@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org Ah, thanks for reporting back! Okay, so you’re basically manually “crawling” feeds right now. 🤔 What do you think about the idea of adding something like # follow_notify = gemini://foo/bar to your feed’s metadata, so that clients who follow you can ping that URL every now and then? How would you even notice that, do you regularly read your gemini logs? 🤔

And the bonus read is also interesting:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20211129-00/?p=105979

Confession: I completely forgot that Alt+Tab existed in text mode. 🤦 It’s not even a hidden feature, it’s advertised right when you start a fullscreen dos box. Well, Alt+Tab wasn’t a thing I did regularly anyway – it was usually Ctrl+Esc to open the window list (which also worked in OS/2). 🤔 I think I only started using Alt+Tab when Windows 95 removed Ctrl+Esc (because it had no use anymore, it essentially got replaced by the tasklist).

Interesting read about the Windows 95 bluescreen by Raymond Chen:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240903-00/?p=110205

All this Virtual Machine Manager stuff went completely over my head back then … 🤯

Introduction to JuiceFS | JuiceFS Document Center – Thinking about using JuiceFS to solve a long-running problem I’ve always had.

• Be able to run services on any node in my cluster and let Docker Swarm pick whatever node it likes (instead of now where I have to pin some workloads to specific nodes, as that’s where their local storage volume is)
  
• Manage the scalability of data and growth over time instead of what I do now which is to extend EXT4 filesystems on my Docker Swarm nodes every few years.

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah that’s for sure 👍 I use the Monaco font normally. Been using that for a few years now.

I understand now. I figured it would be something like this, because zooming in on pixelated fonts makes them “blocky”, and overall unreadable.

We sure have come a long way to make things better for people with far from perfect vision. It also makes me appreciate the vision I have.

Which font do you use at the Terminal?

As a reminder, this is how zoomed in I normally am to read anything at all, Try doing this on the website 🤣

Fonts for me have to be crisp, sharp, without any crooked edges or boxed shapes. It has to be crisp and sharp at all zoom levels!

@bender@twtxt.net That’s just it, “pixelated” fonts are rubbish! 🤣 Imagine being blind for a moment, how well do you think you could read any of the text? 😅 I can’t even read it zoomed in! LOL 😝

@prologic@twtxt.net really? Are you talking about the website design, or the font itself? The font is a monospaced variant, relatively good looking for a pixel font.

@bender@twtxt.net Ita disgusting 🤮 I can’t read shit 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s a font. An awesome font. 😊

@xuu@txt.sour.is Good night

anything with McKinsey on it just means finding reasons to fire staff.

its sad all the links off that page are broken.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net AI not living up to its hype?! Shock! Horror! 😱🤣 #AI

wut da fuq is this?! 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net I have not hmmm 🤔

@xuu Haha 🤣

UGT timezone. Morning is when you arrive. Night is when you leave.

I figure most of you might have seeing this, but nevertheless: https://departuremono.com/ is awesome!

@prologic@twtxt.net and this is why I think “good day!” is the most accurate greeting. It refers to the 24 hours period of time, regardless of what hour it might be. 🤭

I love retailers that sell a variety of werid stuff. Add leevalley.com to sciplus.com and countycomm.com.

@shreyan@twtxt.net Good morning! 🥱

Good Afternoon, twtxtrs!!

I’ve been sketching out some gemini-specific offline social stuff here https://ix.cyb.red/wiki/pikabu, but for the online parts i’d be willing to adopt what tw.txt protocols work under the constraints of gemini

I’ve been sketching out some gemini-specific offline social stuff here https://ix.cyb.red/wiki/pikabu, but for the online parts i’d be willing to adopt what tw.txt protocols work under the constraints of gemini

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de my setup is pretty old-school tw.txt hosting-wise. just a text file and a very simple static bridge for pikkulog-style subscribers on gemini. i do try to keep up on the twtxt format spec so i’m publishing a modern and well-formed feed. my dual-hosted website/gemcapsule is meant to eventually be entirely bespoke (my friend wrote the gemini server i’m using, so that counts enough for now) and i’d like to eventually support some of the server extensions that yarn has piloted. follow-wise, rn i kinda just manually try to pick up on who is following me by browsing random feeds. my custom clients usually do a FoaF crawl, but i don’t have anything that really works running rn.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha! :-D

@bender@twtxt.net Hah! 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net if you do anything about those two protocols, please consider implementing something for UUCP. 😏

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was never aware of this. I see the utility but I’m glad they got rid of it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Quick! Play the lottery! HURRY!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right, not looking forward to disease-spreading mozzies and critters like that. We must become @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no’s neighbors. :-)

My honey bread fell on the floor and would you believe which side was down? The clean, not the coated one. Witchcraft!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

But maybe with the climate getting hotter and hotter, they migrate north to me, too.

And a lot of other nasty stuff with it, bugs, spiders, you name it. Didn’t we migrate all this way up north to be free from such Ungeziefer? 😅

Suddenly, VLC crashes when I jump forward in videos. It’s 100% reproducible. Reboot didn’t fix it. Starting on the shell, I see:

Assertion !p->parent->stash_hwaccel failed at src/libavcodec/pthread_frame.c:649

Turns out, it’s this: https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=81068 Before I even went online, I assumed that turning off hardware acceleration might help. And it does. Phew!

There was a time when WebKit (I think it was WebKit) stored metadata of downloads in extended attributes. Like the URL you were downloading it from.

https://movq.de/v/f79b94485a/s.png

This was really useful. 🤔 Chromium also did it for a while and then they removed it due to privacy concerns. Now none of the popular browsers do it anymore. 🫤

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665531
  
• https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/a9b4fb70b4318b220deee0da7b1693d16b8ed071
  
• https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260778

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com He … slapped you? 😂 Typical for a cat! 😂

For following notifications I would say use webmetion refering to the the line in your twtxt.txt as per: https://darch.dk/mentions-twtxt
Or send them an email, so it would be an idea to add a # contact = mailto:me@domain.net to ones twtxt.txt

Good points 🙇‍♂️

My cat just had a… nightmare ? He woke up, slapped me in the face then jumped off of the bed giving me the “WTF Just happened Human!?” look. 🤭

Turns out, there are seven species in Germany (two of them being venomous), but in my wider area there seem to be just the two: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Schlangenarten_in_Deutschland Probably just even one, the common European adder is more to the south, just like I thought. But maybe with the climate getting hotter and hotter, they migrate north to me, too.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s a very good approach. I have the feeling that requirements engineering seems to be getting more and more a forgotten art these days.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, right. :-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Well, I guess that goes to show how completely irrelevant it was to Computer History. 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net There’s another thing to consider: I have a feeling that (some/most/many?) Gopher/Gemini users wouldn’t even want that. I’ve heard them say a couple of times: “If you follow me, just drop me an e-mail.” 🤔 I don’t know if this is a widespread opinion or not, but I do feel the need to first gather some feedback from them, before we start drafting a spec. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah your original idea of precent encoding some information about the new follower is probably what we need to think about more. I think it’ll also work for Gopher/Gemini folk too right? So essentially new metadata key (optional) with some spec for encoding information about the new follower if either a) You don’t implement the User-Agent part of the spec or extensions or b)You use a protocol that makes this impossible.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sad, the search engine doesn’t have the full conversation 😢 I think I need to teach yarns how to crawl and index archived feeds 🤔