# 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=290
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/eaplmx/twtxt.txt&offset=390
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@thecanine due to my background in automation and robotics, I think it's cool by itself. And for my new discipline on art and design, I think it joins the subjective aspect of art.
Buuuut I think it does something similar to the Useless Boxes...
If its purpose is to be useless, well... A nice paradox to design
In local news you don't care about, a pigeon stepped on an electricity line, something exploded (including the pigeon) and I don't have electricity at home. It makes you think a lot...
I think I should ask before (excuse me if I missed that part of the discussion somewhere else), what's the purpose of having a counter of users? Honestly curious from a design perspective
@prologic One part of my brain wants Yarn to stay smol, and the other likes to share this cool project/idea/product with as many people as possible. You know, the game of numbers against a sustainable big community. No matter what my brain contradicts with, the counter looks nice!
Hello everyone, I'm back on sharing cool stuff on the shape of twts, after a Monday lasting 3 days.
Cheers 🍻! <- Non-alcoholic drink, since someone said on Hckrnws it's bad for our hearts
@prologic oh no! 😯
As I've shared before, I'm trying to learn more complicated ways of programming (async, concurrent, functional, to say something) and has been very hard to leave old habits. I'll keep trying!
Enough trolling for today, enjoy your weekend my friends!
@fastidious you can't read my content and substance, so I'll leave you emojis 😁🙄🤔🥑
Sunday morning over here.
Started hating the polarized ideas on Twitter (gosh, I was likening and using it again for the value of game dec, and then the wave of hate, ideology and politics arrived).
Then I came back to read a few books, and next I was checking that my Yarn timeline was very active. Looks like a nice morning.
Well... Friday of learning new stuff on Unity and Rust, I was forgetting what it was like to take courses for hours and be stuck. Rust, you freaking lang.
The training on Unity is going great, with small lessons of 15 minutes you feel you are doing/learning a lot, the kind of course I like.
@movq what was it? The Python script has a few issues with some headers, that I need to fix later, maybe it's something similar
Works well on Deedum and Ariane (Android both), I could try later with the Python script, since it's what AntennaZINE is using
@movq I forgot about SFTP too! And it's what I use for my servers. Good idea!
Talking about FTP, you made me remember that some automation machines I used to maintain, had a open and unencripted FTP to upload the setting files 😮
hey, my new lines were removed, give me my \\n\\n back!
<- Here should be two new lines
hey, my new lines were removed, give me my \n\n back!
<- Here should be two new lines
@prologic trying..
With...
New lines...
Everything looks fine, thanks! By the way I've seen slightly different behaviors between Desktop (Brave) and mobile (Firefox), like characters limits or keeping previous messages in the text box even if they were sent. Let me try again soon, and if I find something strange, I'll tell ya! BTW, what's the best way to report that?
@prologic I apologize for the bad energy, I wrote a few long replies, and since I have the habit of creating new lines (for @prologic delight) I was repeatedly losing the content, and I was like WTF 😐, haha 😂
Aaahrgh, if I type Enter (New line) on my mobile phone, all my twt text is erased. I'm outta here! #breakfastModeOn
@thecanine nitro is cool, I see a lot of value of it.
Well, dear Yarn reader, officially I'm starting my day over here (I'm awake since 4 am, thanks to my wife 🙂)
Good news is that today looks like a calm day. #goodVibesEveryone
Maybe I'm not explaining some concepts that I assume the reader already has, sorry for that, and thank you for pointing out @fastidious
@fastidious maybe I'm not saying anything serious? Perhaps I don't want to reach to a specific place but ignite new conversations (like this one)...
By understanding my writing, what do you mean? Why am I saying something?
bad jokes aside, I like to twt with all you, and although I like to troll @fastidious a bit, my intent is to have healthy discussions, and enjoy good moments. If I say something wrong or in a wrong manner, please tell me 🙂
@prologic thanks, I like to debate on ideas and sometimes I put different sides of the same thing, and people tell me, "so, are you going to order the burger or not...? " Ha 😅
But we could try, it could help us both... So... What's the matter?
finally, if we analize the buzzword of the year, usually it fades away very soon, because people stop using a technology or it becomes mainstream.
what I mean is that usually you have to break something to make it clear the previous way is not that great. I don't like many thinks of Web 3, what I do is showing that a better way is possible in the distant future.
Now we are in the stage of: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
Science + Business like to break things, and that's not always for the best of humanity, that's when we need to add phylosophy to the equation (and some environmental care)
@thecanine as you could see in my previous posts/twts, I'm in the middle between taking money from people (to pay for production expenses), and having a 'right' net (problematic word intended).
If the decentralized economy 1.0 (wrongly named Web 3) is a way, I'm open to research on it, and maybe I should use it to understand more.
That said, everyone is being forced to take a stance (which is good) and have their beliefs challenged (that is usually good as well)
@thecanine don't you have disposable income of 3 USD / month? 😛
@jlj my best wishes! I hope everyone over there gets better soon
Everything looks fine! 
@thecanine Thanks! It's an i7. I haven't found a strong reason to update, I think I'll stay on 10 for a while. #prayForMe
@movq you felt that? I thought the switch 3.11 to 95 was a huge improvement on UI (or maybe I'm just nostalgic, it was 27 years ago)
@thecanine do you recommend updating to Win 11? I haven't updated due to fear of breaking my current dev environment and being kind of comfy with current Win 1 (after years of using MacOS, I have 2 years of Win10, being OK)
No FTP support?, what a shame 😛
well, I get the same result than this video
@thecanine doesn't work for me with Inline (default), do I have to change to Lightbox or Gallery?
And now with WSL I can run Ubuntu and do a lot of stuff I did on Mac, so... Works pretty well for what I'm doing (basically Open-sourced languages and servers, and develop games)
@markwylde Windows ME, is that you? =P
For me, Windows 10 has been really usable, and usually, they work well on pairs (WIn 95 SE, 98 SE, XP XP2, 7, 10...)
I use Win above a Mac due to the cost, I could buy 3 PC for my team with the price of a single Mac (although I really need a new Mac Mini M1 for publishing)=
@fastidious I feel you dude, today I'm fighting with my art team not being able to follow a naming convention for PNG files, aaaaand I'm that guy who knows something is displaced 2 pixels 😋
Sorry in advance for my broken English, the opposite opinions are intended 😅
@movq Not that much, I love the concept, but only a few sites/capsules use them since most of the content is read-only or publicly available.
@fastidious No idea, I've been thinking on mounting a server, but for me using Smol.pub and the Gemini Server from texto.plano.xyz is enough (Something on OpenBSD, I could ask).
Smol.pub has support for both HTTPS and Gemini to users, and the edition is done on HTTP.
That said, I think Titan is not accepted or supported that much...
Obviously I meant that (action of using Yarn to send twts in the shape of twitexting/twtxtng), you got me @fastidious !
For the record, I hate Slack (but it's the standard for techie companies), Discord is good enough for us (giving classes, creating games for hobby and as a profession).
Aaaand I agree Teams/Skype is the worst. Still thinking about knowing more about Matrix as a future replacement!
Did you know I really enjoy Yarning (?) on twtxt.net? Now you do... #stupidVice
Life is curious. I was thinking on creating content about game design, but something was not clinking, and today I received an invitation from the university for it...
And a few projects on gaming are taking shape recently. #goodNews
@movq I think Gemini has a decent size by now, and twtxt is something there... I arrived to twtxt (the format) through some users on Gemini, and lately to Yarn/twtxt.net.
@jlj sorry for what I'm going to say. For my work I use mostly Discord, never used Matrix.
Besides privacy, do you see it as a replacement for productivity, a la Slack?
I only have Dumb TVs.
Wife loves Netflix and Direct TV on an external Chromecast, what can I say?, but I prefer to store the video on a SD card an play them on the TV, or connect something by HDMI...
@jlj having problems making friends and influencing people, I can relate 😁
I think I will be influencing friends and making people
@prologic weird namining, here is limited responsibility rather that limited property/ownership
Interesting!
@ew0k/BW cool avatar dude!
@prologic Oh, sorry I got confused. When I used a Mac Mini and a Macbook Pro 2018 (from 2012 to 2019) I loved to Full-Screen Zoom with the mouse all the time. The alternative on Win10 (Win + Plus) is not that great. I don't use MacOS now for indie reasons, but I enjoyed it a lot.
@prologic being fan of accessibility, and trying to catch up with trends to comply with regulations but also genuinely interested in understanding different accessibility issues, I've always wondered how a legally blind person can program and create great stuff. I follow a few people, and that always amazes me.
@movq simple, safe and HTTP(S) in the same sentence looks unbelievable to me 😁
So 90s! Nice memory...
If you like Marketing, look for the book 'The end of publicity as we know it' (2000, I think), it talks about that campaign.
Starting my day over here... Meetings with old acquaintances, classes, working on Image processing and going with my wife to the supermarket if you wonder.
Seems like a fun day #letsSee
@fastidious good luck!... Usually Mondays for me are the rollercoaster of everything not done by the weekend and pushing people to work again, so...
and what I'm explaining is that giving you a product protecting the interests of the consumer 'might' go against the interests of the producer (that usually is money)
@fastidious I know, they (author/publisher) are not interested in giving a "non-privacy eroding garbage" in exchange for @prologic 's money
In some other regions, money is an issue. I don't see it here.
So, conclusions. A physical book could have more perceived value and it's harder to pirate (I have looked for scanned versions of books I like, especially expensive art books, it's not the same at all).
Maybe is more convenient for the author, and less for us.
When someone says is good for business, usually I ask for proof of that. As a concept sounds good. I'm getting more people aware of my content. How many of those will be actually buying the product? How many will use the free alternative instead of that money going to the author/publisher?
I really understand the DRM, I get DRM-free products first, or I use any tool to unlock the content. That said, currently, indie producers rely more on customers' good faith, that they are not releasing the content to the public.
In regions like mine, with low income, if I can get the book for free in 2 clicks and perhaps 10 popups, or the same content paying 10 or 25 USD (or equivalent), why do I have to lose my previous scarce money?
libgen, is that you?
one of the difficulties of digital goods is the perceived value. Why is so simple to spend 2 USD (or equivalent) on a coffee and so hard to do it on a book/game/app? Our minds play tricks when we can't touch something. (For instance, in the current debate with the NFT nobody understands anything).
@fastidious taking a few of the different opinions, and having discussed DRM, privacy, ownership, anarchy, copyright, and such, in class and in our creative studio, it's difficult to summarize an opinion in a few characters.
I've seen of some authors avoiding digital versions for piracy reasons, and I agree.
All that is about ownership. Of our life, our time, our resources, our destiny. 'Our' as in you and me, and as a collective society/community/organization.
Enough internet for today, my friends 😀
If life is given to us, see you tomorrow!
@prologic I think it's something like grouping the best Twts of the week in a single container. Like some people create books from their blog posts or some artists create a book from the most active posts/pictures in their media.
@prologic I will try! (6am for me) I have a call later (10am) and a class after that (12-3pm). If I wake up early, I'll be there! It's set in my calendar now...
@prologic Wooow, congrats!
I have never solved the 3x3 cube alone (only using apps and such, you dirty cheater).
I was able to memorize the steps for the 2x2, but that's my final achievement, it seems...
@prologic Agreed! It's difficult as hell, but in the long run (if we survive as an indie company), it's better what you say
