# 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 = 1 289
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=http://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=189
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=http://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=89
@thewismit Oh my! I'll have a proper look later, but my initial reaction was: envy! Well done, sir! π
@lyse Oh, lovely! π Reminds me of home (i.e., Canada).
@marado Oh, it passed unacknowledged in our household. π€π€¦ A shame! Must add it to the calendar for next year, as I certainly do love it! ππ
@prologic Great read! I've learned a lot following you on this journey. :-)
@xj9 We all mess up. Just do the best with what you know now. The rest is the river.
Squee! ππΊππ€π€ Just got Miniflux on my phone, over TLS, working! Now I can read RSS feeds in Newsboat on my workstation, and continue to read them in a browser, when I'm away. I've already cancelled the automatic renewal of my Newsblur subscription. π
@prologic π€¦ I do, but didn't make the connection. *sigh* Sure glad it's the weekend! ππ«πͺ
@prologic @adi @jlj H'm, twt.social oddity: I only saw @adi 's "Cool song" because I also subscribe to the twtxt.net RSS feed; it never appeared in my timeline. And when I go to his profile now and scroll down, it's just "No recent twts..." -- Searching the conversation on my pod gives different results to on yours; is this expected behaviour? π€π€· Actually, all his twts have disappeared from my timeline now... Strange...
@prologic cc @adi -- MPR: I know, right? Had so many similar feeds; most of them are defunct now. My fav was a CBC one: great way to learn about new Canadian music. :-)\n\nWhitelisting: ah, so you had to open that image manually. H'm. I guess we'd need to have a dynamic list of valid pod domains... But couldn't unscrupulous pod owners get inappropriate content on your... Oh, wait, you'd still need to follow them, wouldn't you; never mind. :-) Btw, I had whitelist parsing issues the other day; all the domains should be enclosed in square braces, yes?
Today's free tunes: Million Miles - Dance With Me -- Well, technically, it's from a few weeks ago; I'm catching up on my feeds, including Minnesota Public Radio's fab *Song of the Day*! 
@lyse That was indeed it. π Thanks!
@lyse Ohhh, of course! *That's* it! The snap policies! I didn't even think of that! (Wow, that's a lot of exclamation marks. π) OK, changing tacks. β΅π Wish me luck!
"There are approximately 54,000 distinct drinking water systems in the United States... [Most] serve fewer than 50,000 residents, with many serving just a few hundred or thousand... Virtually all of them rely on some type of remote access to monitor and/or administer these facilities... Many of these facilities are unattended, underfunded, and do not have someone watching the IT operations 24/7... Many facilities have not separated operational technology... from safety systems..." π³ https://envs.sh/bx
@ionores Oh, wow. Hadn't heard of Mojeek; and they're based right here, in the UK. Sweet! Thanks for the tip! π
@jlj cc @lyse -- Oops: thought including a subject in my blog post might work; clearly not. :-)
Lovely bit of lunch-time reading: Babbage was a true genius. 15 years old! (Updated five years ago.) I think the best *Doctor Who* script on the AE is yet to come! (Or I hope so; so much potential!) -- via lobste.rs
"The Good Friday Agreement is not about βthe cohesion of the kingdomβ. [It] is the recognition that in respect of Northern Ireland there is a contested polity. The agreement then regulates that contested polity by positing the absolute standard of consent." -- David Allen Green, cutting through the miasma brilliantly, as usual. I'd be ripe for bamboozling without him, no doubt about it.
@eldersnake Oh my! Yes, indeed. π Thanks for the pointer! π
@prologic Dang! Didn't stand a chance against that sucker!
@prologic Gotcha. Shirky on the subject: "A veritable natural law in social media is that to get to a system that is large and good, it is far better to start with a system that is small and good and work on making it bigger than to start with a system that is large and mediocre and working on making it better." *Cognitive Surplus,* ***2010***.*
@prologic Oh, I see. To be honest, I skimmed the post, amongst hundreds today, in what history will call the Feed Cull of 2021. ;-) Really liking Newsboat, so far.
@niplav Hadn't heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I'd been reading a critique of his earlier work -- in Overall's *Why Have Children?* -- that really wasn't up to scratch. Now I'm reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)*
@eldersnake Just read your post about Gab; was interested, 'til I went to the site. π±π° Immediate spike in anxiety! Why would they go with that design? Is this satire?
@lyse Ah, good to know! Cheers! I've just now got Miniflux ingesting a local RSSHub feed of all jointwt/twtxt issues. :-D But I'll definitely be looking to pick your brain as I explore using Newsboat as a front-end to the lot. :-)
Sleeping on this reminded me that I wanted to play with Miniflux. And it looks like you can use Newsboat as a front-end; the scripting around this latter software sounds like something that could help with my RSS firehose. π€π
@prologic I had been thinking that I could force myself to be witty. :-P Doesn't seem to be working. But, yeah, I had seen the setting. :-D
@jlj @prologic ... I've had to explode my learning in the last year, in this new job. So, yeah, my feeds have followed a similar trajectory. And, yeah, Newsblur has 'intelligence' around why something becomes a 'focus' item, but it's still very rudimentary.
@prologic Oh, preachin' to the choir there, mate! ;-) Absolutely. I mean, part of my problem is I use RSS for what I used to use del.ico.us for as well; a sort of memory, with crummy tagging. None of it is really fit for the purposes I have in mind. I've had to... [1/2]
@prologic Scale is mostly the issue, for me: I've got 4500+ unread items right now; 2100 saved items. It would flood my timeline here, any way I look at it. But I want to do more with RSS: better searching and alerting, to start.
@jlj @prologic Been a bit of a love/hate thing. Depending on how RSSHub goes, maybe I'll host my reader too, and donate that $25/year to Yarn! :-D
@prologic It's basically a gated community for your RSS feeds. I've paid for Pro ever since Google killed Reader. You can share feeds internally, but the similarities end there.
@thewismit Was just wondering about you, sir! ππ How's it goin'? I'm well. Playing around with self-hosting RSSHub, as a replacement for my expired Feedity trial. And I'm contemplating starting at freeCodeCamp. ππ€
@jlj Decided to try docker-compose, since it was the first deployment option listed; worked flawlessly, the first time. π€¦ I feel like this was supposed to be the promise of Java. Ah-mazing. Now to set up a reverse proxy, so I can use all my feeds with my Newsblur account!
Discovered RSSHub while trying to transition from email to RSS for all our project's issues. (That isn't one of the feeds GitHub provides.) Fought with npm, trying to get it to use a pre-built version of OpenCC; gave up. (1/2)
@prologic Oh, it just took its time, is all. :-P It's available now. H'm, that isn't a particularly helpful name, is it? :-D The RSS feed is https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500, FYI. Might be an idea to rename the feed, if poss.
Anyone know whether rss2twtxt supports parameters? I tried to create a Hacker News 500 feed, using *Hacker News RSS*, but it just seemed to update the base HN RSS feed on feeds.twtxt.net, according to the last modified time in parentheses beside the feed name.
@lyse I don't know about better; I'll defer to @vain on that point. But it is easier to get digestible output, shall we say. I used to pipe netstat to less regardless of where I was. Now ss -lnpt usually gives me what I want, only needing a pipe when UDP's included.
@xuu Oh, that is truly a thing of beauty! So snappy! I was looking for htpasswd the other day; just learned loads about it, in a fraction of the time it would've taken using my original research method. :-)
@lyse Yes, I didn't know about it either, until I did the *Linux Upskill Challenge* last autumn; I'd been using netstat for my whole career, prior to that. But I'm definitely a convert. :-)
@o11y @prologic can't thank you enough for the recommendation; I'm havin' a blast playing with Loki and Promtail. ππ€
@prologic @xeronull And you could also have a poke around under *Feeds*, as there are some long-time twt'izens in that we-are-twtxt file. :-) Oh, and welcome, fellow twt'izen! :-)
@hxii I, for one, am following it with great interest! ππ
@prologic @xuu @thewismit No problem! Crawl away. :-) I'm really interested in it, as a way to promote sustainability. :-)
@prologic @xuu Need to work on breaking out my plots, but, so far, 24 hours in, neither the new parser (nor NGINX, nor Jitsi Meet) seem to be causing my (low powered) pod any issues. :-) 
Grafana dashboard showing CPU usage
@prologic Can confirm, re yarn and Canada. π
@will Oh, well done! I 'used' it for months, avoiding certain functionality that would crash it every time. :-)
Just fixed a colleague's Linux problem over screen-share. Booyah! πͺπͺπͺ Yes, I'll take an extra helping of those endorphins, thanks very much. π
@eldersnake @adi Cool! I'd already earmarked some time -- 'cause Future Me has loads to spare π -- to play with this; sounds like a solid decision on my part! ππ
@gr0k @jlj @prologic Should've said that I enjoyed your blog post too! :-D Welcome twt'izen! :-)
@prologic Dang. Get well soon! Hope the fam can avoid it! π€π€ Headin' to bed, I think. πͺ Pretty chuffed to have my reverse proxy up and working in front of Loki, with basic authentication; really having fun messing around with this stuff. π
@iolfree There's a dead room on matrix.org that could use your input. π *sigh* So many dead rooms... ππ
@hxii Indeed. I'm inactive now, but I did enjoy my time there.
@hxii Agreed! Right up my alley! π
@jos Neat! Following now. π
@jack Whatever the reason, glad to have you here today! ππ
@prologic Loki looks great! Was a bit worried I'd need mature metrics after watching this: https://envs.sh/bO -- but it looks like Ruler will suit me to the ground: https://envs.sh/ba -- I'll be able to start 'noisy' and then calibrate things to my environment. Excited! ππ€
@thewismit I'm on Fosstodon, but inactive. The point of federating is that you have one account, where you're home with a Local feed, like your pod, but can follow folks on other instances with that same account.
@prologic I had this feeling it was, just from my searching. I noticed you like Grafana, and I already use it too; somehow Loki passed under my radar. Thanks!
Ugh, I'm sick of trying to migrate my Splunk Enterprise trial to the free license; I forgot to do it before the trial expired, and now everything has seized amid a license violation storm. I'm going to try Graylog instead. Not tonight, though; it's movie night.
@psibr Indeed. Nothing short of revolutionary, considering this time last year I was doing (backbreaking) shift-worker, as a carer.
@psibr @thewismit Yikes! Sorry to hear that. My bed's two feet away the whole work day; I'd be in trouble if I had many days like that!
@prologic @adi @thewismit "... [I]f @jlj and @thewismit would continue to grow their pods to rival my own..." I'm working on it! π Still only advertising in specific, mostly-closed forums for the moment; want a core of nice folks on my pod, to start. π
@prologic At times, it seems to me that you're a bit of a wizard. This is one of those times. π Is it back up from your point of view as well? cc @lazarus
@adi Absolutely: the former pair imply much stronger allegiance. The latter can be but a ripple on the surface of a conversation between esteemed colleagues. π
@xuu Is this directed at all pod owners? I've only just started my research, but it looks like I might be able to achieve this with an add_header line in my NGINX proxy pass configuration.
@prologic Unfortunately only *Edit* and *Delete* follow both entries now. (Although, I did have to *Publish* my latest blog post before it appeared in my feed, and was listed with something other than the beginning of epoch time or some such as its last modified date.)
@prologic @jack Ah, yes, I remember the discussion about that in #jointwt now. Thanks! Oh, bit of a tangent, but, while I'd imagine stats and twtxt are automated accounts, was it your idea that, for example, we post pod news from @news? And, if so, how do I register it?
@prologic @lazarus Oh my! The good news is the data is still in my blogs/ directory, but, yes, I too get a 404, even when trying to follow the link from Settings > Blogs. I had to publish my *On language* blog post, but not that one; part of the issue? Should I repost it?
@jack Actually, I was wondering about those follows too: seems that the ones for twtxt and stats repeat hourly on my pod.
@prologic @ionores Incredible. These algorithms are "shoot first" and there are no significant repercussions for Google, time after time. I finally installed F-Droid this week; surely that approach is the way forward.
@niplav Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten -- and then letting it languish :-( -- really belongs in Anki.
@prologic @thewismit Sounds great. I've found that I'm on my timeline in a browser more than I expected, actually. More real estate for twts would be nice. π