2025-05-04

• [[Tweaking Doom Emacs to use SPC SPC]].
  • Much nicer than SPC-: on a phone.
  • [[My Doom Emacs config]].

2025-05-03

• A potted history of [[My usage of GNU/Linux over the years]].

• [[2025-05-01]]: [[International Workers Day]] was nice, although I didn’t sleep very well and I had to pack/do things in the house to prepare for travel so I left the festivities relatively early in the afternoon after attending with friends.
• As I write this I’m in the [[Zürich airport]] waiting to board my flight to Málaga for a week in southern Spain.

• Worked today, essentially half day as I had to get a small surgical intervention — a mole that was growing fast on my face for some reason. Had to send it for biopsy but the doctor said it looked benign.
• Then I met my friend [[June]].
• And then came back home to my [[Lady Burup]]!

2025-04-30

• As predicted, I couldn’t make the first teach-in of the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] series.
  • The topic was "What will the new world order look like?"

• l4/l5 [[dorsomedial]] [[discus hernia]]:
  • is what I have, or had 7-8 years ago, although I’ve since recovered from symptoms and no longer live with pain.

2025-04-29

• I signed up for the [[Fractures: Internationalist teach-ins]] webinar series by [[Transnational Institute]].
  • It looks good.
  • Doubtful how many I’ll be able to watch live. But hopefully can catch them on catch up.
  • The [[Digital Capitalism online course]] by TNI was great. I like them.

2025-04-27

• [[Capitalism demands constant technological change]].

• [[Capitalism must take more from labour and nature than it gives back]].

2025-04-26

• [[Relentless growth is the ultimate logic of capitalism]].

• [[A good Zettelkasten is both horizontal and vertical]].

• [[Free]]!
• [[25]] means [[Consciousness]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]], or ‘focus on your focus’/’be aware of your awareness’ (five squared).
• [[Work]] was fine, I did a tricky expense report (tricky because of a bug) and advanced further business travel plans. Also was oncall.
• [[Plitnyakovo]]

2025-04-25

• [[How to have device-specific values in .dir-locals.el]]

• I was part of the [[Bitwäscherei]]/[[SGMK]] [[Easter Hack]] this long weekend and it was great! Met interesting people, and was able to focus well on tasks I had long deferred, partly because of being surrounded by people also focused on their projects.
• Also spent Easter Sunday with friends and their family, it was very nice!
• Still noding actions in [[2025]].

2025-04-21

• OK, finally sorted out that issue I’ve had for a while: [[File error: Getting attributes, Permission denied, /run/user/1001/emacs]]

  • It was because when I was logging in as the second user, I wasn’t using a full login shell.
  • i.e. su neil when I needed to use su - neil.

• Windows 10 reaching end of life after 10 years is fine. Windows 11 hardware requirements not supporting a whole raft of perfectly adequate machines is NOT acceptable.

• [[TPM 2.0]]. [[Secure Boot]].

• Noding from [[bull]] again after some updates :)
  • As I’m writing this I’m in [[Bitwäscherei]] enjoying the beautiful afternoon sun while I’m around people who are hacking. It’s lovely!

• Fixed [[wikivim]] on neovim :)
  • Yep, even bulleted lists :)
    • I can even use tab and shift-tab to indent/dedent!
  • It took a few tries but now vim feels like a nice Agora noding environment again, in particular in the computer where I now have my development environment up — [[tara]].
• Back again after sleep :)
  • I have a nice focus day in front of me; I’ll try to get through a varied task list that I will keep partly here and partly on the back of an envelope that I intend to burn at the end of the day.
• Spoke to my mum!
  • She found some books that belonged to my grandfather, [[Bargalló]].
• Liked [[፨]].

<<<<<<< HEAD

• [[Chasing Moloch]] =======
• My [[noding]] has become erratic :) In particular my journaling is less consistent than before.
  • Introspecting, this seems to be because of a combination of causes (as usual):
    • I have been spending time in working around computer bugs (like [[karuna]] crashing, my work keyboard being temporarily bricked by a firmware update, etc.) and working.
    • I lost or temporarily misplaced my [[default environment]], meaning the computer+workspace that I prefer for noding in the absence of temporary factors like being at some other computer.
    • I have been keeping mental context elsewhere, like [[snippets]] at work and physical papers around the house and the office.
    • I now will try to regain consistency.

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2025-04-15

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • On tech sovereignty – how to nail jelly to a tree – Structural Integrity
    • tags: [[technological sovereignty]]

• Mi [[mamá]] me contó de la vez en que mi papá le pegó, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisaría antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comisería llamaron a mi papá y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
  • Mi [[tío]] desapareció tres días después de que mi papá (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevó a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reunión de montoneros.
    • -> [[7 de enero de 1977]].

• Good day at work!
  • Started cycling season by biking to work, which was great :)
  • Then good progress on some fronts, and a pleasant evening at home with Lady Burup and working a bit more.
  • Thinking about the future in a pleasant way.
• TIL about [[Mahasthamaprapta]], one of the two attendants of [[Amida Nyorai]]/[[Amitabha]] with [[Avalokiteshvara]]! Gemini told me about them, a.k.a. [[Dashizhi]] in feminine form.

2025-04-11

• [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
  • Describes [[Bitcoin]]‘s initial promise and excitement around it, even from those on the left as a potentially [[liberatory technology]].
• But ultimate disappointment as it became another means of capital accumulation for the already powerful.

2025-04-10

• [[Listened]]: [[platform capitalism]]
  • Started it on [[libro.fm]].
  • Seems like a good thematic follow on from [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]] (PC came first of course).

2025-04-09

• [[Listened]]: [[Will Trump’s tariffs tip the world into recession?]]
  • Answer seems to be: possibly, yes.

• I must call the [[veterinary]] (for a checkup)
• Life goes on! I try to enjoy it.
• It was great catching up with friends more as of late, online and offline.
• Work is tough/intense but OK; I’ve been feeling productive and I’m looking forward to working more on some projects.
• -> [[next action]]

2025-04-08

• [[Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings]].

  • Some hope, courtesy of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]].

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • Varoufakis has thought out a detailed approach for an alternative future.
  • Only touched on briefly here, but he has a whole other (fiction) book, Another Now, which explores it further.

2025-04-07

2025-04-06

• [[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]

  • While (mostly?) tangential to the point of the book, Doto’s referencing of things like [[anarchist theory]] and [[rhizome]]s, and [[Doughnut Economics]] in examples, is further endearing me to it.

• [[Capitalism must end]]. [[Capitalism will end]]!

  • TBC: When? How?

2025-04-05

• [[Read]]: [[A System for Writing]]

  • Very useful.
  • It’s clarifying lots of things I’ve been doing a bit unguided.
  • I’m taking lots of reference notes from it.

• I find that statements that start with ‘[[I]]‘ such as ‘[[I am]]‘ or ‘[[I like]]‘ are good ways of starting on a path of making main notes. As you’ll start to make a train of notes to back up why you are or why you like something.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism: What Is It and Why Do We Need It? - New Green Horizons
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]].

2025-04-04

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Framework | Introducing a new RISC-V Mainboard from DeepComputing
    • tags: [[Framework Laptop]]. [[RISC-V]].
  • The Public Power Observatory | Social Text | Duke University Press
    • tags: [[Climate change]]. [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Mutual aid]]. [[Disaster communism]]. [[Community energy]].
  • (PDF) Deep Ecology, Ecosocialism and Original Institutional Economics in an Interdisciplinary Perspective: How Can They Collaborate for Building More Effective Sustainable Policies?
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[deep ecology]].
  • An overview of Europe’s repair sector | European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform
    • tags: [[Repair]].

• [[There is no such thing as society]]

  • Yes, [[There is such a thing as society]].

2025-04-03

• The [[Drake equation]] is fun to think about.

  • Even if it’s contested as to whether the figures it produces have any real meaning.

• Enjoying a work collaboration we have going on at the moment.

  • Giving me an opportunity to dip my toe back into some technical nitty gritty.
  • It has been fun.

• [[We will defeat Moloch]]!
• [[work]]
• [[focus]]

• [[España 2025]]
• I attended an AI conference today in the morning, it was great! I met interesting people.
• I worked on AI, Partitioning, Rollouts.
• Then I did [[Flancia]]!
  • [[Agora Plan]]
  • [[bugs]]

2025-04-01

• Philip has put a great page together on your options at [[Windows 10 end-of-life]].

  • https://wiki.restarters.net/Windows_10_End_of_Life pull

• I occasionally have the deep misfortune of ending up on [[Amazon]]. Talk about [[enshittification]]. Endless random brand names, 50 random variations of the same crappy product. ‘Sponsored’ products. This is not a site that cares about its users.

• [[Las Jaras]]!
  • It was a great day all in all, I had enough bandwidth to do what I needed to do and start the week well; did also some planning for the upcoming months.
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]].
• Worked until 19 or until 21 depending on how you count, I count the latter.
• Threw [[476]] in the [[co2]] meter; it’s 17 * 28.
• [[Midi]]

2025-03-31

• [[Pathways that I’ve done on Kinnu]]

• I talked to my mum and it was great.
  • We are making travel plans :)
• I played [[Minecraft]] with [[Timur]], I appreciated it!
• Then I reviewed and cleaned up notes, iterated on projects, spent time with Burup. It felt healing.

2025-03-30

• [[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.

  • "So what is a system? Simply a set of things that are interconnected in ways that produce distinct patterns of behaviour – be they cells in an organism, protestors in a crowd, birds in a flock, members of a family, or banks in a financial network. And it is the relationships between the individual parts – shaped by their [[stocks and flows]], [[feedbacks]], and [[delay]] – that give rise to their emergent behaviour"

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Big Tech’s bid to rewrite the rules on net zero
    • tags: [[Big Tech]]. [[Net zero]].
  • In defense of digital commoning
    • tags: [[Digital commons]].
  • #2 – Symphonies of Imagination
    • In particular, the solarpunk-flavoured essay on Repair.
    • [[Solarpunk]]. [[Repair]].
  • Use Emacs in GUI mode on Android (using Termux and Termux X11)
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].
  • Emacs + Termux on Android: Code, Org-mode and Agenda, Dired, Magit and more…
    • tags: [[Emacs]]. [[Termux]].

• [[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:

  • "Most oil deposits are thought to have been laid down between 10 and 180 million years ago, when dead zooplankton and algae sank to the seafloor and were buried in layers of sediment, before being slowly transformed into hydrocarbons by heat and pressure and time"

• Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].

• As usual, [[Poem]]:
  • May you be free
  • May you be kind
  • May you be happy
  • If you have to burn, burn kindly!
• [[Heather Marsh]]
• [[Maitreya]]
• [[Abstract Fairy]]
• [[Raspberry Pi 5]]
  • Downloading [[Raspberry Pi OS]] (based on Debian so it sounds fine to me…) as I write this :)

2025-03-29

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • [[Apple]] started making the most money when they had the platform through which they sold apps made by others and took a percentage of all sales.
  • A form of [[Rent]].
  • [[Google]], [[Amazon]], others as well.
  • I guess this is where it’s quite similar to [[platform capitalism]].
    • I guess Varoufakis is saying it’s something qualitatively different, Srnicek is saying it’s a new evolution of capitalism.
    • Either way, seem to be in agreement that it’s big, new, and bad.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism: A Post-Capitalist Alternative and the Challenges of Transition - Common Alternatives
    • tags: [[Ecosocialism]]. [[Bolivia]]. [[Ecuador]]. [[buen vivir]].
  • Dark energy: mysterious cosmic force appears to be weakening, say scientists | Astronomy | The Guardian
    • tags: [[Astronomy]]. [[Dark energy]].
  • Don’t fork the ecosystem - by Gordon Brander
    • tags: [[software ecosystems]].
  • Is a New Economic System Necessary to Address Climate Change? - Stuart - 2025 - WIREs Climate Change - Wiley Online Library
    • tags: [[Post-capitalism]]. [[Climate change]]. [[system change]].

• [[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.

  • I noted that down when listening to [[A Short History of Nearly Everything]], which says something like that - need to go back and find the exact quote.

• I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.

2025-03-28

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • Google’s emissions climb nearly 50% in five years due to AI energy demand
    • tags: [[Google]]. [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • How much electricity do AI generators consume? | The Verge
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[AI resource use]].
  • Report | AI in the Public Interest: Confronting the Monopoly Threat — Open Markets Institute
    • tags: [[AI]]
  • Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate and Environmental Impact
    • tags: [[Chip production]].
  • What is the Future of Work in the Generative AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis
    • tags: [[AI]]. [[The future of work]].

2025-03-27

• Windows 10 end of life is becoming a hot topic both at work and locally.

• [[Bookmarked]]

  • A Political Ecology of the Repair Manual
    • tags: [[Repair]]. [[repair manuals]].
  • Geographies of Digital Wasting
    • tags: [[Waste]]. [[supply chains]].
  • Thinking about 12 aspects of personal information/knowledge management
    • tags: [[personal knowledge management]].

• [[Geology]]. Parts of the crust, parts of the atmosphere

  • Inner core, outer core, mantle, crust?
  • Troposphere, …?

• Fuck me, [[snap]] is still taking up so much drive space.

  • I don’t have a lot to spare!
  • I had to install slack via it the other day. Probably that.
  • Maybe, but kf6-core24 is taking up the most space - 10.7 GB.
    • What’s caused that to be installed?
    • Dunno. It’s something KDE-related. But according to checking snap connections on various installed snaps, nothing is currently using it.
    • Removing with extreme prejudice!
  • Also /var/lib/snapd/ is gigs big.
    • Cleared /var/lib/snapd/cache/.
  • Copying some of the above into [[Clearing up drive space used by snap]] for reference for next time…

• [[How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century]]

• [[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]

  • [[Feudalism]]. [[Rent]].

• Traveling to the US today!
  • As I write this I’m typing on my laptop on an American flight from [[Heathrow]] to [[Durham]].
  • I’ve been reading and listening to audiobooks:
    • I started [[Flowers for Algernon]] on the flight from Zürich, it’s already quite moving (as expected).
    • Then I continued [[Memories of Hadrian]].
    • Then I started an [[Introduction to Systems Thinking]] by [[Donella Meadows]] called [[Thinking in Systems]].
• Yesterday I thought again quite a bit about:
  • [[light]]
    • led me to read [[photon]] in Wikipedia, very nice article!
  • [[momentum]]
  • [[entropy]]
  • Quiz: what do momentum and entropy have in common?
• [[Waking up]]:
  • It turns out there’s going to be a community meetup in Zürich on [[2025-04-01]]!
  • Maybe I could check it out. For more, see the email from [[2025-03-22]].
• I need to do somthing to bring [[todo]], [[do]], [[next action]] and such under control :)
  • To begin with I think I just need to re-pick one as the ‘root’ and start going through it and try to keep my actual priorities at the top.
  • It’s going to be painful (because of the amount of stuff I’ve amassed! and the fact that even after all this I won’t be able to have all my todos there because I have a parallel life at work…) but probably worth it, so maybe I should just get right on with it.
  • -> done! I refactored [[todo]] a bit, and went through very old todos and actually found them even done. Maybe there’s a tune to the chaos I seem to operate in after all, at least some of the time ;)
• I think having an offline wikipedia could be nice. Or a language model that I can run locally, albeit slowly, but hey… that will come :)
• I enjoyed reading [[The discrete charm of the Turing machine]] by [[Greg Egan]]. This was in [[Instantiation]]; previously (in February) I read [[The Best of Greg Egan]], a selection of his short stories, and enjoyed them a lot!
  • He’s definitely one of my favorite living writers.
• Now I’m giving [[Binding Chaos]] a taste, after finding it on my [[Kobo]] and also mentioned in my long term todo mentioned above.
• Travel day!
  • As I write this I’m on the second plane today, about to tale off from Heathrow towards Raleigh.
• Ladu Burup’s day as I leave — I will miss her! She’s in good hands though.

2025-03-23

• [[Circular economy]].