@xuu everyday is an April Fools day that comes true in the US, for the next four years. 😩

Plz i need to know if it was still April fools day someplace when the Tariffs were announced.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org to be clear, I do appreciate criticism, of both my art and and my other projects. Since you pointed it out, I have already fixed all the errors (missing semicolons, overused and incorrectly placed “p” tags, bad CSS workarounds) - all that remains, is last five font tags (maybe even less, by the time you are reading this). 🫡

As someone who likes to experiment with slight text color adjustments, I was somewhat of a font tag fan and did not realise, they were actually deprecated - I thought not using them, is still just some suggestion/new best practice.

@arne@uplegger.eu I’m very glad I only rarely have to deal with .docx & Co. And when I have to, 99% is in read mode only. Even though, I don’t think that Markdown is the best choice, I use it on a daily basis. Some things, like links, in reStructuredText are better in my opinion.

Jira just resists to switch to Markdown and forces us to use its silly markup language.

For real typesetting, LaTeX is the way to go. But I very, very rarely do that.

Hirschhorn also offers a nice old town. The castle with all its many buildings up the mountain is very beautiful. This is my absolutely favorite one, it just looks soo great:

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Walking back down the narrow stairs with all the crooked, well-worn steps of different heights and lengths was quite challenging.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/hirschhorn-2025-03-30/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Awwwwww! Thank you, that is now in my collection. :-) The other ones aren’t bad either, very nice!

@thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.

For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldn’t find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?

Next, I noticed the <font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasn’t entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, I’d love to hear about it, so I could fix it. I’m sorry that my chosen form of report didn’t resonate with you all that well. I reckoned you’ll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.

I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didn’t recognize it as such. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.

Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is Nice one! 👍

Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish - a nice article about Markdown VS proprietary formatting. With quotes like “Microsoft Office works in an office where you pretend to work until you can finally go home.” 😄

@xuu@txt.sour.is hmmm, maybe I deleted myself.

i can see your twts here: https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://eapl.me/tw.txt

@david@collantes.us.. i see this one but it says its dead. https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt

it adds users by finding them in feeds mentioning or following. Your URL is already added.

Hmm i am not sure how you got the URL with users at the end..

yep, it looks nice! How could add my URL?
Is it following the same endpoints than https://registry.twtxt.org/swagger-ui/#/users/addUser ?

BTW, I think that the usage section has a wrong base URL or something.

For example if you enter here: https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4rx5iyq
It says to look for this URL: https://watcher.sour.is/conv/4rx5iyq/api/plain/users

Which seems to return the content from https://watcher.sour.is

@thecanine@twtxt.net I came by to see it. I liked it! I think it all matches quite well the pixel style you are well-known for.

@david@collantes.us oh, what a copout. Now you have to visit it yourself and form an opinion on it. :P

@xuu@txt.sour.is that’s mighty cool! Add me to it? Add @quark@ferengi.one too! How often does it run?

Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.

Find it here: https://watcher.sour.is

Code base is found here: https://git.sour.is/sour-is/xt

@thecanine@twtxt.net for what is worth, I don’t think @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org intention was to insinuate your website sucked (though it may well do, but again, not his intent, I am sure). I see it more like a technical jest, and a good one at it. It was fun! Isn’t that the intent of April Fools’, after all?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.

Since it’s now past April 1st, I can finally post the secret hidden caninine, for those who did not find it, during the over half a month, it’s been hidden on my websites.

The link for additional context is: https://thecanine.ueuo.com/dogcow.html - you just have to click the image on there.

@eapl.me@eapl.me awesome, and thank you! Sorry I missed all that in the noise. I truly am a TL;DR fan! 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do agree “the rules of the web”, are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.

As for my website, it might be visually very similar, to how it looked since its creation, many years ago, but it is frequently improved. Features that originally used JavaScript, changed to HTML and CSS components, code simplified, optimised to withstand browser updates and new screen resolutions,… Even a good chunk of the errors on your list, were already addressed and I plan to address the rest soon.

Just find it a bit depressing, that my attempt to bring back some of the old Internet spirit, by making a hidden easteregg page page for this years April 1st, was met with people complaining about April fools day jokes and you insinuating my website sucks.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sorry for being completely offtopic, but that’s a really cute bird! :-)

In Mexico you couldn’t register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, I’m not sure, so many ‘taquerias’ here don’t file a trademark request. It’s usually “Taquería [LAST_NAME]” or “Taquería [PLACE]”.

At the same time, the word “taqueria” was trademarked in UK, like it would be “Paris” or “Pub” I guess, so basically Sonora Taqueria didn’t reply to the cease and desist, based on:

[Lizbeth García]: A brand may not use a word that is generic or descriptive of the products or services it is putting into circulation on the market.

Since he (Ismael, Taqueria’s representative) didn’t get any response, he decided to leave it in the hands of his law firm.

In early 2023, after all the noise on the internet and the mobilization caused by this case, an agreement was finally reached with Taquería to settle the matter peaceably.

In March 2023, Michelle and Sam decided to register the Sonora Taquería brand and logo with the UK Intellectual Property Office.

A hike to the highest mountain in the Odenwald, the Katzenbuckel, lit. cat hillock. It was very windy and the sun very rarely showed its face, so it was quite chilly. Nice scenery, nevertheless. Surprisingly, this ski-jumping hill is still in operation. I’ve never expected this in a hundred years, judging by its state. https://lyse.isobeef.org/katzenbuckel-2025-03-29/

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@arne@uplegger.eu ;-)

I am confused (maybe I missed what they said, or didn’t read well). What was “Sonora Taqueria” answer to the cease and desist demand letter[1]? Did the accusers simply dropped their suit efford, or was “Sonora Taqueria” able to make their case (see [1])?

An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the “Trademarks”

https://radioambulante.org/en/translation/who-owns-the-taqueria-translation

@eapl.me@eapl.me Amazing! 👏

@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha, YMMD! :-D

Nem é preciso ir espreitar as notícias da #nintendo, a Ciberlândia é a minha fonte

(aguardando pelos takes dos correspondentes @seyon, @RuteRadio e @ines@ines)

https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline

well, there is a whole book about piracy, DRM and selling stuff on the internet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Doesn%27t_Want_to_Be_Free

So I won’t add much to the topic, what I can say is that this is about being pragmatic. There is some people who’s gonna spend their money on books but it requires publicity (polemic topic) and subsidizing creativity with our own money (another controversial one).

Otherwise it’s a difficult discipline /profession /industry

@prologic@twtxt.net you mean, “I’ll ix this oon 😂” ™

I’ll fix this soon 😂

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev DRM is a solution to the wrong problem.

@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I want to highlight another social problem: People don’t read. Paper industry is a bad moment because people don’t pay for books; it does not matter if it is a physical or digital platform. I have this information because I have a good friend who left the industry after publishing a magazine, books and working in an editorial. DRM is a try to give some more money.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m allways on the frontline! 🙃

probably this one https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/user/kat/twtxt.txt

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz

@eapl.me@eapl.me a “minimalistic” one too, just like Yarnd. 😅

yay! A new client 😀

I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.

I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).

Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4

(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)

The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.

FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @xuu@txt.sour.is That sounds like kat! :-)

Is there some Makefile shenanigans going on maybe? $V and $C being swallowed by the Makefile. I fell in that trap again the other day.

yeah its from Yarn.. should be $VERSION@$COMMIT and its supposed to be replaced with the actual version and commit.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh yeah, take some pictures when you do. :-)

Just saw this user agent popping up:

yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT  go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)

ERSION? OMMIT? 😅

@bender@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me @xuu @movq@www.uninformativ.de Glad you all agree. :-D My SOAP knowledge is extremely rusty, I luckily had not to deal with that crap anymore for quite some years now. I even couldn’t remember the XML declaration and had to look it up. ;-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … I was fully expecting this to be a WSDL file. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)

But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender@twtxt.net. 😢

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Aww, this reminds me that I haven’t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. It’s always nice to see this on old buildings.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org this is 1990’s certified approved

definitely 1e100 superiorer

Now I’m looking forward to see the next version using MessagePack

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, to be fair, there’s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. 🥴

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, I’m also disappointed each and every time.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is so crazy to me. When I think “forest”, I assume “untouched nature”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. 🫤

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 1000% superior!

Are you all forgetting today’s April’s Fool? 🤣

Let me introduce you to the much superior version 4 instead: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/twxm4.xml

@thecanine@twtxt.net And this is exactly why there are quirks modes in browsers…

I’m actually glad I don’t have to deal with all this web shit and work with compilers that hit me in the face when I do something illegal. :-)

@arne@uplegger.eu Oh no, you are in front of the line!!

Eberbach is nowhere near Bad Wimpfen in comparison, but still has a nice historic old town: https://lyse.isobeef.org/eberbach-2025-03-29/

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@bender@twtxt.net So true 😥

@javivf@adn.org.es Welcome indeed 🤗

that’s certainty an interesting idea.

Building on top of that, I’m thinking of https://eapl.me/yatwt.yaml

well, that leads to a long conversation.

Piracy is a difficult topic which is very personal, so I won’t say much about it.

On writing books, I’ve tried along with other digital products such as courses and videogames, and I got to confess that it has been hard for me.

If it helps, I think it all reaches our expectations on the activity and the result. If royalties is the expectation, it’s going to be slow. By 5% of royalties, for a rough example, a huge amount of sales will be required to get a decent “wage”, so I’ve understood of doing it by the side of a normal employment although it has been discouraging and a bit sad.

I have reflected about it in Spanish here: https://sembrandojuegos.substack.com/p/sobre-expectativas-al-crear-juegos

@prologic@twtxt.net that’s you, and me, and some others. Sadly, though, a huge majority (I don’t have sources, or numbers, but “trust me, bro” :-P) will simply, gladly, and unapologetically, pirate.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Same!

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev That’s a shame. But here’s the thing about piracy. If I could download a PDF or MP3/OGG of a Book I’d happily pay for this. If I could download an MP3/OGG of some Music I would pay for this. If I could download an MP4 of a Movie I would pay for this.

The reason piracy exists at all is economics and greed. If you make something affordable and convenient, there’s no need to steal.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev sha256 hash of twt in json. Look at converter script

I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership.
If you have to keep some knowledge: don’t write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

Amazing! It is a good tool for reading feeds. What you used to calculate the hash?

nice!

Hello, i want to present my new revolution twtxt v3 format - twjson
That’s why you should use it:

1. It’s easy to to parse
   
2. It’s easy to read (in formatted mode :D)
   
3. It used actually \n for newlines, you don’t need unprintable symbols
   
4. Forget about hash collisions because using full hash
   Here is my twjson feed: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.json
   And twtxt2json converter: https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/twjson.js

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, I use Firefox and didn’t realize this existed! Thanks for pointing it out. I noticed at least one bug cited a webcompat.com report; I wonder if someone at Mozilla monitors those. https://webcompat.com/issues?page=1&per_page=50&state=open&stage=all&sort=created&direction=desc

@javivf@adn.org.es Welcome to twtxt!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for taking a look, and for pointing out the mixture of tabs and spaces.

I think I’ll leave reachability.c alone, since my intention there was to use an indent level of one tab, and the spaces are just there to line up a few extra things. I fixed reachability_with_stack.cc though.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🤣🤣🤣

@xuu@txt.sour.is 👍🏻

@bender@twtxt.net nope.. its causing OOM issues currently.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org you must be loved by all the web developers in town! But ok, I have added all the missing semicolons, that should technically be there, but them not being there, does not make a difference.

Font color change inside every summary element, was a very deliberate choice, to color the text, but leave the arrow black (same as website background). But ok, I rewrote the CSS to hide the arrows and make all summaries white - since this also works better, with some dark theme enforcing browser extensions.

HOWEVER “p” as a child element of “summary” is a thing, that as far as I know, all browsers respect and if a font color is applied only once, I don’t think it matters, if it’s done through HTML or CSS, you smart ass.

Bad Wimpfen has a pretty cool old town with timber framed houses. Looks really beautiful: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/

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@prologic@twtxt.net is it up? How can we tell?

@thecanine@twtxt.net I found it! This looks like colored easter eggs when squinting.

There’s a secret art easter egg thing, hidden on my website ( https://thecanine.ueuo.com ), for this years April fools event - it’s been there for a few weeks, but now I can finally give hints.

Okay trying SqliteCache again with a slight tweak. I might have to rethink the hard-coded LIMIT 50.

Going back to old MemoryCache for now and going to bed 🛌

Hmmm this needs a bit more work.

And we’re back. On the new Sqlitecache 🥳

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz They all just wanted to be friends with a cool gal like you. ;-) It’s sad that putting things openly on the internet just waits to be raided by script kiddies, bots or spammers eventually.

Ooops I ran a docker build on one of my production nodes (the ingress node) 😱

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, like nearly all of them. There is the so called Bannwald, where it typically is not allowed to log, but there’s only one in my entire county and I haven’t even visted it. I should change that. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannwald

@bender@twtxt.net Okay 👌

👋 Folks that use this pod, I’ll be rolling out an experimental new caching backend to this pod shortly. Stay tuned. Please provide feedback either here via Twtxt or on IRC. Thanks! 🙏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, geil! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, that’s cool! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s really great! I can’t tell the difference to the original. :-)

I see nothing wrong with the “implications”. I would call them features. I think this will be the best thing that happened to Yarn since the subject extension.

There are however a few implications to note:

• It will be possibly to page through much larger quantities of twts per feed, this is potentially unlimited (depends on disk space)
  
• Automated Feeds (bots) like @tiktok@feeds.twtxt.net will now behave/display very differently. You will see all it’s historical Twts, whereas before you’d only see the one because the MemoryCache’s behavior was to “replace” Twts.
  

I’m hoping everything else remains the same and true to what we’ve collectively built and to spec. Replies work, Forks work, various views, filters and so on still work. I’m developing this new cache in a way that uses a “delegate” pattern and a double read / double write with metrics so I can over time see that none of the “old cache” is used anymore.

I think my new SqliteCache is almost ready for prime time 🤞