I've been using Codeium too the last week or so ! It's pretty good and like @xuu said is a pretty desent Junior assistant, it helps me write good docs and the tab completion is amazing!

It of course completely sucks at doing anything "intelligent" or complex, but if you just use it as a fancier auto complete it's actually half way decent 👌

One thing that's on my mind over the last few days about all this Twt editing and identity stuff we've been having hot debates over is this...

> I don't really have a problem with editing twts, or someone changing their feed's URL.

Personally I think the folks that do are rightfully pedantic and like a good user experience, which I don't blame 'em. I would expect the same too. Anyway, just wanted to get that out there, I believe we can support editing and identity in a way that is still simple, as long as we bring clients along for the ride with us. The old/legacy original client though will have to remain well, ya know 😅

@lyse and @movq and possibly @aelaraji and even @cuaxolotl -- I'm very curious to understand and hear thoughts, pros and cons or other feelings about introducing the notation of a feed's identify using cryptography? If we were to keep things simple, and use what's commonly available, for example SSH ED25519 keys? using the `ssh-keygen -Y sign` or `ssh-keygen -Y verify` tools already available? Maybe in combination with @xuu 's idea of generating a random unique ID for your feed, say `# id = ` and signing it with your ED25519 key? 🔑

# Summary of WiscKey: Separating Keys from Values in SSD-Conscious Storage

- **Authors**: Lanyue Lu, Thanumalayan Sankaranarayana Pillai, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
- **Conference**: 14th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '16)
- **Key Concept**: WiscKey is a key-value store that separates keys from values to minimize I/O amplification, optimizing performance for SSDs.
- **Performance**: WiscKey outperforms LevelDB and RocksDB in various workloads, achieving up to 111× faster loading and improved random lookup speeds.
- **Design Goals**: Focus on low write/read amplification, SSD optimization, and support for modern features like range queries.

That's an interesting side effect to the new Discover feature that I added sometime ago that only displays one post per feed. That is when you're not logged in and viewing my pod's front page. You can pretty easily and roughly see what the monthly active view account is just by looking at the pager size. 🤔

Even though we're quite a ways from any suburban areas, even with the Internet access via cell towers this poor, using my pod is still very snappy. 👌

When will the AI hype die down?

Out camping with the family this weekend for my birthday 🥳

@xuu What's the keyoxide thingy you wrote/built? 🤔 What's your URI/profile? 🤔

@cuaxolotl Did you recently change the `url` metdata key of your feed?

```
# url = https://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/twtxt/tw.txt
```

Was this at one point `# url = https://sunshinegardens.org/users/xj9/twtxt/tw.txt`?

Spent the day performing backups (_hadn't done it in a while 😱_) and wrote a full backup definition internal document that defines my backup process, scope, security, frequency, backup locations, capacity and backup and restoration procedures. Very happy with the doc and the updated (_now fully documented_) plan and scheduled backup frequency (_once per month, which I'll put into my calendar as it's done by hand for now, with tools_). So far backing up ~410GB out of a possible ~12.8TB worth of data in two locations -- I deliberately don't backup everything as much of the data can be re-created (_music, videos, tv shows, etc_). #Backups #Data

Swa this pop up in my Github news feed today 🤔 Which links to https://github.com/musingstudio/go-subclub

> A Go (golang) library for interacting with the sub.club API.

So I got curious and had a peek 👀

> Let's fund the Fediverse
>> Posting or hosting on the open social networks no longer means you have to do it for free. Developer Preview now available.

And further down:

> Monetize your feeds
>> If you post quality content and you've developed a loyal audience, you should be able to ask your most passionate followers to support you with a premium subscription.
>>
>> That's a promise not available on the Fediverse ...until now.

Hmmm 🤔

Introduction to JuiceFS | JuiceFS Document Center -- Thinking about using JuiceFS to solve a long-running problem I've always had.

- Be able to run services on _any_ node in my cluster and let Docker Swarm pick whatever node it likes (_instead of now where I have to pin some workloads to specific nodes, as that's where their local storage volume is_)
- Manage the scalability of data and growth over time instead of what I do now which is to extend EXT4 filesystems on my Docker Swarm nodes every few years.

Anyone had any intereractions with @cuaxolotl yet? Or are they using a client that doesn't know how to detect clients following them properly? Hmmm 🧐

Uggh it's 33C right now and 60% humidity 🥵

It's a really good time to invest in nVIDIA shares 🤣

@cuaxolotl Hey! 👋

@abucci appreciate it if you find the time to update again 🙏

Time for work™, But I quickly hacked together a bit of a better solution here. Rolling it out to my pod so we'll see how it _actually_ goes. Still possible to abuse if you're a logged in user, etc, but at least now we delete the invalid/bad feed afterwards if it a) was not even a `text//plain` content-type or b) it errored out and was a new fetch of a HTTP feed.

Wow! My god spammers really try hard song they? 🤣 Geez 🤦‍♂️ Do we need to make the captcha harder? 🙄

My 9yr old daughter just made her Git commit today, her first website, setup two-factor authentication and used several credentials (_which I helped her with_) 🤣 -- next lessons: password hygiene/management.

@movq Come join me! https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

⏰ for our monthly Yarn.social Online Meetup! 🤞

----

- **Event:** Yarn.social Online Meetup
- **When:** 24th August 2024 at 12:00pm UTC (_midday_)
- **Where:** https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social
- **Cadence:** 4th Saturday of every Month

- **Agenda:**

> Anything we want to talk about. Twtxt, Yarn, self hosting, cool stuff you’ve been working on. chit-chat, whatever 😅

#Yarn.social #Meetup

I just realized, this is the last Saturday of the month. So Yarn.social meetup is up again tomorrow. Same time as last time if anyone is interested/around to join and hang out!

Does anyone know what the differences between HTTP/1.1 HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 are? 🤔

My daughter won her first match!!! 🥳

~2 years later...



Yeah I'm kind of glad they're better at Hardware too and not this (questionable) "social media" thing 🤣 #Mitre10 #Hardware #Social

Dear OnlyDomains, part of Team Internet. Do you think you could stop being so incompetent when it comes to Domains, DNS and basic HTTP? I reported this to you on Friday, and you are still arguing with me over Support the legitimatecy of the claims? Seriously?! 😧

```
$ dig @1.1.1.1 +short onlydomains.com.au a
198.50.252.65

$ nc -vvv 198.50.252.65 443
nc: connectx to 198.50.252.65 port 443 (tcp) failed: Connection refused
```

#OnlyDomains

What a glorious morning for a public holiday 💪 What shall I do today? Hmmm 🧐

I like how tags like #reading now actually work correctly on Yarn pods 👌

Transparency petition - Whistleblower Justice Fund

Whoo @off_grid_living is back! 🥳

Anyone recommend a domain registrar, that's only a domain registrar and nothing else? I'm not interesting in Email Hosting, Web Hosting, Parking, or whatever other silly nonsense. Just domain registration, delegation and renewal.

@falsifian by the way, on the last Saturday of every month, we generally hold a online video call/social meet up, where we just get together and talk about stuff if, you're interested in joining us this month.

@falsifian You need an Avatar 😅

Found out today, that the registrar that I use Only Domains's AU front door is **DOWN**. That is https://onlydomains.com.au

```
$ host -t A onlydomains.com.au
onlydomains.com.au has address 198.50.252.65

$ curl -v https://onlydomains.com.au/
* Trying 198.50.252.65:443...
* connect to 198.50.252.65 port 443 failed: Connection refused
* Failed to connect to onlydomains.com.au port 443 after 222 ms: Couldn't connect to server
* Closing connection
curl: (7) Failed to connect to onlydomains.com.au port 443 after 222 ms: Couldn't connect to server
```

OTS works Soo great! 👌 Juat got my mother to use it to share some creds so I could take over her web hosting needs 🤣

Okay. The house is properly cleaned up. There are 77 users on this pod, 34 inactive and 12 active. That's a good effort I _think_. Maybe some of those folks that haven't been around for a while, but were pretty decent folks to talk to and interact with may come back. For example @off_grid_living 😅

@bender / @mckinley could you both please change your password immediately? I will also work on some other security hardening that I have a hunch about, but will not publicize for now.

👋 At some point over the next day or two I will be deleting the following feeds/accounts:

https://gist.mills.io/prologic/ae61ae2bfba6401e8955a33394fd858b

If anyone spots anything on this list that shouldn't be deleted, please let me know! 🙏

@lyse@

@movq@ does not hmmm

@prologic works

The mobile autocomplete bug is something I can reproduce and likely fix soon™ -- I _think_ its happenning because I accidentally nuked this pod's cache the other day (sorry!) 😢 -- But it is also a bug 🐛

FYI: I will be deleting the following 57 inactive (dead?) users on this pod today:

```
henseegeek fundor333 westbam onlyfansreview mabdalrahman retronav crunched deebs tca qwe234 pfefferle razetime kayos marguesto john yale slackjeff kodaira313a denisovich mlctrez jcrawford l3db3tt3r crunch homer mjy testdrive neoboard svendowideit palash k0rr stxh nirmal_kumar jan6 bram frankiem cvshumake qazsx apoorv10 duriny_test heyjude asepaned testest kevin natascha_e papz anvis spammer lonfas kamme dooven aatikakhan enochthec aman justinakers pc dai superyarn
```

If you wish to keep your account/feed, please login immediately. You have ~12 hours from this post (_as I'll be out playing table-tennis 🎾_)

Big day, hell big weekend! Got Table Tennis 🏓 tournament 🏟️ where I'm the team captain of a team of two young players aged 9 and 10 called Spin Kings 🤣 The competition looks really tough, I'm not really sure how we'll go to be honest, but we'll try out best 😅

Hmmm I'm a little concerned, as I'm seeing quite a few feeds I follow in an error state:

I'm not so concerned with the 15x `context deadline exceeded` but more concerned with:

```
aelaraji@aelaraji.com Unfollow (6 twts, Last fetched 5m ago with error:
dead feed: 403 Forbidden
x4 times.)
```

And:

```
anth@a.9srv.net Unfollow (1 twts, Last fetched 5m ago with error:
Get "http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt": dial tcp 144.202.19.161:80: connect: connection refused
x3733 times.)
```

Hmmm, maybe the stats are a bit off? 🤔

Bit tired myself folks. It's 00:00 here and I'm going to bed 🛌

Cool! Our park has disappeared again this morning! 😱 Also it was cold outside! 🥶

Oh I forgot again 🤦‍♂️ Last Saturday of the month, so if anyone's up for a friendly catch up over video tomorrow? Same time, same place 👌

Hmmm something happened last night at ~3am (AEST) that decrased traffic to my pod quite considerably... Hmmm? Anyone have any ideas? 💡

Anyway, I'm gonna have to go to bed... We'll continue this on the weekend. Still trying to hunt down some kind of suspected mult-GB avatar using @stigatle 's pod's cache:

```
$ (echo "URL Bytes"; sort -n -k 2 -r < avatars.txt | head) | column -t
URL Bytes
https://birkbak.neocities.org/avatar.jpg 667640
https://darch.neocities.org/avatar.png 652960
http://darch.dk/avatar.png 603210
https://social.naln1.ca/media/0c4f65a4be32ff3caf54efb60166a8c965cc6ac7c30a0efd1e51c307b087f47b.png 327947
...
```

But so far nothing much... Still running the search...

@abucci / @abucci Any interesting errors pop up in the server logs since the the flaw got fixed (_unbounded `receieveFile()`_)? 🤔

Hmmm 🧐

```
for url in $(jq -r '.Twters[].avatar' cache.json | sed '/^$/d' | grep -v -E '(twtxt.net|anthony.buc.ci|yarn.stigatle.no|yarn.mills.io)' | sort -u); do echo "$url $(curl -I -s -o /dev/null -w '%header{content-length}' "$url")"; done
...
```

😅 Let's see... 🤔

@stigatle / @abucci My current working theory is that there is an asshole out there that has a feed that both your pods are fetching with a multi-GB avatar URL advertised in their feed's preamble (metadata). I'd love for you both to review this PR, and once merged, re-roll your pods and dump your respective caches and share with me using https://gist.mills.io/

Hmm remove the cpu limits on this pod, not even sure why I had 'em set tbh, we decided at my day job that setting cpu limits on containers is a bit of a silly idea too. Anyway, pod should be much snappier now 😅

Thinking we need to adapt the UI a little bit to something like #json=2981299105862240,OhjMMMyAL5_oBREM3QAF5Q">this

I had a play with LiveKit Agents Playground: KITT and I have to say it's pretty impressive. Not the ChatGPT part of course, but the speech recognition and text to speech synthesis.

> KITT is an AI voice assistant powered by LiveKit Agents, Deepgram, Eleven Labs, and ChatGPT. It is running on LiveKit Playground.

It's too bad it relies on three cloud services, none of which can be run locally (_with the exception of Ollama that you could replace the OpenAI component with_).

Are we over Crowdstrike yet? 🤔🤣 Have We forgotten about it? 😅

Some bad code just broke a billion Windows machines - YouTube -- This is a really good accurate and comical take on what happened with this whole Crowdstrike global fuck up.

Thinking about building infinite scroll for yarn.

📣 **NEW:** Added a new feature for pod operators to optionally configure. Compact Front Page.



When enabled will display only one post per feed on the unauthenticated Discover view (_the front page_).

@xuu Your pod is behaving much better now right? Any other issues aside from the Edit problem? 🤔

@xuu I have a theory as to why your pod was misbehaving too. I _think_ because of the way you were building it `docker build` without any `--build-arg VERSION=` or `--build-arg COMMIT=` there was no version information in the built binary and bundled assets. Therefore cache busting would not work as expected. When introducing htmx and hyperscript to create a UI/UX SPA-like experience, this is when things fell apart a bit for you. I think....

There's a new interesting regression in `yarnd` that's cropped up that results in a `" />` at the end of uploaded/links images. I'm not able to figure this bug out yet 😢

I spent 18 months rebuilding my algorithmic trading platform in Rust. I’m filled with regret. | by Austin Starks | Jun, 2024 | Medium

@abucci Oh hey! 👋

Whoohoo! My HTMX mugs arrived!

I've been thinking about a new term I've come across whilst reading a book. It's called "Complexity Budget" and I think it has relevant in lots of difficult fields. I specifically think it has a lot of relevant in the Software Industry and organizations in this field. When doing further research on this concept, I was only able find talks on complexity budget in the context of medical care, especially phychiratistic care. In this talk it was describe as, complexity:

- Complexity is confusing
- Complexity is costly
- Complexity kills

When we think of "complexity" in terms of software and software development, we have a sort-of intuitive about this right? We **know** when software has become _too_ complex. We know when an organization has grown in complexity, or even a system. So we have a good intuition of the concept already.

My question to y'all is; how can we concretely think about "Complexity Budget" and define it in terms that can be leveraged and used to control the complexity of software dns ystems?

Fixed Solar Panels for Camping 👈 Looks like good option for buying fixed solar panels, mounting brackets and other parts for mounting solar panels to your car's roof rack 👌

Finding the technical specifications of older vehicles, say >10 years is rally hard 🤦‍♂️

Hey @thiegui 👋 Welcome back! 🤗

I just blocked the following ASN(s) from being able to hit `twtxt.net` or `mills.io`:

```
16509 - AMAZON-02
32934 - FACEBOOK
```

Why? Because the Claude Bot web crawler from facebookexternalhit and Meta's facebookexternalhit web crawler are both behaving badly for pages that have no cache headers. Not sure if this is malicious, an oversight, a bug or me just being stupid and not ensuring every web resource or page had appropriate `Cache` headers? 🤔 In any case, until I hear back from at least facebookexternalhit (_whom I've reached out to_), these ASN(s) will remain entirely blocked.

That is the entirety of Amazon Web Services and Facebook.

Anyone know much about MobileCoin?

Can anyone recommend and/or vouch for a Chrome/browser extension that lets me write rewrite rules for arbitrary links on a page? e.g: `s/(www\.)?youtube.com\/watch?v=([^?]+)/tubeproxy.mills.io/play/\1` for example? 🤔

Another day, another web app built 😅 This time tubeproxy, which still needs some tidying up project-wise (_bugger all docs, setup guide, etc_), but so far it works quite nicely. If you're curious, you're welcome to try it out at https://tubeproxy.mills.io -- Although technically this meant for internal use (_as I block Youtube at the network on purpose_).

Additional features I'm thinking about next:

- Add to Plex (_on-demand download, tag and update of the Plex archives_)
- Subscribe (_added to my `ytdl-sub` that subscribes to Youtube channels and stores nicely in Plex_)

prologic/tunesnap: tunesnap is a web application for downloading, extracting and encoding the audio tracks of videos into downloadable audio. - tunesnap - Mills

So Belong (_out retail mobile phone provider of choice_), who are owned by Telstra want to increase the price of their plans by +40%.

Telstra, who own Belong, have had the following financial earnings over the past 4 years:

- FY2021: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +3.4% $1.9B
- FY2022: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): -4.6% $1.8B
- FY2023: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +13.1% $2.1B
- FY2024: NPAT (Net Profit After Tax): +11.4% $1B

> Not sure how this year's results had a +11.4% increase, but only $1B in profits.

#Telstra #Belong #Australia #PriceHikes

I recently learned that our Australian Liberal National Party, spent 10's of thousands of dollars on a campaign involving flyers posted around the suburbs (_localities_) of our local Greens federal member, Elizabeth Watson Brown. Not only was the material produced by the LNP party, distributed and paid for by the LNP party, full of lies, but they had the audacity to make the "flyers" _appear_ as though they were from the Greens themselves! 🤦‍♂️ wtf?! #Politics #Sucks

> In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.

— W3C, HTML Design Principles § 3.2 Priority of Constituencies

I can't believe I've been writing Go code for over 8 years already 😮

Just added support for deleting and editing arbitrary Twt(s) at anypoint in your timeline. Some things to note:

- I'm not really that happy with the code between `PostHandler()` and `DeleteTwtHandler()` anymore 😢 It _really_ needs some major refactoring, and better tests.
- This only works for users (_for now_), no support for Persona(s) / Feeds sorry.

One side-effect I've noticed (_which was always the case_); an Edited Twt whilst preserves the original timestamp, gets appended to your feed at the bottom of the file. This is counter intuitive when you think about editing text files with a text editor, but it does make sense in the way `yarnd` treats feeds as append-only (_I had just forgotten_). I'm not doing anything about this though.

Oh boi! 🤦‍♂️ I totally forgot to put this notice up, and the month has flown by so quickly! 😅 Sorry folks! Hope it's not too late! ⏰ for our monthly Yarn.social Online Meetup! 🤞

----

- **Event:** Yarn.social Online Meetup
- **When:** 22nd June 2024 at 12:00pm UTC (midday)
- **Where:** https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social
- **Cadence:** 4th Saturday of every Month

- **Agenda:**

> Anything we want to talk about. Twtxt, Yarn, self hosting, cool stuff you’ve been working on. chit-chat, whatever 😅

#Yarn.social #Meetup

[Interview with Senior JS Developer 2024 [NEW] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWfYxg-Ypm4) Bahahahahaha 🤣 So funny!

Creator of HTMX Talks HTMX - YouTube

Should I just code in a work-around? If the `Referer` is `/post` then consider that total bullshit, and ignore? 🤔

Why would a Web Browser set the `Referer` header incorrectly?! 🤔

Can't reproduce with Iridium either.

Can't reproduce with Firefox.

Test

```
* 8eef4d5d - (HEAD -> main, origin/main) Add DB restore capability and tools/backu-_db.sh script (19 seconds ago)
```

Oh well 😅 It works wonderfully!

In the event of a database corruption or loss:

```
$ URL=http://10.0.0.164:8000 ./tools/backup_db.sh > db.json
mv db.json data/db.restore.json
yarnd ...
```

I'm finding myself more and more now using the web app on mobile 🤔🧐

@bender Btw how are you finding the new and improved UX at all? 🤔 (_this Twt was authored by presing `^n`, then `@` and then `bender` and the rest of this twt, finally `^ENTER`_)

Hypermedia Systems -- **Edit:** I _should_ have said, I plan to read this book...

Well I'm off to bed. I've fixed as many broken things as I could find. All in the name of improvements eh? 😅 Here's what I am aware of that's still non-functional/broken:

- Link Verification
- Stripping Tracking Params

Pretty much everything else should be working. If something isn't quite right though, please help me out with a concise repro 🙏

Testing `Ctrl+Enter` to post...

@bender Testing mentions... via the auto-complete...

Yes it does! Can you pull main and upgrade?

I tried to fix some more bugs today, but who knows, I may have made things worse 🤣