I like it

Hi Twtxt

Hello, world! :-)

after I finish this letter to a relative, I think I’m gonna start rough-drafting an article about what I expect to get out of social media now

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Todo mi contexto se siente más calmado, como que ya la mayoría anda en modo navidad.

Excepto mi chava que anda en cierre de año, y el cuerpo ya le pidió esquina. #prayForHer

Aunque bueno, me sigue costando bajar el ritmo, aunque no estaría nada mal.

the feed is made using my own cli app called txtlog, it also supports bluesky cross-posting as well!

LMAO! 🤣 I’ve had @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt’s nick linked to @prologic@twtxt.net’s url for this feed the whole time !! 🤦

There’s this something about this Halloy #IRC client’s look I can’t find a proper word for. Aesthetically pleasing maybe? anyway, it feels nice.

Have this bbs in my bookmarks. Live instance available in ssh://lowlife@45.79.250.220. Password is hightech

Secret To AI Profitability Is Hiring a Lot More Doctorates
As tech giants struggle to profit from AI, a growing industry of specialized AI training firms is emerging by hiring doctors, radiologists and other experts to develop commercially viable applications. The $20 billion data services sector, projected to grow 20% annually, is attracting major investment by focusing on high-value, specialized AI applications.

C … ⌘ Read more

Imagine if all computer UIs would act like the UI from my NAS system… I feel I need to be waiting for output from the machine like it’s 1973.

POSSE-ing these articles from by nekoweb in case bluesky and/or fedi explode ½
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My neighbour is always either coming in or going out

Did I write here already that the reason why I love Twtxt so much is that it works without having to compile, install anything extra. Just the bin applications that come with 95% of all operating systems and you’re good to read and participate, giving you have a domain name somewhere to host the twtxt.txt file.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk test 5.2

Wow, it seem my #Webmentions implementation works from Mastodon via brid.gy

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Added TwtHash hashes to every message on my personal Twtxt HTML renderer. Code is not yet ready for prime-time. Need to work out some kinks still.

good luck with the doughnut on a stick in a URL

Reading “Cult of the Dead Cow”, by Joseph Menn

OpenAI Releases ‘Smarter, Faster’ ChatGPT - Plus $200-a-Month Subscriptions for ‘Even-Smarter Mode’
Wednesday OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced “12 Days of OpenAI,” promising that “Each weekday, we will have a livestream with a launch or demo…” And sure enough, today he announced the launch of two things:
- “o1, the smartest model in the world. Smarter, faster, and more features (e.g. … ⌘ Read more

I have been on Twtxt for five years straight now. Hurray me.

Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD
Bitcoin just broke $100,000 USD for the first time and reached as high as $104k, and is now sitting at $102,857 at the time of this writing.
Slashdot was pretty early on Bitcoin. Thoughts, nocoiners?

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Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid
Bruce Perens wrote the original Open Source definition back in 1997, and then co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond in 1998. But after resigning from the group in 2020, Perens is now diligently developing an alternative he calls “Post Open” to “meet goals that Open Source fails at today” … ⌘ Read more

I think it’s time I set up jenny for this feed… been echo-ing my twits manually and there came times when it made me feel like a dork xD Plus I don’t have my vim’s :set spell to catch up with the typos

Hi @prologic@twtxt.net Hi @bender@twtxt.net 😁 now, Why is my @ mention is all over the place? xD this feed has a # nick = skinshafi so… should I scream buuug ? 🤔

Bluesky’s Open API Means Anyone Can Scrape Your Data for AI Training. It’s All Public
Bluesky says it will never train generative AI on its users’ data. But despite that, “one million public Bluesky posts — complete with identifying user information — were crawled and then uploaded to AI company Hugging Face,” reports Mashable (citing an article by 404 Media).

“Shortly after the article’s p … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - Easy: 5.06 miles, 00:09:43 average pace, 00:49:08 duration
kept it easy. legs were a bit tired, but wanted to enjoy the weather. not sure if i should start training again for a marathon just in case or just wing it.
#running

Today’s discovery: Iris a Serverless text-based forum for tilde-likes. I still haven’t posted anything out there yet, but I’m in love with it already. Let’s see what we find out next… rubbing hands

Oxford’s Word of the Year: ‘Brain Rot’
“Are you spending hours scrolling mindlessly on Instagram reels and TikTok?” asks the BBC. “If so, you might be suffering from brain rot, which has become the Oxford word of the year.”

It is a term that captures concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media. The word’s usage saw an increase of 230% in its frequency from 2023 to 2024 … ⌘ Read more

Bluesky Passes Threads for Active Website Users, But Confronts ‘Scammers and Impersonators’
Bluesky now has more active website users than Threads in the U.S., according to a graph from the Financial Times. And though Threads still leads in app usage, “Prior to November 5 Threads had five times more daily active users in the U.S. than Bluesky… Now, Threads is only 1.5 times larger tha … ⌘ Read more

Hello Twtxt!

Buy the dip on bcachefs!

https://dyne.org/cjit/ That sounds good. Worth the try ! #clang

Google’s Chrome Worth Up To $20 Billion If Judge Orders Sale
Alphabet’s Chrome browser could go for as much as $20 billion if a judge agrees to a Justice Department proposal to sell the business, in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies. From a report: The department will ask the judge, who ruled in August that Google illegally monopolized the search market, to require measur … ⌘ Read more

all of the software sucks, but i have a solution! we’ll write even more software! get more people involved, make it the Ideal Career, then we can write AL̵L̴ O̵F TH̨E ̧C̀ODE̷S. mountains of shitty garbage that kind-of does the thing. software will still suck, but T͜HE̕N oh then we can write compilers that let us run the old shitty code inside of our mountain of new shitty code. now all of the code is in a giant pile and we’re using it to control space ships that definitely never crash. the more code the better! we can represent NaN easily in undefined systems! developers aren’t particularly bright, so the language is simple and easy for them to understand. we know this, that’s why it was made this way. the͡ moun͢tain ͠m̵us͜t ͠nȩver̢ ̴wa̡ve̴r̵. the more code the better. so instead of writing the code manually we c̴ómpilę t͞or̸t̕u͜red so̷u͜ls ͏i͞n͞to͝ ͟nice ͢b̀l̷oxe̡ls ̸of͠ ̸t̶an̡g͜l̀ed ͞n̢eu͏ra̡l͠ ̕ne̢t͏w͟orkś.̸ w̨e d͠on’t́ know how i̵t ̷w͟ork̡s, ̴but ̷t̴he model̢ ̶is̛ 5̛0GiB ́s̶o ͟i͞t s͞e͘rve͟s ̴tḩe̛ purpośe. WE̕ M͠US̴T B͢U̢ILD ͝T͞HE MO͝UN̶T̨A̵IN.

Plastics Lobbyists Make Up Biggest Group at Vital UN Treaty Talks
Record numbers of plastic industry lobbyists are attending global talks that are the last chance to hammer out a treaty to cut plastic pollution around the world. From a report: The key issue at the conference will be whether caps on global plastic production will be included in the final UN treaty. Lobbyists and leading national producers are … ⌘ Read more

Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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LinkedIn Posts Are Now Mostly AI-Written, Study Shows
More than half of longer English posts on LinkedIn are likely generated by AI, according to research from AI detection firm Originality AI. The company analyzed nearly 9,000 public posts over 100 words published between 2018 and 2024, finding AI usage surged 189% after ChatGPT’s launch in early 2023, Wired reported Wednesday.

LinkedIn, which also offers AI writing tools to … ⌘ Read more

“A minimalist social network powered by plain text files” - my talk about #twtxt from #Piksel24 Festival is now on YouTube and slides can be found at http://darch.dk/twtxtalk-piksel

Stanford Research Reveals 9.5% of Software Engineers ‘Do Virtually Nothing’
A Stanford study of over 50,000 software engineers across hundreds of companies has found that approximately 9.5% of engineers perform minimal work while drawing full salaries, potentially costing tech companies billions annually.

The research showed the issue is most prevalent in remote work settings, where 14% of engine … ⌘ Read more

@<@chyrp.doesnm.cc https://chyrp.doesnm.cc/twtxt.txt> this is broken in jenny too, I figure. No nick breaks things.

Hello, @bender@twtxt.net

Flamewar Leads to Declining of Bcachefs Pull Requests During Linux 6.13 Kernel Development Cycle
“Get your head examined. And get the fuck out of here with this shit.” That’s how Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet ended a post on the Linux kernel mailing list.
This was followed by “insufficient action to restore the community’s faith in having otherwise productive technical disc … ⌘ Read more

https://terokarvinen.com/2021/calendar-txt/ keep your calendar in a simple text file. I love the idea #cli

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh shucks! Thanks 🙏

@bender@twtxt.net Nothing “test” worthy about this pod, it gets the same updates as twtxt.net 🤣

I really should use this feed and pod a bit more, maybe make it my personal
digital garden” or something? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net what’s the url of yours? Is it public?