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@eric I prefer to call what we've built here really an "ecosystem". A network isn't really an apt description. Twtxt/Yarn is arguably IMO the purest decentralised non-social social media ecosystem I think in existence today 🤣
@xuu Your ingress is via some kind of tunnelling too right?
@prologic ahh! You are talking to yourself again. 😅
@prologic slightly off topic, what's the URL for the feed you replied to? I must have muted it. 😅
@eldersnake Haha, yeah well "thinking" isn't really something we even know how to define, let alone simulate 🤣
But maybe, just maybe this is why they're pushing so hard to have this "Age Verification" bullshit. So they can then shut people down like me that routinely "speak up" and "against the status quo". Bend over backwards? I think not! Assholes 🤣
I realize I'm a nobody, and no-one will care or listen. But to the various UK, EU and AU politicians pushing for this "Online Safety Act" bullshit.... You're all fucking utter morons! I can't wait for the backflash of what will come next. Idiots.
Today I finally got rid of my /29 IPv4 subnet with my ISP used to power my ingress. No longer.
The author doesn't really long for retro. They long for time passed, for old times. We all do. It is called ageing.
@movq having to go to a gopher proxy to see a text document better served on readily available web servers... 🤭, but I digress. Verbatim text:
blog.ratterobert.com What's Missing from "Retro"
~softwarepagan
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You know, often, when I say I miss older ways of computing or
connecting online, people tell me "there's nothing stopping you
from doing that now!" and they are technicay correct in most cases
(though I can't, for example, chat with friends on MSN ever
again...) However, let me explain that while this type of thing can
*sort of* fill that hole in my heart, it isn't *the same.*
Say, for example, I wanted to connect with others over a BBS. This
wouldn't offer the same types of connections it used to. While
there are BBSes around with active users, they're no longer there
to discuss movies, Star Trek, D&D, games, etc. They're there to
discuss *BBSes.* The same can be said for Gopher, old-school forums
and all sorts of revival projects (such as Escargot, Spacehey,
etc.) Retrocomputing enthusiasts, while they have a variety of
interests, are often in these spaces to discuss the medium itself
and not other topics. This exists at a stark contrast from how
things were in the past, where a non-tech-inclined person may learn
the tech to connect with likeminded others (as I did as a
Zelda-obsessed kid.)
The same can be said of old media. People will say "well, nobody is
stopping you from watching old shows/movies now!" Again, they are
technically correct. I can go home right now and watch *Star Trek:
The Next Generation* to my heart's content. It will never again,
however, be current, or new. When something is new, it serves as a
shared cultural experience. Remember how "Game of Thrones* felt in
the mid-to-late 2010s? Yeah, that.
It's sad. I sustain myself on a mixed diet of old things, new
things, and new things intended for old millenials like me who like
old things. It can be bittersweet. This whole Age Verification that's being rolled out in the UK, AU and parts of the EU is totally fucking bullshit. Death to the Online Safety Act.
@jost Yeah replying is pretty easy if you see the first reply. Just preserve the so-called "Subject" 🤣
@lyse you will have to agree, though, that Yarn has contributed to make it possible to mass adopt (with its many glitches, bugs, and all) because, still, the web is king.
@movq yeah, I think something glitched at my end for a brief moment. It does it just fine.
How do you get your man pages to hyphenate? Mine doesn't do it.
@kat Oh sweet! I was gonna say, setting up those rules is a bit "complicated" 🤣 But I'm glad you worked it out! 👌
There is a missing feature I've been intending to add to though, which is that any link that looks like a URL that might be an image, for example, ends with .png or .jpg or whatever, we should just render that as an image and not expect users to wrap it in Markdown image links 
@kat Ahh what do you mean by images don't embed? They definitely should! By default however all domains are blocked, so you might want to either allow some domains or just put in a .* entry to allow all/any domsins. Screenshot attached 
@kat after 5 years or so with Linode, I started having little---but annoying---issues with them. Moved to Vultr and have been very happy with them since Ubuntu 16.04, so 9 years, and a little bit more.
@prologic yeah, because, you know, even if you try entering a fake date of birth, the "algorithms" will move it, like a Ouija board, changing it back to the right one /s. 🙄
@important_dev_news Oh gawd, is the EU doing this "age verification" bullshit too!? Not just Australia?! 🇦🇺 Farrrrk!!!!! Help!!!!
@kat Just do it 🤣 I do this daily for work. It's great!
@movq Don't worry, this hype will end as quickly as the last one haha 🤣
@movq Haha 😆 But OTOH not nearly as much as you think. Plus you get to build what you want!
Been mucking around with designing my own camper (floor plan). 
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To be honest though, for a mid-range and moderately priced truck, even though it's made in China (what isn't?!), it's actually a very nice truck.
@bender I plan to trade it in within it's warranty period 🤣 It has 7yr warrants on everything, I said to the dealer, I'll see you in 5 🤣
@prologic interesting, a Chinese pickup truck. Hmm, I would very interested to know your thoughts about it 2-3 years from now.
Our truck can comfortably tow 3T (its rated for 3.5T but I'm trying to keep a fair bit of buffer and headroom all-round).