@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Just check'n π€ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Just check'n π€ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Btw you know you can tweak the Max Length of posts on your pod right? β Read more
@stigatle I always love your morning shots so gorgeous π β Read more
Also exciting π₯³ β Read more
@stigatle Yup not worries π β Read more
Can I add your Pod to the list of known pods? π€ I will scape a couple of statistical metrics from it that measure the network size and activity π β Read more
@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_ Oh I see ! Cool shit π β Read more
@stigatle Been sick for over 2 weeks π’π₯΄ β Read more
@stigatle. Very beautiful π β Read more
@stigatle Man that's a big dog!!! π β Read more
@stigatle Nope working fine π€£ β Read more
@stigatle It works! What's changed? π€ β Read more
@eaplmx I should be taking advice from you π€ β Read more
@eaplmx I'm the worst person to ask π Look at how slow my projects and their uptake is π€£ And not a single one earns a single dime π€¦ββοΈ β Read more
I was gonna say the correct thing to do here normally in most cases is to put the content type encoding in the HTTP response heads β Read more
Very interesting implementation π€ β Read more
Also the year long Timelapse is good π β Read more
Yeah this is pretty cool! β Read more
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ Also curious how you plan to write a Web UI without any Javascript -- But you started off by writing a Rest API? Are those going to be two separate things? β Read more
Geez I'm not looking forward to our next summer π€£ β Read more
Me too π β Read more
@xuu _@txt.sour.is_ Nice! β Read more
@mckinley Nice! β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ My thougjts exacrly π β Read more
OTOH I'm not really sure what to make of their manifesto -- I also really don't like the word "manifesto" π β Read more
Came across this today. Interesting take on "Social Media", if you read about it you'll see a familiar set of values and concepts not t ...
cohost!
Came across this today. Interesting take on "Social Media", if you read about it you'll see a familiar set of values and concepts not too different from Yarn.social π
Tried to "Signup" but quickly realised I would not be able to post without an "Invite Code", what a shame π
Anyway, I \\_think\\_ it's cool and interesting to see more concerted efforts ... β Read more
\\- There is also FUSE filesystem called bitcaskfs you can use to mount your database and treat it like a filesystem for debugging purposes or whatever.
\\- And finally if you need High Availability or a Server<->Client model there is the builtin \\
bitcaskd\\
which provides a Redis-compatible API for a server/client model or the [bitraft](https://git ... β Read more
yarnd
) you _should_ know some things ...@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ If you're going to seriously look at Bitcask (which I use in all my projects, including \\
yarnd\\
) you \\_should\\_ know some things up front:\\- Be aware of a design flaw / bug #238 whereby your program will deadlock if you attempt to do ... β Read more
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ Use Bitcask π Designed for high write and read π β Read more
@retrocrash _@twtxt.net_ I like it. Capital to get started? We'd need a tiny bit at least π β Read more
> Maybe long-term: OAuth/etc. But that goes against the rule of simplicity and
puts a big hole in the privacy part.
I'd reco ...
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_
\\> Maybe long-term: OAuth/etc. But that goes against the rule of simplicity and
puts a big hole in the privacy part.
I'd recommend implementing IndieAuth. You can even test against \\_any\\_ \\
yarnd\\
instance out there as they're all valid IndieAuth providers (or one locally even) β Read more
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ I also argue you can use a KV store here, but abstracting out the interface is a good idea anyway. The types of data you're wanting to store (exercises) are more like time-series (which most use KV stores anyway).
Recommend Bitcask of course π Or Badger or Bolt β Read more
> The thing yarnd uses seems a bit odd to Lyse.
I didn't choose it π I have no experience in this kind of thing π**
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_
\\> The thing yarnd uses seems a bit odd to Lyse.
I didn't choose it π I have no experience in this kind of thing π β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Yeah good on you! π -- I not so long ago told off a bank's security department for not implementing "provable identity" mechanisms for their call centre staff where if you receive a call from their staff they have to prove to you that they are who they say they are.
Good thing i ... β Read more
What are our requirements?
Wish list?
Go!
@retrocrash Co-Op sounds good.
What are our requirements?
Wish list?
Go! β Read more
1. I follow them immediately
2. Then shadow ban their account so their SP ...
@jlj _@twt.nfld.uk_ Well for the time being I'm just doing the following:
1\\. I follow them immediately
2\\. Then shadow ban their account so their SPAM doesn't shove up on "Discover"
And now'I'm asking the community for help on how we \\_might\\_ deal with this "abuse" of the software and ecosystem as I see it.. ... β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Unfortunately I don't do anything with such data. But if you have experience in this, maybe you can help me out? β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Ooof π³ That sounds rough π β Read more
What do I do about the growing number of spam accounts on my pod lately? π€ Seems like I'm getting one per day, and I keep shadow banning them because they only post total spam crap that risks littering up the Pod's Timeline (Discover) with useless junk π€¦ββοΈ
Disable Registrations for a few days? π€ β Read more
@screem It's back online now, but when its checked it's often been https://kyoko.nerdpol.ovh/ I \\_think\\_ it was kyoko.nerdpol.ovh/ -- Not sure why it goes up/down at times π I know mine does down because NBN is shit π β Read more
@screem How about this weekend? π€ β Read more
@retrocrash Yup β Read more
@retrocrash Bullshit π β Read more
Yarn.social's network stats over the last 3 days (since I stood this up)

Is this shit really so goddamn hard? π€ β Read more
Installation fails on fresh Ubuntu 20.04 on Vultr
CassaOS
What is it with all these so-called "self-host" solution ...
Another one bites the dust
Installation fails on fresh Ubuntu 20.04 on Vultr
CassaOS
What is it with all these so-called "self-host" solutions that basically either a) don't work or b) are insecure
π€¦ββοΈ
Time to build our own π β Read more
@ocdtrekkie you should read some of the issues that talk about security and the lack of TLS certificates. It's both hilarious and horrifying the folks behind this Umbrel platform is so naΓ―ve.
The fact that there is a comment that even suggests that the local network is assumed to be trusted is just goddamn stupid.
then there's another comment claiming t ... β Read more
@ocdtrekkie no idea what happened I'm afraid and unfortunately their community is a bit stagnant? So I probably won't find out for Sundays. It was a complete fresh install I followed the instructions exactly. β Read more
Decided ...
[prologic/gonix: A UNIX Operating System (based on the Linux Kernel) with a Userland mostly written in Go (Golang). - gonix - Mills](https://git.mills.io/prologic/gonix)
Decided to open this up finally. No build instructions yet, but for the curious:
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$ docker build -t builder .
$ docker run -i -t --rm -v $PWD/artefacts:/build/artefacts builder
$ ./test.sh
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@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_ brush it out? could be bit of dust on the gold contacts π€ β Read more
@carsten _@yarn.zn80.net_ Evening! β Read more
if you sit down and work out the math on a $800,000 home loan (in Australia, which is typical in many parts) you're looking at a monthly increase of ~$333 per month every time the interest rate goes up π
I \\_sure hope\\_ people's iPhones/month wages go up by as much :D β Read more~
- May 2022: 3.78%
- June 2022: 4.28%
- July 2022: 4.78%
Starting to see a bit of ...
Commonwelath Bank Variable Interest rates this year (2022):
\\- May 2022: 3.78%
\\- June 2022: 4.28%
\\- July 2022: 4.78%
Starting to see a bit of a pattern here... π€
Fun times π Prediction?
\\- August 2022: 5.21% β Read more
@niplav _@niplav.github.io_ Huh? π€ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Ouch π’ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Just utter crap. Loads of rubbish software, services and daemons you really don't fucking need to run your thing X π β Read more
@screem _@yarn.yarnpods.com_ Okay! But given both Umbrel and Cloudron are utter failures at this point we won't get far im afraid π’ I'll still public ARM images for Yarn.social for Raspberry Pi users but yeah π€¦ββοΈ β Read more
Install went okay.
Setup the first (admin) user okay.
Tried to login:
> Invalid Username o ...
So I setup a Cloudron installation on a Vultr VM.
Install went okay.
Setup the first (admin) user okay.
Tried to login:
\\> Invalid Username or Password
π€¦ββοΈ \\*\\*FAIL\\*\\* π€¦ββοΈ β Read more
I just tried to spin up an Ubuntu 20.04 ...
This is why I'm building my own custom OS and writing most of the Init, Management and Userland in Go.
I just tried to spin up an Ubuntu 20.04 VM on Vultr and the fucking thing took ~10m for it to boot and bring up networking and ssh. π³
These "modern" Linux distros are basically just full of junk these days, they have far too much "shit" in them π€¦ββοΈ β Read more~
I don't remember getting Linux and Xorg running with an NVIDIA GPu this bard π β Read more
Oh dear π β Read more
Nope!
Stop!
Umbrel is insecure by default. π³
See my comment
What a shame ...
Update on trying to get Yarn into the Umbrel App Store.
\\*\\*Nope!\\*\\*
\\*\\*Stop!\\*\\*
Umbrel is insecure by default. π³
See my comment
What a shame π€¦ββοΈ Also da fuq?! π
\\> Secure communication over a local network is not an easy problem to solve. I don't think encouraging users to install root certs is a good idea. Tha ... β Read more
@screem _@twtxt.net_ Great π LMK when you can test a build for me π€ β Read more
yarnd
for me? π€ (Working on getting Yarn into U ...Does anyone have a Raspberry Pi or some kind of ARM server they can test a Docker image for \\
yarnd\\
for me? π€ (Working on getting Yarn into Umbrel and Cloudrun) β Read more
$ docker buildx build --platf ...**
If you're trying to build multi-arch Docker images on macOS (or probably any other OS) and you run into this:
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$ docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64,linux/arm/v7 -t username/demo:latest --push .
error: multiple platforms feature is currently not supported for docker driver. Please switch to a different driver (eg. "docker buildx create --use")
make: \\*\\*\\* [docker-b ... β [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/6uhfupq)*
Hmmm β Read more
@mckinley π³π β Read more
@mckinley _@mckinley.cc_

@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ That's very cool! π β Read more
@retrocrash my only problem with this is how I grapple with the moral / ethical dilemma of using the very platforms that I despise and always talk shit about because they're basically abusing people and ever against everything I believe in and then I and I'm trying to work towards? π€ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ That is super cool! π Are you able to share any details of how this works? π€ β Read more
> Iβve been ...
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ No worries! I'm the same, full-time job + family + all my projects/interests (don't ask how I find the time!)
\\> Iβve been meaning to play with salty chat just to see how it looks
Oh great! π Do let us know when/if you manage to get around to this. We're still working hard on ... β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Ahh yeah the Charm libraries (For Go) are quite nice π Interested in doing something with these libs? π€ Could I interest you in rewriting the TUI for Salty Chat ? π β Read more
@off\\_grid\\_living Is this video available anywhere else? I don't have a Facebookβ’ account so am unable to watch this π β Read more
Sadly it doesn't ever seem to cross paths with down under π’ β Read more
@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_ Good then as you do this "experiment" I expect to still see Yarns from you π β Read more
@mckinley So... Really... You have a 10x better Internet connection than I π And I bet you pay less for it too π€£ β Read more
@mckinley I can only download about ~10.9GB in ~20mins here π β Read more
@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_ ~20mins per day is more than enough for you to suck down your feeds and reply to a few π Beauty of Twtxt is it's all designed to be "async" and it's kind of offline friendly (sort of). β Read more
@anth _@a.9srv.net_ Damn, that would have been cool to share if you happened to catch it in the act π Maybe next time π€ β Read more
@ocdtrekkie Hmmm good idea actuallyπ β Read more
@anth _@a.9srv.net_ Did you take a pic? π€ β Read more
@mckinley Me too! π β Read more
@akoizumi _@kyoko.nerdpol.ovh_ Your pod has gone offline since 12:03pm AEST (+10 UTC) -- Everything okay? π€ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ that's a pretty specific number π β Read more
don't think I'll be joining the call today folks π’ Still feel like shit π₯΄ β Read more
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ My experience is I have to scroll most of the time and infrequently there is no answer at all π€¦ββοΈ β Read more
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ LOL! π C'mon people still don't \\_try\\_ to seek answers to problems on Stackoverflow do they?! I mean seriously most of the questions and answers are complete rubbish π€£ π€¦ββοΈ β Read more
@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_ πββοΈ β Read more
@retrocrash So... About these other self-host(er) communities you speak of... Where do we find them, who do we talk to? π€ β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ Haha π€£ It's called parenthood! Welcome π I got two little ones too! β Read more
@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_ That would be cool! My wife and my Dad are both users of my pod π β Read more
But like @retrocrash reminds us, quality over quantity π β Read more
@darch _@neotxt.dk_ Any "activity" you perform (basically anytime you have an active session) you count as "active". Then every hour a background job compute the values for \\
yarnd\\_server\\_dau\\
and \\yarnd\\_server\\_mau\\
respectively based on how many users on that pod were active today and how many were ac ... β Read more
@retrocrash Hmm interesting ideas π€ β Read more
@retrocrash Haha π€£ β Read more
@retrocrash Interested to hear your thoughts on "pushing" the network and what you see of as "acceptable" ? β Read more
@retrocrash Not sure there's anything to be concerned about π -- Howecwr it would be nice to see Yarn.social continue to grow albeit slowly. Hence the work I put in today to create a Dashboard of the network. β Read more
> Do you mind if I scrape some metric ...
Okay I've put together this Dashboard finally π I've asked y'all this question once before:
\\> Do you mind if I scrape some metrics from your pods?
The only ones I'm interested in ar the ones starting with \\
yarnd\\_server\\_...\\
mostly \\yarnd\\_server\\_mau\\
and \\yarnd\\_server\\_dau\\
.Let me know if you want to be excluded though! π
Let's see how this trends over time...
...

Either I'm computing "active users" wrong in \\
yarnd\\
-- Or this is just a depressing state of affairs. Or is it? π€ Do we care? Should we improve this? What do we make of this? cc [@jlj _@twt.nfld.uk_](https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https:// ... β Read more