Better profile management coming to Firefox
Firefox has long had support for multiple profiles
to store personal information such as bookmarks, passwords, and user
preferences. However, Firefox did not make profiles particularly
discoverable or easy to manage. That is about to change; Mozilla has
announced
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Qantas responds to cyber hackersā threat to release customer data
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Can private information uploaded to ChatGPT be found by other users?
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Family of missing woman hopes Bathurst 1000 can uncover answers
With more than 200,000 people expected to attend this weekendās Bathurst 1000, the family of Janine Vaughan wants a billboard raising awareness about her disappearance uncovered. ā Read more
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PrƤventive Fahndung mit PrismX: Der Radikalisierung per KI zuvorkommen
Das KI-Tool PrismX eines indischen Studenten analysiert Postings in sozialen Medien und erstellt eine Risikoeinschätzung für die Radikalisierung einer Person. Ein Bericht von Lars Lubienetzki ( Tools, KI)
Hello again everyone! A little update on my twtxt client.
I think itās finally shaping a bit better now, but⦠āļø
As Iām trying to put all the parts together, I decided to build multiple parallel UIs, to ensure I donāt accidentally create a structure that is more rigid than planned.
I already decided on a UI that I would want to use for myself, it would be inspired by moshidon, misskey and some other āsocial feedsā mock-ups I found on dribbble.
I also plan on building a raw HTML version (for anyone wanting to do a full DIY client).
I would love to get any suggestions of what you would like to see (and possibly use) as a client, by sharing a link, app/website name or even a sketch made by you on paper.
I think Iāll pick a third and maybe a fourth design to build together with the two already mentioned.
For reference, the screens I think of providing are (some might be optional or conditionally/manually hidable):
- Global / personal timeline screen
- Profile screen (with timeline)
- Thread screen
- Notifications screen or popup (both valid)
- DM list & chat screens (still planning, might come later)
- Settings screen (itāll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
- Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some āenginesā might not have direct publishing support)
I also plan on adding two optional metadata fields:
display_name
: To show a human readable alternative for a nick, it fallback tonick
if not defined
banner
: Using the same format asavatar
but the image expected is wider, inspired by other socials around
I also plan on supporting any metadata provided, including a dynamically parsable regex rule format for those extra fields, this should allow anyone to build new clients that donāt limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! š¤
Speaking of groff: Iāve been following their mailing list for a while now and this G. Branden Robinson person invests an insane amount of energy into that project. š¤Æ
For a very first attempt, Iām extremely happy how this tray turned out: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/blechschachtel/ The photos look rougher than in person. The 0.5mm aluminium sheet was 300x200mm to begin with. Now, the accidental outside dimensions are 210x110mm. It took me about an hour to make. Tomorrow, I gotta build a simple folder, so I donāt have to hammer it anymore, but can simply bend it a little at a time.
Please donāt hate me today; Iām a bit grumpy and have too many reasons to be upset:
- 2 counts of pushing and trying to get the simplest things done at work (that for some reason are made more difficult than they should be)
- This whole Chat Control bullshit
- And some other person things going on that have been ongoing for 72 days and counting š¤¬
Raspberry Pi Updates Keyboard PC with New 500+ Model
Raspberry Pi 500+ is the newest all-in-one personal computer in the Raspberry Pi family. It combines the Raspberry Pi 5 platform with a mechanical keyboard, upgraded memory, and integrated storage. The design builds on the earlier Raspberry Pi 400 and 500 models while adding higher specifications and new input features. The Raspberry Pi 500+ is [ā¦] ā Read more
I would personally rather see something like this:
2025-09-25T22:41:19+10:00 Hello World
2025-09-25T22:41:19+10:00 (#kexv5vq https://example.com/twtxt.html#:~:text=2025-09-25T22:41:19%2B10:00) Hey!
Preserving both content-based addressing as well as location-based addressing and text fragment linking.
@bender@twtxt.net A renewed vision test might be a good idea for some people. š I mean, it is kind of curious that you get this license as a young person and then it lasts a lifetime, without any further tests. As long as you donāt screw up really bad, it remains valid ā¦
@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Personally, I find the reversed order of URL first and then timestamp more natural to reference something. Granted, URL last would be kinda consistent with the mention format. However, the timestamp doesnāt act as a link text or display text like in a mention, so, itās some different in my opinion. But yeah.
The worst thing you can do is make your infrastructure (switches, wifi, ā¦) depend on some cloud service. Because someone else is maintaining that service; you have no control over it. You 100% depend on that other person now. Very stupid idea.
Now guess what manufacturers are pushing for ā¦
Now guess who couldnāt complete a task at work this Saturday morning, because a certain cloud service was down ā¦
IT is fucked. Throw it all away and start over.
@zvava@twtxt.net There would be only one hash for a message. Some to be defined magic date selects which hash to use. If the message creation timestamp is before this epoch, hash it with v1, otherwise hammer it through v2. Eventually, support for v1 could be dropped as nobody interacts with the old stuff anymore. But Iād keep it around in my client, because why not.
If users choose a client which supports the extensions, they donāt have to mess around with v1 and v2 hashing, just like today.
As for the school of thought, personally, Iād prefer something else, too. Iām in camp location-based addressing, or whatever it is called. There more I think about it, a complete redesign of twtxt and its extensions would be necessary in my opinion. Retrofitting has its limits. Of course, this is much more work, though.
What a crazy color temperature this yellow orange was in person! Sick lighting this evening: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-09-15/
«1977 United States Environmental
Protection Agency
Graphic Standards System
Designed by Steff Geissbühler,
Chermayeff & Geismar Associates
The EPA Graphic Standards System is one of the finest examples of a standards manual ever created. The modular and flexible system devised raised the standard for public design in the United States.
The book features a foreword by Tom Geismar, introduction by Steff Geissbühler, an essay by Christopher Bonanos, scans of the original manual (from Geissbühlerās personal copy), and 48 pages of photographs from the EPA-commissioned Documerica project (1970ā1977).Ā»
Great. Yet another messed up plain text e-mail part. The URL was actually HTML-escaped. Took me five attempts to figure this out, because of course it had to be several kilometers long. In fact, the e-mail stated: āPlease do not be surprised that the link is particularly long. It contains your personal configuration.ā
A normal person is completely lost (thatās why I got involved). Visting the broken URL opens a popup dialog suggesting to deactivate script blockers. Which I had already done upfront as a matter of prudence.
Fun bonus on top: The JWT in the link has identical iat
(issued at) and exp
(expiry) claims. The expiry is definitely not checked, itās well in the past.
Medical software just has to be horrible. Itās a law.
A culinÔria desta casa é cada vez mais definida pelo YouTube, são os tempos
<details>
tag in HTML; it lets you write a sentence or so that someone can then click to expand to see the actual post. it's called a CW because most people use it to warn for potentially triggering/harmful subjects, but you can really use it for anything, like spoilers in a TV show or even for joke punchlines
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ta. The only good use for <details>
is to collapse long logs in bug analysis reports. Other than that, I find it rather annoying to expand sections manually.
As for spoilers, personally, I donāt care at all. Not the slightest bit. If there is something that I donāt wanna read, I just stop reading. ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
But Iāve got the feeling that Iāve got an unpopular opinion on that matter. ;-)
** Strata **
A Counterfeit - a Plated Person -
I would not be -
Whatever strata of Iniquity
My Nature underlie -
Truth is good Health - and Safety, and the Sky.
How meagre, what an Exile - is a Lie,
And Vocal - when we die -
ā Emily Dickinson
I made another game! This one pretty much has one single verb:āmove.ā The game, like most games I make, is a roguelike that relies heavily on probabilities and rng (random number generation).
Each level is ⦠ā Read more
if-modified-since
request header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/If-Modified-Since
@bender@twtxt.net The person actually reached out to me. Itās all good. āļø
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hihi ^^ i did that at first, but i personally i donāt like it when websites donāt let me change my password when i am already authenticated ā fwiw you can view and log out other sessions, if that diminishes this attack vector at all
We use all the Microsoft programs at work - Teams and Outlook especially.
After all kinds of technical problems with Teams, that sometimes go unresolved for over a year, Microsoft shifted their priorities away from fixing things and towards adding an annoying AI Copilot button, that just takes up space and all it does, is loads the website in Teams, so I disabled it. Soon they just add it back, but in a different row of icons, therefore itās now a different button, you have to disable (I think they added yet another one, to the Teams, on my work phone and I had to disabled that too). Not too long after, the desktop one just enabled itself, because of āan errorā and I can disable it, but doing so activates a popup, that begs you to turn it back on, every once in a while. You canāt disable the popup and can only click āYesā or āNot nowā on it. I still keep it disabled, out of principle, but yesterday I noticed yet another Copilot button, this time in the top right corner of my Outlook and this one cannot be disabled, on the business version of Outlook and even on the personal one, itās only possible to do it through hidden privacy settings, by prohibiting the program from connecting to Microsoft servers, for extra āfeaturesā.
Thereās people complaining about it online, so itās clear nobody really wants it, but at this point Microsofts position is that you will have at least one useless AI button on your screen, at any given time, and you will be happy. And yes, their AI sucks and if I absolutely have to use AI for something, thereās already 2 better options, we have access to, at work.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, removing the cover will probably help. Iāll have to try. š And, yes, the scrolling is pretty annoying (and kind of ruins the experience a little bit).
The printer isnāt that loud ā at least not for a dot matrix printer. š Itās been ~30 years since Iāve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. Iām typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Hereās an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21āmodel-m-goes-brrr.ogg 𤣠It really sounds like that when youāre typing fast. Brrrrt.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, thatās so cool! :-) Could you remove the cover to at least reduce the amount of scrolling around? But I bet any amount of scrolling is annoying.
This printer has quite some noise level to it. Or how bad is it really in person?
@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, this is another instance of restricting āpersonalā computing. You wonāt be able to install arbitrary software anymore (āsideloadingā, as they call it).
Itās not unique, itās not new. Boiling the frog alive.
Weāre heading towards this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice picture, this hot air balloon has quite a large basket.
Yes, go for it! :-)
My grandpa went ballooning ages ago and liked it. The balloonist misjudged the height a bit and landed in an open-air pool. Well, not in the water, but on the sunbathing lawn just inside the fence. :-D After the ride, everybody was given a very long personal name that they had to memorize. Decades later, my grandpa still knew his assigned name.
The most important thing to know is that ā in German ā you donāt fly (fliegen) a ballon, but ride (fahren) it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballonfahren#Fahren_oder_fliegen Judging by the English wikipedia article, this is not an English thing, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_air_ballooning
The GPG signatures of my software tarballs have been wrong for years (because Iāve been using rsync wrong, funny enough, it wasnāt a GPG issue) and nobody ever noticed. (They still are wrong at the moment, because I havenāt pushed the fix, yet.)
This confirms that this is just a total waste of time. Nobody ever checks this. Maybe this matters if youāre a distro, but why even bother as a single person ā¦
In order to publish my personal projects/pages (and most of my teaching materials, hundreds of pages) on #Codeberg, I need to convert #markdown files into #HTML and sprinkle some CSS & JS from a layout template, like #GitHubās Pages #Jekyll does, but I dread the complexity of installing and tending to Jekyll or Hugo or other static site generators, and I canāt even imagine going near Forejo Actions or any sort of CI intergration.
Should I be brave and do the Jekyll /static generator thing? Any other ideas for poor, overworked, stressed out, clumsy people? :(
@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers⦠š¤, but I digress. Verbatim text:
What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
------------------------------------------------------------------
You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*
Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)
The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.
It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet.
June 21st, 1789 - The Constitution for the United States of America is ratified, with New Hampshire becoming the ninth state to ratify. Article I, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution contain provisions which clearly prohibit the federal government and the states from granting titles: āNo title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State. No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex postfacto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.ā However, no penalty for violating the Article is specified.
In 1996, they came up with the X11 āSECURITYā extension:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4w548u/what_is_up_with_the_x11_security_extension/
This is what could have (eventually) solved the security issues that weāre currently seeing with X11. Those issues are cited as one of the reasons for switching to Wayland.
That extension never took off. The person on reddit wonders why ā I think itās simple: Containers and sandboxes werenāt a thing in 1996. It hardly mattered if X11 was āinsecureā. If you could run an X11 client, you probably already had access to the machine and could just do all kinds of other nasty things.
Today, sandboxing is a thing. Today, this matters.
Iāve heard so many times that āX11 is beyond fixable, itās hopeless.ā I donāt believe that. I believe that these problems are solveable with X11 and some devs have said āyeah, we could have kept working on itā. Itās that people donāt want to do it:
Why not extend the X server?
Because for the first time we have a realistic chance of not having to do that.
https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html
Iām not in a position to judge the devs. Maybe the X.Org code really is so bad that you want to run away, screaming in horror. I donāt know.
But all this was a choice. I donāt buy the argument that we never would have gotten rid of things like core fonts.
All the toolkits and programs had to be ported to Wayland. A huge, still unfinished effort. If that was an acceptable thing to do, then it would have been acceptable to make an āX12ā that keeps all the good things about X11, remains compatible where feasible, eliminates the problems, and requires some clients to be adjusted. (You could have still made āX11X12ā like āXWaylandā for actual legacy programs.)
After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I think Iāve finally come up with my Final Choices (shortlist) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that Iāll enjoy (far less work for me to setup and teardown). The one at the top of the list Iām leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B
#Camping #CampersĀ«Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most ānotable peopleā around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. Click below to show people only from a specific category.
Made by Topi Tjukanov.Ā»
https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people
via @mekaru@mekaru
#wikidata #cartography
hey! i asked this a while ago but i have to ask again ā is anyone willing to offer space on their yarn pod to my friend? i would love to invite her to my own but sheās unable to access my site for personal reasons. sheās really interested in seeing what yarn is about so if anyone is willing and able, let me know!
Someone did a thing:
https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114763322251054485
Iāve been silently wondering all the time if this was possible, but never investigated: Keep doing X11 but use Wayland as a backend.
This uses XWaylandās ārootfulā mode, which basically just gives you a normal Wayland window with all the X11 stuff happening inside of it:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-Useful
In other words, put such a window in fullscreen and you (more or less) have good old X11 running in a Wayland window.
(For me, personally, this wonāt be the way forward. But itās a very interesting project.)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de That short segment is fairly close to reality, even though it obviously looks heaps better in person: https://youtu.be/u8YVorNRcDM?t=66
Theyāre all talks, not real hands-on trainings like you did.
I love listening to good, well-structured talks. Problem is, not everybody is a good speaker and many screw it up. š„“ Iām certainly not a great speaker, which is why I gravitate more towards āworkshopsā, in the hopes that people ask questions and discussions arise. Doesnāt always work out. 𤣠At the very least, I almost always have some other person connect to the projector/beamer/screenshare and then they do the stuff ā this avoids me being wwwwaaaaaaaaayyyy too fast.
We are usually drowned in stress and tight deadlines, hence events like today are super rare ⦠We used to do it more often until ~10 years ago.
Once a year the security guys organize a really great hacking event, though.
Oh dear, Iād love to participate in that. 𤯠That sounds like a lot of fun. (Why donāt we do this?!)
@prologic@twtxt.net This person isnāt particularly happy with this study:
https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114717549619229029
I donāt know enough about these things to form an opinion. 𫤠I sure wish it was true, though. š
** Of fairies, compost, and computers **
Lately Iāve buried myself in reading fiction. Stand outs from among the crowd are, of course, Middlemarch but also a lot of sort of scholarly fairy fiction; works that follow the scholastic adventures of studious professorial types in vaugely magical settings. Namely Emily Wildeās Encyclopedia of Faeriesā, Heather Fawcett and The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow.
Iāve also been working on a handful of personal utility programs. I ⦠ā Read more
Option
and error handling. (Or the more complex Result
, but itās easier to explain with Option
.)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de All the return
s tell me that youāre not a real Rust programmer. :-D Personally, I would never omit them either. They make code 100 times more readable.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha š This is gold! Iāve been following along with our ramblings on Rust. Whatās it gone and done to you now? š¤ I donāt think I can ever be friends personally, I feel ātoo stupidā to learn Rust š¤£
NSW Deputy Premier Prue Car diagnosed with breast cancer
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WWDC 2025: Apple Says Personalized Siri Features Are Still Not Ready
If you were hoping for the more personalized version of Siri to launch soon, you will have to keep waiting.
During its WWDC 2025 keynote today, Apple reiterated that the personalized Siri features will launch at some point in the coming year, so do not expect them to be included in the first iOS 19, iPadOS 19, or macOS 26 betas.
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Leanne Castleyās plea to outlaw coercive control is painfully personal
The Canberra Liberals leader says coercive control stripped power, freedom and independence from the two women closest to her. ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very rarely does it happen. Yup, the clouds are to praise for todayās spectacle. Surpringly, the pink is fairly close to how it actually looked in person. I was pleased to see that. The neon orange in front of the grayish sky was way cooler, though. I wish I could close the aperture on my camera in the hope of capturing the insane color. Oh well.
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Download Borderlands 2 for Mac FREE This Weekend on Steam
If youāre a Mac gamer and you love free games, you wonāt want to miss out on this deal; Borderlands 2, the classic popular first-person action RPG shooter, is free to download this weekend on Steam (until the morning of June 8 at 10am PDT). And because itās on Steam, youāll be able to play ⦠Read More ā Read more
Erin Patterson asked why she didnāt raise alarm about foraged mushrooms
Erin Patterson didnāt tell a āsingle personā that she may have accidentally added foraged mushrooms to a lunch that eventually killed three of her relatives, her murder trial has heard. ā Read more
Breaking: 21 yearsā jail for father whose abuse led to daughterās multiple personalities
The Newcastle man has been sentenced to 21 years in prison after a trial that involved a daughter giving evidence as different personalities. ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Iāve absolutely no idea how theyāre poured in. I bet it must be some automatic thing. At least I cannot imagine that any sane person would ever add such junk to a list.
Family pleads for answers 18 years after baffling, cult-linked disappearance
The family of Chantelle McDougall and her daughter Leela appeals for information as they continue to live with the āemotional roller-coasterā of their 2007 disappearance. ā Read more
Federal Court Blocks Trump Tariffs That Could Have Pushed iPhone Prices to Over $4,000
A federal court has ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority in attempting to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods, including Apple products, halting plans that could have dramatically raised iPhone prices across the United States (via _[CNET](https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/federal-court-blocks-trumps-tariffs-finding-the-president-overstepp ⦠ā Read more
Apple Acquires Gaming Studio RAC7
Apple has purchased game studio RAC7, according to a report from Digital Trends. RAC7 is a small, two-person company that developed Apple Arcade game Sneaky Sasquatch, and the acquisition was confirmed by an Apple spokesperson.
From Digital Trends:
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gamado à @aperture@aperture porque hÔ meses/anos que quero escrever um texto sobre esta postura, e esta imagem explica tão bem o problema
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My husband is a dog person⦠ā Read more
Always glad to hear from you, mate. I understand work and personal life often demand attention. Just a well-being check, thatās all. āŗļø
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ta! The dead end wasnāt all that bad in my opinion. Personally, I really do like dirt paths and exploring. It was all dried up, so no muddy mess we had to walk through. More like climbing over thick branches that have been worked into the ground by harvesters or forwarders in the muddy winter. Rough terrain. My mate, on the other hand ā whose idea it was to check out the real summit in the first place ;-) ā wasnāt all that pleased about the detour. Oh well. :-D
I never was a cat person but these two changed my life ā Read more
According to a very old email one of my more personal family domains was registered in 2013 making it 12 years old, so I was closed 𤣠my public facing one is much much older š¤£
@anth@a.9srv.net I actually donāt have a clue how old my public-facing domain is 𤣠I have another more personal one thatās probably around ~15 years, but Iām not even sure how to check tbh š
i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i donāt think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal
This is Gypsy and she has worn this for 4 days straight. The mask falls off easily and every time it has fallen off, she meows constantly until you put it back on her head. I guess, until she gets tired of it, I will have to call her Bat-Gypsy š such a weird lovable cat with loads of personality. ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @quark@ferengi.one In 2014 one person created protocol ii. Later it forked in IDEC. Why i said this? Because itās simple āfederatedā forum-like protocol where from your station fetch another every 5-10 minutes. Stations has topic-based channels like idec.talks, linux.16, haiku.os, zx.spectrum. In short itās FIDO but.. more modern? Documentation: https://github.com/idec-net/new-docs (mostly Russian, but you can use translator, also protocol already translated to english)
Confession:
Iāve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other āmodernā social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very āego-centricā. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great ā and it didnāt even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But itās not that great and the protocol isnāt meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of ālikesā has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ā¹ļø
The return of the tilde
As some of you may have noticed my web page is now under /~mc
instead
of just /mc
. This is a return to olden times.
The Apache web server, and probably many other web servers, had a
simple way of adding personal web pages for local users. This meant
that an URL ending with ~mc
led directly to a subdirectory of user
mcās home directory. Whatever they put in that directory was
immediately available on the Intertubes! Neat, huh?
We need to bring this back to the modern net! Many tilde pubnixe ⦠ā Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me I wouldnāt call it natural, it is the way Bluesky decided to handle handles (not meaning to make a pun, or anything). There is no other way, but that.
The bottomline is, there are agreed upon āstandardsā, right? From example, on Yarnd you show as āeapl.meā, from āeapl.meā. A kind of weird redundancy because on twtxt, ever since I started using it, one will expect to see a ānickā (equivalent to a personās first name), from āa domainā (like a surname).
There is nothing holding back someone from giving themselves the nick:
thisismyawesomenickforwhichiwillbeknownforeverandeveritsgreatisntit
But, do we really want that? š
Thatās exactly what came to mind. Even millionaires would simply pay with a credit card for the convenience, and yes, because what kind of a sociopath will carry $3,000 around?! Just one more stumping item to that despicable person list.
good morning friends. i donāt know what iām gonna do today. perhaps work on my patreon and login wall more personal sites behind authelia that i could offer access to via patreon tier
@prologic@twtxt.net Since you have to check and double check everything it spits out (without providing sources), I donāt find any of this helpful. Itās like someoneās in the room with you and that person is saying random stuff that might or might not be correct. At best, it might spark some new idea in your head and then you follow that idea the traditional way.
Information published on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter) was never guaranteed to be correct. But at least you had a āframe of referenceā: āAh, I read this information about Linux on a blog that usually posts about Windows, so this one single Linux post might not necessarily be correct.ā That is completely lost with LLMs. Itās literally all mushed together. š¤·
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 𤣠Figures š¤¦āāļø Also no need to be concerned with that here, Iāve personally blocked the ASN(s) of Microsoft, OpenAI, Claude and Google š
so i had the idea of adding a page to my otherwise single page girl on the moon personal site that featured my more notable projects, but itās been hours and i CANāT THINK OF ANYTHING TO ADD THAT I HAVENāT ALREADY MENTIONED. i just host other peopleās stuff!!!
@bender@twtxt.net awww thank you :ā))) you all are too nice!!! i really wanted to share how i did this because i think iām the first person to publicly attempt a production instance of dreamwidth code in docker, so iām glad i did a good job at documenting it!!!!!!!
jenny really isnāt well equipped to handle edits of my own twts.
For example, in 2021, this change got introduced:
https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/6b5b25a542c2dd46c002ec5a422137275febc5a1.html
This means that jenny will always ignore my own edits unless I also manually edit its internal ājson databaseā. Annoying.
That change was requested by a user who had the habit of deleting twts or moving them to another mailbox or something. I think that person is long gone and I might revert that change. š¤
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz As someone who has a say in hiring decisions (every now and then ā Iām not an executive nor an HR person š): This is gold. Writeups like these tell me/us so much about job applicants. Itās much more valuable than āa CV without gapsā or āknow your algorithmsā or whatever. Instead, it shows how you work and that you understand what youāre doing, and thatās the most important part. š„
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my main itch with the DMs extensions is that these messages are intended to be private, not public information. Thatās why other extensions make sense, but DMs are another kind of feature.
TwiXter, Mastodon, FB and some other services usually hide the DMs in another section, so they are not mixed with the public timeline.
I find the DM topic interesting, I even made an indie experiment for a centralized messaging system here https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/owl.
Although, as Iāve said a few times here, Iām not particularly interested in supporting it on microblogging, as I donāt use it that much. In the rare case Iāve used them, I donāt have to manage public and private keys, and finally none of my acquaintances use encrypted email.
Nothing personal against anyone, and although I like to debate and even fight, itās not the case here. This proposal is the only one allowing DMs on twtxt, and if the community wants it, Iāll support it, with my personal input, of course.
A good approach I could find with a good compromise between compatibility with current clients and keeping these messages private is āhidingā the DMs in comments. For example:
# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00 !<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
SqliteCache
backend I'm working on here, what are your thoughts regarding mgirations from old MemoryCache
(which is now gone in the codebase in this branch). Do you care to migrate at all, or just let the pod re-fetch all feeds? š¤
I donāt think Iād personally be worried about migrating, just re-fetch. Sounds cleaner anyway?
Sorry Iām late to the party!
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I personally really like the news minimalist (fuck it mentions are kind of broken atm here in the UI :/) feed myself, really good quality, very high signal š
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There are now two (recentish) quotes I really like these days:
The smartest person in the room is not the one with all the answersāitās the one whoās brave enough to ask the dumb questions
and
The kindest person in the room is often the smartest
@bender@twtxt.net @ionores@twtxt.net Yep, itās extremely seldom that a photo turns out looking better than reality. Very rarely does that happen. But basically never with sunsets. ;-) Maybe once a leap year Iām very surprised to wonder how that subject wasnāt better in person but actually on film.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org now, thatās what I am talking about! Having been witness of similar sunsets, I would wholeheartedly agree that a photo (no matter how good!) is a poor replacement for not being able to spectate it in person.
A mate and I met at the scout yard to prepare an upcoming workshop. Boy did we have an amazing sunset when we left. The photos donāt reflect it, it was a hell lot more beautiful in person: https://lyse.isobeef.org/plaetzle-2025-04-11/
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hey does anyone know of yarn pods with open registrations besides mine? quite literally asking for a friend who i told about yarn but canāt use my site for personal reasons sadly otherwise iād gladly invite her
well, that leads to a long conversation.
Piracy is a difficult topic which is very personal, so I wonāt say much about it.
On writing books, Iāve tried along with other digital products such as courses and videogames, and I got to confess that it has been hard for me.
If it helps, I think it all reaches our expectations on the activity and the result. If royalties is the expectation, itās going to be slow. By 5% of royalties, for a rough example, a huge amount of sales will be required to get a decent āwageā, so Iāve understood of doing it by the side of a normal employment although it has been discouraging and a bit sad.
I have reflected about it in Spanish here: https://sembrandojuegos.substack.com/p/sobre-expectativas-al-crear-juegos
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, and Iād love to have some good excuse for why I
didnāt do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon
release schedule.Iād like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and
delayed things.But no. Itās just pure incompetence.
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Itās extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. Iāve seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is āBenutzernameā in German, literally āusernameā. Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.
This wasnāt the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some ārealā username. Even non-techies. It looks like some ācommon knowledgeā is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.
Have you experienced something similar?
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well, I assume by syntax you mean Gemtext (which I like a lot, my personal blog is built on top of it), so I think it might work for twtxt clientsā¦
I knew of twtxt in Gemini Antenna, so at least the 2017 spec might work on that protocol. I think the main issue with extensions is that they werenāt designed with many URLs and protocols in mind.
Also I have to admit that the Gemini community significantly reduced in the last few years. I donāt know how worth it is to add support for Gemini now.
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