Recent posts from feeds followed by pftnhr@blog.ratterobert.com
Hmm, so it seems this Mike is the one who inherited it: https://tilde.club/~deepend/, but not too active anywhere, though pinging “deepend” on Libera might work...
@lyse was it? Hmm, am I back to square one? 😅 Contacting one tilde could be a step ahead, but there are so many…!
I spent a few mins on teh tilde website, and for the life of me I can't find a way to contact anyone responsible/accountable for this wonderful little service 🤣
@prologic that would certainly help a lot. I can’t think of a solution, though.
Is it worth me reaching out to the operator and helping build some solution for their userbase to detect followers? 🧐
@movq they know it is perk worth paying for. Hahahaha!
It is harder to regain ownership of an IRC channel than crossing the Mexico/US border. 😅
I have now permitted the following media types:
blog.ratterobert.com image/*
audio/*
video/*
text/*Done ✅ Will be available on this pod as soon as the publish workflow finished successfully.
@bender yeah it wasn't so much of a browser thing, more of a security/abuse thing. If you upload large media, we downsize/downscale it, etc.
@prologic just store and host. All modern browsers render WebP just fine.
@bender The only problem with uploading is the procesing. Do you expect any server-side processing of the WebP or just store and host?
@prologic well, uploading and rendering, yes. Not a priority, of course. Just an item for a list somewhere.
@bender That we can do easily. Just supporting tendering .webp inline eight? 🧐
@xuu as long as I see you on IRC, bouncer or not, I don’t worry. Weird, isn’t it? Glad you are OK, Winter’s coming!
@movq what do you use? Is it plus-aliased emails? I am curious to know how others are accomplishing this. I am currently using the “Hide my Email” feature, from iCloud.
Oh, and I forgot (because I thought it was obvious, my bad), set a nick, and a url at the very minimum on your feed. See “Metadata Extension”.
Not too important, but an item on a wish list: add support for WebP? I had to convert the animated WebP to GIF.
@https://tilde.club/~threatcat/twtxt.txt unwritten etiquette (by me, and for me, but one can hope, right?).
Anything else doesn’t matter. ☺️
Thank you for the encouragement and love and kind words, @lyse @movq @bender @doesnm and others along the way I'm not sure of their feed uris 💕 I'll keep at it, but for the time being I will keep my distance, mostly off IRC, because I don't have the energy to spare in that kind of engagement (what//if the worst happens, it's so draining). I need to remember what I ever did any of this for, it was back in ~2020 and I wanted really to build small interconnected communities that any non "tech savvy" person (more or less) could also benefit from ane enjoy. Even if there are aspects of the specs we've built/extended over time that aren't "perfect"™, they're "good enough"™ that they've last 5+ years (I believe this is 6 years running now). I want to spend a bit of time going back to why I did any of this in the the first place, and get a little micro-SaaS offering going (barely covering running costs) so encourage more folks to run pods, and thus twtxt feeds and grow the community ever so slightly. Other than that, I plan to get the specs "in order" to a point (with @movq and @lyse's help) where I hope they'll stand the test of time -- like SMTP.
Thank you all ! 🙏
@lyse an advent of code, I love it! Go, Lyse, go!
@prologic a good DR plan must be tested at least once a year. ☺️
PR to clean up some unwanted specs and cleanup some invalid/bad references. 🙏
@prologic nothing to be sorry about. It gave me time to watch TV with kids! 🤭
@movq Yeah ! 👍 I'm trying to build my first micro-SaaS and get more lay-people to protect their own inboxes and identify 🤣 -- Hopefully it all works out 💪
I just successfully used my own SnipMail service with a real business, whoohoo! 🥳
@eldersnake I'll make a release this weekend (today)
@eldersnake What version are you running btw? It's probably time you upgraded and time I released a new version finally 😂 If you're running a version that's pre-SQLite-cache, then yeah I'm not surprised. The SQLite cache version is honestly much better 🤣
Also, did you intended for the page title to be simply "home"?
@thecanine looks good! Was the use of asterisks instead of <li> a concerted choice (it doesn't look intended, but I might be wrong)? With CSS you can replace bullets on lists with whatever you want.
@movq my apologies if I crossed some lines, I only meant it as a friendly engagement (which, all aside, was achieved!). Thank you for sharing your thoughts; please know that I appreciate them.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I'm going to bed, but I'll have a closer read/think tomorrow 🤞
@bender We could -- It's just never became "strong enough"™ of a demand that I ever extended the possibility of supporting other mime types.
This brings a thought I had for a long time, why can't we upload arbitrary files to a twtxt? If not an image, make it simply a link. I could have used such feature to upload the text.
@prologic when I first "fed" the text to Gemini, I asked for a three paragraphs summary. It provided it. Then I asked to "elaborate on three areas: user experience, moral/political impact, and technical/legal concerns". The reply to that is too long for a twtxt.
I then asked to counter the OP opinions---as in "how would you counter the author's opinion?". The reply was very long, but started like this:
"That's an excellent question, as the post lays out some very strong, well-reasoned criticisms. Countering these points requires acknowledging the valid concerns while presenting a perspective focused on mitigation, responsible integration, and the unique benefits of AI."
What followed was extensive, so I asked for a summary, which didn't do justice to the wall of text that preceded it.
@bender Same I only have one registrar too (OnlyDomains).
@prologic hehehe, yeah, it isn't mine neither. Most obscure TLDs are in small registrars. I like to stick to one register (even though when Google Domains ceased to exist I was forced to have two, as Cloudflare doesn't support the .ONE TLD).
@bender It's not even available on my registrar anyway 🤣
