@prologic@twtxt.net oh, of course!
Low-tech net, solar-powered net, eco nets…

@prologic@twtxt.net 👀 In my context we use “Platform” often, but not “Ecosystem”, I guess I need to research a bit on the difference to understand it better.
Thanks for sharing all that! I always forget the About page

Ecosystems vs Platforms

Smol net, hobbyist net, slow net, the hipster net… A few ideas emerging around Web 2.0, 3.0, and Apps-based Internet.

@darch@neotxt.dk If I may add something, I think it needs more contrast for the Dark theme. (I don’t know how I reached that theme on Edge, perhaps browser settings? On LibreWolf it shows the Light one)

Screenshot of my profile in neotxt.dk

@darch@neotxt.dk Gotcha!

Como twtxt.txt tiene algunas limitaciones para hacer un microblogging más parecido al de Twitter, se hicieron algunas extensiones, y servicios Web para hacer más sencillo el hosting, responder y en general usarlo.
Por ejemplo: https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twthashextension.html

Twtxt.net es una instancia de la plataforma Yarn.social, que supongo que inició como twt.social
YouTube - Twt.social a new way to social media. No ads, no tracking, 100% decentralised.
La idea es facilitar el hosting de los archivos .txt, y ofrecer una interfaz Web para usarlo.
@prologic@twtxt.net puede contarnos mejor la historia de Yarn. Pasado, presente y futuro.

Aquí viene un breve resumen de la idea detrás de twtxt y Yarn:
https://indieweb.org/twtxt#Yarn.social

@sl1200@twt.nfld.uk Bueno, creo que tendría que escribir un poco sobre twtxt en el blog.

twxt.txt es el formato para hacer microblogging en un archivo de texto en un servidor. Parecido a finger aunque con timestamps. Aquí el último spec que conozco: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html#format-specification

La idea era tener un microblogging minimalista, descentralizado y orientado a Hackers.
Yo lo conocí, pues se usa en Gemini para hacer listados de post, y Antenna lo usa aunque no hay mucho contenido.

Mmm, lo leí muy rápidamente, mi error. Deja ver si lo entendí:
gemini://sl1200.dystopic.world/art/notes_from_the_address_bar.gmi

La contraseña sirve para crear un secreto en base32, en vez de bits random.
El TOTP servirá como un Token con validez de 60 segundos, que va en la URL.

Entiendo entonces que en vez de un 2FA, es un factor único aquí. Mientras coincida con el secreto te permite publicar anotaciones.

Me gustó, pues hice algo parecido para mi archivo twtxt https://eapl.mx/twtxt.txt con este servicio Web https://eapl.mx/twtxt/
Había empezado con TOTP, luego con par Público/Privado, aunque al final lo dejé en WebAuthn, con sus ventajas e inconvenientes. Muy rápido puedo iniciar sesión en la laptop o el teléfono y empezar a publicar :)

Well, new year, and a new Profile tagline/description/bio…

https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx

@bender@twtxt.net haha, I was trying to say “at the end of the description” but last is technically correct 😆

BTW I’m watching that the last link in the profile [eapl.me](https://eapl.me) is not being converted from MD into an HTML link 🤔

@darch@neotxt.dk

I'm on the cover!

Hehe, it’s looking great, good job!

BTW for my personal Weekly planning I use the ISO date instead of 16january2022, b/c is easier to me to calculate time between week 14 and 22 than between random dates.
Also for work we switched to “months” of 4 weeks. I learned that working with Germans and works well!

If it’s interesting for any of you, you can check the current week enabling it in your calendar app or here:
https://gemugami.com/week/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First day of the week are Sundays, so the first ‘calendar’ week started on January 1st, 2023. That’s problematic for using ISO weeks, but it works for this project. Start of the week is at Sunday-Monday midnight which is about Sun 6pm here. You register your exercise from Sun to Sun.

For this project on Python I used that isocalendar module from datetime lib.

The bad implementation was on using something like

next_week = current_week + 1

which was not valid when the year changed, worked for all 2022 except the last week, ha! This year the weekly summary just stopped working.

And also I had to check when that happens. Some years have 52 weeks and others 53.

Switching from 2022 to 2023 broke a few things on the weekly processing for FitBot (ISO weeks FTW).
Yes, I had a few months to prepare for it, but you know… The end of the year suddenly came.

After finally finding some time to code, I could fix many things that needed to be redesigned. And a lot of refactoring is needed. Perhaps a few Unit testing would be helpful, since simulating records in the past is always tricky.
#codingSunday

@sl1200@twt.nfld.uk buenísimo! Me gusta poder iniciar sesión con TOTP, lo implementé en algunos servicios, y pienso que para Gemini funciona bastante bien.

Thanks!

warm at last

     \  /       Partiellement couvert
   _ /"".-.     17 °C          
     \_(   ).   ↖ 20 km/h      
     /(___(__)  16 km          
                0.0 mm        

@ychbn@twtxt.net I’m seriously considering it for a next personal project, perhaps for classes too…

Any general advice coming from git/gitbucket/github?

@bender@twtxt.net well, something I like from it is the mix between Forums + SMS + Blogs + Comments. I don’t like that much Vanity metrics nor Notifications, but those makes microblogging “more useful”.

And at the same time the mix of all those features is its weakness. It’s easy to oversimplify an idea. But as we like to fight on ideas, well, it’s a side effect en engagement.

Yeah, it has changed the society, the way we express ourselves, and how we socialize around ideas. For me, it makes me shape my communication, being nearby my friends and colleagues, and a few followers in my discipline. Hasn’t work for the academy and research, tho.

#randomQuestionOfTheDay

How has the microblogging improved your life?

@bender@twtxt.net oh yes!

     \  /       Partly cloudy
   _ /"".-.     13 °C
     \_(   ).   → 9 km/h
     /(___(__)  13 km
                0.0 mm

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net 46 km/h, sounds a lot 😧

BTW how do you get that visualization? , looks nice

and adding the web manifest to make it work like a “Web app” on the phone on top of the browser. I’ll take a look into it tomorrow, I don’t recall exact details.

@prologic@twtxt.net could we start with this?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43646568/how-do-i-create-an-add-to-home-screen-instruction-page-for-ios-web-apps

@prologic@twtxt.net sorry! The learning curve for Dart / Flutter has been… well… steep

We need to discuss that. I think we’ll need so many fixes for the Mobile app to reach the current version for the web. What about thinking on a PWA, or similar?

Currently, I’m using the Web as a Home app (or whatever is called), and works amazingly. I’m not using Goryon now, nor any apps for social service, but that’s a personal preference.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Why? What nerve did it touch?

Disclaimer: I’m a fan of the smol net as one of my hobbies. Even simplified and hipster protocols like Gemini, but not the new forks.

@bender@twtxt.net regressed protocol =P

I’d like to know more numbers for techs like GPS/Navigation, Twitter, TikTok, AI/ML based assistants. Decisions taken based on ML. Wearables. Medicine. Encryption. % of population with a mobile device and Internet access.
It’s going so fast that we can’t remember how to live w/o those technologies, anymore.
As a tech designer is exciting. As a world citizen… Well, a bit overwhelming, but with hope that all that tech won’t make us consumerists.

#stupidMooresLaw #buckleUp

@bender@twtxt.net gotcha! Apple offers a great ‘default’ ecosystem IMO. I was surprised that was being used in new environments, like manufacturing companies. iPhone even replaced blackberry 10 years ago.

I also think now there are a lot of self-hosted/Open options, for instance Obsidian instead of Notion.
I use Google Drive and Docs instead of MS Office, but obviously I’d like to have something good enough w/o Google.
Paint.net instead of Gimp and Photoshop. Inkscape is not great replacement of Illustrator, but works. Godot is becoming as good as Unity 2D. Blender is a good tool taught in schools… Just to name a few subscription free alternatives

@prologic@twtxt.net agreed 100%, in the case of cars, it’s just insane

#quoteOfTheDay

What 1 programmer can do in 1 month, 2 programmers can do in 2 months - Fred Brooks

disclaimer, I don’t know what I’m talking about

@prologic@twtxt.net agreed. Those reasons sounds reasonable to me, although I think there are many, many kinds of software that not all fit on every case. How could we compare current software to that made under different conditions?
That said, I name an interesting case. Videogames and movies. The price is almost the same, 40-60 USD for a AAA game, or 10 USD for a Hollywood ticket. And I think it hasn’t raised due to inflation, but budgets are increasing, technical features and quality is debatable improving. Gone with the wind” is in the top 1 taking inflation into consideration, but it’s an outlier.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films_adjusted_for_inflation

That’s why I like thinks live the Big Mac index (and many others), to understand the current difficulty to make a product under the current purchasing power.

@bender@twtxt.net Mind to share a few vanilla apps you are using ?

On the topic, I have mixed feelings. With Apps/Software/Services that are continuously improving, it could be acceptable IMO. My main issue is when you keep paying for a “finished product”. It’s more complicated if it has ads, it’s freemium, uses servers, and so on.
On the production side, well, they do it because they can (although we don’t like that they can, it seems). Development costs are continuously increasing, so it’s an endless rush to spend more to compete, subsidize costs somehow, then earn more, rinse and repeat.
I’ve seen successes of 5-10% on indie developers, but I’d like to know the numbers for huge companies. I’d expect to have big pressure from investors to sustain growth and fail way less.

Christmas season is over, so let’s get back to my summer avatar…

Wait! It’s still cold here 🥶

Today it has been difficult to focus on designing the course/book for Unity, C# and Poker.

There are many moving parts that I have to settle as learning objectives, that I’m a bit overwhelmed. I simplified the game a lot, yet not enough it seems. That’s when I recall phrases like “The hard things about hard things”

Also, Unity is too visual to be taught by a book. At the same time I want to write a book about a topic I like 🤔
A reference is “Head first C#”, which I used to learn C# in 2008, so I think it’s feasible to a certain extent.

Thank you to that unknown hero who fixed the horizontal issue on mobile devices for twtxt.net

Take a taco 🌮

@movq@www.uninformativ.de FOMO perhaps?

I even find this annoying in YouTube App… I don’t watch nor produce live content. Allow me to hide the kind of content I don’t want to watch. 👀

Since I’m again collecting dozens of links to read later in my Telegram Notes, I’ll try a different approach.

I’ll be saving those to Markdown files on Obsidian, and then I’ll upload them to my web. Instead of opening any social service or “forum” like Hacker News looking for new stuff to read, I’ll check that list before.
Let’s see how it works.

I am sharing it here in case it’s interesting to you:
https://eapl.mx/links/

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net I like calls, but I don’t like to be interrupted.

What has worked for me, and many from my generation is a short msg like “Available for a call? / Sure”

Also https://eapl.mx/15 has been really useful to have a call in the future

@justamoment@twtxt.net I like that way, and personally follow something similar.

IMO it’s OK to be opinionated, to respect differences. One example is with Operating Systems. Do you want to use Mac, Win, Ubuntu? That’s OK. You say that ecosystem is better? Nice, enjoy it!

My curiosity goes on understanding the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the tech we use, and, why not? Having a great conversation with a beer or our favorite drink when it’s more convenient to both. Calling is caring 🙂

@prologic@twtxt.net thanks dude! 😀

@justamoment@twtxt.net hehe, sorry… It happened once to me in my personal Ubuntu VPS and I couldn’t even delete anything, ha!

And I’m watching that my grammar is awful in the last twts… 😅

I guess I’ll have dinner first and then I’ll switch off the phone for a while.

Enjoy over there!

But I think I’m too deep into controversial topics.
I guess I’ll switch to more mundane topics for a while.

I watched Willow, a fun movie from the 80s. And finished recording a class about DRM and Piracy… Interesting Saturday here. How is going yours?

I was listening to a conversation about “fake it until you make it”, based on the Theranos case. It’s in Spanish, so it wouldn’t be useful to be shared here, but the topic made think.

The idea topic is, don’t lie. It’s unsustainable. Avoid distorsion fields and “validation circles” when you trust what someone else trusted. Yeah, we have to manage the truth, and we have to know when someone is lying to us (pretty hard in some circles). It’s not as easy as “never lie”, so many due diligence on our beliefs is needed, even with risk of discovering the truth.

Reading that book about the Telegraph made me thing A LOT on the history of technology. Another book about history of power made me think on our short lifetime of, let’s say 50 productive years, how much we can impact in society from what we currently are, to the future of society in 100 years.

Action and thinking… Progress, quality of life, a better world for our families, resources. Transcendence. These are things that have moved a lot of people for the last centuries.

I think the current life speed is faster than it should, but I guess that depends on our reference point.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I agree with that part, lying is wrong, although people like to live some lies, but that’s another conversation.

I don’t agree that automating a help line is completely wrong per se… We’ll need to define lines on, at this right moment of humanity, what’s “right, true, and such”

Something I don’t agree with is polarization of “everything about this subject is wrong” “everything is amazing”.

It’s good to be opinionated, I respect different ideas (right or wrong). I prefer to say “Perhaps I’m wrong. Tell me more…”

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci perhaps I sound realistic… And yeah, realistically pessimistic. I’d like to know viable alternatives, not ideal but practical.

How are we going to stop it?
Like when social networks spread in humanity and we received warnings of its danger. We are using microblogging to talk about it, as we are going to use AI/ML more and more, but so slowly we are not going to perceive their inclusion in society. It’s in our keyboard auto correct, our browsers, personal assistants, search engines… So, what can be done?

@justamoment@twtxt.net congrats! I haven’t filled a drive in years 👀