“First world” countries problem number x:

More than 3,600 chemicals approved for food contact in packaging, kitchenware or food processing equipment have been found in humans, new peer-reviewed research has found, highlighting a little-regulated exposure risk to toxic substances.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » I have no intention of dropping support for Gopher or Gemini from jenny.

Like really tbh, it’s just a matter of abstracting out the “fetching” part of your client. There are zero issues with fetching Gopher/Gemini hosted feeds. They just lack any mechanisms for Discovery and Caching.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Gemini/Gopher Twtxt feeds account for less than 1% in existence:

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com It sadly does not it seems. 🤣 Seems like the search engine has come across mentions of your feed via its other two protocols 🤣

$ inspect-db yarns.db | jq -r '.Value.URL' | grep 'aelaraji.com'
https://aelaraji.com/test_feed.txt
https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Gemini/Gopher Twtxt feeds account for less than 1% in existence:

@prologic@twtxt.net does that include mine? otherwise it would make them 8 and 5, maybe even throw off your maths by 0.00001% 😆 … and, come on! 1.04% seems like a good ratio considering how many gopher holes and gem capsules compared to how many Web servers out there in the world 😂

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Something @anth said on ITC

We:

  • Drop # url= from the spec.
  • We don’t adopt # uuid = – Something @anth@a.9srv.net also mentioned (see below)

We instead use the @nick@domain to identify your feed in the first place and use that as the identify when calculating Twt hashes <id> + <timestamp> + <content>. Now in an ideal world I also agree, use WebFinger for this and expect that for the most part you’ll be doing a WebFinger lookup of @user@domain to fetch someone’s feed in the first place.

The only problem with WebFinger is should this be mandated or a recommendation?

⤋ Read More

Something @anth@a.9srv.net said on ITC

17:42 I should also note in there that it doesn’t address the two things i really want it to: mandate utf-8 (which should be easy to fit in) and something for better @ mentions.

I actually agree with in both counts and it got me thinking…

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Sharing the comments of the poll (anonymous so I have no idea whom the comments are from):

Many of the faces go hand in hand or depend on the selected protocol a feed is published with or client features. I’m pretty sure people interpret different things into these terms.

See previous. Sorry 😞

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Sharing the comments of the poll (anonymous so I have no idea whom the comments are from):

Not sure what to think about the stack ranking question. I care that it’s a simple text file i can just stick on my server. Security, identity, &c come out of how I manage the server.

See previous.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Sharing the comments of the poll (anonymous so I have no idea whom the comments are from):

I don’t know what all the facets mean. E.g. what’s the difference between “Integrity” and “Authenticity”?

Yes, I totally get where you’re coming from. However after ~22 results, I think y’all have figured out how to rank them appropriately anyway 🤣

⤋ Read More

Sharing the comments of the poll (anonymous so I have no idea whom the comments are from):

your poll should include questions about markdown. personally i think inline bits like style, links, images are yes. block quotes, code blocks, bullet lists are mid. but tables and footnotes are no.

Yes sorry about this, I wasn’t able to change much after publishing the poll 😅

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » HP Is Adding AI To Its Printers An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld, written by Michael Crider: The latest perpetrator of questionable AI branding? HP. The company is introducing "Print AI," what it calls the "industry's first intelligent print experience for home, office, and large format printing." What does that mean? It's essentially a new beta software driver package for some HP printers. According to the press release, ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net GTFO 🤣

⤋ Read More

HP Is Adding AI To Its Printers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld, written by Michael Crider: The latest perpetrator of questionable AI branding? HP. The company is introducing “Print AI,” what it calls the “industry’s first intelligent print experience for home, office, and large format printing.” What does that mean? It’s essentially a new beta software driver package for some HP printers. According to the press release, … ⌘ Read more

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Critical Unauthenticated RCE Flaw Impacts All GNU/Linux Systems "Looks like there's a storm brewing, and it's not good news," writes ancient Slashdot reader jd. "Whether or not the bugs are classically security defects or not, this is extremely bad PR for the Linux and Open Source community. It's not clear from the article whether this affects other Open Source projects, such as FreeBSD." From a report: A critical ... ⌘ Read more

cc @xuu@txt.sour.is

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » (#jgewp6a) I'd like to see them fine me 2% of zero dollars

83(4) GDPR sets forth fines of up to 10 million euros, or, in the case of an undertaking, up to 2% of its entire global turnover of the preceding fiscal year, whichever is higher.

Though I suppose it has to be the greater of the two. But I don’t even have one euro to start with.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Gemini/Gopher Twtxt feeds account for less than 1% in existence:

@bender@twtxt.net Well as you’ve pointed out in the past, both protocol suffer from Discovery (as I’ve stated as well) and more often than not, users that publish Twtxt feeds over these protocols tend to just “point into the void” and it’s next to impossible to have any kind of “social interaction” (ignoring personal choices of course, if one’s feed is intended for 1-way …)

⤋ Read More

I think there’s a bug in yarnd hwoever:

$ yarnc debug https://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt
...
bqor23a 2024-09-26T11:09:28-07:00	if twtxt 2 is dropping gemini support, i will probably move on and spend more time on my gemini social zine protocol instead. i think the direction of the protocol is probably fine, but for me web is a tier 2 publishing channel. if the choice is between gemini and http i'm always going to pick gemini. its been a fun ride, but i guess this is where i get off.

The yarnc CLI tool and the lextwt parser we use in yarnd correctly parses the feed and sets the Twter.HashingURI to the latest # url = found in the feed. However my pod hasn’t picked this up 😢 I follow @cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org as https://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt

⤋ Read More

Gemini/Gopher Twtxt feeds account for less than 1% in existence:

$ total=$(inspect-db yarns.db | jq -r '.Value.URL' | awk -F'//' '{if ($1 ~ /^https?/) print "http/https:"; else print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'); inspect-db yarns.db | jq -r '.Value.URL' | awk -F'//' '{if ($1 ~ /^https?/) print "http/https:"; else print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | awk -v total="$total" '{printf "%d %s %.2f%%\n", $1, $2, ($1/total)*100}' | sort -r
7 gemini: 0.66%
4 gopher: 0.38%
1046 http/https: 98.96%

⤋ Read More

LILYGO T-Embed CC1101: Enabling Sub-GHz and NFC/RFID Communication
LILYGO launched the T-Embed CC1101, built around the ESP32-S3 Dual-core LX7. It supports Wi-Fi, BLE 5, and Sub-GHz wireless communication, targeting remote and low-power IoT projects. The ESP32-S3 microcontroller is paired with 16MB of Flash memory and 8MB of PSRAM. The CC1101 chip operates across frequency bands of 300-348 MHz, 387-464 MHz, and 779-928 MHz,

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » (#63iv33a) Oh, and I think I said this before, but just in case, fuck Gemini. Hell, fuck Gopher too. Bring on telnet, and UCCP. 😈

Note however this doesn’t solve the problem of Caching at all. It just works around it and with enough clients fetching a Gopher/Gemini feed, this # refresh becomes useless anyway at a certain point of scale.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » (#63iv33a) Oh, and I think I said this before, but just in case, fuck Gemini. Hell, fuck Gopher too. Bring on telnet, and UCCP. 😈

@bender@twtxt.net Well this is the thing really. Gopher and Gemini are very broken ways to distributed content. Broken in the sense that for Twtxt either support a) caching in any way shape or form b) discovery in any way shape or form.

This is a bit of a problem because if a Feed author complains (nad they have in the past) that their Gopher/Gemini feeds are being hit “too hard”, well that’s really kind of on them for choosing to host their feed on an ill advised protocol thatc cannot possibly support Caching at all.

This is primarily one of the reasons we introduced the idea of a “feed advised refresh interval” that clients SHOULD respect.

See: https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html#refresh

refresh
This optional field is used by feed authors as a hint to clients to control how often they should fetch or update this feed.

The value of this field is seconds represented by an integer.

NOTE: An empty, bad, or unparsable value is ignored.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @bender Re that broken thread (#bqor23a). Its the same one. My pod doesn't have the Root Twt: https://twtxt.net/twt/bqor23a => 404 Not Found.

This is confirmed to be the case:

$ for url in gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt https://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt //sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt; do yarnc hash -t '2024-09-26T11:09:28-07:00' -u "$url" "if twtxt 2 is dropping gemini support, i will probably move on and spend more time on my gemini social zine protocol instead. i think the direction of the protocol is probably fine, but for me web is a tier 2 publishing channel. if the choice is between gemini and http i'm always going to pick gemini. its been a fun ride, but i guess this is where i get off."; done
fk2af7q
7kvnpaq
bqor23a

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @bender Re that broken thread (#bqor23a). Its the same one. My pod doesn't have the Root Twt: https://twtxt.net/twt/bqor23a => 404 Not Found.

Yup confirmed!

# url = //sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt
# url = https://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt
# url = gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xjix/twtxt/tw.txt

@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org has changed the url of their feed (yet again) and changed every hash in their feed.

@antonio@twtxt.net is right to call this out. We should drop the reliance on the # url metadata field and in fact we should probably just drop this entirely from the spec and go with # uuid as the basis of a feed’s identity.

Even though this happens very rarely (feeds moving to new locations) it more frequently happens with folks that try to serve their feed from Gopher, HTTP and Gemini.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @bender Re that broken thread (#bqor23a). Its the same one. My pod doesn't have the Root Twt: https://twtxt.net/twt/bqor23a => 404 Not Found.

@bender@twtxt.net Hmm I think I know why…

2024-09-27T01:28:53Z	(#bqor23a) @<cuaxolotl https://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/twtxt/tw.txt> Wait, what!? We're dropping Gemini support!?

From @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s feed. I think @cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org doesn’t do threading properly, I’ve run into this once before. I’m not sure what client they use? 🤔

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » @bender Re that broken thread (#bqor23a). Its the same one. My pod doesn't have the Root Twt: https://twtxt.net/twt/bqor23a => 404 Not Found.

@bender@twtxt.net Hmm I think I know why…

2024-09-27T01:28:53+00:00	(#bqor23a) @<cuaxolotl https://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/twtxt/tw.txt> Wait, what!? We're dropping Gemini support!?

From @aelaraji@aelaraji.com’s feed. I think @cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org doesn’t do threading properly, I’ve run into this once before. I’m not sure what client they use? 🤔

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » if twtxt 2 is dropping gemini support, i will probably move on and spend more time on my gemini social zine protocol instead. i think the direction of the protocol is probably fine, but for me web is a tier 2 publishing channel. if the choice is between gemini and http i'm always going to pick gemini. its been a fun ride, but i guess this is where i get off.

@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org We probably won’t in fairness. I only called it out because discovery is made much harder with Gopher and Gemini. Caching is also impossible too.

⤋ Read More

if twtxt 2 is dropping gemini support, i will probably move on and spend more time on my gemini social zine protocol instead. i think the direction of the protocol is probably fine, but for me web is a tier 2 publishing channel. if the choice is between gemini and http i’m always going to pick gemini. its been a fun ride, but i guess this is where i get off.

⤋ Read More

if twtxt 2 is dropping gemini support, i will probably move on and spend more time on my gemini social zine protocol instead. i think the direction of the protocol is probably fine, but for me web is a tier 2 publishing channel. if the choice is between gemini and http i’m always going to pick gemini. its been a fun ride, but i guess this is where i get off.

⤋ Read More

URVE Board A55 Runs Linux on Rockchip RK3566 SoC
The URVE Board A55 is a compact, high-performance Arm-based computer designed for continuous 24/7/365 operation. It is well-suited for applications in industrial automation, IoT, robotics, and multimedia content display. The System-on-Module features a Rockchip RK3566 Quad-Core Cortex-A55 processor, running at 1.8 GHz across four cores with 2GB of DDR3 RAM and 8GB of eMMC storage,

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » (#uyn6qfa) @lyse that -P is a life saver when running rsync over spotty connections. In my very illiterate opinion, it should always be a default.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org If rsync is interrupted, it doesn’t delete any files that were transferred completely so it will “resume” from that last complete transfer. However, it does delete any partially transferred file. --partial keeps that partial file around on the destination machine so it can continue right where it left off.

⤋ Read More

I usually end up using -rtz because I’m usually not 100% sure all the permissions and ownership information are right and I hate littering directories with inconsistent permissions. For a big transfer, I’ll start with -rtvz --stats --dry-run and make sure it’s only transferring the files it should, then I’ll do -rtz --stats --info=progress2 --no-i-r to get one progress bar to watch for the whole transfer.

⤋ Read More
In-reply-to » Tor Project Merges With Tails The Tor Project: Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity, and Tails, a portable operating system that uses Tor to protect users from digital surveillance, have joined forces and merged operations. Incorporating Tails into the Tor Project's structure allows for easier collaboration, better sustainability, reduced overhead, and expanded training and outreach program ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net This is exciting news! Two of the most important privacy tools joining forces. Now, if we could get a Monero wallet included in Tails alongside Electrum, we’d really have something. :)

⤋ Read More

Sensor Watch Pro: Hackable ARM Cortex M0+ Upgrade for Casio F-91W
Crowd Supply recently launched the Sensor Watch Pro campaign, an upgrade for Casio’s F-91W and A158W models. This drop-in replacement adds an ARM Cortex M0+ processor, offering modern capabilities while preserving the classic digital watch design. The SAM L22 microcontroller in the Sensor Watch Pro provides ample memory and performance for custom watch faces, sensors,

⤋ Read More

Tor Project Merges With Tails
The Tor Project: Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity, and Tails, a portable operating system that uses Tor to protect users from digital surveillance, have joined forces and merged operations. Incorporating Tails into the Tor Project’s structure allows for easier collaboration, better sustainability, reduced overhead, and expanded training and outreach program … ⌘ Read more

⤋ Read More