greek myth is crazy bc there’s the misogny but also yeah she IS getting that man pregnant. penelope and odysseus obviously (he literally WAS the one that carried telemachus) and ofc andromeda and perseus & hektor and andromache but also like. you cannot tell me helen didn’t get menelaos pregnant bffr

LILYGO T-Deck Pro Offers E-Paper Display with Configurable 4G and Voice Options
LILYGO has introduced the T-Deck Pro, an open-source development board with a built-in keyboard and a 3.1-inch e-paper touchscreen. Combining sensor integration with touchscreen functionality, it can be applied to various projects in areas like IoT and portable devices. The board features the ESP32-S3FN16R8 dual-core LX7 microprocessor, similar to the T-Deck Plus released in December. … ⌘ Read more

Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds.
I’d like to change that. It’s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesn’t have to be hacky all the time, as you don’t need to be a nerd to have a blog.
But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

by design there really is no way to easily discovers others
Yeah, I agree, and although there are directories of email addresses, usually you don’t want that, unless you are a ‘public figure’.
I couldn’t say that a microblogging is a “social network” by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as you’d do in a forum.

I think of two features on top of the current spec:

• Clients showing a few posts of what your following are watching but you don’t, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of “Your ‘followings’ are following these accounts/people”. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
  
• Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying “Hey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discovered”. I’m thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

(#7xubh7a) @bender@bender I tend to think of Twtxt like Email. It is truely decentralised. So therefore by design there really is no way to …
@bender @twtxt.net I tend to think of Twtxt like Email. It is truely decentralised. So therefore by design there really is no way to easily discovers others except through social interactions and a sort of “word of mouth” of human exchanges of communications. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: My Journey from Ruby to Elixir: Lessons from a Developer

For years, Ruby was my go-to language for building everything from small prototypes to full-fledged production apps. I fell in love with its elegance and expressiveness and how Ruby on Rails could turn an idea into a working web app in record time. The community—with its focus on kindness and collaboration—only deepened my appreciation. In short, Ruby felt like home.
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@xuu@txt.sour.is like feeds+bridgy.fed? Will be happy anyway

Apple’s iPhone 17 range will feature the thinnest iPhone ever
For the first time, 9News can reveal these leaked iPhone 17 Models in video to show the likely changes coming later this year. ⌘ Read more

10 OCD Themes That Are Not About Cleanliness
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a “mental health condition where distressing, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) trigger repetitive behaviors (compulsions) aimed at reducing anxiety or preventing something bad from occurring.” When most people think of OCD, they think of orderliness, cleanliness, color-coded closets, pristine lists, and grouping your Skittles into colors before eating them. Television and movies like […]

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@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt haha its not coming back. he talked of a stand alone thing like feeds. but not in yarnd

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt haha its not coming back. he talked of a stand alone thing like feeds. but not in yarnd

Guilty pleasure, blasphemy, shitty audio, … something like that. Seven Nation Army on double bass. 🤪 https://movq.de/v/e3a4dcff2e/sad-nation-army.ogg

@eapl.me@eapl.me Interesting! Two points stood right out to me:

1. Why the hell are e-mail newsletters considered a valid option in the first place? Just offer an Atom feed and be done with it! Especially for a blog of this very type. This doesn’t even involve a third party service. Although, in addition he also links to Feedburner, what the fuck!? No e-mail address or the like is needed and subject to being disclosed.

2. When these spam mailers want to prevent resubscribing, then for fuck’s sake, why don’t they use a hash of the e-mail address (I saw that in yarnd) for that purpose? Storing the e-mail address in clear text after unsubscribing is illegal in my book.

@prologic@twtxt.net In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅

But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️

Thank you @python_valencia@twtxt.python-valencia.es for letting me show you the secrets of a decentralised plain text social network like twtxt.
I hope you enjoyed the talk! ❤️🐍

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Apple’s Mac Site Features Fictional ‘Lumon Terminal Pro’
Apple is going all out with promotions for the popular Severance Apple TV + show today, and as of right now, you’ll find a new “Lumon Terminal Pro” listed on Apple’s Mac site.

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The Mastodon admins say that it’s probably because of the size of my account (~600 MB), so the export process times out. And I understand that. Here on twtxt, I always use auto-expiring links when I post images or videos. It just gets too much data otherwise. I think I’ll just set my Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after ~180 days or something like that. Nobody cares about old posts anyway.

Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Scott Wong, Melanie Zanona and Rebecca Kaplan,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is not functioning as the leader of a coequal branch of the Executive branch. Instead, he behaves like a White House staff assistant. He is clearly a participant in the authoritarian dismantlement of the legal system of the United … ⌘ Read more

Winemaker says crop destroyed by hazard reduction burn
Smoke from a hazard reduction burn in the NSW Southern Highlands allegedly destroys millions of dollars worth of wine grapes, leaving any wine produced tasting “like an ashtray”. ⌘ Read more

Here’s What Apple’s iOS 19 Messages App Might Look Like
Leaker Jon Prosser today shared a mockup of what he says the Messages app will look like in iOS 19, demoing an interface with rounded, translucent bubble-shaped navigation buttons at the top and softer, rounder corners for the keyboard and word suggestions.

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The 6.14 kernel is out
Linus has released the 6.14 kernel, a bit
later than expected:

So it’s early Monday morning (well - early for me, I’m not really a
morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I
didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon
release schedule.

I’d like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and
delayed things.

But no. It’s just pure incompetence.

See the LWN merge-window summaries ( [part 1](https://lwn. … ⌘ Read more

[$] Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and
downs. While open source seems like a “no-brainer”, it turns out that
governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of
reasons. Federico González Waite spoke in the Open Government track at SCALE 22x in Pasadena,
California to recount his [experiences\
working with and for the Mexican government](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/speak … ⌘ Read more

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Is it working now?
I’d say again that perhaps the DMs could be stored in another .txt, but anyway I’d like to try it.

HELP‼️ Cat accidentally looks handsome in picture. He does not look like this. Hes a catfish. ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Pointers can be a bit tricky. I know it took me also quite some time to wrap my head around them. Let my try to explain. It’s a pretty simple, yet very powerful concept with many facets to it.

A pointer is an indirection. At a lower level, when you have some chunk of memory, you can have some actual values sitting in there, ready for direct use. A pointer, on the other hand, points to some other location where to look for the values one’s actually after. Following that pointer is also called dereferencing the pointer.

I can’t come up with a good real-world example, so this poor comparison has to do. It’s a bit like you have a book (the real value that is being pointed to) and an ISBN referencing that book (the pointer). So, instead of sending you all these many pages from that book, I could give you just a small tag containing the ISBN. With that small piece of information, you’re able to locate the book. Probably a copy of that book and that’s where this analogy falls apart.

In contrast to that flawed comparision, it’s actually the other way around. Many different pointers can point to the same value. But there are many books (values) and just one ISBN (pointer).

The pointer’s target might actually be another pointer. You typically then would follow both of them. There are no limits on how long your pointer chains can become.

One important property of pointers is that they can also point into nothingness, signalling a dead end. This is typically called a null pointer. Following such a null pointer calls for big trouble, it typically crashes your program. Hence, you must never follow any null pointer.

Pointers are important for example in linked lists, trees or graphs. Let’s look at a doubly linked list. One entry could be a triple consisting of (actual value, pointer to next entry, pointer to previous entry).

  _______________________
 /               ________\_______________
↓               ↓         |              \
+---+---+---+   +---+---+-|-+   +---+---+-|-+
| 7 | n | x |   | 23| n | p |   | 42| x | p |
+---+-|-+---+   +---+-|-+---+   +---+---+---+
      |         ↑     |         ↑
       \_______/       \_______/

The “x” indicates a null pointer. So, the first element of the doubly linked list with value 7 does not have any reference to a previous element. The same is true for the next element pointer in the last element with value 42.

In the middle element with value 23, both pointers to the next (labeled “n”) and previous (labeled “p”) elements are pointing to the respective elements.

You can also see that the middle element is pointed to by two pointers. By the “next” pointer in the first element and the “previous” pointer in the last element.

That’s it for now. There are heaps ;-) more things to tell about pointers. But it might help you a tiny bit.

Hahaha, a bird is singing really load and it sounds almost exactly like a car alarm. Well, it’s probably the other way around, the car alarm was modeled after the birdcall. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. “Just install the app”, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: “Oh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesn’t it just work? That’s annoying.”

People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

It’s 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. I’ve seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is “Benutzername” in German, literally “username”. 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 wasn’t the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some “real” username. Even non-techies. It looks like some “common knowledge” is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.

Have you experienced something similar?

Bill Gates Is Giving Up on Climate Change as Trump Drains the Woke Out of Washington: Looks like banking on billionaires to solve climate change isn’t gonna do the trick.
AJ Dellinger,  Staff Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I confess this report surprised me. I thought Bill Gates, and his cohorts, recognized that no matter what Trump did they would stay the cour … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There’s a reason it’s called “(n)curses”. 😏 The only advice I can give is to never fiddle with reassigning control sequences and $TERM variables. Leave $TERM at whatever value the terminal itself sets and use an appropriate terminfo file for it. If there are programs misbehaving, they probably blindly assume XTerm and should be fixed (or have XTerm as a hard requirement). If you try to fix this on your end, it’ll likely just break other programs. 🥴

My rescue kitty and her new brother. I think they like each other… ⌘ Read more

Well, some time ago I put this in my ~/.Xdefaults:

URxvt.keysym.Control-Up:    \033[1;5A
    URxvt.keysym.Control-Down:  \033[1;5B
URxvt.keysym.Control-Left:  \033[1;5D
    URxvt.keysym.Control-Right: \033[1;5C

Probably to behave more like XTerm and fix a few other issues I had with other programs. But, it turns out, tcell expects the original sequence: https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/blob/main/terminfo/r/rxvt/term.go#L487

Hmm.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oooooh! I like how that’s shaping up! Now you need a jobless vacation (not moneyless), so that the project goes from baby crawling, to toddler steps. :-)

Is there a way to auto-insert a time stamp on vi or vim at the beginning of each line? Like, upon opening like so:

2025-03-20 15:04:03 Blah blah blah blah
2025-03-20 15:04:15 Bleh bleh bleh bleh
2025-03-20 15:04:22 ...

Julien Malka proposes method for detecting XZ-like backdoors
Julien Malka has
called for the NixOS project to use build-reproducibility to detect when a program has a maintainer-generated tarball that results in a different artifact than building from source. There are good reasons for projects to release maintainer-generated tarballs, but since the materials included in them are usually documentation, extra build scripts, and so on, it makes sense to check that they don’t … ⌘ Read more

i really wanna learn golang it looks fun and capable and i can read it kind of but every time i try it i’m immediately stuck on basic concepts like “what the fuck is a pointer” (this has been explained to me and i still don’t get it). i did have types explained to me as like notes on code which makes sense a bit but i’m mostly lost on basic code concepts

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I always find the ‘Adven of code’ challenges difficult to follow.
i18n-puzzles.com has been a blast, but I don’t like having to think about puzzles on weekends. Like with exercise, doing it every day without rest doesn’t sound healthy.

I’d rater have a weekly challenge, at most three.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Using full-blown Cloud services is good for old people like me who don’t want to do on-call duty when a disk fails. 😂 I like sleep! 😂

Jokes aside, I like IaaS as a middle ground. There are IaaS hosters who allow you to spin up VMs as you wish and connect them in a network as you wish. You get direct access to all those Linux boxes and to a layer 2 network, so you can do all the fun networking stuff like BGP, VRRP, IPSec/Wireguard, whatever. And you never have to worry about failing disks, server racks getting full, cable management, all that. 😅

I’m confident that we will always need people who do bare-bones or “low-level” stuff instead of just click some Cloud service. I guess that smaller companies don’t use Cloud services very often (because it’s way too expensive for them).

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz think i’ll wait and see if the caddy module proposal gets anywhere bc that sounds like it’d make my life easier lol

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/16

anyway. do u like pretty covers of pretty songs. well check out this pretty cover of coldplay viva la vida by a k-pop girl who’s got PIPES i love her so much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmk0-dXSYPI

Here are the 60 universities under investigation by the Trump administration
Ray Bogan ,  Political Correspondent  -  Straight Arrow News

_Stephan: The Trump coup has made clear it considers the universities of America enemies of its authoritarian takeover of the United States. So completely predictably, like all fascist coups in history, the Trumpers (read neo-Nazis) are attacking and attempting to take control of American higher education. They g … ⌘ Read more

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 clients…

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 weren’t 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 don’t know how worth it is to add support for Gemini now.

Sometimes I wonder if Mirin is even real…she looks like a mythical creature to me 🩶 ⌘ Read more

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).

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@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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XMPP Newsletter Banner

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.

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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

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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

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@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/

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How to grow a pumpkin big enough to row down a river
Rowing a giant pumpkin might seem like something from a nursery rhyme, but growing it? Mark Peacock is The Big Pumpkin grower and says it’s less of a fairytale and more like a lesson in resilience. ⌘ Read more