Due to the Daylight Saving Time, I recall a quick clock I made where it adjust daily so sunrise is at 7am in your place.
https://eapl.me/solar/

Luckily in my country DST is no more, although it could be good and boring to always wake up with the same position of the sun.

After work I should write about this experimental (and unfeasible?) clock 🤔

No dogs were harmed in the making of this app
https://shmck.substack.com/p/no-dogs-were-harmed-in-the-making

What do you think of invite-only systems, like forums?

I’m finally paying 5 USD/month to use https://kagi.com

Thinking of it as a tool to work better, let’s see how it feels

I made a web view of all my bookmarks/links sorted by domain. It’s a text file synced with the web server.

Now that there are 500+ I think a good cleaning is needed

https://eapl.me/links/all_links.php

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 🙂

“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

FastGPT… Input a question, and get a quick answer.
Would it be soon a replacement for search engines?

https://kagi.com/fastgpt

Cool UI! 😮

https://darch.dk/twtxt-lists/

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

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.

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)

weeeell… I used to run our studio on Discord at least 8 hours a day, and also giving my classes, about 10 hours a week on Discord. So yes, you can work there. And for me, it’s the same problem for leisure, open source projects, communities, etc.

And I think we have different ethics, and perhaps different responsabilities. Answering instantly as a boss, as a Dev, as a professor or as a friend, is not one of mine. Unless it’s truly an emergency where lives are in danger. But as usual I respect my friends deciding to do otherwise.

I can’t disagree although it’s almost the same with any corporate IM I have to use for work and school, like Slack and Teams.

First thing I do is taking half of an hour to disable notifications on Desktop, phones, mails, and even doing that they are trying to steal your focus interrupting you due to lack of settings for that.

I think the default fight for our attention creates an expectation of immediate response to everything and we should counter-fight to create the opposite effect. Digital minimalism helps here IMO. Checking messages only once a day, replying hours later unless it’s a true life and death emergency, and so on.

Got a nice hand this weekend!

Image

Aaaand officially the weekend has started 😀

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.

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.

and just asking for the sake of the conversation, why not using a longer passphrase instead of that complex password in the first place?
It would have higher entropy 🤔

https://www.omnicalculator.com/other/password-entropy

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? 🤔

When I talk about twtxt with friends, usually that question emerges.
What’s the difference between Federated, Distributed, and Decentralized?… And also the difference between platforms, systems, services, and such.
I remember we discussed that a few months ago.

I think you should have a post in your blog or similar as a future reference.

What would be a good icon for twtxt?

I choosed the hash emoji #️⃣, which has many variations: https://emojipedia.org/keycap-number-sign/

and I liked the tweoji one, I think it has a good license: CC-BY 4.0/MIT
https://github.com/twitter/twemoji#license

It would be nice to choose an Emoji/Image/Icon as a convention. What do you say?

What would be a good icon for twtxt?

I chose the hash emoji #️⃣, which has many variations: https://emojipedia.org/keycap-number-sign/

and I liked the tweoji one, I think it has a good license: CC-BY 4.0/MIT
https://github.com/twitter/twemoji#license

It would be nice to choose an Emoji/Image/Icon as a convention. What do you say?

Enough of controversial topics for today. Let’s go back to the garden. 🌱

Have a good weekend everyone!

Hmmm… That’s a pretty sensitive topic here, so I don’t know if you want to read different ideas… And we could write a whole book, but for the sake of intellectual discussion, let’s throw some points here.

Disclaimer: I briefly worked for a small crypto company in 2021 on the controversial Pay-to-win model using Enjin, Ethereum, and such. I received payments on crypto and paid people in other countries, being cheaper and easier than national services. I don’t think I’m a crypto-bro, and I don’t want to work in that area anymore.

I don’t like to say “everything X is evil” or “everything Y is good”, based on beliefs, ideology, and tech-religion. But people need those. Even I need something to believe in. Decentralization is my current value.
I think that’s the radical point of Crypto vs Not-Crypto.
“You are with us, or against us.”

As a technology, blockchain is, IMO, an amazing tool for decentralization, excuse the comparison, similar to BitTorrent. Proof of Work is problematic and it’s showing that when many people use it, it’s an environmental disaster.