And here comes Tim on the field outside of the Spaceship.

Everything starts in a garage… the history of Macs, pretty much, with music.

Apple Event for 18 October 2021, 10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT begins. Commentary will stream as replies to this twt. I might miss things here and there, as I will also be on a work meeting from 13:00 to 14:00 EDT.

Apple Store online down before today’s event. Less than two hours till it goes live!

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk
While at it, fix this one too? You have me at netbros.com, but I am somewhere else. 😆

• [x] Lawn mowed, edged, trimmed, and blown.
  
• [x] Driveway and sidewalks pressured washed.
  
• [x] Weed killer sprayed.
  

Mission accomplished. I feel like watching “The Hijacker Guide to the Galaxy”. Let’s see which streaming service is offering it for free, or for rent.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Wow! For any country such flooding would be devastating, but Germany isn’t used (doesn’t see) to that kind of flooding, correct?

There is still no estimate of when this infrastructure could work again.

Oh dear… 😞

@laz@tt.vltra.plus
I see the dilemma. It doesn’t allow you to pick, and change, ports, right? Whoever built this is not thinking at scale.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Meanwhile I only restart my iPhone when an iOS update is available, which normally happens every 4-5 months or so, or more. 😋

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Oh, OK, then not touching it. I will consider it part of history and, thus, unchangeable. 😊

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com
I noticed that too, but it precedes the latest build.

@prologic@twtxt.net
There is, at least, one already🇮🇳.

@stigatle@twtxt.net
Note taken. Thank you!

An estimated 6.8 million fewer female births will be recorded across India by 2030 because of the persistent use of selective abortions, researchers estimate. — The Guardian

And from the same article:

India’s skewed ratio of men to women – currently between 900-930 females per 1,000 males – reflects India’s ingrained attitude towards girls. Boys are seen as breadwinners while girls are seen as a burden across every social class. Boys are more likely to receive more nutritious food and better medical care than girls.

That is just beyond sad.

@laz@tt.vltra.plus
How do you handle upgrades like this on your pod? Do you keep a diff of your customisations, or is it all a manual process?

It looks like BBB has many moving parts. Of all, I hate Tomcat the most. 😬

@laz@tt.vltra.plus
Are all minimum requirements met? All pre-install checks performed? Install steps carefully read, and checked, one more time?

@stigatle@twtxt.net
You are making me want to visit Norway! I would have gone long ago if it weren’t because of my partner, she can’t handle the cold. Maybe I just need to leave her behind! 🤣

What would the best time to visit be?

The features that macOS Monterey will bring, albeit minor, will made for a better “quality of living”. I am looking forward to Notes, and the iCloud+ integration (Private Relay, Hide My Email). It also bring macOS cohesively close to iOS. My work 2015 iMac and M1 Mini will get it, so looking forward to it!

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk
Your avatar is healthy on your pod now. Still doesn’t show well on twtxt.net, but it is just a matter of time now (caching, etc.), it is all good. 🎉

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Do I need to do a search and replace on my feed to fix old entries? Thanks for quick fix!

I spent a couple of hours today looking for interesting people to follow, and subsequently engage with, on twtxt without much luck. Finding twtxt.txt files is easy. Finding them active, or talking about interesting things is the challenge.

@prologic@twtxt.net
Hmm, that’s pretty low! But I had my coffee long ago, though it is still 19:26 in your past. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net
Let’s make it four! 😋

@movq@www.uninformativ.de
Sorry! 🙈

@prologic@twtxt.net
Ah, I see! The format (or specification) for the twtxt.txt file hasn’t changed as of late, right?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
Yup, it works great! I understand many people will not take my approach, and that’s fine with me. ☺️

I am noticing that Yarn doesn’t treat “outside” (that is, twts coming from a client other than Yarn) twts hashes right. Two examples:

• https://twtxt.net/twt/mwtnrna
  
• https://twtxt.net/twt/fl5dooq
  

There are many more, but those two will give you the gist. Yarn links the hash to the poster’s twtxt.txt, so conversation matching will not work.

Oof! I found a bug on Yarn’s Markdown rendering, @prologic@twtxt.net. See OP.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de, would you know the regex to use within .muttrc to colorise a Markdown code block like the one below?

# This one works for `code`, but that's about it.
(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])\`[^\`]+\`([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)

Having used—and still using—1Password (a password manager) for many years, I have gone through a few stages of disliking/frustration with it. The first was when subscriptions were set in place, the second is now, with their approach for auto-filling under iOS. It is, more often than I would like to, telling me to configure it when I did so from day one. My open support ticket isn’t going too far either.

I wish iCloud KeyChain would mimic some of its features, so I can just dump it. KeyChain has improved a lot, now allowing OTP to be saved with a credential, but it is still not quite there yet.

It work like a bliss, and it is exactly what I wanted. I don’t often see the need to use new lines but having the ability to do so add richness to the whole experience. Thank you very much, again, for listening and implementing this!

This will be the last entry on this conversation (hopefully!):

#!/bin/bash
echo "hello world"

The end!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome! About to git pull, and check it out. Thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net You will have to agree that always using reply (like I am doing on this one) loses everything on translation after the third or fourth replies. It simply doesn’t promote engagement. On top of that, all replies show on the timeline as well, without much—to none—context.

@prologic@twtxt.net I know, because fork makes it 100% sure to know who is replying to whom. Just like email’s in-reply-to does (plus the message-id).

@prologic@twtxt.net Make it fill in mentions? Problem solved. 😊

@prologic@twtxt.net What if the reply does what fork does, for any replies to the top post, but not the top post itself? You know, like email does. Other than to reply to the top post (for which I use reply), I don’t use reply but fork, to reply to posts underneath because it is the logical thing to do.

@quark@ferengi.one It will look like this:

https://pasteboard.co/NMCjYaHAohtf.png

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Unless you are stripping stuff on your twts, there is no much to implement. Things will be bold , italics , underlined , and so on, on a client that can render them. Since jenny uses Mutt, I can use my own regex in it to color them as I like. That’s pretty much it.

@quark@ferengi.one How about code? (this is mostly to configure mutt?)

Testing this here now

The official Wizard of New Zealand, perhaps the only state-appointed wizard in the world, has been cast from the public payroll, spelling the end to a 23-year legacy. — The Guardian

So, he was… a mascot?

@prologic@twtxt.net I am thinking on calling in sick to work. 😂 Every time I order an iPhone, I take the day off on delivery day. On Apple events I normally use my lunch and break times all combined, to watch them.

Apple’s event on Monday is bringing, as always, speculation to the table. One thing most outlets seem to agree is the introduction of an “M1X” chip, thought Apple might call it differently. M1X might also mean, M1(we don’t know what comes after, or next generation). Either way, I would really like to see the return of the 27” iMac, but I will not hold my breath. Nevertheless, Monday is going to be an exciting day for many, including me! 🍎

@eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com There isn’t an equivalent for those because:

Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags.

You can read more of its philosophy at Daring Fireball. There are enhancements to Markdown (CommonMark, for example), that add extra to it.

@prologic@twtxt.net That was ducking fast! 🚅

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, I see (no pun intended). Have you checked https://tailwindcss.com? Looks amazing!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is a sentence. This is one under it (single return). And another (single return).

And a paragraph (double return).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♂️

@movq@www.uninformativ.de LOL. As someone with OCD, I can relate completely. When I set to do “slight” modifications to a stylesheet, boy… often a start over is best, to eliminate commit spam.

@prologic@twtxt.net Look on the web interface. Goryon needs work, but you mentioned that before.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Goryon parsing is broken. Yarn shows it as I see it on jenny. Exactly the same.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Nice! I am git pulling right after this. 🙈

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes! 🥳 🎉

@prologic@twtxt.net I knew you were short sided from day one I saw Yarn. On desktop everything is huge, and I assumed it was to cater short-sightedness. Also, you have enabled underlines on buttons on iOS, bold and bigger fonts, etc., so that was also a give away. Sorry if I digress, but, glasses wouldn’t help? I have to wear mine all the time, otherwise I am also near blind myself!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de To clarify, Markdown is just text. 😊 I can do bolding, link things, and if single return multilines ever comes to jenny, I would be able to do bulleted and numbered lists.

The only things—that I know of—that doesn’t work is “> “, but I can use “>”, like so:

D’oh!

So, jenny allows me to write Markdown almost just fine!

If I worked for Apple, and had decision making on acquisitions, I would buy Lux, the makers of Halide. I mean, look at this!

@quark@ferengi.one Pinging @movq@www.uninformativ.de, in case it is a bug.

@quark@ferengi.one >This works…

Now, if I use “>” (without the quotes) with a space after it, and then text, the entire line gets omitted.

Testing, will delete.

Test

@adi@f.adi.onl

She is beyond saving. 🤣

@adi@f.adi.onl Oh boy… we don’t want to go down that route. There is plenty to know about the Taliban, not just from the news but from people who lived—and still lives—under their “governance”; all of which is, I am afraid, much more accurate than your highschool girlfriend story telling.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Are they your goats? They look so cute, and clean, almost unreal! Where I live it is an eternal sunshine, it might fool you into believing it is paradise, until you steam, toast, and burn. 🤣

Boy, do I love jenny/latest, and Neomutt! 😊

https://pasteboard.co/CDMQJYvWuYtY.png

Only thing jenny is missing, to be completely happy, @movq@www.uninformativ.de already knows about. 🙈

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I remember that time. I built my own mess, then used someone else’s mess (WordPress). I then switched to Jekyll when Tom released it, then to Hugo, which I use today. I also love static web stuff!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That is the way it should be! 😊

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is my env, on language:

LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

I had to explicitly set it on the cron job to make jenny work.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup. Added all the language ones, and bam, working like a charm!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de But it makes sense, right? I spend way too much time trying to figure out who replied to whom. I treat twts replies as emails, pretty much.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I would not mind keeping a diff, if you tell me where to make the changes! I know nothing of Python, and I have spent already a couple of hours trying to make sense. I know it is there, in front of me, if only I knew Python. 😩

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Is there a way to make it take single returns, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, or is that a technical infeasibility?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I no longer see dups! 🎉 🥳

@quark@ferengi.one And don’t miss its song. You will be in for a treat!

OpenBSD 7.0, get it while is hot, folks! 🐡

@adi@f.adi.onl iOS. Give it a try, and you will not come back. 👌🏻

Everybody is building one because, you know, why not? Why I built my own static site generator.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org … It’s the cloud. ☺️

Testing… breaking things?

• One - Two - Three

@adi@f.adi.onl Nothing shows, mate. It is all broken. 🙁

@quark@ferengi.one If so, @movq@www.uninformativ.de, not quite https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/4a02eeec58317107c07e759733312d168e319f17.html#h0-0-5... Markdown needs single new lines for many things. Bulleted, numbered, code, etc. need them.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yup, I did. I setup the three of them: LC_ALL, LANGUAGE, and LANG. Working as intended now, beautifully! Thank you!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I think that was it, mate! 🎉 I was calling . $HOME/.bashrc on the cron job line, but was missing some extra LANG ones. Let’s see how it goes now.

@quark@ferengi.one I mean, if LANG=en_US.UTF-8 were a problem, it wouldn’t run manually, right? Or is it that the variable isn’t defined under cron?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yes, I have LANG=en_US.UTF-8 on my system. So, it is not that it can’t find the config?

@quark@ferengi.one This doesn’t occurs when run manually. What could it be?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am getting this when I run it on cron (extra lines in between becuase otherwise jenny will make them a mash):

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 565, in

if not retrieve_all(config):

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 373, in retrieve_all

refresh_self(config)

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 294, in refresh_self

process_feed(config, config[‘self_nick’], config[‘self_url’], content)

File “/home/quark/jenny/jenny”, line 280, in process_feed

fp.write(mail_body)

File “/usr/lib/python3.8/encodings/iso8859_15.py”, line 19, in encode

return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]

UnicodeEncodeError: ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘\U0001f4e3’ in position 31: character maps to

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hmm, weird, it loads fine for me. Not logged in, “anonymous” upload, no cookies.

@quark@ferengi.one Hmm, new messages are not duplicated, because cron is every 5 minutes.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So, yes, see: https://ibb.co/wrcCXDD

Test to generate more logging.

@quark@ferengi.one Aha! @movq@www.uninformativ.de, there has to be a blank line in between?

So, first multi-line test, because I coudn’t wait. 😄

• One line - Two lines - Three lines
  

And:

1. One line 2. Two lines 3. Three lines

@movq@www.uninformativ.de OK, will work on it tonight. Thank you!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de OMG! OMG! Getting it, where, where, how? 😂

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yup, that is exactly what I experienced. Well, I still have plenty of space. LOL.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de 12,342 twts, totalling 6.2 MB. Would deleting help, or will they come back? I guess there is one way to find out! 😄

@adi@f.adi.onl How very odd!

@adi@f.adi.onl Are you sure? You mean, it will not compile, or something else?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I hear you. I am very selective of who to follow. I mean, I would drop @prologic@twtxt.net, which is the noisiest one, but he is the boss, and if I want to interact–even once or twice a week–I must follow him. 🤣

@movq@www.uninformativ.de, how do you handle twts in Mutt? I mean, how do you organise, or manage the inmense amount that comes throught? Do you delete/trim? Move things to folders? Or simply keep that huge (12,000+ for me now) list?