Good Morning, 30 min till Sunrise.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Didn’t know there was a yarnd IRC channel!! hopping in to say Hi 😁

@Yarns@search.twtxt.net An oopsie? 🥳😂

@bender@twtxt.net yeah, I think so as well. Hell I can’t even get myself to upload much media files on the fedi-platforms knowing they’ll be hosted out of someone else’s pocket, someone with no ROI in mind but other’s freedom of expression.

@bender@twtxt.net What multiplexer do you use? I usually use Tmux and have my prefix mapped to C-a on my local machine and the default C-b on the remote ones so they don’t conflict if it helps.

@prologic@twtxt.net I have no clue TBH

@prologic@twtxt.net I wouldn’t mind that for the bigger images, although, my main problem is with the scrappers and other platforms that nuke my RPi whenever I post a link out there… yes! I mean Mastodon 😆

BTW! I’ve just white listed twtxt.net … you should be able to see the embedded image by now.

@prologic@twtxt.net it’s a Clownflare option to prevent images on your website from being embedded on other websites. It helps with my low bandwidth resources. And I believe you can set-up similar rules with Nginx, I’m just too lazy to do it manually RN.

CF Docs on Hotlink Protection

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Alacritty.

@prologic@twtxt.net I think I have hotlinking disabled somewhere … I’ll try and fix it this evening.

you’ll probably get an Error 1011 🤦 … just copy and paste the link in a new tab if you can Screenshot of neomutt running Jenny

@bender@twtxt.net My index formatting is intact, probably because I still haven’t figured out how to set up my terminal to show RTL text correctly! 😅 but hey, that won’t be a problem anymore, I don’t feel like twting in Arabic. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de A family member gave me their old (pseudo-)smart phone and it had all kinds of pre-installed BS that you’re not supposed to be able to uninstall, Xiaomi, FB, google… you name it. but guess what!? I already know about this Trick and then there is the Rethink DNS/Firewall app I have setup to block all traffic then allow the stuff I need with an Allow, Bypass or Exclude rule.

You’d be surprised to see how much traffic is going to blocked!! 🤣

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net I, can’t function. 😂

En: Have your coffee in peace ☕🕊

A short term goal

إحتس قهوتك بسلام ☕🕊

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Amen! 🙏😆

@prologic@twtxt.net the whole thing took less than 2 min 🤣

Back!

Just in case Clownflare throws a couple of 5xx errors at your requests, I’m rebooting. See ya in a couple of seconds!

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Nothing can beat AI powered rice cooker! 😜

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I do like to think of that recommendation as sarcastic stab at twt-errr’s rules 😉 so, IMO the more a twt exceeds the recommended limit the merrier! 😂

@prx@si3t.ch ROFL. 🤣 Come on! That’s evil. At least give them cup of hot chocolate, make it a win-win.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de HAHA 😂 How come I’ve never seen that one before!? Weeeeeeeeeeeeehehehe 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Milk crates aren’t that practical to be honest. Especially when you have a nosy cat around. 😂 but it was worth a try.

@prologic@twtxt.net There is a Typo in the link! is it intentional? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net HAHA! Couldn’t say it better. I started abandoning main stream social media as soon as is it stopped feeling like connecting and sharing with other human beings and became an urge for feeding an algorithm and hoping for it’s blessing to get a glimpse of human interaction It deems worthy of having.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de A good slogan for an ad: “Wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! a hell of a bang for your buck!” 😂

Why buy a Standing Desk when you can just set up a cardboard box on your regular desk for your keyboard and a milk crate for your monitor? 😆

@xuu foo who? 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net Remember when we used to lose access to e-mail, IM and forum accounts after 30 days of inactivity? 😂 … Then storage became cheaper and companies figured out that any tiny bit of someone’s data is worth something to someone(thing) else. 🥲

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m using CF Tunnel on a raspberry pi, can’t do direct at the moment.

@grumpy@grumpygordie.great-site.net Umm… If you haven’t already, you can give this Jenny + Mutt setup a try, you’ll probably (I mean definitely) love it. Nice to meet you by the way! 🫡

@prologic@twtxt.net Probably has something to do with how the nickname is set up, It starts with a capital letter and has a white space. I couldn’t fetch their feed until I fixed that in my ‘follow’ file. But I dunno, maybe it’s just me…

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I checked my logs and all I see are 304 responses and a couple of delayed requests here and there due to rate limiting, but not that many. I’ll disable it (the rate limiting) for a couple of days, let me know if you still get the ‘forbidden access’ thing 🫣 I may have effed up my configuration trying to deal with some weird stuff.

@prologic@twtxt.net I am! 😅 I’ll check my logs and see if there’s something I can do about that!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I bet it was! These kinds of sunset shots (with colorful delicious clouds in motion… etc) have always been candy to my eyes. And I know for a fact that the real thing usually looks ten folds better than in pictures (at least in the ones I used to take). Thank you for sharing these!

Thank “Human Goodness” for the Gutenberg Project and all the books I’ll get to immerse myself into, especially in such hard times 🙏

@prologic@twtxt.net LOL Thanks to you, even I started using signal.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de TBH I don’t like Matrix… It feels a bit messy, my conversations and servers I join tend to get mangled, some stuff tend to have some sub-stuff… etc. I don’t hate it though, because I know I may have been using it wrong.

But hey, have you ever tried Databag ? Your family might get a better user experience with this one.

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com Enjoy it while it lasts… it’s been hot as hell in here in the last couple of days.

@johanbove@johanbove.info Did they produce a new season or you’re just catching up with the old ones? It has been ages since the last time I’ve watched any of it.

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know if there is/will be a Crowdsec bouncer to handle something like that. 🤔

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club That’s actually awesome! Happy seeing the pace at which it’s starting to pick up momentum as far as getting more eyes on the project, especially after the “Ladybird Browser Initiative” announcement, that surely got a lot more people talking.

I don’t remember who was looking for a way to block A.I bots/scrappers. But here’s an article by Cloudflare “Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click” offering a way to do so even for the ones spoofing their User-Agent and such.

@prx@si3t.ch A banger! 🤘

@bender@twtxt.net YES! They’ll be sucking on a 1000GB Lollipop per request! 😂 I bet their VPS providers will be happy! VERY happy!

Eyes on logs… Waiting for the first s-kiddo to knock on my door. Got a Huge treat, just for them. *wink*

Hey @movq@www.uninformativ.de !! here’s an article you might find interesting: Blocking Bots with Nginx … this person is actually blocking AI Bots based on a list of User Agents in an interesting way. 👍

@bender@twtxt.net Actually the video is a reaction to: HTMX Sucks that is originally an essay by Carson Gross (the creator) in the “The worse-is-better design philosophy” and what not style. So No, it isn’t … or at least not in the sense one would get from such a title. 😄

@prologic@twtxt.net Watched that one the other day after seeing that much chatter about #HTMX on the feed. And now I’m watching HTMX Sucks - Youtube by the same person (or should I say people?) 😂

Edit: Its* main… etc.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de A Honest response: As far as I’m concerned, It’s main feature is … I’m bored and ready to try anything that crosses my path, might learn a thing or two along the way. 😅

Some(one/thing) is going Berserk at my web server and some of their requests are "GET /etc/shadow HTTP/1.1" and "GET /.ssh/id_ed25519 HTTP/1.1" … I think they should try and POST some kind of sudo rm -rf /* while they’re at it; it would be funnier.

@prologic@twtxt.net Can’t pin point what changed and I’m not sure if it’s some placebo effect or something but it feels quite nice! 😂👍✨

I’m still alive ! Here’s a quick, brainless recap dump before I switch back to the other side:

• Been daily driving FreeBSD on the o(ther)ld machine for the last couple of days.
  
• Read through the handbook, played around with jails, pulled on my hair because of network issues (I think I might have maybe fixed that) … etc.
  
• Still procrastinating over migrating my Jenny/Mutt setup out there. until then, I’ll be getting my Twtxt fix reading through conversations over on the twtxt.net ✌
  
• Gave a couple of Nostr based platforms a try, it was … not for me to say the least.
  
• Started learning Emacs (I know, I’m in trouble LOL) and might even start twtin’ from there instead.

@bmallred@staystrong.run yep! it’s all good now! 👍

@prx@si3t.ch J’espère que vous allez bien. Et c’est fous comme histoire, j’ai vu exactement la même sur BFM ce matain où le conducteur âgé (70 ans et quelques si je me rappelle bien) impliqué dans l’accident a fini par percuter quelqu’un d’autre quelques minutes après le premier accident.

@bmallred@staystrong.run No I was trying the other one I got from logs, it’s missing the /user subdirectory:

"GET /twtxt.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 27110 "-" "nahongvita/0.1.0 (+https://staystrong.run/bmallred/twtxt.txt; @bmallred)"

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you!

@prologic@twtxt.net Not anymore LOL

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It looks like this one actually reads the robots.txt … it did a couple of times over the past few weeks.

“GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1” 304 0 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot)”

@bender@twtxt.net well… reading through This I can but wonder if it is defending anything at all…

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, that’s just sad! I’d hoped it would be as much of nice experience as it is around here…

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ve been using Qwant for a while but it was down earlier today (as well 😆) so I switched back to my trusty Searx Redirector

… This utility forwards your search query to one of 11 random volunteer-run public servers to thwart mass surveillance.

Hello @bmallred@staystrong.run I hope you’re doing well.
I dunno if it’s normal, but it seems like I am unable to access your twtxt.tx file… 😅

Oh Look!! There’s a Twtxt #IRC channel ! 😃

@bender@twtxt.net yes! That’s how I ended up doing it after a bit of trial and error with a couple of VMs 👍

Holly insert inappropriate word here ! 🤣 I have finally done it !!!

FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) #0 releng/14.0-n265380-f9716eee8ab4: Fri Nov 10 05:57:23 UTC 2023

Welcome to FreeBSD!

% pkg update
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]:

A freshly installed #FreeBSD Over SSH, thanks to mfsBSD !

@prologic@twtxt.net I’ve just discovered @thecanine@twtxt.net and @iolfree@tilde.club ’s feeds. I believe you already know of them 👍

Ouiiiiii… two more interesting feeds to follow! 🤩
Hi everyone!

Wait a minute! Nyxt browser can surf gopher, gemini aaaaaand http!? 😲

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I have this one as per some article I read some time ago… But just like the robots.txt I don’t think you have any grantee that it would be honored, you might even have a better chance hunting for and blocking user-agents.

@prx@si3t.ch there is this ImageGoNord thing I’d found reading an Eww Bar article a couple of months ago… It lets you convert a wallpaper/image to conform to a color pallet, hope you fine it useful.

@prologic@twtxt.net Wait! That’s actually a Mastodon(.)social one! 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net LOL fare enough! I’ll keep that in mind fir future twts … I hope invidious instances are ok 🤣

Sorry not sorry ranger…

SuperFile a Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager written in #go.

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@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks! I’ll definitely need it !!

… So it’s gonna be either a:

• Find a way to do a Chroot install a la Chad Arch Linux way, on a portion of the disk space while I’m Ssh-ing in and then whip out the old debian installation if all goes well.
  
• or a YOLO automated/unattended install.
  

Either way, I’m ready to deal with the eff up! Because I’ve never done none of that before… 😂

What’s all of this about? one may ask…

Well I’ve been itching to toy around with a BSD on actual hardware and away from the comfort of VMs. NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD… It doesn’t matter. I just want to “Make it feel… Make it feel alive AGAIN!”

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I’ve ripped off it’s GPU about a year ago to rescue another computer … Now I’m stuck with only SSH to play with it. Since it came with just a VGA port for display and my monitor takes all but THAT!

Planning a file back up from an old machine that’s been sitting in the corner gathering dust… Because I know ! I’m about to eff it up, BIIIIG Time ! 😂

@mckinley@mckinley.cc I’ve just given it a try and built a signal desktop AppImage from source, since they only distribute deb packages… I’m actually quite impressed! 👍✨

@movq@www.uninformativ.de imagine remapping them to reboot and shutdown instead. That would be fun, wouldn’t it? 😂

Good night Twtxt!

/me have to get some sleep before loosing a leg or two to cramps … fatigue is real! 😅

Sweaty hands + A touch screen = A Huge pain in the butt 😫 … I gotta find that OTG ASAP!!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m personally using the android app as is. Didn’t set up my own notifications server, the default one works just fine I guess.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de can’t Ntfy help with that? That’s how I get my signal notifications (I think).

This guide may me of help…
Good luck!

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh! sorry about that! I’m ok with signal.

@prologic@twtxt.net I tried to but couldn’t. Also, I was prompted to resend the email elsewhere… Will do in a minute. 👍

@prologic@twtxt.net

1. The “Story of my life” (the less serious answer)
   
2. Being “The Black Sheep” from the old tale ? (the serious answer)

@prologic@twtxt.net I was replaying to your twt and thing got too long and messy, so I emailed you. I hope you don’t mind.

@Rob@jsreed5.org Coming from HTTP and discovered both at the same time, my preference might be biased towards Gemini because of the content syntax but I love both equally.

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm… it sounds like being stuck in a “Filter bubble”. 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Checking it out right away! Thanks!

@shreyan@twtxt.net Nothing much, still trying to figure out a proper way to manage a gemlog and a phlog using Hugo.

Otherwise, I’m just exploring new tty stuff … Anything I should try?

@prologic@twtxt.net Awesome! I guess that fixed it. Unless @bender@twtxt.net sees otherwise LOL.

p.s: Broken mentions again?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You ARE AWESOME!

I was RTFMing trying to figure out how to set this up in my .vimrc Thank you!

This is a test twt to see if :set formatoptions-=t in vim would stop the annoying line breaking I’ve been having in my twts… And I guess, that’s it! Things are looking OK on my end.

How about if I add in a separate paragraph like this one? Did hit return twice for it. I hope it isn’t breaking anything else.

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah I’ve been having this problem for quite sometime now. It boils down to Vi/Vim/NeoVim inserting those line breaks automatically when editing an .eml file (if I can remember the file extension correctly) … I think Jenny makes use of those. I had to delete them manually until I was told that the problem was fixed after I added the charset utf-8; to my nginx config file. I’ll try and fix this next…