I made a bracelet with a cat’s face on it. Can I see your cat? I’d like to choose one to make the bracelet for! ⌘ Read more

Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID
Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee,  Staff Writers  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is good news on several levels. First, it will restore aid to millions of needy or ill men, women, and children. Second, it will hopefully, restore respect and appreciation for the United States – although trusting the U.S. again may take quite a while. Third, there have been a whole series of court rulings … ⌘ Read more

Deals: EarPods Wired Headphones for $16, M3 iPad Air for $549, & More
While AirPods are wildly popular and completely wireless, there’s a growing movement of people who like to use more traditional wired headphones instead of wireless, whether it’s with their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Many people even prefer the wired headphones over wireless for various reasons. Apple still produces the classic white wired Apple EarPods headphones … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/202 … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’m just winging it with fail2ban and robots.txt tbh it’s a miracle the poor server hasn’t fallen over yet from the scrapers lol. like i run this whole thing off a macbook i’m not even joking https://superlove.sayitditto.net/

That’s a great idea. I am running GoToSocial in a local server (like Raspberry Pi) and it’s working fine.

‘This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was’: Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I search the media each day it becomes ever more obvious that psychopath fascist Trump’s idea of government is to mimic Hitler. We are now at the stage where men in plain clothes showing no warrant can break into someone’s home and kidnap them, just as the Gestapo did. You can click … ⌘ Read more

Audi A6 Avant e-tron Supports Apple Car Keys, Porsche Likely to Follow
Audi has enabled support for Apple’s digital car key feature in its latest A6 Avant e-tron model, bringing Apple Car Keys to the automaker’s electric car platform for the first time (via Mac4Ever).

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/ … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Oh, yes, it’s probably going to be something like gotosocial or snac. It’s got to be as lightweight as possible. (I call this whole thing “Mastodon”, but you’re right, that’s not quite correct. 😅)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de mastodon is probably the worst fedi software to self host tbh, you might wanna check out gotosocial? not to like pull you in another direction but idk masto is just suuuuper heavy lol

ah crap. chapters 2, 4 and 5 are being cropped by yarn on upload. they should be more like 2-3 hours long

ah crap. chapters 2, 4 and 5 are being cropped by yarn on upload. they should be more like 2-3 hours long

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2025-01 Fri [ ] Take out Trash @weekly

For a task that starts the first Friday of January and repeats weekly.

https://git.sour.is/sour-is/cal

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2025-01 Fri [ ] Take out Trash @weekly

For a task that starts the first Friday of January and repeats weekly.

https://git.sour.is/sour-is/cal

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This guy doing a dub techno mix and his GF in the background does yoga … which … sometimes … looks a bit like there’s just a dead body on the floor. 😂

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8G9D9LQIE&t=3095s

wahhh i wanna work towards my dream of offering pay as you can web hosting (static & dynamic) but i don’t know how!!!!! i keep drifting towards hosting panels but i don’t exactly have fresh linux servers for those nor do i like the level of access they require. so i’m like ok i can do the static site part with SFTP chroot jails and a front-end like filebrowser or something…. but then what about the dynamic sites!!!!!!! UGH

granted i doubt i’d get much interest in dynamic sites but i’d like to do this old school where i can offer people isolated mySQL databases or something for some project (i’m thinking PHP based fanlistings), which means i could do it the old school way of… people ask me to run it and i do it for them. but i kind of want to let people have access to be able to do it themselves just short of giving them SSH access which isn’t happening

DHS Official Explicitly Equates Protest to Terrorism in ‘Stunning’ Interview
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Your country is being taken away from you, I hope every American realizes that. It is happening because a small majority of us voted for it. After all, all of what is taking place day-by-day was completely spelled out in Project 2025. Aspiring dictator Trump doesn’t like opposition so he has his flying monkeys trying to … ⌘ Read more

it seems like yarn still points my nick to both my older URL (404 now) along with the current one.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah looks like an edge case. Because of the way he announces his preferred nick in the feed the “Reply” button spits out @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me for me, which then gets eaten as two mentions, probably matching twice against my following list?

(#oc3snia) @xuu@xuu Yeah looks like an edge case. Because of the way he announces his preferred nick in the feed the “Reply” button spit …
@xuu @txt.sour.is Yeah looks like an edge case. Because of the way he announces his preferred nick in the feed the “Reply” button spits out @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me for me, which then gets eaten as two mentions, probably matching twice against my following list? ⌘ Read more

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I’d like to know more about what andros and prologic are talking about, I feel lost.

“This will be managed by Registries.” Are we talking about these registries?
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html

SQL scares me i tweaked a bash script that pulled from a DB and the bash part was easy even if i was just going off of the code in there that i didn’t write (like i understood it at least) but the SQL parts had me suffering

Apple Launches ‘Surveyor’ App for Apple Maps Data Collection
Apple today launched a new app called Surveyor, which is designed to allow users to collect data like images of street signs and roadside details to improve Apple Maps.

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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of February 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help thes … ⌘ Read more

I’ve never adopted two kittens at the same time before. Is it normal for cats to like each other this much? ⌘ Read more

ah! those german calendars. Somehow I was thinking of something like mine, with spaces to write inside each day.

I worked for a german company and they gave away these calendars to our clients and team every year, but the model you can hang on the wall. Memory unlocked!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, a calendar that shows the past $x months is great! I have this as a widget in my bar:

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Before that I also used something like cal. It works, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:

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This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.

I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.

By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D

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@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I like to listen to you.

Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Erik Schön
In our final “Meet the Team” of 2024, we’d like to introduce you to Erik Schön, Managing Director at Erlang Solutions.

Erik shares his journey with Erlang, Elixir, and the BEAM ecosystem, from his work at Ericsson to joining Erlang Solutions in 2019. He also reflects on a key professional highlight in 2024 and looks ahead to his goals for 2025. Erik also reveals his festive traditions, including a Swedish-Japanese twist.

![](https://www.erlang-solutions.com … ⌘ Read more

She’s been like this for 30 minutes how do I sneak away? ⌘ Read more

I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.

It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.

With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.

In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.

So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.

The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.

well (insert stubborn emoji here) 😛, word blog comes from weblog, and microblogging could derivate from ‘smaller weblog’. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Microblogging

I’d differentiate it from sharing status updates as it was done with ‘finger’ or even a BBS. For example, being able to reply; create new threads and sharing them on a URL is something we could expect from ‘Twitter’, the most popular microbloging model (citation needed)

I like to discuss it, since conversations usually are improved if we sync on what we understand for the same words.

pls elaborate on a ‘p2p database’, ‘all story’ and ‘Registries’.

My first thought takes me to something like secure-scuttlebutt which it’s painful to sync data using clients, and too slow compared to downloading a text file.

Also I’d like for twtxt to avoid becoming an ActivityPub. Works well but it’s uses too many resources IMO.
https://kingant.net/2025/02/mastodon-the-cost-of-running-my-own-server/

I’m defending being able to self-host your Web client (like you’d do with a Wordpress, twtxt is a micrologging, at the end), instead of federated instances, so in a first thought I’d say Registries have many disadvantages being the first one that someone has to maintain them active.

PicoCalc Brings Classic Computing to ClockworkPi v2.0 with Raspberry Pi Pico
The PicoCalc is a compact computing platform designed to recreate the experience of early personal computers. Running on 260KB of memory, it allows users to code in BASIC, explore Lisp, interact with a UNIX-like environment, and run retro games and digital music. Its modular and open-source design makes it adaptable for various applications. Built on […] ⌘ Read more

Expose the Kubernetes API and access it anywhere
Accessing the Kubernetes API for your clusters from anywhere or across any network is a powerful lever. It’s even better if you can do so without shipping or extending more messy networks, like VPCs or VPNs…. ⌘ Read more

**(#r5t4s6q) @andros@andros I’m not entirely sure what this means:

development that requires a database

Obviously I wasn’t in the di …**
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev I’m not entirely sure what this means:

development that requires a database

Obviously I wasn’t in the discussion so I feel like I’m missing some context here 🤔 ⌘ Read more

How hard will Trump’s immigration raids hit red states?
Myah Ward,    -  Politico

_Stephan: As this article describes all those farmers and herders, most of whom voted for MAGAts, are now going to face the economic crisis that will come from that decision. For years at our property in rural Tidewater Virginia, my family raised registered purebred Angus cattle, not for meat, but like a dog breeding operation, to improve the herd genetics.  It introduced me to a world I ha … ⌘ Read more

I’d need to think about it deeply, but at a first sight, nanoblogging would be a simple text (like the original twtxt spec, aimed for TUIs), and microblogging (like Twitter was a few years ago), would be about sharing texts, images, videos, GIFs, links, and perhaps Markdown styling.

Why? You have shorter messages than in a blog, but you may add almost anything you could do in a blog.
Buuut… who knows?

I’ve never liked the behavior of OpenBSD’s shell where it just scrolls horizontally:

https://movq.de/v/1371f7efbc/vid-1741714971.mp4

But now I’m this close to implementing the same thing in my own shell – because it’s probably much, much easier than multiline stuff. 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com That’s how twtxt started: As microblogging. Yarn shifted up some gears and now it’s more like social media – more powerful, but a bit different. 😅

twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.

The keyword here is microblogging. But it doesn’t feel like we’ve been (relatively speaking) doing much of that lately… maybe I go the concept of microblogging wrong.

@prologic@twtxt.net huh interesting! yeah i was stumped for a bit i was like WHAT config.json file are these logs talking about…. but then it worked after i moved the old meta.json file lol!

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz it was like…. meta.json was corrupt or well it was empty actually whatever idk. ended up moving that elsewhere temporarily, rebuilding the binary, restarting server… and it worked?!?!? shit was confusing

My Cat Broke His Jaw, Now He Looks Like Bane ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net oops, I’m sorry to see disagreement leading to draining emotions.

It remind me a bit of the Conclave movie where every part wanted to defend their vision and there is only a winner. If one wins the other loses. Like the political side of many leaders and volunteers representing a broad community. I don’t think that’s the case here. Most of us (in not all) should ‘win’.

I can only add that isn’t nice to listen that ‘my idea and effort’ is not what the rest of the people expect. I personally have a kind of issue with public rejection, but I also like to argue, discuss and even fight a bit. “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials,” they say.
This exercise and belonging to this community also brings me good feelings of smart people trying to solve a human and technical problem, which is insanely difficult to get ‘right’.

I genuinely hope we can understand each other, and even with our different and respectful thoughts on the same thing, we might reach an agreement on what’s the best for most people.

Good vibes to everyone!

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Why not just use registry? It can be personal or hosted by someone like registry.twtxt.org. Just need to be adapt to support hashes

If we don’t keep insisting on simplify and “The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One.”, then people should just use ActivityPub-based software like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc. which are getting a lot of attention and uses migrating to the fediverse from meta/x here in Denmark over the last couple of months.

@prologic@twtxt.net We can’t agree on this idea because that makes things even more complicated than it already is today. The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One. Not five million. Granted, there might be archive feeds, so it might be already a bit more, but still faaaaaaar less than one file per message.

Also, you would need to host not your own hash files, but everybody else’s as well you follow. Otherwise, what is that supposed to achieve? If people are already following my feed, they know what hashes I have, so this is to no use of them (unless they want to look up a message from an archive feed and don’t process them). But the far more common scenario is that an unknown hash originates from a feed that they have not subscribed to.

Additionally, yarnd’s URL schema would then also break, because https://twtxt.net/twt/<hash> now becomes https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/<hash>, https://twtxt.net/user/bender/<hash> and so on. To me, that looks like you would only get hashes if they belonged to this particular user. Of course, you could define rules that if there is a /user/ part in the path, then use a different URL, but this complicates things even more.

Sorry, I don’t like that idea.

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Thanks, @xuu@txt.sour.is, great explanation. In another project I’ve structured it exactly like you wrote. The mock storage over there extends the SQLite storage and provides mechanism to return errors and such for testing purposes:

• storage/ defines the interface
  
  • sqlite/ implements the storage interface
    
  • mock/ extends the SQLite implementation by some mocking capabilities and assertions
    

Here, however, there are no storage subpackages. It’s just storage, that’s it. Everything is in there. The only implementation so far is an SQLite backend that resides in storage. My RAM storage is exactly that SQLite storage, but with :memory: instead a backing file on disk. I do not have a mock storage (yet).

I have to think about it a bit more, but I probably have to do exactly that in my tt rewrite, too. Sigh. I just have the feeling that in storage/sqlite/sqlite_test.go I cannot import storage/mock for the helper because storage/mock/mock.go imports and embeds the type from storage/sqlite. But I’m too tired right now to think clearly.

[ANN] More vitamins for Monero with Carrot - part 2: History

Before I go deeper into technical details regarding important aspects of Carrot with further posts, I present you, as something like an “interlude”, a history of Monero privacy technologies. One aim is to show you how we arrived at the point where we are now with FCMP++ and Carrot.

Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1j745kf/

u/rbrunner7 (Gith … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org OK. So how I have worked things like this out is to have the interface in the root package from the implementations. The interface doesn’t need to be tested since it’s just a contract. The implementations don’t need to import storage.Storage

• storage/ defines the Storage interface (no tests!)
  
  • storage/sqlite for the sqlite implementation tests for sqlite directly
    
  • storage/ram for the ram implementation and tests for RAM directly
    
• controller/ can now import both storage and the implementation as needed.
  

So now I am guessing you wanted the RAM test for testing queries against sqlite and have it return some query response?

For that I usually would register a driver for SQL that emulates sqlite. Then it’s just a matter of passing the connection string to open the registered driver on setup.

https://github.com/glebarez/go-sqlite?tab=readme-ov-file#connection-string-examples

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org OK. So how I have worked things like this out is to have the interface in the root package from the implementations. The interface doesn’t need to be tested since it’s just a contract. The implementations don’t need to import storage.Storage

• storage/ defines the Storage interface (no tests!)
  
  • storage/sqlite for the sqlite implementation tests for sqlite directly
    
  • storage/ram for the ram implementation and tests for RAM directly
    
• controller/ can now import both storage and the implementation as needed.
  

So now I am guessing you wanted the RAM test for testing queries against sqlite and have it return some query response?

For that I usually would register a driver for SQL that emulates sqlite. Then it’s just a matter of passing the connection string to open the registered driver on setup.

https://github.com/glebarez/go-sqlite?tab=readme-ov-file#connection-string-examples

Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like
,    -  Politico Magazine

Stephan: Here are some interesting comments from 25 members, both Democrat and Republican about what they think of serving in Congress. I found it rather sad and disappointing.

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_Thi … ⌘ Read more

Emoji Picker Shortcut Not Working in MacOS Sequoia? Let’s Fix It
Some MacOS Sequoia users have discovered the familiar handy Emoji keyboard shortcut to access the Emoji & Symbols panel is no longer working as expected. This can be immensely frustrating, especially if you rely on it for quick access to emojis in messages, emails, documents, and in general. While it might seem like a minor … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/07/emoji-picker-shortcut-not-workin … ⌘ Read more

please please help me she has never acted like this ⌘ Read more

Welcome StrimziCon 2025!
We are very pleased to announce the return of StrimziCon, scheduled later this year! After the huge success of StrimziCon 2024, the Strimzi community decided to repeat the event for 2025. Like last year, this is… ⌘ Read more

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N1co1asB1ancon1 submits CCS proposal to develop and release ‘Monero Contract System’ v1
N1co1asB1ancon11 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 to finish developing the first version of Monero Contract System 3, a Rust web application which allows users to host their own arbitration/escrow platform:

People can create contracts like, “You will build me a website like X and Y in 1 month” or the what i think will be the most common “You will sell me 10 xmr for … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is My layout looks like this:

• storage/
  
  • storage.go: defines a Storage interface
    
  • sqlite.go: implements the Storage interface
    
  • sqlite_test.go: originally had a function to set up a test storage to test the SQLite storage implementation itself: newRAMStorage(testing.T, $initialData) *Storage
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds.go: uses a Storage
    
  • feeds_test.go: here I wanted to reuse the newRAMStorage(…) function
    

I then tried to relocate the newRAMStorage(…) into a

• teststorage/
  
  • storage.go: moved here as NewRAMStorage(…)
    

so that I could just reuse it from both

• storage/
  
  • sqlite_test.go: uses testutils.NewRAMStorage(…)
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds_test.go: uses testutils.NewRamStorage(…)
    

But that results into an import cycle, because the teststorage package imports storage for storage.Storage and the storage package imports testutils for testutils.NewRAMStorage(…) in its test. I’m just screwed. For now, I duplicated it as newRAMStorage(…) in controller/feeds_test.go.

I could put NewRAMStorage(…) in storage/testutils.go, which could be guarded with //go:build testutils. With go test -tags testutils …, in storage/sqlite_test.go could just use NewRAMStorage(…) directly and similarly in controller/feeds_test.go I could call storage.NewRamStorage(…). But I don’t know if I would consider this really elegant.

The more I think about it, the more appealing it sounds. Because I could then also use other test-related stuff across packages without introducing other dedicated test packages. Build some assertions, converters, types etc. directly into the same package, maybe even make them methods of types.

If I went that route, I might do the opposite with the build tag and make it something like !prod instead of testing. Only when building the final binary, I would have to specify the tag to exclude all the non-prod stuff. Hmmm.

This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About
Jacob Silverman,  Contributing Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Three things stood out for me about “king” Trump’s culture war speech Tuesday night. First, the astonishing number of lies he told. I have never before seen anything like that happen. Second, the incredible corruption criminal Trump and his Frankenstein Musk represent. Third, the feeble response of the Democrats. I think they … ⌘ Read more

Dang it! I ran into import cycles with shared test utilities again. :-( Either I have to copy this function to set up an in-memory test storage across packages or I have to put it in the storage package itself and guard it with a build tag that is only used in tests (otherwise I end up with this function in my production binary as well). I don’t like any of the alternatives. :-(

@eapl.me@eapl.me Sounds like a great idea! 👍

Trump Reveals Tariffs Plan to Ruin American Farmers’ Lives
Malcolm Ferguson,  Associate writer  -  The New Republic

Stephan: Thanks to the stupidity of “king” Trump, who clearly does not understand what tariffs are, Americans, like you and me, are about to see a number of farmers go broke, and the prices we pay for produce at the grocery go up by as much as 25%

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Russia celebrates US foreign policy that now ‘coincides’ with Moscow’s worldview
Clea Caulcutt,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is like something out of an evil novel. Criminal Trump is dismantling the geopolitical balance that has prevailed in the world for 80 years. The United States is now partnering with the Russian dictator, against all the Western democracies. How can this be happening? In my opinion it is because Putin has somethi … ⌘ Read more

New MacBook Air Coming This Week: What to Expect
Apple CEO Tim Cook teased a new product announcement this week, sharing a short video that says “there’s something in the Air.” Based on the “Air” wording and the timing of the launch, it sounds like we’re going to get new M4 [MacBook Air](https://www.macrumors.com/ro … ⌘ Read more

a few async ideas for later

The editing process needs a lot of consideration and compromises.

From one side, editing and deleting it’s necessary IMO. People will do it anyway, and personally I like to edit my texts, so I’d put some effort on make it work.
Should we keep a history of edits? Should we hash every edit to avoid abuse? Should we mark internally a twt as deleted, but keeping the replies?

I think that’s part of a more complete ‘thread’ extension, although I’d say it’s worth to agree on something reflecting the real usage in the wild, along with what people usually do on other platforms.

(#jwfdkuq) @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me I kind of like the idea of 96473B4F_1 – That is SHA256SUM(feed_url)_<monotomic_feed_post_id>
@eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me I kind of like the idea of 96473B4F_1 – That is SHA256SUM(feed_url)_<monotomic_feed_post_id> ⌘ Read more

looks good to me!

About alice’s hash, using SHA256, I get 96473b4f or 96473B4F for the last 8 characters. I’ll add it as an implementation example.
The idea of including it besides the follow URL is to avoid calculating it every time we load the file (assuming the client did that correctly), and helps to track replies across the file with a simple search.

Also, watching your example I’m thinking now that instead of {url=96473B4F,id=1} which is ambiguous of which URL we are referring to, it could be something like:
{reply_to=[URL_HASH]_[TWT_ID]} / {reply_to=96473B4F_1}
That way, the ‘full twt ID’ could be 96473B4F_1.

Our guy escaped, out carousing for 3 days, I was SICK. Posted him everywhere, called him all night. He just showed up again out of nowhere, ate a ton, farted in my face, then passed out like this. Smh ⌘ Read more

GitHub for Beginners: How to get started with GitHub Copilot
Get started with GitHub Copilot and navigate features like Copilot Chat in this installment of the GitHub for Beginners series.

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@eapl.me@eapl.me There are several points that I like, but I want to highlight number 7. https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version #twtxt

Tim Cook Teases New Apple Product Announcement This Week: ‘There’s Something in the Air’
Apple CEO Tim Cook teased a new product announcement coming “this week.”

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“There’s something in the air,” the teaser says.

This teaser likely refers to a new MacBook Air with the M4 chip, which is [already expected to be announced as early as this week](https://www.macrumors.com/2 … ⌘ Read more

I really like the proposal and your ideas. I have been reading your articles and several points seem very interesting to me.

Blender-Rendered Movie ‘Flow’ Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar
It’s a feature-length film “rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender,” reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks.

In January Blender.org called Flow “the manifestation of Blender’s mission, … ⌘ Read more

I like this syntax, you have my vote, although I’d change it a bit like
#<Alice https://example.com/twtxt.com#2024-12-18T14:18:26+01:00>

Hashes are not a problem on PHP, I dont know why it’s slow to calculate them from your side, but I agree with your points.

BTW, did you have the chance to read my proposal on twtxt 2.0? I shared a few ideas about possible improvements to discuss:
https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
https://text.eapl.mx/reply-to-lyse-about-twtxt

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks like a nice day. 😊 I tried to go on a quick walk, but it was really cold. And everything’s wet at the moment. Bah.

Clothespins in the woods, who would have thunk? 🥴

We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

There were even patches of snow left up top, that was unexpected. Also, somebody created a cool rock art piece on a tree stump. That one rock absolutely looked like a face. Crazy!

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Enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-01/

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@thecanine@twtxt.net I like the clipboard function of HeliBoard very much.

‘Shameful’: Trump Quietly Rips Up Biden Memo Restricting Arms Sales Based on Human Rights
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_Stephan: The scumminess of the Trump coup is like nothing that has ever happened in the United States since its founding. It’s not just the authoritarianism, it is the vulgarity of this nouveau riche bully and the nastiness of the people with whom he chooses to surround himself. In just over a month he h … ⌘ Read more

plowsof submits proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until end of June 2025
plowsof1 has submitted a new proposal2 looking to continue working as CCS Coordinator for 3 more months (from April to end of June 2025), after a successful fifth term3:

Hello, plowsof here, I show up and try to be helpful. My previous proposals happened, previously again. I would like to make it happen again, and do more of the same things.

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HeliBoard might be the first one of these fully open source Android keyboards, that doesn’t suck, idk, I’m still in the process of testing it, but I already like it a lot more than any of the ones I used before it.

Setting it up was somewhat clunky, but once you set it all up and dile in the settings, the keyboard itself, feels really great to use.

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Artificial intelligence usually strikes fear in people’s hearts. The concept of other sentient life forms is daunting enough; having those life forms be computerized entities adds a whole new layer of uncertainty. Their capacity for knowledge far exceeds our own, and they don’t have burdens like fatigue or emotion to slow them down. That mixture […]

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My little girl. 14 years old. She still hates when I have to go to work. Purring like a diesel engine and cuddling, saying “don’t leave”. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t know. It seems a bit like whatever we do or don’t do, we’re gonna lose. :-( Unless the ban is successful.

How Medicaid and Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Everyone’s Health Care
Gabe Fenigsohn,  Contributing Writer  -  US News and World Report

_Stephan: By June I think we will not only be in a recession, we will also have millions of people – notably in Republican-controlled states - in chaos over their healthcare. I predict elder mortality, maternal mortality, and infant mortality will all increase. As I do this research day after day it is like watching a society wreckin … ⌘ Read more

The White House is now deciding who can cover the president, reversing decades of precedent
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_Stephan: Like all fascist authoritarians criminal Trump makes no effort to hide the fact that he wants to control the media, and what it reports about him, and his administration. As you may have heard the Associated Press has been banned from the White House because they won’t call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf … ⌘ Read more

10 Unbelievable Reasons for Why People Faked Their Own Deaths
In the United States, pseudocide, or faking one’s own death, is not a crime in itself, but the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns it almost certainly leads to numerous serious criminal offenses. James Quiggle, director of communications for the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud in Washington, D.C., explains it like this. Essentially, you are defrauding […]

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I have the same feeling at my job. Every time I return to old projects, it’s like my first time.

Amd of course, TDD! I tried that, but it doesn’t work all that great for me in its strict form. I have the feeling that coming up with a single new failing test, making it pass, maybe some refactoring, rinse and repeat wastes significantly more time than doing it in – what they call – the “bundle” approach. Coming up with several tests in advance and then writing the code or vise versa is usually much quicker. I do find that more enjoyable, it also helps me to reduce smaller context switches. I can focus on either the tests or the production code.

As for the potentially reduced code coverage with a non-TDD approach, I can easily see which parts are lacking tests and hand them in later. So, that’s largely a specious argument. Granted, I can forget to check the coverage or simply ignore it.

I agree with John, TDD results in less elegant code or requires more refactoring to tidy it up. Sometimes, it’s also not entirely clear at the beginning how the API should really look like. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen. Especially when experimenting or trying out different approaches. With TDD, I then also have to refactor the tests which is not only annoying, but also involves the danger of accidentally breaking them.

TDD only works really well, if you have super tiny functions. But we already established that I typically don’t like tiny methods just for the purpose of them being extremely short.

When fixing a bug, I usually come up with a failing test case first to verify that my repaired code later actually resolves the problem. For new code, it depends, sometimes tests first, sometimes the productive code first. Starting off with the tests requires the API to be well defined beforehand.

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The dangerous jobs of the past often feel like works of fiction. Improved technology, better regulations, and widespread information have removed many of the greatest dangers from the average profession. Once upon a time, though, people would regularly risk dying just to make a living. And while some of those dangerous jobs were awful necessities […]

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I like gopher so far. Probably gonna increment the amount of gopher servers by 1 soon. Could also make custom client and server software for it, since it’s so simple.