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My New Year gift, for good luck.
Buddha
I don’t play it. I never did. But there are many clones are there, I imagine. And there will be much more, I am sure. Now, being purchased for the low seven figures ain’t bad!
Nothing these days, and I mean nothing, is built like that keyboard. Should you ever held one in your hands—heck, you almost need your arms to hold it—you will know exactly what I am talking about. This is the kind of keyboard you will find on nuclear silos. It is the kind of keyboard you want on a zombiecalypse, if you don't have an aluminium bat. It is just, pretty much, indestructible. Yet, a pleasure to use.
@movq it is! If you live with someone, I bet they hate you when you stay late at night on the computer, because she sure is loud. She makes for a good home defence weapon too; you could knock down anyone with her, and she will not even have a scratch. 😂
For the curious—or the lost—we are talking about a document @screem created on the Yarn repository wiki, about running a Yarn pod on Docker with Apache2.
@prologic I don't think this upcoming acquisition means they are killing the company, but the opposite. So, no less competition, but the same.
@prologic I thinking from the point of view of having an encrypted feed (or more) be under a persona. If that's to happen, and personas are chosen to have that separate encrypted feed(s), wouldn't they then need to have the ability to follow as well? If the separate feed is going to be handled in a way to doesn't involve personas, then discard this, and my previous twt.
@screem it is the Coriolis effect the one to fault! In all seriousness, there would be a revolution here if the Internet were out for that long. Have you heard of smart homes? Well, they are not so much without Internet. 😬
@prologic which reminds me that aliases, or alter-ego feeds need work. You can’t edit the last twt, nor delete it, and you can’t follow anyone with them. The only way to have a separate feed right now is by either having an alias, or creating a new account. I don’t think we want do go that second route.
@screem chill day, on a Monday?! Wow, I want my tomorrow be like your today, mate! Usually Mondays are like an unwanted pest, like, for almost everyone. 😂 Happy Monday (sent by someone still stuck in the past)!
@eaplmx I think you are not understanding what’s being proposed—I don’t claim I fully do either, but I didn’t comment on @prologic’s twt because of that same reason—or didn’t understand the RFC @prologic linked. From the decrypt portion:
> Client sees a Twt that starts wiht BEGIN SALTPACK ENCRYPTED MESSAGE and attempts to decrypt it with its Private Key
If successful, it is displays.
If unsuccessful the client ignores this Twt and does not display it
It seems encryption will be invisible to the end user. Again, I don’t claim to know much about what’s being proposed, I will let those who do discuss it. 😂
@lyse yup. As I wrote on IRC, I only take screenshots to show that which cannot be seeing in text: a design, an UI, and the like. For everything else text is king, without a doubt.
@screem consider yourself not minded, LOL. It would have been easier and, perhaps, more everlasting, to put the screenshots on git as well. They can be referenced from the wiki, and it would be all self-contained. Right now you have documentation hot linking images on your pod. For me that's a no-no.
@eldersnake ah, no biggies. I am looking everywhere. I wonder—other than the chip shortage—what is causing these boards to be unavailable. I would go for 4GB, but I figure, if I am already investing on four toys, I rather get the "fully loaded" one.
@eldersnake where do you see them for $135? I will order four right now at that price. Give me a link, please.
@eldersnake thank you. I was thinking on simply buying the PoE caps, and using a PoE switch. That way, there is only one cable out, which can be organised very tidy. The issue now is finding the boards. None is available. If any of you can get a hold one one (or more, I am trying to get four) 4B, 8GB, under $100, grab it for me. I will pay shipping to the US! 😊
@kayos don’t we all, mate, don’t we all. It is only on weekends that I get to do whatever it pleases me, somehow. Bitcask as in the key/store value store (Golang), or the Erlang app with similar function?
@prologic good, but I will still the Pis, which are no where to be found, sadly. Well, scalpers have them, at exorbitant prices. I have no choice but to wait.
@lyse ah, I misunderstood! You mean, if what we are blabbing about gets implemented. You are correct. That would be the trade off.
@lyse nope, just signed up on twtxt.net, no email was needed. @prologic, please feel free to delete "copernicus" from your pod. 😁
I see that animated movie is on US Netflix, so will give it a try tonight, considering you recommend it. I haven't watch an animated movie in ages, but I watched a series, "One-Punch Man", last year, or year before with my older kid. It was very entertaining.
I am finding it to be an impossible task to find the Raspberry Pis I want. I am after four 4B, on 8GB version Pis. Board only. If anyone knows of a place to buy them, please let me know.
@lyse saw them all. Your "sister prison" photo was the only one I liked (not wonder you premiere it!). I like the perspective, the DOD, and the colours.
When it comes to blisters, they normally occur because of badly fitting shoes. It happened to me often when I started to walk longer (16 kilometres or so) daily, and later run. I had to stop at the beginning because of the same. After going to a specialised shop, and getting shoes for the task (running shoes) properly fitted, the blisters never returned. So, yeah, good fitting shoes are paramount.
I am looking to invest on up to four Raspberry Pi 4B, to play and experiment on various uses. I am looking to have them in a stack, similar to this, SSD and all. The question is, does anyone knows of a solution to power them all, without having to use individual power bricks? I want something that is as much compact as possible, and having dangling power cables in addition to their ethernet cable is something I am looking to avoid.
Pinging @jlj and @eldersnake as they are the Pi cowboys around here, but if anyone else knows, please chime in!
@thecanine good points. One thing I wanted to add is that one fights shit with fire, to a dusty crisp, and then use some water to clean the dusty shit off. Spotify is in for money. The guy is in for money—lies be damned. But when harm comes from it, GOTO fighting shit with fire. 😂
@lyse now that you mention the dressing thing, no matter how cold it gets here, I am out and about in my trademarked shorts, and t-shirts. Whilst everyone else’s bundled up, I truly feel alive dressed as “normal” as always. And yes, finally the “Winter” we were supposed to have during Christmas decided to show up… for a few hours, or days. 😂
We woke up with 2°C today, with winds making it feel like -1°C. Tomorrow is forecasted to be -3°C. Sun shines, though, so it feels great!
@prologic I see a bigger problem with cryptocurrency coming up. There are now cryptocurrency mutual funds, and hypothetically many thousands of people investing on those. An entire country (El Salvador) betting and reinventing their financial present and future around it. I like to spectate.
@prologic it could certainly slow down a potential malicious user registering. Now, since we do not keep emails on database, are we going to check for existing hashes, so different users do not register reusing the same email address?
That stupid guy is back on the "spotlight", and Neil Young (the musician) asked to be removed from Spotify because of it—and more musicians will follow! "Rogan has been widely criticized for spreading misinformation about coronavirus vaccines on his podcast, which is now distributed exclusively on Spotify." I created an account on Spotify just to promptly cancel it, to add my voice to the protest.
@prologic the transition from register to login is sudden. There is nothing that tells the user what has happened. You go to register, enter details that have no challenge (no repeat password, for example), then after hitting register you are suddenly on a similar screen to login. I know it is frictionless, but the first time I used I was confused. That's what I meant.
Having a registering user go pending and through an approval is often used on many forums, and systems. At the very minimum they are self approving by having the user follow a link emailed to their provided email address. The system we talked about yesterday (my yesterday) was Pleroma.
I don’t think those users—though similar in names—are bots. If they were you would have hundreds, or thousands. They are just people manually creating accounts, perhaps confused by the registration process, or creating accounts for different purposes (different feeds), or just testing things out.
@prologic why such an involved method? It can’t get easier than save image to photo library, and some. The only reason I can come up with is that you don’t use iCloud at all, and don’t use the Photos.app. That’s the only explanation.
@prologic a lot, you said? It will be only two more columns, are you sure it will have that much of an impact?
@james testing this, as I did what I did the last time, simply hit reply. Some Lorem Ipsum now. "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec commodo arcu est. Maecenas sit amet neque dolor. Donec ultrices justo eget risus eleifend vestibulum. Ut eu varius odio."
@prologic I rather not. LOL. I am eager to see Yarn.social grow, but I wouldn't want communists, or fascists, or neo-nazis to be around. I want to make it clear that I am not comparing the "anti-work" people with them, just using those other groups as an example of the kind of people I would not want to have as a neighbour—here or anywhere else.
@thecanine I applaud you, mate, I really do! Yes, I am attached to my phone, it goes were I go. I can tell you, though, I am not alone by any means. But yes, as I was attached to my computer before, but couldn't carry it with me wherever I went, I am now to my phone. It has become an appendix to my body, kind of. Maybe one of these days I will need to detox. For real.
@jlj I don't think @thecanine is too far from "some" truths. I have lived under communism, and see some similarities. I am all for all workers having rights, and protections under the law, yes. There is a way to achieve those. I do not sympathise with the "anti-work" movement, or whatever it is, nor subscribe to their points of view, nor ideology.
@movq funnily enough I was going to suggest something similar (Amazon link, non-associated). It has a nice rating, but it ain't cheap. The maximum I have ever paid for a keyboard around $170, for a Keychron (which now collects dust in a closet). Since I use Macs, I have come to prefer Apple wired keyboards (Amazon link, non-associated). They last forever.
@thecanine I am yet to ever forget my mobile phone. Even when it used to be the size of a shoe, I never left it behind. I have also never, ever, ran out of battery. Not even when traveling it has happen (I have a very high quality battery bank). And yes, I run with it tucked-in inside an arm sleeve.
Yet I believe in backup plans, yes. I would be a strong proponent to have things like these linked to my driver's licence, if anything for convenience. It would be yet-another-thing to trust the government with, but hey, they already control pretty much everything else so, what the heck! 😅
@movq I had to zoom into that photo, because it looked like at was a regular keyboard that someone carefully cut in half. 😅 I have never used one—same as I have never used an static ball mouse—and I doubt I could type at all in one. About your dilemma, are you willing/wanting to try a different one?
@screem I figure it will be a while until a user joins in—unless I go and create a user, like I have done it elsewhere. Yarn is relatively unknown but the word is slowly spreading. I showed it to wife on mobile, and the first thing she said was "that text area is too small." I wonder if changing it from 3 rows to 5 rows default would be better. What do you think, @ullarah and @prologic?
@eaplmx regardless of how good or bad a working week might be, Friday's are almost always wished for because, if anything—and for most people—it means the working week is over. And that, all on its own, is reason to celebrate. 😊
I am sorry your week wasn't so great, but I hope and wish that, at the end of the day, you can be here to say the same thing the comic strip's blue haired character is saying: "I won!"
@lyse nice! I would have picked the grazing sheep (02) to premiere instead :-). So nice! I also like 10, very much. Did you notice that, just like cows do, sheep also graze all in the same direction, pretty much?
@stxh 你解决了哪个问题？我很好奇！哦，你好，来自美国阳光州！
@movq I agree with the gather feedback. Email and IRC doesn't work all the time, specially if you don't know who they are on email or IRC. If communication across HTTP users and Gemini users is wanted, or even between Gemini users themselves, this is rather important. At least, I see it that way.
Well, it just came to mind that there is no way to notify anyone using twtxt with the Gemini protocol yet. So my exercise was rather worthless, I am afraid. @apex has no contact information on its gemini page, just a "Hello Gemini!"
@apex, pinging you again, because my previous mention did not work (did not expand because of the protocol was assumed to be HTTP), and I would like you to see my reply. I am now following you, so it should work.
Am I the only one truly tired of having "water" and "Mars" in one sentence, or paragraph, or article? For as long as I remember—and I remember things from where I was three years old—I have been hearing about water on Mars news, articles, and forecasts. And, truly, to this day, I don't yet now, for certain. Is there water on Mars? It seems that everyone agrees there was, yes, but with so many articles, and news headlines, and science papers, I don't know if there is any now.
I am only worried, you know, in case I get stranded in there and get thirsty. I want to know whether I should bring some with me, or not. That's all.
@prologic yes, registrations doesn't grant you access. All registrations go under approval before you can login (mine is pending approval). I am assuming @jlj reads them all before approving.
@apex I came across this one late last year. I liked it because of its simplicity. Added myself to it; it has a lot of people added, but most of them are no longer active. It would be nice to maintain something like it.
@prologic it all stays local, on your phone, encrypted. Apple stores all of your immunisation data on your device, so no one has access to it but you. "All of your data is encrypted and only accessible with your passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID. So however you use the Health app, you’re always in control of your data", from Apple.
@prologic oh, mate, not pointing fingers, just noticing. I think you overwork yourself quite a bit, each day, and that's bound to take its toll. How many times I told you "hit the bed!" (I feel like a dad again, LOL), and how many times have we heard from you "going to sleep!", just to find you yarning from bed, and even waking up because an idea lit up? Takes notes, do later. Rest! 😴
People that are awake when I normally sleep are "sleeping" in their yarning. I used to wake up to a bunch of interesting things to read, and interact with, but lately there seems not be much happening. I will have to make up for that today. Let's see what I can do.
@jlj oh dear oh dear! I feel for you. I figure it is difficult to maintain a separate account for management, as it gets in the way, right? I should create an account on your instance, just so I can experience on my own flesh what it looks like. Yeah, I am that masochist. 😂
@james what are we testing now? The mentions? I will try to use the full mention for now, as I know that works without a hitch. The reason behind this approach is, I am trying to minimise edits—or avoid them altogether—and the non-mention mentions were messing up that self-commitment. 😅
@jlj I am curious. What does you Pleroma timeline looks like? You know, the timeline you see whilst logged in. The anonymous one is a mess of almost unintelligible content, and I am wondering how different a non-anonymous one will be.
Letting vaccines certificates (and other medical information) be on Wallet (iOS app) is something I have been wishing, along with having my passport, driver’s licence, registration and insurance. Why do I have to carry little cards and booklets around for, on the digital age? Even for backup purposes, I could chose to share that information with wife, or children, just in case something happens to my phone.
I mean, I am fine having the paper information with me, it is just super handy to have it on the phone. I could forget papers, I won’t forget my phone.
“Knowing when and how to say “No” is one of the most important responsibilities of a software maintainer.” — Knowing when to say 'no'
"Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2022 first quarter ended December 25, 2021. The Company posted an all-time revenue record of $123.9 billion, up 11 percent year over year, and quarterly earnings per diluted share of $2.10." — *Apple Reports First Quarter Results*
@screem so, items 2, 3, 4, and 5 are under step 1? If that is not so—and I know it is a draft—I would recommend renaming "Step 0" and "Step 1" to 0) and 1). That way it is consistent all the way. Just my $0.25. ☺️
@prologic as I wrote on #jlsmvha, all translations suck, just don't bother. Leave translation to the OS, or to the user, if anything. Paraphrasing myself, if the worse comes to worse, just let people pick the language they want to see the discover/timeline twts, based on a preference setting. Implementations details not clear at the moment because, really, it hasn't been an issue yet.
@prologic all translations suck, let's not even think about using one, Libre or not. 🤣 I am sorry I am giving you a hard time, I meant it as a joke (and I laughed at it, by the way), not in full seriousness. If this goes out of hand, and it gets supper difficult to catch up because of different languages, then a "see only content in language X" is the way to go.
@prologic easy, use Safari. Now, didn't you want people to interact in many languages, the more the merrier? This is nothing in comparison to what it may come, so, be careful with what you wish! 😜
@movq ei, ei suomeksi eikä tanskaksi. Pidän todella kaikista kielistä, olen vain kauhea. Pystyn käyttämään sujuvasti vain englantia ja espanjaa. Ymmärrän myös (mutta en puhu) italiaa, portugalia ja vähän ranskaa.
@darch I'll give you points for that! I agree it is fun to do what you like, and enjoy the fruits of your creation. You are almost there, only needing a few changes here and there. Don't give up, mate! If I come across as giving you a hard time, please understand I am simply pushing you to do better. ☺️ Good luck, and code on!
@thecanine beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for sure. I would probably buy it if the team involved in creating the icons was the one making it, as a piece of memorabilia, and nothing else. Now, an icon's book, from a bunch of unknowns—at least to me? Meh, pass.
@lyse in an easy to read twt you not only managed to explain to @darch the issues his code has, and potential solutions, but by now he fully understands he shouldn't be meddling with PHP programming, and instead use a solution provided by people who do that for a living. 🤣 It will not be fully fool proof, but certainly better than what he has right now.
@movq widerstehen sie nicht, "Widerstand ist sinnlos, sie werden assimiliert!" Im ernst, es würde mir nichts ausmachen, übersetzungen mit Ihnen beiden zu verwenden, weil Ihre themen oft ansprechend und interessant sind und sich gerne mit Ihnen unterhalten. Und wie sie sehen können, kann ich auch fließend Deutsch schreiben. :-P
@lyse LOL. But it is so easy on macOS: highlight, translate, done. This is what I got, troll :-P :
> Hihi, that's not true. Good David thinks we are much more well-behaved. Or quickly displaces. I just counted and came to seventeen. Maybe I also overlooked something, quite possible. So this is the eighteenth German message I write to the dear @movq And now I also greet everyone - especially our emigrant Spaniards - who have taken the trouble to translate my senseless troll report. :-)
Hahahaha! Senseless, eh? :-D :-P
It would haven been easier to have said, "I would love to see multiuser pods in all continents." That way no one will feel left out. To @eaplmx, you know it! We are America, the rest is third world. 🤣
@adi I saw them long time ago (way before you added the function to create https://adi.onl/twts); nothing has changed since the last time I saw them, but I might be mistaken. They are very simple, but they seem to work well for you. It looks you like to use the Korn shell. And "that's all I have to say about that" (with Forrest Gump accent).
How misinformation work? "Repetition, alignment with prior beliefs, and hearing from trusted sources are factors that correlate with more belief in information, regardless of its truth. Those who are more likely to believe specifically in falsehoods in general lack critical thinking skills, and digital and media literacy." — YouTube, "The Psychology of Misinformation"
The Psychology of Misinformation
@prologic ah, so it truly was “we finally did it!” instead of “I”. You left your team behind! Remember, there is no “I” in team 😂. Now, do it again, this time without help at all. It might take even longer, but you are bound to complete it eventually.
@somebody hey! I agree, pretty neat avi you were given. Welcome to your pod, mate, I hope you get to feel right at home!
@thecanine the numbers are on the enterprise usage. Through their market penetration, Microsoft offers deals that are hard to pass, or makes product adoption a vital piece to grant licensing to other products, thus “bundling” them in a “sweet” deal, making it hard—if not impossible—to pass.
@lyxal start saving to buy her a new one, or tell her to do so 😅. It is bound to fail again sooner rather than later. I would also open it, as it seems there is a lose wiring, or connection. It should be simple to fix it for good.
@prologic Supreme Court Justices are only nominated by a US President. They sit at the apex of the justice system. So a President will nominate for Supreme Court Justice the candidate that adheres to the things its political party believes. There is much involved, but race, women rights, workers rights, the environment, just to mention a few, are at stake. President Obama nominated one, Garland, and republicans stalled—because they had majority—and he wasn’t elected, effectively giving the picking choice to Trump (he nominated two, because Justice Ruth died whilst he was President).
If you really want to read more about it, this short entry is simple, and to the point.
@prologic ha, we found the lazy one! 😂 Did you read the page I linked? Some interesting finds there on the pros and cons of using the trailing slash, or not. I am old school, what can I say?
Super Court Justice Stephen Breyer is set to announce his retirement, avoiding a Ruth Bader Ginsburg mistake, and giving President Biden the change to nominate his successor. Let’s see how his replacement goes, and if a Merrick Garland’s show is repeated by the Elephants in the house.
When linking to a location that is a directory, I always add the trailing slash. Always. It seems that more than one host agrees with what I do—which isn't unique to me, many people does it, and has done it since the birth of the web, which is why I also do it. There is no reason to leave out the training slash other than sheer laziness.
@eldersnake we were talking about that the other day, and wondering how you were faring with so many cloudy days. At least you have this other pod, so you don't go fully offline!
@prologic it is coming, no doubts. I have only gotten one, but I have two main domains, so I am still to get the other. Google is doing this the same way they do with new features, in stages. I was thinking they might be testing their waters, to see the reaction. Though it is bound to be lawsuits on this, I am assuming Google already consulted their own lawyers, and got a go-ahead.
@prologic they did it once. Just once, that I remember. If it was done often, it would make it hard to interact. Imagine how far—not!—Linux would have gotten should Linus insisted in conducting all development in Finnish. No good, right?
Again, people can spin their pods in whatever language—actually, that would be kind of hard because Yarn’s translation is seriously lacking, but I digress—but I would like not to see twts in languages I can’t understand. Let’s say I follow “Albert”, who normally writes in English. It is all fine and dandy. If he starts interacting with people in Icelandic, more and more, I will have to unfollow him. How would that help?
@prologic I think you misunderstood me completely. Anybody can do what they please. Now, if lots of people start using different languages, languages I don’t understand, and those pop on my timeline—whether because people I follow replies, or something else—then that’s bound to be a problem. I remember a while back you asking someone writing in Chinese what were they saying, and stating you didn’t understand. It could easily get messy.
@screem lucky you, so very close to the weekend! Tomorrow is going to be busy one here but, to compensate, I am going to take Tuesday off, because it is Lunar New Year. 🐯
@prologic translation is already built-in on my OS of choice. I have a huge problem with multilingual social, it is one of the reasons, if not the reason, I don’t use Mastodon. Now, if you make it somehow that I only see en_US, or en_GB, I am OK with it. 👌🏻
🥳 I got you loud and clear, but I was following you already. Also, with the new WebMentions, all you need is to mention someone in a pod with @nick@pod-address, and they will see the mention under "Mentions" regardless of following status. That's quite handy!
That's nice! The user counter might make it easier for potential users to make a decision whilst cresting their account, based on how overloaded—or not—a pod could be, or how much chatter—or not—a pod might carry.
@movq it is an exaggerated, supper aggressive simulation. Maybe if you were using a 15-20 years old cathode display it would get closer to that simulation, but I never experienced. I used that kind of displays from the mid 1980s till almost late 1990s.
Wow, I believe @prologic got nervous due to the traffic spike this morning, and has increased his pod feed interval checking to 15 minutes, or more. Twts from my pods to twtxt.net are taking "a lifetime" to arrive.
@thecanine oh, it is art. For as shocking as it might seeing, I liked it very much. I enjoyed the robotic arm graceful moves, and the, almost human, inefficacy of it (slowly, but surely, the liquid is getting away). There is a lot of art that you need to put your brain to it, to understand. Some will enchant you with its beauty, other will be so incomprehensible that it will be worth looking. And other that will just make you "meh".
Off topic, please follow me, and drop @fastidious, as I am going to be using this one from now on, exclusively. :-)
iOS 15.3 (notes) is out with security bug fixes, etc., but is worth mentioning specifically that it includes a fix for a Safari bug that could cause your recent browsing history and details about your identity to be leaked to malicious entities. To see if you are affected, browse to this website on your iOS device, and run the test. After installing the update no related security issues were detected on any of my devices.
Ah, I just saw the love email from Google that I was expecting, though not looking forward to. As some say, "the shit got real!"
End of a free ride
The fact, even if not fully accurate to the dot, that Teams has that many (270M monthly active) users made me shiver. I wouldn't be using it if I had a choice; alas, I got none. So, I guess with those numbers, and the company's quarterly earnings, Nadella's saying that Microsoft "state of the union" is "strong".
@lyse I almost chocked with a piece of baby spinach when I read "I will immediately get eye cancer if I tried to use this". It all all fun, right? Until you go blind. Then your children, and your children children will curse "*Swordfish90*" name for eternity. :-D
"Every time the beautiful Regina rejects his advances, James pushes a red button and tries again, all the while unaware of the reality and consequences of his actions." On YouTube "One-Minute Time Machine". It is fun to watch, and only a bit over 5 minutes to lose, if you think it was a waste.
One-Minute Time Machine
Because I can't see @anth reply with the link to the shortcut page on this new pod (I truly can't figure out why), I am copying the link from other pod that has it here, so I can bookmark it. The link to the iOS Shortcut that involves doing and SSH session to a host is: http://a.9srv.net/shortcuts
@prologic not just complex, but detailed. I am not sure how they were envisioned, but I imagine some of the plants—if not all—were planted on special containers, maybe with some glass involved, to be able to see their root system. Or, perhaps, they are extremely carefully uprooted with many notes, and drawings along the way. I might be looking too deep into it, but conceptualising the plants' root system without a visual cue would be, at least for me, extremely hard.
This artwork at the Guggenheim Museum, designed to keep a blood looking liquid from going too far away from it. Its name? "Can’t Help Myself". See a YouTube video of it in action.
Can’t Help Myself