# 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 60823
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&offset=60815
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt&offset=60715
Today is a good day! Took my daughter to art class, got a beard trim, wife is awesome and we're all doing great π€π
@kat @kat Pretty sure I have many more mentions in the database than the one and only one I see hmmm π€ -- I'll have a look at the code when I can and the SQL query it's using
@zvava Yes congrats and well done! Keep going! π₯³
@zvava Been there done that haha π€£
@zvava Enjoying it so far? π€ π
@zvava Hey π Welcome to Yarn.social π€
@ionores Love the new Avatar dude π
Very nice! π
@dce Ooops π
Hope you still have enough money for the basics π€ I'm doing okay though!
Chances are the database bought wasn't cheap at all and was aold by some scam company that probably ripped them from six figures or more for a database that's full of rubbish. π€£
@movq Right now I'm basically just blocking entire ASN(s) at this point and large blocks of IP(s) from Anthropic, OPenAI, Microsoft and others.
Didn't see that coming π
@bender I've been cutting back too π
Trying to avoid drinking (_with alcohol_) 24hr before fixtures (π) and before training π€£
Weekend! Whooo π€£ Having a few too many glassses of π· listening to music on Youtube and playing Chess which I haven't been playing much lately π’
@dce No worries π It's all documented in our soecs, it's not such a common thing that we've felt the great need to really solve, we're aware folks want to sometimes have their feed on several protocols, and that's totally fineβ’ π
@lyse Very nice colors dude! π
@movq Yeah, we've seen how this plays out in practice π€£ @dce My advice, do what @movq has hinted at and don't change the 1st # url = field in your feed. I'm not sure if you had already, but the first url field is kind of important in your feed as it is used as the "Hashing URI" for threading.
@dce these are some of the same reasons that I enjoy Yarn.social/Twtxt π
@dce Twet is a far better command line client. Yea π
@dce Hello! π Welcome! π€
@movq Yeah I'm worried about this too. What's the systemic problem at paay here? Capitalism at it's extreme? π€
> To combat malware and financial scams, Google announced today that only apps from developers that have undergone verification can be installed on certified Android devices starting in 2026.
>
> This requirement applies to βcertified Android devicesβ that have Play Protect and are preloaded with Google apps. The Play Store implemented similar requirements in 2023, but Google is now mandating this for all install methods, including third-party app stores and sideloading where you download an APK file from a third-party source.
@movq Yeah I just got a bit curious after watching your video and reading your OP π
@movq Haha yeah rightio, and yeah inches suck π€£
@movq What do you define as "expensive"? π€ (I've always thought of modern-day painters as a "rip", and the ink my god π€―)
@movq Is there like a TL;DR of this standard? I can't say I remember this tbh π€
@movq Got a link to this
> ESC/P standard.
@movq Are you sure?
> because there is virtually no market for these devices anymore, meaning new ones are very, very expensive.
I think dot matrix printers are still pretty common in many Point of Sales (POS) registers right? At least here in AU they're very common. I had a quick look myself today, there seems to be quite a solid market for these types of printers. In fact even EPSON still sell Dot Matrix printers themselves π€£
@movq Kind of curious now... Is there a (to buy new) dot matrix printer you'd recommend if someone wanted to get into this sort of thing (sending plain 'ol bytes to a printer port)? π€ (I remember this back in the ye 'old days!)
@twtxtory it is designed that way on purpose π€£
@thecanine Haha I thought myself there might ahve been too many pixels on the tail, but I'm no expert in this field π€£ It's still a nice canine though! π
@thecanine My daughter (_who is pretty good already at art and only 10 :D_) says this looks like a "blob" π€£ I tried to explain to her that this is pixel art, but I'm not quite sure she has the same appreciation (yet) π
@eric Name change is no worries! π Interesting/funnily enough my client yarnd _seems_ to have picked it up automatically which is nice (_I've historically always had a few bugs to iron out there π€£_)_
@itsericwoodward Also just a heads up, GIF(s) aren't supproted as an Avatar type on yarnd (_what runs twtxt.net_). I'd change this to something that's more supproted like PNG, JPEG, etc.
@eric I prefer to call what we've built here _really_ an "ecosystem". A network isn't really an apt description. Twtxt/Yarn is arguably IMO the purest decentralised non-social social media ecosystem I think in existence today π€£
@xuu Your ingress is via some kind of tunnelling too right?
@eric Sure i! Welcome! π€
@eldersnake Haha, yeah well "thinking" isn't really something we even know how to define, let alone simulate π€£
But maybe, just _maybe_ this is why they're pushing so hard to have this "Age Verification" bullshit. So they can then shut people down like me that routinely "speak up" and "against the status quo". Bend over backwards? I think not! Assholes π€£
I _realize_ I'm a nobody, and no-one will care or listen. But to the various UK, EU and AU politicians pushing for this "Online Safety Act" bullshit.... You're all fucking utter morons! I can't wait for the backflash of what will come next. Idiots.
Today I finally got rid of my /29 IPv4 subnet with my ISP _used_ to power my ingress. No longer.
@movq No one would figure out how to :q! ? π€£
This whole Age Verification that's being rolled out in the UK, AU and parts of the EU is totally fucking bullshit. Death to the Online Safety Act.
@jost Yeah replying is pretty easy if you see the first reply. Just preserve the so-called "Subject" π€£
@kat Cool! π Yeah I'll add that soonβ’
@kat Oh sweet! I was gonna say, setting up those rules is a bit "complicated" π€£ But I'm glad you worked it out! π
There is a missing feature I've been intending to add to though, which is that _any_ link that _looks_ like a URL that _might_ be an image, for example, ends with .png or .jpg or whatever, we _should_ just render that as an image and not expect users to wrap it in Markdown image links 
@kat Ahh what do you mean by images don't embed? They definitely should! By default however all domains are blocked, so you might want to either allow some domains or just put in a .* entry to allow all/any domsins. Screenshot attached 
@arne LOl that's hilarious π
@kiwu Hi!!!!!!!!! π Welxome! πββοΈ
@important_dev_news Oh gawd, is the EU doing this "age verification" bullshit too!? Not just Australia?! π¦πΊ Farrrrk!!!!! Help!!!!
@kat Just do it π€£ I do this daily for work. It's great!
@movq Don't worry, this hype will end as quickly as the last one haha π€£
@movq Sounds about right π
@movq Haha π But OTOH not nearly as much as you think. Plus you get to build what you want!
Been mucking around with designing my own camper (_floor plan_). 
Global update: Trump in Scotland says EU trade deal has 50-50 chance as tariff row grows. Gaza sees 9 more starvation deaths (122 total); UN says famine is deliberate. Thai-Cambodia clashes kill 16, displace 135k. US raid in Syria kills top ISIS leader & sons.
To be honest though, for a mid-range and moderately priced truck, even though it's made in China (_what isn't?!_), it's _actually_ a very nice truck.
@bender I plan to trade it in within it's warranty period π€£ It has 7yr warrants on everything, I said to the dealer, I'll see you in 5 π€£
Our truck can comfortably tow 3T (its rated for 3.5T but I'm trying to keep a fair bit of buffer and headroom all-round).
@bender That was one of the inputs into my research π§ So that's already factored in. We bought our new truck (2025 GWM Canon) recently to replace the 'ol 2nd hand Nissan Navara we bought that just had _too many_ things go wrong with it, and I don't have time or energy to learn to be a diesel mechanic haha π€£ -- So yes, the SCT-16 has a Tare (unladen weight) of 2150Kg and a maximum legal (ATM) weight of 2,800Kg.
After many weeks and probably at least a hundred hours of research, discussions and in-person viewing, I _think_ I've finally come up with my Final Choices (_shortlist_) of a Hybrid Camper / Caravan that I think will suit my family and that I'll enjoy (_far less work for me to setup and teardown_). The one at the top of the list I'm leaning towards os the SWAG SCT16 Family 4B 
#Camping #Campers
@bender Yes! You guys have this thing called a "5th wheeler" π€£ We (Aussies) just don't normally have big enough trucks to drag those "House on wheels" though π
@bender are they really though when you factor in the weaker AUD? π§
@movq This is a really good example of "simplicity" but achieves the intent and goals π
> (Now, I donβt know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesnβt.)
I don't use a screen reader fortunately (_actually they're pretty garbage_). So all good π (_I juse use full-screen zoom_).
For example, I reckon software should treat stdout and stderr with care and never output logs or other such garbage to stdout that cannot possibly be useful in a UNIX pipeline π
@movq Yeah that's why I'm striking this conversation with you π
Not only do I respect your opinion quite highly π€£ But like you say (_and I've read their philipshpy_) it can be a bit "elitism" for sure. I'm genuinely interested in what we think of as software that "doesn't suck". Tb be honest I haven't really put thought to paper myself, but I reckon if I did, I'd have some opinions/ideas...
@movq So you wouldn;t consider things written in Go to be "suckless"-esque? π€
@movq Curious what you would define as "suck less" software? (language agnostic of course!)
@eldersnake Yeah for sure! The thing that annoys me about a lot of this, is the sheer fact you can't really self-host let alone self-train these things I've been playing around with AI at home over the past few months and building my own neural networks from scratch (in Go) with genetic algorithms on a few tasks and training sets, but man it's hardβ’ π€£ I _feel_ like we're doing something wrong here...
@eldersnake This was an interesting read for sure! π I don't think it had anything I hadn't already considered in terms of the ethical/moral points of view. I'm not sure where I stand myself either to be honest. I've forced myself to get familiar with the ecosystem and tooling, because in my line of work as a tech lead (staff engineer in sre) you don't want to be that one guy that ya know π Ethically/Morally though, I'm definitely with the sentiment of this post π
Much like the whole Crypto hype yaers back (_if y'all remember?!_) this is also one of the most energy hungry pieces of "tech" (_if you can call it that?_) in a while. Then there's these other issues "stealing people's work", "reliance is causing humans to become cognitively weak and neural connections to shrink", to name a few..._
How you can tell a "review post" on some random website was written by AI?
> Ergonomically nicer than its binocular counterpart
How exactly is this a reason to avoid?! π€¦ββοΈ
@movq Because we keep fucking with the planet's environment and climate patterns? π€
We're feeling some pretty intense winds up here in Brisbane too right on the outer edge which are exceeding 100 km an hour winds π€£
Feeling a bit bad for the folks and Coffs Harbor and on the coast of Sydney right now π€― 
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