@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no https://imgur.com/gallery/JEQbneq 🫤

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Wooden house in Norway, right? I envy you 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net What the heck, now your posts also use https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt as the URL of my feed. That’s missing the www.! 😅

Turns out, I wasn’t entirely correct. According to Wikipedia, several cities tried to outlaw alcohol over the years. 🤔 Sometimes, a court overruled them, though. Also, it’s not allowed to drink alcohol on some trains.

I wasn’t aware of this. I rarely drink alcohol, let alone in public, so I wasn’t up to speed with the current rules. 😅 But to be honest, I think pretty much nobody knows. People generally assume that drinking in public is fine, I’d say. And nobody cares about people drinking “in a calm orderly manner” anyway, only drunk idiots are a problem.

@jason@jasonsanta.xyz Yeah, that’s the weakest point of raw twtxt: Discoverability. If you don’t have access to your server’s logs, then you’ll have a hard time finding out if someone mentioned you. 🫤

In the beginning, jenny actually used to include the list of people that you follow in the twtxt file. This has later been changed for privacy reasons. (You can still include such a list at the top of your feed, but you’d have to do it manually or with a script or something.)

The huge advantage of Yarn is that it’s a server-side application. When someone fetches your feed, Yarn will know and it can tell you. That’s just not possible with plain files. 🫤

(btw, the URL to my feed should include a www.. Since you omitted that, my jenny didn’t highlight your messages. 😅)

@prologic@twtxt.net Why do you ask? 🥴

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, I’m not sure. Do we/you really want to maintain docs at Yarn.social about other clients? Follow their development and update our guides accordingly? 😅 I think the current solution is better: Have a list of clients and link to their documentation.

(Or maybe I still didn’t understand. 😅 Sorry!)

@prologic@twtxt.net We already link to the blog post, don’t we? 🤔 What would be the benefit of moving that to Yarn.social?

@prologic@twtxt.net Germany doesn’t care, as long as you don’t drive a car. 😂

@eaplmx@twtxt.net That’s cute. 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oof, that video. 😅

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Thanks! Almost missed it.

Coffee with Brian Kernighan - Computerphile 💚

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

But who would think of a bicycle race in the first place?

Don’t you listen to FM radio anymore?! I’m sure they announced it! 🥴

Sounds like a stressful day.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @abucci@anthony.buc.ci … and Rust, I’d bet. 😅

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee Yep, something’s wrong. A lot is wrong. Don’t get me started. 🤣

Oh thank god. It’s cloudy today, finally. And only 21°C (so far). What a relief. This heat was getting unbearable.

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@eaplmx@twtxt.net Whoops, I didn’t answer the “why do you use it”: Actually, I don’t really know …

It would be awesome to use GPG for private stuff, like family photos and such. A lot of sensitive information is sent that way (in my family at least). All of that is unencrypted, sadly, because nobody in my family uses GPG. I talked to them about it a couple of times, but it’s just too complicated. So now Google and other companies have a ton of photos with me on it. That really sucks a lot. (These kinds of things are gradually moving over to our family Matrix server, so it’s getting better. Not that Matrix is a great thing, but at least it’s self-hosted.)

So all the encrypted mail is mostly mundane stuff that could have been public anyway. 😂 Which brings us to the question why I bother …

@eaplmx@twtxt.net I do have GPG set up and I use the key a lot (like signing Git commits, release tarballs, password stores, …). Regarding email, though, let’s see …

I just skimmed over the mails of the last 2 years (back to July 2020). I’ve exchanged mails with 39 different people, which is way more than I expected. 😳 7 of those people were also using GPG and we sent some encrypted mails back and forth. 🤔 (Only counting direct mail to other people here, not notifications or mailing lists – those make up the vast majority, of course, and they’re all unencrypted.)

It’s more than I expected, but let’s be honest: Those other GPG users are mostly some uber-nerds that comment on something I wrote in my Gopher hole. 😅 “Normal people” don’t care, at all.

@mckinley@mckinley.cc Interesting read. 🤔 The idea of stamps seems intriguing. (Could this work? Do people care enough? Or are they gonna say “too complicated, why doesn’t it just work?!“? Because let’s be honest: Current email is probably good enough already for 99% of people …)

@prologic@twtxt.net It is, but that’s just one of many factors at play here. It turned out that the system did not leave the stage of “loading plugins” for a long time. “Loading plugins” means: Read the plugin blobs from the PostgreSQL database (that’s where they’re stored) and put them somewhere in the filesystem (probably so that the Java VM can actually load them), probably also analyze the plugins in some way (I didn’t dig that deep). When finished, the resulting directory in the filesystem is a whopping 1.4 GB in size. Combine that with a CPU that’s way too slow, and voilà, it takes forever to start.

The “solution” was to move the system to another host which has a more powerful CPU. 🫤

(You might think that that’s a very large number of plugins, but rest assured, it’s quite normal. People love to install every plugin that they can find.)