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Opening this upw now
Opening this upw now
👋 Opening up the Yarn.social (monthly) Online Meetup now. See #fcghsma now, 11am UTC (9pm AEST). I'll keep the bridge open till 2pm UTC (1am AEST) -- ~4hrs. But honestly anyone can join at any time, as it's p2p anyway 😅

To join, pop open https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social in your browser!

See you soon! 🔜~
👋 Opening up the Yarn.social (monthly) Online Meetup now. See #fcghsma now, 11am UTC (9pm AEST). I'll keep the bridge open till 2pm UTC (1am AEST) -- ~4hrs. But honestly anyone can join at any time, as it's p2p anyway 😅

To join, pop open https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social in your browser!

See you soon! 🔜~
[47°09′13″S, 126°43′07″W] Transponder malfunction
@lyse Come to think of it I might have deleted too 🤔
@lyse Come to think of it I might have deleted too 🤔
@lyse Cool! 👌
@lyse Cool! 👌
What newws?
Pinellas County - Long Run: 10.01 miles, 00:10:38 average pace, 01:46:33 duration
longer run than usual but this humidity is so brutal it may be long enough. took a walk break to watch the dolphins and then was almost bit by a large dog. talked with a few of the regulars on the path. i think everyone is feeling the heat!
#running
Pinellas County - Long Run: 10.01 miles, 00:10:38 average pace, 01:46:33 duration
longer run than usual but this humidity is so brutal it may be long enough. took a walk break to watch the dolphins and then was almost bit by a large dog. talked with a few of the regulars on the path. i think everyone is feeling the heat!
#running
Pinellas County - Long Run: 10.01 miles, 00:10:38 average pace, 01:46:33 duration
longer run than usual but this humidity is so brutal it may be long enough. took a walk break to watch the dolphins and then was almost bit by a large dog. talked with a few of the regulars on the path. i think everyone is feeling the heat!
#running
14:00 local time is not bad at all for me, I just might be a tiny bit late today. See you later.
@movq Yeah, there are much better ways to waste time. :-D

@bender @aelaraji All this antivirus shit just enlarges the attack surface even more.
@prologic @aelaraji @anth @movq ICQ was the first IM I ever had. I also still know my number, but I deleted my account well over a decade ago together with AIM and MSN in favor of Jabber.
@movq Yes RIP ICQ 🤣 You were good for a short-time, but I quickly just used IRC instead and it's stuck every since 🤣
@movq Yes RIP ICQ 🤣 You were good for a short-time, but I quickly just used IRC instead and it's stuck every since 🤣
@movq Bahahahahahahaha 🤣
@movq Bahahahahahahaha 🤣
@shreyan So it's functionally equivalent to me say, buying a Mac mini and running Ollama on it? 🤔
@shreyan So it's functionally equivalent to me say, buying a Mac mini and running Ollama on it? 🤔
But I can’t do anything. 😢

https://movq.de/v/dd46b2faa2/s.png
But I can’t do anything. 😢

https://movq.de/v/dd46b2faa2/s.png
But I can’t do anything. 😢

https://movq.de/v/dd46b2faa2/s.png
But I can’t do anything. 😢

https://movq.de/v/dd46b2faa2/s.png
Wait, no, the “cancel” button works and I’m in! 😂
Wait, no, the “cancel” button works and I’m in! 😂
Wait, no, the “cancel” button works and I’m in! 😂
Wait, no, the “cancel” button works and I’m in! 😂
I still have my ICQ credentials and apparently they still work, but they want to know my phone number now. So, fuck that. 😂

https://movq.de/v/af1f167ce4/s.png

RIP, ICQ.
I still have my ICQ credentials and apparently they still work, but they want to know my phone number now. So, fuck that. 😂

https://movq.de/v/af1f167ce4/s.png

RIP, ICQ.
I still have my ICQ credentials and apparently they still work, but they want to know my phone number now. So, fuck that. 😂

https://movq.de/v/af1f167ce4/s.png

RIP, ICQ.
I still have my ICQ credentials and apparently they still work, but they want to know my phone number now. So, fuck that. 😂

https://movq.de/v/af1f167ce4/s.png

RIP, ICQ.
[47°09′15″S, 126°43′56″W] Transfer aborted
@anth I would if I could, but I'm pretty sure I would never be able to recovery my account or login 🤣 Pretty sure (98% sure) I was 98888663
@anth I would if I could, but I'm pretty sure I would never be able to recovery my account or login 🤣 Pretty sure (98% sure) I was 98888663
I'm 148249012 if anyone wants to say goodbye. 🤣 I never had the attachment to ICQ I did to AIM, but this is still the end of one heck of a run.
I'm 148249012 if anyone wants to say goodbye. 🤣 I never had the attachment to ICQ I did to AIM, but this is still the end of one heck of a run.
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′33″W] Waiting for carrier
@aelaraji I _thinik_ I even remember my old ICQ#, not that it probably works anymore 🤣
@aelaraji I _thinik_ I even remember my old ICQ#, not that it probably works anymore 🤣
And it's back! With hopefully minimal data-loss. Generally speaking Bitcask is designed to be pretty fault tolerant, in that if a data corruption occurs, you only corrupt the last key/value pair written to the WAL (write-ehad-log).
And it's back! With hopefully minimal data-loss. Generally speaking Bitcask is designed to be pretty fault tolerant, in that if a data corruption occurs, you only corrupt the last key/value pair written to the WAL (write-ehad-log).
No-one probably noticed, but the Twtxt Search Engine has been down for several days, and I've burned all the budget (_well and truly_) already 🤣 This has been due to a data corruption event, and I've had to a) fix the data corruption and b) migrate to Bitcask v2 where I'm continuing to make reliability improvements on the KV store used in a lot of my projects.

Sorry about this, it'll be back up shortly 😅
No-one probably noticed, but the Twtxt Search Engine has been down for several days, and I've burned all the budget (_well and truly_) already 🤣 This has been due to a data corruption event, and I've had to a) fix the data corruption and b) migrate to Bitcask v2 where I'm continuing to make reliability improvements on the KV store used in a lot of my projects.

Sorry about this, it'll be back up shortly 😅
@prologic Not anymore LOL
@prologic Not anymore LOL
@bender Haha 😛
@bender Haha 😛
@movq It looks like this one actually reads the robots.txt ... it did a couple of times over the past few weeks.

> "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
@movq It looks like this one actually reads the robots.txt ... it did a couple of times over the past few weeks.

> "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 304 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/gptbot)"
I might join from mum’s house (on the phone), as she just asked me this evening to come by early to help her with a few things on her backyard. 😩
On a more serious note, is there a viable alternative search engine that doesn't suck today? One that doesn't get into this "AI" nonsense? 🤔
On a more serious note, is there a viable alternative search engine that doesn't suck today? One that doesn't get into this "AI" nonsense? 🤔
@bender Pretty much 🤣 I gotta find a new search engine, or build one ☝️
@bender Pretty much 🤣 I gotta find a new search engine, or build one ☝️
Wait?! ICQ is still a thing?! 🤔 😳
Wait?! ICQ is still a thing?! 🤔 😳
How about we put a pin in the "AI" garbage (Gemini included) until we've figured out how to make build a system that has any level of cognitive capability and understanding of concepts? Let's toss this autocomplete garbage in the bin, the auto-complete we've built over the last few decades works great and consumes next to no energy at all. This so-called 'AI" is worse than the fucking Cryptocurrency hyped up craze in terms of energy waste. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #Sucks
How about we put a pin in the "AI" garbage (Gemini included) until we've figured out how to make build a system that has any level of cognitive capability and understanding of concepts? Let's toss this autocomplete garbage in the bin, the auto-complete we've built over the last few decades works great and consumes next to no energy at all. This so-called 'AI" is worse than the fucking Cryptocurrency hyped up craze in terms of energy waste. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #Sucks
@xuu We can do that 🤣 But seriously I think the only thing that works is a 4hr timw window. So that's what it is!
@xuu We can do that 🤣 But seriously I think the only thing that works is a 4hr timw window. So that's what it is!
@shreyan I still quite get what it does 😅
@shreyan I still quite get what it does 😅
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:979 ARCHIVED:72891 CACHE:2432 FOLLOWERS:16 FOLLOWING:14
@bender well... reading through This I can but wonder if it is defending anything at all...
@bender well... reading through This I can but wonder if it is defending anything at all...
We should hold one when it is 4AM for prologic :D
We should hold one when it is 4AM for prologic :D
so still 6AM MDT? oof
so still 6AM MDT? oof
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 05/20 to 05/24 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/05/24/week.html #linkdump #mastodon #socialmedia #week
[47°09′17″S, 126°43′01″W] Sample analyzing complete -- starting transfer
For those of us on EDT, that's 8:00AM. You can do it! :-)
@movq it is an interesting thing to do. I mean, he found a way to fool Defender, but why? A disabled Defender is worthless, and that's what he is doing. If I were to use Microsoft Windows, I would want the Defender to be bonafide active.
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
@lyse I’m so glad that I don’t have anything to do with the modern Windows world … Must be really annoying to waste one’s time on stuff like this. 🥴
[47°09′53″S, 126°43′00″W] --no signal--
Lol, somebody reverse-engineered the secret API to tell Windows that some snake oil is installed: https://github.com/es3n1n/no-defender
@prologic so, Bing. LOL.
@mckinley I am researching a bit on crossposting. I have a couple of Hugo static notes, for example, Netbros, and I figured that by using Algia, a Nostr CLI client, I can crosspost from Hugo to Nostr quite easily with something like:


cat hugo_post.md | algia n --article-title "A long post test" --article-name "A long post test" --article-summary "This is a long post test. Let's see if it works as intended." --stdin


Same approach can be used with twtxt, or anything else!

Having my own relay ensures my notes in it remain for as long as the relay runs, at the very least. Of course, you can post to more than one relay.
Service message : No #fridayrockmetal tonight and next week. Take care of you and don't forget to headbang \m/
@movq DuckDuckGo
@movq DuckDuckGo
@bender Sounds about spot on. :-D
@movq No, LibreOffice didn't exist back then. :-D The user interface was somehow green. No clue.

TeXNicCenter is either dead or just finished. All features implemented and all bugs fixed. That's the thing, one doesn't know with completed software. ;-)

(Lol, there was a fuzz on my screen. Just perfectly aligned, so it looked like an accent grave and I was wondering how the quote got corrupted. :-D)

Agreed, a lot of people don't need the real document structure markup.

I actually cannot remember when I wrote my last letter using LaTeX. Maybe it was some kind of termination letter for a service that could not be cancelled online. It must have been a few years ago. The last "proper-ish" use of LibreOffice was at the end of last year when printing a quiz and map for the scouts I think.

Today, I was in a meeting where a workmate gave a talk. I noticed the LaTeX beamer look and feel and was intrigued. He said, that he cobbled together the corporate design, but it's not ready for official use yet. But that's really cool. My last prepared presentation with LaTeX beamer was in my previous company a few years back. But I didn't care about corporate design at all.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@lyse Hmm, I don’t know of a green-ish Office suite. I mean, LibreOffice is green, but that’s not what you mean. 😅

Ahhh, TeXNicCenter! Many people in Uni used this. What happened to it, is it dead? The last release is from 10 years ago. 🫤

> Admittedly, it took me a while to figure out and appreciate all the advantages of actually marking up the document structure properly.

Same here, to be honest. I *think* it was HTML which changed that eventually. 🤔 Not sure if any “ordinary” users that I know use semantic markup, but then again, none of them write any documents that *need* this. And in reality, most people are more concerned (rightfully so) with the actual appearance of their document – so it is an *extra step* to first mark something as a heading and then change the document style to get the appearance they actually want. That’s why I think that all the “Works”-like suites aren’t complete rubbish. They have their place.

> These days I rarely reach for LaTeX or LibreOffice to craft new stuff in my private life. Simple text files is usually it.

I was going to ask “but how do you write letters”, and then I realized that the last letter I’ve written was in 2022. 😂 It has become super rare indeed.
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
@aelaraji Hmmm, I might give Searx a try. 🤔

That outage yesterday was a good thing. Made me question and reevaluate all this. 😅
[47°09′11″S, 126°43′29″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
@prologic neither. It is rubbish. 😂😂😂
I can't tell from the fancy marketing 🤣