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@prologic thank you so much, just did all of that! i'll report back if i still need to restart <3
@prologic thank you so much, just did all of that! i'll report back if i still need to restart <3
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′36″W] Analyzing samples
@prologic Lol I totally forgot about this. I will put it on my todo list
@prologic Lol I totally forgot about this. I will put it on my todo list
@iolfree Ha! I can just picture my eight year old telling me this from the back seat.
@iolfree Ha! I can just picture my eight year old telling me this from the back seat.
I am sure it wasn’t your intention (not even remotely), but it sounds a lot like corporate bullshit. Hahahaha! Are you sure you haven’t been institutionalised?
[47°09′43″S, 126°43′21″W] Re-taking samples
@lyse Heh I have to wear gloves now when swining an axe or it hurts my hands 🤣
A gullible person is one who gets relentlessly targetted by gulls
@kat / @xuu Recommend you git checkout main && git pull, rebuild and redeploy: make build, and however you deploy. 🙏 Lots of fixes (_no more stalling_) and optimizations to the feed fetcher, smoother cpu usage, better internal metrics.
I'm not even being facetious here either. I'd llove to see you "unit tests" this: 
@lyse Well you are being _slightly_ rude 🤪 Sure you could write unit tests for this, but in practise testing emergent properties and behaviors of a system is actually a lot harder than you might realize. But I'm happy to always be proven wrong 😑
@movq Indeed, a Wüstenmaus sounds cute. However, a Wüstenratte — which is more a desert rat — not so much.
@prologic ODD, lol. I don't wanna be rude, but this sounds more like Code And Fix.
We just split about one and a half cubic meters of fire wood at our scout yard. And even more chainsaw action to cut the logs in smaller chunks. I'm bloody tired now. But it was really great fun swinging the axe. I will sleep like a rock tonight.
Pinellas County Running - 3 miles: 3.02 miles, 00:08:36 average pace, 00:25:56 duration
legs felt really heavy today. woke up tired (even though getting plenty of rest) and probably going to feel the same the rest of the day.
#running
Pinellas County Running - 3 miles: 3.02 miles, 00:08:36 average pace, 00:25:56 duration
legs felt really heavy today. woke up tired (even though getting plenty of rest) and probably going to feel the same the rest of the day.
#running
@kat Yeah right now I'm trying to see if I can "spread the CPU usage of fetching N feeds across M duration" so basically "smooth" out the spikes in CPU usage.
Francisco Ferreira da #Zero sobre o #apagão:
"O apagão é uma oportunidade para ouvirmos e ponderarmos no nosso voto o que os partidos têm a dizer sobre as suas propostas na área da energia e clima, e também de uma vez por todas, clarificarmos que não são viáveis recuos nem arrependimentos relativamente ao carvão ou ao nuclear, porque os custos económicos e ambientais não se compadecem com essas formas de energia."
Francisco Ferreira da #Zero sobre o #apagão:
"O apagão é uma oportunidade para ouvirmos e ponderarmos no nosso voto o que os partidos têm a dizer sobre as suas propostas na área da energia e clima, e também de uma vez por todas, clarificarmos que não são viáveis recuos nem arrependimentos relativamente ao carvão ou ao nuclear, porque os custos económicos e ambientais não se compadecem com essas formas de energia."
@prologic nice! lol that's such a real way to develop
@prologic nice! lol that's such a real way to develop
@kat I've almost fixed this btw 🤗 Just testing it thoroughly and polihsing the code. In case you're curious, I do this style of development called "Observability Driven Development" (ODD) whereby I make observations of the system via metrics and internal observations and adjust the system's overall behavior to the desired outcome 😅
[47°09′11″S, 126°43′39″W] Taking samples
@kat with the help of a friend i got to build a nixOS server image from scratch and use it on a VPS! so that was neat!
@kat with the help of a friend i got to build a nixOS server image from scratch and use it on a VPS! so that was neat!
i'm slowly learning nixOS as part of my new fujocoded contract thing and as scary as it is it's highkey kinda fun. like what do you mean i configure the bootloader with one god damn line in a file that's EPIC
i'm slowly learning nixOS as part of my new fujocoded contract thing and as scary as it is it's highkey kinda fun. like what do you mean i configure the bootloader with one god damn line in a file that's EPIC
my cat has the zoomies. it's 6AM. girl RELAX
my cat has the zoomies. it's 6AM. girl RELAX
@movq LMAO the power of static pages!
@movq LMAO the power of static pages!
@prologic oh i see it! thank you so much! it's no problem i totally understand :)
@prologic oh i see it! thank you so much! it's no problem i totally understand :)
@andros I set up a test feed here:
https://www.uninformativ.de/texudus.txt
I made some preliminary adjustments to my client so that it can work with the different threading model. (And I totally get the concerns, this can be quite a bit of work. Especially in a large code base like Yarn.)
@andros I set up a test feed here:
https://www.uninformativ.de/texudus.txt
I made some preliminary adjustments to my client so that it can work with the different threading model. (And I totally get the concerns, this can be quite a bit of work. Especially in a large code base like Yarn.)
[47°09′13″S, 126°43′20″W] Transfer aborted
@movq @kat @quark In 2014 one person created protocol ii. Later it forked in IDEC. Why i said this? Because it's simple "federated" forum-like protocol where from your station fetch another every 5-10 minutes. Stations has topic-based channels like idec.talks, linux.16, haiku.os, zx.spectrum. In short it's FIDO but.. more modern? Documentation: https://github.com/idec-net/new-docs (mostly Russian, but you can use translator, also protocol already translated to english)
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′08″W] Transfer 25% complete...
currently inside of a church
@andros U2FsdGVkX19oRfvc0CDXT+HYECfXx+BLAoevthJdhmQSAyv5OVrrZdntiYSF4Gzu5h3C6bwGaWr3KRr3Kj8/zw==
@doesnm nah, I'm fine without a web ui. But I like what the dev did with the 2009 facebook/VK look, it kind of feels notsalgic. (the tld is a .me not a .com if anyone else wants to take a look atit)
Too late to fix your typo kind of feeling ... suck. 😒
@e8959 Gopher is thriving in the underground scene! *rimshot* I use it a lot for little tasks. The Archive.org interface on Gopher is sweet.
Hey @kat If you see this, I'm aware of a bug. I'm trying to figure it out and fix it. bare with me 🤗 It is what's causing things to "stall" and to have to "restart". Sorry 😞
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1329 ARCHIVED:86868 CACHE:2902 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
@bender Mainly the bsd.cafe ones. I like how the minimalist single column profiles look. Image embeds are full width and reading through threads feels nice (as in it doesn't feel like pealing layers upon layers of a fresh onion).
@bender My lawn is hoping for some rain!
@bender My lawn is hoping for some rain!
@bender Yes, you right. But is premium for more than that.
I use a feature I love a lot: customising different searches with different themes or links.
It's easy to understand with an example. I have a search with the name "Django". I set sources: Django documentation, stack overflow, topic "programming" and so on. It's very quick to find Django solutions.
I also have another way to find my stuff: search my blog and repositories.
I had problems paying for the first mouths, now it's a working tool for me.
We went on a 14 kilometers long hike in the heat, only a few spots were in the shade, most of our trip was in the open fields with the sun beating down on us. We reapplied the sun blocker after about two hours or so. All in all it took us about three and a half hours before we reached our destination Besigheim.
Last time I was there it was rainy, now we had the exact opposite. After some yummy Chinese lunch we visited the old town. There's some gorgeous timer framing to see. When kept in decent shape, it just looks so dang cool.
Since it was too hot, we rode back by train. Despite the heat and some sections near the roaring Autobahn, this was a nice hike. Would do it again. Only in colder weather, though. I certainly don't wanna trade my comperatively larger (still nothing to other more rural areas), covering forests with the wide open fields and vineyards in summer. That's for sure.
Fire escape staircase camouflaged behind some wooden slats
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-von-asperg-nach-besigheim-2025-05-01/
[47°09′19″S, 126°43′39″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@movq If you want, we can try it out between us. I'm just working on it (It was the easiest thing to do).
@quark I’ll translate “desert rat” as “Wüstenmaus”, which is kind of cute, and I’ll pretend that you just didn’t call your partner a rat. 😂
@quark I’ll translate “desert rat” as “Wüstenmaus”, which is kind of cute, and I’ll pretend that you just didn’t call your partner a rat. 😂
@kat Off-topic areas are always a good idea. :-) Web forums often had those. And web forums are actually what I had in mind, @bender. 😅 (While I do have a certain nostalgia for it *now*, Usenet has always been a bit weird to me. Can’t really explain why.)
@kat Off-topic areas are always a good idea. :-) Web forums often had those. And web forums are actually what I had in mind, @bender. 😅 (While I do have a certain nostalgia for it *now*, Usenet has always been a bit weird to me. Can’t really explain why.)
So, the “AI” bots have reached my website. Looks like they’re just slowly crawling everything at the moment – no DDoS-like attack yet. I wonder if that has something to do with my website being 100% static HTML. There are no GET parameters they can tweak and, at the end of the day, there’s not *that much* data on my server anyway … And maybe they have no idea what stagit is, so it doesn’t trigger “standard behavior”, like “this is a Gitea instance, let’s crawl this like crazy!”?
So, the “AI” bots have reached my website. Looks like they’re just slowly crawling everything at the moment – no DDoS-like attack yet. I wonder if that has something to do with my website being 100% static HTML. There are no GET parameters they can tweak and, at the end of the day, there’s not *that much* data on my server anyway … And maybe they have no idea what stagit is, so it doesn’t trigger “standard behavior”, like “this is a Gitea instance, let’s crawl this like crazy!”?
@quark Despite the Reddit part (I never understood it), this is a great analysis. I could not have put it any better. I also feel quite home here with the all feeds I follow. It's a small bunch of good people.
The temperatures are getting pleasant now. All the freshly cut grass really smells lovely. Looks like farmers are securing their harvests before the rain hits tomorrow in the arvo.
@bender no such luck, not happening. It's almost 04:00 in Brisbane, just wait a bit until the @prological son awakens.
I wonder if this twtxt will kick Yarnd into working again. There is only one way to find out, right?
@movq not bad! The yellowish/ivory tint makes it much easier on the eyes. I have gotten so use to "dark" mode, that find it hard switching to anything else.
@movq mine too, mine too! Imagine my frustration being married to someone who prefers the heat. It's like a polar bear married to a desert rat. LOL.
@movq "*topic-based forums/groups*", you mean what USENET used to be, and the "niche" that Reddit is fulfilling these days? :-D I get it, I agree. I think I find twtxt more fulfilling than anything else because of its small size. I feel like I truly know everyone (even if that might not be true), and find myself "at home". The bigger the place, the shyest I become, the less enticing it is.*
nice, baikal #openbsd port works even with a higher php version \o/
nice, baikal #openbsd port works even with a higher php version \o/
@movq @bender 28°C right now, but luckily, just 20°C tomorrow and rain. Even a thunderstorm at night. On Sunday we're down to 12°C. What a ride. Oh boys!
computers were a mistake (i fought with git and lost)
computers were a mistake (i fought with git and lost)
@movq this is so real... i think we need to bring back topic focused groups but like with a little off topic side of things just in case people wanna go off topic. so the option's there but the intent is the topic! microblogging isn't best for this yeah. i think this is part of why IRC still goes strong for many tech people
@movq this is so real... i think we need to bring back topic focused groups but like with a little off topic side of things just in case people wanna go off topic. so the option's there but the intent is the topic! microblogging isn't best for this yeah. i think this is part of why IRC still goes strong for many tech people
@prologic i gave up on trying to get my local branch clean and just git clone
'd main
into a new directory and built from there LMAOOO it was such a mess i'm not good at git
i saw your commits fixing queue issues, fingers crossed it works on my end!
@prologic i gave up on trying to get my local branch clean and just git clone
'd main
into a new directory and built from there LMAOOO it was such a mess i'm not good at git
i saw your commits fixing queue issues, fingers crossed it works on my end!
@bender It's like having good manners at the table. Use forks and knives. ;-)
@movq This suits the background image perfectly.
@movq welcome to a (for us, Floridians) "fresh day" temperature! Soon the daily rains will come, so it will be even hotter, and humid, and sticky. Lovely, eh? LOL.
[47°09′23″S, 126°43′12″W] 4397 days without news from Herve
Confession:
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on *people*. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of *topic-based* forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️
Confession:
I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on *people*. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of *topic-based* forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️
I’m keeping this color scheme on my laptop for now:
I’m keeping this color scheme on my laptop for now:
@andros You know, I’d really love to see how/if location-based addressing works in practice. I might fork jenny to judy and run both things in parallel for a while … 🤔
@andros You know, I’d really love to see how/if location-based addressing works in practice. I might fork jenny to judy and run both things in parallel for a while … 🤔