And another decentralized social network: https://github.com/pfrazee/ctzn Probably not a direct “competitor” to twtxt, though, because it appears to use much more complex protocols/technologies.

(#huaer3q) Oh, no, there was one game. The DOS version of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsSEjcpf0RQ I remember it!

(#huaer3q) Almost done. No games. Mostly driver disks or software packages like “Corel Draw”. Nothing I can share legally. 🙁

@adi (#jlar35q) Nice tool! I’ll start using that now. 😊 (Yeah, the haskell stuff is annoying, but as long as my distro has packages for it … 🤷)

@codebalion@twtxt.prismdragon.net (#gnuvteq) Looks good! 🎉 (And I think it just exposed a bug in my client. Yay.)

@codebalion@twtxt.prismdragon.net Hey, I just noticed broken Emoji in your feed. Probably because your web servers responds with Content-Type: text/plain, so it doesn’t specify a charset and defaults to latin1. 🥴 (I had the same issue at first, too …)

(#huaer3q) Also, the lack of libraries is worth noting. I’ve come across one program that uses some UI library, but everything else appears to be self-contained. That’s good and bad. For example, there was no such thing as sqlite yet, so I’m seeing a lot of custom line-based file formats: “3 bytes for an ID, 10 bytes for a name, 40 bytes for a description, …” The code then literally reads 40 bytes to get the description, meaning there had to be space padding in the data file. 😱

(#huaer3q) There is lots of old BASIC programs … Often a total mess, by today’s standards. Line numbers everywhere and GOTO 950. Oh my goodness.

(#qojxy3q) Good luck! 😲 I tried archery once, harder than it looks. The instructor couldn’t really explain “how to aim”, though. 🤔 Maybe he was just bad at it, I don’t know – we beginners hit almost as good as he did. 🤣

@prologic (#sftzhla) Huh, crazy. I can’t remember having to deal with broken floppy drives a lot. 🤔 Maybe once or twice, but it wasn’t a major thing for me/us. (I once lost a lot of data due to a broken hard drive, though.)

I have to admit, I wasn’t really aware that the head of a floppy disk drive makes physical contact to the disk. 🤨 I always assumed there’s a little air gap, like in hard drives … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWKo_dMUw7M (he mentions it briefly)

(#xudqm2a) Ah, that also explains a couple more broken hashes. 🥴

Probably the best mix of all times … 😍 // Sima Deep - Make Me Flow // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvbe1bBsPlE #NowPlaying

@anth@a.9srv.net (#mxlhmsq) Ah, are you using something BSD-ish? SIGINFO is not as common on GNU … Sadly. Actually, I even vaguely remember SIGINFO being “not a thing” on GNU, because we tried to use it in BundleWrap, but had to resort to using SIGQUIT instead for portability … Not sure anymore. 🤔

@adi (#jlar35q) Yeah, oof, don’t remind me … I don’t expect to get back to the office in 2021. 😑 Maybe 2022. Vaccination is going so slow in Germany …

Corona isolation is getting to me now. Took almost a year (yay, introverts unite), but I’m really exhausted now. Same stuff every day, no human beings around, no new human beings to meet. Ugh. #RandomComplaint

@tfurrows@tfurrows.com (#zqihnra) Or are you talking about the “metadata” / “preamble” at the top of twtxt files? That hasn’t been formalized, as far as I’m aware. This is what Yarn.social does, I do the same: https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/pull/392/files#diff-307ace82bbf75c9c596cfc5c978b7fe4c621f5b13bd70f87e89f7d5f20cec734R18-R35

@tfurrows@tfurrows.com (#zqihnra) 140 characters is very much irrelevant. As for “the extra stuff”, that all comes from https://dev.twtxt.net/ – most importantly the “Twt Subject Extension” and “Machine-Parsable Conversation Grouping”

@adi (#jlla3ja) For what? People or registries? 😀

(#huaer3q) Haven’t found much of public interest yet, but a bunch of floppies with software that my grandfather wrote in the 1990ies. 😲 Also these lovely little listings: https://movq.de/v/e4eed0225e/ Zoom in, they were printed on a dot matrix printer. 🥰

(#jlla3ja) Probably that: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html I don’t really know how to find those registries. 🤔 Finding people to follow is always a bit hard, even on Mastodon or other social networks. (Let alone real life. 🤣)

(#gylns4a) Sometimes I’m not sure if they are serious or not. 🤔 They tend to have a crazy humor. The project does sound interesting, with privsep and all. (I love pledge and unveil and wish we had those on Linux.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#i5jh2yq) Life on the countryside seems nice … if it wasn’t for all the bugs and spiders and stuff. 🕷 I forgot, what were those things called in 10.jpg?

@prologic (#a4kawrq) Ouch! You’re no longer working from home? Oh, wow, I just saw the infection rates in Australia, basically zero … 🤯

@prologic (#huaer3q) Yeah, from when I was a kid and stuff like that. Some kind of “family heirloom”. 🥴 Fun fact, we might be looking at a lot of money: One new floppy sells for about 4 EUR in Germany these days. Granted, lots of these will already be broken, but still …

Today’s task: Sifting through this to see if there’s anything “of value” in there: https://movq.de/v/b92e9e60db/f.png

@adi (#gylns4a) Reminds me a bit of RCS? 🤔 I’m curious to see what you come up with!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#gylns4a) The “used it for some time” part is probably the key ingredient. 🤔 However, I can’t really imagine that the OpenBSD gals/guys didn’t have a lot of contact with Git by now. I still suspect there’s something special about CVS that they really value. 🤔 (Or maybe it’s just this: They probably would have to reimplement or at least audit Git in order to get it into their base system, which would be a hell lot of work.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#gylns4a) … or take the OpenBSD project, they still use CVS. When asked, they say that it just works well for them and there’s not really a reason to change. That’s super hard for me to imagine. I’d love to see their daily workflow some day – how do they work, how do they think?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#wgc3afq) Fawns?! Is that a farm or are they wild?

(#n4lo35q) @rcrsch@rxyz.rocks Aloha 👋

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#gylns4a) Lol, the mould. 😁 Yeah, no idea why anyone would want to start using SF now. Those times are over, really.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#4u3aeva) But but but … I don’t have a workshop. 🥴 It worked out well, though, as I was super clever and tried with water first to see if it leaks (pats on back).

New software is being written for CDE: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/mailman/message/37226021/

@hackew-news-newest@feeds.twtxt.net (#oacok3q) That’s super misleading. It implies “facebook.com” previously had access to the cookies of, say, “google.com”, which it clearly didn’t. Also, this is scary: “… when Total Cookie Protection detects that you intend to use a provider …” They try to detect my intentions? That’s going to work out just great. 🙃

Thought this was a super quiet day on twtxt – only to find out that my cron job to fetch the feeds didn’t run. 🤦

Got a little surprise gift, a “squeeze filler” fountain pen. (The person who gave it to me thought it was just a pen, didn’t really care.) As I do calligraphy from time to time, I happen to own a few flasks of ink! Now, let’s see how much of a mess we can make … https://www.penchalet.com/pen-how-to/how_to_fill_squeeze_converter_fountain_pen.html

@eldersnake (#7yhhuia) Oh, that’s great! Thanks! (I’m usually in the position of cleaning up other people’s mess because the team doesn’t exist anymore. Gah!)

(#uckc5ia) What keeps annoying me: The changes between releases are usually tiny, for example: https://www.uninformativ.de/git/katriawm/file/CHANGES.html Very few people use my stuff anyway. I might be overthinking this … 🙄

Why I love the Finnish language: No grammatical gender (easier to learn, less politics), written almost exactly as spoken, simpler alphabet (no diacritics, no ambiguities like in some languages, e.g. in German “f”, “v”, and “ph” can sound exactly the same), numbers follow a simple and consistent pattern, and finally, sounds awesome. Why I hate it: Kirjakieli (written Finnish) vs. Puhekieli (spoken), you basically have to learn two languages. 🤦

(#ivcdagq) Hat funktioniert! Einfach so! 🤯 🤯 🤯 Ich erkläre die Hölle hiermit offiziell für zugefroren. Kafka weint leise in der Ecke.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#uckc5ia) Date-based versions, such as xiate-20.07. 🤔 It’s rare, but some of my software does get packaged for some Linux distros … At the end of the day, most of my releases would probably end up bumping the major version number. 🙄 But with semver, it would at least be obvious for users that something might/will break.

@prologic (#zafd26q) Alrighty: https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/408

@prologic (#zafd26q) Hold on, this was a mistake on my part. Your pod really does follow melyanna via http, so the hash is correct. Only your @-mention used the https version, which had me confused. 🥴 >

Not using semver for my own projects was probably one of the worst decisions in the last decade. 🤦 I should change that …

(#kanuqhq) I’ll give Mojeek a try. 🤔 Have used DuckDuckGo for a couple of years now. Neither of them are actively transparent on how they make money. At least I couldn’t find anything in ~10 minutes. I remain sceptical (of both), but hey, you can’t be sure anyway with these things, and alternatives are good. 👍

@prologic (#zafd26q) Huh. twtxt.net computed the hash zafd26q for melyanna’s original twt. I get kjsxeka. The difference appears to be that my client used the URL https://tilde.club/~melyanna/twtxt.txt, while twtxt.net used just http://. That’s a) a bit of a problem if people provide their feed over multiple protocols (half-baked thought, maybe we should omit the scheme? 🤔), b) might be a bug because twtxt.net’s web interface shows https://. 😯

@melyanna@tilde.club (#zafd26q) Welcome back 🙃

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (#5nkf6gq) Thanks! I see, one of those “this is just for me” projects. 😄 How do you like urwid? Is it really better than curses? 🤔

btw @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org is your twtxt client publicly available somewhere? 🤔