Moved my email back into a single ‘inbox’ folder instead of trying to keep everything organised in sub-folders. Using Vivaldi’s labels instead for organising the messages. Makes sense because I sometimes had trouble if a message needed to be in multiple boxes.

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In-reply-to » Roses are red, violets are blue, Why devs hate Google, and so should you?

@prologic@twtxt.net There are many other examples, centered around how the “enshitification” of their services, negatively impacts everyone: G-Mail randomly blacklisting small e-mail servers, resulting in e-mails ending in some Google void they can’t be retrieved out of (unlike the spam folder); their proprietary Android phone app, mislabelling phone numbers of legitimate businesses, as spam calls and warning people not to pick up; their incompetence in SEO filtering, enabling AI generated adware websites, to be shown above legitimate results.

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In-reply-to » @prologic I'm not a yarnd user, so it doesn't matter a whole lot to me, but FWIW I'm not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd's quirks.

I think realistically the only way to resolve this is to formally support and define a specification for feed formats. The available mime types lists two formats that I think are important here. text/plain and text/markdown. I believe a specification that defines and formalizes this so that a feed author can state in their feed that their feed is primarily text/plain or text/markdown or via HTTP headers (not mandatory) will work here. I also think it might be worthwhile niversing this and defaulting to text/plain (by design and by default, spec TBD) and then clients like yanrd can just be updated to declare text/markdown.

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In-reply-to » @prologic I'm not a yarnd user, so it doesn't matter a whole lot to me, but FWIW I'm not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd's quirks.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org about this:

but FWIW I’m not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd’s quirks.

Yet, you are asking Yarn to change the format to work around how you want it display. 🤔

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In-reply-to » AI Slop Is Flooding Medium AI slop is flowing onto every major platform where people post online -- and Medium is no exception. Wired: The 12-year-old publishing platform has undertaken a dizzying number of pivots over the years. It's finally on a financial upswing, having turned a monthly profit for the first time this summer. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and other executives at the company have described the platform as "a home for human writing." But ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Really?! And we expected what to happen exactly? 🤔

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I installed GrapheneOS for the first time on Wednesday last week on a used Pixel 7a, and I’m impressed. Installation was almost seamless, and I was able to do it from another Android phone. I’ve run into very few wrinkles, even using Google’s proprietary apps with GrapheneOS’s “sandboxed” version of Google Play Services. The main problems I’ve noticed: I can’t cast, and Google Timeline doesn’t seem to work (though I imagine the intersection between people keen to use GrapheneOS and keen to have Google log their location history is pretty small).

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In-reply-to » The last week I've been playing around with https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI , dang good tool for testing ai models and such. I really like the node based workflow. And makes it super easy to test any AI model. Only thing I miss now - is one of those image to video setup's, that's what I'm working on fixing now. So that I can generate images, and then automatically make them into short videos as well. Fun to play around with.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no This seems cool hmmm 🧐

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In-reply-to » @bender True, I'm just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wanted it on 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m not a yarnd user, so it doesn’t matter a whole lot to me, but FWIW I’m not especially keen on changing how I format my twts to work around yarnd’s quirks.

I wonder if this kind of postprocessing would fit better between composing (via yarnd’s UI) and publishing. So, if a yarnd user types ¼, it could get changed to ¼ in the twtxt.txt file for everyone to see, not just people reading through yarnd. But when I type ¼, meaning first out of four, as a non-yarnd user, the meaning wouldn’t get corrupted. I can always type ¼ directly if that’s what I really intend.

(This twt might be easier to understand if you read it without any transformations :-P)

Anyway, again, I’m not a yarnd user, so do what you will, just know you might not be seeing exactly what I meant.

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The last week I’ve been playing around with https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI , dang good tool for testing ai models and such. I really like the node based workflow.
And makes it super easy to test any AI model.
Only thing I miss now - is one of those image to video setup’s, that’s what I’m working on fixing now. So that I can generate images, and then automatically make them into short videos as well.
Fun to play around with.

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In-reply-to » Roses are red, violets are blue, Why devs hate Google, and so should you?

@thecanine@twtxt.net ahh, Google, what can I say?! It is amazing for me to think I used to have everything on Google, and now I have nothing. I mean, I have kept my Gmail, and Google Voice. The first I don’t use, but I have it since beta (was of the few first to be invited to it), so it has a “sentimental” value. The second is my catch-all-spam number.

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AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
AI slop is flowing onto every major platform where people post online – and Medium is no exception. Wired: The 12-year-old publishing platform has undertaken a dizzying number of pivots over the years. It’s finally on a financial upswing, having turned a monthly profit for the first time this summer. Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and other executives at the company have described the platform as “a home for human writing.” But … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » What are peoples #IRC setup? Do you have your own bouncer server or just have a you computer always on? And do you IRC on mobile?

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I’ve been using weechat for a while then when I started learning my way around Emacs I switched to Circe … a couple months later I setup ZNC, rolled with it for some time but wasn’t sure if I wanted to stick with it. Now I’m mainly using TheLounge and do find it convenient accessing it from anywhere. but quite honestly, I don’t have a preference.

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In-reply-to » Feeling suspicious about a little something and I, don't like it -the feeling- a bit. Maybe I'm just being paranoid... but most probably I'm just being an ignorant judgemental piece of shit and I hate myself for it already.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, sorry about that, I shouldn’t have put something like that out there in the fist place. It started as a completely different twit then I got overwhelmed noticing that I may have became the exact same thing I despise the most 🤦

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Roses are red, violets are blue,
Why devs hate Google, and so should you?

Google ☠️ The cloud

Google Drive vs their own API: Many of us developers, go out of our way to support Google Drive in our apps, programs and websites, to make things easier for users, but over the years, Google keeps making it harder and in some cases demanding “solutions”, that conveniently involve us paying their partners:
$Our Android app is frozen in carbonite
$End of the road for Google Drive and Transmit

Google ☠️ The Internet

Google OAuth vs the Canidae browser: Users interested in testing my CEF (Chromium Embedding Framework) browser, back when the project still existed, were prohibited from passing Google OAuth in my and any other CEF browser, unless they changed their user agent string. I managed to contact Google and was told this was a necessary protection against bad actors. As we all know, no bad actor would ever add two lines of code, to change the user agent of their malware.

Google vs the point of SSL: Google Chrome presents all sites access over HTTPS as secure and all sites accessed over HTTP as dangerous. This is very misleading to less educated Internet users, falling for “secure” phishing sites with SSL certificates and avoiding “dangerous” static webpages, that never needed one.

Google ☠️ Android apps

Googles friends vs FOSS
developers:
X and other big social media platforms running their own servers, are allowed to host seemingly any user generated content, while Google forces us, developers helping to maintain XMPP clients for Android, to exclude features, that allow our users to discover chatrooms, that anyone can host on their servers. We are thus not only held responsible for what we publish, what we host, but also for the whole XMPP network. I offer my version of the client, unrestricted, on my website, others choose their repo or F-droid.

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ESP32-P4-NANO Combines ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C6 Chips for PoE and Wireless Connectivity
Waveshare has launched the ESP32-P4-NANO board, powered by the ESP32-P4 SoC featuring RISC-V dual-core and single-core processors. This board is tailored for advanced HMI and edge computing applications. Equipped with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5/BLE via the onboard ESP32-C6-MINI module, it ensures efficient wireless connectivity through the SDIO interface. The ESP32-P4 chipset in … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de sounds counterproductive. The power of open source is that it benefits from everyone’s participation. Why to develop in a close source setting then? Hmm.

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

Exactly! But you still have to sign up to “their” platform. da fuq?! I smell something fishy here 🤣

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

But you have to sign-up though? wut?! 😟

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In-reply-to » What are peoples #IRC setup? Do you have your own bouncer server or just have a you computer always on? And do you IRC on mobile?

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I run Weechat headless on a VM and mostly connect via mobile or dwsktop. I use the android client or gliwing bear. Work blocks all comms on their always on MitM VPN so I cant in office anymore. So I just use mobile.

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I agree. Even if I will not use it, allowing to do similarly to the commercial “service” in a selfhosted, non-algos, non-ad-targeting environment, is the way to go.

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In-reply-to » The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Ugh, do we really need more brainrot, even if it is more open? 😅

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The Fediverse Is Getting Its Own TikTok Competitor Called Loops
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Similar to how Mastodon offers an open source, distributed version of X, the fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor. This week, an app called Loops began accepting signups on its new platform for sharing short, looping videos. Still in the early stages, Loops is not yet open sourced, nor … ⌘ Read more

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HatDrive POE Plus HAT for Raspberry Pi 5 Power and NVMe Storage Integration
Pineboards launched the HatDrive! POE+, designed to simplify power and connectivity for the Raspberry Pi 5 through Power-over-Ethernet. This PoE+ HAT integrates both network connectivity and power delivery over a single RJ45 cable, providing a streamlined setup where multiple smaller devices can operate without the need for additional power cables. The HatDrive! POE+ enables both […] ⌘ Read more

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For .onion gophersites you can install Orbot App on android for VPN, than go by lynx or overbite app to gopher://magical.fish, then you can open the .onion site of magical.fish.

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In-reply-to » @bender True, I'm just not sure we can have it both way? 🤔 I can turn smartypants off, but I do seem to recall you wanted it on 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net no, no, I haven’t said anything about turning of smartypants! That would be a step backwards, right? I mean, ¼ is the way to represent a fraction, so its rendering is right spot on.

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In-reply-to » Feeling suspicious about a little something and I, don't like it -the feeling- a bit. Maybe I'm just being paranoid... but most probably I'm just being an ignorant judgemental piece of shit and I hate myself for it already.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com To be honest I thought the same too, I felt as though you were being a bit too harsh on yourself 😅 Chill 🤗

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My favourite part of Halloween is helping to set up the charity halloween party at a local school. Love decorating the haunted hallway and setting up the lights. Feels great to get those smiles on people’s faces.

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In-reply-to » My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it and regular rentals.

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl I agree. At the end of the day it’s just a text file served by some means, we should get more upset by crawlers that don’t respect our robots.tzt rules 🤣

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ARK FPV NDAA Compliant Flight Controller for UAV Applications with Advanced Sensors & Connectivity
The ARK FPV NDAA-compliant flight controller is compact and designed around the ARKV6X model, following a standard 30.5mm mounting pattern. It supports 3-12s battery input, providing a regulated 12V 2A output for video transmitters and payloads. The controller is compatible with PX4 Autopilot firmware (version 1.15+), pre-installed, and also supports … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Feeling suspicious about a little something and I, don't like it -the feeling- a bit. Maybe I'm just being paranoid... but most probably I'm just being an ignorant judgemental piece of shit and I hate myself for it already.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com let me come to the defence of Aelaraji here, and make clear that they are not a “piece of shit”! 😊

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Protectli VP3200 Series with 2-Port Modular Vault Featuring 2.5GbE Ports and Expansion Bay
The Protectli VP3200 Series introduces modular 2-port Vault devices: the VP3210 with an Intel N100 processor and the VP3230 with an Intel i3-N305. Both models support up to 16GB DDR5 RAM, include 32GB eMMC storage, and feature two 2.5GbE Ethernet ports for high-speed applications. Dual M.2 NVMe SSD slots offer up to 2TB of additional […] ⌘ Read more

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