# 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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# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://we.loveprivacy.club/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt&offset=180
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://we.loveprivacy.club/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt&offset=80
It really does need viable competition. It's a difficult one though, because it has by virtue of it being of the best early video sites in town and subsequent popularity, an absolute treasure trove of content, as bender says. But all owned by now what is a jackass company that loves being a monopoly.
Sadly the only way it changes is the people that post content on there move it all to other viable places, old and new, like mass migration. I don't see how that happens, especially when content creators don't want to lose the ad-revenue. But hopefully something gives eventually.
Somehow, I am not surprised. Like the cigarette industry all over again.
@prologic exactly! Plus they get pirated anyway even with every restriction they apply, so they're just inconveniencing all of us including those of us who would pay money.
I'm glad I switched to Jellyfin for my home library a while ago. They say "buy" movies but like most services, it'll most likely "buy" a subscription to access said movie, that can be revoked any time. Unless you could buy a movie and have the file on your hard drive DRM-free, but that will never happen with the movie studios involved.
Would help if Microshaft didn't force the TPM/Secure Boot requirement. I bypassed that requirement using a registry tool and was able to upgrade one of my "incompatible" machines to Windows 11 just fine.
But yes, in any case there's always Linux. My Thinkpad X200 from 2008 still flies along with Arch Linux and a lightweight DE.
Removed? Seriously lobste.rs?
@lyse bahaha ๐คฃ yeah I use cable ties maybe.. A lot.
When it's a hot day and you realize your Raspberry Pi 4B is running at nearly 80c (it has a case but no fan or heatsinks) and you CBF waiting for one to arrive.
Works a treat ๐
Just grabbed an unused PC fan, adapted it to an old 5v phone wall charger and hey presto, instantly cooler by 25c+.
That is pretty hilarious ๐คฃ
@movq Apparently it's not necessarily targeted at Firefox per se, as the delayed loading thing has happened on Chromium-based browsers too, but more YouTube targeting those running an adblocker. The only part about that I don't quite get is why just spoofing a Chrome user agent often fixes it.
This war on adblockers by Google is particularly interesting with the way they're doubling down so desperately.
For one thing I bet their higher ups making these decisions probably run adblockers themselves, but the other thing is it's arguably downright dangerous to not use at least a basic adblocker.
And I'm not even talking about the wider web, I mean even on YouTube itself. It's plagued with scam ads, nsfw ads (ironic given how YT insists the content creators have to keep things clean to satisfy the ad payers) and even ads that'll lead to actual malware, if not spyware.
YouTube, if you can't even moderate your ad network properly, let alone the fact that at the very least they are WAY too frequent/obnoxious, you cannot insist on people disabling their adblocker
This war on adblockers by Google is particularly interesting with the way they're doubling down so desperately.
For one thing I bet they're higher ups making these decisions probably run adblockers themselves, but the other thing is it's arguably downright dangerous to not use at least a basic adblocker.
And I'm not even talking about the wider web, I mean even on YouTube itself. It's plagued with scam ads, nsfw ads (ironic given how YT insists the content creators have to keep things clean to satisfy the ad payers) and even ads that'll lead to actual malware, if not spyware.
YouTube, if you can't even moderate your ad network properly, let alone the fact that at the very least they are WAY too frequent/obnoxious, you cannot insist on people disabling their adblocker
Nah, I just had really hyper sensitivity to sensations and pain for a few days. Like even getting up in the morning and putting on a slightly cold shirt actually "hurt". And just generally felt sore and joint pains. Was really unpleasant, but once that passed for me it was like a regular cold. So I was both unlucky and lucky with my experience. It's interesting how wildly different people experience it.
Maybe a little hyperbolic but definitely an interesting argument.
@movq yeah fair point. I wonder then what will happen with embedding and third party players like NewPipe?
Bloody hell...
Another reason I won't use Google Drive.
Wow that's a bugger. Can't you just replace the disk? Not sure what's involved on those Macs though.
Side point, I swear hard disks, whether it be the mechanical drives or flash memory, seem to die much faster these days...
Corporation with monopoly gets lazy, news at 11
I'm not sure about installing Unbound now anyway. Apparently your ISP can see the unencrypted DNS queries.
My ISP is Starlink and while its a great connection for me, I wouldn't want to give them anymore data than necessary lol
Yeah I looked up the conversion for us Aussies, so about $21 AUD
@prologic nice. Do you also use Unbound? I haven't installed it yet but seems to be recommended by many alongside a DNS sinkhole.
I finally setup a Pi-Hole yesterday ๐
Optus are in for a world of pain. Bad enough with the data breaches they cause a large percentage of the country to have to be issued new license numbers, now they can't even have basic redundancies in place.
Haven't seen this using Brave and its blockers.
Anyway, people will always find workarounds. YT are shooting themselves in the foot.
Sorry if anyone bounced off my Pod for a couple days. Had to renew the domain ๐
@prologic My article I did a while back about no longer being solar powered, by the looks of it.
@slashdot FFS there's so many data breaches these days, who wants to give anyone/anything their personal data anymore?
But yes, looking up Bernie (I'm Aussie so not so familiar with his heritage), he clearly is Jewish so no idea what Ben is on about...
@abucci Wait, isn't Ben Shapiro Jewish himself?
@abucci That would certainly be more believable to me. I mean don't get me wrong, Meta being Meta they will probably pour so much money into it and try to brute force it into some sort of life, but I can't imagine it will ever live up to their hype or be the game changer they try to make it out to be.
Title should read - "Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, says Meta"
@prologic
>Talk about the ball not the player
Version I always heard was "Play the ball, not the man", but yes totally agree!
@prologic
>Talk about the ball not the player
Version I always heard was "Play the ball, not the player", but yes totally agree!
But @prologic I hope you don't give up re: yarn. It's still the best free speech alternative there is and everyone is in total control of what they see, interact with all without the algorithm bullshit. Yes there is the issue of not being able to have reasonable discussions in general these days, though I feel the usual social platforms have fueled this. Hopefully one day that might change.
Same with Ben Shapiro, I don't always agree with either of them on some things. Both can go a little too far the other way when it comes to LGBTQ+ stuff for my liking, but then there's plenty of stuff I would agree with them on, such as the problem of trans women (biologically born men) in pro women's sports or surgeries on kids. But I'm much more supportive and inclusive with trans people in a general sense than either of those two. Sadly on most platforms, even what I'm saying here would be something people would absolutely jump on and attack. It's a bit sad really.
Jordan Peterson isn't all bad. He can be eccentric and makes some odd comparisons and arguments, but one needs to take the good bits like the personal responsibility etc and filter out the rest. A problem with people today seems to be they can't totally think for themselves and approach things like it's all or nothing.
One of my favourite philosophers is Friedrich Nietzsche and I always liked how Peterson spoke of his works generally, but sometimes he had some interpretations I didn't like so much, but I could tell that was JP's conservative Christian bias coming through. It is what it is and I just keep it in mind when dwelling on his point of view.
Amazon Has Gone Too Far (YouTube)
Louis Rossmann hitting it out of the park as usual. He's right - if you buy a thing and you need to rely on subscriptions and/or only being able to phone home to a server you don't own to have certain features available, you don't actually own the thing.
Yeah that was classic. Good to see a journo held to account too.
st is pretty good. I think I've been using Alacritty for a while instead because st used to crash if a file contained certain emojis. That's probably fixed by now.
@stigatle I think Richard Stallman had a similar machine once.
@prologic ah crap ๐คฃ so it's one of *those*..
@irinxcw hello and welcome ๐ it looks like you have created your first post ๐ or was there something specific you had in mind?
@prologic I'm probably wildly off as I don't know how this is all implemented exactly, but it sounds like something the bridge itself will have to handle.
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I like how he's going to jail for fake news, not war crimes. Russia pls.
@adi I mean, they aren't very ambiguous terms lol
@slashdot this story is kinda deja vu as an Australian..
@prologic I think I'm somewhere in the same camp as @mckinley etc on this one. There's still a real purity to what we have here with Yarn/twtxt, so while I'm sure integration of some sort is useful for people, I guess it should be as least impactful on the current system as possible. An adapter or service does sound better rather than yarnd talking directly to it all, if I understand that part of the conversation correctly. I know very little of ActivityPub admittedly though.
TikTok screams a lot of things. It's literally there to make an entire generation as stupid as possible.
Besides that, their logo/branding literally makes me feel a bit queezy. Something about the colours that makes it seem like it's going in and out of focus... hard to explain.
@prologic and any other Golang aficionado... interested in opinions on what is considered best practice here, as I'm still quite green here. So if I have a server and client (both written in Go), data is passed as JSON and marshalled/unmarshalled in both cases to structs that are basically identical between the programs, and I want to have these structs 'shared', should I put the structs maybe into a single file as it's own package and just pull them into the server/client that way?
@stigatle LOL, got the attention of the Rustaceans no doubt ๐คฃ
I dunno, "illness pricks" somehow still works ๐คฃ
I dunno "illness pricks" somehow still works ๐คฃ
@xuu wait who needs 70000 methods ๐คฃ
@prologic looking at the comments section too, apparently even if you view it in something like VLC the ads etc are there because they're part of the broadcast, so the only reason the company would be complaining is because the user isn't using their site that contains user tracking and data mining etc ๐คฆ
This was interesting (YouTube): Go vs Rust vs TypeScript Servers
Plus the guy is fairly entertaining. It was interesting as he's a Rust guy but found Golang held up incredibly well, especially in concurrency, for way less effort.
@prologic agreed, one look at our TikTok generation and they're outta here
People are literally being cured of HIV, but still most headlines I see are about freaking ChatGPT ๐
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@prologic Surprisingly no. In my case I already had a regular <input type="submit"> in the form. It's just the HTML5 spec, for some reason, that if a button has no type explicitly defined, it defaults to type="submit" LOL ๐
@prologic Surprisingly no. In my case I already a regular <input type="submit"> in the form. It's just the HTML5 spec, for some reason, that if a button has no type explicitly defined, it defaults to type="submit" LOL ๐
TIL: that the <button> element in HTML5 will cause a form to submit when clicked (instead of any other behaviour you expect) because <button> has a default value of, get this... type="submit".
You would think <button> would have a default type of "button", but no. Bloody hell lol.
This Stackoverflow answer saved me from further headaches.
That was a funny read, not gonna lie ๐
@prologic Nice ๐ Will have to check Mosh out.
Can't believe I've somehow not been using tmux for the last couple of years. Bloody useful! Especially when going between computers. ssh in, tmux attach, and there's the whole session.
@prologic Sorry about your recent injury! Hope it heals up quick.
Maybe I'm jumping from a mole hill to a mountain here, but if it all gets bad enough, might we see some collective community group of anti-Googlers fork Golang?
@prologic What about a rate-limit on postings just for a brand new account? Sort of like a cool down period, just for a time immediately following registration to foil the spambots. Although... then it's harder to spot the bots on the server ๐คจ
@prologic Maybe, but even those particular posts weren't posted within a second or two of each other. I can imagine there's people who might legitimately post 2 or 3 times within a minute, so it's a tough one. I mean yeah regardless, in this particular case is obviously a spammer ๐
@prologic , think I just found my first spammer ๐
Looks like the discussion isn't going well for Russ ๐
Whelp, time to update ๐
@Reddit_World_News Now if the same thing could happen to TikTok, the younger generation might recover a few IQ points.
(#tvu2tba) @prologic Reckon he's just getting ahead of the game, if that's the flag they're proposing for the feature to turn it off.
@prologic Reckon he's just getting ahead of the game, if that's the flag they proposing for the feature to turn it off.
Isn't the beauty of this whole yarn thing that you can just mute or just not follow someone? Then you'll never see stuff you don't want to.
I too am against over moderating, and it can be a slippery slope. On many other platforms I can see why it might be needed because of the way that stuff automatically propagates and is so discoverable or even pushed by an algorithm, but on a place like here... So easy to just tune out.
I mean, this was always going to be a problem