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@bender Linux and Android. I would never iOS my friend.
@bender Linux and Android. I would never iOS my friend.
What goig on
[47°09′48″S, 126°43′23″W] Wind speed: 51kph
[47°09′39″S, 126°43′57″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from N
I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:


>LLMs don't have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they've been trained on and can't apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.
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gracias a dios es atea <3
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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′26″W] Waiting for carrier
A lire : https://0xstarlight.github.io/
A lire : https://0xstarlight.github.io/
[47°09′06″S, 126°43′23″W] Transponder still failing -- switching to analog communication
@bender Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣
@bender Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣
@prologic sorry, tried looking for the points you mentioned, but couldn’t find them. Got a link?
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′20″W] Resetting transponder
Kissimmee - Long run: 7.25 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 01:11:52 duration
fun long run while we were at universal studios for a friends birthday. google maps thought there were some cut-throughs but was obviously wrong so just kind of winged it. was able to run around some of the "pioneer village" which was a good change in scenery.
#running
Kissimmee - Long run: 7.25 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 01:11:52 duration
fun long run while we were at universal studios for a friends birthday. google maps thought there were some cut-throughs but was obviously wrong so just kind of winged it. was able to run around some of the "pioneer village" which was a good change in scenery.
#running
Kissimmee - Long run: 7.25 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 01:11:52 duration
fun long run while we were at universal studios for a friends birthday. google maps thought there were some cut-throughs but was obviously wrong so just kind of winged it. was able to run around some of the "pioneer village" which was a good change in scenery.
#running
@bender Fair point, could be. I probably have to implement it first or create some kind of a mockup to spare me the effort of some feature that I rip out again. :-)
@xuu Yep!
@movq Riiiight, I now remember reading that a long time ago. :-)
@bender I now read the German Wikipedia article on fog. These are some really beautiful pictures:

* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Nebelbank_in_der_W%C3%BCste_Namib_bei_Aus_%282018%29.jpg
* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_moving_through_fog.jpg
* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Fog_Bow_%2819440790708%29.jpg
* https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/360_degrees_fogbow.jpg
To @anth's points, I _think_ this should be written as "Client recommendations" and "Serve recommendations". Separate from the "Twtxt format" spec.
To @anth's points, I _think_ this should be written as "Client recommendations" and "Serve recommendations". Separate from the "Twtxt format" spec.
@lyse

> HTTP caching headers

Yes, absolutely, this should be mentioned in the spec. I’m guilty – when I first wrote my twtxt client, I forgot that If-Modified-Since is a thing. 🤦
@lyse

> HTTP caching headers

Yes, absolutely, this should be mentioned in the spec. I’m guilty – when I first wrote my twtxt client, I forgot that If-Modified-Since is a thing. 🤦
@lyse

> HTTP caching headers

Yes, absolutely, this should be mentioned in the spec. I’m guilty – when I first wrote my twtxt client, I forgot that If-Modified-Since is a thing. 🤦
@lyse

> HTTP caching headers

Yes, absolutely, this should be mentioned in the spec. I’m guilty – when I first wrote my twtxt client, I forgot that If-Modified-Since is a thing. 🤦
@lyse

> Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though?

This is from a twt of mine from January 2022:

https://www.uninformativ.de/files/twtxt/2022%2D01%2D22%2D%2Dfollow%2Dendpoint.md

(This idea gets lost all the time, so I put it into a file now. 😅)

Not sure if this is what @eapl.me had in mind, obviously.
@lyse

> Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though?

This is from a twt of mine from January 2022:

https://www.uninformativ.de/files/twtxt/2022%2D01%2D22%2D%2Dfollow%2Dendpoint.md

(This idea gets lost all the time, so I put it into a file now. 😅)

Not sure if this is what @eapl.me had in mind, obviously.
@lyse

> Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though?

This is from a twt of mine from January 2022:

https://www.uninformativ.de/files/twtxt/2022%2D01%2D22%2D%2Dfollow%2Dendpoint.md

(This idea gets lost all the time, so I put it into a file now. 😅)

Not sure if this is what @eapl.me had in mind, obviously.
@lyse

> Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though?

This is from a twt of mine from January 2022:

https://www.uninformativ.de/files/twtxt/2022%2D01%2D22%2D%2Dfollow%2Dendpoint.md

(This idea gets lost all the time, so I put it into a file now. 😅)

Not sure if this is what @eapl.me had in mind, obviously.
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′39″W] Transponder still failing
[47°09′59″S, 126°43′12″W] Transponder jammed
@bender Agreed 👍
@bender Agreed 👍
@lyse agree on the HTTP stuff. I mean we could mention that for optimization see RFC yadda yadda should be followed for caching. but not have it part of the spec proper.
@lyse agree on the HTTP stuff. I mean we could mention that for optimization see RFC yadda yadda should be followed for caching. but not have it part of the spec proper.
@prologic lies, and scams aside, there is plenty of need in the world. Yet, you can’t help everyone. Best way to do it is to donate to a worthy cause, and ignore one offs.
@bender I've worked with this guy before. Paid him to do some freelance work. Not very good IMO. So haven't hired him ever again. But he keeps saying hi every now and then on Signal. And then every few months or so asking stuff like this ☝️ -- Last time it was money for private school fees for his child.

How am I suppose to know whether stuff like this (_sound serious_) is for realz or not? 😅
@bender I've worked with this guy before. Paid him to do some freelance work. Not very good IMO. So haven't hired him ever again. But he keeps saying hi every now and then on Signal. And then every few months or so asking stuff like this ☝️ -- Last time it was money for private school fees for his child.

How am I suppose to know whether stuff like this (_sound serious_) is for realz or not? 😅
@prologic “here, have 2 rupees.”
> I need money for my mother's heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

Hmmm 🧐
> I need money for my mother's heart surgery, there is a shortfall of about 2 million rupiah from a total of 40 million, can you help me with any amount?

Hmmm 🧐
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😜😜😜 well, now I can. This is beyond weird.
@xuu that’s on iOS? I can’t (running 18.1).
[47°09′18″S, 126°43′05″W] Transponder malfunction
@bender 😜
@bender 😜
@bender 😛
@bender 😛
A lire : https://www.0x1c.zip/0001-lummastealer/
A lire : https://www.0x1c.zip/0001-lummastealer/
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No hay paquete que entre sin el control de aduanas
#catsoftwtxt
No hay paquete que entre sin el control de aduanas
#catsoftwtxt
First one on the third row, for example. There are more, though.

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@prologic how could I show you what I can’t type? 😂 Let’s see, a second.
@bender such as?
@bender such as?
Quando o gov corta na ciência, não é porque não sabe o seu valor.
Quando o gov corta na educação, não é porque não sabe gerir a sociedade.
Quando o gov corta nos programas sociais, não é porque não reconhece o seu papel social.

É agenda: este gov de direita, tal como qualquer outro, tem como base programática o desmantelamento do estado social e da coisa pública. E nisso tem sido extremamente eficaz e competente.

Uma esquerda que denuncia a suposta incompetência ou burrice das pessoas no poder dá-lhes o crédito de estarem empenhados numa sociedade melhor pra todes, e que ao falhar nisso é uma questão de incompetência.

E quando essa denúncia é feita através de comentários sarcásticos e apontamentos de "hipocrisia", servindo mais para afirmar superioridade intelectual do que realmente denunciar e avançar alternativas, é uma trágica forma de clicktivismo que continua extremamente em voga -- e a direita agradece.

tl;dr: tratar as medidas opressivas/autoritárias/securitárias de qualquer direita como fruto de burrice ou incompetência não é só um erro, é alimentar e até legitimar o seu discurso
Quando o gov corta na ciência, não é porque não sabe o seu valor.
Quando o gov corta na educação, não é porque não sabe gerir a sociedade.
Quando o gov corta nos programas sociais, não é porque não reconhece o seu papel social.

É agenda: este gov de direita, tal como qualquer outro, tem como base programática o desmantelamento do estado social e da coisa pública. E nisso tem sido extremamente eficaz e competente.

Uma esquerda que denuncia a suposta incompetência ou burrice das pessoas no poder dá-lhes o crédito de estarem empenhados numa sociedade melhor pra todes, e que ao falhar nisso é uma questão de incompetência.

E quando essa denúncia é feita através de comentários sarcásticos e apontamentos de "hipocrisia", servindo mais para afirmar superioridade intelectual do que realmente denunciar e avançar alternativas, é uma trágica forma de clicktivismo que continua extremamente em voga -- e a direita agradece.

tl;dr: tratar as medidas opressivas/autoritárias/securitárias de qualquer direita como fruto de burrice ou incompetência não é só um erro, é alimentar e até legitimar o seu discurso
I have noticed that Yarn (here) will not take some emoji. At least, will not take some under iOS.
@lyse precisely. The fog itself doesn’t smell. It simply carries the smell of its surroundings. Find what those surroundings are, and the credit will go to the right thing. 😊
@lyse I think it would make the interface look too busy, I would pass on that one.
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https://www.librealire.org/ Transcriptions en texte des enregistrements audio et vidéo traitant du logiciel libre et de libertés informatiques
Su juguete favorito
/https://baldo.cat/media/photos/IMG_2562.jpeg) #catsoftwtxt
Su juguete favorito
#catsoftwtxt
Su juguete favorito
#catsoftwtxt
@sorenpeter Section 7 on emojis: Exactly that, it's an avatar for text interfaces. The metadata name needs tweaking, but that's a cool idea. If I implemented this in my client, I'd make the text avatar overridable by the user, though. Otherwise I'd probably only see boxes for everbody in my terminal. :-D
@xuu LOL :-D
Thank you, @eapl.me! No need to apologize in the introduction, all good. :-)

Section 3: I'm a bit on the fence regarding documenting the HTTP caching headers. It's a very general HTTP thing, so there is nothing special about them for twtxt. No need for the Twtxt Specification to actually redo it. But on the other hand, a short hint could certainly help client developers and feed authors. Maybe it's thanks to my distro's Ngninx maintainer, but I did not configure anything for the Last-Modified and ETag headers to be included in the response, the web server just already did it automatically.

The more that I think about it while typing this reply, the more I think your recommendation suggestion is actually really great. It will definitely beneficial for client developers. In almost all client implementation cases I'd say one has to actually do something specifically in the code to send the If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match request headers. There is no magic that will do it automatically, as one has to combine data from the last response with the new request.

But I also came across feeds that serve zero response headers that make caching possible at all. So, an explicit recommendation enables feed authors to check their server setups. Yeah, let's absolutely do this! :-)

Regarding section 4 about feed discovery: Yeah, non-HTTP transport protocols are an issue as they do not have User-Agent headers. How exactly do you envision the discovery_url to work, though? I wouldn't limit the transports to HTTP(S) in the Twtxt Specification, though. It's up to the client to decide which protocols it wants to support.

Since I currently rely on buckket's twtxt client to fetch the feeds, I can only follow http(s):// (and file://) feeds. But in tt2 I will certainly add some gopher:// and gemini:// at some point in time.

Some time ago, @movq found out that some Gopher/Gemini users prefer to just get an e-mail from people following them: https://twtxt.net/twt/dikni6q So, it might not even be something to be solved as there is no problem in the first place.

Section 5 on protocol support: You're right, announcing the different transports in the url metadata would certainly help. :-)

Section 7 on emojis: Your idea of TUI/CLI avatars is really intriguing I have to say. Maybe I will pick this up in tt2 some day. :-)
Perfect, @eapl.me, it's fixed again. In fact this editor seems to support the Unicode line separator character all too well, otherwise it would not have replaced it in the first place. :-D Time to switch to a more unintelligent editor. ;-)
Thanks, @bender. I try to.
I haven't noticed any smell of fog, @bender. Might @nff's experience stem from a similar phenomenon that creates a lovely smell after a good, air-cleaning rain shower?
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@sorenpeter #NSFS #NotSafeForSorenpeter
@sorenpeter #NSFS #NotSafeForSorenpeter
@eapl.me Neat.

So for twt metadata the lextwt parser currently supports values in the form [key=value]

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/parser_test.go#L692-L698
@eapl.me Neat.

So for twt metadata the lextwt parser currently supports values in the form [key=value]

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/parser_test.go#L692-L698
@sorenpeter on 4 for gemini if your TLS client certificate contains your nick@host could that work for discovery?
@sorenpeter on 4 for gemini if your TLS client certificate contains your nick@host could that work for discovery?
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@nff it is actually quite bad, so what you are smelling ain’t fog.
the smell of fog is soo gud <3
I realise now that the referred post might just be fiction. I am slow Ferengi these days. LOL.
I realise now that the referred post might just be fiction. I am slow Ferengi these days. LOL.
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@wbknl are you still in Russia? It could be hard mailing anything to there these days. I read your "russia is eternally cold", and became curious. Patagonia is the only place I know on South America that it has rounded mountains, though they can be anywhere. Originally from Chile, or Argentina? My curiosity doesn't need feeding, by the way. It's all good if it doesn't. :-)
@wbknl are you still in Russia? It could be hard mailing anything to there these days. I read your "russia is eternally cold", and became curious. Patagonia is the only place I know on South America that it has rounded mountains, though they can be anywhere. Originally from Chile, or Argentina? My curiosity doesn't need feeding, by the way. It's all good if it doesn't. :-)