# 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 = 1 903
# self = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt&offset=803
# prev = https://watcher.sour.is?uri=https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt&offset=703
@prologic I think these proposals come from lawmakers that ignore the existence or the importance of the Open Source ecosystem; and indeed this moving forward as is would be tragic for *all* free software development. eg., out of my free time I've contributed a few patches to several twtxt/yarn related projects. I do not want to by liable for them, however.
@rlafuente tás a enviar mixed signals, que é muita bom foi o que eu ouvi na net!
@prologic Perhaps Eclipse's article on the subject is clearer.. but the main focus on Python's text is on the liability clauses: while it might make sense that if you buy a product with software (or a software product) the vendor should be liable for its safety, security, etc., that does not translate well to the free software world, and it will have a chilling effect if, suddenly you (as a free software developer) start being liable for the flaws in that software. Python folks point out (and I agree) that "Assigning liability to every upstream developer would create less security, not more", Eclipse people point out that "Every open source license contains no liability clauses", and argue that "It is the companies which commercialize the technology and make a business from it who need to accept liability and provide warranties to their paying customers, not the open source projects".
I expect better. I always end disappointed. I am to blame.
Looking forward to hear someone adapt this into a song's lyrics!
For a good while I have been trying to recall the name of what was arguably the arcade game I played the most in my hometown, as a kid. Finally, I recalled: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs.
screenshot from the game
@slashdot Sometimes I read things like this and get an urge to write a SciFi story inspired by it. I never do.
@dfaria I'm more of a "Sol Invictus' Black Easter" kind of guy: 
a picture of Sol Invictus' album "Lex Talionis", which includes the song "Black Easter"
@prx I'm not sure I understand what you mean there, are you saying that :softwrap doesn't work on vim when the text is colored?
@prologic We really need to make the UX no this better. Perhaps alert the author that their images won't be shown and why?
A MEO com publicidade a dizer que tem internet de velocidade supersónica... eles não sabem o que "velocidade supersónica" quer dizer, pois não?
A tiring yet very fruitful day at #WikiCon. And tomorrow there's more to come!
#WikiCon Portugal 2023 has started today, a 3 days free event, a gathering not only about Wikimedia, but free culture in general. I'll be there the next two days, come say hi!
(for reference, here's me whining on how the measure was already insufficient last year).
unfortunately, it isn't "just Germany" the whole EU seems OK with ignoring the urgency science proves the sittuation demands. And this was already an watered-down decision...
@prologic I'm still going to do it, but I only actually read the log you quotes now, and FWIW, I supposedly *am* following that feed (on purpose):
screenshot showing I am following edsantos@ciberlandia
@jmjl for images, one of those messages is the alt, the other is the title. More info here.
My "one snippet" from today's IPCC report: "Climate change is a threat to human well-being and planetary health. There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all. The choices and actions implemented in this decade will have impacts now and for thousands of years."
@ocdtrekkie I usually touch file;git log file|head;rm file.
@ocdtrekkie well, I mean... can a single-user experiment like that really be called "the metaverse"?
The way Samsung bundles terms of services and privacy policy updates/acceptance with their Android security updates should be studied.
@@madcap@ciberlandia.pt Vergonha ou não, não estás sozinho!
@@madcap@ciberlandia.pt E muito mais havia para fazer, não fosse o número reduzido de funcionários, "manifestamente insuficiente para corresponder ao mandato legal de execução das tarefas necessárias à garantia dos direitos dos cidadãos”... #CNPD
This is an image with an alt text with new lines in it. Yarn.social's web interface renders it "well", the mobile app does not. Which is the correct behavior? Is this how new lines on image's alts are supposed to be? If so, should the web interface be replacing the "new line characters" with actual new lines? Or, in fact, what is the correct way to add a new line in alt texta in html?
So many questions 😊 anyone care to comment?
This is a picture of some pin buttons.
I'm posting it just to try images where the alt text has new lines
@prologic I see. Well, as I said, I see value in such a bridge, but I don't think it replaces yarn.social's AP integration. It could, however, be used as a backend in yarn.social: a pod would delegate the AP bridging, and all of that would be transparent to the user.
Also, how would you go about it? I mean, I can start using a txt on my client that is actually coming from a proxy service generating it from an AP account (like we already have on feeds), but how do I announce that your service should "follow back" my own feed so you can see replies and translate them into AP replies?
@prologic While I think this is a cool idea, I don't think it is a replacement for what you have been trying to achieve on yarn.social.
@movq Here's to old school coffee! 
picture of my baloon coffee machine
@prologic I see: I was speaking in the end user's perspective tho, I suppose those concerns only really affect the pod owner? And, if that is the case, giving a pod owner the ability to toggle AP integration on/off us probably good enough to mitigate those concerns?
@prologic to be fair, I don't really see a difference here: with the integration, users still only see the feeds they choose to read (either as a twtxt or AP), right? Or this is more a problem of the integration making the network "grow too fast"?
@thecanine First I allowed myself to be excited, but then I went to read... and they're not talking about making Facebook talk ActivityPub, but about creating yet another social network 😞
False alarm (I juat had to properly refresh)
So, @prologic, should mute hide someone's posts even if we're looking at "Discover"? (I think so, but that's not happening)
On a recent interview, Neal Stephenson isn't confident on the future of the planned Snow Crash adaptation into a TV series, but, on the plus side, "there’s some work underway to adapt a book I co-wrote called The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. into a television series."
Hm, realized now that the screenshot isn't as good as I thought... this post (which was not a reply to anything) shows in the "Posts and replies" tab, but the "Posts" tab is empty.
@prologic Seems that new twtxt posts here are showing on mastodon as replies (see example):
@prologic was in the plans, didn't do it yet because I didn't test on a recent build of the app (but I suppose it shouldn't make a difference). Will do.
@prologic I never got around to set up like that, I currently use twtxt.net web interface and goryon as clients, and have a simple cron doing a wget of the feed. I suppose I could still write something about why am I doing that...
@prologic
I think goryon doesn't show twts coming from activitypub accounts or something...
same twt seen on the web an on goryon
@slashdot Apparently it is "former Debian project leader" and in fact Debian has nothing to do with this.
@prologic Less than ten days? Why? What does that solve?
@prologic Why does my twtxt feed have dozens of twts, but the web interface is only showing "Page 1/1 of 9 Twts"? Does it limit the number of twts shown by time (show only "most recent twts") instead of by feed size? If that is so, is that limit's existence a pod configuration?
@prologic Why does my twtxt feed have dozens of twts, but the web interface is only showing "Page 1/1 of 9 Twts"? Does it limit the number of twts shown by time (show only "most recent twts") instead of by feed size? If that is so, is that limit's existence a pod configuration?
@eldarqtq @prologic It might be also useful to also have a way to report a message or feed (for violations to code of conduct, privacy policy, etc.).
You weren't able to attend to #MiniDCPT ? Well, the video of my presentation on #ilovefs is now online.
Origami, ThanatoSchizO's last album, was released on this date, twelve years ago.
Origami Cover
It's tested - and alive! :-)
Portugal has 1.64% of its 2023 PIB allocated to the war industry, but NATO thinks it should be 2% minimum. On the other hand, in 2019 we had 16.2% of the population under the poverty lines. Priorities...
detail of MiniDebConf Portugal's t-shirt
#MiniDCPT - 3 days already gone, but 2 more still to come!
Today is "I ♡ Free Software" day, and the love also comes to twtxt! In particular today I want to thank @prologic for being the force behind yarn.social and the nice community that has been growing around it! #ilovefs
MiniDebConf Portugal 2023: starting!
@kaniyama_t @prologic is you're hosting a twtxt file on github, you can actually have it in any repository, no need for gh-pages. Example
@abucci weird, here it also says it is available on Android 11 and above. You should not need to install anything else...
@abucci Hm, or maybe you are behind on Android's experience? O:-) I see that emoji well on my Goryon/Android. Unicode 13 support was added on Android 11.
Saying "we are a secular state but we need to realize most of out population is christian" is no different as saying "we don't racially discriminate but need to take into account most of us are white", or "we provide sexual freedom, but must cater to our predominant hetero/cis citizens". In other words: it's wrong.
A palavra "entretenedor" não existe, mas isso torna o trabalho do tradutor mais complicado, por isso... não existe mas inventa-se, pode ser que ninguém note: 
Eu ainda sou do tempo... 
um postal de livro para enviar à editora
This year I'll not be attending #FOSDEM. It starts tomorrow, and I'm missing it already :,(
I sometimes wonder how younger people think things were "before their time". Back in the day, the digital way to get manga/bd was in the now lost (it is, right?) art of fan novelization: I did read the first Dragonball manga books as texfiles, when I was young (years later they were published in Portugal, and I made the collection with drawings and everything).
@paulasimoes-toots I wasn't planning on doing this, but after this delightful blog post I felt like publishing something about my readings again... Here is my "top 8" books of 2022 - not books published in 2022, but that I've read last year:
@bender @prologic I've went further down - sometimes to seek something I've read and caught my attention at the time, othertimes to reference old threads in new ones. In this context, nothing is "too old".
@abucci @prologic I totally understand the frustration that comes with not being politically aligned with the two big parties - I feel it from experience, as my personal situation is not dissimilar. But the only thing stopping the smaller parties from growing is... support, votes. And sometimes, even a small party can make great things (proposing good bills that are actually approved by the other parties, for eg.).
@prologic It doesn't just because regulations don't exist, are poorly drafted, and often toothless. But the answer to that is stronger and better regulation, and I don't really see any alternative to it.
@slashdot so, the same conversation as with green cement: the science exists. yhe technology is there, but because it is more expensive, we'll keep using the polluting option. We really need stronger, faster, tougher regulation.
@thecanine thanks for that video on nothing music!
@prologic I don't think so. But it is a case of something... both parties here are saying "I don't trust you with my data which I think gives me a competitive advantage so I'm not going to open it up, but you should trust me when I say this opaque models trained with my secret data are so good you should use them".
@slashdot Seriously, I cannot believe that either side here is naive enough not to know what sort of war they are actually starting...
@prologic @nwu1dm well, a twtxt file only you can modify and nobody else *is* what twtxt is all about.
@prologic something seems to have gone wrong with twtxt.net's upload capabilities...
Happy to notice that this year's FOSDEM will have a devroom dedicated to the energy transition: finally there is a place to discuss around free software's important role in creating solutions to the climate crisis.
