# Twtxt is an open, distributed microblogging platform that # uses human-readable text files, common transport protocols, # and free software. # # Learn more about twtxt at https://github.com/buckket/twtxt # # This is an automated Yarn.social feed running feeds v0.1.0@72e53a9 # Learn more about Yarn.social at https://yarn.social # # nick = buccipod-twtxt-atom-feed # url = https://feeds.twtxt.net/buccipod-twtxt-atom-feed/twtxt.txt # type = rss # source = https://anthony.buc.ci/atom.xml # avatar = # description = # updated_at = 2024-11-04T18:55:53Z # 2022-07-23T16:19:59Z **@prologic hello! I just installed yarn.social and wanted to try sending a twt to an external user!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) hello! I just installed yarn.social and wanted to try sending a twt to an external user! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/f6bqhxa) 2022-07-23T16:06:21Z **This guy created shadertoy and makes amazing graphics. I just want to save a link here.

Inigo Quilez :: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders ...**
This guy created shadertoy and makes amazing graphics. I just want to save a link here.

[Inigo Quilez :: computer graphics, mathematics, shaders, fractals, demoscene and more](https://iquilezles.org/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/edb276q) 2022-07-23T15:51:45Z **Buccipod lives.**
Buccipod lives. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rxeepiq) 2022-07-22T14:17:36Z **Tinkering with making my web site comply with IndieWeb recommendations.**
Tinkering with making my web site comply with IndieWeb recommendations. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4pymjaq) 2022-07-22T12:51:46Z **All of that because I wanted to make a blog post about a class I just finished teaching**
All of that because I wanted to make a blog post about a class I just finished teaching https://www.bucci.onl/notes/Chaos-managed ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3fu5onq) 2022-07-22T12:49:22Z **...and I've modified it locally, so I'm facing a tricky merge problem 😕**
...and I've modified it locally, so I'm facing a tricky merge problem 😕 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4jyuc2a) 2022-07-22T12:48:31Z **That was the main reason I chose that theme, so it was frustrating. Anyway, it looks like Jekyll Garden has updated in the meantime.**
That was the main reason I chose that theme, so it was frustrating. Anyway, it looks like Jekyll Garden has updated in the meantime. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qhkt6fa) 2022-07-22T12:48:03Z **I'm overhauling my blog a bit because I was having trouble getting the Jekyll Garden theme to work the way I wanted with Obsidian.**
I'm overhauling my blog a bit because I was having trouble getting the Jekyll Garden theme to work the way I wanted with Obsidian. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qfsguaa) 2022-07-22T08:55:58Z **Let's try some Unicode™ and an emojus 🤪**
Let's try some Unicode™ and an emojus 🤪 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2psjf2a) 2022-07-22T07:39:19Z **This is a test that pre- and post- hooks are working properly**
This is a test that pre- and post- hooks are working properly ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pwyqn2q) 2022-07-22T07:24:36Z **This is a test of twtxt**
This is a test of twtxt ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ia7tn7q) 2022-07-23T17:54:57Z **What's the difference between timeline and discover, I wonder.**
What's the difference between timeline and discover, I wonder. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4fjkgtq) 2022-07-23T18:05:04Z **(#4fjkgtq) I also wonder what feeds are. I guess I should read the documentation how about that.**
I also wonder what feeds are. I guess I should read the documentation how about that. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7ph7owa) 2022-07-23T18:02:25Z **(#rxeepiq) I am gratuitously posting just to see how things look when you do that. Sorry for the noise.**
I am gratuitously posting just to see how things look when you do that. Sorry for the noise. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/haciffa) 2022-07-23T18:01:56Z **(#rxeepiq) Buccipod being my self-hosted yarn.social instance with exactly one user, me 😃**
Buccipod being my self-hosted yarn.social instance with exactly one user, me 😃 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mkcensq) 2022-07-23T18:43:41Z **(#rxeepiq) @testuser Hi test user. kitten**
[@testuser](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testuser) Hi test user. ![kitten](https://www.startpage.com/av/proxy-image?piurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.unsplash.com%2Fphoto-1595433707802-6b2626ef1c91%3Fixlib%3Drb-1.2.1%26ixid%3DMnwxMjA3fDB8MHxleHBsb3JlLWZlZWR8MXx8fGVufDB8fHx8%26w%3D1000%26q%3D80&sp=1658601763T77f9d66eb6eb1b9127addec43605c37f8f136c6fc0736cd92a781d6839446dc0) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lznsm5q) 2022-07-23T18:41:34Z **@abucci (#rxeepiq) Hello I am a test user who is testing.**
[@abucci](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci) Hello I am a test user who is testing. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iwb63rq) 2022-07-23T19:07:46Z **(#rxeepiq) @testuser goat's**
[@testuser](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testuser) goat's ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/biziusq) 2022-07-23T19:03:37Z **@abucci (#rxeepiq) goat's are the best**
[@abucci _@anthony.buc.ci_](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci) goat's are the best ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/r6xjt7a) 2022-07-23T19:03:11Z **@testuser (#rxeepiq) dig that goat!**
[@testuser](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testuser) dig that goat! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vead57q) 2022-07-23T19:01:48Z **@abucci (#rxeepiq) that is a cute kitten! goat**
[@abucci](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci) that is a cute kitten! ![goat](https://images.pexels.com/photos/86594/goat-animal-horns-black-and-white-86594.jpeg) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gchw6ga) 2022-07-23T19:09:24Z **I am just testing yarn.social with a second user. Really I am @abucci in disguise.**
I am just testing yarn.social with a second user. Really I am [@abucci](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci) in disguise. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xdfy2tq) 2022-07-23T19:28:19Z **(#rxeepiq) @testuser Hmm, a weird thing I don't understand is why that image is not displaying inline. It does on the phone app.**
[@testuser](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testuser) Hmm, a weird thing I don't understand is why that image is not displaying inline. It does on the phone app. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/avllmca) 2022-07-23T19:38:05Z **(#rxeepiq) Oh I suppose I upload media from my computer.**
Oh I suppose I upload media from my computer. ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/d4VAv99cdEjihr9Vp2jz3e.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/matjiuq) 2022-07-23T20:54:15Z **(#rxeepiq) from phone**
from phone ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/bzRBXzVZ6nUiAbCkVtvV87.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/m34iira) 2022-07-24T11:48:08Z **(#rxeepiq) @abucci there's a setting where you can state whether you want images displayed inline or not.**
[@abucci](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci) there's a setting where you can state whether you want images displayed inline or not. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pvxh75a) 2022-07-24T12:58:04Z **I'm always intrigued by new platforms like this one, but they are hindered by a lack of users. Unless you're draw in by an existing community, y ...**
I'm always intrigued by new platforms like this one, but they are hindered by a lack of users. Unless you're draw in by an existing community, you end up talking into the void, or to yourself [@testuser](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testuser) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/urcykrq) 2022-07-24T13:00:07Z **(#urcykrq) then again, since I self-host, and since posts are ultimately in twtxt format, it's very easy to to save data and migrate out.**
then again, since I self-host, and since posts are ultimately in twtxt format, it's very easy to to save data and migrate out. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7fz5jnq) 2022-07-24T14:12:19Z **Have a computer that keeps dropping off the network and I don't understand why 😠**
Have a computer that keeps dropping off the network and I don't understand why 😠 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gnujfjq) 2022-07-24T14:15:08Z **(#gnujfjq) It's nice to be able to read the timeline and write posts from the command line, since I spend a lot of my day there.**
It's nice to be able to read the timeline and write posts from the command line, since I spend a lot of my day there. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/f54fctq) 2022-07-24T15:01:27Z **The Unison language

Looks like a lot of fun.**
[The Unison language](https://www.unison-lang.org/)

Looks like a lot of fun. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2gjshuq) 2022-07-24T18:53:15Z **(#oxj5o2a) @assets 👍 dig this**
[@assets _@maya.land_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://maya.land/assets/twtxt.txt&nick=assets) 👍 dig this ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zeerslq) 2022-07-25T00:39:36Z **(#mdu3vsq) @akoizumi lol**
[@akoizumi _@kyoko.nerdpol.ovh_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://kyoko.nerdpol.ovh/~akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/y4yytaa) 2022-07-25T01:28:30Z **(#gojpmta) There's a lot to be said for phones where you can replace the battery and SD card.**
There's a lot to be said for phones where you can replace the battery and SD card. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xzjc5bq) 2022-07-25T01:26:46Z **(#gojpmta) usable***
usable\* ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5bspn2a) 2022-07-25T01:26:13Z **(#gojpmta) I put a new SD card and a new battery in it for about $30 total. One of the reasons I originally mothballed this phone and bought a n ...**
I put a new SD card and a new battery in it for about $30 total. One of the reasons I originally mothballed this phone and bought a new one is that at the time replacement batteries were very expensive. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6xyhgxq) 2022-07-25T01:24:33Z **(#gojpmta) Aside from the 3 Gbyte RAM limit, which hurts at times, and occasional stutters, it's perfectly unable.**
Aside from the 3 Gbyte RAM limit, which hurts at times, and occasional stutters, it's perfectly unable. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ndurbxq) 2022-07-25T01:22:04Z **My son chewed the screen of my smart phone into nonfunctionality, so I resurrected a 9-year-old Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that used to be my primary ...**
My son chewed the screen of my smart phone into nonfunctionality, so I resurrected a 9-year-old Samsung Galaxy Note 3 that used to be my primary phone. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gojpmta) 2022-07-25T01:46:18Z **(#gojpmta) I don't think I could tolerate a ten-year-old computer, by contrast.**
I don't think I could tolerate a ten-year-old computer, by contrast. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hkjnx7a) 2022-07-25T01:45:24Z **(#gojpmta) The camera is not good, and the battery life could be better. There are definitely some improvements in modern phones. I'm pretty imp ...**
The camera is not good, and the battery life could be better. There are definitely some improvements in modern phones. I'm pretty impressed by how usable a nearly decade-old phone is though. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5vr6owa) 2022-07-25T11:40:30Z **(#urcykrq) btw I have no plans to migrate out--definitely want to give this a go for awhile. I've found some interesting feeds to follow, and I' ...**
btw I have no plans to migrate out--definitely want to give this a go for awhile. I've found some interesting feeds to follow, and I'm sure that will continue. However, I do like very much that the post data is not trapped in some corporation's data center. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2dqht2q) 2022-07-25T11:39:11Z **(#urcykrq) @prologic Yes. I noticed quite a few people used to keep up `twtxt` feeds but then stopped. You can goodl "twtxt.txt" and find lots. ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Yes. I noticed quite a few people used to keep up \`twtxt\` feeds but then stopped. You can goodl "twtxt.txt" and find lots. Hopefully with a nice web app and phone app and cli tool like yarn.social has enough critical mass will build. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pfp75ta) 2022-07-25T11:37:19Z **(#gnujfjq) @prologic Both the web app and `yarnc`. I've mostly been using the web app to experiment, but some days I'm mostly in the command lin ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Both the web app and \`yarnc\`. I've mostly been using the web app to experiment, but some days I'm mostly in the command line (I'm in tech and code a fair amount) and it's cool to be able to dash off a thought from there. I liked that about \`twtxt\`. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jullvdq) 2022-07-25T11:36:04Z **(#rxeepiq) @prologic ahhhh that makes sense. Thank you!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ahhhh that makes sense. Thank you! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zeh3i6a) 2022-07-25T11:35:44Z **(#ia7tn7q) @prologic no worries! I find this to be a feature, not a bug. I like asynchronous communication because I can't always check in (busy ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) no worries! I find this to be a feature, not a bug. I like asynchronous communication because I can't always check in (busy with life!) but do want to stay connected... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c2db5cq) 2022-07-25T11:34:38Z **(#4y24kla) @prologic hi! 👋 Thanks for writing back! I wanted to see what interacting with another person was like. And also to meet new peopl ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) hi! 👋 Thanks for writing back! I wanted to see what interacting with another person was like. And also to meet new people!

I'm liking yarn.social a lot so far, so thank you for this.

I have not been using twtxt very long. I stumbled on it long ago, but I've never really b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gyihljq) 2022-07-25T11:43:29Z **(#2gjshuq) @prologic I guess it's not to everyone's taste 😆 I've been mostly doing functional programming for awhile now and `unison` seems t ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I guess it's not to everyone's taste 😆 I've been mostly doing functional programming for awhile now and \`unison\` seems to address several pain points, and I think their big idea of hashing parse trees and keeping an ever-growing database of code that is easy to marshall o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gdee74q) 2022-07-25T13:50:11Z **(#urcykrq) @prologic I played around with Mastodon for awhile, and while it felt like a bit of an improvement over twitter, say, I didn't like h ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I played around with Mastodon for awhile, and while it felt like a bit of an improvement over twitter, say, I didn't like how complicated it was to self-host and federate. Also the developers seem to be pushing Mastodon more and more into becoming a twitter clone. I feel ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qps3kiq) 2022-07-25T15:29:56Z **(#urcykrq) @prologic oh yeah, the outrage cycle is horrible. It almost seems like a public health hazard that ought to be dealt with. idk, I jus ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) oh yeah, the outrage cycle is horrible. It almost seems like a public health hazard that ought to be dealt with. idk, I just want to be a nerd online and not have all that in my face day after day after day 🤓 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/t4ybz7a) 2022-07-25T15:37:34Z **(#gnujfjq) @prologic Will do! Not sure about a PR since I don't know Go, but I can definitely share suggested improvements if I think of any.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Will do! Not sure about a PR since I don't know Go, but I can definitely share suggested improvements if I think of any. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/n3tlhla) 2022-07-25T21:09:15Z **Once again I am exploring `scala` functional effects libraries 🙄**
Once again I am exploring \`scala\` functional effects libraries 🙄 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ubphp3a) 2022-07-26T00:56:23Z **(#hkjnx7a) @mckinley Thinkpads are great. I have a circa 2013 Thinkpad that is still going strong. For my day to day work though I'm doing some ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) Thinkpads are great. I have a circa 2013 Thinkpad that is still going strong. For my day to day work though I'm doing some heavy coding of a big simulation and need as much RAM, CPU, and GPU as I can fit in a box. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gmfhapq) 2022-07-26T01:01:29Z **(#hkjnx7a) I guess what I do with a phone is pretty tame and doesn't require too many resources but what I do with a computer is pretty intense ...**
I guess what I do with a phone is pretty tame and doesn't require too many resources but what I do with a computer is pretty intense and does. So maybe that says more about me than anything! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ojmi2ea) 2022-07-26T12:24:40Z **(#lxe2kdq) @retrocrash nah, this isn't accurate. I'm on the fediverse and the Nazi problem is very real and always in your face. There are hundr ...**
[@retrocrash _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/retrocrash/twtxt.txt&nick=retrocrash) nah, this isn't accurate. I'm on the fediverse and the Nazi problem is very real and always in your face. There are hundreds of Nazi instances and new ones pop up every day. Every day I see toots about some new asshole. And I don't know what you're talking about "t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5ekuk6a) 2022-07-26T12:54:09Z **(#5ekuk6a) and they're starting to add features to promote "popular" toots and hashtags, which of course is a recipe for disaster. You'd think p ...**
and they're starting to add features to promote "popular" toots and hashtags, which of course is a recipe for disaster. You'd think people would've learned by now how easy it is for a group of people to game popularity-based systems 🤔 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/l7j6wxa) 2022-07-26T12:52:58Z **(#5ekuk6a) @prologic oh, totally. The fediverse has some of the same dogpiling problems as twitter, and you're often beholden to the administrat ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) oh, totally. The fediverse has some of the same dogpiling problems as twitter, and you're often beholden to the administrator of the instance you joined to take care of that for you. There are tools for blocking people and whole instances, which helps, but if a dozen peo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/l5yaj2q) 2022-07-26T14:13:38Z **(#5ekuk6a) @prologic The main reason I used "likes" on twitter or on mastodon is as a kind of acknowledgement that I read someone's post. Back w ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) The main reason I used "likes" on twitter or on mastodon is as a kind of acknowledgement that I read someone's post. Back when they used to be stars on twitter I did that more often, but likes remind me too much of facebook 🤢 Anyhow I think it's maybe better to cut down ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oec7njq) 2022-07-27T00:05:20Z **(#zuvgjia) @prologic get well soon!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) get well soon! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/z7dgs5a) 2022-07-27T23:07:27Z **Spent a fair amount of time today working on an agent-based modeling framework I've been stewing on for a long time.**
Spent a fair amount of time today working on an agent-based modeling framework I've been stewing on for a long time. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/saig7mq) 2022-07-27T23:28:55Z **(#saig7mq) On a related note, I think the `Observable` pattern has caused a lot of damage to how people think about reactive systems.**
On a related note, I think the \`Observable\` pattern has caused a lot of damage to how people think about reactive systems. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/atx5k7a) 2022-07-27T23:39:22Z **(#saig7mq) As we all know, Earth subscribes to the Sun's gravity `Observable` and that is why its orbit is the way it is 🙄**
As we all know, Earth subscribes to the Sun's gravity \`Observable\` and that is why its orbit is the way it is 🙄 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/upyrbnq) 2022-07-28T00:29:34Z **(#saig7mq) Anyhow, in the `scala` world I like the approach the Laminar library takes. Somewhere in the guts of it is an `Observer` pattern but ...**
Anyhow, in the \`scala\` world I like the approach the Laminar library takes. Somewhere in the guts of it is an \`Observer\` pattern but the abstraction presented to the typical library user is a bunch of signals that you wire together, some of which require responses. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5hgsita) 2022-07-28T00:31:32Z **(#saig7mq) @prologic 🤷‍♂️ lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 🤷‍♂️ lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/my2gyhq) 2022-07-28T18:58:09Z **(#mzw5ema) for instance, I'm just firing all the agents' workloads asynchronously at the CPU and hoping for the best, where it'd probably be mor ...**
for instance, I'm just firing all the agents' workloads asynchronously at the CPU and hoping for the best, where it'd probably be more efficient to batch up the work. I'm using \`scala\` and haven't done any \`jvm\` heap of GC tuning yet, so that's another way to improve performance. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fww2yra) 2022-07-28T18:56:15Z **OK lovely, I have a little demo of my nascent agent modeling framework thinger that can run 100,000 agents doing non-trivial (but faked for now) ...**
OK lovely, I have a little demo of my nascent agent modeling framework thinger that can run 100,000 agents doing non-trivial (but faked for now) computations at about 1/3 of my screen refresh rate, meaning near real-time. I haven't tried optimizing it yet, just tinkering so far. That's pretty promising. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mzw5ema) 2022-07-28T19:20:19Z **(#jvmjdoa) @mckinley 😆**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ucuhjjq) 2022-07-28T19:37:48Z **(#mzw5ema) @prologic a little experimental framework for helping to build agent-based models. I'm unhappy with the existing frameworks I know ab ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) a little experimental framework for helping to build agent-based models. I'm unhappy with the existing frameworks I know about so I'm trying a different tack and so far I'm pretty happy with the results. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x25a74a) 2022-07-29T11:05:12Z **I am a night owl by nature but ever since having kids I almost never sleep past 6:30am and am often awake by 5:30am. 😩 Gone are the days when ...**
I am a night owl by nature but ever since having kids I almost never sleep past 6:30am and am often awake by 5:30am. 😩 Gone are the days when I'd go to bed at 2am or later. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ysxyyua) 2022-07-29T11:03:27Z **(#rn5muxa) @prologic there is only one active user on my pod lol. Someday I may invite friends and family to use it though so we will see.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) there is only one active user on my pod lol. Someday I may invite friends and family to use it though so we will see. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bc5vaba) 2022-07-29T18:27:57Z **Resurrected some old formal concept analysis code I'd written years ago. It's not great, but it works well enough and now it's dusted off.**
Resurrected some old formal concept analysis code I'd written years ago. It's not great, but it works well enough and now it's dusted off. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/htvtw3a) 2022-07-30T01:55:52Z **Android always has seventeen different apps for any particular thing you want to do, where five are so full of ads they're unusable, three are h ...**
Android always has seventeen different apps for any particular thing you want to do, where five are so full of ads they're unusable, three are hobby projects, two are paid and cost more than you're willing to spend on a phone app, three haven't been maintained in over two years, and four might possibly work for you. But you can't know any of that till you install all seventeen and try t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/asw7hqa) 2022-07-30T11:58:37Z **(#asw7hqa) @prologic lol, well I was venting so I had to be creative**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) lol, well I was venting so I had to be creative ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/f5bnv2a) 2022-07-30T12:07:27Z **Firefox Focus is meant to be one of the more privacy friendly browsers on Android, yet after install it has Google set as the default web browse ...**
Firefox Focus is meant to be one of the more privacy friendly browsers on Android, yet after install it has Google set as the default web browser and it collects telemetry. So you still need to hunt through the settlings to find and turn off these things if they concern you (which they should imo) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2fg4cka) 2022-07-30T12:54:25Z **Charm

This whole set of libraries looks incredibly neat.**
[Charm](https://charm.sh/)

This whole set of libraries looks incredibly neat. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/r6icgfq) 2022-07-30T13:16:35Z **(#r6icgfq) it's nice that you can self host the `charm cloud` part of it. Even though they say they end-to-end encrypt anything sent to or store ...**
it's nice that you can self host the \`charm cloud\` part of it. Even though they say they end-to-end encrypt anything sent to or stored on their servers, and even though I mostly believe that, there's no way to verify. Reading the source code is not verification because there are no guarantees that what's running on their servers matches what's in the source code. So, it's safest to se ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nin3dxa) 2022-07-30T14:02:08Z **(#r6icgfq) @prologic I saw a release announcement for `gum`, which looks like a great way to add interactivity to shell scripts. 

Much as I'd l ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I saw a release announcement for \`gum\`, which looks like a great way to add interactivity to shell scripts.

Much as I'd love to help, I have my hands full right now! Job+kids takes up 200% of my time! I've been meaning to play with salty chat just to see how it looks ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/es2lywq) 2022-07-30T15:26:24Z **Recursive Drawing is really fun to play with. You can make fractally-looking things like 
 

and

 

(which is a minor variation that looks mo ...**
[Recursive Drawing](http://recursivedrawing.com/draw.html) is really fun to play with. You can make fractally-looking things like
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/QVVH8fg5hvRXa2DgJQ7Tk3.png)

and

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/suC4LmQBAjhHQviwZvcraS.png)

(which is a minor variation that looks more feathery). Or you can make more organic looking shapes like

 ![](https://anthony.bu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jgm33sq) 2022-07-31T01:14:21Z **(#krcubia) @prologic Oh yes, this isn't my student and he has a video on this page about how it works. So simple but amazing.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Oh yes, this isn't my student and he has a video on [this page](http://recursivedrawing.com) about how it works. So simple but amazing. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zqcd3bq) 2022-08-01T13:25:47Z **(#glnw53q) @prologic the Ubuntu "minimal" cloud images are like 195 M! What the hell is in there?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) the Ubuntu "minimal" cloud images are like 195 M! What the hell is in there? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/q2hxcyq) 2022-08-01T13:22:23Z **Oof, looks like I have a corrupted SD card in my phone 😨**
Oof, looks like I have a corrupted SD card in my phone 😨 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/byhhtuq) 2022-08-01T15:51:07Z **(#byhhtuq) @prologic luckily i have backups!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) luckily i have backups! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/davqu7q) 2022-08-01T15:50:44Z **Punch Card Programming - Computerphile - YouTube

Absolutely fascinating.**
[Punch Card Programming - Computerphile - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2M4ttzBnY)

Absolutely fascinating. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7ojxp4q) 2022-08-03T12:00:43Z **(#5unwita) @prologic Do you see any regularity in the origins of the registrations? You might be able to ban a few IP ranges at the server level ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Do you see any regularity in the origins of the registrations? You might be able to ban a few IP ranges at the server level for awhile until it calms down. I've done that on the VPS I manage. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jbhfqcq) 2022-08-03T13:48:49Z **It is 2022 how the heck are you emailing someone login credentials including a password in plain text and then not even providing them the abili ...**
It is 2022 how the heck are you emailing someone login credentials including a password in plain text and then not even providing them the ability to change that password? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mycmapq) 2022-08-03T17:12:16Z **(#mycmapq) @prologic I was so appalled I filed a ticket with their tech support and with the tech supportof the client of theirs who sent me to ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I was so appalled I filed a ticket with their tech support and with the tech supportof the client of theirs who sent me to their service. Unbelievable to me that such things still exist, but I sure as hell am not going to keep quiet. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oag3trq) 2022-08-03T17:10:23Z **(#5unwita) @prologic You may already do all this stuff, but here's my 2 cents. 

One thing you can do is a use a site like to download a list o ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) You may already do all this stuff, but here's my 2 cents.

One thing you can do is a use a site like https://myip.ms/browse/blacklist/Blacklist\_IP\_Blacklist\_IP\_Addresses\_Live\_Database\_Real-time to download a list of blacllisted IP address in a format suitable for ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4dxyi2a) 2022-08-03T19:39:00Z **(#mycmapq) @prologic I hope these people change their ways because c'mon!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I hope these people change their ways because c'mon! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/o7xtq7q) 2022-08-03T19:38:45Z **(#mycmapq) @lyse I mean, all they have to do is ask, I'll gladly tell them through a megaphone while driving through the city center!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) I mean, all they have to do is ask, I'll gladly tell them through a megaphone while driving through the city center! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rjwskgq) 2022-08-03T21:04:04Z **Analog Computer Museum**
[Analog Computer Museum](http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cusqzza) 2022-08-04T16:22:51Z **I wonder a lot about how much bad in the world can be ascribed to some variation of Hotelling's Law.**
I wonder a lot about how much bad in the world can be ascribed to some variation of Hotelling's Law. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fhgxteq) 2022-08-04T16:29:02Z **(#4pfl45a) @prologic hmm, it looks interesting and I can't say I disagree with their points, but I'm also skeptical of anything called a "manife ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) hmm, it looks interesting and I can't say I disagree with their points, but I'm also skeptical of anything called a "manifesto", and they sound somewhat combative. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5ovc4kq) 2022-08-04T16:27:46Z **(#wrnehna) 34°C where I am 🥵**
34°C where I am 🥵 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/y7pngda) 2022-08-04T16:51:17Z **I wish every web site would offer IndieAuth.**
I wish every web site would offer IndieAuth. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5pugzka) 2022-08-04T16:57:14Z **(#5pugzka) Speaking selfishly, of course, as someone who controls a domain.**
Speaking selfishly, of course, as someone who controls a domain. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qflbdxq) 2022-08-04T18:40:22Z **(#zrbqxza) @lyse wow that's so bizarre. I viewed the page in Firefox (103.0.1 on Ubuntu) and those arrows look normal!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) wow that's so bizarre. I viewed the page in Firefox (103.0.1 on Ubuntu) and those arrows look normal! ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/kKPWffgZfBVQJ28Pt2CDrN.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4c6eo4a) 2022-08-04T18:46:31Z **I wanted to tinker with webmentions so I'm going to needlessly link to a blog post about a class I taught last month.

Chaos managed • Anthony ...**
I wanted to tinker with webmentions so I'm going to needlessly link to a blog post about a class I taught last month.

[Chaos managed • Anthony Bucci](https://www.bucci.onl/notes/Chaos-managed) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bafz6tq) 2022-08-04T18:59:33Z **(#bafz6tq) I *think* it worked? I need to read more about microformats2 I think.**
I \*think\* it worked? I need to read more about microformats2 I think. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/443crma) 2022-08-04T19:04:26Z **(#bafz6tq) think think**
think think ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/okiljsq) 2022-08-04T19:16:20Z **(#zrbqxza) @movq @lyse.isobeef.org Ah, that was the problem! W3C wants you to have a charset defined within the first 1024 bytes of the HTML, wh ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) @lyse.isobeef.org Ah, that was the problem! W3C wants you to have a charset defined within the first 1024 bytes of the HTML, which that comment exceeded. I just moved the comment below the charset and the charset validates correctly now (though a bunch of other warnings an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ub6swia) 2022-08-04T19:24:51Z **(#bafz6tq) I'm discovering that setting up in the IndieWeb will take a non-trivial amount of work. But since I don't want to ever be stuck in a ...**
I'm discovering that setting up in the IndieWeb will take a non-trivial amount of work. But since I don't want to ever be stuck in a social media silo again, I think it's worth it. It's interesting to tinker with, too. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vuc5jhq) 2022-08-04T20:00:35Z **Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps | Ars Technica

OMG girl, stoppppp!**
[Google’s video chat merger begins: Now there are two “Google Meet” apps \| Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/googles-video-chat-merger-begins-now-there-are-two-google-meet-apps/)

OMG girl, stoppppp! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/guu65xa) 2022-08-04T20:21:49Z **(#zrbqxza) @eaplmx it's new to me too! I can't pretend to know a whole lot about web tech, but anyway 🤷**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) it's new to me too! I can't pretend to know a whole lot about web tech, but anyway 🤷 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/or6ooaa) 2022-08-05T00:59:59Z **(#zrbqxza) @lyse I didn't do anything special to make my web browsers default to utf-8. I just installed and used them.**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) I didn't do anything special to make my web browsers default to utf-8. I just installed and used them. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vzfksba) 2022-08-05T09:52:07Z **(#ywvhfda) @stigatle it's a bit before 6am where I am, so, tired. How about you?**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) it's a bit before 6am where I am, so, tired. How about you? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/z2o6mxq) 2022-08-05T10:51:49Z **(#ywvhfda) @stigatle the pictures you posted the other day are amazing!**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) the pictures you posted the other day are amazing! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/n7aox4q) 2022-08-05T11:54:50Z **(#75vfpva) you can handle effects in the manner of algebraic effects using this feature, which I find way more palatable than living in monad he ...**
you can handle effects in the manner of algebraic effects using this feature, which I find way more palatable than living in monad hell. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/idf4rva) 2022-08-05T11:51:50Z **I wish that this experimental Capture Checking feature in scala 3 were available in the official distribution so that I could play with it in a ...**
I wish that this experimental [Capture Checking](https://dotty.epfl.ch/docs/reference/experimental/cc.html) feature in scala 3 were available in the official distribution so that I could play with it in a project i'm working on now. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/75vfpva) 2022-08-05T12:01:25Z **(#75vfpva) this is a weird analogy I guess, but I find programming in a monadic style to be analogous to how you used to install software back i ...**
this is a weird analogy I guess, but I find programming in a monadic style to be analogous to how you used to install software back in the days before reliable package managers. You'd be like "oh I want to do X so I need to install SpecialSoftware." So you'd download the source code for SpecialSoftware, try to compile it with \`make\`, and it'd explode. After reading the weird errors, y ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rsorb3q) 2022-08-05T12:04:59Z **(#75vfpva) anyhow, that's what programming with monads is like, to me. Oh, I want to do X. OK I'll try using SpecialEffectsLibrary. But to do th ...**
anyhow, that's what programming with monads is like, to me. Oh, I want to do X. OK I'll try using SpecialEffectsLibrary. But to do that I have to wrap my code in FooMonad. OK. But then to use FooMonad with this other monad I like using, I need a FooMonadTransformer. OK. Oh but now that doesn't compile because I didn't wrap such-and-such in a call to FooMonad.pure. OK. Oh and since I'm u ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7z2gdua) 2022-08-05T12:03:02Z **(#75vfpva) after hours of doing a depth-first search through the lib* tree and compiling as you go, eventually you'd start to succeed, but by th ...**
after hours of doing a depth-first search through the lib\* tree and compiling as you go, eventually you'd start to succeed, but by that point you totally forgot about X and SpecialSoftware and you have made your computer into a mess of libraries you compiled. Isn't it nice that nowadays you can choose to trust a package maintainer to do that work on your behalf, and only take on the bu ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ahcfirq) 2022-08-05T12:11:27Z **(#hpcp5oq) @prologic yes but where's the fun in that!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yes but where's the fun in that! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pzkbmua) 2022-08-05T12:08:39Z **(#75vfpva) and all of that to protect yourself from the possibility of leaking a resource? A little programming discipline can achieve the same! ...**
and all of that to protect yourself from the possibility of leaking a resource? A little programming discipline can achieve the same!

Anyhow, I'm interested in algebraic effects because they look a little more natural to me. You can sorta kinda write code the way you want, and then supply "handlers" for the effects like I/O or database access or whatever. Which is a not-unreasonable wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ygstcja) 2022-08-05T17:44:59Z **This is another test!**
This is another test! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/w3akdwq) 2022-08-05T21:08:17Z **(#4uh5gvq) @Phys_org what happens when I do this?**
[@Phys\_org _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/Phys_org/twtxt.txt&nick=Phys_org) what happens when I do this? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ixz4alq) 2022-08-06T11:58:35Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic @ocdtrekkie I only ranted about monads that one time! 😂**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) I only ranted about monads that one time! 😂 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/efdnvla) 2022-08-06T13:46:09Z **Stumbled on WebID today. Besides being confusing, it doesn't work on the site I tinkered with and it seems to be mostly abandoned?**
Stumbled on WebID today. Besides being confusing, it doesn't work on the site I tinkered with and it seems to be mostly abandoned? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yems2fa) 2022-08-07T01:19:10Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic oh interesting. I might try to make that next time. When does it happen?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) oh interesting. I might try to make that next time. When does it happen? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gftvfta) 2022-08-07T11:13:03Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic ouch that would be 1am where I am 😬**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ouch that would be 1am where I am 😬 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xolnica) 2022-08-07T13:28:28Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic Don't change a good thing on my account!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Don't change a good thing on my account! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ih3ierq) 2022-08-07T14:32:28Z **The vast majority of visits to my web server are:
- Me
- People or bots looking for vulnerabilities
- Web crawlers

with about 0.5% of traffic b ...**
The vast majority of visits to my web server are:
\- Me
\- People or bots looking for vulnerabilities
\- Web crawlers

with about 0.5% of traffic being legitimate, not-me visitors. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4xxgkfq) 2022-08-07T22:59:40Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic @mckinley I couldn't make it at 6am UTC either fwiw**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) I couldn't make it at 6am UTC either fwiw ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vt7m2dq) 2022-08-07T23:59:27Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic apparently I don't get it either lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) apparently I don't get it either lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wdljqsq) 2022-08-07T23:56:15Z **(#gqqqwca) @prologic haha oops! As you can see I'm very good with time 🤪**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) haha oops! As you can see I'm very good with time 🤪 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/sbkjdfq) 2022-08-08T11:25:23Z **(#gqqqwca) @mckinley very handy!**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) very handy! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jx2cwbq) 2022-08-08T11:24:40Z **(#gqqqwca) @darch @prologic Sunday 21:00 UTC is about the only window that works for me--I have the baby most of that day. I can steal a bit of ...**
[@darch _@neotxt.dk_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&nick=darch) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Sunday 21:00 UTC is about the only window that works for me--I have the baby most of that day. I can steal a bit of time during the work week on Mon-Thu between 1 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5irwwqa) 2022-08-09T10:57:49Z **(#4xxgkfq) @lyse @mckinley @ocdtrekkie I use very sophisticated tools such as `grep` and `wc`**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) [@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) [@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) I use very sophisticated tools such as \`grep\` and \`wc\` ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mijjtua) 2022-08-09T13:34:08Z **(#6lytfga) @stigatle @prologic here's mine, if it helps:
```
[Unit]
Description=Buccipod yarn.social
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[ ...**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) here's mine, if it helps:
\`\`\`
[Unit]
Description=Buccipod yarn.social
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Us ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ksp2pnq) 2022-08-09T20:41:50Z **(#6lytfga) @prologic I just created a PR. The `systemd` unit isn't great, but it works to start `yarnd` and restart `yarnd` on reboot.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I just created a PR. The \`systemd\` unit isn't great, but it works to start \`yarnd\` and restart \`yarnd\` on reboot. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/roskhsq) 2022-08-10T11:20:10Z **(#wf37oda) @prologic @mckinley what do you think of caddy?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) what do you think of caddy? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7e7wbuq) 2022-08-10T11:30:17Z **(#wf37oda) @mckinley `caddy file-server` is meant to do this. If you add `-- domain too.TLD` at the end it magically does https for you too.**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) \`caddy file-server\` is meant to do this. If you add \`-- domain too.TLD\` at the end it magically does https for you too. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/we3vkla) 2022-08-10T15:13:35Z **(#nik3c4a) @lyse this talk reminded me how much I like Forth/concatenative languages!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) this talk reminded me how much I like Forth/concatenative languages! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kj5ioyq) 2022-08-10T15:17:18Z **(#nik3c4a) @movq it wouldn't be so bad if you could use any date instead of just their magical 2006 date. I loathe the way date formats work--I ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) it wouldn't be so bad if you could use any date instead of just their magical 2006 date. I loathe the way date formats work--I never remember them and always have to look them up in the docs, like every single time I deal with dates. What I really want is to say "ugh, just ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/r3do2xq) 2022-08-10T16:02:59Z **(#nik3c4a) @movq the only way I ever "remember" it is to keep a cheat sheet of the date formats associated with an actual date printed in that f ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) the only way I ever "remember" it is to keep a cheat sheet of the date formats associated with an actual date printed in that format, for all the different formats I commonly use. It's annoying. If I'm building a lookup table like that, the compiler could do it for me. Tha ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/l6qbbra) 2022-08-10T16:53:24Z **I think I don't understand how threads work on here! I keep replying to threads involving multiple people but there are not in the @ list.**
I think I don't understand how threads work on here! I keep replying to threads involving multiple people but there are not in the @ list. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zcz4kua) 2022-08-11T11:46:42Z **(#zcz4kua) @prologic That makes sense. It has me thinking that maybe there is a user interface question of whether to "subscribe" a user to a to ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) That makes sense. It has me thinking that maybe there is a user interface question of whether to "subscribe" a user to a topic, so that they can see notifications/mentions/what have you if they choose, but can turn that off too if they want. The thing that worries me is: ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ywyirra) 2022-08-11T13:38:45Z **The real meaning of "meaningful whitespace" is that you're constantly replacing tabs with spaces or vice versa to make the compiler stop complai ...**
The real meaning of "meaningful whitespace" is that you're constantly replacing tabs with spaces or vice versa to make the compiler stop complaining even though the code looked fine to you the entire time. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/znnedya) 2022-08-11T20:00:39Z **```bash
~ $ adb connect
adb: usage: adb connect [:]
~ [1]$ adb connect 10.0.0.234
missing port in specification: tcp:10.0.0.234
```
 ...**
\`\`\`bash
~ $ adb connect
adb: usage: adb connect [:]
~ [1]$ adb connect 10.0.0.234
missing port in specification: tcp:10.0.0.234
\`\`\`

Hello \`adb\`, those square brackets around \`:\` are supposed to mean it's optional. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/y6iehyq) 2022-08-12T12:12:47Z **I've been heads down working on a user interface in `scalajs` for a few weeks now. I rarely write user interfaces, so I'm not exactly learned. B ...**
I've been heads down working on a user interface in \`scalajs\` for a few weeks now. I rarely write user interfaces, so I'm not exactly learned. But I can say that the combination of \`scalajs\` and the \`laminar\` library is really nice to work with. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rre4uoq) 2022-08-12T12:16:46Z **(#rre4uoq) It's the first time I've worked on a non-trivial web-based UI and not wanted to jump into the sea and float away**
It's the first time I've worked on a non-trivial web-based UI and not wanted to jump into the sea and float away ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/r6izj7q) 2022-08-12T17:19:37Z **(#rcurxoq) Got about halfway through, but speaking as an Old guy™ my high-level takeaway is that this sounds like a 30-something programmer wh ...**
Got about halfway through, but speaking as an Old guy™ my high-level takeaway is that this sounds like a 30-something programmer who's starting to grapple with some of the warts of programming that they wish they'd known in their 20s. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vy6klva) 2022-08-12T17:17:49Z **(#rcurxoq) @prologic 
- Lots of opinions, many of which aren't cited and probably not super accurate (e.g., that Java is the reason for the rise ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)
\- Lots of opinions, many of which aren't cited and probably not super accurate (e.g., that Java is the reason for the rise of OO programming, when Xerox PARC, Sun Microsystems, Smalltalk, Alan Kay, etc etc led to Java and other things)
\- His rant about OO programming i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mmx5cua) 2022-08-13T12:29:19Z **(#kglknja) @adi hello!**
[@adi _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt&nick=adi) hello! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7dyt3nq) 2022-08-13T12:48:41Z **(#rcurxoq) @prologic yes, I listed the things I didn't like and forgot to put the things I did like! I agree with you, and him, about encapsulat ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yes, I listed the things I didn't like and forgot to put the things I did like! I agree with you, and him, about encapsulation, especially at the low level. I switched from java to scala about ten years ago and one of the first things I did was stop writing in the java O ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7g54pva) 2022-08-13T14:23:20Z **(#aj4dnjq) I point that out because I just saw a new plugin that can run code snippets in an Obsidian note for several programming languages. Wh ...**
I point that out because I just saw a new plugin that can run code snippets in an Obsidian note for several programming languages. Which is handy--I have a \`jupyter\` plugin that makes calls out to a local \`jupyter\` notebook and puts the results in your note, and it's great. However, this plugin had a peculiar set of supported languages, which made me suspicious. It turns out it make ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/frfuosa) 2022-08-13T14:21:54Z **I've been using obsidian for about a year now, and I really like it. However, since it's an electron app, and since most plugins for it are writ ...**
I've been using [obsidian](https://obsidian.md) for about a year now, and I really like it. However, since it's an electron app, and since most plugins for it are written in some variant of Javascript, and since I put semi-important stuff in there, I'm constantly checking plugins to make sure they don't make unwanted network connections. I find it pretty horrifying that web-based techno ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/aj4dnjq) 2022-08-13T15:25:23Z **(#moqdvoq) @lyse bizarre!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) bizarre! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ut4my5q) 2022-08-13T15:33:04Z **(#moqdvoq) @lyse I use KDE/plasma but don't even have KMail installed lol. I got used to Thunderbird years ago. It's mostly OK for what I need i ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) I use KDE/plasma but don't even have KMail installed lol. I got used to Thunderbird years ago. It's mostly OK for what I need it to do. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/g5zc5sq) 2022-08-13T16:35:00Z **(#moqdvoq) @movq How else are we supposed to get corporate branded emails with logos and images and single pixel trackers and ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) How else are we supposed to get corporate branded emails with logos and images and single pixel trackers and ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kbtkxoq) 2022-08-13T16:42:59Z **(#75vfpva) putting the MAD in MonAD lol**
putting the MAD in MonAD lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6nj4stq) 2022-08-13T16:53:55Z **(#nnvygka) done**
done ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4ptzjxa) 2022-08-13T16:51:28Z **Just for fun, posting as `news`: going to be rebooting in a minute to apply some changes!**
Just for fun, posting as \`news\`: going to be rebooting in a minute to apply some changes! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nnvygka) 2022-08-14T11:22:59Z **(#hfr4myq) @lyse oh wow these are great! I love the effect of the exhaust**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) oh wow these are great! I love the effect of the exhaust ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lztec7q) 2022-08-18T17:15:23Z **Getting tired of fighting with Javascript 😫 how do people do this as a job?**
Getting tired of fighting with Javascript 😫 how do people do this as a job? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nwnrl3a) 2022-08-19T10:58:31Z **(#kxrbeqa) @lyse if your watch had shifted counterclockwise it would have been annihilated in a burst of gamma rays!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) if your watch had shifted counterclockwise it would have been annihilated in a burst of gamma rays! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iwj2i4a) 2022-08-20T11:52:11Z **I changed the patch cable for the machine that was randomly dropping off the network, and it stopped randomly dropped off the network. 🤔**
I changed the patch cable for the machine that was randomly dropping off the network, and it stopped randomly dropped off the network. 🤔 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xbfehqq) 2022-08-20T12:19:51Z **(#xbfehqq) @stigatle I checked every network setting multiple times over the course of several months, so I wish it had been easy!**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) I checked every network setting multiple times over the course of several months, so I wish it had been easy! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vtttzgq) 2022-08-20T15:43:54Z **(#xbfehqq) @lyse thank you! You'd think by now I'd instinctively go over a hardware checklist before diving into software debugging, but nope!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) thank you! You'd think by now I'd instinctively go over a hardware checklist before diving into software debugging, but nope! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/sbomjka) 2022-08-20T15:46:13Z **(#2oyuxea) @prologic couldn't that `defer` call automagically be part of `io.Copy` or the `open` function built-in?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) couldn't that \`defer\` call automagically be part of \`io.Copy\` or the \`open\` function built-in? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cotmpoq) 2022-08-20T16:02:32Z **Getting foggy around here
**
Getting foggy around here
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/txqB8vFgYxtfNwXUr3zGXU.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tmbejba) 2022-08-20T16:29:33Z **(#tmbejba) I was making a fractal and it crashed my computer 💥**
I was making a fractal and it crashed my computer 💥 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tecd2cq) 2022-08-22T12:18:25Z **(#oa3m5qa) @prologic I kinda hate this too, but I understand why people do it. They're trying to make money from their YouTube channels, and thi ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I kinda hate this too, but I understand why people do it. They're trying to make money from their YouTube channels, and this is the customary way to ask for support. I can't fault them for wanting to make money, so I try not to get too irritated and instead direct my irr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4qlg3pq) 2022-08-22T12:17:27Z **(#du53c7q) @mckinley @prologic *sniffs the air* hmmmmm**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) \*sniffs the air\* hmmmmm ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vol2pqa) 2022-08-22T12:57:54Z **(#oa3m5qa) @prologic yeah, it really sucks. I'm not sure how we ended up here, but I think austerity measures from governments + lack of enforce ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yeah, it really sucks. I'm not sure how we ended up here, but I think austerity measures from governments + lack of enforcement of antitrust law, which let tech-advertising companies become enormous and powerful, hasn't helped. I'm old enough to remember how bad Microsof ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2hgvm3a) 2022-08-22T18:32:47Z **(I wrote this Yarn entirely in parenthesis and it disappeared.) @ocdtrekkie I wonder what happens when I respond!**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) I wonder what happens when I respond! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zv2agfa) 2022-08-23T12:49:28Z **(#oa3m5qa) @lyse Ugh come on, there are countless hours of free videos on Youtube, it's harmless if the people who make those videos try to make ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) Ugh come on, there are countless hours of free videos on Youtube, it's harmless if the people who make those videos try to make some money from what is otherwise free labor by asking us to click or subscribe. If you don't like it, yell at Youtube to pay these people so they don' ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jyd2jfa) 2022-08-25T14:58:35Z **For the past week or two I've been receiving spam after spam with the title "Confirmation" and no visible contents. It's weird because the spam ...**
For the past week or two I've been receiving spam after spam with the title "Confirmation" and no visible contents. It's weird because the spam filters I use very quickly figured out that pattern. Spammers are usually a little more tricky. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zr4ut4q) 2022-08-26T10:47:04Z **(#jc4lrpq) @eaplmx I'm fully set up to use it, but no one I communicate with regularly uses it, so I don't. I suppose I would if everyone else I ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I'm fully set up to use it, but no one I communicate with regularly uses it, so I don't. I suppose I would if everyone else I knew used it, but as others have pointed out, the headers are in cleartext and that reduces the safety factor. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/53sxghq) 2022-08-26T10:46:02Z **(#jc4lrpq) @mckinley @prologic I second this. To a lesser degree, it has discoverability going for it as well. It definitely did "back in the da ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I second this. To a lesser degree, it has discoverability going for it as well. It definitely did "back in the day", less so now. Personally I think that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/b2gnbia) 2022-08-26T10:52:59Z **(#2ciawva) @xuu I've always wondered about how well these network over power lines worked. Aside from the MAC address issues, how does it perfor ...**
[@xuu _@txt.sour.is_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt&nick=xuu) I've always wondered about how well these network over power lines worked. Aside from the MAC address issues, how does it perform? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/u5lpwka) 2022-08-26T10:51:45Z **(#zr4ut4q) @prologic grrr that stinks.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) grrr that stinks. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gexou6q) 2022-08-26T11:14:24Z **(#3tslmiq) @anth In general I don't know that it's possible, but this might be a decent place to start. One sort of obvious way to detect upscal ...**
[@anth _@a.9srv.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt&nick=anth) In general I don't know that it's possible, but [this](https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/60144/how-can-i-detect-upscaled-photos) might be a decent place to start. One sort of obvious way to detect upscaling is to run DFT (discrete Fourier transform) over (portions of) the image and see ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2fqxlzq) 2022-08-26T11:26:36Z **(#oa3m5qa) @lyse yeah, it gets repetitive. I guess it doesn't bother me because I teach classes and also have a kid, and you get used to having ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) yeah, it gets repetitive. I guess it doesn't bother me because I teach classes and also have a kid, and you get used to having to repeat yourself many, many times for the message to get across 😖 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/24tkhaq) 2022-08-26T12:18:09Z **(#2ciawva) @prologic 🤦🏻**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 🤦🏻 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jut5qmq) 2022-08-26T17:37:54Z **(#jc4lrpq) no idea why we aren't emailing each other this thread, encrypted of course.**
no idea why we aren't emailing each other this thread, encrypted of course. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6oanupa) 2022-08-27T18:43:42Z **I just resurrected a laptop that had been off for about six months and it needs 585 package updates.**
I just resurrected a laptop that had been off for about six months and it needs 585 package updates. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vcwzljq) 2022-08-27T18:52:30Z **(#vcwzljq) this is almost as much as you'd update to upgrade the operating system**
this is almost as much as you'd update to upgrade the operating system ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/o25vwaq) 2022-08-28T02:25:40Z **(#vcwzljq) @prologic probably not! Though it's hard to say. Dependencies multiply quickly.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) probably not! Though it's hard to say. Dependencies multiply quickly. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bnd57vq) 2022-08-28T11:52:15Z **(#syipe3a) @prologic personally I think the problem with node in particular stems from
1. Cramming as many people as possible through "coding bo ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) personally I think the problem with node in particular stems from
1\. Cramming as many people as possible through "coding bootcamps" on the promise that anyone can learn to code and get a high-paying job in a few weeks
2\. Companies largely using the frontend as branding ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/43htqya) 2022-08-28T11:55:23Z **Evidence suggests it takes around as long to become fluent in a computer programming language as it does to become fluent in a natural language. ...**
Evidence suggests it takes around as long to become fluent in a computer programming language as it does to become fluent in a natural language. That'd be roughly 730 hours of dedicated work. 1 hour a day of study means 2 years; 2 hours a day, 1 year. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jk6emwq) 2022-08-28T12:13:14Z **It's more predictable to type boilerplate than it is to think through and implement an efficient design.**
It's more predictable to type boilerplate than it is to think through and implement an efficient design. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/idk3jka) 2022-08-28T23:30:53Z **(#dqwn2ba) @prologic fools**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) fools ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ks2xpzq) 2022-08-29T00:39:09Z **(#dqwn2ba) @prologic yeah, it's not about the work or productivity.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yeah, it's not about the work or productivity. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mmj54ma) 2022-08-29T01:19:18Z **I just burned through 40% of my laptop's battery capacity compiling stuff, oops**
I just burned through 40% of my laptop's battery capacity compiling stuff, oops ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6mfovrq) 2022-08-29T10:50:52Z **(#dqwn2ba) @prologic I'm not sure. Probably both. It just seems odd. The work gets done, the companies are more profitable than ever, so why do ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'm not sure. Probably both. It just seems odd. The work gets done, the companies are more profitable than ever, so why do they care where their employees are located? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/m2b5saa) 2022-08-29T12:04:59Z **25 minutes till the liftoff of Artemis 1!**
25 minutes till the liftoff of Artemis 1! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLD0Lp0JBg ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cwai6ga) 2022-08-29T12:14:18Z **(#dqwn2ba) @ocdtrekkie @prologic I wonder how "free food" and "multiple cases of COVID per year" weigh against one another.......**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I wonder how "free food" and "multiple cases of COVID per year" weigh against one another....... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yyl47ya) 2022-08-29T12:24:21Z **(#pec2xwq) @movq no worries! under 6 minutes!!!!**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) no worries! under 6 minutes!!!! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/e33r3dq) 2022-08-29T13:02:13Z **(#cwai6ga) oof, pushed back till Sep 2.**
oof, pushed back till Sep 2. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4kggc7q) 2022-08-29T23:36:59Z **(#dqwn2ba) @prologic 😆**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/irjonaa) 2022-08-30T18:08:39Z **My wife studies ancient Greek mythology among other things, and wrote this article for The Conversation about "Artemis", the name of NASA's late ...**
My wife studies ancient Greek mythology among other things, and wrote this article for The Conversation about "Artemis", the name of NASA's latest moon mission.

[Who is Artemis? NASA's latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon](https://theconversation.com/who-is-artemis-nasas-latest-mission-to-the-moon-is-named-after-an-ancient-lunar-goddes ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zkms2ra) 2022-09-02T14:33:53Z **On the road to Quebec!**
On the road to Quebec! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nga7jxa) 2022-09-03T17:26:49Z **(#nga7jxa) It's beautiful up here as always. The air is definitely crisper, and some leaves are starting to turn colors.**
It's beautiful up here as always. The air is definitely crisper, and some leaves are starting to turn colors. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qpj3tua) 2022-09-04T12:23:35Z **My view yesterday.

**
My view yesterday.

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/znXbqNPiZSG8cMRakvHxqB.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/j6e7rgq) 2022-09-04T12:52:20Z **Kiwi Farms should have been banhammered long ago. That's not propaganda, it's obvious fact. It's a public health hazard at a bare minimum.**
Kiwi Farms should have been banhammered long ago. That's not propaganda, it's obvious fact. It's a public health hazard at a bare minimum. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ejkfmrq) 2022-09-04T15:43:35Z **(#j6e7rgq) @lyse Oh yes, yes you could!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) Oh yes, yes you could! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bjbrgla) 2022-09-04T22:38:34Z **(#b5isyqa) @movq 

This:
> But my emails are just not delivered anymore

is just plain misleading. I hear this a lot about self-hosted email. Bu ...**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq)

This:
\> But my emails are just not delivered anymore

is just plain misleading. I hear this a lot about self-hosted email. But I have been self hosting my email for about ten years and as far as I know my email is always delivered. I've only had a problem one time and that was r ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/b3fgysa) 2022-09-05T11:46:14Z **(#356hczq) @akoizumi haha nice**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) haha nice ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/njmh77q) 2022-09-05T11:44:07Z **(#j6e7rgq) @prologic We're heading back home today, where it's less nice. ☹️ But it's been a good visit!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) We're heading back home today, where it's less nice. ☹️ But it's been a good visit! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jnaotya) 2022-09-07T00:59:05Z **(#36mwl6a) @akoizumi no**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) no ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/atpdlnq) 2022-09-07T08:04:23Z **Using zfs on my main work drives and automatically taking snapshots hourly has saved me so many headaches.**
Using zfs on my main work drives and automatically taking snapshots hourly has saved me so many headaches. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7xvkdaa) 2022-09-07T14:49:21Z **(#7xvkdaa) @portlandbeer I use the sanoid/syncoid combo:**
[@portlandbeer _@neotxt.dk_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/portlandbeer/twtxt.txt&nick=portlandbeer) I use the sanoid/syncoid combo: https://github.com/jimsalterjrs/sanoid ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uu5imvq) 2022-09-07T14:48:43Z **(#7xvkdaa) @prologic they have two very useful properties. One is that yes, you can recover files at the point in time when you made the snapsho ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) they have two very useful properties. One is that yes, you can recover files at the point in time when you made the snapshot, so if you lose or overwrite a file you can get it back easily. But the other is that if you have two zpools that are in sync, you can easily send ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ft5w7nq) 2022-09-08T12:37:47Z **I just finished a roughly six-week push to produce a demo of a simulation I've been working on. Mainly this post is a brain dump of technology u ...**
I just finished a roughly six-week push to produce a demo of a simulation I've been working on. Mainly this post is a brain dump of technology used.

I built the user interface in scalajs--first time I've used it--using the [Laminar](https://laminar.dev) library to wire up all the reactive stuff. I made heavy use of the [Scalably Typed](https://scalablytyped.org/docs/readme.html) ecosys ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4yjkb3q) 2022-09-08T12:45:40Z **(#vkbdkua) I started using scala at a significant level in 2013 or so, when it was still version 2.9 iirc. I followed it up to scala 2.13 but ha ...**
I started using scala at a significant level in 2013 or so, when it was still version 2.9 iirc. I followed it up to scala 2.13 but have mostly resisted switching to scala 3 because I assumed there were significant differences and worried the switch would slow me down. I'm usually on work deadlines when I'm coding and have a lot less free time to tinker now that I have a baby, so I tend ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yzobnxa) 2022-09-08T12:41:48Z **(#vkbdkua) The combination of scalajs and Laminar is absolutely amazing and I don't think I would even consider using anything else if I ever bu ...**
The combination of scalajs and Laminar is absolutely amazing and I don't think I would even consider using anything else if I ever build a big web-based GUI again. Scalably Typed has some warts, mostly owing to the impedance mismatch between scala and Javascript, but overall is great to work with, too. Once I understood the warts, incorporating pixijs and mapboxjs GL, which are Javascri ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/n3zdkca) 2022-09-08T12:51:33Z **(#vkbdkua) One thing I started to really appreciate about scala 3 is its optional significant whitespace. I especially like that it's optional; ...**
One thing I started to really appreciate about scala 3 is its optional significant whitespace. I especially like that it's optional; python's mandatory significant whitespace drives me batty. In scala 3 you can use braces if you want, or you can toss out the braces and use indents. I found that I'd skip the braces for shorter blocks of code, but for anything more than 10 lines or so, I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mzxxk2a) 2022-09-08T13:01:30Z **(#mfehdla) @stigatle @prologic 👂 did I hear that you work on simulators? I work for a non-profit, the Electric Infrastructure Security Counci ...**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 👂 did I hear that you work on simulators? I work for a non-profit, the [Electric Infrastructure Security Council](https://eiscouncil.org), bui ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pue5x6q) 2022-09-08T14:38:05Z **(#vkbdkua) @akoizumi Of course! But I don't want to work in Javascript or its variants. Scalajs allows you to write your frontend in scala, whic ...**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) Of course! But I don't want to work in Javascript or its variants. Scalajs allows you to write your frontend in scala, which is what my simulation and other backend code is written in. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mwsvv4q) 2022-09-09T01:21:26Z **(#lyzjd4q) @lyse Your photos are always so good**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) Your photos are always so good ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ckfbk2q) 2022-09-09T01:24:05Z **It is my birthday today. Entering the last year of my 40s!**
It is my birthday today. Entering the last year of my 40s! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h5apy2a) 2022-09-09T11:21:39Z **(#h5apy2a) @prologic Thank you!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Thank you! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/i33bobq) 2022-09-09T11:26:02Z **Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever | Ars Technica**
[Cloudflare explains why Kiwi Farms was its most dangerous customer ever \| Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cloudflare-explains-why-kiwi-farms-was-its-most-dangerous-customer-ever/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iv6rnza) 2022-09-09T11:30:09Z **(#iv6rnza) I wonder when the freeze peach / libertarian types will stop throwing in with sites that dox and swat thousands of people before fina ...**
I wonder when the freeze peach / libertarian types will stop throwing in with sites that dox and swat thousands of people before finally being taken down. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c67jfsq) 2022-09-09T12:36:45Z **(#h5apy2a) @prologic Happy birthday then! 🍰🎂**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Happy birthday then! 🍰🎂 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2zlr3ra) 2022-09-09T12:42:06Z **(#glxjwqq) @prologic idgi, can't you just engineer your ops to be more dev-y and, like, op-y?!?!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) idgi, can't you just engineer your ops to be more dev-y and, like, op-y?!?! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kom526q) 2022-09-10T00:36:37Z **(#h5apy2a) @lyse thank you! I feel exceedingly old now**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) thank you! I feel exceedingly old now ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5aqe5ga) 2022-09-11T02:00:58Z **(#h5apy2a) @lyse speaking as a 110,001 year old, I thank you 🙏**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) speaking as a 110,001 year old, I thank you 🙏 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/72b6mfq) 2022-09-11T12:08:30Z **(#lxe2kdq) @retrocrash Antifa lol. Give me a break!**
[@retrocrash _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/retrocrash/twtxt.txt&nick=retrocrash) Antifa lol. Give me a break! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hvk2d3a) 2022-09-11T12:07:47Z **(#h5apy2a) @lyse @prologic
I guess I'm old school because I still use `dc`

```
╰─ dc -e '49 2o p' ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)
I guess I'm old school because I still use \`dc\`

\`\`\`
╰─ dc -e '49 2o p'
110001
\`\`\` ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nr2uxtq) 2022-09-11T12:16:21Z **Get out of here with your "antifa" stuff. It is undeniable that right-wing extremism is a real, serious, present threat to the United States and ...**
Get out of here with your "antifa" stuff. It is undeniable that right-wing extremism is a real, serious, present threat to the United States and really the world, and "antifa" is the smokescreen onto which their enablers project their own bad intentions. There's no such organization as antifa--it literally means "anti-fascist", which the vast majority of people are--whereas there are po ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/smgf4ea) 2022-09-11T12:43:57Z **(#smgf4ea) Climate change is real and caused by humans, too, and vaccines don't give you autism or implant 5G in your bloodstream. OK.**
Climate change is real and caused by humans, too, and vaccines don't give you autism or implant 5G in your bloodstream. OK. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/37hxz6a) 2022-09-12T14:37:43Z **(#plyf7qq) @movq I've heard that mammoths were renowned for destroying cameras and other equipment when they were being hunted**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) I've heard that mammoths were renowned for destroying cameras and other equipment when they were being hunted ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c3jgszq) 2022-09-13T13:55:02Z **It's one of those dreary, rainy days where it perpetually feels like the sun hasn't risen yet.**
It's one of those dreary, rainy days where it perpetually feels like the sun hasn't risen yet. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3z64uua) 2022-09-16T12:15:21Z **I keep around a web browser that has no ad blockers installed for the rare cases that I need it. Today, I accidentally used it to do a web searc ...**
I keep around a web browser that has no ad blockers installed for the rare cases that I need it. Today, I accidentally used it to do a web search and visit a link, and holy dear God what has the web become??? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qjbfs6q) 2022-09-16T13:05:34Z **(#qjbfs6q) I guess this is a pretty tired critique. But the web is basically unusable without several ad blockers?**
I guess this is a pretty tired critique. But the web is basically unusable without several ad blockers? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3lnxl2q) 2022-09-16T13:24:06Z **(#qjbfs6q) @akoizumi I guess I knew it had gotten bad, but I'm so used to having several layers of ad blocking running that I hadn't seen it "in ...**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) I guess I knew it had gotten bad, but I'm so used to having several layers of ad blocking running that I hadn't seen it "in the raw" in a long time. Just the one page I tried to view threw two different videos in front of what I was tr ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/37efcia) 2022-09-16T14:02:44Z **I tinker with Inform 7, a programming language for writing interactive fiction games, on and off. I was reminded of it the other day. Inform cod ...**
I tinker with Inform 7, a programming language for writing interactive fiction games, on and off. I was reminded of it the other day. Inform code looks like this:

\`\`\`
A closed container called the wood-slatted crate is in the Gazebo. "A bizarre crate sits
in the center of the gazebo." The crate contains a croquet mallet. The crate is openable.
Instead of taking the crate, say "The c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/szzmmoa) 2022-09-17T01:48:20Z **(#qjbfs6q) @prologic horrible**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) horrible ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/igcfeya) 2022-09-17T01:46:52Z **(#qjbfs6q) @movq I wish it did, but sadly no. I've so far not found a good way to deal with those cookie popups.**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) I wish it did, but sadly no. I've so far not found a good way to deal with those cookie popups. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ubn5n2q) 2022-09-17T01:58:34Z **(#w743fcq) I will be there in spirit 👻**
I will be there in spirit 👻 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/glyb3qa) 2022-09-17T11:13:52Z **(#ubn5n2q) @darch That extension was acquired by Avast, which is a very bad actor. You should stop using it if you do.**
[@darch _@neotxt.dk_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&nick=darch) That extension was acquired by Avast, which is a very bad actor. You should stop using it if you do. https://www.androidpolice.com/i-dont-care-about-cookies-acquired-by-avast/ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cyfwpba) 2022-09-17T11:36:25Z **(#qjbfs6q) I appreciate the advice people are offering, but this post was not a call for advice. I'm well armed with browser extensions and DNS ...**
I appreciate the advice people are offering, but this post was not a call for advice. I'm well armed with browser extensions and DNS and VPN to block as many ads and irritants as possible. Mainly I was griping. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/etlamlq) 2022-09-17T14:34:25Z **(#xsnmvda) @adi This looks interesting! Thanks for sharing.**
[@adi _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/adi/twtxt.txt&nick=adi) This looks interesting! Thanks for sharing. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7l7k5wq) 2022-09-17T15:04:09Z **(#xsnmvda) Svelte also compiles server-side and is pretty popular right now.**
[Svelte](https://svelte.dev) also compiles server-side and is pretty popular right now. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ypvguna) 2022-09-17T15:03:09Z **(#xsnmvda) @prologic If I'm understanding it properly, it allows you to start with existing server-side code in whichever language you like, hav ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) If I'm understanding it properly, it allows you to start with existing server-side code in whichever language you like, have it output specialized HTML templates of the views you want your frontend to have, and then those views are rendered server-side and sent to the we ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/itx6ohq) 2022-09-18T12:29:02Z **(#65kqlma) @prologic the bug that didn't die--the worst**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) the bug that didn't die--the worst ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hrylz4a) 2022-09-18T13:10:59Z **(#kgagkna) I have half a mind to figure out how to hook a (soft) modem to a smart phone and use the unlimited voice as a data channel lol**
I have half a mind to figure out how to hook a (soft) modem to a smart phone and use the unlimited voice as a data channel lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/b3aewea) 2022-09-18T13:10:26Z **I feel like cellular phone plans these days are a lot like cable TV plans, with the bundling they do. I almost never make voice calls and rarely ...**
I feel like cellular phone plans these days are a lot like cable TV plans, with the bundling they do. I almost never make voice calls and rarely text. Primarily I use data, and could/would fully switch out of the telephone network if I had a reasonable data-only plan. However, almost no one offers data-only plans, and when they are offered they are way more expensive per gigabyte than o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kgagkna) 2022-09-18T13:59:49Z **If the US media tried to dedicate as much time to each and every US COVID victim as they have dedicated to Queen Elizabeth's death, they would b ...**
If the US media tried to dedicate as much time to each and every US COVID victim as they have dedicated to Queen Elizabeth's death, they would be airing COVID death stories for the next 20,000 years. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/66ffdyq) 2022-09-18T14:00:41Z **(#66ffdyq) Wear a mask. 80% of us wearing masks reduces needless COVID death by 2/3. Even now. The pandemic is not over no matter how many peopl ...**
Wear a mask. 80% of us wearing masks reduces needless COVID death by 2/3. Even now. The pandemic is not over no matter how many people try to pretend it is or try to peer pressure you into pretending it is. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/osefv6a) 2022-09-18T14:04:30Z **(#66ffdyq) (I'm in the US. Your local situation may be different!)**
(I'm in the US. Your local situation may be different!) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/znjpwha) 2022-09-18T16:51:52Z **(#kgagkna) @prologic Hmm, now that you say this maybe they don't!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Hmm, now that you say this maybe they don't! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6wjryua) 2022-09-18T16:51:06Z **(#kgagkna) @prologic I'd have to guess the carrier would notice eventually and cut you off. Say, after a single phone call goes on for 720 hours ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'd have to guess the carrier would notice eventually and cut you off. Say, after a single phone call goes on for 720 hours..... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/j2m4gyq) 2022-09-18T16:56:23Z **(#kgagkna) @eaplmx It's true, though landlines had similar audio constraints and could transmit 56 kbit/s up to perhaps 320 kbit/s if the data c ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) It's true, though landlines had similar audio constraints and could transmit 56 kbit/s up to perhaps 320 kbit/s if the data could be compressed (and higher if the server side also compresses). Very slow, but not 0! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/maqthyq) 2022-09-18T17:04:27Z **(#kgagkna) Unsurprisingly, I'm not the only person who has thought about this: 

One of the answers in that posts even links to an academic arti ...**
Unsurprisingly, I'm not the only person who has thought about this: https://superuser.com/questions/748154/use-a-smartphone-as-a-dial-up-modem

One of the answers in that posts even links to an academic article about on the subject! [A Data Modem for GSM Voice Channel](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4383352) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4vplraa) 2022-09-18T17:40:27Z **(#kjsrlnq) @tkanos this is cool. It could probably be adapted to generate a twtxt file out of a project's git commit history, which means you co ...**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) this is cool. It could probably be adapted to generate a twtxt file out of a project's git commit history, which means you could then generate a yarn.social pod for any project you wanted, and then ........ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x7jiyta) 2022-09-19T13:16:16Z **(#kjsrlnq) @tkanos Yes, that seems to do it....now, do I want to set up a yarn pod to host my git commits 🤔**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) Yes, that seems to do it....now, do I want to set up a yarn pod to host my git commits 🤔 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/erl4vhq) 2022-09-19T15:19:57Z **Sometime around mid-August Google decided to start sending a bunch of my coworkers' emails to the Spam folder for no apparent reason 😠 Now I' ...**
Sometime around mid-August Google decided to start sending a bunch of my coworkers' emails to the Spam folder for no apparent reason 😠 Now I'm sifting through there trying to figure out what I missed and what to do about it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mcxafya) 2022-09-19T16:08:28Z **(#mcxafya) After I marked some 30 emails as not spam, Google automatically re-classified them as spam and put them back in the spam folder. Some ...**
After I marked some 30 emails as not spam, Google automatically re-classified them as spam and put them back in the spam folder. Something is really wrong. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/s7xcfdq) 2022-09-19T17:47:37Z **(#mcxafya) @akoizumi I like my job and my coworkers and I want to hear from them!**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) I like my job and my coworkers and I want to hear from them! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7hvndva) 2022-09-20T13:52:16Z **We have a printer here at home that I use maybe once every six months, but that the cat sleeps on every day. I think I have to accept reality an ...**
We have a printer here at home that I use maybe once every six months, but that the cat sleeps on every day. I think I have to accept reality and start calling it the cat bed that has a print function. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/z4jtdfa) 2022-09-21T13:46:59Z **Amazon is such a horrible, sinister company now. 

Amazon Promotes Ex-Private Prison Exec to Run Warehouse Training**
Amazon is such a horrible, sinister company now.

[Amazon Promotes Ex-Private Prison Exec to Run Warehouse Training](https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/amazon-promoted-ex-private-prison) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/d6fnf7q) 2022-09-21T13:48:54Z **(#z4jtdfa) @prologic Meet Ada, on her Brother 600dpi cat bed**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Meet Ada, on her Brother 600dpi cat bed ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/yniLHc7cqagpEBAK39J5jU.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4no54xa) 2022-09-21T14:33:03Z **(#nib34fq) @prologic yes except instead of killing your physical body, they kill your digital one!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yes except instead of killing your physical body, they kill your digital one! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ycsgixa) 2022-09-21T14:31:18Z **(#coyqx5a) @prologic For what it's worth, I am low vision myself and have sworn by KDE/plasma (and KDE/compiz before it) since 2008 at least. Th ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) For what it's worth, I am low vision myself and have sworn by KDE/plasma (and KDE/compiz before it) since 2008 at least. There was a blip there when KDE initially switched to plasma, but other than that their full screen zoom was by far my favorite and still is. I normal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fegjb7q) 2022-09-21T14:56:08Z **(#coyqx5a) @prologic I'm not even sure how to rate my vision. I'm fortunate enough to retain a decent amount of peripheral vision. But my centra ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'm not even sure how to rate my vision. I'm fortunate enough to retain a decent amount of peripheral vision. But my central vision is bad (macular dystrophy), with numerous blindspots scattered throughout. I can only really see things if I look askance at them--when I l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/m5lziiq) 2022-09-21T15:14:37Z **(#coyqx5a) @prologic this is how zoomed I usually am:
**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) this is how zoomed I usually am:
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/8VuSYdQt6sXfmbXw9fxWpD.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lwzzzaq) 2022-09-21T15:16:43Z **(#coyqx5a) that's on a screen that looks like this unzoomed:**
that's on a screen that looks like this unzoomed: ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/wm3DQR55g7s2Ftas6BqDM5.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x2kvbma) 2022-09-21T17:45:14Z **(#z4jtdfa) @lyse We named her after the programmer for whom the language was named**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) We named her after the programmer for whom the language was named ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/aktwkhq) 2022-09-23T11:31:02Z **(#dtxio5a) @prologic wow, that's great! Each of us is now part of the 1% lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) wow, that's great! Each of us is now part of the 1% lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/njtdquq) 2022-09-23T11:34:31Z **(#dyyldua) @mckinley This is excellent, thanks.**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) This is excellent, thanks. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bejeejq) 2022-09-23T11:40:26Z **(#n5f7upa) @eaplmx I'm pretty sure webmention would work for this. It's how the rest of the IndieWeb tends to care care of things like posting c ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I'm pretty sure webmention would work for this. It's how the rest of the IndieWeb tends to care care of things like posting comments to blogs. It's pretty simple--there's a REST endpoint you hit when you reply to a post, and then an endpoint that gets called on the recipient's ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/keppira) 2022-09-23T12:45:29Z **(#n5f7upa) @prologic Nice.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Nice. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/g43wopq) 2022-09-24T12:27:42Z **(#gsewnyq) @tkanos check it out, I'm the new kid on the block and I'm already 34th! 🤓💪**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) check it out, I'm the new kid on the block and I'm already 34th! 🤓💪 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hkiwx5a) 2022-09-24T12:26:42Z **(#n5f7upa) @eaplmx Any time! I'm still learning about the IndieWeb ecosystem myself, so don't take anything I say as authoritative!**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) Any time! I'm still learning about the IndieWeb ecosystem myself, so don't take anything I say as authoritative! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/654ecsq) 2022-09-24T13:32:26Z **Recent paper in Nature on the elevated risks for a variety of scary health issues as a result of having COVID: 

Wear a mask.**
Recent paper in Nature on the elevated risks for a variety of scary health issues as a result of having COVID: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02001-z

Wear a mask. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bp5bi6a) 2022-09-26T13:42:11Z **Whoo hoo, inbox zero* achieved!

*Zero recent emails--the 10 or so that are always there are still there**
Whoo hoo, inbox zero\* achieved!

\*Zero recent emails--the 10 or so that are always there are still there ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hwlyrma) 2022-09-27T12:27:46Z **Android is Google Windows. I don't know why people get excited about it.**
Android is Google Windows. I don't know why people get excited about it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/thdjejq) 2022-09-27T13:30:41Z **(#hwlyrma) @eaplmx I more or less do the same, except I leave the 5-10 messages that are ongoing, which can be months, years......**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I more or less do the same, except I leave the 5-10 messages that are ongoing, which can be months, years...... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3rrfh3a) 2022-09-27T13:40:40Z **(#hsouiwa) @prologic Oh, I don't know, web3 consumes hundreds of time more electricity to solve a problem nobody actually has using techniques t ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Oh, I don't know, web3 consumes hundreds of time more electricity to solve a problem nobody actually has using techniques that have never been proved to work better than the 40+-year-old algorithms that already do the same things.

That, and that they enable unbelievable ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tda3qla) 2022-09-27T13:44:26Z **web3 exists because circa 2016 or so, a bunch of venture capitalists figured out how to get a quick payday out of startups by getting them to is ...**
web3 exists because circa 2016 or so, a bunch of venture capitalists figured out how to get a quick payday out of startups by getting them to issue a cryptocurrency ("Initial Coin Offering"), gifting a bunch of that currency to the VC at a discounted rate, and then pumping-and-dumping the rest. The VC avoids liability because the field is unregulated and even if it were the startup is g ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xtmpqzq) 2022-09-27T13:46:52Z **(#mlsmpia) yeah, a digital currency that is quick and easy to exchange with anyone in the world has a lot of possible virtues. But cryptocurrenc ...**
yeah, a digital currency that is quick and easy to exchange with anyone in the world has a lot of possible virtues. But cryptocurrency is not that, and it was never meant to be. That's a libertarian fever dream that grounded out the way it did because that's what unconstrained libertarianism always turns into. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hp4dqaq) 2022-09-27T14:04:55Z **(#thdjejq) @prologic Microsoft is (was?) a large monopoly that uses (used?) its operating system to control the software industry to its own end ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Microsoft is (was?) a large monopoly that uses (used?) its operating system to control the software industry to its own ends, users be damned. If there was ever a time when their offering was of value to people, they gave up any pretense of maintaining and improving that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/n4mw34q) 2022-09-27T14:03:09Z **(#mlsmpia) @prologic Oh I know, it's horrible on nearly every level, including how many people end up believing things that just aren't true bec ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Oh I know, it's horrible on nearly every level, including how many people end up believing things that just aren't true because these web3 zombies push it so hard.

Calling blockchain decentralized is hilarious. Why people believe that particular one baffles me. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wibr6pq) 2022-09-27T14:35:52Z **(#thdjejq) @prologic I've had Android cell phones since I think Android 6? I'm on Android 11 now. I hate each new version that comes out more th ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I've had Android cell phones since I think Android 6? I'm on Android 11 now. I hate each new version that comes out more than I hated the last. They take more and more power away from you as a user by crippling the underlying linux-derived operating system, they amp up t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7d3orga) 2022-09-27T14:46:00Z **(#hsouiwa) @eaplmx Nuance is good, but I like to think that I have a nuance budget, and I choose to apply the nuance budget to things that deser ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) Nuance is good, but I like to think that I have a nuance budget, and I choose to apply the nuance budget to things that deserve it. Cryptocurrency does not deserve nuance, in my personal view. It's too dangerous, too polluting, too corrupted. It barely had merit to begin with. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iq55qwa) 2022-09-27T14:44:30Z **(#mlsmpia) @prologic Another thing about it that really bothers me is that most (all?) blockchains are based ultimately on an append-only log, m ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Another thing about it that really bothers me is that most (all?) blockchains are based ultimately on an append-only log, meaning there's no ability to delete anything. The blockchain acolytes I've talked to don't seem to care about how horrible that is from an infosec p ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/sliiqfa) 2022-09-27T14:48:21Z **(#hsouiwa) @eaplmx (that's not to say it couldn't have ever been good, but as you say, it's too far gone these days, it would seem)**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) (that's not to say it couldn't have ever been good, but as you say, it's too far gone these days, it would seem) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hsp6hea) 2022-09-27T14:47:33Z **(#hsouiwa) @eaplmx not to be daft, but ipv6 gaining wide adoption would be a plus. A lot of web 2.0 problems emerge from resource battles over t ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) not to be daft, but ipv6 gaining wide adoption would be a plus. A lot of web 2.0 problems emerge from resource battles over the limited ip4 address space. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/dufpvtq) 2022-09-27T16:55:17Z **(#hsouiwa) @brasshopper @prologic I'm of this mind too. I don't think it's that people don't care. I think it's that people have other, more imp ...**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'm of this mind too. I don't think it's that people don't care. I think it's that people have other, more important things to care about, that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/txtuilq) 2022-09-28T13:32:51Z **(#hsouiwa) @eaplmx what's the practical difference between something being more important vs. valued more?

That said, caring for your health, a ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) what's the practical difference between something being more important vs. valued more?

That said, caring for your health, avoiding being killed or maimed by a brutal disease for instance, is 100% more important than caring about whether tech companies are taking good care wi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7syzpda) 2022-09-28T15:29:40Z **(#ptv7k6q) @lyse I mean, using the DOS command line for anything other than playing games should be illegal.....**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) I mean, using the DOS command line for anything other than playing games should be illegal..... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ler66da) 2022-09-28T15:43:20Z **(#lhxd6sq) I say that because one issue with an invite system is that it generates manual labor too. It could stop people from making spammy pos ...**
I say that because one issue with an invite system is that it generates manual labor too. It could stop people from making spammy posts, sure. But it burdens someone with investigating potential new users, and if those new users are human and not bots, they can play nice till they get their account and then start posting spam anyway. It's important to have layers of (semi-) automated sy ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4vhsszq) 2022-09-28T15:41:25Z **(#lhxd6sq) @prologic 
Years ago I moderated a forum and found any and all of the following can help

- IP blacklists preventing registration
- C ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)
Years ago I moderated a forum and found any and all of the following can help

\- IP blacklists preventing registration
\- CAPTCHA at registration time
\- Email confirmation at registration time
\- A "reputation" system limiting what new users can post
\- Setting all lin ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iwdfn4q) 2022-09-28T15:48:40Z **Long ago the baby grew mobile enough to start getting into things, especially toilets. We installed those plastic child-proof locks all over the ...**
Long ago the baby grew mobile enough to start getting into things, especially toilets. We installed those plastic child-proof locks all over the house. Now, it feels very strange to use a toilet that \*does not\* have a lock on it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3ucbqxq) 2022-09-28T15:55:12Z **One of my favorite TRS-80 text adventure games, Madness And The Minotaur, running in Cool Retro Terminal.

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One of my favorite TRS-80 text adventure games, [Madness And The Minotaur](https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=lvj5tbuoxwprbbqc), running in Cool Retro Terminal.

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/avE7RresmETgSYGwxQe35M.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6paguba) 2022-09-28T15:52:08Z **(#3ucbqxq) It's as if, in my mind, toilets are now things that should be locked. Very strange.**
It's as if, in my mind, toilets are now things that should be locked. Very strange. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nlbha6q) 2022-09-28T16:13:40Z **(#6paguba) crap I forget what you do when the oracle is there**
crap I forget what you do when the oracle is there ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3fyuaiq) 2022-09-28T16:18:00Z **My deep thought of the day is that Twitter exists to monetize Brandolini's law.**
My deep thought of the day is that Twitter exists to monetize Brandolini's law. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c7ylw2q) 2022-09-28T16:14:37Z **(#6paguba) In the time I spent thinking about it the ground started shaking, a scorpion stung me twice, and the oracle left.**
In the time I spent thinking about it the ground started shaking, a scorpion stung me twice, and the oracle left. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/njcq3oq) 2022-09-28T16:36:07Z **(#3ucbqxq) @prologic hmm maybe I have an especially rambunctious child lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) hmm maybe I have an especially rambunctious child lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ayboqnq) 2022-09-28T16:34:50Z **(#c7ylw2q) @prologic 
> Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the effort of de ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)
\> Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. It states that "The amount of energy needed to refute b ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/dkjg3oq) 2022-09-29T12:29:53Z **Nothing says "the pandemic is over" like having to check three separate data sources to decide whether it's safe to get a haircut.**
Nothing says "the pandemic is over" like having to check three separate data sources to decide whether it's safe to get a haircut. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5amw5gq) 2022-09-29T12:49:25Z **(#5amw5gq) @prologic My wife has been looking for someone like that too! But so far hasn't found anyone.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) My wife has been looking for someone like that too! But so far hasn't found anyone. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6zupnvq) 2022-09-30T00:48:34Z **Currently have a cat on my butt.**
Currently have a cat on my butt. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/obkis6q) 2022-09-30T12:47:06Z **I feel like many of us are the victims of "institutional betrayal", recently and obviously by the lack of COVID response but clearly much more w ...**
I feel like many of us are the victims of "institutional betrayal", recently and obviously by the lack of COVID response but clearly much more widely, and it is useful to think of things in those terms.

[Institutional Betrayal Research Home Page](https://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/institutionalbetrayal/index.html) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xfcqupq) 2022-10-01T12:39:08Z **(#zdoiiua) @prologic they list "decentralized email" as a potential application, which makes them sound like they don't know what they're talkin ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) they list "decentralized email" as a potential application, which makes them sound like they don't know what they're talking about? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gtudxdq) 2022-10-01T13:45:46Z **(#2kz3tdq) @eaplmx oh wow, enso looks pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing that.**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) oh wow, enso looks pretty interesting. Thanks for sharing that. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hfsmuna) 2022-10-01T14:26:37Z **Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius - The Atlantic

Fantastic glimpse into a world of mediocre white men with a lot more pow ...**
[Elon Musk’s Texts Shatter the Myth of the Tech Genius - The Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/09/elon-musk-texts-twitter-trial-jack-dorsey/671619/)

Fantastic glimpse into a world of mediocre white men with a lot more power than they merit. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5lffklq) 2022-10-01T20:40:36Z **(#t7xx45a) @eaplmx I've been using obsidian for about a year and I'm not sure I'd ever want to use anything else again. Probably the best featur ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I've been using obsidian for about a year and I'm not sure I'd ever want to use anything else again. Probably the best feature is that the core notes are markdown so you can easily use any editor you want. The wikilinks are the second best feature--it's trivial to link notes t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oqthmia) 2022-10-02T12:16:35Z **(#zdoiiua) @prologic I know! So basically they'd be *centralizing* email using a distributed technology. I think this kind of confusion and rhet ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I know! So basically they'd be \*centralizing\* email using a distributed technology. I think this kind of confusion and rhetoric is dangerous! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rbll5ma) 2022-10-02T13:19:38Z **(#t7xx45a) I forgot to mention that I also use MarkText sometimes too. I guess I got into markdown at some point lol. Anyway, it has a focus mod ...**
I forgot to mention that I also use MarkText sometimes too. I guess I got into markdown at some point lol. Anyway, it has a focus mode that grays out all the paragraphs you're not currently focused on. You can turn off almost all the user interface gadgets and full screen it, which is pretty nice when you want to do a bunch of writing. One drawback is that it's a fairly heavy electron a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2a6r3rq) 2022-10-02T13:16:17Z **(#zdoiiua) @prologic I *hate* IPFS. Once or twice I've posted to github issues for that project, and they seem to be very dismissive of ideas th ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I \*hate\* IPFS. Once or twice I've posted to github issues for that project, and they seem to be very dismissive of ideas they don't like. Mostly--it's impossible to delete anything from IPFS once you put it in there, and they have been hostile to any suggestion that th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/i2ce66a) 2022-10-02T13:51:05Z **(#i2ce66a) @prologic I think there's some kind of ideology at play there. The responses to suggesting things be deleteable tend to be "well, if ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I think there's some kind of ideology at play there. The responses to suggesting things be deleteable tend to be "well, if you don't want it shared, don't put it in there" and "once you put something on the internet, it's there forever so 🤷". Which is BS obviously. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yam2phq) 2022-10-02T13:52:15Z **Hmm, I kinda wish we could upload PDFs and other types of documents to yarn.social, aside from images.**
Hmm, I kinda wish we could upload PDFs and other types of documents to yarn.social, aside from images. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/eptljpq) 2022-10-02T14:10:22Z **Should I make this my pod logo?
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Should I make this my pod logo?
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/kLCX5YVDpatZnddXio5izG.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/23zbgea) 2022-10-02T14:17:06Z **(#t7xx45a) Foam, which is an extension for Visual Studio Code, is also interesting to check out as a note editor: 

I'd use the de-Microsofted v ...**
Foam, which is an extension for Visual Studio Code, is also interesting to check out as a note editor: https://github.com/foambubble/foam

I'd use the de-Microsofted version of the editor, Codium, of course. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zqimotq) 2022-10-02T14:21:17Z **An interesting list of alternatives not just to Google but the big 5 generally. 

tycrek/degoogle: A huge list of alternatives to Google product ...**
An interesting list of alternatives not just to Google but the big 5 generally.

[tycrek/degoogle: A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.](https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4nt4qvq) 2022-10-02T23:41:56Z **(#t7xx45a) @eaplmx You end up having to manually download VSIX files and install them in Codium for extensions that are not on Open VSX yet. I h ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) You end up having to manually download VSIX files and install them in Codium for extensions that are not on Open VSX yet. I haven't found that to be a problem but I don't use Codium much. You can read about it here: https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/DOCS.md#exte ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iu4vxyq) 2022-10-02T23:45:06Z **(#zdoiiua) @eaplmx Oh yes, it's definitely interesting and has its uses. The inability to delete anything and the seeming hostility towards even ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) Oh yes, it's definitely interesting and has its uses. The inability to delete anything and the seeming hostility towards even trying worries me though. There's a lot to information security beaides protecting against censorship. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3rxi6uq) 2022-10-03T12:51:54Z **(#bg3gxva) @prologic Wow, cool!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Wow, cool! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bdokhrq) 2022-10-03T13:34:56Z **(#b5gjz7a) @prologic nice 🤞**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) nice 🤞 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nmx3kla) 2022-10-03T14:42:41Z **10 Hours of Infinite Fractal and Falling Shepard's Tone - YouTube

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[10 Hours of Infinite Fractal and Falling Shepard's Tone - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9VMfdG873E)

🤪 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/eukjfcq) 2022-10-04T14:35:41Z **Every year or so I get so fed up with how many apps I have to restart and reposition manually after a reboot that I freak out, change a million ...**
Every year or so I get so fed up with how many apps I have to restart and reposition manually after a reboot that I freak out, change a million settings, switch apps, and begin the cycle anew. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6m74qpq) 2022-10-04T14:53:10Z **(#x3esqjq) @movq they're probably using "AI" to do a bunch of moderating and may not even be able to give a reason other than "the AI said so"**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) they're probably using "AI" to do a bunch of moderating and may not even be able to give a reason other than "the AI said so" ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vw7i4ha) 2022-10-04T15:00:55Z **(#6m74qpq) @movq yes, but these almost always get bit rot. The WM has an update that changes the rues slightly, or some apps stop responding pro ...**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) yes, but these almost always get bit rot. The WM has an update that changes the rues slightly, or some apps stop responding properly to the rules, or, or, or, or... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h7s65za) 2022-10-04T16:20:15Z **(#6m74qpq) @prologic sure, KDE/plasma does too. But what I'm complaining about is the bit rot that happens. Over time, as apps and the desktop a ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) sure, KDE/plasma does too. But what I'm complaining about is the bit rot that happens. Over time, as apps and the desktop and window managers are updated, small changes to the rule behavior accumulates and then stuff stops working as desired, or stops working altogether. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mwnz7eq) 2022-10-05T12:19:01Z **(#6m74qpq) @prologic It's the major pain point of a lot of always-updated software. I hate this about my Android-based phone too. I view it as a ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) It's the major pain point of a lot of always-updated software. I hate this about my Android-based phone too. I view it as a kind of (sometimes unconscious) forced obsolescence. What happened to the days when people would write a solid piece of software and then more or l ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2mjvipa) 2022-10-05T12:16:06Z **(#x3esqjq) @prologic I have some ethical issues with it, personally. I understand the need to monetize to cover hosting and maintenance costs, e ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I have some ethical issues with it, personally. I understand the need to monetize to cover hosting and maintenance costs, etc. But, a social network is only valuable because of the people on it--Facebook with no users would forever be Facebook with no users. So, you're i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nrcpjsa) 2022-10-05T13:42:20Z **(#x3esqjq) @brasshopper bitcoin 🤮 that's a hard no from me**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) bitcoin 🤮 that's a hard no from me ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7nvmceq) 2022-10-05T13:49:25Z **(#6m74qpq) @eaplmx Right?! That's a problem. Updating software on your devices could become a full-time job if you study the updates. I think th ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) Right?! That's a problem. Updating software on your devices could become a full-time job if you study the updates. I think the reason it feels that way is that we're basically being employed, without compensation, to be permanent beta testers. Nothing will ever be "done". This ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/su3pjnq) 2022-10-05T13:46:27Z **(#6m74qpq) @eaplmx I don't mind at all when it comes to things like yarn.social, since I am voluntarily using this and hoping to be helpful at s ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I don't mind at all when it comes to things like yarn.social, since I am voluntarily using this and hoping to be helpful at some point if the stars align and I find some free time. I was mostly griping about how \*everything\* seems to be in permanent beta test these days.

Th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iqgknha) 2022-10-05T22:44:34Z **(#7nvmceq) @brasshopper No way, I'm not playing this game. Every time I raise an obvious objection to cryptocurrency, inevitably someone is like ...**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) No way, I'm not playing this game. Every time I raise an obvious objection to cryptocurrency, inevitably someone is like "give me your list of reasons for believing that." No, \_you\_ give me \_your\_ list of reasons for thinking that an environmental catastroph ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jcyhmka) 2022-10-05T23:24:42Z **(#7nvmceq) @xuu proof of stake = people with money get more money. It accelerates the wealth inequality problems that are already plaguing us. C ...**
[@xuu _@txt.sour.is_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt&nick=xuu) proof of stake = people with money get more money. It accelerates the wealth inequality problems that are already plaguing us. Crypto has even worse wealth inequality than fiat currency systems, which is 100% predictable. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fq5cwga) 2022-10-05T23:36:15Z **(#x3esqjq) @prologic I'd be into it 👍**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'd be into it 👍 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yq36mza) 2022-10-06T01:09:39Z **(#6w6e2ka) @brasshopper No, this is incorrect. I've seen enough now. You're just parroting the standard talking points of cryptocurrency apologi ...**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) No, this is incorrect. I've seen enough now. You're just parroting the standard talking points of cryptocurrency apologists and therefore are not conversing in good faith. I'm finished. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wckw6ba) 2022-10-06T01:08:29Z **(#yqdanjq) @brasshopper The first link is libertarian claptrap and unworthy of consideration. The second has nothing to do with cryptocurrency.**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) The first link is libertarian claptrap and unworthy of consideration. The second has nothing to do with cryptocurrency. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/m7wxo4a) 2022-10-06T01:07:54Z **(#7yh73ia) @brasshopper "yearly inflation rate" is NOT "number of new pieces of currency created".**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) "yearly inflation rate" is NOT "number of new pieces of currency created". ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gln45sq) 2022-10-06T01:07:25Z **(#skbye2a) @brasshopper Wrong.**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) Wrong. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mkn3m3q) 2022-10-06T01:11:32Z **Cryptocurrency has ruined the brains of so many people. It's awful. It's some kind of contagious mind infection.**
Cryptocurrency has ruined the brains of so many people. It's awful. It's some kind of contagious mind infection. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rhbpiyq) 2022-10-06T01:11:00Z **(#6w6e2ka) @brasshopper If you don't accept basic, established facts, then you are not coming from a position of good faith, you are coming from ...**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) If you don't accept basic, established facts, then you are not coming from a position of good faith, you are coming from a fantasy place or a place of deceit. Either way, you no longer merit consideration unless you opt to start conversing in good faith. Bye. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yxchupq) 2022-10-06T12:25:04Z **The Galaxy Fold is $1499???**
The Galaxy Fold is $1499??? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4g3xjvq) 2022-10-06T12:29:12Z **(#4g3xjvq) who wants a folding smartphone anyway? I've never wanted that? If I had $1500 to throw around on toys I'd buy an actually useful comp ...**
who wants a folding smartphone anyway? I've never wanted that? If I had $1500 to throw around on toys I'd buy an actually useful computer! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/d7tpxmq) 2022-10-06T12:33:46Z **(#4g3xjvq) somehow I feel like products are decoupled from what people (I?) actually want and need. There are so many basic usability issues wit ...**
somehow I feel like products are decoupled from what people (I?) actually want and need. There are so many basic usability issues with smartphones as they are now. Being able to fold one in half is not helping those, but it's introducing a new mechanism that might become a usability issue too. It seems weird and gimmicky.

With how expensive phones are becoming, it also reprises the day ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h6vn2va) 2022-10-06T13:22:51Z **New pod logo lol
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New pod logo lol
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/BLVW5E6P9voaV6gMdTZErj.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oknqbdq) 2022-10-06T13:35:24Z **(#oknqbdq) it took a bit of work to get this logo the way I wanted. I only had a PNG, so I converted that to PGM with `glimpse` and then to SVG ...**
it took a bit of work to get this logo the way I wanted. I only had a PNG, so I converted that to PGM with \`glimpse\` and then to SVG with \`potrace -s\`. Then, I used \`inkscape\` to resize the image, touch things up a little and add the text. I saved that as a Plain SVG (not compressed, and not inkscape's format) and opened it in a text editor. Everywhere \`fill:\` appeared, I change ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5itgevq) 2022-10-07T13:44:22Z **(#fq5cwga) @prologic It's been observed that the level of inequality in cryptocurrencies is significantly higher than in more ordinary currencie ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) It's been [observed](https://gizmodo.com/bitcoin-s-inequality-problem-is-putting-the-dollar-to-s-1848248393) that the level of inequality in cryptocurrencies is significantly higher than in more ordinary currencies. I don't know enough to know why that is, just that it i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wm2ra4a) 2022-10-07T13:46:04Z **(#gln45sq) @brasshopper Bitcoin is a risky, speculative asset, not a commodity. Commodities are literally raw materials and almost always have i ...**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) Bitcoin is a risky, speculative asset, not a commodity. Commodities are literally raw materials and almost always have intrinsic value. Bitcoin has no intrinsic value; it's entirely in people's heads. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/d6sd4vq) 2022-10-07T13:53:55Z **(#twdkayq) @brasshopper The reason that I say things like that is that for reasons that do not make sense to me, otherwise-intelligent people sa ...**
[@brasshopper _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/brasshopper/twtxt.txt&nick=brasshopper) The reason that I say things like that is that for reasons that do not make sense to me, otherwise-intelligent people say things that are transparently and demonstrably false when it comes to cryptocurrency. So many people seem to really want to believe that cry ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rsb4ltq) 2022-10-07T14:01:13Z **(#twdkayq) Incidentally, you also stated that you learned more about inflation after I made my post about it, which suggests to me that you are ...**
Incidentally, you also stated that you learned more about inflation after I made my post about it, which suggests to me that you are stating some of these things without having a full picture of how money/currencies function. I've noticed this before among people who are into cryptocurrency. They have a tendency to accept libertarian slogans--e.g., "taxation is theft" or "printing money ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6n2qvnq) 2022-10-07T14:23:10Z **I wonder how long it's going to take the tech industry to learn that most people don't want to wear tech on their faces. 

What happened to the ...**
I wonder how long it's going to take the tech industry to learn that most people don't want to wear tech on their faces.

[What happened to the virtual reality gaming revolution? \| Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/10/what-happened-to-the-virtual-reality-gaming-revolution/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/p26ap2q) 2022-10-07T14:20:27Z **Anyone who believes that "the free market" is the best way to allocate resources should read up on Hotelling's Law, which demonstrates that, in ...**
Anyone who believes that "the free market" is the best way to allocate resources should read up on Hotelling's Law, which demonstrates that, in a purely market-driven system with two sellers of a good, the sellers will move to reduce their own perceived--but not actual!--risk at the expense of buyers. Even worse, if you add more sellers, the dynamics become chaotic (literally so in the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rduhlkq) 2022-10-08T01:00:02Z **There are countless stories like this:

Binance Smart Chain halts after $127 million bridge exploit
"Even if you consider this theft to be in th ...**
There are countless stories like this:

[Binance Smart Chain halts after $127 million bridge exploit](https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=binance-smart-chain-halts-after-100-million-bridge-exploit)
"Even if you consider this theft to be in the $580M range, it's still only the third-largest hack in the past 14 months" says Molly White. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kssan5a) 2022-10-08T01:03:00Z **(#rduhlkq) @prologic**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) https://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Social%20Science/Economics/Hotelling's%20Law.nlogo ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/say2b5q) 2022-10-09T00:37:22Z **(#3dwvbdq) @prologic how do you enable it? I don't recall seeing it when I set up my pod but I'd like to play with it.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) how do you enable it? I don't recall seeing it when I set up my pod but I'd like to play with it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/abrqfca) 2022-10-09T00:36:23Z **(#ldrbbkq) @prologic Is the notion to have the indexing kicked off automatically after a post when it's integrated?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Is the notion to have the indexing kicked off automatically after a post when it's integrated? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c6fvjba) 2022-10-09T00:44:29Z **(#3dwvbdq) @prologic aha, thank you!

Where does one find a list of these magical "Optional Settings?" What are my options?!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) aha, thank you!

Where does one find a list of these magical "Optional Settings?" What are my options?! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gygtgjq) 2022-10-09T00:51:18Z **(#ldrbbkq) @prologic OK, next time I get a chance to sit at my computer I'll give it a whirl**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) OK, next time I get a chance to sit at my computer I'll give it a whirl ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5dfsrlq) 2022-10-09T13:01:08Z **(#3dwvbdq) @prologic OK this is pretty silly but now that I've turned this setting on I don't know what to do with it (?!!?). 

Every time I thi ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) OK this is pretty silly but now that I've turned this setting on I don't know what to do with it (?!!?).

Every time I think I understand this IndieWeb thing I end up confused again. I'm starting to believe it is needlessly complicated. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wflpwcq) 2022-10-09T13:37:24Z **(#ldrbbkq) @prologic Initial comments: 

I'm stuck at this point. Search is not working as expected and I'm not sure what to do to proceed. I wi ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Initial comments: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/pulls/1010#issuecomment-13106

I'm stuck at this point. Search is not working as expected and I'm not sure what to do to proceed. I will keep hacking at it, but any pointers would be appreciated! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rbde6ba) 2022-10-09T13:48:19Z **(#ldrbbkq) Never mind on that, I found the "hidden" `-d` option for `search_archive`!**
Never mind on that, I found the "hidden" \`-d\` option for \`search\_archive\`! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wcyvdwa) 2022-10-09T14:02:05Z **(#ldrbbkq) I'm guessing my hangups are mostly because I'm not yet steeped in the lore of the project and they probably won't be an issue once me ...**
I'm guessing my hangups are mostly because I'm not yet steeped in the lore of the project and they probably won't be an issue once merged into \`yarnd\`. Still, I'd like to help test if I can. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xu56jjq) 2022-10-09T14:00:18Z **(#ldrbbkq) Now stuck in a different spot. Put another comment in the pull request. I'm going to hold off on further testing till that gets sorte ...**
Now stuck in a different spot. Put another comment in the pull request. I'm going to hold off on further testing till that gets sorted because I don't know what I'm doing 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hrymm5q) 2022-10-10T12:02:25Z **(#npkkadq) @prologic @eaplmx @justamoment I think such things are convenient but dangerous. Email is not encrypted in general, which means by us ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) [@justamoment _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt&nick=justamoment) I think such things are convenie ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/eb6l7ua) 2022-10-10T12:05:00Z **(#ngo44kq) @prologic I left Signal a year-ish ago because (a) the CEO started talking about crypto, which freaked me out; (b) then the CEO abrup ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I left Signal a year-ish ago because (a) the CEO started talking about crypto, which freaked me out; (b) then the CEO abruptly left, which freaked me out; and (c) they removed the functionality to decrypt your messages, making Signal into yet another walled garden.

It t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h74pt5a) 2022-10-10T12:58:00Z **(#uhtdgkq) @prologic nice!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) nice! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5znyaka) 2022-10-10T16:19:37Z **(#npkkadq) @eaplmx me too!**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) me too! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qsu2y6q) 2022-10-10T17:25:33Z **(#ngo44kq) @ocdtrekkie at least at the time I installed Signal on my android phone, it wanted a phone number to send and receive texts. From the ...**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) at least at the time I installed Signal on my android phone, it wanted a phone number to send and receive texts. From then on, any texts I sent and received went through Signal, not through the phone's SMS app. The texts were no longer stored in the phone's usual S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x6hswxq) 2022-10-11T12:52:51Z **(#ngo44kq) @ocdtrekkie yeah, and now that it looks like Edward Snowden, who told people they should use Signal, has probably been a Russian asse ...**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) yeah, and now that it looks like Edward Snowden, who told people they should use Signal, has probably been a Russian asset for awhile, I'd delete that thing immediately if I still had it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kci4cna) 2022-10-11T13:03:49Z **(#kci4cna) @prologic Putin just gave Snowden Russian citizenship. The journalist, Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story originally has be ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Putin just gave Snowden Russian citizenship. The journalist, Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story originally has been a Russian propaganda mouthpiece for quite some time (besides being an awful human being generally by the looks of things). Smells very fishy to m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yhb2hyq) 2022-10-11T13:08:03Z **(#kci4cna) and I mean, my calculation about information security is pretty conservative. Snowden left the US for Russia, a country that has been ...**
and I mean, my calculation about information security is pretty conservative. Snowden left the US for Russia, a country that has been actively hostile to us for a long time, and eventually became a citizen there. He recommends people use a "secure" app whose CEO wanted to turn it into some crytocurrency thing--crypto being a main way Russia is using to circumvent economic sanctions. Sig ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/azc6oea) 2022-10-11T14:02:35Z **Love that Gboard, which I don't use, randomly downloads stuff on my Android phone. That's not weird or suspicious in any way.**
Love that Gboard, which I don't use, randomly downloads stuff on my Android phone. That's not weird or suspicious in any way. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lozgvjq) 2022-10-11T15:02:32Z **(#avd45ka) @movq oof, I feel like I'm guilty of this too 😳**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) oof, I feel like I'm guilty of this too 😳 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bkrfiza) 2022-10-11T15:01:45Z **(#kci4cna) @prologic totally! 🤞**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) totally! 🤞 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/74bds2q) 2022-10-12T01:51:41Z **(#6g7twkq) @prologic whoa**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) whoa ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oivkpyq) 2022-10-12T02:42:35Z **(#6g7twkq) @prologic obviously he was using curl and not buccket 😝**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) obviously he was using curl and not buccket 😝 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h47p2hq) 2022-10-12T02:47:29Z **(#6g7twkq) @prologic hmm, there are older twts:

2007-03-02T12:19:38.000Z Чета си RSS feed-овете

looks to be the oldest.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) hmm, there are older twts:

2007-03-02T12:19:38.000Z Чета си RSS feed-овете

looks to be the oldest. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fbir5fq) 2022-10-12T12:41:57Z **(#jru72iq) @prx nice**
[@prx _@si3t.ch_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://si3t.ch/twtxt.txt&nick=prx) nice ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/szb24ma) 2022-10-12T12:59:22Z **Sweaty hands + slightly reflective desk + optical mouse**
Sweaty hands + slightly reflective desk + optical mouse ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pl3loxq) 2022-10-12T19:03:41Z **Speak of the devil.

[Signal >> Blog >> Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)]()**
Speak of the devil.

[Signal >> Blog >> Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)](https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/sxtq7ma) 2022-10-13T11:04:15Z **(#sxtq7ma) @prologic hey wait, Signal only hijacks your SMS on Android???**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) hey wait, Signal only hijacks your SMS on Android??? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fhh5okq) 2022-10-13T11:50:29Z **(#sxtq7ma) @prologic 😡**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 😡 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4fh4qeq) 2022-10-13T11:54:56Z **(#sxtq7ma) @prologic I guess y'all have been saying this but it didn't sink into my dense head. Anyway, this is even more angering since they ne ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I guess y'all have been saying this but it didn't sink into my dense head. Anyway, this is even more angering since they never had to hijack SMS to begin with--they already knew how to make an app that didn't! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/abzznba) 2022-10-13T12:42:18Z **(#sxtq7ma) @prologic err, building a "security focused" app while not knowing what you're doing is not an optimistic assessment! It's the height ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) err, building a "security focused" app while not knowing what you're doing is not an optimistic assessment! It's the height of hubris, and very dangerous! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ocl5n6q) 2022-10-13T12:45:33Z **(#sxtq7ma) @prologic I like to give developers the benefit of the doubt, but the management can go suck an egg as far as I'm concerned lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I like to give developers the benefit of the doubt, but the management can go suck an egg as far as I'm concerned lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tpudica) 2022-10-13T12:55:03Z **(#6mcmzla) @prologic $3 million per year!!! for what?!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) $3 million per year!!! for what?! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xgo7vhq) 2022-10-13T14:03:35Z **(#6mcmzla) @prologic I mean, that dude's salary explains it doesn't it? That company exists to enrich the higher-ups, not to actually lay cable.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I mean, that dude's salary explains it doesn't it? That company exists to enrich the higher-ups, not to actually lay cable. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/myopkjq) 2022-10-13T15:21:53Z **`scala` support is conspicuously absent from JetBrain's Fleet editor. Could that have anything to do with their language `kotlin` being so simil ...**
\`scala\` support is conspicuously absent from JetBrain's Fleet editor. Could that have anything to do with their language \`kotlin\` being so similar? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3vplova) 2022-10-13T18:41:28Z **(#km2cjda) @akoizumi ejabberd supports SIP, MQTT, STUN and TURN too!**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) ejabberd supports SIP, MQTT, STUN and TURN too! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/s64l7jq) 2022-10-13T20:57:49Z **(#f7pxu3q) WebRTC cannot be disabled by default in (most?) Chromium-based browsers. You need an extension.**
WebRTC cannot be disabled by default in (most?) Chromium-based browsers. You need an extension. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/o6q2ssq) 2022-10-13T20:56:52Z **Is your browser leaking your IP address?

WebRTC can leak your real IP address even if you use a VPN.**
[Is your browser leaking your IP address?](https://ipleak.net)

WebRTC can leak your real IP address even if you use a VPN. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/f7pxu3q) 2022-10-14T00:11:46Z **(#f7pxu3q) @prologic idk I tend to think that "reading something on some random person's web site" and "telling some random person where I live ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) idk I tend to think that "reading something on some random person's web site" and "telling some random person where I live to within a mile or two" ought to be distinct things I get to choose independently.... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cpoievq) 2022-10-14T00:13:38Z **(#f7pxu3q) @mckinley Librewolf is a Firefox offshoot and that whole line gives control over WebRTC AFAIK, whereas Chrome and its derivatives don ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) Librewolf is a Firefox offshoot and that whole line gives control over WebRTC AFAIK, whereas Chrome and its derivatives don't. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/em3ioha) 2022-10-14T11:40:27Z **Approaches to Formal Verification of Security Protocols**
[Approaches to Formal Verification of Security Protocols ](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1101.1815.pdf) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2sqadwa) 2022-10-14T11:45:12Z **(#2sqadwa) A for instance: security researchers found that combining Rust code and C code produced systems that were *less* secure than C itself ...**
A for instance: security researchers found that combining Rust code and C code produced systems that were \*less\* secure than C itself. This is counter-intuitive to many people, because they perceive Rust to have "solved" many of the issues that plague C. However, what was found is that the combination of the two languages allows for essentially new kinds of security vulnerabilities. S ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/v4gbq7a) 2022-10-14T11:42:19Z **(#2sqadwa) Just one link I found. There is a vast literature on this topic. The basic idea is to describe whatever protocol--be it key exchange ...**
Just one link I found. There is a vast literature on this topic. The basic idea is to describe whatever protocol--be it key exchange or some other thing--in a formal way (programming language), and then run automated verification algorithms to ensure the protocol is actually providing the security guarantees you want it to. Experience shows it's wayyyyyyyy too easy to convince yourself ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mgu2qmq) 2022-10-14T11:53:26Z **(#2sqadwa) This says to me, for instance, that if you wanted to write Go software that was intended to be secure, you should be very careful abo ...**
This says to me, for instance, that if you wanted to write Go software that was intended to be secure, you should be very careful about depending on C/C++ code, and you should be very careful about depending on Go code that depends on C/C++ code, and.....all the way down the dependency chain.

And you should formally verify your security protocols, too, on top of that. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/g4zlgqq) 2022-10-14T11:51:01Z **(#2sqadwa) > We show that because language safety checks in safe
languages and exploit mitigation techniques applied to unsafe
languages (e.g., ...**
\> We show that because language safety checks in safe
languages and exploit mitigation techniques applied to unsafe
languages (e.g., Control-Flow Integrity) break different stages of
an exploit to prevent control hijacking attacks, an attacker can
carefully maneuver between the languages to mount a successful
attack. In essence, we illustrate that the incompatible set of
assumptions ma ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/swyl6zq) 2022-10-14T19:32:36Z **All of a sudden the ground is covered with leaves up here. I guess it's fall.**
All of a sudden the ground is covered with leaves up here. I guess it's fall. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/j2xdfjq) 2022-10-15T11:28:01Z **Currently eating my favorite breakfast: baby leftovers**
Currently eating my favorite breakfast: baby leftovers ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fomulpa) 2022-10-15T11:59:26Z **(#j2xdfjq) @lyse next time I get a chance!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) next time I get a chance! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ojhfu2q) 2022-10-15T11:58:20Z **(#fomulpa) @prologic close--oatmeal with maple syrup. It's good!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) close--oatmeal with maple syrup. It's good! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2ya34cq) 2022-10-16T00:25:49Z **Decentralized censorship proof somethng something**
Decentralized censorship proof somethng something https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=over-51-of-blocks-validated-on-the-ethereum-chain-are-censored ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2tekuya) 2022-10-16T00:41:35Z **(#nogpb2a) @prologic Mark Zuckerberg can kiss my ass. His original "idea" was to scrape an internal Harvard web site to make a "hot or not" app, ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Mark Zuckerberg can kiss my ass. His original "idea" was to scrape an internal Harvard web site to make a "hot or not" app, ignoring the objections of other students who were rightfully pissed. The trajectory of his career since then tracks his early efforts. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ckmqp3q) 2022-10-16T01:06:16Z **(#nogpb2a) @prologic Somebody said we don't curse enough on here so I'mtrying to help!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Somebody said we don't curse enough on here so I'mtrying to help! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ljwy2uq) 2022-10-17T12:10:48Z **(#tgtefhq) @prologic possum #796251 appears to be in good health.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) possum [#796251](https://anthony.buc.ci/search?tag=796251) appears to be in good health. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ft2jxsq) 2022-10-17T12:23:41Z **The cat is unhappy because I need to use one of the other functions of her cat bed (printing a file).**
The cat is unhappy because I need to use one of the other functions of her cat bed (printing a file). ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3tr7l5a) 2022-10-17T12:55:28Z **(#ywuerzq) @prologic no Debian or Ubuntu binaries**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) no Debian or Ubuntu binaries ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7vyqdnq) 2022-10-17T13:21:33Z **(#ywuerzq) there's no way I'm going to try compiling this from source. It's an absolute mess! I don't know much about building web browsers from ...**
there's no way I'm going to try compiling this from source. It's an absolute mess! I don't know much about building web browsers from source but if they are all like this that's already a massive security risk! It wants python 2 (!) and nodejs. It wants you to install webrtc something or other and something called depot? Every one of these things is a security nightmare on its own, let ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uwjmh6q) 2022-10-17T13:24:00Z **(#ywuerzq) I've always been skeptical of Gemini--why not just use HTML without all the extra stuff--but if Gemini browsers have source code that ...**
I've always been skeptical of Gemini--why not just use HTML without all the extra stuff--but if Gemini browsers have source code that is actually readable and does not require downloading the universe to compile, then maybe that's a tangible benefit. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cncmaoq) 2022-10-17T13:58:48Z **(#cncmaoq) @prologic I don't think "we" designed the web. I think a bunch of corporations with a vested interest in raising the barrier to entry ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I don't think "we" designed the web. I think a bunch of corporations with a vested interest in raising the barrier to entry did.

I've never tried but it strikes me that if you stuck only to HTML and CSS that's focused on displaying text, images and maybe videos, and is ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/45rqxmq) 2022-10-17T14:21:47Z **(#kgob3aa) @prologic whoa what is that red flashing?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) whoa what is that red flashing? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hr2ug5q) 2022-10-17T14:26:15Z **(#6poiaha) @eaplmx happy birthday grandma eaplmx!**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) happy birthday grandma eaplmx! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pajvvcq) 2022-10-17T14:25:38Z **(#ywuerzq) @eaplmx that makes a lot of sense. I guess all that combined with a small easily readable code base is pretty compelling. The trouble ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) that makes a lot of sense. I guess all that combined with a small easily readable code base is pretty compelling. The trouble then is, I guess, critical mass of users and content? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nls6e2q) 2022-10-17T14:24:28Z **(#cncmaoq) @eaplmx it'd be nice if it functioned this way. The major web browsers appear to try to implement everything all the time and also pu ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) it'd be nice if it functioned this way. The major web browsers appear to try to implement everything all the time and also push the boundaries of what web browsers are expected to do. If it had a more plugin way of being, where you can install a plain web browser that does not ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ao3ezba) 2022-10-17T14:29:00Z **(#qgqxkpq) 
```fish
make: Nothing to be done for 'deps'.
╭─ /tmp/toy-webbrowser  master ······················· ...**
\`\`\`fish
make: Nothing to be done for 'deps'.
╭─ /tmp/toy-webbrowser  master ························································································································································· ✔   1.18.1 ─╮
╰─
\`\`\` ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/s6uic2a) 2022-10-17T14:28:04Z **(#qgqxkpq) @prologic 
```fish
╭─ /tmp/toy-webbrowser  master ····································� ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)
\`\`\`fish
╭─ /tmp/toy-webbrowser  master ······················································································································································· ✘ 2   1.18.1 ─╮
╰─ make ─╯
Checking Go version ... [ OK ]
Checking $PATH ... [ OK ]
Checking deps ... [ ERR ]
minify ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5cvttsq) 2022-10-17T14:36:08Z **(#qgqxkpq) Success!

On Ubuntu 22.04, I had to install `minify` and `libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev` with `apt`, and download and install `goi18n-2.2.0-l ...**
Success!

On Ubuntu 22.04, I had to install \`minify\` and \`libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev\` with \`apt\`, and download and install \`goi18n-2.2.0-linux-amd64\` from github.

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/Bb3EgFUGFvjK37xC3GASij.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tcwkh3a) 2022-10-17T14:42:10Z **(#cncmaoq) @prologic It ought to help the development process, right? People who really know about opengl and GPUs etc. could write those plugin ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) It ought to help the development process, right? People who really know about opengl and GPUs etc. could write those plugins, and people who give a crap about DRM (horrible people) can write those, without polluting the main browser. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ykjqdxa) 2022-10-17T14:40:27Z **(#qgqxkpq) @prologic I got it compiling before your commit so it's hard for me to test whether this helps, but thanks!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I got it compiling before your commit so it's hard for me to test whether this helps, but thanks! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zp2kria) 2022-10-17T14:38:42Z **(#qgqxkpq) My own web site looks great in this.**
My own [web site](https://bucci.onl) looks great in this. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6skep5a) 2022-10-17T14:52:55Z **(#qgqxkpq) @prologic idk, I always like to have a goal before committing to a big project! What would be the purpose?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) idk, I always like to have a goal before committing to a big project! What would be the purpose? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/74zzmpa) 2022-10-17T15:28:20Z **(#qgqxkpq) @prologic will it let me have 200 tabs open at the same time though??????**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) will it let me have 200 tabs open at the same time though?????? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vkwltpq) 2022-10-17T15:54:26Z **(#zukeuga) @prologic @movq I'm of a similar mind as @prologic. "The web" as such is virtually unusable without 2 or 3 ad blockers and tampermonk ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) I'm of a similar mind as [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic). "The web" as such i ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tzth7wq) 2022-10-17T15:58:33Z **Some fraction of the web needs to be sliced out of corporate control and treated as a public good or commons. There's no justifiable reason that ...**
Some fraction of the web needs to be sliced out of corporate control and treated as a public good or commons. There's no justifiable reason that corporations should have such outsized control over such basic infrastructure. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lxnscyq) 2022-10-17T16:22:38Z **(#zukeuga) @eaplmx idk, I don't remember magazines throwing flashing videos in front of the page I'm trying to read, tracking what I was looking ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) idk, I don't remember magazines throwing flashing videos in front of the page I'm trying to read, tracking what I was looking at at all times (even when I'm not looking at the magazine) and correlating that with existing databases about me, purposely subverting my attempts to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/j7dliwa) 2022-10-17T16:26:19Z **(#zukeuga) @eaplmx Functioning government is the obvious answer, but we live in an age where lots of people, many of whom are representatives of ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) Functioning government is the obvious answer, but we live in an age where lots of people, many of whom are representatives of those corporations, desperately want us to believe that government can't do anything and will go so far as destroying as much of government as they can ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iusufiq) 2022-10-17T16:30:09Z **(#j7dliwa) @prologic agree 💯**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) agree 💯 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/u3v5m4q) 2022-10-17T16:29:23Z **Did eBay Just Prove That Paid Search Ads Don’t Work?

For all that, there's lots of evidence going back many years that this heavy-surveillanc ...**
[Did eBay Just Prove That Paid Search Ads Don’t Work?](https://hbr.org/2013/03/did-ebay-just-prove-that-paid)

For all that, there's lots of evidence going back many years that this heavy-surveillance, paid ad web doesn't actually improve sales. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/j3oflgq) 2022-10-17T16:58:09Z **(#5sdjyvq) @prologic @movq lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rq3iklq) 2022-10-17T16:57:36Z **(#j3oflgq) @prologic that's hilarious--my wife laughs because I often will make a spreadsheet when I'm thinking about buying something that cost ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) that's hilarious--my wife laughs because I often will make a spreadsheet when I'm thinking about buying something that costs more than a few dollars..... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/v4q2nda) 2022-10-17T17:32:45Z **(#zukeuga) @eaplmx government is *us*. When you say it's a rabbit hole, you're essentially saying that we can't do anything, which is an unprodu ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) government is \*us\*. When you say it's a rabbit hole, you're essentially saying that we can't do anything, which is an unproductive way to think. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lb3qj2a) 2022-10-17T17:33:48Z **(#zukeuga) @eaplmx under capitalism, if the product is free then you're the product. But we are not required to run every last thing in society ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) under capitalism, if the product is free then you're the product. But we are not required to run every last thing in society as if it were a capitalist enterprise. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3akvtda) 2022-10-17T18:09:51Z **(#zukeuga) @eaplmx It's not about inventing an entire political system to transcend our current circumstances. The family is not capitalist eith ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) It's not about inventing an entire political system to transcend our current circumstances. The family is not capitalist either--you don't pay your kids for hugs, or your cousin for advice. You don't pay people for gifts they give you on your birthday. I'm sure there are plent ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/46cpflq) 2022-10-17T19:02:26Z **(#ujdiovq) @lyse In the US you sometimes need to communicate with health care providers by fax. This used to be very common but is becoming less ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) In the US you sometimes need to communicate with health care providers by fax. This used to be very common but is becoming less so. I asked someone about it once and their response was that fax was the most secure way they had to communicate (!) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hw763oq) 2022-10-18T12:10:38Z **Hmm, how to keep yarn.social from logging you out?**
Hmm, how to keep yarn.social from logging you out? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zuo33pa) 2022-10-18T12:40:17Z **(#5wjkxaa) Irritating as that can be, I can't really complain. We've enjoyed pretty reliable internet service for years.**
Irritating as that can be, I can't really complain. We've enjoyed pretty reliable internet service for years. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hppv5jq) 2022-10-18T12:39:56Z **Currently tethering my computer through my phone because our main internet is down.**
Currently tethering my computer through my phone because our main internet is down. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5wjkxaa) 2022-10-18T12:39:29Z **(#zuo33pa) @prologic Is that adjustable?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Is that adjustable? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hnjtlcq) 2022-10-18T12:39:15Z **(#zuo33pa) @prologic well yes, I've done that, but it still forgets me after awhile 😭**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) well yes, I've done that, but it still forgets me after awhile 😭 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/y3qwbxq) 2022-10-18T12:56:33Z **(#zuo33pa) @prologic I guess I could have read the help myself huh? 😆**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I guess I could have read the help myself huh? 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/umnjx5q) 2022-10-18T13:05:37Z **It's 2022 and there are still basic programs like file managers that can't deal with network problems (looking at you `dolphin`).**
It's 2022 and there are still basic programs like file managers that can't deal with network problems (looking at you \`dolphin\`). ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uqucwfq) 2022-10-18T13:10:55Z **(#uqucwfq) It just seems odd that `dolphin` fails to show me *any* filesystems just because some network mounted filesystems are not currently a ...**
It just seems odd that \`dolphin\` fails to show me \*any\* filesystems just because some network mounted filesystems are not currently available. Reminds me of the days when Windows would hang because some network device like a printer wasn't responding the way it wanted. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/maafiua) 2022-10-18T13:16:07Z **(#uqucwfq) I feel like part of the reason people like web tech for apps is that for all its faults it takes asynchronous computing and transient ...**
I feel like part of the reason people like web tech for apps is that for all its faults it takes asynchronous computing and transient failures seriously (because it has to), so the UX tends to be better generally. \`dolphin\` is a native app and seems to be doing something like "wait for all filesystems to respond before giving the user control", which is a big UX fail. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jupxwaq) 2022-10-18T14:05:18Z **(#dlz4iuq) @akoizumi I kinda hate 2fa**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) I kinda hate 2fa ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ztkvita) 2022-10-18T14:19:16Z **StoPS

> StoPS is a device-based password management approach, built atop an existing oblivious PRF (OPRF) scheme, that transforms a human-memor ...**
[StoPS](https://sites.google.com/site/stopsmanager/)

\> StoPS is a device-based password management approach, built atop an existing oblivious PRF (OPRF) scheme, that transforms a human-memorable password into a random password with the aid of a device without the device learning anything about the password and without the need to store the password in any form (plaintext, hashed, or e ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ewzm6tq) 2022-10-18T14:24:35Z **(#dlz4iuq) @prologic oh I know, but client certificates and security keys are a lot more secure and pretty convenient once you fight through all ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) oh I know, but client certificates and security keys are a lot more secure and pretty convenient once you fight through all the setup. Also, I think many implementations of 2FA completely destroy most of its benefits. SMSing or emailing a person a code in plain text, whi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oxgue7q) 2022-10-18T14:30:21Z **(#ewzm6tq) In the demo video they show a user typing their easy to remember plain old password into a browser with an extension installed that h ...**
In the demo video they show a user typing their easy to remember plain old password into a browser with an extension installed that helps coordinate the magic of their technique. They hit something on their phone, which kicks off the magic, and their easy to remember password is replaced with the strong generated password that was actually registered with the site. They don't show what ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/q2rnasq) 2022-10-18T18:19:16Z **(#lktifga) @prologic what is that!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) what is that! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rm2ycba) 2022-10-19T12:55:44Z **Leading causes of death for Americans ages 35-54 in 2021

- COVID-19: 52,892
- Heart disease: 47,286
- Accidental ODs: 47,080
- Cancer: 44,761
- ...**
Leading causes of death for Americans ages 35-54 in 2021

\- COVID-19: 52,892
\- Heart disease: 47,286
\- Accidental ODs: 47,080
\- Cancer: 44,761
\- Liver disease: 16,334
\- Suicide: 15,262
\- Motor vehicle accidents: 13,372
\- Diabetes: 10,558

It'll be the same or worse in 2022. Anti-maskers and COVID minimizers really have a lot to answer for, especially if they avoid sweets, avoid ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ysvccoa) 2022-10-19T13:09:14Z **(#uqucwfq) @lyse good I'm glad! I don't know why it's happening to me but it's annoying and unnecessary.**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) good I'm glad! I don't know why it's happening to me but it's annoying and unnecessary. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/a2zpe3q) 2022-10-19T13:29:34Z **(#wbjwkzq) One observation we note from prior research is that gaining fluency in a programming language takes roughly the same amount of time-- ...**
One observation we note from prior research is that gaining fluency in a programming language takes roughly the same amount of time--730 hours, depending on lots of factors--as gaining fluency in a natural language. Most people don't have 730 hours of free time to spend learning another language, and if they did have that free time there are lots of other things they'd probably need to ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ih2y6ua) 2022-10-19T13:25:41Z **Recent computer science education research strongly suggests that "computational thinking"--a way of logical/analytical thinking--is distinct fr ...**
Recent computer science education research strongly suggests that "computational thinking"--a way of logical/analytical thinking--is distinct from learning to code. Based in part on that research, my wife and I designed and taught a course for several years and wrote a number of articles about it. The latest was titled "Programming Without Code". While I'm not a "no code" evangelist, I ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wbjwkzq) 2022-10-19T13:33:56Z **(#wbjwkzq) None of this is to say that people shouldn't learn programming languages. Quite the opposite. I think learning a programming language ...**
None of this is to say that people shouldn't learn programming languages. Quite the opposite. I think learning a programming language can be a great thing for some people. But a 3 week bootcamp is not enough to really \*learn\* a programming language, and on top of that it's not necessary to learn a programming language to do really cool stuff with a computer. I urge for more realism ab ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mtesomq) 2022-10-19T13:56:19Z **(#wbjwkzq) @eaplmx yeah, I don't think Turing completeness is the be all/end all of programming. Total functional programming languages (especia ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) yeah, I don't think Turing completeness is the be all/end all of programming. Total functional programming languages (especially theorem provers) are not Turing complete, but they are very useful anyway. However, every time I've taught this course I've had at least one student ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4pvdyaa) 2022-10-19T14:00:35Z **(#wbjwkzq) @eaplmx cool, good luck! I hope it goes well.**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) cool, good luck! I hope it goes well. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/dq2zzvq) 2022-10-19T14:02:38Z **(#pl2t3wa) @eaplmx I think so too. You often have these "aha!" moments when learning. I think that process never stops--you can always learn mor ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I think so too. You often have these "aha!" moments when learning. I think that process never stops--you can always learn more about a subject! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qsqzmxq) 2022-10-19T14:23:57Z **(#wbjwkzq) @eaplmx I like this video a lot for that: , especially starting around 2:30 when he talks about how people who used to code computer ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I like this video a lot for that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 , especially starting around 2:30 when he talks about how people who used to code computers directly in binary machine code resisted assembly language as "not real programming" when it first appeared ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kj4cona) 2022-10-19T15:18:07Z **AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning | Ars Technica

OK, we can't have this debate all over again.
> But new insights ...**
[AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning \| Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/ai-is-changing-scientists-understanding-of-language-learning/)

OK, we can't have this debate all over again.
\> But new insights into language learning are coming from an unlikely source: artificial intelligence. A new breed of large AI language models ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pnmdbsq) 2022-10-19T15:27:02Z **(#pnmdbsq) You could literally re-write this same story by cherry-picking a best-in-class deep parser result and saying that scientists are re-a ...**
You could literally re-write this same story by cherry-picking a best-in-class deep parser result and saying that scientists are re-affirming their belief in deep knowledge structures based on the latest results in computational linguistics. That's how you know it's a B.S. hype story and not grounded in evidence. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hyvyw2a) 2022-10-19T15:24:55Z **(#wbjwkzq) @eaplmx 👍**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) 👍 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ifvcrzq) 2022-10-19T15:23:28Z **(#pnmdbsq) Yes, they mention this new (not yet peer reviewed) version of GPT-2 might be able to perform similarly with significantly less input. ...**
Yes, they mention this new (not yet peer reviewed) version of GPT-2 might be able to perform similarly with significantly less input. Still, it's carefully curated, written text input, and it's still a huge amount. There's no way people learn language like that. There has to be something else going on.

Meanwhile, what doesn't get hyped at all for some reason is that there are wide-cove ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/44qbhpq) 2022-10-19T16:51:07Z **BuccoiPod - BUCCOI

Not to be confused with BucciPod, my yarn.social pod!**
[BuccoiPod - BUCCOI](https://www.buccoi.com/buccoipod/)

Not to be confused with BucciPod, my yarn.social pod! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qcsriyq) 2022-10-19T22:23:51Z **(#pnmdbsq) @prologic I hate all the hype around things like GPT-3 so much. A model with 200 billion parameters that ingested a trillion words of ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I hate all the hype around things like GPT-3 so much. A model with 200 billion parameters that ingested a trillion words of text damn well better perform well. It should also be able to make coffee and play chess and sing. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jkcfmza) 2022-10-19T23:28:40Z **(#pnmdbsq) @prologic sone of those language models take tens or hundreds of days to train on an NVIDIA A100 and use the electricity it would tak ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) sone of those language models take tens or hundreds of days to train on an NVIDIA A100 and use the electricity it would take to run a town. These results aren't even replicable for all but the largest organizations. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rkioi3a) 2022-10-19T23:30:05Z **(#pnmdbsq) Do you remember before they released these GPT language models OpenAi was making these press releases like "we found this amazing AI ...**
Do you remember before they released these GPT language models OpenAi was making these press releases like "we found this amazing AI for NLP but it would be irresponsible of us to release it to the public because it's TOO GOOD"? Utter hype. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4iqimdq) 2022-10-20T00:16:43Z **(#rkioi3a) @prologic the thing is, to do anything specialized you get much better results if you train your own model, usually. So besides not b ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) the thing is, to do anything specialized you get much better results if you train your own model, usually. So besides not being able to realistically run existing models on consumer-grade hardware, you have very little hope of customizing and fine tuning models to your o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/76t5hfa) 2022-10-20T01:56:12Z **(#rkioi3a) @prologic only $35k? wow I'll take two!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) only $35k? wow I'll take two! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kbvp4pa) 2022-10-20T11:18:37Z **(#dp3gv6q) @prologic observation #1: when you install this apk it is named "app" instead of Goryon**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) observation [#1](https://anthony.buc.ci/search?tag=1): when you install this apk it is named "app" instead of Goryon ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cmrawyq) 2022-10-20T11:55:03Z **(#dp3gv6q) observation #2: I cannot log into my pod. Error in attached screenshot. The error seems wrong to me because I can view my pod in mobi ...**
observation [#2](https://anthony.buc.ci/search?tag=2): I cannot log into my pod. Error in attached screenshot. The error seems wrong to me because I can view my pod in mobile web browsers with no problem, and do often. ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/8EHKXm5h5xPUuK4MeLDk9g.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ml5k3zq) 2022-10-20T11:52:52Z **(#dp3gv6q) @prologic**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/sRRyhyhwLkfXkRzLSfo7oY.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xfebdya) 2022-10-20T11:58:28Z **(#dp3gv6q) that name lookup works fine on my phone in tmux/`nslookup` as well as in mobile web browsers, so the error goryon is giving is spurio ...**
that name lookup works fine on my phone in tmux/\`nslookup\` as well as in mobile web browsers, so the error goryon is giving is spurious. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/k4iz7ia) 2022-10-20T12:03:47Z **(#qcsriyq) @movq Offices confer status, and you can't let the worker bees feel like they have any status in the company! They might get Ideas.**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) Offices confer status, and you can't let the worker bees feel like they have any status in the company! They might get Ideas. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rqr2o3a) 2022-10-20T14:49:07Z **(#dp3gv6q) @eaplmx hmm yeah it seems like something is wrong!**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) hmm yeah it seems like something is wrong! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7l4q2nq) 2022-10-20T15:00:13Z **I'm a long-time Sublime Text user, and one of the stickiest features of that app is the "goto anywhere" menu. Apps that don't have something lik ...**
I'm a long-time Sublime Text user, and one of the stickiest features of that app is the "goto anywhere" menu. Apps that don't have something like that feel old and clunky to me nowadays, the way X11 apps from the 1990s feel. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xuaevqq) 2022-10-20T15:02:16Z **(#xuaevqq) Just checked and I bought my first license from them in June 2013, so over 9 years. I used it awhile before buying, so perhaps close ...**
Just checked and I bought my first license from them in June 2013, so over 9 years. I used it awhile before buying, so perhaps close to 10 years. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kuzyzna) 2022-10-20T15:09:02Z **(#xuaevqq) Anyhow, remembering one keyboard shortcut for the goto anywhere feature and then using autocompletion or filtering based on a few ext ...**
Anyhow, remembering one keyboard shortcut for the goto anywhere feature and then using autocompletion or filtering based on a few extra keystrokes makes getting to the command you want almost as fast as keyboard shortcuts, with orders of magnitude less cognitive load, memory storage requirements, or learning curve. That feels like a significant advance in user interfaces to me and it's ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ai7e2xa) 2022-10-20T15:07:11Z **(#xuaevqq) I don't know if I'll ever switch away. Old school editors and their modern progeny feel like big steps backwards to me. Modal anythin ...**
I don't know if I'll ever switch away. Old school editors and their modern progeny feel like big steps backwards to me. Modal anything is poison to my way of thinking so no way I'm going there. Memorizing byzantine keyboard shortcuts is not something I'm going to start doing--that's exactly the sort of thing that a computer should be doing for you. Memorizing stuff like Meta-Ctrl-X-C or ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wex2jrq) 2022-10-20T15:40:26Z **(#xuaevqq) Not that anyone else should give a crap about my preferences in editors--I'm just babbling--but I know exactly one `vi` command (`:q! ...**
Not that anyone else should give a crap about my preferences in editors--I'm just babbling--but I know exactly one \`vi\` command (\`:q!\`) and one \`emacs\` command (\`Ctrl-X-Ctrl-C\`) and I'd like to keep it that way forever. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/53vfuba) 2022-10-20T16:44:53Z **(#xuaevqq) @eaplmx I use Codium (the de-microsofted VS Code) sometimes, and it's very useful. I like that it has a goto-anywhere-like feature. I ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) I use Codium (the de-microsofted VS Code) sometimes, and it's very useful. I like that it has a goto-anywhere-like feature. I like to credit Sublime for pioneering that idea. I think that's important. On the other hand I'm happy other apps run with the idea too. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/35hlmeq) 2022-10-20T17:53:55Z **(#hmyzoaa) @darch thank you for amplifying my important opinions in text editors! 😆**
[@darch _@neotxt.dk_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&nick=darch) thank you for amplifying my important opinions in text editors! 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hwoau7q) 2022-10-20T20:49:11Z **(#ufbh5ga) If you shake out the stupid fancy economic math, you find that they'd say it is *moral* to brutally murder 7 billion people if, someh ...**
If you shake out the stupid fancy economic math, you find that they'd say it is \*moral\* to brutally murder 7 billion people if, somehow, that's what was necessary to reach a possible future with trillions of simulated humans. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x7rbfeq) 2022-10-20T20:46:38Z **Longtermism is transparently stupid and dangerous.**
Longtermism is transparently stupid and dangerous. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ufbh5ga) 2022-10-21T01:41:50Z **(#dp3gv6q) @eaplmx working for me as well. This post is from the app!**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) working for me as well. This post is from the app! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/aynjwvq) 2022-10-21T01:45:06Z **(#dp3gv6q) @prologic I never used the app before so for me this is new territory!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I never used the app before so for me this is new territory! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5f4ushq) 2022-10-21T10:20:51Z **(#pvgxmca) @will It depends.
- If there is existing code I plan to modify, I use `TODO:`, `FIXME:` etc. Sublime Text has a nice plugin called To ...**
[@will _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt&nick=will) It depends.
\- If there is existing code I plan to modify, I use \`TODO:\`, \`FIXME:\` etc. Sublime Text has a nice plugin called Todo Review that you can run on a project to produce a report of all your TODOs and FIXMEs (or any other tag you want). The report is clickable so you ca ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/da2gepq) 2022-10-21T10:23:01Z **(#5f4ushq) @prologic Logging into a pod from a mobile web app works really well, so that's what I've been doing when I'm not at my computer. A d ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Logging into a pod from a mobile web app works really well, so that's what I've been doing when I'm not at my computer. A dedicated app is cool though! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/g7e2nbq) 2022-10-21T11:52:12Z **Microsoft leaked 2.4TB of data belonging to sensitive customer. Critics are furious | Ars Technica

Microsoft really wants you to believe they'r ...**
[Microsoft leaked 2.4TB of data belonging to sensitive customer. Critics are furious \| Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/microsoft-under-fire-for-response-to-leak-of-2-4tb-of-sensitive-customer-data/)

Microsoft really wants you to believe they're good on security, but things like this continuously happen and they almost always downplay them instead o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/flzmy5a) 2022-10-21T11:48:54Z **(#da2gepq) @prologic I've been using gitbucket for years, since 2013-ish I think? It appeared before gogs/gitea and is very mature and stable at ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I've been using gitbucket for years, since 2013-ish I think? It appeared before gogs/gitea and is very mature and stable at this point. I'm surprised more people don't use it. I guess the JVM puts some people off, although I suspect you could compile it down to native if ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bgnbaia) 2022-10-21T11:56:09Z **I'm very curious about the WiPhone but I think I'd like to play around with one before committing to buying.**
I'm very curious about the [WiPhone](https://www.wiphone.io) but I think I'd like to play around with one before committing to buying. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7y2jclq) 2022-10-21T11:53:06Z **(#flzmy5a) Is it really that hard to say "yeah, we fucked up, we'll do better next time and here are the steps we're planning to take to avoid t ...**
Is it really that hard to say "yeah, we fucked up, we'll do better next time and here are the steps we're planning to take to avoid this kind of thing in the future" ? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zo36ktq) 2022-10-21T12:04:53Z **(#ufbh5ga) Hi, you could have an artificial general intelligence that was less capable cognitively than any person you know, and it'd still be a ...**
Hi, you could have an artificial general intelligence that was less capable cognitively than any person you know, and it'd still be an amazing feat of engineering.

You could have an artificial general intelligence that required 90% of Earth's power resources to play a game of chess.

Etc. etc. etc. SV fools want you to believe that this stuff is inevitable, but it's only because that's ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ygbpqrq) 2022-10-21T12:01:05Z **(#ufbh5ga) We're not on the cusp of human-level artificial intelligence, any more than we're on the cusp of having self-driving cars (remember t ...**
We're not on the cusp of human-level artificial intelligence, any more than we're on the cusp of having self-driving cars (remember that hype fest?). We're not.

And even if we did develop artificial general intelligence, there's no reason to believe that this would immediately develop into a "super intelligence" that decides to extinct humans.

We're not living in a simulation either.
 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/n5vty3a) 2022-10-21T12:07:59Z **(#da2gepq) @prologic Vikunja looks interesting, thanks! I think I might play with that.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Vikunja looks interesting, thanks! I think I might play with that. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zlggeua) 2022-10-21T12:05:22Z **(#ufbh5ga) Self-driving cars and web3 live in the same world as "Human-level AI is right around the corner" and "We live in a simulation!". Scam ...**
Self-driving cars and web3 live in the same world as "Human-level AI is right around the corner" and "We live in a simulation!". Scams and cons. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jzkyyhq) 2022-10-21T12:12:15Z **(#7y2jclq) I do like the LoRa add-on board option, though. I could see my wife and me using that a lot.**
I do like the LoRa add-on board option, though. I could see my wife and me using that a lot. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/myrildq) 2022-10-21T12:11:24Z **(#7y2jclq) @prologic Right? The one thing that gives me pause is that making voice calls requires SIP/WiFi. If you want to call an ordinary phon ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Right? The one thing that gives me pause is that making voice calls requires SIP/WiFi. If you want to call an ordinary phone number, you'll need a SIP provider that bridges SIP to the phone network, and those usually cost money (I don't know enough about that world to kn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gb33c3q) 2022-10-21T12:23:33Z **(#da2gepq) @prologic ah cool, it has a dark theme *and* a kanban board mode. I don't like todo list style planning with due dates etc. because t ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ah cool, it has a dark theme \*and\* a kanban board mode. I don't like todo list style planning with due dates etc. because too much of what I do is research-y and can't be given a solid due date (if you try, everything is overdue all the time). I might have to self host ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7tvwifa) 2022-10-21T12:33:18Z **(#da2gepq) @prologic yes, I think the flexibility is great! 👍

Unfortunately, I have a growing backlog of things I'd like to self host and no ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yes, I think the flexibility is great! 👍

Unfortunately, I have a growing backlog of things I'd like to self host and not very much free time 😕 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uw5araq) 2022-10-21T12:41:17Z **(#da2gepq) @prologic One other thing I can say in favor of kanboard that offsets the PHP a little bit is that it has a really nice REST API that ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) One other thing I can say in favor of kanboard that offsets the PHP a little bit is that it has a really nice REST API that I've used a fair amount. Pretty much anything you can do in the user interface you can also do programmatically through the API. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/donpnoa) 2022-10-21T13:03:47Z **(#5mantaq) @prologic ha that looks fun**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ha that looks fun ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/b7tr2wa) 2022-10-21T13:11:20Z **(#5mantaq) @prologic I totally want a phone with the guts exposed**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I totally want a phone with the guts exposed ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hlkb6lq) 2022-10-21T13:34:06Z **(#ize6vsa) @prologic dear imgui is used a lot in games and is pretty well respected I take it.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) dear imgui is used a lot in games and is pretty well respected I take it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vsdxx7a) 2022-10-21T13:33:05Z **(#flzmy5a) @movq I imagine so. Not cool.**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) I imagine so. Not cool. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jtbl33a) 2022-10-21T13:46:05Z **(#ize6vsa) @prologic ugh that's no good.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ugh that's no good. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wijcnra) 2022-10-21T15:16:51Z **(#m6pqgca) @stigatle wow, it almost doesn't look real!**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) wow, it almost doesn't look real! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/t7yjh6a) 2022-10-21T21:30:36Z **(#t7yjh6a) @stigatle it's very beautiful there**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) it's very beautiful there ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2j4wroa) 2022-10-21T23:25:40Z **What if I don't want to reboot my computer, Ubuntu? What then????**
What if I don't want to reboot my computer, Ubuntu? What then???? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/53yowaa) 2022-10-22T00:35:28Z **(#53yowaa) @prologic maybe it did, but if so that does not seem to have much impact in practice because I feel like I'm constantly being told to ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) maybe it did, but if so that does not seem to have much impact in practice because I feel like I'm constantly being told to reboot ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qjwryvq) 2022-10-22T00:42:43Z **Stop sending me links to how my OS could be acting when I'm telling you that in practice it does not do that. Come on.**
Stop sending me links to how my OS could be acting when I'm telling you that in practice it does not do that. Come on. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vqs64ua) 2022-10-22T00:54:01Z **(#53yowaa) @taigrr my OS does not do that in practice.**
[@taigrr _@ndl.taigrr.com_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://ndl.taigrr.com/user/taigrr/twtxt.txt&nick=taigrr) my OS does not do that in practice. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cnjal5a) 2022-10-22T01:07:28Z **(#xskfpea) I'm on my phone posting this from a web browser logged into my pod. I'd logged into my pod from the Goryon app yesterday and posted a ...**
I'm on my phone posting this from a web browser logged into my pod. I'd logged into my pod from the Goryon app yesterday and posted a few tines from it, including a few hours ago. But here we are and only my web browser remains logged in. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/dqigmzq) 2022-10-22T01:05:24Z **Dangit, Goryon logged me out for no apparent reason?**
Dangit, Goryon logged me out for no apparent reason? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xskfpea) 2022-10-22T02:12:11Z **(#xskfpea) @eaplmx that's good to know, thanks! I don't know if I was off the internet but I might have been so maybe that's what happened**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) that's good to know, thanks! I don't know if I was off the internet but I might have been so maybe that's what happened ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/hnwutuq) 2022-10-22T11:46:48Z **(#zatuwba) @ocdtrekkie @mckinley a `git` commit hook can do it too if you're into those:**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) [@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) a \`git\` commit hook can do it too if you're into those: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3583114 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bqud2za) 2022-10-22T11:51:55Z **(#x77j6aq) @prologic Nice, I've been looking for SSO for my self-hosted stuff. It's one of those things on my never ending TODO list lol. When y ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Nice, I've been looking for SSO for my self-hosted stuff. It's one of those things on my never ending TODO list lol. When you get a second could you share a short write-up of what you like about it? The candidates I meant to check out (in no particular order) are:
\- [lo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vbjjrca) 2022-10-22T11:47:14Z **(#qekthzq) @lyse just in time for Halloween!**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) just in time for Halloween! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zco23vq) 2022-10-22T12:41:16Z **(#53yowaa) @prologic @taigrr I've never bothered to track down *why* my computer wants to reboot and why the live patch thing didn't prevent the ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@taigrr _@ndl.taigrr.com_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://ndl.taigrr.com/user/taigrr/twtxt.txt&nick=taigrr) I've never bothered to track down \*why\* my computer wants to reboot and why the live patch thing didn't prevent the need to. If I had the time/incl ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/r674tuq) 2022-10-22T13:34:31Z **Creepy 😱

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Creepy 😱

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/rKCchvKpXu2Lv7XLBpdswD.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wday6xa) 2022-10-22T13:57:18Z **(#wday6xa) @prologic I'm beginning to wonder 😱**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'm beginning to wonder 😱 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/plkev7a) 2022-10-22T13:56:26Z **(#wday6xa) I use a spaced repetition app to keep momentum in projects I care about, and I currently have 13 cards due 😱😱**
I use a spaced repetition app to keep momentum in projects I care about, and I currently have 13 cards due 😱😱 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3gezg2a) 2022-10-22T13:58:49Z **(#x77j6aq) @prologic thanks!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) thanks! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/73r7sya) 2022-10-22T14:08:04Z **(#53yowaa) @movq I'm never not in this state:
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[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) I'm never not in this state:
 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/a94SYmRj5uitGPxYgTigv5.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/o4rmlsa) 2022-10-22T14:56:15Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic I did know that about IndieAuth and yarn!

I'd love to be able to use IndieAuth to manage authentication for all my web app ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I did know that about IndieAuth and yarn!

I'd love to be able to use IndieAuth to manage authentication for all my web apps. That'd be close to ideal for me I think. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/n7o4wvq) 2022-10-22T14:54:21Z **(#x77j6aq) @prologic sounds great so far!

It's interesting. I was laid off from a company in 2013 or so and then spent three years consulting i ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) sounds great so far!

It's interesting. I was laid off from a company in 2013 or so and then spent three years consulting independently. That time period is when I started self hosting a bunch of services: git, secure file share, project management (kanban), email/CalDav ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7hc5lza) 2022-10-22T15:00:59Z **(#x77j6aq) @prologic One thing I'd like to see a bit more about is how it looks in practice to configure some existing web app with Authelia (ob ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) One thing I'd like to see a bit more about is how it looks in practice to configure some existing web app with Authelia (obv with mocked config values). I have trouble getting my head around how much work it'd take to set up something like this and configure the actual a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zmfzxnq) 2022-10-22T14:58:31Z **(#x77j6aq) @ocdtrekkie sandstorm.io looks cool. It'd definitely be great to have a sort of off-the-shelf way of setting up the kinds of things s ...**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) sandstorm.io looks cool. It'd definitely be great to have a sort of off-the-shelf way of setting up the kinds of things sandstorm currently has. I spent a lot of time back in the mid 2010s sorting all this out on my own! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oz2zrgq) 2022-10-22T15:13:49Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic Sure, off the top of my head:

User management:
- Add/edit/delete users
- Monitor user actions (at least login)

In a RBAC ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Sure, off the top of my head:

User management:
\- Add/edit/delete users
\- Monitor user actions (at least login)

In a RBAC (Role Based Access Control) setting:

Role management:
\- Add/edit/delete roles
\- Monitor role usage by user

Service management:
\- Add/edit/del ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vk5ob7a) 2022-10-22T15:20:03Z **(#53yowaa) @movq I know right? It is weird. I can confirm it's not always shown.

I've confirmed that it's shown when certain proprietary driver ...**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) I know right? It is weird. I can confirm it's not always shown.

I've confirmed that it's shown when certain proprietary drivers are updated. For instance, I have an NVIDIA graphics card and I use their proprietary driver; whenever that is updated, a reboot is needed. I don't know ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6ago7gq) 2022-10-22T15:32:44Z **(#gfpkedq) @ocdtrekkie I wonder how far you could get with ABAC (Attribute Based Access Control), which Casbin supports directly. Casbin has a m ...**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) I wonder how far you could get with ABAC (Attribute Based Access Control), which Casbin supports directly. Casbin has a meta-model that can probably express capability based access control. I haven't tried that so I can't say for sure. Anyway, since we're spitballi ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rrqgyna) 2022-10-22T15:38:41Z **(#jajlzwq) @prologic oof. I just 👍'ed your report.

I feel the same way about that ecosystem. I'm fairly terrified of using anything in that ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) oof. I just 👍'ed your report.

I feel the same way about that ecosystem. I'm fairly terrified of using anything in that world for personal stuff (I'm stuck with it at work mostly) because of the tendency of people to just throw half a dozen caalls to third party web service ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2k25uja) 2022-10-22T15:53:16Z **(#gfpkedq) @ocdtrekkie yeah, that makes sense.**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) yeah, that makes sense. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4rxfrfq) 2022-10-22T15:58:03Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic RBAC may be overkill, I dunno.

- **Role**: Webmail User
- **Service**: Roundcube
- **User**: abucci
- **Policy**: Webmail ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) RBAC may be overkill, I dunno.

\- \*\*Role\*\*: Webmail User
\- \*\*Service\*\*: Roundcube
\- \*\*User\*\*: abucci
\- \*\*Policy\*\*: Webmail User has access to Roundcube.

^ It can't be overscoped, because you need to specify that kind of stuff one way or another; othe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zjvb2dq) 2022-10-22T16:07:09Z **(#jajlzwq) @prologic After reading your bug report I'm thinking of adding HedgeDoc to my growing list of things to self host!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) After reading your bug report I'm thinking of adding [HedgeDoc](https://hedgedoc.org) to my growing list of things to self host! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5qqqtma) 2022-10-22T16:05:53Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic Oh well shit that ought to be pretty straightforward (I'm saying as a person who's never used Authelia)? Yeah I have no sen ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Oh well shit that ought to be pretty straightforward (I'm saying as a person who's never used Authelia)? Yeah I have no sense for how it works or what it'd take to write an authentication backend for it so I'm not sure what to say requirements-wise. Will have to play wit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/krafraa) 2022-10-22T16:04:07Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Sorry!

Then yes, everything I wrote is overkill. Scratch that!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Sorry!

Then yes, everything I wrote is overkill. Scratch that! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zalscoa) 2022-10-22T16:38:44Z **(#4xke5sa) @prologic I have to say, these automagical methods that generate certificates and keys on the fly make me very nervous, securitywise. ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I have to say, these automagical methods that generate certificates and keys on the fly make me very nervous, securitywise. I think they defeat some of the purpose behind certificates: an automated system is not really an "authority". ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ohrfsha) 2022-10-22T16:36:48Z **(#5qqqtma) @ocdtrekkie @prologic I played around in the demo and it looks great. It does the stuff I'd want it to do. I didn't really play aroun ...**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I played around in the demo and it looks great. It does the stuff I'd want it to do. I didn't really play around with collaborative authoring becau ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yue6vva) 2022-10-22T16:41:40Z **(#4xke5sa) that said, i have `caddy` with Let's Encrypt sitting in front of my yarn pod, so.....can't beat the convenience.**
that said, i have \`caddy\` with Let's Encrypt sitting in front of my yarn pod, so.....can't beat the convenience. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/koi4qsa) 2022-10-22T16:40:36Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic yeah, a full-on user management system that allows you to inspect who can do what and add/revoke people and services and wh ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yeah, a full-on user management system that allows you to inspect who can do what and add/revoke people and services and whatnot would be very handy. But since Authelia sounds like it does RBAC already the immediate need for integrating with IndieAuth is the authenticati ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2cia52a) 2022-10-22T17:03:49Z **(#4xke5sa) @prologic I don't have a brand logo 😭**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I don't have a brand logo 😭 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/htlx2oq) 2022-10-22T17:00:13Z **(#4xke5sa) @ocdtrekkie @prologic clearly we're all just going to have to meet up and have a key exchange party, preferably somewhere sunny and n ...**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) clearly we're all just going to have to meet up and have a key exchange party, preferably somewhere sunny and nice. 🏖🔑 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/aws3vaq) 2022-10-22T17:33:35Z **(#4xke5sa) @ocdtrekkie lol who cares what corporations find hard**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) lol who cares what corporations find hard ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iqg4ikq) 2022-10-22T20:06:02Z **(#gfpkedq) @prologic Is the kind of flow you had in mind for authenticating?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Is the kind of flow you had in mind for authenticating? https://indielogin.com/api ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zspzrvq) 2022-10-23T00:57:32Z **(#reigyza) @prologic no worries, borrow at will!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) no worries, borrow at will! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/k4tzxna) 2022-10-23T14:05:53Z **How are there still people who call Microsoft's business strategy "genius"? They follow a century-old (at least) monopolist playbook. In the 199 ...**
How are there still people who call Microsoft's business strategy "genius"? They follow a century-old (at least) monopolist playbook. In the 1990s they came close to being broken up for this, but since then the enforcement of antitrust laws in the US has slackened significantly, and Microsoft has returned to its old ways. If it weren't so damaging it'd be boring. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/eynzupq) 2022-10-23T15:33:02Z **I spent some time yesterday playing with Quarto and it's pretty dang cool. Of course, I figured out how to get it to use the `scala` kernel sinc ...**
I spent some time yesterday playing with [Quarto](https://quarto.org) and it's pretty dang cool. Of course, I figured out how to get it to use the \`scala\` kernel since there is no way I'm using \`python\` or \`R\` for anything significant. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qftxs3a) 2022-10-23T19:18:54Z **(#dwh6cxa) @darch WinAmp reportedly works well under `wine` / PlayOnLinux.**
[@darch _@neotxt.dk_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&nick=darch) WinAmp reportedly works well under \`wine\` / PlayOnLinux. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ibi6dpq) 2022-10-24T00:42:50Z **(#ezmgila) @cobra hello!**
[@cobra _@yn.vern.cc_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yn.vern.cc/user/cobra/twtxt.txt&nick=cobra) hello! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kndrb4q) 2022-10-24T00:42:21Z **One drawback of Goryon is that I don't get to see my rad pod icon 🤘**
One drawback of Goryon is that I don't get to see my rad pod icon 🤘 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tbcl6aq) 2022-10-24T01:13:51Z **(#tbcl6aq) I like the app and am not complaining it's just that I like seeing the logos**
I like the app and am not complaining it's just that I like seeing the logos ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xr2rtna) 2022-10-24T01:12:49Z **(#tbcl6aq) @prologic OK will do!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) OK will do! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bqswdcq) 2022-10-24T12:31:08Z **(#fw5uwka) @prologic cool**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) cool ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/742bjsa) 2022-10-24T13:14:31Z **Once again I have so many browser tabs open that I can't click any of them because they're too small to accurately hit.**
Once again I have so many browser tabs open that I can't click any of them because they're too small to accurately hit. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fop72fa) 2022-10-24T13:45:48Z **(#fop72fa) @prologic is that a rainloop tab I spy?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) is that a rainloop tab I spy? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ri7ukuq) 2022-10-24T13:56:40Z **(#ymchdfq) @cobra idk, I think there's lots of stuff on F-droid and related repos that isn't in the Google play store.**
[@cobra _@yn.vern.cc_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yn.vern.cc/user/cobra/twtxt.txt&nick=cobra) idk, I think there's lots of stuff on F-droid and related repos that isn't in the Google play store. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h44g7sa) 2022-10-24T14:15:22Z **(#ymchdfq) @cobra oh, I see. Yes, most apps seems to target only Android and IOS, not the Linux mobile OSes. I don't know much about Linux mobil ...**
[@cobra _@yn.vern.cc_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yn.vern.cc/user/cobra/twtxt.txt&nick=cobra) oh, I see. Yes, most apps seems to target only Android and IOS, not the Linux mobile OSes. I don't know much about Linux mobile. Is there any hope of running an emulator? I use Waydroid on my laptop and it runs Android apps remarkably well. I guess there'd be issues interfacing ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pseggka) 2022-10-24T16:39:36Z **I was just looking a plot of a function that you could zoom or unzoom with the mouse wheel. I decided to unzoom a bit, but sorta slipped on the ...**
I was just looking a plot of a function that you could zoom or unzoom with the mouse wheel. I decided to unzoom a bit, but sorta slipped on the mouse wheel. Before I knew it, the axes were saying things like 100Y. That turned out to be 100 yotta (10^26). I know that because as I started zooming back in I saw Z, then E, then P, then T, .... Anyhow, I'd say the zoom is a little too sensit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ph6q6uq) 2022-10-24T17:20:22Z **(#fop72fa) @will oh I know. It's a constant source of frustration. I have a long rant about how web brower makers don't actually respond to user ...**
[@will _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt&nick=will) oh I know. It's a constant source of frustration. I have a long rant about how web brower makers don't actually respond to user needs much anymore, and the tab is evidence. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/dpzjwva) 2022-10-24T17:39:45Z **I want to use Pijul instead of `git` so so bad.**
I want to use [Pijul](https://pijul.org) instead of \`git\` so so bad. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/e2nxw4a) 2022-10-24T17:37:47Z **(#2h7mmfa) @movq ugh, it won't be visible where I am. I'm envious!**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) ugh, it won't be visible where I am. I'm envious! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3abqgvq) 2022-10-24T17:36:20Z **(#tbcl6aq) @prologic OK I filed an issue. I wasn't able to change the pulldowns to make it an enhancement so it's in the default status.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) OK I filed an issue. I wasn't able to change the pulldowns to make it an enhancement so it's in the default status. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ocxptqa) 2022-10-24T17:41:12Z **(#fop72fa) @tkanos of course. There are still too many. I am an Information Hoarder™**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) of course. There are still too many. I am an Information Hoarder™ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nt5nciq) 2022-10-24T17:40:35Z **(#e2nxw4a) my main hangup is the lack of a self-hosted repo GUI like gitea or gitbucket.**
my main hangup is the lack of a self-hosted repo GUI like gitea or gitbucket. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xk5txfa) 2022-10-24T18:13:55Z **(#e2nxw4a) @akoizumi they literally say on their web site that they fix many of the pain points of `darcs`!**
[@akoizumi _@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://social.kyoko-project.wer.ee/user/akoizumi/twtxt.txt&nick=akoizumi) they literally say on their web site that they fix many of the pain points of \`darcs\`! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wpqhpoq) 2022-10-24T18:18:13Z **(#fop72fa) @eaplmx yes, that'd be awesome.

So, part of my Rant Against Browsers is that the tab/page/app/whatever is the unit of work in the br ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) yes, that'd be awesome.

So, part of my Rant Against Browsers is that the tab/page/app/whatever is the unit of work in the brower for most people. Yet as an application, the web browser does not treat these things as such. You should be able to Create New/Open/Save/Save As tab ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tdlsfnq) 2022-10-24T19:51:21Z **(#fop72fa) @will briefly mining bitcoin on someone else's behalf is a small price to pay for 100 bytes of data! what would you prefer, having to ...**
[@will _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt&nick=will) briefly mining bitcoin on someone else's behalf is a small price to pay for 100 bytes of data! what would you prefer, having to actually pay out of pocket??? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ajxa6iq) 2022-10-24T19:57:39Z **(#7tfgmaq) @mckinley it even has "go" in the name, but it's not written in go. I'm very disappointed.**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) it even has "go" in the name, but it's not written in go. I'm very disappointed. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fswhgcq) 2022-10-24T20:09:35Z **(#7tfgmaq) @eaplmx gopher solve the problem of not having enough burrows under your lawn**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) gopher solve the problem of not having enough burrows under your lawn ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/eqzz7jq) 2022-10-24T21:30:32Z **(#7tfgmaq) @mckinley I'm old enough that I used and got used to gopher before I encountered "the web", which I thought of as gopher with pictur ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) I'm old enough that I used and got used to gopher before I encountered "the web", which I thought of as gopher with pictures for a long time ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2krgnlq) 2022-10-24T21:40:53Z **(#7tfgmaq) gopher is not a healthy ecosystem. What happened in 2017-2018 to temporarily bump it up?

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gopher is not a healthy ecosystem. What happened in 2017-2018 to temporarily bump it up?

 ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/VB9ixUDQe2jV6J8vM6Jvzk.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/usrjuea) 2022-10-25T00:39:43Z **Nighttime reading

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Nighttime reading

![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/mQfTjHw3mzkiBgbaVx3gwk.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qe55uva) 2022-10-25T01:29:11Z **complain all you want about javascript--and I do--but you have to admit stuff like this is cool:**
complain all you want about javascript--and I do--but you have to admit stuff like this is cool: https://slowroads.io/ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nip2oua) 2022-10-25T01:35:53Z **(#e3gotpq) @prologic I'll look at these next time I'm at my computer... too hard to read on my phone!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'll look at these next time I'm at my computer... too hard to read on my phone! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ql3fuxq) 2022-10-25T01:34:29Z **(#nip2oua) @prologic**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/67FuFzFT8oPLLz7FZ8qA8T.png) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bphbbja) 2022-10-25T01:50:42Z **(#nip2oua) @prologic I keep crashing into the sand dunes lol**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I keep crashing into the sand dunes lol ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/diokweq) 2022-10-25T13:23:35Z **(#wwxq6mq) @prologic TLS is Transport Layer Security so it's hard to understand why someone would say it's not applicable to gopher?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) TLS is Transport Layer Security so it's hard to understand why someone would say it's not applicable to gopher? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ewsdgpq) 2022-10-25T13:21:25Z **[The Possible World Explorer (PEW) – Sébastien Ferré]()

This is an interesting and relevant project for me, but the name! If only you reall ...**
[The Possible World Explorer (PEW) – Sébastien Ferré](http://people.irisa.fr/Sebastien.Ferre/software/pew/)

This is an interesting and relevant project for me, but the name! If only you really could explore possible worlds! 🤯 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/72yh7ea) 2022-10-25T13:43:23Z **(#lbtyjwa) @prologic 🎉**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 🎉 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wt7725a) 2022-10-25T14:09:37Z **(#irsw52q) @prologic @darch @tkanos sure, I can put a Santa hat on my bird feather avatar or something 🎅🐦**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@darch _@neotxt.dk_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://neotxt.dk/user/darch/twtxt.txt&nick=darch) [@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) sure, I can put a Santa hat on my bird feather avatar or something 🎅🐦 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7paweoa) 2022-10-25T14:15:21Z **(#7paweoa) @prologic it's a close up picture of a blue jay tail feather ( ; a pretty common type of corvid up here). I found it sitting prominen ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) it's a close up picture of a blue jay tail feather (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue\_jay ; a pretty common type of corvid up here). I found it sitting prominently on my doormat one day years ago as if it were placed there for some cosmic reason I was too limited to un ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/invrsrq) 2022-10-25T17:44:55Z **(#okvz3lq) @eaplmx JMP.chat partners with snikket and if you get a JMP.chat number you can opt for them to run a hosted snikket instance for it ...**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) JMP.chat partners with snikket and if you get a JMP.chat number you can opt for them to run a hosted snikket instance for it at no charge. I follow the JMP.chat muc and their developers seem very competent and I trust their judgment. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ovfhy3q) 2022-10-26T00:16:47Z **(#attve2q) @phoronix Java 19 is a game changer with lightweight threads especially, and GraalVM code going to OpenJDK is pretty nice too**
[@phoronix _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/phoronix/twtxt.txt&nick=phoronix) Java 19 is a game changer with lightweight threads especially, and GraalVM code going to OpenJDK is pretty nice too ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/enchvaa) 2022-10-26T11:23:50Z **(#hxac37q) @mckinley I love xz, but it takes soooo long**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) I love xz, but it takes soooo long ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gxd3pea) 2022-10-26T11:54:39Z **If anyone's interested, Night Of The Scissors is on sale for US $2.39 on Steam, down from the exorbitant $2.99 they've been charging recently.**
If anyone's interested, Night Of The Scissors is on sale for US $2.39 on Steam, down from the exorbitant $2.99 they've been charging recently. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uxejcjq) 2022-10-26T14:04:16Z **(#uxejcjq) it's so glitchy and retro and I love horror games YMMV, but $2.39!**
it's so glitchy and retro and I love horror games YMMV, but $2.39! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uqzpwyq) 2022-10-26T14:20:29Z **There is construction next to the building I'm in and my building is shaking like there's an earthquake**
There is construction next to the building I'm in and my building is shaking like there's an earthquake ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xp65wpq) 2022-10-26T14:32:28Z **(#xp65wpq) @prologic ugh I bet, that sucks!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ugh I bet, that sucks! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/y4u2uuq) 2022-10-26T14:52:25Z **Murken Hollow | Dead Melodies | Cryo Chamber

I think I'm going to leave this playing in the background every time I have a Zoom meeting from no ...**
[Murken Hollow \| Dead Melodies \| Cryo Chamber](https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/murken-hollow)

I think I'm going to leave this playing in the background every time I have a Zoom meeting from now on. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qjcct4q) 2022-10-26T15:51:33Z **I have a lurker twitter account, but the moment the sale to Musk closes I'm deleting it.**
I have a lurker twitter account, but the moment the sale to Musk closes I'm deleting it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vbzz6ta) 2022-10-26T16:03:04Z **(#wwxq6mq) @movq idk, that sounds pretty hostile to me. The very first responses are to say "if there's TLS it's not gopher", and to post a rant ...**
[@movq _@uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) idk, that sounds pretty hostile to me. The very first responses are to say "if there's TLS it's not gopher", and to post a rant against using TLS at all.

The first exhibits territorialism and gatekeeping, which is by definition hostile. It's also dismissive.

The second comes cle ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/p7ihpwq) 2022-10-26T18:39:27Z **(#vbzz6ta) @ocdtrekkie I'm trying to figure out how to view a list of accounts in nitter. Lists are all I read on twitter these days.**
[@ocdtrekkie _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt&nick=ocdtrekkie) I'm trying to figure out how to view a list of accounts in nitter. Lists are all I read on twitter these days. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bx36hzq) 2022-10-26T20:40:40Z **berthubert/googerteller: audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google

> Start as:
>
> `sudo tcpdump -nql | ./teller`
>
> A ...**
[berthubert/googerteller: audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into google](https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller)

\> Start as:
>
\> \`sudo tcpdump -nql \| ./teller\`
>
\> And cry. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/assw5rq) 2022-10-26T20:58:31Z **(#bx36hzq) @mckinley It looks like you can enter a comma-separated list of twitter accounts (without the leading @), and nitter will show you tw ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) It looks like you can enter a comma-separated list of twitter accounts (without the leading @), and nitter will show you tweets from all of them. And then you can make an RSS feed out of that (which I haven't tried yet). ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c4t3noq) 2022-10-26T20:57:24Z **(#assw5rq) @mckinley on the one hand, I'm glad it's not beeping more than it is. On the other hand, it's beeping way too much.**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) on the one hand, I'm glad it's not beeping more than it is. On the other hand, it's beeping way too much. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/q4hkhuq) 2022-10-26T21:00:57Z **(#xp65wpq) @justamoment yikes, that stinks**
[@justamoment _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt&nick=justamoment) yikes, that stinks ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/px36grq) 2022-10-26T20:59:05Z **(#assw5rq) @cobra me too. Now I'm going to be obsessed with silencing it!**
[@cobra _@yn.vern.cc_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yn.vern.cc/user/cobra/twtxt.txt&nick=cobra) me too. Now I'm going to be obsessed with silencing it! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wql6j4q) 2022-10-26T21:04:09Z **(#wwxq6mq) @lyse 🤷 I appreciate your perspective on this, and it's probably good for anyone following along to see multiple perspectives if t ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) 🤷 I appreciate your perspective on this, and it's probably good for anyone following along to see multiple perspectives if they care about gopher. We all read and react to things differently, and I have to confess I hadn't thought about the fact that people were not non-native spea ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/noypjza) 2022-10-26T22:08:55Z **(#s35h4ea) @lyse such nice colors**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) such nice colors ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mexys4a) 2022-10-26T23:17:49Z **(#assw5rq) @mckinley the hackey way would be to modify if I'm understanding their code correctly.**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) the hackey way would be to modify https://github.com/berthubert/googerteller/blob/9eb0527eee581dfb67fab47f1932b3fb4a3ac095/trackers.conf#L1 if I'm understanding their code correctly. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bcazvaa) 2022-10-26T23:18:56Z **(#assw5rq) oops, didn't see that you'd already done that.**
oops, didn't see that you'd already done that. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yl5o7mq) 2022-10-26T23:29:24Z **(#assw5rq) I realized that when I first played with this I had my Google-managed work email and calendar logged in in open browser tabs, which ...**
I realized that when I first played with this I had my Google-managed work email and calendar logged in in open browser tabs, which probably explains most of the noise. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/6vogmrq) 2022-10-27T01:11:10Z **(#khw4qza) @prologic I set up a phoronix feed awhile ago and currently follow it.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I set up a phoronix feed awhile ago and currently follow it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kpkgdna) 2022-10-27T01:51:30Z **(#khw4qza) @prologic yes, definitely many weeks ago. Don't put yourself out as far as adding a logo, but I won't complain if you do!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yes, definitely many weeks ago. Don't put yourself out as far as adding a logo, but I won't complain if you do! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nqzfdsq) 2022-10-27T12:27:04Z **(#khw4qza) @prologic niceeeee

Is there some way I could do that when I add a new feed?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) niceeeee

Is there some way I could do that when I add a new feed? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4xdosja) 2022-10-27T12:26:18Z **(#oaj6qga) @prologic dude is a con artist whose family made its money via slave labor and who allowed such horrible racism at one of the Tesla p ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) dude is a con artist whose family made its money via slave labor and who allowed such horrible racism at one of the Tesla plants to go unchallenged that the state of California sued Tesla over it. Whatever he does, it'll be a con aimed at enriching himself and his ego at ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/btpotwq) 2022-10-27T12:24:41Z **What do we think about Gitea going corporate?

Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea**
What do we think about Gitea going corporate?

[Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea](https://blog.gitea.io/2022/10/open-source-sustainment-and-the-future-of-gitea/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qnrgs4a) 2022-10-27T12:29:09Z **Speaking of Musk being a con artist,
Feds open criminal investigation into Tesla Autopilot claims**
Speaking of Musk being a con artist,
[Feds open criminal investigation into Tesla Autopilot claims](https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/10/teslas-autopilot-is-the-subject-of-a-federal-criminal-investigation/) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nmp7vkq) 2022-10-27T12:35:27Z **(#khw4qza) @prologic dang that's a shame. Seems like a lot of work!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) dang that's a shame. Seems like a lot of work! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/m7dzpaa) 2022-10-27T12:41:53Z **(#nmp7vkq) @prologic me? Man, Tesla has been a con from day 1. They barely ship any cars. One quarter, they made all their reported profits from ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) me? Man, Tesla has been a con from day 1. They barely ship any cars. One quarter, they made all their reported profits from bitcoin sales. It's never going to be able to compete with the major car companies who are releasing electric vehicles now, and it seems to me that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2cjrfuq) 2022-10-27T12:38:13Z **(#3vcgitq) @tkanos JavaScript has been going concurrent, in a way, via web workers for awhile now. Web workers are not standardized and are a gl ...**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) JavaScript has been going concurrent, in a way, via web workers for awhile now. Web workers are not standardized and are a glaring security hole, so I block them in my browsers where possible. But a good 1/3 of the web stops working when you do that.

It should have been made ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lgwozzq) 2022-10-27T12:48:34Z **(#khw4qza) @prologic eesh, that's tough. It seems like each site does a different thing with its logo. Phoronix has theirs one level down; other ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) eesh, that's tough. It seems like each site does a different thing with its logo. Phoronix has theirs one level down; others have it in the root.

Perhaps the thing to do is to make it an option for the user who is adding the feed to add a URL to the logo. At that point ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iofmjsa) 2022-10-27T12:53:18Z **(#nmp7vkq) @prologic I'll have to see if I can dig it up, but I watched a YouTube video once of a stunt driver driving a Tesla through a test tr ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I'll have to see if I can dig it up, but I watched a YouTube video once of a stunt driver driving a Tesla through a test track. He'd driven all sorts of different cars, and his assessment of the Tesla was "it sucks" (he didn't say it like that, that's my interpretation). ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/u6hbcwq) 2022-10-27T13:05:51Z **(#lqb4vvq) @prologic that looks cool. I'm running the last release though (0.14.0) and like to stick with actual released software for "producti ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) that looks cool. I'm running the last release though (0.14.0) and like to stick with actual released software for "production" when I can so I probably won't clone/compile the latest code any time soon. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/sc7ynfq) 2022-10-27T14:11:41Z **(#hvu76za) @prologic Good thing there's Podman**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Good thing there's [Podman](https://podman.io) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nqjslka) 2022-10-27T14:20:40Z **(#hvu76za) @tkanos lol 😆**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) lol 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xowi5ja) 2022-10-27T14:56:36Z **(#nmp7vkq) @tkanos no, it's not a statistical problem. At all. And it is unethical to think so, so please be careful.**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) no, it's not a statistical problem. At all. And it is unethical to think so, so please be careful. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kmtqypq) 2022-10-27T14:55:47Z **(#nmp7vkq) @tkanos @will (a) the Tesla autopilot has killed people no human would have mistakenly killed; (b) no computer program can make moral ...**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) [@will _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt&nick=will) (a) the Tesla autopilot has killed people no human would have mistakenly killed; (b) no computer program can make moral decisions, and we should not be moving in the direc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/a3vravq) 2022-10-27T21:33:07Z **(#nmp7vkq) @tkanos you can't apply statistics to moral questions any more than you can milk a cow with a communications satellite.**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) you can't apply statistics to moral questions any more than you can milk a cow with a communications satellite. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cv52pcq) 2022-10-28T00:37:37Z **(#nmp7vkq) @tkanos how to drive your car under dangerous circumstances where others might be harmed is a moral question.

There was the issue of ...**
[@tkanos _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/tkanos/twtxt.txt&nick=tkanos) how to drive your car under dangerous circumstances where others might be harmed is a moral question.

There was the issue of whether there was some way to measure statistically whether having a computer drive your car instead is somehow better. But, unless the computer is ord ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/c4xrkoq) 2022-10-28T00:56:47Z **Glad to have switched to a microblogging platform where I fully control my data and can do what I want with it.**
Glad to have switched to a microblogging platform where I fully control my data and can do what I want with it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bpukq7q) 2022-10-28T01:21:25Z **Twitter account deactivated. It should be deleted at some point if I don't access it.

Good fucking riddance.**
Twitter account deactivated. It should be deleted at some point if I don't access it.

Good fucking riddance. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/occ2tjq) 2022-10-28T11:12:27Z **(#pltu26q) @prologic fwiw default to the Discover feed too, though that's because I'm the only person on my pod and I'm a n00b 🥺**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/2&nick=prologic) fwiw default to the Discover feed too, though that's because I'm the only person on my pod and I'm a n00b 🥺 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qhqgzlq) 2022-10-28T13:18:59Z **Goryon feature requests!
- edit
- some kind of "you've read up to here" marker
- hide the conversation hash and show some way to get to the yarn**
Goryon feature requests!
\- edit
\- some kind of "you've read up to here" marker
\- hide the conversation hash and show some way to get to the yarn ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ctj6erq) 2022-10-28T13:34:48Z **(#r63ni5a) @prologic yeah, not a huge fan either. I made an account there a couple years ago when it became clear to me that I'd someday leave ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yeah, not a huge fan either. I made an account there a couple years ago when it became clear to me that I'd someday leave twitter. I hadn't fully thought through my stance on decentralized social networking at that point, unfortunately. I might end up leaving it too even ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/w6r2zaa) 2022-10-28T13:31:42Z **(#mvzipha) @prologic yes, I no longer refer to any of my gadgets as the baby now that I have a human one 😄**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yes, I no longer refer to any of my gadgets as the baby now that I have a human one 😄 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/feoin7q) 2022-10-28T13:30:02Z **Over on mastodon there are a bunch of people tooting about an influx of users from twitter or posting welcome messages for new users. It's alway ...**
Over on mastodon there are a bunch of people tooting about an influx of users from twitter or posting welcome messages for new users. It's always interesting to observe over there when something lousy happens with twitter 🍿 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/r63ni5a) 2022-10-28T13:28:17Z **(#ctj6erq) @prologic @eaplmx Cool. I will go looking for that once I have a chance to sit at my computer. Our caregiver canceled at the last min ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) Cool. I will go looking for that once I have a chance to sit at my computer. Our caregiver canceled at the last minute today so I'm watching the baby right now ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/mvzipha) 2022-10-28T13:37:18Z **(#tl62cva) @prologic Interesting! I wonder how hard it'd be to make that automated 🤔**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Interesting! I wonder how hard it'd be to make that automated 🤔 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/74ctkdq) 2022-10-28T13:41:51Z **(#tl62cva) @prologic yeah, and I think to do that correctly might be super hard, so it's one of those problens that's rare and whose solutions ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) yeah, and I think to do that correctly might be super hard, so it's one of those problens that's rare and whose solutions are likely to be buggy. ⛔ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/46mcwua) 2022-10-28T13:39:36Z **(#tl62cva) that seems like a giant can of worms though never mind**
that seems like a giant can of worms though never mind ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fn5aesq) 2022-10-28T13:47:14Z **(#gqinkuq) @eaplmx looks correct in Goryon for me: 

On mobile web, there are no newlines as you say.**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) looks correct in Goryon for me: ![](https://anthony.buc.ci/media/4eVxqSYuMD3o7wiZFzESAC.png)

On mobile web, there are no newlines as you say. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uqbbwsa) 2022-10-28T13:43:57Z **(#tl62cva) @prologic right, I mean a problem that has many edge cases that are easy to miss and tricky to get right (haven't tried so I'm just ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) right, I mean a problem that has many edge cases that are easy to miss and tricky to get right (haven't tried so I'm just guessing). Like if the original post is edited, and the new post is magically linked to the edited version, but the edited removes the text the respo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ytcdmlq) 2022-10-28T13:57:32Z **(#gqinkuq) @prologic I believe in markdown a single line break does not start a new paragraph. You need a double line break for that. So if you' ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I believe in markdown a single line break does not start a new paragraph. You need a double line break for that. So if you're using a markdown renderer this is expected behavior. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3dgkt5q) 2022-10-28T14:00:20Z **(#gqinkuq) @prologic got it**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) got it ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/plyez5a) 2022-10-28T14:07:06Z **I saw this in another yarn

> The human icon 👤 is gone

and now I think I'll say that every time I leave a room from now on.**
I saw this in another yarn

\> The human icon 👤 is gone

and now I think I'll say that every time I leave a room from now on. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wzasccq) 2022-10-28T14:04:00Z **(#gqinkuq) @eaplmx 🤦‍♂️**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x7aaora) 2022-10-28T15:02:39Z **Nitter.net seems to be struggling today.**
Nitter.net seems to be struggling today. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lemfbca) 2022-10-28T15:21:08Z **(#lemfbca) @prologic I wonder!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I wonder! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uoscqiq) 2022-10-28T15:29:31Z **(#lemfbca) Mastodon seems slow too. No idea if this is my imagination, my internet connection, something else, or traffic caused by another mas ...**
Mastodon seems slow too. No idea if this is my imagination, my internet connection, something else, or traffic caused by another mass exodus from twitter ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/phkte6q) 2022-10-29T01:13:19Z **Not a single person who quit twitter signed up at my pod 😭**
Not a single person who quit twitter signed up at my pod 😭 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/aysyaiq) 2022-10-29T01:31:37Z **Decker

> Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior.
 ...**
[Decker](https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html)

\> Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior.
>
\> Decker builds on the legacy of HyperCard and the visual aesthetic of classic MacOS ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nhfkvra) 2022-10-29T12:34:56Z **(#6g4l24q) @mckinley to be fair, none of this is the computers' fault. Humans did all that!**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) to be fair, none of this is the computers' fault. Humans did all that! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/aypp6fa) 2022-10-29T12:50:59Z **(#nv3oaqa) @mckinley I wasn't on the call, but I have an ODROID XU4 and a RockPro64. I've used them for various things off and on, but right now ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) I wasn't on the call, but I have an ODROID XU4 and a RockPro64. I've used them for various things off and on, but right now they're in a box. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uuoqb2a) 2022-10-29T13:14:14Z **(#s7vlpna) @prologic @lyse That, my friends, is the Otamatone, and you can have one of your very own for just $34.99 US! 

They are speaking Spa ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=http://lyse.isobeef.org&nick=lyse) That, my friends, is the Otamatone, and you can have one of your very own for just $34.99 US! https://hamee.com/collections/otamatone

They are speaking Spanish in the vide ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3q5jkoa) 2022-10-29T13:45:31Z **(#s7vlpna) @eaplmx please post a video of you playing it!**
[@eaplmx _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&nick=eaplmx) please post a video of you playing it! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cyubyqa) 2024-04-20T23:08:23Z **(#gtqdgla) @prologic he is using Jenny.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/&nick=prologic) he is using Jenny. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fli23pq) 2024-04-04T11:29:14Z **👋 Hello @villagetalkies, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find use ...**
👋 Hello [@villagetalkies _@anthony.buc.ci_](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/villagetalkies), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtx ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7snwpxa) 2024-01-26T14:00:14Z **(#fxa4bpa) @New_scientist Silicon Valley’s top AI models are terrible at almost everything. They only seem otherwise because people are easily ...**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) Silicon Valley’s top AI models are terrible at almost everything. They only seem otherwise because people are easily fooled into believing they have capabilities they don’t have. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pqlawsq) 2024-04-24T12:42:29Z **👋 Hello @ethanmitchell, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find user ...**
👋 Hello [@ethanmitchell](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/ethanmitchell), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iloilcq) 2024-04-29T12:52:31Z **(#gxolr6a) > I think @abucci and @stigatle are running snac? I didn’t have a closer look at snac (no intention of running it), but if that is ...**
> I think [@abucci](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci) and [@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) are running snac? I didn’t have a closer look at snac (no intention of running it), but if that is a relatively small daemon (maybe comparable to Yarn?) that gives you access to the whole world of Ac ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/paebb5a) 2024-04-29T13:55:11Z **(#paebb5a) @bender I have nothing against GoToSocial, but:

> GoToSocial stores statuses, accounts, etc, in a database. This can be either SQLit ...**
[@bender _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&nick=bender) I have nothing against GoToSocial, but:

> GoToSocial stores statuses, accounts, etc, in a database. This can be either SQLite or Postgres.

`snac` is simpler. Some JSON files and that’s it. I can read them with `jq` and `less`. I can use `tar` to back them up. I can hand edit ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cnnnquq) 2024-07-11T05:32:02Z **👋 Hello @safeenakhan, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users ...**
👋 Hello [@safeenakhan](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/safeenakhan), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gz3aivq) 2024-07-11T12:43:42Z **(#gz3aivq) @support No.**
[@support _@anthony.buc.ci_](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/support) No. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/q2jxy4a) 2024-07-15T04:59:45Z **👋 Hello @hoorydrotrult, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find user ...**
👋 Hello [@hoorydrotrult](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/hoorydrotrult), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jkjmiua) 2024-07-15T12:21:36Z **(#jkjmiua) @support No.**
[@support](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/support) No. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/fs52jcq) 2024-07-19T14:29:04Z **(#bzcjjra) @New_scientist No.**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) No. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lfqhegq) 2024-07-19T14:26:11Z **(#ooj4evq) @New_scientist It's insane that a single botched software update can have worldwide impact. We've messed up badly.**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) It’s insane that a single botched software update can have worldwide impact. We’ve messed up badly. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gcpl3kq) 2024-07-19T14:45:45Z **(#c2afqsq) @movq Somewhere or another, I think in a William Byrd talk, I heard it suggested that the best ideas in computer science should fit o ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) Somewhere or another, I think in a William Byrd talk, I heard it suggested that the best ideas in computer science should fit on an index card (ah yes it’s this one: [https://paperswelove.org/2017/video/will-byrd-most-beautiful-program/](https://paperswelove.org/2017/video ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xqxuotq) 2024-07-19T15:30:02Z **(#jkjmiua) @prologic One of these days I'll turn off registrations**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) One of these days I’ll turn off registrations ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/musbftq) 2024-07-19T15:29:31Z **(#l7ek66a) @prologic Hello!**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Hello! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/2kllo2q) 2024-07-19T16:23:24Z **(#ttjvaya) @movq This outage did affect me, though not much, via the university where my wife teaches and where I teach sometimes. They actually ...**
[@movq _@www.uninformativ.de_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt&nick=movq) This outage did affect me, though not much, via the university where my wife teaches and where I teach sometimes. They actually sent out an alert in their emergency alert system (the one they use to alert people of extreme weather events and bomb threats, mostly), telling ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/z6wtw6a) 2024-07-25T01:38:34Z **(#l7ek66a) There are also a bunch of log messages scrolling by. I've never seen this much activity in the log:

```
Jul 25 01:37:39 buc.ci yarnd ...**
There are also a bunch of log messages scrolling by. I’ve never seen this much activity in the log:

```
Jul 25 01:37:39 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:39 (149.71.56.69) "GET /external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://pagez.co.uk/services/your-own-100-fully-owned-online-vi>
Jul 25 01:37:39 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:39 (162.211.155.2) "GET /twt/11213549680269 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/danpxtq) 2024-07-25T01:36:04Z **(#l7ek66a) I deleted them all right before I sent my previous message, and already, a few minutes later, there are two more:

```
abucci@buc:~$ ...**
I deleted them all right before I sent my previous message, and already, a few minutes later, there are two more:

```
abucci@buc:~$ du -sh /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3*
1.8G /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3122347915
2.4G /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3533381443

```

What is this? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/h5nudnq) 2024-07-25T01:33:29Z **(#l7ek66a) @prologic This is weird, but today, out of nowhere, `yarnd` filled up the disk on the VPS where I run it. It's never done anything li ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) This is weird, but today, out of nowhere, `yarnd` filled up the disk on the VPS where I run it. It’s never done anything like this before and I have no idea why it would start. But it threw almost 700 Gbytes of data into `/tmp` in files like this:

```
yarnd-avatar-10875 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/5igbp2q) 2024-07-25T01:40:42Z **(#l7ek66a) This is completely insane!

```
abucci@buc:/tmp$ du -sh /tmp/yarnd-avatar-*
564M /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3024946878
7.2G /tmp/yarnd-a ...**
This is completely insane!

```
abucci@buc:/tmp$ du -sh /tmp/yarnd-avatar-*
564M /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3024946878
7.2G /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3122347915
11G /tmp/yarnd-avatar-3533381443
445M /tmp/yarnd-avatar-441914658

```

I’m going to have to shut down my server soon. This looks like some kind of DDoS. Whether intentional or not it’s filling up the disk at an unsustainable rate. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/s5muvwq) 2024-07-25T01:58:00Z **Hack of the day: running `watch -n 60 rm -rf /tmp/yarn-avatar-*` in a `tmux` because all of a sudden, without warning, `yarnd` started throwing ...**
Hack of the day: running `watch -n 60 rm -rf /tmp/yarn-avatar-*` in a `tmux` because all of a sudden, without warning, `yarnd` started throwing hundreds of gigabytes of files with names like `yarn-avatar-62582554` into `/tmp`, which filled up the entire disk and started crashing other services. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uqxxstq) 2024-07-25T02:14:14Z **(#uqxxstq) @bender I hope so too. I've never seen anything like this before. Whatever it is, it's strange.**
[@bender _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&nick=bender) I hope so too. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Whatever it is, it’s strange. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/d2iafoa) 2024-07-25T02:29:17Z **(#uqxxstq) has the deets!**
[https://anthony.buc.ci/info](https://anthony.buc.ci/info) has the deets! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xjwdk7q) 2024-07-25T02:27:47Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic 0.15.1, looks like.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 0.15.1, looks like. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iypiqwa) 2024-07-25T02:37:32Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic Sure, but why would this start happening all of a sudden today? Nothing like this has happened before. Is this a known bug?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Sure, but why would this start happening all of a sudden today? Nothing like this has happened before. Is this a known bug? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/x32o7ta) 2024-07-25T13:43:28Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic Aha, got it. Thanks for looking into it. I'm updating now and we'll see if that stops it.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Aha, got it. Thanks for looking into it. I’m updating now and we’ll see if that stops it. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/u7s44oa) 2024-07-25T13:46:22Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic 
```
abucci@buc:~/yarnd/yarn$ make preflight
Checking Go version ... [ ERR ]
Go 1.16+ is required, found go ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)

```
abucci@buc:~/yarnd/yarn$ make preflight
Checking Go version ... [ ERR ]
Go 1.16+ is required, found go1.22.5
FATAL: 🙁 preflight failed
make: *** [Makefile:33: preflight] Error 1

```

🤔 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/njouj6q) 2024-07-25T13:52:20Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic Alright, running `yarnd` 0.15.1 now. I stopped my hack so we'll see if the VPS gets clogged with junk 😆**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Alright, running `yarnd` 0.15.1 now. I stopped my hack so we’ll see if the VPS gets clogged with junk 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/oxlvxhq) 2024-07-25T14:22:49Z **(#rbzcmka) @prologic I think there's more to it than that. I've updated, yet hundreds of gigabytes of junk is still accumulating.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I think there’s more to it than that. I’ve updated, yet hundreds of gigabytes of junk is still accumulating. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/sp2ewqq) 2024-07-25T14:20:19Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic I'm still getting this crap:
```
abucci@buc:~/yarnd/yarn$ ls -lh /tmp/yarnd-avatar-*
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 863M Jul 25 ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/&nick=prologic) I’m still getting this crap:

```
abucci@buc:~/yarnd/yarn$ ls -lh /tmp/yarnd-avatar-*
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 863M Jul 25 14:19 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-1594499680
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 7.8G Jul 25 14:19 /tmp/yarnd-avatar-2144295337
-rw------- 1 abucci abucci 9.8G Jul 25 14:19 / ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/vyztkoa) 2024-07-25T14:34:44Z **(#homd37a) @prologic There are *a lot* of logs being generated by `yarnd`, which is something I haven't seen before too:

```
Jul 25 14:32:42 bu ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) There are _a lot_ of logs being generated by `yarnd`, which is something I haven’t seen before too:

```
Jul 25 14:32:42 buc yarnd[1911318]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 14:32:42 (162.211.155.2) "GET /twt/ubhq33a HTTP/1.1" 404 29 643.251µs
Jul 25 14:32:43 buc yarnd[1911318]: [yarn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jjn4klq) 2024-07-25T14:31:21Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic Inspect? What's `sift`? What would you like to know about the files?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Inspect? What’s `sift`? What would you like to know about the files? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/shr7pfa) 2024-07-25T14:26:27Z **(#uqxxstq) @prologic 10 Gbytes has accumulated since I made that last post. It's coming in at a rate of 55 Mbits/second !**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) 10 Gbytes has accumulated since I made that last post. It’s coming in at a rate of 55 Mbits/second ! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/homd37a) 2024-07-25T16:10:01Z **(#2rxkcca) @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no @prologic@twtxt.net testing 1 2 3 can either of you see this?**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) testing 1 2 3 can either of you see this? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xvsjxza) 2024-07-25T16:06:23Z **Hmm, I wonder if I banned too many IPs and caused these issues for myself 😆**
Hmm, I wonder if I banned too many IPs and caused these issues for myself 😆 ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qv5sgja) 2024-07-25T16:03:01Z **twts are taking a very long time to post from `yarn` after the latest upgrade. Like a good 60 seconds.**
twts are taking a very long time to post from `yarn` after the latest upgrade. Like a good 60 seconds. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/47jqupq) 2024-07-25T16:02:06Z **(#2rxkcca) @prologic I don't know if this is new, but I'm seeing:

```
Jul 25 16:01:17 buc yarnd[1921547]: time="2024-07-25T16:01:17Z" level=err ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I don’t know if this is new, but I’m seeing:

```
Jul 25 16:01:17 buc yarnd[1921547]: time="2024-07-25T16:01:17Z" level=error msg="https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt: client.Do fail: Get \"https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt\": dial tcp 185.97. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/uqk6zna) 2024-07-25T15:59:30Z **(#2rxkcca) @prologic Have you been seeing any of my replies?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Have you been seeing any of my replies? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/qpq3ocq) 2024-07-25T15:52:30Z **(#wpadxra) It shows up in my twtxt feed so that's good.**
It shows up in my twtxt feed so that’s good. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iu7kp3q) 2024-07-25T15:43:38Z **This is a test. I am not seeing twts from @stigatle and it seems like @prologic might not be seeing twts from me. Do people see this?**
This is a test. I am not seeing twts from [@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) and it seems like [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) might not be seeing twts from me. Do people see this? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wpadxra) 2024-07-25T15:41:58Z **@prologic I am not seeing twts from @stigatle anymore. Are you seeing twts from me?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I am not seeing twts from [@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) anymore. Are you seeing twts from me? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/d5vnkwq) 2024-07-25T15:31:00Z **(#ve43paq) @prologic 
```
./tools/dump_cache.sh: line 8: bat: command not found
No Token Provided

```

I don't have `bat` on my VPS and there i ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)

```
./tools/dump_cache.sh: line 8: bat: command not found
No Token Provided

```

I don’t have `bat` on my VPS and there is no package for installing it. Is `cat` a reasonable alternate? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wdkduca) 2024-07-25T15:27:10Z **(#ve43paq) @prologic Try hitting this URL:



Change `nosuchuser` to any phrase at all.

If you hit , you're given an error. If you hit that UR ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/&nick=prologic) Try hitting this URL:

[https://twtxt.net/external?nick=nosuchuser&uri=https://foo.com](https://twtxt.net/external?nick=nosuchuser&uri=https://foo.com)

Change `nosuchuser` to any phrase at all.

If you hit [https://twtxt.net/external?nick=nosuchuser](https://twtxt.net/external?n ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/p6o6fcq) 2024-07-25T15:21:39Z **(#ve43paq) @prologic Hitting that URL returns a bunch of HTML even though there is no user named `lovetocode999` on my pod. I think it should 40 ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Hitting that URL returns a bunch of HTML even though there is no user named `lovetocode999` on my pod. I think it should 404, and maybe with a delay, to discourage whatever this abuse is. Basically this can be used to DDoS a pod by forcing it to generate a hunch of HTML ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/q6vt25a) 2024-07-25T15:15:55Z **(#ve43paq) I'm seeing GETs like this over and over again:
```
"GET /external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://vuf.minagricultura.gov.co/Lists/Info ...**
I’m seeing GETs like this over and over again:

```
"GET /external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://vuf.minagricultura.gov.co/Lists/Informacin%20Servicios%20Web/DispForm.aspx?ID=8375144 HTTP/1.1" 200 35861 17.077914ms

```

always to `nick=lovetocode999`, but with different `uri` s. What are these calls? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jyuw4na) 2024-07-25T14:57:56Z **(#ze3zlba) @stigatle I used the following hack to keep my VPS from running out of space: `watch -n 60 rm -rf /tmp/yarn-avatar-*`, run in `tmux` ...**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) I used the following hack to keep my VPS from running out of space: `watch -n 60 rm -rf /tmp/yarn-avatar-*`, run in `tmux` so it keeps running. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/doqao7q) 2024-07-25T14:55:27Z **(#homd37a) The vast majority of this traffic was coming from a single IP address. I blocked that IP on my VPS, and I sent an abuse report to the ...**
The vast majority of this traffic was coming from a single IP address. I blocked that IP on my VPS, and I sent an abuse report to the abuse email of the service provider. That ought to slow it down, but the vulnerability persists and I’m still getting traffic from other IPs that seem to be doing the same thing. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/laj4jda) 2024-07-25T16:15:40Z **(#2rxkcca) @stigatle Sweet, thank you! I've been shooting myself in the foot over here and want to make sure the situation is getting fixed!**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) Sweet, thank you! I’ve been shooting myself in the foot over here and want to make sure the situation is getting fixed! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/cieyvla) 2024-07-25T16:27:21Z **(#2rxkcca) @prologic I unbanned a few IP address I had blocked before the bugfix. I wasn't being careful and just blocked any IP I saw making a ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I unbanned a few IP address I had blocked before the bugfix. I wasn’t being careful and just blocked any IP I saw making a large number of requests to my pod. That slowed the problem down but I think I blocked your and [@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc. ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bjgbtka) 2024-07-25T16:32:56Z **(#2rxkcca) @prologic Yes, I can do that.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Yes, I can do that. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jj7yfva) 2024-07-25T16:32:43Z **(#2rxkcca) @stigatle @prologic my `/tmp` is also fine now! Thanks for your help @prologic!**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) my `/tmp` is also fine now! Thanks for your help [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic)! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rdeh4dq) 2024-07-26T01:06:20Z **(#2rxkcca) @stigatle @xuu @lyse "Not cool"? I was receiving many broken (HTTP 400 error) requests per second from an IP address I didn't recogni ...**
[@stigatle _@yarn.stigatle.no_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://yarn.stigatle.no/user/stigatle/twtxt.txt&nick=stigatle) [@xuu _@txt.sour.is_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt&nick=xuu) [@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) “Not cool”? I was receiving many broken ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/njvmixq) 2024-07-26T01:11:25Z **(#2rxkcca) @xuu I hope everything is sorted out with your ISP. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I sincerely did not mean ...**
[@xuu _@txt.sour.is_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://txt.sour.is/user/xuu/twtxt.txt&nick=xuu) I hope everything is sorted out with your ISP. Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help. I sincerely did not mean to cause you any trouble. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/i4ndqsa) 2024-07-26T13:18:10Z **(#2rxkcca) @prologic I don't think it's your code. As you said in one of your commit comments, the internet is a hostile place! That's partly wh ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I don’t think it’s your code. As you said in one of your commit comments, the internet is a hostile place! That’s partly why I reacted the way I did: all things considered it’s usually better to react quickly and clean up the mess later, then it is to wait and risk furth ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3xoastq) 2024-08-25T17:43:47Z **👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed t ...**
👋 Hello [@nigergibe](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/nigergibe/), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find ot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4lw3swa) 2024-08-25T18:51:17Z **I stumbled on this today: Open Source Game Clones

> This site tries to gather open-source or source-available remakes of great old games in one ...**
I stumbled on this today: [Open Source Game Clones](https://osgameclones.com)

> This site tries to gather open-source or source-available remakes of great old games in one place. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3togebq) 2024-08-25T18:49:49Z **(#4lw3swa) @support@anthony.buc.ci Nope.**
[@support](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/support/) Nope. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/v56xrsa) 2024-08-25T20:39:13Z **(#xauiaga) @support@anthony.buc.ci No. Try this again and I nuke your IP.**
[@support](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/support/) No. Try this again and I nuke your IP. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/7skjp4a) 2024-08-25T20:38:21Z **👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed t ...**
👋 Hello [@nigergibe](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/nigergibe/), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find ot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xauiaga) 2024-08-26T01:12:34Z **👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed t ...**
👋 Hello [@nigergibe](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/nigergibe/), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find ot ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/xmnhzyq) 2024-08-26T01:27:56Z **(#xauiaga) @mckinley He's signed up three times now even though I keep deleting the account, which is enough for me to permaban this person. I d ...**
[@mckinley _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt&nick=mckinley) He’s signed up three times now even though I keep deleting the account, which is enough for me to permaban this person. I don’t technically want open registrations on my pod but up till now I’ve been too lazy to figure out how to turn them off and actually do that, and t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bwsmumq) 2024-08-26T01:38:11Z **👋 Hello @testtest@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to ...**
👋 Hello [@testtest](https://anthony.buc.ci/user/testtest/), welcome to Buccipod, a [Yarn.social](https://yarn.social) Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s [Discover](/discover) feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the `⨁ Follow` button on their profile page or use the [Follow](/follow) form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find othe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tk3txsq) 2024-08-26T01:34:56Z **There is a bug in `yarnd` that's been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I'm running that lets a person hit a constru ...**
There is a bug in `yarnd` that’s been around for awhile and is still present in the current version I’m running that lets a person hit a constructed URL like

```
YOUR_POD/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story19510368/doujin

```

and see a legitimate-looking page on YOUR\_POD, with an HTTP code 200 (success). From that fake page you can even follow an external fe ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/krlhs5a) 2024-08-26T01:48:30Z **(#krlhs5a) For some reason this nick `lovetocode999` is frequently present in my log entries.**
For some reason this nick `lovetocode999` is frequently present in my log entries. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/25lbhba) 2024-08-26T17:44:16Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic Ah nice, thank you! Do you think this fix is ready for me to test it or do you think I should wait til you poke at it?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Ah nice, thank you! Do you think this fix is ready for me to test it or do you think I should wait til you poke at it? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pduwdzq) 2024-08-26T17:45:59Z **(#bwsmumq) @lyse Ha, sweet thanks for this! For some reason I thought you had to do this with an environmental variable or command-line option a ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) Ha, sweet thanks for this! For some reason I thought you had to do this with an environmental variable or command-line option and I didn’t think to check the settings. 🤦‍♂ ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/4o4ndza) 2024-08-26T19:20:49Z **(#bwsmumq) @lyse Interesting. The `yarnd --help` currently says (for me):

```
 -R, --open-registrations whether or not to have open ...**
[@lyse _@lyse.isobeef.org_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&nick=lyse) Interesting. The `yarnd --help` currently says (for me):

```
 -R, --open-registrations whether or not to have open user registgration

```

meaning it doesn’t give the default setting or warn you that you need to use `-R=false` and not `-R false`. It also leaves unc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/dkjl5pq) 2024-08-27T14:22:20Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic @bender I partially agree with bender on this one I think. The way this person is abusing the `/external` endpoint on my po ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) [@bender _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&nick=bender) I partially agree with bender on this one I think. The way this person is abusing the `/external` endpoint on my pod seems to be to generate legitimate-looking ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/ns6dkla) 2024-08-27T15:32:10Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic I believe you are not seeing the problem I am describing.

Hit this URL in your web browser:



That's your pod. I assume y ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I believe you are not seeing the problem I am describing.

Hit this URL in your web browser:

[https://twtxt.net/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story19510368/doujin](https://twtxt.net/external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://socialmphl.com/story195 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/atqiy5q) 2024-08-27T15:44:08Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic Aha, now it gives an error. OK I'm updating to this to see if it fixes the issue on my pod! Thank you.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Aha, now it gives an error. OK I’m updating to this to see if it fixes the issue on my pod! Thank you. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/zytf54q) 2024-08-27T16:01:37Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic Here's a log entry:
```
Aug 27 15:59:43 buc yarnd[1200580]: [yarnd] 2024/08/27 15:59:43 (IP_REDACTED) "GET /external?nick=l ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) Here’s a log entry:

```
Aug 27 15:59:43 buc yarnd[1200580]: [yarnd] 2024/08/27 15:59:43 (IP_REDACTED) "GET /external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=https://URL_REDACTED HTTP/1.1" 200 35442 14.554763ms

```

HTTP 200 status, not 404. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3dx7y2q) 2024-08-27T15:57:16Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic This does not seem to fix the problem for me, or I've done something wrong. I did the following:

1. Pull the latest versio ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) This does not seem to fix the problem for me, or I’ve done something wrong. I did the following:

1. Pull the latest version from`git` (I have commit `7ad848`, same as on `twtxt.net` I believe).

2. `make build` and `make install`

3. Restart`yarnd`

4. Refresh cache in ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/bs2ujvq) 2024-08-27T16:09:51Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic "Refresh cache in Poderator Settings"

Is there some other way to do that?**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) “Refresh cache in Poderator Settings”

Is there some other way to do that? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/rtdx2pq) 2024-08-27T16:06:19Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic What? I compiled, updated, and restarted. If you check what my pod reports, it gives that 7a... SHA. I don't know what that ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) What? I compiled, updated, and restarted. If you check what my pod reports, it gives that 7a… SHA. I don’t know what that other screenshot is showing but it seems to be out of date. That was the SHA I was running before this update. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/lgwyqyq) 2024-08-27T16:25:15Z **(#krlhs5a) @prologic I deleted a file named `cache` in my yarn data and restarted. Problem persists.**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I deleted a file named `cache` in my yarn data and restarted. Problem persists. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wkuxnga) 2024-08-27T16:34:39Z **(#krlhs5a) A stopgap setting that would let me stop all calls to `/external` matching a particular pattern (like this damn `lovetocode999` nick) ...**
A stopgap setting that would let me stop all calls to `/external` matching a particular pattern (like this damn `lovetocode999` nick) would do the job. Given the potential for abuse of that endpoint, having more moderation control over what it can do is probably a good idea. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/nptdbba) 2024-08-27T17:52:51Z **(#2vmghua) @bender Hey, want to go in halfsies on one?**
[@bender _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&nick=bender) Hey, want to go in halfsies on one? ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/yzvaeiq) 2024-08-27T17:51:28Z **(#4hqmipq) @bender Oh look at that, the same problem is still happening on `twtxt.net` too. I tested a different link but that one gave an error ...**
[@bender _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&nick=bender) Oh look at that, the same problem is still happening on `twtxt.net` too. I tested a different link but that one gave an error. Maybe that means my pod isn’t behaving different from `twtxt.net` after all. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/kkd3hma) 2024-08-27T21:23:06Z **Had to disable support functions because I've received three spammy support emails today. Thanks for that feature @prologic**
Had to disable support functions because I’ve received three spammy support emails today. Thanks for that feature [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gd2pgsa) 2024-08-28T15:40:23Z **(#vowtikq) @prologic OK, I just updated to commit `77d527`, which looks to be the same one you're running right now. I forgot to blow away my ca ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) OK, I just updated to commit `77d527`, which looks to be the same one you’re running right now. I forgot to blow away my cache before restarting, so I just deleted the `cache` file and restarted. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/gqjwf6q) 2024-08-28T16:02:04Z **(#vowtikq) @prologic@twtxt.net I'm not sure what this update does, but 

```
https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://google.com&nick=lovetocode99 ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) I’m not sure what this update does, but

```
https://twtxt.net/external?uri=https://google.com&nick=lovetocode999

```

still exhibits the same problem, on your pod and on mine, after the latest update. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/iteyova) 2024-08-28T23:56:25Z **(#vowtikq) @prologic My pod, which is running the same commit you are, does not return an error like that. It returns the same HTML it always ha ...**
[@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) My pod, which is running the same commit you are, does not return an error like that. It returns the same HTML it always has. Try it. I nuked my cache before restarting.

Edit: Oh wait, the plot thickens. I do get an error if I use curl or if I use a web browser that isn ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/jqmrxea) 2024-08-30T15:19:08Z **(#fwgehva) @New_scientist It's great that US regulators have approved launching 40,000 satellites with a 5-year lifespan before we had this kind ...**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) It’s great that US regulators have approved launching 40,000 satellites with a 5-year lifespan before we had this kind of information about what’s likely to happen when they start falling out of orbit at a rate of several per hour. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/tnrhl6q) 2024-08-30T21:05:26Z **(#fwgehva) @quark Check out this thread if you haven't already: 

I think we already know It's likely to be a disaster.**
[@quark _@ferengi.one_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt&nick=quark) Check out this thread if you haven’t already: [https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112464533481477428](https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/112464533481477428)

I think we already know It’s likely to be a disaster. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3c5cfzq) 2024-09-05T17:43:12Z **(#7edydnq) @quark wow everybody loves @prologic**
[@quark _@ferengi.one_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt&nick=quark) wow everybody loves [@prologic _@twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&nick=prologic) ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wtrm5fq) 2024-09-08T20:41:38Z **(#goj6svq) @New_scientist Make sense--if a clown murders the child they don't need to go to the hospital.**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) Make sense–if a clown murders the child they don’t need to go to the hospital. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/pnpsrwa) 2024-10-23T20:22:41Z **(#26mahsq) @New_scientist Pusher can detect own product. Film at 11.**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) Pusher can detect own product. Film at 11. ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/wrx7yuq) 2024-10-23T20:28:11Z **(#ht6colq) @Phys_org ...which will be entirely ignored when the 💩 hits the 🪭

"Interest grows in geoengineering" because pursuing the obvi ...**
[@Phys\_org _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/Phys_org/twtxt.txt&nick=Phys_org) …which will be entirely ignored when the 💩 hits the 🪭

“Interest grows in geoengineering” because pursuing the obvious, clearest, most direct solution–reducing fossil fuel use–is for some reason off the table. That is already an unethical arrangement. Pasting an ethica ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/3yqmjia) 2024-10-29T17:33:41Z **(#xrf7xha) @New_scientist Hallucinating invisible pedestrians, great application!**
[@New\_scientist _@feeds.twtxt.net_](https://anthony.buc.ci/external?uri=https://feeds.twtxt.net/New_scientist/twtxt.txt&nick=New_scientist) Hallucinating invisible pedestrians, great application! ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/u53vwpq) 2024-11-04T18:53:04Z ****Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine**



> Blackstone, Pimco, Carlyle, and Bl ...**
**Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine**

[https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/04/silicon-valley-and-wall-street-invent-collateralized-gpu-obligations-surely-this-will-work-out-fine/](https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/04/silicon-valley-and-wall-street-invent-collateralized-gpu-obligations-surely-this-will-work-out-fine/)

> Black ... ⌘ [Read more](https://anthony.buc.ci/twt/v77iu5a)