# 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 1532
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=732
# next = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=832
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://twt.nfld.uk/user/jlj/twtxt.txt&offset=632
Oh really? I guess that's my fault, adding that second hashtag. Re ideas, I was wondering about that Blog button, beside Reply: couldn't we just treat a blog post like any other link? That we reply to, starting conversations?
@prologic Yeah, sure. :-) I'll put together a final draft for review on HackMD first.
@eldersnake Yeah, I put LineageOS on an original Pixel that was new (to me); couldn't be happier.
Forty concepts you should know\n\nBirdsite, sorry. :-/
@darch Hanson actually uses the phrase free hearing; reminded me of your contribution to the yarn.social manifesto. :-)
@lyse @prologic That's an interesting point. It most certainly aids discovery, but at what cost? I hadn't considered that, up to this point.
Hanson on elite influence on policy:\n\n"... It seems to me that policy does tend to be overly trusting of elites and their status-gossip system, and overly punitive and disrespectful of rival groups. For example, policy pushes us to pick docs, lawyers, and other prestigious professionals based more on the prestige of their affiliations, and less on track records or incentives. Business does seem greatly overly regulated, and taxes seem overly punitive. And policy seems to rely too much on the consensus of elite gossip, relative to more accurate sources like experts or prediction markets..."
@jlj Ah, it is. So, for the time being, maybe immediately commenting on a blog post is the way forward. (#xrtbbhq)
H'm, manually copying a hashtag to a comment didn't seem to work. Is this still associated with my latest blog post?
Looks like GNU social is now advocating a Docker based deployment; might opt for that instead, actually. That's the route I went down, hosting vaultwarden on my Pi 3A, and I'm pretty happy with the results, to date.
Interesting -- I had no idea that blogs were any different; thanks for the heads-up, @lazarus! Good to see you too. :-)
@eldersnake Followed. I've kept your old feed as oldsnake. :-)
Karnofsky on Asimov\n\nI'd forgotten how prolific Asimov was. Picked up a secondhand copy of this beast, for fun. (A dad needs every trick he can get his hands on to seem smart in front of the kiddos. ;-) )
Instagram CEO Mosseri on its value to society: an article in need of an editor, but worth reading simply because it's a window on the mind of a person at the heart of broken social media. This isn't just Zuck.\n\nThat he thinks the complaints stem from being misquoted is at once laughable and horrifying. This company is not only willfully ignoring the objective harm it is doing, it's actively peddling a narrative advocating an intrinsic value above even that of the devices that run it.\n\nHubris. But hubris causing direct harm to millions.
@prologic It wasn't a dig, mate, honest! You're doing great work, and it takes but a moment for interested parties to find their way here, I'm sure. :-)\n\nThat said, we could use an artist or two on the roster, you aren't wrong. ;-)
Horrifying.\n\n"... At times the CDC seemed more interested in its own “intellectual property” than in saving lives. In a jaw-dropping section, Dr. Gottlieb writes that “companies seeking to make the test kits described extended negotiations with the CDC that stretched for weeks as the agency made sure that the contracts protected its inventions.” When every day of delay could mean thousands of lives lost down the line, the CDC was dickering over test royalties..."\n\nhttps://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/scott-gottliebs-uncontrolled-spead.html
Who dis? 🤔 I like your moustache. 😂
@prologic @darch Will do. :-) And I've added it to my Links section on nfld.uk. :-)
I finally started running the latest *master* branch yesterday, so it's new to me too. :-)
@mckinley I *think* it's a quick way to start a new conversation with the same people, so each conversation can stick to one topic.
@adi LinkedIn :-)\n\n@https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> Happy birthday! 🎂
Just saw this @darch, but came to the same conclusion independently. :-)
@prologic (#4y72sfq) Yeah, these companies can't continue without the people who write the code. But there are lots of people willing to do that, I guess. :-(
Oops. This was supposed to be part of (#4y72sfq). :-)
Incidentally, when I joined, pre bookface, IG was about photography; sharing your shots, and interests.\n\nAnd I guess it wasn't making enough money for them, greedy $+*&s.
'... In March, the researchers said Instagram should reduce exposure to celebrity content about fashion, beauty and relationships, while increasing exposure to content from close friends, according to a slide deck they uploaded to Facebook’s internal message board. A current employee, in comments on the message board, questioned that idea, saying celebrities with perfect lives were key to the app. “Isn’t that what IG is mostly about?” he wrote...'\n\nWell, that'd be a start...
@maya This is so upsetting, on so many levels. Feels like we haven't made much progress at all.\n\nAnd how's it supposed to change, when policy makers are ill-equipped, for reasons you rightly highlighted?
@adi Yeah, it's too wide. Need to rethink it. :-)
@adi Yup. Supported the site for a year, actually. :-) I'm jlj there too. :-)
@adi Agreed. Really like it.
@prologic Well, they're the cream of the crop, obviously. ;-D
Cowen on reading\n\nSeems impractical for most, without some sort of organised, external support (e.g., a zettelkasten).
"... U.S. users were more influenced by changes in others’ high arousal negative (e.g., angry) posts, whereas Japanese were more influenced by changes in others’ high arousal positive (e.g., excited) posts..." https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pspa0000282
@movq Ha! Talk about a 90° turn in a functionality! ;-)
@adi @prologic Yeah. I'm a big Lynch fan, and I remember enjoying aspects of it in that vein, but I'm hoping this latest interpretation will be closer to Herbert's aesthetic.
"When you say you want more freedom from the world, you may just need freedom from your past self. You don’t see things as they are. You see them as you are. Change yourself and you change the world." (Derek Sivers – How to Live)
I've often wondered how Dune holds up. I made it halfway through in my youth. Think I need to try again, based on Cowen's praise. MR also
@adi :-D It's great fun! Lovin' mkws!
"... And that is the great shame and indeed I would say crime. There seems to be an incredible complacency that people in some parts of [Australia] will put up with the current measures and not demand the government look for more practical measures to boost both liberty and security..." MR
@prologic Oh, an app to control our Roku stick. I'd assumed I'd have to grab the official one that I had on my old phone (from the Play Store); happy to be mistaken!
Just found RoMote on F-Droid. Donated! Who needs Play (or their owner)? ;-)
Holy crap! I thought the PATRIOT Act, and the general tone of that response twenty-odd years ago, was bad. This is... well, unreal... except it is very much real.\n\nSide note: that is an extremely effective campaign by DRW, I feel. Appropriately chilling!
"... The feed is reverse chronological, not algorithmic. Post timestamps are vague. Nothing is monetized. There are no likes or follows or noisy notifications. The site’s only visible metric counts down, showing how many posts each user has remaining..."\n\nhttps://minus.social/
@adi Cool! I don't really have a local anymore, between moving a few years ago, kids, and a pandemic. Need to sort that out, I think!
@darch @prologic Stumbled upon this (very popular, it seems!) YouTube channel, and thought that they raised some good points to keep in mind with any revival of a landing page like we had with jointwt: https://youtu.be/lFb7BOI_QFc
@darch Ha ha. You're welcome. Now I just need to pick @prologic's brain about keeping it all backed up and somewhat resilient. :-)
Dang it, @darch! You got me (very briefly!) reading 'birdsite' again! ;-)
@adi @lohn H'm... Strange. I did play with their Matrix<>IRC bridge code for a bit, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with that means of invoking it, but, for my homeserver, for example, I'm just running it through synctl, which does actually look for all the yaml config, etc. in the current working directory.\n\nI'll be interested to see how you get on, though, as I'm also looking to run Synapse on OpenBSD in the near future, for IRCNow.org.
@prologic Yeah, will do!\n\nHe's still working on it, with a release this year, and a commit last month. Seems that rich-rss is the project that's really consuming him now, though; he's even planning a paid, premium tier with it. From my point of view, though, the good news is that rich-rss seems to rely on rss-proxy for one of its many features, so it's unlikely to languish. :-)\n\nTrying to figure out what he's trying to do now... It's fairly complex, clearly! https://github.com/damoeb/rich-rss/blob/master/docs/Social-RSS.md
@prologic Ha ha. Yeah, I hear that. ;-)\n\nJust added another one today: an instance of rss-proxy; hoping it'll live up to its initial promise! I so often find that sites don't have feeds when I really wish they did. :-)
Incidentally, I've updated nfld.uk with all the services I run. :-)
It's the main Matrix server implementation, written in Python.
Well, I wasn't able to build it on arm64, after many attempts, but my instance of LibreTranslate is up and running now on amd64. @prologic, if you want to test anything out with it and yarnd, I'll be happy to issue you an API key (so you aren't rate-limited).
@adi * tips his hat * :-)
@adi Ha! Missed that in my attempts to catch up. :-) Sorted too, now. But, to answer your question: yup, I think so. ;-)
@adi Of course! I'll update it now. :-)
Finally started playing around with mkws, @adi! Lots of fun! :-) Now I need some content. ;-)
@prologic @lohn Oh, I'd missed this. Need to brush up on webmentions; it was something I was certainly interested in last year...