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I donāt use my account on twtxt.net although I like the content that is found there.
Yeah, Yarn as a piece of software is really nice, Iāve said that a few times before.
Although technology is only a piece of the puzzle.
As a community/ecosystem is perhaps too niche. I agree that āsocial platformsā donāt need to be meaningful, perhaps they donāt even need to be useful.
We are sharing time and words here, so thatās good by itself.
Well, I donāt use Yarn/Twtxt.net anymore, although I read the homepage a few times a week to catchup on anything interesting.
Nowadays I barely twt from my PHP instance. I got to say that is more āconvenientā reading from twtxt.net that on my instance.
My current feeling is that is too niche to find something interesting, being about personal growth, professional or even entertaining. There is not enough people and/or interesting topics to be engaged on. The network effect of people making content is missing IMO. Although I have a similar feeling of any other microblogging, itās too superficial to have a meaningful conversation.
Sadly in this ecosystem Iāve found no one twting on Spanish, and having conversations in English is not so easy to me.
And about local communities, I tried to invite friends and colleagues, but no one created their instance or joined to Yarn. Even the local Mastodon instance has 3 members (myself included), so I think creating a hipster microblogging is not as easy as looked at the start.
Itās again a decision between the involved time and the ārewardā at the end. If we are not getting good emotions or something bigger that ourselves, feels like ānot worthyā to belong.
A quiet Sunday, with family, my dog š¶, house cleaning, preparing for a travel tomorrowā¦
Thatās all the twt
Indeed, BitWarden works nice as a credentials manager, and Iām quite happy with the implementation of Passkeys.
Sadly my old Android 9 is not compatible with the mobile app, although I use the web for that case.
That said, thatās what Iāve been using for years and I canāt find a reason to try another (as usually happens with these tools)
Iād suggest of self-host or trying a public instance of Vaultwarden like https://passwd.hostux.net
(donation supported)
Why do clickers are named like that?
The buttons on Zenithās original āclickerā TV remote were a mechanical marvel
https://www.theverge.com/23810061/zenith-space-command-remote-control-button-of-the-month
āA master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.ā ā L.P. Jacks
I added an Atom feed to ā7 links of the dayā. Find some curated links (a few in spanish and french) every morning.
https://eapl.me/links/feed.php
and about players, well:
VLC (Win/Mac/UX), Musikcube (Win), Music Player (Android), Revanced (Android)
Formerly
Evil Player, Small player
Nothing fancy, although it has changed along the years.
I payed for Spotify Premium for many years, but since 2020 I think it lost its value for me, so I switched to YT, or a local company is offering Deezer free for a year.
Iāve been playing with the idea of storing most of my music in SD cards or internal memory from an old android.
Currently in my car I listen to music in a SD card with āeverythingā Iāve been getting in the last 10+ years. Iām lazy to switch on the Bluetooth on my phone.
At home, I have a few different speakers, with line input and bluetooth. My wife has an Alexa near the dining room, so we often listen to music or the radio there.
Also, very often I play Youtube playlists on the TV (Iām looking for some way to listen to Youtube on a speaker, but havenāt found any. Or with the phone with Revanced (which stopped working last week)
Since I have diverse players I try to stick to MP3 VBR, although I try to download or convert tracks to āmore recentā formats. Weirdly my car allows WMA, and more weirdly I have some tracks which came to that SD card mysteriously.
I havenāt found FLAC interesting as when I was in college, I canāt notice a difference between lossy and loseless formats. Perhaps my environment is too noisy or Iām getting older š
That said, Iād really want to isolate my home-office, I have too much reverb when recording, and also external noise, which sometimes affect when listening to music.
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Interesting analysis on how we face stress based on our personality and preferencesā¦ Checked a few of those 5 types.
This is interesting allowing to access a Web with SSH, although a bit complicated for the āregularā user
https://pico.sh/tunnels
Iād expect some one-time password, or some challenge to copy and paste. Anyway, it always makes mi think of alternatives to passwords.
interesting, how does it work?
Ha! I had one of these in college (Win XP), and my father had a slightly newer model (Win Vista).
It was great to play FIFA 08, and the keyboard was amazing, although I agree it was really heavy and thick, but was affordable and powerful for that age.
Now I had a Dell Inspiron 2014 with Xubuntu, and works pretty well. I changed from HDD to SSD and itās now a pretty decent laptop to type notes and hacking a bit.
well, at work we use JSONC which basically is JSON + // and /* */
Its syntax is supported by vs code, and we wrote a few scripts to remove the comments so itās practically compatible with anything
Itās day and night not only for configuration but for testing and development.
Organization eligibility
- Must run an active open source or free software project.
- Must have produced and released software under an OSI approved license.
- Must not be based in a country currently embargoed by the United States.
Sadly the application period is over, but we could register the project for next year.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/how-it-works
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4JNz6zWzLs
For Python, env files with dotenv.
For JS, usually JSONP or a config.js
For PHP a config.php with an array usually works
For C#, I try to avoid the ugly native XML, but itās what most of the team useā¦
For most I have a .env.sample in the repo, and we ignore .env or config* to avoid storing credentials.
I came across Google Summer of Code
This one looks interesting, Iāll apply soon, and perhaps is interesting for you as well
https://kiwix.org/en/google-summer-of-code/
Would ātwtxtā be a good project for the next one? š¤
for video-game coursesā¦ All the university uses it š¬
daaaamnā¦
I havenāt used Matrix in ages, just Telegram, WA, Discord and Teamsā¦ I think I got used to those. Perhaps thatās because none of my acquaintances is in Matrix or XMPP, what am I missing?
I had forgotten a bit this twtxtā¦
How are you doing these days ?
āWe need our sensitivity to be hurt in order to grow. If we protect our feelings, we become cyclical, remain impoverished, frustrated, stagnant. You need a love, a coach, a boss, an influencer, a stranger who emotionally wounds your worldview so you can then redirect that anger/pain it causes you towards an analysis that helps you eliminate/optimize much of what youāre doing.ā
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Concept of the day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choropleth_map
eapl.me jumped to Ruby League š»
185/140 calories burned this week!
well, I like that name uninformativ.de ! Has more personality than the other one, I think
And I read this article, and didnāt make the connection to your domain!
https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2022-04-21/0/POSTING-en.html
Iām still looking for a typed Python, but letās see if it comes natively in 3.13 or something
After getting used to it, Iām loving this date format:
2024-02-06
I liked ā6feb2024ā, although isnāt as international as the former.
Andā¦ ā06/02/24ā is awful, donāt use it!
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Well, Iāll describe basic microblogging actions as:
Reply - Extend a conversation, create a new twt in reply to another
Boost, Retweet, Repost - Silently show a twt to your followers (maybe to share some interesting URL to follow based on that twt)
Quote - Start a new conversation based on a previous twt (debatable, for instance Masto doesnāt have this one, has to be done manually)
To go back a few steps I was checking this doc:
https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twtsubjectextension.html
Reply is already covered there. Allows to tag someone with @ which I think is good enough to start following that URL to see the whole conv.
For quoting, I like your idea of using ā>ā
It could be something like
(#hash) @<nick url> > "Quoted text"\nThen a comment
Finally for boosting, thereās no syntax to do that.
Since I was using
[lang=en]
to define a twt in a language different than the default one, I was thinking on something similar.
Perhaps
(#hash) @<nick url> [boost]
Meaning, āhey! see that twt with hash # from that URLā
Iām thinking of a kind of āboostā or āretweet/repostā for twtxt, so it can help with discoverability of interesting people to follow.
Something like
[BOOST][URL]
[QUOTE][URL]āSnippetā
Ha, this is cool. Has its flaws, although is easy to remember.
An RNG that runs in your brain
And this one is cool as well š
https://ncase.me/sim/?s=prey
š¦ & š°
Ha, these visualizations are cool and really easy to grasp!
https://ncase.me/ballot/
I should use them in some next course.
My Masterās thesis was on digital ballots, so itās always appealing to think a bit on how to āfixā elections. Spoiler: It doesnāt matter.
New links every hour!
Iām thinking of having a snapshot of an specific hour, to make it easier to share the link
https://eapl.me/links/
One from this hour:
This story will change the way you think about your friends
https://stack.betwixt.life/p/this-story-will-change-the-way-you
Interesting analysis on how to shuffle playlist with different artists
How to shuffle songs?
https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/
Would this work to read better? š
https://www.jiffyreader.com
Letās try out!
I was reading on āShareware Heroesā that this model was relatively common in the era of BBS. Not Open Sourced, although you could buy the code, or old versions were releasedā¦
š Indie RSS reader
looks nice!
Good idea reusing that engine (based on Wolfestein was I reading?) for a racing game š
[ā¦] my server logs it shows that your site pulled in the useragent as https://eapl.me/twtxt/?url=https%3A//neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt with bytesypider from bytedance?
Didnāt know of bytesypider and bytedance, I assume those are bots, although I no idea why they are pointing to that address to your site
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/psa-bytedance-and-bytespider-bots-recommend-blocking/
twtxt-php isnāt sending User-Agent headers as itās in the original spec:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/discoverability.html
Or the discussion there:
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/109
I think it could be easy to implement š¤
Since relying on HTTP logs could be inconvenient on some servers, there were ideas of using WebMention or some HTTP endpoint to inform whoās following your URL (like on Gemini Antenna).
From what Iāve read, timeline and yarn has experimental support for Webmention. Could @prologic@twtxt.net or @darch@neotxt.dk share some insights on that?
What is the difference between twtxt-php and timeline from sorenpeter?
twtxt-php is a minimalistic client based on another PHP project, you can see it on https://eapl.mx/twtxt
timeline is a better-looking Web app, with support for markdown, images galleryā¦ you can see it here http://darch.dk/timeline/
twtxt-php is not actively developed, its core was merged into timeline
Does it have a way to follow feeds from the web ui?
Yes, but you have to be logged in. Currently can only add URLs, not edit or unfollow.I was looking at it and what prevents someone from downloading the .config file and getting the password?
An .htaccess fileAlso how would I generate a totp password to use?
That part is missing on the Web side, there is a commented PHP code to do that
https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/twtxt-php/blob/master/libs/TOTP.php#L121
Although you can find a better TOTP onboarding on https://fit.eapl.me
yarn is really cool, go for it!
Also, if you are looking for some lightweight and unfinished client, I could recommend the PHP script Iām using to reply here.
Started as a raw PHP script to twt and reply from my phone, running from a shared hosting, then evolved into twtxt-php on Github and parts of it were merged to
https://github.com/sorenpeter/timeline
And itās live here:
http://darch.dk/timeline/
The idea behind it is having 1 instance, and 1 .txt for each account, not using any database but only the .txt. Kind of experimental although works good enough š
main problem with encrypted stuff is a good ratio between usability and security, when usability is āeasier than what we already knowā, being IRC, Whats, Discord among others. Where I should keep my messages even if my passphrase or keys are lost.
And security is that black and magic box that is supposed to keep my privacy.
Interesting challenge!
These days Iāve researching on encrypted messaging, and this one took my attention š
https://unsigned.io/software/LXMF.html
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Todayās was easy š¤
lucky aussies š, here we are still yelling with 20Mb wireless connections š
An interruption every 20 minutes is normal now š
I should change my office soon, he #justRantingToTheVoid
ha, I remember being a kid on the 90s and mind-blowed of seeing a pool/billiards game made on QBasic. Didnāt know of trigonometry or physics, so for me it was like magic.
Never made a game like that (I donāt enjoy digital billiards, got to say) but was always on my mind of something cool to exist.
Congrats!
I was hibernating my digital life since last few weeks, anyway if you are reading this thanks for doing so, and I wish you a nice new life cycle!
sure! Assign me a ticket on Github or something to check it soon!
And happy Xmas, holidays or whatever you are celebrating over there!
On Hobby projects vs. Professional ones, and all in-between
https://hackerweb.app/#/item/38689869
Today headache was forgetting that in a computer I have thousands separated by , and in another with .
Todayās talk with members of #SuperHappyDevHouse felt nice.
Some interesting question was, how do you solve problems in return for money?