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.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club With enough data and enough computing power you can simulate anything right or create grand illusions that appear to real they’re hard to tell 😅 – But yes, at the end of the day LLM(s) today are just large probabilistic models, stochastic parrots.

@xuu You don’t follow the Slashdot feed? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣

To @anth@a.9srv.net’s points, I think this should be written as “Client recommendations” and “Serve recommendations”. Separate from the “Twtxt format” spec.

@bender@twtxt.net Agreed 👍

@bender@twtxt.net I’ve worked with this guy before. Paid him to do some freelance work. Not very good IMO. So haven’t hired him ever again. But he keeps saying hi every now and then on Signal. And then every few months or so asking stuff like this ☝️ – Last time it was money for private school fees for his child.

How am I suppose to know whether stuff like this (sound serious) is for realz or not? 😅

I need money for my mother’s heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

Hmmm 🧐

😜

@bender@twtxt.net such as?

@eapl.me@eapl.me Regarding supporting languages:

That said, coming from platforms like X and Masto, where switching languages is easy, I naturally read content and write into my timeline in at least three languages. Changing my “account” is not a simple as switching languages, and in those platforms have another meaning (“I’m a different person”). Supporting that would be beneficial for some, though I’m not sure how many would use it.

I think this is more of a client concern in my opinion. Like @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org said earlier though, sometimes he and @movq@www.uninformativ.de “Twt” in German. I don’t (nor anyone else I’m aware of) have a problem with this. It seems to be that a “client” could detect this and deal with this appropriately or give a user appropriately controls.

For me (_personally__ I’ve never found it a problem. I use extensions like “Simple Translate” anyway, so it doesn’t matter a great deal to me.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Just responding to some of your specific ideations here:

Sure! From my research, Gemini (and likely Gopher as well) don’t have a similar header, so if a client is using those protocols, they won’t be able to inform your server.

So, it’s worth considering, would twtxt 2.0 only support HTTP/S?

I’m not sure how to standardize “Discovery” across different protocols for serving feeds, HTTP, Gopher, Gemini, etc. beyond what you initially suggested. But here’s the thing, the User-Agent HTTP Header isn’t the only aspect to “discovery”. Discovery in practise is more of an organic property of @-mentions across feeds in the first place, something that crawlers take advantage of.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Oh come one?! Web5?! Since when was this even thing?! 😱 🤦‍♂️ I could grample with Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 (to a container degre), but Web 4.0 and Web 5.0 ?! Come on?! 😱 Get the fuck out! (GTFO) 😠

@wbknl@twtxt.net That it pretty cool 😎

@wbknl@twtxt.net It’s probably okay for things like Twtxt which are designed to be in the open anyway 👌

@wbknl@twtxt.net The only thing I know about the HAM Radio space is that it’s considered “taboo” to encrypt the traffic. So that makes secure IP a bit difficult to say the least right? 🤔

@wbknl@twtxt.net Ahh none that I’m aware of. I’ve thought about getting into HAM Radio myself, but haven’t so far…

@bender@twtxt.net I mean I’ve thought about it! It’s an intriguing idea to be able to have basic IP over HAM Radio 🤔

@wbknl@twtxt.net How do you mean? How do you think that would even work? 🤔

FYI 👋 I will be deleting the following inactive users from my pod (twtxt.net) soon™:

$ ./tools/inactive_users.sh 730

@thgie@twtxt.net last seen 732 days ago
@will@twtxt.net last seen 740 days ago
@shaneflores@twtxt.net last seen 752 days ago
@magnus@twtxt.net last seen 757 days ago
@nickmellor@twtxt.net last seen 757 days ago
@birb@twtxt.net last seen 763 days ago
@screem@twtxt.net last seen 772 days ago
@servusdei@twtxt.net last seen 774 days ago
@alex@twtxt.net last seen 790 days ago
@andreottica@twtxt.net last seen 801 days ago
@fox@twtxt.net last seen 822 days ago
@anx@twtxt.net last seen 829 days ago
@olav@olav.bonn.cafe last seen 855 days ago
@caesar@twtxt.net last seen 866 days ago
@jim@twtxt.net last seen 869 days ago
@rell@twtxt.net last seen 882 days ago
@readfog@twtxt.net last seen 886 days ago

If anyone on this lists sees this post and wishes to preserve their feed/account for some reason (beyonds backups I maintain), please login at least once over the next coming weeks to get off this list. I will re-run this tool again, and then nuke blindly anything that matches >730 days of inactivity.

@xuu Haha 🤣 and 😢

@bender@twtxt.net Hah 😅

@eapl.me@eapl.me Also welcome back 🤗

@eapl.me@eapl.me There’s some good ideas in this 👌 I think we can definitely incorporate some of them pretty easily already. Others will have to be discussed, and some other bits like hashing and edits are a bit more controversial.

@bender@twtxt.net Ouch, that’s rought 😢

@bender@twtxt.net You gotta laugh at the stupidy of the world don’t you? 🤣

Fuxk 🤣

@wbknl@twtxt.net You are not 🤗

So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping Russia and sending soldiers as resources for Putin’s war. And now Trump has won a 2nd term in the US where we’ll see him scrap EU sanctions and fines against US companies violating EU laws and what else? 🤔

What dafuq is wrong with this world?! 🌍

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Fuck 🤦‍♂️

@wbknl@twtxt.net I feel you 🤗

@wbknl@twtxt.net No worries 😉

@wbknl@twtxt.net Btw you don’t need to mention yourself when composing a new Twt (I think maybe you’re doing it from your profile view?) Just expand the box at the top of the Timeline or Discover views.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The world at large is becoming desensitized.The few of us (we) are just becoming sick of it 😅 There’s a word for this, but I can’t think of it right now 🤦‍♂️

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net Hi 👋

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com For context @wbknl@twtxt.net reach out to my on #Yarn.social on IRC to ask for an account on my pod 😅 Glad folks pay attention to the Join messaging 🥳

@wbknl@twtxt.net Have you figured out how threads work yet? 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Whhaaaatttt?! 😱

Welcome to my pod @wbknl@twtxt.net 👋

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Steal anything you want 🤣 f you manage to write a shell script version of the same tool I’d be interested in publishing it as an alternative tool 👌

We maintain a useragent tool for this 👌

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 Imagine me with poor vision 🤣

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Ahh I see 😅 Maybe I should fix this then, 🤔

Bare in mind that this kind of setup precludes anyone on shared hosting systems.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk@darch.dk This is basically very similar to how WebFinger used by things like Mastodon and Salty.im amongst others.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt You probably don’t know this, but it is also self-signed. I also don’t give two shit™ about its validity or expiry 🤣