# 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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#     offset  Start index for quey.
#     limit   Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 1824
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&offset=724
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&offset=824
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt&offset=624
Ugh. Replies are falling wherever they want. 😬
This I added as a reply to the AI Slashdot feed. It created a new twtxt instead. Also, @ completion is broken.
Tell me you are a boomer, without telling me you are a boomer: “I follow, and reply to, a Slashdot feed on Yarn.social.” 😂😂😂
@xuu howdy, Sour dude!
@prologic nah, is OK, let it be. History must hold the true facts, so they don’t repeat again. 😉
Hitting "Reply" or "Fork" does nothing. So, my feed will forever bear witness to the "dupligate", correct?
Glitches squashed with glee,
Smooth flow, code sings its new song,
Works as planned at last.
Ugh. Not quite.
So, only original posts get duplicated, not replies.
@prologic a test to your test.
Duplicate!
@lyse yup. It truly has gone berserk.
Every single twtxt duplicates now. Sorry everyone!
OMG! https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt
I just replicated the duplication of twtxts. To do so, simply click "Edit", wait for the textarea to come up with the post you are "editing", and navigate away. Done.
@tkanos I don't know about girls, because haven't raised one, but boys would, at certain point, label that "continuous discussion" as nagging, and parents as "boomers", and will do whatever the hell they want. I know because I did similarly, and our not-a-kid-anymore does the same.

Bottom-line, advise, yes, but don't be too strict because it backfires.
@lyse yes, I hate it too. ☹️
@prologic "when they're older", how older? Are your teenagers at that stage, or not on the teens yet? Do you know of any teenagers using Twtxt/Yarn.social? I don't know what others think, but a teenager using Twtxt/Yarn.social is borderline Luddite. 😂
Something really broken here. I edited the previous twtxt, and it duplicated it, with a different handle for you (prologic).
@prologic watch (or listen) to the Apple even today. Best way is always getting things from the horse’s mouth. 😂
@prologic watch (or listen) to the Apple event today. Best way is always getting things from the horse’s mouth. 😂
@prologic what’s the advantage?
@prologic LOL.
@prologic

A glimpse.
Something was done to twtxt.net that has destroyed mobile, at the very least. 🥳😬
@prologic you should have ended that with “but I digress”, because you do. 😂
@sorenpeter nothing ever is. :-D
@lyse the cows on 1, 2, and 3 are very skinny, eh? Big contrast from those on 5 and 6.

24°C brutal? Pfff, try 33°C then, and a 53% humidity. 😂
@prologic automobiles, airplanes, radios, televisions, computers, the Internet, the WWW, etc. I mean, come to think of it, pretty much everything on its infancy kind of sucked.
@sorenpeter well, not OK. It has two @ in it. "It just works" because it seems your code don't care, as long as there is a link, which there is.
@movq I can't debug it, I don't have the knowledge to do it. One thing I have noticed on LLMs is they don't excel at mathematics (duh!). They are better at providing information that already exists, sometimes even in a logical way, or generating artistic outcomes (poems, songs, letters, images, videos, etc.). They can even generate decent code! (granted, not to be blindly trusted, but very helpful for a programmer, as it could speed up development process).

I have found other issues, like asking it who was the youngest person to ever been elected president of the United States. It often replies with wrong information to things that should be trivial knowledge. Every once in a while fully hallucinates.

The technology is rapidly evolving. I wouldn't just dis it, and simply call it "pieces of crap", or worthless things. There has been other things/technologies/stuff that worked/performed/functioned bad in their infancy, but then get better, and more useful, over time.
@prologic one can understand how LLMs work, and even train one (with the needed hardware), if interested (that, of course, will not happen if uninterested to begin with).

I think LLMs, and whatever they morph into, will be useful. They are also not going away. As for the energy consumption, well, some say it is a good thing, as it will speed up the transition to green energy usage. :-)
@prologic all fundraising I have ever seeing are for institutions/centres/organisations, etc., that have a really big operating cost (they spend millions), or revenue (they spend, and also make, millions). That's how they managed to do both, spend, and make! LOL.
Only Llama 2 of my locally running LLM got it right:
Llama 2 correct answer
@prologic it is not just ChatGPT:

Screenshot of several answers from locally run LLM
@prologic that's not the way LLM work. LOL. If they were to "learn" by user's corrections, or contributions, then they would really be screwed.
@movq it’s a leaf, or a tree branch.
Windows XP Pro 32bits volume license media: DKPRM-Q68HX-FRKCJ-MT88X-7QKBB
I might join from mum’s house (on the phone), as she just asked me this evening to come by early to help her with a few things on her backyard. 😩
For those of us on EDT, that's 8:00AM. You can do it! :-)
@movq it is an interesting thing to do. I mean, he found a way to fool Defender, but why? A disabled Defender is worthless, and that's what he is doing. If I were to use Microsoft Windows, I would want the Defender to be bonafide active.
@prologic so, Bing. LOL.
@mckinley I am researching a bit on crossposting. I have a couple of Hugo static notes, for example, Netbros, and I figured that by using Algia, a Nostr CLI client, I can crosspost from Hugo to Nostr quite easily with something like:


cat hugo_post.md | algia n --article-title "A long post test" --article-name "A long post test" --article-summary "This is a long post test. Let's see if it works as intended." --stdin


Same approach can be used with twtxt, or anything else!

Having my own relay ensures my notes in it remain for as long as the relay runs, at the very least. Of course, you can post to more than one relay.
@prologic neither. It is rubbish. 😂😂😂
Google. Not going to lie.
@movq I will take this as pretty clear:

> "we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing"

Emphasis mine. Of course, they could have spelled "links" as "results". We all know that was done purposely. 😅
@mckinley I am using nostream, using their Docker approach. It was simple to setup.
@mckinley I am on iOS, so there is plenty to chose from. There are a few web based ones you can use (https://primal.net is one of them).
@mckinley, what's your npub? Mine is npub1fzsnac6k335u7tmjmrhalyyp78ccq3t4vyx7m2zchafax2eeqaxqx3kj5s.
@prologic duh! I think I can make it for the one on the 25th.
@movq ugh! I mean, it doesn't need to be used, but I am sure it adds bloat to the application. I would have liked it more if it allowed integration with a locally running engine, like ollama.
@movq ugh! I mean, it doesn't need to be used, but I am sure it adds bloat to the application. I would have like it more if it allowed integration with a locally running engine, like ollama.
@aelaraji so, did you use scenario 1?
@movq sounds like a very good place to start! 😊
@Rob you forgot to add “said no one”. 🤭
@prologic towards the end of the month.
@prologic will miss the first couple, but will sure join when we return from vacations! 😊
@stigatle you mean, you don’t want the dog mauling everything in the house while you are away? 😅
@movq indeed! We just landed in Los Angeles, and they are still at it!
@movq I’ll tell you in a couple of weeks. Currently on our way to Japan. 😊
@movq I’ll tell you in a couple of weeks. Currently in our way to Japan. 😊
@movq mine is -1.
@prologic having to go to search to read an older conversation is inefficient, unseemly, and an overall poor user experience. There has to be another way, right?
@aelaraji it looks good, mate. All set! 😊
Spring cleaning! 😊
@aelaraji off topic, I think you are using hard wrapping, or something similar, on mutt/neomutt. The formatting of your twts come up a little off. Specifically, the line wraps.
@aelaraji well done! Now do 48 hours without a computer, nor Internet. Baby steps! 😅
@dbucklin a fun read indeed, thanks for sharing. The author has other interesting stuff, it’s a good site!
@lyse dear lord, that’s nuts. Now, when he is driving they don’t show the driver. Still, seemingly a feat!
@lyse this almost made me choke:

> But on the flipside, we’ve also been abused as dumpsters again. Some asshole brought us a deep fryer. With the oil still in it. Unfortunately, we discovered that too late.
@sorenpeter that's finicky. Got to make it more robust! :-)
Yeah, I was correct. He originally posted "and image", and I replied to that one. Then he edited the twt, changing it to "an image", and you replied.
@mckinley because the OP edited the twt, after Yarn had already cached it. I replied to the original one, you replied to the edited version (o vice versa, haven't checked).
@prologic under maintenance now.
@prologic how old is the actual appliance? You can replace disks all you want/need, but the life of the appliance itself is finite.
@mckinley the best way to suffer no data loss is to not have data at all. 😂 I haven’t lost a single datum.
@prologic I am following @dbucklin@ but mentioning him renders that broken thing you see on this twt.
@prologic this happened. Mentions often break. 😩
@aelaraji images are linked using markdown "standard", like so:


![Description](https://link.to.the.image/image.jpg)
@aelaraji hehehehe, I was trying to mention *dbucklin* but Yarn is broken.
I vote for jenny too. It is pretty cool. Even more so if you are a mutt’s fan!
@dbucklin Hi there! Well, I got your message. Let me know if you have gotten mine.
@dbucklin further test. It seems Yarn is very finicky.
Let’s see if this works, shall we? 😊
@someone testing…
And that's... bad, right @prologic?
So, started following https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt, but there is no way to interact with him. Mentions will never come out right.
@ OK, lets see if I can make you write something, after those long silent years! :-)
www.davebucklin.com@www.davebucklin.com OK, lets see if I can make you write something, after those long silent years! :-)
@<@www.davebucklin.com https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt> OK, lets see if I can make you write something, after those long silent years! :-)
Ha! Found it:

> Due to the Btrfs RAID issues, Synology chose Linux RAID. Based on the diagram below, Synology has implemented the layers in between the file systems and disks to ensure that Synology has full control to achieve the highest stability.
@mckinley I am curious now, though. Doesn't Synology use RAID Btrfs? How in the world do they do it? Researching...
@mckinley "Warning: The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for "anything but testing with throw-away data." -- Yikes!. Gulp.
@movq what password manager do you use on the CLI? Is it pass?
@prologic that’s some service!
@prologic I remember when I first ran Yarn on *arrakis*, it was a mess. Remember I had to start it again from scratch? If I were to run Yarn today, I will have to ask you what -u to use, if I am going to run a web server on it (say, *Caddy*), and what to do to keep the huge cache Xuu and I like. LOL. Granted, I could figure it out myself after some trial and error too.

To make Yarn install easier? An installer script that would prompt for the settings, generate config, and install the *systemd*, because, whether we like it or not, the biggest Linux distros around use it.
@prologic I don't see how OP will see the replies. Does Yarn proxies to Gemini?
@prologic ooooohhh! I like *Legit* quite a bit. "Oui, il est le git!" :-D Thanks!
@lyse mind it, English is my second language, though I have been using it since 1992, almost constantly.

"Next weekend", is the weekend after the one coming up. The one coming up is "this weekend", or simply "the weekend" (as in, "see you this weekend!" or "will mow the lawn on the weekend"). I don't like the perceived ambiguity of it, thus I strictly use dates ("lets get together on Saturday, 4 May 2024"). 😅
Is there something simpler, and leaner, than Gitea, which will allow me to see (as in read only) git repositories nicely on a web browser? Preferably a one-file-only solution, written in Golang.