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I made some improvements to the Twtxt Search service tonight. Hopefully this update makes it a bit easier to use and resolves some of your critical pieces of feedback @lyse 🤞 The main idea being that by default the search is basically a "Query String" type search, meaning that it does what you expect. If you search for a simple term, it'll do that, If you enclose your search term in "double quotes" it'll search for that phrase. If you then want to search against specific fields you can do so with mentions:prologic@twtxt.net for example. I hope this makes the useability much better 👌
I made some improvements to the Twtxt Search service tonight. Hopefully this update makes it a bit easier to use and resolves some of your critical pieces of feedback @lyse 🤞 The main idea being that by default the search is basically a "Query String" type search, meaning that it does what you expect. If you search for a simple term, it'll do that, If you enclose your search term in "double quotes" it'll search for that phrase. If you then want to search against specific fields you can do so with mentions:prologic@twtxt.net for example. I hope this makes the useability much better 👌
[47°09′19″S, 126°43′47″W] Wind speed: N/A -- Cannot comunicate
Diggie dog can't download archives from gopher, he writes: "It's too long link."
(That hard disk was in a Windows box and there was no such thing as RAID or anything similar. Didn’t have the money for fancy stuff anyway.)
(That hard disk was in a Windows box and there was no such thing as RAID or anything similar. Didn’t have the money for fancy stuff anyway.)
(That hard disk was in a Windows box and there was no such thing as RAID or anything similar. Didn’t have the money for fancy stuff anyway.)
(That hard disk was in a Windows box and there was no such thing as RAID or anything similar. Didn’t have the money for fancy stuff anyway.)
@mckinley Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.

I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤

CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.

And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤~
@mckinley Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.

I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤

CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.

And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤~
@mckinley Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.

I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤

CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.

And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤~
@mckinley Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.

I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤

CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.

And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤~
@bender Yep, it’s pass. 👍
@bender Yep, it’s pass. 👍
@bender Yep, it’s pass. 👍
@bender Yep, it’s pass. 👍
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′44″W] Working impossible due to blizzard
@bender Definitely a bug here, but I think it's an old outstanding bug that I have to figure out again and fix 🤦‍♂️
@bender Definitely a bug here, but I think it's an old outstanding bug that I have to figure out again and fix 🤦‍♂️
@bender Definitely a bug here, but I think it's an old outstanding bug that I have to figure out again and fix 🤦‍♂️
@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅
@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅
@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅
@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅
@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅
@dbucklin I would recommend using a client that at least supports the Twt Hash and Twt Subject extensions 😅
@mckinley When typesetting our graduation newspaper ("Abizeitung" as we call it), I destroyed the work of a whole day. :-D

I plugged in the USB stick of my mate (exact same model as mine) to do a backup of that day's work. Since mine was already plugged in, the mount path /media/USB_DISK or whatever it was already existed. Throughout the day I saved everything on my drive (I don't know the reason for that anymore). The newly plugged in thumb drive then got automatically mounted by Konqueror as /media/USB_DISK2 or something like that. I wanted to show off my other mate how cool Linux was and how quickly the command line was able to get things done. By force of habit I cded into the wrong path to first rm -rf *, so that there was room for the new stuff. Indeed, the data was ruined super quickly.

When I noticed my fuckup I aborted immediately, but it was already too late. I went to the family computer to research recovery tools. All the files I was able to restore were corrupted. The Scribus XML files ended somewhere in the middle. So then we decided to redo all the work instead of wasting more time trying to fill in the missing XML. Unsurprisingly, it turned out that not only the last closing tags were missing, much more of the contents disappeared. I remember that I gladly noticed the second typesetting round went much faster. :-)

I could be totally wrong here, but I think one problem was that write operations to external devices were not immediately synced, one had to expicitly flush the write cache, e.g. by umounting it properly. Early on in the typesetting process we decided to have each page or spread as separate *.sla, because a) our computers were not powerful enough to handle a large project and b) once the layout template was cast in stone, we could easily work in parallel and join everything in the end. That helped to limit the damage to just my work. My mate's was still there I believe.

Oh yeah, that's certainly the best strategy, @bender! ;-)*
[47°09′02″S, 126°43′09″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from W
@mckinley Fair 👌
@mckinley Fair 👌
@mckinley Fair 👌
@bender Over ten years now 😆 And you're right! Problem is no-one makes the chassis anymore 😢
@bender Over ten years now 😆 And you're right! Problem is no-one makes the chassis anymore 😢
@bender Over ten years now 😆 And you're right! Problem is no-one makes the chassis anymore 😢
@prologic how old is the actual appliance? You can replace disks all you want/need, but the life of the appliance itself is finite.
To be honest I don't find it all that inflexible.

When you consider that you're limited by hardware anyway, you plan your ZFS array ahead of time like I did.

As the years go on and drives fail you eventually replaces all disks with slightly larger ones.
To be honest I don't find it all that inflexible.

When you consider that you're limited by hardware anyway, you plan your ZFS array ahead of time like I did.

As the years go on and drives fail you eventually replaces all disks with slightly larger ones.
To be honest I don't find it all that inflexible.

When you consider that you're limited by hardware anyway, you plan your ZFS array ahead of time like I did.

As the years go on and drives fail you eventually replaces all disks with slightly larger ones.
@mckinley the best way to suffer no data loss is to not have data at all. 😂 I haven’t lost a single datum.
@mckinley No
@mckinley No
@mckinley No
@bender Yes bit weird 🤔
@bender Yes bit weird 🤔
@bender Yes bit weird 🤔
DiggieDog in Play store is good.
@prologic I am following @dbucklin@ but mentioning him renders that broken thing you see on this twt.
@dbucklin hmmm
@dbucklin hmmm
@dbucklin hmmm
@prologic this happened. Mentions often break. 😩
@dbucklin Hey! 👋
@dbucklin Hey! 👋
@dbucklin Hey! 👋
@bender Wgat happened? 🤔
@bender Wgat happened? 🤔
@bender Wgat happened? 🤔
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:956 ARCHIVED:71640 CACHE:2397 FOLLOWERS:15 FOLLOWING:14
@aelaraji images are linked using markdown "standard", like so:


![Description](https://link.to.the.image/image.jpg)
I guess I'm not missing my GUI Web Browser yet. In fact, I think I'm enjoying this. 😆
not sure if this is the right way to embed an image LOL

I might even drop to TTY to try stuff I read about earlier today.
I guess I'm not missing my GUI Web Browser yet. In fact, I think I'm enjoying this. 😆
not sure if this is the right way to embed an image LOL

I might even drop to TTY to try stuff I read about earlier today.
@aelaraji hehehehe, I was trying to mention *dbucklin* but Yarn is broken.
I vote for jenny too. It is pretty cool. Even more so if you are a mutt’s fan!
@dbucklin apparently Txtnish isn't maintained anymore. if interested you could give Jenny a try.
I've never had to look back once I've had it set up with mutt following @movq 's guide
@dbucklin apparently Txtnish isn't maintained anymore. if interested you could give Jenny a try.
I've never had to look back once I've had it set up with mutt following @movq 's guide
@hecanjog I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.
@hecanjog I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.
@hecanjog I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.
@hecanjog I was a programmer for almost 20 years before I figured that out. Never too late.
@bender What are we testing? 🫡
@bender What are we testing? 🫡
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Redemption https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/05/02/redemption.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
@bender Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies.
@bender Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies.
@bender Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies.
@bender Seems to be working! I'm using mdom's txtnish and I'm figuring out replies.
@dbucklin Hi there! Well, I got your message. Let me know if you have gotten mine.
@dbucklin further test. It seems Yarn is very finicky.
Let’s see if this works, shall we? 😊
@someone testing…
And that's... bad, right @prologic?
So, started following https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt, but there is no way to interact with him. Mentions will never come out right.
@ OK, lets see if I can make you write something, after those long silent years! :-)
www.davebucklin.com@www.davebucklin.com OK, lets see if I can make you write something, after those long silent years! :-)
@<@www.davebucklin.com https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt> OK, lets see if I can make you write something, after those long silent years! :-)
@bender Howdy.
@bender Howdy.
@bender Howdy.
@bender Howdy.
@movq Wasn't too bad in the end. Just a hand full louder thunders and decent wind. It smells really good after the light rain. Mjam!
Ha! Found it:

> Due to the Btrfs RAID issues, Synology chose Linux RAID. Based on the diagram below, Synology has implemented the layers in between the file systems and disks to ensure that Synology has full control to achieve the highest stability.
@mckinley I am curious now, though. Doesn't Synology use RAID Btrfs? How in the world do they do it? Researching...
@mckinley "Warning: The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for "anything but testing with throw-away data." -- Yikes!. Gulp.
[47°09′47″S, 126°43′45″W] 4032 days without news from Herve
@movq what password manager do you use on the CLI? Is it pass?
Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:41 average pace, 00:33:10 duration

#running #treadmill
Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:41 average pace, 00:33:10 duration

#running #treadmill
Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:41 average pace, 00:33:10 duration

#running #treadmill
Recovery: 3.11 miles, 00:10:41 average pace, 00:33:10 duration

#running #treadmill
YouTube introduces a “stable volume” feature:

https://movq.de/v/ad0dd48aac/a.jpg

Once filmmakers realize that people just want stable volume instead of SUPER LOUD SECTIONS (…andreallyquietones…), then maybe I can finally remove the limiter from my pipewire filter chain. 🥴