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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 ;-)

I think it is long due dropping Facebook (now Meta) from the S&P 500 index funds. As an owner of some, I really have a problem with it—and yes, I know there is little I can do but voice it everywhere I make noise online.

What about a meta header for setting charset?

I myself stumbled upon .txt files not being delivered with charset: utf-8 by default.

I had to set/modify .htaccess to correct that.

It would have been easier if there had been a charset header entry “overwriting” what http server is delivering.

What do you think?

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.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/meta/gnome/pkg/README-main?content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup gnome openbsd

How to Insert Meta Tags into a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ Read more…

@prologic@twtxt.net the meta info on the top I added manually. it’s following what I have seen from some other twtxt feeds. the new parser will read them.

@lucidiot@tilde.town “nuclear realtor” I like this twtxt. [meta: I guess I’ll often just reply with “I like this” or , although perhaps liking could be a primitive. I’ll do it rarely enough to not clutter my timeline tho]

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xdwbX9pFEr7Pomaxv/meta-honesty-firming-up-honesty-around-its-edge-cases?commentId=rfYQjT8SfzfQPLWYH lel

added a !meta page. this proof of concept integrates with the weewiki !zettelkasten I am developing to produce something similar to this !feed.

meta-not-caring

Usbek & Rica - « QAnon » : le méta-complot ultime de l’ère Trump ⌘ https://usbeketrica.com/fr/article/qanon-ou-le-meta-complotisme-ultime-de-l-ere-trump

On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Metamorphosis https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/10/08/meta.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

James Tenney’s Meta Hodos and Meta Meta Hodos are an attempt to derive music theory from first principles: [[https://monoskop.org/images/1/13/Tenney_James_Meta-Hodos_and_Meta_Meta-Hodos.pdf]] #links #composition #musictheory

weewiki uses a custom org markup parser written in ANSI C to render the HTML. No emacs needed! my hope is to introduce a user-defined callback that can process these to allow for custom meta-commands.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: A Free Culture License Wish List https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/29/copyleft.html #license #meta #opensource #freesoftware #gpl #creativecommons #copyleft

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: My Software https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/16/software.html #software #technology #meta

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Colagioia Industries https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/02/ci.html #software #technology #meta

I think part of what’s killing emacs for me is what killed kakoune for me — I don’t have a good Meta key on my Mac and I’m not about to give up my Option key for it.

/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz About images, sure, I understand it’s useless for CLI-only use. But if we added our own format, maybe something like Markdown

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/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz Also yes, a simple string search would be fine. I’m not JS-savvy enough to be sure, but I guess it would work a bit like tags?

/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz Ok, I figured it out, sorry :) I entered my local time manually and forgot it’s supposed to be UTC, so my posts were in the future.

/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz I’m trying to understand where my timestamp issue comes from, but I have no clue. My two latest posts were edited manually, yet the timestamp syntax seems right?

/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz Regarding potential new features, maybe some kind of search box? And is there a way to embed images or other media?

/meta Great job on the pagination! Now I’m thinking about forking this and trying to see if I can use it as a personal nanoblog/wiki…

/meta I really like how this place looks. Is there any plan for some kind of pagination to browse older posts?

This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf

I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/

@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?

A Couple of Meta-interpreters in Prolog https://www.metalevel.at/acomip/

Neural speech synthesizers are noise, pressed into form: Meta-Raudive devices that live in your phone, channel the voices of the dead to tell you dinner’s ready

This frostbitten black meta… https://theoutline.com/post/2556/this-frostbitten-black-metal-album-was-created-by-an-artificial-intelligence

Scaling Dunbar’s number up to billions of people is hard even with augments, so you can lend your voice to an Übermensch: A meta-person that represents you and thousands of others, which talks to other Übermenschen to get person-years of communication done in mere minutes

When an AI Tries Writing Slashdot Headlines - Slashdot https://meta.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1714246/when-an-ai-tries-writing-slashdot-headlines

those who resolve to think only object level thoughts about stones, trees, flowing water, with politics at least two levels too meta

SHADOW CHARACTERS:↵Moon: vapid↵Fire: airheaded, forgetful↵Moon during lunar eclipse: giddy, very meta↵Sirius: bros↵KIC 8462852: ⠠⠠⠁⠽⠽⠀⠠⠠⠇⠍⠁⠕

Noobasis: Object level.↵Nootroposphere: First meta level. Still mostly plebs.↵Noostratosphere: The skyhook may deign to meet you here.

Getting magic into a computer is a challenge though: It took a few breakthroughs in psionics and information theory to add a meta level.