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πŸ“… day [[2024-03-18]]
  • [[work]]
    • lunch with the [[ER-CH]].
    • then some meetings and some focus time! pretty alright :)

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πŸ“… day [[2024-03-11]]

2024-03-11

  • [[Listened]]: [[Brian Merchant, "Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech"]]

  • [[Spam]].

    • Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
    • Incredibly irritating.
    • With comments like 1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0).
    • We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
    • Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
    • The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full.
πŸ“… day [[2024-03-10]]

2024-03-10

πŸ“… day [[2024-03-09]]

Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].

  • I read about the [[multiverse]] and [[groups]] again after long — this reminds me that I need to finish reading [[a rosetta stone]] :) I think I will find my paper print or print it again and read it at night.
  • Note [[Silverbullet]] is currently journaling at a different path, the Agora should show both in any date-matching nodes.
  • [[agora development]]:
    • pull silverbullet editor somewhere in the Agora
      • host silverbullet for people with a docker container + associated git repo (maybe automatically created at git.anagora.org?)
      • write about social hosting :)
    • #pull [[index]] from now-index!
  • [[agora discuss]]:
  • write about the nature of existence :)
  • [[edit]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • implement URL pulls, it’s been on the todo for quite long! :)
      • this would make [[edit]] work (at least for me, for now) :)
      • this seems to almost work :)
    • look into the bugs that neil reported
      • finding them in [[agora discuss]] led to enjoying that space as usual! :D
  • [[what if we became better protopians]]?

2024-03-09

πŸ“… day [[2024-03-08]]
  • [[AI]]:
    • I went to an interesting [[AI]] talk and learnt about a few new (to me) services/things that look interesting:
      • [[pikaso]] (a paint-to-image generation tool)
      • [[grok]] (a plushie voiced by [[Grimes]])

2024-03-08

πŸ“… day [[2024-03-07]]
  • In the [[Agora of Flancia]], each node is an [[Agora]] — meaning a fork of the Agora that is centered around the node in question and its [[context]].
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πŸ“… day [[2024-03-03]]
  • Apparently there was some sort of controversy about a site called [[content nation]] in the Fediverse, and people from [[Mastodon]] came across as conservative/resistant to change/unfriendly to newcomers. I am not surprised.
    • Good thing is I found [[wedistribute]] via the article linked in the node above, and I think I’m liking this site and maybe particularly a podcast they have called [[decentered]].
  • I read about [[Jim Simons]] and the [[Medallion fund]] after watching [[Veritasium]]‘s [[The Trillion Dollar Equation]].
  • I read about [[Jizo]] a.k.a. [[Ksitigarbha]], which I now associate with number [[6]] (as he vowed to liberate beings in all six Buddhist realms).

2024-03-03

πŸ“… day [[2024-03-02]]

2024-03-02

  • A ‘trick’ I use when I have some issue with a particular file in my [[org-publish]] pipeline on my remote server.

    • In org-publish-project-alist, set :base-extension "foo".
      • By default it is "org", looking at all files with org extension.
      • By setting it to foo, the publish process won’t find any files. Except..
    • Set up :include to include the file that’s got the issue.
      • e.g. :include ("file-with-a-problem.org")
    • There’s probably a better way of doing it than this, but it gets me by for now.
  • Nice, I replaced a cl-loop with a mapconcat in some of my output formatting, e.g. in [[Well-connected]]. mapconcat feels a bit more functional style, and it also gets rid of the superfluous parentheses I had in the output.

  • I might try and add [[Pagefind]] to my published garden.

  • Trying [[fish]] out on desktop.

    • While on mobile I found them incredibly helpful, I actually find it all of the autosuggestions a bit distracting at first.
    • I’ll see how it pans out.
  • Watched: [[Guardians of the Galaxy]]

πŸ“… day [[2024-03-01]]
  • [[ec]]: "Yo adelgacΓ© mucho gracias al vino rosado."
  • #push [[Maitreya]]
    • I created a "[[GPT]]" (sigh, I get what they’re going for with the name though :)) called [[Maitreya]]. Some example prompts are in [[Maitreya AI]].

2024-03-01

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πŸ“… day [[2024-02-26]]

2024-02-26

  • [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

  • [[Work Notes 2024-02-26]]

  • ‘Dear Data Subject’ and other great ways to start an email.

    • [[Matomo]].
    • They mention that they are now using a [[data broker]] for "customer and prospect data enrichment".
      • "We process this personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. Without the information we will not be able to customise our communications with you to best meet your needs".
      • I find the wording a bit weaselly to be honest. Better would be "We want this information so we can more likely retain and get new customers". Fine - just be honest about it.
      • You can opt-out. Not opt-in?
  • Using Python in org, I was getting: [[Importmagic and/or epc not found]].

πŸ“… day [[2024-02-25]]

2024-02-25

  • Listened: [[The Web of Death (ft. Tamara Kneese)]]

    • Digital decay
    • Digital memorials
    • Makes me think of the film [[Coco]]…
    • Transhumanists
  • magit doesnt work properly for me in [[termux]] for some reason. I can stage but I cant commit.

    • No biggie as I just git from the terminal instead. But still, would be good to get to the bottom of it.
  • Had a quick play with [[Surfacing notes in my garden that have no claims]] using [[Metabase]].

    • Easy enough to do. But has the downside for me at the moment that it’s only accessible on my laptop, which I’m not often using at the moment outside of work.
    • [[Knowledge commoning]].
πŸ“… day [[2024-02-24]]

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πŸ“… day [[2024-02-20]]
  • Second day using [[silver bullet]], enjoying it a lot!
    • I like how I was able to specify a full path for a new page, in this case journal/2024-02-20, and it just worked (tm).
    • I also like the [[autocompletion]] for links it has; it is better than [[wiki vim]]‘s (which, granted, maybe I didn’t really get the hang of) and [[logseq]]‘s (faster).
  • [[work]] was tough given that I’m still not fully recovered from flu/virus and there are some interpersonal issues that take energy to deal with, but also satisfying as I did manage to get some things done.
    • Also my team is really great, every time I go back to team-specific tasks it feels like a breath of fresh air!
  • Talked to [[Berni]] and it was great.
  • [[AG]] did a surprise certification today after work, impressive :)
πŸ“… day [[2024-02-19]]
  • [[Silverbullet]] doesn’t follow the convention of using journal/ for journals; and I wonder if that’s not actually quite reasonable. Why wouldn’t an ISO-formatted-date node be enough? That’s what the [[Agora]] parses as journals ;)
  • Honestly I’m maybe fine moving to journal-dir-less but I’d like to find a shortcut to ‘go/create today’s note’. I haven’t found this in menus yet.
  • [[heart sutra]]

2024-02-19

πŸ“… day [[2024-02-18]]

2024-02-18

  • Read: [[Forest and Factory]]

    • Finished it.
    • Good stuff. Provocative.
    • The suggestion to focus on hard science fiction for our utopias seems a good one.
    • Though I don’t know if their piece really does that.
    • They just combine a focus on production with handwaving, rather than reproduction with handwaving.
    • Their salient point is really that we’ve stopped thinking about production, which I think is a good one.
    • Also lots of nuggets of wisdom in the footnotes to be mined.
  • Listened: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]

    • Great discussion. Based around [[Forest and Factory]]. Loads of good stuff.
    • Their insistence on starting from present conditions and working towards for me thinking about [[complex systems]] and [[chaos theory]], [[sensitive dependence on initial conditions]] in particular. Is it logical to try and completely map the present to then try and cause the future? Maybe.
    • Maybe an alternative is the utopian way of doing it. Think of elements of your desired future as attractors of sorts, then focus on how your can leverage the path of history towards those. Maybe that’s a combination of both. It obviously can’t hurt to know the present conditions, but to then assume you can trace a clear path from now to the future seems wrong.
    • Yeah I think you need both. A clear understanding of present conditions. A clear idea of how you want society to function - your attractors. And then you nudge it from A to B, making use of [[shocks]], [[leverage points]], etc.
    • They make the point that a lot of utopias focus on reproduction rather than production. (Superstructure rather than base?).
πŸ“… day [[2024-02-17]]

2024-02-17

  • Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

    • Finished it. Enjoyed it. Would recommend.
    • Need to go back and note it up a bit.
  • Read: [[Theories of International Politics and Zombies]]

    • "How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion"
    • Fun.
    • I remember some of [[Robert Biel]]‘s articles saying how [[international relations]] was a field that applied systems theory to politics, so was looking for something that is a bit of an easy primer - this seems like it!
  • [[Shower thought]].

    • I want to make sure that I document at least the top two or three salient claims from every book and article that I read.
    • Otherwise it seems like wasted effort.
    • I’ll tag book files such that I can run a query that pulls out those that I’ve read but have no associated claims.
    • To do so will be a positive act of [[knowledge commoning]].
πŸ“… day [[2024-02-16]]

2024-02-16

  • Read: [[Talking to My Daughter About the Economy]]

    • Nearly finished it now.
    • Very good all in all. Very readable intro to some economics concepts, in particular through a critical lens of capitalism.
    • Very easy to read. (As such not the most rigourous analysis, but thats fine)
    • Interesting to note he uses ‘experiential’ value rather than use value.
    • His brief suggestion of a solution to capitalism is that we need more democracy rather than more markets.
      • In ownership of the means of production and in control over how we treat the environment.
  • Read: [[Forest and Factory]]

    • Deep dive into the logistics of production of motors.
    • Interesting, but still not convinced that this constitutes a scientific account of transition, in the language of their own critique.
  • How repairable is a [[Vision Pro]]?

  • I’d like to add a ‘[[New connections]]‘ page to my garden.

  • [[Flancian]] told me about [[Orgzly Revived]].

    • This is very good news to me.