@andros I wouldn't call it regular, but cyclical. Since, with the exception of Yarn (maybe?), clients are everything when it comes to twtxt, every now and then we see an increase of interest on new development. I have seeing them come and go, only few "beside remains". :-)

@movq ahh, living in a small house in the middle of nowhere, yes! That's my dream too. We live in the suburbs, in a relatively small community; it isn't enough, though. Take a sick day, and blast that amp! :-D

@doesnmppsflt this one is the safest feed to follow. Quark's will cease to exist, as I am not renewing the domain. Bender's will eventually fade away too, I am afraid. "No show, however good, can last forever." :-)

@lyse, @movq well, there goes my theory. We (the people) keep insisting on fudging things up.

@aelaraji as you can see, not much. Things continue to work fine (my fake one is cached on Neomutt). :-)

@prologic glad to have joined to the call, twice! :-) I think it was the last call of 2024. Hoping to see more for the one towards the end of January!

So, I had a talk with the CFO last night about this. Nothing to be gained yet, but baby steps. I think we might be able to get one for Christmas. That is, if there is any left. These little things are flying off the shelves like hot apple pies!

@aelaraji I thought I had replied to this, but don't see it, so my apologies. I like macOS, and Apple machines are the only ones who can run it. Granted, there are Hackintoshes, but those are on the way out, sadly, because of Apple's move to their own CPU chips. So, no, a ZimaBoard won't do the trick. 😅

Wives are something else, my friend. "Handle with care" applies all the time. 🤭

@prologic hahahaha! If only was that easy. Wife is pretty stressed out at work with new duties. At the same time people are getting laid off. So, it truly is a dilemma, and something that must be done carefully. I can wait. I waited this long, I can wait a bit more. Maybe and end-of-year gift for both of us?

@prologic shut that down, man! I'll give you a nickel for it! 🤭

@prologic yeah, sad, convoluted, dangerous state of affairs for just about everyone. :-(

PHP uses \t as well for TABs.

@sorenpeter oh, I thought we were settled on TABs for a while now, weren't we? 🤔 The new website mentions TABs too. The command echo -e (on any shell?) will use \t for them.

@lyse what are you building now? The things you are mentioning I couldn't even start wrapping my head around them! 😅 They sure sound expensive, tough.

@sorenpeter a TAB is simply \t. Just add it to that echo line, and that's it.

@doesnm I am not sure I am understanding what you mean. Can you explain?

@lyse that sounds truly idyllic! 🤭

@bender yeah, that's what I said, and linked. Want more?

@prologic that "little database that could" is simply amazing, isn't it? I run Conduwuit (nevermind, this one is RocksDB), and GoToSocial using it as a backend, no issues. And, of course, sqlite is the database of choice for a lot of things under iOS.

@prologic a wise plan! Who knows, ideas change, and often plans do not hash, right? Mature, mature! :-)

@xuu was that 2% picked out randomly? I like it! LOL.

@prologic I like the, allegedly, original:

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."

Not as simple as the interpretation you used, yet often context is king (or queen).

@prologic and one could say that "for every simple problem, there is a solution that's confusing, convoluted, and right." :-P

@prologic so, where are they? I want to take a peek at HomeTunnel (even though I don't a use case for it at the moment). Show us repos! :-P

@lyse thank you! Raining is starting to fall very steadily. All good so far. Wife's home, a nice meal simmers. Ah! :-D

@lyse on this:

3.2 Timestamps: I feel no need to mandate UTC. Timezones are fine with me. But I could also live with this new restriction. I fail to see, though, how this change would make things any easier compared to the original format.

Exactly! If anything it will make things more complicated, no?

@sorenpeter this will show broken, because you are hellbent on editing twtxts, aren't you? :-D

@lyse aha! Just like Bash would do. I figure -- is way too broad to start an autocomplete. Got to feed it a bit more! :-D

@lyse that -P is a life saver when running rsync over spotty connections. In my very illiterate opinion, it should always be a default.

@aelaraji I think all replies are missing the fact that your auto-completion isn't working. LOL. Or did I misunderstood?

@prologic "Even though there are some 😉 that have different views on this 🤣" --- coyly raises the hand... LOL.

Ah, and now he is "conveniently" sleeping. How, well, convenient! LOL.

@lyse yeah, tell us, @prologic, what isn't true? 🤔 You can't just go around, "that's not true, and that's not true; and that, and that!" without spelling out exactly what isn't, and why? For the love of god, why?! 😂

@falsifian comments on the feeds as in nick, url, follow, that kind of thing? If that, then not interested at all. I envision an archive that would allow searching, and potentially browsing threads on a nice, neat interface. You will have to think, though, on other things. Like, what to do with images? Yarn allows users to upload images, but also embed it in twtxts from other sources (hotlinking, actually).

I ended up installing Headscale on my little VPS. Just in case the collide, I turned off WireGuard. Turning that one off (which ran on a container) also frees some memory. Headscale is running quite well! Indeed, I have struggled getting any web management console to work, but it really isn't needed. Everything needed to commandeer the server is available through the CLI.

@falsifian "I was actually thinking about making an Internet Archive style twtxt archiver, letting you explore past twts" --- that's an awesome idea for a project. Something I would certainly use!

@prologic cool, I will be there! Are you going to post the regular banner notice? It will serve as a reminder, at least for me.

@falsifian hiya from the Sunshine State (also known as a never-ending hell, LOL)!

@falsifian this one hits hard, as jenny was just updated today. :'-(

@lyse indeed! There is no "central authority" acting as witness, and notary. The more I think of it... LOL.

@movq I recognise him, but yes, he has aged quite a bit. I mean, I look at myself in the mirror and can't, often, recognise myself. Ageing is a bitch! 😅

I mean, really, it couldn't get any better. I love it!

@movq perfect in every way. Configurable too! Thank you!

@movq yes, that's perfect! <3

@eldersnake I wanted to ask you, are you running Headscale and WireGuard on the same VPS? I want to test Headscale, but currently run a small container with WireGuard, and I wonder if I need to stop (and eventually get rid of) the container to get Headscale going. Did you use the provided .deb to install Headscale, or some other method?

@prologic I read it. I understand it. Hopefully a solution can be agreed upon that solves the editing issue, whilst maintaining the cryptographic hash.

@prologic I know the role of the current hash is to allow referencing (replies and, thus, threads), and it also represents a "unique" way to verify a twtxt hasn't been tampered with. Is that second so important, if we are trying to allow edits? I know if feels good to be able to verify, but in reality, how often one does it?

@prologic I don't trust Google with anything, sorry, pass. Oh, and you need to sign in on your Google Account (or whatever they call it these days).

@prologic how about hashing a combination of nick/timestamp, or url/timestamp only, and not the twtxt content? On edit those will not change, so no breaking of threads. I know, I know, just adding noise here. :-P

@eldersnake there has to be less reliance on a single point of failure. It is not so much about creating jobs in the US (which come with it, anyway), but about the ability to produce what's needed at home too. What's the trade off? Is it going to be a little bit more expensive to manufacture, perhaps?

@prologic :-D Thanks! Things can come in cycles, right? This is simply another one. Another cycle, more personal than the other "alter egos".

@aelaraji hey, hey! You are my very first reply! 👋🏻 Cheers!

Alright, announce_me set to true. Now, who do I pick to be my first mention? Decisions, decisions. Next twtxt will have my first mention(s). :-)