I'm finding old gems to play and understanding that we have the same problems developing games 30+ years after, although with some obvious differences.
Currently playing:
https://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Kentris.html
Which reminds me of another Tetris I don't know how it came to my PC in the 90s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaK7v8UNjo0
Is there something already developed, for example on yarn.social?
Let's say I want to notify https://sour.is/tiktok/America/Denver.txt that I've replied to some twt. They don't follow me back, so they won't see my reply.
I would send my URL to, could be, https://sour.is/tiktok/replies?url=MY_URL and they'll check that I have a reply to some of their twts, and could decide to follow me back (after seeing my twtxt profile to avoid spam)
Another option could be having a metadata like
follow-request=https://sour.is/tiktok/America/Denver.txt TIMESTAMP_IN_SECONDS
that the other client has to look for, to ensure that the request comes from that URL (again, to avoid spam)
This could be deleted after the other .txt has your URL in the follow list, or auto-expire after X days to clean-up old requests.
What do you think?=
https://eapl.me/links/all_links.php
Whilst there are some gems, there are also links I haven't read, and perhaps never will.
I'm thinking of having some way of fade away them over time, and if I don't do anything with a link in, let's say, a year, it will vanish forever.
Something similar I do with contacts. If I don't talk with someone for more than I year, why do I have them in my list?
#stupidFOMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPIVTqVilCM
There's a similar behaviour in public places like airports ✈, or even some have malicious forms. I'm not sure if it's a general issue anymore.
Also,even on HTTPS some extensions inject scripts or hidden fields.
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Perhaps your VPN or an extension is injecting some kind of verification before using the site?
The original development doesn't use JavaScript at all, and has 2 cookies for session managing, short term for guests and long term for the admin (perhaps that has to be changed with current European regulations, not sure)
@darch you could add HTTPS to your site to avoid external services injecting JS to the HTML. I bought a SSL certificate for my shared hosting, sadly it doesn't support Let's Encrypt.
But if an extension is doing that, I think there is not much to do from our side.
I like 7, and in my town the sun rises at about 7am, but makes more sense from 6 to 6!
On having noon at 12pm I'll research on that... Interesting point!
Here is the sun graph in my town
https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/mexico/chihuahua
In July here we have 14 hours of daylight, and only 10:21 in December. So the idea would be to adjust working days or whatever, proportional to the amount of natural light we have in that month. Just thinking...
I had a phase of time nerd and made a few clocks, and certainly a physical one with sun rise and sun set marks will be cool to make!
Yes, the idea is that it changes a few seconds every day to "start" at 7am with the sun ☀
The day lasts about 24 hours as usual
https://eapl.me/solar/
Luckily in my country DST is no more, although it could be good and boring to always wake up with the same position of the sun.
After work I should write about this experimental (and unfeasible?) clock 🤔
I'd advise to push that to your Congress (or equivalent), companies and universities, using the force of the group. That helped here.
https://shmck.substack.com/p/no-dogs-were-harmed-in-the-making
I remember that almost never used the calendar. Scheduling wasn't important when I was a kid, I guess...
I'm thinking that automating all could not be the best idea.
Anything else is going smoothly, having a rest of work, exams, playing Inscryption and Pokémon, enjoying this slice of life basically.
How is everyone else doing?
"This is UNDERTALE" - 1-Hour Full Orchestral Medley
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MEsuE35uSvo
https://text.eapl.mx/refunct-scores
También la piratería es un tema moral bastante complejo. Para algunos no hay daño en descargar y copiar sin límite. Para otros, se desincentiva, además de ser ilegal.
Con todo eso, no podemos descartar que en algunos países, como los latinoamericanos, es la primera opción de consumo. Más con los temas de impunidad legal.
Y si no es gratuito, es muy fácil elegir el camino "pirata" que tiene bajas fricciones más que los temas legales.
Se habló un poco en la serie sobre Spotify. Competir pagando por algo que es muy fácil de acceder gratis, con anuncios, etc. es retador.
Debo decir que sí está interesante, aunque en 20 días me terminé las 300 búsquedas.
Lo ideal sería tener el plan ilimitado de 10 USD. La verdad es difícil competir contra los numerosos competidores gratuitos, que respetan privacidad. El valor percibido de un servicio de búsqueda, aunque lo usemos decenas de veces al día, se siente muy bajo.
Ahora ando usando https://priv.au una de las múltiples instancias de https://searx.space
Como es frecuente, son instancias ofrecidas por voluntarios, que pueden desaparecer en cualquier momento.
https://www.oliverburkeman.com/freshstart
That said, life goes on 🙂
https://juegosserios.org/gaceta/
I mean, what's the worst that currently can happen to your users if someone takes control of your server?
"Not Available For Sale in mx"
This one looks interesting:
https://www.downpour.com/gamedev-guide-bundle-2-in-1-bundle?sp=707469
Since written books work better for me, do anyone knows some store for DRM-free ePubs?
https://sembrandojuegos.substack.com/p/sobre-expectativas-al-crear-juegos
BTW a few of the Pods seem to be down
Thinking of it as a tool to work better, let's see how it feels
And it seems to use 120 MB on its database?
(I'm a lazy programmer)
*reinvents Digg*
My current structure uses a line for URL and another for a text description: https://eapl.me/links/links.txt
Although a quick script could do the job!
Also, I'm thinking of having a small web page to add more from the phone. But what I need now is to delete things not interesting anymore! 😅
Now that there are 500+ I think a good cleaning is needed
https://eapl.me/links/all_links.php
Would it be something related with microblogging and twtxt? A video game? A board-game? Or maybe something related with sports? Or maybe it's better just allowing the free time to pass and not doing anythin'...
Just thinking 🙂
gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2023/10-02.gmi
Well, yes... self-hosting is nice until you face problems or unexpected costs for something not appealing anymore.
There are many technical alternatives, although I think the main problem is human. Our fears, expectations, desires and such.
#tuesdaysReflection
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What has been magic to me is ChatGPT.
"On Python/PHP/C# how can I do (thing that I didn't know yet or I'm lazy to do by hand)" or "Show me an example with this input, I'm expecting that output"
And almost every time it generates valid code, well explained, and taking your scenario into consideration.
It teaches you, saves time, it's faster than reading documentation. I'm amazed.
The book "The Victorian Internet" was a good eye-opener for me, understanding that 50, 100 or 200 years ago, humankind had the same problems and needs.
And besides that, I feel everything is going too fast, although I don't have a reference point. My country is/was living in an internal war and now everything feels 'calm'.
As a user of technology, a hobbyist, and designer of new tech, it's interesting to spend some time thinking on it.
Brian Merchant: Why I'm a Luddite despite previously loving technology - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2023.09.18-121714/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/09/18/luddites-social-technology-visionaries/
On Android, I'm quite happy with Aegis, but haven't found something similar on iOS. (With offline backups, TOTPs of 6 to 10 digits, and some customizations)
I tried FreeOTP very briefly. On Android, it doesn't work as I'd expect. It doesn't read the QR code from my app (having inverted colors) and gives a warning that my parameters are insecure (which could be with SHA-1, but it's the first time I see that warning 👀).
And on iOS 10 (latest available on my old iPhone), I assume it gets an old version without support for 10 digits, what my Web apps use.
So I couldn't really recommend it ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯_
I've found that with any QR, and mainly with an 'inverted colors' QR, we need a bit of black margin to make it readable.
https://rhythmlynx.itch.io/nokia-jam-3
I remember of reading books in a tiny device, Not Nokia 3310, but an LG Chocolate.
Sounds quite useless and interestingly artistic.
Reminds me a bit of my thesis for hybrid voting ballots 🗳 where a printed paper is shown for a few seconds and then dropped to the box.
Also, I improved the web preview a bit, I think it makes more sense to show the domain instead of only the title.
https://eapl.me/links/