# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
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@xuu @thewismit I actually chuckled while reading that description π -- well said! (Now I feel really old. π)
@alip Oh, cool! Embarrassed to say I haven't heard of Shogi, but, what better way to learn than through this awesome software!
Indeed! @thewismit I sure hope you're alive, well, and eager to see Yarn fl^H^Hspin? :-D I just tagged you in the documentation project where I'm throwing my ideas, for the moment. I'll merge it with the main and landing page repos, respectively, once they're renamed and I'm further along; don't want the clutter, for the mo. :-)
hacker-news-newest (#jm32r6a) Wow! A horrid UI, in front of a ridiculous system. But I was particularly interested in how pointless human checkpoints are in the absence of regular training.
@prologic All over the place. :-D CS, in programming and system administration about 20 years ago. Then computer security focused. Then intelligence analysis for a few years. Then CERT. Then care work for five years. Now software systems administration, focused on Splunk/HashiStack, for the last year.
@prologic Ha ha! Thanks for your time. π OK, that gives me the confidence to start laying out some of this stuff properly. Stay tuned!
@jlj @prologic OK, I still need to do that GitHub issues survey -- don't get much time on the weekend -- but I recorded some ideas for what I'm calling my *yarn docu* project. :-) Apologies for my daughter in the background. Also, I need to troubleshooting why I got a 400-series error trying to upload it to my pod; probably a browser permission issue. Anyway, yeah, it's seven minutes long. Oh, and, just as we're talking about binning non-hash subjects, I thought a rebranding subject would actually be nice. D'oh!
@darch Looks great! :-D So exciting! :-D I love the logo, and the text and font around it, in particular. Fantastic work! :-)
@prologic @adi What, like Terraform's state file? So it's idempotent?
@niplav @movq Wow! A significant investment for a rainy day. ;-) Well, it's in TaskWarrior; we'll see when I get around to it. :-D
@prologic OK, gonna start with a survey of all our issues; see what docu tasks have already been identified, and what the others say about the direction of the project more broadly.
hacker-news-newest (#utvhk6q) Ha! Super fun and interesting. :-D Always been fascinated by icebergs, growing in Newfoundland, where they would pass so close almost every year.
Yup. :-) Bit intimidated by the prospect now, though, to be honest. :-D Particularly with the rebranding going on. Maybe I could start by soliciting an agreed approach, broadly, and then start building out some tasks -- and their dependencies -- in a GitHub project, in our org. Then folks can see what I'm working on and know where to lend a hand. Thoughts?
@prologic @xuu Yes, absolutely! Talk about dedication. :-D So exciting, seeing all this progress. :-)
@prologic Valid. :-) And, yeah, what about Yarn, folks? :-D It's more that I've been on the mailing list for a year now, and, with this recent rewrite of the docs, for the first time I finally see how I might be able to participate -- talk about obtuse!
Anyone running Urbit? Thinking about having a play with a comet. βπ
"In 1879... George argues... that poverty had grown due to the increasing speculation and monopolization of land, as landowners had captured the increases in growth, investment, and productivity through the rising cost of rent... George proposes the complete taxation of the unimproved value of land, thus returning the value of land, created through location, to the community. This solution would incentivize individuals to use the land they own productively and remove the tendency to speculate..." https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-george/progress-and-poverty
"We hear from Sarah Leadbetter who's mounted a legal challenge over inaccessible Covid related information. She argues the government did not give her accessible details about shielding. She's now been granted a judicial review at the High Court." Oh, sounds like an interesting episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s9vz
@antonio @vain I like it. It's definitely now a tool in my belt, and, as I said, I'm trying to make it the first one I pick, when I don't have other requirements. On the latter, as an example, I immediately went incognito+Google+Wikipedia when I was trying to remember the Twitter storm that was Joel Osteen+Hurricane Harvey while chatting with mates; I don't think anything competes with those tools, when you can't remember anything specific -- not yet, anyway. π€
@bml @prologic Yeah, good spot! I wasn't considering that step -- very new to rpi! It's shipped today, btw! -- but, as you say, not insurmountable; just need to plan it out. :-)
@hxii Oh, interesting. I was thinking about setting up a form for Code of Conduct type complaints in my Matrix rooms, but worried about what I'd be opening myself up to; care to share your code/ideas? :-)
@darch Awesome! Every step of this rebranding is really exciting, to me; don't know about the rest of you. ;-D Thanks for your efforts!
Whoop! Successfully used the Okta Terraform provider to build a policy in Okta. :-D I'm a coder! Terraform counts, right? ;-) Proper scripting yesterday, HashiCorp Configuration Language today; tomorrow... Go? I may have missed a few steps in there somewhere.
@vain @antonio Yeah, I've got keywords. So, I'm trying Mojeek, but it's still a work in progress, so I can type d then tab and continue typing to get a DDG search instead, leaving Mojeek as my default. That's in Brave, but I'd imagine it's Chrome functionality.
@bml (#dxuu32q) Thanks! :-) Yeah, still deciding, to be honest. I didn't go high-end, so, while I want to run Synapse, I think I might move my pod over to the Pi instead, as my current web/pod server is a little bit closer to the Matrix minimum spec IIRC. I really want to run my own mail server, but it seems like a lot of work. @prologic shared what looked like a low maintenance option a few days ago; what do you run?
@xj9 Neat! Thanks for the pointer! :-)
Treated myself to a Pi 3 as a (very) early birthday present. π
Doubting my claim that it's "a system largely funded by... taxes." Companies can apply to Ofcom for funding: "As the βUniversal Service Providersβ, BT and KCOM are entitled to request compensation for any cost of delivering universal services that it would not be appropriate for them to cover themselves." Source -- but this hardly equates to "largely." Most of the references I've found this evening concern public funding of broadcast television.
Trigger: partner volunteering, ringing up folks who haven't taken advantage of their place on the vaccination list, clearly being screened because the phone number shows up as withheld. Result: rant about corporate interests eroding public trust in a system largely funded by their taxes, leaving us with fractured communication in a pandemic. Now reading *The evolution of infrastructure and utility\nownership and its implications* (Helm and Tindall, 2009), despairing of a solution.
@xj9 @prologic This seems most sensible. I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labours!
@prologic Oh, this'll be great! I've already had a few occasions where I've been eight pages back in my timeline, trying to find a yarn I wanted to reply to from a few days earlier. :-D
Yeah, I've never seen a display... don't know what word to use... stutter? It's like lines of the background would flicker through the main bar (or whatever you call this border that has the tray in in Ubuntu) and the dock, but only on mouse movement. Some searching suggested that dynamic display features could cause it, but I wasn't using any; I tried turning off 'Night Light' (like a native version of f.lux), to no visible effect. Hardware really is the most logical source, I think; got this HP *24 fh* back in... November? Ugh.
In other news, I just donated to Miniflux. Can't recall a more opaque, yet seemingly well-support, open-source project. :-) One developer, no links to any community, no obvious call for help; guess they're just happy getting on with it. It stands out, in that respect, amongst the other FOSS projects I like. :-) Not a criticism; just curious, to me, anyway. It pushed me to donate, I think, which is potentially a psychological phenomenon worth exploring.
What's more disturbing than a sudden, possibly-hardware-related problem? One that then disappears completely overnight. π I had been using the Keybase file system to backup some data, but, over the weekend, things got horribly out of sync and my main desktop ground to a crawl; eventually I gave up, powering off the tower for most of Sunday. After abandoning kbfs yesterday, removing it and restarting, my Ubuntu install had this horrible static-like flicker associated with mouse movement. Now, today, that's completely disappeared. No power problems. New monitor. π
@bml Neat. :-) Personally, I like how I can really articulate things in *TaskWarrior*, without actually knowing how I'll tackle them: e.g., I'll know a rough priority, and create a dependency tree, but then life will happen and I'll just wait:1m that whole tree, confident that I don't need to keep it somewhere in my head to make sure it gets done, *eventually*. :-D
@prologic @vain This captures my sentiments on both points absolutely perfectly! ππ€
@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
