So I looked up how to do it. It did not work. I Git cloned https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks and followed the build instructions. I tried using it and got Looking up check.torproject.org1676676356 PERROR torsocks[16470]: socks5 libc connect: Connection refused (in socks5_connect() at socks5.c:202)

@prologic@twtxt.net a separate binay would work too, maybe yarnd could just start it. if its a separate project - then it could possibly be useful for others as well? Im not sure, Im just thinking - the easier it is to set up and run - the better it is for everyone. Im sure it can be easy to set up and use either way.

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** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

[![Picture of a slide with the title “Why though?” It also includes a quote from Kat Holmes’ book Mismatch. The quote reads: “There are many challeng … ⌘ Read more

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** Accessibility updates **
I’m feeling pretty chuffed! Last week I wrote about my intention to make this website more accessible. My motivations were many-fold, but, primarily, mostly shame. I’ve worked as an accessibility specialist in the past, and now spend a bunch of my days at work looking for ways to make public infrastructure online more accessible. It seemed fitting to at least make sure the little bit I contribute to the web here is also accessible.

I thought it was going t … ⌘ Read more

sadly wifi does not work. have to check that later.

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Like, check it out. That link to DRY? It doesn’t render as a link in the webapp. However, it does render as a link, and works fine, in Goryon. I’ve seen before that Markdown tables render fine in Goryon but not in the webapp. They ought to behave as similarly as possible, right? So just in this small interaction there are three discrepancies between how the mobile app and webapp render Markdown.

printf /%s chat|nc magical.fish 71 > chat is working

Delete and restart, change nothing and it works. meh, at least things go zoom now

Port 71 belongs to Magical.gopher. You need to be using OpenNic dns for it to work.

How GitHub coordinates product releases with GitHub Projects and GitHub Actions
When teams work cross-functionally, good things happen. See how our teams use GitHub Projects to coordinate and ship new products and features. ⌘ Read more

If you are 20 km away from the next City in Russia or another undeveloped country and have only an EDGE Connecticut, this Chat is working.

What can we do, if the Server suffers from a DDOS attack. Is Port 71 working in this case or is the server down then?

Git security vulnerabilities announced
Git users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest version, especially if they use `git archive`, work in untrusted repositories, or use Git GUI on Windows. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net that worked.. But took crazy long time

Finally back! My VPS’s main drive got toasted. I got a freshly installed VPS now, got yarn set up and working now, now I have to fix the rest of the stuff.
I’ve been using apache for many many years, but I had so many issues getting it set up today, so I switched to nginx, and that took me like 2 minutes.. So yeah - I’ll use nginx from now on.

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Why resolutions actually work href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more

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And working on my TUI client again 👍

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GitHub’s top 10 blog posts of 2022
As the year winds down, we’re highlighting some of the incredible work from GitHub’s engineers, product teams, and security researchers. ⌘ Read more

It works!

Pleroma’s gopher server barfs if you arrive to it using domain.tld/1/ so it means I can’t link to it from here, but if you just enter domain.tld it works

It works! Thanks, cf458!

Game Night Ordering
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How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. ⌘ Read more

I learned that Pleroma has a gopher front end. Pleroma is like Mastodon, but a lot lighter. So I set one up. It works!

@prologic@twtxt.net: Hmm, I just checked, it should work. Anyway, I will post updates about the project. First of all, I want to complete some features and create packages with pre-compiled binaries

I switched from twtxt client to twtwt (https://github.com/win0err/twtwt). It’s a pre-alpha version now, but it works pretty well and so much faster than the official twtxt client by @buckket@buckket.org. Feel free to check it out :-)

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Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language – Okay @xuu@txt.sour.is I quite like Go’s generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I’m glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 #GoLang #Generics

Vim, Gcc and Gnuplot as working instruments for now… not bad at all!

Translators seem to be working now. I didn’t touch them though.

The translators don’t seem to be working. Also I found a sports news feed: gopher://gophernews.net/1/topic/sports

Optimal Bowling
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org when I take him to work I walk him at the parkinglot when I need a break. and on my way home I walk a km or two, and then around the neighbourhood as needed later. But when I go for long walks during the weekend I can walk anywhere from 10km to 20, then the rest is as needed around the house. so he’s well adjusted to short walks as well as long. today he pulled our kids on snow sleds on the street outside here, was really fun :) it was his first time trying that, and I could barely keep up with him. haha.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Taken on my usual walk with the dog after work :) Every day I get there around the same time - just in time to catch the sunset.

Experiment: The hidden costs of waiting on slow build times
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think. ⌘ Read more

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I tried to make an one-liner to make psots easier but it still does not work :-(

how are all of you doing these days?
I’m all good, work, family time and the usual walks with our dog. :)

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains How X-Rays Work ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Things That Worked (and Didn’t Work) in 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/11/27/worked.html #advice #rant

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Ah git-bug! Ive chatted with the creator when he was working on the graphql parts. Its working with git objects directly sorta like how git-repo does code reviews. Its a pretty neat idea for storing data along side the branches. I believe they don’t add a disconnected branch to avoid data getting corrupted by merging branches or something like that.

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@justamoment@twtxt.net flightgear is great! I like the fact that it works on linux, same goes for xplane, that alone is the reason why I do not buy MS flightsim.

Brought our dog to work today, so nice to have one that handles the cold without any issues. He just chills in his crate in the car while I work, and I take some small breaks to let him stretch his legs. Loves to play around in the snow. I could then take the ‘long’ walk on my way home instead of getting home first - then head out again.

@prologic@twtxt.net git worked after upgrade. But I seem to have to reinstall go. I have not done that yet. I will see if I have time to fix that later tonight.

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The power of GitHub in the palm of your hand
GitHub Mobile helps keep work going while you’re going. Untether yourself from your office. ⌘ Read more

The journey of your work has never been clearer
In July, we launched the general availability of GitHub Projects, and now we are excited to bring you even more features designed to make it easier to plan and track in the same place you build! ⌘ Read more

What is NATS - NATS Docs

Might play with this at work next week.

Great, last system update broke something, building from current master I get:

/usr/bin/ld: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: unknown type [0x13] section `.relr.dyn'

What the heck!?

And it also appears that I’m not really able to reproduce this unread bug. It only kind of works a single time. And it has something to do with my config. Not sure what it is yet. I also noticed that the <updated> timestamps in the entries somehow shifted between the old and new feed. Da fuq!?

starting work on felt - virtual tabletop for D&D

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Build, Share, and Run WebAssembly Apps Using Docker
Did you know Wasm and Docker can work together? Learn more about creating WebAssembly apps with Docker in this exciting demo breakdown. ⌘ Read more

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This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

I guess Google Hangouts is finally dead.

Why is Google such a mess at making messaging apps? This has more or less been a solved problem for decades. Google Talk worked well enough, and since it was based on XMPP and Jingle it was perfectly suited to become a large-scale text/voice/video messaging system. If they’d run with that they’d have been able to dominate that space, I think. Instead, they’ve created and shitcanned half a dozen messaging apps and platforms, flailing around copying someone else’s app (now they’re trying to copy Slack I guess).

Creating a more inclusive security research field
A glimpse into the backgrounds and day-to-day work of several GitHub employees in cybersecurity roles. ⌘ Read more

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk @xuu@txt.sour.is hello! @prologic@twtxt.net and I were chatting about the question of globally deleting twts from the yarn.social network. @prologic@twtxt.net noted that he could build the tools and endpoints to delete twts, but some amount of cooperation from pod operators would be necessary to make it all work together. He asked me to spawn a discussion of the subject here, so here we are!

I don’t have enough technical knowledge of yarn.social to say with any credibility how it all should work, but I can say that I think it ought to be possible and it’d be good to do for those rare times when it’s needed.

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Resolve Vulnerabilities Sooner With Contextual Data
OpenSSL 3.0.7 and “Text4Shell” might be the most recent critical vulnerabilities to plague your development team, but they won’t be the last. In 2021, critical vulnerabilities reached a record high. Attackers are even reusing their work, with over 50% of zero-day attacks this year being variants of previously-patched vulnerabilities.  With each new security vulnerability, we’re […] ⌘ Read more

Developer Engagement in the Remote Work Era with RedMonk and Miva
We met with Redmonk and Miva to talk about navigating developer engagement in the remote work era. Watch the full, on-demand video for details! ⌘ Read more

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@prologic@twtxt.net thank you, it was really nice. The dog wanted to get up at 8 this morning, so I put him in the car and went for a long walk so that the rest of the house could sleep in. I came back last night after 4 day work trip, so it was nice to get up today and just head out for a walk.

📣 NEW: Announcing the new and improved Yarns search engine and crawler! search.twtxt.net – Example search for “Hello World” Enjoy! 🤗 – @darch@neotxt.dk When you have this, this is what we need to work on in terms of improving the UI/UX. As a first step you should probably try to apply the same SimpleCSS to this codebase and go from there. – In the end (didn’t happen yet, time/effort) most of the code here in yarns will get reused directly into yarnd, except that I’ll use the bluge indexer instead.

On the go with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile (public beta)
Stay connected and up to date on your work with GitHub Projects on GitHub Mobile, now in public beta. ⌘ Read more

Working on a creative project? Unleash your originality and start to tinker with the Aspiring Creatives Experience
Develop your design and collaboration skills to get your clever intentions off the ground. ⌘ Read more

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BBSing at 300 Bits Per Second
I recently acquired a 3M Whisper Writer 1000 communications terminal circa 1983, and restored it to working order. This is a short session of it dialing into my Kludge BBS over its internal 300 bps modem. ⌘ Read more