Get Network Utility for MacOS Sequoia with Neo Network Utility
Remember Network Utility, the handy tool for Mac that was bundled with the operating system since the origins of Mac OS X? With Network Utility, you had an easy graphical interface to commonly used network tools like ping, netstat, nslookup, traceroute, finger, port scanning, and whois. But for reasons unknown, Apple removed Network Utility from … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/16/get-network-utilit … ⌘ Read more

Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification:
-Spyware and adware
-Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation
-HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years
-One off OS, dead on arrival
-Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update
-8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote

You probably have to make some kind of a compromise. I thought that was buying from some other brand like Hyundai, but that one also felt into some of those categories and just broke, after less than 3 years of use. At this point I’ll probably go back to LG and hope their HW is still reliable and the rest manageable… It has AI bullshit and knowing LG, probably some spyware you have to try your best to get rid of, can buy a remote with “only” 2 ads on it, some web-based OS shared between all their TVs, that usually gets 4 - 5 years worth of updates and works decently enough afterwards.

At this point, I’ll probably settle for anything that doesn’t literally fall apart, not even 3 years in, like the Hyundai did.

What Problems are Truly Technical, not Social?
Most “tech” problems (and solutions) seem social, with e.g. most newer startups relying on internal connections to gain real world adoption, otherwise blocked due to institutional apathy and bad regulations (sms 2fa, hospital faxes…)

A recent (unlocated) poll asked a similar question: “what percent of workers in the software industry are employed writing programs that should not exist?” While we do have NP-hard problems, politically hard problems like avoi … ⌘ Read more

Sometimes they really do act like they love each other ⌘ Read more

I am pregnant, and my kitten likes to sleep on me. I think he likes listening to the baby’s heartbeat. ⌘ Read more

I don’t like NumPy
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Update of the injured kid i found last week. Looks like he’s gonna be a handsome boy ⌘ Read more

Ten Animals That Are More Musical Than You Might Think
The animal kingdom is a hotbed of shocking musical talent. Take the elephant harmonica players, for example, or the bats with death metal growls. While some species might be content to whip up some awful din, these critters develop rhythms, sing like humans, and in the case of the palm cockatoo, even whittle their own […]

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@bender@twtxt.net SUPER talented like the way she does her illustrations is crazy!!!

My icon on here will never not crack me up. It’s so low quality, it feels like a facebook mom meme. Perfect for random corners of the indie web.

[$] The future of Flatpak
At the Linux Application\
Summit (LAS) in April, Sebastian Wick said that, by many metrics, Flatpak is doing great. The Flatpak
application-packaging format is popular with upstream developers, and
with many users. More and more applications are being published in the
Flathub application store, and the
format is even being adopted by Linux distributions like
Fedora. However, he worried that work on the Flatpak project itself
had s … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I can’t read. 🤦 Yeah, that’s gonna be a problem. I was not yet able to trigger it, though. Maybe they are (like Google) rolling out these changes gradually …

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, we’re pattern matching machines. :-) Only the trans5c preview looks like a brain to me. :-) Trans4 is a bacterium.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de They already do:

[…] These changes will apply to operations like cloning repositories over HTTPS […]

On a positive note: Finally time to get rid of as many Go dependencies as possible. :-)

static site generators make website-ing so fun like i wanna do so much with my site now

@prologic@twtxt.net oh yeah a friend of mine ran into that after they forgot to log in while we were working on something together, it was nuts lol

like wouldn’t it be easier to do proof of work or something?!?!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s funny/interesting what people see in these. 😃 @aelaraji@aelaraji.com said that some of them look like a brain on a reflective surface, and now I can’t unsee it. 😅

Xi Jinping’s defiance against Donald Trump paid off for China: Report
News Staff,    -  Hindustan Times (India)

_Stephan: In my view, the Chinese have played Donald Trump like a flute in the trade war crisis he created. I don’t know why corporate media hardly mentions that Trump has gone bankrupt six times; he couldn’t even make a success of a gambling casino. He is a terrible businessman. What he does understand is how to manipulate American media with big … ⌘ Read more

AI Is Like a Crappy Consultant
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LILYGO T-Embed SI4732 Combines ESP32 S3 with All Band Radio Tuning
LILYGO has introduced a new version of its T-Embed series that incorporates the SI4732 A10 tuner module. This version supports AM, FM, shortwave, and longwave radio bands in a handheld format that visually resembles devices like the Flipper Zero. The T-Embed SI4732 uses the ESP32 S3 microcontroller with a dual-core LX7 processor clocked at 240 […] ⌘ Read more

Just adopted a cat. He keeps staring at me like this. I think he likes me! ⌘ Read more

Trump says he’s fighting antisemitism — and accepting a $400 million gift from a government that funded Hamas
Anthony L. Fisher,  Senior Editor and Writer  -  MSNBC

_Stephan: The corruption of multi-felon, convicted sex abuser Donald Trump and his family is unlike anything ever seen before in the United States 250-year history. Do you remember when Hillary Clinton could not accept a necklace valued at something like $42 … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net where on IRC? Network, channel, nick? IRC is vast! It’s like saying, “meet me in Australia, and we go from there!” 😅

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i’m so obsessed like now i actually wanna play with the site more https://bytes.4-walls.net/kat/eunoia-astro

Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie
A new version of Raspberry Pi OS is now available, marking what is likely the final release based on Debian Bookworm before the upcoming transition to Debian Trixie later this year. The update introduces usability enhancements, bug fixes, and performance optimizations across the system. One notable addition is a customized screen locking mechanism based on […] ⌘ Read more

i got so emo about my site not being statically generated and instead hand coded but it’s like i don’t even know if i want that because i feel most SSGs are built for blogging and continuous posting and i don’t want that i just want to make my silly pages….

that being said, the one i’d use if i did switch to one would be astro and that one is so flexible i could really do anything with it including keeping my pages as is mostly without doing the blog stuff. idk! something to consider

@movq@www.uninformativ.de the flags are SO WEIRD AND CONFUSING especially tar which all look keysmashed and make no sense and the order matters apparently?!?! and find is SO SLOW and when i look at a typical command for it on stack overflow it looks like fucking regex it’s EVILLLLL LMAO

@bender@twtxt.net I like to self-host 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net you are certainly a special case of a luddite. Or you like to self-punish. Or both! LOL.

10 Popular Songs That Are Surprisingly About Drugs
Nothing is better than a good love song or an upbeat summer hit, but sometimes those songs’ meanings can be quite deceiving. There is an endless supply of popular songs that are clearly about drugs, but some are not quite so obvious. From artists like Ed Sheeran to TLC, these artists have released music that […]

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Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc6
Linus has released 6.15-rc6 for testing.

Everything still looks fairly normal - we’ve got a bit more commits
than we did in rc5, which isn’t the trend I want to see as the
release progresses, but the difference isn’t all that big and it
feels more like just the normal noise in timing fluctuation in pull
requests of fixes than any real signal.

So I won’t worry about it. We’ve got another two weeks to go in the
normal release schedule, and it still feels … ⌘ Read more

VPS troubles and the weekend
This weekend I went to the cottage with P on Friday. I hoped I would
have a nice weekend reading in front of the wood stove, but I had also
planned to spend at least a few hours trying to configure Maddy as the
new mail server for hack.org et al.

Then the web server I moved to the new VPS died. Again. I connected to
the VNC console and, like before, the Linux kernel couldn’t find its
root disk. A simple:

# mount /dev/vda2 /sysroot; exit

in the emergency shell solved thi … ⌘ Read more

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ahh but you’re like one of a very few that actually own domains and do interesting things 😅

** My not so pragmatic guide to running background services on macOS **
I self host a lot of stuff — these days, mostly weird little utility scripts and toys that run in the background, but also some web apps like plex, calibre, and a suite of irc things. For a long time I ran such things on a VPS, but being incredibly cheap, and hardly ever leaving my house for realsies, during the height of the pandemic I brought everything on to an aged mac mini I keep on a shelf behind some books.

I tr … ⌘ Read more

Lume 3 was released
After several months of work, I’d like to share with you the release of a new major of Lume, a static site generator for Deno. Apologies for the autopromotion 🙏

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Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden is fired by Trump
Nicholas Wu, Lisa Kashinsky and Katherine Tully-McManus,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: The Library of Congress, whose beginnings trace back to Benjamin Franklin, is the largest library in the world and the most important. Despot Trump, as he has made clear, doesn’t like libraries because they are repositories of facts. And he also doesn’t want government agencies, whether the Chief of Naval Operations or the Lib … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … and I realized only now that that’s the guy behind godbolt.org? I never assumed “godbolt” to be a human name, more like some kind of wordplay. 🥴

One thing about my design here is that it would no longer incorporate “regex”-based rules like OWASP, mostly because my experience thus far has taught me that these rules are kind of overly sensitive, produce false positives and I’m not sure they are really very effective. For example, why is the point of performing SQL injection detection at the Edge using a WAF if you already handle SQL properly in the first place? (seriously does anyone still construct SQL queries by hand with effectively printf?!)

Also spent the morning continuing to think about a new design for EdgeGuard’s WAF. I’m basically going to build an entirely new pluggable WAF that will be designed to only consider Rate Limiting, IP/ASN-based filtering, JavaScript challenge handling, Basic behavioral analysis and Anomaly detection.

The only part of this design I’m not 100% sure about is the Javascript-based challenge handling? 🤔 I’m also considering making this into a “proof of work” requirement too, but I also don’t want to falsely block folks that a) turn Javascript™ off or b) Use a browser like links, elinks or lynx for example.

Hmmm 🧐

How Edit Photos Dark Mode on iPhone & iPad
As an iPhone or iPad user you’re undoubtedly familiar with using Dark Mode and Light mode for the interface, and you might even have automatic dark/light mode enabled on your device. But some users may like to use light mode in some apps, and dark mode in other apps, like when editing in the Photos … Read More ⌘ Read more

@55147 possibly. I was just wondering what the consumer-to-producer ratio looked like in gopherspace, or at least in this chat.

GNOME Foundation announces new executive director
The GNOME Foundation has announced
the hiring of Steven Deobald as its new executive director.

Steven has been a GNOME user since 2002 and has been involved in
numerous free software initiatives throughout his career. His
professional background spans technical leadership, cooperative
business development, and nonprofit work. Having worked with projects
like [XTDB](htt … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump Nominates Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro for Interim DC US Attorney
Sonam Sheth and Gabe Whisnant,  Evening Political Editor  -  Newsweek

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump has appointed another MAGAt fanatic and Fox host, Jeanine Pirro, as interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Like Hegseth, Patel, and others, the United States government agencies are now headed by Fox hosts because Trump doesn’t select his administration leadership … ⌘ Read more

How Edit Photos Dark Mode on iPhone & iPad
As an iPhone or iPad user you’re undoubtedly familiar with using Dark Mode and Light mode for the interface, and you might even have automatic dark/light mode enabled on your device. But some users may like to use light mode in some apps, and dark mode in other apps, like when editing in the Photos … Read More ⌘ Read more

** Collaboration is a scary word **
I like programming partially because it’s a practice I can, with appropriate to unhealthy application of effort, usually accomplish something at least proximal to my intention.

This isn’t true for visual art, nor music. Lately I’ve been feeling like the little games and toys I wanna make are sorta hampered by my total inability to make stuff I find aesthetically appealing…so…I’ve been thinking about collaboration. Which is a scary word because, you know, other people and all, but I figured I’d … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oooh that’s a good point! woodworking is scary and i don’t have much room for it but i do have SOME room in mind that could work for it… i feel like i’d just hurt myself in the process though LOL

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz That’s cool. Also, looks like a fun woodworking project in case you exceed the hundred slots. :-) The plywood lap joints might be quite repetetive, but gang cutting them with a story stick or some other fixture shouldn’t be too terrible.

What do you think I just learned about in this awesome Computerphile video with Matt Godbolt called “Subroutines in Low Level Code”? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1su3lAh-k4o

Here’s the plot twist, the phrase “till the cows come home”. Hahaha, I never heard this before, but I love it! It’s always interesting to me to hear English sayings. Sometimes we have the same in German, sometimes – like in this case – entirely different ones. It’s fascinating that even though one hasn’t come across proverbs, it’s typically still clear from the context what’s meant.

Yep, some unexpected language stuff. ;-)

Investing in comfort
Getting ready for Scotland involved buying some gear – next to the required things also a headlamp, a powerbank and Merino clothes. On the surface, maybe a bit much. Did I need a new powerbank? Technically no, but the right size makes a difference for tracking, navigating, and tent-charging on a trip like this. Merino? It means less sweat, less odor, more comfort over days of exploring. ⌘ Read more

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Hah 😅 Just like how we ‘all just talk about Twtxt right? 🤣

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Look into using something like pyrra for creating and managing SLO(s) with Prometheus 👌 I use this myself actually, plus I also use HetrixTools for external monitoring with SLO-style measures via status.mills.io 👌

i started a little thing on my dreamwidth and called it a flash prompt box. basically it’s a limited time thing where people can prompt me for stuff i’m offering, like short fanfiction, photoshop-edited user icons, music recs, and a bit more! i’m having sooo much fun with it so far it’s been a blast just making stuff for friends :)

also more friends are making their own posts with the same concept which is SO cool to see

10 Strange Things Science Has Taught Us About Our Preferences
The things that people like and dislike lie at the heart of their personality, shaping everything from their choice of friends to the lifestyle they live and their career. Yet preferences are also shrouded in mystery. Tracking down the influences that lead to people’s tastes and opinions is a challenging task fraught with uncertainty. Still, […]

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How to Increase VRAM Allocation on Apple Silicon Mac
Advanced Mac users may wish to manually increase the VRAM allocation on their Apple Silicon Mac for performance reasons when engaging in graphics intensive tasks like running LLMs locally, AI models, or any graphics heavy applications, whether for gaming or video editing. This is possible because Apple Silicon chips offer unified memory architecture, meaning the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/07/how-to-increase-vram- … ⌘ Read more

Tiliqua Brings FPGA-Based Audio and Visual Tools to Eurorack Systems
Tiliqua is a modular FPGA-based platform for Eurorack systems, launched on CrowdSupply. It supports real-time audio and video synthesis using open-source tools like Amaranth HDL, offering more flexibility and performance than typical microcontroller-based modules. The platform uses the “SoldierCrab” FPGA System-on-Module, which integrates an LFE5U-25F FPGA, PSRAM, a USB PHY, and SPI flash. This module […] ⌘ Read more

grafana is confusing af i deployed it again for my job (that is so wild to say…) and i’m like HOW DO THESE ALERTS WORK

Technology Where I Belong
When I first started working with technology, it felt like a promise. A promise that we could change the world for the better. As a young developer building Java applications, I was fascinated by how code… ⌘ Read more

‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus
Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, PhD,  Historian and Contrbuting Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The Republican fascist coup does not like facts. Therefore, they don’t like universities, they don’t like museums, they don’t like public education, they don’t like science, they don’t like a fact-based media, and they actively weaponize and spread misinformation. Here is the lates … ⌘ Read more

The 10 Toughest English Language Words to Pronounce
Nobody ever said English was an easy language to learn. In fact, many people will tell you that it’s one of the hardest languages to learn! Even for those who are native speakers like us, we seem to get surprised nearly every day by the way a word is pronounced or used or whether it […]

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz if I haven’t said it before, please allow me to say it now: I kinda like your attitude. Heck, I love it!

my bf who “doesn’t like cats” when I’m not home 😂 ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org it’s thankfully sorted out now but i literally turned on my PC and was like WTF IS GOING ON

@bender@twtxt.net kinda sorta, it’s in a docker container so not a VM but like VM-ish?

@bender@twtxt.net I think this would be a good idea as @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @andros@twtxt.andros.dev have done ✅ I may even join the experiments if I have any spare time to hack a custom yrand branch and run it up on say something like a yarnexp.mills.io or something 🤔

A new AUTOSEL release
AUTOSEL is a tool that is used to find kernel patches that should be
considered for backporting into the stable releases. Sasha Levin has announced a new and completely
rewritten version of AUTOSEL for those who would like to play with it.

Unlike the previous version that relied on word statistics and
older neural network techniques, AUTOSEL leverages modern large
language models and embedding technology to provide significantly
more accurate recommen … ⌘ Read more

But Yarn does not like it: https://twtxt.net/twt/yoatzwa

10 Things Humans Are Weirdly Bad at Predicting
Humans like to think of themselves as rational, forward-looking creatures. But when it comes to forecasting the future—even our own—we’re often laughably wrong. From personal choices to global crises, our brains are wired with cognitive shortcuts and emotional biases that lead us to consistently underestimate, overestimate, or misjudge reality. Sometimes, the error is small. Other […]

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Just like Friday’s right? 😅

@ About the URL, since it no longer used for hashing there might be no need to change it. I agree that we keep all the parts that already are out there for the most parts. Instead of a contact field you could also just use links like: link = Email mailto:user@example.dk or link = Signal https://signal.me/sthF4raI5Lg_ybpJwB1sOptDla4oU7p[...]

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Yes, there are interesting things that can be incorporated to see how they work.
The issue of allowing the use of Z for UTC is interesting. I think I should add a brief explanation.
The url issue is for a debate :D . Maybe an issue could be opened. My opinion is that it is necessary to leave it as it is right now because otherwise the thread system, or replies, may have problems (404s). It’s all a matter of discussion.
I like your idea of contact. I will add it.
Thanks to you for your feedback!!!

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Thanks for consolidating a lot of good ideas. Especially how you have deiced to just extend the mention syntax for location-based treads. This might even be backward compatible with older (pre-yarn) clients.
What about using Z for UTC +00:00- is that allowed in your specs?
Regarding url = I would suggest to only allow one and the maybe add url_old = or url_alt = !?
I’m still not a fan of a DM feature, even thou it helps that i have now been split out into a separate feed file. Instead if would suggest a contact = field for where people can put an email or other id/link for an established chat protocol like signal or matrix.

When you’ve found a stray kitten like this,can you not adopt him? ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Wait, texudus is like compatible fork of twtxt?

Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc5
Linus has released 6.15-rc5 for testing.
“So it all feels like things are just continuing to go well this
release. Let’s hope I didn’t jinx it by saying so.” ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz No no, it’s just barks at the slightest thing going on around the neighborhod 😃 like it just goes a bit nuts often 🤣 it was a rescue dog, two years old, and it wasn’t treated very well, a street dog. I think it’s just basically afraid of every human in the world 😢

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev

You need break the routine.

I haven’t really done that lately. 🤔 Maybe have another go at Rust (given its increasing importance in the Linux kernel)? Or Elixir, yes, I only had some very, very brief contact with it. 🤔

I just came across an old forum posting of mine about Prolog. That brought up some memories. Prolog is pretty alien, but I do miss stuff like that because it’s so different.

Just thinking out loud here. 😅

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev @eapl.me@eapl.me Still lots of bugs in my client. 🥴 I’ll try to fix it next week.

And yes, using the same timestamp twice will very likely break threads.

Trump Posts AI-Generated Image of Himself as Pope, Days After Joking He’d Like to Be the Next Pontiff
Rebecca Schneid,  Reporter  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: When I tell you that Americans have voted into the office of the President an egomaniacal psychopath, here is some proof of that statement. Can you imagine John Kennedy, George Bush 41, Barack Obama or, in fact, any other president doing something like this? Neither can I … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net To clarify, from my observations on how the system behaves, it feels like that. This doesn’t make it any better, I know. Sorry mate! I never claimed that testing is always easy, but in my experience it sure does help cutting down regressions. But to each their own, no worries. The diagram is all Greek to me. Anyway.

@bender@twtxt.net True.

slowing working away at my latest code project: learning PHP by recreating the 2000s fandom mainstay known as a fanlisting! it’s been super fun i added a dynamic nav bar and other modifications in the latest commit

fanlistings even to this day rely on old PHP scripts dating back to the early 2000s that need whole ass mySQL or postgres DBs and are incredibly insecure. you can look at them here they’re like super jank lol it’s sad that new fanlistings have to use them because there’s no other options….

I am sure it wasn’t your intention (not even remotely), but it sounds a lot like corporate bullshit. Hahahaha! Are you sure you haven’t been institutionalised?

@prologic@twtxt.net ODD, lol. I don’t wanna be rude, but this sounds more like Code And Fix.

We just split about one and a half cubic meters of fire wood at our scout yard. And even more chainsaw action to cut the logs in smaller chunks. I’m bloody tired now. But it was really great fun swinging the axe. I will sleep like a rock tonight.

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i’m slowly learning nixOS as part of my new fujocoded contract thing and as scary as it is it’s highkey kinda fun. like what do you mean i configure the bootloader with one god damn line in a file that’s EPIC

It is Going to Be More Complicated to Remain a Constitutional Federal Republic Than Many Seem to Realize
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: Last Friday ASO Communications and Research Collaborative published a polling memo of data collected by Data for Progress just days before – 18-21 April. It showed that just as the country approaches Donald Trump’s 100th day in office 52% of likely voters acros … ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I set up a test feed here:

https://www.uninformativ.de/texudus.txt

I made some preliminary adjustments to my client so that it can work with the different threading model. (And I totally get the concerns, this can be quite a bit of work. Especially in a large code base like Yarn.)

10 Critical Bottlenecks in Modern Civilization Posing a Major Risk
We like to think modern civilization is robust, backed by endless redundancy. But under the surface, there are critical choke points—places, systems, or single providers where failure would ripple through the entire world. These are the brittle backbones of global stability, and most people have no idea how many eggs we’ve put in very few […]

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @quark@ferengi.one In 2014 one person created protocol ii. Later it forked in IDEC. Why i said this? Because it’s simple “federated” forum-like protocol where from your station fetch another every 5-10 minutes. Stations has topic-based channels like idec.talks, linux.16, haiku.os, zx.spectrum. In short it’s FIDO but.. more modern? Documentation: https://github.com/idec-net/new-docs (mostly Russian, but you can use translator, also protocol already translated to english)

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt nah, I’m fine without a web ui. But I like what the dev did with the 2009 facebook/VK look, it kind of feels notsalgic. (the tld is a .me not a .com if anyone else wants to take a look atit)

@bender@twtxt.net Mainly the bsd.cafe ones. I like how the minimalist single column profiles look. Image embeds are full width and reading through threads feels nice (as in it doesn’t feel like pealing layers upon layers of a fresh onion).

So, the “AI” bots have reached my website. Looks like they’re just slowly crawling everything at the moment – no DDoS-like attack yet. I wonder if that has something to do with my website being 100% static HTML. There are no GET parameters they can tweak and, at the end of the day, there’s not that much data on my server anyway … And maybe they have no idea what stagit is, so it doesn’t trigger “standard behavior”, like “this is a Gitea instance, let’s crawl this like crazy!”?

The temperatures are getting pleasant now. All the freshly cut grass really smells lovely. Looks like farmers are securing their harvests before the rain hits tomorrow in the arvo.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de mine too, mine too! Imagine my frustration being married to someone who prefers the heat. It’s like a polar bear married to a desert rat. LOL.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “topic-based forums/groups”, you mean what USENET used to be, and the “niche” that Reddit is fulfilling these days? :-D I get it, I agree. I think I find twtxt more fulfilling than anything else because of its small size. I feel like I truly know everyone (even if that might not be true), and find myself “at home”. The bigger the place, the shyest I become, the less enticing it is.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this is so real… i think we need to bring back topic focused groups but like with a little off topic side of things just in case people wanna go off topic. so the option’s there but the intent is the topic! microblogging isn’t best for this yeah. i think this is part of why IRC still goes strong for many tech people

@bender@twtxt.net It’s like having good manners at the table. Use forks and knives. ;-)

Confession:

I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.

The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).

I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.

Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.

On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️