# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
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# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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@lyse to be clear, I do appreciate criticism, of both my art and and my other projects. Since you pointed it out, I have already fixed all the errors (missing semicolons, overused and incorrectly placed "p" tags, bad CSS workarounds) - all that remains, is last five font tags (maybe even less, by the time you are reading this). 🫡
As someone who likes to experiment with slight text color adjustments, I was somewhat of a font tag fan and did not realise, they were actually deprecated - I thought not using them, is still just some suggestion/new best practice.
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′59″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
[47°09′26″S, 126°43′26″W] 4368 days without news from Herve
[47°09′08″S, 126°43′47″W] --bad checksum--
[47°09′55″S, 126°43′36″W] Raw reading: 0x67EE31F1, offset +/-4
[47°09′44″S, 126°43′35″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1295 ARCHIVED:85862 CACHE:2698 FOLLOWERS:18 FOLLOWING:14
@xuu hmmm, maybe I deleted myself.
it adds users by finding them in feeds mentioning or following. Your URL is already added.
Hmm i am not sure how you got the URL with users at the end..
@thecanine I came by to see it. I liked it! I think it all matches quite well the pixel style you are well-known for.
@david oh, what a copout. Now you have to visit it yourself and form an opinion on it. :P
@xuu that's mighty cool! Add me to it? Add @quark too! How often does it run?
Hi, So i made a little MVP registry crawler tool for twtxt. It now has a basic UI to play with. It has a somewhat full history back to about 2018-ish. Plus some interesting bits that were timestamped to earlier.
Find it here: https://watcher.sour.is
Code base is found here: https://git.sour.is/sour-is/xt
@thecanine for what is worth, I don't think @lyse intention was to insinuate your website sucked (though it may well do, but again, not his intent, I am sure). I see it more like a technical jest, and a good one at it. It was fun! Isn't that the intent of April Fools', after all?
@lyse The bird in the wallpaper? That’s a photo from a trip to a local zoo. 😃 This little guy was sitting in one of the bushes and didn’t mind people getting rather close. Full version and more from that day.
[47°09′44″S, 126°43′23″W] Wind speed: 94kph
Since it's now past April 1st, I can finally post the secret hidden caninine, for those who did not find it, during the over half a month, it's been hidden on my websites.
The link for additional context is: https://thecanine.ueuo.com/dogcow.html - you just have to click the image on there.
@eapl.me awesome, and thank you! Sorry I missed all that in the noise. I truly am a TL;DR fan! 😂
@lyse I do agree "the rules of the web", are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.
As for my website, it might be visually very similar, to how it looked since its creation, many years ago, but it is frequently improved. Features that originally used JavaScript, changed to HTML and CSS components, code simplified, optimised to withstand browser updates and new screen resolutions,... Even a good chunk of the errors on your list, were already addressed and I plan to address the rest soon.
Just find it a bit depressing, that my attempt to bring back some of the old Internet spirit, by making a hidden easteregg page page for this years April 1st, was met with people complaining about April fools day jokes and you insinuating my website sucks.
@movq Sorry for being completely offtopic, but that's a really cute bird! :-)
A hike to the highest mountain in the Odenwald, the Katzenbuckel, lit. cat hillock. It was very windy and the sun very rarely showed its face, so it was quite chilly. Nice scenery, nevertheless. Surprisingly, this ski-jumping hill is still in operation. I've never expected this in a hundred years, judging by its state. https://lyse.isobeef.org/katzenbuckel-2025-03-29/
Entrance to a ski-jumping hill in a rather questionable state
I am confused (maybe I missed what they said, or didn't read well). What was "Sonora Taqueria" answer to the cease and desist demand letter[1]? Did the accusers simply dropped their suit efford, or was "Sonora Taqueria" able to make their case (see [1])?
[47°09′52″S, 126°43′54″W] Wind speed: 108kph -- batteries low
@prologic you mean, "I'll **ix** this **oon** 😂" ™
[47°09′27″S, 126°43′49″W] Wind speed: N/A -- Cannot comunicate
@andros DRM is a solution to the wrong problem.
[47°09′39″S, 126°43′00″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from NW
@lyse I'm allways on the frontline! 🙃
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′21″W] Reading: 0.09 Sv
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1294 ARCHIVED:85849 CACHE:2703 FOLLOWERS:18 FOLLOWING:14
@eapl.me a “minimalistic” one too, just like Yarnd. 😅
I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
@movq @xuu That sounds like kat! :-)
Is there some Makefile shenanigans going on maybe? $V and $C being swallowed by the Makefile. I fell in that trap again the other day.
yeah its from Yarn.. should be $VERSION@$COMMIT and its supposed to be replaced with the actual version and commit.
@movq Oh yeah, take some pictures when you do. :-)
Just saw this user agent popping up:
yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)
ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
Just saw this user agent popping up:
yarnd/ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4 (+https://.../twtxt.txt; @username)
ERSION? OMMIT? 😅
@bender @eapl.me @xuu @movq Glad you all agree. :-D My SOAP knowledge is extremely rusty, I luckily had not to deal with that crap anymore for quite some years now. I even couldn't remember the XML declaration and had to look it up. ;-)
@lyse … I was fully expecting this to be a WSDL file. 😂
@lyse … I was fully expecting this to be a WSDL file. 😂
@prologic I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢
@prologic I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)
But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender. 😢
@lyse Aww, this reminds me that I haven’t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. It’s always nice to see this on old buildings.
@lyse Aww, this reminds me that I haven’t done any Fraktur/calligraphy in a hell of a long time. I should pick that up again. It’s always nice to see this on old buildings.
@lyse this is 1990's certified approved
@lyse Yeah, to be fair, there’s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. 🥴
@lyse Yeah, to be fair, there’s not much of a difference other than a few grace notes (and just lower frequencies). I was mostly just fooling around with this one. 🥴
@movq Yeah, I'm also disappointed each and every time.
@lyse This is so crazy to me. When I think “forest”, I assume “untouched nature”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. 🫤
@lyse This is so crazy to me. When I think “forest”, I assume “untouched nature”, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. 🫤
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′43″W] --no signal--
Are you all forgetting today’s April’s Fool? 🤣
@thecanine And this is exactly why there are quirks modes in browsers…
I'm actually glad I don't have to deal with all this web shit and work with compilers that hit me in the face when I do something illegal. :-)
@arne Oh no, you are in front of the line!!
[47°09′22″S, 126°43′10″W] Storm recedes -- back to normal work
@prologic that's you, and me, and some others. Sadly, though, a huge majority (I don't have sources, or numbers, but "trust me, bro" :-P) will simply, gladly, and unapologetically, pirate.
[47°09′15″S, 126°43′24″W] Wind speed: 55kph -- batteries low
@prologic Fully agreed. I'm far more likely to buy such mediums when DRM-free. I never go near Amazon eBooks etc because of their lock-in, and I have a Kobo eReader which needs to have the books side loaded unless directly from the Kobo store. I prefer DRM-free files every time.
@andros That's a shame. But here's the thing about piracy. If I could download a PDF or MP3/OGG of a Book I'd happily pay for this. If I could download an MP3/OGG of some Music I would pay for this. If I could download an MP4 of a Movie I would pay for this.
The reason piracy exists at all is economics and greed. If you make something affordable and convenient, there's no need to steal.
[47°09′05″S, 126°43′29″W] Weather forecast alert -- storm from SE
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′09″W] Reading: 1.75 Sv
@lyse Thanks for taking a look, and for pointing out the mixture of tabs and spaces.
I think I'll leave reachability.c alone, since my intention there was to use an indent level of one tab, and the spaces are just there to line up a few extra things. I fixed reachability_with_stack.cc though.
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1293 ARCHIVED:85827 CACHE:2704 FOLLOWERS:18 FOLLOWING:14
@bender nope.. its causing OOM issues currently.
@lyse you must be loved by all the web developers in town! But ok, I have added all the missing semicolons, that should technically be there, but them not being there, does not make a difference.
Font color change inside every summary element, was a very deliberate choice, to color the text, but leave the arrow black (same as website background). But ok, I rewrote the CSS to hide the arrows and make all summaries white - since this also works better, with some dark theme enforcing browser extensions.
HOWEVER "p" as a child element of "summary" is a thing, that as far as I know, all browsers respect and if a font color is applied only once, I don't think it matters, if it's done through HTML or CSS, you smart ass.
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′58″W] Non-significative results -- sampling finished
@thecanine I found it! This looks like colored easter eggs when squinting.
There's a secret art easter egg thing, hidden on my website ( https://thecanine.ueuo.com ), for this years April fools event - it's been there for a few weeks, but now I can finally give hints.
Okay trying SqliteCache again with a slight tweak. I _might_ have to rethink the hard-coded LIMIT 50.
Going back to old MemoryCache for now and going to bed 🛌
Hmmm this needs a bit more work.
And we're back. On the new Sqlitecache 🥳
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′05″W] Not enough data -- sampling finished
@kat They all just wanted to be friends with a cool gal like you. ;-) It's sad that putting things openly on the internet just waits to be raided by script kiddies, bots or spammers eventually.
Ooops I ran a docker build on one of my production nodes (_the ingress node_) 😱
Un petit test sur le domaine 0xe9.net
@movq Yeah, like nearly all of them. There is the so called Bannwald, where it typically is not allowed to log, but there's only one in my entire county and I haven't even visted it. I should change that. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannwald
Timber framed houses
Bergfried