# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
#
# 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 194003
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=194003
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?offset=193903
[47°09′06″S, 126°43′27″W] Sample analyzing complete -- starting transfer
@prologic Yeah, I’ve blocked some large subnets now (most likely overblocking a lot of stuff) and it has died down.
I’m not looking forward to doing this on a regular basis. This is supposed to be a fun hobby – and it was, for many years. Maybe that time is just over.
@movq Right now I'm basically just blocking entire ASN(s) at this point and large blocks of IP(s) from Anthropic, OPenAI, Microsoft and others.
“But all your stuff is MIT licensed! They are allowed to do that!”
Haha. As if they would care. They crawl everything they get their hands on.
Besides, that’s not true, the license states that the copyright notice must be retained. “AI” breaks that. They incorporate my code and my articles in their product and make it appear as if it was their work.
Why do I care about this?
1. The load will become a problem at some point.
2. These crawlers and the current “AI” in general are breaking the rules. *I* am supposed to be paying for every little thing, *I* get sued for “piracy”. But apparently, these rules only apply to me. If I had more money, I could break them. Fuck that.
3. I simply don’t want it. Period.
This probably means that I can no longer host my own website. I don’t want to deploy something like Anubis, because that ruins the whole thing: I want it to be accessible from ancient browsers, like OS/2 or Windows 3.11.
I’ll keep an eye on it for a while. Maybe try to block some IPs.
Sooner or later, I’ll take the website down and shift everything to Gopher.
It doesn’t pose a problem for my server’s performance – yet. But if more bots/companies start doing this, my website will go down from the load.
The bots have begun to access my website way more often. I’m getting about 120k hits on https://www.uninformativ.de/git/ now in a couple of hours.
They don’t cache anything, probably on purpose.
It comes in waves. I get about 100 hits (all at once) on that /git endpoint, all from different IPs. Then it takes a moment until I get another wave of about 500-1000 requests (all at once) where they do HEAD requests on some of the paths below /git. I assume they did a GET earlier and are now checking if something has changed.
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′36″W] Taking samples
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1449 ARCHIVED:89735 CACHE:2650 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
[47°09′44″S, 126°43′14″W] Reading: 0.37000 PPM
[47°09′13″S, 126°43′47″W] Transfer aborted
[47°09′58″S, 126°43′18″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
@lyse Best logo ever made. 😅 (It’s partially proprietary software. Just for Epson scanners, I think? Not sure.)
@lyse Yeah, that was a lot of fun. 😃 Now let’s wait and see if I ever get to actually use this. 😂
@thecanine We don’t use Microsoft at work – but similar products of other big companies. They’re all doing the same. The core product gets worse and worse, because they focus so much on vomiting “AI” over everything.
It will die down eventually. I hope.
[47°09′39″S, 126°43′25″W] Reading: 1.56 Sv
[47°09′33″S, 126°43′08″W] Reading: 1.66 Sv
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1448 ARCHIVED:89727 CACHE:2644 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
[47°09′40″S, 126°43′08″W] --bad checksum--
@prologic Enjoy the weekend. 🥳 (I rarely drink these days. I hope my tiny little Whisky collection doesn’t go bad. 😂)
@prologic I love a good drink. What kind of wine is it?
[47°09′41″S, 126°43′51″W] Dosimeter fixed
The audacity … how about you keep it, eh?
From: Netflix
Subject: Here’s what’s leaving Netflix soon
@bender I've been cutting back too 😅 Trying to avoid drinking (_with alcohol_) 24hr before fixtures (🏓) and before training 🤣
Weekend! Whooo 🤣 Having a few too many glassses of 🍷 listening to music on Youtube and playing Chess which I haven't been playing much lately 😢
@dce No worries 😌 It's all documented in our soecs, it's not such a common thing that we've felt the great need to really solve, we're aware folks want to sometimes have their feed on several protocols, and that's totally fine™ 😅
#FridayReads #bookstodon #Lamego 
Foto à capa do livro "Lamego: a Terra, a História e a Gente", que tem como ilustração um desenho da Igreja de Almacave
@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.
[47°09′58″S, 126°43′55″W] Dosimeter malfunction
@lyse Very nice colors dude! 😅
@movq Yeah, we've seen how this plays out in practice 🤣 @dce My advice, do what @movq has hinted at and don't change the 1st # url = field in your feed. I'm not sure if you had already, but the first url field is kind of important in your feed as it is used as the "Hashing URI" for threading.
@dce Ah, oh, well then. 🥴
My client supports that, if you set multiple url = fields in your feed’s metadata (the top-most one must be the “main” URL, that one is used for hashing).
But yeah, multi-protocol feeds can be problematic and some have considered it a mistake to support them. 🤔
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′11″W] Transfer 75% complete...
[47°09′03″S, 126°43′52″W] Transfer 50% complete...
Speaking of PS/2, I wish PS/2 came back as the standard. I love that they use interrupts instead of polling to function.
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1447 ARCHIVED:89714 CACHE:2638 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
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‽
[47°09′30″S, 126°43′59″W] Transfer 25% complete...
You can fuck right off, thank you very much.
(18/29) upgrading firefox
New optional dependencies for firefox
onnxruntime: Local machine learning features such as smart tab groups
@lyse Yeah, removing the cover will probably help. I’ll have to try. 😅 And, yes, the scrolling is pretty annoying (and kind of ruins the experience a little bit).
The printer isn’t that loud – at least not for a dot matrix printer. 😅 It’s been ~30 years since I’ve last seen them in person, but I remembered these things to be louder. I’m typing on my Model M, maybe that contributes to the perceived noise on this video. Here’s an isolated recording of that keyboard: https://movq.de/v/ddc98b03d8/2022-02-21--model-m-goes-brrr.ogg 🤣 It really sounds like that when you’re typing fast. Brrrrt.~
Fixing old mistakes 
A screenshot of my old "Google Play Games" account being deleted.
[47°09′29″S, 126°43′21″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
@dce I switched over to following you on Gopher, because why not. 😅
@thecanine Oh! 🤯 Hadn’t heard of this before. And 100% agree with that video.
Conterrâneos de #SãoPaulo, é possível ainda obter um bilhete único (o cartão de pagamento do transporte público) sem nome? Um turista consegue fazer um bilhete único? #PerguntaPreguiçosa
*How do you know Altman is lying?*
He is moving his lips.*
[47°09′52″S, 126°43′45″W] Waiting for carrier
I'm a bad swimmer, and a chill runs down my spine while the world burns outside and the waves crash against the rock.There's still some air left before the water's up to our necks. What do we do now? What? Wait?I'm a bad swimmer, and the water's rising, and a text like this won't save the world, but I had to write it.https://maurice-renck.de/erzaehlen/2025/der-schlechte-schwimmer
[47°09′14″S, 126°43′38″W] 4514 days without news from Herve
[47°09′31″S, 126°43′00″W] Transponder fixed
@dce these are some of the same reasons that I enjoy Yarn.social/Twtxt 🙌
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1446 ARCHIVED:89680 CACHE:2640 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
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!
[47°09′32″S, 126°43′41″W] Transponder still failing -- switching to analog communication
I’ve got a prototype of my hardcopy simulator going. I’m typing on the keyboard and the “display” goes to the printer:
https://movq.de/v/56feb53912/s.png
https://movq.de/v/235c1eabac/MVI_8810.MOV.mp4
The biiiiiiiiiig problem is that the print head and plastic cover make it impossible to see what’s currently being printed, because this is not a *typewriter*. This means: In order to see what I just entered, I have to feed the paper back and forth and back and forth … it’s not ideal.
I got that idea of moving back/forth from Drew DeVault, who – as it turned out – did something similar a few years back. (I tried hard to read as little as possible of his blog post, because figuring things out myself is more fun. But that could mean I missed a great idea here or there.)
But hey, at least this is running on my Pentium 133 on SuSE Linux 6.4, printer connected with a parallel cable. 😍
(Also, yes, you can see the printouts of earlier tests and, yes, I used ed(1) wrong at one point. 🤪 And ls insisted on using colors …)
[47°09′21″S, 126°43′36″W] Transponder malfunction
Dear @doctormo@doctormo, I'm a great admirer of your work in general and hopefully I won't creep you out by telling everyone I'm your fan!
As a creator of digital vector-based art I find the color management stuff (trying to figure how to generate things to print "in CMYK") mind boggling. I slowly try to read and acquire the concepts and vocabulary to understand more about this. I'm grateful for your work in this area. Thank you!
#FLOSS #CMYK #ColorManagement #inkscape
[47°09′57″S, 126°43′43″W] Reading: 1.64 Sv
@dce Twet is a far better command line client. Yea 👌
[47°09′48″S, 126°43′38″W] Transfer aborted
[47°09′15″S, 126°43′44″W] Bad satellite signal -- switching to analog communication
🧮 USERS:1 FEEDS:2 TWTS:1445 ARCHIVED:89665 CACHE:2626 FOLLOWERS:22 FOLLOWING:14
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
No bluedwarf.top is not any social media site, it's free speech and you can moderate which post categories you see.No nonsense
Se calhar foi distracção e azelhice minha: quando ouvi falar de reverter a fusão de freguesias pensava que iam ser todas as qie foram fundidas, na generalidade. Quando soube que foi aprovado, pensava que nestas autárquicas ia ter freguesias separadas por aqui.
Fui hoje surpreendido quando fui ao Tribunal para ler o registo das candidaturas para as próximas #autárquicas (se me cingisse à imprensa local ainda ficava convencido que só seriam candidatos PS e a coligação PSD/CDS) e descobri que afinal, por aqui, as freguesias continuam todas fundidas.
Para ajudar outros que possam estar assumir mais do que devem como eu, fica aqui a Lei que tem a lista das freguesias que se voltaram a dividir (o resto fica tudo igual):
https://diariodarepublica.pt/dr/detalhe/lei/25-a-2025-910933580
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′16″W] Resetting dosimeter
I have to be fair and update this: turns out, there is another country I would be unable to ship to, and I only found out now: Syria. So... congratulations, I guess, to the USA for joining Syria in how inaccessible it has become.
[47°09′53″S, 126°43′46″W] Reading: 1.25 Sv
@bender That is a noble goal. We can talk about that – as long as it doesn’t mean giving up essential freedoms like choosing which software you can run on your device (without having to ask someone for permission).
Hi all, this is a cool place! Thinking of spinning up a Gopher server myself soon :)
@movq At this rate, I'm going to be carrying a feature phone in a few years' time.
[47°09′04″S, 126°43′41″W] Reading: 0.37000 PPM