# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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@abucci And here. Kids were over the moon! :)
@adi Most welcome, mate! ππ
@adi Gotcha! OK, cancelled the bmac sub and set up a β¬5 one with PayPal; plus β¬40 for your domain. (I'm not using Revolut these days; might get back to it at some point, though, so I'll keep that in mind.)
@adi Apologies for going dark. Just set up monthly support through _Buy Me A Coffee_; not much, but I hope it helps.
@prologic Oh, it's a lightweight Linux distro based on Debian.
Playing around with BunsenLabs Lithium this afternoon. Very nice, so far.
@indulgeglobal Yeesh. Haven't we indulged enough? More than a century of conspicuous consumption. Isn't this a bit tone deaf, as a business model? Or am I the one who's out of touch? Anyway, welcome. Honestly. We don't all have to agree here, just so ya know. :)
How am I just finding out about VVVVVV now? Super excited to play it later; love a good game.
@dhev Heya, pod-mate! π Welcome! :)
Such a clean, graffiti-free bus shelter! Obviously not the UK! ;)
@lyse Very atmospheric! Love it. :)
@off_grid_living Oh, has it recently stopped working for you? It's never worked properly for me.
@prologic Ah, I see. Yeah, it is. Also, fyi, my mentions still seem a bit finicky, with only that call for ideas on deleting twts from the wider network being listed there right now. (I have enabled that mentions related feature flag, btw.)
I'd like to come back to these. :) But not necessarily this week, as I'm in the problematic region, I see. ;)
@carsten Yeah, maybe I'm missing something, but the accounts associated with the poderator account (e.g., news, help), don't seem to work that way; could be wrong, though. Either way, I'm an idiot: the avatar is working; it's just both mostly transparent and a terrible colour to mix with the yarn dark theme. >.<
@prologic Wow, I've missed some big changes! Very nice. :) Poderator admin makes loads of sense. Two questions, more generally: 1) I'm guessing my help account avatar is no longer valid; how do I update that (under the support account somewhere, I assume)? And 2) What are the criteria for the special interest accounts that show up here again? I just deleted it, but some random account ended up right under help, for some reason. Ta!
@akoizumi Yeah, I managed to read it, but that must've been hell for James! π
H'm, where are they hosted, @akoizumi? (That _nerdpol_ domain doesn't resolve for me, right now.) You used to have an account on my pod, didn't you? I had an hour or so of downtime this morning; don't suppose that's related at all... π€
Cool. :) Nice to see an active user on the pod!
@prologic @bml @lyse I knew someone was running a low-maintenance mail server! :-D Sweet! I'll check it out! :-)
@bml Oh, cool! Yeah, that'd be fun. :-) I'm using it on Linux and Android at the mo. Just so chuffed about how simple communication is with my older family now; I'd never get them on any sort of chat app, but now, unbeknownst them, they are! ;-)
@bml Cheers for this. Non-trivial, in a nutshell. It's funny: I never even thought about my ISP's mail infrastructure. I guess, I'd have to get on the horn to them about that too -- in addition to the two issues you've raised -- if I'm to relay mail out that has any hope of being delivered to most mail servers. Man, I've been using web-based providers for so long... Protonmail now, but still... Forgotten so much about what email was like 20 years ago.
@bml Neat! Yeah, love Delta Chat. It's even simple to set up across multiple devices.
@bml Oh, maybe it was your feed that gave me the mail server idea! :-D What are you running? Is the upkeep intensive? That's always been one of my top concerns with doing it, in the past: how to keep it working securely, day in and day out. And, yeah, I think the rpi would do OK, if it weren't for the ridiculous number of rooms I'm in, many of which are huge -- in fact, there's no guarantee this current set-up will be able to handle it either. Might have to scale back my footprint on there. :-)
@bml Reading more of the docs, I think it was a bit ambitious, my looking to run Synapse on my Pi 3B. :-) It came a while ago, actually, btw! :-) I'm going to try to run Synapse on my old Asus netbook instead; we'll see. My latest idea for my rpi is to run a mail server on it; I think @lyse said they're doing that, and it runs well? Now I just need some time! I keep looking over at the beautiful Pibow case I got for it... I just really want to get this homeserver up first... I'm all over the place, if you can't tell lol.
Successfully built Synapse on Linux i386. \\o/ My Matrix 'homeserver' is one step closer! :-)
My obfs4 bridge up and and advertised. Cool. Nice to be running a Tor node again, after almost 20 years! 
My obfs4 bridge is up and advertised. Cool. Nice to be running a Tor node again, after almost 20 years!
hacker-news-newest (#nqvdduq) Gosh. Crying in my cereal this morning. What an amazing woman; so positive and enthusiastic, after all she's lived through and with. Just wonderful!
@adi Yeah, I hired a really talented guy I met on Matrix. :-) So, like the original twt.social logo, I'm assuming I can combine the SVGs I have of these two, so that, depending on whether my pod users choose a light or dark theme as their default, the best looking one will be displayed. 
@adi Thanks! :-) I actually commissioned a new one; need to learn SVG first, though, so that it transitions properly between themes. But, yeah, I'm in no hurry, 'cause the one I mocked up in 30 minutes is growing on me. :-D
@prologic cc @adi @movq Yeah, I like the concept of local discovery, on my pod, and then the option of wider searching, based around common interests and topics.
@prologic @adi Noted! I'm not there yet, but I'll be keen to get all your feedback on a first cut of our manifesto. :-) cc @eldersnake
@prologic @darch I'd agree. I mean, I get that cancel culture is terrifying, but, by in large, once something's out there, someone's grabbed a copy, no matter what you do. I don't know... I'm happy with that, and, if the worst happens, to just pull it out down and go radio silent.
@prologic @darch Re π€£: lol. Re "... there are a few SSB based social things out there..." I had no idea! Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfox, Oasis, Planetary, and well as Feedless... My initial thought is: awesome! I find it rather hopeful. :-)
@prologic Wow. Didn't expect you to say that! I'd be honoured to. :-D I'll do my best! :-D
@prologic I think reaching out to them is a great idea. Initially, I thought, oh, it's too close to Yarn, and they're passionate. But, then, as you say, development stopped in August. Maybe the time is ripe for a new project!
@prologic Bloody hate how screengrabs of text, and PDFs, are so prevalent on the 'net. It's annoying and inconvenient for me, to source and share information, but it's a non-starter for you and many, many others.
I've long advocated for electoral reform. Good arguments for why it's just part of the problem: politics.co.uk op-ed
Another neat project from endtimes.dev: Missing Dice -- I had to send Nathaniel a message, to let him know how much I enjoy his stuff; I get excited every time he pops up in my feed reader. :-)
@jack Just saw your review of the *reMarkable 2*; very interesting, indeed! I too have notebooks scattered everywhere; I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this technology. :-)
π―π¦ "Last year, a passenger train struck and killed a partially sighted man who had fallen on to the track from a platform at Eden Park station in South London... It concludes itβs likely the passenger fell from the platform as he wasnβt aware that he was close to the edge." https://v.gd/NSnLxC
@xuu @thewismit I actually chuckled while reading that description π -- well said! (Now I feel really old. π)
@alip Oh, cool! Embarrassed to say I haven't heard of Shogi, but, what better way to learn than through this awesome software!
Indeed! @thewismit I sure hope you're alive, well, and eager to see Yarn fl^H^Hspin? :-D I just tagged you in the documentation project where I'm throwing my ideas, for the moment. I'll merge it with the main and landing page repos, respectively, once they're renamed and I'm further along; don't want the clutter, for the mo. :-)
hacker-news-newest (#jm32r6a) Wow! A horrid UI, in front of a ridiculous system. But I was particularly interested in how pointless human checkpoints are in the absence of regular training.
@prologic All over the place. :-D CS, in programming and system administration about 20 years ago. Then computer security focused. Then intelligence analysis for a few years. Then CERT. Then care work for five years. Now software systems administration, focused on Splunk/HashiStack, for the last year.
@prologic Ha ha! Thanks for your time. π OK, that gives me the confidence to start laying out some of this stuff properly. Stay tuned!
@jlj @prologic OK, I still need to do that GitHub issues survey -- don't get much time on the weekend -- but I recorded some ideas for what I'm calling my *yarn docu* project. :-) Apologies for my daughter in the background. Also, I need to troubleshooting why I got a 400-series error trying to upload it to my pod; probably a browser permission issue. Anyway, yeah, it's seven minutes long. Oh, and, just as we're talking about binning non-hash subjects, I thought a rebranding subject would actually be nice. D'oh!
@darch Looks great! :-D So exciting! :-D I love the logo, and the text and font around it, in particular. Fantastic work! :-)
@prologic @adi What, like Terraform's state file? So it's idempotent?
@niplav @movq Wow! A significant investment for a rainy day. ;-) Well, it's in TaskWarrior; we'll see when I get around to it. :-D
@prologic OK, gonna start with a survey of all our issues; see what docu tasks have already been identified, and what the others say about the direction of the project more broadly.
hacker-news-newest (#utvhk6q) Ha! Super fun and interesting. :-D Always been fascinated by icebergs, growing in Newfoundland, where they would pass so close almost every year.
Yup. :-) Bit intimidated by the prospect now, though, to be honest. :-D Particularly with the rebranding going on. Maybe I could start by soliciting an agreed approach, broadly, and then start building out some tasks -- and their dependencies -- in a GitHub project, in our org. Then folks can see what I'm working on and know where to lend a hand. Thoughts?
@prologic @xuu Yes, absolutely! Talk about dedication. :-D So exciting, seeing all this progress. :-)
@prologic Valid. :-) And, yeah, what about Yarn, folks? :-D It's more that I've been on the mailing list for a year now, and, with this recent rewrite of the docs, for the first time I finally see how I might be able to participate -- talk about obtuse!
Anyone running Urbit? Thinking about having a play with a comet. βπ
"In 1879... George argues... that poverty had grown due to the increasing speculation and monopolization of land, as landowners had captured the increases in growth, investment, and productivity through the rising cost of rent... George proposes the complete taxation of the unimproved value of land, thus returning the value of land, created through location, to the community. This solution would incentivize individuals to use the land they own productively and remove the tendency to speculate..." https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-george/progress-and-poverty
"We hear from Sarah Leadbetter who's mounted a legal challenge over inaccessible Covid related information. She argues the government did not give her accessible details about shielding. She's now been granted a judicial review at the High Court." Oh, sounds like an interesting episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s9vz
@antonio @vain I like it. It's definitely now a tool in my belt, and, as I said, I'm trying to make it the first one I pick, when I don't have other requirements. On the latter, as an example, I immediately went incognito+Google+Wikipedia when I was trying to remember the Twitter storm that was Joel Osteen+Hurricane Harvey while chatting with mates; I don't think anything competes with those tools, when you can't remember anything specific -- not yet, anyway. π€
@bml @prologic Yeah, good spot! I wasn't considering that step -- very new to rpi! It's shipped today, btw! -- but, as you say, not insurmountable; just need to plan it out. :-)
@hxii Oh, interesting. I was thinking about setting up a form for Code of Conduct type complaints in my Matrix rooms, but worried about what I'd be opening myself up to; care to share your code/ideas? :-)
@darch Awesome! Every step of this rebranding is really exciting, to me; don't know about the rest of you. ;-D Thanks for your efforts!
Whoop! Successfully used the Okta Terraform provider to build a policy in Okta. :-D I'm a coder! Terraform counts, right? ;-) Proper scripting yesterday, HashiCorp Configuration Language today; tomorrow... Go? I may have missed a few steps in there somewhere.
@vain @antonio Yeah, I've got keywords. So, I'm trying Mojeek, but it's still a work in progress, so I can type d then tab and continue typing to get a DDG search instead, leaving Mojeek as my default. That's in Brave, but I'd imagine it's Chrome functionality.
@bml (#dxuu32q) Thanks! :-) Yeah, still deciding, to be honest. I didn't go high-end, so, while I want to run Synapse, I think I might move my pod over to the Pi instead, as my current web/pod server is a little bit closer to the Matrix minimum spec IIRC. I really want to run my own mail server, but it seems like a lot of work. @prologic shared what looked like a low maintenance option a few days ago; what do you run?
@xj9 Neat! Thanks for the pointer! :-)
Treated myself to a Pi 3 as a (very) early birthday present. π
Doubting my claim that it's "a system largely funded by... taxes." Companies can apply to Ofcom for funding: "As the βUniversal Service Providersβ, BT and KCOM are entitled to request compensation for any cost of delivering universal services that it would not be appropriate for them to cover themselves." Source -- but this hardly equates to "largely." Most of the references I've found this evening concern public funding of broadcast television.
Trigger: partner volunteering, ringing up folks who haven't taken advantage of their place on the vaccination list, clearly being screened because the phone number shows up as withheld. Result: rant about corporate interests eroding public trust in a system largely funded by their taxes, leaving us with fractured communication in a pandemic. Now reading *The evolution of infrastructure and utility\nownership and its implications* (Helm and Tindall, 2009), despairing of a solution.
@xj9 @prologic This seems most sensible. I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labours!
@prologic Oh, this'll be great! I've already had a few occasions where I've been eight pages back in my timeline, trying to find a yarn I wanted to reply to from a few days earlier. :-D
Yeah, I've never seen a display... don't know what word to use... stutter? It's like lines of the background would flicker through the main bar (or whatever you call this border that has the tray in in Ubuntu) and the dock, but only on mouse movement. Some searching suggested that dynamic display features could cause it, but I wasn't using any; I tried turning off 'Night Light' (like a native version of f.lux), to no visible effect. Hardware really is the most logical source, I think; got this HP *24 fh* back in... November? Ugh.
In other news, I just donated to Miniflux. Can't recall a more opaque, yet seemingly well-support, open-source project. :-) One developer, no links to any community, no obvious call for help; guess they're just happy getting on with it. It stands out, in that respect, amongst the other FOSS projects I like. :-) Not a criticism; just curious, to me, anyway. It pushed me to donate, I think, which is potentially a psychological phenomenon worth exploring.
What's more disturbing than a sudden, possibly-hardware-related problem? One that then disappears completely overnight. π I had been using the Keybase file system to backup some data, but, over the weekend, things got horribly out of sync and my main desktop ground to a crawl; eventually I gave up, powering off the tower for most of Sunday. After abandoning kbfs yesterday, removing it and restarting, my Ubuntu install had this horrible static-like flicker associated with mouse movement. Now, today, that's completely disappeared. No power problems. New monitor. π
@bml Neat. :-) Personally, I like how I can really articulate things in *TaskWarrior*, without actually knowing how I'll tackle them: e.g., I'll know a rough priority, and create a dependency tree, but then life will happen and I'll just wait:1m that whole tree, confident that I don't need to keep it somewhere in my head to make sure it gets done, *eventually*. :-D
@prologic @vain This captures my sentiments on both points absolutely perfectly! ππ€
