@mckinley@twtxt.net Huh very nice ! 🤣 and it looks like it runed nicely too 👌

@mckinley@twtxt.net happy 4 July? 🤔

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com oh hey dude! Glad to still see you around and alive and kicking 😆 how are you? What have you been up to 🤔

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Happy 4th! I went all out with the website decorations this year.

Still alive, just a lot going on. Until I fix my RPi, using this Pod as my primary. ;)

@thecanine@twtxt.net Hehe the problem with low res stuff for me is, because I’m blind, I tend to use my eye-piece which blows things up by 15x 😆

@tkanos@twtxt.net We’re here for you 🤗 Keep us posted ! 🤞

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice mix of colors there 👌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This is true 👌

Tried making an even more low-rez version of the current profile picture. Probably too low-rez to be used, but wanted to share it anyway.

Agree. we should parse the form but not output to feeds.

@retrocrash@twtxt.net Ah, nice. Yeah, intentially removing things is a good way to keep trusting the system. :-)

Nothing quite like a few days ago, but I also pulled up the shutters a bit too late. This is what I saw a couple of minutes ago:

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Don’t worry, @prologic@twtxt.net. :-) Except for one other I couldn’t do that with all my other hiking mates. Not even close. To complicate things even further, there were some rougher spots and all the inclines would slow down progress substantially. At least one hour on top, probably even two.

To be fair, when I started all the hiking a few years back, my endurance was really low, too. I couldn’t have done that back then in this time. I went out for half an hour to an hour, then I was whacked. Nothing comes from nothing.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! 👌 I think I’d be too unfit for ath 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net This is quite fast, yes. But we both are quite fast walkers, so the speed wasn’t too bad. The heat was way more brutal, especially since we had a lot of sections without shade. It’s hard to guess but maybe 50:50 in the shade and in the sun. Luckily, I wore my trusty Akubra. And we had to be very economical with our water, since we only decided on the way to go for the trip we had talked about months ago. So we weren’t prepared for it.

But we had the paths mostly for us, there were only very few other people around. So that was cool.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Was it tiring walking that distance in that time? Seems pretty fast to me 🤔

My mate and I spontaneously decided to go for a longer tour today in 29°C heat. We ended up hiking 23 km in 4:30 hours. I had two liters of mineral water in my backpack and we bought a bottle of cherry limonade each on the way in. In the end we opted for pear limo at the same self-service fridge. What a great invention these small vending machines and self-service huts are! In Germany shops are closed on Sundays, so we would have needed to find an open restaurant (plenty didn’t survive Corona) with some detours.

It was my first time on that particular terrain. We went through some beautiful and quaint forest paths with scenic views. I forgot to put my SD card back into my camera, so no photos until my mate will send me his.

Now my feet a cooling off in a bucket of cold water. Superb.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I definitely think we should drop the longer form that involved a full url.

Also given that there’s a growing number of clients that support this, I’d consider it pretty accepted nowadays.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I just reread the spec and it seems to be even a bit outdated regarding machine-parsable conversation grouping. We long dropped the need to specify a whole hash tag with URL (#<hash url>), the simplified version without the URL (#hash) is enough.

The hash tag extension specification is kind of missing the same. However, I’m not sure if that short form is considered supported in general (as opposed to be a special case for subjects only) by the majority of the twtxt/yarn community.

Now the question arises, in order to keep things simple, should we even only allow the simplified twt hash tag for subjects and forbid the long version? This would also save quite a bit of space. The URL is probably not shown anyways in most clients. And if so, clients might rewrite URLs to their own instances. On the other hand, there’s technically nothing wrong with the long version in current parser implementations. And deprecating stuff without very good reason isn’t cool.

@tkanos@twtxt.net Oh fuck, that’s really bad! :‘-(

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks mates! Yeah, lens flares rock. But especially for 24 I had several attempts to take one without any flares to more closely match the beautiful reality. I failed miserably. Still super cool shot, though.

That’s quite a setup, @retrocrash@twtxt.net. When did you start it?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Those are some great shots! 😍 Back light (Gegenlicht) and lens flares are awesome 👌

@tkanos@twtxt.net Oh shit 😳

@tkanos@twtxt.net Oh man I’m so sorry to hear that 😢 Are you and your family okay? No injuries? Is there anything we can do to help? 🤗

@tkanos@twtxt.net da what?! 😳 Are you serious? Your hour burned down?! 😢

My house burnt :(

@melyanna@tilde.club Sorry to hear that 😢 I hope things get better for you 🤗

I am officially off and so burned out…

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk Very cute 🙃

LOL 😂 A custom Linux system that boots in ~2ms 🤣 Get out! 😅

I guess the bulk of what mdev really does is basically:

https://github.com/brgl/busybox/blob/abbf17abccbf832365d9acf1c280369ba7d5f8b2/util-linux/mdev.c#L743-L778

Which is to say mdev or udev:

• Scans /sys/class/xxx, looking for directories which have dev file (it is of the form “M:m\n”)
• Uses the information in the dev file <major>:<minor> to create entries in /dev of the appropriate type (Character device, Block device, etc)
• Calls mknod() syscall to create the filesystem node

I think I can do this fairly easily with either go-udev or libudev

🤔 Anyone know how things like mdev or udev work internally without reading the C source? 😅

@maks@twtxt.net Hey! 👋 Welcome 🤗

@mckinley@twtxt.net Nah all good man 👌 I kind of got distracted reviewing budgets and the financial year 😅

Maybe let’s skip this week 🤔

Who’s joining the video call today?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Man that is gorgeous!!!

@will@twtxt.net Oh, that huge sucker! Erie has the area of an average federal state here. You could put our biggest lake 48 times into Erie, areawise. Volume, however, only 10 times to fill it up. Truly mindblowing.

@darch@neotxt Although already rejected, but what are channels? How would they work?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I need to think about it a bit. But I tend to deprecation rather than removal.

Yesterday, we had a heavy thunderstorm in the evening. At first it wasn’t too bad, just thunder in the distance and then a few drops of rain for at most five minutes. That was it. Alright, I thought, it’s over, let me call a mate and walk to the dairy farm. The heavy clouds looked awesome, a bit threatening but mostly harmless and just beautiful. We decided on a small detour to the home made ice cream vending machine and got ourselves some expensive, but very yummy pineapple/mint, yoghurt and raspberry/basil tubs. Mint was super strong, had to eat three spoons of some other flavors to actually taste it. A few spoons in and then the thunder rolled in from nowhere. So we quickly headed for the dairy farm while eating our ice creams. Half way there the sky floodgates opened and we took cover under a tree at the local playground. A minute later we decided to climb up the slide tower, because it had a proper roof. A tiny bit of hail cam down, but nothing serious.

About 15-20 minutes the rain stopped and the thunder and lighning rolled past. So we continued our journey and I finally filled my two one liter bottles successfully. Every now and then it drizzled a little bit through the forest. We reached our homes and a couple minutes later rain hit again. Thunder and lighning went crazy. The sky lit up every few seconds and this continued through half of the night.

Right after I hung up to meet my mate, another mate called and reported a few villages north of us they experienced hail sized a bit under golf balls. But he luckily managed to get the car in the underground carpark in time.

Today, it rained the whole morning. This was great since the temperatures stayed below 20°C, so my walk was a real joy. It’s going to get close to 30°C tomorrow, though, gnarf, örks, bwäh. :-(

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Good question. I don’t know. Does it take time to for the rules to get active? I have not made that experience. I set up a rule and it worked 2 minutes later when iI sent a test email.

@will@twtxt.net This looks more like open see. Hard to tell where it is without any other information.

China is offering up to $15,000 in cash, or a ‘spiritual reward’ for people who submit national security tips. The goal is to get the population to tell on itself for things related to foreign espionage and “hostile forces”. Strong Stalin vibes. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/08/china/china-foreign-spies-national-security-cash-reward-hotline-intl-hnk/index.html

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think we should because:

• it doesn’t scale
• it doesn’t make a terrible lot of sense anymore

It started out to be useful, but generally is probably considered “small scale” and “legacy” IMO.