@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I donāt think thereās any point in continuing the discussion of Location vs. Content based addressing.
I want us to preserve Content based addressing.
Letās improve the user experience and fix the hash commission problems.
@prologic@twtxt.net I know we wonāt ever convince each other of the otherās favorite addressing scheme. :-D But I wanna address (haha) your concerns:
I donāt see any difference between the two schemes regarding link rot and migration. If the URL changes, both approaches are equally terrible as the feed URL is part of the hashed value and reference of some sort in the location-based scheme. It doesnāt matter.
The same is true for duplication and forks. Even today, the ācannonical URLā has to be chosen to build the hash. Thatās exactly the same with location-based addressing. Why would a mirror only duplicate stuff with location- but not content-based addressing? I really fail to see that. Also, who is using mirrors or relays anyway? I donāt know of any such software to be honest.
If there is a spam feed, I just unfollow it. Done. Not a concern for me at all. Not the slightest bit. And the byte verification is THE source of all broken threads when the conversation start is edited. Yes, this can be viewed as a feature, but how many times was it actually a feature and not more behaving as an anti-feature in terms of user experience?
I donāt get your argument. If the feed in question is offline, one can simply look in local caches and see if there is a message at that particular time, just like looking up a hash. Whereās the difference? Except that the lookup key is longer or compound or whatever depending on the cache format.
Even a new hashing algorithm requires work on clients etc. Itās not that you get some backwards-compatibility for free. It just cannot be backwards-compatible in my opinion, no matter which approach we take. Thatās why I believe some magic time for the switch causes the least amount of trouble. You leave the old world untouched and working.
If these are general concerns, Iām completely with you. But I donāt think that they only apply to location-based addressing. Thatās how I interpreted your message. I could be wrong. Happy to read your explanations. :-)
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@zvava@twtxt.net Not much of a known fact these days, but thereused to be a Yarn phone app (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/app), last version released 5 or so years ago, but it still suggests, it has to be somewhat feasable, to make another one. I donāt think anyone tried since, because the web version works well on phones, but Iām still hoping, we get a more native phone experience, one day.
i went to a rilo kiley concert the other day and it was so special to me⦠i teared up at some of the songs but when āa better son/daughterā came on, i full on cried. what an amazing experience.
photos: https://eunoia.sayitditto.net/photos/rilo-kiley-2025sep/
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, removing the cover will probably help. Iāll have to try. š And, yes, the scrolling is pretty annoying (and kind of ruins the experience a little bit).
The printer isnāt that loud ā at least not for a dot matrix printer. š Itās been ~30 years since Iāve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. Iām typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Hereās an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21āmodel-m-goes-brrr.ogg 𤣠It really sounds like that when youāre typing fast. Brrrrt.
@thecanine@twtxt.net I think Googleās Android is as vanilla as it can be, coming from the āsourceā. The bloatware is more often than not vendorās provided, no? I donāt consider Google apps and services bloatware, but an intrinsic part of the Android āvanillaā experience.
@prologic@twtxt.net Anything above a couple hundred Euros. š The current Epson LX-350 appears to be not that pricey, though. š¤
I mean, what do you want to do with it? If you want to use this as an actual printer for daily use, Iād get a laser printer instead, because theyāre very reliable and the print quality is top notch.
I got my dot matrix printer mostly for experiments and nostalgia, so I wouldnāt want to pay something like 300-400⬠for it.
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers⦠š¤, but I digress. Verbatim text:
What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
------------------------------------------------------------------
You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*
Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)
The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.
It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet.
We did an experiment at work today: Do I even need to lock my laptop when Iām gone or is nobody able to use it anyway?
It went as expected. š¤£
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I also wondered for a very long time why nobody improved the man experience in the terminal. Iād love to see links and more colors.
setpriv on Linux supports Landlock.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thatās really cool! I wanted to experiment with Landlock in tt as well. But other than just thinking about it, nothing really happened.
Depending on the available Landlock ABI version your kernel supports, you might even restrict connect(ā¦) calls to ports 80, 443 and maybe whatever else has been configured in the subscription list.
@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, Iām referring to software thatās similar to that of suckless.org: Small, minimal codebases, small tools, but still useful. dmenu is probably the best example and also farbfeld.
Hereās the author of Anubis talking about some of their experiences:
https://xeiaso.net/blog/why-i-use-suckless-tools-2020-06-05/
(You can skip the long config and keybinds part.)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Rust is so different and, at the same time, so complex ā itās not far fetched to assume that I simply donāt understand whatās going on here. The docs appear to be clear, but alas ⦠is it a bugs in the docs? Is it a lack of experience on my part? Who knows.
By the way, looks like there was a bit of a discussion regarding that name:
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$ go build ./cmd/ttt/... && ./ttt
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ugh hearing XG rap over a rock arrangement of woke up is a transcendent experience. best female rappers in k-pop right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OShP_a6g-3A
One thing about my design here is that it would no longer incorporate āregexā-based rules like OWASP, mostly because my experience thus far has taught me that these rules are kind of overly sensitive, produce false positives and Iām not sure they are really very effective. For example, why is the point of performing SQL injection detection at the Edge using a WAF if you already handle SQL properly in the first place? (seriously does anyone still construct SQL queries by hand with effectively printf?!)
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@prologic@twtxt.net noted! that all sounds very scary to me but i should lock in for the best experience for my users! (the best experience for my users is my server not crashing most of the time though so i guess the next best experience LOL)
Z for UTC +00:00- is that allowed in your specs?
Regarding url = I would suggest to only allow one and the maybe add url_old = or url_alt = !?
I'm still not a fan of a DM feature, even thou it helps that i have now been split out into a separate feed file. Instead if would suggest a contact = field for where people can put an email or other id/link for an established chat protocol like signal or matrix.
@bender@twtxt.net I think this would be a good idea as @movq@www.uninformativ.de and @andros@twtxt.andros.dev have done ā
I may even join the experiments if I have any spare time to hack a custom yrand branch and run it up on say something like a yarnexp.mills.io or something š¤
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Confession:
Iāve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other āmodernā social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.
The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very āego-centricā. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).
I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great ā and it didnāt even suffer from the need to federate.
Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.
On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But itās not that great and the protocol isnāt meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of ālikesā has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ā¹ļø
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