@mckinley@twtxt.net Oh well in that case, I’d redesign the IRC protocol to be more like a combination of what Signal is today but with SMTP like capabilities. A bit like what we’ve been trying to do with Salty IM – So-called “federated” instant messaging, with group support and fully e2e encrypted.

@prologic@twtxt.net Any of the above

I wonder if I can turn this into a multi-protocol browser 🤔

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Damn no native macOS builds 😢

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yeah, there is no guarantee with any of these things, it can all be faked or ignored. 🫤 I’m still going to do it in the hopes that some of those bots respect it.

Wait a minute! Nyxt browser can surf gopher, gemini aaaaaand http!? 😲

@mckinley@twtxt.net I just got bitten by this again: I would make passive mode the default mode of FTP. 🥴

Some clunking machine at the coffeeshop is in perfect sync with the pop song playing on the sound system.

I spent some more time with StarOffice 3.1 and it is indeed a bit clunky (of course it is, it’s from 1996). For example, a table of contents does not update automatically – you have to delete it and re-insert it. Sometimes it has graphical glitches. Font rendering isn’t too great.

And yet, I wish we would use this instead of $the_other_thing at work. It’s much faster (on my Pentium 133!) and more featureful. 🫤 (Or, you know, StarOffice’s modern descendant: LibreOffice.)

Okay, GPS performance has degraded a lot over the last few days.

• Time to first fix is a couple of minutes now, instead of 5-30 seconds.
  
• Accuracy is reduced greatly, probably because the phone can one lock on to about 6-12 satellites, this used to be around 30 satellites.
  

In theory and under good conditions, you need 4 satellites to get a fix. But in reality, there are rarely “good conditions”, there are always buildings, hills, or trees nearby, so you need as many satellites as you can possibly get.

It’s not completely useless (yet), but it’s not great. I think I’m gonna lift some firewall restrictions. 🫤

@prologic@twtxt.net Ahhh, I right, now I remember. That ai.txt boils down to this, I guess:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Found it!

ai.txt: A new way for websites to set permissions for AI

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Only found 3 results for “robotst.xt” and OpenAI 😢 I seem to recall an effort (I cannot find) to build a standard for AI Crawlers similar to robots.txt

@mckinley@twtxt.net Define “fundamental internet protocol”? Do you mean fundamental things that make the Internet work like IP, TCP, DNS, various routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, etc? Or things more like application protocols like IRC, HTTP, etc?

… or maybe I should do this based on allowlisting rather than blocklisting. 🤔 Only allow a couple of bots that I think are fine …

Anyone got a link to a robots.txt that “blocks” all the “AI” stuff?

@aelaraji@mastodon.social @@aelaraji.com Aw, thanks. I should install a twtxt client I guess… But I prefere rss, so for now, it’s just a twtxt2atom script doing the job :)

#QOTD : If you could redesign a fundamental internet protocol from scratch, which one would you choose and how would you improve it?

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com LOL which I block on purpose 🤣

I was able to dig up StarOffice 3.1, which I used in the 1990’ies on Windows 95. This was the highlight of my day. 🥰 As you can see in the photo below, this CD includes a version for Windows 3.1, 95/NT – and OS/2! How cool is that? My CD back then did not have the OS/2 version.

StarWriter of StarOffice 3.1 can do a lot of the stuff that I’m missing in the tool at work. Like automatic numbering of sections/chapters and cross-references to other parts of the document. Essential basic stuff like that.

All the following screenshots are from QEMU VMs (OS/2 2.1, Windows 3.11, and Windows 98), but I think I’m gonna install this on my real OS/2 Warp 4 box soon. 🧓

https://movq.de/v/eebbe648a5/

What really blew my mind is this feature, though: You can rearrange your document’s structure using drag-and-drop. Here’s a demo (Window 2000):

https://movq.de/v/67523d0d3f/so31.mp4

I really, really wish the tool at work would have a feature like that. It would have saved me so much time already. 😭

Interesting. Thanks! And thank you for replying. :) Indeed, I don’t check for mention with twtxt. To me, twtxt is to share, not to talk: there is my email commented at the top of my #twtxt.txt for this purpose. Trying to create discussions with twtxt is nonsens : there are much better tools to do so (email, xmpp, …) @@aelaraji.com @@im-in.space

C’est fou toutes ces requêtes spécfiques à #dokuwiki qui persistent même si je n’ai plus dokuwiki. Les diff et que sais-je… Les bots adorent :/

Why blogging, nice list: https://chavanniclass.wordpress.com/2024/05/16/why-blog/

I’m looking for wallpapers matching a color palette. Is there any tool to do so? I found the opposite, picture to palette, but not palette to picture :/

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Good luck! 🤞

@mckinley@twtxt.net I see 🤔

What’s all of this about? one may ask…

Well I’ve been itching to toy around with a BSD on actual hardware and away from the comfort of VMs. NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD… It doesn’t matter. I just want to “Make it feel… Make it feel alive AGAIN!”

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I’ve ripped off it’s GPU about a year ago to rescue another computer … Now I’m stuck with only SSH to play with it. Since it came with just a VGA port for display and my monitor takes all but THAT!

Planning a file back up from an old machine that’s been sitting in the corner gathering dust… Because I know ! I’m about to eff it up, BIIIIG Time ! 😂

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net I’m looking forward to my all-SSD Btrfs RAID5 NAS. I think it’ll be a while, though. I just paid $6.92/TB for a couple of used 12TB HDDs.

@prologic@twtxt.net They’re shutting down after 7 years. It was a great place to buy Monero with cash by mail. https://localmonero.co/nojs/blog/announcements/winding-down

my current desktop #screenshot https://0x0.st/XKRk.png . I enjoy june’s scheme https://causal.agency/scheme.png

@rrraksamam@twtxt.net You sure that’s enough? My laptop already has 32 GB RAM. You gotta pump those numbers up!

50 Core CPU, 128GB RAM, 20TB SSD laptops when?

@mckinley@twtxt.net What happened to it? 🤔

RIP LocalMonero. You will be missed.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Nice. Compiling problematic software is my #1 use of containers on my PC. I use a handful of them on my server.

Oops! The magic smoke has arisen from the tweeter.

No space for space

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s what I always think of with a shake of my head, too. Nowadays people voluntarily and actively feeding Stasi with all their information.

Hahaha, what an evil idea, @aelaraji@aelaraji.com. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de At work, I mostly open Jira tickets in new tabs and don’t navigate them. But yeah, GitHub unsurprisingly fucked up here. One more reason not to use it. ;-)

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I was just surprised by that low number, because I still have 126 feeds in my list. Buuuuuut I guess I could clean that up a bit as well. 🥴

@movq@www.uninformativ.de To be fair Twtxt has always been quite niche. Yarn picked up interest a bit a few years back, but then things died down a bit. I built yarnd for me, I continue to use it and improve it every now and again. But I guess the only uses we’ll continue to see and that includes new folks are folks that give a shit about simple things, and see value in a slow, privacy focused medium? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Not a lot left, huh 🤔

Cut my following list down to just a mere ~47 feeds. ~11 rss/news feeds, 23 local feeds from my pod, and 13 external feeds.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com lol, yeah, that would be great 😂

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @mckinley@mckinley.cc Huh, I envy you. 😅 I was browsing my GitHub stars, clicked Next a couple of times and then hit the back button on my mouse. Boom, I don’t get back to the previous page but to my profile page: https://github.com/vain?tab=stars

At work, it is absolutely pointless to expect forward/backward to work. Almost everything breaks. Maybe some older Jira still works, but that’s about it.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Same here. Where does it not work, @movq@www.uninformativ.de?

Hell yeah, this is some amazing bee stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgOYLDf5Wv8

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Classically navigating through the history still works perfectly fine on most (if not all) websites I visit.