# 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 = 1 285
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt&offset=185
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/will/twtxt.txt&offset=85
by the way what is the black magic behind amazon prime video disabling screenshots at the user OS level?? wtf is that??? how am I meant to send my friends 59 screenshots of The Expanse at 1am?
hmm this is extremely “apropos” of some recent rude comments i was making on here about paying for services 😳😈
@lyse @prologic Wow those are incredible shots. It’s such a different quality of light from where I live in Ohio lol. Reminds me of going up to Canada, really just feeling like the light itself was different! Beautiful
@prologic i might be misusing this emote. alas
@novaburst I’m curious, how hard is it to run an IRC server on a scale from website to mailserver? 🤔
@eaplmx @prologic You’re probably not going to like this but one time I did pay for an otherwise free utility it was because I wanted to get their app on ios 😆
@eaplmx all animal tool use is technology. maybe javascript and ww just suck lel
Makes you think 🤔 about how wikipedia has managed it for so long. imo wikipedia is the unmitigated triumph of “web 2.0”. their no ads policy is impressive
I did sign up for the apple Private Relay beta for 1$ a month VPN when I realised I was on a TOTALLY UNSECURED public cafe wifi tho lol. I guess maybe that could answer your question about price point 😂
Even paying for netflix turns into “1 sub service per show” in my experience. Whereas popular network sites I use seem to be doing alright with a donations model 🤷♂️
I’ve seen this idea a lot over the last… decade and I don’t buy it. I’m not just a user, I also run a free ssb node for 10$ a month just because I want to. this is about the minimum thing you can do, I’m not being hammered or otherwise having to pay a lot.
However. In my experience, paying for a service… i dunno. IMO the idea that user payment can circumvent the need for ads is wrong. ultimately they still show you ads. and on top of that IMO a paying user is a “mark”. If they pay they can be relied upon to pay more. and case in point everything I’ve ever paid for has ended up fucking me. in both cases (LOL) selling out to microsoft and ending up with “well we’ve invented new payment tiers so cough up your phone number and more money etc”. just my experience 🤷♂️
#nerdshit any nerds in here run their desktop in console mode? 😝 i spent all day reading crap in newsboat and googling stuff in links browser. Got ii in another panel absorbing whatever those goofballs are talking about. guys in minecraft channel sharing uptodate covid news. Basically what more do you need? even my new favorite game is console mode.
lol guys im loving this because im tryna career change from science to “tech”. i aint tryna get a cert, just need to get hired lel
@mckinley lmfao that’s not a bad logo though 🤔
did ubuntu change its logo? how ugly!
@maya lol thats how the romans did it iirc. in my opinion: we should have 1 time zone for the planet, but broadly ignore the details
guys im 100% ubuntu and ios on phone macbook vps and ipad. but, im feeling da call of arch. especially after update+upgrade my ubuntu/macpro and it takes 5 minutes to like… update thunderbird(???) guis overrated? I’m getting more and more butthurt about the modern web, switched from firefox to links (lol). might be arch time
incredibly bold choice of font for gorion,…. 🤔
Seems to me there’s an obvious and easy solution 😝
Oh this thread is about ppl’s families. Good luck 😂
delta chat is great and irc is great on mobile if you use thelounge as I do. It’s seamless and has pictures and emoji and history and all the stuff people complain about irc not having. That being said I also dont know anyone who uses delta chat. 😭 😝
@prologic thought experiment: what happens if every feed is on a different pod?
@prologic For polling feeds on other pods or?
I actually saw a post somewhere, I can’t remember where, where a guy said he got banned off of Facebook and it disabled his kids VR headset Christmas gift. 🤣 Unbelieveable
When you have one of those do you have to re reg it every year or? Am I being ripped off with my 18$ a year domain? 🧐
@prologic That domain name is worth half a mil though. awooga
@stutteringsteve I’ve seen it but never “got it”. Did you post these scripts online somewhere? im curious how fzf works for these applications
omg I’m 30 and I’m terrified of this bullshit
@fastidious That looks very effective. Gotta have the coffee press as well for filtering purposes
@fastidious I’ve been buying gigantic tins of pre ground stuff for 7 dollars and “cold brewing” it with tap water. every efficient and delicious
@slashdot oh wow. i figured they were just going to tie the whole thing like last year. Well done magnus
* using functions without reading the docs
* not reading the instructions in general
why is my life so hard?
@prologic no offense prologic but all this shit is dead nowadays in usa.. maybe aus is a little delayed?? that being said i miss it too
I’ve been using a combination of “one password for everything” (bad i know) and a sh script to make strong passwords for stuff that matters but I’ll probabaly switch to pass. The problem is we passed the point years ago where passwords that are secure (?) and meet the insane special character requirements are passwords I feel like typing out or even remembering. Kind of like I used to memorise my friends’ phone numbers as a kid but no more… that reminds me, I was recently able to log into my employer retirement account with just my birthdate and VOIP number 😂 💀
Hm reminds me of New Orleans 😀
how do you geniuses handle all your passwords? People like pword managers but I have like 4 different OSes i use every day and on top of that centralised pword management makes me nervous, upset, and crabby. what if I have to log in from some other system ???
@fastidious yes it is very good. i miss it. i may buy a new M1 soon….
current tech level: installed ubuntu over mac os so now instead of the apple bluetooth share thing I open up a scuttlebutt client on my laptop and privmessage it to myself on my phone 😜
“Alcohol is a drug that has its claws deep in Australian life. If you’re happy, sad, bored, have won a promotion, lost a family member, bought a house or graduated from university, these can all be seen as reasons to drink. “
the guardian talking mad shit on australia!
@maya i just watched a youtube that claimed if you have wool clothes, use shampoo instead of detergent because “wool is hair”. i tried it and frankly im impress. 😂
@fastidious yea theres no desktop client rn. its crazy. they stopped developing the mainnone but there are currently no alternatives
@fastidious arrakis huh…..
@fastidious its a new thing theyve invented. its like a pub but instead of a “fake peer” its more like a tunnel.
@fastidious the sad truth of our lives! 😂
@fastidious you should…. having a true 4 seasons is good for the soul… especially around chistmas (australians fuck off) time
@fastidious When i quit fb about 10 years ago I remember someone later told me “people are mad at you for quitting”, and I thought, “well? tell me to my face or email me!” It’s not hard to keep in touch with your friends in the modern world!!!
@fastidious personally i feel robbed. mark zuck owes me
@fastidious influence yes, undetectable optional 😆
I always figured the end game for the “powers that be” is to turn the internet into a digital version of the magazines they sell at the grocery store checkout. i would say we’re about 60% there! good work!
sorry for spelling errors. its snowing and cold 😆
i recentl deteoed my twitter accnt and now Ibhave to basically hack the DOM just to read stuff people post about on old school phpbbs… why
i dont use the sites because i hate them but i am literally banned from instagram and facebook. i have done nothing at all. the worst thing i ever dod was change my fb pic to a pic of zuckerberg with octopus tentacles. my theory is if you dont puke out as much personal data as possible in a “normal way” their “ai” (not real) flags you and terminates
am i getting old or has the “mainstream internet” gotten really shitty in the last 2-3 years? i swear every time I try to post somewhere (reddit discord instagram twitter whatever) its an instant YOU ARE BANNED FOR SUBVERSIVE BEHAVIOR. CONFIRM IDENTITY. I just tried to post a gameplay guide on steam for a 12 year old game… “error error error”. wtf mayne
@eldersnake let me be clear the mac was still fully functional 😆
new life update #2: I installed ubuntu on my 10 year old macbook pro. all systems nominal. i even ran a 🇷🇺 video game that wouldnt run on regular degular mac os. having a ball of a time. having a warning ⚠️ label in the app store that says “PROPRIETARY” is the apple on the cake 😂 what a life
@prologic No bugs to report on goryon it’s all ship shape 😂 😭
looks like i made up the term cleanroom. oh well you know what i mean
also had to add a function! to the provided nginx conf and deduce the db location from ‘ps’. please do a cleanroom install JS devs! im begging!
i set up one of the new ssb rooms today. they distribute a binary but if you actually want to run it you need to dl the repo and build commands from source anyway 😂 why
@prologic I saw this earlier with you but when I checked later the issue was gone. 🤷
I have to say if I weren’t a nerd I would probably wonder what “fork” means 😝
Posting from new ios goryon. I love how easy it is to change your password on twtxt lol. I’m going to try it out on ipad soon also.
@prologic Actually I’m a little confused because I’m already running it on iOS. 🤨
@prologic let me know if you need another tester.
@thejuicemedia Aukward! 🤣
@mckinley @prologic i was reading the manual online and it has a bunch of commands (like cut and paste) that my shitty Mac OS ed doesn’t. 😆
did the gnu people add more features to ed? 🤔
@slashdot “artificial intelligence” i.e. a reproduction of the function of the human brain i.e. when a computer adds 2 numbers together or something
@mckinley Right! Also realistically I only need a new one to play some ancient windows games so its not even worth it
I’m reaching the point where my refusal to buy a new computer is about to transform into a refusal to have a computer. Not sure if good or bad
@slashdot @prologic This is so funny to me. Poor cars are too cyborg to live 😔
@prologic morning! what is it? Crema minus the coffee?
@darch seems like self flagellation for liberal users of social media who won’t see the forest for the trees 😒
@slashdot @prologic AI is when a computer does something without you having to open the Start Menu. 😏
@antonio @dooven @prologic Um the one other thing is if you open the app with no connection to the server it logs you out. Not a big deal but a little pain