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 (32w ago)

Now that my finances are going better with my ‘stable’ job from 9 to 5, I’m thinking back (unconsciously) to playing with a pet project for a few hours a week.

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 🙂

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 (32w ago)

“People get tired of hosting stuff for $8/month plus whatever the domain registration takes per year. Or they reinstall the OS on their Raspberry Pi machines, and forget that they were running Jetforce or something like that.”
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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 (36w ago)

Finally I can share a not so broken version of the Web tool to record your burned calories every week 🔥🏃

Try to burn more than in previous weeks and climb to the next league against yourself from the past

As usual, any feedback is welcome 😀

https://fit.eapl.me

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 (36w ago)

Today I was fighting against a TOTP library in PHP, since it works for 6 and 8 digits, but for 10 it was giving inconsistent values, due to a conversion to a 32 bits int.

It felt amazing when, after a few hours, I found what was causing the error…

And found that many libraries have the same problem.
Now I get why TOTP is limited to 8 chars. It’s a 2FA but not a Password. Perhaps another algorithm will be needed to support 16 digits.

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 (38w ago)

What a rough day 😣

I had forgotten how to mix a full job with everything else. I my 20s I studied, worked from Mon to Sun and spent time with my (now) wife.

I think it’s just a matter of getting used to it again. (In a healthy manner, of course)

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 (39w ago)

I’m creating the default twtxt.txt file for twtxt-php, and I made a pause to think of the introductory text 🤨

Twtxt is an (open/distributed/decentralized) microblogging platform
for hackers and friends that use (raw text files/easy to read by humans), with common protocols, and (free/open) software

Although I know it’s a hard discussion, I’d like to hear your thoughts on what twtxt is and what twtxt-php should be.
Main points:

  • Distributed or decentralized?
  • Free or open source?
  • Human readable formats or raw text?

I think explaining that to a first-time user, would require a link to a whole explanation, but I think having the foundations for the remaining of the development would be helpful for the project.

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 (39w ago)

Last week on Gemini there was a discussion about Text-based (TUI) audio and music players.

Do you use any?

I’m quite happy with musikcube on Win10, and Minimalist on Android.

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 (40w ago)

Today I’m reading about how to save a copy of your secret keys outside a computer, using analog media, or sharing it by voice. For instance, for TOTP authenticators.

I found BIP39 coming from the crypto-wallets world:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

The user has to write down this passphrase

fragile mimic expect ketchup truth between thunder visit expose output powder derive process disagree razor
Which is carefully designed to be checksummed and it’s easy to say on a call

Finally deriving it into a set of bytes like

da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Do you know some alternatives not related to cryptocurrencies? 🤔

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