@prologic@twtxt.net I notice that many people switch away from it, unfortunately. Even lots of friends already have a long time ago. Some just love to be traced these days.

Ta, @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com, didn’t last long, though.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Why are you skeptical of crowd-funded projects? 🤔 I was/am/maybe considering crowdfunding what I’m trying to get off the ground myself, but now you’ve got me rethinking that 😅

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz That don’t and are considered illegal, becuase cash is still legal tender in the US? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Well at least in the US there are places that don’t accept cash.

apparently, we have to remind people that cash is still legal tender 😅 – at my local café

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com It is cool though the websites are easier as its less setup.

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz Welcome back! 👋

Thanks, @david@daiwei.me! I’m glad I kept it so you can enjoy it. I almost deleted it.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com There is also WS4000 simulator. Its windows only but it runs perfect in wine https://www.taiganet.com

@david@daiwei.me I don’t self host my email. When I tried it out once I used luke smiths email script and it was fine.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Fair warnings. zs is incredibly simple, deliberately so. LMK if you have any q’s when trying it out, it probably has confusing docs 🤣

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz yeah I think so. Btw, if you’re looking for an SSG, I quite like the one I maintain over at https://zs.mills.io

It’s basically what my own blob is too 😅 – The thing is though, if you see @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s posts, they get pretty long, there really isn’t any limit to the length of posts you can make in your Twtxt feed in the first place Haha 🤣

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Folder of text files with auto-generated index by the webserver, yeah, that comes close. Like meillo’s blogs: https://marmaro.de/lue/ https://marmaro.de/apov/

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com That was pretty fun and funny 😄

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Muhahaahaahaaahaaaahaaaaa! My last thunderstorm was during summer camp setup in the night. We decided to evacuate the tents into the kitchen building. The closest hit was about a kilometer away. So, completely boring compared to your sight.

@david@daiwei.me I have never heard of JMAP before. Interesting.

We use Mailcow which is probably really overkill.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz I imagine this:

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@david@daiwei.me I use OpenBSD’s smtpd, which was super easy to set up. It gets a little bit more complicated these days because you also need a DKIM setup, so every outgoing mail goes from smtpd to dkimproxy and back to smtpd. And then dovecot for POP3/IMAP (has basically nothing to do with the other two).

I’m cheating a bit, though: I use config management on top, which means that all the UNIX users and mailboxes and directories are created by that. If you were to do that manually, it would be a huge pain.

Maybe I’ll write a blog post about this some day, just for fun. 🤔

JMAP? Never heard of it.

@david@daiwei.me I will pass on the praise to the artist.
This is one sheet of a current game of “Gartic Phone” / “Stille Post”. The particular subject here happened to be me - somehow …

@david@daiwei.me I use Poste.io internally
Maddy at the edge – I’ve also hears good things about Mail-in-box, Mailu and Mox

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz yeah, I totally get it. Especially after the insane type of weather we’ve been getting lately… but hey, soak in as much sunlight while you still can, we might start longing for that instead of storm and rain in a couple of months from now 😆

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @david@daiwei.me Unfortunately, it has only lasted for a couple of hours, but Ho~lly!! We’ve had the loudest Thunder Bangs any of us has ever heard. Maybe a redux tonight? I Could’t get enough of the neighbors’ screams (and I’m not even sorry). 😆

@movq@www.uninformativ.de :‘-D

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Your wish … is my … command … ? 🤣🤣🤣

https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-10-08/0/POSTING-en.html @movq@www.uninformativ.de Fuck me dead and bury me pregnant!

@arne@uplegger.eu @david@daiwei.me I second that. Looks great!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz @david@daiwei.me @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Very beautiful! I wouldn’t necessarily want to walk through the puddle in 2, but I do love the colors here a ton. 1 looks quaint as heck.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com @david@daiwei.me It’s raining all day long here, too. It’s supposed to stop later for the night and continue tomorrow. No thunderstorm or hurricane, though. Enjoy!

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@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Woah! these are gorgeous!!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz very nice! By the way, where are you from?

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Oh dear, I see. :-(

I’m not conviced about the Swatch Internet Time.

@david@daiwei.me Ahh, I’m only confused then because I’ve never seen anything quite like this, nor have I played and role playing games on a table-top either.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I think so, what I was mostly confused about is the website itself. It has a lot of content and verbiage. Can the game be played on the website? Or is it table-top played? 🤔

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz I am testing this reply again when I set it up to use nginx

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Making software with dates and such must be really annoying.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Always using UTC in logs helps a ton.

The worst are logs were timestamps miss any timezone information at all. Makes me furious.

Dealing with time is always great fun…

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Haha, we had the same joke. :-D Took them also many attempts to include a timestamp datatype in the standard library that is halfway usable.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Yeah, timber framing is soooo cool. I love it, too.

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz testing another reply

Testing my twtxt api to just change the twtxt.txt file from api.

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com Hmmm 🤔 What is this exaactly?

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Sometimes I and other people get confused what GMT offset the timezones are because of daylight savings.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Also seven people I follow have no feed anymore. So this might just be everyone.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz When I walk to my class I have to make sure to not get hit by the acorns. Can’t avoid the trees.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bwahahaahaaahaaaa, I didn’t see that one coming! :‘-D

We switch back to normal time on the last Sunday in October. Fuck daylight saving time!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Time to get some pigs, they love to be acorn-fattened!

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Bon appetit!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Yes please! See: https://git.mills.io/prologic/parley

@iolfree@tilde.club True!

@thecanine@twtxt.net Sweet!

@khaled@twtpub.com Howdy!

I like that twtxt moves slow compared to other social media platforms like the fediverse. Though to be fair I follow only about 20 people on here compared to much more on the fediverse. Less people and posts on twtxt and I think that makes me able to keep up with the community better.

@khaled@twtpub.com Hello! 👋

Made before the current profile pic, but posting it now for spooky month.

@river@twtpub.com Hey 👋

@aesthetic@twtpub.com Hello 👋

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks. It actually turned out to work really well. And I am writing this post from it.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz I am going to fork it from my client now.

@pfefferle@twtxt.net Hey 👋

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz it forks and creates a new sub thread, obviously 🤣

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz very cool 😎

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz do you mean parley?

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz sorry I just saw this, sounds like a good idea. I’ll see if I can add this!

I made a write up about how I came about wanting my own twtxt client.
Now my twtxt client called twtxtk is released. Its a python tkinter client. The download is there as well with the source (its a python file).
https://jasonsanta.xyz/blog/twtxtk-a-new-twtxt-client

I made a write up about how I came about wanting my own twtxt client.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz For my client right now if a fork shows up in the same thread its actually indented showing a different hash. So it actually shows slightly different if its a fork. But I guess if the hash is caculated differently or something it will be a fork but not show the orginal message above. This is the only message I saw the fork come up with the orginal message above.
I know yarn shows the forks correctly.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz For my client right now if a fork shows up in the same thread its actually indented showing a different hash. So it actually shows slightly different if its a fork. But I guess if the hash is caculated differently or something it will be a fork but not show the orginal message above. This is the only message I saw the fork come up with the orginal message above.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz In my new client it actually shows up as a fork but with the other threads above. The other forked messages show up without the orginal message above in its own thread.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Selbstredend nicht!

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Na, good enough, I reckon. :-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaas? Hier plenkt niemand!!1! 😱😱😱

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Sehr hübsch! Aber wurde vor dem Ausrufezeichen etwa geplenkt? 8-)

Ach, mit dem Bildschirm hältst Du es schon noch ne Weile aus! Der ist noch pfundsgut.

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz testing multiline again

this is another line

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz testing multiline again

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz This is a preview screenshot of my client. note: It is ai codedhttp://ups.jasonsanta.xyz/uploads/Screenshot_20261001_182909.png

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Haven’t followed Python projects for quite a while. This is the first one that I come across that uses match. Cool.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Hahaha, good. :-D

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Meanwhile, many companies are doing the opposite. For the security!!!1!11

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz Now it uses imagetk to load avatars. It also handles any errors with uploading over scp. I might make it so I don’t have to use scp if I don’t want to.

@JasonSanta@jasonsanta.xyz I added more features to my client like being able to view profiles. Think this will become my main twtxt client. Its great. If anyone wants I can put it online and write up for documendation for it.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz I am testing a reply.

I am testing my twtxt client called twtxtk. It is ai coded but it works well because I disliked how jenny was and I wanted a local only client. Its made it python with tkinter.

@jecxjo@sh0.xyz Oh no! I hope you didn’t lose any changes.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Phew, lucky!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hehe.

Ah, I already suspected a portability thing with -R, but my quick search was not good enough and didn’t yield anything useful. Thank you very much for clarifying!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Currently, for me as well. :-/

@prologic@twtxt.net Very nice! I agree with @david@daiwei.me, looks much more peaceful. :-)

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com I’m not a hardcore OS/2 fan, either, but it does spark a great deal of nostalgia for me. 😍 For example: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-12-25/0/POSTING-en.html

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Crazy, who comes up with things like that?

I didn’t come up with it, but I was close, I guess. DOS is so small, you don’t have much of a choice but to search for “anything related to time”. There aren’t that many syscalls/functions. You’ll quickly notice that there’s no global tick counter. So what else is there? Hmm, “get the mtime of a file” is pretty much the only other time-related thing. And which file is “stable”, probably allocated just once at boot? Mark Aitchison tried to use NUL, which is a pretty good idea. Thinking about it in retrospect, stdin does indeed make more sense, though, because that object really does get allocated just once at “boot” and then it stays the same. That’s not guaranteed for NUL (although just as likely).

But, it is possible in DOS to move “the console” to a serial port:

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I wonder what that does to my little uptime program. :-)

Today, I also learned that -R is an alias for -r in rm.

Ah, I remember that. Dug it up and saved it in the blog: -R is more portable/consistent: http://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-09-30/0/POSTING-en.html

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh gosh, that looks wonderful. 😍

A few more pics if my trip 😎

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, it’s been a hot minute since I last came across Pascal. :-) When I first quickly skimmed through the code, my eyes fell on the reproducer in the comment and I immediately thought: This reminds me of Delphi! And sure enough, I then saw the .PAS file extension in the URL. That Kiwi applied some strange code formatting, I have to say, though.

Haha, that’s a sweet trick with stdin. Crazy, who comes up with things like that? It would have never crossed my mind to do stunts like that. :-D

Today, I also learned that -R is an alias for -r in rm. I think I never saw -R used here before. Of course for chmod and chown, but not rm.

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Oh yeah. I know that too well with my digicam. It has good zoom, but it doesn’t help when birds are quickly disappearing again. You did good, keep ‘em coming. :-)

@zyak@twtxt.z85b.xyz Beautiful! Is that the lizard snack? Poor little guy. When I visited Down Under, I petted a blue-tongued lizard. That was really cool. And I was very surprised how rough and bumpy that was. I expected it to be very smooth, but no, not at all.

@david@daiwei.me Uhh, nice! The reflections in the water are just cool.

@david@daiwei.me yeah, I’d reverted the changes I had made a couple of minutes ago and the parleyctl check looks good, but the federation is still broken by the looks of things.