# 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 = 1 400
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/marado/twtxt.txt&offset=200
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/marado/twtxt.txt&offset=300
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/marado/twtxt.txt&offset=100
Lembrete anual: em Portugal o limiar de pobreza são 554€/mês, e o valor da pensão social de velhice é de 213.91€/mês.
@prologic follow the link, it's explained there
How to lose a sale: 
a screenshot of an attempted visit to Pelagic's website, when the browser points out the need to enable DRM
@slashdot Sad this isn't being done EU-wide. And the fact that Apple doesn't say "our bad, sorry" and instead plans to appeal only proves that all their privacy-friendly claims are mere marketing.
My top 10 (most listened) artists of 2022, according to Last.fm: 
a chart, with ten artists, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio on the first position
My turn now, Happy New Year, twtxters!
@rrraksamam 2021 was so bad for me that I made a list of 12 things for 2022 I needed to get my life back on track. I only managed five, but I did manage five, and 2022 ends better than it started. Looking forward to 2023.
@prologic You mean like a git log --pretty=twtxt that someone can get for every branch of every repo on your new git web interface?
@justamoment @prologic tbf, format-patch numbers your patches so that you can apply them with an one liner, no matter if they're 1 or 9999. As for identity leakage, do notice that only author patch info is present - a name (that can be a pseudonym) and an address field that can be empty. Other then that you only have the transport means, but you don't really need to use e-mail if that is your concern, you can for eg. set up an anonymous ftp... you just need to get the formatted patches, git not having its own transport is not a limitation but the freedom to let you get patches in any way you want! ;-)
@lyse To be fair, thischas been a go/don't-go to me for a while. I have wanted to read some Aldiss for a good while, but the first of his books I've read (Cryptozoic!), while an entertaining reading, didn't really convince me to the point of making me want to seek more of his books. But now, several years later, I was browsing a book called 501 Must Read Books and Hothouse was there... at the spur of the moment I checked on the local library's catalog and the book was there so I decided to grab it, then I've read it's wikipedia page and started second guessing the decision... and now that I've started reading it, I'm quite enjoying it. Who knows if my thoughts will change again before I finish it!
Leaving home without carrying the book you're reading? No problem*, just grab a copy of it on OpenLibrary!
* sure, "if it is there", which many recent books aren't, but it worked for me just now ;-)
@prologic Seems cool! What in it are you not liking?
@prologic to be fair, I don't have a particular horse in that race, all seem interesting to me, what pulled me into tidal was the community, really. There is an advantage on using it as I did: I skipped all the instalation/configuration and just used estuary, which is a web interface for tidal (and other things). I didn't even have to launch my own instance, there's a free/public one you can just open your browser at and use: cool to give your first steps with no pressure.
@darch I'm still very new to it, but certainly interested in diving deeper!
So, it is done: Iearned #tidalcycles over the weekend, and used it to give a concert yesterday. If you want to see it, it has been published here.
@prologic I'd certainly be an user of that 2way bridge.
@movq @lyse @prologic As long as it doesn't end forgotten, there's really no rush! It's not like @lucidot is going to revert their decision with this change...
@prologic @lucidiot @movq So, apparently yarn is transforming hashtags into search urls, ob the feed. This makes things unreadable and seems totally unnecessary. Shouldn't this be a client feature? Why should my feed have a link to a search engine instead of a hashtag? And why can't the client (when it is a visual client like goryon or the web) react to hashtags (all of them) by linking to a search interface? Am I missing something?
@prologic @lucidiot @movq unlike the comment on the twtxt feed, this blog post is really extensive, interesting and provides insightful and useful comments. I'm not sure I can agree to all of it, but I certainly can understand the point of view. Curiously, what appears to have been the tipping point is also something I believe we can and should fix: hashtags. 1/2
@prologic @eaplmx To be fair, the only thing I can think of that makes Yarn feeds not be "standard twtxt" is the disregard for twt size (which many others also do with their non-yarn clients). But sure, I can see how reading these feeds might be frustrating: too big posts, markdown everywhere, linebreak characters, emojis... But I'll consider it the "freedom of the user" to decide whether or not to follow a feed written in a certain style. The provocative metadata comment? Easy (and better) to just ignore.
@mckinley Well, sort of? I've been using them (copying or adapting and extending from what I saw others do) since before yarn.social was a thing. Yarn doesn't (and shouldn't) have the monopoly of "using twtxt comments how we like".
Nothing like a deadline to force you to do something... this year I'll be celebrating the Winter Solstice by playing at Tidal Club's Night Stream (under the Merankorii moniker).
Now I just need to learn TidalCycles! 😇
@prologic they actually have a nice write-up about the "why's". And you know what? Now I'm sort of wishing I had one...
2022 is about to end, and there are still official services that send SMS texts to people telling them to follow links to https://bit.ly/somewhere . Educating people against phishing gets hard, when services' customers are educated like this...
@slashdot How interesting... my grandfather from my mother's side insisted on counting his years on the Korean age system: he started with 1 instead of 0, and every 1st of January... but that was really his birthday: he was born on new years eve at midnight. I doubt that he knew South Koreans did this, tho.
@abucci @prologic tbh, there's no reason why this is a feeds thing and not a twtxt client (including yarn pods) setting. It would be useful to be able to filter out, for eg., "I don't want anything 'soccer' from anyone, nor 'musk' from @arstechnica and @abucci".
WhatsApp lost an attempt to annul a binding decision regarding a GDPR violation, which is good news. But the fact that, in reaction to it, an WA spokesperson says that this makes no sense because "this case concerns a privacy policy from four years ago that has since been updated" only shows the sense of impunity big tech feels, as well as how ridiculous it is that they are able to drag these things for so long. In the meantime, they keep violating the law (just yesterday Meta lost three other GDPR-related cases!), and with no end in sight - even today's WA case is far from over, with appeals ongoing and more chances for appeal available. A sour-tasting victory, today's.
Hurricane, Red Hat 5.0, was released 25 years ago (december 1st, 1997). It came out as a 2CD installation, even if it was quite common to find one-CD editions of it being shipped with magazines and used all around. You'd need to have at least 8Mb of RAM in order to indulge in this release, which marked a milestone for many of us.
@xuu @eaplmx That would be 28800, before the 33600 bps modems.
My "Spotify Wrap" of 2022 is that I didn't use Spotify during the year. 🥳✌️
@prologic I suppose that should be noted both on the spec and client implementations. At least your client doesn't deal very well with it...
@slashdot Finally, an alternative to Samsung on five-year security updates. Hoping others will follow.
@abucci Definitely going into my bag of tools!
@eaplmx @mckinley To be fair, tapes have a better longevity than CDs, and nothing compared to vinyl. But I do agree with what you said (and also have a mild collector addiction to music in all those formats).
@slashdot Cars being more often an IoT hell was so easily accepted, that now they're more and more becoming a DRM hell. Consumers should stop accepting the idea that they are not the owners of what they buy.
@prologic yup, I have nothing but ❤️ for all the work you have been doing around it!👍
@prologic Well, basically I refer to a "radical decentralization", with twtxt you don't *need* to host a pod or maintain any software, nor rely on any 3rd parties, you can simply manage a text file, and make it available however works best for you. It provides a quite refreshing sort of independence I mostly miss from the internet of decades ago. Mastodon is nice, but it doesn't give you /that/.
@eaplmx Tough, I like it! 
a screenshot of the game's stats: lost with only 7 lines made
@abucci 
a screenshot of twitter's trending hashtags
@prologic it works, but Collabora Office works better (or did?). Both have integration with nextcloud which makes hosting it way easier.
@prologic Well, I just went to confirm, and people are referring to their presence on mastodon with the initial , so... yes, better support both formats!
@prologic I don't know enough about mastodon to be sure
@prologic oh, I see ejat I did wrong, extra @
Who could have seen this coming... According to The Spiegel:
"After election mishaps and massive organizational problems in the elections in Berlin on September 26, 2021, the Berlin Constitutional Court declared the elections to the House of Representatives and the district assemblies to be invalid. They have to be repeated in their entirety."
@prologic plannning a new feature for feeds.twtxt.net ?
Ouvi as entrevistas de Paulo Raimundo à RTP e à CNN. Gostei do que ouvi (dele). Sei que as entrevistas foram curtas e necessariamente não-exaustivas, mas entristece-me não ter ouvido nenhuma referência à crise climática.
Estou sempre a mandar vir com quem gosta de anunciar a vindoura morte das coisas, em especial cassetes... Mas só agora dou o devido valor ao artigo onde a Exame Informática anunciava a morte da cassete... em 1997, há um quarto de século! 
foto de artigo numa revista de 97, entitulado "O fim da cassete?"
@prologic no thoughts, just curious! I first assumed it wasn't possible, but your comment made me think it might be. And now that *you* aren't sure, I'm starting to worry 😅
@prologic @eaplmx I'm not sure what are you looking for exactly, but framadate is (to me) quite more powerful than doodle, and free software... a rewrite was being worked on, but lacking contributors... you might see that as either a good or a bad thing!
@eaplmx @darch @prologic careful, think too long about this and you'll end writing a protocol for the equivalent of twitter's polls... 😇
@rsdoiel @prologic Maybe a bit offtopic, but:
If I pull twtxt.net's feed, change its URL and sync the changed file back into twtxt.net, will the feed in the pod retain the new URL? Even if then I keep editing the feed by posting into it using the pod?
Desde o dia 7 de novembro que 6 escolas em Lisboa se encontram ocupadas por estudantes que exigem o fim ao fóssil. A ocupação deverá acabar amanhã, porque "Dia 12 de novembro, dia mundial pela Justiça Climática, irão todas à manifestação «Unir Contra o Fracasso Climático», marcada para as 14h da tarde no Campo Pequeno, em Lisboa."
@dfaria True! I suppose I'd like the 'search' section on twtxt.net to work like search.twtxt.net (or even post to there, I wouldn't mind if pressing the search button would take me to search.twtxt.net ...)
@prologic, are there any plans to add the ability of full text search on yarn pods? Is this something I should open an issue/feature request for?
@eaplmx "twt=tweet, and twtxt=tweetext" seems great, I'll adopt those! Maybe there should be a glossary (including this 'preference') somewhere on yarn.social ...
@abucci @prologic (Possibly offtopic, but) I actually have been feeling the pain of saying (verbally, out loud) both twt and twtxt. How do you do it?
Frase do dia:
《Não podemos descarbonizar as cidades, à custa da contaminação das aldeias》
@mckinley @lyse The link rel bit is because the feed can have relative urls. ie, if it is on http://example.com/feed, in can have somewhere in there a 
for eg.. If I download that feed I to my hard-drive and then try to render it, I need to know that "icon.jpg" is relative to http://example.com/feed, ie, that I will find it at http://example.com/icon.jpg (and not locally, next to the feed file I downloaded).
I hope my explanation makes sense...=
@prologic tbf, microblogs as comment systems might just be a wrong idea. I was led towards it by the current twitter implementation on bashblog (which I use), but the more I think about it the more I suspect that it just is the wrong tool for the job.
@prologic I was thinking more on something along the lines of the current twitter "integration", but now that I think more about it, I realize that darch's suggestion has more merit than what I initially realized. The blog comments system can be a twtxt feed, each entry a new twt/hash, each user comment referring to that hash.
@prologic You said it would work nicely, but I'd love to hear more about how you (and others) see this being done...
Thinking about reviving (#xi7nivq) - the idea of managing bashblog comments with twtxt instead of leading people to Twitter.
One of the things that attracts me about the "twtxt social network" is how radically decentralized it is. Not only each user is its own node (maintaining its own text file feed), there's no limits to the protocols used to access each feed. Sure, most of the feeds are probably being served over http or https, but there are feeds being served over gopher, and I bet some of them over ftp/ftps. But it doesn't have to be that way - feeds can be distributed in any modern equivalent to the sneakernet, you can save yours in a usb stick or a floppy disk, hand it over by hand or send it via postal mail; you can distributed them on a mailing list, on the usernet... The limit is your imagination.
This reflection made me realize that there's no reason to wait for secushare, twtxt feeds can already be used, shared, maintained and spread on GNUnet, taking this social media platform to the GNU Internet.
A picture of a library book
screenshot of error while testing