spring allergies suck

It’s spring break 🌺 ^^

great day today ^_^ how was you guys’ days?

@lyse That’s crazy! If you don’t mind me asking, what browser are you using when you see this?

@bender Glad to hear it, I’ve neglected a Safari test thus far.

Thank you both for checking.

I made the classic mistake. I thought I was smarter than this. I could try to scrub this from my repository, but that seems like more trouble than it’s worth, so here it is for your enjoyment: https://fossil.falsifian.org/misc/info/f6fa59e27781ce75f4cbaf700997ffffab41ad9d2e97b4aa3e360400ead3532c

@lyse Oops, I guess the new text is a bit obscure. If you follow the link, the text is a bit more explicit, but you still need to know what a lexical scope is. Anyway, this is part of Perl moving very carefully toward being UTF-8 by default while also not breaking code written in the 90s. If you name a recent version like “use v5.42;” then Perl stops letting you use non-ASCII characters unless you also say “use utf8;”. The “lexically” part basically means that strictness continues until the next “}”, or the end of the program. That lets you fix up old code one block at a time, if you aren’t ready to apply the new strictness to a whole file at once.

My first pull request to Perl has been merged! https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commit/2aea97bf3f5c2ea62cf5e701858694b7378ed58c

For the first time in years, I managed to get out and throw a round of disc golf. Had a good time playing Vietnam Veterans Park in Kannapolis, throwing +10 over 9 holes, with my only par being thanks to a 40’ “putt” with my MRV. And the weather was perfect.

I hope to play another round soon.

and a reply to it, just for giggles. I miss the days all we talked about was twtxt. Now we have vans, and talk next to nothing. ;-) :-P LOL.

First twtxt after upgrading (as I don’t want a reply to count as one).

@movq woot! 🥳

git pull
warning: redirecting to https://movq.de/git/jenny.git/
Fetching objects: 38, done.
From https://uninformativ.de/git/jenny
   ac51ce5..f44424c  main       -> origin/main
 * [new tag]         v26.03     -> v26.03
Updating ac51ce5..f44424c
Fast-forward
 CHANGES |  4 ++++
 LICENSE |  2 +-
 README  | 10 +++++-----
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@lyse Thanks for the heads-up.

It lead me to publish an updated version of twtxt-lib (v0.10.0) which supports the v2 hashing algorithm: https://twtxt-lib.itsericwoodward.com/

@benderso..here is where the roadmap is at right now lol. the prototype itself is solid i could just be doing everything wayyy better

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I like how niche ts site is

@bender @thecanine hoping for this to backfire and have shizuku or something like it to become way more popular, as it utilizes adb which is excluded from this “advanced workflow”

women>>>>>>

Stop apologising for who you are, just let it be everyone else’s problem

today’s mood❣

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I’m happy to report that, earlier today, I published an early version of express-twtkpr: an ExpressJS library that enables hosting (and directly posting to) a twtxt.txt file. It works great (otherwise you wouldn’t be able to read this), but it’s still in alpha and lacks documentation, examples, tests, installation flexibility, or polish, so please use it at your own risk. Enjoy! https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-twtkpr

When are the RAM/SSD prices going down?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HDVmd4RXMAEFcrO.jpg

I need a better twtxt client. The one I use (Timeline) has quite a few flaws and rough edges. What are some decent clients out there? Should I stick to a web client or is a locally ran client a better thing? What are the specs needed for yarnd? Can I install yarnd and keep my current twtxt file?

@lyse these pics are from late 2023.

I was taking a shower – we use electric showers in Brazil, and in many other countries in South America. Despite the global widespread GASP whenever this is mentioned, it’s a safe thing… if your electrical installation is decent. As this very thread (and the picture) can attest, mine… kinda isn’t.

Yet, I didn’t die from the shower itself, but I nearly died that day: I was showering, power went out only in the bathroom, and an intense burnt smell and thick smoke were in the corridors of the building (I live in a lower floor). I was half-desperate and half-“gotta act NOW”, grabbed the nearest fire extinguisher and dealt with the actual fire that had started into the FUCKING WOODEN ELECTRIC BREAKER PANEL (remember my “sad joke of a infrastructure” comment).

It was not until later that I learned half of the fire extinguishers in the bulding are WATER based and I didn’t die by mere chance. Yay.

@lyse Thanks for letting me know. HTML checkers seem happy now. I’m not sure what to do about the images not loading. The photos have three sizes (thumbnail, photo page, and original if you click the img tag on the photo page); can you at least see the smaller two sizes? Maybe I will do some experimental fetches and/or start measuring things on my web server.

@lyse still not as bad as the time a fire started in the breaker panel for my building and I had to personally put it out myself with a fire extinguisher.

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Yeah. It’s a peculiar situation.

On one hand, I can count on my fingers (ha! fingers… one hand…) how many power losses we have in a year on the last few decades.

On the other hand, I live in an old part of the town and the infrastructure is equal parts a joke in bad taste, an archeological defiance, and an ugly mistake that needs to be killed with fire. (On second thought, maybe not the last part).

This month we started having power failures only on some apartments, which make no sense at all. When we call the power company, they always promise to send someone to check on it, but the power comes back in one or two hours.

The first time it happened, I suspect it damaged my PC’s mainboard and / or GPU, who are both showing random, subtly erratic behaviors.

My twtxt instance is under a de-facto attack. Or, at this point, I can’t even differentiate an attack from the other in the constant barrage or malicious requests.

There were so many bots hammering it, in only 3 days, they consumed the ironically significant amount of 666 MB — I kid you not! In the last 24 hours, there were 59,673 hits on this endpoint alone.

I had to put my twtxt web interface behind a password-protected BasicAuth directive. As I’m the only one using it, it’s fine.

Bots, scrappers and Large Laggy Manglers are poisoning the open web.

@rdlmda I would like to see that. 😘

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Third power failure in two weeks. Every time a different apartment loses power at the same time as mine. I hope the power company is able to find the cause.

@prologic it does! it wont let me do it like that tho

“Yes… Look at everyone @prologic is following! Next, look at everyone each one of them is following… Next… Hmm… Build a graph of follows and mentions, it’ll be so FUN and not at all time-consuming”

– My evil ADHD brain

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Hello twtxt! I still exist. I have a baby now and put some pictures at https://photos.falsifian.org/ . Album HTML loosely inspried by @lyse

today’s mood Ghost.Mp3

@arne
✅ WebRTC-Sitzung
✅ WebBluetooth
✅ micro:bit-Code für Bluetooth-Steuerung

Jetzt kommt mein Angstgegner: Die Elektronik. 😱

🔗 Trying to add ActivityPub support to my site! I‘ll be located at @brennan if I’m successful.

Am I talking to the void?

Despite the driving force behind me being here lying in the curiosity and challenge of “let’s check out this new thing and see what it takes to bring get it working”, I’d like to know if there are other people reading me. Or if it’s just like on my gopher site, where around 96% of the visits are from bots.

I mean, it’s still fun to tinker with tech tools for the mere sake of it, but at times I can’t help but feel like Prometheus and Sisyphus at the same time.

Not that I’d stop. Just like my “self-sufficient” sense of humor (read this with a good hint of self-deprecation and irony), most of my electronic exploratory endeavors end up being more about the process than the result.

Or, in other words: I was so focused on building this vessel that I never stopped to think where I want to go!

Six of my last eight posts were about twtxt itself. As much as it’s understandable between all the excitement and confusion with finding out and using a new technology, I really don’t want this feed to become something like this:

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@rdlmda Yeah, but I think the registries are very slow and unhandy. I just search for “twtxt” in my favorite search engine. From time to time there are new feeds to follow.

Just found out there’s something called “twtxt registries”. There are at least two of them online and it… aggregates twtxts on a semi-centralized consumable API?

Ich habe mir eine Paar micro:bit beschafft und werde in der nächsten Zeit versuchen ein Modellauto per Bluetooth über eine Internetverbindung fern zu steuern. #SOFA-Club

@prologic OMG, the yarn.social creator himself replied, what an honor!

@bender Oh, look! There are other humans on this place! (looks at avatar no offense intended, sir) ;P

Alright. I have a minimal working instance of a twtxt feed. Now, what’s the first thing we do? Exactly, FOLLOW EVERYONE!

🎭 Me when I realize I‘ve been slacking on the amount of windmills I’ve been tilting recently.

@prologic I can calculate a hash by hand… Or I can cheat and copy the hash when previewing my own feed at https://twtxt.net ;P

This was posted using Søren Peter’s Timeline.

@lyse Pretty! … Also, please tell me I’m not the only one seeing Patrick (from Sponge Bob) in 01.jpg and The eye of Horus (pyramid) in 02.jpg xD

@kiwu Sorry, I have two functional brain cells left in my brain, and I’m not sure if you’re asking What am I putting in it, as in a) when making some? Or as in b) when consuming/serving it?

a) 1L milk (0.5L cold + 0.5L warm @ ~45 °C), a bit of store bought yogourt for the bacteria, sugar and vanilla extract.
b) Most of the time, as is. But I’ve tried once: adding in a couple of diced strawberries that have been sitting in granulated sugar for a couple of minutes, until they’d released enough syrup, and I think I might’ve caught a new addiction on top of the original one.

What do you put in yours?

only 11 more days…\u2028

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🏖️ My favourite part of the Chinook winds is how much they remind me of windy Manitoba beaches.

ok i fixed it