🕞 Hi, the current time is about a half past three in the small hours 😴.

I have (finally) built a fully e2e working purely decentralised and federated IRC-compatible chat server. It is currently a PoC, but it’s already working quite well. It’s inspired partly by the work we did with Salty Chat in terms of Discovery and Federation. Some screenshots of a normal IRC client irssi showing off how it works in a local e2e setup:

For the curious, this is fully documented with roleplay Alice/Bob. I was going to test this with @david@daiwei.me but we both got busy, but now I’m on holidays from work for a month so 🤷‍♂️ 🤣

Does anyone have time this weekend to manually test and validate and prove out this spec I’m calling Gitxt? A Twtxt-inspired purely decentralised Git federation/forge? 🤔 Hit me up! You need only git, curl and a web server of some kind.

@david@daiwei.me Oh I did 😅

“If you only pay attention to how things work, you’ll be screwed when they fail” – Cory Doctorow

Um relato dos meus sentimentos misturados a respeito do #Manjaro e minha simultânea incompetência e competência:

Nas últimas semanas andei “bootando de um snapshot” no meu micro do dia a dia, e hoje finalmente quebrou tudo e bootava mais. Aí, tome de bootar de um pendrive, e acessar anotações que eu tenho pra fazer o chroot… acho tudo muito difícil pq tenho que decriptar o hd, e montar partições diversas, não manjo exatamente o que estou fazendo, sigo a receita anotada, muitos passos.
Em seguida, reinstalei kernels com pamac -S linuxXX e mhwd-kernel, reinstalar o grub, e usei o mkinitcpio -P pra recriar as “imagens” dos kernels pro boot. Não sei o que resolveu exatamente o problema (tinha tentado esse mkinitcpio -P faz algumas semanas, sem ser bootando do pendrive, e não tinha funcionado)
De um lado sou grato por ter conseguido fazer as coisas funcionarem, grato pelo esforço de muitas pessoas voluntárias fazendo o Manjaro ser teoricamente “mais fácil” pra algumas pessoas, por outro lado acho tudo muito difícil e não consigo imaginar outras pessoas do meu convívio fazendo essas coisas, nem eu consigo entender o que estou fazendo!
Será que não teria como ser mais fácil? Será que um dia vou achar fácil?

“If you only pay attention to how things work, you’ll be screwed when they fail” – Cory Doctorow

Um relato dos meus sentimentos muito misturados a respeito do #Manjaro e minha simultânea incompetência e competência:

Nas últimas semanas tava tendo que “bootar de um snapshot” no meu micro do dia a dia, hoje finalmente quebrou tudo e não conseguia mais bootar. Aí, tome de bootar de um pendrive, e acessar umas anotações que eu tenho pra fazer o chroot… acho tudo muito difícil pq tenho que decriptar o hd, e montar partições diversas, não manjo exatamente o que estou fazendo, sigo a receita anotada, muitos passos.
Em seguida, reinstalar kernels com pamac -S linuxXX e mhwd-kernel, reinstalar o grub, e usar o mkinitcpio -P pra recriar as “imagens” dos kernels usadas no boot. Não sei o que resolveu exatamente o problema (tinha tentado esse mkinitcpio -P faz algumas semanas, sem ser bootando do pendrive, e não tinha funcionado)
De um lado sou grato por ter conseguido fazer as coisas funcionarem, grato pelo esforço de muitas pessoas voluntárias fazendo o Manjaro ser teoricamente “mais fácil” pra algumas pessoas, por outro lado acho tudo muito difícil e não consigo imaginar outras pessoas do meu convívio fazendo essas coisas, nem eu consigo entender o que estou fazendo!
Será que não teria como ser mais fácil?

@prologic@twtxt.net Must say I do kinda like the rounded design, passport screen ratio, the inner screen textured finish and the promised pencil support, making this a pocketable drawing tablet.

Obviously wouldn’t buy it, or any other foldable device, with these fragile plastic displays, lack of a headphone jack and thanks to iOS also too many software compromises.

Since earlier this year, I main a TCL phone, I got during a sale event, for under $150 and it really has pretty alright specs: 8GB RAM, recently updated to Android 16, 90Hz refresh rate, even the headphone jack, …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s becoming a bit ludicrous to be frankly honest. I’m not sure I can continue to justify these kinds of prices. But at the same time, I’ll probably stick with Apple regardless, even if I hate their exorbitant prices, and just buy their low-end stuff 🤦‍♂️ It is fucking crazy when you consider what these things are actually made for over in China or wherever they’re manufactured.

@prologic@twtxt.net Is simply not buying it an option? Or is there too much social pressure?

I am not fucking paying ~3.5 grand for a fucking phone, geez christ, kill me now 🤦‍♂️

Oh no, sorry I was wrong! That was the fucking US price 🤣

This is the Australian (AUD) price:

From A$3,499.00 or A$145.79/mo.

Fuck me dead 😵

iPhone Duo - Apple Sorry Apple™, I’m really finding it quite hard to justify spending thousands of dollar on your products!

From $1999 or $83.29/mo. for 24 mo.*

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ When it was just me and my wife, maybe, fine, okay. But now I have two young children that also want the same shit™ as we do. This starts becoming a nearly ~$8k expensve just for some fucking whoop-ti-do-da foldable iPhone with a bigger screen.

Who cares? 🤔 I want my ~A$800 iPhone back that fits in my hand. #Apple #Rants #Expensive #Crap

Premature #FrakturFreitag. Had to practice the letter “F” and try a few variations.

😐

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@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Don’t worry, we’ll tell you rather loudly if your client is misbehaving or your feed is down 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is actually pretty cool! I like this one! ☝️

I love David Revoy’s comics: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/069.html

@thecanine@twtxt.net I love it. %)

maximum nostalgia slop (themed SpaceHey profile + QMMP with a bad Winamp skin)

o texto que ele comentou: https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/

“Por que eu não falo do Omarchy | Tecnologia e Classe”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntRIB-SLPmY

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Yeah, time flies. My last post was Friday, almost a week ago … Sigh.

Fedimigues, alguém tem experiência com a NextDNS? Recomendam? Nem por isso?

Parece um serviço bem útil que recomendaria a algumas pessoas, mas gostava de ter a noção vinda de quem sabe melhor

Fedimigues, alguém tem experiência com a NextDNS? Recomendam? Nem por isso?

Parece um serviço bem útil que recomendaria a algumas pessoas, mas gostava de ter a noção vinda de quem sabe melhor

Edit: Sim, também conheço o Pi-Hole, mas procuro algo para recomendar a pessoas não técnicas sem tempo para montar geringonças ou ler manuais

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Ahh it gets like tha sometimes 😅 the Twixt ecosystem is on purpose, deliberately designed to be very slow at times 🤣

also, check her podcast: https://rss.com/podcasts/computer-science-off-course/

“AI made me doubt everything about programming” by @Felienne@Felienne - #DDD Europe 2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6-f94n_9M

#ProgrammingLanguages #Feminism #FeministEpistemology

⚠️ For anyone that signs up on Yarn.social’s multi-user twtd multi-tenant platform I’m runnign on twtpub.com – Be warned. I will delete your account if you create it for the soles purposes of link squatting, spam, link harvesting, seo marketing, or any other useless fucktarrd crap.

To the spammers and would-be assholes of the world: You have been wanred. Don’t abuse my generosity.

it’s all I ask

Trying to change my site a bit and needed a more cartoony sitting canine for it.

@david@daiwei.me No worries 😌

@david@daiwei.me ping me on IRC when you have a couple of spare hours 👌

@david@daiwei.me I think to @movq@www.uninformativ.de ’s point, we should probably just test teh specification itself no? 🤔

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I plan to oj ly projects 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I kind of do need a couple of folk to test things with 👌– But i need to do some more testing myself first 😅

Not super happy with today’s result, but it is what it is. #FrakturFreitag

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@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm. I’d have to see this in action. 🤔

By industry i assume you both mean IT?

What’s going on in your neck of the woods (planet) 🧐

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com How about you? 🤔

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Doing okay 👌 Looking forward to my month off!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ahh, no you can. Much like what we’ve built here with Twtxt / Yarn. I’m building a spec, clients can implement the spec, or you can ya know, just curl and git your way through. I’ll link the spec soon™, just need to keep refining and testing and make sure this actually works properly 😅

Me sinto muito burro toda vez que tenho que tomar remédios de 8 em 8 horas, tentando fazer as contas pra ver os horários.

Acabo chegando em geral em 8h, 16h e meia-noite ou 6h, 14h e 22h mas sempre me atrapalho muito.

#Zotero rainha, Mendeley nadinha

Amigues não permitem que amigues caiam na cilada da Elsevier do Mal™
#teamZotero #EvilElsevier

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, so I can’t send you a patch / PR unless I host gitxt myself?

gitxt is a purely decentralised git forge. There is no federation protocol, no instance-to-instance API, no accounts on other people’s servers. Each forge instance is fully independent; collaboration is an act of publishing and reading plain text files over HTTP

@fossham@twtpub.com I honestly think the most unique and interesting thing about doing this at all is that it is in fact inspired directly by Twtxt / Yarn.social itself – That is to say, I am confident I can do this in such a way as to be “truly decentralised”, no inter-networking like ActivityPub, no centraised forges like Github or Codeberg. You run your instance, I run mine, we just are able to collaborate. Think exchanging patches over Email, just without all the hard-to-learn ways to do that (enough though it’s not hard for some of us, but still).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So the way this works in my design/prototype is this. You fork my repo in the app, it clones it to your own forge, follows my instance and it’s repo for updates and ping my instance to indicate “you’ve forked me”. Then when you publish changes, I can see them by pulling your instance’s feed. It all works on the same plain text principles of Tstxt itself. The feeds are “pull”-based with push-based “pings” on things like “someone forked your repo”, “a new issue has been raised against your repo”, etc.

A good example of a complex use of textures with #3D in #py5!

https://github.com/vsquared/TruncatedCube-py5

#Processing #Python #P3D #CreativeCoding

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@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm. 🤔

Okay, suppose you host a project using this new forge, and I want to send a pull request. What do I have to do?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What if I told you there were in fact zero account(s) at all? And that you signed into your own instance or a multi-user instance with your own SSH key? 🔑 Hmmm? 🧐

@prologic@twtxt.net Haha. 😅

I’m not really sure what you have in mind. All I can safe with relatively big confidence is that users hate having to make another account. That’s why GitHub/Codeberg are so successful: One account gives you access to millions of projects.

So, once that problem is solved, anything else will probably just fall into place … ? 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de In the meantime tell me all your “wishes” and things you wish/want a good decent “pure” decentralised Git forge should do 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Good 😊

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m really curious about that. 🤔🤔🤔

I am finally building a Twtxt / Yarn.social inspired Git forge. I’m actually quite confident that y’all will quite like it, but I won’t post links yet until I’m quietly confident in its design, functionality and behaviour(s).

Stay tuned 🤞 It’ll be like no other Git forge you’ve ever seen! 🤣 Actually, it’s already more like cgit than anything with plain text feeds that power it’s “pure decentralization” as you can no doubt imagine 😅 #twtxt #git #forge

@Sumomo@sumomo.neocities.org All good 👍