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More specifically: Will this be expanded into something like Gitea with the concept of users and organizations, or will it stay with a simple flat repository model like upstream legit or cgit?

Also, the shorthand mention syntax has struck again. Apologies, @justamoment@twtxt.net.

I would personally love to see the Git log provided as a twtxt feed. Gitea’s feed situation is still awful. I don’t think anybody skimmed the Atom spec before they released the feature.

@prologic@twtxt.net and @justamoment, this Gitxt project sounds really interesting. Can you tell us about some of your goals?

@justamoment@twtxt.net I don’t even have Web server logs enabled.

I love mitmproxy. That and nethogs are my go-to network monitoring tools.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There’s also the ed(1) cloud service, ssh ed@bitreich.org.

@prologic@twtxt.net Because all of those things require resources which can’t just be created out of thin air. Human effort must be expended, risk must be taken, materials must be procured, and everyone involved needs to be compensated in some way for that.

@justamoment@twtxt.net That’s awesome!

@prologic@twtxt.net I imagine it’s something along the lines of the Eternal September.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is computing, we don’t get rid of historical baggage.

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As you’ve said, @prologic@twtxt.net, it’s impossible to monopolize twtxt because it’s just a text file format. Also, Yarnd is under the AGPL, so anyone is free to fork it if they don’t like where the project is going. Fortunately, it’s under great leadership and development is steered more by the community than the owner of the repository.

Don’t let it get to you, man. Interoperability with vanilla twtxt is the best feature of Yarn, and it’s not worth breaking that because of one person. Besides, you won’t win him over even if you do.

Who’s going to tell him that the metadata fields are a Yarn extension?

@Jirka@jirka.sdf.org You can’t just post something like that without giving us any details or pictures…

Are you running IRIX on the SGIs?

@prologic@twtxt.net You could just point people directly to yarn.social. That could be a very effective guerrilla marketing campaign.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci QR codes and link shorteners can be useful, but people have been trained to click and scan things without doing their due diligence. Of course, mobile operating systems make it very difficult to do so because their goal is to remove as much control as is acceptable by the user.

As far as I know, you have to load the page in a browser before you can see the entire URL, giving it the opportunity to redirect somewhere else or exploit some vulnerability on your device.

I think we agree here. When the user has no control and is taught to blindly trust these things, bad things happen.

@marado@twtxt.net We really need to stop using link shorteners and QR codes, but the damage is already done.

You can put a sticker with a QR code (and no other information) on a wall in a city and people will scan it out of curiosity. They scan it, their iPhone only tells them it goes to snapchat.com (I just checked on the latest version of iOS), and they end up on my website instead because it’s an open redirect.

Granted, my website is a much better place to be than snapchat.com, but you get the idea.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m just joking around. It doesn’t really matter to me.

We are performing scheduled maintenance.

Where is the schedule, @prologic@twtxt.net? :)

@prologic@twtxt.net This is completely accurate.

@prologic@twtxt.net This feed is the live chat over at gopher://magical.fish/. Anyone can post to it by participating in chat, and there’s no mechanism to view replies from external feeds.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The 23rd? Why even bother with a tree at that point? We would usually have one about a week into December. They last much longer if you have one of those tree bases with a water reservoir.

That’s interesting, we don’t follow that procedure over here. The tree goes up, presents sit under it. As a child, I got to open presents from extended family members the night of Christmas Eve. Then, presents from Santa on Christmas morning and a big dinner that night. In my family, we’d have Thanksgiving dinner (turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, etc) again because none of us really liked ham, which was the most popular choice of entree.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net This isn’t uncommon in the US. In my house, there were always some presents under the tree well before Christmas. There were some for my parents from each other, or for me from other family members, but there were usually one or two for me from my parents, labeled as such. On Christmas morning, Santa would bring most of my presents.

@prologic@twtxt.net Shoot, my bad. It totally slipped my mind. I’ll see you next week.

@logout@i-logout.cz

doesn’t run Windows, just Linux

I’d consider this a feature, not a bug, but I’m glad you got it to work in the end. Where did you get the CPU and board?

@kt84@twtxt.net City Planner Plays is a real urban planner that plays city building games using real-life concepts, teaching the viewers about them along the way. It’s very addictive, and educational too.

I would recommend starting at the beginning of one of the cities (the videos are organized in YouTube playlists). Verde Beach is my personal favorite, but you can take your pick. It’s extremely gratifying to watch a city grow from the ground up.

@prologic@twtxt.net I appreciate it, but there’s really nothing to “get involved” with at the moment. It’s just a shell script on my laptop that I run every day and a ~5GiB directory on my SSD. It isn’t a big deal, I just talk about it because I think it’s interesting and I’m having fun tinkering with it.

Eventually, I’ll make the script public so anyone can easily maintain archives. There’s still a lot I want to do before that, though.

@prologic@twtxt.net Git itself is a distributed network of mirrors. It’s impossible to truly kill a Git repository as long as someone still has a clone of it on their computer.

However, simple clones are inefficient on disk space and a simple git fetch will happily obliterate its history if the remote says so.

My goals are as follows.

1. Create high quality archives of a large number of repositories and keep them up to date.
   
2. Make them resilient against attacks from the inside, including (but not limited to) force-pushing an empty history and maliciously deleting branches on the remote.
   
3. Minimize storage and bandwidth usage, including (but not limited to) running git gc --aggressive when cloning and not fetching unnecessary commits, e.g. Dependabot and pull requests.

@prologic@twtxt.net No, it’s just private for now. I’ll share individual repositories when they get nuked, of course. I’m open to the idea of making them publicly available, though.

I wonder if I could push to a Git remote with my current setup. That would be the simplest way to do public distribution and remote backups.

Also, Portal 64 kept freezing on me so I played F-Zero X instead.

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net A lot of my repositories are on the list specifically to guard against BS takedown requests like when youtube-dl was DMCA’d. I started the project when I discovered Wikiless was taken down, so I have just about all of the popular self-hosted frontends as well.

Portal64 looks interesting, I haven’t heard about it. I might need to get an N64 emulator going.

@prologic@twtxt.net I haven’t had any new problems. I’ve run into #957 a few times, but that’s about it.

@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net I track a lot of repositories with a risk of becoming unavailable for whatever reason. The script tracks how many times in a row Git fails to fetch updates, so I can tell when a remote dies.

However, since it’s so easy to add new ones, it’s mostly repositories which aren’t likely to disappear but carry a lot of value. For example, 143 MiB on my hard drive for the complete history of FFmpeg is a no-brainer for me.

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s a U+202E Right-to-Left Override.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de, I’m glad it only broke your client a little bit. Yarnd seems to have handled it pretty well.

‮Has anyone tried this before?

@prologic@twtxt.net All the way at the bottom. It’s tied for 6th place with 1 repository archived.

@mckinley@mckinley.cc If you’re curious, here are the top 5 domains.

    106 github.com
     15 codeberg.org
      7 gitlab.com
      7 git.codemadness.org
      4 bitreich.org

@axodys@octobloc.xyz Your octobloc.xyz pod is accessible at https://143.198.67.160/, https://www.gamevault999.com/, and https://creativeaxile.com/. You might want to fix that.

@tkanos@twtxt.net I like to ask the same question about PRISM. Just look at the reach the NSA had in 2013: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM#The_slides

Boy, I wonder what they’re doing with the massive Utah Data Center which was completed in 2014.

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@bender@twtxt.net No, it was known, but if you talked about it you were a Racist Spreader of Misinformation and needed to have a disclaimer below the post saying so.

@bender@twtxt.net I’ve committed the cardinal sin of the Internet: Linking to a website with a conservative bias. At least they’re open about it.

@marado@twtxt.net I guess it’s that time of the year again, huh?

@tkanos@twtxt.net @abucci@anthony.buc.ci

The biggest question is what is “misinformation”, I believe the answer change according your beliefs.

Exactly. I remember when it was an insane, racist conspiracy theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan lab, now it’s right there on Wikipedia.

Conversely, do you remember that study from Imperial College that projected 2.2 million deaths from COVID in the US alone? Total misinformation.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci

Misinformation purveyors have very detailed strategies for how to draw unsuspecting people into an echo chamber and keep them there.

I’d say a pretty good way to get people into an echo chamber is to force them into their own space where their ideas get no pushback at all.

@eaplmx@twtxt.net This is really cool. It works great without JavaScript, too.

To make the amount of options less confusing, how about putting each day into an HTML details element? Also, is the source available yet?

@logout@i-logout.cz Very cool :)

I have a Dual 2GHz G5 in storage. I wanted to set it up with a modern OS and have a usable non-x86 machine, but I don’t have much time to tinker nowadays.

@logout@i-logout.cz I see. I misunderstood your post. You’re talking about emulating PowerPC Windows, not emulating Windows on PowerPC. Congrats on getting it running on actual hardware.

Did you run Leopard for all that time on your G5?

@logout@i-logout.cz Windows can run on QEMU on Apple PowerPC machines, but I think you need a G5 Quad for it to be even remotely usable. Here’s Windows 7 on a dual PowerPC G5. I’ve seen QEMU running Windows on a G5 with GNU/Linux as the host OS as well.

Microsoft also had their Virtual PC software for PowerPC Macs.

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee I can relate.

@prologic@twtxt.net I thought we were punctuating our posts with the names of programming languages, since you said “Go!”

PHP!