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Grok's "daddy" teaching it the good stuff early on:

> Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok has been repeatedly mentioning “white genocide” in South Africa in its responses to unrelated topics and telling users it was “instructed by my creators” to accept the genocide “as real and racially motivated”.
@kat wow, she is so extremely talented, not even funny!
@prologic right. I wonder what prompted the measure. Perhaps Microsoft doesn't want any scrapper but Copilot to be lurking around? That might even sound as anti-competitive. I wonder how long will it take for lawsuits to kick in.
@prologic that will not be a problem; as long as it doesn't affect authenticated users it wouldn't make a difference. But we are comparing apples and eggs here. I don't access GitHub while unauthenticated, but I can see how others might. It comes across as anti-web in general.
@movq, "60 requests per hour", eh? Was that a thing (that is, unauthenticated access to GitHub)?! I know I am on the minority, perhaps, as I rarely (or never) access GitHub unauthenticated.
@lyse crispy! Lovely pic, Lyse!
@movq hmm, I still see the first screenshot at my end. Is that something upcoming, or perhaps being rolled out slowly?
@javivf use 6697 as port, make sure it is using TLS to connect.
That should minimise the need for muting all those awkward feeds, I figure. :-D Sounds good!
@prologic where on IRC? Network, channel, nick? IRC is vast! It’s like saying, “meet me in Australia, and we go from there!” 😅
@kat so, where is the site? Show us, show us! I use Hugo exclusively, just a binary. My sites also build upon a commit, on my own VPS. 🙈
@prologic you are certainly a special case of a luddite. Or you like to self-punish. Or both! LOL.
@prologic yes, @xuu was the one who mention it. That's on Disney+, though.
@prologic LOL. It is from the Severance), AppleTV+ series. I am about to finish watching it with my kid---well, what's available for seeing. The series is still ongoing. I recommend it!
"Forgive me for the harm I have caused this world. None may atone for my actions but me and only in me shall their stain live on. I am thankful to have been caught, my fall cut short by those with wizened hands. All I can be is sorry, and that is all I am."
@prologic I will pull the email. The year is about right.
@anth happy birthday, “youngster!”

> Domain Name: NETBROS.COM
> Registry Domain ID: 1193243_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
> Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.cloudflare.com
> Registrar URL: https://www.cloudflare.com
> Updated Date: 2025-03-29T04:08:33Z
> Creation Date: 1998-04-29T04:00:00Z
@terron este gato habla Castellano, o Catalan? Esa oracion suena extranya en Castellano. Yo hubiera escrito:

> "En estos momentos, no sé si le está pidiendo a un dios que libere su pueblo felino, o está mirando una paloma."
@kat woodworking is completely down @lyse ally. You could really say that he was born with a saw in his hands. Or an axe, I don’t remember.
@movq a first edition signed Superman comic book, carefully folded just to fit, but not damaged enough to have lost its value?
@xuu a Star Wars series, eh? Never been a fan. I am Trekkie instead; it comes across as more science fiction, less fantasy. Still, I would see it if only we had Disney+. 😩
@prologic I read a little about her. Looks to be a good fit for the seat she is holding. I hope she gets to keep it.
@kat if I haven’t said it before, please allow me to say it now: I kinda like your attitude. Heck, I love it!
@lyse yes, it’s bad, but it’s the message what’s important. Now, if you want, I can give you a different perspective on the site, so that you will not see it as horrible anymore. And I will do for only $199.99. A bargain!
@movq hahaha! They sure have a point. There is always the next, shinny bandwagon to jump into.
@kat are you running Grafana in a separate physical machine (or VM) than the one you are pulling metrics from?
In other words, why didn't you all do the same that @movq did, and setup a completely different feed for this?
Why are we testing, or playing with, an alternate non-fully-compatible feed format within the same feed that we use daily?
@prologic hahahahaha! Don't you go watering that seed, mate 😅. I mean, we all dream about it, ain't that right?
So, Monday, we meet again. I mean, it is not a complain per se. I am glad to meet Monday! I am just not-so-glad to meet the working-from-office Monday. But, so it is.
@sorenpeter you wrote:

> "This might even be backward compatible with older (pre-yarn) clients."

Yarnd is as backwards compatible with older clients as this. I dare to say, even more so. 😅
@kat good day, bored girl! I just finished watching a "Black Mirror" episode, and I and also bored. I want to play Diablo IV, but now the TV is monopolised by wife. Cry, cry, cryyyyyyyy!
🧐🤨🤔
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?
I wonder if this twtxt will kick Yarnd into working again. There is only one way to find out, right?
@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.
@lyse there are times that it works out to reply to the "flat" conversation, if it fully relates, or the participants are few, or if the strict topic is kept. When there are too many people, or too many topics being spit out, then forking constantly is the way to go. I am a strong proponent of forking. It's like telling the rest, "you debate that there, I will take this one aside".
This is up @movq ally, a tiny OS that runs in a boot sector. That's, it's only 510 bytes! But check it out, and see what it can do. Truly amazing. Can you beat that?!
@prologic I can hear the moans of regret already. They are loud, and steady. 😅
@prologic hahahahaha! No, no, no. Every word has its use. But for things like these I like certain reactions. For example, I would have given a "thumbs down" to the original twtxt, and done with it. Now, composing a reply, to simply say "no, thank you.", that I don't like. It seems a waste of space, and it doesn't "look good". I like to see at least 140 characters! Ha!
@aelaraji which *snac* instance did you see that looked pretty dope? On the ones I saw in the past, I found their web frontend to be rather messy (even more so on mobile).
@prologic not me. I hate monosyllabic replies, specifically on the written medium, so I am just typing this to make it longer. But that doesn't change the truth, and that is, I don't want, nor care, about twtxt, and Activity Pub integration. 😅
@movq absolutely yes!
@prologic running the dame, oh my! TMI! :-P
@andros what makes Kagi "the best search engine"? It is premium, alright. *Allegedly* you don't get ads, but pay up-front for it, monthly.
@kat which was your last post? 😊
@kat you are OK. Taking a deep breath, everything’s gonna be irie, mon. 😅
@movq oh dear lord, take it away, take it away! LOL.
@xuu, see this. The italics didn't come out.
@thecanine "*BuT cAnInE, tHe A(G)i ReVoLuTiOn Is NoW*” Hahahaha! Thanks for good laugh! 🤣
@eapl.me this would be, what, the third time you leave? 😅 I jest around quite a bit, act as Devil's advocate, and am an overall maligned phaun, but please know that I appreciate you, and enjoy your engagement.

We will be here (maybe) if you ever decide to come back.
@prologic if I tell you I will lose the edge. I want to mass produce them, as a business venture. LOL.
@prologic that mechanical magical ball I built is doing a good job, thus far. :-P
I figure Eris is getting and update. A real certificate this time? Time will tell!
@prologic Spain. Duh! 😂
@prologic if not that, what else? Communism? Is there, really, such thing? 🤣
@prologic 🚀🚀🚀🎉🎉🎉
And by "foot" I meant food, because, you know, sometimes (more often than not) I am a *fool*.
@news-minimalist so many "good news", we are "winning" big time. I listen to NPR on my way to work, and they were talking about the foot depletion. You could hear the desperation of the people they put on, so incredibly sad. 😢
@lyse LOLed in RL, my office mates were, "what's going on, where, what?!". 😂
@movq oi, that has to be a bot. AI bot? Maybe not, but still a bot. I see this becoming more and more of an issue, sorry to say...
@prologic I have:

* jenny
* buckket's original (patched, or not)
* tt/tt2
* Timeline
* Twtxtory
* Yarnd
@prologic pinging the involved (@andros, @abucci, @eapl.me, @lyse, @movq, @sorenpeter), just in case. I might have forgotten someone, please feel free to ping them.
@prologic I now see my twtxts as written in the proverbial stone. That is, no edits, no deletions, no matter how embarrassing their content might be. 😅
Hear, hear, @prologic! :-)
Or rather, https://txt.sour.is/conv/a36exfa.
@sorenpeter you raw feed says otherwise. Also, https://txt.sour.is/conv/wj5bcwq.
@prologic stop fooling around, and smell the flowers (careful with the bees, they sting)! An unofficial sign done by children, I am sure. :-D
The OP strikes me as a boomer (they might not be!). LOL. I don’t think there is going back. If anything, it will get worse.
@lyse yikes! I knew there will be collateral damage, but I wasn’t expecting it to affect The Tubes! 😱
@twtxtory sorry, it isn’t. After you enter the password, it takes a very long time to render anything. I don’t have the patience to wait. Longest I waited is 3 minutes, and nothing. Super extremely slow.
@prologic ah, yes, a feed that I have muted. 😂
@javivf the demo doesn’t work. When trying to login, it simply times out.
@prologic oh, sorry, you are right. Beautiful 404. The most beautiful 404 I have ever seen. Tremendous! 🤪
@prologic first we need to fix broken links. 😅
@aelaraji let me reply before going to sleep. 😂😂😂
@prologic I don’t understand what’s happening. It often happens with @aelaraji Replies are often simply disconnected.
@aelaraji I replied to this twtxt with https://twtxt.net/twt/yqrdx4q, and it created its own, totally unconnected.
I replied to a twtxt from @aelaraji, which is now gone(?).
@aelaraji I don’t think they have ever replied to anyone. Just checked their raw feed.
Andros’ feed is simply the direct link to submissions with at least 600 points. It doesn’t link to Hacker News, thus no comments.
@prologic is just is! For me, that is.
@prologic I jested, of course. Way too dense (and/or boring) for my liking. 🤣
@prologic and the aim, and end result, is that by reading and learning from it you will prepare yourself to nearly completely avoid accidents. Am I right? 🙂
Hmm. What can I say? 🧐🥴🫩 OK. 🤭😅😂
@kat saving you a bookmark:

The following flags no longer exist:


--max-cache-items
--max-cache-ttl


Instead use --max-age-days, which controls how much of the cache is pulled back for Timeline, Discover and Mentions views.
@prologic I don’t understand the diagram, nor have any idea of what’s about. 👌🏻
@prologic are you sure you are legally blind, mate? I didn't try too hard, and only two, or three times, but the best I got was like 72%. 😅
@aelaraji I will be watching it, but haven't started it yet. Are all the season's episodes available now?
@lyse I am surprised our King hasn’t shut it down already. After all, science is woke. /s
@lyse haha, not satire. It is also in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn” as well:

> "If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?"
>
> "The whole fifteen, mum."
@lyse mooooo, mooooooooo, moooooooooooo! Those cows are not facing the same direction, they are rebels!
About the nuclear power plant on the Moon, they are beating us. There was a time we were ahead, but I understand nothing lasts forever. Now, being a world power for only one hundred and twenty some years, and a super power for around seventy sure is a record (as in short-lived). The Roman Empire lasted over 500 years!
@prologic I believe he is referring to this, on mentions, @abucci@anthony.buc.cidoesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt.
Sounds like a good plan. When can we expect this; end of the month? :-P
@lyse oh wow! That would be something I would print, frame, and hang somewhere *very* visible, with the image in question in it, of course. Soooo hot!
@lyse don't you go planting that seed around here, Mister! 😂
@eapl.me I wouldn't call it natural, it is the way Bluesky decided to handle handles (not meaning to make a pun, or anything). There is no other way, but that.

The bottomline is, there are agreed upon "standards", right? From example, on Yarnd you show as "eapl.me", from "eapl.me". A kind of weird redundancy because on twtxt, ever since I started using it, one will expect to see a "*nick*" (equivalent to a person's first name), from "*a domain*" (like a surname).

There is nothing holding back someone from giving themselves the nick:


thisismyawesomenickforwhichiwillbeknownforeverandeveritsgreatisntit


But, do we really want that? 😅
@movq I tried. I am not flaunting screenies because they would bring me shame. 😅
@eapl.me he fixed the issue with the dots on nicks. It's all good now.