@movq@www.uninformativ.de unison seems pretty fast for me, and quite nice looking on my macOS desktop. It’s bsed on GLFW, but it seems to work quite well 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 😆

GtS is easier than running Yarn, by the way. Word

This is total bullshit 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It’s good enough ti iron out any bugs 🐛 Can I haz an account? 🙏

This is crazy 🤪

LOL it works 🤣

Hey @mastodon@bridge.twtxt.net 👋

@bender@twtxt.net Not even a GotoSocial server? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net You don’t run one anymore do you? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Bit big of a server no? 🤔

Someone, on the Bridge, this is meant to have sent @manton@bridge.twtxt.net a “Follow Request” via Activity Pub hmmm 🧐

Test (_did I fix this shit™-)?

Hey @manton@bridge.twtxt.net 👋 Why yes I believe I did!

Anyone run a Mastodon serve rI can have an account on to help test the Twtxt <-> Activity Pub bridge? 🙏

@bender@twtxt.net I need another side that I can unblame 🤣

I think because it still inserted the wrong alias in my following list:

# follow = manton@bridge.twtxt.net https://bridge.twtxt.net/twtxt/remote/d428c49928a4a0d1.txt

I’m not currently sure why this is tab-completing incorrectly hmmm 🧐

Testing 1 2 3 @manton@twtxt.net

ap-verify: a67864d4229ae22f5f60

Wow :O That didn’t work!

Test @-mentioning@twtxt.net an AP actor via the Bridge. Hey @manton@twtxt.net 👋

verify: 3074975949c3b0d27df4

I need some test Activity Pub / Mastodon users to test with 🤔

And this isn’t even me, it’s the other end 🤣

WOW LOL

fetch https://weaknotes.com/users/david: status 500 Internal Server Error

First real test failed trying to lookup / follow @david@weaknotes.com

Haha 🤣 I wonder what the reliability of executing a sleep in a 200 billion year loop cycle is? 🤔

For those curious, the new Twtxt <-> ActivityPub bridge I’m building (bidirectional) simply requires three things:

1. You register your Twtxt feed to the bridge: https://bridge.twtxt.net
   
2. You verify that you in fact own/control the feed by putting the verification code somewhere on/in your feed (doesn’t matter where or how)
   
3. You proxy/forward requests for /.well-known/webfinger to the Bridge bridge.twtxt.net.
   

I’m still testing through and ironing out bugs 🐛 Please be patient! 🙏

technically I can put the Bridge verificaiton code in my feed’s metadata so no-one really ever sees or notices it 🤔 Maybe I’ll add a first-class button/field thingy in yarnd so users can “register their feed” straight from their pod? 🤔

verify: be6b4443c96a602b1947

@bender@twtxt.net Twtxt <-> ActivityPub (2nd time’s the charm? 🤣)

Testing new design, architecture and implementation of a Twtxt bridge I’m working on…

verification-token: ee9bc4da3356f4990671

Please ignore.

Reacher out to Mike on BlueSky.

whoo fix a long stnading bug with identicons for feeds with no avatar in their metadata

Hint:

# nick = ...
# avatar = ...

@bender@twtxt.net Just wrote better code with tests 🤣

Fixed

Hmmm all these tilde.club feeds have no # nick and is messing with yarnd’s behavior 😅

I spent a few mins on teh tilde website, and for the life of me I can’t find a way to contact anyone responsible/accountable for this wonderful little service 🤣

Is it worth me reaching out to the operator and helping build some solution for their userbase to detect followers? 🧐

I have now permitted the following media types:

image/*
audio/*
video/*
text/*

Done ✅ Will be available on this pod as soon as the publish workflow finished successfully.

@bender@twtxt.net yeah it wasn’t so much of a browser thing, more of a security/abuse thing. If you upload large media, we downsize/downscale it, etc.

@bender@twtxt.net The only problem with uploading is the procesing. Do you expect any server-side processing of the WebP or just store and host?

@bender@twtxt.net That we can do easily. Just supporting tendering .webp inline eight? 🧐

This ☝️

Thank you for the encouragement and love and kind words, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt and others along the way I’m not sure of their feed uris 💕 I’ll keep at it, but for the time being I will keep my distance, mostly off IRC, because I don’t have the energy to spare in that kind of engagement (what//if the worst happens, it’s so draining). I need to remember what I ever did any of this for, it was back in ~2020 and I wanted really to build small interconnected communities that any non “tech savvy” person (more or less) could also benefit from ane enjoy. Even if there are aspects of the specs we’ve built/extended over time that aren’t “perfect”™, they’re “good enough”™ that they’ve last 5+ years (I believe this is 6 years running now). I want to spend a bit of time going back to why I did any of this in the the first place, and get a little micro-SaaS offering going (barely covering running costs) so encourage more folks to run pods, and thus twtxt feeds and grow the community ever so slightly. Other than that, I plan to get the specs “in order” to a point (with @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s help) where I hope they’ll stand the test of time – like SMTP.

Thank you all ! 🙏

PR to clean up some unwanted specs and cleanup some invalid/bad references. 🙏

Shall we call it a good DR exercise? 🤔 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Haha 🤣

I am sorry folks 😞

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah ! 👍 I’m trying to build my first micro-SaaS and get more lay-people to protect their own inboxes and identify 🤣 – Hopefully it all works out 💪

I just successfully used my own SnipMail service with a real business, whoohoo! 🥳

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I’ll make a release this weekend (today)

Also welcome back 😆

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club What version are you running btw? It’s probably time you upgraded and time I released a new version finally 😂 If you’re running a version that’s pre-SQLite-cache, then yeah I’m not surprised. The SQLite cache version is honestly much better 🤣

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I’m going to bed, but I’ll have a closer read/think tomorrow 🤞

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s formatted just fine 🤟

@bender@twtxt.net We could – It’s just never became “strong enough”™ of a demand that I ever extended the possibility of supporting other mime types.

@bender@twtxt.net Same I only have one registrar too (OnlyDomains).

@bender@twtxt.net It’s not even available on my registrar anyway 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Makes me wonder whether somethingarather.zip is a good primary domain for the service I’m building? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net I think that’s where it sends the capture verification requests. It’s based on PoW, so it has to perform validation somehow. It actually looks pretty decent as far as a way to prevent spam/abuse of forms on the open web (e.g: Waitlist on SnipMail).

Thoughts/Opinions on Cap 🤔

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You do raise very good points though, but I don’t think any of this is particularly new because there are many other examples of technology and evolution of change over time where people have forgotten certain skills like for example, changing a car tyre

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am genuinely curious as to why you think Geminis summarization and the categorization of your gopher post was and is as you say misunderstood?

I asked this very genuinely because before reading @bender@twtxt.net’s comments and Gemini summarization I actually went and unplugged your post into flood gaps go for proxy, and then listen to the text intently with my own human ears 👂

What is this about? I don’t run my Gopher proxy anymore 😅

Hmm anyone got a contact detail for Andrew? @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club – The emails/contacts I have have all bounced 😭

@bender@twtxt.net Hmm anyone got a contact detail for Andrew? @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club – The emails/contacts I have have all bounced 😭

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ll poke @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club

Ping me if you’re intersted!

I’m building a service that lets you:

create and manage disposable, brandable email aliases so you can track leaks, forward important messages, and keep your real inbox clean.

I’ve just finishing building it for the most part, and have cut a v0.1.0 release. It’s currently closed source (to be decided later) and now open to beta testers. cc @bender@twtxt.net 🙏 I fully intend to monetize and offer this as a paid service in teh coming weeks/months, but beta/invite-only testers and early adopters/users first 🤟

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What did you say? 🤔

@kiwu@twtxt.net I wouldn’t go that far haha 🤣 I’m not sure I’m all that wise 😂

@kiwu@twtxt.net really? 🧐 msn I already feel old and broken and um not even that old 🤯

Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y’all can make the next one 🤞

Okay folks I’m calling it. See y’all again next time. Hopefully more of you make it next time 🤞

CodeX is very good at following instructions 👌

Let’s do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌

@thecanine@twtxt.net Actually pretty legible 🤟

🥳 Just released Gatherly v0.3.0 🤟 – My instance is available at: https://gatherly.mills.io (free for anyone to use)

Apologies folks 😅 A bit of a bad electrical storm rolled through earlier. 🌩️ I looked kind of bad⚡️ so I powered down the Mills DC 🤟 (out of precation).

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha nice! 😊

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice contrasts really 👌

I had a looksie (just to be sure) at the database, and they were thankfully legit test events. But this did spark/trigger me to make sure I have some form of anti-spam measures in place. So I added some per-event / per-rsvp rate-limiting and honeypot(s).

Wow! 🤩 Are folks actually using Gatherly already? 🤔

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That and no sane person writes Java™ anymore right? 🤣

Cool. I think I’ve improved this abit. Update going out shortly… Also added optional support for displaying gravatar(s) if you supply your email address (optional of course).

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Also thanks mate! 🥰

In fact, it’s a great little invention

Actually. Looking at the template and the BeerCSS docs, I think I’m just using the wrong elements and doing the wrong thing in the template/partial structure itself 🤔 Probably need to wrap text in something else other than a plain ‘ol <p>

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org To be fair, I’m not convinced of the web design / user interface decisions either. I just hacked this together over a couple of days. I’m not sold on any of the UI/UX thus far. Open to suggestions, improvements, hell even a complete CSS rewrite 🤣 UI/UX nor CSS is my strong suite 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Go complain to the BeerCSS 🍻 developers 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What about gioui?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de What about more modern alternatives based on GLFW?

@bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂 Timezonea are hard 😆

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Love it! 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org So you’ve RSVP’d then? 🤣

The hail we had yesterday 🤯

@bender@twtxt.net There’s a reason it’s in UTC time 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net LOl so much or building a RSPVP thinty™ ma bob 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net It certainly doesn’t here. I’ve even traced it’s network calls. it makes none.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess I wasn’t talking about the speed of interesting text/context, but more the “slowness” of these tools. I think I can build/ solutions and fix bugs faster most of the time? Hmmm 🤔 I think the only thing it’s able to do better than me is grasp large codebases and do pattern machines a bit better, mostly because we’re limited by the interfaces we have to use and in my ase being vision impaired doesn’t help :/

Hmmm 🧐 I’m annectodaly not convinced so-called “AI”(s) really save time™. – I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers… – But, there is one benefit… It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.