# 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 = 1 901
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://yarn.andrewjvpowell.com/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt&offset=401
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://yarn.andrewjvpowell.com/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt&offset=501
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://yarn.andrewjvpowell.com/user/eldersnake/twtxt.txt&offset=301
@prologic that's for any link BTW, including the ones in feeds like Slashdot etc.
@adi interesting. I note since the 2019 article there has been improvements and the GitHub repo looks quite active, but there's still some sketchy claims by the V author. Don't know why someone wouldn't just be totally honest, especially as the code is open for everyone to see.
@prologic I have noticed one thing in the latest Pod build. The twtxt link in the user Settings just redirects to the settings page instead of linking to the generated twtxt.txt file. I see this happening on my two pods and yours.
@jlj That's awesome mate π Good on you.
@prologic Oh I know (re: Goryon), for my de-Googled Android I just git pull and build the APK since the repo is on my hard drive.
@prologic Man you work like a man possessed π Upgrading now.
@prologic constant loading spinner ? That's what happens on my Goryon anyway.
\n\ntesting image upload (just Librewolf logo, on my secondary laptop and not much else on it lol)
v0.2.0 seems to be running fine on my pods so far π
Ahh and I see my avatar has automatically been converted back to a PNG. Good stuff!
That much of a problem cause of the Apple/Safari thing huh?
dang, Norway is so pretty in every shot I've seen !
@jlj Yeah, that is good stuff!
@vain Totally agree with you there. I think it should also be mandated that batteries are hot-swappable, i.e 'removable' batteries. I know in phones that have non-removable batteries you can technically replace them with some work, but it's not so easy. And I'd have thought when bulging batteries etc can be dangerous, that being able to just swap them out like the older phones typically had would make more sense.
> How repairable is the PinePhone Pro?\n[...]the PinePhone Pro is built to be user repairable and we will offer spare parts in the Pine Store. The storeβs selection will include all parts that frequently break if the device is dropped (the screen, back case and mid section) as well as all electronic components, including the mainboard. The PinePhone Pro is held together by standard Phillips screws\n\nMusic to my ears! https://www.pine64.org/pinephonepro/
@prologic Not a bad idea. Not sure how obvious 'root' is for non-techie types, but I also don't know of a better alternative.
@prologic \n> How do you find neovim? π€ Iβve never tried it π³\n\nI can't really remember, I suspect I found it because of one of Luke Smith's videos. Anyway it's here: https://neovim.io/\nBasically meant to be a cleaned up, slightly modernized Vim and still has compatibility with most Vim 8.x plugins etc, so largely a drop-in replacement.
although admittedly I actually use Neovim, I just have vim as an alias for nvim as I'm so used to typing vim in front of everything. It's just an improved Vim so I still consider myself a Vim user I guess.
@prologic Good tip, thanks. In my case it was simply if [[ instead of if [ (told ya the brackets always throw me π€£). But without using any checker tools, and the fact it was working with what turned out to actually be Bash, had me fooled for a bit.
Gotta love when you think you have a script all /bin/sh and POSIX-y, then use it on another computer (Void Linux) and discover it throwing syntax errors. Go back to original computer (Arch Linux), discover /bin/sh is actually a symlink to /bin/bash !!\n\nLike seriously, Arch Linux, why π΅βπ« So yeah, if you're still adapting to POSIX shell from Bash, make sure your /bin/sh goes to dash or something.
Finding https://search.brave.com/ to be indeed quite a handy alternative search engine. Far as I can tell there is no tracking of any sort and considering they're doing their own indexing supposedly the results are pretty good, I've found it possibly better than DuckDuckGo even while it's in beta.\nThe cynic in me wonders if it's too good to be true though. Is there something else going on in the background the tracker blockers etc can't detect? How does Brave make money? π€
\n\n# SO I CAN SHOUT REALLY LOUDLY\n\nthen talk a bit quieter\n\nInteresting how nowhere in Markdown there is the equivalent of <small></small> though.
@adi Interesting. It's so hard to know what to believe anymore.
Speaking of web bloat etc, here's an unfortunate ironic example: https://smallfile.ca/\n\nThis site is all about the Small File Media Festival, bring awareness to downsizing videos to help with the environment (i.e the stress of video streaming on networks, power usage etc).\n\nTheir requirements for submitted videos is to be <5MB in size. Yet the website page itself loads 4MB!! Some of it is images, a lot of it is just Javascript.
@adi yeah if you don't have a backup I wouldnt chance it. Maybe if there had still been official LineageOS builds as it's well tested and pretty foolproof, but there's not anymore.
@adi yeah I could get never get with the idea of downloading potentially hundreds of kilobytes just to make a site work.
@adi a couple of those negative commenters sound like the sort of web devs that would spin up an entire ReactJS driven framework for a basic blog page.
@prologic heh, at first I thought it was a ball of yarn Earth, with a bunch of Pods on it. Then I realised the "threads" are network cables π
@adi ..of your l.upphtml that is π
@adi also, in the reviews section, what is the t command ?
@adi I don't see them π€
@movq @quark @lyse yeah I sit there bemused when I see attempts to access /wp-login or whatever in my access logs, on my static sites. I think to myself, not today Satan! π€£
@adi Well, not latest since Android 12 was just very recently released, but it was latest until then lol.
@adi Depending on what your phone actually is, you can likely just whack LineageOS on it and get more or less the latest Android on it. Device list here. If it already has Oreo on it I assume it's not more than 4 or 5 years old so it will depend on your phone's bootloader I guess. \nI put LineageOS on one of my old Samsung Galaxy S5s (from 2014!) recently, now it rocks the latest Android π
@slashdot This thing looks pretty cool! Albeit very pricey. The handheld 4G/5G phone that is a WIP sounds interesting too. 1000 hours of battery standby!
No one can ever complain with the speed of updates and fixes with yarnd !
@jlj Strange, I get Server Not Found errors with those bypass links
@adi2 @prologic @quark I'm pretty sure they are meant to be just links, that's how it looks in the source code anyway. @adi is after all all about minimal.
@adi BTW just noticed all the extra content in the mkws Docs page. Good stuff.
@adi Good! Also nice to see pure static share buttons, not that I'd expect any less of you π
@jlj Is there a non-paywall'd version of that article somewhere? π€
I hope that made some sort of sense, I'm tired and close to bed π
@prologic Some of them are a bit above my head too but I found it fun, like the analogy of the guy making things work in a go-cart competition with duct tape and WD-40. In the author's mind, 'duct tape programmers' are like this and can make things simple and workable. And ship things fast/early, instead of obsessing over every little thing and never shipping a product. Despite the name I don't think he's advocating messy/hacky code, but rather clever/simple solutions.
@prologic Heh, yeah all good. My pod can be slightly behind sometimes, compared to say even my loveprivacy.club pod. Only up to a couple minutes sometimes but it's there. The only difference between them is this pod is on my RPi at home as you know. I assume it's the network throughput or something.
@prologic Yeah, seems to be an Aussie. \nGood to see anyway!
@jlj Yeah Aurora is pretty handy. On a couple occasions I found certain apps that wouldn't show up in Aurora even when searching for them. However, go to the app's website or whatever and click the "Play Store" link to the app, and let it open in Aurora, the app will show. Little tip for anyone that can't find something in Aurora Store.
...And unfortunately, Google has ensured so much ties into their services, like the notifications system, it's hard to convince people to strip that layer away.
@jlj Well said. They never mentioned CalyxOS either but I imagine it would be in a similar boat to eOS, as long as one doesn't use all the MicroG functions. I actually turned my MicroG off completely.\nAs I'm sure it's obvious to many, AOSP itself (the Android Open Source Project) is completely benign. It's all the commercial stuff put on top like the Google Apps and other bundled proprietary software that transforms it into the phone home and tracking monster it can be.
@prologic seems to be working fine, am I looking for anything in particular?
That goddamn eldersnake guy, can't make up his mind where he originates π
@laz Yeah this decentralization thing is happening :)
Not entirely finished but somehow while tinkering with a basic landing page for the we.loveprivacy.club pod domain I ended up doing a kind of art deco (kind of, not really, as I can't make any actual art) old school advertisement for yarn.social π€£ https://loveprivacy.club/
@adi Was reading one of those not-so-positive quotes on the mkws site\n\n> mkws uses shell scripting as templating, which is not a syntactic improvement \n\nObviously subjective and the author's opinion, and maybe for them it's true, but when I see so many other web devs setting up so much boilerplate for things like ReactJS etc... I'll take the minimal shell scripting any day!
@jlj I just edited the pico.css and 10-twtxt.css files (may have exact names wrong, it's late and I'm heading into bed) in the internal/static/css/ folder and re-compiled yarnd. I think I only changed the primary colour, lol.
@prologic Oh, interesting. I assume it's a piece of static HTML they've just stuck there then.
Okay, admittedly that image is pretty useless, can barely see anything, but anyway it's a banner just at the top of the article heading.
@prologic Strange, I block ads too but this one comes up. \n\n 
Ahh yes, thank you! Yes all powered back up and well, on the new solar charge controller. I'd show a pic but I need to buy some drill bits to make some holes for brackets. Everything is a mess of cable ties at the moment π
It also annoys me that Slashdot tries to flog (sell, for those not aware of Aussie lingo) that CryptoTab browser, the one that mines crypto in the background while you're using it.
I'll be upgrading my solar charge controller (old one is an el-cheapo PWM type that came bundled with the panel, new one is a MPPT Renogy) in some moments, so my *.andrewjvpowell.com sites including this pod will be down momentarily soon.*
@prologic I see/hear plenty of those, I live on a 90ish acre property. Impressive birds though IMO.
looks good IMO. Short, sweet, to the point.
@slashdot oh yeah that will fix everything π
@prologic Posting again π\n\nMay have to wait until I'm home for my twtxt.net account. I've forgotten my password again π
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@prologic Awesome. I'm glad my stubborness with my username led to some good π
\n\n> Iβm getting a lot of follow messages from @eldersnakeβs pods.\n\nMakes me sound like a stalker π€£\n\nBut yes, upgrade your pod!
You can use the Follow button and call the Nick 'other_eldersnake' or whatever you want. Or just wait until @prologic rolls out whatever his fix is gonna be π
@adi I'll likely once again harness mkws when I make a page for the root of loveprivacy.club
@adi Running on solar? π
