Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Source Attachment and Wrap-Up

Stateless 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.
The big idea is that functionality can be implemented for all file transfer methods at once, thanks to … ⌘ Read more

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Async, Metadata with Thumbnails and some UI

Asynchronous programming is a neat tool, until you work with a foreign project in a foreign language using it.
As a messenger, Dino uses lots of asynchronous code, not always though.
Usually my progress wasn’t interfered by such instances, but sometimes I had to work around it.

Async in Vala

No surprises here.
Functions are annotated with async, and yield expressions that are asyn … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I have added that to my twtxt file. Even if I can’t see the metadata the people from yarn can. Not a big deal to add the metadata and it helps yarn users

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t think Jenny does much of anything with the avatar and description but I do know yarn does and its not a bad thing to include the metadata for those users.

Dino: Stateless File Sharing: Base implementation
The last few weeks were quite busy for me, but there was also a lot of progress.
I’m happy to say that the base of stateless file sharing is implemented and working.
Let’s explore some of the more interesting topics.

File hashes have some practical applications, such as file validation and duplication detection.
As such, they are part of the [metadata element](https://xmpp.org/extensio … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
I would recommend a longer rotation, perhaps? The way I see it, you are proposing a monthly one. That can make metadata huge too. Maybe yearly, or every 6 months?

@prologic@twtxt.net

No, it would be sufficient to skip avatar discovery when metadata does contain an avatar.

It’s a new one in the instant messaging game :P https://getsession.org It’s a fork of Signal and claims no metadata. I too have my chatting tools, but it doesn’t prevent to check new stuff ^^

Metadata: Judoing the Dunning-Kruger effect: the “surprisingly-popular option” strategy for crowdsourcing https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/11/judoing-dunning-kruger-effect.html

GitHub - jimkang/random-internet-archive: Gets a random Internet Archive resource, in URL form with some metadata. https://github.com/jimkang/random-internet-archive

@mdom@domgoergen.com metadata is there now. I was one commit behind.

@sdk@codevoid.de Great! Though i don’t see any metadata on your feed?

@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?

@mdom@domgoergen.com what metadata feature is that?

New feature for txtnish: After setting add_metadata to 1, txtnish will, uhm, add metadata to your twtfile. Currently i only add followings, client and your gpg fingerprint. See my file for an example.

The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!

updated metadata on twtxt.txt file

Metadata: Paper review. IPFS: Content addressed, versio… http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html

@reednj@twtxt.xyz I think this would be the first time two clients implement the same #metadata format.

I’ll take another swing at #metadata for #twtxt. You can check my feed for an example. The headers aren’t important, only # key = value

Maybe we shouldn’t add time sensitive metadata. Maybe # following = https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt https://enotty.dk/twtxt.txt …

@kas@enotty.dk, @benaiah@benaiah.me Should metadata always be at the start of the file or can it be interspersed with tweets?

@mdom@domgoergen.com, @kas@enotty.dk re: metadata, I’m (obviously) in favor of my suggestion for metadata-in-comments, but I don’t think we should have comments in comments.

@kas@enotty.dk The amount of whitespace around the equal sign shouldn’t matter. Wouldn’t be a comment above the line not enough? <# nick = mdom # my nick> looks weird.

I would love to add metadata to the spec, but someone would have to hack it into twtxt #issue48 @buckket@buckket.org? :)

#txtnix and #roster now support the new metadata syntax ts#metadata. Now time will tell if somebody will use it.

This would be a good use case for metadata. @kas@enotty.dk could ask clients to refetch less, eg with /refetch 10m

#txtnix new subcommand will dump all available metadata for a feed. Until a decision is made it uses my // suggestion.

How should metadata about a twtxt feed be stored? Weigh in @ https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/48

Nix 0.12 released
Nix\
 0.12 has been released. The most important change is that
Nix no longer needs Berkeley DB to store metadata, but there are
many other improvements. See the release\
 notes for details. ⌘ Read more