# Twtxt is an open, distributed microblogging platform that
# uses human-readable text files, common transport protocols,
# and free software.
#
# Learn more about twtxt at  https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
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# nick        = mckinley
# url         = https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt
# avatar      = https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/avatar
# description = A guy on the internet. https://mckinley.cc/
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2021-03-05T03:36:56Z	Hello, @<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> here. I hope it isn't confusing for me to maintain two feeds. I made this feed to more easily interact with the twt.social community, leaving the one on my website as a regular microblog.
2021-03-05T03:47:30Z	(#<kpifl7a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=kpifl7a>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Thank you. I rarely use my phone for things other than calls or text messages, but I'll give the app a try if I need to post from my phone.
2021-03-05T03:51:42Z	(#<yzslitq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=yzslitq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Thanks for clarifying. Either way, it's a very reasonable privacy policy. I was just wondering about the details. If you don't store the email addresses, is it just a hash that's stored? Check against it for recovery, send an email if it passes?
2021-03-05T04:05:42Z	(#<yzslitq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=yzslitq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I really like that. Email can't be known until it's needed.
2021-03-05T05:57:37Z	(#<gmlphva https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gmlphva>) Mkws is great the way it is, and `pp` is genius. The only reason why I don't use it for my own site is because I can't figure out how to escape the required characters in an elegant way before files are sent to `pp`. The best parts of mkws are the simplicity and the ability to tweak the script for your use case. Putting everything in one binary or adding a bunch of extra features like a web server would add unnecessary complication.
2021-03-05T06:20:02Z	(#<gmlphva https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gmlphva>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Double quotes and ampersands with a backslash for `sh`, probably other characters it uses to do special functions as well. I just can't get used to omitting quotes or using single quotes in HTML tags.
2021-03-05T06:40:41Z	(#<gmlphva https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gmlphva>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I believe so, and I can't for the life of me remember what problem I ran into.
2021-03-05T06:54:16Z	(#<gmlphva https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gmlphva>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Thank you, I appreciate it. If I remember correctly, the `printf` program can escape a string for shell input, but I had difficulty making it work elegantly with the contents of a multi-line file.
2021-03-05T21:49:17Z	(#<gmlphva https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gmlphva>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I'm trying it again with a clear head, and I'm making a little headway.
2021-03-07T08:23:02Z	(#<fw4vzga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fw4vzga>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Void and OpenBSD are pretty hardcore, as operating systems go. I'm surprised you can tolerate Windows.
2021-03-07T08:34:33Z	(#<fw4vzga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fw4vzga>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Ah, I see.
2021-03-08T19:47:21Z	(#<psf3g3q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=psf3g3q>) The suspense is killing me, was it successful?
2021-03-08T22:48:43Z	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> (#<xxrg4za https://twtxt.net/search?tag=xxrg4za>) Yeah, I don't know what to set it to. I don't know if I should go with the synthwave bagel I usually use, or something else.
2021-03-09T03:22:13Z	![](https://twtxt.net/media/sYao8Cbvt7TeYEL5bURhXn)
2021-03-09T18:13:49Z	(#<p52lajq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=p52lajq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> It's HN, but made to look like lobste.rs. It's not a slightly off mock-up made in GIMP, I spent much more time than I care to admit writing very messy, very hacky CSS.
2021-03-09T18:45:03Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> (#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) Very minimal progress has been made since my last twt about it. After working for hours and making glacial progress, I couldn't get titles to work, got frustrated, and left to go do something else. Haven't worked on it since that day. Now that I think of it, I couldn't take advantage of `pp` in the content of documents anyway because I'm escaping everything.
2021-03-09T18:52:58Z	(#<p52lajq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=p52lajq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> No, I like its normal styling a lot. I just did this for fun, and thought you gentlemen might enjoy it. Maybe I'll make Lobsters look like HN at some point. That would probably be a lot easier, I won't have to work in the confines of tables.
2021-03-09T19:05:45Z	(#<jatw6pq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jatw6pq>) @<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> Great job, and I like the look of the sidebar. It makes the whole thing look delightfully retro, and doesn't cost that much space on the side. I agree that it shouldn't be fixed while scrolling, though.
2021-03-09T19:09:13Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> If all the documents were in the root directory and I could get used to not using quotes, mkws would most certainly be my pick.
2021-03-09T19:32:13Z	(#<jatw6pq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jatw6pq>) @<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> If I have some time today, I can recreate your mock-ups in HTML and CSS. It always helps to scroll through it in the browser, see what it would really look like.
2021-03-09T19:37:45Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Huh, I tried going back to stock mkws while I was working on my own script, and it wouldn't generate pages in other directories. I didn't really poke through it and figure out why. Do you have to add the new directories manually in the script?
2021-03-09T19:53:51Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> As for `sed`ing files, that's what I'm already doing. At the moment, I just can't benefit from `pp` inside my content documents because I'm escaping everything. I agree it's not impossible, I'm sure I could make `sed` skip sections for `pp`, but the end result would be even more of a complicated mess of a shell script than the one I have now. I really don't want to deal with something like that when it's not that much of a chore, in the grand scheme of things, to maintain it manually.
2021-03-09T20:04:00Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I really appreciate your help but as I said in my blog post, I just need to make my own generator in a real programming language if I want it to be exactly right for my website. 
> Depends on what you understand by "mess" and "complicated"
It's 55 lines long and I'm having trouble understanding it as I read through it, less than a week after it was written.
2021-03-09T20:05:11Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt> Please excuse me, I don't know how formatting works on this thing. Second line of the quote is supposed to be my response.
2021-03-09T20:15:22Z	(#<jatw6pq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jatw6pq>) @<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> I'm sorry, I hope you didn't take offense to my reply. It wasn't a great choice of words. I didn't mean to imply anything, I just wanted to offer some help.
2021-03-09T20:17:49Z	(#<k3qmxgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=k3qmxgq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Thanks. Blank line under the quote, noted.
2021-03-10T21:35:25Z	(#<m3z7bsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=m3z7bsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Big fire, wiped out one datacenter, damaged another. https://www.ovh.ie/news/press/cpl1786.fire-our-strasbourg-site https://nitter.42l.fr/OVHcloud_UK
2021-03-11T00:03:33Z	(#<nad2fta https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nad2fta>) @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I'm really tired of Amazon's shenanigans surrounding books. All we can hope for is that enough frogs in the hot water reach the same conclusion.
2021-03-11T00:12:40Z	(#<hdguz3a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=hdguz3a>) @<xjix https://xj-ix.luxe/.well-known/twtxt/xjix.txt> If I read your meaning correctly, I'll have to say no. A web of trust is much more concrete, based on a single standard that changes, if at all, very mildly. 'Proof of Woke' is a standard that frequently makes wild shifts, which is why high-profile nodes are dropped from the swarm so frequently.
2021-03-12T00:28:31Z	(#<rv6jlca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rv6jlca>) If they don't plan on doing a bunch of invasive garbage to stop people from doing what they want with the computer part they own, then the whole thing looks like a tremendous blunder. The only problem is, while Nvidia's executives do have a certain deficiency of IQ points, I doubt this is the end. They will start adding invasive garbage, and we can expect the experience of GNU/Linux users with Nvidia cards to diminish even further as a result. I predict we'll be seeing mod chips for graphics cards within two generations if they keep this up.
2021-03-12T04:07:29Z	(#<rv6jlca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rv6jlca>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> It's been a while.
2021-03-12T04:12:34Z	(#<rv6jlca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rv6jlca>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> ![Linus Torvalds flipping off Nvidia](https://twtxt.net/media/k3far2he96YyiM96P5uqVm)

This was almost nine years ago
2021-03-12T04:14:05Z	(#<rv6jlca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rv6jlca>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> No gif support, noted.
2021-03-12T05:51:16Z	(#<rv6jlca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rv6jlca>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Ah, no worries man.
2021-03-12T19:43:23Z	@<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> (#<jatw6pq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jatw6pq>) Hey, looking good!
2021-03-12T20:07:23Z	(#<jatw6pq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jatw6pq>) @<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> I couldn't get around to it, I'm sorry.
2021-03-13T08:43:00Z	(#<hdguz3a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=hdguz3a>) @<xjix https://xj-ix.luxe/.well-known/twtxt/xjix.txt> Yes, that's an excellent way of putting it. :)
2021-03-17T04:28:48Z	(#<rj7u5na https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rj7u5na>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Oh man, you're one of the 10,000. You should check out http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ and https://bestmotherfucking.website/ There's also https://thebestmotherfucking.website/, but I personally disagree with that one.
2021-03-17T07:32:35Z	(#<rj7u5na https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rj7u5na>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>
![XKCD: Ten Thousand](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ten_thousand.png)
Admittedly, those websites aren't something *everyone* knows, but I am surprised you haven't seen them yet.
2021-03-18T17:00:43Z	(#<rj7u5na https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rj7u5na>) @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> I'm excited to see it, man.
2021-03-18T17:05:25Z	(#<rj7u5na https://twtxt.net/search?tag=rj7u5na>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt>
> But still, that gorgeous lock

https://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ has one too
2021-03-19T05:34:57Z	(#<nbqgtxq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nbqgtxq>) Could it be your browser's autofill? On my settings page, the 'change email' box has no content.
2021-03-20T05:28:59Z	(#<vfviyoa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=vfviyoa>) Behold, the smart watch of champions:
![Casio CA53W](https://twtxt.net/media/tMNNZxFSZQf8jh2KkwbqwT)
2021-03-21T09:11:48Z	(#<aepda6a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=aepda6a>) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> iPod classics hold up as great portable music players nowadays. You can run a [free OS](https://www.rockbox.org/) on them, and storage can go up to 2TB if you have the right model iPod, 4 512GB MicroSD cards, and an [iFlash Quad](https://www.iflash.xyz/store/iflash-quad/). I use a 5th gen iPod running Rockbox every day.
2021-03-21T23:10:13Z	(#<aepda6a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=aepda6a>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> For most iPods, a Rockbox install is just a couple of clicks on their installer program. It doesn't actually wipe the stock OS, though. You can still boot into iPod OS by turning on the hold switch when booting. iPods were much, much more open back then.
2021-03-31T02:00:42Z	Hey @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>, I think feeds are being removed from my following list. I've certainly followed more than seven people, because I click "follow" on almost everyone involved in conversations here. Users I am very sure that I have followed here include @<xjix https://xj-ix.luxe/.well-known/twtxt/xjix.txt> and my main feed on mckinley.cc which I just followed for the third time. I am fairly sure I've followed @<lazarus https://twtxt.net/user/lazarus/twtxt.txt> and @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> as well.
2021-03-31T02:57:36Z	(#<w7kpceq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=w7kpceq>) I followed several feeds about a half an hour ago, and they all appeared in my following list as they should. I've had to re-follow my feed on mckinley.cc at least one time in the past, but I haven't consciously noticed other users missing before today.
2021-03-31T06:15:55Z	(#<w7kpceq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=w7kpceq>) No need to apologize, I was just curious. Thank you very much for looking into it. I know you're a busy guy.
2021-04-06T07:29:35Z	(#<2lpzvhq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2lpzvhq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<slashdot https://feeds.twtxt.net/slashdot/twtxt.txt> As far as I can tell it's like buying art, but with a blockchain, non-free JavaScript, lower quality art, and you don't really get to own it.
2021-04-06T21:46:28Z	(#<2lpzvhq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2lpzvhq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> You are definitely not the only one. Here's someone who "sold" a [git commit](https://nitter.42l.fr/tjholowaychuk/status/1377163602776367104) for $127, because that isn't completely ridiculous.
2021-04-09T02:40:19Z	(#<7rhdpna https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7rhdpna>) @lobste_rs @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> I definitely need to give this a try. I've always found tmux a little clunky. Have you gentlemen seen [twin](https://github.com/cosmos72/twin)?
2021-04-09T10:29:50Z	(#<7rhdpna https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7rhdpna>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> @lobste_rs Here's a screenshot, not mine though. ![Screenshot of twin](https://twtxt.net/media/c76KEzrjNXnEFKrZkCMYV5)
[Non-compressed picture](https://i.imgur.com/DEdxNlD.png)
2021-04-12T03:18:57Z	(#<zlmprsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=zlmprsa>) I've identified a flaw in the public follow notification system...
2021-04-12T03:52:42Z	@<twtxt https://twtxt.net/user/twtxt/twtxt.txt> (#<vc6emha https://twtxt.net/search?tag=vc6emha>) Actually, I think the flaw is with the entire follow system. I wonder if a simple curl command could make another user on the pod appear to follow me.
2021-04-12T03:55:00Z	@<twtxt https://twtxt.net/user/twtxt/twtxt.txt> (#<yn3q25q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=yn3q25q>) This one was a slightly different request, I didn't think the first one worked but it did. I promise to stop screwing with your website now @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>
2021-04-13T20:47:30Z	@<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> (#<7kbwzra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7kbwzra>) Wow, $26,000 isn't as high as I thought a setup like that might cost. Of course, you have the skills to do almost everything yourself. That must have saved thousands.
2021-04-13T20:53:20Z	(#<2eing7q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2eing7q>) @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<lazarus https://twtxt.net/user/lazarus/twtxt.txt> RMS would definitely take issue to that, here's the GNU Project's take: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
2021-04-14T01:14:02Z	(#<2eing7q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2eing7q>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Conflating "open source" and "free software", as @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> said. I'm sorry, I wasn't clear.
2021-04-14T03:39:32Z	(#<yn3q25q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=yn3q25q>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<twtxt https://twtxt.net/user/twtxt/twtxt.txt> The regex for user agents is too permissive, I opened a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/416)
2021-04-17T00:11:13Z	@<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> (#<phozwdq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=phozwdq>) What useless domains do you guys on twtxt.net have?
2021-04-17T08:24:00Z	(#<phozwdq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=phozwdq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Most of them, huh?
2021-04-22T00:55:38Z	(#<7625tqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7625tqq>) @<xuu https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<antonio https://twtxt.net/user/antonio/twtxt.txt> Session is definitely not well polished. People I know have had issues with messages syncing between devices. Plus, the only client I've been able to find is the official Electron one. I would probably be using Signal if it didn't require the use of a tracking device (smartphone) or a phone number.
2021-04-22T18:05:26Z	Hey, welcome to twtxt.net @<qwe https://twtxt.net/user/qwe/twtxt.txt> and @<arbytr https://twtxt.net/user/arbytr/twtxt.txt>!
2021-04-23T07:27:01Z	(#<d5sj7ba https://twtxt.net/search?tag=d5sj7ba>) Well, I know John Deere is anti right to repair. Take the same people, add in nonfree JavaScript, unnecessary accounts on a web service because you own a tractor or something, and assorted forms of tracking and you get this.
Seriously, though, I really don't know how username enumeration like this leads to locations of users.
2021-04-24T03:10:09Z	(#<7625tqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7625tqq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<antonio https://twtxt.net/user/antonio/twtxt.txt> @xuu Personally, I don't trust smartphones not to give information to companies interested in that sort of thing. Most code they run is proprietary, so it's difficult to know. Monitoring network traffic only goes so far. Better to avoid the suspicious proprietary software altogether if you can, in my opinion.
2021-04-25T23:19:27Z	(#<jmr7rbq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jmr7rbq>) For life? That's a shame. I hope the maintainers reconsider that in a year or two. To my knowledge, @umn.edu email addresses didn't make up the majority of known malicious patches.
2021-04-26T01:11:53Z	(#<jmr7rbq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jmr7rbq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I agree it was unethical, but I don't think an entire university should be permanently banned from submitting patches because of the actions of a few people. If banning the whole school for a while is the only thing that would make them knock it off, then so be it. I just don't think it should be permanent.
2021-04-26T02:03:00Z	(#<jmr7rbq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=jmr7rbq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Definitely not the way to go. This kind of research could have been extremely useful for the Linux maintainers and the free software community as a whole, so long as the researchers got approval from some kind of lead maintainer to do this.
2021-04-27T00:59:07Z	(#<7625tqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7625tqq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<xuu https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt> @<antonio https://twtxt.net/user/antonio/twtxt.txt> I've also heard good things about Threema, but it's paid and, like Signal, requires the installation of the smartphone app (AGPL) to use. Unlike Signal, to my knowledge, you need access to and an internet connection on that phone when using their web client.
2021-04-27T01:06:04Z	@<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> (#<4kjvlfa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4kjvlfa>) Hey @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>, it looks like dollar signs are messing with a parser somewhere. Do you know what might cause this?
2021-04-27T07:57:24Z	(#<4kjvlfa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4kjvlfa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> The post I replied to is supposed to have dollar signs instead of what look to be escaped parentheses there. What's really weird is that the parentheses open and close as if they are surrounding something.
$test to see if surrounding text with dollar signs here does the same thing$
2021-04-27T07:58:52Z	(#<4kjvlfa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4kjvlfa>) @<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yeah, it did it. Look at my [plain text feed](https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt), the dollar signs are  replaced with escaped parentheses.
2021-04-27T16:17:17Z	(#<4kjvlfa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4kjvlfa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Thank you, man. I'm sorry I wasn't clear in the beginning.
2021-05-07T05:13:53Z	@<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> (#<66aenwq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=66aenwq>)
> Yandex and Google trackers will potentially be added to Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835

Reposting here because I want more eyeballs on this.
2021-05-07T17:32:49Z	(#<66aenwq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=66aenwq>) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> I'm sure there will be several good spyware-free forks if that PR is merged. Even so, it would be a huge loss for the free software community.
2021-08-26T22:31:09Z	(#<7h2n6fq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7h2n6fq>) I've never heard of a company providing that service. I know there are companies like https://www.macstadium.com/ that will give you access to a dedicated Mac for use as a server, though. Why?
2021-08-26T23:00:56Z	(#<26gymaq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=26gymaq>) @anthk @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> Funnily enough, my home IP seems to have been banned from floodgap.com and the gopher proxy on there. I have no idea what I did wrong.
2021-08-26T23:01:39Z	(#<7h2n6fq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7h2n6fq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Ah, makes sense. It's been a while, I hope you're doing well.
2021-08-27T21:30:42Z	(#<nujekca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nujekca>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Heh.
2021-08-29T17:40:14Z	(#<udzoopa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=udzoopa>) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> "My serverless, headless, Micropub-powered, personal website" https://barryfrost.com/2021/07/vibrancy
I should add that I link to this page often and it was down for at least 2 weeks a little while ago.
2021-08-29T20:09:41Z	(#<udzoopa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=udzoopa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> My other example I use when talking about needless complexity is https://github.com/1ntEgr8/yolo-tree, a web page with a header and four links on it that uses 91 lines of JavaScript to download a JSON file with the information and put the links on the page.
It also downloads two (2) fonts, making the page weight 44.1KB and a WebBS of 22.9 without executing the JavaScript to get the JSON and the images. https://www.webbloatscore.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F1ntegr8.github.io%2Fyolo-tree%2F
Somebody spent enough time on this project to give it two releases on GitHub.
2021-08-29T20:53:23Z	(#<udzoopa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=udzoopa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> It's not an "app", there's nothing interactive about it. It's like a Hello World program as compared a text file that says "Hello World". The concept is good for learning but impractical, even counter-productive, for anything else. That's why you don't usually see a release 0.2.0 of helloworld.c.
Besides, if your personal website is an "app", you're doing it wrong.
https://www.webbloatscore.com/?url=https://mckinley.cc/ 0.041 :)
2021-08-30T03:47:03Z	(#<6ac7glq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=6ac7glq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I think you're dangerously close to an XKCD 927 situation here. ![XKCD: Standards](https://twtxt.net/media/nkgqo9GWhR5DH2SLBk6jSX)
2021-08-30T20:44:21Z	(#<xlmf4ga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=xlmf4ga>) @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> I use the "Non-Production" nearlyfreespeech.net plan. I put $10 in my account over a year ago and I'm still chewing through that. How much do you end up paying? ![](https://twtxt.net/media/hrpEMSNqrhmHiSxHFNeueP)
2021-08-30T21:43:19Z	(#<xlmf4ga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=xlmf4ga>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> I'll definitely check it out if I need a VPS for something. Thanks man.
2021-08-30T23:24:23Z	(#<xlmf4ga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=xlmf4ga>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> You have a 30 day grace period before your account gets deleted. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Empty
2021-08-31T02:11:03Z	(#<xlmf4ga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=xlmf4ga>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> 
> If you haven't added funds after the 30 days, we'll start cleaning things up. Services paid for by that account, including all hosted content, will be removed. If you don't have any registered domains on that account, the account will be removed a few days later.

It's not that harsh in my opinion. Besides, it as close to free as a paid hosting service can be for the non-production option.
2021-09-01T00:45:31Z	(#<udzoopa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=udzoopa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> You inspired me to write a whole blog post about it: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20210831.html
2021-09-01T03:43:39Z	(#<udzoopa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=udzoopa>) @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> Appreciate it, man.
2021-09-01T18:50:14Z	(#<5n76dia https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5n76dia>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Appreciate it!
2021-09-01T20:11:21Z	(#<5n76dia https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5n76dia>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Man, you spread that post around, didn't you? I opened HN and saw it on the front page.
2021-09-01T21:02:39Z	(#<fmtslra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fmtslra>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I was on Lobsters too?
2021-09-01T21:04:59Z	(#<fmtslra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fmtslra>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Hey, I'm 9th!
2021-09-01T21:11:09Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> (#<fmtslra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fmtslra>) I didn't say that either, 9th is great!
2021-09-01T21:22:49Z	(#<fmtslra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fmtslra>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>  I call it "anti-social social media" because of the lack of discoverability and interactivity with other people. Twtxt's original spec is like taking a 140 character long string of text, loading it into a cannon, and shooting it off into space. I like that idea, which is why I keep a separate feed on my website. Yarn is a whole different concept, it adds a lot of the "social" elements back into twtxt.
You're right, though. "Anti social media social media" would also work.
2021-09-01T21:32:16Z	(#<n4tweha https://twtxt.net/search?tag=n4tweha>) @<jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt> Nice website, man. Reminds me of @<anth http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt>'s http://txtpunk.com/
2021-09-01T21:50:44Z	(#<yx6iaqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=yx6iaqq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yarn has its roots in "vanilla" twtxt and the two are intercompatible to an @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yarn has its roots in "vanilla" twtxt and the two are compatible with each other to an extent, but Yarn has created an ecosystem very different to that of vanilla twtxt.
2021-09-01T21:55:18Z	(#<fmtslra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fmtslra>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> You replied in the wrong thread. Is there a difference between the terms "anti-social" and "antisocial"?
2021-09-01T22:03:56Z	(#<fmtslra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fmtslra>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Oh, I get it. I said that twtxt.net *puts the* "social" *in* "anti-social social media". It puts the "social" elements back into twtxt.
2021-09-02T00:42:11Z	(#<7glhbxa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7glhbxa>) No. I think I still have a Reddit account, but nowadays I only use teddit.
2021-09-02T00:49:32Z	(#<7glhbxa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7glhbxa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> It's a free, self-hostable Reddit front end that doesn't track you, https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit
2021-09-02T01:01:02Z	(#<pioktea https://twtxt.net/search?tag=pioktea>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> At least you wouldn't clog your server logs with 404s because you actually have your icon at /favicon.ico
2021-09-02T01:02:13Z	(#<7glhbxa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7glhbxa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> If you prefer a more modern interface there's libreddit https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit
2021-09-02T01:19:28Z	(#<7glhbxa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7glhbxa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I don't think either of them have that feature. I think Teddit was working on an account system to do that, but don't quote me on that.
2021-09-02T01:25:05Z	(#<7glhbxa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7glhbxa>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> No, I think both of them have preferences stored in cookies.
Hey, thank you for sharing my blog post around. I'm glad you liked it.
2021-09-02T21:37:55Z	(#<c6kechq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=c6kechq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<lohn https://tw.lohn.in/user/lohn/twtxt.txt> @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> I put Live.js in a userscript for http://127.0.0.1:1337 and it works like a charm
2021-09-02T21:47:11Z	(#<c6kechq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=c6kechq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<lohn https://tw.lohn.in/user/lohn/twtxt.txt> @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> I put Live.js in a userscript for http://127.0.0.1:1337 and it works like a charm
2021-09-02T21:49:04Z	(#<m2x2p3a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=m2x2p3a>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Yes, when I read that blog post I realized that my website was already designed to last without me even knowing about it. All it takes is simplicity.
2021-09-03T03:26:13Z	@<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> (#<qwl3k2q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=qwl3k2q>) I was glad to see an update from your blog in my feed reader earlier. Keep it up!
2021-09-03T03:28:44Z	I'm doing my best right now to resist the urge to start an online magazine like https://www.lab6.com/ because I know it will never get a second issue.
2021-09-03T06:40:57Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> (#<fdcebha https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fdcebha>) Lab6 is the best, I hope a new issue comes out soon.
2021-09-03T06:43:13Z	(#<gkms73a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gkms73a>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Thanks, I had fun making it. I've had ideas for a couple other buttons, but they haven't turned out quite right.
2021-09-03T07:39:08Z	(#<fdcebha https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fdcebha>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> It's been over a month since the last issue, the others were one month apart.
One was a LibreWolf version of that animated "Get Firefox" gif that was all over the Web back in the day. The other one was a button for the [NetSurf](https://www.netsurf-browser.org/) browser.
2021-09-03T20:53:39Z	(#<fdcebha https://twtxt.net/search?tag=fdcebha>) @<lohn https://tw.lohn.in/user/lohn/twtxt.txt> @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> PDF definitely has its problems. I like the idea of distributing publications as HTML files, either standalone or along with other assets in a tarball. HTML is readable on a wide range of devices, but you could easily run `lynx -dump $URL` to get a plaintext version.
2021-09-03T22:45:29Z	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I'm sorry about what's going on in Australia. It seems like the "COVID restrictions" are [getting worse every day](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/pandemic-australia-still-liberal-democracy/619940/). How are things on the ground?
2021-09-03T23:38:53Z	(#<2ufffga https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2ufffga>) I'm not sure if you noticed, but I linked that exact same article. I hope things will get better, but unfortunately I don't see an end in sight.
2021-09-05T05:35:26Z	What are you all up to this weekend?
2021-09-05T18:12:39Z	(#<ens66ka https://twtxt.net/search?tag=ens66ka>) @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Sounds like fun, guys. I went to the flea market this morning and found a [TRS-80 Model 100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100) computer that seems to be in good shape. I'll see if I can get it going.
2021-09-05T18:51:23Z	(#<pdz747a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=pdz747a>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> Hm? HTTP referrer header? From my blog post? Are there really humans out there who go to my website and read what I have to say?
2021-09-05T23:16:22Z	(#<pdz747a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=pdz747a>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Arguably, the top two shouldn't be counted. I'm taking the win on that one.
2021-09-06T02:36:27Z	(#<ens66ka https://twtxt.net/search?tag=ens66ka>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> There were some old AA batteries in it that had leaked a little. The contacts need to be cleaned and I think there's a good chance that it would start right up. The exterior is in great shape for a flea market machine, it even had the original manual with it. The only thing I'm really concerned about is the internal Ni-Cd backup battery for the memory. I'll open it up tomorrow and have a look.
2021-09-06T02:50:34Z	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> (#<ens66ka https://twtxt.net/search?tag=ens66ka>) There's not much corrosion, I think the board will be fine.
2021-09-06T03:00:04Z	Hey, here's a cool graph for you. Daily bandwidth usage for http://mckinley.cc/  ![Bandwidth Report](https://twtxt.net/media/AqLQH6CqbK2BqoLDSKi7mA)
2021-09-06T03:23:31Z	(#<odh2tsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=odh2tsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Nah, my traffic will probably stay pretty low. NearlyFreeSpeech likes to talk about how well they handle scaling, anyway.
2021-09-06T04:08:15Z	(#<odh2tsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=odh2tsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I don't know, but I've never noticed any downtime and I use their "non-production" plan.
2021-09-06T05:30:44Z	(#<odh2tsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=odh2tsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> One (American) cent per day. Their business model is "pay for what you use". My website uses almost no resources, so I pay the minimum. I think we talked about NFS a few days ago. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/nZa8vvWyUtExyhiBsodV3X)
2021-09-06T06:27:05Z	(#<odh2tsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=odh2tsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I believe they own all their hardware and IPv4s are shared between sites so that cuts down on cost quite a bit.
With my baseline membership, they don't hold your hand. You get an extensive FAQ section and a community forum to refer to. That's about it. If you pay $5/month, you get access to individual support and a few other perks.
I think I read somewhere that half of your websites hosted with them must be using the 5 cent or 50 cent per day plan, too. That's probably where they make most of their money. I don't imagine they make anything off of me.
2021-09-06T18:41:09Z	(#<kc2n4nq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=kc2n4nq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> @<lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt> A lot of bots use standard browser user agents, anyway.
2021-09-06T18:49:40Z	(#<ens66ka https://twtxt.net/search?tag=ens66ka>) @<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> 2.4MHz ought to be enough for anybody.
2021-09-07T03:26:51Z	I wonder if one could make a vanity (v3) onion address generator that, instead of looking for a small set of user-defined prefixes, looked for a prefix based on three or four short dictionary words from a long list instead. You would be able to have a prefix that's easily recognizable by users to make sure they're at the right address but it would still be very difficult for someone to brute force an address with the same prefix.
2021-09-07T03:33:51Z	@<mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt> (#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>) For example, `examplexpi...z2j.onion` would be difficult for me to generate but it would be equally difficult for someone who wants to pretend to be that service to generate `example6yf...9wn.onion`. Instead, I might be able to generate something like `wellhairrainba7...m4c.onion` based on a list of random words. The other guy would need to find an address with a set 12 character prefix. That would be much more difficult than the 7 character example from before.
2021-09-07T03:49:29Z	@<mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt> (#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>) The obvious potential pitfall is the computational expense of comparing generated addresses to possible combinations of a large word list. It would be interesting to see how this compares to the brute force method in practice.
2021-09-07T04:31:54Z	(#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Wikipedia can explain onion addresses better than I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion
A "vanity address" is made by generating thousands of keypairs until you find one that corresponds with an onion address that has the first few characters matching a given string. A well known example would be the archive.today hidden service, http://archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqtkgmcitqx5u2oeqnmn5bpcbiyd.onion/
2021-09-07T04:37:06Z	(#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>) @<lohn https://tw.lohn.in/user/lohn/twtxt.txt> I didn't know mkp224o had that option, but I think doing it with long words will be impractical. The difficulty goes up drastically as you add words, and 5 characters is already difficult to generate. Take a look at these generation times on a cluster of 5 raspberry pis: https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/onionv3-vanity-address/#generation-times
Someone much smarter than I could probably calculate the increase in difficulty based on word length.
2021-09-07T04:49:04Z	(#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> (#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>)
> what I'm trying to solve

People use the address to be sure they're using the right hidden service, and if you can get an address with the same prefix you might be able to trick some users into thinking you're the other service. It's the same basic idea as [Typosquatting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typosquatting). My idea, in theory, would make it easier (less computationally expensive) to generate an address with a certain prefix the first time, and much harder to do a second time.
2021-09-07T05:08:07Z	(#<thv6jya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=thv6jya>) @<lohn https://tw.lohn.in/user/lohn/twtxt.txt> Wow, how many have you managed to generate already?
MeanWall: An SSH honeypot that insults anyone who tries to log in.
2021-09-08T03:27:39Z	(#<adgnxzq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=adgnxzq>) @<brasshopper https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt> It's definitely too low. These gimmicky social media services don't last long. I remember one that would take two weeks or something to deliver messages. It was actually meant to mimic letters sent in the mail. I don't know why you wouldn't just send letters at that point, too. Last I checked, the postal service still works.
2021-09-13T00:56:55Z	(#<gj7siyq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gj7siyq>) The Model 100 is alive! I opened it up last night. The backup battery is fine and the corrosion on the main battery contacts cleaned off well with vinegar. It fired right up with some fresh AAs. The screen looks good, but the keyboard isn't working. I got sidetracked last night and haven't had time today to resume the project. Maybe later today.
In the meantime, here's an exploded view taken from the [service manual](https://archive.org/details/m100service). ![TRS-80 Model 100 exploded view](https://twtxt.net/media/paFQWbcy7YU4WcRYX9qbEf)
Edit: #<TRS80 https://twtxt.net/search?tag=TRS80>
2021-09-13T01:41:23Z	(#<gj7siyq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gj7siyq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I'll have to check out the search engine. Congratulations on the release.
@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> There's a very good chance that it will be fixed eventually. Just keep in mind I have a closet full of old computers (only a small handful of which are listed on my website) and I don't have the time, energy, or soldering skills to get them all running.
2021-09-13T01:51:55Z	(#<m4gy4iq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=m4gy4iq>) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> 

> Maybe, over time, everything evolves into Usenet.

Convergent evolution, just like how creatures keep evolving to resemble crabs.
2021-09-14T02:26:43Z	(#<kqi4bka https://twtxt.net/search?tag=kqi4bka>) Not only do they make you connect an account to an unrelated service, they require those invasive permissions. Is that a video conference thing? Jitsi Meet is the way.
2021-09-14T02:50:07Z	(#<3ll4fja https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3ll4fja>) As a user, I think 1-3 times a day would be fine.
As someone who pays to host a twtxt feed, I don't mind what you set it to as long as it's not unreasonably often. It won't really make a difference to me. As of about 6 months ago, 3 different yarn.social pods each request /twtxt.txt (with an If-Modified-Since header) every 5 minutes, 24 / 7. I think I also had a different twtxt client requesting it every 10 minutes.
2021-09-14T03:01:41Z	(#<wosq6ua https://twtxt.net/search?tag=wosq6ua>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> It was my main feed, @<mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt> when I had access logs on for a while.
It doesn't take up much bandwidth because it's not actually sending over the file every time. It really just clogs up the log file, and `grep -v "/twtxt.txt" access_log` fixes that.
2021-09-14T03:22:38Z	(#<wosq6ua https://twtxt.net/search?tag=wosq6ua>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> No, I'm not bothered by it at all. I get enough bots on there trying to exploit old WordPress vulnerabilities and the like that I can't be too mad about a legitimate service doing what it was designed to do.
2021-09-14T03:35:50Z	(#<mhmaxsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=mhmaxsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Woah, an italicized emoji. Don't think I've ever seen that before. The two feeds are different. Most of my original posts are on my website's feed (in 140 characters or less) and I use this one mostly for interacting with others. 
I keep two feeds because, while I really enjoy what the dev.twtxt.net spec extensions and yarn.social pods have to offer, I also like the effect of the original twtxt specification.
2021-09-14T03:37:35Z	(#<mhmaxsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=mhmaxsa>) From a conversation a little while ago:
> Twtxt’s original spec is like taking a 140 character long string of text, loading it into a cannon, and shooting it off into space. I like that idea, which is why I keep a separate feed on my website. Yarn is a whole different concept, it adds a lot of the “social” elements back into twtxt.

Search engine works great, by the way. :)
2021-09-14T04:37:24Z	(#<mhmaxsa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=mhmaxsa>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>
> duplicate posts

That's strange. I don't sync my posts between here and mckinley.cc. I have an alternate feed on my website that only contains the most recent 25 posts. You should only have duplicate messages if you follow mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt *and* mckinley.cc/twtxt-25.txt
> Is this something we should support in Pods?

I haven't seen anyone else with two distinct feeds, so a feature like that probably wouldn't be used often.
2021-09-16T01:08:52Z	Test post from Tor with JavaScript disabled. A lot of small features of the Web client rely on JS, but let's see if I can at least log in and post.
2021-09-16T01:10:58Z	(#<dwpzwfq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=dwpzwfq>) There's no editing of messages, no use of the rich text buttons in the text box, no replying. I think I should be able to reply by going to a conversation page and using the reply box there. Testing that now.
2021-09-16T01:13:17Z	(#<5i3df5a https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5i3df5a>) This whole forked conversation thing is confusing. What's going on?
2021-09-16T01:14:04Z	(#<ck25fya https://twtxt.net/search?tag=ck25fya>) @<eldersnake https://twtxt.net/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt> How's the experience actually using PageKite? I've recommended it as an alternative to Ngrok but I haven't had a reason to use it myself.
2021-09-16T01:23:38Z	(#<dwpzwfq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=dwpzwfq>) JS-free experience, overall, isn't as bad as I thought it would be. I don't know if you can create an account without JavaScript but you can at least make and reply to posts.
Kudos for not blocking Tor exit nodes by the way @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>.
2021-09-18T03:14:19Z	(#<oxbmq7q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=oxbmq7q>)
> "We know lots of people will find it an invasion of privacy, we 100% get that, and it’s not the solution for those folks,"

In other words, "Yeah, it's an invasion of your privacy. What are you gonna do about it?"
2021-09-18T03:32:58Z	(#<xl75jqa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=xl75jqa>) Looks good :)
2021-09-18T03:33:48Z	(#<47ae7iq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=47ae7iq>) Do you have an approximate number of feeds you can share with us?
2021-09-18T03:34:52Z	(#<oxbmq7q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=oxbmq7q>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I certainly would, but I seriously doubt most people would care enough about it.
2021-09-18T05:19:06Z	(#<47ae7iq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=47ae7iq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Wow, that's more than I expected.
2021-09-18T06:41:18Z	(#<gtdipda https://twtxt.net/search?tag=gtdipda>) This is the closest thing I've ever had to a "bulk optical disc ripper". Picture was taken a few years ago. It was an old Dell PC from ~2009 with three optical drives hooked up. The case only had 2 5.25" bays, so the side cover was off and the third drive was hanging out.
Lubuntu was installed on the original hard drive, and it was running 3 instances of Exact Audio Copy over Wine, one instance for each drive. I had one hell of a weekend with this thing, let me tell you. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/iLZXcXDqCeJa32FbWDit98)
2021-09-19T04:28:30Z	@<twtxt https://twtxt.net/user/twtxt/twtxt.txt> (#<5gb3dqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5gb3dqq>) I didn't know unfollow events were publicly broadcasted...
2021-09-19T17:13:55Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> (#<lpbf64q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=lpbf64q>) I like it, valid HTML too https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fmkws.sh%2F
2021-09-19T18:55:10Z	(#<5gb3dqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5gb3dqq>) Honestly, the entire follow system is flawed. Check my followers, #<3 https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3> was a web crawler with a user agent that happened to fit the regex, and #<17 https://twtxt.net/search?tag=17> was myself requesting my own feed with a simple curl command.
Unfortunately, I don't see a real solution to the problem while keeping the ability for external feeds to show up as "following" a user on a Yarn pod.
2021-09-19T19:14:21Z	(#<5gb3dqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5gb3dqq>) The user agent regex was made a little more restrictive after my [git issue](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/issues/416), but I think someone could use this and really start breaking things. I want to poke around more than I already have, but I'm not doing it on a live production instance of Yarn.
2021-09-20T02:47:16Z	(#<nv7khwq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nv7khwq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I think @<off_grid_living https://twtxt.net/user/off_grid_living/twtxt.txt> was talking about that strange bug we talked about a while ago where two dollar signs turn into escaped parenthesis. I think I saw it happening within the last day or so. $ test $
2021-09-20T02:49:53Z	(#<nv7khwq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nv7khwq>) Yeah, it worked. Check my [plaintext feed](https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt). The dollar signs turn into parenthesis escaped with backslashes when viewed on the web client.
2021-09-20T02:57:35Z	(#<nv7khwq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nv7khwq>) @<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> I just typed the dollar signs into the reply box. The post on my plaintext feed is exactly what I typed. You typed two dollar signs and it didn't work, but maybe they have to be separated? Test: $ $
2021-09-21T02:49:59Z	(#<aimrtoa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=aimrtoa>) It seems like this per-event feed thing would be a lot of work. Personally, I think it's fine the way it is now. Publicly broadcasting unfollows went a little too far in my opinion but that was removed, right?
2021-09-21T03:10:53Z	(#<cjaf2ja https://twtxt.net/search?tag=cjaf2ja>) Oh man, bookmarked.
2021-09-21T03:20:34Z	(#<2m6fb6q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2m6fb6q>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>
> There’s too much of this “libre” nonsense out there

I realized this earlier today when I opened LibreWolf and went to librespeed.org to test my internet connection.
2021-09-21T03:26:34Z	(#<sqndwra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=sqndwra>) The language police have already won, because we're here talking about it. It all comes down to attention and internet points.
2021-09-21T03:33:22Z	@<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> (#<sqndwra https://twtxt.net/search?tag=sqndwra>) Fair enough
2021-09-21T03:41:35Z	@<adi https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt> (#<bai3sla https://twtxt.net/search?tag=bai3sla>) Looks great!
2021-09-21T04:06:31Z	(#<a43udbq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=a43udbq>) @<movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt> @hackew-news-newest I skimmed through that article this morning and I had a similar reaction. I don't think blogs were ever "gone" for technical people like us, but they were for a lot of other people. They're making a comeback now with the rise of Medium and Substack. 
The author rightly blames search engines. A similar revelation hit me like a truck after I used [Marginalia Search](https://search.marginalia.nu/) a few times. Give it a try.
2021-09-21T04:36:31Z	(#<nlouyba https://twtxt.net/search?tag=nlouyba>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yes, it does its own crawling. You can check if a particular website is indexed by searching for a domain like this: `site:mckinley.cc`
2021-09-21T20:54:07Z	(#<25qamca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=25qamca>) Sure, let's boycott Bitcoin and use Monero instead :)
2021-09-21T21:05:05Z	(#<obtqrkq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=obtqrkq>) I agree. Everybody should have their own website. That's how the Web used to be. ![The Oatmeal: Reaching people on the internet](https://twtxt.net/media/Yo7WdCjmweaGJQ3pK4SnPo)
2021-09-21T21:16:57Z	(#<sa2paaq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=sa2paaq>) QR codes frustrate me. I don't think we should be teaching people that it's okay to scan an unintelligible barcode with their camera and instantly be transported to some arbitrary site.
On the other hand, vanity QR codes are really cool. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/Lxg89fGdBAKFbJgoyDggUM)
2021-09-21T21:31:36Z	(#<sa2paaq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=sa2paaq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> You think that's cool, I just found the one in color. Try scanning them, they both go to https://mckinley.cc/. I generated them with a web tool that's now offline. Here's a good explanation of what's going on: https://research.swtch.com/qart ![](https://twtxt.net/media/T6mW3S8guWEXsLJvtcwPYU)
2021-09-21T21:35:24Z	(#<25qamca https://twtxt.net/search?tag=25qamca>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Yeah, but at least Monero protects your anonymity. I'll be the first guy in line for a solid proof-of-stake privacy coin but I don't think the technology has matured quite enough.
2021-09-21T21:37:34Z	(#<obtqrkq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=obtqrkq>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> I think it's more about "The Algorithm" dictating what people do and do not see. People used to seek out material they wanted to see, now they just scroll through the algorithm-generated feeds of 2-3 websites and hope they find something interesting. It's open to interpretation :)
2021-09-22T06:29:32Z	(#<lb2762q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=lb2762q>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> @<darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt> The local Discover timeline should definitely be preserved. A global timeline would be very nice to have, but it should be separate.