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Funny bug in LG TV: last Saturday I scheduled some film from yesterday for recording. Actual recording yesterday started 1 hour late. Looks like although TV knows actual time perfectly well it was not capable to “translate” schedule from CEST to CET.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Another feature request: sometimes I start writing a twt but then would like to discard it. It would be great if jeny could detect that I did not wrote (or saved) anything and then discards the twt instead of creating an “empty” one.

@prologic@twtxt.net like parsing HTML with regex.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just observed unexpected old twts coming back.

It looks like lasttwts is reset to -5364619200.0 every time no new content wasfetched for example if if-modified-since did not produce new twts?

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ha, but when you control lastmods, lastseen and lasttwts it’s easy to test.

Works like a charm!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
I just pulled it, works like a charm (as expected) ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Updated. Will it be possible for the subject be moved at the begining instead (like Yarn and tt do)?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
I’m not a Python programmer, so please bear with me.
The doc about encodings does also mention:

If you require a different encoding, you can manually set the Response.encoding property

Wouldn’t that be a one liner like (Ruby example)?

'some text'.force_encoding('utf-8')

I understand that you do not want to interfere with requests. On the other hand we know that received data must be utf-8 (by twtxt spec) and it does burden “publishers” to somehow add charset property to content-type header. But again I’m not sure what “the right thing to do” ™ is.

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de
Exactly, you see correct UTF-8 encoded version (even with content-type: text/plain leaving out charset declaration).

After following utf8test twtxt myself I now see that jenny does not handle it as UTF-8 when charset is missing from HTTP header, just like @quark@ferengi.one has observed.

So should jenny treat twtxt files always as UTF-8 encoded? I’m not sure about this.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

Don’t miss step 0 (I should have made this a separate point): having a meta header promising appending twts with strictly monotonically increasing timestamps.

(Also, I’d first like to see the pagination thingy implemented.)

In jenny I would like to see “don’t process previously fetched twts” AKA “Allow the user to archive/delete old twts” feature implemented ;-)

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My thoughts about range requests

Additionally to pagination also range request should be used to reduce traffic.

I understand that there are corner cases making this a complicated matter.

I would like to see a meta header saying that the given twtxt is append only with increasing timestamps so that a simple strategy can detect valid content fetched per range request.

1. read meta part per range request
   
2. read last fetched twt at expected range (as known from last fetch)
   
3. if fetched content starts with expected twt then process rest of data
   
4. if fetched content doesn’t start with expected twt discard all and fall back to fetching whole twtxt
   

Pagination (e.g. archiving old content in a different file) will lead to point 4.

Of course especially pods should support range requests, correct @prologic@twtxt.net?

My thoughts about pagination (paging)

Following the discussion about pagination (paging) I think that’s the right thing to do.

Fetching the same content again and again with only a marginal portion of actually new twts is unbearable and does not scale in any way. It’s not only a waste of bandwidth but with increasing number of fetchers it will also become a problem for pods to serve all requests.

Because it’s so easy to implement and simple to understand, splitting twtxt file in parts with next and prev pointers seems a really amazing solution.

As in RFC5005 there should also be a meta header pointing to the main URL, e.g. current or baseurl or something like that. This way hashes can calculated correctly even for archived twts.

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It looks like the new MBP batteries are easily replaceable. That is positively, and absolutely, a very good news!

Lots. 🤣 The system is small, coherent, and understandable in a way no modern unix is. The namespace operations remain incredibly powerful. And several of the tools built on it, like the way network listeners and the mail server are built, are just much nicer to use, modify, and build on.

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My nutritional supplements aim should be:

• 1 or 1.5 cups of lentils (or any beans you might like better).
  
• 2 or 2.5 cups of bitter greens.
  
• 1 cup of your favourite protein (or an egg), grilled, or fried with a little of olive oil.
  
• 1 or 2 tomatoes, or a handful if of the cherry type.
  
• No added sugars. If it is sweet, make it have fibre.
  
• No added salt (or very little and ionised), as salt is everywhere.
  

Related, I tried wild rice for the first time yesterday. It was different, in a good way.

Got to love the sense of humour:

Blog.txt supports multiple options for the chronological order of posts. If you start writing new posts below old posts, the default post sort is descending. If you start writing new posts above all the old posts, like I do, then the post sort algorithm will default to ascending. But if the user would like to change the sort order of the posts, they can press the “End” button on their keyboard to reverse the default chronological order!

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@prologic@twtxt.net
Thank you, that’s the correct one.

Still I have this in my logs (first access of “eleven” by yarnd):

ip.ip.ip.ip - - [21/Oct/2021:20:05:36 +0000] “GET /eleven.txt HTTP/2.0” 200 344 “-” “yarnd/0.2.0@46bea3f (Pod: twtxt.net Support: https://twtxt.net/support)”
ip.ip.ip.ip - - [21/Oct/2021:20:05:36 +0000] “HEAD /avatar.png HTTP/2.0” 200 0 “-” “yarnd/0.2.0@46bea3f (Pod: twtxt.net Support: https://twtxt.net/support)”

And I guess without avatar.png sitting there I would have seen even more requests like /eleven.txt/avatar.png.

I’ve copied stackeffect.png to avatar.png to make yarnd happy when accessing stackeffect.txt.

So in this setup yarnd fetched eleven.txt along with avatar.png which belongs to another twtxt. This feels buggy.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Aha! Cool! Not just deleting, but proceeding as if the twt is going to be send. If I :q! on vi it will add an empty line. If, instead, I go :x like I normally do, it works as you said—and as I wanted it. Thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net
Sounds like a good plan. It is, of course, up to the Master Crafter. 😋

https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/ it does not look like there is a quick way to download a mbox archive of these mailing lists.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de What I would really like to see if jenny could use HTTP range requests to fetch only new content.

E.g. it could refetch only last twtext line of last request to make sure it starts off at correct position.

I guess there are twtxt files that only grow, then this will save a lot bandwidth over time.

For twtxt files that “forget” older content this situation would be detected and as a fallback the whole twtxt file could then be fetched.

@prologic@twtxt.net I would like to see “header” lines in twtxt.txt parsed.

Personally I started looking at some twtxt files with curl and saw information about avatar images.

I assumed that to be sort of standard and mentioned my avatar image in my stackeffect.txt. But it was not “avatar.png”.

Later I saw in logfiles that the info was totally ignored and instead several “avatar.png” locations were tried by the pulling side.

When information in “header” of twtxt file were respected one could easily change avatar file to one with a new filename and there would be no caching problem.

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@adi@f.adi.onl
Just like your highschool girlfriend in Afghanistan “doesn’t need saving”, right? I think it is a language issue you are having, as English isn’t your mother tongue.

QAnon followers are cultist nuts. Some of them wanting out are finding that it is a hard thing to do (did you read the article?). Saying that “they don’t need to escape” is a silly thing to say, at the very least. To me, it just doesn’t make sense.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Fair enough, I will modify my cron job to match. When I come across edited twts, I just delete both knowing jenny will fetch the right one next iteration. I like keeping things tidy. 😊

@mckinley@twtxt.net
I really would like to know the logic behind that reasoning.

@prologic@twtxt.net
Entering a plain URL on feeds.twtxt.net renders a 500. Like entering ckunte.net gets 500, but http://ckunte.net doesn’t. 🤌🏻

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com
Seems like you need to make your parser smarter. Go tinker! 😋

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
Not anymore 😭. I still have a self-propelled one, and electric, which is very nice. But when you live under an almost constant 32-35℃, with super high humidity, you cease liking working outside pretty quick.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
LOL. Some days I feel like Forrest Gump, wanting to mow just for fun. Others is a chore. The other are way more frequent than the some. LOL.

• [x] Lawn mowed, edged, trimmed, and blown.
  
• [x] Driveway and sidewalks pressured washed.
  
• [x] Weed killer sprayed.
  

Mission accomplished. I feel like watching “The Hijacker Guide to the Galaxy”. Let’s see which streaming service is offering it for free, or for rent.

An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate. — The Guardian

And from the same article:

India’s skewed ratio of men to women – currently between 900-930 females per 1,000 males – reflects India’s ingrained attitude towards girls. Boys are seen as breadwinners while girls are seen as a burden across every social class. Boys are more likely to receive more nutritious food and better medical care than girls.

That is just beyond sad.

@laz@tt.vltra.plus
How do you handle upgrades like this on your pod? Do you keep a diff of your customisations, or is it all a manual process?

It looks like BBB has many moving parts. Of all, I hate Tomcat the most. 😬

@movq@www.uninformativ.de, would you know the regex to use within .muttrc to colorise a Markdown code block like the one below?

# This one works for `code`, but that's about it.
(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])\`[^\`]+\`([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)