If you want a problem solved, you give it to someone as a project. If you don’t want a problem to be solved, you give it to someone as a job

Why you shouldn’t build your career around existential risk
https://guzey.com/existential-risk/

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz here it is :) https://memoria.sayitditto.net/view?m=UyMOOoiOy

i recorded my first camcorder video!!!! it’s just me practicing guitar after sooo long of not playing it. my acoustic, to be specific (well, it’s an electric acoustic thing but i can play it without plugging it in lol, i do have a stratocaster though). it’s capped at ~30 minutes because i used one mini DVD for it and decided i wasn’t gonna use another one to extend the run time. so yeah. it was super fun! i hope i can share it soon, i’m ripping the disc with make MKV right now, then i’ll re-encode to a web friendly format, and upload to my site and hope that works well

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it’d be a blast to record too with my camcorder! i’d have to figure out positioning and stuff like you said but i could probably figure something out with a bit of testing :P yeah it probably does make the project itself longer than it should be but i feel like if you make it a cozy kinda “sew with me” video where people watch you sew and film it with a static angle instead of like, showing every step? i think that’d be nice even if a bit boring. so i could absolutely try that.

magnetic tape camcorders omg!!! mine is digital but i’d LOVE to get a tape camcorder

My #fridayreads is CBA vol 58, the “C’est Bon Anthology” entitled “Modern Glossolalia or the Erosion of Meaning”.

How do we talk when words that used to mean certain things have become so vague that they can be freely appropriated by anyone, for any purpose? And what’s up with the currently so prevalent flirting with war, fascism and the dehumanization of anyone who doesn’t fit into the unspoken and conveniently unspecified national identity?

Released in 2022, it feels even more up-to-date today.

##bookstodon

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I’m an absolute sucker for all sorts of crafts videos, mostly wood and metal working, but also leather and construction. So obviously, your Tux sewing project would make a good video in my opinion. :-D (But I fear it would require way more work than just talking into the camera. Think of camera setup time with framing and focusing, repositioning a couple of times, editing, yada, yada, yada. I documented wood working build processes in my shop in the past and it made the projects take easily ten times as long, if not more. So, I stopped doing that.)

As kids we recorded some action films on magnetic tape camcorders. That was also great fun.

Couldn’t find anybody to join me this arvo, so I went alone. Only in the forest I began to see real snow. And then of course with each meter of elevation gain. I reckon there were 5-6 cm at the summit, so there is still room for improvement. The weather was absolutely stunning, a sunny blue sky alternating with clouds, most of my hike hardly any wind and 1°C. Climbing the mountain was a different story, the wind hit me hard.

I just love the wind-brushed formations of ice on the twigs and branches. They look soooo incredibly cool. It was kinda hard to capture them on film with the wind pushing everything around.

On the way down I took the narrow and currently fairly slippery path that was closed for some weeks due to felling activity. It looks so different with heaps of trees on the ground now. They’ve also sawn down the tree with the small hole near the ground (which I think I’ve shown a few times in the past). The beech in 52 to 54 was probably hit by lightning a few months ago. At least it’s completely charred.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-01-03/

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @movq@www.uninformativ.de Right!? :-) (In retrospect, must be later than elementary school, but still at least a decade old.)

Haaa! It was only now that I realized that gentoo is indeed a penguin species, I never knew that. Nice! I was always under the impression that the Gentoo distribution was simply named after an invented word. Well, I was so wrong. Thanks for teaching me. :-)

[47°09′56″S, 126°43′49″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I never used DOS or OS/2, but I fully agree with you. A Unix shell with its tool landscape is hard to beat (photo/video viewing/editing aside).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s so damn cool mate! I went through the code, but this lowlevel stuff is really not my favorite cup of tea. Having said that, it was actually really nice to see the abstractions and APIs work together and how things are getting indeed very readable in the userland programs. That’s easy to track in this extremely tiny OS implementation. Excellent work, keep on hacking!

Now, you just have to quickly add a network stack and then can write a twtxt client for it! ]:->

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s neat, good old $\sum_{i=1}^{9} i^3$ (let’s see if yarnd’s markdown parser has LaTeX support or not ;-)).

@bender@twtxt.net aw thank you so much!!! rambling is the best… just gotta keep on going about what we love and somehow people like it lol!

@bender@twtxt.net wow almost 6am damn!!! yeah i’m EST too :)

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz hey, hey! Looks like we are on the same time zone (EST). I have been awake since 05:50ish.

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I saw some of your videos, and I can say you do do well at keeping the flow. Rambling is what most of podcasters do. Heck, even professional news casters! That’s to say, we are all used, and kind of expect it. ☺️

need to come up with ideas for camcorder videos… i have one but it’s just ‘talk in front of camera about fave songs i listened to in 2024’ and i wanna do more fun things even though rambling in front of cam is already fun af

i want to make camcorder videos with this girl’s vibe she is insane https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg9isnie-qBpPIWx4ZQOnJw

good morning yarn friends! it’s noon here but i woke up an hour ago. much better compared to waking up at 4pm yesterday

@prologic@twtxt.net oh it’s ok! thank you for the explanation! i think for me when it comes to programming i learn best by doing, so like written examples or talking about it helps less, BUT baseline explanations like what a pointer is does help! i was so confused and i still need to fix the error i’m having but i will figure it out!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org AWWWW OMG THAT’S SO CUTE

@movq@www.uninformativ.de REALLLL

@bender@twtxt.net It’s true! 🤣 It’s a total garbage nonsense title. But the actual research paper that the video references is real. Apple did in fact do a bunch of research and proved what we already know 🤣 – That is, AI is stupid 🤣

Going to drop another bombshell: I don’t watch YouTube videos, but least those with sensationalist, click bait, titles. 😂

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Amend 🙏

[47°09′41″S, 126°43′20″W] Wind speed: 64kph

But to be fair, we already knew this… I’ve observed it first hand, we knew it at the beginning. I’ll just leave you with this:

Stochastic Parrot

or put simply:

Artificial Incompetence

Apple DROPS AI BOMBSHELL: LLMS CANNOT Reason - YouTube

[47°09′06″S, 126°43′18″W] Working impossible due to blizzard

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Article URL: https://minimaxir.com/2025/01/write-better-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584400

Points: 501

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Rode my bicycle into town. What the hell is wrong with some of these motorists!? Here in right lane traffic land, a car reversed out of the driveway on the left into the road and nearly hit me. And this happened twice! If you don’t fucking see, how about you go slowly and not just hope that nobody is coming!? The first one even decided to honk at me. SUV drivers confirming prejudice…

Well, at least I could help a lady with transfering her child in a pram.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuxking awesome 🙃😍

Windows 3.11 forever ☻

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Only the schedule syntax. :-D

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci @bender@twtxt.net Sweet, I wasn’t aware of that either.

Excellent, thank you very much @aelaraji@aelaraji.com! :-) It doesn’t set a custom User-Agent header, though.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Please do! :-) My brother made my penguin a Tux scarf one or the other decade ago when he was in probably elementary school: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/tux-scarf.jpg

@bender@twtxt.net :-D Unfortunately, there is not much white fluffy stuff on the ground at all: https://lyse.isobeef.org/morgensonne-2025-01-03/01.jpg (And my brain is broken, I’d like to change it. I first called the directory “2024-05-03”. O_o)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup! 😅

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′14″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from W

SeeedStudio Unveils XIAO Plus Series with Expanded IO and Enhanced Connectivity
Seeed Studio recently announced the XIAO Plus series, an update to its popular XIAO lineup. This series features expanded IO options and standardized back solder points, enhancing functionality while retaining the compact XIAO form factor. The lineup includes the XIAO ESP32S3 Plus, XIAO nRF52840 Plus, and XIAO nRF52840 Sense Plus. Seeed Studio indicates that the […] ⌘ Read more

I can walk you through some examples later tonight when I get back if you like?

A pointer is basically a reference to a variable. It is typically used with structs and especially in pointer receiver methods so that you can modify fields of a struct.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh! I can totally help you 🤗 I love Go! 😍

fighting for my life trying to learn golang WHAT THE FUCK IS A POINTER (rhetorical)

Holy Smokes 🤣 And this has only been <24h 😱

Can’t you use a VPN?

HackerBox 0110 Explores MIDI and Synth Technology with Raspberry Pi Pico 2
HackerBox 0110 offers a hands-on kit for synthesizer technology, showcasing the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Equipped with the RP2350 microcontroller, the kit enables exploration of MIDI technology, sound synthesis, and digital audio applications, providing tools for both learning and experimentation. The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 was launched last year, offering significant hardware […] ⌘ Read more

[47°09′47″S, 126°43′52″W] –no signal–

@twtxt.net@twtxt.net probably lol!

@prologic@twtxt.net nooo post away!!!

@prologic@twtxt.net fuck yeah!!!

PicoPD Pro: USB PD 3.1 Development Board with PPS and AVS Support
The PicoPD Pro is a compact development board with the RP2040 microcontroller, enabling USB PD3.1 features like Programmable Power Supply and Adjustable Voltage Supply up to 30V. It includes an AP33772S sink controller for USB-C functionality and offers a 5V rail output for powering external components. The board includes the RP2040 microcontroller, which operates at […] ⌘ Read more

Also post as much as you want! It’s a free world. It’s your feed. It’s your daughter. 🤣 nobody actually has to read any of it let alone follow you if they don’t want to. 🙃 that’s kind of the beauty of a truly decentralized slow social media ecosystem. 😎

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz You should’ve seen me back in the day! These days I try to post a little less often so as not to cause too much noise in the ecosystem 🤣 nobody cares what I think anyway right? 😅

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz hehehe, I would say you are hooked! 😋

help i’ve had this account for barely 2 days and i’m nearly at 100 posts

i am not a #gamer at all but i wanna play this it looks sooo cute https://studiopixel.sakura.ne.jp/keroblaster/index.html

my friend is getting into snh48 and its sister groups and it makes me miss being a fan but my oshi (shen mengyao) graduated so i don’t have any reason to follow them. but the thing about snh48 is that it’s a group full of messy toxic lesbians with mental problems so there is always some wild ass drama going on. you can never leave snh48 standom

i fucking love tux paint it’s so cute i wish i could draw

ladyflash by the go team is sooo good my friend just shared it and i’m obsessed already

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz https://memoria.sayitditto.net/user/andjuly/

my camcorder videos are gonna go so hard yall like i can post them exclusively to my own youtube site and just do whatever tf i want with it. i should make more vlogs

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz anyway when i get the memory stick i will record something silly and exclusive for yarn friends i can’t wait <3

@prologic@twtxt.net EVEN COOLER

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i also like the separation inherent with using dedicated devices. like i have a DAP, a fiio X1 ii from 2019, and it’s still going strong. it’s perfect for on the go music listening and i never have to worry about like going somewhere with no reception and the music drops out. it’s all local AND the battery lasts longer because i’m not using wi-fi or bluetooth or data. also i can directly access the file system and just add files anytime. this goes for my point & shoot and other devices too. i love this shit i’m such a nerd

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz yarnd actually stores your feed in plain text on disk too 🤣

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i think what i love about “retro” (relative to me because i was born 2004) is that it has friction but in a different way than modern tech does. sure there’s friction with getting a video from your phone to a computer unless you’re a nerd like me with android and syncthing. but not only is that something that could be but isn’t easier, it’s just… it makes sense for a camcorder from ~2009 to have the kind of friction it does

my camcorder battery & mini dvds came in the mail so i did a test recording! it’s so cool i love the crap quality. i do hope the memory stick arrives soon though because for the discs i can’t get them on my computer (not even a rom drive filesystem mount) without “finalizing” the disc which is like an old camcorder thing. i still think i’ll prefer disc recording though even if a limit of 30 minutes (or longer for lower quality) is strict. i like limitations like that

@prologic@twtxt.net this is epic… you’ve made a great platform!!! screw big tech we got literal threads here. X, The Everything App, wishes it had literal yarn threads smh my head. also twtxt is so cool like i love that yarn is a frontend for it but also its own thing. all plaintext… coolest shit ever

@prologic@twtxt.net oooh i should’ve figured yeah!!! epic…

@prologic@twtxt.net 9am wow!!! 6pm here now :P

@prologic@twtxt.net oh yeah i had to do a custom caddy build for that once but then i reverted because i didn’t need it anymore (well i kinda do but for now i’m just manually doing it instead of wildcard certs/TLS on demand i’m lazy af). otherwise i love caddy

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev What do you mean by API? yarnd (which powers Yarn.social pods like twtxt.net) does have an API, however that API is designed for clients to interact with the pod and the user’s account and feed. e.g: there is a command-line client called yarnc and I used to maintain a mobile native app (using Flutter).

What use-case did you have in mind?

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz So far it’s been alright. I wasn’t too impressed with Caddy’s logging capabilities though or the fact you have to custom build caddy just to support DNS-01 ACME challenge. But other than that, it’s okay.

@bender@twtxt.net Well technically now I can turn off ingress access to my infra on ports 80/43 etc and just rely on the outbound wireguard tunnelling for the ingress back in.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nah I’m fone with using their DNS. I could shove DNS onto Vultr too I suppose or run my own DNS server(s), but I don’t see the value in that…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was using Cloudflare primarily for 3 reasons: 1) For hosting DNS records 2) For reverse proxying into my infra’s services and 3) As a layer of defense against DDoS attacks or stupid misbehaving bots. I’m still using Cloudflare for 1) but 2/3 are now done entirely by something I’ve built myself (and working well). Turns out in order to have decent analytics (metrics, stats, etc) on traffic, you have to pay Cloudflare $20/month. That’s fine, and I did/do that for twtxt.net. But, if you want to know the originating IP address of requests, that’s an “enterprise” feature and that’ll cost you $200/month 😱

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Good Morning! It’s ~9am here 😴

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Pretty sure this is a combination of inspecting the User-Agent and Accept headers of a HTTP requests and responding appropriately with the right resource(s).

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz When I set about creating Yarn.social back in ~2020 I deliberately wanted to avoid things like reposts, likes and notifications. I wanted to build something simple and non-distracting. I didn’t want to fall into the same traps of “big tech” social media with the only goal being to increase engagement, ultimately to then sell ads 🤦‍♂️ – Twtxt was then a fantastic base to work off of and the rest is history!

I am rich and have no idea what to do
Article URL: https://vinay.sh/i-am-rich-and-have-no-idea-what-to-do-with-my-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579873

Points: 500

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net twtxt-el ?

it’s epic that twtxt slash yarn doesn’t have reposts or likes. it’s just chill. replies and posting is all a site needs

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org if i ever get to it i will absolutely post tux-in-progress pics!!! just a creature….

cron jobs are witchcraft and sorcery

@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’ve really wanted to make one of those sites you can curl that’s terminal friendly but looks different on the browser like how does wttr.in do it… magic

i like this little ideas utility i’ve been using like i keep pulling up the idea table to see what i’ve added and it makes me wanna start one of them like the CLI app i wanna write in golang with charmbracelet’s bubbletea even though i only have a vague idea of what i want in a CLI app

good morning new yarn social/twtxt friends (it is literally 5:30pm where i am i woke up at 3pm and i am still drinking coffee)

@prologic@twtxt.net YAYYY fuck cloudflare!!! caddy+wireguard amazing combo

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci first time I see it, so, thanks for sharing! I would say none of us will be around for 46^2. 😅

This year is a perfect square: 2025 = 45². Most of us reading this at time of posting won’t be alive next time that happens since 46² = 2116, 91 years from now. This has been bouncing around the internet but for some reason I felt compelled to record it here!

Django channels are cool! I had the chance to make a online gaming framework with Channels and Django Rest and was a great experience.

I’m looking forward to doing something in Django LiveView soon.

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′44″W] Transfer 25% complete…

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org /me looks at Lyse’s direction, full of envy. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net can you explain more on that “all ingress is actually egress”?

My twtxt feed has now been rotated, an archive for the second half of 2024 can be seen here:
https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt-2024H2.html

(#bwkz64a) <@prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> is that the reason why https://search.twtxt.net/ is giving an SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT error?

My side project explains very well https://django-liveview.andros.dev/ 😁

Oh nice, it snows. :-)