@bender@twtxt.net I am considering it. 😅 (I might end up being too lazy to set any of this up. 🤪)

Thought: If the invocation including --only-twt-hash fails to find that twt, it could ask a couple of Yarn instances for it (if configured).

(All this needs polishing.)

Honestly, the only thing I want to do on Mastodon is follow the #retrocomputing hashtag and sometimes post under that hashtag. That’s it. 😂

There was an outage of the Mastodon server I use this morning. A good reminder that this is a service that someone else hosts (and I don’t even pay for it). Could be gone tomorrow.

Now that I’ve got a server to spare (the Matrix one is gone), I might look into hosting a snac instance. 🤔

RIP, Matrix server. 🪦

$ doas rcctl stop synapse
synapse(ok)

@prologic@twtxt.net I would be so damned proud of that. 💪

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I’ve pushed a draft into the git repo.

You can now do a “oneshot fetch” for a URL:

jenny oneshot-fetch --url https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt --nick hacker-news-newest

This fetches the entire feed, which might be too much. So there’s also this, which only fetches a single twt:

jenny oneshot-fetch --url https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt --nick hacker-news-newest --only-twt-hash r6rbinq

Let me know what you think. 🤔

@quark@ferengi.one It’s really only about the hash, isn’t it? 🤔 The user mention (@<quark …) should still be visible in full?

@prologic@twtxt.net Ok, wow, yes, I really only do want that one single missing twt. The slashdot/hackernews feeds are huge. 🥴

@prologic@twtxt.net Where can I find Yarn’s API docs for that endpoint? 🤔 (If there is any. 😅)

@mckinley@twtxt.net That’s the file sharing stuff, right? I couldn’t care less about that. Frankly, I think it’s a shame that Usenet turned into that. 🫤

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m so sorry, I just can’t muster up the social energy for that. 😂 I’m sitting in video calls all week long and it’s … just … so … exhausting. I can’t, sorry. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, has this changed? Last time I checked, there was quite a bit of stuff going on. 😅

(The jenny code is getting a bit long and convoluted. I feel the need to refactor this quite a bit. That’s why I’m not implementing any of this right away.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, actually reading the spec helps. 🤦

(Btw, I deliberately don’t join #yarn.social all the time. If I did, I suspect that a couple of development discussions would move over from twtxt to IRC. 🤪 Okay, and I often prefer slow asynchronous communication.)

Btw, it’s kind of annoying that we have two syntax options for this. 😆

It can be

(<a href="https://txt.sour.is/search?q=tags:hash">#hash</a>) @<nick url>

or

@<nick url> (<a href="https://txt.sour.is/search?q=tags:hash">#hash</a>)

The latter is from an earlier convention/spec. How about deprecating or even removing this?

https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twtsubjectextension.html

@prologic@twtxt.net @falsifian@www.falsifian.org This just popped up in my head: How about adding a “fetch context” feature? Point jenny to some mail file that contains a twt (or pipe it to stdin) and it will try to auto-discover and fetch all related things. Like, if it sees something like @<falsifian https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt>, then it will look in https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt for a twt with hash tkjafka. Maybe even do this recursively until there are no new references anymore. This process could include explicitly querying some user-configurable Yarn pods as well. 🤔

It won’t always work. There’s no guarantee that tkjafka will be present in the given URL.

Hmm. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net No idea, but I haven’t used GNOME since 2008. 😅 I, too, like Xfce much better. Xfce (and KDE to some degree) look and feel rather “traditional”, though. You get a standard taskbar and that’s it. Maybe that’s too oldfashioned? 🤷 I’m just speculating.

You might have seen me popping up on IRC. This is how it looks:

https://movq.de/v/3a4f9833f3/

That’s EZirc from the 1990ies. (It says it needs Warp 4, but runs fine on Warp 3.)

Lots of this old stuff still works (technically), but as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org said: A lot of it really is dead. There’s not much going on anymore in Usenet.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com What terminal are you using? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Stell dir vor, es wären NaN Grad! 😱

This has become quite a large thread. 😅

https://movq.de/v/5c51be2cd3/s.png

@quark@ferengi.one I once decided against that, didn’t I? 🤔 I don’t remember why anymore. I’ll think about it. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Yes, I see the same. Right-to-left Unicode breaks mutt (and apparently neomutt). It was once reported as an issue:

https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/issues/131

They closed it because the solution was supposed to be implemented in terminals … Apparently, that never happened?

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Ah, I see. 🤔 Maybe I’ll add that. To be honest, I have the same “problem” regarding the slashdot feed. 😅 It’s mostly stuff that I’m not interested in – but from time to time someone replies and then I want to see what it’s about.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org You mean fetching the feed temporarily and then discarding all its twts again? 🤔 I don’t think there’s an easy way to do that, other than filtering in your mail client, yeah. 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s good to know. 🤔 Luckily, the phone wasn’t full of 3rd party stuff. There were so few of them actually, that I didn’t really bother looking. That’s why I only found out recently about that Meta stuff.

The soundtrack of World of Goo 2 is amazing. It’s quite epic and melancholic at times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAUwyCOaGoc

It doesn’t fit the “cuteness” of the game at all – but there are a lot of contradictions in that game anyway, it’s an important aspect.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 4.75 seconds, are you kidding me? 🤯

@prologic@twtxt.net Yep. ✅

@xuu@txt.sour.is Ahhhh, ohhhh, ouch. 🫤

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hmmm, the user agents indicate two different pods. 🤔 Most of them are twtxt.net, though, only one user is something else. 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, indeed, but still. 😂

@mckinley@mckinley.cc Uhhh, I bet the support people at Lenovo love this. (Assuming it’s accurate.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh, good old Senfglastradition. Looks delicious. 👍

Speaking of web server logs: Unless someone posts one of my blog posts on HackerNews (I never do that myself, don’t even have an account), my twtxt.txt file is always the most requested resource. 😂 It easily gets several thousand hits, way more than the blog’s Atom feed. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net I didn’t want to hijack @bender@twtxt.net’s thread: There’s two things that feel a bit unexpected regarding the requests of 159.196.9.199 in my logs:

1. It doesn’t respect HTTP 301 and instead asks for the same URL every time, thus needing a redirect.
   
2. Is this one Yarn pod or several? I’m seeing multiple requests from this same IP with different user agents. It’s not a lot, just about 5 different ones (every couple of minutes), but I thought that Yarn only issued one such request? 🤔 You know, when several users follow the same feed, Yarn would only fetch that feed once?

@xuu@txt.sour.is I don’t even have a WhatsApp password, it never asked me? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Maybe one day I’ll have the motivation to learn enough about JPEG, so I can understand the reason behind this. But not today. 😅

I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time

So this kind of works in stock Android, too. You have to reboot after switching back to the main profile, then the second profile won’t get loaded at all.

(I bet that this stops working in the future. It feels like the second profile doesn’t get loaded as a means to save CPU power. Once those smartphones get even more powerful, there’s no need to do that anymore …)

(I tend to post all that retrocomputing stuff on Mastodon lately. 🤔)

This morning’s task: Making the thumbnails in my blog compatible with IBM WebExplorer 1.0 on OS/2 Warp 3. 🤪

Before:

https://movq.de/v/b7443c8873/a.jpg

After:

https://movq.de/v/b7443c8873/b.jpg

And the fix was using -define jpeg:sampling-factor=2x1 when creating the thumbnails using ImageMagick.

I’m not really sure, though, what’s going on. 🤔

More context: https://tilde.zone/@movq/112981572946464025

(This is probably the first time I’ve seen the word “confluence” being used outside of an Atlassian-related context. 🥴)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Which account, the “normal” Facebook one? 🤔

(Regarding Musk: He bought Twitter, ruined it and people mass-migrated to Mastodon. So let’s let him buy Meta and do the same thing! 🤪)

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess I’m more “strict” than you are, probably. DNS queries tell me very little about which data is actually sent to those servers.

On the other hand, this is probably a reasonable argument: The vast majority of users have no idea what a DNS query even is (and they don’t care to begin with), so trying to hide something here is probably not worth the effort for Google/Apple. This would make filtering DNS requests more meaningful after all.

(But you can’t be sure and that is driving me nuts. I don’t want to deal with this in the first place.)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this whole thing of pre-installed third-party apps doesn’t exist on the iPhone. So that appears to be a bit better. You’re still sharing data with Apple and it’s next to impossible to tell what exactly the device does or does not do (just like with Android). If you can’t easily install your own OS, then it’s a lost cause.

Best you can do with any of these devices is disconnect them from the Internet.

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess any Android phone is like that, except maybe for the Google Pixel stuff. It’s a shit ecosystem. And so is the iPhone world. It’s all proprietary garbage.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org They’re just playing and having fun right? 🤪

@prologic@twtxt.net Whoohoo! 🥳 (Table tennis, I guess?)