@prologic@twtxt.net This data is pretty low quality right now. I’ll add verification of successful download and parse before submitting it. (#2yfxkra)

Which now makes me wonder - what other deep and interesting ideas got a bad rep by vice of popular meme-ification?

I used to think of meditation and “mindfullness” as newage hippie bullshit, until I accidentally came upon it’s description in Siegel’s book - turns out it’s actually great.

@sdk@codevoid.de lol @ “following = cuntass https://www.google.co.uk/robots.txt”

@prologic@twtxt.net Nice! Good call on User-Agent too. (#fu3pmea)

Crawled ~1100 peers so far. Naively parsed from mentions and unverified, so many are invalid, inactive and/or near-duplicates. I’ll update this list periodically: https://xandkar.net/twtxt/peers.txt

@prologic@twtxt.net Testing my new crawler… Oops - should probably run it as a different user than myself … :) :thought_bubble:

@anth@a.9srv.net (#6ecbdxq) +1 on plain text readability! twtxt is a completely different beast without it.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk RE: tags - doesn’t have to be a single word per se, just that it is made of words from a human language, rather than some hash digest + platform-specific search URI

I’m starting to think that it is not just still the case today, but has always been that way and cannot be any other way. It is just that what we classify as “religion” is but narrow sample of the broader phenomenon.

In earliest states there was no such thing as religion. What we call religion today, was just reality, just normal life things - state and religion were indistinguishable.

@niplav@niplav.github.io Thanks for the slatestarcodex link - interesting!

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk Please just use a human-readable #tag. Otherwise it is a terrible UX for people reading in plain text.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk Hear, hear! Over the years, Thunderbird has consistently been the client I hate the least.

Philosophy always ends predictably.

@prologic@twtxt.net Are “distributor tags” something different from above? Where can I read about them?

Simple, low-dependency viewing and parsing is what makes both twtxt and IRC so fun.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, I’m not crazy about the conversation grouping stuff. Simple #tags are good-enough and don’t clutter the txt-only view of the timeline.

@prologic@twtxt.net Probably something respecting individual rate-limits would need to be done… :thought_bubble:

@prologic@twtxt.net Haven’t thought of anything particular interesting yet, which is why I’m asking :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah! Last-Modified is a good call. What are you thinking WRT to making it smarter?

For a more IRC-like experience :)

General twtxt extension idea: instead-of|in-addition-to twtxt.txt file - we could have a directory for topics/channels with a file per topic: http://foo/twtxt/${topic}.txt

I want to add polling to tt and so far just thinking randomized intervals + ETag check.

@prologic@twtxt.net Somewhat lazy question: what is your polling strategy for such large numbers of twtxt.txt files? Interval + ETag check? Something more|less clever?

RSM’s antiglossary is still up and is an interesting read: https://stallman.org/antiglossary.html - Can’t say that I’m onboard with everything, but it’s clear that he is actually thinking, which is interesting, as opposed to the people shouting him down.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk Seems more like some personal vendetta than rational engagement.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk RE: RSM - I saw this tweet shared around - it blows my mind how people can reach these conclusions from what he actually said: https://twitter.com/mandylibrary/status/1172414099583406080

[³⁄₃] https://github.com/xandkar/tt

[²⁄₃] added a custom upload alias, added sort reversal, simplified install - now building a stand-alone executable:

[¹⁄₃] Made some tt improvements this weekend: fixed timezone handling, added subcommands, separated reading and downloading commands/stages,

mpd/mpc hack to loop a segment within a long audio file - while it’s playing, execute from shell: while :; do mpc seek \(BEGIN_TIME; sleep \)DURATION; done