🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1087 ARCHIVED:78676 CACHE:2491 FOLLOWERS:17 FOLLOWING:14

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rm -fr, remove french-style: merciless colonizer. thief and destroyer of worlds.

maybe i’m overly restrained when it comes to making changes in a codebase, but i do a lot of the work in my head before committing to code.

@bender@twtxt.net I like your website. Petty cool!

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oh and btw https://votesocialist2024.com/ #freePalestine

I love retailers that sell a variety of werid stuff. Add leevalley.com to sciplus.com and countycomm.com.

I’ve been sketching out some gemini-specific offline social stuff here https://ix.cyb.red/wiki/pikabu, but for the online parts i’d be willing to adopt what tw.txt protocols work under the constraints of gemini

I’ve been sketching out some gemini-specific offline social stuff here https://ix.cyb.red/wiki/pikabu, but for the online parts i’d be willing to adopt what tw.txt protocols work under the constraints of gemini

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de my setup is pretty old-school tw.txt hosting-wise. just a text file and a very simple static bridge for pikkulog-style subscribers on gemini. i do try to keep up on the twtxt format spec so i’m publishing a modern and well-formed feed. my dual-hosted website/gemcapsule is meant to eventually be entirely bespoke (my friend wrote the gemini server i’m using, so that counts enough for now) and i’d like to eventually support some of the server extensions that yarn has piloted. follow-wise, rn i kinda just manually try to pick up on who is following me by browsing random feeds. my custom clients usually do a FoaF crawl, but i don’t have anything that really works running rn.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net At least Android has fDroid. Apple is a dominatrix.

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The next jenny release will (probably) stop supporting the old “Hash Tag Extension”, which was deprecated at the end of 2022. It was once used for threading and looked like this:

<a href="https://twtxt.net/search?tag=tsvhqdq">#tsvhqdq</a>

I don’t see them being used in the wild anymore. But if you happen to fetch really old feeds (or some archived feeds), things might break a little.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com lol 😅🙈

I think I’m not going to query Yarn pods for the moment. Let’s first see how often I’d actually need that. 🤔

@quark@ferengi.one Yay 🥳

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is one crazy looking mushroom. 😳 How about tasting it? 🤪

I’m so glad the temperatures were down a bit. Went on a long walk as well, first time in weeks. And there were so few cars yesterday! It was surprisingly quiet.

There was a garbage bag incident last night and I had to clean up the kitchen for two hours. 😂 Now I’m sore as fuck. Good thing I have a day off today, huh? 🤪

It’s a crime that Slow Motion by Supertramp isn’t available on any of the streaming services. It might even be the Crime of the Century.

👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org @bender@twtxt.net I pushed an alternative implementation to the fetch-context branch. This integrates the whole thing into mutt/jenny.

You will want to configure a new mutt hotkey, similar to the “reply” hotkey:

macro index,pager <esc>C "\
<enter-command> set my_pipe_decode=\$pipe_decode nopipe_decode<Enter>\
<pipe-message> jenny -c<Enter>\
<enter-command> set pipe_decode=\$my_pipe_decode; unset my_pipe_decode<Enter>" \
"Try to fetch context of current twt, like a missing root twt"

This pipes the mail to jenny -c. jenny will try to find the thread hash and the URL and then fetch it. (If there’s no URL or if the specific twt cannot be found in that particular feed, it could query a Yarn pod. That is not yet implemented, though.)

The whole thing looks like this:

https://movq.de/v/0d0e76a180/jenny.mp4

In other words, when there’s a missing root twt, you press a hotkey to fetch it, done.

I think I like this version better. 🤔

(This needs a lot of testing. 😆)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I need to clean this up in jenny. It still supports a ton of old formats that aren’t used anymore at all. 🧟

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, I switched to OpenBSD a couple of years ago when sysupgrade(8) became available. I like it a lot, requires very little maintenance. 👌

@bender@twtxt.net I am considering it. 😅 (I might end up being too lazy to set any of this up. 🤪)

Thought: If the invocation including --only-twt-hash fails to find that twt, it could ask a couple of Yarn instances for it (if configured).

(All this needs polishing.)

Honestly, the only thing I want to do on Mastodon is follow the #retrocomputing hashtag and sometimes post under that hashtag. That’s it. 😂

There was an outage of the Mastodon server I use this morning. A good reminder that this is a service that someone else hosts (and I don’t even pay for it). Could be gone tomorrow.

Now that I’ve got a server to spare (the Matrix one is gone), I might look into hosting a snac instance. 🤔

RIP, Matrix server. 🪦

$ doas rcctl stop synapse
synapse(ok)

@prologic@twtxt.net I would be so damned proud of that. 💪

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org I’ve pushed a draft into the git repo.

You can now do a “oneshot fetch” for a URL:

jenny oneshot-fetch --url https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt --nick hacker-news-newest

This fetches the entire feed, which might be too much. So there’s also this, which only fetches a single twt:

jenny oneshot-fetch --url https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt --nick hacker-news-newest --only-twt-hash r6rbinq

Let me know what you think. 🤔

@quark@ferengi.one It’s really only about the hash, isn’t it? 🤔 The user mention (@<quark …) should still be visible in full?

@prologic@twtxt.net Ok, wow, yes, I really only do want that one single missing twt. The slashdot/hackernews feeds are huge. 🥴

@prologic@twtxt.net Where can I find Yarn’s API docs for that endpoint? 🤔 (If there is any. 😅)

@mckinley@twtxt.net That’s the file sharing stuff, right? I couldn’t care less about that. Frankly, I think it’s a shame that Usenet turned into that. 🫤

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@prologic@twtxt.net I’m so sorry, I just can’t muster up the social energy for that. 😂 I’m sitting in video calls all week long and it’s … just … so … exhausting. I can’t, sorry. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, has this changed? Last time I checked, there was quite a bit of stuff going on. 😅

(The jenny code is getting a bit long and convoluted. I feel the need to refactor this quite a bit. That’s why I’m not implementing any of this right away.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, actually reading the spec helps. 🤦

(Btw, I deliberately don’t join #yarn.social all the time. If I did, I suspect that a couple of development discussions would move over from twtxt to IRC. 🤪 Okay, and I often prefer slow asynchronous communication.)

Btw, it’s kind of annoying that we have two syntax options for this. 😆

It can be

(<a href="https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?tag=hash">#hash</a>) @<nick url>

or

@<nick url> (<a href="https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?tag=hash">#hash</a>)

The latter is from an earlier convention/spec. How about deprecating or even removing this?

https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twtsubjectextension.html

@prologic@twtxt.net @falsifian@www.falsifian.org This just popped up in my head: How about adding a “fetch context” feature? Point jenny to some mail file that contains a twt (or pipe it to stdin) and it will try to auto-discover and fetch all related things. Like, if it sees something like @<falsifian https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt>, then it will look in https://www.falsifian.org/twtxt.txt for a twt with hash tkjafka. Maybe even do this recursively until there are no new references anymore. This process could include explicitly querying some user-configurable Yarn pods as well. 🤔

It won’t always work. There’s no guarantee that tkjafka will be present in the given URL.

Hmm. 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net No idea, but I haven’t used GNOME since 2008. 😅 I, too, like Xfce much better. Xfce (and KDE to some degree) look and feel rather “traditional”, though. You get a standard taskbar and that’s it. Maybe that’s too oldfashioned? 🤷 I’m just speculating.

You might have seen me popping up on IRC. This is how it looks:

https://movq.de/v/3a4f9833f3/

That’s EZirc from the 1990ies. (It says it needs Warp 4, but runs fine on Warp 3.)

Lots of this old stuff still works (technically), but as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org said: A lot of it really is dead. There’s not much going on anymore in Usenet.

🥳 NEW FEED: @aelaraji@aelaraji.com

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com What terminal are you using? 🤔

Did someone already tested https://github.com/CEREBRUS-MAXIMUS/Surfer-Data ?