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 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.

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.

“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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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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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?

@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!

@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.

Weird. My timestamps are all being shown (on https://twtxt.net and https://darch.dk/timeline) one hour ahead of what I expected. Am I manually writing my timestamps wrong? Are the clients interpreting something I’m not aware of? Let me write this one on the “Z” timezone to try to debug it.

Someone on #twtxt or #yarn.social on IRC told me to use a client that supports extensions and replies. Uhh… Client? I’m writing my microblogging by hand! (Hides in a very weird mix of pride and shame)

Hello world!