# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
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# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://lyse.isobeef.org/twtxt.txt&offset=1434
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@xuu Hmm, a broken handlebar.
@fastidious Watch out, they might spit in your green mug!
In the spirits of drinks in the morning, here's my cup of fresh-tapped milk: 
Ganz frisch gezapfte Milch, mjam!
@prologic One would think that a maximum length shouldn't matter at all, since it's going to be hashed anyways and hashes are all the same length. Or at least that is my hope. I'm so naive… :-D
@fastidious It's common knowledge in Germany and also the phrase "Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg?" (Is this art or can I clean up?). So I didn't come up with this myself. I thought that this would be known in most parts of the world, but judging by the lack of information in the English Wikipedia article that's probably not the case.
@fastidious Whoah! Since it's probably completely solid, you must have used a forklift or something to wrestle this one in place. :-O
@xuu So my theory is that it will remain in the yarnd cache, because it has an entire conversation linked to it. Could be completely wrong, though. Never really looked into the caching code.
@thecanine Best of both worlds. ;-) I was referring to Joseph Beuys' bath tub which was a dirty tub and some people cleaned it in order to wash some glasses, not knowing that this was an art installation. This caused a lot of expensive drama.
@fastidious Ha, very cool! I came across one earlier today when looking for calendar stock.
I think I first heard about vanity plates (as in completely chosen by the driver in USA and AU) when people on YouTube started to get "MAKER" number plates. Here in Germany you can opt to choose the middle two letters and the the last numbers for a fee, provided the ID has not been registered so far. The leading district letters cannot be changed. Not being a car guy I really don't care what license plate is assigned to a car. The German wikipedia article has some examples of vanity plates around the world.
@movq C'mon, this is forking crazy!
Hmmm, yarnd's markdown parser throws the alternative text from images away. See here: 
Canooing on the river Brenz Maybe change it so it will also become an image title (as in tooltip).
@fastidious Dinkelsbühl is quite a nice medieval town, which is worth visiting next time you're in Germany: 
Dinkelsbühl Not only do they have cool timer-framed houses and stone watchtowers and such, but all the shop signs are in nice German type. Also big companies such as Tchibo are required to use that font on their house fronts. Looks quite weird at first, but very cool. Also Nürnberg comes to mind when talking medieval.
@xuu Ta, I made it from an old jeans and embroidered it. After the last scout camp I thought it will come in handy next time, but due to the pandemic I haven't used it yet.
@thecanine Yes, I'm a licensed fork user. I have several decades of daily experience in forking.
@movq Truncating passwords!? Holy moly, never seen this so far.
And again! Bloody hell, what is this garbage!? I cannot work with this! You weren't too late with your bowl of popcorn, @movq, that's for sure.
@fastidious Fully agree on that. Luckily, I only rarely come across websites where my pwgen -sy 32 is not accepted. But I also try to avoid creating acconts everywhere.
Restarting a second time seemed to solve the problem. :-S Now even capacitors in software…
WTF Firefox, why are my context menu and any combobox popups immediately closing on me? I can see them blink up for a few milliseconds. Restarting this stupid piece of shit did not help. Hng!
@movq Because of the cute penguins. ;-)
@fastidious Ta! Great title, it'll work for most of the photos I reckon. But in winter I'll have some white stuff and not all animals are green either. ;-) Let's see where this goes.
@movq I don't know much about instruments, but it sounds good and the wood looks rather nice.
Let's start off the best of nature series with this photo from July: 
nice green leaves Any suggestions for how I should name this new series? I have better leaf shots, so this one did not make it into my calendar. I still like it quite a lot, so it deserves to be shown off here.
@jlj Yep, building instructions can only be downloaded for BlueBrixx Special sets, nothing else. Happy building. :-)
@movq I hate snow globes with a passion, but this one is really lovely I have to say!
@movq Yes, that's the real goal. Maybe I can come up with two or three models for different people, so I don't have to sort out so many of them. Or just create one calendar per topic: general landscapes, trees, leaves, squirrels, slow worms, local mountains, flowers, birds, … Anyways, it's going to be tough.
@prologic Alright, I will start today with the first best of. Now the question is, where do I start?
@movq Oh yeah, looking forward to that!
@movq Hahahaa, brilliant! Too bad it's not for real.
Just went through all my photos this year to pick the very best in order to create a calender. This best of collection has now 292 files. Shit. I guess I have to take another round so that I reach 365. :-P
Oh, one more thing in case this is important to you: BlueBrixx Specials come only with a downloadable PDF (anybody can download all instructions once signed up as customer) and no assembly units. All hundreds or thousands of pieces are on your table. On the other hand, BlueBrixx Pro sets are produced by Xingbao and thus you get a printed instruction booklet and also bags for the different stages.
Especially BlueBrixx goes after the looks, not the stability. When in doubt, they always prioritize appearance. E.g. their steam engines are quite delicate and nothing for children, the adult fan of bricks is their customer. I haven't used their customer service yet, but the internet is full of horror stories, that they really suck at that. So be warned when ordering and then trying to make a complaint. ;-)
BlueBrixx's brick quality is okay, it sometimes varies a bit, that pieces don't clamp too well and you need to help it along with paper. I did so on the tanks below the cab doors and the forward pipe at the trailer. Four tiny flakes of kitchen roll did the job just fine. In earlier batches I even had one or two broken pieces where the mold had failed. Haven't seen this in newer models anymore. They claim that they're working on quality assurance and some other people also confirm that. But you need to keep in mind that it is also tons cheaper than Lego.
@jlj Nowadays there are quite a lot of companies designing their own models and even sometimes their own bricks which are often compatible with the ones designed in DK. Cobi is the only one producing in the EU and it has superb brick quality all people say (don't have anything from them, so can't confirm). They even produce a lot of slopes and pieces you don't see at other manufacturers. Their models are designed to be showcasedd and never taken apart anymore. Separating pieces is really hard due to their incredible clamping power.
@fastidious Yeah, BlueBrixx comes up with some quite cool stuff. I'm in the lucky situation that I still own all the Danish bricks from my childhood, too. So my plastic collection has a decent size. Over 99% is hidden in a cabinet, the newer trucks and the train sheds are still cluttering my desk and the shelf above. I still have plenty models to build in the upcoming winter from my last orders. ;-) Unfortunately, I find very rarely time to actually build. And after the fun is over, they collect dust. So, quite a silly hobby. :-/
Yes, @fastidious, I haven't seen interaction for quite a long time and I'm not into her content either. I never saw somebody using spaces instead of tabs, @movq. But if they don't manage to do even that, I don't see any point in subscribing to such a crap feed.
So @maya now produces tons of empty twts with the same timestamp "2021-11-15T00:26:24-00:00".
@mckinley I only used forums in the past, but I think your analysis is spot on!
@movq While now other parties are involved with this cosign thing, I also believe that what they do is absolute crap, unless I completely misunderstood something. If the signer certificate has expired, also the signed certificate is invalid within a proper certificate validation process.
@movq @fastidious Let me add another German conservativism to the table. I think a self-hosted file upload thing might be enough.
@movq @prologic It's been definitely more than ten years ago, but I went to one or two key signing parties.
@mckinley Yes, introducing even more complexity is what I fear, too. For tech people it's just a hell lot easier to do exactly what you've described: put it somewhere and don't link it anywhere else. Maybe even remove it after a certain amount of time. That's what I've done ever since as well. However, in @prologic's vision non-techies could use encrypted feeds (if they overcome the hurdle you laid out nicely). I personally completely lack the usecase for them, too.
@movq I get plenty of warnings, that several lines are not parsable as twts, but that's to be expected.
@prologic I'm working on the parser part every now and then. Not sure whether cache and archiver would be super useful, too. What do you mean by client? The downloader? The one big thing is the shared object's quite huge file size of 3.3 MiB with all the Go stuff in it.
@prologic That's a really great backyard. I'd also love to have so much room. :-)
And there's also Pissen, which – you guessed it – translates to "piss". According to the article the name comes from millet or wheat, indicating very fertile soil.
@movq 64 MB RAM, I'm shocked about the good old times. :-)
@jlj I first thought you were talking binary. Lovely song and place!
Hey @ullarah, is your nick a play on Uluru or is this just what a boofhead like me would think?
@movq Holy moly, even the clock up top lags like crazy and can't keep up. This belongs into a museum.
@thecanine I've seen similar, smaller fuzzy balls like that, but I can't recall having seen this one before. Maybe some adventive stuff? I have no idea, though.
@movq Hmm, okay. Well, I really tried hard to concentrate in order to see any flickering, but I'm out of luck. :-)
@movq Hope and prayer to the rescue!@1@11!!@einself
Holy fuck, @movq, this is gazillion times worse than I ever imagined. Let's just hope that X11 never dies. I can't go back to KDE, I need my i3. It's doing exactly what I want. I never noticed any flickering btw. At least not on the same machine, X11 forwarding via SSH is a different story, but it's been ages since I used that. And thanks for taking the time to write this all up. Well, @mckinley, I heard it's going to be encrypted feeds.
@movq Hmmm. I haven't looked into the details yet at all.
@fastidious At first I thought you were talking about a speed bump on the road. Then I opened the image. :-)
Or what do you mean, what it looks like to clients? I reckon clients will only parse the feed when it is served as HTTP 200. So my reasoning is, that if they don't parse it, one doesn't have to bother with creating a valid feed anyways.
@movq To clarify: That Wayland is about to take over.
@movq Is it really? I heard that years ago.
@movq How dare you, disclosing the Go template's identity!
@fastidious Ah, cool! That proves that FL has always great weather unless there's a hurricane. ;-)
@fastidious Deleting the account and starting all over again from scratch to just edit or delete one twt is like killing a bird with a hydrogen bomb. But you're right, technically this would work. Minus the new timestamps for all new freshly hacked in twts – or is there a file import feature these days?
@fastidious I appologize, I haven't implemented multiline twt composing yet.
@adi Not sure if I got this correctly, but if a compressed version relies just on its uncompressed pendant, then something like that should work: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/Makefile Not sure, if this uses any GNU specific stuff, though. And for simplicity I just assumed *.txt files. Your example also shows files without extension, so it probably needs a slight adjustment. If there are too many different file types it might be easier to write a script that generates the Makefile. I don't know of anything simpler. Btw, I never saw ${*:R}, what's that supposed to do?*
@fastidious Looks like spring. What lovely flower is it?
At first I thought this is a joke, turns out you're dead-serious. Breaking a conversation is one thing, but not being able to edit or delete a twt just *because* of an inflexible cache implementation is quite ridiculous to me. No offence, @prologic! Caching is very hard, I completely understand that. Luckily I'm not a lawyer, however, I fully agree with @darch, this is going to be a GDPR violation nightmare waiting to happen (especially if yarnd is going to be commercialized some day). Removing edit and delete is also a contradiction to the project goals of making a better social media thingy. At least in my eyes. In my opinion any twt must of course be editable and removable at any point in time by the users themselves. I don't consider waiting for an admin to edit or delete something a solution to this problem. Just imagine what kind of shitstorm would happen, if another social media gigant would say, sorry, because of technical reasons we don't allow edits and deletions anymore. I don't use yarnd and thus I wouldn't have commented on this conversation if I hadn't been explicitly asked to join. One last thing: For alone this missing ability to edit or delete arbitrary twts alone I'd never use this software.
@prologic Very nice! Looks a little bit like a bushfire in the first spit-second.
@movq WTF, this is really weird! I can confirm this with my Firefox, too. Another reason to block JS. 8-)
properly rendered, headless yarn
Forky, forky!