# 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 60515
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&offset=58215
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&offset=58315
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&offset=58115
Anyone actively use filters here? 🤔 
If so which ones? If not, why? Any more useful than others? 🤔
@bender I _think_ that's why I spend so much of my "spare" time doing this right? 🤔
@bender I _think_ that's why I spend so much of my "spare" time doing this right? 🤔
@bender I did, that's why I asked 🤣
@bender I did, that's why I asked 🤣
I want to become a solopreneur 🤣 Build a service, or a set of small services with enough customers (_not too many_) where they provide enough revenue and receive the right amount of value for service that I can just do that.
I want to become a solopreneur 🤣 Build a service, or a set of small services with enough customers (_not too many_) where they provide enough revenue and receive the right amount of value for service that I can just do that.
@off_grid_living Hmmm
> very convincing from an expert !
According to Wikipedia Robert Deutsch is:
> Robert Deutsch is an Israeli antiquities dealer, archaeologist, epigrapher, and numismatist. He is known for being accused of six forgery charges of several biblical archaeological artifacts in 2004.
i don't know what to believe anymore 🤣
@off_grid_living Hmmm
> very convincing from an expert !
According to Wikipedia Robert Deutsch is:
> Robert Deutsch is an Israeli antiquities dealer, archaeologist, epigrapher, and numismatist. He is known for being accused of six forgery charges of several biblical archaeological artifacts in 2004.
i don't know what to believe anymore 🤣
@bender parsed and kinked ok for me?
@bender parsed and kinked ok for me?
👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:
- Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
- When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
- Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
#Yarn.social #Meetup
👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:
- Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
- When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
- Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
#Yarn.social #Meetup
The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It's stupid shit like this that's the _real_ problem with "big tech" social media platforms. These morons just simply don't understand basic economics and basic business.
Why would a company like Meta, X and TikTok give up a large multi-billion dollar segment of the market. That is, young children from the ages of ~3 to 16 (_yes kids these days can use a computer or device from a pretty young age!_)
The whole masquerade of "online saftey" and the new Australia legislation of the Online Safety Act 2021 is complete and utter bullshit.
You wanna fix this whole cybercrime and cyber bullying that goes on (_which btw if you understood how these fucking platforms worked in the first place, you'd realise drives up engagement on the platforms by abusing human emotional and psychological weakness_), then ban and make illegal with multi-Billion dollar fines the following:
- Profiting off data collected by users on your platform(s)
- Categorizing users on your platform and performing A/B tests
- Targeting users (_of any age_) for advertising
In fact just ban targeted advertising period.
~
The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It's stupid shit like this that's the _real_ problem with "big tech" social media platforms. These morons just simply don't understand basic economics and basic business.
Why would a company like Meta, X and TikTok give up a large multi-billion dollar segment of the market. That is, young children from the ages of ~3 to 16 (_yes kids these days can use a computer or device from a pretty young age!_)
The whole masquerade of "online saftey" and the new Australia legislation of the Online Safety Act 2021 is complete and utter bullshit.
You wanna fix this whole cybercrime and cyber bullying that goes on (_which btw if you understood how these fucking platforms worked in the first place, you'd realise drives up engagement on the platforms by abusing human emotional and psychological weakness_), then ban and make illegal with multi-Billion dollar fines the following:
- Profiting off data collected by users on your platform(s)
- Categorizing users on your platform and performing A/B tests
- Targeting users (_of any age_) for advertising
In fact just ban targeted advertising period.~
The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It's stupid shit like this that's the _real_ problem with "big tech" social media platforms. These morons just simply don't understand basic economics and basic business.
Why would a company like Meta, X and TikTok give up a large multi-billion dollar segment of the market. That is, young children from the ages of ~3 to 16 (_yes kids these days can use a computer or device from a pretty young age!_)
The whole masquerade of "online saftey" and the new Australia legislation of the Online Safety Act 2021 is complete and utter bullshit.
You wanna fix this whole cybercrime and cyber bullying that goes on (_which btw if you understood how these fucking platforms worked in the first place, you'd realise drives up engagement on the platforms by abusing human emotional and psychological weakness_), then ban and make illegal with multi-Billion dollar fines the following:
- Profiting off data collected by users on your platform(s)
- Categorizing users on your platform and performing A/B tests
- Targeting users (_of any age_) for advertising
In fact just ban targeted advertising period.~
@slashdot Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the "decentralized" social media platform that won't steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦♂️
@slashdot Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the "decentralized" social media platform that won't steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦♂️
After several hard hours, I _think_ I've recovered the last missing 1 Twt from @bender 🥳 Turns out just before I accidentally nuked my pod, I took a dump of it's cached just seconds before 🤣 -- So I was also able to rebuild anything that was missing from the backup from the recent cache dump!
After several hard hours, I _think_ I've recovered the last missing 1 Twt from @bender 🥳 Turns out just before I accidentally nuked my pod, I took a dump of it's cached just seconds before 🤣 -- So I was also able to rebuild anything that was missing from the backup from the recent cache dump!
Thanks to @lyse's own archived feeds we've managed to restore quite a bit and probably only lost a couple of hours. 🙇♂️
Thanks to @lyse's own archived feeds we've managed to restore quite a bit and probably only lost a couple of hours. 🙇♂️
@wbknl You of all are the most affected as our newest member of my pod and most recently joined. I'm so sorry 😢
@wbknl You of all are the most affected as our newest member of my pod and most recently joined. I'm so sorry 😢
Not really sure how this is similar at all teally as Yarn like every other twtxt client just fetches feeds you tell it to? 🤔
Not really sure how this is similar at all teally as Yarn like every other twtxt client just fetches feeds you tell it to? 🤔
@bender I hear ya 👌 I feel very much the same 😅
@bender I hear ya 👌 I feel very much the same 😅
@bender LIL 🤣 Starting to wonder whether maybe I'm the one that's wrong here? 🤔 And have a warped sense of the terms distributed and decentralized? 😅
@bender LIL 🤣 Starting to wonder whether maybe I'm the one that's wrong here? 🤔 And have a warped sense of the terms distributed and decentralized? 😅
@bender Just because you can run it doesn't make it decentralised. As @doesnm rightfully points out, where are the points of controls? It's a distributed network with a protocol that forms a "network". With key services operated by BlueSky this isn't decentralised in the true sense now is it? 🤔
@bender Just because you can run it doesn't make it decentralised. As @doesnm rightfully points out, where are the points of controls? It's a distributed network with a protocol that forms a "network". With key services operated by BlueSky this isn't decentralised in the true sense now is it? 🤔
@eldersnake I'm feeling slightly better (_though my sinuses are still giving my grief 🤦♂️_) so I'll try to answer this and properly state my position on the proposed minimum age restrictions being proposed by the Labor government.
Firstly I think it's completely ineffective and unenforceable. The only way you're going to get this enforced is to somehow makes all the "big tech" companies oblighes, which some already are. But then you can just work-around it anyway. Okay if you start requiring things like state-enforced age verification like a driver's license or something, then things start getting even more weird.
Frankly I don't think it's the right approach. I think it will ultimately achieve nothing. It'll be just like the many numerous attempts at banning alcohol and drugs. Once you're addicted, there's no way you can stop people from indulging in stupid crap that may possibly kill them.
The only way out of this mess IMO is to educate people, educate the parents and to make it practices of targeting, categorization and the manipulation of content based on metadata either you or a 3rd-party questionable obtained illegal.
In other words. The very foundation of what "bit tech" social media companies thrive on. Make that illegal. Problem solve. But oh wait?! 🤦♂️_
@eldersnake I'm feeling slightly better (_though my sinuses are still giving my grief 🤦♂️_) so I'll try to answer this and properly state my position on the proposed minimum age restrictions being proposed by the Labor government.
Firstly I think it's completely ineffective and unenforceable. The only way you're going to get this enforced is to somehow makes all the "big tech" companies oblighes, which some already are. But then you can just work-around it anyway. Okay if you start requiring things like state-enforced age verification like a driver's license or something, then things start getting even more weird.
Frankly I don't think it's the right approach. I think it will ultimately achieve nothing. It'll be just like the many numerous attempts at banning alcohol and drugs. Once you're addicted, there's no way you can stop people from indulging in stupid crap that may possibly kill them.
The only way out of this mess IMO is to educate people, educate the parents and to make it practices of targeting, categorization and the manipulation of content based on metadata either you or a 3rd-party questionable obtained illegal.
In other words. The very foundation of what "bit tech" social media companies thrive on. Make that illegal. Problem solve. But oh wait?! 🤦♂️_
@doesnm This is such a good response! 🙌 You are absolutely right in that Bkuesky is not decentralized 👏
@doesnm This is such a good response! 🙌 You are absolutely right in that Bkuesky is not decentralized 👏
I think it's fixed now eight?
I think it's fixed now eight?
@xuu I _think_ my backend stalled and I somehow managed to post in the past 🤣 For some reason I'm noticing more performance problems with yarnd of late. Need to look into them...
@xuu I _think_ my backend stalled and I somehow managed to post in the past 🤣 For some reason I'm noticing more performance problems with yarnd of late. Need to look into them...
@bender Hah looks like you get more interactions here 🤣
Anyone thinking of trying our (or already are) the ATprotocok / BlueSky? 🤔
@bender Hah looks like you get more interactions here 🤣
@bender Can you suggest a better default font size that works well on desktop and mobile? 🤔
@bender Can you suggest a better default font size that works well on desktop and mobile? 🤔
The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔
The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔
@eldersnake sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it's otherwise pretty rubbish
@eldersnake sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it's otherwise pretty rubbish
LOL what does "lightly encrypted" mean?! 🤣
LOL what does "lightly encrypted" mean?! 🤣
@wbknl Tell us more! Who is Thomas Feiner? 🤔
@wbknl Tell us more! Who is Thomas Feiner? 🤔
You need to figure out what it means to have "free thought", "to reason", "have deep understanding" and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to "dream". You have to figure out what it means to hold "ethics", "morals" and even "beleifs".
You need to figure out what it means to have "free thought", "to reason", "have deep understanding" and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to "dream". You have to figure out what it means to hold "ethics", "morals" and even "beleifs".
@slashdot When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don't think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a "conscious free thinking being" -- I'm not convinced we'll figure this out to be honest.
@slashdot When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don't think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a "conscious free thinking being" -- I'm not convinced we'll figure this out to be honest.
@xuu must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 -- Oh but wait... @xuu have you updated recently? @lyse did add some new feature that means you have to go to Settings -> Poderator settings and trust the peers you have there, including my pod 😅
@xuu must be extremely unlucky, as it picks a random pod in the peering list 🤣 -- Oh but wait... @xuu have you updated recently? @lyse did add some new feature that means you have to go to Settings -> Poderator settings and trust the peers you have there, including my pod 😅
@bender True I just wanted to make sure 👍
@bender True I just wanted to make sure 👍
They are however pretty good at auto-complete though. If you wire up Continue.dev with VSCode and a local Ollama powered codeastral model, it's pretty decent. Or if you use the open source friendly Codeium.
They are however pretty good at auto-complete though. If you wire up Continue.dev with VSCode and a local Ollama powered codeastral model, it's pretty decent. Or if you use the open source friendly Codeium.
@eldersnake With enough data and enough computing power you can simulate anything right or create grand illusions that appear to real they're hard to tell 😅 -- But yes, at the end of the day LLM(s) today are just large probabilistic models, stochastic parrots.
@eldersnake With enough data and enough computing power you can simulate anything right or create grand illusions that appear to real they're hard to tell 😅 -- But yes, at the end of the day LLM(s) today are just large probabilistic models, stochastic parrots.
@xuu You don't follow the Slashdot feed? 🤔
@xuu You don't follow the Slashdot feed? 🤔
@bender Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣
@bender Ull Twt to find the references later. But my memory is quite good 🤣
To @anth's points, I _think_ this should be written as "Client recommendations" and "Serve recommendations". Separate from the "Twtxt format" spec.
To @anth's points, I _think_ this should be written as "Client recommendations" and "Serve recommendations". Separate from the "Twtxt format" spec.