There’s a reason I avoid speaking my mind on the internet like the plague. The same reason I’d set up a {B,Ph,Gem}log months ago but never got myself to publish any of the drafts in any of them.

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 4, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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I fell asleep again during snoozing, and started dreaming intensely. My own mind woke me up in time by setting everything I loved on fire within my dream. That jolted me awake alright.

** Oh so many peas **
I accidentally spilled close to a full bag of frozen peas into the pot while making macaroni and cheese for the kids’ dinner this evening.

It was like 2 to 1 peas in there…and they ate it up. Didn’t seem to mind at all!? ⌘ Read more

nice! would you mind elaborating a bit?
Is that the scientific method?
I couldn’t find anything related when I searched for it.

@xuu@txt.sour.is ROFLMAO! 🤣 reading that, the Tech bro sounded in my mind like Cow from Cow and Chicken

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh! no need to be sorry and feel free to keep at it if it helps, I don’t mind. It’s just that I’m always on the lookout for corpo-bots and crawlers slipping through the cracks (a fun little game of sorts) 😅 the only thing I let them see is a robots.txt telling them to :diffoff

Also, I’m curious about the invalid lines in my feed. is it something I should lookout for in future?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh nah it came out like that lol! i actually love how squished it looks it feels accurate lol

oh yeah i think i might have a tripod around but i do need a sandbag or something i could use as one. maybe yeah a giant bag of rice could work LOL. thanks for the tips!!! i took a video class last year in college and we worked with cameras and tripods with sandbags so it was on my mind

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev What do you mean by API? yarnd (which powers Yarn.social pods like twtxt.net) does have an API, however that API is designed for clients to interact with the pod and the user’s account and feed. e.g: there is a command-line client called yarnc and I used to maintain a mobile native app (using Flutter).

What use-case did you have in mind?

** Laser sword new years **
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[WTS] [0.005 XMR] Zen Mind - Shunryu Suzuki Digital Scans

I’ve scanned this book. There are 68 pics (138 pages). These scans are double-paged (2 pages scanned at same time). (47MB) Download link is a Tor/Onion link, using the OnionShare program. You will need the Tor browser to download. After purchasing, you will automatically receive the download link.

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_Stephan: Both my wife and I, like many of you, pay for and receive Medicare so we could be affected by what Mehmet Oz has in mind. This should not be  mistaken for the evil Medicare Advantage programs designed to enrich insurance corporations.  You would think Mehmet Oz’s heartless nonsens … ⌘ Read more

US business leaders set to break record on donations to Trump inaugural fund
Edward Helmore,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Fascism is our new reality brought on by a level of explicit corruption of the American government never before seen in the last 250 years. The oligarchs have openly bought Trump, and the Republican Party, and Project 2025 is what they have in mind for you and me.  This was not imposed on us, forty-eight percent of voters … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Monero Hackerspace Survey: Yea or Nay

Besides providing a physical space for collaboration, learning, and creativity among like-minded individuals, a privacy-centric hackerspace could serve as an incubator for the development of Monero-related hardware. [..] Note: This is an independent new initiative not related to MoneroKon or Twister Edward z.s.

Link: https://s.42l.fr/XMRhackerspace

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_Stephan: Here is what I think is a very insightful commentary on what is going to happen starting 21 January when the United STates becomes an authoritarian oligarchy instead of a democracy. All the weak-minded Trump voters are about to discover what they have done to themselves as they, and the rest of us, experience the worst and most bia … ⌘ Read more

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_Stephan: There are so many negative trends that I just don’t want to do any more tonight. So here are two stories that don’t deal with the destruction of American democracy by Trump and the Republican Party he controls. The research I have been doing for the last 60 years has convinced me that Max Planck, … ⌘ Read more

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@eapl.me@eapl.me here are my replies (somewhat similar to Lyse’s and James’)

1. 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 ![NSFW](url.to/image.jpg) if something is NSFW

2. IDs 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.

3. Caching, Yes all good ideas, but that is more a task for the clients not the serving of the twtxt.txt files.

4. Discovery: User-agent for discovery can become better. I’m working on a wrapper script in PHP, so you don’t 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 that’s the issue with any open inbox. This is hard to solve without some form of (centralized or community) spam moderation.

5. 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

6. Languages: If the need is big then make a separate feed. I don’t 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 it’s about building clients with a UI that makes it easy. No something that should takes up space in the format/protocol.

7. Emojis: I’m not sure what this is about. Do you want to use emojis as avatar in CLI clients or it just about rendering emojis?

Righto, @eapl.me@eapl.me, ta for the writeup. Here we go. :-)

Metadata on individual twts are too much for me. I do like the simplicity of the current spec. But I understand where you’re coming from.

Numbering twts in a feed is basically the attempt of generating message IDs. It’s an interesting idea, but I reckon it is not even needed. I’d simply use location based addressing (feed URL + ‘#’ + timestamp) instead of content addressing. If one really wanted to, one could hash the feed URL and timestamp, but the raw form would actually improve disoverability and would not even require a richer client. But the majority of twtxt users in the last poll wanted to stick with content addressing.

yarnd actually sends If-Modified-Since request headers. Not only can I observe heaps of 304 responses for yarnds in my access log, but in Cache.FetchFeeds(…) we can actually see If-Modified-Since being deployed when the feed has been retrieved with a Last-Modified response header before: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/commit/98eee5124ae425deb825fb5f8788a0773ec5bdd0/internal/cache.go#L1278

Turns out etags with If-None-Match are only supported when yarnd serves avatars (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/commit/98eee5124ae425deb825fb5f8788a0773ec5bdd0/internal/handlers.go#L158) and media uploads (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/src/commit/98eee5124ae425deb825fb5f8788a0773ec5bdd0/internal/media_handlers.go#L71). However, it ignores possible etags when fetching feeds.

I don’t understand how the discovery URLs should work to replace the User-Agent header in HTTP(S) requests. Do you mind to elaborate?

Different protocols are basically just a client thing.

I reckon it’s best to just avoid mixing several languages in one feed in the first place. Personally, I find it okay to occasionally write messages in other languages, but if that happens on a more regularly basis, I’d definitely create a different feed for other languages.

Isn’t the emoji thing “just” a client feature? So, feed do not even have to state any emojis. As a user I’d configure my client to use a certain symbol for feed ABC. Currently, I can do a similar thing in tt where I assign colors to feeds. On the other hand, what if a user wants to control what symbol should be displayed, similar to the feed’s nick? Hmm. But still, my terminal font doesn’t even render most of emojis. So, Unicode boxes everywhere. This makes me think it should actually be a only client feature.

It is past 16:00 ET, and so the weekend begins. Here is to hoping it transcurs slowly in our minds—or, at the very minimum, in mine.

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net I’m not exactly asking yarnd to change. If you are okay with the way it displayed my twts, then by all means, leave it as is. I hope you won’t mind if I continue to write things like 1/4 to mean “first out of four”.

What has text/markdown got to do with this? I don’t think Markdown says anything about replacing 1/4 with ¼, or other similar transformations. It’s not needed, because ¼ is already a unicode character that can simply be directly inserted into the text file.

What’s wrong with my original suggestion of doing the transformation before the text hits the twtxt.txt file? @prologic@twtxt.net, I think it would achieve what you are trying to achieve with this content-type thing: if someone writes 1/4 on a yarnd instance or any other client that wants to do this, it would get transformed, and other clients simply wouldn’t do the transformation. Every client that supports displaying unicode characters, including Jenny, would then display ¼ as ¼.

Alternatively, if you prefer yarnd to pretty-print all twts nicely, even ones from simpler clients, that’s fine too and you don’t need to change anything. My 1/4 -> ¼ thing is nothing more than a minor irritation which probably isn’t worth overthinking.

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as a matter of fact! don’t mind anything I do/say for the next 72 hours xD

Don’t mind this twt!

Hurricane Helene is passing by. Close enough to give us a day off tomorrow, but not that close to cause major harm. Well, we think. Hurricanes often have a mind of their own, and decide changes on their path. Either way, I shall be back at work on Friday 😩. LOL.

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks for writing that up!

I hope it can remain a living document (or sequence of draft revisions) 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 “(#abc1234) Edit: …” 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 it’s sha256 or whatever but there’s 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 I’m not the one implementing this stuff, and it’s less work to just have everything determined up front.

Misc comments (I haven’t read the whole thing):

• Did you mean to make hashes hexadecimal? You lose 11 bits that way compared to base32. I’d suggest gaining 11 bits with base64 instead.

• “Clients MUST preserve the original hash” — do you mean they MUST preserve the original twt?

• Thanks for phrasing the bit about deletions so neutrally.

• I don’t like the MUST in “Clients MUST follow the chain of reply-to references…”. If someone writes a client as a 40-line shell script that requires the user to piece together the threading themselves, IMO we shouldn’t declare the client non-conforming just because they didn’t get to all the bells and whistles.

• Similarly I don’t 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 (I’m again thinking again of the 40-line shell script).

• For “who follows” 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 can’t feeds be served over HTTP/1.0? Again, thinking about simple software. I recently tried implementing HTTP/1.1 and it wasn’t 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.

• I’m a little sad about other protocols being not recommended.

• I don’t know how I feel about including markdown. I don’t mind too much that yarn users emit twts full of markdown, but I’m 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.

Had to build a list of all feeds (that I follow) and all twts in them and there are two collisions already:

$ ./stats
Saw 58263 hashes
7fqcxaa
  https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt
  https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
ntnakqa
  https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
  https://twtxt.net/user/thecanine/twtxt.txt

Namely:

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt | grep 7fqcxaa

[7fqcxaa] [2022-12-28 04:53:30+00:00] [(#pmuqoca) @prologic@twtxt.net I checked the GitHub discussion, it became a request to join forces.

Do you plan on having them join?

Also for the name, how about:

• “progit” or “prologit” (prologic official hard fork)
  
• “git-stance” (git instance)
  
• “GitTree” (Gitea inspired, maybe to related)
  
• “Gitomata” (git automata)
  
• “Git.Source”
  
• “Forgor” (forgit is taken so I forgor) 🤣
  
• “SweetGit” (as salty chat)
  
• “Pepper Git” (other ingredients) 😉
  
• “GitHeart” (core of git with a GitHub sounding name)
  
• “GitTaka” (With music in mind)
  

Ok, enough fun… Hope this helps sprout some ideas from others if nothing is to your taste.]

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/5 | grep 7fqcxaa

[7fqcxaa] [2022-02-25 21:14:45+00:00] [(#bqq6fxq) It’s handled by blue Monday]

And:

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/thecanine/twtxt.txt | grep ntnakqa
[ntnakqa] [2022-01-23 10:24:09+00:00] [(#2wh7r4q) <a href="https://txt.sour.is/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt">@prologic<em>@twtxt.net</em></a> I know, I was just hoping it might have also gotten fixed by that change, by some kind of backend miracles. 😂]

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/1 | grep ntnakqa
[ntnakqa] [2024-02-27 05:51:50+00:00] [(#otuupfq) <a href="https://txt.sour.is/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/shreyan/twtxt.txt">@shreyan<em>@twtxt.net</em></a>  Ahh 👌]

I’m not advocating in either direction, btw. I haven’t made up my mind yet. 😅 Just braindumping here.

The (replyto:…) proposal is definitely more in the spirit of twtxt, I’d say. It’s much simpler, anyone can use it even with the simplest tools, no need for any client code. That is certainly a great property, if you ask me, and it’s things like that that brought me to twtxt in the first place.

I’d also say that in our tiny little community, message integrity simply doesn’t matter. Signed feeds don’t matter. I signed my feed for a while using GPG, someone else did the same, but in the end, nobody cares. The community is so tiny, there’s enough “implicit trust” or whatever you want to call it.

If twtxt/Yarn was to grow bigger, then this would become a concern again. But even Mastodon allows editing, so how much of a problem can it really be? 😅

I do have to “admit”, though, that hashes feel better. It feels good to know that we can clearly identify a certain twt. It feels more correct and stable.

Hm.

I suspect that the (replyto:…) proposal would work just as well in practice.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org “I don’t really mind if the twt gets edited before I even fetch it.”, right, that’s never the problem. Editing a twtxt before anyone fetches it isn’t even editing, right? :-P The problem we are trying to fix is the havoc is causes editing twtxts that have already been replied to, often ad nauseam. That’s the real problem.

@quark@ferengi.one I don’t really mind if the twt gets edited before I even fetch it. I think it’s the idea of my computer discarding old versions it’s fetched, especially if it’s shown them to me, that bugs me.

But I do like @movq@www.uninformativ.de’s suggestion on this thread that feeds could contain both the original and the edited twt. I guess it would be up to the author.

I came across this Gallery Theme for Hugo, and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org immediately came to mind. I think it would be a very fitting theme to use for all your photos, Lyse!

@mckinley@twtxt.net

HTTPS is supposed to do [verification] anyway.

TLS provides verification that nobody is tampering with or snooping on your connection to a server. It doesn’t, for example, verify that a file downloaded from server A is from the same entity as the one from server B.

I was confused by this response for a while, but now I think I understand what you’re getting at. You are pointing out that with signed feeds, I can verify the authenticity of a feed without accessing the original server, whereas with HTTPS I can’t verify a feed unless I download it myself from the origin server. Is that right?

I.e. if the HTTPS origin server is online and I don’t mind taking the time and bandwidth to contact it, then perhaps signed feeds offer no advantage, but if the origin server might not be online, or I want to download a big archive of lots of feeds at once without contacting each server individually, then I need signed feeds.

feed locations [being] URLs gives some flexibility

It does give flexibility, but perhaps we should have made them URIs instead for even more flexibility. Then, you could use a tag URI, urn:uuid:*, or a regular old URL if you wanted to. The spec seems to indicate that the url tag should be a working URL that clients can use to find a copy of the feed, optionally at multiple locations. I’m not very familiar with IP{F,N}S but if it ensures you own an identifier forever and that identifier points to a current copy of your feed, it could be a great way to fix it on an individual basis without breaking any specs :)

I’m also not very familiar with IPFS or IPNS.

I haven’t been following the other twts about signatures carefully. I just hope whatever you smart people come up with will be backwards-compatible so it still works if I’m too lazy to change how I publish my feed :-)

Ugreen Launches Qi2 iPhone Chargers With Emoji Faces
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@prologic@twtxt.net I believe you when you say registries as designed today do not crawl. But when I first read the spec, it conjured in my mind a search engine. Now I don’t know how things work out in practice, but just based on reading, I don’t see why it can’t be an API for a crawling search engine. (In fact I don’t see anything in the spec indicating registry servers shouldn’t crawl.)

(I also noticed that https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html recommends “The registries should sync each others user list by using the users endpoint”. If I understood that right, registering with one should be enough to appear on others, even if they don’t crawl.)

Does yarnd provide an API for finding twts? Is it similar?

@prologic@twtxt.net What’s the difference between search.twtxt.net and the /api/plain/tweets endpoint of a registry? In my mind, a registry is a twtxt search engine. Or are registries not supposed to do their own crawling to discover new feeds?

The voices in my head won’t let me sleep, they say that alien brain slugs are taking over the minds of politicians.

Yeah, user error on my end, never mind. The persisted settings.yaml overrides the command line arguments. That’s surprising to me. I expected the command line options to overrule the config file. Oh well.

Never mind, I simply searched and deleted them all (D then ~f sender). :-) Phew!

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I’ve decided to try and get rid of as much stress as possible. Stupid things stress me out, some things are more important to fix then others. But today I got started, by fixing the xeon bulb on our car, been ignoring it for a year, because the car garage said it’ll cost me 350$ so get it changed (Because they had to remove the whole front).. So because of that I did not prioritize it. But today I went and bought a bulb for 50$ and I openened the hood of the car and saw I could just replace it my self by simply removing a cover to get access to the bulb. So I’ve been stressing over nothing for a year simply because I did not check and took their word for it. next thing to get fixed is a rotten board under a window outside, been bugging me for a long time, now I want to get that sorted next. All these small things adds up, and I want peace of mind.

Current flutter source has been pushed - https://github.com/stig-atle/YarnDesktopClient , flutter source is in main branch. The GTK4 version is in it’s own branch (just wanted to keep a copy of that too).
Keep in mind it’s early version. But it does have the basics implemented.

I feel like complexity is measured differently at different levels of a project..

• at the function level you use cyclomatic complexity or how many branches internally and how much you need to keep in mind as it calls out to other functions.
  
• at a file/module level is a balance of the module doing too much against being so granular that you have cross dependency across modules. I have trouble with keeping things dry at this level because it can lead to parts being so abstract or generalized that it adds complexity.
  
• at a project level i suppose its a matter of how coupled things are across sub-modules.

I feel like complexity is measured differently at different levels of a project..

• at the function level you use cyclomatic complexity or how many branches internally and how much you need to keep in mind as it calls out to other functions.
  
• at a file/module level is a balance of the module doing too much against being so granular that you have cross dependency across modules. I have trouble with keeping things dry at this level because it can lead to parts being so abstract or generalized that it adds complexity.
  
• at a project level i suppose its a matter of how coupled things are across sub-modules.

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cum catano!

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On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Mind’s Eye https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/04/18/mind-s-eye.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

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@bender@twtxt.net I don’t mind the character limit. If I hit it and I still have more to say, it’s a good reminder that I should probably write a note instead. I like to POSSE anything that might have value outside of the current conversation.

Somewhere I read that changing location, like entering a room, can rejigger neural pathways so that some thoughts and memories are somehow associated with the space. It’s the same for me when picking up a laptop. My purpose feels clear until I open a blank web browser window and my mind goes blank, too. In all the moments where I’m drawing a total blank, and then suddenly the thoughts come easily again: maybe that’s my brain looking for the room it was in before.

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Seeing a video like this from Jeff Geerling about the MNT Reform Laptop, I am both amazed and puzzled. It’s probably a cool project to work on such an open hardware and source project as a hobby. And it’s great that there’s still the alternative to proprietary hardware. But has this any other use than just being a toy for people that have more than a thousand bucks to spend on such a thing? Especially given that it’s the opposite of powerful. Thinking about it more, the only thing that comes to mind are people wh … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
I use Jenny and I thought the multi line did work. Will keep that in mind when I am writing out posts. Also do you know how I can see if someone mentions me that I am not follwing? I know the user agents exist but I can’t view the server lgos since I host this on codeberg but if I do switch to my own server it would work.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, they have that here too, couches and such, you pay extra for that. But they have 5 halls, and we went to the smallest one. Luckily not sitting next to anyone sick :) haha, but yeah, it crossed my mind.. Have not caught anything recently, and a bit risky to go to packed places right before Christmas, but it went fine this time :)

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Christmas is fast approaching, with an increasingly small window available to shop online for various gifts and have them delivered in time for the holiday. Fortunately, Amazon continues to offer a variety of great Apple products at discounted prices with delivery in time. Keep in mind that stock and delivery time … ⌘ Read more

PSA: Content Blockers May Break Captive Portal Wi-Fi Login Pages
Here’s a helpful bit of knowledge that you may want to keep in mind when traveling or using public wi-fi spaces; if you use Content Blockers in Safari or your web browser, that content blocker may break a wi-fi’s captive portal login page, thereby preventing you from joining that particular wireless network. This applies to … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/11/12/psa-content-blockers-may-break-captiv … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de Very good for mind and body!

@prologic@twtxt.net what is the maxlen one should keep in mind here? Like say if I was charing the collected works of Shakespeare? Or maybe just a gpg keychain?

@prologic@twtxt.net what is the maxlen one should keep in mind here? Like say if I was charing the collected works of Shakespeare? Or maybe just a gpg keychain?

Erlang Solutions: Diversity & Inclusion at CodeBEAM Europe

As technology becomes increasingly integrated into our lives, it’s crucial that the minds behind it come from diverse backgrounds. Different viewpoints lead to more comprehensive solutions, ensuring that the tech we create addresses the needs of a global audience.

At Erlang Solutions, we believe that a diverse workforce is a catalyst for creativity and progress. By sponsoring the Diversity & Inclusion Pr … ⌘ Read more

This Black Hole Fact Will Blow Your Mind 🤯 #neildegrassetyson #startalk href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23blackhole”>#blackhole** ⌘ Read more

After two weeks of traveling by train at a maximum speed of about 120 km/h, sitting in a 230 km/h train is mind-blowing. 🤯 ⌘ Read more

@apex@twtxt.net - source is here
https://github.com/stig-atle/YarnDesktopClient

Some more info and screenshot:
https://stigatle.no/posts/2023-07-03-yarn-desktop-client/
Keep in mind it’s early still, but a lot of things works and I use it all the time my self..

Changing your mind is hard because it’s easier to fool yourself into believing a falsehood than admit a mistake. Mental Liquidity · Collab Fund

I’ve been thinking in the back of my mind for a while now, that the Yarn.social / twtxt + ActivityPub integration was a mistake and a. bad idea. I’m starting to consider it a complete failure.

RT by @mind_booster: «Não só poderá significar o acesso a dados pessoais altamente sensíveis de elementos policiais e de cidadãos por pessoas não autorizadas, como põe em causa a garantia da integridade das gravações”, defende a queixa que a Antero Lopes enviou para a CNPD».
https://expresso.pt/sociedade/tecnologia/2023-06-28-Fornecedor-de-videovigilancia-pede-a-CNPD-que-impeca-criacao-de-acessos-indevidos-nas-bodycams.-MAI-nega-riscos-b1fc9f51
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**Kokori “no ar” neste Portal do Tempo, e muito bem acompanhado:-)

https://m.mixcloud.com/amcaeiro/portal-do-tempo-220-24062023/**
Kokori “no ar” neste Portal do Tempo, e muito bem acompanhado:-)

m.mixcloud.com/amcaeiro/port…

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I never paid a lot of attention to Ben Shapiro before, but what he says is so transparently asinine it boggles the senses. You really have to have a Fox-addled mind to believe that the search for the submersible was completely faked and that the powers-that-be knew the entire time that it had imploded. To believe that a vast conspiracy among hundreds, thousands (?) of people from several countries and spanning several days was orchestrated to lie to the public in order to…..uh, achieve what exactly? “Undermine institutional credibility”? What does that even mean?

This is “the moon landing was faked” levels of conspiracy theory.

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**RT by @mind_booster: A Tarifa Social de Internet pretendia chegar a 800.000 famílias, mas apenas chegou a 550.

Ministro, no Parlamento: “Reconhecemos o alcance insuficiente, digamos assim, da tarifa social”.

digamos assim… 🫣

#InternetdosPobrezinhos
https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/politica/ministro-das-infraestruturas-admite-alcance-insuficiente-da-tarifa-social-da-internet_n1494687**
A Tarifa Social de Internet pretendia chegar a 800.000 famílias, mas apenas chegou a 550.

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Más notícias para Portugal 🛥️

Estudo divulgado hoje pela ZERO refere que Portugal mantém o 6.º lugar entre os países europeus c/ maiores níveis de poluição de óxidos de enxofre emitido (SOx) pelos navios de cruzeiro depois de Itália, Espanha, Grécia, Noruega e França.**
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Más notícias para Portugal 🛥️

Estudo divulgado hoje pela ZERO refere que Portugal mantém o 6.º lugar entre os países europeus c/ maiores níveis de poluição de óxidos de enxofre emitido (SOx) pelos navios de cruz … ⌘ Read more

Surpreendentes e vergonhosas declarações do Ministro, que, entre outras coisas, aparenta estar surpreendido que há quem ache que as leis existem para ser cumpridas. Talvez a Min. Justiça lhe dê uma palavrinha sobre a importância de cumprir leis, e o Min. Trabalho sobre horários..
Surpreendentes e vergonhosas declarações do Ministro, que, entre outras coisas, aparenta estar surpreendido que há quem ache que as leis existem para ser cumpridas. Talvez a Min. Justiça lhe dê uma palavrinha sobre a importância de … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, same here, been no rain here. But honestly - I do not mind warm weather and such, but I also appreciate a bit colder. We’ll have some rain next week I think.

“give access to repair and maintenance information and spare parts to professional repairers and end-users for at least 7 years after retiring a product […] Software updates will also have to be made available for at least 5 years after retiring a product from the market”
“give access to repair and maintenance information and spare parts to professional repairers and end-users for at least 7 years after retiring a product […] Software updates will also have to be made available for at least 5 years afte … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Some quick takes after the EPP lost its bet this morning in ENVI to reject the #NatureRestorationLaw in the Environnement Committee.

For those who missed the drama, my summary below to catch up before I dive in.**
Some quick takes after the EPP lost its bet this morning in ENVI to reject the #NatureRestorationLaw in the Environnement Committee.

For those who missed the drama, my summary below to catch up before I dive in.

[nitter. … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: #AIAct vote: #FreeSoftware is given safeguards, these rules must now be defended in the trilogue and transferred to the #CyberResilienceAct and the #ProductLiabilityDirective.

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20230614-01.html**
#AIAct vote: #FreeSoftware is given safeguards, these rules must now be defended in the trilogue and transferred to the [#CyberResilienceAct](https://nitter.net/search?q=%23CyberResilie … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: O Presidente da República aprovou hoje a transposição da directiva do direito de autor.

Que soluções acabaram por ser aprovadas? Não se sabe, não são públicas.
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https://www.presidencia.pt/atualidade/toda-a-atualidade/2023/06/presidente-da-republica-promulga-dois-diplomas-do-governo/**
O Presidente da República aprovou hoje a transposição da directiva do direito de autor.

Que soluções acabaram por ser aprovadas? Não se sabe, não são públicas.

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[presidencia.pt/atualidade/to…](https:/ … ⌘ Read more

**Sabe sempre bem ser ouvido: ontem passou uma faixa de Kokori (tirada do já lançado ‘rootkit’ na sua edição em CD) na Unidade 304.

https://unidade304.com/2023/06/12/unidade-304-emissao-1208-12jun2023/**
Sabe sempre bem ser ouvido: ontem passou uma faixa de Kokori (tirada do já lançado ‘rootkit’ na sua edição em CD) na Unidade 304.

unidade304.com/2023/06/12/un…

![](https://nitter.net/pic/card_img%2F1668628422405533696%2FQBC0JhgI%3Fforma … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: Discretamente, num relatório do Parlamento Europeu sobre Concorrência, que vai a votos amanhã, surge um ponto sobre #fairshare.

Sem qualquer discussão sobre o tema.**
Discretamente, num relatório do Parlamento Europeu sobre Concorrência, que vai a votos amanhã, surge um ponto sobre #fairshare.

Sem qualquer discussão sobre o tema.

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RT by @mind_booster: A Rute a pôr o dedo na ferida do mercado da música (ao vivo) em Portugal.
A Rute a pôr o dedo na ferida do mercado da música (ao vivo) em Portugal.

nitter.net/playbackpt/status/1667124892397969408#m ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: This is brutal.

“The world’s remaining “carbon budget”, or the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, has halved in the past three years.” #ClimateEmergency**
This is brutal.

“The world’s remaining “carbon budget”, or the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted to have a 50 per cent chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C, has halved in the past three years.” [#ClimateEmergency](https://nitter.net/search?q=%23C … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: The urgency has never been higher. In a separate study, @JoeriRogelj and colleagues found the carbon budget is shrinking faster that previously thought. If emissions continue at the current rate, the world will exhaust its budget for 1.5C before 2030. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-all-time-high-study-finds
The urgency has never been higher. In a separate study, @JoeriRogelj and colle … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: O Portal das Finanças tá sem capacidade computacional para ACTUALIZAR O VALOR EM DÍVIDA. Mas, hey, temos um chatbot em chatgpt a gastar computação em barda para nos explicar como se faz a chave móvel digital.
O Portal das Finanças tá sem capacidade computacional para ACTUALIZAR O VALOR EM DÍVIDA. Mas, hey, temos um chatbot em chatgpt a gastar computação em barda para nos explicar como se faz a chave móvel digital. ⌘ Read more

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I think the problem is that NATO does not want to get directly involved, because that scales up everything.
So they provide with the things they can to help instead. It worries me a bit (even though I live in the South of Norway - and Russia borders in the north), but it helps a lot that we have Sweden and Finland next to us. But if shit hits the fan - then it won’t be easy to get anywhere from here, unless we steal a boat and go to England or something like that (or get on a plane).
I try not to worry, but it’s in the back of my mind still.. But we have talked about it in my family, and if things happen then we have a plan on what to do first.

**Tanta gente a falar da Equinix, mas tão pouca informação sobre as dependências realmente existentes no seu serviço, e tanta coisa vaga que é dita.

Acho, genuinamente, que seria interessante um artigo de fundo sobre estas dependências. Não tenho grandes esperanças de o vir a ler.**
Tanta gente a falar da Equinix, mas tão pouca informação sobre as dependências realmente existentes no seu serviço, e tanta coisa vaga que é dita.

Acho, genuinamente, que seria interessante um artigo de fundo sobre estas dependênc … ⌘ Read more

**A few days ago, I wrote here about kokori’s rootkit now being released on CD, but it all started (as rootkits should) with an init() function.

In this picture, is kokori’s first physical release, “init()”, an EP that was released on this day, 13 years ago!**
A few days ago, I wrote here about kokori’s rootkit now being released on CD, but it all started (as rootkits should) with an init() function.

In this picture, is kokori’s first physical release, “init()”, an EP that was released on this day, 13 years a … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Apoio esta carta aberta da @wikimediapt, que também é assinada pela @ANSOL, @communia_eu, e outros, dirigida ao @cultura_pt @padaoesilva, porque a Cultura também se promove e valoriza promovendo o acesso e utilização pela sociedade de forma aberta e livre.
https://blog.wikimedia.pt/2023/06/02/carta-aberta-medidas-para-facilitar-o-acesso-as-coleccoes-museologicas-nacionais/
Apoio esta carta aberta da @wikimediapt, que também é assin … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: ⏰ Tic tac tic tac - o tempo continua a contar e não vimos este abandono acontecer.

Nem nós, nem os orangotangos 🦧

Se queres saber mais sobre este tema, acede ao nosso blog: https://swki.me/EA0Ek8h9

@antoniocostapm @DuarteCordeiro

#mundoZERO #biodiversidade #óleodepalma**
⏰ Tic tac tic tac - o tempo continua a contar e não vimos este abandono acontecer.

Nem nós, nem os orangotangos 🦧

Se queres saber mais sobre este tema, acede ao nosso blog: [swki.me/EA0Ek8h9](https://swki.me/EA0Ek8 … ⌘ Read more

**RT by @mind_booster: 🚫PARAR a produção de eletricidade a partir de gás! Após o fecho das centrais a carvão, o gás fóssil tornou-se a principal fonte até 2040. Mas as centrais a gás são as principais emissoras de GEE em 🇵🇹 e devem ser convertidas. 👇
https://1point5.caneurope.org/electricity-gas-turbine-portugal/

#TransiçãoJusta**
🚫PARAR a produção de eletricidade a partir de gás! Após o fecho das centrais a carvão, o gás fóssil tornou-se a principal fonte até 2040. Mas as centrais a gás são as principais emissora … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Para celebrar o lançamento da mais recente versão de #Debian (Bookworm) vamo-nos encontrar para um almoço convívio tradicional, num restaurante regional (famoso por servir o melhor arroz de salpicão do mundo).
Mais informação aqui:
https://ansol.org/eventos/2023-06-17-debian-bookworm-release-party/
Para celebrar o lançamento da mais recente versão de #Debian (Bookworm) vamo-nos encontrar para um almoço convívio tradicional, num restaurante regional (f … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Gostava de ouvir por exemplo um debate sobre as opções do Governo em termos tecnológicos, e que se percebesse o fundamento político de contratar já soluções com o ChatGPT enquanto o CEO ameaça sair da Europa por não estar disposto a revelar se os dados do modelo são copyrighted.
Gostava de ouvir por exemplo um debate sobre as opções do Governo em termos tecnológicos, e que se percebesse o fundamento político de contratar já soluções com o ChatGPT enquanto o CEO ameaça sair da Europa por não … ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: Dados pessoais. E aqui temos de ir um pouco atrás e pensar na solução escolhida (e as componentes) para este projecto - em particular o Azure Cloud e o ChatGPT - e regressam todas as questões ainda por responder sobre os riscos e como é que isso pode ser compatível com o RGPD.
Dados pessoais. E aqui temos de ir um pouco atrás e pensar na solução escolhida (e as componentes) para este projecto - em particular o Azure Cloud e o ChatGPT - e regressam todas as questões ainda por responder so … ⌘ Read more

Não é a falta de “inteligência” que mais critico aqui, é o que foi apresentado como uma potencial terceira fase o que mais assusta: ter isto como um intermediário, uma interface após autenticação… e agora no Q&A fala-se de ter isto com acesso ao CRM e outros dados pessoais. ½
Não é a falta de “inteligência” que mais critico aqui, é o que foi apresentado como uma potencial terceira fase o que mais assusta: ter isto como um intermediário, uma interface após autenticação… e agora no Q&A fala-se de ter is … ⌘ Read more

**Polluter interests have no place in #COP28, when it is so obvious that they are part of the problem and not the solution.

@TimmermansEU must see this and act accordingly, or Europe’s presence in the COP runs the risk as being seen as a farce.**
Polluter interests have no place in #COP28, when it is so obvious that they are part of the problem and not the solution.

@TimmermansEU must see this and act accordingly, or … ⌘ Read more