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2025-06-29

πŸ“… On [[2025-06-28]]
  • [[17]]
  • [[53]]
  • [[67]]
  • [[2063]]
  • [[7]]
  • [[HΓΆllgrotten]] today with my mum, it was lovely!
  • I also cleaned the house, did some light project work, and enjoyed into the evening.
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-25]]

2025-06-25

  • Trying to figure out why a pair of Bluetooth headphones was suddenly, randomly, no longer pairing correctly to a laptop running under [[Windows 11]], and I am genuinely surprised how bad the experience is.
    • Useless error messages. Multiple interfaces to the same operation, unclear why to use one over the other. Different visuals for different config dialogs. Arcane dialogs and squirrelled away options.
    • This for a device that was clearly built to work on Windows.
    • The trope that [[Linux]] has a bad user experience vs Windows does not seem accurate.
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-24]]

2025-06-24

  • Managed another run. Doing the couch to 5k.
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-23]]
  • The weekend was chill and great!
    • Mostly spent time with my mum who is visiting and Lady Burup.
    • We went to the river on Sunday as it was very warm (with my mum, not Lady Burup). It was very beautiful.
  • I am talking to someone very interesting and that makes my whole life a bit better as well.

2025-06-23

πŸ“… On [[2025-06-22]]

2025-06-22

  • First jog with the buggy. Not an unqualified success, but good to have done it.

    • It’s really hard to steer in jogging mode. Like playing as Bowser after getting used to Toad.
  • [[Bookmarked]]:

πŸ“… On [[2025-06-20]]

2025-06-20

πŸ“… On [[2025-06-18]]
  • And I’m back!
    • Says the person who keeps going away :)
    • But I come back happily.
  • Some days I dedicate very few cycles to the [[Agora]]. Instead I tend to focus on: work, family, friends and thoughts.
    • That’s alright! Or more than alright actually.
  • To the [[readers of the future]] I say:
    • Thank you for being here!
    • Please excuse any bumps in the ride :)

As I we pass mid-June I am:

  • Thinking of the women in my life
  • Enjoying the visit of my mum!
  • Enjoying life in general.

I now intend to:

  • Take out the remaining paper for recycling.
  • Fix Agora bugs!
    • Marginalia -> Google as the marginalia.nu iframe has issues
    • Maybe a [[scroll to bottom]] button, keep it simple :)
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-15]]

2025-06-15

πŸ“… On [[2025-06-13]]

2025-06-13

  • I’ve been naughty and haven’t upgraded to a new major version of Linux Mint for a while.
    • I’m on 20.3. Support expired April 2025. Latest version is 22.
    • Apparently you can’t go directly between the 2.
    • You need to go 20.3 -> 21, 21 -> 21.3, 21.3 -> 22.
    • Yeesh. I can imagine this being quite a faff.
    • [[Upgrading Linux Mint 20.3 to 22]].
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-12]]
  • I met [[P]] when I was in California, it was great!
    • We shook hands on friendship and I’ll mean that forever.
    • We might also not talk more any further and that is also OK. I am grateful for having met her.
    • I wish you the best! That goes for [[P]] and for you, reader:
      • May you be free!
      • May you be happy!
  • I met [[Teodora]] today through my great friend [[Pesho]], it was also great!
    • We walked home (we live in the same town) taking [[Covid]] precautions because I was to an outdoor party where the host tested positive.
  • It was [[AG]]‘s birthday and I loved it!
    • It was great seeing her after the long trip.
    • And meeting her friends and family again!
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-11]]
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-09]]

2025-06-09

  • I started using the Scatter command in org’s agenda.
    • Finding it oddly pleasing, more so than just bulk scheduling things to a few days from now.
    • "Reschedule randomly into the coming N days. N is prompted for. With a prefix argument (C-u B S), scatter only across weekdays." https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Commands.html
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-08]]

2025-06-08

  • Some interesting tidbits from a couple of interviews with [[Bob Doto]]:
    • Each main note, for Doto, he has max 4 other main notes it links out to.
    • He says you can have a zettelkasten of 300 main notes and you’ll have enough for writing and connections for 10/15 years.
    • People get stressed out over whether they’re doing it right. But the most important thing about a system is simply that it works for you for whatever you want it to do.
    • His rubric for creating zettels: do I want it to interact with other ideas, and am I possibly going to write about it.
πŸ“… On [[2025-06-07]]

2025-06-07

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2025-06-05

πŸ“… On [[2025-06-03]]

2025-06-03

  • [[Capitalism produces high degrees of inequality]].

  • Started using org-transclusion at work for making a status page of all the various projects I’m working on.

    • Very nifty so far.
    • Couple of bugs encountered, one pretty wild, but not a total showstopper.
πŸ“… On [[2025-05-31]]
  • The #revolution started today!
    • Like every day :)
    • I think [[ActivityPub]] is actually rather important; the Agora should publish (before it does anything else) nodes
      • (as users? or too confusing? hmm)
    • We will do the revolution together, my [[friend]], if you want to.
  • The 31st of any month is [[Las Jaras]]!


Llevo en mi [[carcaj]]: [[las jaras]] Las Jaras, quΓ© jaras? Las de Avalokiteshvara!
πŸ“… On [[2025-05-28]]
  • [[fellowship of the link]] [[2025-05-28]]
    • [[jerry michalski]]
      • [[family systems]]
      • theory: this is internalized.
      • parts try to help but are trapped in old patterns.
      • must be approached with curiosity and benevolence
    • https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0874778956/jerrymichalskisr
      • "You are a natural explorer, adventurer and builder of new worlds. You love travel and experiencing other parts of the country and other cultures. You are a natural visionary. Instinctively, you can see what needs to be re-built or designed in new ways whether it be environments, ideas, projects or people. You have a natural ability to renew and regenerate yourself and others. People will see you as highly creative, practical and productive, innovative and original, and passionately involved in what has heart and meaning for you."
      • "At different times in your life you will be very ecologically minded and deeply concerned about the Earth and very active in making the universe a better place in which to live. You may experience yourself questioning the origins of the universe as a whole or contributing towards theories, projects and services that assist universal understanding. National and international work will appeal to you, or travel that allows you and others to value cultural differences as well as honor inherent similarities found within the human species."
      • "You will find it difficult to be limited, restricted or restrained in any way. With your inherent ability to cut through things and get to the bottom of most situations, you are able to build new worlds internally and externally. The concept of freedom at different times in your life will be very important."
      • [[substack]]

2025-05-28

  • In the latest episode of ‘Neil tries to update something related to Emacs’ (see [[2025-05-27]]):

    • I thought that I might be able to process org-roam.db on my laptop, as that is faster, and then sync it to my phone.
    • Two problems: firstly, it doesn’t work. Not sure why but it must be checking something else other than version to check whether it needs processing. Secondly: the DB contains links to file locations, which are different between devices. So, ultimately a no go anyway.
    • Ho hum. I’ll need to think of a way of doing a full update of org-roam.db on my phone somehow without it taking an eternity / bombing out.
    • At least I have an updated Emacs on my laptop!
  • Later: I fixed it by moving the files out of the org-roam dir for the project, then moving them back in and processing then in batches of 1000 at a time.

    • Still took ages, but didn’t crash and I just let each batch run while getting on with something else.
    • I also learned that the slowness is probably down to me having the files on the shared storage rather than on termux’s home. See e.g. https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/2174
  • Going to start moving some repos from Github and Gitlab to [[Codeberg]].

  • [[Four in five Britons want the government to do more to support repair]].

πŸ“… On [[2025-05-27]]
  1. What I’ve elsewhere called the pragmatist version of artificial intelligence claims that there is a set of practices or abilities that are non-discursive in the sense that each one of them can be engaged in or exercised by non-discursive creatures, and yet which can be algorithmically elaborated into the discursive capacity to use concepts and speak an autonomous language. But fundamental pragmatism need not take such a strong reductive form. One might claim more modestly that discursive activity, from everyday thought to the cogitations of the theoretical physicist, is a species of practical intentionality, a determination of that determinable, and indeed one that’s intelligible as having developed out of non-discursive practical intentionality, while still maintaining that it’s a wholly distinctive variety.

2025-05-27

  • Liking [[elfeed]] so far.

  • Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/

  • As part of the above saga of updates, I will now endeavour to update org-roam to 2.3.0 on spacemacs on my laptop.

    • That will involve updating packages.
  • Found this rather excellent-looking site referencing some of my some of my info on how to publish your site with org-publish: https://drollery.org/build/

    • That means I should probably also update spacemacs itself.
    • One or both of those will probably break something.
    • Yeah, already failing when trying to update packages. Sigh. Try to update spacemacs first then.
    • Now: error message that I need at least emacs 28.2. I’m on 28.1. Sigh.
    • Tried it from flatpak. That still doesn’t work.
    • I’m going to try building from source. That worked once before…
    • OK, it wasn’t that bad to be honest. The compilation, at least. Took about 10/15 minutes?
    • Now installing 305 packages… annoyingly you can’t just leave it unattended, as occassionally it asks to compile something.
    • Miraculously, that seems to have worked!
  • I should find out if there’s a way of pinning packages to particular versions in both Doom and spacemacs, so that:

    • (a) I can make sure they don’t randomly update and break at a time when I don’t have time to do anything about it.
    • (b) I can make sure they’re always on the same version between mobile and laptop.