@mckinley@twtxt.net Oh well in that case, I’d redesign the IRC protocol to be more like a combination of what Signal is today but with SMTP like capabilities. A bit like what we’ve been trying to do with Salty IM – So-called “federated” instant messaging, with group support and fully e2e encrypted.

@prologic@twtxt.net Any of the above

I wonder if I can turn this into a multi-protocol browser 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Damn no native macOS builds 😢

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah, there is no guarantee with any of these things, it can all be faked or ignored. 🫤 I’m still going to do it in the hopes that some of those bots respect it.

Wait a minute! Nyxt browser can surf gopher, gemini aaaaaand http!? 😲

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I have this one as per some article I read some time ago… But just like the robots.txt I don’t think you have any grantee that it would be honored, you might even have a better chance hunting for and blocking user-agents.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I just got bitten by this again: I would make passive mode the default mode of FTP. 🥴

Some clunking machine at the coffeeshop is in perfect sync with the pop song playing on the sound system.

I spent some more time with StarOffice 3.1 and it is indeed a bit clunky (of course it is, it’s from 1996). For example, a table of contents does not update automatically – you have to delete it and re-insert it. Sometimes it has graphical glitches. Font rendering isn’t too great.

And yet, I wish we would use this instead of $the_other_thing at work. It’s much faster (on my Pentium 133!) and more featureful. 🫤 (Or, you know, StarOffice’s modern descendant: LibreOffice.)

Okay, GPS performance has degraded a lot over the last few days.

• Time to first fix is a couple of minutes now, instead of 5-30 seconds.
  
• Accuracy is reduced greatly, probably because the phone can one lock on to about 6-12 satellites, this used to be around 30 satellites.
  

In theory and under good conditions, you need 4 satellites to get a fix. But in reality, there are rarely “good conditions”, there are always buildings, hills, or trees nearby, so you need as many satellites as you can possibly get.

It’s not completely useless (yet), but it’s not great. I think I’m gonna lift some firewall restrictions. 🫤

@prologic@twtxt.net Ahhh, I right, now I remember. That ai.txt boils down to this, I guess:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Found it!

ai.txt: A new way for websites to set permissions for AI

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Only found 3 results for “robotst.xt” and OpenAI 😢 I seem to recall an effort (I cannot find) to build a standard for AI Crawlers similar to robots.txt

@mckinley@twtxt.net Define “fundamental internet protocol”? Do you mean fundamental things that make the Internet work like IP, TCP, DNS, various routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, etc? Or things more like application protocols like IRC, HTTP, etc?

… or maybe I should do this based on allowlisting rather than blocklisting. 🤔 Only allow a couple of bots that I think are fine …

Anyone got a link to a robots.txt that “blocks” all the “AI” stuff?

#QOTD : If you could redesign a fundamental internet protocol from scratch, which one would you choose and how would you improve it?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com LOL which I block on purpose 🤣

I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990’ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. 🥰 As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT – and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.

StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that I’m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.

All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think I’m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. 🧓

https://movq.de/v/eebbe648a5/

What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your document’s structure using drag-and-drop. Here’s a demo (Window 2000):

https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4

I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. 😭

@prx@si3t.ch there is this ImageGoNord thing I’d found reading an Eww Bar article a couple of months ago… It lets you convert a wallpaper/image to conform to a color pallet, hope you fine it useful.

@prologic@twtxt.net Wait! That’s actually a Mastodon(.)social one! 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net LOL fare enough! I’ll keep that in mind fir future twts … I hope invidious instances are ok 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅

Sorry not sorry ranger…

SuperFile a Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager written in #go.