No. 2025 Won’t Be The Year of The Linux Desktop.
Programmers banned. Bankruptcy & Funding problems. Lawsuits galore. 2024 was the worst year for Linux. Ever. And 2025 isn’t going to save us. ⌘ Read more

The Uniform
[Based on a story I wrote during upper-secondary school based on real
events. I translated it recently from Swedish and edited some of it. I
removed most (all?) elements of fiction.

Not a typical night, since it’s at an event in another city, but it
gives a taste of what partying in, say, 1989(?) was like. And yes, I
really usually drank two bottles of wine during a pre-party in those
days. Not unusual in the crowd I was hanging out with, I’m afraid.]

I was maybe 17 or 18. I was going to Härnösand, two train sto … ⌘ Read more

fullmetalScience submits CCS proposal for ‘NoShore’ project
fullmetalScience1 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 looking to complete work on NoShore, a project dedicated to on-the-go offline payments:

TL;DR The document proposes a shell-based environment that users can run to enable offline payments with supporting merchants, whereas the actual signing device will be developed separately in an upcoming iteration.

”`
Total funding: 45 XMR.

ETA: Read more”`

Easy: 7.08 miles, 00:10:03 average pace, 01:11:04 duration
nice cool run. well rested, and kept it mainly in zone 2 as intended. was not sure how my back was going to be after i tweaked it moving weights around yesterday, but it was fine. cushy mach 6s on and some ibuprofen just in case.
#running

[ANN] [CCS Draft] NoShore: Groundwork for on-the-go offline payments

Please feel free to review the linked CCS-draft - any workable feedback is welcome!

Link: https://repo.getmonero.org/fullmetalScience/ccs-proposals/-/blob/noshore/fullmetalscience-noshore.md

u/fullmetalScience (monero.town) ⌘ Read more

My neighbour is always either coming in or going out

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 16 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 16 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s c … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Advent of Code 2024

Like every year, I start the challenge with the best attitude and love of being an Elixir programmer. Although I know that at some point, I will go to the “what is this? I hate it” phase, unlike other years, this time, I am committed to finishing Advent of Code and, more importantly, sharing it with you.

I hope you enjoy this series of December posts, where we will discuss the approach for each exercise. … ⌘ Read more

SNeedlewoods completes first part-time Monero dev work CCS
SNeedlewoods1 has posted a Monero dev update2 after working part-time on Monero development for 1 month (~65 hours) during their first CCS proposal3:

Thanks for all the support from CCS coordinators, upvoters, donors and dev colleagues. It’s an honor to be able to work with you. [..] Will continue to work on the wallet API and will try to solve review comments ASAP, but since I’ll go take some days off … ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 9 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 9 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County Running: 3.14 miles, 00:08:34 average pace, 00:26:55 duration
needed to get out. was going a bit crazy.
#running

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 2 December 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, December 2 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (Nov 10 - Nov 23, 2024)
Mozilla Nearing EOL, Linux CoC Insanity, Red Hat Ditching Linux for AI, & … Pokémon Go? ⌘ Read more

go build is working but not go build main.go

I’m cloned repo and go mod init/go mod tidy/go build, only master are broken?

The Pokemon Go Spying Conspiracy Theory? Yeah. It’s Verified.
Pokemon Go using your phone camera to build a CIA-backed 3D Map AI system. ⌘ Read more

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt up to you. I have mine to rotate at 1,000 twtxts. I have vomited over 400, so far. I have some way to go till rotation. :-D

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 25 November 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, November 25 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s c … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

Easy run: 3.13 miles, 00:09:51 average pace, 00:30:54 duration
nice chill run. first day where my resting heart rate was back down to low 50s. no idea what was going on because i did not feel sick but maybe it was just all the stress from life and a crazy october?
#running

MoneroKon 2025 event to be held June 20-22 in Prague at La Fabrika/Second Culture
The fifth edition of the Monero Konferenco 1 annual meeting is set2 to take place place in Prague, Czech Republic on June 20-22 at the La Fabrika/Second Culture 3 venue (previously known as Paralelni Polis):

Save the date: MoneroKon will be held 20th - 22nd June 2025 [..] Sign up to our mailing list to be notified when tickets go on sale

The previous conference was also held in Pragu … ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me Neat.

So for twt metadata the lextwt parser currently supports values in the form [key=value]

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/parser_test.go#L692-L698

@eapl.me@eapl.me here are my replies (somewhat similar to Lyse’s and James’)

1. Metadata in twts: Key=value is too complicated for non-hackers and hard to write by hand. So if there is a need then we should just use #NSFS or the alt-text file in markdown image syntax ![NSFW](url.to/image.jpg) if something is NSFW

2. IDs besides datetime. When you edit a twt then you should preserve the datetime if location-based addressing should have any advantages over content-based addressing. If you change the timestamp the its a new post. Just like any other blog cms.

3. Caching, Yes all good ideas, but that is more a task for the clients not the serving of the twtxt.txt files.

4. Discovery: User-agent for discovery can become better. I’m working on a wrapper script in PHP, so you don’t need to go to Apaches log-files to see who fetches your feed. But for other Gemini and gopher you need to relay on something else. That could be using my webmentions for twtxt suggestion, or simply defining an email metadata field for letting a person know you follow their feed. Interesting read about why WebMetions might be a bad idea. Twtxt being much simple that a full featured IndieWeb sites, then a lot of the concerns does not apply here. But that’s the issue with any open inbox. This is hard to solve without some form of (centralized or community) spam moderation.

5. Support more protocols besides http/s. Yes why not, if we can make clients that merge or diffident between the same feed server by multiples URLs

6. Languages: If the need is big then make a separate feed. I don’t mind seeing stuff in other langues as it is low. You got translating tool if you need to know whats going on. And again when there is a need for easier switching between posting to several feeds, then it’s about building clients with a UI that makes it easy. No something that should takes up space in the format/protocol.

7. Emojis: I’m not sure what this is about. Do you want to use emojis as avatar in CLI clients or it just about rendering emojis?

Two years with my new laptop 💻
It’s now about two years since I got my new laptop and replaced my Surface Go and my desktop computer with it to be more flexible when commuting. Here’s a small recap on why I’m so happy about my companion. ⌘ Read more

Fast food chains help savvy farmers give supermarket price uncertainty the slip
The Story family know where every lettuce plant they grow is going and what they’ll be paid for it, but it hasn’t always been this way. ⌘ Read more

After testing Vivaldi for a couple of weeks I am convinced this is a great browser and to support the team behind it, I decided to start sending them a couple of Euro monthly, just to keep the momentum going.

5 Helpful Uses for Apple Intelligence on Mac, iPhone, & iPad
Apple Intelligence is here on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and while the system requirements are strict, the Apple devices that are new and powerful enough to use the AI tools now gain some really fantastic features. We’re going to show you six helpful Apple Intelligence features and uses that you’ll find beneficial to your workflow, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/11/04/5-helpful-uses-for-apple-intelligence-o … ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 18 November 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, November 18 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s c … ⌘ Read more

Kubectl logs tail: a guide to tailing Kubernetes logs
Member post originally published on Middleware’s blog In the world of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes stands as the go-to platform for container orchestration (the automated process of managing, scaling, and maintaining containerized applications across multiple hosts). As applications grow… ⌘ Read more

Wayback Machine & Google Website Cache Go Offline Weeks Before 2024 Election
With a Presidential election days away, the biggest ways to record online statements are conspicuously broken. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah short Nick is going to be unique enough. There is always olong Nick that adds the domain for differentiation.

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 4 November 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, November 4 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 28 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, October 28 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more

How to Re-Enable Slow Motion Effects on MacOS
If you’re a long time Mac user, you might recall the Slow Motion effect that could be applied by holding the Shift key while minimizing and maximizing windows, as well as for other animations like opening Launchpad or using Mission Control. Some of the fun eye-candy effects on Mac go way the early days of … Read More ⌘ Read more

** Sleepy garden beds **
This afternoon I put the garden to sleep for the fall; in the past we’ve had some fall and winter vegetables going, but this year that didn’t happen, so, I emptied out the rain barrels, cleaned them out, trundled them to a place where they wouldn’t get blown around by any winds, mulched some of the beds, weeded and generally plotzed around like a garden goblin.

I’ve fallen into the habit of making a big thing of rice over the weekend — I always intend to do something with this rice, but instead I use it for s … ⌘ Read more

Police Reports Written by AI… Seriously.
A police report written by ChatGPT? What could possibly go wrong?! ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Coffeeneuring 2024
Every year in October I participate in Love To Ride’s (psst, sign up using
that link so I can get some extra points when you do your first bike ride!)
Biketober competition.
The TL;DR is that for every day that you go for a ride, for every mile that you
ride, and for every new rider that you invite you get points for your team.
At the end of the month winners are announced and there are some fun prizes.
It’s not about bi … ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 21 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, October 21 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more

Web interface is deleted in https://git.mills.io/saltyim/saltyim/commit/376de2702319686c902ec03b8ca1e17b020fc639 but seems incorrectly (in source i see git lfs metadata). Can be builded if you grab https://git.mills.io/saltyim/saltyim/src/commit/15a64de82829/internal/web/app.wasm and place it in source (go directory has cached source) and rebuild

Honestly… not much. Have abandon two projects (both private) on Golang and one related to cryptography. My mostly languages are Python and Javascript (also can PHP). After writing code on Go i spend same time on fixing dumb errors

GNOME Foundation Broke, Lays Off 33% of Staff
Just as The Lunduke Journal said was going to happen after the GNOME Shaman disaster. ⌘ Read more

Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 14 October 2024 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, October 14 2024 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels:

Based on the opinions given here2 I decided to go back to the No Wallet Left Behind Matrix room and IRC channel for the next i.e. coming Monday’s meeting, and to not contiune to hold meetings like the last one in the -dev Matrix room and IRC channel.

This meeting’s chai … ⌘ Read more

Grand Canyon Rim To Rim: 27.90 miles, 00:28:36 average pace, 13:17:46 duration
grand canyon rim-to-rim with kelly and craig. it was a blast! a lot of firsts: crazy elevation, head lamps, poles. i had a really good time and then we started to encounter some elevation. definitely could feel the altitude as soon as there was an incline. then after so many large steps up my quads started to feel it. at one point everything seized up and i fell down. luckily craig jumped in my leg and started stretching it out which helped a lot. the rest of it from there it was slow going but only once the large steps were sparse we cruised ahead. definitely would do it again.
#running #race

Same! Great joke!

i like this one

I share I did write up an algorithm for it at some point I think it is lost in a git comment someplace. I’ll put together a pseudo/go code this week.

Super simple:

Making a reply:

1. If yarn has one use that. (Maybe do collision check?)
   
2. Make hash of twt raw no truncation.
   
3. Check local cache for shortest without collision
   
   • in SQL: select len(subject) where head_full_hash like subject || '%'
     

Threading:

1. Get full hash of head twt
   
2. Search for twts
   
   • in SQL: head_full_hash like subject || '%' and created_on > head_timestamp
     

The assumption being replies will be for the most recent head. If replying to an older one it will use a longer hash.

@prologic@twtxt.net Regarding the new way of generating twt-hashes, to me it makes more sense to use tabs as separator instead of spaces, since the you can just copy/past a line directly from a twtxt-file that already go a tab between timestamp and message. But tabs might be hard to “type” when you are in a terminal, since it will activate autocomplete…🤔

Another thing, it seems that you sugget we only use the domain in the hash-creation and not the full path to the twtxt.txt

$ echo -e "https://example.com 2024-09-29T13:30:00Z Hello World!" | sha256sum - | awk '{ print $1 }' | base64 | head -c 12

I wrote some code to try out non-hash reply subjects formatted as (replyto ), while keeping the ability to use the existing hash style.

I don’t think we need to decide all at once. If clients add support for a new method then people can use it if they like. The downside of course is that this costs developer time, so I decided to invest a few hours of my own time into a proof of concept.

With apologies to @movq@www.uninformativ.de for corrupting jenny’s beautiful code. I don’t write this expecting you to incorporate the patch, because it does complicate things and might not be a direction you want to go in. But if you like any part of this approach feel free to use bits of it; I release the patch under jenny’s current LICENCE.

Supporting both kinds of reply in jenny was complicated because each email can only have one Message-Id, and because it’s possible the target twt will not be seen until after the twt referencing it. The following patch uses an sqlite database to keep track of known (url, timestamp) pairs, as well as a separate table of (url, timestamp) pairs that haven’t been seen yet but are wanted. When one of those “wanted” twts is finally seen, the mail file gets rewritten to include the appropriate In-Reply-To header.

Patch based on jenny commit 73a5ea81.

https://www.falsifian.org/a/oDtr/patch0.txt

Not implemented:

• Composing twts using the (replyto …) format.
  
• Probably other important things I’m forgetting.

Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future
Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.” ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de going a little sideways on this, “*If twtxt/Yarn was to grow bigger, then this would become a concern again. But even Mastodon allows editing, so how much of a problem can it really be? 😅*”, wouldn’t it preparing for a potential (even if very, very, veeeeery remote) growth be a good thing? Mastodon signs all messages, keeps a history of edits, and it doesn’t break threads. It isn’t a problem there.😉 It is here.

I think keeping hashes is a must. If anything for that “feels good” feeling.

Hey, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, a tiny thing to add to jenny, a -v switch. That way when you twtxt “That’s an older format that was used before jenny version v23.04”, I can go and run jenny -v, and “duh!” myself on the way to a git pull. :-D