keys? using the ssh-keygen -Y sign or ssh-keygen -Y verify tools already available? Maybe in combination with @xuu@txt.sour.is ’s idea of generating a random unique ID for your feed, say # id = and signing it with your ED25519 key? 🔑

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org You mean the idea of being able to inline # url = changes in your feed?

Whatever gets used, it would be nice to be able to rotate identities. I like @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s idea for that.

This scheme also only support threading off a specific Twt of someone’s feed. What if you’re not replying to anyone in particular?

Noting that this scheme cannot support disjoint threads that should be merged together once either party discovers each other 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It does now as of several weeks ago or so 👌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yea I think your idea of inclining url changes in the feed works perfectly as long as folks remember to do so I guess? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Seems to have used the hash correctly here 🤣