Dug out my old usb audio device and now my Plan 9 raspberry pi can play music. 💯

This week I turned 16,000 days old.

To be clear, it isn’t that it doesn’t provide a valuable service; it’s just that there are more convenient ways of doing it. But screw convenience!

Yup, and my answer’s the same: very little. But it’s fun! Have fun with computers!

It seems like something especially all the tilde-inspired things should have on.

You need better pen test scripts. :-) Seriously, the protocol is absurdly simple. Turn it on! Don’t trust any of the implementations? Write your own!

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk I like your website’s look, but i was disappointed to find that ‘finger’ doesn’t seem to actually work. ;-)

I think I was some many years ago? They are neat and so some good stuff.

Based on spam logs, I am (again) considering banning a bunch of TLDs at the server level. Has anyone ever gotten legitimate email from a .work, .casa, or .today domain, for example?

His argument hung on Soviet-era experiments with centrally-planned farming. 🙄 The man did not seem well.

I was on a call this evening discussing various redistricting proposals. Some dude seriously asserted that over-representation by Multnomah county in regional politics might lead to… genocide. 😳

“I’m afraid I don’t have time at the moment to defend positions you’ve made up for me. Have a nice day.”

Yesterday’s surprising find: a little Gochu Jang (~tsp) does a nice job of improving uninspiring Italian tomato sauce. Nothing dramatic, but good.

Whole lot of false statements here. The vaccines are well-tested & well-studied, and are safe and effective. Breakthrough cases exist with every vaccine. If you are able and the vaccine is approved for you, choosing not to get it puts everyone around you at risk, including risk of additional variants developing.

Get vaccinated if you are able. At this point, if you are able and choosing not to, you are being incredibly selfish, full stop.

Well I’m happy to accept patches to linebanner if you’d like to add characters. :-) http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

“ç”, I think. Anything above 7-bit ASCII would’ve done it, though.

And yes, I was able to reproduce the “test” input. It wasn’t a complicated test, she just beat me to it.

Move your code. Copilot is just one more reason. I maintain an account to work with other projects, but won’t host my stuff there.

It did! And I fixed the bug last night. And now I’m curious how your pod deals with spam. 👆🏼

My kid just uncovered a bug in a program I wrote by grabbing my laptop and smacking the keyboard a bunch. Biological input fuzzing; a real-life chaos monkey.

No, I’m still doing them manually. 🤣🤦🏻 But I do think they are a good idea and will be adding them, I just haven’t gotten around to finding a compatible implementation of the hash yet.

I feel like this could be borderline useful if I stuck a web UI on it. 🤔

Cleaned up a bit, with installation instructions for Plan 9 and p9p, tiny character tweaks, and a change log.

I wrote a ‘banner’-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html

Potentially. What environment/language(s) are you working in? I’d dump fuse for 9p, personally :-)

As of about an hour ago, I’m the chair of the Columbia County Democrats. 😳🎉😱

Yeah, what’d you have in mind?

Today I swapped out our water heater for a new hybrid one. It took twice as long as it should have and 3 extra trips to the hardware store, but it doesn’t seem to be leaking and is producing hot water, so 🎉🎊🎇

Honestly, probably not directly, but that’s mostly because of my weird environment. I’d love to see it as a reference!

First pass at sticking my twtxt in a web page. It’s not escaping all the html properly, and generally needs work, but it’s a start: http://a.9srv.net/tw/following.html

My toddler just figured out “hey Siri”.

i’m not really advocating that anybody should be on more networks, but FWIW libera.chat has been very nice, the staff has been doing a great job, and it’s the nearest “spiritual successor” to what we all liked about Freenode.

Yes, this all matches my experience as someone connected to “classic” Freenode, right up until they killed the server (after the last step that page describes).

You’ve basically already left, whether you know it or not. Yesterday they nuked their services database. I’d been there ~20 years, but it’s dead. Libera.chat has been lovely.

[20:22:00] -tower.freenode.net- Server Terminating. Received SIGTERM

Entirely sensible, & no reason for file storage to match the wire format. I’m just really curious what’s going on on macOS! I can test on hfs+ later.

macOS doesn’t care, at least on apfs; just tested. How are you hitting this?

Why can’t you have : in file names? What file system is this?

Fixed another bug in my finger client: rfc1288 says lines have to end with crlf, but I was just sending lf.

Indeed! I think the first “network protocol client” I ever wrote was something that just did the PING/PONG part and passed everything else raw.

Looking at raw IRC traffic streams to debug a client issue and it’s 1997 again.

Fixed a bug. Found a new bug in yesterday’s work. Fixed that bug.

Plan 9 got three slots in GSoC; we’ll be working on an updated Japanese input method, updating edwood, and getting Oauth2 support. 🎉🐇

“Remember: the internet didn’t have to be like this. A better world is possible.” I love this. telnet issue1.anewsession.com

Unrelated: my first response shows a rendering bug on your site: it’s dropping a backslash. Hard to mix markdown and genuine plain text.

For sure. The pi progresses normally until it prints that it’s initializing the keyboard, at which point the keyboard spends ~30 seconds beeping.

¯_(ツ)_/¯ It’s a funky mechanical thing running QMK, but I have two others that fit that description which don’t behave like this.

I just timed it: 59 seconds for my Raspberry Pi to boot, 33 of which is waiting for my keyboard firmware to initialize. That’s just absurd.

I’ve published my silly finger implementation: http://txtpunk.com/finger

Then finger is for the straight-up shut-ins.

Or maybe that’s old-school twtxt, and twtxt.net is those people who’re constantly trying to coax the introverts out. ;-)

Pinboard describes itself as “Social bookmarking for introverts”. Maybe txtxt is social networking for introverts.

Good idea. Plan 9 sets $NPROC on boot to the number of cores, so other things can use it. mk will dispatch things in just that way.

Dynamic linking was a mistake.

Think of it like buying a signed print of a photo, instead of the photo itself, but the “signature” is an entry in a database and that’s all you get. Still dumb.

Anyone (preferably in the PDX area) have a way to read QIC-80 tapes?

Just over a week left to apply to Summer of Code. Plan 9 is in there, and ~200 other good orgs. Go apply and tell students you know. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Nobody’s saying he can’t write code any more (I mean, I think his code is crap and wish he’d stop, but that’s another issue). But he should not be on any board, should not be in any leadership position, should not be held up as a role model or even vaguely okay.

I can’t believe it’s controversial to say “somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn’t be in a leadership position”. That’s not “cancel culture”, it’s just friggin’ obvious.

What a terrible video. “Cancel culture” is not a thing, and when you hear someone complaining about it, 99% of the time they just don’t want consequences for bad behavior.

Sure. I think search, if it’s going to exist, should be the client’s responsibility. But I also value the readability of the raw twtxt file a lot more than y’all do.

He’s fine with gender-neutral pronouns when he gets to pick them, but insists on policing others’. The open letter calling for his removal has references.

I actually haven’t yet, it’s just easy enough to manually prepend the subject for now, if I skip the search URL. 🤣 I’ll do it properly eventually.

This is an awful take. The issue isn’t that he’s cantankerous and rigid; it’s that he’s sexist, misogynistic, ableist, transphobic, and has a decades-long history of making women feel unsafe. This isn’t “cancel culture”, it’s “consequences” (as is usually the case with that term).

Not even a little. So pumped. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf20bce89ef96d4b6-M63f81768e4ffdfa4df402ec5/transfer-of-plan-9-to-the-plan-9-foundation

Bell Labs has now transferred Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation, who has in turn re-released all releases under the MIT license. I am very excited about this. 🐇🎉

I am very excited for tomorrow.

Someone brought us pie for Pi Day. 💯

We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we’ve got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html

At some point, for reasons I do not understand, my feed reader replaced cabinporn dot com with freecabinporn dot com, which is not the same thing.

Plan 9 is GSoC! 🎉🐇 I’ve missed participating this program. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta35cde1382617430-M32af07f289087f227189b74f/plan-9-in-summer-of-code

@adi@twtxt.net I am not. :-)

I’ve got it running on a pair of commercial kvm providers right now (vultr and ramnode). It works on many, but edge cases can cause some issues.

Oh no, so much better than that. Worth checking out.

Hrm, that would’ve been csh probably, or tcsh if you were lucky. But Plan 9 uses rc, which is so lovely I use it everywhere.

Hey, from my perspective on Plan 9, all these linuxes are the same junk.

Thanks! According to /etc/os-releases, it’s Fedora 32.

uname; I have an account. I just don’t know how to differentiate linux especially.

@adi@twtxt.net Some linux; how does one tell which?

Plan 9 doesn’t really do text-mode pseudo-graphics at all, or even cursor addressing, on philosophical grounds.

This is a good morning. 🚀🐇

I am very excited about this, and it seems like something the twtxt crowd might enjoy: https://anewsession.com/

Yup, 1997 to… 2000 or 2001.

Huh. In my feed, there is (correctly) a backslash before that . in the sed command, but twtxt.net is stripping it.

Ah, no; and there we have a good example of finger’s poor discoverability! It matches my email address, though: echo a.9srv.net | sed ’s/./@/’

I don’t think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.

@prologic@twtxt.net Bug in your profile links: it’s repeating a segment. For example, your face tries to get to https://twtxt.net/user/https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt

No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it’d be fun to add, but doesn’t replace anything you’re doing.

I like finger, but outside of a shared system, the complete lack of discoverability is pretty fatal.

With the finger server specifically? No idea, it’s a toy. I’d honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.

My finger server now includes the last post from tw that doesn’t have a subject. ‘finger a@9srv.net’

I just made the decision to allow a domain I own to expire. Personal growth is possible!

This was macOS. I don’t really use gnu. Of course, it’s also not on Plan 9, the system I know best.

I was reading dd(1), where it is mentioned in passing, obliquely. Then stty(1) has more info.

I have been using Unix for 25+ years and I just learned about the status character in shells (often ^T). Huh.

Fixed the race in tw. Mostly; now it’s just while tw/r is running. Close enough.

The GSoC application period is closed, and Plan 9’s is in. Now the waiting.

Ooo, tw has a race condition between tw/r and pull/mktl, in the case you /r after a new post but before pull & mktl have run. Oops.

Plan 9’s GSoC application is now in. 🎉