āMove to iOSā app continuously refused to run as intended and expected, so couldnāt migrate mumās Android based phone data. Most of her stuff is on a Google account, but not the SMS/MMS/RCS messages. Havenāt found a way to export, then import those into iOS.
She isnāt too happy having to keep the old phone just for the messages. Need to find a way to go through them, export multimedia attachments, and import them into iOS. I donāt think itās going to happen, but I am not letting her know yet. š
@bender@twtxt.neteapl.me letās see how this mention comes out. I noticed that @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyzās pod doesnāt have this problem. That is, their mention to you works fine.
@bender@twtxt.net Letās just optimize/fix those annoyances later on once Iāve finished pagination. Then Iāll merge this branch into main.
@prologic@twtxt.net me neither! Letās put it on the āGreatest Mysteries of Yarnā list, and move on. š
just been told i abuse my cat, for not letting him outside when i live on a busy main road. ā Read more
guys omg the people behind pico.sh are so nice ;_; one of the people running it emailed me to let me know i had what was likely a malfunctioning (or well, not working as intended) script that was spawning the same SSH tunnel over and over and they wanted to give me a heads up.
and i felt SO BAD because i worried i was straining their service or something so i disabled my 4 tunnels (they were serving little SSH games and services) and got back to them.
but i just woke up to THE NICEST EMAIL EVER reassuring me that i was actually using it as intended, it was just my script that was having problems, and they even said that if it was intended to work that way it was fine and they just wanted to let me know!
so i restarted the tunnels but have since added lockfiles as safeguards so that when the script is run itāll check if itās already running :D
@prologic@twtxt.net āIndiana, let it goā š
@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club @abucci@anthony.buc.ci ā Iāve already spoken to @xuu@txt.sour.is on IRC about this, but the new SqliteCache
backend Iām working on here, what are your thoughts regarding mgirations from old MemoryCache
(which is now gone in the codebase in this branch). Do you care to migrate at all, or just let the pod re-fetch all feeds? š¤
@thecanine@twtxt.net I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago š So I decided to start over (from scratch). Just let me know what you want and Iāll do it! I used the 4-month old backup to restore your account (by hand) and avatar at least š¤£
Got a cat that looks absolutely ridiculous? Iām doodling the funniest oneāletās see those photos! ā Read more
Sometimes, we spend months stuck in inertia, distracted by screens and routine. So Iād like to give you a simple reminder: creating-in whatever form-is what makes you feel alive.
The beauty of working on projects is not in their āsuccessā, but in the simple act of working on them. Whether itās writing, cooking, programming or redecorating the house: play with ideas without pressure, engage in an activity to test, fail and discover without judgement.
In the end, what remains is not a perfect product, but the satisfaction of completion and valuable lessons.
Find a project, no matter how small, and let it take you without expectations.
@prologic@twtxt.net letās all go to Australia! We crash on prologicās house; got enough inflatable mattresses, mate? š
Oh well, letās just start over! š¤£
And now, letās finish it off with Besigheimās old town. Only when we left, the sun peaked through the clouds. That was a bit unfortunate, but what can you do? It has some nice buildings. https://lyse.isobeef.org/besigheim-2025-03-30/
Grab the iPhone 16e Default Wallpaper
Perhaps you recently saw that Apple had released the iPhone 16e and drooled with envy at the iPhone 16e default wallpaper, which sort of looks like a drop of Liquid Metal (why did macOS Sequoia autocorrect capitalize āLiquid Metalā? Who knows, but it did it again, so letās go with it) or maybe a water ⦠Read More ā Read more
The photo series covering old stuff continues. This time, Gundelsheim. Actually, mostly the castle hotel Horneck, I hardly took any photos from the town itself. I really should have, though. Let me just blame⦠aehm⦠yeah, the rain! Itās totally the rainās fault!! When it started to drizzle, I actually took the first photos, so itās a total lie. https://lyse.isobeef.org/schlosshotel-horneck-in-gundelsheim-2025-03-30/
@thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.
For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldnāt find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?
Next, I noticed the <font>
tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasnāt entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, Iād love to hear about it, so I could fix it. Iām sorry that my chosen form of report didnāt resonate with you all that well. I reckoned youāll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.
I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didnāt recognize it as such. ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ Oh well.
Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.
Let me introduce you to the much superior version 4 instead: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/twxm4.xml
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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! ā¤ļøš
#python #twtxt
@movq@www.uninformativ.de letās host yarnd! Or maybe wait until @prologic@twtxt.net return activitypub support which deleted in this commit
I now subscribed to most feeds in my Go tt
reimplementation that I already followed with the old Python tt
. Previously, I just had a few feeds for testing purposes in my new config. While transfering, I ādroppedā heaps of feeds that appeared to be inactive.
This might motivate me to actually āfinishā the new client, so that it could become my daily driver. No need to use the old software stack any longer. Letās see how bad this goes.
āit is very easy to filter or ignore itā This is the interesting part for legacy clients, hehe
Joking aside, letās see how it works in the wild!
@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. Itās 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 oneās actually after. Following that pointer is also called dereferencing the pointer.
I canāt come up with a good real-world example, so this poor comparison has to do. Itās 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, youāre able to locate the book. Probably a copy of that book and thatās where this analogy falls apart.
In contrast to that flawed comparision, itās 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 pointerās 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. Letās look at a doubly linked list. One entry could be a triple consisting of (actual value, pointer to next entry, pointer to previous entry).
_______________________
/ ________\_______________
ā ā | \
+---+---+---+ +---+---+-|-+ +---+---+-|-+
| 7 | n | x | | 23| n | p | | 42| x | p |
+---+-|-+---+ +---+-|-+---+ +---+---+---+
| ā | ā
\_______/ \_______/
The āxā 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 ānā) and previous (labeled āpā) elements are pointing to the respective elements.
You can also see that the middle element is pointed to by two pointers. By the ānextā pointer in the first element and the āpreviousā pointer in the last element.
Thatās it for now. There are heaps ;-) more things to tell about pointers. But it might help you a tiny bit.
(The previous message was written with tt
.) Now, this is the second attempt in tt2
.
Letās see!
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
if you want a different voice let me know which to use: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
wahhh i wanna work towards my dream of offering pay as you can web hosting (static & dynamic) but i donāt know how!!!!! i keep drifting towards hosting panels but i donāt exactly have fresh linux servers for those nor do i like the level of access they require. so iām like ok i can do the static site part with SFTP chroot jails and a front-end like filebrowser or somethingā¦. but then what about the dynamic sites!!!!!!! UGH
granted i doubt iād get much interest in dynamic sites but iād like to do this old school where i can offer people isolated mySQL databases or something for some project (iām 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 isnāt happening
OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training
OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT chatbot, today submitted AI recommendations to the Trump administration, calling for deregulation and policies that give AI companies free rein to train models on copyrighted material in order to compete with China on AI development.
 is this notion of:
What is this hash?
What does it refer to?
Idea: Why canāt we all agree to implement a simple URI scheme where we host our Twtxt feeds?
That is, if you host your feed at https://example.com/twtxt.txt
ā Why canāt or could you not also host various JSON files (letās agree on the spec of course) at https://example.com/twt/<hash>
? š¤
That way we solve this problem in a truly decentralised way, rather than every relying on yarnd
pods alone.
[ANN] Launching a new design initiative for Monero
The dream is to bring designers, developers, and creatives together to shape the future of Moneroās ecosystem and Iād love for others to jump in! To build resources and help craft great design. If youāre a designer, developer, illustrator, or just someone passionate about Monero and good design sensibility reach out. Letās build together!
Links:
Emoji Picker Shortcut Not Working in MacOS Sequoia? Letās 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 ⦠ā Read more
This is how Churro lets you know itās time to feed her ā Read more
these eyes let him get away with anything ā Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org i appreciate you updating this with that info. been in the weeds at work so havenāt been tracking the conversation here much. let me sit on this for a bit because often times the edits are within seconds of first post so maybe maybe i just allow them within a certain time frame or do away with them all together. i really only do it because it bugs me once i notice the typo :)
yep! Enjoy your rest, letās discuss it later
Hey everyone!
About the idea of improving the āthreadā extension, what if we set aside March 2025 to gather proposals and thoughts from everyone? We could then vote on them at the end of the month to see if the change and migration are worth it.
The voting could include client maintainers (and maybe even users too). That way, we get a good mix of perspectives before taking a decision in a decent timelapse.
What do you think? If this sounds good, we can start agreeing on this. Let me know your thoughts!
Quickly Edit & Cut Video Lossless on Mac with LosslessCut
Whether youāre a regular video and audio editor or just have occasional needs to do so, you might appreciate using the handy free LosslessCut app, the āswiss army knife of lossless video/audio editingā, which allows for lossless editing and cutting of video and audio files. LosslessCut lets you quickly extract, remove, add, and combine audio ⦠[Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/27/quickly-edit-cut-video-lossle ⦠ā Read more
I just learned about a few to me unknown git settings: https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/ Letās see how quickly I canāt live without them anymore. ;-)
Quickly Edit & Cut Video Lossless on Mac with LosslessCut
Whether youāre a regular video and audio editor or just have occasional needs to do so, you might appreciate using the handy free LosslessCut app, the āswiss army knife of lossless video/audio editingā, which allows for lossless editing and cutting of video and audio files. LosslessCut lets you quickly extract, remove, add, and combine audio ⦠[Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/27/quickly-edit-cut-video-lossle ⦠ā Read more
Fun: Name Your Own Gulf Map for Gulf of America / Mexico
WARNING: My name is Jamie, and I have a sense of humor. This post is for fun and the aforementioned humor. Before proceeding any further, letās understand what āhumorā means so that any potential outrage addicts donāt have a meltdown. Hereās what the Apple Dictionary app defines Humor as; āthe quality of being amusingā Now, ⦠Read More ā Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Just before the pandemic, we watched Uncle Bob videos once a week in the lunch break. While almost all of my old teammates agreed with his views, I partially found them to be very odd and even counterproductive.
I didnāt come across John Ousterhout or any of his work before, at least not deliberately. So, this document is my first contact.
I only finished the chapter on comments and I totally agree with John so far. This document just manifests to me how weird Bobās view is on certain subjects.
I always disagreed with the concept of a maximum method length. Sure, generally, shorter functions are probably better, but it always depends. And Iāve certainly seen super short methods that just made the code flow even worse to follow. While āone function should only do one thingā is a nice general rule, Iām 100% in team John with the shown examples. There are cases, where this doesnāt help readability at all. Not even close.
To me, a function always has to justify its existence. Either by reusing it at least at another place or by coming up with dedicated tests for it. But if it is just called once and there are no tests, I almost always decide against it. Personally, I donāt mind longer methods. We just recently had a discussion about that and I lost against two other workmates who are more in Uncle Bobās camp, they refactored one medium sized method into three very short ones. Luckily, we agree on most other topics.
Lol, what!? The shorter the method, the longer the variables inside? I first thought I misread or the writeup mixed it up. Iāll always do it the other way around.
Iāve been also bitten badly by outdated comments in the past, but Bob must have worked on really terrible projects to end up with such an attitude to dislike comments. Oh well. No doubt, Iāve come across by several orders of magnitude more useless comments, in my experience (autogenerated) JavaDocs fall in the category more frequently than not. So, I know that there are different types of comments. A comment doesnāt automatically mean that it is good and justified.
But I also partially agree with Bob and John and think that a good name has a proper chance to save a comment. Though, when in doubt, I go Johnās route and use a shorter name with a comment rather than use a kilometer long identifier. Writing good comments typically takes some time, sometimes much longer than writing the code. It regularly takes me several minutes. Itās a hard art.
I perhaps should read up on Johnās work. He seems to be more reasonable and likeminded. :-) Let me continue to complete this document.
The big established parties are all bad traitors. I blame them and their actions to help raise AfD. They just [donāt?] give a fuck about the ordinary people, theyāre only concerned about their private gain and power.
To a large degree, yes. But I think the media is also equally at fault. There was absolutely no reason to invite AfD people to every event and let them talk. This has been going on for over 10 years. When we give them a stage to spread their hate, are we really surprised that hate spreads ⦠?
I donāt know the answers to this desaster. Iām beginning to think that people literally just want an outlet for their frustration, nothing more. Itās not about what particular parties actually plan to do. At least I think this applies to people in their 30ies and 40ies.
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Hereās that twtxt-el test replay to my last twt! letās see how it goes.
[ ā³ Reply to twt ]
button?
I donāt think so, at least the tests I did passed. If youāre pretty sure itās a bug, please create an issue in the repository with the specific case and Iāll investigate it.
There are 2 buttons to make replicas, one makes a replica in the thread where the twt is located (this is the one that should be used the most, as it serves a thread), the other creates a replica to a specific twt.
Iāll let you know a bit about the status: Iām just now implementing the thread screen. There you can be sure where you are. Itās a bit confusing right now, sorry. I think the client is still in alpha. When Iāve finished what Iām doing, and the direct message system, Iāll freeze development and focus on creating more tests, looking for bugs and making small visual adjustments.
Thanks, @falsifian@www.falsifian.org! Iāll definitely start with the latter one then. Letās see how far I make it. :-)
Iāll Dood your Catš Letās go!! ā Read more
tt
rewrite in Go and quickly implemented a stack widget for tview. The builtin Pages is similar but way too complicated for my use case. I would have to specify a mandatory name and some additional options for each page. Also, it allows me to randomly jump around between pages using names, but only gives me direct access the first, however, not the last page. Weird. I don't wanna remember names. All I really need is a classic stack. You open a new fullscreen dialog and maybe another one on top of that. Closing the upper most brings you back to the previous one and so on.
@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Iāll let you know once it reaches a point where it might be barely usable by someone else than myself. There are long ways to go, though. Right now, you donāt wanna even look at it. :-)
ok, sounds like a ālargeā project to me.
Is it more an API (more oriented to developers), more oriented to UI/UX/Frontend? Perhaps both?
Iād go with prologicās advice of measuring and prioritizing. Perhaps you have a budget or at least something like āletās see how far can we reach in 6 monthsā, and possibly you wonāt finish in the time you have (just guessing).
Something that has helped me was defining āWhy do you we want to refactor this project?ā.
Could it be to make it compile on newer versions, or making it easier to grow and scale, or perhaps they are trying to sell that product to another company. Every reason has a different path, IMO.
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev The article is a good reminder of the true blogging mindset. But letās try to think beyond. 2 ideas: (1) writing āforces clarity, structures your thoughts, sharpens your perspectiveā. But it also generates thoughts in the sense of Heinrich von Kleist (1805). (2) Youāre writing for āthe future you, one right person, one dayā but you are also writing for the AI. The idea of AI as an audience.
@<url>
. Submitting this writes @<domain url>
instead of @<nick url>
in the feed.
Righto, must be some caching thing thatās going on, too. Now, with JS enabled and a feed that I follow, hitting āReplyā actually automatically enters @nick@domain
in the textarea. Submitting it correctly writes ā@in the feed. Let's digā¦
WhatsApp to Soon Let You Schedule Events in Private Chats
WhatsApp is working on expanding its group chat event planning feature to private chats, according to new changes found in the latest beta version (via WABetaInfo).
Currently, WhatsApp allows you to create events from group chats to h ⦠ā Read more
Windows 11 Now Lets You Access Your iPhone from the Start Menu
Microsoft has announced an update to Windows 11 that allows iPhone users to access their devices directly from the Start menu, bringing feature parity with its existing Android phone integration.
The ⦠ā Read more
i havenāt talked fandom here much letās change that. i might re-run my DC comics ficathon again. i ran it late december through to the end of february last year and it was fun af even if it moved slowly. kinda wanna run it again but i donāt wanna have to promote it.
Predicting what is to be expected in about four years in the USA : there is no way in Hell where Trump will allow any form of return to the way it use to be before he took hold of the country. He will let other people die to make sure his regime will stay on for as long as at least he lives.
I made a draft of an āencrypted public messengerā, which was basically a Feed for an address derivate from the public ket, letās say āabcd..eaeaā
Anyone could check, āare there any messages for my address?ā and you get a whole list of timestamps and encrypted stuff.
Inside the encrypted message is a signature from the sender. That way you ācouldā block spam.
Only the owner of the private key could see who sent what, and soā¦
And even with that my concussion was that users expectations for a private IM might be far away from my experiment.
I havenāt read the entire specification, but I think there is a fundamental design problem. Why would someone put an encrypted message on a public feed that is completely useless to everybody other than the one recipient? This doesnāt make sense to me. It of course depends on the threat model, but wouldnāt one also want to minimize the publicly visible metadata (who is communicating with whom and when) when privately messaging? I feel there are better ways to accomplish this. Sorry, if I miss the obvious use case, please let me know. :-)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org OMGGGG IāM BRINGING AKB TO YARN LETāS GOOOOO!!!! SO glad you like them they make bangers!!!!! super catchy and fun <333
@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Cool lets see if this works?!
Heck yeah, thatās really cool! Letās hope for a clear sky: āOn the evening of 28 February 2025, all seven of the other planets in the Solar System will appear in the night sky at the same time, with Saturn, Mercury, Neptune, Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars all lining up in a neat row ā a magnificent sky feast for the eyes known as a great planetary alignment.ā https://www.sciencealert.com/a-rare-alignment-of-7-planets-is-about-to-take-place-in-the-sky
I am letting this domain go at the end of this year. Another of my alter ego feeds will be gone then. Oh, the humanity! š
Letās return to previous conversation: what if detect nick from url: pubnix.com/~nick/twtxt.txt is nick, domain.com/anick.txt is anick and etc
Apple Pay Now Lets You Pay Later With Synchrony
Synchrony is now available as a buy-now, pay-later option when checking out with Apple Pay online and in apps on iPhone and iPad.
Synchrony was added to a list of Apple Pay installment providers in the U.S. in an Apple support document that was updated today, joining [Affirm](https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/16/apple-pay-affirm ⦠ā Read more
That pretty cool! I canāt remember the last time Iāve seen an actual IRL rainbow let alone a double rainbow. š Thank you!!
Iām usually comfortable keeping my hardship to myself, most especially AWAY from the internet; an act of kindness of sorts towards others, āEveryoneās got their own problems to worry aboutā kind of thing.. But maaan am I starting to believe creating a twitter account would be a healthy decision š¤£š¤¦ Read nothinā out there, just a one way echo chamber of sorts to let that shi_ out of my chest. It seem thatās what everyone elseās been using it for all this time.
A Bsky would be even better! š Iād get to shi_ post and yap all I want, allll the way from terminal and never ever have to look back at it or whatever comes out of it. But I digressā¦
I FU_ing despise this ⦠whatever this is. I wish I could just wake up in some sort of parallel universe where everything is just sunshine and rainbows, alas, life would be just as meaningless.
and sorry you had to read this if you did.
just spent like half an hour finding a terminal based color picker that would just. turn the cursor into a cross hair and let me pick from the screen. in linux fashion this was somehow difficult
@seabirdie@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz letās goooo!!!!!! wait lemme follow u
"twtxtfeevalidator/0.0.1"
UA about? I thought I could ask before throwing a 1000GB file at it šŖ¤ could it be the same 'xt' thing @lyse was talking about the other day?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh! no need to be sorry and feel free to keep at it if it helps, I donāt mind. Itās just that Iām always on the lookout for corpo-bots and crawlers slipping through the cracks (a fun little game of sorts) š
the only thing I let them see is a robots.txt telling them to :diffoff
Also, Iām curious about the invalid lines in my feed. is it something I should lookout for in future?
Shi⦠I forgot to pull my twtxt file before twtinā ⦠let me see if I can recover them lost timeline twts.
Ok, amma start twting from my timeline instance, let me know if I break something xD
** Neon **
I was bemoaning the lack of color at my desk and a friend sent me this link to a place that makes custom neon signs. I am likely much to indecisive, and faaaar too cheap to actually order one, but I keep having intrusive thoughts about what Iād get if I were to get one.
I think the Yiddish phraseāzol er krenken un gedenkenā would be funny. It meansālet him suffer and rememberā which is very melodramatic, but totally rife with so much meaning. ā Read more
nick = _@domain.tld
in the twtxt.txt?
What should the advantage be to nick = _
compared to just not defining a nick and let the client use the domain as the handle?
What is not intuitive is that you put something in the nick field that is not to be taken literary. The special meaning of _
is only clean if you read the documentation, compared to having something in nick that makes sense in the current context of the twtxt.txt.
Apple Drops Plans for iPhone Hardware Subscription Service
Apple is no longer planning to launch a hardware subscription service that would let customers āsubscribeā to get a new iPhone each year, reports Bloombergās Mark Gurman.
 to add privacy & anonymity on the blockchain. I have covered most of the cryptography used except for RangeProofs (Bulletproofs) which I plan to cover later in a separate post. Do let me know if you find any mistakes or if something isnāt clear.
Link: https://risencrypto.github.io/Monero/
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watchOS 11.2 Lets You Pause iPhone Video With Camera Remote App
In watchOS 11.2, Apple has added a useful new feature thatās designed to allow you to pause video that youāre recording on the iPhone using the Camera Remote app on the Apple Watch.
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Coinbase Onramp Now Supports Buying Crypto With Apple Pay
Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase today announced the launch of a new feature designed to let people buy cryptocurrency using Apple Pay.
āApple Payā is available for all fiat-to-crypto purchases (aka paper currencies like the U.S. dollar) in Co ⦠ā Read more
John-Doggett creates public XMR node setup script
John-Doggett1 has created a Bash script2 that helps users to automatically configure public Monero nodes with support for HTTPS on Debian:
It uses Caddy to create a public website on your node, as well as renewing LetsEncrypt certificates. [..] Let me know what you all think
Usage instructions are available on GitHub2.
Note: inspect the code4 before running the script.
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@eapl.me@eapl.me here are my replies (somewhat similar to Lyseās and Jamesā)
Metadata in twts: Key=value is too complicated for non-hackers and hard to write by hand. So if there is a need then we should just use #NSFS or the alt-text file in markdown image syntax

if something is NSFWIDs besides datetime. When you edit a twt then you should preserve the datetime if location-based addressing should have any advantages over content-based addressing. If you change the timestamp the its a new post. Just like any other blog cms.
Caching, Yes all good ideas, but that is more a task for the clients not the serving of the twtxt.txt files.
Discovery: User-agent for discovery can become better. Iām working on a wrapper script in PHP, so you donāt need to go to Apaches log-files to see who fetches your feed. But for other Gemini and gopher you need to relay on something else. That could be using my webmentions for twtxt suggestion, or simply defining an email metadata field for letting a person know you follow their feed. Interesting read about why WebMetions might be a bad idea. Twtxt being much simple that a full featured IndieWeb sites, then a lot of the concerns does not apply here. But thatās the issue with any open inbox. This is hard to solve without some form of (centralized or community) spam moderation.
Support more protocols besides http/s. Yes why not, if we can make clients that merge or diffident between the same feed server by multiples URLs
Languages: If the need is big then make a separate feed. I donāt mind seeing stuff in other langues as it is low. You got translating tool if you need to know whats going on. And again when there is a need for easier switching between posting to several feeds, then itās about building clients with a UI that makes it easy. No something that should takes up space in the format/protocol.
Emojis: Iām not sure what this is about. Do you want to use emojis as avatar in CLI clients or it just about rendering emojis?
Damn, itās certainly broken. Thank you for letting me know! Iām editing my .txt file by hand, and it seems WinSCP editor doesnāt support that character and replaced them all =/
Unstoppable Domains introduces personalized .XMR onchain domains
Unstoppable Domains 1 has announced2 the launch of personalized .XMR 3 onchain domains that can be used instead of long wallet addresses, seemingly in collaboration with Cake Wallet and the Monero project:
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Let it sink in how the richest person on the planet was EXTREMELY directly involved in getting his preferred candidate in the US presidency seat.
Iāve been thinking of a few improvements for the next generation of twtxt spec, let me know if these are useful or interesting :) https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
Iāve been thinking of a few improvements for the next generation of twtxt spec, let me know if these are useful or interesting :) https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
So letās recap⦠Weāve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping Russia and sending soldiers as resources for Putinās war. And now Trump has won a 2nd term in the US where weāll see him scrap EU sanctions and fines against US companies violating EU laws and what else? š¤
What dafuq is wrong with this world?! š
Letās go Minnesota Vikings. Beat the Colts!
So, Iām forced to use WhatsApp now. Someone told me: āHey, Iāve been doing $thing
, check my status!ā Okay, fine, I open that and it shows a photo.
Then, while looking at that photo, itās suddenly gone. No, not gone ā there are several photos and it switched automatically to the next one. The timeout appears to be four seconds.
JFC, Iām getting too old for this. Let me look at the damn photo! Donāt rush me! š
iOS 18.2 Lets Children Report Nudity in iMessages, Starting in Australia
Starting with iOS 18.2, children in Australia have a new option to report iMessages containing nude photos and videos to Apple, the company told The Guardian. Apple said it will review these reports and could take action, such as by disabling the senderās Apple Account and/or reporting the incident to law enforcement.
 for a good long time while we figure out how this stuff works in practice.
I am not sure how I feel about all this being done at once, vs. letting conventions arise.
For example, even today I could reply to twt abc1234 with ā(#abc1234) Edit: ā¦ā and I think all you humans would understand it as an edit to (#abc1234). Maybe eventually it would become a common enough convention that clients would start to support it explicitly.
Similarly we could just start using 11-digit hashes. We should iron out whether itās sha256 or whatever but thereās no need get all the other stuff right at the same time.
I have similar thoughts about how some users could try out location-based replies in a backward-compatible way (append the replyto: stuff after the legacy (#hash) style).
However I recognize that Iām not the one implementing this stuff, and itās less work to just have everything determined up front.
Misc comments (I havenāt read the whole thing):
Did you mean to make hashes hexadecimal? You lose 11 bits that way compared to base32. Iād suggest gaining 11 bits with base64 instead.
āClients MUST preserve the original hashā ā do you mean they MUST preserve the original twt?
Thanks for phrasing the bit about deletions so neutrally.
I donāt like the MUST in āClients MUST follow the chain of reply-to referencesā¦ā. If someone writes a client as a 40-line shell script that requires the user to piece together the threading themselves, IMO we shouldnāt declare the client non-conforming just because they didnāt get to all the bells and whistles.
Similarly I donāt like the MUST for user agents. For one thing, you might want to fetch a feed without revealing your identty. Also, it raises the bar for a minimal implementation (Iām again thinking again of the 40-line shell script).
For āwho followsā lists: why must the long, random tokens be only valid for a limited time? Do you have a scenario in mind where they could leak?
Why canāt feeds be served over HTTP/1.0? Again, thinking about simple software. I recently tried implementing HTTP/1.1 and it wasnāt too bad, but 1.0 would have been slightly simpler.
Why get into the nitty-gritty about caching headers? This seems like generic advice for HTTP servers and clients.
Iām a little sad about other protocols being not recommended.
I donāt know how I feel about including markdown. I donāt mind too much that yarn users emit twts full of markdown, but Iām more of a plain text kind of person. Also it adds to the length. I wonder if putting a separate document would make more sense; that would also help with the length.
š Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:
I hope to see @david@collantes.us @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @xuu@txt.sour.is @sorenpeter@darch.dk and hopefully others too @aelaraji@aelaraji.com @falsifian@www.falsifian.org and anyone else that sees this! š Weāre hopefully going to primarily discuss the future of Twtxt and the last few weeks of discussions š¤£
- Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
- When: 28th September 2024 at 12:00pm UTC (midday)
- Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
- Cadence: 4th Saturday of every Month
Agenda:
- Letās talk about the upcoming changes to the Twtxt spec(s)
- See #xgghhnq
- See #xgghhnq