In-reply-to » There is a bug in yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

@bender@twtxt.net The problem with this is we just don’t know until we try. That’s why if the external feed you’re looking for isn’t found in the cache, it’ll try to fetch it in the background. It’s a bit of a sucky UX really, but its better than the experience of “waiting, waiting waiting and then timeout”.

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In-reply-to » There is a bug in yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm… I think we should do better than this. It is an improvement though. Ideally we check that URI to make sure it is a twtxt.txt (contents, or otherwise). If it isn’t, don’t link, don’t follow, don’t “create” an empty page. If it is not twtxt, it shouldn’t be on twtxt. :-)

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In-reply-to » There is a bug in yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

I’ve pushed a slightly improved version of this that will return a HTTP 404 Not Found if the UserAgent is determined to NOT be a Browser.

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In-reply-to » There is a bug in yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

Now responds with an error page; but still a 200 OK which I’m not entirely sure I agree with or am happy with? Hmm

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In-reply-to » There is a bug in yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’ve fixed this and pushed a commit to main. Will test it on my pod and see how it goes. Basically reporting an error if the feed isn’t in the cache and you’re unauthenticated (anonymous).

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The next jenny release will (probably) stop supporting the old “Hash Tag Extension”, which was deprecated at the end of 2022. It was once used for threading and looked like this:

<a href="https://twtxt.net/search?tag=tsvhqdq">#tsvhqdq</a>

I don’t see them being used in the wild anymore. But if you happen to fetch really old feeds (or some archived feeds), things might break a little.

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In-reply-to » @bender and I saw some conspiracy theory that he knew he was going to be arrested. He was working with French intelligence on a plea deal to defect. And now Russia is freaking out that Ukraine allies can have war comms access.

@xuu we really must invest more time and effort into salty im 🤣

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In-reply-to » It cooled off to 20°C today, but mid week is supposed to be crazy hot again. It was a nice walk, also plenty of people around, though. So we decided against going up our backyard mountain to avoid the masses. We finally took a path that we haven't checked out for years. That was pretty cool. I couldn't remember anything on that.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de it looks like it would kill you. 😅

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In-reply-to » It cooled off to 20°C today, but mid week is supposed to be crazy hot again. It was a nice walk, also plenty of people around, though. So we decided against going up our backyard mountain to avoid the masses. We finally took a path that we haven't checked out for years. That was pretty cool. I couldn't remember anything on that.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is one crazy looking mushroom. 😳 How about tasting it? 🤪

I’m so glad the temperatures were down a bit. Went on a long walk as well, first time in weeks. And there were so few cars yesterday! It was surprisingly quiet.

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In-reply-to » Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/24/telegram-app-founder-pavel-durov-arrested-at-french-airport

@bender@twtxt.net and I saw some conspiracy theory that he knew he was going to be arrested. He was working with French intelligence on a plea deal to defect. And now Russia is freaking out that Ukraine allies can have war comms access.

Yikes! If only they had salty.im!

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In-reply-to » It's a crime that Slow Motion by Supertramp isn't available on any of the streaming services. It might even be the Crime of the Century.

@bender@twtxt.net The whole album, it’s pretty good. It’s available on YouTube but it’s missing from all the music streaming services (Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, etc). I especially like Tenth Avenue Breakdown.

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In-reply-to » @mckinley That’s the file sharing stuff, right? I couldn’t care less about that. Frankly, I think it’s a shame that Usenet turned into that. 🫤

@movq@www.uninformativ.de binary news groups have existed since the beginning of Usenet. Let me put it this way, way, way, wayyyyy before PornHub, there was already Usenet. Same for software piracy: before torrenting there was already Usenet. Granted, there was/is much more than that.

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There is a bug in yarnd that’s been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I’m running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

YOUR_POD/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story19510368/doujin

and see a legitimate-looking page on YOUR_POD, with an HTTP code 200 (success). From that fake page you can even follow an external feed. Try it yourself, replacing “YOUR_POD” with the URL of any yarnd pod you know. Try following the feed.

I think URLs like this should return errors. They should not render HTML, nor produce legitimate-looking pages. This mechanism is ripe for DDoS attacks. My pod gets roughly 70,000 hits per day to URLs like this. Many are porn or other types of content I do not want. At this point, if it’s not fixed soon I am going to have to shut down my pod. @prologic@twtxt.net please have a look.

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In-reply-to » 👋 Hello @nigergibe, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

@mckinley@twtxt.net He’s signed up three times now even though I keep deleting the account, which is enough for me to permaban this person. I don’t technically want open registrations on my pod but up till now I’ve been too lazy to figure out how to turn them off and actually do that, and there hasn’t been a pressing need. I may have to now.

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In-reply-to » Transformed four kilograms of blackberries into a bit over three kilograms of blackberry jelly. https://lyse.isobeef.org/brombeergelee-2024-08-19/ The leftover jelly did not fit in prepared canning jars, so I dumped it in a regular drinking glass (which was a mustard glass in its former life): Media The rest is cooling off on the bench outside.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org We have some native blackberry species but around here (Northern California) we have Himalayan blackberry bushes which are very invasive. They match your description but I don’t know much about the different species. If left unchecked in an area with plenty of sun, they’ll smother all the lower plants and expand until they can’t anymore.

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In-reply-to » @movq There's a lot going on on Usenet, but it's all in alt.binaries and co.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right. I wonder if Usenet would have faded away earlier if it wasn’t for file sharing. It’s only still in use for that because the annoying parts have been papered over with easy-to-use software and the protocol offers unique characteristics that make it almost perfect for that sort of thing.

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In-reply-to » @movq, using the branch on topic right now, it works perfect. The only thing I found was that I had to quit neomutt, and re-open, to see the perfect thread. Other than that, I love it!

User error on this one. It works perfectly!

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In-reply-to » Because I saw the nick on movq (@prologic, can't mention anyone outside this pod, by the way), I looked the user up: https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt. I wonder if the "hashes" they are using will work out of the box with jenny.

@bender@twtxt.net hmm, I wonder if these are simply twtxts auto created from an ActivityPub feed. Ah, crap, they are. LOL.

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In-reply-to » @movq Is there a good way to get jenny to do a one-off fetch of a feed, for when you want to fill in missing parts of a thread? I just added @slashdot to my private follow file just because @prologic keeps responding to the feed :-P and I want to know what he's commenting on even though I don't want to see every new slashdot twt.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org @bender@twtxt.net I pushed an alternative implementation to the fetch-context branch. This integrates the whole thing into mutt/jenny.

You will want to configure a new mutt hotkey, similar to the “reply” hotkey:

macro index,pager <esc>C "\
<enter-command> set my_pipe_decode=\$pipe_decode nopipe_decode<Enter>\
<pipe-message> jenny -c<Enter>\
<enter-command> set pipe_decode=\$my_pipe_decode; unset my_pipe_decode<Enter>" \
"Try to fetch context of current twt, like a missing root twt"

This pipes the mail to jenny -c. jenny will try to find the thread hash and the URL and then fetch it. (If there’s no URL or if the specific twt cannot be found in that particular feed, it could query a Yarn pod. That is not yet implemented, though.)

The whole thing looks like this:

https://movq.de/v/0d0e76a180/jenny.mp4

In other words, when there’s a missing root twt, you press a hotkey to fetch it, done.

I think I like this version better. 🤔

(This needs a lot of testing. 😆)

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In-reply-to » My 9yr old daughter just made her Git commit today, her first website, setup two-factor authentication and used several credentials (which I helped her with) 🤣 -- next lessons: password hygiene/management.

@prologic@twtxt.net Great! Git knowledge is helpful in a lot of situations. What’s the website about? You both had some fun writing HTML by hand? :-)

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In-reply-to » @prologic @falsifian This just popped up in my head: How about adding a “fetch context” feature? Point jenny to some mail file that contains a twt (or pipe it to stdin) and it will try to auto-discover and fetch all related things. Like, if it sees something like @<falsifian https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt>, then it will look in https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt for a twt with hash tkjafka. Maybe even do this recursively until there are no new references anymore. This process could include explicitly querying some user-configurable Yarn pods as well. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I need to clean this up in jenny. It still supports a ton of old formats that aren’t used anymore at all. 🧟

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It cooled off to 20°C today, but mid week is supposed to be crazy hot again. It was a nice walk, also plenty of people around, though. So we decided against going up our backyard mountain to avoid the masses. We finally took a path that we haven’t checked out for years. That was pretty cool. I couldn’t remember anything on that.

Garden with sunflowers in the background
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Garden with sunflowers in the background

More scenery: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-08-25/

Neither of us has ever seen such a marmelade bun mushroom:

Marmelade bun in the woods, ah, no, it's a mushroom
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Marmelade bun in the woods, ah, no, it's a mushroom

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