not a big deal as I can skip those messages, but again, it’s an extension, so older clients shouldn’t be affected by a new feature.
I’m also thinking that some kind of tag might be needed to automatically hide twts from unknown extensions. For example our client doesn’t support DMs and always shows the !<nick url><encrypted_message> syntax which is meaningless.
well, I suggested that in https://eapl.me/timeline/conv/k2ob6bq
The idea was to help those following the spec in https://twtxt.dev/exts/directmessage.Html, to replicate the steps and validate whether your implementation gives the same result.
BTW, you could add a link to the spec in the echo web.
@bender@twtxt.net Yup, we run an ejabberd.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org do you run your own Jabber server, or piggy back on someone else’s?
Conduwit is set to archive on GitHub. It was my favourite Matrix server, which I still self host. I think I am going to get off Matrix altogether now.
Maybe go back to Jabber?
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev yes, I am sure that, if I delete my Maildir, they will no longer show.
@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know, maybe it will be useful for someone 😇
@bender@twtxt.net Yes! I deleted those repeated twts because it was poor execution by my client. They are currently not present in my feed.
Maybe it would be interesting to check if any twt has disappeared?
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com touché! LOL.
@bender@twtxt.net Technically, I’m just doing GOD’s work …
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com are you Jesus, or something? 😂 You are resurrecting the dead! 😅🤣
@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣
@prologic@twtxt.net whichever works for you. Just about everyone is offering “great” advice these days; “ancient wisdom”. Many trying to inspire others. You know what? You be you, yo do you. 😅
@iiogama@iiogama.0x212.com Let me guess, it has got an AI sticker on it.. right? xD
@iiogama@iiogama.0x212.com HAHA! I love this quote. Funny but the message behind so true 😂
Dam the search here is sooo good now 😅
@bender@twtxt.net Now you have me thinking, which is better? 🤔
I correct in public, and congratulate the same. I expect similarly. I am all heart! ☺️
@bender@twtxt.net I will figure this out soon™ and fix, it’s annoying the fuck out of me 🤣
I personally really like the news minimalist (fuck it mentions are kind of broken atm here in the UI :/) feed myself, really good quality, very high signal 👌
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev It’s good advice 😅 I try to do this myself (please call me out if you ever catch me NOT doing this 🤣)
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Q: Why would you publish the private key? Hmmm 🧐
Cool. That’s fixed! 🥳 I believe we’re now syncing to 6 peers again now. Hopefully with similar behavior as before 🤞
Oops, I think this pod (twtxt.net) just sync ~1k missing root twts with god only knows which peers 🤦♂️ I forgot a couple of important key things:
Fuck me 🤣 Ooops. Sorry!
Nice! 😊
Peering is back 🤞
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev can you see the screenshot on my first twtxt? Here: https://twtxt.net/twt/mrccg4q
@eapl.me@eapl.me You asked me for private keys for testing purposes. I have added it to the bottom of this page: https://dm-echo.andros.dev/
It will soon be running. It won’t be long now.
Good quote: «Corrects in private and congratulates in public».
Or…: «Corrects in direct message and congratulates in twt» 😜
@bender@twtxt.net Can you give some examples? Maybe I can help you
@bender@twtxt.net On average, a good news item usually scores 300 points, outstanding ones reach 400… and only the extraordinary ones exceed 600 points. If you want, you can customise it. The source code: https://0x0.st/8pnq.py
@prologic@twtxt.net I hope it is as useful to you as it is to me 😋
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev what made you pick the 600 points criteria? Just a pick in a whim, or something else? I have found that reaching the front page is merely a good enough range for me.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Kind of a cool idea actually! 👌 I’ll follow and see what it’s like, thanks! 🙏
I am pleased to share with you the #twtxt version of my important news alerts: https://n8n.andros.dev/webhook/f0cfd6a6-60c8-4183-a26d-120bbd25a046
Other versions:
Mastodon/Website: https://activity.andros.dev/@important_dev_news
Telegram: https://t.me/important_stories_alert_hacknews
Enjoy!
! U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
Broadcast Positioning System, as an alternative to GPS. Very cool 😎
@bender@twtxt.net Sweet! 🙌
@prologic@twtxt.net all good now.
How’s that? Please refresh and see if that’s fixed? 🙏
@bender@twtxt.net There is only one commit that I can think of that might be the cause here. Shall I revert and redeploy? 🤔
This is what I see.
@bender@twtxt.net Seems fine here on my
iPhone? 🧐 
Yeah same order of magnitude 👌 No relation mice other than the recent study that precisely measured the number of cells and connections in 1 cubic mm of brain tissue.
@prologic@twtxt.net page navigation on profiles (mobile, at least) overlaps the collapsed twtxt text area.
One article assigning a draw of 20 watts to the human brain.
@prologic@twtxt.net you wrote:
“Based on a recent study of the brains of mice I estimated the human brain to have 200B cells/neurons and 50,000T connections.”
What’s the relation between the brains of mice, and the human brain? I am kind of lost trying to make the connection.
I also read that it isn’t 5 watts, but more like 10-20 watts. Still a super tiny consumption, comparing to what it takes to run anything AI.
“Move to iOS” app continuously refused to run as intended and expected, so couldn’t migrate mum’s Android based phone data. Most of her stuff is on a Google account, but not the SMS/MMS/RCS messages. Haven’t found a way to export, then import those into iOS.
She isn’t too happy having to keep the old phone just for the messages. Need to find a way to go through them, export multimedia attachments, and import them into iOS. I don’t think it’s going to happen, but I am not letting her know yet. 😅
I was trying to optimize the SQL query used for the Compact FrontPage (anonymous view for Discovery when the Admin/Operator chooses “one twt per feed”).
Test
“O Governo Federal continua se enroscando mais e mais no WhatsApp.” :((
@thecanine@twtxt.net Did you see my revelation earlier today? 🤔
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Pretty cool song I agree ☝️
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Just needed to update the version of the tool I packaged as an OCI image 🤣
AI problems, top to bottom:
1: Open AI nerds, believe fine tuning a language model algorithm, will eventually produce an AGI god.
2: Subpar artists and techbros who can’t code, convinced AI image bashing and vibe coding, will help convince the dumber parts of Internet, they are a real deal.
3: Parasites, using AI to scam people, because they just want passive income, selling crap, made by an automated process.
Side: Adobe&co, killing Flash/old web, pricing new artists and developers out, to face learning curves of free tools, or use AI, peddled as solution.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Beep boop! That was nice 😃
This 8 bit trip is really cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCm1fKZGvl47
@prologic@twtxt.net So, this flag isn’t doing exactly what you thought it does? Or is there a bug in the implementation itself?
@prologic@twtxt.net Ta! :-)
Add support for skipping backup if data is unchagned · 0cf9514e9e - backup-docker-volumes - Mills 👈 I just discovered today, when running backups, that this commit is why my backups stopped working for the last 4 months. It wasn’t that I was forgetting to do them every month, I broke the fucking tool 🤣 Fuck 🤦♂️
There are now two (recentish) quotes I really like these days:
The smartest person in the room is not the one with all the answers—it’s the one who’s brave enough to ask the dumb questions
and
The kindest person in the room is often the smartest
Full: Singapore PM’s Reality Check To Trump Amid Tariff War In Parliament: ‘Just The Beginning Of…’ - YouTube @bender@twtxt.net
Haha 😆
@prologic@twtxt.net this is bananas! Replies are precious, don’t waste them!
yarnd now only consumes ~60-80MB of memory depending on load 🤣 And bugger all CPU 😅
@prologic@twtxt.net woot, finally! 🥳🥳🥳
@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t. Share a link? I would love to watch it!
“Encode #spatial data as #topology in #Python!
With #topojson it is possible to reduce the size of your spatial data. Mostly by orders of magnitude.”
Based on a recent study of the brains of mice I estimated the human brain to have 200B cells/neurons and 50,000T connections. We have several orders of magnitude to go before we reach that kind of scale with these fucking stupid Big LLMs 🤣 And the best part of all? 🧐 It is estimated that the human brain only consumes the equivalent of 5 Watts of power !!! 🤣🤣🤣
@bender@twtxt.net You will be pleased to know that yarnd now only consumes ~60-80MB of memory depending on load 🤣 And bugger all CPU 😅
And one more.
Reply?
Hmmm? Test?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice sunset 😎
@bender@twtxt.net Did you see the Singaporian president’s speech on this whole nonsense?! 😂 (trade wards, tariffs, free markets, etc)
@bender@twtxt.net @ionores@twtxt.net Yep, it’s extremely seldom that a photo turns out looking better than reality. Very rarely does that happen. But basically never with sunsets. ;-) Maybe once a leap year I’m very surprised to wonder how that subject wasn’t better in person but actually on film.
@bender@twtxt.net Totally agree with you 100%. No photo could ever replace the experience of seeing it live on site!
I once saw a paper, then lost it, I wish I could find it again, that had kind of a satirical tone, it was about teaching and went something like “how to be liked by your students without teaching much”
I have nightmares about this. I hope my students like my classes and also learn stuff, but I’m really never sure. Some like the classes, some learn stuff, but, am I optimizing for them liking the classes while learning less?
“Critiquing #Computing Artifacts through Programming Satirical #Python Scripts” https://arxiv.org/html/2312.03090v1
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org now, that’s what I am talking about! Having been witness of similar sunsets, I would wholeheartedly agree that a photo (no matter how good!) is a poor replacement for not being able to spectate it in person.
“Optimists have more fun, but do
they learn better? On the influence
of emotional and social factors on
learning introductory computer science”
https://cs.au.dk/~mec/publications/journal/22–optimists.pdf
”…we found no correlation between
emotional health and social well-being on the one hand and success in computer science as indicated by course grades on the other”
:-S
@bender@twtxt.net Just like you, I change the wallpaper on my PC more often! However, @prologic@twtxt.net’s “Lake View” photo is perfect for my laptop, where I spend quite a bit of time.
A mate and I met at the scout yard to prepare an upcoming workshop. Boy did we have an amazing sunset when we left. The photos don’t reflect it, it was a hell lot more beautiful in person: https://lyse.isobeef.org/plaetzle-2025-04-11/
@ionores@twtxt.net that ought to be some photo! I change mine at least once a month or so. It keeps me entertained.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I still have a photo taken by @prologic@twtxt.net as wallpaper on my laptop (Linux)! 😀
ABC Australia is reporting of a potential market manipulation in the US. Potential? I would call it almost certain. For as much as I would like not to be dragged into politics, it is rather impossible these days.
@anth@a.9srv.net Hahaha, for a second I thought that you implemented word splitting according to Swiss (.ch) rules. :-D
Btw, both manpage links string(2) and getields(2) (it’s missing an f) point into nothingness: http://a.9srv.net/src/wordwrap.2.html
I can’t help but notice line 9: http://a.9srv.net/src/wordwrap.c
And I reckon your finger slipped one key to the right for quore: http://a.9srv.net/src/litclock.1.html
Cool stuff! :-)
Trying unsucessfully to reproduce this #leafmap example :(
https://leafmap.org/maplibre/globe_control/#import-library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2bdwLkU1KQ
UPDATE: Different computer… different result…
@bender@twtxt.net Fair enough 🧐
@bender@twtxt.net Technically no but we’ll talk more about this 👌
Yup, it is certainly something on the codebase here. /end of test
@bender@twtxt.neteapl.me let’s see how this mention comes out. I noticed that @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz’s pod doesn’t have this problem. That is, their mention to you works fine.
@prologic@twtxt.net so, the twtxt is “lost”? Don’t rush to reply, I think you deserve your sleep time! Have a nice weekend!
@prologic@twtxt.net in this case it isn’t vendor lock-in. I believe they do it because the carrier “eats” the costs (the interest part of the instalments). The phones are fully unlocked.
I will return the two we got for parents, and re-buy them again, this time on an instalment plan. Why pay $2,000 up front when you can split the cost in convenient monthly payments, all interest free, right?
@bender@twtxt.net No insertion.
@prologic@twtxt.net interesting. What would happen on a hash collision? 🤔
@bender@twtxt.net It’s a bug in the UI for sure. The hash is the primary key.