Good! I guess I’m done setting up my Twtxt. I’ll be juggling between the official CLI and Twixter, although I already have a favorite.

(#sa4jlsq) Actually, kyun.host might offer container hosting at some point.

On-demand Linux containers.
Run almost anything, without having to touch the command line.
Coming Soon

https://kyun.host/services

(#sa4jlsq) @prologic@twtxt.net That sounds great. The only other container-level hosting service I’ve heard of is PikaPods which seems much more managed than cas.run would be. It has customizable tier-based pricing and the minimum specs are ¼ of a CPU core, 256 MB of memory, and “about 100 MB” of storage for $1/mo which seems awfully steep compared to a low-cost VPS. I don’t know if PikaPods offers an IPv4 reverse proxy or not.

(#2hmj7aq) Monero uses cryptography to make transactions anonymous and the coins completely fungible. With most cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, the transactions associated with an address are public and you can trace those coins all the way back to their origin. This means that not all coins are the same. For example, some exchanges won’t accept Bitcoin that comes from a mixer because they assume you’re doing something untoward.

With Monero, it’s not possible to trace any transactions with just an address. People can’t see what you’re spending your money on or where your coins came from. Transaction fees using Monero are also very small. It’s less than the equivalent of 1 cent in USD.

Minuscule transaction fees and anonymity make it the best choice in my opinion for buying goods and services online. Monero is much more like “digital cash” than Bitcoin, which I think is better described as “digital gold”.

(#2hmj7aq) Ahy is Monaro/XMR considered good / better btw? 🤔

(#2hmj7aq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Looks like XMR is much more stable than bloody BTC which is nice 🤣

(#sa4jlsq) @mckinley@twtxt.net I was mostly only thinking about use-based. Is there a desire for than this?

(#2hmj7aq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Will do! 👌

At last! my Twtxt feed is up and running and I can post to it from a remote client! Yey!

Hello Twtxters!

(#f57rmoq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Cool, nice progress! :-)

(#svmumna) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon they mostly ship stuff nowadays. Beware, looks like this website and their marketing is from the last millennium. Their front page is hillarious, so is this company comic: https://tito-international.de/i/comic-of-company (I have no affiliation with them).

(#uim2v6a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Definitely better for them, yeah. :-)

Ah, interesting. Ui, that can hold some water. Certainly looks like a water level gauge to me. Maybe a precaution for a hundred-year flood or something like that. Or is there a dam nearby? Could be a facility to reduce damage in case it breaks.

@prologic@twtxt.net I might have mentioned this already but you might want to look into MoneroPay for payment processing when you get to that point with cas.run. It’s a completely self-hosted backend service for receiving and tracking Monero payments and it’s written in Go.

I took advantage of the last sunny, but also 25°C hot day and hiked in the woods. It was so much more pleasant in the forest than out in the sun. The wind could have been a long stronger with that heat. I was completely soaked.

At one point I thought I better grab my camera out of my backpack, so whenever something comes up, I’m ready. But I was too lazy and thought, well, I just wait until there is a nice subject and keep going instead. No joke, ten meters further I came across two squirrels. A red and a brown one, sitting on a tree at just one and three meters height two meters away from me. If I only had unpacked my bloody cam a few seconds ago! I just watched them sit on the tree and then tried to slowly strip my backpack and grad the cam. It was still booting up when they decided it was enough sitting around and climbed higher. What a silly move on my end, damn.

I tried to improvise some Lyse Street View, but felt really uncomfortable to photograph other people’s houses. Somehow my cam produced sooo many blurred shots on the way up still away from the village, it’s unbelievable. I scrapped nearly the entire project. Only very few survived. There were heaps of people on the mountain summit, so I quickly left again.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2024-04-14/

Looking forward to next week’s rain and temperature drop to 16°C or even 8°C.

(#lkr7vhq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de You could always keep it running in a detached tmux session and attach it when you see the spike. Processes that were recently using the netwotk stay in the list for 10 or 15 seconds after they’re finished so you don’t have to catch it in the act.

(#sa4jlsq) @prologic@twtxt.net $0.15 sounds great but you need to make money doing this. Is it still going to be use-based pricing or will there be tiers like conventional VPS providers?

(#uim2v6a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org It’s probably better for them if they’re shy. 😅 But yeah, if they’re used to humans, they won’t run away so easily. At least the ducks won’t – the rails/moorhens do. 🤔

Ahh, I remember those Asperg shots. 😅👍

That whole area with the tunnels and basins is probably some sort of “retention basin” (Regenrückhaltebecken), with several levels to reduce the flow. There’s almost never a lot of water in there, though. Not sure if this structure just isn’t used anymore or if it’s too dry. There’s also this “pole”, it’s a bit hard to see, though:

https://movq.de/v/dd71ae14a5/a.jpg

Looks like they’re trying to measure the water height (Pegelstand)? The pole is super high and I doubt that any rainfall will ever reach the top of it. 🤔

(#svmumna) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I truly wonder how those shops can survive. 🤔 Even if they offer some more services like copy or printing – how many people do that? 🤔

(#f57rmoq) There you go, multithreading. 🥳

I tested this in QEMU, which luckily supports throttling disk I/O, so I can make sure that scanning the disk actually takes a while.

https://movq.de/v/f714cfebff/pmdusage.mp4

(Still boggles my mind a bit. When OS/2 2.x came out, DOS was still the norm for us and I didn’t even know what multithreading was. I really didn’t appreciate this operating system enough back then – only now.)

(#sa4jlsq) @prologic@twtxt.net 0.15 to 0.20 USD sounds about right, compared to small VPS’s like those: https://www.netcup.eu/vserver/vps.php

It’s an interesting offer/concept, btw. Lots of minimal software doesn’t require lots of “oomph” and I’d be fine if my VPS was smaller. 🤔

(#sa4jlsq) I think realistically a micro container like this needs to cost the consumer only $0.15/month if at all feasible

(#sa4jlsq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Based on your previous comment I think I need to reduce the price to a round $0.20

(#sa4jlsq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Yea the idea is micro costs to the consumer. No one really does this, that I know of, which is frustrating if you want to run a few small things without the overhead of a whole server or the operational efforts.

(#cqsnisq) Yeah could
be 🤔 Juat experimenting with what’s possible 😅

(#pq5pgvq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I reckon you have to wait a bit for that to happen or just come by one day. :-)

(#6wse6fa) @prologic@twtxt.net Oh no, that’s so silly.

(#svmumna) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Even just consumer grade. Wow! I also only rarely print anything and I always got third-party toners, never was disappointed with them. Last year I noticed that we have an ink and toner shop in town and bought there. That actually exist over two decades now, but looks extremely inconspicuous.

(#uim2v6a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh wow, how cool is that?! :-) Ducks over here are quite shy, unfortunately. In Ludwigsburg on the other hand they are very habituated to humans. I was very surprised to see that when visiting a mate. There were a bunch of them laying on the stairs and I tried to keep my distance to not scare them off. Didn’t dare to get closer than maybe five meters or so and was super happy that they stayed. That has always been impossible over here. After we proceeded, some tourists came by and stood a meter next to them or so. That was crazy for me to see. :-)

Yeah, walking next to a highway is torture. I try to avoid it as much as possible.

Nice! The third photo looks like a Kneipp basin. What’s that round tunnel? I love those moss-covered rocks, they just look so beautiful.

(#sa4jlsq) You could get better value for money with a super cheap VPS without IPv4 connectivity but it wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t need the extra resources as a VPS wouldn’t be practical with such low specs. It would also require significantly more effort on the part of the operator.

I would understand paying a small premium for using the lowest-cost tier, convenience, and especially if you operated a reverse proxy with IPv4 connectivity.

(#sa4jlsq) @prologic@twtxt.net $0.50/month seems reasonable. Is this for cas.run?

(#uim2v6a) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The ducks aren’t too scared of humans. Great story from the first days of Covid in 2020: There were so few humans out and about that the wildlife began to reclaim its place. Those ducks in particular waddled around near the shops – and one of them even went into the super market. 😃 Never seen that before or since.

That path leads to a highway, yeah. Or rather under a highway. 😅 The photo with the graffiti shows a short tunnel, the highway is on top of it. It’s usually annoyingly loud, so I don’t go there often.

Found some more older photos of the general area of the last shot: https://movq.de/v/885fb9c57b/

(#svmumna) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m surprised as well. It’s one of those big, clunky laser printers:

https://movq.de/v/8a3495c3c2/

But it’s not “industrial grade”, it was a normal consumer printer and cost about 370€. I changed the black toner once and nothing else. Admittedly, the color toners are “worn out” and don’t give great results anymore, but I can’t be bothered as I hardly print anything in color these days. It might be worth buying replacements now, though, before they go out of production. 🤔 It’s already impossible to buy original ones, but there are still 3rd party toners. (Wtf? Was this a super popular model?! 😂)

(#6wse6fa) @prologic@twtxt.net Oh, I see. God, how annoying – the place where you live abolished DST but the place where you work didn’t. 😂

(#lkr7vhq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Ahh, right, nethogs, iftop, stuff like that. I forgot about those. 🥴 If I’m quick enough to open them, they’re pretty useful as well. (I’m just too slow most of the time and the thing hogging the net is already gone. 😅)

(#6wse6fa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de You are right, I do! But I work remotely for a bank where most of it’s employees live/work in the state of Victoria, so there 🙄

(#sa4jlsq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Most little web apps, websites, static sites, whatever run perfectly fine with good performance on just 100mCores, a lot of what I run only has between 100m-500m of CPU allocated to it.

(#sa4jlsq) @mckinley@twtxt.net Yup!

(#lkr7vhq) @movq@www.uninformativ.de I use nethogs for this sort of thing: https://github.com/raboof/nethogs

(#sa4jlsq) @prologic@twtxt.net What is an mCore? 1/1000th of a core?

(#6wse6fa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Yes, standard time forever would be so great!

(#svmumna) @movq@www.uninformativ.de It can already drive if you as the legal representative sit in the codriver seat!

That’s really impressive I have to say.

(#uim2v6a) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh cute! That drake wasn’t scared, was he? Yes, please take your good cam next time. :-)

Was that a highway that you were walking next to? The last one shows a really cool scenery. I dig that.

Does this sound reasonable for running small workloads? 🤔

$0.50/month for
100 mCores
64 MB Memory
1 GB Storage
1 GB Bandwidth

Low-quality smartphone shots from today’s walk:

https://movq.de/v/0f42ac9be0/

Most importantly: Ducklings! 😍 I’ll have to take my good cam next time.

My printer will turn 18 years in a couple of months and will thus be allowed to drive a car.

(#pq5pgvq) @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, okay, it’s not as steep as stairs, but still quite the climb. 😅

Now I wish there was Google Street View of that area. 😅 I’d love to go around and explore that area a bit. Oh well.

(#6wse6fa) @prologic@twtxt.net Wait, don’t you live somewhere in Queensland? Wikipedia says there is no DST in Queensland (anymore). 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_in_Australia

Funny how not all states in Australia observe DST. Why can’t we do the same in Europe, ffs. 🥴

@pratikbaid3@twtxt.net is looking for a few small projects to add to his contractor/freelance CV and has reached out to me to see if he could do a bit of work on the Yarn.social mobile app. He’s done work before in the past and has done a pretty decent job.

Two projects we’ve discussed:

• Flutter upgrade and cleanup, ensuring the mobile app builds successfully with the latest Flutter (which breaks all the time 🤦‍♂️)
  
• A UI/UX Redesign of the Mobile App with a Bottom Nav Bar layout. This would end up having something like Timeline | Mentioned | Profile – Maybe it could also have “Search” too if I somehow found the time to add an appropriate search endpoint to the API.
  

What do y’all think? 🤔

(#6wse6fa) @movq@www.uninformativ.de Well it’s screwed with my working hours somewhat, but this year I’ve decided to just “not give a shit”™ and just get up at the normal time and start at the time I had been starting work the past 6 months, 8.30am. In practise it probably means I end up working a bit longer for ½ the year, but oh well, at least I don’t have to fiddle with my alarm clock ⏰