Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.
My search forwarder https://codevoid.de/q=%s is now forwarding to the JS version of duckduckgo with a dark theme applied and safe search off. I’ve pretty much set my own preferences to it. If you prefer the html version, you can still just turn JS for DDG off and DDG will forward you. I find the html version totally usable, but it’s not customizable at all.
Hot take: anything with more than 200 people in it is necessarily too diverse and internally schismatic to be called a ‘community’ – if it has shared norms, it’s at best a ‘subculture’, & if those norms are being imposed by a corporation, it’s not even that.
While certainly not a solution to everything, I find I’m using temporary SQLITE database a bunch to solve problems with a few lines of sql and less then 50 lines of code (to insert data into the SQLITE DB) instead of several hundred of lines of code and a bunch of arrays.
@sdk@codevoid.de I have to admit that’s true. While I don’t call myself an expert, I almost always wore several hats at places I’ve worked. Programmer, Server Admin, Network Admin, Cable Puller, Telephone Admin, PBX installer, Database Admin, etc
Migration successful. My page (http version) is now running on gopherproxy-c. Unfortunately not without functionality loss. If you used my site as search engine, you need to replace the smiley with “q”. The redirect is now handled by nginx and nginx can not read emoji variables.
Translating HyperTalk to JavaScript http://lexnet.bravepages.com/HTMLJS.htm
you might want to consider whether you really want your decisions to be based on what random people on the internet say.
One thing for sure on this project I’m working on, being able to run multiple CURL requests at once has been a real time saver.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth
My feed will be deader than usual for a while so I’m going to be automatically posting a medium story I clapped for every 4 hours. Set your filters accordingly.
Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions
Im sorry twtxt, I dont mean to ignore you… things are fine here, except my brain is made of snail poop
You can now use https://codevoid.de/?q=%s as search provider in your browser. Requests that do not start with gopher:// will be forwarded to the non-JS version of duckduckgo. Gopher will be shown directly. I’m not logging anything. But you must be aware that your search terms would touch my server first.
The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!
do you ever get wistful about having a merely human body plan because you’re listening to a track you’d need a dozen, maybe a hundred legs for do it justice, just some proper undulation
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I have tried several times to learn Morse Code. Sadly, I keep having distractions.
This tweet was written on an iphone. (via http proxy to gopher to txtnish)
@mdom@domgoergen.com: I’m using txtnish on FreeBSD and I had to switch it to gawk (not sure why BSD awk fails) and disable color. Just fyi. I didn’t look into it any further.
I always thought about putting together some sort of micro-blog/journal where I can post my daily brainfarts and list them on my webpage. Now, after adding twtxt to my page I have exactly that. It’s kind of cool.
I’ve started to manage my gopher content with RCS. Together with rcsvers.vim it’s a no-brainer. It’s pretty nice to have an automatic version created whenever vim is being closed.
The very fact that ‘product’ and ‘consumer’ are often appropriate terms is an indication that we have failed to create a sensible world.
“Striving to minimize technical and reputational risks” – Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s guilty … https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/
Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
fmt removed my escape sequences on openbsd. txtnish now defaults to fold -s, which makes even more sense as it is specified by posix.
fmt removed my escape sequences on openbsd. txtnish now defaults to fold -s, which makes even more sense as it is specified by posix.
@metamurls I love “map ,pt ma:1,$!perltidy^M’az.” to tidy up my code and jump back to my old line
But i have to finish “Sea of Rust” first.
@metamurls I love “map ,pt ma:1,$!perltidy^M’az.” to tidy up my code and jump back to my old line
But i have to finish “Sea of Rust” first.
This Fred Turner book really makes me wish we had good hypertext integrated into publishing. Hard to go more than a sentence or two in From Counterculture to Cyberculture without wanting to link it to Rise of the Machines, or Encountering America, or What the Dormouse Said, or Fire in the Valley
…and I’ve also added my last tweets to my gopher hole. I don’t know why, but this makes me happy.
Severin re-release of The Changeling leads thousands of millenials to say ‘Ohh, so THAT’s what that scene in Scary Movie 2 was referencing’.
Also pulse randomly decided that I didn’t get to have a driver for my (extremely common) sound card anymore. Jesus, systemd – you’re pushing linux on the desktop back to 1998 levels of bullshit.
Hot take: being critical of the Tech Industry (i.e., VC-model businesses that may or may not have to do with tech) is not the same as being Anti-Tech. It’s the kind of common sense that people inside the Tech Industry should take advantage of if they want to survive.
The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | How Can I Light Myself On Fire To Get You To Listen? NIN Interviewed http://thequietus.com/articles/25050-nine-inch-nails-trent-reznor-interview-bad-witch
Who the heck decided that everybody who listens to podcasts is in the market for a new mattress?
Bad idea of the day: ‘twitch writes a novel’: the previous ~15 words are shown & the top ~20 next words based on a markov model of some corpus are voted on over a 2 minute period (going to the first item, if no votes are cast) until 50k words are written.
Recognition Models: Scale World War Miniatures Used to Tell Friends from Foes - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/recognition-models-scale-world-war-miniatures-used-to-tell-friends-from-foes/
I love working with 3rd Party software. When you have an issue you get to put in a ticket and then wait weeks for a response.
Hackers figure out how to inject 𝑖-likes and the algorithms are high on complex math for days before the network’s developers even figure out the problem↵#invisiblenetworks (day 20)
Bad idea of the day: Select a bunch of positions, and pay people on mechanical turk to identify the strongest arguments for & against that position they can think of.
I’m always amazed at how many people I work with go out to eat each day. I don’t know how they afford to that.
Karl Marx removes his gloves to reveal knuckle tattoos: THEORY on the left hand and PRAXIS on the right. He removes his shirt and two extra arms unfold from his back: THESIS on the left arm’s knuckles and ANTITHESIS on the right. ‘Time to synthesize’, he says.
On Not Being Able to Read https://longreads.com/2018/08/14/on-not-being-able-to-read/
It’s tough to be motiviated to work on a project that has no real plan.
A comprehensive guide to yellow stripey things https://kottke.org/18/08/a-comprehensive-guide-to-yellow-stripey-things
“maddening beating of vile drums” - heart, check.↵”thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes” - breath, check.↵”outside the ordered universe” - past heat death, check.↵Conclusion: Live long enough and you get to be Azathoth.
I never really felt familiar with #vim or #emacs everytime I tried and always fell back to #nano but it seems I could really get used to #spacemacs http://spacemacs.org/
Another way to talk about Maybe Logic re: map-territory confusion: a lot of people don’t put error bars on their imagination. So, they make a prediction, the universe says ‘nope’, and they’ve got no idea where to start debugging bc every inference looks equally strong
You can trap even powerful gods in the right language: Well-hidden ambiguities will allow you to bind them, provided you can get the scripture translated that makes up their fabric
@kas@enotty.dk Have to say the peertube is intersting. Too bad I don’t have a serveto play with it.
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.
What Am I Worth to Advertisers? My Obsessive Quest to Put a Price on My Attention https://gizmodo.com/what-am-i-worth-to-advertisers-my-obsessive-quest-to-p-1828343202
tired: refering to bitcoin as ‘fake internet money’
Mailbag: Applying Filters to Character Dialogue | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2018/05/08/mailbag-applying-filters-to-character-dialogue/
GitHub - joukos/PaperTTY: PaperTTY - Python module to render a TTY on e-ink https://github.com/joukos/PaperTTY
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
What It’s Like to Download Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/download-your-facebook-data/565736/
📚 Finished reading Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
The 10:1 rule of writing and programming https://www.ybrikman.com/writing/2018/08/12/the-10-to-1-rule-of-writing-and-programming/
NO MORE TESTING - LETS GET REAL - Its now possible to post to this twtxt from irc://irc.maddshark.com:7029/discord
Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.
Pet peeve: when people conflate correctness with secrecy. Crypto can provide both, but the two are actually often in conflict. Please, think about the mechanisms you’re using systematically & also with respect to your actual threat model.
> when your thoughts are regularly interrupted by captchas because your implant’s subscription expired a month ago and you have to use the ratelimited public APIs
Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).
Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang
Hi @KatolaZ@kalos.mine.nu! Welcome to twtxt!
Hi @KatolaZ@kalos.mine.nu! Welcome to twtxt!
An Interactive Introduction to Attractor Landscapes https://ncase.me/attractors/
It’s not just that press coverage of things you already know about is bad. You only notice it when you know more about it than the journalist – who is a professional outsider. Question is: when the author knows slightly more than you do, would you like them to dive deeper?
How to make your own Xanadu demo · GitHub https://gist.github.com/ldodds/a7f901c7f0118e83a645
/me has to switch off showing the timeline after tweeting with #goxtxt as it takes 2 minutes to fetch it 😳. Too long if you have a message split into two tweets.
Band name of the day: an invitation to bad ideas
The more accurate a cartesian demon’s model of your mind, the less effort it’ll need to trick you. However, if the model’s fully accurate, there’ll also be a reference version of you inside the demon’s mind that hasn’t been deceived. You don’t have long, escape
Haskell Works Blog - Introduction to the rank-select bit-string https://haskell-works.github.io/posts/2018-08-01-introduction-to-rank-select-bit-string.html
Shuffling algorithms and randomization to improve algorithm‘s runtime. - DEV Community ‘”’ https://dev.to/s_awdesh/everyday-im-shuffling-im-a-card–fire-1f8b
out of this grew hieronymity: your handle is a sacred name of god so that anybody who has beef with you will need to take it up with god as well↵↵egonymity: each of those posts was made by you, the whole Internet is your diary↵#invisiblenetworks (day 5)
Reasons to shave your head #89492685203: you can obtain a cheesy 70s wig and a knife, and reenact scenes from Blue Sunshine in public
You👏Don’t👏Need👏To👏Avoid👏Repetition👏If👏You👏Can👏Justify👏It👏As👏A👏Rhetorical👏Device👏 #botally #nanogenmo
“In the World of Film, We’ve Edited out All Rebellion” https://jacobinmag.com/2018/08/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-riley-interview
Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/teenager-finds-classical-alternative-to-quantum-recommendation-algorithm-20180731/
Welcome to SICP Distilled http://www.sicpdistilled.com/
mnot’s blog: How to Read an RFC https://www.mnot.net/blog/2018/07/31/read_rfc
My feed-to-muc #XMPP bot now filters some tracking from URLs: https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/feed-to-muc/commit/4577ec34c103b0a7c40b0606602aa2f7918a403d
Push Meme To The Edge; All My Faves Are Dead - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G51D51f_WPo
Band name of the day: condemned to hope forever
It seems like every time I reboot, Ubuntu manages to forget about another piece of hardware I have. First it was the USB controller, then the wifi (still not fixed), and now it’s my sound card.
And if the world’s been already tiled with hedonium and we’re just epiphenomena of globally optimal happiness who could do nothing to improve it or detract from it, do we just let the atoms sing in peace then
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use to but I downgraded this account, since I had two MetaArpa acconts and I really only needed one.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Well, I’m thinking of moving my twtxt to anotheurl soon.
Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia
When she comes into contact with water, all the colors wash off her in ink swirls and she has to steal it back from trees, flowers, stones, sunset
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Changes to my SDF account are the issue I’m sure.
testing to see if I’m back up.
Bad idea of the day: pay a million-account botnet to all change their display names to Elon Musk simultaneously
story idea: a fringe political party backed by organized crime controls a network of seemingly-independent roadside palmistry shops & new-age stores – organizing fortunes & stocking books in a plan to manipulate voters
Hot take: really strongly associating anime with japanese-ness is weird in the same way as immediately associating westerns with italian-ness, & marks casuals/outsiders to fandom. It’s a syncretic medium with a hotbed in japan.
Bad idea of the day: a twitter bot that responds to messages by paying mechanical turk five cents to produce a response – and in the absence of mentions, pays mechanical turk five cents to produce one tweet per day