# 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 23
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/m6fesrq
@jlj I like your website's look, but i was disappointed to find that 'finger' doesn't seem to actually work. ;-)
@jlj I like your website's look, but i was disappointed to find that 'finger' doesn't seem to actually work. ;-)
@anth @jlj How exactly does one use finger? I have tried to read about it, but never found any good howto...
@jlj @anth @darch Have no idea how to start the finger daemon on OpenBSD.
@jlj @anth @darch Have no idea how to start the finger daemon on OpenBSD.
@anth Ha ha. I never thought about trying to securely serve it over the Internet. It occupies a space of quaint antiquity in my head now, @darch, like the Cuckoo's Egg, and even GeoCities now, I guess.\n\nIt does actually work between ^C club members -- ctrl-c.club -- though, which is pretty fun, and around the time when I revived it as a trope for my personal sites.\n\nFor the twenty-plus years of my career, though, it's been a line item in your pentest report, not something for a howto. ;-)
Oops, missed some of the more recent replies on this before diving in. It's great, how active yarn.social is these days. 😁
@jlj Yup we seem to be growing at a rate of a new discovered feed/user per day 👌 Whether or not they hang around is another matter though 😂
@jlj Yup we seem to be growing at a rate of a new discovered feed/user per day 👌 Whether or not they hang around is another matter though 😂
You need better pen test scripts. :-) Seriously, the protocol is absurdly simple. Turn it on! Don't trust any of the implementations? Write your own!
You need better pen test scripts. :-) Seriously, the protocol is absurdly simple. Turn it on! Don't trust any of the implementations? Write your own!
It seems like something *especially* all the tilde-inspired things should have on.
It seems like something *especially* all the tilde-inspired things should have on.
@anth I think I will! (But not at 4am. 😂)\n\nIt's funny, the things you hang on to. Reducing the attack surface ruthlessly, versus tinkering and having fun (while taking sensible precautions); that's sort of the transition I've been going through, over the last year, in this new job.
@jlj @anth I've used finger too long ago to remember, but these days I'm stuck on the "why"; what value would it bring... I _think_ I asked you this once @anth about what "utility" it would have beyond just being "fun" 🤔
@jlj @anth I've used finger too long ago to remember, but these days I'm stuck on the "why"; what value would it bring... I _think_ I asked you this once @anth about what "utility" it would have beyond just being "fun" 🤔
Yup, and my answer's the same: very little. But it's fun! Have fun with computers!
Yup, and my answer's the same: very little. But it's fun! Have fun with computers!
To be clear, it isn't that it doesn't provide a valuable service; it's just that there are more convenient ways of doing it. But screw convenience!
To be clear, it isn't that it doesn't provide a valuable service; it's just that there are more convenient ways of doing it. But screw convenience!