For those not on Gemini, a proxy provides more insides on such, hmm, interesting acronym. :-D

@eric Congrats 🥳

@zvava Bit ahrd not to 🤣

@zvava Been there done that haha 🤣

@zvava Enjoying it so far? 🤔 😅

@zvava Hey 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social 🤗

@ionores Love the new Avatar dude 😅 Very nice! 👍

@dce Ooops 😅 Hope you still have enough money for the basics 🤗 I'm doing okay though!

@aelaraji Doing okay here 👌

Chances are the database bought wasn't cheap at all and was aold by some scam company that probably ripped them from six figures or more for a database that's full of rubbish. 🤣

@movq Right now I'm basically just blocking entire ASN(s) at this point and large blocks of IP(s) from Anthropic, OPenAI, Microsoft and others.

@aelaraji 👋

Didn't see that coming 😂

@movq one can dream, for sure. I miss all the Pope and Medici series, all gone. And that's just a start.

@bender I've been cutting back too 😅 Trying to avoid drinking (with alcohol) 24hr before fixtures (🏓) and before training 🤣

Enjoy! This is a longer weekend for us too (Labor Day), and even longer for me, as I have asked for Tuesday off. Yayyyyy! I will not be drinking (I voluntarily stopped drinking anything with alcohol in it), but I will try to get a few things done, and then relax.

Weekend! Whooo 🤣 Having a few too many glassses of 🍷 listening to music on Youtube and playing Chess which I haven't been playing much lately 😢

@dce No worries 😌 It's all documented in our soecs, it's not such a common thing that we've felt the great need to really solve, we're aware folks want to sometimes have their feed on several protocols, and that's totally fine™ 😅

@lyse Very nice colors dude! 😅

@movq Yeah, we've seen how this plays out in practice 🤣 @dce My advice, do what @movq has hinted at and don't change the 1st # url = field in your feed. I'm not sure if you had already, but the first url field is kind of important in your feed as it is used as the "Hashing URI" for threading.

@movq dear lord. “I really need that feature!” — said no one. 🙄

@dce these are some of the same reasons that I enjoy Yarn.social/Twtxt 🙌

@dce Twet is a far better command line client. Yea 👌

@dce I feel you 🤗

@dce Hello! 👋 Welcome! 🤗

@dce is it not duplicated. Well, at least not now.

@thecanine I think Google's Android is as vanilla as it can be, coming from the "source". The bloatware is more often than not vendor's provided, no? I don't consider Google apps and services bloatware, but an intrinsic part of the Android "vanilla" experience.

@dce twtxt is quite light, and trouble-free. Welcome! I also run an ActivityPub server, but yeah, more often around here than there.

@dce I don't use Gemini, but I follow you on the good, old, HTTP(S)! :-)

@prologic, the very first sentence addresses something that needed to be addressed. Maybe tech savvy people will not have these issues, but many non-tech savvy people (and old people) I know has had, and has, cyclically, a myriad of malware, pestware, etc., issues on their Android based phones. It is a wild-west.

@movq Yeah I'm worried about this too. What's the systemic problem at paay here? Capitalism at it's extreme? 🤔

To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.

This requirement applies to “certified Android devices” that have Play Protect and are preloaded with Google apps. The Play Store implemented similar requirements in 2023, but Google is now mandating this for all install methods, including third-party app stores and sideloading where you download an APK file from a third-party source.

@movq TL;DR? 🤔

@movq Yeah I just got a bit curious after watching your video and reading your OP 😅

@movq Haha yeah rightio, and yeah inches suck 🤣

@movq What do you define as "expensive"? 🤔 (I've always thought of modern-day painters as a "rip", and the ink my god 🤯)

@movq Is there like a TL;DR of this standard? I can't say I remember this tbh 🤔

@movq Got a link to this

ESC/P standard.

@movq Are you sure?

because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive.

I think dot matrix printers are still pretty common in many Point of Sales (POS) registers right? At least here in AU they're very common. I had a quick look myself today, there seems to be quite a solid market for these types of printers. In fact even EPSON still sell Dot Matrix printers themselves 🤣

@movq Kind of curious now... Is there a (to buy new) dot matrix printer you'd recommend if someone wanted to get into this sort of thing (sending plain 'ol bytes to a printer port)? 🤔 (I remember this back in the ye 'old days!)

@twtxtory it is designed that way on purpose 🤣

@movq wut da fuq?! 🤯

@thecanine Haha I thought myself there might ahve been too many pixels on the tail, but I'm no expert in this field 🤣 It's still a nice canine though! 👌

@thecanine My daughter (who is pretty good already at art and only 10 :D) says this looks like a "blob" 🤣 I tried to explain to her that this is pixel art, but I'm not quite sure she has the same appreciation (yet) 😅

@lyse ooooh! I wish I had that mallet here at work today. So many uses come to mind! 😂

@lyse you have sent me down the rabbit hole now. That guy is a true wizard!

@lyse that's so cool! I had to do some research, as I thought all pallets were made using cheap pine wood (which is quite soft), but, boy, as I erring big time! Oak it is also used, which is hardwood, and quite durable.

I use Headscale. Love it!

@eric Name change is no worries! 😉 Interesting/funnily enough my client yarnd seems to have picked it up automatically which is nice (I've historically always had a few bugs to iron out there 🤣)

@itsericwoodward Also just a heads up, GIF(s) aren't supproted as an Avatar type on yarnd (what runs twtxt.net). I'd change this to something that's more supproted like PNG, JPEG, etc.