#QOTD : If you could redesign a fundamental internet protocol from scratch, which one would you choose and how would you improve it?
11 hours ago
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abucci https://anthony.buc.ci/user/abucci/twtxt.txt Remove
mckinley https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt Remove
mckinley@mckinley.cc https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt Remove
ocdtrekkie https://twtxt.net/user/ocdtrekkie/twtxt.txt Remove
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mckinley
#QOTD : If you could redesign a fundamental internet protocol from scratch, which one would you choose and how would you improve it?
11 hours ago
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prologic
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@aelaraji LOL which I block on purpose 🤣
13 hours ago
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prologic
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@aelaraji Bahahaha 🤣 The domain for that image is blocked on my local network 😅 
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #aurawta
@aelaraji Good luck! 🤞
1 day ago
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prologic
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@mckinley I see 🤔
1 day ago
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mckinley
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@rrraksamam 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.
1 day ago
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mckinley
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@prologic 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
1 day ago
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prologic
Reply to #66sdgyq
@mckinley What happened to it? 🤔
2 days ago
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mckinley
Reply to #fv4mpda
@aelaraji Nice. Compiling problematic software is my #1 use of containers on my PC. I use a handful of them on my server.
2 days ago
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prologic
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@movq 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? 🤔
3 days ago
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prologic
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.
3 days ago
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mckinley
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@lyse Same here. Where does it not work, @movq?
3 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #d3drzhq
@news Err I meant "junk" 🤣 (_too late to edit, cbf editing it manually or via the API/CLI 😅_)
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Could also just be a shitty antenna 😅
4 days ago
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prologic
I just unfollowed some ~200+ feeds that are basically dead "404 Not Found" 😳
4 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Well I used to have a handheld GPS device, probably before I lost most of my sight. I didn't really feel that it took ~12m to get a fix, it was usually much faster. You _may_ just find that all this A-GPS thing is all just bullshit anyway and just an excuse to collect and store your GPS location on some random web server that someone else owns 🤣
4 days ago
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prologic
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If Sam Altman really wanted "AI" to be in the hands of the people, he a) Should not have made deals with multiple devils that turned OpenAI into a proprietary company. b) Sold most of the company to Microsoft.
4 days ago
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prologic
hey @oevl you're still around right? I'm not imagining it 😅 How are ya? 🤔
4 days ago
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mckinley
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@movq People just don't ask these questions. It's really a serious privacy issue, and I don't see it brought up very often. Not even in privacy-minded circles. If you're using a proprietary operating system on any Internet-connected device, you need to assume that the vendor can see everything you do on it and maybe even what you do on other devices as well..
5 days ago
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prologic
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@mckinley Looks pretry interestinf 🤔
5 days ago
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mckinley
The IBM PC110 (486 palmtop) hosting this website reached 3 years of uptime a couple weeks ago. Impressive! http://pc110.yyzkevin.com/
5 days ago
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mckinley
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Actually, it looks like notifications using Google's service *can* be encrypted end-to-end. I don't know if this is used much in practice or if you can tell if the notifications on *your* device are encrypted. There seems to be some conflicting information out there.
Even if the content is encrypted, though, you're still giving quite a bit of metadata to Google by using their notification service.
5 days ago
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mckinley
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It looks like ntfy.sh can work either through the OS's notification service or by maintaining its own connection to the server in the background. For privacy, you definitely want to use "Instant Delivery" and self-host the server.
https://docs.ntfy.sh/faq/#how-much-battery-does-the-android-app-use
https://docs.ntfy.sh/faq/#what-is-instant-delivery
5 days ago
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mckinley
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@movq I haven't done any app development, but I know notifications on phones are indeed dependent on cloud services run by the OS vendor which talk to servers run by the app vendor on your behalf. This is supposedly better on battery life, but it conveniently lets your OS vendor read all your notifications.
Mobile XMPP clients usually implement notifications using XEP-0537 and it goes like this:
```
Your XMPP server -> Client vendor's notification server -> Client OS notification server -> User's device
```
It's not end-to-end encrypted so servers will usually just send a dummy message through (You received a message from juliet@capulet.lit!) so you have to open the app to see the (hopefully) encrypted message.
It's a similar flow on both iOS and Android and I assume Matrix clients work the same way.
5 days ago
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mckinley
Garage, an "open-source distributed object storage service tailored for self-hosting": https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/
5 days ago
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prologic
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Sorry folks, it was a total disaster 🤣 Had to disable the new feature 😢
- ran out of disk space
- blew up the db on this pod (_corrupted_)
- lots of missing features and. broken shit™
5 days ago
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prologic
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And we're back!
5 days ago
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prologic
👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #hw74veq
@xuu You got any time/energy to help me test this? 🤔 There's a process for indexing an existing archive too...
6 days ago
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prologic
Okay, I've built full search capabilities for `yarnd` 😅 Let's see how many bugs I've created 🤣
6 days ago
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prologic
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@movq I _think_ my daughter might be finally 🤔 She's 9 now and getting into table tennis 🏓 whoot whoot! 🥳 So... Maybe...
6 days ago
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prologic
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Yeah nothing being logged, so all the "golden paths" are being executed hmm 🧐
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #qmttc3q
@bmallred I don't think so. Let me check my pod's logs now though that I know you're pulling me feed.... One sec...
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #phld5ba
@movq Yeah I'll see if I can get back into this, everytime I see you post stuff like this it makes me want to go out again 🤣 Bit hard for a blind guy to do it all, but still I try 😅
6 days ago
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prologic
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The weird this is I still see your profile as
> bmallred may not follow you
I _assume_ you share your followings publicly, I see them on your feed, so I _assume_ so. I was going to debug this on my side too today to see if.I goofed something up but my pod is rather busy so I hadn't done that yet 😅 (_actually working again finally on search_)
6 days ago
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prologic
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@bmallred D'oh 😅 Just in the nick of time haha 😜 Good o, I'm very pleased this all works across very different pieces of software 👌
6 days ago
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prologic
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@movq Oh that's hilarious 😆 I have the exact same setup (_minus any filters, I only have those for my Celestron NextStar 4SE telescope_) 🔭
6 days ago
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prologic
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@movq Wow! 🤩 That is impressive! 👌 Do you mind sharing how you went about doing this? 🙏
6 days ago
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prologic
Reply to #iefub6q
@movq Look forward to the results 🤞
6 days ago
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prologic
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Oh so it really does hit some stupid arbitrary endpoint at AWS 😱
6 days ago
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prologic
Hey @bmallred 👋 Can you see this? 🤔
6 days ago
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prologic
I will be deleting 14 inactive and unused accounts (_for >3 years_) on my Gitea instance git.mills.io at some point over the next few days. One of those accounts is yours @adi -- If you'd like to keep it, I suggest you sign-in 😅
6 days ago
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prologic
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I can't imagine it's a static URL either, it surely has to be a unicast address of some sort. Relying on a static URL sounds like an utter disaster to me 🤔 I'd have to read the open spec on this...
6 days ago
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prologic
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@movq Surely it isn't as bad as this though right? 🤔 I mean reading the Wikipedia page on A-GPS, it sounds to me like it sends enough data to the nearest tower to give you enough data to warm-up the GPS receivership, presumably with GPS coordinates of the tower itself? I can imagine this data payload would include the Date/Time, IEMI and possibly your SIM details and Phone number (_why not_). It could be worse 🤣
6 days ago
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prologic
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@movq Welcome back! 🤗
1 week ago
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prologic
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@movq Haha cya 👋
1 week ago
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prologic
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@mckinley Yeah pipes and shell pipelines are a powerful and easy to use tool 👌
1 week ago
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mckinley
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@prologic I know, right? It's a very elegant solution to the problem using standard command line utilities. It was too hard to find. I went through 3 or 4 Stack Exchange threads from my Web search before I found somebody linking to this answer. People were misunderstanding the question and suggesting all kinds of crazy methods including weird, proprietary, GUI Windows software.
1 week ago
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prologic
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@aelaraji What was the blocker for using Gitea? 🤔
1 week ago
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prologic
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@aelaraji You can also file issues in Gitea too 👌
1 week ago
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