@bender@twtxt.net If it’s to be removed, what should replace it? 🤔 It’s been enabled as a feature for a while now on my pod, and I do use it occasionally.

@bender@twtxt.net Fair

One of the things I’m going to work on next (maybe today, we’ll see how much time there’s left in the day) is being able to load up old conversations (fallen off the cache) like this one.

This pod is now using the index for archive twts instead of the old (naive) disk-based index with that results in millions of files over a long time 🤣

I occasionally use the last 5 filters:

• Images/Videos
  
• Without replies
  
• Hide Bots
  
• Hide Feeds (which should be ‘Hide News”?)
  
• Hide my Posts

Anyone actively use filters here? 🤔

If so which ones? If not, why? Any more useful than others? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net I think that’s why I spend so much of my “spare” time doing this right? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net I did, that’s why I asked 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Why “Kaizen”? 🤔

I want to become a solopreneur 🤣 Build a service, or a set of small services with enough customers (not too many) where they provide enough revenue and receive the right amount of value for service that I can just do that.

@off_grid_living@twtxt.net Hmmm

very convincing from an expert !

According to Wikipedia Robert Deutsch is:

Robert Deutsch is an Israeli antiquities dealer, archaeologist, epigrapher, and numismatist. He is known for being accused of six forgery charges of several biblical archaeological artifacts in 2004.

i don’t know what to believe anymore 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh I see 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org very nice shot 👌

@bender@twtxt.net parsed and kinked ok for me?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org seems important 😅

👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  
• When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
  
• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
  

#Yarn.social #Meetup

The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It’s stupid shit like this that’s the real problem with “big tech” social media platforms. These morons just simply don’t understand basic economics and basic business.

Why would a company like Meta, X and TikTok give up a large multi-billion dollar segment of the market. That is, young children from the ages of ~3 to 16 (yes kids these days can use a computer or device from a pretty young age!)

The whole masquerade of “online saftey” and the new Australia legislation of the Online Safety Act 2021 is complete and utter bullshit.

You wanna fix this whole cybercrime and cyber bullying that goes on (which btw if you understood how these fucking platforms worked in the first place, you’d realise drives up engagement on the platforms by abusing human emotional and psychological weakness), then ban and make illegal with multi-Billion dollar fines the following:

• Profiting off data collected by users on your platform(s)
  
• Categorizing users on your platform and performing A/B tests
  
• Targeting users (of any age) for advertising
  

In fact just ban targeted advertising period.

Disgusting 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net He sure did! 👏 Thanks @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🙏

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net Yes and Will do! 👌

After several hard hours, I think I’ve recovered the last missing 1 Twt from @bender@twtxt.net 🥳 Turns out just before I accidentally nuked my pod, I took a dump of it’s cached just seconds before 🤣 – So I was also able to rebuild anything that was missing from the backup from the recent cache dump!

Thanks to @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s own archived feeds we’ve managed to restore quite a bit and probably only lost a couple of hours. 🙇‍♂️

@wbknl@twtxt.net You of all are the most affected as our newest member of my pod and most recently joined. I’m so sorry 😢

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh I see 👌

Not really sure how this is similar at all teally as Yarn like every other twtxt client just fetches feeds you tell it to? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net I hear ya 👌 I feel very much the same 😅

@bender@twtxt.net LIL 🤣 Starting to wonder whether maybe I’m the one that’s wrong here? 🤔 And have a warped sense of the terms distributed and decentralized? 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Just because you can run it doesn’t make it decentralised. As @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt rightfully points out, where are the points of controls? It’s a distributed network with a protocol that forms a “network”. With key services operated by BlueSky this isn’t decentralised in the true sense now is it? 🤔

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I’m feeling slightly better (though my sinuses are still giving my grief 🤦‍♂️) so I’ll try to answer this and properly state my position on the proposed minimum age restrictions being proposed by the Labor government.

Firstly I think it’s completely ineffective and unenforceable. The only way you’re going to get this enforced is to somehow makes all the “big tech” companies oblighes, which some already are. But then you can just work-around it anyway. Okay if you start requiring things like state-enforced age verification like a driver’s license or something, then things start getting even more weird.

Frankly I don’t think it’s the right approach. I think it will ultimately achieve nothing. It’ll be just like the many numerous attempts at banning alcohol and drugs. Once you’re addicted, there’s no way you can stop people from indulging in stupid crap that may possibly kill them.

The only way out of this mess IMO is to educate people, educate the parents and to make it practices of targeting, categorization and the manipulation of content based on metadata either you or a 3rd-party questionable obtained illegal.

In other words. The very foundation of what “bit tech” social media companies thrive on. Make that illegal. Problem solve. But oh wait?! 🤦‍♂️

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt This is such a good response! 🙌 You are absolutely right in that Bkuesky is not decentralized 👏

Oh shit maybe not 🙀

I think it’s fixed now eight?

@xuu wut?! 🙀

@xuu I think my backend stalled and I somehow managed to post in the past 🤣 For some reason I’m noticing more performance problems with yarnd of late. Need to look into them…

@bender@twtxt.net Hah looks like you get more interactions here 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Ok 🙏

@bender@twtxt.net Can you suggest a better default font size that works well on desktop and mobile? 🤔

How’s that?

@bender@twtxt.net II’ll try it 👌

The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔

I’m alive 👋 Juat ill 🤧

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it’s otherwise pretty rubbish

LOL what does “lightly encrypted” mean?! 🤣

@wbknl@twtxt.net Tell us more! Who is Thomas Feiner? 🤔

You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don’t think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a “conscious free thinking being” – I’m not convinced we’ll figure this out to be honest.

@xuu must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 – Oh but wait… @xuu have you updated recently? @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org did add some new feature that means you have to go to Settings -> Poderator settings and trust the peers you have there, including my pod 😅

@bender@twtxt.net True I just wanted to make sure 👍

They are however pretty good at auto-complete though. If you wire up Continue.dev with VSCode and a local Ollama powered codeastral model, it’s pretty decent. Or if you use the open source friendly Codeium.