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!

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

@prologic@twtxt.net yes

@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

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks! Fixed the typos. The links will stay broken for a bit because my online man collection is busted. It’s on the list. :-/

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!

@prologic@twtxt.net woot, finally! 🥳🥳🥳

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t. Share a link? I would love to watch it!

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!

@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.

@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/

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@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)! 😀

Trop chouette ce petit fichier php pour lire de la musique stockée dans le dossier courant: https://sye.dk/sfpap/

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! :-)

@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.

@prologic@twtxt.net is it twice on database, or simply rendering twice? If you manually expunge it, will it affect the yarn?

@bender@twtxt.net No, haven’t figured out the reproducer yet 🧐

@prologic@twtxt.net yay! One down! 😅 Have you figured out the single duplication issue?

@bender@twtxt.net I hate vendor lock-in too 🤣

Ordering issue is fixed 🥳

I updated wordwrap.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com YAYYYYYYYY

@eapl.me@eapl.me YEAHHH THEY’RE SO CUTE i got them here! https://github.com/charmbracelet/confettysh

@bender@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks! I’ll think about switching to higher resolution teasers in the future. The reasoning behind the thumbnails is to avoid wasting traffic. Maybe folks in the outback or on expensive mobile networks appreciate it. Yeah, they could disable images in general.

That’s a dang cool story from Apollo 11 where priority queues saved the day: https://www.nasa.gov/history/alsj/a11/a11.1201-fm.html

LOL, and the mention to the @bender@twtxt.netyarn_police@twtxt.net police broke!

I think this is a case for… (blow trumpets) “The @bender@twtxt.netyarn_police@twtxt.net”!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 01.jpg could have been a Windows wallpaper. 😃

Hmm, Yarnd is duplicating the rendering of /twt/5jlfuua. That’s quite odd.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Well, yeah, that’s quite similar, isn’t it 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that’s such a beautiful shot! If I were you I would use the full “original” one; it will do better justice to the shots. Oh, and I gladly take your 15°C! 😍

Hit by the arvo sun rays behind the window I was convinced that it is t-shirt weather. Deep blue sky, yeah, for sure! It turned out to be just 15°C and declining, though. So, I had to wear my jacket on today’s windy stroll. Pretty nice. Didn’t take many photos, but there you go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-10/

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Holy crap, that’s really crazy!

Hahaha, you got me. When I read your first sentence I thought you were going to tell about your Wayland experience in comparison to X11. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @ionores@twtxt.net Thank you! Nope, still a petting farm over here. The only dangerous (to humans) animals are boars and ticks. But I only ever encountered a wild hog once in my entire life so far. Luckily, it took off and didn’t attack me. Ticks, on the other hand, regularly attack me.

One was able to purchase iPhones on instalments (and interest free), whether they were associated with a carrier, or not. The only way to buy them on instalments now is if the are associated with a carrier; otherwise one gets charged the full amount up front.

So, yeah, going to return a couple of those this weekend.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com oh yeah! You will feel in heaven, me thinks, because that new machine will go around the Pi a few laps. Have fun, mate!

@bender@twtxt.net just the hobbyist server wannabe thingy … kind of a drop-in replacement to the rpi but with a bit of more horse power than the latter. 🤞

you got me 😜, it was like a few Internet centuries ago

@bender@twtxt.neteapl.me@eapl.me test

@bender@twtxt.neteapl.me@eapl.me just testing this mention, to see which random nick will be picked. Related, I agree, those animations are truly awesome!

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds like a plan! No worries at all.

@bender@twtxt.net Let’s just optimize/fix those annoyances later on once I’ve finished pagination. Then I’ll merge this branch into main.

@bender@twtxt.net Same size they always were.

@prologic@twtxt.net, is it my idea, or the size of avatars have gotten smaller?

@prologic@twtxt.net me neither! Let’s put it on the “Greatest Mysteries of Yarn” list, and move on. 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Hmmm I can’t figure out how you did this 🤣

Or like this?

Like this? In the post box at the bottom?