On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Nose Ears, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/05/nose-ears-2.html #freeculture #bookclub

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz the site i mentioned last week that got flooded by teens? yeah it’s this site, based on the retrospring codebase, it’s a social Q&A site. ask me stuff on there!!!!!!!!

@mana@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz grid has its places but it can be a pain!

YEAH THATS ME LOLLLL I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT IT IS….. me haunting ur clients or whatever with my funky version string

uuuugh been so inactive because of stupid site moderation it’s SO EXHAUSTING

DOUBLE SUBJECT’D’D!!!

”#Geospatial #Python - Full Course for Beginners with #Geopandas“

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mWgVVH_dos

#folium #mapclassify #leafmap #OpenstreetMap #Jupyter #GIS #geodataframe #geodataviz

On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/31 to 04/04 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/04/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week

@david@collantes.us This pink tree I featured in a few shots is a magnolia tree. I haven’t noticed any particular smell, it just looks pretty. :-) That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org those are some pretty flowers! What are they? Do they smell good?

@thecanine@twtxt.net Happy to hear that. :-)

The photo series covering old stuff continues. This time, Gundelsheim. Actually, mostly the castle hotel Horneck, I hardly took any photos from the town itself. I really should have, though. Let me just blame… aehm… yeah, the rain! It’s totally the rain’s fault!! When it started to drizzle, I actually took the first photos, so it’s a total lie. https://lyse.isobeef.org/schlosshotel-horneck-in-gundelsheim-2025-03-30/

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webmention test: https://turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/profile/webmentions.html

VISGRAF Lab Webinar - Craig Kaplan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya3rOUEdGis

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

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Chase https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/03/chase.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

@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.

@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.

@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.

@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 ;-)

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

Quinta-feira 10/4 14h30 eu vou mostrar um pouco de #LSystems, que tem origem em estudos de crescimento de plantas, produzindo formas orgânicas incríveis e também fractais, um dos meus assuntos prediletos!

É só chegar meia hora antes para pegar um ingresso grátis e participat do grupo de estudos em #Python do #SescAvPaulista. https://www.sescsp.org.br/programacao/grupo-de-estudos-em-python-desenho-e-programacao/

https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/Processing-Python-py5/LSystem.html

#SescSP #SãoPaulo

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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 @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

I had missed the great episode with Dr. Geoff Boeing at #TalkPythonToMe: #495: #OSMnx: #Python and #OpenStreetMap

I really love OSMnx and use it all the time, often with #py5 (which has a cool #shapely integration that helps).

Episode webpage: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/495/osmnx-python-and-openstreetmap

Media file: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/download/495/osmnx-python-and-openstreetmap.mp3

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 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. 🫤

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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that’s certainty an interesting idea.

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

“OpenAI’s Viral Privacy Trick” by Luiza Jarovsky https://www.luizasnewsletter.com/p/openais-viral-privacy-trick
#OpenAIScam

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

@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.

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

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

@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.

@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

@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. :-)

On my blog: Developer Diary, Transgender Day of Visibility https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/31/transgender.html #programming #project #devjournal

@arne@uplegger.eu

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Tom Waits in 2025 looks and sounds exactly like you’d expect. 🥴

On my blog: Hegemon and the Masters of… 🚫 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/30/patriarchy.html #womenshistorymonth #harm #politics #rant

Registry format is its own thing. It takes the regular feed and appends nick \t uri \t to it. Its something that existed before yarn got big. There is still a bit of work but I will put together a ui for it to make it easier to view and navigate.

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thanks for sharing @xuu!

Checking for example https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt or https://registry.twtxt.org/api/plain/tweets, I don’t know whether this syntax is being used by clients or by people. Is it integrated on Yarn in any way? Genuinely asking to know more about it.

If I might throw a quick thought to those working on the registries, it would be nice to have an endpoint with a valid twtxt output (perhaps cached or dumped to a static file) which a client could point to, helping to discover it’s content in a way which is compatible with the twtxt spec.

Taking the first twt I found in https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt as an example:
reddit_world_news https://feeds.twtxt.net/Reddit_World_News/twtxt.txt 2025-03-28T00:29:25Z **China bans US logs. 3 billion dollar[...])
it would be something like
TIME <@NICK URL> TWT
2025-03-28T00:29:25Z <@reddit_world_news https://feeds.twtxt.net/Reddit_World_News/twtxt.txt> **China bans US logs. 3 billion dollar[...])

That way you could watch the latest twts with your client, something similar to what we find on Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/public/local

Some support from the clients to separate these ‘discovery’ content, from your following timeline might be required. 🤔