# 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 = 1 266
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt&offset=66
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://mckinley.cc/twtxt.txt&offset=166
By crawling a local copy my website, I found a blog post that still has links in the header to files that haven't existed for months.
Always exciting to make a new page for the twtxt section of my website. All done by hand, of course.
Current WebBS for mckinley.cc: 0.041; https://www.webbloatscore.com/?url=https://mckinley.cc/
It's time for infrared-blocking glasses to become commonplace as facial recognition spreads. I only know of one company selling them.
Apple: "Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us." https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
I use doas btw
This could be our future: https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/; Please consider signing https://appleprivacyletter.com/
RIP Terry A. Davis; 1969-2018
Is it just me or is the new beta of Haiku more unstable than the previous one?
Decided it was high time for a sitemap on mckinley.cc, hopefully made it a little easier to find. https://mckinley.cc/sitemap.html
Tech tip: To download a Google spreadsheet directly, replace /edit and anything after in the URL with /export?format=ods or any other format
Fork vacuum: A condition that exists when the maintainers of a popular free software project take action widely disliked by the community
I'm tired of Mozilla's shenanigans. This was over the line. I made sure to tell them that in their uninstallation survey.
I restart my PC to update my graphics drivers, and I come back to the terrible looking UI of Firefox 89. I switched to ungoogled-chromium.
I just spelled 'Koenigsegg' correctly on the first try entering it into a search engine. Feels good.
You can still download videos by passing extracted browser cookies from an account. I'll bet you'll need cookies for any video soon.
YouTube has stopped youtube-dl from circumventing age restriction. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578
Yes, I had to look up terms to describe the issue with my watch. You know, there's a 1500 word Wikipedia article about buckles.
The tongue of my watch's buckle has gone to the wrong side of the frame, and I don't know how. A good excuse to finally get a NATO strap.
"Native JavaScript IDE for iOS" are five words that don't belong in one sentence. https://codesandbox.io/post/codesandbox-acquires-playjs
https://bree.dev/horse/
Audacity PR closed. Author wants tracking, but willing to avoid Google. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835#issuecomment-835880865
A look into the dystopian future: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airbag-vest-will-stop-working-if-you-miss-a-payment
On the subject of Mountain Dew, I'm still mad about the discontinuation of Black Label. Black Label was the best flavor, change my mind.
DEW-S-A IS BACK! I need to get my hands on Code Red, White Out, and Voltage to see if DEW-S-A really is a mix of the 3.
The VERY NEXT PR adds a Google telemetry library. Not a coincidence. Watch PRs closely. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/836
Apparently the PR author is associated with their new parent company, Muse Group. I doubt the opposition will be heard.
Yandex and Google trackers will potentially be added to Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
GoDaddy gave me a refund. I guess I'm not getting mc.cz for $16.
Firefox developers changed the text for some options in the right click menu, making half second actions take thought. Thank you for that.
Almost been 24 hours. I don't have control of my domain. GoDaddy shows it for sale. $5000 instead of $16. Contacting support in the morning.
Okay, IN MY DEFENSE: It is rare (and becoming more rare) to find a 2+2 letter domain that you don't have to pay hundreds of dollars for.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I can get xx.xx (domain withheld) for less than I paid for mck.cx! That's one character less!
Please stop recommending JavaScript programs to me. They're bad enough in a browser, let alone as a piece of dedicated software.
I am now the proud owner of the domain 'mck.cx'. This is only the 2nd domain I've bought without a purpose, but I'm still part of the club.
My 9.5KB plain text feed is also getting up there. I've been thinking about adding a feed with only recent posts. Last 25 or 30, probably.
A month ago, /twtxt.html was the largest page on mckinley.cc. I split it into several files and now the January-April page is the same size.
Oh, wow, Dogecoin almost hit a quarter. Maybe I should get some when the price stabilizes a bit.
MCKINLEY NEWS: GUY WITH EYE DESTROYING WEBSITE SELLS A GIT COMMIT https://nitter.42l.fr/tjholowaychuk/status/1377163602776367104
PEOPLE DO THAT WITH A HEADLESS CHROME INSTANCE? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHO COULD POSSIBLY- WHY WOULD- THE- I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH CHARACTERS.
140 characters cannot even begin to contain my problems with this blog post. https://apex.sh/blog/post/pre-render-wget/
I had a nightmare last night, I had to check my email on an M1 MacBook Pro, and the email client on it was just terrible, almost unusable.
I wouldn't have bought this mouse if it wasn't on the shelf at Micro Center. I've always thought it was a meme, but I like it a lot.
I got a Kensington Expert Mouse. My only other trackball is of the thumb-ball style. The Expert Mouse is very different, but nice to use.
GitHub really doesn't make it easy for you to do things anonymously. At least you can see repositories without JS. (Looking at you, GitLab!)
OnionShare now lets you host an anonymous chat room. You can also run multiple services at one time. It just keeps getting better.
I'm currently updating an Arch system that hasn't been updated since October. Wish me luck.
Everyone should read this. 'User domestication' is a great term. https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html
1100 lines of CSS, 700KB of JavaScript, and 4 fonts on the home page of a blog named 'Web Dev Simplified' https://blog.webdevsimplified.com/
Reject modernity, return to poor contrast and flashy GIFs. https://www.wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/
Hey, it's pi day!
Automatically generated web content never ceases to amuse me. (Spyware warning) https://www.slant.co/versus/126/128/~go_vs_brainfuck
Found a PGP signed twtxt feed. I've been thinking about this, I wonder how many clients it breaks. https://domgoergen.com/twtxt/mdom.txt
/twtxt.html, at 12.9KB, is now the largest HTML document on https://mckinley.cc/.
Live.js is neat, but I don't know why you would include it in the document. I just put it in a userscript for 127.0.0.1. https://livejs.com/
I stopped browsers from automatically requesting a favicon on https://mckinley.cc/ thanks to this blog post: https://k1ss.org/blog/20191004a
@prologic Twtxt.net's privacy policy says you store emails, /register disagrees. Which is true?
"72% of people feel that almost all of what they do online is being tracked by advertisers" Wow Google, I wonder why they feel that way.
"Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web." Yeah, okay Google. https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/a-more-privacy-first-web/
@prologic Vim, and it's really not that awful.
@prologic 36 characters left makes it rough.
@darch Just inline images, they wrap like text.
@adi I can't find it now, keep an eye out for it.
Why is it so common for help sites of software projects to have no links back to the main site? I always have to change the URL manually.
The AC adapter for my W700ds arrived. I can now say the reviewer who referred to it as "a very brick-like power brick" was absolutely right.
MC 1.17: I predict there will be a bedrock wall generated on the border of 1.17 chunks that go to y=-64 and pre-1.17 chunks that go to y=0.
MC 1.17: Bedrock in existing chunks won't be replaced with grimstone. Grimstone starts at y=-1, bedrock ended at y=0. Very specific numbers.
@adi Thanks, man. I'll take a look.
@prologic Logs say it's just you :)
@prologic 36% of requests since I enabled logs
I turned on access logging for https://mckinley.cc/, so if you want to go there using weird browser/hardware combinations, now is the time.
I've been on an archive.org book waitlist for weeks because I can't find the book anywhere else. It sucks to not illegally download things.
I can't tell if this is going to be a real product or not. I sure hope it is, because it looks really cool. http://violence.works/
What an adventure, shame the article was never updated. (Google warning) http://unforgettability.net/content/page/projects_cobalt
Calls to "own your data" and focus on "privacy" fall on deaf ears if you're sponsored by Google and Mozilla, recommending the use of Tumblr.
The 1.17 update to Minecraft will have some interesting features, but I don't really see myself playing a lot of anything newer than 1.12.2.
People's minds are blown about how Mojang made worlds deeper in Minecraft. I predicted this exact solution months ago and was called crazy.
Search engines are not browsers, browsers are not search engines.
To the Canadian gentleman signing every guestbook he can find in Gopherspace, I salute you sir.
The 140 character limit of the twtxt spec is annoying. I hope you got the essence of my previous post.
I was once shown a site with CSS making it look like the source HTML but I didn't save it. If you know it please send a message on Session.
Computers page looks like garbage, but at least I've finally gotten around to making it an official part of my site.
Good discussion about bad article on HowToGeek: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/why-i-still-use-an-old-powerpc-mac-in-2020.2248402/
The computers page on https://mckinley.cc/ kills Lynx compatibility, and I'm stumped on how to fix it without the looks tanking for everyone
Just added a new page on mckinley.cc with some of the computers I have and their specs. https://mckinley.cc/computers.html
Man, haven't used this in a while. Not dead. Blog post coming soon:tm:
My hosting provider probably won't let me use a public key for authentication with FTP though, so that still needs to be done manually.
I finally made a script to add my twtxt messages in the 3 necessary documents. It isn't pretty, but at least it gets the job done.
I would like to make a list of the computers I own on here, have pictures and specs of the machine. Would be a fun project to index them.
Got my new ThinkPad in the mail today. An X61T. Installed Arch on it, everything went well. May go to Parabola eventually for extra freedom.
Reminder that https://mckinley.cc/ is fully Lynx-friendly :)
Reminder that https://mckinley.cc is fully Lynx-friendly :)
https://hardware.majix.org/ cool website showing off someone's old computers
The amount of times I've had to boot my (GNU/Linux) laptop just to ssh into it on my (Windows) desktop to do a basic task is astounding.
https://github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 Domains visited using mobile DDG browser get sent to DDG servers... I'll switch to Firefox.
https:github.com/duckduckgo/Android/issues/527 Domains visited using mobile DDG browser get sent to DDG servers... I'll switch to Firefox.
Moving to Mexico to start an underground GNU/Linux users group, gonna call it RMS-13
Put a nice twtxt section on the root of my website. Fun fact: it isn't automated, so every time I "tweet" I have to manually add it there.
I'm not even using a real client, I made a (poorly written) bash script to write messages to a file and exit if it's over 140 characters.
My first twtxt. Nobody will follow me, but I'm sure if I shill enough on my website I'll get a few people to read my messages in a browser.