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@adi
> Allowing someone to make a proprietary product is objectively giving someone more freedom with what they can do with it, no matter how many ways said derivative disrespects freedom
Don't think anyone would dispute that on face value, but again that seems more to do with the freedom of the developer(s).
@thecanine Well said!
And yeah @prologic, I couldn't help but think of this conversation when I heard his take on it.
Interesting video I watched/listened to today that kind of coincides with the topic of this conversation: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vrDDHNZmsnQ (Invidious link, so no YouTube don't worry)
Kinda click baitey title and really he was paying out on Chromium, but a big part of his spiel was why he doesn't think projects like Chromium should be MIT licensed.
Note that I am neither for or against MIT, my personal opinion is it's always a case-by-case basis and context matters. But some interesting points he makes, especially about the freedoms of the user as much as the developer.
@thecanine Happy Birthday dude! And wow those glasses π
In the case of something like LibreWolf you can just trawl through the source code to know they aren't stealing your credentials. Agree on the name though, Libre gets tossed around a bit too much.
@adi Nice. Hopefully it gets merged in soon.
> WWW2 and WWW3 are hostnames or subdomains, typically used to identify a series of closely related websites within a domain, such as www.example.com, www2.example.com, and www3.example.com; the series may be continued with additional numbers: WWW4, WWW5, WWW6, and more. Traditionally, such websites are mirrors used for server load balancing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWW2
@adi BTW, what was that benchmarking thing you were using with mkws to compare with hugo etc?
@adi While probably technically true, the only thing about that is it's not 'distributed' the way a self-serving piece of software like yarnd or Mastodon is. A person using mkws is likely only ever going to make local changes, generate and just upload their static website. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the distribution aspect is key with GPL type licenses, not whether someone makes local changes that no one else ever sees or has access to.
@prologic Not sure thinking is often their strong suite π
@prologic Probably made a deal with some country to build them, that we'll renege on later π€£
@prologic Yeah, including posts made from the web interface
There's an entire line missing from that post, eg:
> Itβs not at all a problem, Iβm just a bit OCD about it I guess π
Although in that post I didn't think that was a newline, so I'm not too sure what's going on.
@prologic All the text after the newline doesn't show in the yarnc timeline.
@adi Not sure about prologic, but I have tried Vis a bit. It's not bad, the only thing that bugs me a bit is everytime it's started there's a bit of a "flash" while it applies settings, like set number, setting a theme etc.
It's not at all a problem, I'm just a bit OCD about it I guess π
@adi That's fair. I guess ultimately it depends how much you want to be sure you'll see code changes come back or not.
Woops, yarnc did not like my newline in that post (even though it's not showing as a newline in the web interface).
Testing posting from yarnc using the new $EDITOR function. π
I do love my Vim (or maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome π€£) so this is pretty neat.
hope that makes sense, typed it out quickly, phone on 1% battery π€£
I can understand preferring changes to be released, especially when in our example, the modifiers are funded by a rich backer. Think about it, @prologic is one man who has mostly created all this from the ground up. Then a sizable development team gets the code, who knows what features/improvements they implement, if the code is AGPL they will be "contributed" (unless they be nefarious and try hide it ala Mastodon incident π
)
Never played that game but looks to have a lovely art style (if you're into that sort of thing).
@adi What do you mean by simplicity?
@prologic Works π₯³ Get some well earned rest π
@prologic It initializes correctly, however on my test pod when I add a domain in the Pod Management UI, it doesn't save it. The blacklisted_feeds entry in data/settings.yaml just remains with an empty [].
@prologic You're just tired mate π
I still consider myself a noob when it comes to regexp, but I too thought an empty string causing a match seemed a bit... off. I mean I thought when it comes to typical regexp, you have to be pretty explicit to just match anything.
@prologic Okay I'm reproducing it on my RPi on a test version of yarnd anyway. As you probably have found, every time you save the Pod Settings in the UI it produces the empty string in blacklisted_feeds.
My Go compiler is 1.17.1 π
@prologic In between making dinner but I'll try π I haven't yet updated we.loveprivacy.club pod yet, so should re-produce the problem there in theory. Only question is what can I do/show that will help?
Note to anyone else who upgraded to the latest build and has "blacklisted_feeds" feature for the first time. You might need to remove the - "" after blacklisted_feeds: in data/settings.yaml, otherwise _everyone_ is considered blacklisted π€£
@prologic Good actually.
System load and memory seem to be quite a bit lessened. While I don't think we'll ever get the RPi getting the timeline view to respond in less than a second, it's definitely a bit snappier. Definitely much improved overall π
@slashdot I mean, that's been FarceBook's motto for a while, so kinda stating the obvious here π
Sooooo, guessing dialog didn't progress too far? π In any case though, handy feature π
@prologic this is going on for multiple pages on your pod, viewing in guest/logged out mode, so someone is following that feed I guess. I guess this leads into the question, do we need a way to automatically limit content that might be considered spam? π€ As in totally duplicate yarns like that one.
Man, that Port70 feed... π
@lobste_rs Ahh yes, this is where I got a lot of my inspiration and information for my solar/RPi setup π
@adi \n> Personally, I wouldnβt mind if TRUTH took my code and didnβt release source code.\n\nYeah, and I imagine most people releasing under a MIT license wouldn't care, that's an expected part of that very permissive license. But that is I guess why we're having this discussion, as @prologic isn't so comfortable with it, and I can understand why. If Trump and co (and their ilk) want to develop a proprietary system they have more than enough money to do so and don't need to leech off others work and call it their own.
@prologic haha yes! I live for the day a hash happens to have _fuck_ in it π€£ (I know, real mature).
@prologic Pretty sure I'm the only one who gets that error though so I dunno, naturally always thought it was my internet. Can't explain the localhost getting the error though.
@mckinley Thanks! π I don't have the artistic ability to do what I sorta envisioned but I was happy enough with what I got.
@prologic http://localhost:8000/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt , so on the RPi itself. Which is a fair point actually... that error shouldn't happen on a local network connection π€
Okay that was weird, I thought I replied to the forked convo...
@prologic \n> Try to hit your twtxt.txt URI which is what the rest of the Yarn.social network sees π\n
\n\nNot such a 100% result there, however that exact error is one that often comes up in my output log for yarnd for various feeds, for no apparent reason. I blame not the RPi for that, but my internet connection. It is after all a 4G connection in a zone the carrier doesn't even recognise as being fully covered (on a standard device, granted I have Yagis hooked up), occasionally I can forgive flakiness.
@adi It was literally linked earlier in the root conversation, the whole Mastodon/Truth.social drama, you must be aware of it π
@prologic Haha I know, but I was curious to see the difference, especially on the different hardware. It didn't crash and burn so that's something π€£
@prologic I think AGPLv3 is more than fair enough. I too like MIT, but in the context of an online platform like this that could be open to abuse by certain types, ala the Truth.social/Mastodon example, AGPL at least makes sure the code can be kept open and gives you legal recourse for those abusers.
I'm assuming 12~ sec latencies is pretty insane LOL but this is my RPi we're talking about.
@prologic following your vegeta (awesome name) example earlier I did the same, on my personal pod.\n
\n\nWhat do you make of it? π€
Hmm granted that graph is system load rather than CPU percentage but hopefully it still shows some sort of trend
@prologic Yep. This has been Monitorix's CPU graph since I enabled it today just before lunchtime \n
@prologic Some of what is being called 'old' is 2017 all the way to 2019 and 2020 models though? I think I have a very different idea of _old_ π
@slashdot Hope this is a genuine error and not a cheeky bit of planned obsolescence in play π
@prologic Good stuff. I have pulled the latest master, there does indeed seem to be some improvement. Hard to say exactly how much, I really need to run some monitoring software. Something that isn't NodeJS like what is in the Debian repos would be nice π
@prologic Yeah it's just external links. Like when I left click on "Read More" on a Slashdot feed item without thinking, next second I'm reading the article, close it... and my Pod tab is gone π€£
@prologic I see what you mean by the CPU usage, some massive spikes there! Hmm π€
@prologic I wouldn't mind that actually, as long as it's not too much trouble. π
@prologic interesting, I thought the CPU usage seemed better but I'm not running any graphs or anything. Other than that I felt it's better, not markedly, but its there.
Just curious as why the opening links in a new tab (i.e _target=blank) was removed? Didn't mind that, meant the Pod tab remained persistently no matter what was clicked on. Not a massive deal, I can right click or middle click a link to open in a new tab instead, just curious on the reasoning.
Wait, I'm an idiot. I just blew away data/cache and restarted and now it seems to more consistently around 1.6 to 2.5 π³
Of course it's all relative, 500ms improvement is probably nothing to sneeze at...
@prologic Okay, well, it's not a _massive_ difference. My initial *feel* was it felt a little quicker, and my perception is the CPU is a little lower when loading the timeline, but actual server waiting time is maybe ~500ms better generally? It can be very variable, down as low as 2.2 seconds or around 3 seconds at its higher points, which is down from the 3.5 or so I mentioned originally. But hey it's an improvement!
@prologic Ahh man, I knew it.. π Well, since you've done the work now, fingers crossed. π€
Yes, great article indeed! I do have a Wacom somewhere, although I lost the stylus. Maybe I shall think of alternatives next time if I decide to get another drawing tablet.
@prologic Geez man, have some well earned rest π
And I _hope_ my mentioning my RPi's slightly sluggish timeline loading didn't have too much to do with it, I only mentioned it in relation to the impact of the proposed changes re: the timestamps. On any relatively normal server hardware (even my cheap VPS) yarnd flies, so I never really thought about it much before.
@prologic Is that for the timestamp thingos enabled or just in general?
@prologic Having "fun" there? π
I think I noticed twtxt.net down a few times here and there.
Not sure what @jlj 's experience is? For me being a RPi I never expect miracles anyway. It does the job but this is one of the reasons I didn't make my personal pod a public instance. π
@prologic Difficult one, I guess for me I wouldn't want to add any extra latency. My RPi actually typically has about a 2500-3500ms response time with Yarn as-is and the CPU momentarily spikes to 50-70% when I load my timeline. I always figured it was mostly my povo network setup (well not povo, more the only thing I can get where I live!) but it's identical even when I load it on my local network. This doesn't actually worry me, and majority the time my RPi barely knows yarnd is there, it's just when loading the timeline.
@fastidious Yeah I think my father in his mid sixties is much the same as your mother - hasn't had a thing! Yet both my partner and I in our early thirties are noticing symptoms on the first one. Ah well, it is what it is.
The first one I thought you were going for a dithered image for a sec π€£
So I got the first jab on Friday. No problems other than the usual sore arm. Tonight though (Sunday) I feel pretty crappy and feel like I'm running up a temperature. Fun π I've heard it affects people quite differently though and _should_ hopefully blow over in a day or two.
I just nohup my pod like a pauper π€£
@prologic yeah but unless I'm missing something, a custom theme's CSS won't be minified like the default one is in the Makefile. And you discourage modifying the Makefile for obvious reasons, therefore the solution is either run minify manually or make a basic wrapper script if one doesn't want type out that command everytime π
Personally I'd just make a non upstream wrapper script that runs minify after each build, or whatever, if I wanted to automate it. That's my solution to a lot of things π€£
@prologic I have to admit I don't know what the shorter_permalink_title one actually is π
\nI have very much liked the discover_all_posts feature, as you know.
@prologic Oh yeah, I reckon a day is plenty enough. π
@prologic I don't mind what @lyse is saying here, TBH. There's probably an argument to be made that such time granularity down to the millisecond _could_ act as a useful piece of metadata, to those that we would rather it not. A bad actor, I suppose, could use it to further gauge a person's habits, how often they log in on their device, etc. It might sound tin foil hat, but in this day and age...
Yeah can't see any issues with that.
@prologic Hmm, well hopefully that is the case! Cos that would be totally fine.
@slashdot This is all well and good, but given you need to assign a phone number to Signal, and I figure they _would_ have to turn that over to the government as one of their few bits of actual stored data, then the authorities can simply trace back to that device anyway via the telecom provider.
@adi I must admit I've found Makefile syntax a little challenging at times.
@adi I know, I was kidding. Not even I use Gentoo π
@adi But could she emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y --changed-deps @world on Gentoo? Those are the _real_ questions here π€£
I also agree with this. Now granted, we're dealing with different generations and mindsets and so not absolutely everyone will grasp or want to grasp coding. But it should absolutely be taught in all schools nowadays in my mind.\nMy father for example, has an IQ roughly around 154 and is very intelligent in many things, but he **cannot** grasp computers beyond simple point and click stuff. Calls himself a 'techno-idiot'. I'm sure there are many like him as well.
@prologic I didn't mind it. That said if I'm going to post decent sized blog pieces for a wide audience I personally use my personal website because I'm a control freak and like serving static content etc, but I did use the Blog feature once when I was writing about LibreWolf and needed way more characters than a Yarn typically allows.
@adi yeah that was my slightly bad joke π
@adi you're preaching to the converted here π But everyone has different priorities and workloads. \nI'm surprised @prologic didn't build some blog posting feature into yarnd.. oh wait π€£
@adi I _think_ what @prologic is saying (correct me if I'm wrong James π
) is he wants to just write blog content and publish immediately rather than maintain static pages, upload them etc.
@prologic yeah I won't lie, I had to mute the yarns feed (for now) π
