# 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 1532
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=1532
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=1432
@vain They do! Or you can have a private ceremony, for the tidy(!) sum of Β£200. @lyse He's a representative of the King's representative, in Hampshire. (Yes, that extra level of indirection was deliberate!) Nice chap. Great day, surprisingly. (Didn't expect to get as caught up in it all as I did.)
It's official! π¬π§ 
@yuriichi Not so new, no. :) @prologic started coding in earnest back in 2020, so, yeah, some 'pods' are a few years old now. But, welcome!
@lyse **Man!** You are gettin' some _crackers_, mate. Bravo!
@prologic Ah, I meant to ask about that. OK, it **is** a known bug; cool. :)
@carsten They have monthly challenges, I think, but, yeah, this is just me picking it back up, apropos of nothing other than an author I follow touting the site. :)
Written over 5000 words over six days on 750 Words. Really enjoying this return to journaling. :)
@prologic Ah, the blurb is "[a]n open source voxel game engine," but, to me, it's indistinguishable from Minecraft (except it's free ^x^). Ages back, I helped bridge the IRC and Matrix sides of a community based on a Minetest mod for what's coined modular politics; looks like I may get roped into carrying on the work, lol. I consider it time well spent, though, as my kids love that interactive Minecraft stuff on Netflix; only a matter of time 'til they learn they can **play** it! ;)
I'm compiling Minetest right now; feels like my kids shouldn't know. :D
@prologic Yeah, they are. I'm running Pleroma at social.nfld.uk, for example.
@prologic I figured you meant him, but it's true of me too. :) Roger that, re the rest.
@prologic Hehe. I certainly do: I've been talkin' up the ActivityPub integration on the Keyoxide forum and the Fediverse, only to return and find the family in crisis over it. D: Still not sure what the latest is, or which side I'm on.
@bender I think it's normal to go through phases with this sort of thing. (Or maybe I'm projecting.) But, yeah, if you aren't developing some sort of relationships with peers on a platform, I'd say what you're talking about is inevitable.
@prologic Ha ha. **That** is an understatement. Still, super cool!
@abucci Interesting. I'll check it out a bit later. :) But it already has me thinking about linguists carving out a new niche in computer security. ^x^
Wow, that was nasty. Even had some _502 Bad gateway_ messages, so I thought that yarn wasn't being published. I've backed out the _activitypub_ feature for now.
@support Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H'm. Seems OK now...
@support Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H'm. Seems OK now...
@support Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the activitypub option. H'm. Seems OK now...
Thanks, @adi! In theory, it should've taken five years. In reality, it took me twice that time because I kept resetting that 'clock' by changing visas. Wasn't cheap either, let me tell you! :P
lol @movq β h'm, only @vain populates on my instance _still!_ β and thanks, all. ^x^
@prologic Dang! Congrats, mate! Awesome comeback. :D
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with sincere pleasure that I inform you of my recent application for British citizenship having been approved.
@news Amazing! Well done!
@prx Yeah, I'm a big fan of it. :)
Another ActivityPub service up: BookWyrm @ nfld; let me know if you want an invitation. :) NB: I'm just getting familiar with the software, so I can't claim it's configured correctly or well at this stage. ;)
@prologic Ah, apologies, mate. Congratulations on getting it working, though. :D
@prologic Yeah, fair point. I mean, I'm devil's advocate in this: you've outlined the dream, right there.
@nilfm I'd argue that only works for homelabs. Any business that follows that philosophy carries a huge risk of their resilience walking right out the door.
@retronav I'm well, thanks! Nice to see you. :)
@bender Got my Matrix bridging services to both IRCNow and Telegram restored in the last few days. Plus my homeserver can now handle rooms with five-figure membership, thanks to the aforementioned migration to beefier kit. I'm havin' a ball! π
@hacker-news-newest I haven't read this β yet! I know, classic π
β but this advice has been indelibly absorbed by me, long before I had kids. I wonder where I first read it. π€
@anth I feel your pain, mate. π I'll check that out!
@lyse So cool! Thanks for sharing. :)
@abucci Proper old skool. ;) Not much of that 'net era has survived, let alone kept its calibre. (Lookin' at you, /. )
@prologic Holy cow! Sounds serious! Hope things continue to improve. π€π€
We don't go for promoting spam on this pod (or the wider community for that matter). You joined around the same time as two spam accounts, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, for the moment.
@bender Thanks! :) Learned loads along the way as well, to where I was able to recover another database dump (for a different service) just by changing the locale in the dump file and creating the associated user ahead of the restore.
Well, _I'll be_. Didn't that just sort it. Amazing. matrix.nfld.uk rides again! With a much whizzier, if remote, database. Time to start building back the rest of these database backed services then, eh, @bender? ;)
Latest attempt is using pg_dumpall; that and the restore will be done using 13.9 binaries (for different architectures, of course). Can't say I'm feeling particularly optimistic...
Assuming you see this as anything more than yet another place to put your lame attempt at advertisement. :/
@support Hey, welcome! I see you've also created an account on @prologic's pod (i.e., the mother-ship of our little corner of the world ;) ). Just so you know, you only need one account, on any pod, in order for you to put messages out for others to read and follow, and for you to follow theirs in return. :) Any questions, just ask!
Didn't even make it to a main road before I had a wheelie bin's worth picked up. Pretty disgusted, to be honest, but I'm sure it'll make the school run more pleasant tomorrow. 
Gloucester Docks 
@bender Thanks, both. She was still coughing a lot last night, but she's been full o' beans today; already been out to a friend's party this morning, and showing no signs of slowing down this afternoon. Kids, eh? ;)
Belting out classic Billy Joel while automating my database backups, glass of white in hand and roast in the oven. Life is good, folks.
Anyway, that's enough for tonight. Daughter's still poorly, and'll be up afore the hour's done, I'm sure. πͺ
Tell you what: this demo is _just_ my speed; exactly what I need to get a feel for it, and, more importantly, to build up my confidence.
@bender It's a valid question. I just didn't do it regularly? I was confused by the different formats? I read conflicting advice about whether things could still be running? Databases, writ large, are a bit of a boogeyman for me? End of the day, so far, this seems to be just enough validation / certification plus automation to get me over the line; _seems_ to be. We shall see.
Familiarising myself with pgbackrest. Need to make sure this extended service outage isn't repeated.
@lyse Wow. Amazing sights (when you weren't worried about cracking your head, it seems)! ;)
Pretty sad about the state of affairs around buying music (and at least feeling somewhat confident that the artist is getting a good part of my custom). I still actually have an independent shop in my town, surprisingly, but they've had to specialise in specific oldies, and vinyl, for the most part. (I tried to get actual CDs of the music for the new Dune movie through them, and they tried, but failed, to source discs.) (I've got an HMV too, for now, but that's hardly a place where you feel the artists get their due.) And today I've just tried to buy Einaudi's music from his site, and they want β¬27 for shipping a couple of discs from Italy to the UK. So, Bezos' gaff it is. Bandcamp is a nice (but niche) counterpoint to this; I have the same handle on that platform, btw.
Ha ha π My pleasure, mate β honestly! Bit of a freakish love of copyediting. π
@bender lol. Well, check back in a month! (And to be clear, the services were run on a motley crew of small and old hardware, not just one Pi. :) I bet I could've pushed one to do most of it, though, all the same!)
@prologic Wow, awesome! Thanks, both! Looking forward to the spoils of '23! ^Γ^
@prologic I see. At the risk of jinxing it, the scammers seem to have moved on from my pod. But, yeah, you know they'll be back, so requiring that little bit of effort to ask for an invitation is probably worth it. π€
@prologic In effect, yeah. Lost some twts despite not much time between; wondering whether I should've taken advantage of those job functions for pod owners first, to sync the backend, for example.
@codebalion Here's hopin' it'll be behind you soon. π€π
Made decent progress over the last week with the homelab: all the services on the RPi 3A+ (including this pod!) have now been migrated elsewhere ahead of its rebuild. Then to focus on the other services that have languished (as folks like @bender have rightly pointed out ;) ).
@support Interestingly, I too lost data / twts, but it isn't immediately obvious because our peer pods seem to be replicating some or all of those.
@prologic Fyi, I'm working on a PR for the landing page; my strong suit, until I bone up on Go. ;)
@bender Ah, right. To be fair, I haven't gone the most direct route; comes from meeting your partner partway through and testing out the waters, as it were. ;)
Been over ten years now: exemption visa (ending 2013) β¨ visitor visa β¨ charity worker visa β¨ charity worker visa extension (until early 2015) β¨ fiancΓ© visa β¨ spousal visa / start of the 'five year route' β¨ halfway point check-in (plus fees, obvs; 2017) β¨ indefinite leave to remain visa β¨ ? (citizenship π€)
@bender Mate, even I find it hard to believe I'm not legit yet. Well, six months, at most, to go, fingers crossed.
Well, citizenship application is in. Now, the wait.
Any recommendations on a good intro to webfinger? I'm guessing the Yarn.social support centres around pointing out the administrator account, yes? I've been working on getting websocket support up and running for my vaultwarden instance today, and just noticed some nodeinfo errors in my reverse proxy logs; I'm guessing that's because I used to run a Fediverse instance (Pleroma) back in the day. Do nodeinfo and webfinger normally go hand in hand, or are all the search results about Nextcloud errors swaying my understanding?
But that is a line that **I cannot** cross; or not for a very, very long time.* Oops :P
@prologic Sorry for the late reply: yeah, bender's right; crossing a line just means, in some regard (or many, in Greta's case), you can't go back. As an example, if I'd joined Just Stop Oil a few years ago, I'd now be faced with having to move my family to Canada, a lengthy (likely doomed to fail) appeals process, having to find a new job... But Greta is young; she probably isn't too concerned about where she can or can't visit or live, and she obviously feels very strongly about this cause. Frankly, I'm in awe of her, and wish her every success. But that is a line that cannot cross; or not for a very, very long time.
@prologic I think once you've decided to be arrested, you've crossed a line, you're part of something bigger, and it's the size of that body, globally, that really counts; less so what you've decided to stand in front of that day. We've got loads of Just Stop Oil people in prisons, for example, from last year; no one really remembers what they were arrested for; but they are being counted, to this day and every day, by a growing number of people around the world.
@gopherchat I like the humanist angle to some of that; don't have much use for the rest of it, I'm afraid.
@prologic H'm, missed that CircleCI news... Welcome to 2023; much like any year this millennium, in many ways. ;)
@prologic Many of the old features we used to have to enable this way have since been rolled into the main project now, I assume, yeah? Like ActivityPub support?
@support Enabling the filter_and_lists optional feature is a notable departure for the traditional user interface. Personally, I like it. :)
@prologic Ha ha. So, thanks to special characters in my poderator account's password, I managed to lock the account -- 429 Too Many Requests -- before I thought to quote it in the command. >.< And this account gets an "Endpoint not found," presumably because it lacks the permission. D'oh. About to head to bed; will it be useful if I try the dump again in the morning?
@prologic And that _doesn't_ show up under Mentions. lol.
@prologic Got a mention for the first time in recent memory, from @darch! 
Wondering whether the fully qualified nature of it -- or of how it displays, at least -- has anything to do with it showing up, but not this, from @bender. 
@bender For the mo, yeah. I lost the shared database in a bizarre package update nightmare on that rpi, and simply never got around to attempting to restore it / rebuild it. It's back in the front of my mind now, though, as I just found out that I can no longer run vaultwarden on buster (or not well, anyway), which means even the rpi hosting Yarn needs to be rebuilt. I mostly use all this for learning, mind, so I'm a bit all over the shop, really: trying to set up Proxmox on the old ThinkCentre I got on eBay, and also thinking about redesigning my OpenWrt config. :P