@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I guess the best is to block each other since our ideas are not compatible and we are not open to change our mind
Thanks for the conversation tho
I heard a wild idea this week:
Passive-aggressive income
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What are you reading this week?
#randomGameIdea #IshouldNotWorkOn #becauseIHaveManyUnfinishedOnes
A game about navigating a dodecahedron, like on Wumpus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_the_Wumpus
The hunting mechanic in Wumpus is not fun by todayās standards but things like building a farm or exploring a planet š could be cool.


What password manager do you use? Or, why none?
How often do you check the weather? How your behaviour changes with that info?
Winter is back again āļøš„¶
\ / Temps clair
.-. -3(-5) °C
ā ( ) ā ā 4 km/h
`-ā 16 km
/ \ 0.0 mm
hey @justamoment@twtxt.net ! Is vector-pass open sourced or open to collaboration somehow?
Iād like to use it and perhaps replace BitWarden but Iād prefer to have passphrases rather than passwords like ijf7wY6B8ykd7Jid7
since phrases are easier to type

Embedded OTPs and everything depending on a strong secret is a blast, BTW š
Smol net, hobbyist net, slow net, the hipster net⦠A few ideas emerging around Web 2.0, 3.0, and Apps-based Internet.
Well, new year, and a new Profile tagline/description/bioā¦
BTW Iām watching that the last link in the profile [eapl.me](https://eapl.me)
is not being converted from MD into an HTML link š¤
Switching from 2022 to 2023 broke a few things on the weekly processing for FitBot (ISO weeks FTW).
Yes, I had a few months to prepare for it, but you know⦠The end of the year suddenly came.
After finally finding some time to code, I could fix many things that needed to be redesigned. And a lot of refactoring is needed. Perhaps a few Unit testing would be helpful, since simulating records in the past is always tricky.
#codingSunday
How has the microblogging improved your life?
@carsten 46 km/h, sounds a lot š§
BTW how do you get that visualization? , looks nice
and adding the web manifest to make it work like a āWeb appā on the phone on top of the browser. Iāll take a look into it tomorrow, I donāt recall exact details.
@prologic@twtxt.net could we start with this?
@prologic@twtxt.net sorry! The learning curve for Dart / Flutter has been⦠well⦠steep
We need to discuss that. I think weāll need so many fixes for the Mobile app to reach the current version for the web. What about thinking on a PWA, or similar?
Currently, Iām using the Web as a Home app (or whatever is called), and works amazingly. Iām not using Goryon now, nor any apps for social service, but thatās a personal preference.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Why? What nerve did it touch?
Disclaimer: Iām a fan of the smol net as one of my hobbies. Even simplified and hipster protocols like Gemini, but not the new forks.
@bender@twtxt.net regressed protocol =P
Iād like to know more numbers for techs like GPS/Navigation, Twitter, TikTok, AI/ML based assistants. Decisions taken based on ML. Wearables. Medicine. Encryption. % of population with a mobile device and Internet access.
Itās going so fast that we canāt remember how to live w/o those technologies, anymore.
As a tech designer is exciting. As a world citizen⦠Well, a bit overwhelming, but with hope that all that tech wonāt make us consumerists.

@bender@twtxt.net gotcha! Apple offers a great ādefaultā ecosystem IMO. I was surprised that was being used in new environments, like manufacturing companies. iPhone even replaced blackberry 10 years ago.
I also think now there are a lot of self-hosted/Open options, for instance Obsidian instead of Notion.
I use Google Drive and Docs instead of MS Office, but obviously Iād like to have something good enough w/o Google.
Paint.net instead of Gimp and Photoshop. Inkscape is not great replacement of Illustrator, but works. Godot is becoming as good as Unity 2D. Blender is a good tool taught in schools⦠Just to name a few subscription free alternatives
@prologic@twtxt.net agreed 100%, in the case of cars, itās just insane
disclaimer, I donāt know what Iām talking about
@prologic@twtxt.net agreed. Those reasons sounds reasonable to me, although I think there are many, many kinds of software that not all fit on every case. How could we compare current software to that made under different conditions?
That said, I name an interesting case. Videogames and movies. The price is almost the same, 40-60 USD for a AAA game, or 10 USD for a Hollywood ticket. And I think it hasnāt raised due to inflation, but budgets are increasing, technical features and quality is debatable improving. Gone with the windā is in the top 1 taking inflation into consideration, but itās an outlier.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films#Highest-grossing_films_adjusted_for_inflation
Thatās why I like thinks live the Big Mac index (and many others), to understand the current difficulty to make a product under the current purchasing power.
@bender@twtxt.net Mind to share a few vanilla apps you are using ?
On the topic, I have mixed feelings. With Apps/Software/Services that are continuously improving, it could be acceptable IMO. My main issue is when you keep paying for a āfinished productā. Itās more complicated if it has ads, itās freemium, uses servers, and so on.
On the production side, well, they do it because they can (although we donāt like that they can, it seems). Development costs are continuously increasing, so itās an endless rush to spend more to compete, subsidize costs somehow, then earn more, rinse and repeat.
Iāve seen successes of 5-10% on indie developers, but Iād like to know the numbers for huge companies. Iād expect to have big pressure from investors to sustain growth and fail way less.
Christmas season is over, so letās get back to my summer avatarā¦
Wait! Itās still cold here š„¶
Today it has been difficult to focus on designing the course/book for Unity, C# and Poker.
There are many moving parts that I have to settle as learning objectives, that Iām a bit overwhelmed. I simplified the game a lot, yet not enough it seems. Thatās when I recall phrases like āThe hard things about hard thingsā
Also, Unity is too visual to be taught by a book. At the same time I want to write a book about a topic I like š¤
A reference is āHead first C#ā, which I used to learn C# in 2008, so I think itās feasible to a certain extent.
Thank you to that unknown hero who fixed the horizontal issue on mobile devices for twtxt.net
Take a taco š®
@movq@www.uninformativ.de FOMO perhaps?
I even find this annoying in YouTube App⦠I donāt watch nor produce live content. Allow me to hide the kind of content I donāt want to watch. š
Since Iām again collecting dozens of links to read later in my Telegram Notes, Iāll try a different approach.
Iāll be saving those to Markdown files on Obsidian, and then Iāll upload them to my web. Instead of opening any social service or āforumā like Hacker News looking for new stuff to read, Iāll check that list before.
Letās see how it works.
I am sharing it here in case itās interesting to you:
https://eapl.mx/links/
@carsten I like calls, but I donāt like to be interrupted.
What has worked for me, and many from my generation is a short msg like āAvailable for a call? / Sureā
Also https://eapl.mx/15 has been really useful to have a call in the future
@justamoment@twtxt.net I like that way, and personally follow something similar.
IMO itās OK to be opinionated, to respect differences. One example is with Operating Systems. Do you want to use Mac, Win, Ubuntu? Thatās OK. You say that ecosystem is better? Nice, enjoy it!
My curiosity goes on understanding the good, the bad and the ugly parts of the tech we use, and, why not? Having a great conversation with a beer or our favorite drink when itās more convenient to both. Calling is caring š
@prologic@twtxt.net thanks dude! š
@justamoment@twtxt.net hehe, sorry⦠It happened once to me in my personal Ubuntu VPS and I couldnāt even delete anything, ha!
And Iām watching that my grammar is awful in the last twts⦠š
I guess Iāll have dinner first and then Iāll switch off the phone for a while.
Enjoy over there!
But I think Iām too deep into controversial topics.
I guess Iāll switch to more mundane topics for a while.
I watched Willow, a fun movie from the 80s. And finished recording a class about DRM and Piracy⦠Interesting Saturday here. How is going yours?
I was listening to a conversation about āfake it until you make itā, based on the Theranos case. Itās in Spanish, so it wouldnāt be useful to be shared here, but the topic made think.
The idea topic is, donāt lie. Itās unsustainable. Avoid distorsion fields and āvalidation circlesā when you trust what someone else trusted. Yeah, we have to manage the truth, and we have to know when someone is lying to us (pretty hard in some circles). Itās not as easy as ānever lieā, so many due diligence on our beliefs is needed, even with risk of discovering the truth.
Reading that book about the Telegraph made me thing A LOT on the history of technology. Another book about history of power made me think on our short lifetime of, letās say 50 productive years, how much we can impact in society from what we currently are, to the future of society in 100 years.
Action and thinking⦠Progress, quality of life, a better world for our families, resources. Transcendence. These are things that have moved a lot of people for the last centuries.
I think the current life speed is faster than it should, but I guess that depends on our reference point.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I agree with that part, lying is wrong, although people like to live some lies, but thatās another conversation.
I donāt agree that automating a help line is completely wrong per se⦠Weāll need to define lines on, at this right moment of humanity, whatās āright, true, and suchā
Something I donāt agree with is polarization of āeverything about this subject is wrongā āeverything is amazingā.
Itās good to be opinionated, I respect different ideas (right or wrong). I prefer to say āPerhaps Iām wrong. Tell me moreā¦ā
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci perhaps I sound realistic⦠And yeah, realistically pessimistic. Iād like to know viable alternatives, not ideal but practical.
How are we going to stop it?
Like when social networks spread in humanity and we received warnings of its danger. We are using microblogging to talk about it, as we are going to use AI/ML more and more, but so slowly we are not going to perceive their inclusion in society. Itās in our keyboard auto correct, our browsers, personal assistants, search engines⦠So, what can be done?
@justamoment@twtxt.net congrats! I havenāt filled a drive in years š
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci itās not gonna end⦠Itās worth for some people, was predicted for the last few years and itās only going to be used more and more.
Like phones, GPS and navigation, flags memories, quantum computers, telecommunicationsā¦
Itās even going to become the new āGodsā (citation needed).
I guess thatās going to transform completely the way we think. So whatās going to happen with people not likening it is, you know, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci itās really, really tricky.
If we dĆ©pend on a machine to automate a life saving procedure we may say itās fine, but automating a suicide prevention line is controversial when it may actually help.
In medicine and science there is a lot of research, dark incentives and placebos in the name of progress⦠So, I donāt know what to think. Iāve been reading that book Bad blood, and basically is, until a huge fraud happens, the law gets updated to prevent another case, and itās a never ending storyā¦
š Another book to read this year
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25980423-the-internet-is-my-religion
How has the Internet changed your life? For better and for worse
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci in a personal case, in 2022 I explored client certificates, (I canāt recall who suggested that, it was you?).
I think itās amazing for corporates and perhaps power users. Anyway, I think itās too obscure for a normal employee who doesnāt understand whatās going on.
For something closer to the current Web experience I think Webauthn/Passkeys will be slightly simpler to use and to implement, due to the support of main OS and integrated security hardware in PCs and Phones. Or you can use a USB device which is closer to a ācar keyā being the physical aspect easier to understand than an abstract encryption technology IMO.
But as they say, why not both?
For some reason I couldnāt sleep tonight (I think that strong coffee ā at dinner was a bad idea)
Anyway, it was a nice opportunity to settle my ideas for this year. After a few days of vacations, I could define more easily what to aim for, what to work for. My references are the Maslowās hierarchy of needs and Hierarchy of Hapiness as insights on things I might be overlooking. Like social relationships, relationship with money, belongings, impact with creativity, altruism, a learning path and so on.
My main realization (perhaps obvious but what can I sayā¦) is that statistically I have about 30 years more of productive life. There is no rush, but at the same time I need those challenges to live a tasty present.
Iām grateful that this has been a pretty decent life, which is transforming into something new (damn mid-30s crisis). As they say, the best things are yet to come. Or at least, new challenges to overcome. And thatās the tasty part of life.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci thatās a great idea. A friend of mine made an extension that killed random tabs, but I donāt recall the exact details.
I think killing the older tabs could be good enough, or randomly between tabs older than X days. Perhaps with the last 10 tabs, you would notice. IDK
What browser do you use? (Over here, Edge, Firefox, and Kiwi)
@prologic@twtxt.net thatās the answer. Now I try to close as many as I open, haā¦
I think I moved to the extreme of ācompulsive cleaningā, but, hey, it worksā¦