an adventures in food and drink might be an idea for a twtxt feed

I’ve gathers my ideas about mentions for twtxt/yarn here: Webmentions vs. custom mentions spec for twtxt/yarn - HedgeDoc
You are welcome to edit and comment in the doc, so our ideas are not fragment into a bunch of treads

How to Lock Your Apple Watch Screen to Prevent Accidental Touch
If you are working out with Apple Watch, or wearing gloves of any kind with Apple Watch that may cover your wrist or rub against the device, it’s a good idea to lock the screen of your Apple Watch to prevent accidental input and touches. While the Apple Watch touch screen is pretty good at … Read More ⌘ Read more

The misguided idea to do math to numbers rolled on dice ⌘ Read more

Today I learned that there is furniture made of cardboard! What a crazy idea… ⌘ Read more

‘Look what we can do’: Motorola unveils new bendable smartphone
Motorola is doing something people “never thought imaginable”, says EFTM Editor Trevor Long.

His comments follow the company’s unveiling of a new bendable smartphone.

“I don’t know why you’d want this,” Mr Long told Sky News Australia.

“Bending it was the most mind-blowing thing I’ve ever done because it felt like I was breaking it, but I wasn’t.

“The idea here is to sho … ⌘ Read more

Greens have ‘no idea what they’re doing’: Paul Murray
On tonight’s episode of Paul Murray Live, Sky News host Paul Murray discusses Dunkley by-election, cost-of-living, Greens mega tax and more.

Sky News host Paul Murray says the Green have “no idea what they’re doing”.

“They want to introduce new super profit taxes on businesses that have a turnover of $100 million dollars or more.

“Remember, turnover is not profit.

“But the Greens say you sh … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy would be a ‘formidable duo’
Rattlesnake TV Youtuber Jake Julius says Vivek Ramaswamy “knows the constitution in and out”.

Mr Julius told Sky News host Rita Panahi that he knows “all of the history” of the United States.

“He’s the kind of person that Trump could have a high-level idea and Vivek could come underneath him.

“And really sort of make everything happen at the ground level.

“It would be a form … ⌘ Read more

Aussie bloke gets bitten on the tongue by turtle in Bali
A not so smart Aussie lad has tried to french kiss a snapping turtle to not so surprising results. ⌘ Read more

Status 2024-02-25
Status report again!

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Sitting in front of the wood stove in my country cottage. It’s nice
and quiet. Meanwhile it seems NordicFuzzCon is going on in Malmö.
4,000 furries. I had no idea! That seems fun!

On the other hand I just read that at least 10,000 were protesting in
Malmö today against the Israel-Palestine conflict. I’ve seen the much
smaller protest … ⌘ Read more

Microchip Launches Affordable PolarFire SoC Kit, Expanding Access to RISC-V and FPGA for Embedded Engineers
Today, Microchip unveiled the PolarFire SoC Discovery Kit, a cost-effective and versatile tool catering to a wide range of users, including students, beginners, and seasoned professionals. This user-friendly kit facilitates quick testing of application ideas, firmware development, programming, and debugging, making it suitable for … ⌘ Read more

Chanel Beads – Idea June
Chanel Beads’ debut album Your Day Will Come is coming in April on Jagjaguwar… Continue reading… ⌘ Read more

The Idea Was Simple… A Ceramic Vortex Rocket! ⌘ Read more

How to See Your VO2 Max on iPhone & Apple Watch
VO2 Max is a commonly used measure of cardiovascular fitness, and the higher your VO2 Max score, the better your overall health and longevity. For those of us using Apple Watch for cardio fitness, your iPhone and Apple Watch is able to calculate and track your VO2 Max score, giving you an idea of your … Read More ⌘ Read more

Not A Great Idea… My PLASTIC Jet Engine! ⌘ Read more

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Didn’t know of bytesypider and bytedance, I assume those are bots, although I no idea why they are pointing to that address to your site
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/psa-bytedance-and-bytespider-bots-recommend-blocking/
You gave me a good idea to block bytespider. Its just weird what it pulls in.

twtxt-php isn’t sending User-Agent headers as it’s in the original spec:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/discoverability.html
sending user agent would be a nice thing to have so that people using regular twtxt clients can find you and anyone else hosting twtxt-php or timeline

HTTP logs are annoying but webmention has an issue that it needs a server to check for webmentions. The server can be an external one or hosted on the same server as far as I can find.
But also HTTP logs need a server that one can view the logs.

danke schøn, yes the idea was that it should work for all feeds

https://joshblais.com/posts/A-new-way-to-write One sentence per line. So good idea!! #writing

@prologic@twtxt.net @xuu@txt.sour.is Don’t think I can reply to the thread in twtwt. Right now Jenny is not working for some reason. I wonder if @movq@www.uninformativ.de has any ideas. Anyway I am happy to be back and will see if I can get jenny working. Though my following list is gone now. Plus I can’t see when someone mentions me if I am not follwing them so I should work on that.

3 Helpful Tech Ideas for Your Thanksgiving Visits
It’s not unusual for those of us who are the “family geek” to spend time with less tech savvy people during the holidays, so why not use Thanksgiving as an opportunity to assist or improve the tech lives of loved ones? Express your thankfulness and gratitude with some helpful tech tips! 1: Setup, Explain, & … Read More ⌘ Read more

Got a great idea for an web app: a flashlight app which uses media-queries to detect if the light, aka the body of the page, should be on (white) or off.

@prologic@twtxt.net the new product was GPTs. A way to create tailored bots for specific use cases. https://openai.com/blog/introducing-gpts (fun fact: I did an internal hackathon where we made something like this for $work onboarding. And I won a prize!)

The competed project is poe https://quorablog.quora.com/Introducing-creator-monetization-for-Poe which is basically the same idea. Make a AI bot tailored to a specific domain of knowledge. And monitize it.

The timing fits very well as openAI announced it just a few weeks ago.

The Coding Robot
Back in 2019, after deciding to leave Beat, I was contemplating starting a new project. It was an ML-based project, informed by my experience at both smaller and larger companies, like Beat: An ML-based Code Reviewer. The idea was that smaller companies, founders aside, seldom have senior engineering talent on board, and the quality of […] ⌘ Read more

Messed up the configuration of the nut UPS monitor so bad it actually initialised an UPS test where the device switched itself off on the reboot of the PC. No idea how that happened. So uninstalled it again.

Sam Whited: Co-Op Ideas
This is a list of co-ops I’d like to start one day and where (if applicable).

DIY Bike Kitchen (Cobb County, GA)There is a DIY bike shop, Sopo Bike Co-op in Atlanta, but Cobb has
historically been very transit-averse and it’s hard to get into Atlanta by
bike if you need to get it worked on. Having something local to Cobb could
encourage biking and start to change attitudes to biking on the local city
councils and among the county commissioners.Traditional bik … ⌘ Read more

5 iCloud Security Features You Should Be Using
iCloud is packed full of features that make using devices in the Apple ecosystem super easy and fluid, but there are some security features and capabilities offered by iCloud that literally everyone should be using because of their added benefits to security, convenience, and capabilities. While it’s generally a good idea to basically use every … Read More ⌘ Read more

Of course we’re going to use the very well-known development framework Lightning Scrum for this #ldjam

Stand-up meetings every hour? What a great idea. This is going to go great. I see no problems. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, it’s true. Thing is, Linux as a desktop operating system sucked in 1996 yet I adopted it then anyway because I wanted nothing to do with MS anymore 😆 I know it’s not for everyone but I’m pretty tolerant of a less-than-stellar experience if it means I can be free of big-company garbage.

I haven’t tried a Linux-based smartphone OS in a long time so I don’t have any idea how bad/good it might be. I figure when I finally break down and get a new phone I’ll experiment on my current phone.

10 things you didn’t know you could do with GitHub Projects
Learn how to optimize your usage of GitHub Projects to plan and track your work from idea to production.

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@prologic@twtxt.net I had a feeling my container was not running remotely. It was too crisp.

podman is definitely capable of it. I’ve never used those features though so I’d have to play around with it awhile to understand how it works and then maybe I’d have a better idea of whether it’s possible to get it to work with cas.run.

There’s a podman-specific way of allowing remote container execution that wouldn’t be too hard to support alongside docker if you wanted to go that route. Personally I don’t use docker–too fat, too corporate. podman is lightweight and does virtually everything I’d want to use docker to do.

Another part of this crisis is that I like the idea of what I was doing with gemini, but the main issue here is that hosting from my house when my internet is terminated every month for 10-15 days is a problem. Not just for my sanity, but also for reliability

@prologic@twtxt.net attacking the person, not the idea. It’d be like if you said “yarn is better than mastodon because it isn’t push based” and someone who disagreed with you said “well you think that because you’re an idiot” or something like that.

@prologic@twtxt.net It was super useful if you needed to do the sorts of things it did. I’m pretty sad.

At its core was Sage, a computational mathematics system, and their own version of Jupyter notebooks. So, you could do all kinds of different math stuff in a notebook environment and share that with people. But on top of that, there was a chat system, a collaborative editing system, a course management system (so if you were teaching a class using it you could keep track of students, assignments, grades, that sort of thing), and a bunch of other stuff I never used. It all ran in a linux container with python/conda as a base, so you could also drop to a terminal, install stuff in the container, and run X11 applications in the same environment. I never taught a class with it but I used to use it semi-regularly to experiment with ideas.

The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web
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Robots, high-density planting just some of Young Farmer of the Year’s fresh ideas
Fifth generation apple, pear and stone fruit grower Mitchell McNab says robotics will play a major role in the future to keep production costs down. ⌘ Read more

@prx@si3t.ch I like this idea but usually I am living in a terminal or Emacs.

@prologic@twtxt.net You more or less need a data center to run one of these adequately (well, train…you can run a trained one with a little less hardware). I think that’s the idea–no one can run them locally, they have to rent them (and we know how much SaaS companies and VCs love the rental model of computing).

There’s a lot of promising research-grade work being done right now to produce models that can be run on a human-scale (not data-center-scale) computing setup. I suspect those will become more commonly deployed in the next few years.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci read my new skibloreet about why social meets payments is the next level idea! For just §5 bitshlongs a month on my serfdomage site!

@prologic@twtxt.net why do these fools think anyone wants “social meets payments”? It’s such a ridiculous sounding idea.

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@prologic@twtxt.net It’s a fun challenge to see how many words you can say without expressing any ideas at all. Maybe this GPT stuff should be trained to do that!

@prologic@twtxt.net

Let’s assume for a moment that an answer to a question would be met with so many words you don’t know what the answer was at all. Why? Why do this? Is this a stereotype of academics and philosophers? If so, it’s not a very straight-forward way of thinking, let alone answering a simple question.

Well, I can’t know what’s in these peoples’ minds and hearts. Personally I think it’s a way of dissembling, of sowing doubt, and of maintaining plausible deniability. The strategy is to persuade as many people as possible to change their minds, and then force the remaining people to accept the idea because they think too many other people believe it.

Let’s say you want, for whatever reason, to get a lot of people to accept an idea that you know most people find horrible. The last thing you should do is express the idea clearly and concisely and repeat it over and over again. All you’d accomplish is to cement people’s resistance to you, and label yourself as a person who harbors horrible ideas that they don’t like. So you can’t do that.

What do you do instead? The entire field of “rhetoric”, dating back at least to Plato and Aristotle (400 years BC), is all about this. How to persuade people to accept your idea, even when they resist it. There are way too many techniques to summarize in a twt, but it seems almost obvious that you have to use more words and to use misleading or at least embellished or warped descriptions of things, because that’s the opposite of clearly and concisely expressing yourself, which would directly lead to people rejecting your idea.

That’s how I think of it anyway.

I may have misspoken in my haste/anguish. I don’t know of any examples of Ben Shapiro advocating rape. I do know them of Jordan Peterson. He’s known for that, but I’ve seen it myself. So, to be clear, I don’t know if Ben Shapiro is a rape apologist and have no evidence of that. Wouldn’t surprise me frankly because the set of ideas he does talk about tends to include being A-OK with crimes against women, but anyway.

@prologic@twtxt.net When you unpack what he’s saying in that video (which I’ve watched, and just now re-watched), and strip away all his attempts to wrap this idea in fancy-sound language, he is saying: it would be better if women were viewed as property of men, because then if they were raped, the men who owned them would get mad and do something about it. Because rape would be a property crime then, like trespassing or theft. Left unspoken by him, but very much known to him, is that the man/men who “own” a woman can then have their way with her, just like they can freely walk around their yard or use their own stuff. In his envisioned better world, it’d be impossible for a husband to rape his wife, for instance, because she is his property and he can do almost anything he wants (that’s literally what “property” is in Western countries).

It’s so fucked up it’s hard to put into words how fucked up it is. And this isn’t the only bad idea who bangs on about!

@prologic@twtxt.net It went there because you are supporting bad people who themselves operate at the level of outrage. You cannot have a “debate” about the ideas of someone like Peterson or Shapiro, because those ideas should not be considered debate-worthy. Rape is not OK, period, the end. It is not up for debate or discussion. Yet Peterson acts as if it is. That is abhorrent, and unacceptable in 2023.

I’ve restarted my home mail server using wildduck.email. No idea why, guess I just needed a thing

I hope it will work as it seems like a super good idea to integrate it to sus.fr

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net

I have to write so many emails to so many idiots who have no idea what they are doing

So it sounds to me like the pressure is to reduce how much time you waste on idiots, which to my mind is a very good reason to use a text generator! I guess in that case you don’t mind too much whether the company making the AI owns your prompt text?

I’d really like to see tools like this that you can run on your desktop or phone, so they don’t send your hard work off to someone else and give a company a chance to take it from you.