AoC Day #1 solution (mu): https://gist.mills.io/prologic/d3c22bcbc22949939b715a850fe63131

Hmmmm the AoC site is not mobile friendly 😢 Can someone post the puzzles as Twts? 🤣

Thinking about doing Advent of Code in my own tiny language mu this year.

mu is:

• Dynamically typed
• Lexically scoped with closures
• Has a Go-like curly-brace syntax
• Built around lists, maps, and first-class functions

Key syntax:

• Functions use fn and braces:

fn add(a, b) {
    return a + b
}

• Variables use := for declaration and = for assignment:

x := 10
x = x + 1

• Control flow includes if / else and while:

if x > 5 {
    println("big")
} else {
    println("small")
}

while x < 10 {
    x = x + 1
}

• Lists and maps:

nums := [1, 2, 3]
nums[1] = 42

ages := {"alice": 30, "bob": 25}
ages["bob"] = ages["bob"] + 1

Supported types:

• int
• bool
• string
• list
• map
• fn
• nil

mu feels like a tiny little Go-ish, Python-ish language — curious to see how far I can get with it for Advent of Code this year. 🎄

Sharing some photos of our Vietnam trip so far...

this is apparently a famous lake in Hanoi city in Vietnam. Don't know what it's called though.

We have arrived at our first hotel. but check-in isn't till 2PM 🤣 We arrived at 12:45PM 😆

One of the advantages of being vegetarian. you get served your in-flight meal first. before everyone else 🤣

I'm kind of tired of late of telling support folks, for example, ym registrar, how to do their fucking goddamn jobs 🤦‍♂️

Hi James,

Thank you for your patience.

There are several reasons why a .au domain registration might fail or be cancelled, including inaccurate registrant information, ineligibility for a .au domain licence, or issues related to Australian law.

For a full list of possible reasons, please see this article: https://support.onlydomains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/6415278890141-Why-has-my-au-domain-registration-been-cancelled

If you believe none of these reasons apply to your case, please let us know so we can investigate further.

Best regards,

Yes, so tell me support person, why the fuck did it fail?! 🤬

Sooooo looking forward to my holiday, after this week of work 🤯 16 day holiday in Vietnam! Whoohoo 🤟

Sometimes, (just sometimes) my ability to pattern match and remember how to play perfect games of chess is awesome 😎

Anyone on my pod (twtxt.net) finding the new Filter(s) useful at all? 🤔

Tired to re-enable the Ege route to git.mills.io today (after finishing work) and this is what I found 🤯 Tehse asshole/cunts are still at it !!! 🤬 -- So let's instead see if this works:

$ host git.mills.io 1.1.1.1
Using domain server:
Name: 1.1.1.1
Address: 1.1.1.1#53
Aliases:

git.mills.io is an alias for fuckoff.mills.io.
fuckoff.mills.io has address 127.0.0.1

PS: Would anyone be interested if I started a massive global class action suit against companies that do this kind of abusive web crawling behavior, violate/disregards robots.txt and whatever else standards that are set in stone by the W3C? 🤔

Oh fuck me! I had basically turned off the route to git.mills.io last night and went ot bed at ~2AM after unsuccessfully trying to control the attacks (bad bots) that were behaving like a DDoS attack. Tried to re-enable the route this monring and *BOOM, they're back! As-if they never stopped?! what da actual fuq?! Anyone have any clever ideas of what I can do here to allows normal users, like you nice folk and block ths obnoxious traffic?!

My day (yesterday), stand up at 09:30AM (AEDT), P2 Incident at 10:20AM. End of my day 04:30AM (AEST) the next day! Oh my 🤣 🔥 🤦‍♂️

Fark me 🤦‍♂️ I woke up quite late today (after a long night helping/assisting with a Mainframe migration last night fork work) to abusive traffic and my alerts going off. The impact? My pod (twtxt.net) was being hammered by something at a request rate of 30 req/s (there are global rate limits in place, but still...). The culprit? Turned out to be a particular IP 43.134.51.191 and after looking into who own s that IP I discovered it was yet-another-bad-customer-or-whatever from Tencent, so that entire network (ASN) is now blocked from my Edge:

+# Who: Tentcent
+# Why: Bad Bots
+132203

Total damage?

$ caddy-log-formatter twtxt.net.log | cut -f 1 -d  ' ' | sort | uniq -c | sort -r -n -k 1 | head -n 5
  61371 43.134.51.191
    402 159.196.9.199
    121 45.77.238.240
      8 106.200.1.116
      6 104.250.53.138

61k reqs over an hour or so (before I noticed), bunch of CPU time burned, and useless waste of my fucking time.

Hello @therealprologic 👋

Testing 1 2 3

Testing 1 2 3

ap-verify: 8f259adfc4ef06ac1472

ap-verify: f1fb71f88d8a644dbd84

New beginnings, new horizons. New pod logo 🤟

LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞

Test (_did I fix this shit™-)?

Hey @manton 👋 Why yes I believe I did!

Testing 1 2 3 @manton

verify: be6b4443c96a602b1947

Testing new design, architecture and implementation of a Twtxt bridge I'm working on...

verification-token: ee9bc4da3356f4990671

Please ignore.

I'm building a service that lets you:

create and manage disposable, brandable email aliases so you can track leaks, forward important messages, and keep your real inbox clean.

I've just finishing building it for the most part, and have cut a v0.1.0 release. It's currently closed source (to be decided later) and now open to beta testers. cc @bender 🙏 I fully intend to monetize and offer this as a paid service in teh coming weeks/months, but beta/invite-only testers and early adopters/users first 🤟

Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y'all can make the next one 🤞

👋 Reminder that we're starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌

Wow! 🤩 Are folks actually using Gatherly already? 🤔

The hail we had yesterday 🤯

So just @bender and I attending our monly call eh?

Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!

Hey all 👋 Starring up the monthly social call we used to have 🤞 Please RSVP here if you can make it! 🙏

Been mucking around with designing my own camper (floor plan).

Global update: Trump in Scotland says EU trade deal has 50-50 chance as tariff row grows. Gaza sees 9 more starvation deaths (122 total); UN says famine is deliberate. Thai-Cambodia clashes kill 16, displace 135k. US raid in Syria kills top ISIS leader & sons.

After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I think I've finally come up with my Final Choices (shortlist) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I'll enjoy (far less work for me to setup and teardown). The one at the top of the list I'm leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B #Camping #Campers

Been spending a lot of time researching campers as I want to / plan to upgrade our current Camper Trailoer (forward fold) Stoney Creek XL-FF6 to a slightly larger Hybrid Camper/Caravan with ensuite, internal kitchenette, external full hitchen, pop-top roof and twin bunks.

This is the summary and whittling down of my research so far: https://wiki.mills.io/s/1103bc9c-dd75-4a98-b64b-8dadc5b0e51f/doc/comparision-Ln03Moiibq

As promised, here's some photos of love you!! camping trip to Canarcon George in QLD, Australia.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1935344122103308748.html Interesting article on how ChatGPT is rotting your brain 🤣

Hmmm 🧐 Not what I thought was going on... No bug...

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Soooo very very close! 😅

I'm finding this very interesting... An evolved neural network that plays the game of tic-tac-toe and so far is a pretty decent player. Here is a visualization of it's evolved "brain" that underwent GA (genetic algorithm) training with classification learning + self-play.

https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115733

prologic@JamessMacStudio
Sun May 25 21:44:41
~/tmp/neurog
 (main) 130
$ go build ./cmd/ttt/... && ./ttt
Generation  27 | Fitness: 0.486111 | Nodes: 44  | Conns: 82

... experimenting with building and training a tic-tac-toe game, which evolves a. neural net that learn to paly the game against the best evolved champions 😅

https://youtu.be/1GN3xBuAgrI?si=ezBYJeSOFgtBdjEu -- Can someone please just fire Trump already? What a fucking idiot?! The man is a lunatic 🤦‍♂️

Also spent the morning continuing to think about a new design for EdgeGuard's WAF. I'm basically going to build an entirely new pluggable WAF that will be designed to only consider Rate Limiting, IP/ASN-based filtering, JavaScript challenge handling, Basic behavioral analysis and Anomaly detection.

The only part of this design I'm not 100% sure about is the Javascript-based challenge handling? 🤔 I'm also considering making this into a "proof of work" requirement too, but I also don't want to falsely block folks that a) turn Javascript™ off or b) Use a browser like links, elinks or lynx for example.

Hmmm 🧐

After yarnd v0.16 is released and the next round of specification updates are done and dusted, who wants me to have another crack at building Twtxt and activity pub integration support?

Nothing like being paged at 00:30 (midnight) for a P2 incident that is now resolved at 02:10 🤯 Obviously I'm not going to work tomorrow (I mean today lol 😂) at the usual start time 🤦‍♂️

Finally I propose that we increase the Twt Hash length from 7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update