# 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 = 1 903
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt&offset=903
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt&offset=803
I think twtxt.net's interface has gone wild at me... my mastodon account will be (at)marado(at)ciberlandia.pt .
Hi! I'll be microblogging from ciberlandia.pt from now on. What does that mean? If you want to follow me via mastodon you can, at @marado , if you want to follow me via twtxt you can keep following me via at https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt . See you on the "other side"!
hi @prologic , did something happen to the AP sync from twtxt.net ? My "last toots" seen on mastodon seem quite outdated...
Exactly 10 years ago Kokori's first release on vinyl was out - and we celebrated with a release party in one of the afternoons of the Entremuralhas festival.
Ten years later, we're back attending the festival, and this time we see one of the stands selling our latest release, rootkit, on CD! ♡
I hate reading translations. Here's an example why: the same passage of the English and the Portuguese translation of the same (French) book. Not just the length of the passage shows one of the translations wasn't faithful, the behavior of the character in one version is the opposite than how he behaves on the other version...
@eapl.me s/common protocols/open standards/
The only feature that leads me to use Gmail (and which I use extensively) is 'Snooze'. For a few days now, it has not been working properly. Lost about what will I use to replace my workflows, but it also seems that Gmail is about to get one less user.
@prologic So, you removed the working .github actions replacing it with non-working .gitea actions? You could have left the .github folder present at lest until .gitea is working correctly 😰
Of skies and bullets:
1995, when people still had legs on the Metaverse
I bet there is someone who wrote a paper, a book or something about the impact of the death of MySpace on music projects. I'm saying this more or less hoping that someone will one day point me to one, I'd love to read it. What I know is that lately I have been revisiting my record collection and confirming that there is an enormous amount of recording artists and projects that started with the MySpace phenomenon, and ended with MySpace's death.
O Presidente da República disse mesmo que termos este evento Católico a decorrer no nosso país laico é o maior acontecimento da democracia Portuguesa? Que vergonha.
my translation:
«The judge considered that, despite Renault Portugal having claimed the company and brand has no means to block the vehicles, it was proved that "there is a computer platform that was activated, in a way not disclosed, and through which was operated first the blocking and then the unblocking of the batteries”.»
@movq I don't really know. Here's a concerning quote:
«A juíza considerou que, apesar de a Renault Portugal ter garantido que a empresa e a marca não tinham meios para bloquear as viaturas, se fez prova de que “há uma plataforma informática que foi accionada, de forma que as requeridas não concretizaram, e através da qual foi operado primeiro o bloqueio e depois o desbloqueio das baterias”.»
Renault has a remote locking "feature" on the batteries of their electric cars. They used it in Portugal, and that was considered illegal.
@prologic you're planning to stop AP support before doing the bridge?
@prologic looking forward for an update to the mobile app!
@eapl.me this is pretty cool! only thing it lacks is a view for just one of the feeds (at least yours)!
A closed, proprietary standard was accepted, adopted, and has been in use for decates. TETRA, for encrypted radio communications, has been in use for more than a quarter of century. Turns out, it has an intentional backdoor all along. A cautionary tale? Not really: the old algorithms are going to be phased out and replaced by new algorithms... that were created in secret as well.
This. 2025 is the "limit date" (some say by, others before) for emissions peak, in order to keep warming to 1.5C. What are we doing? Globally, it seems that we are not even trying to make it peak, whenever.
I love them (specially those in phone booths!), but now I have one I might actually become a regular at :-)
My home town now has a street library! #Lamego
@prologic "websites" that only work on "trusted browsers", the vilest sort of proposal one can do, breaking the web.
"Web Environment Integrity" is Google's fancy name for closing the web in a DRM scheme. The internet found out, started questioning in github issues ans pull requests... and now the repository is worth reading with a popcorn bucket on your lap.
More on #CRA: Filezilla stopped distribution of downloads in Europe, as a protest.
@@madcap@ciberlandia.pt War+éz.
@@madcap@ciberlandia.pt why don't they want my money?
It has been a long time coming (ten years since book 11!), but 2023 saw the release of book 12 of "Piracy Is Liberation". With it, I also ordered CBA's vol. 58, entitled "Modern Glossalia or The Erosion Of Meaning", which focuses (or at lease includes) a reflection of the growth of the extreme right, and their uses of language.
@abucci where they now say they use it to train their AI models thry used to say "for language models", which isn't all that different (possibly extending the scope from text to images, audio and video?).
@abucci To be fair, it was already codified there. What is more interesting (to me) is how they're using a privacy policy (binding their users) in an attempt to get implicit licensing over materials out of the scope of those services, both from their users and others (or of authors unknown). Not that it matters much, I bet they'd argue such license is unneeded, but the fact that they decided to have that wording there makes me curious about the legal basis of such clause. Yes, I know Goggle had an extensive and capable legal team, but I'd still love seeing a legal analysis of the applicability of that under various jurisdictions.
@@rlafuente@ciberlandia.pt
Bom dia
@movq I've got good news for you, in Europe "software updates will also have to be made available for at least 5 years after retiring a product from the market".
Em 31 de Maio, a ampliação da Mina do Barroso obteve por parte da Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, uma Declaração de Impacto Ambiental favorável, ainda que condicionada ao cumprimento de um conjunto de condições. As populações consideraram isto uma declaração de guerra e reagiram de imediato, prometendo a continuação e o endurecimento da luta.
@@paulasimoes@ciberlandia.pt Oddly, I did not win 😇
Pedro Nuno Santos a dizer que em qualquer empresa do mundo se comunica de diversar formas, incluindo via whatsapp. A AP está mesmo a precisar daqueles formações chapa 5 sobre segurança e privacidade de dados. Não, não é normal (ou aceitável) o uso de whatsapp (ou qq outra ferramenta não formalmente escolhida para o efeito de comunicação interna) para coisas destas.
Sabe sempre bem ser ouvido: ontem passou uma faixa de Kokori na Unidade 304.
children of the rain
picture of a newborn mushroom
Rain victims
a picture of infant oranges fallen down
I wrote here a few days ago about kokori's "rootkit" (now also available on CD) but it all started on this day 13 years ago, with the release of our "init()" EP, seen in this picture:
Já anda por aí, enquadrado no festival literário "Lamego, Cidade Poema". É o livro "Era Uma Vez - Lamego 2023", e tem o seu lançamento oficial no último momento do festival, domingo às 16h.
Participo nele com um texto de não-ficção para o leitor curioso geek: não haverão muitos, mas dá-me prazer saber que a história geek Lamecense vai estar nas prateleiras de uma qualquer biblioteca.
Lamego 2023
kokori's album "rootkit" is going to be released on CD next month.
This is the album I'm most proud of have having made.
Accepting pre-orders now!
kokori's rootkit CD
@slashdot interesting reading for those who consider CJEU's stance on metadata retention inconvenient.
@aiscarvalho Sortuda, a internet hoje só me deu portes grátis...
O que se tira da novela do dia, óbvio mas que ninguém está a apontar: 1) não se usam equipamentos de dados para manter dados privados; 2) usar whatsapp para coisas profissionais, estatais e/ou governamentais é profundamente errado, deve ser criticado e não pode ser normalizado.
SteetComplete, Every Door and Wikimedia Commons: a trio of apps forming the perfect excuse to go out for an healthy walk.
@melyanna Cool! too bad your home page announces your mastodon account, but not your twtxt feed.
On an unrelated note, this twt made me open a bug on yarn since apparently hashtags are broken in the ActivityPub integration.
#Greenwashing 101, from #PingoDoce: 1) create your own "ecodesign" stamp; 2) put your "ecodesign" stamp on your products even if they have an obvious use of plastic lids where no plastic would be necessary; 3) profit. 
a picture of two milk packets, that have an "ecodesign" mark, but also plastic lids
Hulduefni and Merankorii joint album "Synthetic Works" was released on this day, nine years ago.
a picture of the CD
@prx did you backtick and execute the code in an attempt to quote it? There seems to be a password where it's generating code should be!
@BBS this one is small and effective
@lyse cheating or not, now I'm actively resisting writing a "git timeline painter tool"!
@lyse There was someone doing an 'art thing' with their github contributions graphic a couple of years ago... but I can't recall who was it to point it out, sorry :-P
@prologic I like that the information is there to help those reading the feed - automatically (with a client) or manually.
@lyse from my POV, both approaches achieve the same, and I'd be happy to see one or the other on yarn generated feeds.
AFAIK, the only way is to use yarnc, but I do believe it is important that the web interface has an easy way for people to delete one of their twts, and just created a feature request.
"There is no ternary testing operation in Go", "the language's designers had seen the operation used too often to create impenetrably complex expressions".
um poema censurado para o dia do livro, em ante-véspera do 25 de abril:
Tomorrow is "Record Store Day", a date that I have been feeling as yearly losing its purpose, now focused on the US and UK markets, *markets*, with a focus on commercialism. Today I read FLUR's newsletter - a Portuguese record store that this year decided not to celebrate RSD, with an extraordinarily well articulated text on what is wrong with RSD (and the 'vinyl indistry') lately. A shame the text isn't published somewhere.
@prologic it is collected, we just don't know exactly what, how, where, what for or how long. A slightly tangential but good read about fitbit's data collection here.
@prologic yeah, or any fitbit... measuring the heartrate is easy and cheap, and depending on the accuracy level it can be as cheap as... well, PPG, and *any* phone with a camera and flashlight can do it. But only yesterday I connected the dots on my mind regarding the sort (and potential uses) of the data being collected as soon as someone tries out a new band or watch.
Did you know that "Heartbeat biometric identification is considered to be very accurate and at a similar level to fingerprints or retina recognition"? Food for thought.
The old kindle story of digital burning of Fahrenheit 451 had already shown the perils of using e-book platforms, but the recent IA lawsuit has highlighted a graver danger: with one click, in an instant and without anyone knowing, a vendor can (and does) "update" a book. It is not that new issues of Agatha Christie's books will be sold "moderized" it is that suddenly you cannot go to your library and find an old/original version. Chilling.
I am against the original idea of forking twtxt.txt into yarn.txt unless I see any technical reason or feature that would justify breaking compatibility - so far I don't see one. But I agree in principle with @darch that maybe we can add something on the metadata of the feeds enumerating the extensions we use or... I don't know, something that will allow any twtxt user to know how to deal with any 'yarnisms' in the content of our twts (even if the only one that comes to my mind as needing explanation is the thread hashes - how to interpret them).
Today, Ubuntu decided to change the default browser in one of my machines. Again :rolleyes:
@darch case in point, I used to twtxt images before using yarn or markdown tp do it - and markdown isn't making twts like this any less readible.
@prologic I'd actually not replace it with newlines but with a space or something like that, so there's nothing breaking (twtxt output parsers or whatever, expecting only one line per twt).
@prologic What I take out from this log is that buckets client is truncating twts when seeing one of those characters you use for newline: a PR fixing that should suffice. As for the rest, I see twtxt as meant to be a readable format, and I think yarn is not messing with that. Is someone doesn't like yarn's writing style (or anything else on any other feed) they can simply not follow them. I see no reason at all for yarn to change its underlying format away from twtxt.
@prologic the other still doesn't work for me, but this one does
@prologic I probably would *not* use an yarn.social client/app that didn't deal with twtxt (text) feeds - both "follow" them and "publish" them. But I suppose that it is possible to have a bidirectional converter between that json format and twtxt.
@prologic net::ERR_HTTP_RESPONSE_CODE_FAILURE
@movq good example. Should the medical device manufacturer be liable? Yes. Should the library developer be liable? No.
but I lost
