# 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 # # This is hosted by a Yarn.social pod twtxt.net running yarnd 0.12.0@7f4453b # Learn more about Yarn.social at https://yarn.social # # 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/ # # followers = 24 # following = 33 # # follow = gareppa https://twtxt.net/user/gareppa/twtxt.txt # follow = kt84 https://twtxt.net/user/kt84/twtxt.txt # follow = lyse https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt # follow = quark https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt # follow = Dilbert https://feeds.twtxt.net/Dilbert/twtxt.txt # follow = jlj https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt # follow = laz https://tt.vltra.plus/user/laz/twtxt.txt # follow = fastidious https://arrakis.netbros.com/user/fastidious/twtxt.txt # follow = arisu https://twtxt.net/user/arisu/twtxt.txt # follow = codebalion http://twtxt.prismdragon.net/twtxt.txt # follow = eldersnake https://yarn.andrewjvpowell.com/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt # follow = marado https://twtxt.net/user/marado/twtxt.txt # follow = prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt # follow = sdk https://codevoid.de/tw.txt # follow = stutteringsteve https://twtxt.net/user/stutteringsteve/twtxt.txt # follow = adi https://f.adi.onl/user/adi/twtxt.txt # follow = anth http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt # follow = alexp https://twtxt.net/user/alexp/twtxt.txt # follow = darch https://twtxt.net/user/darch/twtxt.txt # follow = lazarus https://twtxt.net/user/lazarus/twtxt.txt # follow = luqaska https://lucas.tild3.org/twtxt.txt # follow = slashdot https://feeds.twtxt.net/slashdot/twtxt.txt # follow = xandkar https://xandkar.net/twtxt.txt # follow = xkcd https://feeds.twtxt.net/xkcd/twtxt.txt # follow = apptester https://twtxt.net/user/apptester/twtxt.txt # follow = monero-observer https://feeds.twtxt.net/monero-observer/twtxt.txt # follow = movq https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt # follow = will https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt # follow = xjix https://xj-ix.luxe/.well-known/twtxt/xjix.txt # follow = lohn https://tw.lohn.in/user/lohn/twtxt.txt # follow = mckinley https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt # follow = the-lunduke-journal-of-technology https://feeds.twtxt.net/the-lunduke-journal-of-technology/twtxt.txt # follow = home_datacenter https://twtxt.net/user/home_datacenter/twtxt.txt # 2021-03-05T03:36:56Z Hello, @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ I really like that. Email can't be known until it's needed. 2021-03-05T05:57:37Z (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ I believe so, and I can't for the life of me remember what problem I ran into. 2021-03-05T06:54:16Z (#) @ 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 (#) @ I'm trying it again with a clear head, and I'm making a little headway. 2021-03-07T08:23:02Z (#) @ Void and OpenBSD are pretty hardcore, as operating systems go. I'm surprised you can tolerate Windows. 2021-03-07T08:34:33Z (#) @ Ah, I see. 2021-03-08T19:47:21Z (#) The suspense is killing me, was it successful? 2021-03-08T22:48:43Z @ (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ Thanks. Blank line under the quote, noted. 2021-03-10T21:35:25Z (#) @ 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 (#) @ @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) 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 (#) @ It's been a while. 2021-03-12T04:12:34Z (#) @ ![Linus Torvalds flipping off Nvidia](https://twtxt.net/media/k3far2he96YyiM96P5uqVm)

This was almost nine years ago 2021-03-12T04:14:05Z (#) @ No gif support, noted. 2021-03-12T05:51:16Z (#) @ Ah, no worries man. 2021-03-12T19:43:23Z @ (#) Hey, looking good! 2021-03-12T20:07:23Z (#) @ I couldn't get around to it, I'm sorry. 2021-03-13T08:43:00Z (#) @ Yes, that's an excellent way of putting it. :) 2021-03-17T04:28:48Z (#) @ 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 (#) @
![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 (#) @ I'm excited to see it, man. 2021-03-18T17:05:25Z (#) @
> But still, that gorgeous lock

https://www.motherfuckingwebsite.com/ has one too 2021-03-19T05:34:57Z (#) Could it be your browser's autofill? On my settings page, the 'change email' box has no content. 2021-03-20T05:28:59Z (#) Behold, the smart watch of champions:
![Casio CA53W](https://twtxt.net/media/tMNNZxFSZQf8jh2KkwbqwT) 2021-03-21T09:11:48Z (#) @ @ 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 (#) @ 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 @, 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 @ and my main feed on mckinley.cc which I just followed for the third time. I am fairly sure I've followed @ and @ as well. 2021-03-31T02:57:36Z (#) 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 (#) 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>) @ @ 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>) @ 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 @ @ 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>) @ @ @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 (#) I've identified a flaw in the public follow notification system... 2021-04-12T03:52:42Z @ (#) 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 @ (#) 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 @ 2021-04-13T20:47:30Z @ (#<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>) @ @ @ 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>) @ Conflating "open source" and "free software", as @ said. I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. 2021-04-14T03:39:32Z (#) @ @ 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 @ (#) What useless domains do you guys on twtxt.net have? 2021-04-17T08:24:00Z (#) @ Most of them, huh? 2021-04-22T00:55:38Z (#<7625tqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=7625tqq>) @ @ @ 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 @ and @! 2021-04-23T07:27:01Z (#) 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>) @ @ @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 (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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>) @ @ @ 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 @ (#<4kjvlfa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4kjvlfa>) Hey @, 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>) @ 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>) @ @ 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>) @ Thank you, man. I'm sorry I wasn't clear in the beginning. 2021-05-07T05:13:53Z @ (#<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>) @ 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 @ @ 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>) @ Ah, makes sense. It's been a while, I hope you're doing well. 2021-08-27T21:30:42Z (#) @ @ Heh. 2021-08-29T17:40:14Z (#) @ @ "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 (#) @ @ 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 (#) @ @ 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>) @ @ I think you're dangerously close to an XKCD 927 situation here. ![XKCD: Standards](https://twtxt.net/media/nkgqo9GWhR5DH2SLBk6jSX) 2021-08-30T20:44:21Z (#) @ 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 (#) @ @ I'll definitely check it out if I need a VPS for something. Thanks man. 2021-08-30T23:24:23Z (#) @ @ You have a 30 day grace period before your account gets deleted. https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/faq#Empty 2021-08-31T02:11:03Z (#) @ @ 
> 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 (#) @ You inspired me to write a whole blog post about it: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20210831.html 2021-09-01T03:43:39Z (#) @ Appreciate it, man. 2021-09-01T18:50:14Z (#<5n76dia https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5n76dia>) @ Appreciate it! 2021-09-01T20:11:21Z (#<5n76dia https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5n76dia>) @ Man, you spread that post around, didn't you? I opened HN and saw it on the front page. 2021-09-01T21:02:39Z (#) @ I was on Lobsters too? 2021-09-01T21:04:59Z (#) @ Hey, I'm 9th! 2021-09-01T21:11:09Z @ (#) I didn't say that either, 9th is great! 2021-09-01T21:22:49Z (#) @ @ 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 (#) @ Nice website, man. Reminds me of @'s http://txtpunk.com/ 2021-09-01T21:50:44Z (#) @ Yarn has its roots in "vanilla" twtxt and the two are intercompatible to an @ 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 (#) @ You replied in the wrong thread. Is there a difference between the terms "anti-social" and "antisocial"? 2021-09-01T22:03:56Z (#) @ 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>) @ It's a free, self-hostable Reddit front end that doesn't track you, https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit 2021-09-02T01:01:02Z (#) @ 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>) @ 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>) @ 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>) @ 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 (#) @ @ @ 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 (#) @ @ @ 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 (#) @ 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 @ (#) 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 @ (#) Lab6 is the best, I hope a new issue comes out soon. 2021-09-03T06:43:13Z (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ @ 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 @ 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 (#) @ @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ Arguably, the top two shouldn't be counted. I'm taking the win on that one. 2021-09-06T02:36:27Z (#) @ 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 @ (#) 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 (#) @ Nah, my traffic will probably stay pretty low. NearlyFreeSpeech likes to talk about how well they handle scaling, anyway. 2021-09-06T04:08:15Z (#) @ I don't know, but I've never noticed any downtime and I use their "non-production" plan. 2021-09-06T05:30:44Z (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ @ A lot of bots use standard browser user agents, anyway. 2021-09-06T18:49:40Z (#) @ 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 @ (#) 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 @ (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ (#)
> 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) 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: # 2021-09-13T01:41:23Z (#) @ I'll have to check out the search engine. Congratulations on the release.
@ 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 (#) @ 

> Maybe, over time, everything evolves into Usenet.

Convergent evolution, just like how creatures keep evolving to resemble crabs. 2021-09-14T02:26:43Z (#) 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 (#) @ It was my main feed, @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) 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 (#) @
> 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 (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) 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 @. 2021-09-18T03:14:19Z (#)
> "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 (#) 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 (#) @ 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>) @ Wow, that's more than I expected. 2021-09-18T06:41:18Z (#) 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 @ (#<5gb3dqq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5gb3dqq>) I didn't know unfollow events were publicly broadcasted... 2021-09-19T17:13:55Z @ (#) 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 (#) @ I think @ 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 (#) 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 (#) @ 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 (#) 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 (#) Oh man, bookmarked. 2021-09-21T03:20:34Z (#<2m6fb6q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=2m6fb6q>) @
> 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 (#) 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 @ (#) Fair enough 2021-09-21T03:41:35Z @ (#) Looks great! 2021-09-21T04:06:31Z (#) @ @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 (#) @ 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 (#) 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 (#) 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 (#) @ 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>) @ 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 (#) @ 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 (#) @ @ The local Discover timeline should definitely be preserved. A global timeline would be very nice to have, but it should be separate. 2021-09-23T22:58:58Z (#) @ @hacker-news-newest I've been telling people about this for 4 years. It resurfaces every now and then. There's always some mild outrage and then nothing gets done about it.
It's been time to stop using Google. They abandoned the whole "Don't be evil" thing a long time ago. 2021-09-23T23:02:02Z (#) I'm generally not a fan of using metrics beyond typical server logs. What information would be collected and how would you use it? 2021-09-23T23:48:58Z (#) @ I don't want to pay for a domain name just for that. Out of curiosity, I went to https://dontbeevil.com/ to see if it was taken and I found an anti-Google poem but guess what else was there? ![Google Analytics!](https://twtxt.net/media/Qsnbxwww6LSCiMSxDBte6K) 2021-09-24T01:27:02Z (#) Have you happened to find a twt hash collision in your crawling adventures? If not, I wonder if it would be feasible to brute force one and see what happens. 2021-09-24T01:38:35Z (#) Was the info on dev.twtxt.net moved somewhere else? I can't remember exactly how the hashes work. It's the URL of the feed, the time, and the message put in a specific order and then hashed, right? Then that hash is encoded in base32 and the last 7 characters are taken from it? Do I have that completely wrong? 2021-09-24T02:54:31Z (#)
- A 7 character hash with 32 possible characters has 34,359,738,368 possible combinations. More than I would have thought, but it's not that many in the grand scheme of things.
- Assuming a rate of 50,000 hashes per second, which I think might be feasible on modest consumer hardware, you're looking at about 8 days to generate all possible hashes if you have no duplicates.

I'm sure the strange generation method affects the probability, but I don't know how to account for that. My math is most likely wrong as it is but I think a collision is doable. 2021-09-24T04:16:07Z @ (#<736inyq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=736inyq>) Hm, those don't seem to be there on my screen. 2021-09-24T04:22:00Z @ (#<3ogzssa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3ogzssa>) Sweet, thanks for putting it back up. 2021-09-24T05:08:22Z @ (#<3ogzssa https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3ogzssa>) Oh yeah, I see all the source files are right there in the main Git repository. I'm not familiar with Jekyll but I'll raise a PR if I notice something I'm able to fix. 2021-09-24T05:42:35Z @ you're on the front page of Hacker News right now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28619684 ![14th](https://twtxt.net/media/ZHTvfcRVNkPZMr5rpZ8eQa) 2021-09-25T03:07:05Z (#) @ That emoji character in your terminal is making me uncomfortable... 2021-09-25T03:15:07Z (#<5scs43q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5scs43q>) @ I haven't tried it myself but I've heard good things. 2021-09-25T17:31:08Z (#) @ @ Absolutely bookmarked. Great job, man. 2021-09-25T17:38:10Z Good morning, what are you all up to this weekend? 2021-09-26T00:53:50Z (#) @ @ Try getting through TSA with that thing. 2021-09-26T01:37:05Z (#) @ Transportation Security Administration, the government agency that runs the security checkpoints in American airports. Are you from the US? 2021-09-26T02:15:38Z (#) @ Oh, all this time I thought you were American. Sorry about that. 2021-09-27T00:01:57Z (#) @ I don't blame you. The market is crazy right now. I was going to upgrade my desktop machine a year ago but I just couldn't do it. 2021-09-27T23:14:19Z (#) @ Man, how much do you spend every year on domain registration? 2021-09-28T00:40:12Z (#) @ Wow, that's more than I would have thought. You don't seem to go for cheap TLDs either. 2021-09-28T00:47:36Z @ (#) I "only" spend about $50/yr US on domain registration. 2021-09-28T21:21:40Z (#) @ @ Worth mentioning that Gogs and Gitea both host their source code on GitHub. 2021-09-28T21:29:25Z (#<5spns2q https://twtxt.net/search?tag=5spns2q>) You guys are doing a great job, I'm looking forward to the new interface. 2021-09-28T21:35:41Z (#) I use dark mode as well. I'd much rather use a dark theme for something like this than a light theme. 2021-09-28T21:40:41Z (#) +1 for NameCheap. I found a 2 letter domain (mc.cz) on GoDaddy for $17 one time and I tried to buy it. The money was sent, but the domain wasn't showing up on my account. Later, the money was refunded to me and mc.cz was listed for sale as a "Premium" domain for several thousand dollars. I'm not sure if it was entirely their fault but it left a bad taste in my mouth for GoDaddy's service. 2021-09-29T00:08:52Z (#) Oh yeah, definitely thinking about it. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/6SdnWQNdYKDEoEocAUWJ2D) 2021-09-29T00:33:55Z (#) @ Yes it was. It's not really a big deal, it just strikes me as a little strange. 2021-09-29T01:46:58Z (#) @ Good for you, man. Always glad to see less power in the hands of Microsoft. 2021-09-29T01:56:46Z (#) Man, that's scary stuff. If someone wants to have an NSA/Amazon robot in their house, I suppose that's their right. I just worry about this kind of thing in public areas. They're around in some places. I've personally seen [food delivery robots](https://www.kiwibot.com/) (with eyes for some reason) in Berkeley, California. There are also [police drones that were used to enforce COVID guidelines](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/03/coronavirus-police-use-drones-enforcement-privacy-concerns/3059073001/). 2021-09-29T01:59:57Z (#) There's also, of course, the famous "[Police robot told woman to go away after she tried to report crime – then sang a song](https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/04/police-robot-told-woman-go-away-tried-report-crime-sang-song-10864648/)" 2021-09-29T02:15:52Z (#) ![Secure Beneath The Watchful Eyes](https://twtxt.net/media/Af2EvUbxNekxQojqH3o8Gd)
London bus stop, 2002. [Context](https://www.wired.com/2002/11/londons-privacy-falling-down/) 2021-09-29T02:36:35Z (#) We should keep SARS in the back of our minds before jumping into sp00ky COVID predictions. 2021-09-29T03:27:57Z (#) @ No, I mean SARS-CoV-1, the outbreak way back in 2003 that seems to have happened in a similar way. We don't need to end the conversation, I just want to point it out. 2021-09-29T18:58:09Z (#<4m23ecq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4m23ecq>) @ Welcome to the party. Feels good, doesn't it? 2021-09-30T02:26:07Z (#<45duata https://twtxt.net/search?tag=45duata>) @ @ `$#` for number of arguments, never seen that before. That's POSIX shell? Fancy stuff. 2021-09-30T02:40:49Z (#<45duata https://twtxt.net/search?tag=45duata>) I just found it in the spec. I'll have to remember that. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/5iVyLHNgtLfdSS8prANpoM) 2021-09-30T02:51:29Z (#<45duata https://twtxt.net/search?tag=45duata>) The image is completely unreadable, here's the link to that section: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/V3_chap02.html#tag_18_05_02

I find the HTML version easy enough to reference. I use it a lot because it has all the man pages for the POSIX utilities. It's even available to [download](https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/download/index.html) for offline viewing. 2021-09-30T03:05:37Z (#<45duata https://twtxt.net/search?tag=45duata>) @ Oh, definitely not on mobile. `iframe` based HTML pages don't work well with touchscreens. You can avoid the iframe madness by going to mindex.html or idx/fidx2.html relative to the base directory. 2021-09-30T05:43:24Z (#) Gotcha. Gemini is a neat idea, but I think it goes too far in the right direction. There must be a new set of standards, but they can't only be limited to basic documents. Only when there is a new set of standards that replaces the Web for a significant amount of uses can the problem be solved.
Until then, I say we should give WHATWG and the "living standard" the double barreled middle finger and create bloat-free, tracker-free,
tag filled websites that look like they were made in 2004. 2021-09-30T20:42:02Z (#) @ I don't know, but the answer is probably rclone. 2021-09-30T20:45:46Z (#<4m23ecq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4m23ecq>) @ @ That wallet glows. I couldn't find the source code within 30 seconds of browsing the website. 2021-10-01T03:14:44Z (#<4m23ecq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4m23ecq>) Why trust a bioluminescent, proprietary wallet when you can use a Free one? 2021-10-01T03:46:42Z (#<4m23ecq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=4m23ecq>) @ I've always just used the standard Monero GUI wallet but I've heard good things about [Feather](https://featherwallet.org/) ([Tor hidden service](http://featherdvtpi7ckdbkb2yxjfwx3oyvr3xjz3oo4rszylfzjdg6pbm3id.onion/))
Both pieces of software mentioned are under the 3-Clause BSD license and source code is available here:
https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui
https://git.featherwallet.org/feather/feather 2021-10-02T03:46:19Z Do you guys keep bookmarks to various sites? If so, how do you manage them? 2021-10-02T03:51:15Z (#) Subscribed! 2021-10-02T04:33:57Z (#) @ Thanks for the response. Fixing my bookmark situation once and for all is the main project for this weekend. It's starting to get ridiculous. I have bookmarks in several browsers and multiple text files spread across a handful of different computers. I'll probably end up writing a blog post about it. 2021-10-02T17:31:48Z (#) Thanks for the input everyone! Saved.io and Golinks look interesting but I want something that has a few more features and stores the information locally. I get it @ but I find that it pays off when I'm trying to find something and it's right there in my bookmarks. 2021-10-02T17:37:05Z (#) @ I agree. You simply cannot use a device for general computing if it has not been made for general computing. 2021-10-02T17:45:47Z (#) @ I have no idea. My favorites are \#79 and \#57 2021-10-06T07:01:17Z I managed to make a template for `pp` that produces an HTML list of twts for a given twtxt file, similar to the way I have it on [my website](https://mckinley.cc/twtxt/2021-aug-dec.html). It even turns HTTP URLs into hyperlinks. It definitely needs some work, but I think I've reached the limit of POSIX sh. I don't know of any way to compare dates or change the format of a timestamp without GNU `date`. `rev` isn't a POSIX utility either so I can't have reverse chronological order without doing some `awk` sorcery or something. 2021-10-06T08:05:42Z (#) Heh. 2021-10-06T08:27:52Z (#) @ I realized I had more to say than I thought and, rather than make a chain of twts, I made a [blog post](https://mckinley.cc/blog/20211006.html) instead. Here's a screenshot what the template makes when it's fed my twtxt feed. I'm going to bed, man. ![](https://twtxt.net/media/H8dsTCLPgJYxPdyvicTGrj) 2021-10-06T16:44:16Z (#) @ Thank you, that looks to be almost exactly what I'm looking for. I'll take a closer look later. 2021-10-06T20:33:40Z (#) @ @ Right, `tac` is the one that reverses lines. Apologies, I always get the two mixed up. What I want to do is automate the HTMLized twtxt pages on my website. I'll need to remove comments, sort the feed chronologically which can definitely be done with `sort`, and then separate the feed into three month periods. Then I'll pass that three month chunk into `pp` which will use the template to generate HTML. I'll need dateutils or something similar to separate the feed into blocks as well as changing the date format to something more readable for the HTML. 2021-10-06T21:16:03Z (#) @ There is absolutely no question that this is not a job for a shell script. I've gone this far out of a want to use `pp` for something useful but now I don't think it's possible to properly escape backslashes in twts without the use of temporary files. I'm thinking this one might have to be put in the folder of purgatory with the rest. 2021-10-06T21:59:34Z (#) @ Yes, that's correct. 2021-10-06T22:09:18Z (#) @ Uh, yeah. Why? 2021-10-07T21:01:12Z (#) @ 
> I think I have a cold

Shhh, don't let the government know! ;) 2021-10-08T02:19:52Z (#) @ @ The suicide of Firefox continues... https://lunduke.substack.com/p/mozilla-firefox-now-shows-advertisements 2021-10-08T02:24:40Z (#) @ Librewolf is the answer, at least for now. 2021-10-08T05:20:45Z (#) @ Welcome to twtxt.net :)
There isn't much information on the home page and the links at the bottom go to pages that require far too much JavaScript to load. Is this just a personal wiki service that functions like a centralized [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) or is there something more? 2021-10-08T06:20:26Z (#) @ Yes, I've been using it for a little while now and it's served my needs very well. The only thing is that you only get one page of results. 99% of the time, though, the 20 or so results on that page are close enough to what I'm looking for.
The image search is very nice. The image resolution is printed right there on the image matrix. There are good search options available like a "Transparent" image type which I've only seen on DuckDuckGo before.
Searching for text is completely usable with JavaScript disabled but it needs to be enabled for image search. 2021-10-08T21:41:15Z (#) Yes they did. The command line options --help, --version, --extended-regexp, --traditional, --loose-exit-status, --restricted, and --verbose in GNU `ed` are not specified in the POSIX standard. Interestingly, GNU also added --longer-option-names for the standard -p and -s. https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html#Invoking-ed https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition/utilities/ed.html 2021-10-08T22:16:03Z (#) @ Impressive, I should learn awk at some point.
Funnily enough, GNU `tail` has no -r option: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/tail-invocation
> GNU tail can output any amount of data (some other versions of tail cannot). It also has no -r option (print in reverse), since reversing a file is really a different job from printing the end of a file; BSD tail (which is the one with -r) can only reverse files that are at most as large as its buffer, which is typically 32 KiB. A more reliable and versatile way to reverse files is the GNU tac command. 2021-10-09T00:51:58Z (#) @ I fully agree with their stance, but it's weird to see an extension present in BSD coreutils but not GNU. 2021-10-09T01:00:18Z This weekend, I'm setting up a private XMPP server for a small group of people. They will insist on connecting using tracking devices, so I'm looking for clients on both Android and iOS. [Conversations](https://conversations.im/) on Android and [SiskinIM](https://siskin.im/) on iOS seem like they would be a good fit. Both are under GPLv3, both support OMEMO, etc.
Do any of you gentlemen have experience with those clients? Please tell me what you think of them, or if I would be better off recommending something else. Thank you. 2021-10-09T17:20:36Z (#kc5haxq) Gotta love Tool. 2021-10-09T17:33:04Z (#xgsr4hq) You can re-enable persistent history and session data if you want, I know I've seen it in the settings somewhere. Kudos on forcing yourself to switch to a proper password manager. I don't think many people know that that their passwords are so insecure when stored in a browser. I believe even now, in the year of our lord 2021, the default behavior in both Duopoly browsers is an unencrypted database. Correct me if I'm wrong. 2021-10-09T18:32:39Z (#u4bhkvq) @ Thank you very much for your help, I'll take a look at it in a few minutes. 2021-10-09T19:31:45Z (#u4bhkvq) @ If I stuck with that shell script abomination I have no doubt I could have hacked something together but it was already taking half a second to process my feed and nearly a minute to process @'s feed, although that one completely broke the script and mangled the output. 2021-10-09T21:20:35Z (#u4bhkvq) @
> I assumed all lines start with a date

So did I in my attempt, but even after a quick `grep -v '^#'` it would still break everything.
I'm trying out the newer version now. Will report back. 2021-10-09T22:07:46Z (#u4bhkvq) I don't see much a difference between the new version and the old version. There are a couple of small bugs I've seen. "2021: January-April" is hard-coded into the twt page template as well as the date "27 April 2021 01:04" for each twt. The timestamps are also printed along with the twt because it just copies the line through. What is `smu` used for? 2021-10-09T22:13:25Z (#u4bhkvq) My template ([most recent copy](https://clbin.com/5g9kS)) attempts to solve the latter two problems, but I think it's another job for `awk` to avoid the dumpster fire below. 
```
timestamp=$(echo "$line" | grep -Eo '^[0-9]{4}-[01][0-9]-[0-3][0-9][Tt][0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9](\.[0-9]+)?([+-][0-2][0-9]:[0-5][0-9]|Zz)')
twt=$(echo "$line" | sed -e 's/"/\"/g; s/```/\`/g' | cut -f 2- -)
hyperlinked=$(echo "$twt" | sed 's|http://[^ ]*[^ ,.;:)>}!]|&|g; s|https://[^ ]*[^ ,.;:)>}!]|&|g')
``` 2021-10-09T22:19:06Z (#u4bhkvq) It looks like I just have no idea what I'm doing, and that's partially true, but those are the best solutions I was able to get while conforming to POSIX (without awk). I'll take the time at some point to learn more about awk and come up with a better solution for this. 2021-10-09T22:27:14Z (#dlpfxuq) @ Yes, I got `smu` installed to run the script and I figured that markdown was being generated somewhere but I don't know where that is or what purpose it serves. 2021-10-09T22:28:25Z (#dlpfxuq) @ Nevermind, I just found it. 
```printf "* [%s: %s](%s)\n", Y, tmrsl[trm], f```
Makes sense now. 2021-10-09T22:30:30Z (#dlpfxuq) @ Oops, I think we just hijacked another thread. Sorry about that @ and co. 2021-10-09T22:32:59Z (#u4bhkvq) @ I've seen a lot of [very impressive things](https://github.com/djanderson/aho) done with awk. 2021-10-10T00:27:31Z (#q64rzya) This is a much appreciated change, excellent work. 2021-10-11T02:26:58Z (#fsy7aja) @> Maybe they'll need to migrate it to a Chromium base

I'm sure it would be more profitable for them to do so. That just makes me wonder why they haven't done it already. I wonder if there's Google money involved (like the default search engine deal with Mozilla) so they can claim they aren't a monopoly. 2021-10-11T04:02:46Z @ (#tkf4e2q)
> Not only is it free to use, but I no longer have to worry about trust, because the operator of the technology is me.

Of course Amazon would never snoop on what you're doing with the service they provide to you for free. They wouldn't do that! They're a "reputable and widely trusted cloud provider" based in a Five Eyes country known for their data security!
Nobody told this guy about Mullvad or iVPN. Plus, if you're doing it right, you don't need that Netflix subscription. 2021-10-11T21:01:38Z (#7fec2fa) @ ? 2021-10-13T04:26:21Z (#5ossspa) I like the 4th. 2021-10-16T01:00:42Z (#7exlyga)
> Let’s just say, I’ve seen this happen with multiple products at work: Step 1, someone builds something which doesn’t support a “reply” feature at all. Step 2, the thing grows, now people want “reply”. Step 3, it gets confusing with all the linear replies and now people want “full threading”. 😁 That’s also basically what happened to twtxt/yarn. Maybe, over time, everything evolves into Usenet. 🤣

@ was right. 2021-10-16T01:10:33Z (#7exlyga) @ If the client isn't tweaked to accommodate "full threading" then the fork function shouldn't be used for replies. I've always treated it as an "off-topic response" button. 2021-10-16T01:20:11Z (#66uo3sa) @ Great addition, thank you. 2021-10-18T03:59:54Z (#wgqmrza) @ @
> The Times reports that Peter Brown, a professor at the University of Western Ontario, places the odds of a meteor crashing into someone's bed at 1 in 100 billion.

I would really like to hear Peter Brown tell us how he came to that conclusion. 2021-10-19T03:16:49Z (#tkbbmjq) Anyone with the name "Chetan Kunte" has to have a good sense of humor, no matter how it's supposed to be pronounced. 2021-10-21T03:19:03Z (#nqgqyqa) @ Isn't a Windows UA part of privacy.resistFingerprinting? 2021-10-25T03:16:31Z (#f3i6phq) I had to do the same a few weeks ago :/ 2021-10-25T05:15:11Z (#isobgnq) At least we aren't calling them "toots". 2021-10-27T21:43:31Z ​ 2021-10-27T21:45:02Z (#7ezffiq) https://twtxt.net/conv/tuhu7ra ![](https://twtxt.net/media/72snCtaMfKcqiXUsFKj2F6) 2021-10-31T03:25:02Z (#ba3fxtq) @ You're correct, but those are actually separate feeds. Green is /twtxt.txt, my "canonical" feed with all my posts. Blue is /twtxt-25.txt, the one with only the most recent 25 posts. I understand how this can create confusion. Does Yarn respect [url](https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html#url) metadata entries as specified on dev.twtxt.net? 2021-10-31T03:29:19Z (#ba3fxtq) @ Ah, I finished editing my post after you already saw it.
> I understand how this can create confusion. Does Yarn respect [url](https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html#url) metadata entries as specified on dev.twtxt.net? 2021-10-31T03:29:45Z (#ba3fxtq) @ Man, you're really killing me with these quick replies. 2021-10-31T03:32:36Z (#ba3fxtq) @ Yeah, isn't the idea to make sure twts from the same feed at different locations have the same hash by specifying a canonical feed url? That should solve the http:// https:// problem *and* the twtxt twtxt-25 problem if the standard is widely adopted. 2021-10-31T03:47:40Z (#ba3fxtq) Hold on. If the standard was implemented verbatim, couldn't anyone could hijack your feed by adding `# url = https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt` to their feed? 2021-10-31T03:58:10Z (#ba3fxtq) How about this: The `url` field is replaced by a `canonical` field and an `alternate` field. If the location that the client has of Feed A doesn't match what it says in Feed A's `canonical` field, the client downloads the canonical feed, Feed B, once to make sure that the location of Feed A appears in Feed B's `alternate` tags. If so, the client will continue to follow Feed A but it will use the canonical URL for hashing.
As I'm typing it, though, it seems like an extremely complicated solution to a problem that isn't all that bad. 2021-10-31T04:00:17Z (#ba3fxtq) @ 
> Hijack it how?

Wouldn't they be able to make their own posts that would appear as having come from your account? 2021-10-31T04:02:17Z (#ba3fxtq)
> As I'm typing it, though, it seems like an extremely complicated solution to a problem that isn't all that bad.

Poor wording. Feedjacking would be a pretty bad problem. I meant that it might be best to keep things as they are without adding any crazy url switching. 2021-10-31T04:13:36Z (#ba3fxtq) @ My apologies. I didn't interpret the specification correctly. The feeds are supposed to be distinct, with the url field used for hashing and hashing only. I got carried away with separate feeds becoming one and whatnot. Ignore everything I've written to this point. Perhaps I should go to bed. 2021-11-02T02:39:58Z @ The landing page for loveprivacy.club is awesome, nice CSS border trick there for the banner. 2021-11-07T18:59:09Z (#yv5ccgq) @ No 2021-11-08T02:44:53Z (#57izhxa) @ Just about anything's better than WordPress. I'm all for it! 2021-11-11T05:48:13Z (#5w2ujnq) @ You should check out [Teddit](https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit) or [Libreddit](https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit). They're privacy and freedom respecting, self-hostable frontends for Reddit. 2021-11-11T19:08:07Z (#k3mizra) I agree with @ There could be some confusion if posts appear in people's clients that are not on the master feed. What if the client keeps retrying and keeps getting the dummy feed over the course of several hours? It would clutter people's clients very quickly. This is a perfect use for the standard HTTP status codes, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. 2021-11-11T19:41:12Z (#3w62djq) @ Your pod thinks that your other feed is an external feed at http://0.0.0.0:8000/user/darch2/twtxt.txt, try adding `--base-url https://yarn.algorave.dk` to your [command line options](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn#web-app) for `yarnd` 2021-11-11T20:40:12Z (#ojngxmq) @ What ended up fixing the problem? 2021-11-11T20:45:09Z (#te2mlfa) @ is sharing diffs and @ is writing 600 word blog posts... What's next? 2021-11-11T20:46:46Z (#ojngxmq) @ Got to love it when things work themselves out. I like the theme on your pod, by the way. 2021-11-11T21:58:13Z (#te2mlfa) @ Looking forward to it. I know there's at least one PGP signed feed out there: https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt 2021-11-12T02:59:34Z (#k3mizra) @ Good idea. 2021-11-12T19:28:32Z (#hwssqiq) @ I just can't find the motivation to work on it. I really appreciate your help, though. I'll definitely be using your script as a template. 2021-11-13T00:48:42Z (#jefhwua) That's not a bad idea, but I'm sure it would perpetuate the near-universal assumption that there is a favicon at /favicon.ico on any website. I wrote a whole blog post about it: [Browsers: Please stop requesting /favicon.ico automatically.](https://mckinley.cc/blog/20210824.html) 2021-11-14T04:08:33Z (#5pcnfsa) @ *Nine* containers?!? What the hell does it do with them? A *gigabyte* of RAM? I don't even think my web browser is using that much right now! 2021-11-14T17:50:59Z (#lrmnw3a) @ Whenever I have some pictures I need to share with a few others, I just put them on a web page somewhere that isn't linked anywhere else and has `` on for good measure. Nobody I'm sharing it with has to sign up for anything, no entity outside my control is compressing the images, screwing with the metadata, or facially recognizing anyone, and you can just right click > save as if you want to download them. 2021-11-14T17:59:13Z (#lrmnw3a) I think it would be a much harder sell to get people on a weird social media service they've never heard of and encrypted feeds (as well as signed feeds) would make clients much more complex. I always have the anti-feature view, though. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing. 2021-11-14T18:04:34Z (#nfogdjq) @ I just don't have a good idea for one. 2021-11-14T21:26:23Z (#lrmnw3a) Reading this thread, I see two things:
1. The example of image sharing can easily be solved by creating a private file hosting service that doesn't suck like @ said
2. We are getting close to the original purpose of Facebook here. A social media service based on identities rather than accounts and designed for people who know each other in meatspace to connect online. Facebook already does what we're talking about well; it has strong access controls to only show your content to people you choose. The only problem, of course, is that Facebook is evil. 2021-11-14T21:49:32Z (#lrmnw3a) "Social media" can take several forms.
- A "Twitter style" open microblogging system that allows people to discard and create identities with little consequences
- A "Facebook style" closed-off system that is more focused on real people interacting with each other instead of their online personas
- An "Internet forum style" system that focuses on discussion above all else 2021-11-14T21:52:56Z (#lrmnw3a) Twtxt and Yarn are designed as "Twitter style" systems. Perhaps twtxt can be adapted to a Facebook style system with that kind of access control and end-to-end encryption. Perhaps the result would be incredible. I am skeptical, however, of the idea that it would mix well with the current twtxt/Yarn ecosystem built on openness. 2021-11-15T02:22:23Z (#k54moya) Heh. 2021-11-15T05:39:13Z They're all just data collection companies with an apparently legitimate service attached, but this one takes the cake. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-11-09/column-trader-joes-parking-app 2021-11-17T23:34:21Z (#zqt2f5a) It's probably just a PR stunt like last time. 2021-11-18T22:19:40Z (#zqt2f5a) @ @ I'm talking about the independent repair program that @ mentioned. 2021-11-19T03:49:44Z RED ALERT: THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MONERO HAS BEGUN
> And yes, you can argue that there are legal and moral reasons to use a privacy coin. But these coins are running up against the same problem as encryption and other technologies to protect privacy: They can’t allow for dissidents, activists, and people from marginalized communities to stay safe without also sheltering criminals and purveyors of hate.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/monero-privacy-coin-racists-cybercriminals.html
https://slate.com/technology/2021/11/monero-privacy-coin-racists-cybercriminals.html 2021-11-23T18:50:48Z New icons? I like them! 2021-12-01T06:48:07Z (#wt5j2xq) I am not familiar with the functionality of Telegram or Signal, but things I have heard about both make me skeptical of their entries in this document.
Signal requires a phone number to sign up, and I believe that you can connect it to your contact list on your phone to find other people using Signal. If this is the case, wouldn't they have to store at least a hash of your phone number? Hashed information is listed elsewhere in the document. 2021-12-01T06:48:15Z (#wt5j2xq) From what I've heard about Telegram, you have to explicitly enable end-to-end encryption with another person and you can't do that in group chats. Shouldn't that be listed in the document?
It's very likely that I'm wrong in all this, can anyone familiar with Signal or Telegram confirm? 2021-12-01T07:02:46Z (#hslaqhq) I'll dive into this some more tomorrow. It's 11 over here and my cognitive abilities are slipping. 2021-12-02T04:13:25Z (#qoqnqoq) @ Did you bypass the character limit? 2021-12-14T05:20:47Z [History of the browser user-agent string](https://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/) 2021-12-14T05:53:45Z (#nirzyka) @ It's the best thing I've read all week, hands down. 2021-12-20T22:59:42Z (#4zh3zgq) @ Terrific video!