# 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://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&offset=190
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&offset=290
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&offset=90
@prologic "Skin a cat", never heard that! 😸
@prologic For format, do you mean using PDF files or such? I've seen blog posts, mailing lists, PDF files, and I haven't seen EPUB files that much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrack <- A famous ezine from the 80s

For culture, yes, I've seen is a pattern of sharing knowledge selflessly. But also it's very unpredictable how long is going to last, or how often the issues are released.
@prologic We could try! I have calls at crazy hours with a few teams I work with, so I know the pain.

Please propose the time, and I'll try to join!
@prologic No worries! Usually an e-zine is a fanmade or indie magazine distributed over electronic media. Zines were originally distributed by physical mail, and then by e-mail. Nowadays for the nostalgic feeling of Gemini, you can find a few Zines/Ezines there.

https://text.eapl.mx/introducing-antennazine <- Why I created AntennaZINE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine <- More info on the intriguing history of zines :)
For me, now, the team is extremely important, mainly for industries based on talents, like design or programming. There, trust is extremely important, because how do you measure creativity? How do you trust that the programmer is doing their best work to create a stable system?

Yes, work is transactional. I work 8 hours a day, I receive X dollars a month, but also we are together because we believe and trust in the same values.
Running a company myself (a micro-company of fewer than 10 employees), I thought the Why, what for? Is the entire point, and the trust is 'for granted' to pursue that meaning and purpose.
But I get your point. The trust that we are going in the same direction, makes everything work as we expect.

I think there are (at least) two ways:
The employee as a mean, or the employe as an end. Usually, the purpose of a company is to make money, and the employee is the tool (disclaimer: I don't agree completely).
@prologic Still early but if you tolerate me being half asleep I could try =P

What about something like 9am for you (Australia?), UTC 9pm/21, and 3pm in Mountain Time (for me)
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20220117&p1=65&p3=152=
Yep! A collection in EPUB/MOBI as an ezine, from selected posts.
You can download the ezine from HTTP though

Antenna is an aggregator for Gemini Antenna on Gemini Protocol
@prologic Hey! Will be great... It's 5am for me and I usually start my day between 7 and 9am, could we try a different time, pretty please?
@prologic can you elaborate, please
Build trust in your employees for what? What's the purpose of that trust?
A Sunday evening more...

I'm between keep practising Unity, Rust, Django, English speaking,
Or perhaps only enjoying the beauty of a Sunday night. We will see!
I released the issue for AntenaZINE - Week 2
HTTP / AntennaZINE 2022 Week 2

Enjoy!
@lyse Advanced engineering!
@fastidious
@fastidious I'm in CUU, it could easily go to -5 and some years it goes to -15. With snow every 3 or 5 years (we had some in Dec 2020 and was an event!).

We had the lowest temp of 2022, but has not been THAT bad as previous years...
@fastidious I know, I know...
Alternative Desktops (from Win, to the always second Mac) has been a long discussion for years. That's why I'm asking for the current data.

Is perhaps taking 0.1% a year? No idea!
It's always a problem when I visit USA and forget to ask for the right fruit, haha

That said, #makeLemonade
@movq hey! Love lemonade!
First time I tried the Zitronen Saft (Lemon juice 🍋, sorry for my German) it was too bitter for me!

In my zone we use the Green Limes for the Limonada, and weirdly they are called Lemons/Limones!
Lowest temperature in the year, 0° C. 🥶

How is your day going over there?
Here we are lazily in bed until an earthquake arrives or something...

Disclaimer: we don't do earthquakes in this town 😛
@fastidious
Well... It depends on many many things. For me it always has been a secondary desktop 🖥 (behind MacOS and Win), buuuut I use Linux (and BSD for Hobbie projects) in VPS, WSL, mobile and embedded devices, so... 🤔

Does anyone have more recent info? (this one is from more than 20 years ago)
🤔...

@movq there are different kinds of Holy Water! 😅

@fastidious it reminds me that the first (automated) vending machine was for Holy water!

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/68270/worlds-first-vending-machine-dispensed-holy-water
Starting the day here... Good morning/day/existence over there!
Nice!
@prologic Testing it! Sooo cool, great job everyone! 😀
Something I forgot to add, is that compared to Twitter, when you are replying to someone it's extremely redundant what and who are you replying to:


You get the text, a label (Replying to @), and a connection line between the previous Tweet, and that to be written.
Note: I'm not saying Yarn should behave like Twitter. It's more to take Jakob's law into consideration.
@prologic I made a quick PDF with my POV on the Reply button. Please feel free to ignore it, ask for more info, explain why I'm crazy 🤪, etc.

https://0x0.st/o-vj.pdf
@prologic I love i18n as a concept (a11y and l10n too). When I was a teenager, I translated some games from en to es, good memories!

Although I have every device now in English, I like to translate cool projects to es-mx. I *might* help, I'm collaborating on many hobby projects for now, but you can always make time. I don't think here we have many Spanish speakers, buuuut we could talk about it.
@prologic well, I think 'Reply' is extremely clear (compared with replying to an email).
I have an issue with 'fork' coming from Git repos, where you create a copy of a previous repo and start modifying it. Perhaps 'branch (verb)/branching' is more natural to me for 'create a new conversation'. But I'm not a native, so don't believe me that much.
@prologic It wasn't clear to me the purpose of the buttons (it's kind of inconsistent across the UI), so I was using the ( #aaaaa) syntax manually, but it seems I was doing it wrongly. I'll take care of using the right button next time!
@fastidious Simply amazing... Cool concept dude!
@fastidious hey! This was the web page I was referring to https://simon-frey.com/s4/ Thanks for sharing!
#crazyIdeasForAFriday
A poker hand quiz: Gives you a random hand of Texas and you have to estimate the odds

Implementation of a system (I forgot the name, and I think I've seen a web page doing that) that cryptographically splits a secret among X of Y holders: E.g. If 2 of 3 people put their part, the private key is revealed.
In my mind 'twtxt' sounds like "tui-text" (like on Twitter + text)
I like consistency, coherence, code style guides. But expecting that in a social channel is kind of impossible. At most is social engineering, but... No idea

#noonReflection
Complicated Friday for my wife, OK for me... #hastaAquíMiReporte #what
I think twtxt.net is not for me then... I'm not for it, or different combinations... Too many rules and agreements for a 'social' tool.
Enough Internet for today =)
See you soon my friends!=
@prologic hehe, thanks... Everyone tagged, look to https://twtxt.net/search?tag=c63wwra =P=
Hey, you reading this twt!... Thanks!
My learning for 2021 was about diplomacy and empathy...
If I'm really angry at something, I can use different ways to solve that. Some with violence, with kind words, with action, and such. And I'm very bad at it with my blunt comments, mainly with narcissistic people. So It's a work in progress, not saying what I want to hear, but what THEY need to hear. (Not tagging anyone, just an example)
@fastidious That's insane, and being a 'Mexicano' it's twice the interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you @homer! For the website, I use Smol.pub as an HTTP mirror for the Gemini capsule and it seems to be having performance problems from a few weeks ago. I'll take a look!

In the meantime, I've restored the previous HTML content on: https://eapl.mx
An open product is also open to criticism, deserved and not deserved. That said, thanks for using time, energy and love to create open systems/protocols/networks/'products' (how would you name it?)
@tamer It's completely different. It's just funny to me saying "Facebook is bad, don't use it". Here you are listened to by the designers and influence the product/system, I love that!

From the thread, maybe saying 'cheap copy' was harsh for an open product. I, being harsh sometimes, get it's difficult to be open and polite at the same time.
Just kidding, I'm getting it now!

#blessingsToTheCreators
"I think I'm finally getting the grasp of twtxtv2"

(Badly links the previous tweet) 😆

#chroniclesOfTwtxt
I'm giving a class on "Team management" to 2nd-semester students of "Design and production of Video-games". It's weird talking about management (and teamwork), that early in that career, but it's an interesting experiment for me.
It reminds me of when I was complaining about Facebook on Facebook 🤔
@prologic I'm in!
Aaaand sorry for the extra lines and grammar, I was writing this post/twt while I was in a meeting, and my brain can't multitask that much
#dontDoThatDude
Ok, I found what's going on with twtxt.net. If I use the upper Textbox it works (it's inserting there the Twt code, like #45lcr2a, and the user.

In the lower Textbox inside a Thread, it's not inserting it
@prologic Thanks! I'm playing with it, looks interesting!
Python is ♥
BTW, I'm watching that using the Reply button is not including the user, like @fastidious https://arrakis.netbros.com/user/fastidious/twtxt.txt Am I doing the reply correctly?
@lyse Hehe, outside is 5 C in the night, and about 15 during the 'day'. Inside my home is about 10-15, that's why I'm 'freezing' 😓🥶
We don't have a decent heating system, and it's not that common in the city.
I think it's basically to separate ideas (I worked on Press and media, so perhaps it's an old habit)...
Indeed, you ask interesting questions. I haven't realized I do that.

That being said, like on code formatting, it's a matter of style and readability, I guess...
Sorry...

For...

Doing that...
It's cold over here... 🥶

#thatsAllForNow
Hey, found an example of Web auth with (Self signed) Client certificates,

Works on Win 10 with Edge and Firefox, couldn't make it work (yet) on Brave.

Interesting experiment, perhaps I'll implement it as a login method in some of my web projects (to keep achieving passwordless logins)
@prologic hey! Keys.pub sounds good, I've found a few other plugins/entensions/proposals, and I think they are kind of complicated for the developer and for the final user, when you can add a quick Social login with a few clicks. Not saying they are better, only more convenient. 👀

BTW, Have you played with keys.pub? How is using it in some Web site or Desktop app?
@prologic I completely agree, there's is a complicated problem which I'm surprised Google with Chrome, Mozilla with Firefox haven't solved, being the main players.

Microsoft has Hello, although I think 'only' Github used, and that's only a 2FA.

And it's not something new in the corporate and intranet world:
https://www.ssl.com/how-to/configuring-client-authentication-certificates-in-web-browsers/

I found some implementations on Blockchain addresses and browser wallets. Makes me wonder why we don't have something similar with current Key Pairs (RSA or EC)

https://www.toptal.com/ethereum/one-click-login-flows-a-metamask-tutorial
#devChronicles
I was researching a few months ago on having Authentication for web based on Public/Private keys, like we do on SSH.
Sadly I haven't found some standard, only Webauth based on Hardware tokens (And some implementations for Mac and Win10) but more for 2FA.
Haha, a very local derivation of
What happens? -> What hap?
😁
@prologic happens the same to me, I only know Spanish, some English and random words in Japanese, French and German.

For programing languages I know the C based syntax (JS, C#) , and Python. I would like to practice 'Stranger' languages like Haskell, Scala, Lisp and others.
Thanks! Let's see...
@prologic Haha, Godperator then
@prologic ¿Que pex?
Well, I tried using
https://github.com/duriny/twtr
and
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt

and got a lot of Go and Python errors, which I don't have time to check today... 🤔

#randomComplaint
I think some info like our Web sites or our twtxt content should be extremely public, and our personal files, conversations or images, private by default (maybe protected by some private key or similar, that meaning only you can see them)

What's being in the middle is difficult to define... And convenience like something/someone else managing your private content or your keys. Looong conversation between security, convenience, availability...

And Web3 is a mess, the live example of buzz words applied to economical power...
@prologic Smoot Poderator 🎶

Poderator is brilliant! Reminds me of the Podcast and the concept of Pod itself, Ham radio and such.
@lyse because the day could mean 24 hours, or the period when you have light...

Why living is so complicated? 😆
Well, for async content it's better using hi (or maybe avoiding any greeting, we said hi before...).
For a real time channel, perhaps, using good morning means, "hey guys, I'm just starting my day over here"
@prologic I would say empathy and compassion are extremely important and really difficult to grasp and practice!

That being said, in this group/community/organization/oasis/bunch_of_people, I really appreciate having it!
Damn, the right title is "Money and Sense"...
@prologic Night!, Usually in the net and with my teams I use the Universal Greeting Time, hehe

Re: There are Only Two Timezones
Perhaps you already had a long discussion about centralization vs federation vs decentralization, network effect, availability, single point of failure, replication, privacy-oriented services, self-sustainability and more.

All of them are pulling forces, modelling the shape of a product/service/system surrounding it with ideas, beliefs, ideology, philosophy, humans livings with machines, thousands of 'standards', and such...

XKCD - Standards

Aaaand, that's good!
Morning everyone!
Reading a lot this morning, "Morning and Sense" and "You are not so smart" to start, a quick reminder that you are not thinking like 99.99% (number not accurate) of the world.
politics is a really complicated topic, to not say dirty. Needed but dirty at the end, so we delegate that kind the people to manage the public life.
That oversimplification said, we are surrounded by power, violence, rights violations and such. Simple fixes for complicated problems don't work, and the last question is: What are we going to do as individuals and as a community?
For something I have to sync in a Git repo, I use this with the team or for personal projects: https://blog.frantic.im/all/todo-file-for-personal-projects/

And to create the habit of writing about the project I use: https://github.com/pippinbarr/chesses/tree/master/process

Everything on Text or Markdown files, inside a Git repo
You can't hate the first workday if you never stop working #thatsMySecret
Claro! Recuerdo el caso de un podcast en español donde decían "Vivimos en el mundo digital todo el tiempo" y pusieron venta de empanadas argentinas, para sentir que algo de sus creaciones es más tangible.

Demasiado de una misma cosa es cansado. La variedad da sabor a la vida :)
@prologic let's introduce politics into the conversation https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229
@prologic ha hah, you killed me! 😅

Are we human? 🤖
Well, a new Monday is starting with a lot of meetings. After a refreshing Sunday watching movies and not doing that much.

Enjoy your new week folks!
2/ Algo importante es que actualmente trabajo en entretenimiento, lo que es un cambio respecto a cuando trabajaba en software industrial.
Ahora todo es más superficial, no resolvemos problemas, atendemos a deseos. Es más satisfactorio y al mismo tiempo más vanal.

Curioso!
[ES] Sobre el texto (que debería escribir un espejo en español, por cierto)

Vengo de un contexto de hiper productividad, en el que todo el tiempo debo estar produciendo algo, influenciado por mi sociedad y también por un entorno de escasez (latam).
En 2021 disfruté mucho de hobbies, incluyendo la red hobista, como escribir en Gemini, participar en proyectos open source, etc.

En este 2022 aceptaré más que no todo es trabajo, no todo tiene que ser productivo, para encontrar un buen balance entre generar valor personal y a la sociedad
\n Sobre el texto (que debería escribir un espejo en español, por cierto)

Vengo de un contexto de hiper productividad, en el que todo el tiempo debo estar produciendo algo, influenciado por mi sociedad y también por un entorno de escasez (latam).
En 2021 disfruté mucho de hobbies, incluyendo la red hobista, como escribir en Gemini, participar en proyectos open source, etc.

En este 2022 aceptaré más que no todo es trabajo, no todo tiene que ser productivo, para encontrar un buen balance entre generar valor personal y a la sociedad
oh yeah, gotcha. I dislike Medium too. I tend to avoid using it, or linking with tools like 12ft.io.

Anyway the header is enough, I'll switch to Spanish now
¡Castellano es bueno!

I don't use Medium, as you can see here:
https://text.eapl.mx/writing-in-2021
Some ideas for the next few months

https://text.eapl.mx/my-take-for-the-hobbyist-net-in-2022
I would like to know the opposite. Why creating a new one if the existent work well?

It has been my question for some services like Gemini (I use smol.pub).

I'm in that transition between super centralized (FB, Twitter, Medium), to self hosted, but now I'm kind in the middle due to the convenience and community!
Me, using a new Social (Pod)

sorry for the typos, my phone keyboard is playing with me 🙃
Disclaimer: I like some parts of the Blockchain innovation, the tech possibilities. But then we arive to the knife dilemma. It can save a life or kill a person.

I dislike that Crypto (along with buzzwords of the moment like meta verse) is about money and power, so it attracts people looking for easy opportunities and scams.

I think it's not a black and white. Not everything is good, not everything bad.

We were joking about Walmart directives asking the tech team... "Add 20% more of innovation, what 10% of meta verse and 10 of Crypto?"
Sounds like that with PayPal
@prologic Dann, maybe is really outdated, I'll look for some option later