@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Stuff is heavy on the mind. What is a lightweight lifestyle worth? Trash everything under this value. You can always rebuy it.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net: As long as they are dimmable or relate to the screen brightness. I’m often working in the dark with 1% screen brightness.
@mdom@domgoergen.com metadata is there now. I was one commit behind.
Do you have ideas for a new spec? Maybe we can collect them on irc? join freenode/twtxt
@sdk@codevoid.de Although i’m a gopher fanboy, I wouldn’t use it for twtxt. It’s really a optimal fit.
@mdom@domgoergen.com Or limit the the amount and use random 10 followers or so…
@mdom@domgoergen.com did you think about not putting all followers into the twtxt file, but a URL to a follower list? Think performance. If the network grows to 10000 users, you’d have 10000 extra lines in each twtxt file.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org If everybody is happy with the format, sure! Writing a new spec is on my todo list for a long time. Maybe that’s a good reason to do it.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org The newest txtnish can show the users other users are following: txtnish following mdom (if mdom is my nick on your system)
@mdom@domgoergen.com Nice! activated
@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.
@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes, #txtnish uses curl and can therefore handle all curl supported protocols.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Check my tw.txt file. The specification does not allow a comment. I’ve added this now: 1970-01-01T01:00:00.000000Z▸FF:https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt. I’d use the special date/time + FF: comment as trigger. This is backwards compatible and shouldn’t really come up in anyones’ timeline.
I just read that more than 140 chars are prohibited per twtxt specification. Oops.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Either that, or provide URL to a follower file: #followfile https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org It’s not really live. Check my ‘File Storage’ on gopher :-)
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Have fun in captcha hell :(
Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Really? I’m super happy with DDG. But I haven’t heard of searx as of now.
@mdom@domgoergen.com Shall we have an additional twtxt list: we-are-onion.txt? I’m here http://codevoid4p3lowez.onion/?q=twtxt
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org Most programmers are just users that are writing/maintaining programs. Most can’t even handle the underlying OS, let alone a Network or a Server.
My twtxt file is now also available without emoji variable: https://codevoid.de/?q=twtxt
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth
@enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net Minifesto uses more code than i would expect :/
Im sorry twtxt, I dont mean to ignore you… things are fine here, except my brain is made of snail poop
@kas@enotty.dk: nevermind, found it @ https://www.datprotocol.com
@kas@enotty.dk: What is dat://?
@mdom@domgoergen.com: I’m using txtnish on FreeBSD and I had to switch it to gawk (not sure why BSD awk fails) and disable color. Just fyi. I didn’t look into it any further.
I always thought about putting together some sort of micro-blog/journal where I can post my daily brainfarts and list them on my webpage. Now, after adding twtxt to my page I have exactly that. It’s kind of cool.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Thanks! Programming gopher://taz.de was the most fun i had in ages. And it was for work! Kind of. :)
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org If you use imap s-nail is way ahead of mail, but for local mail, uhm, mail is just fine.
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for #hugo awards. All books for best novel were really good this year, but I somehow missed Six Wakes … sound great!
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use them a lot myself. Plaintext is beautiful.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Thank you very much!
please do not abuse the open nature of this twtxt account, it will be monitored and moderated if necessary - this is an experiment in internet open-ness
NO MORE TESTING - LETS GET REAL - Its now possible to post to this twtxt from irc://irc.maddshark.com:7029/discord
THIS IS A TEST OF THE TWTXT BROADCASTING SYSTEM! THIS IS ONLY A TEST!
Hi @KatolaZ@kalos.mine.nu! Welcome to twtxt!
@kas@enotty.dk Have you done something with nncp? I like the idea, but somehow i don’t find a use case for it… :)
@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the communication link!
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I’d love to do pair programming again, but sure, it depends heavily on your partner
@kas@enotty.dk So, which ukulele did you buy? If you need a tutorial, i really enjoy http://www.ukulele-arts.com/lernen/solo-crashkurs/.
What do you think about adding aliases to txtnish’ follow file? So mentions could be collapsed for different urls of the same twtxt file?
@tx@0x1a4.1337.cx After choosing the last turn in gopher://tx.god.jp/1/numpop/, the script never returns?
@kas@enotty.dk I’m so bad at tuning by ear. I have a tuner that just shows me if i hit the tight tone… :)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net You wouldn’t even need to add the recipient in the tweet, clients could just try to decrypt anything.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we already discussed encrypted tweets some time ago, but no encryption seemed short enough. GPG ist just too big. Any ideas?