# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
# 
# 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.
# 
# Options:
#     uri     Filter to show a specific users twts.
#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
# 
# twt range = 1 1824
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&offset=424
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&offset=524
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&offset=324
@lyse what happens if you get stranded with a broken car in the middle of no where? Or if an emergency comes up where there is no landline? In the US landlines are disappearing, mobile phones have taken their place.
@rrraksamam there are plenty of under $400 laptops to chose from. Check Amazon, and filter “under $500”. Same applies to smartphones. Sadly, I don’t have a specific one to recommend because—and not trying to come across as a snob—I don’t “usually” buy cheap things. 😅
@movq yes, she spends 2.5/hours a day commuting, and her old (2010) SUV now runs at 21mpg (around 34km per 3.8litres). In the US everything is quite far apart. 😩
@@texto-plano.xyz milk, Pepsi, or whiskey? They will all quench my thirst.
@movq get a Nokia 6300 (https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_us/nokia-6300-4g?sku=16LIOW11A01). For $70 it is easy to buy one every 6 months, if it were to be really bad. :-) Heck, my wife’s SUV eats $70/week of petrol, so… one phone per month is just fine. LOL.
@rrraksamam for a good recommendation we are going to need more information. For the laptop, what would its intended use be? Do you need to run Microsoft Windows? Does it needs WiFi? Destination (for power outlets)? For the phone, do you need it to be “smart”? Physical, or software SIM? Do you want it to work where you are going (destination is needed)?

Details are in the pudding.
@prologic Caddy for the win, right?!
@prologic you know OTP is baked into iOS Passwords, right? I just migrated from 1Password to it.
@yakumo_izuru pff, I say don’t bother. You change hosts/hostnames more often than people changes underwear. 🤣🤣🤣
@prologic Lyse broke it for the rest of us. 😂
@eapl.me it can be, if you chose to, yes. In my opinion, there is no other better mobile OS than iOS. (let the mobile OS war start! LOL)
@eapl.me It records a lot (I use iPhone). Yup, it integrates with many fitness devices (other than the normal walking, running, and biking), and there are plenty apps that can use that raw data.
@eapl.me going to the address you linked uses a 302 to send me to https://fit.eapl.me/sign_in.php. Why? It also says nothing about what it is. Finally, my phone does all that, and more, automatically; why would I come to the web to record anything?
@prologic cool! I am @david:netbros.com.
@prologic ain’t that the truth! Modus operandi also varies from person to person. I have co-workers that never interact on public channels, where the entire team is being pinged. I am the only one “saving face” for the entire team, by actively replying to queries, and actioning as needed. It is just the way I am, too.
@eapl.me work messaging/interaction is different. They are talking about the rubbish that is Discord. Enterprise messaging is work. It is very important especially whilst working remote. While at work, I have customised notifications, and yes, I almost instantly reply to queries, whether on Teams, emails, or voice (unless, of course, otherwise engaged on something else, but I multitask quite well via chat).

Checking messages once a day, and replying hours later is completely unacceptable within my work environment. It also goes against my own work ethics.
@eapl.me work messaging/interaction is different. They are talking about the rubbish that is Discord. Enterprise messaging is work. It is very important especially whilst working remote. While at work, I have customised notifications, and yes, I almost instantly reply to queries, whether on Teams, emails, or voice (unless, of course, otherwise engaged on something else, but I multitask quiet well via chat).

Checking messages once a day, and replying hours later is completely unacceptable within my work environment. It also goes against my own work ethics.
@prologic I believe it is surprise.
@shreyan it works perfectly, thank you!
I just saw that @shreyan proved it possible with a short Python script. Lovely!
@eapl.me it is not about being able to use longer passphrase or not. It is about the feasibility of it. Can a relatively complex string be converted to a mnemonic, and vice-versa, without collisions?
@eapl.me see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes 😂
@eapl.me the document you list is too deep. Also behind a login. I have searched The Tubes, and found nothing.
@eapl.me it is not about remembering, it is about converting something like:


ALBimMb+bxXypHuw8bCyZ++Sby6BFNxXs1ATtm+xiEIQbTcvOvR4BaYcAs0cZduf


To:



apple strawberry corn cat cow impertinence bloke bread stone hydrogen mountain


For example, and being able to use the words to “re-assemble” the password.
@eapl.me it is not about remembering, it is about converting something like:


ALBimMb+bxXypHuw8bCyZ++Sby6BFNxXs1ATtm+xiEIQbTcvOvR4BaYcAs0cZduf



To:



apple strawberry corn cat cow impertinence bloke bread stone hydrogen mountain


For example, and being able to use the words to “re-assemble” the password.
@stigatle that’s a truly sweet bike, mate! Congratulations! I got one similar many years ago, served me well for quite a bit.
While talking about mnemonics (and perhaps going off tangent a bit), does anyone knows of a tool to generate a mnemonic from a password, and vice-versa?
@prologic true, indeed! All I can say is, don’t offer this at Mills. Your connectivity isn’t stable (I have come many, many times to find CloudFlare messages). You will have to rent space elsewhere, and then numbers will look differently.
@prologic careful there, especially with that “whatever” 😂. There is no way you can run all that on a "10 milliCores of CPU + 64MB of Memory”. It will take more than that, and it will cost more than $0.50 USD per month.
Nah, let’s not be lazy.
@darch the link is literally at the bottom of the first page.
@thecanine your website https://thecanine.ueuo.com doesn’t seem to exist within the US. It renders nothing.
I can bend just about anything. I am Bender!
@adi the real question is, will it bend?
The Tubes know almost everything: https://user-agents.net/string/go-http-client-2-0
@prologic I would say both, of neither. I am just uninterested, that’s as simple as it gets. Also, this reply of yours is completely disconnected on Mastodon.
@prologic I would say both, or neither. I am just uninterested, that’s as simple as it gets. Also, this reply of yours is completely disconnected on Mastodon.
@prologic well, one can be fully controlled by a totalitarian government that’s considered adversarial. They are, allegedly, addressing security, not privacy concerns.
@prologic yes. De-federating is breaking federation with the specific instance, no interaction, a block. The instance being blocked has no saying, and can’t do anything about it. Well, it can change course, and correct issues, but other than that no much else.
@carsten woah! What happened here?
@prologic will that remove the twt from twtxt.txt?
@screem that I know of, it is not possible to remove twts right now without getting dirty on the filesystem/cache, right @prologic? So, web based tools are lacking, even for administrators.
@darren I don’t understand the hype. You are not the first one to highly recommend it. Since many did the same I rented it a month ago, or so. Couldn’t go beyond 20 minutes—and that was me trying my best to like it. I just couldn’t.
@prologic yup, yup. Another. Reply in Indonesian, let’s see how it goes. :-D
@robvna are you interested on running some advertising to your website here? For $1,400 we can run it on the main page, as a banner, or side adverts. I accept only bank issued checks, and we need to receive them first, before the advertisements go live. Let us know if interested. Thanks!
@prologic are you using Australian Aboriginal language now? Translate please! 😂😂😂
@prologic pick me, pick me! 😂 In seriousness, it depends how busy the site is. It might be worth, yes.
@prologic delete user without reply. They are not seeking for anything, it is spam masquerade as an innocent request. Unless purged, the spam will remain. That’s what they want.
@prologic see https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Illudium%20Phosdex
@movq I don’t think so, no.
@prologic you know what I think about “the cache”. No comments. 😬😂
@prologic he must have edit it, or something. As you can see, the connection is broken.
@prologic he must have edited it, or something. As you can see, the connection from this one is broken.
@carsten what do you mean? I haven’t replied. What happened here? 😂
@prologic the ones @lyse referred to are specifically made not to return, by the way.
@prologic a good boomerang thrower will never have its boomerang returned. It will always hit the prey. 🪃😵
@prologic a good boomerang thrower will never have its boomerang returned. It will always hit the pray. 🪃😵
@marado it solves not crashing Yarn. The bigger it is, the more memory/CPU it will consume.
@thecanine ah, I understand it now. Thanks.
@thecanine I don’t understand what you are trying to say. Visa and Mastercard have decided to place their crypto dabbling on hold. Who wanted to rely on Visa and Mastercard, which also "missed the whole point of crypto, to begin with”? You lost me there.
@jlj welcome, His Majesty’s subject! 🇬🇧
@prologic we don’t need to go that far. I bet I will never see a Tanzanian in their own land. Or just around here, for that matter. 😂

Here we are talking and worrying about other civilisations, when we don’t even know our own.
@vikitwx Что именно нужно или чего нужно?
@prologic ignore. Also delete the user. Trust me.
This was in 2022. Maybe by now consumption is higher?
White House excerpt on crypto mining electricity consumption
@eldarqtq no distributed moderation (as in designating others to moderate), only the administrator has the power to disable/delete users, and/or disallow feeds. No built in twt deletion/hiding methods that I know of.
@eldarqtq no distributed moderation (as in designating others to moderate), only the administrator has the power to disable/delete users, and or disallow feeds. No built in twt deletion/hidding methods that I know of.
@eldarqtq no distributed moderation (as in designating others to moderate), only the administrator has the power to disable/delete users, and or disallow feeds. No built in twt deletion/hiding methods that I know of.
@prologic they didn’t hear you, the mention is wrong.
@stigatle no problem. Now if @prologic would stop being lazy, and finish it! 😂 As you can see, it still shows requested, when I actually followed you, and it also doesn’t allow replies from Mastodon to be seeing by you.
@stigatle, yup.

TWT on Mastodon
@stigatle yes, that was it. Now if you twt anything I should be able to see it on Mastodon.
@stigatle I can’t still browse to your profile. I get a login screen.
@stigatle you might need open profile. Do that, and let me know.
@stigatle I am not sure what are the steps on Yarn for that. I will have to ping @prologic, so that he can chime in. I am searching for your handle on my Mastodon server.
@stigatle before your twt can “show up” on the Fediverse, your account needs to be discoverable. It isn’t. Searching for @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no, or stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no renders no results. After your account shows up, and someone can follow you, then anything you type here will be seeing by your follower.
@jlj now, that’s progress! I logged on Pleroma without any issue. Very, very well done! 🥳🎉
@stigatle that’s pretty cool! First time I see it up close, and not like a moon floating from afar.
@prologic to add to this, careful with ActivityPub and domains. Once yo
@prologic to add to this, careful with ActivityPub and domains. Once you have an ActivityPub running, you will need to save its keys, because other instances you have federated with will expect them not to change. I am not fully sure of the details, but I have heard you might be disallowed from using the same domain again, if such keys were to change, because it will break federation.
@abucci 😂. I think combining words would be a logical streamlining of the language. That’s why German is so streamlined (those long words that encapsulate an idea, or a sentence). I propose “thaton" to be used instead of “that on”!

Oh, and Google says it is "tio plu”, but don’t quote it (chat bots can be wrong).
@abucci I am extremely curious. What is “tharbon”? 😅
@prologic I say, revamp the whole login to be like micro.blog does it. Enter email, you receive a link to login. Drop a cookie. Rinse and repeat.
@stigatle that board is a tiny one! Equivalent to Raspberry Zero, right? What are you planning to use it for? I ordered three Lenovos ThinkCentre M910Q tiny desktop computers a week ago, and I can’t wait till I put my hands on them. Going to dabble with a microk8s cluster.
Perhaps check https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/follow_requests/, to start? I know my follow requests from Mastodon are ending up on pending.
Also:

path=/users/david/inbox format=json controller=ActivityPub::InboxesController action=create status=401 duration=75.44 view=1.17 db=1.83 key=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/
I don’t have a test Mastodon server. I am assuming you are after being able to peek at logs in one, otherwise you could just create an account on any existing one (if no logs access is required).

I check logs (I am really having a hard time finding useful logs on Mastodon), and all I can see is:

method=GET path=/@bender@twtxt.net format=html controller=HomeController action=index status=200 duration=248.79 view=158.94 db=84.15

Which is not much.
@prologic what do you mean? Is it something I need to do, or are you saying that is a missing part on the implementation?
@prologic right, it doesn’t, so it seems a bug. Also, if I update profile in Yarn, it doesn’t update it for AP.
@prologic trying to add someone on an ActivityPub server (Mastodon in this case) places the follow as “requested”, and since there is no way to approve on Yarn, it remains in limbo.
@prologic looks good! The last part is needed for the first part to make sense. Following ActivityPub actors require receiving, at least, notes/posts from them. Granted, likes and re-blogs aren’t necessary, but posts themselves are.
@prologic what’s next? What’s the roadmap to full back and forth? Don’t lose momentum now! 😊
@prologic very, very nice! Very well done! Now, that wasn’t too difficult, was it? 😂
@prologic not here. We are always watching, always watching you! 😂
@cel there are many themes for vim. You just need to pick, and customise the one you like. But no, twtxt doesn’t have a specific vim colour scheme for you to use. You will have to make your own.
@cel there are many themes for vim. You just need to pick, and customise the one you like. But no, twtxt doesn’t have a specific vim colour scheme for you to use. You will have to make your own.
@jlj 😍😍😍. I have got to visit, check out your Pleroma, and see if my credentials are still valid. That will be the ultimate test! 😊🙈
@lyse very nice click! Which lens is that? Using tripod, or not?
@dkordic they can be had, if you use your fork right. :-)
@abucci everything is on its infancy, relatively speaking. I mean, your 1940s example is merely 82 years old. What is that? Nothing.

The fact is, we don’t know what we don’t know. The argument is not giving up. It is a way to say “I am not knowledgable enough—not will ever be—to speak on that matter."