The official Wizard of New Zealand, perhaps the only state-appointed wizard in the world, has been cast from the public payroll, spelling the end to a 23-year legacy. — The Guardian

So, he was… a mascot?

@prologic@twtxt.net I am thinking on calling in sick to work. 😂 Every time I order an iPhone, I take the day off on delivery day. On Apple events I normally use my lunch and break times all combined, to watch them.

Apple’s event on Monday is bringing, as always, speculation to the table. One thing most outlets seem to agree is the introduction of an “M1X” chip, thought Apple might call it differently. M1X might also mean, M1(we don’t know what comes after, or next generation). Either way, I would really like to see the return of the 27” iMac, but I will not hold my breath. Nevertheless, Monday is going to be an exciting day for many, including me! 🍎

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com There isn’t an equivalent for those because:

Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags.

You can read more of its philosophy at Daring Fireball. There are enhancements to Markdown (CommonMark, for example), that add extra to it.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL. As someone with OCD, I can relate completely. When I set to do “slight” modifications to a stylesheet, boy… often a start over is best, to eliminate commit spam.

@prologic@twtxt.net I knew you were short sided from day one I saw Yarn. On desktop everything is huge, and I assumed it was to cater short-sightedness. Also, you have enabled underlines on buttons on iOS, bold and bigger fonts, etc., so that was also a give away. Sorry if I digress, but, glasses wouldn’t help? I have to wear mine all the time, otherwise I am also near blind myself!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de To clarify, Markdown is just text. 😊 I can do bolding, link things, and if single return multilines ever comes to jenny, I would be able to do bulleted and numbered lists.

The only things—that I know of—that doesn’t work is “> “, but I can use “>”, like so:

D’oh!

So, jenny allows me to write Markdown almost just fine!

@adi@f.adi.onl Oh boy… we don’t want to go down that route. There is plenty to know about the Taliban, not just from the news but from people who lived—and still lives—under their “governance”; all of which is, I am afraid, much more accurate than your highschool girlfriend story telling.

Spent 10 minutes to unsubscribe from all youtube channels. What a set of yearsful junk.

Boy, do I love jenny/latest, and Neomutt! 😊

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Only thing jenny is missing, to be completely happy, @movq@www.uninformativ.de already knows about. 🙈

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I remember that time. I built my own mess, then used someone else’s mess (WordPress). I then switched to Jekyll when Tom released it, then to Hugo, which I use today. I also love static web stuff!

@fab@foobucket.xyz No need to apologize 🙂️ Speaking of being active I’ve gotten absolutely nothing done on my twtxt project this week. I think I need to rethink a bit to find a fun next step.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is my env, on language:

LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

I had to explicitly set it on the cron job to make jenny work.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de But it makes sense, right? I spend way too much time trying to figure out who replied to whom. I treat twts replies as emails, pretty much.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I would not mind keeping a diff, if you tell me where to make the changes! I know nothing of Python, and I have spent already a couple of hours trying to make sense. I know it is there, in front of me, if only I knew Python. 😩

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Is there a way to make it take single returns, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, or is that a technical infeasibility?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am getting this when I run it on cron (extra lines in between becuase otherwise jenny will make them a mash):

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 565, in

if not retrieve_all(config):

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 373, in retrieve_all

refresh_self(config)

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 294, in refresh_self

process_feed(config, config[‘self_nick’], config[‘self_url’], content)

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 280, in process_feed

fp.write(mail_body)

File “/usr/lib/python3.8/encodings/iso8859_15.py”, line 19, in encode

return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\U0001f4e3’ in position 31: character maps to

Test to generate more logging.

@quark@ferengi.one Aha! @movq@www.uninformativ.de, there has to be a blank line in between?

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de 12,342 twts, totalling 6.2 MB. Would deleting help, or will they come back? I guess there is one way to find out! 😄

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you. I am very selective of who to follow. I mean, I would drop @prologic@twtxt.net, which is the noisiest one, but he is the boss, and if I want to interact–even once or twice a week–I must follow him. 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de, how do you handle twts in Mutt? I mean, how do you organise, or manage the inmense amount that comes throught? Do you delete/trim? Move things to folders? Or simply keep that huge (12,000+ for me now) list?

@prologic@twtxt.net You linked to the German version. 🤣

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@prologic@twtxt.net Excellent, nothing broke. I think what happened was you replied to a twt that I was in the process of editing.

@prologic@twtxt.net, please reply to this, to test something.

@quark@ferengi.one By the way, you reply did not showed as a reply to a conversation on jenny this time. I wonder is something broke with the latest changes.

@prologic@twtxt.net Works permit, I will probably be twting about it. I try not to miss one single event. 

Is it Friday yet? I feel this week is as slow as a drying paint on wall, and it is only Tuesday! I know I should not want time to pass quick, as that get us closer to the inevitable, but geez!

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[47°09′55″S, 126°43′01″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

@prologic@twtxt.net Would that allow screensharing? The idea is to screenshare.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @movq@www.uninformativ.de, if you want/can I can send you a Zoom link to test it interactively!

@prologic@twtxt.net This is messy. @prologic@twtxt.net, you are replying to quark@ferengi.one but using @quark@twtxt.netbros.com instead. I know part of it is my fault, but there has to be a better way to avoid all this.

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[47°09′46″S, 126°43′40″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain

It’s Tuesday, but somehow I have a Thursday kind of feeling… Whatever. I’m following an online auction for a couple of PDAs. The starting price is more than I’d be willing to pay, but there isn’t a single bidder yet. I hope that last, because the seller will put the ad out for a lower price if it does!

What to watch tonight? “Squid Game” completed. “Seinfeld” just made it in a couple of days ago, maybe I will reminisce old memories and watch it. I first watched it in 1995-ish.

@prologic@twtxt.net I changed base URL (like, completely), but I am still honouring the old one, pointing it to the new one with 301. Maybe that’s what’s happening with the older posts. I could drop out the 301 completely, but that will break following, right?

or maybe there are no living gargoyles, but whenever they go missing, for those few days, you may be able to pay your tab with stories

every few years, the gargoyles wake up to wander the city as humans - it is rumored that if you recognize one and get them drunk (no small feat), they will tell you all sorts of secrets they saw while up on the roofs

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk LOL, thanks! I have always been a fan of the Ferengi, and Quark, in particular. I think only Rom gets closer to him.

@quark@twtxt.netbros.com Answering to myself: it doesn’t. @movq@www.uninformativ.de, would that be something that it could be added?

@prologic@twtxt.net This is what I have been trying to tell you. The issue doesn’t occurr on https://tt.vltra.plus (which is now down), nor did it show on my own Yarn pod (now down too). It is only happening on https://twtxt.net.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Perfect! Setting the display_filter did the trick. I have come across that SE yesterday while looking for answers, but I wanted to make sure there was nothing else I was missing to notice. Thanks! @quark@twtxt.netbros.com (#spngeda) Hmm, that’s mostly an issue of how mutt displays the Date header. The index should already display local time, only the pager shows the raw header:

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de, what will I need to do so that the timestamp for twts reflects local time. Right now it is UTC. Can it be done, or is that something from the twtxt spec?

@quark@twtxt.netbros.com I have removed the cron job, and added jenny -f to the small script that starts mutt with the .muttrc-jenny file. That way when I open, it refresh the feed before. Let’s see how it goes.

Seeing repeated twts again. Only thing I am doing different is running jenny every 5 minutes on a cron job. I really don’t know what to think.

Oh, crap, the weekend is gone—and it was a three days weekend for me! Tomorrow back to the hammer, while wife enjoys her Columbus Day off. 😤

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I need to find evidence for/against the claim that there was a training run of GPT-2 that maximized negative log-loss – I’ve heard it a couple of times on the internet and already spread the meme myself, but I haven’t seen it in a paper or blogpost

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is awesome! Your server/connection is slow, thought. It took ages to load the GIF! Off topic, what font are you using on that screenshot?

It appears I’ve managed to fix the server! Pats self on the back Yay, me 😊️

[47°09′15″S, 126°43′55″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

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There’s been a lingering error on the server I botched the OS update on last Thursday. I had a hunch about the cause, and it turns out I was correct! Hopefully not too complicated to fix either 😊️

[47°09′44″S, 126°43′39″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah, I see. I mean, it is not biggie, as normally I just reply to people, so that part works beautifully. A vi/vim script would work, but it is not universal. What if I use joe, or Emacs, or nano? Meh, jenny is awesome as is, thank you for it! ☺️

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@adi@f.adi.onl Hi there! 👋🏻You are the first one replying to twt on this feed, thank you! I shall reward you with season’s symbols: 🍁🍂

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Trying to troubleshoot twtxt. On twtxt.net, discovery shows my follows linked to https://twtxt.netbros.com/, which is nothing (not even an index.html running there), while on arrakis.netbros.com shows my follows linked to https://twtxt.netbros.com/twtxt.txt (using yarns links too) which is right.

I need someone with a nice, and clean twtxt.txt feed. One that doesn’t include much–if any–images, and in which twts have more content. Just looking to see how formatting is handled in jenny and how to tweak it to my liking.

I might have figure out what was causing duplicated entries here. I think running jenny -f while mutt is open was causing it. I have disabled the cron job, and it doesn’t seem to be happening anymore. Let’s see how accurate my theory is. 😂

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de is there a better way to mention others while using jenny?

Pretty nice to have the servers back up again and some real internet

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Slow day today… What’s everyone up to?

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009.01 FWUP: supposedly 24 hours, but they never told me it was changed to “indefinite”

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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′13″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

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[47°09′53″S, 126°43′57″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

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I’m quite happy that we have a few twtxt files being pushed to Antenna 😊️ It’s a nice little community.

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