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@movq wut da fuq?! 🀯
@thecanine Haha I thought myself there might ahve been too many pixels on the tail, but I'm no expert in this field 🀣 It's still a nice canine though! πŸ‘Œ
@thecanine My daughter (_who is pretty good already at art and only 10 :D_) says this looks like a "blob" 🀣 I tried to explain to her that this is pixel art, but I'm not quite sure she has the same appreciation (yet) πŸ˜…
@eric Name change is no worries! πŸ˜‰ Interesting/funnily enough my client yarnd _seems_ to have picked it up automatically which is nice (_I've historically always had a few bugs to iron out there 🀣_)_
@itsericwoodward Also just a heads up, GIF(s) aren't supproted as an Avatar type on yarnd (_what runs twtxt.net_). I'd change this to something that's more supproted like PNG, JPEG, etc.
@eric I prefer to call what we've built here _really_ an "ecosystem". A network isn't really an apt description. Twtxt/Yarn is arguably IMO the purest decentralised non-social social media ecosystem I think in existence today 🀣
@xuu Your ingress is via some kind of tunnelling too right?
@bender This one: https://n8n.andros.dev/webhook/f0cfd6a6-60c8-4183-a26d-120bbd25a046
@eric Sure i! Welcome! πŸ€—
@eldersnake Haha, yeah well "thinking" isn't really something we even know how to define, let alone simulate 🀣
But maybe, just _maybe_ this is why they're pushing so hard to have this "Age Verification" bullshit. So they can then shut people down like me that routinely "speak up" and "against the status quo". Bend over backwards? I think not! Assholes 🀣
I _realize_ I'm a nobody, and no-one will care or listen. But to the various UK, EU and AU politicians pushing for this "Online Safety Act" bullshit.... You're all fucking utter morons! I can't wait for the backflash of what will come next. Idiots.
@bender It was 🀣
Today I finally got rid of my /29 IPv4 subnet with my ISP _used_ to power my ingress. No longer.
@movq No one would figure out how to :q! ? 🀣
This whole Age Verification that's being rolled out in the UK, AU and parts of the EU is totally fucking bullshit. Death to the Online Safety Act.
@jost Yeah replying is pretty easy if you see the first reply. Just preserve the so-called "Subject" 🀣
@jost Hey πŸ‘‹
@kiwu Congrats πŸ₯³
@kat Any time πŸ˜…
@kat Here's the full config I use.
@kat Cool! 😎 Yeah I'll add that soonβ„’
@kat Oh sweet! I was gonna say, setting up those rules is a bit "complicated" 🀣 But I'm glad you worked it out! πŸ‘Œ
Hello @jassim πŸ‘‹
There is a missing feature I've been intending to add to though, which is that _any_ link that _looks_ like a URL that _might_ be an image, for example, ends with .png or .jpg or whatever, we _should_ just render that as an image and not expect users to wrap it in Markdown image links ![](...)
@kat Ahh what do you mean by images don't embed? They definitely should! By default however all domains are blocked, so you might want to either allow some domains or just put in a .* entry to allow all/any domsins. Screenshot attached
@arne LOl that's hilarious πŸ˜‚
@kiwu Hi!!!!!!!!! πŸ˜† Welxome! πŸ™‡β€β™€οΈ
@important_dev_news Oh gawd, is the EU doing this "age verification" bullshit too!? Not just Australia?! πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί Farrrrk!!!!! Help!!!!
@kat Just do it 🀣 I do this daily for work. It's great!
@movq Don't worry, this hype will end as quickly as the last one haha 🀣
@movq Sounds about right πŸ˜…
@movq Haha πŸ˜† But OTOH not nearly as much as you think. Plus you get to build what you want!
@lyse A web app called Floor Plan Creator
Been mucking around with designing my own camper (_floor plan_).
@bender Haha 🀣
Global update: Trump in Scotland says EU trade deal has 50-50 chance as tariff row grows. Gaza sees 9 more starvation deaths (122 total); UN says famine is deliberate. Thai-Cambodia clashes kill 16, displace 135k. US raid in Syria kills top ISIS leader & sons.
To be honest though, for a mid-range and moderately priced truck, even though it's made in China (_what isn't?!_), it's _actually_ a very nice truck.
@bender I plan to trade it in within it's warranty period 🀣 It has 7yr warrants on everything, I said to the dealer, I'll see you in 5 🀣
Our truck can comfortably tow 3T (its rated for 3.5T but I'm trying to keep a fair bit of buffer and headroom all-round).
@bender That was one of the inputs into my research 🧐 So that's already factored in. We bought our new truck (2025 GWM Canon) recently to replace the 'ol 2nd hand Nissan Navara we bought that just had _too many_ things go wrong with it, and I don't have time or energy to learn to be a diesel mechanic haha 🀣 -- So yes, the SCT-16 has a Tare (unladen weight) of 2150Kg and a maximum legal (ATM) weight of 2,800Kg.
After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I _think_ I've finally come up with my Final Choices (_shortlist_) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I'll enjoy (_far less work for me to setup and teardown_). The one at the top of the list I'm leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B #Camping #Campers
@bender Yes! You guys have this thing called a "5th wheeler" 🀣 We (Aussies) just don't normally have big enough trucks to drag those "House on wheels" though πŸ˜…
Discover the OPUS OP4 TLX: The Perfect off-road Camper for Families Kind of _thinking_ about this now hmmm πŸ€”
@movq Nice! πŸ‘
@lyse Haha 🀣
@bender are they really though when you factor in the weaker AUD? 🧐
Been spending a lot of time researching campers as I want to / plan to upgrade our current Camper Trailoer (_forward fold_) Stoney Creek XL-FF6 to a slightly larger Hybrid Camper/Caravan with ensuite, internal kitchenette, external full hitchen, pop-top roof and twin bunks.

This is the summary and whittling down of my research so far: https://wiki.mills.io/s/1103bc9c-dd75-4a98-b64b-8dadc5b0e51f/doc/comparision-Ln03Moiibq
@kat Ok πŸ‘Œ
@movq This is a really good example of "simplicity" but achieves the intent and goals πŸ‘Œ

> (Now, I don’t know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesn’t.)

I don't use a screen reader fortunately (_actually they're pretty garbage_). So all good πŸ‘ (_I juse use full-screen zoom_).
@lyse Nice shot! 😳
For example, I reckon software should treat stdout and stderr with care and never output logs or other such garbage to stdout that cannot possibly be useful in a UNIX pipeline πŸ˜…
@movq Yeah that's why I'm striking this conversation with you πŸ˜… Not only do I respect your opinion quite highly 🀣 But like you say (_and I've read their philipshpy_) it can be a bit "elitism" for sure. I'm genuinely interested in what we think of as software that "doesn't suck". Tb be honest I haven't really put thought to paper myself, but I reckon if I did, I'd have some opinions/ideas...
@movq So you wouldn;t consider things written in Go to be "suckless"-esque? πŸ€”
@eldersnake Yeah well when you put it like that 🀣
@movq Curious what you would define as "suck less" software? (language agnostic of course!)
@eldersnake Yeah for sure! The thing that annoys me about a lot of this, is the sheer fact you can't really self-host let alone self-train these things I've been playing around with AI at home over the past few months and building my own neural networks from scratch (in Go) with genetic algorithms on a few tasks and training sets, but man it's hardβ„’ 🀣 I _feel_ like we're doing something wrong here...
@eldersnake This was an interesting read for sure! πŸ‘ I don't think it had anything I hadn't already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. I'm not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. I've forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you don't want to be that one guy that ya know πŸ˜‰ Ethically/Morally though, I'm definitely with the sentiment of this post πŸ˜… Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (_if y'all remember?!_) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of "tech" (_if you can call it that?_) in a while. Then there's these other issues "stealing people's work", "reliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrink", to name a few..._
@kat Yea I can! I
How you can tell a "review post" on some random website was written by AI?

> Ergonomically nicer than its binocular counterpart

How exactly is this a reason to avoid?! πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
@lyse HahahHh 🀣
@movq Because we keep fucking with the planet's environment and climate patterns? πŸ€”
We're feeling some pretty intense winds up here in Brisbane too right on the outer edge which are exceeding 100 km an hour winds 🀣
Feeling a bit bad for the folks and Coffs Harbor and on the coast of Sydney right now 🀯
A few more...
As promised, here's some photos of love you!! camping trip to Canarcon George in QLD, Australia.
@movq We did indeed! πŸ˜… I'll share photos soonβ„’ πŸ”œ Was completely "off-grid", no connectivity to anything anywhere 🀣
I'm back! πŸ‘‹
Thanks all πŸ™
@movq Yeah pretry much 🀣
@kat Always do 🀣
@movq Is this much different to Go's error handling as values though really? 🧐🀣😈
@movq Agree! Good list πŸ‘Œ
@movq Ewww 😈
Gone on a road trip. Be back in a week πŸ‘‹
@bender Ahh I see hmmm I don't know this either 🀣
@aelaraji You mean Control R?
@movq Yup πŸ‘ Super interesting sruff πŸ‘Œ
@movq I think it's here on MIT's website: Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task πŸ€”
i.e: the "~30-40% drop in cognitive capabilities" for chronic users of Chatp GPT 🀣~
@movq I was more interested in the MIT research tbh πŸ˜…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1935344122103308748.html Interesting article on how ChatGPT is rotting your brain 🀣
@movq Hahaha πŸ˜‚ This is gold! I've been following along with our ramblings on Rust. What's it gone and done to you now? πŸ€” I don't think I can ever be friends personally, I feel "too stupid" to learn Rust 🀣
@movq I like this idea πŸ‘Œ Very neat!
@bmallred Oh sorry I should have explained those terms πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ
@bmallred Ahhh this is an agent I'm tryining to play the game of Connect3. It uses a library written in Go I've been working on that supports Neuroevolution using Genetic Algorithms. Some features include: Mutation, Speciation, Lamarckian Evolution/Inheritence.
Hmmm 🧐 Not what I thought was going on... No bug...


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Soooo very very close! πŸ˜… AI Agent learning to play Connect3!
@bender Hmmm

> and have an unexplainable dislike for its creator.

What? What? πŸ˜… πŸ€”
@bender I know I know! I don't know why I ever signed up and used it and still continue to pay for the silly thing. Twtxt/Yarn is so much better in every way 🀣
@bender Maybe one day I'll take back over my prologic.blog domain from ¡Blog and redoit with my handy zs tool with some nice CSS 🀣
@bender I just babble on Twtxt 🀣 I honestly find that I don't realy have the time nor the energy to "blog" in full really, I rarely do 😒
@movq Me too πŸ˜… -- Speaking of which i know you've lost a bit of "mojo" or "energy" (_so have i of late_), rest assured, I want to keep the status quo here with what we've built, keep it simple and change very little. What we've built has worked very well for 5+ years and we have at least 3 very strong clients (maybe 4 or 5?).
@movq Ahh but it kind of is mine πŸ˜… Or at least I've done this kind of thing at least 3 or 4 times now 🀣
@bender yes but my point is my handcrafted set up also achieves the same thing 🀣
@bender What's awesome about it btw? I use WireGuard pretty heavily here. And my entire family also use it to keep a VPN connection back to our home network
@movq Considered building your own language and compiler? πŸ€”
@movq This was always my belief too re likes, etc.
Great article from Tailscale about how security policies we've often seen in many large complex organizations that we all love to hate don't actually provide the security that we assumed.

https://tailscale.com/blog/frequent-reath-security
@bender remind me to look into this a bit later because I'm starting to suspect there's a weird behavior in the system 🧐