Bunny AI
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created “Bunny AI” (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because it’s currently free during the preview, but somehow I don’t find the generated images aesthetic or I’m just to stupid to write better prompts. I guess the Bunny developers also need some distraction from time to time, because they are working hard on S3 support for Bunny Storage for years already. 🐰 ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Notes on the F-Droid security warning
Snikket Android users who installed the app via F-Droid may receive a warning
from F-Droid telling them that the app has a vulnerability and that they
“recommend uninstalling immediately”. First of all - don’t panic! This is a
over-simplified generic warning that is scary, but the actual situation is
not quite so scary and has an explanation. Here goes…
When an app is developed and ready for release, it must be compiled and built,
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Gajim: Gajim 1.5.4
Gajim 1.5.4 comes with a reworked file transfer interface, better URL detection, message selection improvements, and many fixes under the hood. Thank you for all your contributions!
Gajim’s interface for sending files has been reworked, and should be much easier to use now. For each file you’re about to send, Gajim will generate a preview. This way, you can avoid sending the wrong file to somebody. Regardless of how you start a file transfer, be it drag and drop, pasting a … ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: We’ve been challenged $104,750 in matching donations from some very generous donors this year!
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/22/2022-fundraiser/
We’ve been challenged $104,750 in matching donations from some very generous donors this year!
My Generation — The Who (Eurobeat Remix)
The journey of your work has never been clearer
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Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Source Attachment and Wrap-Up
RecapStateless file sharing (sfs) is a generic file sharing message which, alongside metadata, sends a list of sources where the file can be retrieved from.
It is generic in the sense, that sources can be from different kinds of file transfer methods.
HTTP, Jingle and any other file transfers can be encapsulated with it.
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Gajim: Gajim 1.5.2
Gajim 1.5.2 brings another performance boost, better emojis, improvements for group chat moderators, and many bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
Generating performance profiles for Gajim revealed some bottlenecks in Gajim’s code. After fixing these, switching chats should now feel snappier than before.
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The Cosmic Voyage motd is honestly one of the coolest terminal experiences I’ve ever had, and it’s almost entirely generic information.
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“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault
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Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Accessing Certificate Stores
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XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers and blabber.im
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It provides an easy onboarding.
Passwords are generated automatically and XMPP providers are suggested.
Those suggestions are based on our curated list of XMPP providers.
Glassdrive, Rádio Popular, Atum General: perdoem-me mas com equipas de nomes assim, para mim, o desporto praticado na Volta é um bocado… triste.
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Progress! so i have moved into working on aggregates. Which are a grouping of events that replayed on an object set the current state of the object. I came up with this little bit of generic wonder.
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Just to give some context on some of the components around the code structure.. I wrote this up around an earlier version of aggregate code. This generic bit simplifies things by removing the need of the Crud functions for each aggregate.
Domain ObjectsA domain object can be used as an aggregate by adding the event.AggregateRoot struct and finish implementing event.Aggregate. The AggregateRoot implements logic for adding events after they are either Raised by a command or Appended by the eventstore Load or service ApplyFn methods. It also tracks the uncommitted events that are saved using the eventstore Save method.
type User struct {
Identity string ```json:"identity"`
CreatedAt time.Time
event.AggregateRoot
}
// StreamID for the aggregate when stored or loaded from ES.
func (a *User) StreamID() string {
return "user-" + a.Identity
}
// ApplyEvent to the aggregate state.
func (a *User) ApplyEvent(lis ...event.Event) {
for _, e := range lis {
switch e := e.(type) {
case *UserCreated:
a.Identity = e.Identity
a.CreatedAt = e.EventMeta().CreatedDate
/* ... */
}
}
}
Events are applied to the aggregate. They are defined by adding the event.Meta and implementing the getter/setters for event.Event
type UserCreated struct {
eventMeta event.Meta
Identity string
}
func (c *UserCreated) EventMeta() (m event.Meta) {
if c != nil {
m = c.eventMeta
}
return m
}
func (c *UserCreated) SetEventMeta(m event.Meta) {
if c != nil {
c.eventMeta = m
}
}
With a domain object that implements the event.Aggregate the event store client can load events and apply them using the Load(ctx, agg) method.
// GetUser populates an user from event store.
func (rw *User) GetUser(ctx context.Context, userID string) (*domain.User, error) {
user := &domain.User{Identity: userID}
err := rw.es.Load(ctx, user)
if err != nil {
if err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, eventstore.ErrStreamNotFound) {
return user, ErrNotFound
}
return user, err
}
return nil, err
}
return user, err
}
An OnX command will validate the state of the domain object can have the command performed on it. If it can be applied it raises the event using event.Raise() Otherwise it returns an error.
// OnCreate raises an UserCreated event to create the user.
// Note: The handler will check that the user does not already exsist.
func (a *User) OnCreate(identity string) error {
event.Raise(a, &UserCreated{Identity: identity})
return nil
}
// OnScored will attempt to score a task.
// If the task is not in a Created state it will fail.
func (a *Task) OnScored(taskID string, score int64, attributes Attributes) error {
if a.State != TaskStateCreated {
return fmt.Errorf("task expected created, got %s", a.State)
}
event.Raise(a, &TaskScored{TaskID: taskID, Attributes: attributes, Score: score})
return nil
}
The following functions in the aggregate service can be used to perform creation and updating of aggregates. The Update function will ensure the aggregate exists, where the Create is intended for non-existent aggregates. These can probably be combined into one function.
// Create is used when the stream does not yet exist.
func (rw *User) Create(
ctx context.Context,
identity string,
fn func(*domain.User) error,
) (*domain.User, error) {
session, err := rw.GetUser(ctx, identity)
if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, ErrNotFound) {
return nil, err
}
if err = fn(session); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
_, err = rw.es.Save(ctx, session)
return session, err
}
// Update is used when the stream already exists.
func (rw *User) Update(
ctx context.Context,
identity string,
fn func(*domain.User) error,
) (*domain.User, error) {
session, err := rw.GetUser(ctx, identity)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if err = fn(session); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
_, err = rw.es.Save(ctx, session)
return session, err
}
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Hi, I am playing with making an event sourcing database. Its super alpha but I thought I would share since others are talking about databases and such.
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Progress! so i have moved into working on aggregates. Which are a grouping of events that replayed on an object set the current state of the object. I came up with this little bit of generic wonder.
type PA[T any] interface {
event.Aggregate
*T
}
// Create uses fn to create a new aggregate and store in db.
func Create[A any, T PA[A]](ctx context.Context, es *EventStore, streamID string, fn func(context.Context, T) error) (agg T, err error) {
ctx, span := logz.Span(ctx)
defer span.End()
agg = new(A)
agg.SetStreamID(streamID)
if err = es.Load(ctx, agg); err != nil {
return
}
if err = event.NotExists(agg); err != nil {
return
}
if err = fn(ctx, agg); err != nil {
return
}
var i uint64
if i, err = es.Save(ctx, agg); err != nil {
return
}
span.AddEvent(fmt.Sprint("wrote events = ", i))
return
}
This lets me do something like this:
a, err := es.Create(ctx, r.es, streamID, func(ctx context.Context, agg *domain.SaltyUser) error {
return agg.OnUserRegister(nick, key)
})
I can tell the function the type being modified and returned using the function argument that is passed in. pretty cray cray.
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Now brace yourself, the tech world stands still for a while: "Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance"
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@prologic@twtxt.net Well, I have to confess that whenever a Stack Overflow post pops up in the search results of my least mistrusted search engine the answer(s) there are spot on and exactly what I’m looking for most of the time. Of course there are the occasional exception, but I’m actually very happy with what I dig up there. Sometimes I need to scroll through a few answes to get what I need, but in general the first answer appearing below the question is fairly good. There are super bad answers, no doubt. But you can tell them apart immediately and just skip them right away.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I tried to think about it once more today, but still no luck yet. However, I reckon that when I try to grasp something in a very focused way, then I imagine how I would loudly read it (but actually don’t) and hear myself. I’m quite certain about that. In more extreme cases I even noticed my lips slightly moving, but not creating any sound. But most of the time I don’t think there’s a voice. The tricky thing is, if I don’t think about how it works in general, I don’t know. And if I try to think about it, it feels like introducing tons of measuring errors. I just found Schrödinger’s cat in my brain.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @mckinley@twtxt.net Yup, some people do. I tried several times to figure out whether I also have some imaginary voice in my head or not. And I can’t really tell. My best bet is that it depends. Generally there is no voice or just a very faint one. For very complex stuff I think my brain plays some audio. But it’s very hard to tell. If I try to think about it, it feels super weird in my head.
Paul Schaub: Creating a Web-of-Trust Implementation: Certify Keys with PGPainless
Currently I am working on a Web-of-Trust implementation for the OpenPGP library PGPainless. This work will be funded by the awesome NLnet foundation through NGI Assure. Check them out! NGI Assure is made possible with financial support from the European Commission’s Next Generation Internet programme.
[, the simplified version without the URL (#hash) is enough.
The hash tag extension specification is kind of missing the same. However, I’m not sure if that short form is considered supported in general (as opposed to be a special case for subjects only) by the majority of the twtxt/yarn community.
Now the question arises, in order to keep things simple, should we even only allow the simplified twt hash tag for subjects and forbid the long version? This would also save quite a bit of space. The URL is probably not shown anyways in most clients. And if so, clients might rewrite URLs to their own instances. On the other hand, there’s technically nothing wrong with the long version in current parser implementations. And deprecating stuff without very good reason isn’t cool.
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