Good luck and all the best wishes, @bender@twtxt.net. Please don’t die!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That was indeed an interesting dive! I also never heard of just before.

@bender@twtxt.net So you stayed? Fingers crossed 🤞😵

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org lol indeed 😆

Arriving tomorrow. Finishing all preps as best as we can.

I hope you guys in the US get safely through the next storm. 😳

That is a fun little rabbit hole: https://rodarmor.com/blog/whence-newline/

LOL: http://gopher.quux.org:70/Humor%20and%20Fun/Microsoft_KSH.txt|/MBOX-MESSAGE/1

Setting up my twtxt site again

Honestly… not much. Have abandon two projects (both private) on Golang and one related to cryptography. My mostly languages are Python and Javascript (also can PHP). After writing code on Go i spend same time on fixing dumb errors

I share that opinion, but sadly advertisers were completely spoiled, over the years of social media companies bowing down to them. Even if unethical ways of targeting ads were banned, I assume the websites would get paid less.

Now when the pockets of many investors also dried up and they won’t just infinitely pump billions of dollars into an empty promise of mysterious grand future returns (unless AI is involved), sites would have no options, other than squeeze that cash, out of their users.

I know community donations exist, but they’re a model unsustainable for bigger sites and less dedicated communities - furthermore the more sites start begging for donations, the less money there will be to split among them.

The only option that remains, is paid subscriptions and microtransactions, that are already way out of hand, on many sites and I can’t even imagine how hard those would be pushed, if their finances got worse.

@xuu@txt.sour.is I guess the way SimpleX does its routing is quote clever and ingineious really. – However we never designed Salty.im that way. That wasn’t an attack vector we were really concerned with right? I’ve been using SimpleX with you for the last day or so now and reading up on it, and whilst there are some overlapping and similar ideas I feel that SimpleX has slightly different design goals right?

I mean Salty.im is more designed to be self-hosted, with good crypto but we never tried to set out to build a complex multi-broker, relay network-type protocol right? Do we need to? Probably not I think. Hmmm 🧐

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt I mean generally speaking you would cache things for a period of time right? There are other things you could do as well to build a better more resilient system. These are good conversations to have, however we, and by we I mean mostly @xuu and I really, haven’t had a lot of time to spend/invest in Salty.im of late 😭

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Are you interested in helping continue it’s development with us? Do you have any experience with cryptography and/or programming language like Go?

So… Yes all this is sorta/kinda true, remember I used to work there once (great place to work, awful company). It isn’t by design or on-purpose I don’t think, at least not from the perspective I had back then.

What really needs to happen here in general, and I’ve said it before; is this:

Profiting off of user-generated data and metadata should be made illegal.

Social Media (systems) don’t need to be regulated beyond not allowing minors to access social media. But if you enact the changes to laws (see above) such that profiting off of userdata is made illegal, then you minors can be potentially “safe” from predators. Let’s be honest, predators are the “big tech” companies that make this shit™ highly addictive to the point where it “rots your brain”.

I would recommend watching at least the very end of this video, as it explains, how Meta funds “independent advocacy groups”, to fight government regulation, disguised as some social good, open-source, equality, freedom, whatever…

What if webfinger endpoint goes down?

@prologic@twtxt.net currently? it wouldnt :D.

we would need to come up with a way of registering with multiple brokers that can i guess forward to a reader broker. something that will retry if needed. need to read into how simplex handles multi brokers

@bender@twtxt.net Cool ! Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏 I agree, on the surface this looks bad for privacy and community well being.

@xuu How would that work?

@xuu Got it 👌

What’s so terrible about Vivaldi? 🤔

Yes a redirect to my profile uri. because its crazy long and ugly

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Agree. salty.im should allow the user to post multiple brokers on their webfinger so the client can find a working path.

My condolences.

In nostr/simplex you did not bounded account to server because its just a relay. In matrix, xmpp and salty.im you store account data on broker and when broker is down you will no longer to communicate

After many many years on Firefox, I am making the move to Vivaldi.

It comes across as the beginning of a “corporate sell out”. Also, links to X, and Threads, but the Fediverse link doesn’t work. Really? Overall, it doesn’t seem right (at least to me). Oh, also Meta on that list: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/. Nope. Pass.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt What do you think of when you say “decentralized”?

How? have many aliases (doesnm@doesnm.cc,doesnm@mills.io,doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt) and array of inboxes?

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt salty.im needs a lot more work 🤞it is however designed to be 1000% decentralized 👌

I think salty.im is simplest than simplex. But attempt to implement this i have problems than salty cli cant decrypt messages from another saltpack realization (and reverse) . Also simplex is more decentralized (like nostr?)

@bender@twtxt.net What don’t you like about all this? 🤔 i’m not entirely sure I know all of the folks behind this to be honest.

What’s that address you set up @xuu a redirect!

Seems to work okay for me so far 👌

@thecanine@twtxt.net Very nice! 👍

I am reminded of this when I look at entire forks of vscode just to add a LLM code completion assistant.

Couldn’t agree more, great article!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No, that’s just a general SQLite thing: https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/issues/102 But, mkdir -p $dir and just retrying the command works.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de yarnd, jenny and tt.

Going through some old CDs.

Jam & Spoon - Angel (DJ Misjah Remix)

I’ve always liked this track, but ~30 years ago I didn’t have good headphones. Now I do and only now do I realize how “dense” the atmosphere of this track is. 😳 Guess my speakers back then simply didn’t render most of the bass … 🤦

@bender@twtxt.net Yep, certainly not a larger city, just a ~20k town.

@xuu pretty interesting. The client is pretty polished for an open source app.

@thecanine@twtxt.net Woof-woof! If it’s already perfect, no need to disimprove. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Did someone call perror() after something that does not change errno? 🥴

Awesome, “unable to open database file: out of memory (14)” actually means that the SQLite file cannot be created, because the parent directory does not exist. Bonus points for Open(…) being successful and only executing the first command giving me that error. Meh.

Yeah.. it is very similar to salty.im a smp is a relay queue for messages. You can self host one if you choose. They also have something called xftp for data storage and device state transfer. You can also self host one.

@3r1c@3r1c.net I think I’m gonna like that blog. 😅 https://unixdigest.com/articles/is-the-madness-ever-going-to-end.html

@xuu now I have it:

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FZKe4uxF4Z_aLJJOEsC-Y6hSkXgQS5-oc442JQGkyP8M%3D%40smp17.simplex.im%2FIl4RkKcDrFGOf8fs1_agC7k3U7vsCKWP%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAm_VYfdcRhIPoZgLBZA8hmfUGyApget7vfBYj0S_kXgk%253D%26srv%3Dogtwfxyi3h2h5weftjjpjmxclhb5ugufa5rcyrmg7j4xlch7qsr5nuqd.onion

@thecanine@twtxt.net I say you are beyond mastering dog’s pixelart! 😊

First time I heard of it. What is an SMP, and can you run it? Let me read about it.