if I use their "hosted" offering, they serve ads on the end of the survey on their $0 plan. Would everyone be okay with that? Would you? Can LimeSurvey be trusted? Are they trustworthy? π·
Details:\n\n* Started: 1440 AEST (+10 UTC)\n* Resolved: 1740 AEST (+10 UTC)\n* Root Cause: Storm. Decision to power down.\n\nOutage lasted a bit longer than I _really_ wanted because I was also out at the time. Apologies again.*
π£ SEV1: Very sorry folks to anyone that uses this pod (twtxt.net) -- Also apologies to other Pod Owners that we host on Twt.social (twt.social). I had to power down all infrastructure due to a massive storm in the area to avoid risking destroying the hardware. To save costs, most of the infrastructure runs on inexpensive commodity hardware on a 75/35 Downstream/Upstream Mbps VDSL connection out of my home π In the future Twt.social pods we host and manage will eventually move to a Data Center. Thanks for your patience! π€
HI all! π The dev team here would like to do a couple of things. a) A survey /questionnaire so we can understand what we've done well and what we could improve and b) someguidance / opinions on some news features we're thinking about building.\n\nWe'll publish a Roadmap for our future plans and features to our Github project page where you can comment on it soon.\n\nHowever doing a survey will be quite tricky because I'm not willing to use any "Cloud" / SaaS based tools for this because of my own convictions against collecting/selling user data. Anyone got any ideas here?
I donβt know I tried to read most of the article but in my opinion I think what you were saying in our meeting today is probably the better approach here. Interoperability by making more things more open and accessible between platforms rather than simply an export import thing
Hmmm π€\n\n> As my colleague Makena Kelly explains, the ACCESS Act applies to βlarge communications platformsβ with 100 million monthly users that generate income from collecting, processing, or sharing user data. That would cover Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and most other well-known social networks.\n\nIn my opinion profiting off user generated data and user behavior should be banned and made to be illegal.
@vain Not sure ! I was working for Facebook at ths time and too busy trying to be good at my job. so I missed it then π But I would not have been able to build Twtxt and Twt.social anyway back then as it would have violated the terms of my contract π
@deadguy Like you I joined Twitterβ’ many times (_and deleted my account_); but since building Twtxt.net and Twt.social no more π Twtxt is awesome! Check out what we're _trying_ to do over at https://jointwt.org/ -- We also have a mobile app that speaks to an instance of the jointwt/twtxt backend called Goryon you'll find in the App Store and Play Store π -- But if you prefer the CLI, then keep using _any_ command-line based client like the original twtxt, twet, txtnish, twtxtc...
this is called a Johnβs Phone iβm not even sure if they make them anymore! π€ anyone know of any other phones like this that are basically very simple and do nothing but phone calls and text?
Sooo... It _turns out_ I can make a very quick 'n dirty "Web Browser" using this nifty webview library π π· And twtxt.net works beautifully in it π Comes in at a nice ~4MB binary. And ~30 lines of code! π
A few days ago I posted about signal being one of the only e2e encrypted messaging apps that I trust and it happens to be convenient for most people to use without being too technically minded. Someone suggested in a reply that there was an alternative based on the same protocol that was also open sauce that used the tor network as a broker. Can anyone remind me of what that was?
@felixp7 I _heart_ / _read_ that too, but not sure from where... Any chance we can dig it up and do some independent investigation to uncover the truth? Is it even open source?
@felixp7 What do you _think_ about the Brave Web Browser? (_I haven't tried it_):\n\n> The Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves ...
Hah speaking of cross-platform Web Browsers... Managed to get this to build successfully on my macOS dev machine! π π· Sadly twtxt.net doesn't work very well in it though π’
although to be fair itβs been that many years since Iβve used Linux on the desktop that things may have changedβ¦ Iβm not sure they are π€·ββοΈ
@felixp7 although I do have to make sure that they run OK on Mac iOS thatβs not as my primary desktop operating system these days has canonical the company and a Ubuntu l successfully destroyed the only decent accessibility on Linux for a vision impaired/blind person π₯
@felixp7 Yes! now that we have Goryon finally on both upstairs and a half decent API plus several clients the biggest thing that we need to focus on now and something that I will personally struggle with his marketing, advocacy and expanding the network as these skills skills I donβt really have. on the bright side however there are in fact actually 10 different pods in existence today one of which we donβt actually manage or have anything to do with at all!
@felixp7 yeah I actually like Lynx/ELinks/Links myself, \nI only wish it understood some very basic CSS and how to render images. JavaScript in my opinion can just die or swift death π
@felixp7 I assume your last statement is a good thing? In order for something to be generally and more openly useful I think it has to have a much wider target audience in my opinionβ¦
@felixp7 well the thing is about Twtxt I think in general it ran out of steam and enthusiasm waned across-the-board years ago back in 2016 only months after it was initially launched. I am however trying to revitalize it once again and get it to a point where it can become more useful to more people not just an inner circle of hackers... whether or not we will actually succeed remains to be seenβ¦ But we have a wonderful team behind everything that we have built so far π€
@felixp7 so I just finished reading the blog post you linked, and if all of those references are true that is really disgusting Mozilla! The problem I have is that the Gopher and Gemini protocols whilst are of cost simpler they have course have their own sets of problems. Pros/Cons. The real solution IMHO here is for someone to write a decent cross platform web browser that a) doesnβt suck and b) works like the original web browser should have.
@felixp7 why do you think that is? Why do you think these great ideas invented and or reinvented by hackers eventually run out of steam? even this project of mine runs the risk of running out of steam too, but I damn well am sure going to try to keep the level of effort and enthusiasm behind the project!
@felixp7 Yeah youβre right! Thatβs why itβs such a shame to see yet another large tech giant corporation ruin yet another good piece of software and game (_ not that I ever played it myself_) #Minecraft#Microsoft
@vain Well _almost_ anything, only regular languages though. If you have a context-free grammar regexes will let you down and you'll need to use a parser π
@razetime I haven't seen that one, but man this was quite awful. I sat through and watched it to the end, but this has to be one of the most stupidest movies with the most ridiculous acting I _think_ I've ever seen! π€£
@ionores Remember how I said I _owed_ you an apology? Well here it is. At the time I was not familiar with the famous french oil painting L'Origine du monde that inspired so many other artists (_to paint similar styles of work?_) Anyway, now that our app has been finally approved, I _think_ we can all relax and breath a sigh of relief π -- I still won't re-post that image here though as I still find it a bit grotesque π€£ however I apologise for my (_then_) ignorance πββοΈ_
@dooven That's a great idea! π€£ Reminds me of that blog post (_that I cannot remember where I saw it π’_) that talks about all the "positions you didn't get" and listed them all and why. I liked it π It's very honest! π_
Fiddling with the DetectUserAgent() function is "fiddly" π€£ cc @vain π Let's hope I don't have to fiddle with it again anytime soon until I sort out this issue and teach the backend to do some debouncing for internal events (_mostly on Follow/Unfollow_)... π_
iβm not even sure if they make them anymore! π€ anyone know of any other phones like this that are basically very simple and do nothing but phone calls and text?
And twtxt.net works beautifully in it π 
Comes in at a nice ~4MB binary. 
And ~30 lines of code! π
Sadly twtxt.net doesn't work very well in it though π’
They look like normal tyres to me? π€
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