I’m just having a similar issue with a podcast I just uploaded on Castopod (which supports ActivityPub).

My first thought was creating a subdomain with the name of the podcast mordiscos.eapl.me

Then I watched that the software allows many podcasts in the same domain, so I had to pick a handle:
https://mordiscos.eapl.me/@podcast

So now I have @podcast@mordiscos.eapl.me when this one is ‘more correct’ @mordiscos@podcast.eapl.me or it could even be @mordiscos.eapl.me
I wasn’t aware of all that when I setup Castopod (documentation might improve a lot, IMO)

My point here is that it’s something important to think from the start, otherwise is painful to change if it’s already being used like that.

Grocery shopping in the day of Christmas Eve is nuts, and wife is dragging me through it. 😩

my 2 cents here…
I agree on displaying a short @nick.

We could hover on the nick to see the full detail which could be @nick@domain.tls or the full URL
Also it could be a display option in Preferences in case your account starts showing many collisions.

The disambiguation for collisions is the .txt URL and the nick inside it, right ?

[47°09′37″S, 126°43′23″W] Reading: 0.72000 PPM

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is trie, I kind of agree here. In an ideal world, Yarn/Twtxt remains “purely” decentralised anyway so the change of that kind of collision in your (very small) network is highly unlikely right?

@prologic@twtxt.net /ME taking notes… 📜✍

I don’t get why displaying nick@domain is preferred over just @nick in the first place. The twtxt world here is so small (and hopefully will always be) that duplicate nicks are just not an issue from my point of view. And even if there are several feeds with the same nicks, one probably does not follow both of them. Yes, there’s the birthday paradox, but I’d guess we have a slightly larger nickname space than days in a year.

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′01″W] –interrupted–

@eapl.me@eapl.me A way to have a more bluesky’ish handles in twtxt could be to take inspiration from Bridgy Fed and say: If NICK = DOMAIN then only show @DOMAIN
So instead of @eapl.me@eapl.me it will just be @eapl.me

And it event seem that it will not break webfinger lookup: https://webfinger.net/lookup/?resource=%40darch.dk (at least not for how I’ve implemented webfinger on my sever for a single user;)

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′47″W] Transponder fixed

[47°09′04″S, 126°43′37″W] Transponder jammed

My daughter…

Ahh this is too easy. Give me a human.

🤣 #AI #Sucks

Hmmm upon further reading of the website and docs, I’m not actually sure how to use this? Hmmm 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net No I haven’t, but it looks pretty cool. The only question I have is, what if you don’t want to hand out your email address? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net have you seeing this: https://github.com/skariel/keypub

One thing I’ve learned over the many years now (approaching a decade and a half now) about self-hosting is two things; 1) There are many “assholes” on the open Internet that will either attack your stuff or are incompetent and write stupid shit™ that goes crazy on your stuff 2) You have to be careful about resources, especially memory and disk i/o. Especially disk i/o. this can kill your overall performance when you either have written software yourself or use someone else’s that can do unconfined/uncontrolled disk i/o causing everything to grind to a halt and even fail. #self-hosted

Magical.fish looks good in Pocket Gopher.

P.G. needs an update. Its been years, but still works well.

I mostly use Pocket Gopher on Android, and sometimes Doggy Dog.

@prologic@twtxt.net there’s @deadblackclover@deadblackclover.net’s twtxt-el already, I couldn’t use it correctly when I’ve had just discovered it (yes, #emacs skill issues) … but it has been updated since then. I should give it another spin 👌

Have fun @johanbove@johanbove.info and see -(or read?)- you soon!

[47°09′34″S, 126°43′32″W] Transfer 25% complete…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Absolutely! Truly amazing work and excellent explanations.

I’m pretty sure they didn’t tell us this in school either.

I don’t remember what topic it was, but some of the maths lectures at uni were heaps better in linking several matters together. In school we were always told: And now for something completely different, we start a new topic, so when you kids haven’t understood the previous one, worry not, now you got the chance to maybe get this one and improve your maths grade. Only at uni we were actually taught that it’s in fact basically exactely the same thing as something else, just with some slightly tweaked rules. If I only were told this a decade earlier or so. It would have made stuff sooo much easier.

[47°09′15″S, 126°43′35″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

Die W’Nachtspost muss noch bis morgen Mittag ausgetragen werden. :( Die Leute wohnen aber auch alle sehr weit auseinander in dieser kleinen Stadt. Dieses Jahr gibt’s ein “Zine”, inspiriert durch https://zines.cool/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Opps! My bad, I had a BotFilter activated which lead you to a 403. Fixed!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This was more like a distributed crawl/attack of some kind across many IP(s) though and bypassing Cloudflare somehow, so hmm not sure 🤔

Nah, just had a quick skim and read through all the threads. Pretty rubbish comments really. Nothing of value there. Might explain the massive hit on my infra though recently? (today)? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de O’really? Haha 😆 Any good comments? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Too many random IP(s), hundreds of them, many hundreds of QPS. I can only imagine some crawler(s) going crazy out there and not respecting anything at all or even remotely being nice.

Okay. Going to Settings -> Applications and creating a new Application Token with Repository Read/Write access works just fine. You clone over https and push over https and user your username and token as creds.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I think that should have fixed it. I just don’t know what to do about SSh access now hmmm 🧐

Ahh I see what I’ve done. That was a bit unfortunate 🤣 Because git.mills.io was a non-proxied DNS entry so that Git+SSH would also work, I now have a problem hmm. How not to expose my IP(s) directly and open them up to attack? 🤔

What’s not working for you? What’s the error? 🤔 I recently had to firewall off access to my infra for Web traffic and only permit ingress via Cloudflare. Why? 😅 Because some asshole(s) on the Internet decided it would be a good idea to send me in excess of 300 rps to my Git server 🤦‍♂️

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev No. it’s up. Why’s that?

Is https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial dead?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hmm, works here. Maybe some temporary problem that has been fixed by now?

#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyRecord Week 52

Image

In case somebody needs a calculator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0pJST5mL3A

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′43″W] Resetting transponder

Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net !

Here’s a visual of what happened before I firewalled off all web traffic to force it to go through Cloudflare. Don’t even ask me how my IP addresses got found out, but either this is malicious, incompetent or my wider ISP is being DDoS’d (it’s happened before).

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Oooh exiting, we haven’t seen a Twtxt client in a functional language yet 🤣

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Hello! 👋

Well that was fun! 🤩 I was being attacked directly (bypasses Cloudflare somehow) and whatever dafuq that was was killing my ingress and causing it to get OOM killed 😱 I was seeing 100s of requests per second!!! 😱

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev See https://twtxt.dev – There isn’t really anythign specific about avatars or how big they should be, etc. The spec mostly talks about what’s possible and supported by clients and publishers of twtxt feeds. We have yet to write specific client/server recommendations.

Hello everyone! 😁

Is there any rule or information about images in the twtxt specification?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, no worries. :-)

Thanks @bender@twtxt.net for the feedback. I fixed and expanded the article. I’m sorry for my poor interaction. Furthermore, I’m reading and writing while programming a client in Emacs.

You are clearly a time traveler, @xuu!

@prologic@twtxt.net That also has the downside of fitting right in the write-only code category. :-D

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′32″W] Transponder malfunction

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ha, that’s cool, I wasn’t aware of 2024 being one of these years.

@xuu@txt.sour.is What do you like about the fish shell? 🐚

@xuu@txt.sour.is Is this on your instance? 🤔

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de my util-linux 2.40.2 version of cal seems to do week 53.

Bro.. Gitea I think you are drunk. How is Jan 2024 5 days ago?

@bender@twtxt.net im a fisherman.

Really I would be just about happy with ash though i.e: /bin/sh

@bender@twtxt.net I always change it to Bash. I can’t stand any other weird shell haha 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net, do you use zsh on macOS, or do you change it to, say, bash?

@bender@twtxt.net Haha just making sure when I’m removing snapshots from my backup that I don’t remove the wrong ones 🤣

@thecanine@twtxt.net yeah, PayPal blows. I use it exclusively when buying stuff from eBay, because using anything else is a pain. Other than that they can go fly a kite.

@prologic@twtxt.net dear lord! Can you make it a little bit longer? 🤭

You really cannot beat UNIX, no really. Everything else ever invented sucks in comparison 🤣

$ diff -Ndru <(restic snapshots | grep minio | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -u) <(restic snapshots | grep minio | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs -I{} restic forget -n {} | grep -E '\{.*\}' | sed -e 's/{//g;s/}//g' | sort -u) | tee | wc -l; echo $?
0
0

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, a movqOS, that’s super cool! :-)

Yeah, glossy screens are straight from hell. :-D What’s this spooky wind chime background music?

Anyway, have great fun learning more and experimenting with this low level stuff!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Unfortunately, there is no shortage of terrible UI designers. To be fair, I’m probably one of them when it comes to the point.

Years ago, I had a falling out with PayPal, when they implemented ToS changes, that would let them withhold your money without a reason and randomly subtract “ToS violation fees” from your balance.

They reverted the ToS violation fees part, but I refuse to do business with any company, who has the goal, to even try presenting such a change, to their clients.

I’m not surprised PayPal is alongside questionable fee increases, also running scummy browser extensions (through companies they acquired), that override almost all affiliate links with PayPals and present you with inferior discount coupons, to trick you into spending more money, shopping on sites owned by their partners.

The honey extension scam - YouTube video

Ironic they were even “referal link scamming” the influencers, they paid to promote their extension - PayPals ability to scam the clueless is quite impressive, but luckily it does not work on me.

Danke, @arne@uplegger.eu. Ich werde berichten.

[47°09′26″S, 126°43′02″W] Carrier too weak

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Usenet is NNTP. No other way. And yes, it is very much alive. Now, finding servers to interact with it, freely, is becoming more of a problem these days.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev grats! A few things. Typo on jenny; that’s, it’s “jenny”, not “Janny”. You missed how to reply to others, and how to find those who “follow” you, which will require to mention the current extensions.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev nos comparte su artículo “twtxt, la red social en texto plano, descentralizada y minimalista”

I would like to share my lastest article about #twtxt on my blog: https://programadorwebvalencia.com/twtxt-la-red-social-en-texto-plano-descentralizada-y-minimalista/ . Attention! It is a Spanish

I don’t plan on making that code public. This is purely a learning project for myself.

So, just a hobby. It won’t be big and professional like GNU, then?

Seriously, that’s very cool. I wish my bootloader was that excited about a successful boot.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right. It’s nice. I’ve had the same one through numerous router restarts and at least two 4-6 hour power outages. I’m definitely not paying for a wildly inflated business plan to self-host a few things. It was like that on my last ISP as well, although they only gave me about 20mbps up.

[47°09′33″S, 126°43′52″W] Dosimeter fixed

Wait Usernet is alive? Does it using NNTP or some other modern technology?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That is so insanely cool! 😎

Hmm one of my Hypervisor nodes has failed and I’ve had to rain its VMs and take it offline. Damn 😢

@movq@www.uninformativ.de not uncommon. I have mine for the last 4+ years.

[47°09′34″S, 126°43′21″W] Resetting dosimeter

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Soeey what fuxking scroll bar?! 🤦‍♂️

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′22″W] Dosimeter overflow

@mckinley@twtxt.net That’s fair 👌

@mckinley@twtxt.net I just accept that if shit™ breaks, there ain’t much I can do about it until I can. So that forces me to automate things as much as possible.

@prologic@twtxt.net It looks interesting; definitely a novel approach. I just don’t think I have any use for it right now. I’ve thought about joining one those pubnixes that are around but I don’t think I’d ever do anything with an account on someone else’s server.

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess the difference is that your self-hosted services are publicly accessible so it allows such a setup. For me, everything is over Wireguard. If that link breaks and I’m not at home I can’t resolve domain names, let alone do any kind of server administration. That’s what the hidden service is for.

Early on, I was thinking about WAN IP address changes as well but it hasn’t happened in ~2.5 years with this ISP.

Btw @mckinley@twtxt.net – You may be interested (not sure if have the time though) in mbox.blue 🤔

[47°09′33″S, 126°43′02″W] Dosimeter still failing

@mckinley@twtxt.net Nope.

@prologic@twtxt.net There’s no remote administration in the Mills DC? Not even through a VPN?

Man, I love Gopher. I also love that I can use Termux to get Lynx and Gopher on the go. As much as I like Floodgap, Overbite on Android needs more features (like downloads).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I work entirely remotely myself too, so I don’t really need this level of remote access either.

@mckinley@twtxt.net

QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?

No. My network is firewalled and the only way into it is physically being on it.

Happy Holidays. Wishing peace for you in 2025.

QOTD: Do you have a way to get back into your home network if you get locked out?

I have a Tor hidden service that lets me SSH into my server from anywhere. I never had to use it until last week. I was playing around with the port forwarding configuration on my router for Wireguard (migrating to a new server, very exciting), forgot to change it back, and found myself an hour away from home hoping to watch a show on Jellyfin. All it took to fix it was an SSH port forward through that hidden service to (very slowly) access my home router’s Web interface.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes! then there was this fun breaker of an article but hey, I ain’t doing it for security 😆 so I’ll just keep on keeping on.