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lyse
Went on a 20-25km long hike yesterday. Birds were beautifully singing, the lovely smell of freshly cut grass was in the air and the terror of rotary mowers reached my ear constantly. It was a bit cloudy, but the sun peaked through every now and then. Really a wonderful day to be outside. About 21°C and some wind.



https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-2024-04-28/
18 hours ago
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lyse
Reply to #am6pjbq
@adi Oh wow, I'm really surprised that it still sounds a lot like Stairway To Heaven. I'm pretty sure I would have gotten that even if I hadn't read the title. Music-wise of course. Not from the lyrics. :-)
18 hours ago
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lyse
Damn it! My camera battery didn't charge, so all the nice deer and tad pole in a puddle imagery did not work out. :-( I saw two pairs of ears showing in the grass. Suddenly, three deer took off. One went straight into the strip of trees nearby and back behind me into the woods. The other two ran more into the meadow and then alongside the path I was taking. They unexpectedly overtook me and crossed in front of me to the other pasture. Then they headed back into the forest like rockets. Holy cow, they were super fast. Really amazing to watch. Battery flattended after the second of video I recorded in the beginning.



https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-29/
19 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #paebb5a
@bender Yeah
23 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #paebb5a
@bender GoToSocial is _actually_ great 👍 I've run it while testing/devel;ing my first activity pub integration for `yarnd` I would run it myself permanently, except that I honestly prefer Twtxt and want to keep Yarn.social alive and moving forward (even if slowly).
23 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #usfy23q
@bender Cool 😎
23 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #gxolr6a
@abucci Fair 👌
23 hours ago
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prologic
Reply to #usfy23q
@bender I guess if you're going to support the choice of Bulma (_and the reason for this Yarn in the first place is I'm pretty rubbish when it comes to UI/UX, so I need all the help I can get! 🤣_) -- You need to help me understand; Is Bulma a better choice because you see "components" it has that _may_ be useful in a new (say) Yarn 2.0? Or is Picnic CSS enough? 🤔
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #pjzwjla
@bender @mckinley If you had to pick between Picnic CSS and Bulma? Which would you choose? 🤔 And why?
1 day ago
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prologic
Do we have another crack at a Twtxt <-> ActivityPub service?
1 day ago
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prologic
So... What does a lightweight `yarnd` 2.0 even look like? Hmm 🧐
1 day ago
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prologic
Whoo! 😳 We run `5-0` (games) tonight in table-tennis 🎾 My tam mate also won her 2 singles for the first time! 😅 Whoohoo!
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #jleb2hq
@aelaraji Like deebs.net 🤔
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #pjzwjla
Wow three different opinions 🤣
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #adxtcga
@movq ahahahahah 🤣🤣🤣
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #gxolr6a
@shreyan True! And I agree 👌
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #myuxfkq
I'm not sure what the plans are anymore 😢 I still love the simplicity of Twtxt too and I've always seen this project as more of an "ecosystem".

Appreciate the positive kind words, but you're right, "momentum" has died a lot and I don't have as much spare time or energy as I used to.
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #wz6g4fa
@bender Ouch! 🤣 Was/Is it worth it? 🤔
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #iq4rusa
@aelaraji Yup! And to be fair to @dfaria this is a general problem.
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #xga2gma
That only works if you're a user of said pod right? 🤔 Is this going to be the majority of cases or do we have to also worry about anonymous users (and crawlers/bots) where the "Discover" view is essentially the pods front page?
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #tltyzqq
@aelaraji today I learned! Thank you! I shall use it at work to impress my Arabic speaking friends. Have an amazing week!
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #l3erl7a
@prologic sorry to hear that mate. Feel well! 🤗
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #lqnxaxa
@aelaraji it depends. It was decently busy around here (Yarn)! 🤭

This Sunday (currently 16:46 US EDT) I mowed our lawn, trimmed bushes, blowed the dust, then showered, went shopping, cooked, and just now finished eating steamed rice with chick peas stew, and finely cut spam air fried crispy. Yum! I want more, but got to stop the glutton in me. 😂
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #wz6g4fa
@prologic well, if it is the master bathroom, and you are remodeling it whole, be prepared to dish out a chunk of money. We recently finished ours, and it was in the $28,000+ range. 😬
1 day ago
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shreyan
Reply to #gxolr6a
@prologic Niche I think. Not a bad thing!
1 day ago
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movq
Reply to #gxolr6a
@prologic It’s always been super niche, but I think in the age of Twitter more people have been looking for free/libre alternatives than these days, because Mastodon is a big thing now and has mostly replaced Twitter. Mastodon is free/libre, lots of instances, lots of communities. I have a feeling that Yarn/twtxt is mostly appealing to us nerds and minimalists.

I still love the core ideas of twtxt. It’s great for hardcore minimalists. Yarn.social is great for people willing to run a server daemon. I still think all of this is a good thing.

We have certainly lost lots of momentum, though. Plus, there appear to be simpler alternatives to full blown Mastodon now. I think @abucci and @stigatle are running snac? I didn’t have a closer look at snac (no intention of running it), but if that is a relatively small daemon (maybe comparable to Yarn?) that gives you access to the whole world of ActivityPub, then, well, yeah … That’s tough to beat.

Not sure what my point is. 🤔 For me, it’s easy: I’ll keep using twtxt because all I have to do is host a text file. Dead simple, I love it.

It all depends on what your plans for Yarn.social are. 🤔
1 day ago
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movq
If you’re using jenny on Python 3.12, it will spit out a deprecation warning regarding `datetime.utcnow()`. This will be fixed in the next release.
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #adxtcga
@movq such mental punishment! 😂😂😂
1 day ago
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movq
I feel you, buddy. 🤣

https://movq.de/v/f67fbcd93d/washing-machine.mp4
1 day ago
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mckinley
Reply to #iq4rusa
@prologic I think this would be solved in the short to mid-term by fixing the mute function. Or, maybe, adding a "Hide this user from Discover" button.
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #pjzwjla
Spectre also looks quite good.
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #pjzwjla
@prologic Bulma looks amazing.
1 day ago
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mckinley
Reply to #pjzwjla
@prologic Picnic CSS is my favorite one on first glance.
1 day ago
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prologic
Of the following CSS libraries, which is more appealing to you? 🤔

- https://bulma.io/
- https://pure-css.github.io/
- https://picnicss.com/
- https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/
1 day ago
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bender
Reply to #iq4rusa
@prologic check the links on this twtxt. You are talking to the void. 😊
2 days ago
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lyse
Reply to #dzpdw6a
@bender @prologic Thanks mates. I'm not the only one, @xuu does, too. :-)
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #j2y47ta
Maybe some kind of option that when enabled will collapse multiple posts from the same feed and only show the top most recent one, with some kind of UI/UX that indicate "N more today..."?
2 days ago
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prologic
Is Yarn.social dead or just too niche? (uyrrria) 🧐
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #j2y47ta
I'd also be very interested to hear what some other users of `yarnd` have to say, sadly there are only a handful of pods around that I'm aware of and/or that peer with my pod (twtxt.net) 😢



Maybe Yarn.social/Twtxt has become boring or too niche? 🤔 Anyway cc @eldersnake @xuu @stigatle @abucci
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #j2y47ta
Another feature as mentioned in #iq4rusa is using filters on the Timeline and/or Discover views. One of the most common "workflows" I use is to go to "Discover" and use the "Without replies" and "Hide my posts" filters to see if there's anything new and interesting in my pod's cache I haven't seen before or maybe could reply to (or not).

Of course as I've locked down registrations on my pod anyway (have kept it locked down now for months) due to SPAM accounts and bots just creating rubbish accounts/feeds, this workflow may no longer be all that useful? hmmm 🧐
2 days ago
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prologic
Hah 🤣 @dfaria Your @dfaria.eu feed really does consume about >50% of a "Discover" search with filters "Without replies" and "Hide my posts". 🤣 `36/2 = 18` at 25 Twts per page, that's about ~72% of the search/view real estate you're taking up! wow 🤩 -- I'd be very interested to hear what ideas you have to improve this? Those search filters were created so you could sift through either your own Timeline or the Discover view easily.
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #j2y47ta
One thing to be clear about here is that it was never my intention for a pod's "front page" (Discover view when not logged in) to be any kind of "listing" or "advertising" or such. That was completely unintentional. If this is expected somehow, we should probably discuss that too more seriously and discuss its merits, and if it can be support, should be supported, or if there's a different solution entirely? For example. there is the search engine which _could_ show a global feed/timeline view, albeit the domain could be something different.
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #j2y47ta
I'd like to hear some ideas that fix or improve the signal / noise ratio for all users and even benefits non-users (anonymous users just hitting a pod's index page, which is the discover view)
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #j2y47ta
There's also a pod-level setting (admins) that control what the "Discover" (or front page if you're not logged in) display:



This is either:

- Local posts only (local to the pod)
- All posts in the pod's cache
2 days ago
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prologic
One of the problems I have with changing the way the "Discover" view works whilst at the same time keeping it "clean" (_depending on who you talk to_) is the behaviour between "Timeline" (what you follow explicitly) and "Discover" (a view into the pod's cache). See attached, where I by default prefer a "collapsed" view (_hiding replies_). The default behaviour for Discover (no controls) is "everything".



The reason I bring this up is that part of my "workflow" has become to occasionally use the "Discover" view to see if I've missed any "in-between" replies that often happen, find new interesting folks to follow and/or interact with, etc.

Changing this to anything but the current behaviour would break this flow for me 😢
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #dlwuhua
@bender Nah feeling pretty rubbish today actually 😢
2 days ago
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bender
Reply to #dlwuhua
@prologic woah, such a good life! 🙈
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #wz6g4fa
@marcorocco What are you updating and changing out in your bathroom? 🤔 We probably need to update our bathroom too, the spa pipes are getting a bit uggh 😅
2 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #lqnxaxa
@aelaraji I just woke up fianally 🤣 It's 12:45pm here (midday)
2 days ago
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bender
Reply to #lqnxaxa
@aelaraji here as in, here? It’s a quarter to 22:00 *here*, and after a rather tiresome day I am trying to rest, while alternating with folding freshly washed and dried clothes. Quiet indeed! 😅
2 days ago
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