(#jnfajzq) I don’t know why or how, but using gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() has the desired effect (now?). Reading GTK’s source code is too convoluted to find out what’s going on here. I can’t find a corresponding Wayland protocol.

Sway gets very slow when resizing such a window, so I’m a bit inclined to think that GTK does some weird trickery to get this to work. 🤔

Either way, xiate now sets geometry hints again and floating windows have the correct size now. Finally.

(#uxaaq5q) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 I saw this too and immediately thought

I have to stop using Terraform

🤣

(#dw6meza) @bender@twtxt.net Oh my 😱

(#uxaaq5q) Well, looks like I’ll be using IBM software after all … 🤣 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-joins-ibm (We use Terraform.)

(#npqalva) @mckinley@twtxt.net I’m not sure to be honest I think it’s just a straight up duplicate post. This actually does happen, it’s not a bug, it’s a “human problem”, but yeah it’s annoying, so it’s making me want to figure out a way of keeping some kind of similarity db to strip duplicates out like this.

(#npqalva) @prologic@twtxt.net Are they changing unique IDs? I hate when people do that. If I ever do that with any of my feeds, feel free to mock me relentlessly.

Hmmm the feeds service needs some kind of deduping 🤔 Slashdot seems to be the most frequent culprit 🙄 For example #oc2vksa and #wbx7ioq

(#dw6meza) Oh wow that’s a lot of UPS(es) 🤣

(#aiqtdda) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh my god, that sounds just as awful. Yes, that really makes you want to quit. Such a waste of time and energy. It’s really dangerous for one’s mental health as well, burnout is lurking just around the corner.

No, it’s not IBM. 😅 I won’t say what it is. 🥴 I don’t think I had contact with any (contemporary) IBM software since around 2010. I love toying around with retro IBM stuff (cause that’s what I grew up with), but really no idea what they’re up to these days. Even the IBM building in our city is long gone.

(#d5n4myq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oops. That’s a bit scary.

Hmm, how many hardware devices have you lost due to lightning over the years? 🤔 We lost a modem once, but that was it.

(#z4m2yla) Speedy recovery, @bender@twtxt.net! Ouch, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!

One of the Xfce devs tries to estimate how many people use his software and is a bit surprised:

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_9.html

😅

After a nearby lightning strike one of my screens turned off for a second. That was the signal to call it quits today.

(#aiqtdda) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Such piece of shit software makes me want to quit. Esp. if it is just for useless compliance garbage that never helped anybody accomplishing any real improvement. Is it from IBM? We once had to build a threat model with some terrible generator and my goodness, you can’t believe what a myriad of hopelessly useless, wrong entries it produced. Thousands of thousands of lines. At least it was markdown. We basically removed like 99% of its output after reading through every single item. Did this once and refused to touch it ever since. All hand-written now and actually helpful.

(#aiqtdda) @bender@twtxt.net It is very proprietary, yes. 😂😭

(#z4m2yla) @bender@twtxt.net Get well soon!

(And thanks for not being one of those “it’s just a cold” guys.)

(#aiqtdda) One of the super frustrating things about this: I have to write lots of documents, but I am required to use horrendous software to do that. It cannot even number sections automatically, nor can you insert cross-references to other sections. Simple stuff like that. It all has to be done manually.

Even Word 97 could do shit like that …

(#z4m2yla) @bender@twtxt.net good idea 😅

(#z4m2yla) @bender@twtxt.net Get well soon! 🤞

(#aiqtdda) @bender@twtxt.net Oh dear. 😭

I have months of intense security compliance theater ahead of me and wish for a quick and painless death.

(#l2j5e2a) @bender@twtxt.net A: Yes

(#boe5pqa) @bender@twtxt.net Yup! It maybe should try to detect a pipe maybe too?

(#2v6ranq) And yes @bender@twtxt.net pods will reintroduce old root Twts like this back into active caches 🤣 Just not the ones in/between (old replies)

(#2v6ranq) Funny how well shit works that we’ve collectively built 🤣

(#2v6ranq) @jdtron@tilde.team As did I 🤣

(#ujlhoma) @bender@twtxt.net Haha 😝

(#ujlhoma) @bender@twtxt.net LOL 😂 I tried to even read the blog post, but I couldn’t. In all bluntness and honestly the layout and style of the website is total garbage, not to mention it’s written in a language I cannot read, but because it’s just so poorly written the translation service can’t translate it properly 🤦‍♂️ So point across FAIL

(#ujlhoma) @bender@twtxt.net What is?! 😆

(#4h6nt7a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ahh yea! I’ll setup some CD for it this weekend 👌

(#ujlhoma) @bender@twtxt.net Hmmm? 🤔

(#qf7pavq) @bender@twtxt.net lol 😂

So you don’t feel a bit weird when you say “Windows” or “PowerPoint”? It’s just a brand, nothing special?

(#4h6nt7a) @prologic@twtxt.net Speaking of broken mentions, do you want to install a more recent yarns version so that my error log is not spammed anymore with 404s? 8-)

(#6axgyza) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Zero progress on mine. :-( I still rely on the official twtxt client to download the (main) feed.

(#lnornhq) Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de! Hahaha, didn’t think of that. :-D Nah, this guy is not creepy, he’s just a melting flower snowman. ;-) Rest assured, he was unharmed on the table, you can see him here: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-21/23.JPG

(#qf7pavq) Jaja, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, immer schön aufmerksam der guten Steckdosenpräsi folgen und im Anschluss in der Exzellenztabelle was eintragen und ausrechnen lassen! :-D Klingt alles recht albern. Ich schätz aber mal, dass einem das gar nicht mehr auffällt.

@bender@twtxt.net Fenster 11 → Windows 11; KraftPunkt (or Steckdose) → PowerPoint; Deppendrehkreuz (awesome translation btw, I had to laugh hard!) → GitHub.

Ich frag’ mich schon oft, wie das für die englischen Muttersprachler sein muss, all diese sogenannten Markennamen zu benutzen. „Ich benutze Fenster 11! Das hier ist eine KraftPunkt-Präsentation. Den Kode für dieses Skript habe ich vom Deppendrehkreuz.“ All sowas. 🤔

(#vwbo3aa) @bender@twtxt.net Makes sense. We definitely need the ability to mute feeds from the Discover feed.

(#nwv3ipq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I remember your solution. It’s very simple, I like it.

Yes, my backup target is my home server. I have a hard drive dedicated to Restic repositories. It’s still not a real backup as I don’t have anything offsite but it’s better than my previous solution. I had two very old hard drives I kept plugged in to my desktop PC and I would (on very rare occasion) plug in another hard drive and copy all the files over to it. Luckily, I’ve never suffered any significant data loss and I would rather not start now. Once I have automated backups on each of my machines, the next project is getting those backups offsite.

(#6axgyza) @movq@www.uninformativ.de

If you all were to clear your caches, would your clients fetch archived feeds?

No.

And I’m also thinking of nuking my pod at some point and starting over. But maybe after we refactor a few important things.

(#nwv3ipq) @mckinley@twtxt.net My process hasn’t changed. (But the Gopher hole is gone. Here’s the file from 2023: https://movq.de/v/72fddfd8fe/2023-05-31–backups.txt )

What is your backup target btw? This NFS drive you’re speaking of is probably hosted on one of your local servers running in your apartment/house?

(#6axgyza) @bender@twtxt.net 🤣 Bug free code, I wish. 😅

On a more serious note, how’s the adoption of Archive Feeds going? If you all were to clear your caches, would your clients fetch archived feeds? 🤔

(I’m kind of thinking about truncating my history, to be honest. There’s a lot of twts out there, many of them out-of-context by now. They’re of little use except maybe for showing that twtxt/Yarn is an “active platform”.)

(#vwbo3aa) @bender@twtxt.net I think it comes down to one of the principles Yarn.social was founded on, which is to say, users should have choices and what they “see” is not driven by “algorithms”. The “Discover” view in and of itself has utility/value to others, and is otherwise just a “view” of a pod’s cache, but I agree with you. It was even getting noisey for me 🤣

(#lnornhq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s great to see so much “green”. 👌

The sequence of photos makes it look like you throw this (pretty creepy) snowman to the ground. 😂

(#ypx5nrq) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Unofficially yarn supports the type field

Meg https://feeds.twtxt.net/slashdot/twtxt.txt

(#ypx5nrq) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Probably not? https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/metadataextension.html

(#o6ex2wa) @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same to you!

(#4h6nt7a) In other words, there isn’t anything specifically wrong with the Twtxt spec (+extensions), but if you for example use a client and server combination that never considered the User-Agent header and check logs or intercept requests for your feed, than you end up missing an important part of the whole flow (unless you are of course deliberating ignoring that, e.g: 1-way feeds, news feeds, etc).

(#4h6nt7a) In my opinion, this can all be solved by a “better standard client”.

(#7ef2sea) For example I noticed in this thread, someone, me, and you, and now it’s just a bad @-mention mentioned Soren Peter with a bad link :/