@cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org What do you mean by this?

eugen and his interlocutors have had immense power with which to challenge twitter but their racial and cultural and ideological insularity prevented them from using i

Can you share examples? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net Wrong! 💯 I s my fault🤣

@bender@twtxt.net thanks for this! Do you remember the numerous times that I have stated the nuances between distributed networks and decentralized networks? With Bluesky it’s even worse as the way they are operating building and maintaining their service, It’s more closer to centralized service than anything remotely close to what we would consider “decentralized”.

@bender@twtxt.net Same 😅

This sounds awful 🤣

yarnd automatically rotates at the configured maximum fetch size.

Btw the way, here’s a copy of the Email I sent to my Federal MP (Elizabeth Watson Brown):

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt I think it’s worth looking at the Web Browser Timeline to really understand the history and derivation of web browsers over time. I agree that building a Web Browser is complicated and hard, but that’s only because of the expectations we place on web browsers today and the enormous set of features they now carry. Ultimately we’re still talking about one of the most powerful and simplest protocols ever invesnted, the Hypermedia Text Transport Protocol and Hypermedia Systems.

But that’s not what I meant when I said “The web is seemingly garbage these days”.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de No worries 🤗

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Were you going to add Jenny here? https://twtxt.dev/clients.html

I still wanna know whether you’ll get your pizzas on time 🤣

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net The specs seem fine for a low end laptop. 👌

Ya know, like how yarn is stable 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Teue but it’s also likely pretty stable 😅

@bender@twtxt.net I can see that 😅 I’m thinking about buying two for the Mills DC to use as CI/CD build machines 🤣

Maybe 🤔

Test

Okay that bug is squished (was my bug, not bluge’s 🤣)

Far out, the new Mac Mini is actually cheaper than one from several years ago 😱

I will promote the feature then, as well as webringer and search (soon™) – After Which we can probably cut a “big ass” release 🤣 (well overdue 🤦‍♂️)

@bender@twtxt.net All good 👍

@xuu@txt.sour.is Which ones in particular do you think could be applied in a truely decentralisd context of say Twtxt/Yarn? Hmm? 🧐

Fuck! 🤦‍♂️ I keep finding bugs in bluge 😢

@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@txt.sour.is wut?! 🙀

@xuu@txt.sour.is 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@txt.sour.is must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 – Oh but wait… @xuu@txt.sour.is 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@txt.sour.is 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@txt.sour.is 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 🤗