👋 Just a friendly reminder that if I don’t actually see any “use in anger” of this little container service I call cas.run – Then I can’t actually see how it will behave, perform and whether or not something like this will even remotely work and is worth continuing ot build out 😅 Please 🙏 and thank you 🙇‍♂️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Honestly restic + Object Storage with whoever you like is “good enough”™. Backblaze B2’s Object Storage is still the most cost effective and competitive in the market.

New cabinet on the arcade 🥳 Warlords (1990) — the whole of Illuria, 80 cities, 8 empires, heroes digging dragons out of ruins. Rules straight from the manual, new painted art. And it’s the first one you can play online: host a game, hand out a 6-letter code 👉 https://games.mills.io/play/warlords.html

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I cannot recommend restic enough and a good TB or 2 External USB Disk 😅

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Coo! 👌 @david@daiwei.me also signed up tonight too, even paid for an extra unit 🤣 I’m very keen to see how this goes honestly, before scaling up the service 🤔

TL;DR: $1/month hosting or whatever you want to run 🏃

👋 Introducing (_after a 3yr hiatic where the project actually begin in ~2023+); cas.run: give it a container image and it runs it on the web at its own hostname. This is an alpha service at the moment, so; every account gets one service, 64 MB of memory and a gigabyte of disk space. You can purchase more units at a $1/month (AUD), so it’s like $0.70 USD I think. Don’t use this for anything big please (not yet), the infra behind it runs on a single host in Sydney right now. https://cas.run

@david@daiwei.me Oooh Nice 👍

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com So I can think of a number of services that can run in this memory “pool”. It’s not a limit, just a default “unit size”. yarnd, saltyd, any static web hosting, etc. There’a a non-zero no. of things that will consume very little memory.

@xuu@txt.sour.is OH my god! 😱 You’re alive!!!!

wut da actual fuq?!

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Good context and info thank you 🙏 Obviously I’m into self hosting too, d’uh, but it’s just an interesting experiment and price point. It isn’t about whether you can get xyz VM/VPS for $abc but more about all the times you don’t have to maintain or build yourself.

@david@daiwei.me Yes, you can. THat’s true, sometimes. Not always, though, promotional pricing etc. The differentiator is the extra bits you don’t have to maintain/manage.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Good to know 👌 Thank you! 🙏

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Fair, but not what I was trying to ask 😅

Q: Would you pay $2 AUD / $1.40 USD per month for a micro container service that let you run up to 3 containers with up to 64MB of memory per container, shared CPU and nVME backed Disk? 🤔 Then $1 SUD $0.70 USD / month per additional 64MB slot/slice? 🤔 – Assuming you can also run smaller containers where cost per container linearly scales, so $0.50 / $0.35 for 32MB containers.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m 5m in, and I’m already fucking pissed off. If I ever find such a male asshole, I will quite literally punch them in them in the face. The sad thing about this is that is happens at all. Fuck! 🤬

@kamme@twtxt.thanatos.be Hello! 👋

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Why are you skeptical of crowd-funded projects? 🤔 I was/am/maybe considering crowdfunding what I’m trying to get off the ground myself, but now you’ve got me rethinking that 😅

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz That don’t and are considered illegal, becuase cash is still legal tender in the US? 🤔

apparently, we have to remind people that cash is still legal tender 😅 – at my local café

ZeroKeyUSB — Your passwords, offline, in your pocket – Anyone know much about this nifty look’n device? 🤔

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz Welcome back! 👋

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Fair warnings. zs is incredibly simple, deliberately so. LMK if you have any q’s when trying it out, it probably has confusing docs 🤣

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz yeah I think so. Btw, if you’re looking for an SSG, I quite like the one I maintain over at https://zs.mills.io

It’s basically what my own blob is too 😅 – The thing is though, if you see @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s posts, they get pretty long, there really isn’t any limit to the length of posts you can make in your Twtxt feed in the first place Haha 🤣

(4) The First Brain Was Just Uploaded To A Computer - YouTube – Wow 😮 This is pretty amazing! Scientists and this new company called Eon, have managed to replicate the entire structure of a fruit fly’s brain, exactly. It behaves exactly like a fruit fly does, in it’s virtual simulated world. The only thing they’re missing is the strengths of the connections and weights of each neuron and the state of the chemical “soup”? of the original fly, so it carries no memories and has no “mind”, but structurally it works! Holy shit! Wowza 😱

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That was pretty fun and funny 😄

@david@daiwei.me I use Poste.io internally
Maddy at the edge – I’ve also hears good things about Mail-in-box, Mailu and Mox

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz very nice! By the way, where are you from?

@david@daiwei.me Ahh, I’m only confused then because I’ve never seen anything quite like this, nor have I played and role playing games on a table-top either.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I think so, what I was mostly confused about is the website itself. It has a lot of content and verbiage. Can the game be played on the website? Or is it table-top played? 🤔

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Hmmm 🤔 What is this exaactly?

Thanks!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes please! See: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley

haha 🤣

haha there are way more than 29 folks around here 🤣

i hate DST 🤣

@khaled@twtpub.com Hello! 👋

@river@twtpub.com Hey 👋

@aesthetic@twtpub.com Hello 👋

@pfefferle@twtxt.net Hey 👋

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz it forks and creates a new sub thread, obviously 🤣

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz very cool 😎

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz do you mean parley?

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz sorry I just saw this, sounds like a good idea. I’ll see if I can add this!

I’m back from my week-long trip 👋

A few more pics if my trip 😎

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Hah 🤣 The property of Twtxt / Yarn.social that we all enjoy is how slow that ecosystem is 😅

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Nice! 👌 let me know if there are any other improvements we can make 🙏

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Oh nice! 👌 Are you using the Twtxt.spp with it too? 🧐

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LMAO 🤣

what am I saying here? Can someone explain it to me in words? 🧐

Hello! 👋

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It is!

Some more pics of where were staying 👌

Thank you ! 🙏

@david@daiwei.me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@david@daiwei.me But it was on the side of the road!!! and she had her pants around her ankles, stark naked for all passing traffic to see ad she did a shit!!! 💩

@david@daiwei.me yea but it’s very windy, uncomfortably so and very crowded 🤯

we’re here now 👌

a woman!

gah this was full of typos 😅

As my wife was driving and towing us us to our final destination.. Just before a little locality called Mount Larcom, we went past a soan on the side of the road doing a full dump! 🤯 💩 So disgusting 😢

Stop over in a place called Gin Gin 😅

Thanks!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org very nice 👌

I’m off for a week on a week-long trip up north (Australia), to a place called Yeppoon. I’ll be sporactily around on Yarn/Twtxt, but probably having too much relaxing fun with my family 😅 Cya’s in a week or so 🏝️

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com He’s asleep by now 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Haha 🤣 I’ve found the only effective defense is to make the request(s) cost you nothing or very little. Trying to defeat all this en-mass scraping/crawling and defective bots is such a PITA 🤦‍♂️

Works here too

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com Pretty good thanks! 😊 Went out last night to celebrate my birthday with my wife and my best mate and her wife. It was a lovely day/night out 👌 – How about you so far?

@athanasia@twtxt.net The main problem is that I don’t front mbox.blue with my Edge infra that I front the rest of my infra with. So mbox.blue is kind of independent if that makes sense. It has nothing in front of it to protect anything. So I would just put a simple Caddy PoW at it’s reverse proxy and call it a day if that works for you? – I think I’ll make this per-box/per-user configurable too?

Also apologies. If you want to chat to me in more ~realtime, I’m more active on something we’re calling Parley – A truly decentralised federated IRC chat system. You have to spin up your own instance (ideally) or join someone else’s, but otherwise you use a normal IRCv3 capable client, but the entire “network” (so to speak) automatically forms a decentralized mesh.

Done

@athanasia@twtxt.net I actally have my own PoW that I can put in front of mbox.blue if you like. It works very similarly to Anubis. I do have to warn you however, I don’t really think these PoW techniques are very effective IMO. Also re Guestbook message, sure, one sec…

Trump suggests EU allowing Canada as associate member could be a ‘hostile act’ | Hacker News👈 Trump is a fucking idiot! 🤯 My god! 🤦‍♂️

👋 Calling all decentralised enthusiasts that still remembers and use IRC 😎

Please come join us in a new, truely, decentralised IRC-based chat experience by standing up your own Parley instance on your own domain (bring your own OIDC auth or use the built-in).

Pick your favourite IRCv3-compatible client (there’s heaps out there!).

And peer with either me james@mills.io or Admin -> Peers -> Add mills.io or @david@daiwei.me via david@ratha.us or simply ratha.us (in Admin -> Peers -> Add).

See you online! 🤞 #decentralised #irc #chat

@david@daiwei.me I just wanted some cheap USB disks to test with, nothing fancy LOL, serves me right 😂

And by design 😅

I never thought I’d ever get scammed by an Amazon counterfeit product in my life 🤦‍♂️ I suppose with all the many 10’s of thousands of items sold there every day (and all the junk) I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later. I just tested a couple of USB Flash drives that were being sold as 512G, but were in fact only internally 8G, you write past the 8G and try to read those bytes back and you get a whole pile of zero’s back 🤣

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com you do not have to use Docker btw 🤗

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Then by all means, follow the instructions at https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley and setup your own instance on your own domain. It’s partly inspired by Twtxt/Yarn.social and Salty.im – in at least the way teh DNS discovery and WKID works. Once your instance is up and running and you’ve gone through the /setup and created yourself an account (or seti it up with an appropraite ODIC IDP) try something like /msg james@mills.io Hey! at which point you should automatically start peering with my instance. You should then be able to /join #lobby1 (a globally federated channel already across 2 instances so far). 🤞

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Not really no 🤣 Did you want to join us and setup your own instance and join the growing aprty? It’s turning out to be quie neat actually 😅

I have (finally) built a fully e2e working purely decentralised and federated IRC-compatible chat server. It is currently a PoC, but it’s already working quite well. It’s inspired partly by the work we did with Salty Chat in terms of Discovery and Federation. Some screenshots of a normal IRC client irssi showing off how it works in a local e2e setup:

For the curious, this is fully documented with roleplay Alice/Bob. I was going to test this with @david@daiwei.me but we both got busy, but now I’m on holidays from work for a month so 🤷‍♂️ 🤣

Does anyone have time this weekend to manually test and validate and prove out this spec I’m calling Gitxt? A Twtxt-inspired purely decentralised Git federation/forge? 🤔 Hit me up! You need only git, curl and a web server of some kind.

@david@daiwei.me Oh I did 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s becoming a bit ludicrous to be frankly honest. I’m not sure I can continue to justify these kinds of prices. But at the same time, I’ll probably stick with Apple regardless, even if I hate their exorbitant prices, and just buy their low-end stuff 🤦‍♂️ It is fucking crazy when you consider what these things are actually made for over in China or wherever they’re manufactured.

I am not fucking paying ~3.5 grand for a fucking phone, geez christ, kill me now 🤦‍♂️

Oh no, sorry I was wrong! That was the fucking US price 🤣

This is the Australian (AUD) price:

From A$3,499.00 or A$145.79/mo.

Fuck me dead 😵

iPhone Duo - Apple Sorry Apple™, I’m really finding it quite hard to justify spending thousands of dollar on your products!

From $1999 or $83.29/mo. for 24 mo.*

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ When it was just me and my wife, maybe, fine, okay. But now I have two young children that also want the same shit™ as we do. This starts becoming a nearly ~$8k expensve just for some fucking whoop-ti-do-da foldable iPhone with a bigger screen.

Who cares? 🤔 I want my ~A$800 iPhone back that fits in my hand. #Apple #Rants #Expensive #Crap

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Don’t worry, we’ll tell you rather loudly if your client is misbehaving or your feed is down 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is actually pretty cool! I like this one! ☝️

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Ahh it gets like tha sometimes 😅 the Twixt ecosystem is on purpose, deliberately designed to be very slow at times 🤣

⚠️ For anyone that signs up on Yarn.social’s multi-user twtd multi-tenant platform I’m runnign on twtpub.com – Be warned. I will delete your account if you create it for the soles purposes of link squatting, spam, link harvesting, seo marketing, or any other useless fucktarrd crap.

To the spammers and would-be assholes of the world: You have been wanred. Don’t abuse my generosity.

it’s all I ask

@david@daiwei.me No worries 😌

@david@daiwei.me ping me on IRC when you have a couple of spare hours 👌

@david@daiwei.me I think to @movq@www.uninformativ.de ’s point, we should probably just test teh specification itself no? 🤔

@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com I plan to oj ly projects 😅