# 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:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 34
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://hashnix.club/~dce/twtxt.txt&offset=34
@movq I would call it "dark ambient". It's a broad genre, but one I rather like.
Thanks to a blog post by ~solderpunk and the presence of ImageMagick on my pubnix, all of my weirdcore art (apart from the animated works) is now under 32K in size! Honestly, I'd say the lower JPEG quality actually adds to the vibe of the images: something from the early web, taken permanently out of context and long forgotten.~
@movq Whoa! Nice shots! I'm supposed to be able to see it from where I am right now, but it doesn't look particularly red yet. Always love a good eclipse...
@movq It's a T400 with 8GB of RAM and an SSD.
@lyse I'm looking for an OS that runs better than Windows (🤮) and through which I can do basic stuff like read RSS feeds and browse geminispace; but which I can also learn from.
@lyse On this ThinkPad, I want to keep it running modern software until it physically breaks, with an emphasis on security and FOSS
I have a late-2010s ThinkPad running OpenBSD, but it's about as fast as a snail carrying heavy shopping through molasses. I'd like to run something other than Linux, for variety, but the other members of the BSD family failed for various reasons. What OS do you guys think I should try?
@movq That's rather a nice phlog right there. Really enjoyed reading it.
@movq Sounds cool! I think I'll also have a go...
Welp, my rent's gone out and my student loan won't be in for another week, so I'm not spending anything for a while. How's everyone else's September going?
@movq I heard about a defence against badly-behaved crawlers a while ago: an HTML zip bomb. This post explains how to do it. Essentially, web servers can serve compressed versions of webpages and, with a little trickery, one can replace the compressed page with a different file. After that, any bot that tries to crawl the page will instead download and unpack a zip bomb that will cause it to crash.
@thecanine I hate it when businesses do this. As well as being annoying and unreliable, Microsoft software is known to have a hell of a lot of security vulnerabilities, and the AI features increase the attack surface. One can use a client like Thunderbird for the email, but Teams doesn't really have an alternative. Awful stuff.
@prologic I love a good drink. What kind of wine is it?
@prologic @movq My metadata only has my HTTPS URL. I didn't consider having multiple. I was talking about my config.yaml. Jenny sounds like a good client, so I might give that a try.
It might just be my client, but it seems that I cannot track multiple URLs at once. As such, all three of my twtxt URLs will work for following, but mentions will only reach me at my HTTPS URL (https://hashnix.club/~dce/twtxt.txt). If there is a client that can cope with twtxt mirrors, I would love to know about it.
@movq Why the fuck do they think people need that‽ Most people don't even use regular tab groups, and now they want to shoehorn an ML model in there as well‽
So, in addition to HTTPS and Gemini, my twtxt should now also be available over Gopher (gopher://hashnix.club:70/0/~dce/twtxt.txt). Not sure who, if anyone, would need this; but since my tilde provides Gopher hosting, I'd may as well mirror my twtxt there as well.
You know, I think I do actually like it here better than my other social media. It's slower and quieter, but it feels more organic and nobody's trying to sell me anything, promote their podcast, or change the way I think. It's just... nice!
Also not sure why this post is duplicated on twtxt.net. Ah, well...
This would have been neater, but evidently my client foesn't support multiline posts.
Since 2020, I've been putting together one playlist every year, in which each track represents one month of that year. However, I also have assigned each season two specific songs, which do not change year-to-year: Spring: "A Little Bit Of Love" by Weezer and "Gretel" by Alex G; Summer: "Dumb" by Roe Kapara and "Endless Bummer" by Weezer; Autumn: "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins and "The Dead Come Talking" by Roe Kapara; Winter: "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" by Type O Negative and "Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End)" by The Darkness
@movq At this rate, I'm going to be carrying a feature phone in a few years' time.
Apparently twtxt wasn't the right client to use. twet seems to be alright, though.
Assuming I configured this right, my twtxt should now also be available over Gemini!
♩ Is there anybody out there? ♩
Instagram is shit, Bluesky is corporate, and Mastodon is...okay, but not fantastic. Maybe twtxt is what I'm after...