JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free a … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Year in Review, Google Play Update
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
Apple Drops Plans for iPhone Hardware Subscription Service
Apple is no longer planning to launch a hardware subscription service that would let customers “subscribe” to get a new iPhone each year, reports Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
– Let’s see what eh quality of the print and T-shirt is before I make any more 😅 ⌘ Read more
How to Lock iPhone / iPad Apps with Face ID or Passcode
A handy app-specific security feature is available for iPhone and iPad that requires authentication with Face ID or a passcode before a chosen app can be launched. Essentially this lets you lock any iPhone or iPad app with Face ID or a passcode, and this lock applies even if your iPhone or iPad is already … Read More ⌘ Read more
Let’s Get Containerized: Simplifying Complexity for Modern Businesses
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[ANN] Privacy and Anonymity in Monero
I have a written a blog post on how Monero uses Cryptography (ECDH, Pedersen Commitments, Schnorr Signatures, Ring Signatures etc) to add privacy & anonymity on the blockchain. I have covered most of the cryptography used except for RangeProofs (Bulletproofs) which I plan to cover later in a separate post. Do let me know if you find any mistakes or if something isn’t clear.
Link: https://risencrypto.github.io/Monero/
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Why I’d never switch to an 🍎 iPhone
Recently, Kev announced he’s switching back to Android, and judging by his first impressions, he seems to be enjoying it. Coincidentally, I came across a video from Linus Tech Tips, where Linus shared his thoughts after using an iPhone for 30 days – and let’s just say, he wasn’t impressed. ⌘ Read more
Can you be addicted to water?! 🤓☝️ Let’s find out ⌘ Read more
watchOS 11.2 Lets You Pause iPhone Video With Camera Remote App
In watchOS 11.2, Apple has added a useful new feature that’s designed to allow you to pause video that you’re recording on the iPhone using the Camera Remote app on the Apple Watch.
The Camera Remote app has been available since the Apple Watch initially launched, and while there was an option to start … ⌘ Read more
**(#dy3n2cq) Also interesting:
edit_hash: When a message is edited, a new message is created– this field holds the hash of the modified messag …**
Also interesting:edit_hash: When a message is edited, a new message is created– this field holds the hash of the modified message. The client follows the chain of edit hashes to end up at the final, edited message to display. This lets us keep an “undo” history (not yet implemented) and is a marker so the client can display a marker that the message has been edited. ⌘ Read more
Coinbase Onramp Now Supports Buying Crypto With Apple Pay
Cryptocurrency platform Coinbase today announced the launch of a new feature designed to let people buy cryptocurrency using Apple Pay.
Apple Pay is available for all fiat-to-crypto purchases (aka paper currencies like the U.S. dollar) in Co … ⌘ Read more
Second Stage
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Go ahead, ban kids from social media, but please outlaw these grown-ups too
Curtail under-16s, by all means, but let’s not forget the adult Insta-imbeciles, LinkedIn humble braggarts, Twitter twits and the rest. ⌘ Read more
John-Doggett creates public XMR node setup script
John-Doggett1 has created a Bash script2 that helps users to automatically configure public Monero nodes with support for HTTPS on Debian:
It uses Caddy to create a public website on your node, as well as renewing LetsEncrypt certificates. [..] Let me know what you all think
Usage instructions are available on GitHub2.
Note: inspect the code4 before running the script.
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Righto, @eapl.me, ta for the writeup. Here we go. :-)
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@eapl.me@eapl.me here are my replies (somewhat similar to Lyse’s and James’)
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
if something is NSFWIDs 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.
Caching, Yes all good ideas, but that is more a task for the clients not the serving of the twtxt.txt files.
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.
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
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.
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?
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Hey @eapl.me, your feed is broken. All U+2028 got transformed into newlines.
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Damn, it’s certainly broken. Thank you for letting me know! I’m editing my .txt file by hand, and it seems WinSCP editor doesn’t support that character and replaced them all =/
Unstoppable Domains introduces personalized .XMR onchain domains
Unstoppable Domains 1 has announced2 the launch of personalized .XMR 3 onchain domains that can be used instead of long wallet addresses, seemingly in collaboration with Cake Wallet and the Monero project:
In partnership with @monero and @cakewallet, we’re making $XMR payments more secure and private. [..] .XMR domains let you transact securely on Monero and streamline payments in … ⌘ Read more
Let it sink in how the richest person on the planet was EXTREMELY directly involved in getting his preferred candidate in the US presidency seat.
I’ve been thinking of a few improvements for the next generation of twtxt spec, let me know if these are useful or interesting :) https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
I’ve been thinking of a few improvements for the next generation of twtxt spec, let me know if these are useful or interesting :) https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping Russia and sending soldiers as resources for Putin’s war. And now Trump has won a 2nd term in the US where we’ll see him scrap EU sanctions and fines against US companies violating EU laws and what else? 🤔
What dafuq is wrong with this world?! 🌍
So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping …
So let’s recap… We’ve got Putin waging war against Ukraine. Netanyahu waging war against Palestine. Iran getting involved. Kim Jong Un helping Russia and sending soldiers as resources for Putin’s war. And now Trump has won a 2nd term in the US where we’ll see him scrap EU sanctions and fines against US companies violating EU laws and what else? 🤔
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Let’s go Minnesota Vikings. Beat the Colts!
So, I’m forced to use WhatsApp now. Someone told me: “Hey, I’ve been doing $thing, check my status!” Okay, fine, I open that and it shows a photo.
Then, while looking at that photo, it’s suddenly gone. No, not gone – there are several photos and it switched automatically to the next one. The timeout appears to be four seconds.
JFC, I’m getting too old for this. Let me look at the damn photo! Don’t rush me! 😂
(#aml2qzq) @cuaxolotl Okay you are right. I’m not being very specific, but intentionally very broad and my statement is generalized that’s true. …
@cuaxolotl @sunshinegardens.org Okay you are right. I’m not being very specific, but intentionally very broad and my statement is generalized that’s true. There are so many examples and issues to talk about, if we did, we’d be here a while 😅 Let’s just agree that we both agree on extremism not re … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: JMP at SeaGL, Cheogram now on Amazon
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it …
My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it and regular rentals.
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iOS 18.2 Lets Children Report Nudity in iMessages, Starting in Australia
Starting with iOS 18.2, children in Australia have a new option to report iMessages containing nude photos and videos to Apple, the company told The Guardian. Apple said it will review these reports and could take action, such as by disabling the sender’s Apple Account and/or reporting the incident to law enforcement.
Community post by Abby Bangser, Christophe Fargette, Piotr Kliczewski, Valentina Rodriguez Sosa Let’s define what is an IDP (Internal Developer Portal) The term IDP can be confusing, as some of the industry refers to Internal Developer Portals and… ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: SMS Routes, RCS, and more!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter (and Google Play Fun)
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as i … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Erlang Concurrency: Evolving for Performance
Some languages are born performant, and later on tackle concurrency. Others are born concurrently and later build on performance. C or Rust system’s programming are examples of the former, Erlang’s Concurrency is an example of the latter.
A mistake in concurrency can essentially let all hell loose, incurring incredibly hard-to-track bugs and even security vulnerabilities, and a mistake in performance can leave a product tr … ⌘ Read more
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@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.
👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:
I hope to see @david@collantes.us @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @xuu@txt.sour.is @sorenpeter@darch.dk and hopefully others too @aelaraji@aelaraji.com @falsifian@www.falsifian.org and anyone else that sees this! 🙏 We’re hopefully going to primarily discuss the future of Twtxt and the last few weeks of discussions 🤣
- Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
- When: 28th September 2024 at 12:00pm UTC (midday)
- Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
- Cadence: 4th Saturday of every Month
Agenda:
- Let’s talk about the upcoming changes to the Twtxt spec(s)
- See #xgghhnq
- See #xgghhnq
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@movq @falsifian @prologic Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and You've probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten” coming straight out of the EU's GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one's right to erasure ...etc.
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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com This is one of the reasons why yarnd has a couple of settings with some sensible/sane defaults:
I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.
There are two settings:
$ ./yarnd --help 2>&1 | grep max-cache
--max-cache-fetchers int set maximum numnber of fetchers to use for feed cache updates (default 10)
-I, --max-cache-items int maximum cache items (per feed source) of cached twts in memory (default 150)
-C, --max-cache-ttl duration maximum cache ttl (time-to-live) of cached twts in memory (default 336h0m0s)
So yarnd pods by default are designed to only keep Twts around publicly visible on either the anonymous Frontpage or Discover View or your Timeline or the feed’s Timeline for up to 2 weeks with a maximum of 150 items, whichever get exceeded first. Any Twts over this are considered “old” and drop off the active cache.
It’s a feature that my old man @off_grid_living@twtxt.net was very strongly in support of, as was I back in the day of yarnd’s design (nothing particularly to do with Twtxt per se) that I’ve to this day stuck by – Even though there are some 😉 that have different views on this 🤣
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@falsifian Do you have specifics about the GRPD law about this?
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @falsifian@www.falsifian.org @prologic@twtxt.net Maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and You’ve probably already read this: Everything you need to know about the “Right to be forgotten” coming straight out of the EU’s GDPR Website itself. It outlines the specific circumstances under which the right to be forgotten applies as well as reasons that trump the one’s right to erasure …etc.
I’m no lawyer, but my uneducated guess would be that:
A) twts are already publicly available/public knowledge and such… just don’t process children’s personal data and MAYBE you’re good? Since there’s this:
… an organization’s right to process someone’s data might override their right to be forgotten. Here are the reasons cited in the GDPR that trump the right to erasure:
- The data is being used to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information.
- The data is being used to perform a task that is being carried out in the public interest or when exercising an organization’s official authority.
- The data represents important information that serves the public interest, scientific research, historical research, or statistical purposes and where erasure of the data would likely to impair or halt progress towards the achievement that was the goal of the processing.
B) What I love about the TWTXT sphere is it’s Human/Humane element! No deceptive algorithms, no Corpo B.S …etc. Just Humans. So maybe … If we thought about it in this way, it wouldn’t heart to be even nicer to others/offering strangers an even safer space.
I could already imagine a couple of extreme cases where, somewhere, in this peaceful world one’s exercise of freedom of speech could get them in Real trouble (if not danger) if found out, it wouldn’t necessarily have to involve something to do with Law or legal authorities. So, If someone asks, and maybe fearing fearing for… let’s just say ‘Their well being’, would it heart if a pod just purged their content if it’s serving it publicly (maybe relay the info to other pods) and call it a day? It doesn’t have to be about some law/convention somewhere … 🤷 I know! Too extreme, but I’ve seen news of people who’d gone to jail or got their lives ruined for as little as a silly joke. And it doesn’t even have to be about any of this.
P.S: Maybe make X tool check out robots.txt? Or maybe make long-term archives Opt-in? Opt-out?
P.P.S: Already Way too many MAYBE’s in a single twt! So I’ll just shut up. 😅
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@prologic Do you have a link to some past discussion?
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@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Do you have specifics about the GRPD law about this?
Would the GDPR would apply to a one-person client like jenny? I seriously hope not. If someone asks me to delete an email they sent me, I don’t think I have to honour that request, no matter how European they are.
I’m not sure myself now. So let’s find out whether parts of the GDPR actually apply to a truly decentralised system? 🤔
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@prologic Do you have a link to some past discussion?
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@falsifian@www.falsifian.org “I was actually thinking about making an Internet Archive style twtxt archiver, letting you explore past twts” — that’s an awesome idea for a project. Something I would certainly use!
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@prologic I wouldn't want my client to honour delete requests. I like my computer's memory to be better than mine, not worse, so it would bug me if I remember seeing something and my computer can't find it.
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@prologic@twtxt.net Do you have a link to some past discussion?
Would the GDPR would apply to a one-person client like jenny? I seriously hope not. If someone asks me to delete an email they sent me, I don’t think I have to honour that request, no matter how European they are.
I am really bothered by the idea that someone could force me to delete my private, personal record of my interactions with them. Would I have to delete my journal entries about them too if they asked?
Maybe a public-facing client like yarnd needs to consider this, but that also bothers me. I was actually thinking about making an Internet Archive style twtxt archiver, letting you explore past twts, including long-dead feeds, see edit histories, deleted twts, etc.
Halfbrick+ Lets You Play Popular iOS Games Like Fruit Ninja, Jetpack Joyride and Mega Jump for $2.99/Month
Halfbrick Studios is a game company best known for super popular iOS titles like Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride, which have historically been freemium titles. Starting last year, Halfbrick decided to go with a different monetization model, offering all of its games for a low monthly fee.
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Regarding jenny development: There have been enough changes in the last few weeks, imo. I want to let things settle for a while (potential bugfixes aside) and then I’m going to cut a new release.
And I guess the release after that is going to include all the threading/hashing stuff – if we can decide on one of the proposals. 😂
An alternate idea for supporting (properly) Twt Edits is to denoate as such and extend the meaning of a Twt Subject (which would need to be called something better?); For example, let’s say I produced the following Twt:
2024-09-18T23:08:00+10:00 Hllo World
And my feed’s URI is https://example.com/twtxt.txt. The hash for this Twt is therefore 229d24612a2:
$ echo -n "https://example.com/twtxt.txt\n2024-09-18T23:08:00+10:00\nHllo World" | sha1sum | head -c 11
229d24612a2
You wish to correct your mistake, so you make an amendment to that Twt like so:
2024-09-18T23:10:43+10:00 (edit:#229d24612a2) Hello World
Which would then have a new Twt hash value of 026d77e03fa:
$ echo -n "https://example.com/twtxt.txt\n2024-09-18T23:10:43+10:00\nHello World" | sha1sum | head -c 11
026d77e03fa
Clients would then take this edit:#229d24612a2 to mean, this Twt is an edit of 229d24612a2 and should be replaced in the client’s cache, or indicated as such to the user that this is the intended content.
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publish_command to vomit the HTML into a file, using twtxt2html.
Hmm, this didn’t work, because I made a mistake. Now I have corrected it, let’s see how it goes now.
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@aelaraji no, it is not just you. Do fetch the parent with jenny, and you will see there are two messages with different hash. Soren did something funky, for sure.
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@quark@ferengi.one No can do! I can’t see any of the replies to that thread, not even mine LOL. let me se if I can fetch @sorenpeter@darch.dk ’s feed with the https link.
Release Date for iOS 18, macOS Sequoia, iPadOS 18, is September 16
In all of the hubbub about the new iPhone 16 series and release candidate builds for macOS Sequoia, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18, you might have missed when Apple announced what the official release dates will be for all of their new operating systems. Let’s clear that up right now so that you can be … Read More ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: eSIM Adapter Launch!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; … ⌘ Read more
Beginner’s guide to GitHub: Setting up and securing your profile
As part of the GitHub for Beginners guide, learn how to improve the security of your profile and create a profile README. This will let you give your GitHub account a little more personality.
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Where the Eder flows into the Fulda
Just in time before it gets cold and rainy again next week, I took advantage of today to go for a short bike ride. Upstream along the Fulda, over to the Eder and then to where the Eder flows into the Fulda. This was the short (49 km) of the two versions I had planned for this. The longer version is almost 90 kilometers long. Let’s see if I can still do it this year… ⌘ Read more
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All this hash breakage made me wonder if we should try to introduce “message IDs” after all. 😅
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Another option would be: when you edit a twt, prefix the new one with (#[old hash]) and some indication that it’s an edited version of the original tweet with that hash. E.g. if the hash used to be abcd123, the new version should start “(#abcd123) (redit)”.
What I like about this is that clients that don’t know this convention will still stick it in the same thread. And I feel it’s in the spirit of the old pre-hash (subject) convention, though that’s before my time.
I guess it may not work when the edited twt itself is a reply, and there are replies to it. Maybe that could be solved by letting twts have more than one (subject) prefix.
But the great thing about the current system is that nobody can spoof message IDs.
I don’t think twtxt hashes are long enough to prevent spoofing.
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When we passed a few horses in the forest, there was really strong soup odor in the air. It didn't smell like horse at all, but soup. Maybe they've been soup horses, chickens were out of stock.
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 31°C here, feels like 33°C, with a lovely 75% of humidity. It has been raining, on and off (to make matter “better”) the whole day until now. No horses here, but if you go outside you will smell the same smell of farm animals (like goats, or pigs). That’s because two or three kilometres from here there are private farms, and when the wind blows in such way, well, we are reminded of their existence.
I haven’t left the house, so it feels well under air conditioning. In two more hours I will call it quits from the work day, and will have to dash to the grocery to get supplies for tonight’s meal (arroz con gandules). I will let you know how it truly feels out there then. :-D
For those swollen fingers, nothing better than a mildly cold shower! Oh, and paws off the keyboard! :-P
** Constants, variable assignment, and pointers **
After reading my last post, a friend asked an interesting question that I thought would also be fun to write about!
They noted that in the reshape function I declared the variable result as a constant. They asked if this was a mistake? Because I was resigning the value iteratively, shouldn’t it be declared using let?
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The voices in my head won’t let me sleep, they say that alien brain slugs are taking over the minds of politicians.
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mutt/neomutt users out here, what's the trick to highlight threads with new messages? No user interaction, just upon opening, or while opened, have threads with new, unread messages in it highlighted. Thanks!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think I have got it, but need to test upon receiving further posts. I added:
set uncollapse_new = yes # open threads when new mail
set uncollapse_jump = yes # jump to unread message when uncollapse
set collapse_unread = no # don't collapse threads with unread mails
Let’s see how it goes.
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Testing this. I will break this thread purposely, to see how to handle it under
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neomutt.
@bender@twtxt.net, let’s break it!
Testing this. I will break this thread purposely, to see how to handle it under neomutt. I have now edited this one. Let’s go!
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There is a bug in
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yarnd that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like
@prologic@twtxt.net sounds fair. Let’s see how it works for @abucci@anthony.buc.ci. Speedy fix, that’s awesome! :-)
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@falsifian @bender I pushed an alternative implementation to the
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fetch-context branch. This integrates the whole thing into mutt/jenny.
I think I’m not going to query Yarn pods for the moment. Let’s first see how often I’d actually need that. 🤔
There is a bug in yarnd that’s been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I’m running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like
YOUR_POD/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story19510368/doujin
and see a legitimate-looking page on YOUR_POD, with an HTTP code 200 (success). From that fake page you can even follow an external feed. Try it yourself, replacing “YOUR_POD” with the URL of any yarnd pod you know. Try following the feed.
I think URLs like this should return errors. They should not render HTML, nor produce legitimate-looking pages. This mechanism is ripe for DDoS attacks. My pod gets roughly 70,000 hits per day to URLs like this. Many are porn or other types of content I do not want. At this point, if it’s not fixed soon I am going to have to shut down my pod. @prologic@twtxt.net please have a look.
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tvOS 18 to Let Apple TV Users Open Web Links on iPhone and iPad
Apple TV users will soon be able to AirDrop web links in the menu interface to their iPhone or iPad, thanks to a new feature included in the latest tvOS 18 developer beta.
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@bender / @mckinley could you both please change your password immediately? I will also work on some other security hardening that I have a hunch about, but will not publicize for now.
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Let me suggest to use a more secure password, @bender@twtxt.net. One, that does not contain “password”. Like hunter2!!
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@stigatle / @abucci My current working theory is that there is an asshole out there that has a feed that both your pods are fetching with a multi-GB avatar URL advertised in their feed's preamble (metadata). I'd love for you both to review this PR, and once merged, re-roll your pods and dump your respective caches and share with me using https://gist.mills.io/
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@prologic@twtxt.net I’m running it now. I’ll keep an eye out for the tmp folder now (I built the branch you have made). I’ll let you know shortly if it helped on my end.
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Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as … ⌘ Read more
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Can anyone recommend and/or vouch for a Chrome/browser extension that lets me write rewrite rules for arbitrary links on a page? e.g: s/(www\.)?youtube.com\/watch?v=([^?]+)/tubeproxy.mills.io/play/\1 for example? 🤔
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Elixir allows application developers to create very parallel and very complex systems. Tools like Phoenix PubSub and LiveView thrive on this property of the language, making it very easy to develop functionality that requires continuous updates to users and clients.
But one thing that has often frustrated me is how to cleanly design an application to respond to database record updates.
A typical pattern that I’ve used is t … ⌘ Read more
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In apps that implement this new pairing process, users would be able to … ⌘ Read more
** The story of life **
Or at least the story of life as I implemented it in swift recently as a little learning project because I haven’t written any swift since walking away from mobile dev a few years ago (no regrets)!
First there was the universe! Well, first there was some requisite boilerplate, but then there was the universe! A 2 dimensional grid, an array of 10 columns and 10 rows.
”`hljs swift
import Foundation
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1Password Launches Recovery Codes and Simplified Sign-In Process
Popular password management app 1Password today announced the launch of two new features that are designed to make the app more user friendly. 1Password is improving the sign-in process on new devices and adding the ability to recover an account when a master password and secret key are lost.
With recovery codes, 1Password is providing a failsafe that will let cust … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Exploring Key Trends in Digital Payments
Digital payments are essential to the global economy and have seen rapid and significant changes in recent years.
Let’s take a look at the key trends of this change and some of the emerging digital trends are broadening the payments ecosystem. We’ll look at how payments work and the broader payments ecosystem.
The look into the digital payments landscapeEvolving customer expectations and technological advances are drivin … ⌘ Read more
Experiment in Digital minimalism
I recently read Cal Newport’s book Digital Minimalism. It really
resonated with me, despite (or because of?) being glued to my computer
many hours of the day.
Cal suggests a month of digital decluttering, at first cutting off
everything that your job and other obligations don’t depend on. At the
end of the month you evaluate what, if anything, is to be let back
inside.
I did a decluttering plan for April. It ended up being an ongoing
project when I’m writing this in June.
I just typed something that took me a while to enter, hit post, and lost everything because I was logged out. Can that be disabled? Let me be logged in for as long as I want (or for a very long time), unless I hit logout, or account for the previously entered text, and present it (or run the post action), after having to re-login?
My opinion is that we need more Gophers, good, bad, or otherwise. Let there be thousands, millions of different gophers. Now there are no more than 400 servers left online. I’ll have a panic attack and cry again (
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One of the things I hate, yes, I really hate it, is cigarette smoke. I get angry when I smell the smoke of the neighbors who are smoking directly in front of the entrance door of our apartment build, while we are trying to let fresh air in. But situations like smelling smoke at train stations or bus stops make me feel really uncomfortable as well. ⌘ Read more
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10 years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty Program
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快速喫透 Golang Channels 使用技巧
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iOS 18 Lets You Hide App Labels on Your iPhone Home Screen
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Turning off the labels causes the icons to expand and take up the space where the text usually appears underneath. Here’s how it currently works in the iOS 18 Developer Beta.
- On the Home Screen, press and hold on an empty area.
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Next Apple Watch Activity Challenge to Recognize International Day of Yoga on June 21
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Find your flow on International Day of Yoga. On June 21, do a yoga workout of 10 minutes or more and you’ll earn this award. Record it … ⌘ Read more
👋 If y’all notice any weird quirks or UI/UX bugs of late on my pod, please let me know! 🙏 For those that have a Javascript enabled web browser will notice (hopefully) a SPA (single page app) like experience, even in Mobile! No more full page refreshes! All this without writing a single line of Javascript (let alone React or whatever) 😅 – HTMX is pretty damn cooL! 😎 #htmx
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Update multiple Kubernetes objects/configmaps in one go!
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What is Git? Our beginner’s guide to version control
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How to Change the Voice of ChatGPT on iPhone, Mac, iPad
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