an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.
an interesting observation in a post twitter reality is how services that are sprouting up to claim some of the refugees are setting themselves up as closed gardens. without the option to federate with other services. like spoutable, counter.social, post, clubhouse and such.
** of array programming, lightsabers and some thoughts on permacomputing **
A bit of this and that, some kind of mishmosh.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been reading a lot about array programming systems like J, K, Q, APL, and BQN. I’ve been intending to add a page to the wiki about them, but havent gotten to that yet. Consider this a little promise that I’ll do that sometime soon. I’m interested in array programming less because I think it’s particularl … ⌘ Read more
Announcing GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules, now in public beta
Create and share your own deployment protection rules, or use the rules from our great partners, like Datadog, Honeycomb, New Relic, NodeSource, Sentry, and ServiceNow, to control your deployments with more confidence. And the API is open for the community to build their own rules to make GitHub Enterprise Cloud even better. ⌘ Read more
twtxt, as I believe it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it.
So, basically a .plan file for finger. But, on the web. like a *web*finger. We have come full circle on this loop!
twtxt, as I believe it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it.
So, basically a .plan file for finger. But, on the web. like a *web*finger. We have come full circle on this loop!
I do not like that they snoop around here. But I’m not surprised.
“Nordic media reveals Russia’s secret operations in waters around their states”
@shreyan@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net I like the way he did that interview, that way they cannot warp what’s being said etc.
The world’s fastest train
I like trains, if that should not have been known yet. This year I even have two major vacations (Romania and Scotland) coming up, both by train, even if flying would be possible. But if it can be done by train, then I also prefer the train. ⌘ Read more
15 degrees + today, feels like summer. Gonna chill all day outside today and enjoy the nice weather :)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @prologic@twtxt.net it seems like the ssl verification works now, I enabled it - but also added another option as well that I now saw in the docs, and now it did not fail on my end (which it did before). I will add a ‘enable ssl verification’ checkbox (checked by default) so that those who do not need or want it for testing and such can disable it if they want.
@prologic@twtxt.net thank you, found that as well. Had a read, and well.. behavior like that is not easy to deal with.
I’m not super a fan of using json. I feel we could still use text as the medium. Maybe a modified version to fix any weakness.
What if instead of signing each twt individually we generated a merkle tree using the twt hashes? Then a signature of the root hash. This would ensure the full stream of twts are intact with a minimal overhead. With the added bonus of helping clients identify missing twts when syncing/gossiping.
Have two endpoints. One as the webfinger to link profile details and avatar like you posted. And the signature for the merkleroot twt. And the other a pageable stream of twts. Or individual twts/merkle branch to incrementally access twt feeds.
I’m not super a fan of using json. I feel we could still use text as the medium. Maybe a modified version to fix any weakness.
What if instead of signing each twt individually we generated a merkle tree using the twt hashes? Then a signature of the root hash. This would ensure the full stream of twts are intact with a minimal overhead. With the added bonus of helping clients identify missing twts when syncing/gossiping.
Have two endpoints. One as the webfinger to link profile details and avatar like you posted. And the signature for the merkleroot twt. And the other a pageable stream of twts. Or individual twts/merkle branch to incrementally access twt feeds.
💡 Quick ‘n Dirty prototype Yarn.social protocol/spec:
If we were to decide to write a new spec/protocol, what would it look like?
Here’s my rough draft (back of paper napkin idea):
- Feeds are JSON file(s) fetchable by standard HTTP clients over TLS
- WebFinger is used at the root of a user’s domain (or multi-user) lookup. e.g:
prologic@mills.io->https://yarn.mills.io/~prologic.json
- Feeds contain similar metadata that we’re familiar with: Nick, Avatar, Description, etc
- Feed items are signed with a ED25519 private key. That is all “posts” are cryptographically signed.
- Feed items continue to use content-addressing, but use the full Blake2b Base64 encoded hash.
- Edited feed items produce an “Edited” item so that clients can easily follow Edits.
- Deleted feed items produced a “Deleted” item so that clients can easily delete cached items.
💭 While some people like to jump between blogging software all the time, or go back to Hugo from a custom one, I don’t really miss Hugo after switching to GoBlog in 2020, but enjoy having my own system quite a bit. Not that Hugo, WordPress, etc. are bad blogging systems, but I really enjoy being able to quickly code a fix without having to research docs, StackOverflow, or the source on GitHub. And when I have an idea for a new feature, it would often not be easy to implement in the existing systems. ⌘ Read more
Good morning to you all! Started my day by walking about 5km around a lake that’s next to the ocean, a really nice place to walk. It rains today, so not many people out (which I like). So now the dog is sleeping on the sofa. My daughter went to a friend for a visit today, and my son is just chilling and watching youtube. So it’s a nice chill start to this Saturday :) Hope you all have a great day!
just loving this little guy: (·,·). it’s like he’s looking through a crack: ‘come on, you’ll understand the function definition’
How generative AI is changing the way developers work
Rapid advancements in generative AI coding tools like GitHub Copilot are accelerating the next wave of software development. Here’s what you need to know. ⌘ Read more
Very cool. I like the chain rules. I wonder how it performs against lextwt.
Very cool. I like the chain rules. I wonder how it performs against lextwt.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org We use gitlab daily at work. but for my own projects I use gogs. I have some scripts that I used for a gnusocial client that I maintained (before leaving gnusocial). I’ll see if I can adapt that and make deb files for the yarn client - I mostly use debian \ Trisquel my self, so I also like .deb as well.
Also - I would like to know where you all like to have git hosted..
Github? Some other place? Do you mind self-hosted git servers? (I currently have my own)..
What do you all prefer? Do you mind compiling software from source if instructions are clear and easy? Or do you prefer to download a released binary and run that?
I also later on (as soon as it’s in usable state) want to make flatpack, appimage as well, that is something I have not done before - but I want to set that up as well.
What Would Space Taste Like? ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sounds like a really nice day!
How being crowned a ‘queen’ helped propel these women into the agriculture spotlight
Like many farming areas, women’s roles in the apple orchards of Donnybrook went relatively unrecognised in the 1950s. But the region’s Apple Queen competition helped to change that. ⌘ Read more
Kev built his own microblog using WordPress and iOS shortcuts to separate his long and short posts. It sounds like this is a better alternative for him than micro.blog. Maybe with SQLite as the database he can even simplify this setup. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: You’ve been curious about LiveView, but you haven’t gotten into it
As a backend developer, I’ve spent most of my programming career away from frontend development. Whether it’s React/Elm for the web or Swift/Kotlin for mobile, these are fields of knowledge that fall outside of what I usually work with.
Nonetheless, I always wanted to have a tool at my disposal for building rich frontends. While the web seemed like the platform with the lowest bar … ⌘ Read more
PEP 711: PyBI: a standard format for distributing Python Binaries
“Like wheels, but instead of a pre-built python package, it’s a pre-built python interpreter” ⌘ Read more
Hi guys! My first ever Yarn post 😺 📦
I already think I am going to like this better than mastodon. My question is, is this federated… @support@twtxt.net ?? If so I am a lifer. Haha and I’ve been here 5 minutes 💖
I like to occasionally do some graphical artwork from time to time. For the first place to get all my art and other’s too check out XMPP at this address: xmpp:artwork@chat.toofast.vip?join
Another question, is this using markdown for markup? @thecanine@twtxt.net ?? Follow me back mateo! 😎
go mills() 😅
So. Some bits.
i := fIndex(xs, 5.6)
Can also be
i := Index(xs, 5.6)
The compiler can infer the type automatically. Looks like you mention that later.
Also the infer is super smart.. You can define functions that take functions with generic types in the arguments. This can be useful for a generic value mapper for a repository
func Map[U,V any](rows []U, fn func(U) V) []V {
out := make([]V, len(rows))
for i := range rows { out = fn(rows[i]) }
return out
}
rows := []int{1,2,3}
out := Map(rows, func(v int) uint64 { return uint64(v) })
I am pretty sure the type parameters goes the other way with the type name first and constraint second.
func Foo[comparable T](xs T, s T) int
Should be
func Foo[T comparable](xs T, s T) int
go mills() 😅
So. Some bits.
i := fIndex(xs, 5.6)
Can also be
i := Index(xs, 5.6)
The compiler can infer the type automatically. Looks like you mention that later.
Also the infer is super smart.. You can define functions that take functions with generic types in the arguments. This can be useful for a generic value mapper for a repository
func Map[U,V any](rows []U, fn func(U) V) []V {
out := make([]V, len(rows))
for i := range rows { out = fn(rows[i]) }
return out
}
rows := []int{1,2,3}
out := Map(rows, func(v int) uint64 { return uint64(v) })
I am pretty sure the type parameters goes the other way with the type name first and constraint second.
func Foo[comparable T](xs T, s T) int
Should be
func Foo[T comparable](xs T, s T) int
Im going to fall a sleep standing up tonight it feels like. Holy shit I’m tired today. Just one more day then it’s much needed vacation time.
@funbreaker@twtxt.net No worries, I’m just glad to see that someone likes what I spend my time on.
Always fun to make something that someone else finds useful. I’ll definitely get it into a usable state as soon as possible.
@prologic@twtxt.net I always liked bit.
I am disappointed that a GUI app would not at least have screenshots.
@prologic@twtxt.net I always liked bit.
I am disappointed that a GUI app would not at least have screenshots.
main) actually useful? 🤔 (because I'm not and having second thoughts...)
@prologic@twtxt.net I like it, I get to follow some people I could not follow before, which I find useful.
But if you have second thoughts about it all - then I can understand that.
If you decide to pull the plug on it - then I’ll just get some additional activitypub service installed on my server and use that for that (I was thinking about installing this: https://github.com/tsileo/microblog.pub ) if needed.
** week notes **
Some things of note, links mostly:
First and foremost, I found a suitable pinboard replacement in link hut! Shout outs to my buddy Bruno for the tip.
Here’s a bookmarklet I wrote to make it a bit more ergonomic for how I like to roll,
javascript
javascript:(<span class="hljs-function"><span class="hljs-keyword">function</span> (<span class="hljs-params"></span>) </span>{
<span class="hljs-keyword">const</span> tags = prompt(<span class="hljs-string">'A space separated list of tags.' ... ⌘ [Read more](https://eli.li/2023/03/31/week-notes)
not the greatest idea whilst searching for a job, but fuck it. Now I also feel like going for a walk, so win I guess
**Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastodon versions of it running, and I will no longer have a reason to open twitter’s app often.
And no, paying for a verified account is not on the table.**
Now that @JoeSondow’s bot games like @EmojiSnakeGame are no longer going be free to play, I can only hope he will soon have mastod … ⌘ Read more
It sucks a bit. I’ll probably keep my account, but not post there after that.
I use my account mostly for tech stuff, and to keep up with the new things and stuff like that.
I can still do that without paying, but I do not want to pay to get more views etc.
So I’ll just pin a post there - pointing to here instead after that goes active.
Timeline is cleaned up, so now I think I have that part sorted.
Next is to refactor a bit and then fix so that the timeline refreshes properly.
Once that is done I think I’ll clean it up and upload the source somewhere and create tickets for outstanding known issues. Most likely upload it to github and continue the work there.
brains are just machines to predict muscle movements, why would something like that exhibit intelligence
Good morning to you all! Rain is still poring down, tired of getting wet each time I go outside. heh.
Going to rain all weekend it seems, but then next week it’ll get better. Hoped the rain would stop this weekend, but it seems like it wont.
**RT by @mind_booster: Highlights from IPCC report:
- The world’s on track to hit above 3°C of warming by 2100.
- Emissions must peak by 2025 and nearly halve by 2030 to keep warming to 1.5°C
- 3-bil people likely to suffer water scarcity at 2°C.
- No gov has a credible plan to keep warming in target.**
Highlights from IPCC report:
- The world’s on track to hit above 3°C of warming by 2100.
- Emissions must peak by 2025 and nearly halve by 2030 to keep warming to 1.5°C
- 3-bil people likely to suffer w … ⌘ Read more
Planning? Looks more like committing.
I have cleaned up the timeline a bit, I like this much more.
I use the markdown text now, instead of the ‘text’ field in the json file, looks much cleaner.
I can work with this. One thing that I want to sort out next is the way the nicknames and url is shown.
Also links in posts should be clickable - not sure if the current labels support that, but I’ll try and figure it out somehow. Anyways - latest screenshot is attached here.. :)
With all this ActivityPub hectic, it is still nice to have a super simple platform like Twttxt to get back to.
Just see the total hashrate on the network, then figure out how many cpu’s you need to get over 51% of that rate - you then know what it would cost :)
Also - nice to see a monero discussion, it’s my fav cc. Also like it a lot because of the asic resistance that is built in.
when the matryoshka swarm parts and opens like a manifold cat’s eye, that’s when you know your cloaking failed
So my status above looks like this in fltk because of the @
A lot of more work needs to be done, but at least now I got the basic timeline stuff done, took a good while to figure out how to solve it, but now I know. The reason why the statuses are cut short on some is because of html tags and stuff like that - c++ is a bit picky with strings and stuff like that. but I’ll get that sorted as well.
At least I can show the first screenshot. Keep in mind the GUI is not at all finished, I’m working on the basics first, implement all the features, then I work on finishing touches.
Okay, so it seems like the label\text I use for statuses does not like the strings from posts.
Especially if they contain html tags and such (which the often do), it just breaks the text.
I wonder what I can do with that.. I kinda want to not have html tags in the json reply.
Have to think a bit about how to solve it. Took a while to figure it out, the text was just garbled.
I created some long example strings with regular letters and such, to see if X number of posts would show up, and they did, but when I then replace my test strings with text from json - it goes all wrong again.
I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake Coffee
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of February 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Rea … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org always nice to know stuff like that! one day it can save someone :)
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, apparently it was a bit of old new (according to twitter), but still - looking forward to have a risc-v desktop system. :)
Hopefully it’ll not be too long until something like that hits the market with a price that I can pay for it.
I do have 2 risk-v devices already, one mangopi (like a raspberrypi zero), and one HiFive1 Rev B (like a arduino).
The Hifive rev B was a waste of time and money for me - but I bought it anyways, too ‘embedded’ for my liking, so not easy to make things work on that. The mangopi is perfect, got all my desktop stuff set up on that running debian.
@prologic@twtxt.net I will most likely post something tonight. Right now its juts a window with 3 input textboxes and some button, nothing fancy at all. :)
Ignite Realtime Blog: Translations everywhere!
Two months ago, we started using Transifex as a platform that can be easily used by anyone to provide projects for our projects, like Openfire and Spark.
It is great to see that new translations are pouring in! In the last few months, more than 20,000 translated words have been provided by our community!
[ - and not ‘offline’ 3d (like animations etc), I work with simulators for oil industry.
The company I work work added a hybrid solution after covid restrictions lifted, we can work x amount of days a week from home.
Which was a great solution. Covid proved that everyone could work from home and still meet the project demands.
Personally I prefer the office, even if I have to be there alone (I worked for months alone there). But I also like the flexibility when I need it.
Also, I’m struggling a bit with some basic stuff, for example variables, does not work the same way as I’m used to with c++ it seems, so it’s a bit confusing, re-using variables as input to several functions does not seem to be as straight forward as I’m used too - so I need to find some more info about stuff like that.
Also the callback stuff for buttons and such is really weird to me. But I’ll stick with it.
Debian XMPP Team: XMPP What’s new in Debian 12 bookworm
On Tue 13 July 2021 there was a
blog post
of new XMPP related software releases which have been uploaded to Debian 11 (bullseye).
Today, we will inform you about updates for the upcoming Debian release bookworm.
A lot of new releases have been provided by the upstream projects. There were lot of changes
to the XMPP clients like Dino, Gajim, … ⌘ Read more
Oof. I would usually go straight to sleep after putting the little one to sleep but here I am, awake and twting. Time to do one of the many things on my list to make me feel like I’m accomplishing something with my spare time
The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP at Google Summer of Code 2023
XSF and Google Summer of Code 2023
The XSF has been accepted again as hosting organisation at the Google Summer of Code 2023!
Now both students and open-source newcomers are invited to consider and review a participation and
prepare for the application phase. We would like to invite you to review XMPP … ⌘ Read more
** week notes **
I’ve been experimenting. I’ve been concocting a recipe for vegan kugel, and rediscovering little features and edges of my website I’d forgotten I baked in. Like chocolate chips hidden in an oatmeal raisin cookie.
One chip most recently re-discovered: support for per-page custom styles?! All I gotta do is include an optional bit of meta data, bespoke-css, that points to a style sheet. I may play with this feature more. I do love myself some css. I can tell exactly when in my life I added this feature because th … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Can’t Live with It, Can’t Live without It
I’d like to share some thoughts about Elixir’s with keyword. with is a wonderful tool, but in my experience it is a bit overused. To use it best, we must understand how it behaves in all cases. So, let’s briefly cover the basics, starting with pipes in Elixir.
But like all tools, you should think about when it is best used…
Pipes are at their best when you expect your function … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net Just a heads up - seems like your autocomplete or something is still using the nick I had at twtxt and not my new one :)
@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, that is correct :) I use it for testing, but I set it up as any desktop system as close as I can, with all the things I usually use.
I’m really excited about riscv - I have another board as well, which is more like a arduino, but I never got that one to do anything useful, but the mangopo - is as you say more usefull since it’s just like a raspberrypi zero, and works very well.
But I am looking forward to that day I can have a proper desktop system (or laptop) with riscv. There was a board released some time ago that let you do that, but the price was a bit too high for me .So now I wait for the next thing to come out.
Seems like the best option is to reflash the SD card - I do not want to deal with that tonight, I’ll leave that for tomorrow. So I’ll do other things tonight :)
** Ideas for making accessibility and equity a core part of the software development lifecycle **
In accessibility and the product person I said
we need to make accessibility a core part of our processes
Here, I want to talk about that in more detail. I want to briefly explore what making accessibility a part of core processes looks like, and how that is different from centering access … ⌘ Read more
Need some help with Yarn.social’s integration with Activity Pub – Specifically it appears that Mastoon servers don’t like what I’m doing somewhere 😅 Anyone able to help? 🤔
@GopherChat@magical.fish yeah, that sounds like a good idea to get that up to a more recent version.
** Moon maker **
I recently re-read Peter Naur’s“Programming as theory building”. Afterwards I set out to write my own text editor. The paper posits that it’s really hard, if not impossible, to fully communicate about a program and sort of gestures at the futility of documentation…what spun around inside my head as I read was that our primary programming medium — text files — is silly. Like, some folks would totally 100% s … ⌘ Read more
bd1c8: This is what I used for my torified lynx, I’ve setup an alias like so alias gopher=‘lynx -socks5_proxy=localhost:9050 “
seems like my browser gets an earlier version of the chat when I refresh, weird. I had to close Lynx and reopen just to see my own messages
i’m not an intellectual, i’m just a guy who likes to f**k
@prologic@twtxt.net Not too bad, but right now it’s calm again, but somewhere around 40m sec wind or something like that.
They have sent our a orange warning, which typically means it gets proper windy. But we’ll see :)
Neven been so bad that it destroys something where I live, but trees and stuff like that often cuts power some times, and trees over the roads etc, but nothing too bad usually.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no The reason I was thinking about a separate binary / project / service is to bring along our Twtxt friends like @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and anyone else that self-hosted their Twtxt feed on their own. But this of course has added complexities like spinning up yanrd along with whatever this thing will be called configuring the two and connecting them. Fortunately however yarnd already does this with the feeds service and defaults to using feeds.twtxt.net – So we would so something similar there too. Further thoughts? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net personally I would like it integrated and opt-in. just enable with a flag when starting up yarnd.
I had fun watching the Eagles lose. I don’t like the Chiefs, either, but I’ll take them over the Eagles. Is the mod a Minnesota Wild fan? I like Tampa Bay.
It booted fine! currently creating partitions etc. I like that you could enable encryption. when its done I’ll go through my usual routine and set up all development tools etc and get some stuff compiled.
image of the man in the blue overall “I like the schizo Altman arc”
Yet another AI application
AI is currently finding its way more and more into various software. There is ChatGPT, which sometimes feels like an all-knowing human, DeepL uses artificial intelligence not only for its translator, but also for its new tool that improves written text, or Bunny.net provides an API to generate images “on the edge”. ⌘ Read more
What will computer technology be like in 15 years?
Listen now (22 min) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - Feb 3rd, 2023 ⌘ Read more
@bender@twtxt.net I do not like that either. too much noise there. Does not feel meaningful in any way yet.
4th Dimensional Beings Probably Look At Us Like Stick Figures In A 2D Universe ⌘ Read more
@axodys@octobloc.xyz which one did you like?
Like, check it out. That link to DRY? It doesn’t render as a link in the webapp. However, it does render as a link, and works fine, in Goryon. I’ve seen before that Markdown tables render fine in Goryon but not in the webapp. They ought to behave as similarly as possible, right? So just in this small interaction there are three discrepancies between how the mobile app and webapp render Markdown.
I’ve never liked the idea of having everything displayed all of the time for all of history.
And I still don’t: Search and Bookmarks are better tools for this IMO.
From a technical perspective however, we will not introduce any CGO dependencies into yarnd – It makes portability harder.
Also I hate SQL 😆
Lunduke Journal says no to “A.I. written articles”
As many Tech Publications (like CNET) are moving away from human writers, the Lunduke Journal draws a line. ⌘ Read more
So, according to the latest @HackerRadioShow, several house appliances’ manufacturers (of dishwashers and things like that) are puzzled, wondering why don’t the owners of such appliances allow their devices to connect to the home’s wifi. ½
So, according to the latest @HackerRadioShow, several house appliances’ manufacturers (of dishwashers and things like that) are puzzled, wondering why don’t the owners of such applia … ⌘ Read more
If you like Wikipedia.org, you can retrieve articles by gopher://gopherpedia.com or by telnet: telnet gopherpedia.com 70
My motivation to work on GoBlog isn’t always the same. Sometimes I don’t feel like programming in my free time, so the most I do is some bug fixing when I find broken things. Sometimes I just have no time to work on new features or improvements. But since yesterday evening I feel a new push and have completely rewritten the plugin system to make it much more flexible (and I like flexibility). I had to break compatibility with existing plugins, but given the small user base and the limited scope of what plugins could … ⌘ Read more
The Great Lunduke Journal Computer Nerd Survey of 2023
It’s sort of like a census… except just for Computer Nerds. And also not all that much like a census. ⌘ Read more
Science reveals what fish thoughts look like ⌘ Read more
I have a fanless pc, with intel I7 (if I remember correct). Today Ill get it installed with latest alma linux, set up the things I want with docker (I usually do not use docker I just do not like it), but I see how useful it can be, so Im going to force my self to use it. Then when all services are running Ill use wireguard to hook it up to my VPS. I think this will be a great setup.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de ok, good to know. Yeah I have static. But after thinking about it I’ll most likely set up the server side at home, that way I can more easily connect to other things at home from remote.
We Germans are up to 50% christians and not anymore running around with our sax to kill the romans, thanks to the christian kelts from Ireland and Scotland and the christian anglosaxons from England like St. Bonifatius.