Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.

I’m finding the microblogging format to be really useful for working out ideas.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net I think lex will do that too currently. Should be able to lock that down.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net I think lex will do that too currently. Should be able to lock that down.

My daughter grabbed my mouse and started smacking it arouond and managed to do things I didn’t know you could do with my WM with a mouse… nor how to undo them.

Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we’re not doing something that makes someone else rich I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year | Hacker News

@prologic@twtxt.net () Should be ready to merge with lex as opt-in option. Need more eyes on it and some clean up.

@prologic@twtxt.net () Should be ready to merge with lex as opt-in option. Need more eyes on it and some clean up.

On the blog: Tweets from 01/18 to 01/22 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/01/22/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Why it’s bad to have a high GDP

by Luke Smith, originally a blog post in November 2018, rewritten for this website.

The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.
Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.
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@prologic@twtxt.net i think i finally suss’d out my hash issue.. now to figure out why im losing avatars on restart.

@prologic@twtxt.net i think i finally suss’d out my hash issue.. now to figure out why im losing avatars on restart.

I want to listen to music, but quite honestly the silence sounds better.

On the up side: I got my first successful comunication over i2c on Plan 9 on a Raspberry Pi today! Looking forward to playing with that more.

[pauses and listens to the side] I’ve been informed that newer OS generations will compost those bits so it’s fine, it’s a whole ecosystem, in fact when you cut-and-forget a file, that’s like a whale fall and it’ll feed the system for days

whenever you ‘cut’ text, make sure to put it back in elsewhere, do your part and don’t waste those bits

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm this line seems to be tricky to parse. will need to look into it.

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm this line seems to be tricky to parse. will need to look into it.

@prologic it seem to work just fine for the most part. http://darch.dk/twtxt.txt for refernce

@prologic@twtxt.net Veri soon. I have a experimental runflag that I am just about to deploy to my node. I have a few show stoppers holding me back.

@prologic@twtxt.net Veri soon. I have a experimental runflag that I am just about to deploy to my node. I have a few show stoppers holding me back.

Woohoo, #phpub2twtxt - my php interface for publishing to my selfhosted twtxt.txt is now online at GitHub

user-defined order in SQL [[https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-03-20-user-defined-order.html]] #sql #links maybe something that can be adapted to !sqlite?

@lucidiot@tilde.town “nuclear realtor” I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I’ll often just reply with “I like this” or , although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I’ll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]

@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: not guaranteed to see it: I wouldn’t have bothered waving hi across the Internet if I hadn’t gotten bored one day and grepped my webserver logs for twtxt users.

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Like a hermit crab today, bringing about a year’s worth of Tetra-Pak recycling to the depot on my bike; kids’ trailer was fit to burst!

Like a hermit crab today, bringing about a year’s worth of Tetra-Pak recycling to the depot on my bike; kids’ trailer was fit to burst!

Thanks to a pointer from Richard Miller, got screen rotation working on my Pi 4s. Makes this absurdly wide display more practical.

@prologic@twtxt.net I see Consul service mesh everywhere these days, X-D thanks to a 180 career change and major upskill.

@prologic@twtxt.net I see Consul service mesh everywhere these days, X-D thanks to a 180 career change and major upskill.

Existing NGINX as my twtd ingress controller, maybe? Got big pod dreams, but also just want to get it up; Traefik is new to me.

Existing NGINX as my twtd ingress controller, maybe? Got big pod dreams, but also just want to get it up; Traefik is new to me.

@prologic@twtxt.net lol. quitfacebook.org is still up. twt is set to be on more radars, though. ;-)

@prologic@twtxt.net lol. quitfacebook.org is still up. twt is set to be on more radars, though. ;-)

@xuu@txt.sour.is Btw… I noticed your pod has some changed I’m not familiar with, for example you seem to have added metadata to the top of feeds. Can you enumerate the improvements/changes you’ve made and possibly let’s discuss contributing them back upstream? :D

@prologic@twtxt.net sometimes I think it would be nice to have a XMPP instance. then I remember it’s all XML and I think “nah.”

I am constantly in awe that IRC remains the only realtime chat that isn’t unnecessarily complex. name another that can run chatops bot with just nc and sh?

@prologic@twtxt.net sometimes I think it would be nice to have a XMPP instance. then I remember it’s all XML and I think “nah.”

I am constantly in awe that IRC remains the only realtime chat that isn’t unnecessarily complex. name another that can run chatops bot with just nc and sh?

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One thing I’d like to have one day (and it would be nice if it were integrated into twtxt.net and other pods with a familiar and pleasant user experience on Desktop, Web and Mobile) is an e2e encrypted messaging that is self-hosted and federated that doesn’t suck operationally (so many complicated solutions that exist that are hard to setup even for a Senior DevOps/SRE)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, a completely-unsolicited surprise! :-) And, sweet! To IRC then!

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, a completely-unsolicited surprise! :-) And, sweet! To IRC then!

Want to run my own instance of twtd. (Gets head down in docs.) In other news, I got a raise and a bonus today!

Want to run my own instance of twtd. (Gets head down in docs.) In other news, I got a raise and a bonus today!

@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav What kind of thinking?” Nearly everything, I guess? More concretely: What falls into the category of whatever spans {deciding where to sit, deciding whether to blame someone else for something, catching a ball, picking a good career, proving a theorem}.

The Visitor The coming of a person is, in fact, a tremendous feat. Because he comes with his past and present and with his future. Because a person’s whole life comes with him. Since it is so easily broken the heart that comes along would have been broken ― a heart whose layers the wind will likely be able to trace, if my heart could mimic that wind it can become a hospitable place. That poem in ‘Because This Is My First Life’ – 반짝반짝 한국어

On the blog: Tweets from 01/11 to 01/15 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/01/15/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

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decided to publish the initial words I wrote up for this granular delay I created, available at the !loom: @!(loomref “bugz”)!@.

“There is no single trick that gives you the truth immediately. You actually have to think.” is a mischaracterization. This thing “thinking” has a structure, and we want to discover that structure, optimally mathematically.

Identity is built: “Everyone needs someone who reflects back to them who they are, objectively.” –John Amaechi

Identity is built: “Everyone needs someone who reflects back to them who they are, objectively.” –John Amaechi

@prologic@twtxt.net @xuu@txt.sour.is Closer! Last bit to finish is a beast. FormatTwtFactory

@prologic@twtxt.net @xuu@txt.sour.is Closer! Last bit to finish is a beast. FormatTwtFactory

@vain@www.uninformativ.dedd @lyse@lyse.isobeef.orgdd @prologic@twtxt.netdd Nope.. i have updated my gist to include the feeds listing. feeds.txt

@vain@www.uninformativ.dedd @lyse@lyse.isobeef.orgdd @prologic@twtxt.netdd Nope.. i have updated my gist to include the feeds listing. feeds.txt

@prologic@twtxt.net that seems to match my numbers. are you picking up the few gophers out there?

kinda makes me wonder about the ~300k you have cached. y’all got the library of alexandria over there.

@prologic@twtxt.net that seems to match my numbers. are you picking up the few gophers out there?

kinda makes me wonder about the ~300k you have cached. y’all got the library of alexandria over there.

Rendering text on bare-metal x86, with an eye to non-Latin languages: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105542032656082045

Twtxt is still very much alive and well. I just wrote a quick tool to crawl as much of the Twtxt network as I could and here’s what the results are:

Crawled 516 feeds
Found 52464 twts

That means there are >500 unique Twtxt feeds/users, and over ~52k Twts posted to date. 😳

@prologic@twtxt.net in theory shouldn’t need to let users add feeds.. if they get mentioned by a tracked feed they will get added automagically. on a pod it would just need to scan the twtxt feed to know about everyone.

@prologic@twtxt.net in theory shouldn’t need to let users add feeds.. if they get mentioned by a tracked feed they will get added automagically. on a pod it would just need to scan the twtxt feed to know about everyone.

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds about right. I tend to try to build my own before pulling in libs. learn more that way. I was looking at using it as a way to build my twt mirroring idea. and testing the lex parser with a wide ranging corpus to find edge cases. (the pgp signed feeds for one)

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds about right. I tend to try to build my own before pulling in libs. learn more that way. I was looking at using it as a way to build my twt mirroring idea. and testing the lex parser with a wide ranging corpus to find edge cases. (the pgp signed feeds for one)

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@prologic@twtxt.net the add function just scans recursivley everything.. but the idea is to just add and any new mentions then have a cron to update all known feeds

@prologic@twtxt.net the add function just scans recursivley everything.. but the idea is to just add and any new mentions then have a cron to update all known feeds

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah it reads a seed file. I’m using mine. it scans for any mention links and then scans them recursively. it reads from http/s or gopher. i don’t have much of a db yet.. it just writes to disk the feed and checks modified dates.. but I will add a db that has hashs/mentions/subjects and such.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah it reads a seed file. I’m using mine. it scans for any mention links and then scans them recursively. it reads from http/s or gopher. i don’t have much of a db yet.. it just writes to disk the feed and checks modified dates.. but I will add a db that has hashs/mentions/subjects and such.

When you want someone, you don’t say that you need that someone. Tell them “I want to be the person you need”. “Ssanggabpocha” Episode #1.5 (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb

I just built a poc search engine / crawler for Twtxt. I managed to crawl this pod (twtxt.net) and a couple of others (sorry @etux@twt.u53.us and @xuu@txt.sour.is I used your pods in the tests too!). So far so good. I might keep going with this and see what happens 😀

On the blog: …Perchance to Dream https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/01/10/sleep.html #sleep #advice #rand

I should probably just add a mentions command to txtnish

Disadvantage of twtxt: less incentives to reply to people since it’s not certain they’ll ever see it. My current solution to that is to follow everybody on the we-are-twtxt and only unfollow if they twt a lot of stuff I’m not interested in

One should probably have a bunch of hard-drives with random content (not some files, but really random) lying around to being able to believably glomarize towards law enforcement

Just copied over more samples today from my sample collection from one drive to another. Things are in more than one place for the first time in a long time, maybe ever in some cases? Feels nice.

People don’t want to be educated, they want to be entertained. The Parity Of Zero

…and over to monist idealism.

On the blog: Tweets from 01/04 to 01/08 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/01/08/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Never thought I’d want a 6K monitor, but I’m running VS Code and it sure would be nice to have a little bit more width. The proper layout for the task I’ve been doing is four editors wide, plus some more space on the left for a file picker.

Did a 20-minute meditation session. Didn’t achieve enlightenment, but I managed to think up the kernel of a moderately interesting blog post.

I’m cartesianly divided from twitter, to which I’m often responding. We’re back to watching television again.

lief as attire will not save you. Come back to LW we miss you. Please don’t stray too far from the light. 89/89

and if you truly get down to it, there’s no ground for solomonoff induction, because your choice of TM is completely arbitrary! Furthermore, what does it even mean for bayesianism to be a coherent epistemology‽ How do we decide wha 84/89

nosilverv sits down next to me. We look at each other, still panting. I notice how his hands are still dusty. When I look up again, his eyes are glowing with a little smirk. He leans ov 73/89

Yesterday was rough. Finding it hard to focus on things today.

Yesterday was rough. Finding it hard to focus on things today.

PeerTube v3 is now live with Live Streaming abilities
PeerTube has recently released version 3.0.0, which has added many things, including the ability to livestream. I’ve already updated by PeerTube instance to version 3 (it is linked from this RSS entry), but the link is just videos.lukesmith.xyz .

I’m not sure if I’ll end up immediately using the livestream ability, but it is certainly nice to have a non-YouTube option which is, in fact, self-hosted.

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A bit tempted to trying to dovetail to find the shortest brainfuck quine.

There is no funnier activity than untangling xmas lights to put them away…

That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible. That is, in fact, the main joy of the condition of kingship, because people are constantly trying to amuse kings and provide them with all sorts of distraction.—The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself. King though he may be, he is unhappy if he thinks about it All problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) | Hacker News

apparently you can compose multi-line twtxt’s with txtnish but it won’t render them? maybe should patch it to support the line-break proposal here? https://dbohdan.com/wiki/twtxt-line-breaks

Some people, paradoxically, can help the world most by first helping themselves. Often enough, those people are the ones most pre-disposed to helping the world.

In other words: you can expect the mistakes you make to be normally distributed around 0 if you’re not trying.

Okay, my #twtxt reader works-ish. Need to properly deal with timezones (and, um, maybe do any error checking).

I have a working model for the reader portion of what I want this twtxt client to do.

Buy some space near the sun, because it’s going to be worth a lot when a Dyson sphere gets built.

Maybe this applies to everything?