@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Lab6 always delivers. You should check out some of their previous issues if you haven’t already. https://lab6.com/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thank you, I’ll have to follow your phlog’s Atom feed. I see you’re using tag URIs, nice. :)

That looks like a good system. Simple and effective. I ask because my current backup system is lacking and I’d like to do something about that. I don’t want to use cloud storage, so I’ll be moving hard drives around. I’m just not sure on what to do on the software side.

Solutions like Restic and Borg have many advantages, but the disadvantage is that your data is confined to that particular tool. I think I’m willing to make that trade to have snapshots, compression, deduplication, etc. I’m just on the fence about which one I should use.

@prologic@twtxt.net, why did you choose Restic? How do you like it so far? If you’ve had to restore from the backup, what was that like?

QOTD: How do you back up your files?

Announcing again on this feed for visibility

mckinley.cc is now available as a Tor hidden service: http://mckinley2nxomherwpsff5w37zrl6fqetvlfayk2qjnenifxmw5i4wyd.onion/

I don’t want ~27 hours generating keys to go to waste :)

What’s everyone up to this weekend?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I reworked the paragraph about security and improved that sentence. Hopefully it’s a little more clear.

However, the key on the unencrypted partition is only valid for the time it takes to reboot, assuming we reboot as soon as the script completes.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I get it. I wouldn’t set this up for anyone else. Systems that are on all the time don’t benefit as much from at-rest encryption, anyway. This is definitely an interesting solution, however, and it has worked well for me in the past 1-2 weeks. We’ll see how it goes in 1-2 years.

Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230526.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I didn’t know about fc either. It will definitely come in handy.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You can also do sudo !! (or doas !!) if you’re using Bash.

@news@twtxt.net I guess the electric companies are the same everywhere.

What’s everyone been up to lately?

@adi@twtxt.net I remember talking about it, but I can’t find a link to a tool in my bookmarks or my twtxt feeds. Sorry, man. Look up “vanity QR codes”.

@prologic@twtxt.net I have thought briefly about this. I have no idea how this could be done with the current twtxt thread paradigm.

This twt is from a user you have muted.

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s significantly cheaper to open an exchange and get people to hold their money in a custodial wallet than it is to perform a 51% attack on an established cryptocurrency.

Monero in particular uses an algorithm that’s supposed to be ASIC resistant and, while it can be mined on a GPU, it’s more efficient to mine on a CPU. I’m curious if that makes it easier or harder for a hostile entity to perform a 51% attack.

Oh, I just saw the other thread. Don’t put your wallet on the VPS unless you have a specific reason to do so. If you do, make sure your keys are stored on a local machine. It’s fine to run a node there, but run the wallet locally and configure it to use your node if you can.

@adi@twtxt.net Surely you can configure the wallet to use a remote node. I’ve heard good things about Feather Wallet if you want something friendlier. https://github.com/feather-wallet/feather

I’m worried that Yarn will become just another ActivityPub frontend. This integration threatens to split the community in two. Users of Twtxt clients without ActivityPub support won’t want to follow Yarn users because they’ll be engaged in conversations that are inaccessible to standard Twtxt clients. It will only force the split deeper if ActivityPub is an option to be toggled by users or pod operators.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Tying all your Internet traffic to a Google account… What could go wrong?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You should; it’s worse than you think.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net This is a very interesting tech demo, but I’ll stick with human-made TV shows.

@logout@i-logout.cz I’ve been reading that blog for some time. I didn’t know you were the one behind it. Excellent post!

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know where it came from originally, but it’s absolutely true.

The freedoms you surrender today are the freedoms your grandchildren will never know existed.

“AC/DC” is pronounced one letter at a time, though the band are colloquially known as “Acca Dacca” in Australia.

Is this true, @prologic@twtxt.net?

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci It does, but keepassxc-cli makes you type in your passphrase for literally every operation, with no way to cache it like gpg-agent does.

@eaplmx@twtxt.net I’m using KeePassXC at the moment. I want to move to something in the terminal. Thinking of migrating to pass/pass-tomb. Anyone here have experience with that? How do you like it?

On the new Wikipedia theme: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230119.html

@xuu@txt.sour.is Twtxt.net has 58 going all the way back to the hello world twt. I wonder why your pod isn’t picking up all those twts in between.

@win0error@kolesnikov.se Looks very interesting. Is this a recreation of the original client in C?

I compiled it and followed you, but whenever I run ./twtwt timeline it requests my followed feeds in an infinite loop. I didn’t realize until I sent, probably, 150 requests, so I’m very sorry for clogging up your logs. ./twtwt view win0error works fine.

@dima1986148@twtxt.net ESL or ARG?

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net Link? yt-dlp supports nearly 2000 sites. I’m sure you could stitch something together, perhaps with ratt and a cron job.

@xuu @prologic@twtxt.net This looks very similar to #957.

@bender@twtxt.net I do wish there was a TUI client but it only took a minute or so to build gtkatlantic on my system.

Anyone want to try out gtkatlantic? It’s an online clone of Monopoly.

Well, really, it’s the only frontend to a board game server that can be used as an online clone of Monopoly.

There are a couple public instances that we can use.

@darch@neotxt.dk Looks fine over on twtxt.net

@kdx@kdx.re Your website hurts my brain

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org As far as I know, they’re still visible in the Web UI. Although, in the mobile app and youtube.com, I believe it tells you that the video isn’t available without having to click on it. They don’t tell you that in the RSS feed, and I agree; it gets annoying.

If we had a custom feed generator that hooks directly into the YouTube API, I’ll bet we could find that information and put “[Scheduled][Scheduled=][Scheduled][Scheduled=][Scheduled][Scheduled=][Scheduled][Scheduled=]” in the title for premieres and remove it when the video is available.

@prologic@twtxt.net Why are you questioning it? Apple knows best. You’re lucky they let you use their computer at all.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de In time…

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I disagree. I think the “modern” definition of the word has a place here. An individual exercising his power over you on a platform to suppress you, not because you’ve violated any sort of rule, but because he doesn’t like what you say, is at least an attempt at censorship. What would you call that?

If there was a rule that you’ve broken, then it’s content moderation. A separate discussion can be had over whether or not that rule is just.

Fortunately, twtxt is very difficult to suppress completely. As long as I can still put a text file somewhere for people to download, I can still post.

I just realized that whole thing started with this thread. How did a post sharing a dial-in firework service in the terminal become a 5-fork-deep conversation about censorship on the Internet?

@prologic@twtxt.net Open registrations should be an option for pod admins. I would like to see a per-pod invite system, though.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Of course you can censor people without being a nation-state. It’s just a question of power. If @prologic@twtxt.net decided he didn’t like what I have to say, he could add a line to the code of yarnd that automatically hides posts on all pods if it came from me. Would that not be censorship?

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci An NPC would be programmed to find these ideas dangerous. Hmm…

@prologic@twtxt.net I fully agree, but my thoughts on this are a little long for a twt.

Apple doesn’t care about you: https://mckinley.cc/notes/20221229-apple-doesnt-care.html

@prologic@twtxt.net

Should we go for multi-user and org/user? Or keep it simple?

I really don’t know which would be better.

You would need user accounts for issues and to facilitate collaboration, unless you used e-mail, which isn’t really a bad thing. The SourceHut model works very well.

No matter what, I would love to be able to archive issues using Git alone. You were talking about integrating git-bug or something similar, and I think that’s an excellent idea.

@prologic@twtxt.net #1106. This is probably the most strange bug I’ve found.

Interesting… I’ll open an issue.