@movq@www.uninformativ.de I noticed that:

gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2018/2018-06/2018-06-01.txt

Is the first non-justified, and it is when you started using Markdown. The last justified one was:

gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2018/2018-05/2018-05-27.txt

So, I might have found the mystery! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, nice read!

If I’m in the woods, I’d like to not waste my time with computers and focus on the beauty of nature. ;-) So, I’m not gonna participate in that event. But I’d read your articles on that subject anytime. :-)

@bender@twtxt.net Oh, there’s an easy explanation. But maybe some mysteries are best left unexplained. 😃 If you want to solve this riddle: The solution is in the phlog! Somewhere! 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de that works! Reading! :-)

@bender@twtxt.net The address is/was correct but probably got mangled by the Markdown renderer. Let’s try again in a code block:

gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03--roophloch.txt

@movq@www.uninformativ.de getting:

3Invalid request.       Error   Error   0 

On that address.

@thecanine@twtxt.net I’m seeing those Clippys everywhere now. 📎

@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, the acronym is funny. 😅

Wandering through the woods for 8km … gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-09/2025-09-03–roophloch.txt

@eric@itsericwoodward.com That’s cool, happy hacking! :-)

@ionores@twtxt.net Haven’t seen ‘em yet, unfortunately. But I will keep an eye out for them. :-)

@eric@itsericwoodward.com Congrats 🥳

@zvava@twtxt.net Bit ahrd not to 🤣

I finally have my new (top-secret) twtxt client in a working state. Next comes the deployment, which I hope to finish tonight. Release date: TBD. Stay tuned!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Or, the time of year when birds take to the skies in stunning flocks.🦆🦢

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks, mate! Glad you like my new avatar 😅👍

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net I’ve had many SD cards die in Raspberry Pis. Really annoying. I’ve eventually switched to using a read-only rootfs. 🫤

@zvava@twtxt.net Been there done that haha 🤣

@zvava@twtxt.net Enjoying it so far? 🤔 😅

@zvava@twtxt.net Hey 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social 🤗

@ionores@twtxt.net Love the new Avatar dude 😅 Very nice! 👍

@dce@hashnix.club Ooops 😅 Hope you still have enough money for the basics 🤗 I’m doing okay though!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Still alive and caffeinated! 😃

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Doing okay here 👌

Howdy @prologic@twtxt.net !! I missed hanging out the Cool Kids* 🤣 I hope everyone has had a good summer and doing well 🫡

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Now, you can automatically ban everybody requesting these old URLs.

Ni Hao; bīng qílín!
I’m just dropping in, to emphasize my love for ice cream and the Chinese crawler bots, allocating their time and resources, towards scraping my humble website.

To show my gratitude, I’ve even added a random little dog generator to https://thecanine.ueuo.com/sparkle.html so that everyone can pick up their own custom dogFT, on their journey through my site.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Dunning-Kruger twice, also in the field of photography. :-D

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m doing that now as well, but I don’t think this is a good solution. This is going to hurt “self-hosting” in the long run: I cannot afford true self-hosting where I actually do host everything here at home – instead, I must use a cloud provider / VPS for that. It is only a matter of time until my provider starts doing AI shit as well (or rather, the customers do it) and then what? I get blocked, e.g. I can’t send email to (some) people anymore. This is already bad and it’s going to get worse.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Didn’t know that, either. 😂 The one guy even tried to test this theory with a Polaroid? And “confirmed” it? What the heck. 🥴

@dce@hashnix.club Yeah, I’ve read about that approach. Sounds clever. Truth is, I’m too tired. 😢 I don’t want to spend too much of my time fighting assholes.

I’ve now started blocking entire cloud hosters. Sorry, not sorry.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I’ve blocked some large subnets now (most likely overblocking a lot of stuff) and it has died down.

I’m not looking forward to doing this on a regular basis. This is supposed to be a fun hobby – and it was, for many years. Maybe that time is just over.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right now I’m basically just blocking entire ASN(s) at this point and large blocks of IP(s) from Anthropic, OPenAI, Microsoft and others.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com 👋

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Best logo ever made. 😅 (It’s partially proprietary software. Just for Epson scanners, I think? Not sure.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, that was a lot of fun. 😃 Now let’s wait and see if I ever get to actually use this. 😂

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, great idea! :-D I never saw the Epson Image Scan logo before.

@thecanine@twtxt.net We don’t use Microsoft at work – but similar products of other big companies. They’re all doing the same. The core product gets worse and worse, because they focus so much on vomiting “AI” over everything.

It will die down eventually. I hope.

This is soooo bloody cool, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-08-30/0/POSTING-en.html

This is something that @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz might enjoy:

Recreating the “EPSON Image Scan!” logo with one of my Tux plushies. 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de one can dream, for sure. I miss all the Pope and Medici series, all gone. And that’s just a start.

@prologic@twtxt.net Enjoy the weekend. 🥳 (I rarely drink these days. I hope my tiny little Whisky collection doesn’t go bad. 😂)

And the e-mail body says that @movq@www.uninformativ.de is leaving, too.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, ta! :-)

@bender@twtxt.net I’ve been cutting back too 😅 Trying to avoid drinking (with alcohol) 24hr before fixtures (🏓) and before training 🤣

@dce@hashnix.club No worries 😌 It’s all documented in our soecs, it’s not such a common thing that we’ve felt the great need to really solve, we’re aware folks want to sometimes have their feed on several protocols, and that’s totally fine™ 😅

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Very nice colors dude! 😅

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, we’ve seen how this plays out in practice 🤣 @dce@hashnix.club My advice, do what @movq@www.uninformativ.de has hinted at and don’t change the 1st # url = field in your feed. I’m not sure if you had already, but the first url field is kind of important in your feed as it is used as the “Hashing URI” for threading.

@dce@hashnix.club Ah, oh, well then. 🥴

My client supports that, if you set multiple url = fields in your feed’s metadata (the top-most one must be the “main” URL, that one is used for hashing).

But yeah, multi-protocol feeds can be problematic and some have considered it a mistake to support them. 🤔

Hey @jost@jost.sdfeu.org, not sure if this reaches you, but your TLS server certificate expired two weeks ago.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net Fuck them!