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However, one big negative - I’m always scared to update spacemacs to latest, as well as packages from Melpa.
Pretty much at least one important thing breaks every time that I do, and as I need this for my work, I can’t often spare that time.
So I tend to put it off and lag behind.
I imagine there’s things I can do that would mitigate the risk and friction - I should look into those.
One simple idea is just to have two version running side-by-side. I might be able to do that actually, I think there’s a flag you can pass Emacs to say where to look for your conf folder.
I’m writing this on the train to [[Bern]], after which I will make a few connections and make my way to [[Puidoux]] where I’ll join a [[party in the forest]].
It’s going to be quite cold tonight and the party goes on until Sunday afternoon, so I’m happy I got some [[Merino]] underpants and a long sleeved shirt yesterday :)
I caught up with [[Eerie Shell]] and [[Kris]] over messaging.
I woke up with a headache for some reason, and it came back during the day, but otherwise I was fine.
I worked and then attended the [[end of year dinner]] with my coworkers.
There was also a [[bowling]] afternoon event which I skipped as I felt I was too behind work and I wanted to use the opportunity to catch up.
Even as I decided to skip it I knew that, with the passage time, I would remember the bowling event but not the afternoon working. But I decided to do it anyway as I also knew my mental state would be affected by not making progress on some tasks, and I think in the end it was a reasonable choice.
I enjoyed dinner. I actually like my coworkers, I’m lucky in that (and many ways!).
Then I returned home and I played with [[Lady Burup]] and played the piano.
I played [[Amores HallarΓ‘s]] for the first time in A (what I remembered/whistled) and in B (as per the recording by [[Inti Illimani]]).
All of the above methods of [[waste disposal]] are problematic one way or another. Reduction of production and consumption rates really is the only solution. (i.e. degrowth).
Still recovering from disease (flu? covid? unsure) with [[AG]] — but feeling better thankfully, both of us.
Ended up testing [[backup restores]] for [[social.coop]] finally and it felt great! It was in the todo list for long.
Not so much progress on [[work-work]] this weekend — which I know might sound a bit weird, why is it that I sometimes plan to work on the weekends? The truth is that some of the things I need to do I find it hard to do during the week for a variety of reasons, like meeting load. So I sometimes use the weekend to catch up. But when I don’t I have to at some point ‘let go of it’, else it weights on me implicitly.
A chill day at home, with snow outside. I’m taking care of [[AG]] a bit as she’s sick.
Todo for the day:
rest :)
fix mastodon embeds in the Agora? they are still broken after most instances updated to 4.3
I didn’t quite fix this yet but I found two bugs doing this and made progress :)
First, social.coop embed.js had not been updated in years. We need a step to update static content when updating the instance! I mentioned it in the room.
Second, I filed https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/33049 against Mastodon. I don’t get how their "new style" embeds are supposed to work, embed.js seems a bit weird. Let’s see what they say.
work: on that work document at least for one pomodoro
work: book meetings for the upcoming week (see paper notebook)
social.coop: CWG oncall
Some spam reports.
No new registrations since yesterday.
social.coop: TWG next steps towards alpha.social.coop
Hmm, what does this mean?
I guess I should fill that form to get a VPS from iocoop now that we have joined! That sounds simple enough/fun.
The opening to [[Wasteland]], where he outlines the scale of waste we produce worldwide, puts me in mind of the bit in [[Doughnut Economics]] where she discusses broadening our conception of the economy to be embedded within the biosphere.
How the economy has sources and sinks to the wider environment.
Wasteland tells just how much of a sink we treat the planet as, as we dump our waste into it.
I’m [[sick]]. Nothing serious, feels like the flu. [[AG]] got it over the weekend.
Working from home and catching some [[Meet University]] talks, although today only until 16. There’s an all hands later I may put in the background; I told my manager I was low energy and would focus on resting half a day.
I cut my hair, which usually makes me feel fresher, and it did. I also shaved everything except my mustache, for [[Movember]] (is it still a thing? I think so)
On Tuesday I went to a workshop on learning the basics of electrical repairs.
Was good to meet some other volunteers from the area.
The round of intros took up a lot of the session thoughβ¦
Had a bit of an overview on useful tools and basic electronic components, wired a plug, and then started repairing broken items we had brought with us.
I found a ‘task list’ (I have 7-8 at any given time, usually anything from a3 to a4, envelopes and forms and such that I reuse to write things to do later) which I sort of completed so I archived it. It had the number [[131]] on it, without further context, although it was close to a task related to Wikipedia in the Agora that I have advanced.
It is prime in case you’re wondering :) [[prime/131]].
Which reminds me about the notion of having prime/ be autopulled when n is a number. Hmm.
I say I want to do more writing in long form/intelligibly to the average prose reader, but don’t often make time for it. Some time ago I said Sundays were going to be for this kind of writing more often, and I could try to uphold this today. Let’s see.
The [[Holocene]] is an incredibly hospitable Earth and the favourable conditions would last for an unusually long time, were we humans not pushing the planet out of this period of stability.
We need to change the indicator for success from ever upwards and forwards growth to dynamically thriving in balance.
Back in [[Silverbullet]] after a few days only making it to [[codium]] — which in some ways was good, as it means I managed to carve out some time for some playful coding through the week.
[[Stapelberg]] is now using [[Silverbullet]] as well and seems to like it as well although he did comment on the system requirements; I agree it can be intense in larger gardens. But still it is capable enough and a solid enough writing environment that it’s the best tool I know of in knowledge space currently.
Work was good, tough at times but I believe overall productive.
I’ve been feeling and looking a bit tired lately so I started taking iron again, and might take vitamin D supplements (as I’ve been doing seasonally with good effect).
I had the day off but I decided to work anyway; the meeting load seemed manageable and I was able to carve out a good-sized flow block, so it seemed like a good idea to get the week started today.
Ended up working half a day, which seemed like a good compromise; I ticked a few things off my todo list to start the week in good shape, freeing the rest for some critical tasks hopefully.
Also the question of [[matrix]] for coordinating work, which is met with resistance by some working group members only. For me interop is the clear solution, let’s see.
I’ve recently read it, but seemed like a good choice to revisit - big ideas but palatably presented.
Also I consider it reasonably [[ecosocialist]] in outlook. The combo of social foundation and planetary boundaries. Even though it presents itself somewhat apolitically.
Fun and informative and very wide ranging on various science topics.
My immediate takeaway: the Universe is sublime, Earth is amazing, life is improbable and astonishing; human intelligence is incredible, yet we are astoundingly terrible stewards of life and the planet.
And we need to resolve that last issue immediately.
[[work]] from home as a technician was coming to fix the sinks, it’s great after the fact like a lot of maintenance tasks! I hope to be able to do it myself if it’s needed again, let’s see.
I’m trying to update the firmware of my [[8bitdo retro keyboard]] and it’s harder than expected due to the fact that [[8bitdo]] only supports Mac and Windows, but I’m making some progress.
Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.
Particularly as dialogue and group discussion is an excellent prompt for active recall.
However for me they also have a huge problem - distraction.
I can’t go on the Fediverse without it ending up as a bit of a mindless scroll fest. (Which, admittedly of often a useful tool for information discoveryβ¦)
I biked to work and I’m happy I did, it wasn’t too cold and the exercise felt great both ways.
Now I’m cozy at home typing on my mechanical keyboard with Lady Burup (she occasionally also types, but also I just mean we’re spending time together :)).
I was also melancholy for personal reasons but it felt constructive, like processing.
So far: astrophysics, geology, chemistry, particle physics, quantum physics and a little bit of paleontology.
All fascinating but I think nowadays I’m most interested in the things closer to home - so, the geology, and hoping there will be some biology and maybe even ecology (though from memory I don’t think there is much of this last one).
There’s no social science - so no human history, anthropology, economics, etc. Have to go elsewhere for that. I might listen to [[The Dawn of Everything]] next.
I received my second keyboard and I installed it on the desk with [[Paramita]].
Typing on it feels amazing, and the workstation is now set up in a way that I think will entice me to write more often and for longer periods before context switching.
I find that, when I’m typing on a laptop keypad, the constant availability of the trackpad makes me context switch more often, as I react impulsively to notifications for example. When I am in this typing position, switching to a different context requires me to:
Reach out for the mouse, which is 30cm away.
Use a combination like Meta + hjkl to move to a different window using my [[window manager]]‘s shortcut, which usually means I’d be focusing to a different window that I had decided I wanted to work on (as it’s on my workspace)
Learn the shortcut for ‘react to last notification’, which I don’t know and I don’t intend to learn today :)
Now only remains the task of remembering what I want to do, which means updating my priority list and gathering an intent to follow it.
I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.
Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)
Actual yoga is coming soon. I’ve been enjoying typing on my mechanical keyboard and playing with Lady Burup. I fixed or worked around some hardware/setup issues along the way :)
Also did some light gardening in preparation for the winter.
No matter what, I keep coming back to [[neovim]] for editing my garden. It’s just too handy and fast. Silverbullet competes with other tabs in my browser windows, whereas [[wikivim]] is always somewhere in tmux.
I think that’s fine, they have different strengths?
Although I did want to experiment with [[silverbullet attachments]] as a simple way to make the [[Agora]] more multi-media (it’s the spirit of the 90s? :))
I enjoyed typing on my new keyboard! I am looking forward actually, which is a nice motivation to go to work tomorrow again, and that in turn is nice to have as I have to go there anyway ;)
I may end up getting another one for writing at home though. I "knew" that I like typing on mechanical keyboards, but it took typing again in one to properly remember it :)
I worked until late back home even after the [[social.coop]] meeting, but that’s OK as well, I like starting the week strong.
I’m liking my new [[8bitdo]] keyboard a lot, and now that I’ve made the programmable buttons work even more :)
I set one big button to lock the screen and the other to write ‘yes’ and press enter; I figured programming one to take a full action that might be dangerous in some contexts was fun and reasonable enough for what IS a big red button after all, so if you press it in front of a prompt or a chat window you should be sufficiently aware of the risk :)
Typing here I remember how much I like typing, in a way. Another thing I like is that it forces me away from the laptop, where the touchpad is always available. Here I have to reach for the mouse, as in the olden days, and this is a small context switch that I might be able to catch myself doing when I intended to focus on the task at hand (writing).
I think this might enable me to write more and in longer form, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. The last long form text I wrote publicly was the [[Agora Chapter]] of the book about [[Personal Knowledge Graphs]], which was published in [[2023]].
I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.
I ran into [[Wittgenstein]] again and I thought again of reading him seriously/more fully, I have only read fragments of him so far and of course commentary to his work.
I guess bullet points can serve as asides in longer form prose, like parentheses or dashes, but perhaps more readable for the case of writers which tend to produce many asides and meta :)
So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.
I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.
I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.
Fixed a printer (well, more just showed that it was working OK and put a fresh ink cartridge in).
For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.
I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
do laundry (2x)
donate (2x)
run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
Flew back to [[ZΓΌrich]] on Friday and reunited with my [[Lady Burup]], it was lovely.
Now writing these lines on the train to [[Paris]], where I’ll reunite with [[AG]] before we move on to some other destination for five days of further enjoyment.
We will reunite once more with my [[Lady Burup]] on the [[20th]] if everything goes according to plan.
Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
[[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
[[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
[[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].
Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).
For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.
In [[Ischia]]! Now for a few days. This is the first I’ve noded as days have been quite intense in [[bodyspace]] (in a nice way).
I want to submit some poems for the [[zine]] that [[bouncepaw]] is editing by EOM, will try to work on those today from the beach. If not today, tomorrow.
"ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
[[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie.
collapsed:: true
Pediomelum esculentum
id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5
Blue grama
Crested wheat
Western wheatgrass
Textile Onion
Winterfat
Chokecherry
Fringed sagewort
Arrowleaf balsamroot
Hawksbeard
Sticky purple geranium
Scarlet globemallow
Sulfur-flower buckwheat
Tumblemustard
Western wallflower
Western yarrow
Rosa woodsii
Antelope bitterbrush
Gardner saltbush
Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter)
Green rabbitbrush
Mountain mahogany
Shadscale saltbush
Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle)
Silver sagebrush
Wax Currant
Mountain snowberry
Serviceberry
βAn earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,β one of the survivors wrote. βThe [[equality]] of all men.β
Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head.
If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]].
If their arms are up, go under for the body.
If they’re narrow, go for the outsides.
If they’re wide, go for the insides.
If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
"it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
"For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a [[time]] carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."
"ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
[[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie.
collapsed:: true
Pediomelum esculentum
id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5
Blue grama
Crested wheat
Western wheatgrass
Textile Onion
Winterfat
Chokecherry
Fringed sagewort
Arrowleaf balsamroot
Hawksbeard
Sticky purple geranium
Scarlet globemallow
Sulfur-flower buckwheat
Tumblemustard
Western wallflower
Western yarrow
Rosa woodsii
Antelope bitterbrush
Gardner saltbush
Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter)
Green rabbitbrush
Mountain mahogany
Shadscale saltbush
Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle)
Silver sagebrush
Wax Currant
Mountain snowberry
Serviceberry
βAn earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,β one of the survivors wrote. βThe [[equality]] of all men.β
Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head.
If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]].
If their arms are up, go under for the body.
If they’re narrow, go for the outsides.
If they’re wide, go for the insides.
If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
"it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
"For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."
Just completed the [[shutdown]] ritual from [[Cal Newport]]‘s [[Time Block Planner]] and I think the system is totally working out for me so far (a few weeks in). Feeling happier at work and productive.
Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
Wrote https://flancia.org/homes today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).
So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in /YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.
If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)
It works using the syntax I think [[Obsidian]] also uses:
β₯ [[tabs]] will transclude the content of note [[tabs]].
In the case of the [[Agora]] this could be treated as a [[pull]] — but that transcludes the whole node below the current one, and maybe in this case what is intended is to transclude one particular resource in-place.
Oh, what currently happens is that the Agora assumes this is an image being transcluded — that is the one kind of direct transclusion we have implemented so far. I guess I could hack that codepath and see how hard it is to actually transclude e.g. the subnode with full subnode view in an iframe? Unsure.
In other [[Silverbullet]] news, today I figured out how to make dailies go to the node YYYY-MM-DD instead of to Journals/Day/YYYY-MM-DD:
You open special page /Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note (template) in your instance.
You change suggestedName.
I commented out forPrefix but I’m unsure if you need that.
Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.
I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.
I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)
I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.
I’m thinking I usually want Mastodon embeds to be auto pulled in nodes, will probably try that default/to make it work again. Currently you have to press ‘Pull All’.
So I guess the simplest fix would be to locate the code that is supposed to click that button and check for its running condition.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
A bit of catching up on Jet Lag: The Game series while waiting for the Season 10 finale.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
!!! warning "This is a bit incomplete"
But working on it as soon as possible, hopefully before Thurday.
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 23, 2024, alongside what’s happened in the past two weeks:
Pardon the week-long silence on the daily journaling. Just needed a quick recharge as well for warming up Minecraft skills (currently in peaceful mode for a lot of resource gathering sessions).
Did a cleanup chore with my sister (since we share the bedroom space, which sometimes chaotic when comes to schedules on the study table1) on 06-22.
Here’s what been cooked since last two weeks:
Officially brought the Bedrock edition on mobile (formerly known as Pocket Edition) for Android. Chaos at mining ensure, with my first death from falling gravel.[^2]
Who thought you want to go deeper into Minecraft lore, via the Legends spinoff? Like literally watching the full gameplay for 2-3+ hours[^3].
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
Currently planning on getting a new laptop for upgrades or get the screen repaired (*fingers crossed on shipping costs of the parts itself*)
[^2]: There is second one, but I didn’t count it yet since I pulled the quick restore backup action from world backups as part of my Realms Plus trial.
[^3]: The full video is literally 6+ hours, so I do some skips to speed things up.↩
[[Sebek]] and family came over and we had lunch at home :) It was great!
[[Lady Burup]] found it hard to deal with two children at the same time, but I think she might get used to it with time (and the children will also learn how to communicate with her) ;)
Then I attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly general assembly with [[AG]]. It was quite interersting! Highly participative (votes for accepting the yearly budget, etc.) and with a focus on the foundation’s activities in [[Bhutan]].
Now using [[silverbullet]] as embedded in the Agora proper :)
It’s at the bottom.
It only works for me for now — sorry!
β₯ [[2024-06-14T16:18:08,984568739+02:00.png]]
I know it’s a bit self-centered to add the edit box to anagora.org when only I can use it for now, but I wanted to experiment with the editing experience before investing a lot in developing it for others :) I hope it doesn’t get in the way of the experience of others.
Hello there, editor Andrei speaking on the line. This should be technically published exactly in the Philippine Indepedence Day,
but since I am currently between a mini sabatical and EOSY rest for the next school year, I apologize if
it took longer than expected. So I decided to publish it now from the backburner and finalize it later.
Hello world, and welcome back to the monthly dump/status update! Pardon the radio silence
over the few months, I am just busy at school during those period, but since I am
in the end-of-school-year break, we’re actually back for at least two issues of this,
alongside the daily journaling on [my personal wiki]
Buckle up, since there will be mentions about Gildedguy Story #8 and you
don’t want to [get snuck-up on][md-spoilers-ep7], right?
By the way for the Agora community, I’ll be pointing my notes here while keeping the old ones
up as an archive via the new [[@ajhalili2006-archive]] once the patch for sources YAML file
are merged upstream soon.
And since this is the weekend (as of 2024-06-01) to officially kickoff my mini-sabbatical between
school year, this is the first edition of my monthly dump of the year,
also known as monthly status updates if you keen checking the archives.
So read on to know what I am cooking behind the scenes.
I literally woke up early on May 12 to catch up the Twitch premiere ([original VOD link],
[archived in 1080p] via Storj DCS) just few minutes before it start. Based on the first watch, not only
it was another banger1 by [Michael Moy][mikedmoy] and the production team based on what
the community saying, but there are new lore have been dropped since [[Gildedguy Story 7]].
I’ll be not able to take note them all here in detail, but please take a watch for yourself.
It’s a blast after all, so [grab your "I Was There In Premiere" badge][luma] for free
if you’re there (either via Twitch or YouTube). And expect a in-depth post on it and
more on [my blog] later this month (or just before the next school year starts).
If you need some Gildedguy Stories-themed mixtape on
your library, [I made one since March] and currently open for song suggestions.
Chores on Personal Wiki
Since this Material for Mkdocs-powered site [started in last year][initial-commit],
I am currently working to merge both the old digital garden and Jiroh’s Kooky
Insane Stuff into here, alongside an upcoming one for Traumatized Autistics Department.
Due to how the content migration is currently underway, you may see this
non-dismissable banner on the top of every page similarly to this one below
([link to commit]):
!!! info ""
:construction: Wiki under consturction Please accept our apologies for any broken links while migrating content from different repositories. Learn more
[Here]’s the Google Doc for the project README (currently a public draft), but in a nutshell, this is where
Meanwhile in Recap Time Squad
In summary for everyone asking, just self-documentation, janitorial and admin work on Recap Time Squad lately.
Nothing too heavy other than bringing the Staff SSO terms and mini reorganization chores in our [policy site],
content updates on [the Squad Wiki], and even setting up a [brand assets repository] to host our different
brand assets as we export them from Canva, similarily to the cdnjs/brand GitHub repo
and others.
Signing off
That’s all for now and thanks for reading. Talk to you soon on the next edition, or
[read the archives for this year so far][archive]. For occassional chaos on your feed
and for comments, [follow me/tag on socials] or send a e-fanmail.
Did some [[maintenance]] of home and computer setup; converged more [[wayland]] related configs after incorporating a new computer into my [[chezmoi]] setup and taking the occasion to do an iteration of improvements.
I dropped some templates for reduced complexity, e.g. [[sway.conf]].
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today alongside anything else you missed this week, June 9, 2024:
For this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap (stats galore)
What did you missed this week
The week starts with The Return of Daily Notes and ends with Friday Mixtape Hellscape, featuring Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department and support for comments on these via giscus and GitHub Discussions APIs.
From my Wakatime stats this week1: I am literally on VS Code for more than half a day (12h+) this week, mostly to edit Markdown files on my personal wiki locally, although I do use GitHub’s web editor (VS Code for Web edition) and Codespaces for some.
For the recap yesterday, apologies if I didn;t write one: Nothing particular happened, just a day off updating my personal wiki in the machine to rest up and catch up with my Duolingo streak before clock strikes midnight.
Scrobbled 559 tracks (up 38% from last week), with 66 this week on 9:00 PM hour block.
Listened for almost 2 days (1 day 23 hours), averaging 80 scrobbles per day, with 126 as highest this week on June 3.
For the music ratio, I listened to 110 tracks (with ratio of 5.08 scrobbles/track compared to 87 with ratio of 6.43 last week) from 41 artists (ratio of 13.63 scrobbles/artist compared to 39 last week with ratio of 14.33) across 49 albums (ration of 11.41 scrobbles/album vs 36 last week with ratio of 15.53).
Top Album, Song and Track: [Starcadian] [^2] and his [Sunset Blood] album | [BOSSFIGHT]’s [Ballistic] (also top new track and album as single this week)
Perfect attendance this week on Duolingo’s Spanish or Vanish sessions (7 out of 7 days this week, totaling 174 days streak, compared with 6 last week).[^3]
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
Downloading dashboard stats involves upgrading to premium, so apologies if I couldn’t dump the screenshot of my dashboard for now here.
[^2]: For the uninitated (hello there if you have watched [[Gildedguy Story 6]] earlier), he makes "ear movies" or music with lore in a nutshell.
[^3]: Track my progress at https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ajhalili2006 and follow me if you do.↩
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 7, 2024:
Actually enabled comments for daily notes (currently on per-entry basis until meta officially graduates from Insiders-only status), using a self-hosted instance of giscus. You can try it out now below and it’ll be appear in the andreijiroh-dev organization discussions in GitHub.
Officially installed Node.js into my custom mkdocs Docker image through copying files from the official Docker image (and some symlink trickery)
I may feel like a madlad lately, but I listened to the whole album in order (from a community playlist) for the full experience. As my older sister told me, I may become the first (and only) Swiftie in the family once I go deeper into the discography in the future.
Still playing some of Starcadian’s music on loop, of course.
Fresh from The Vergecast: Apple’s AI moment is comingat 40m55s (If they do AI-generated emojis as JPEG images through RCS at WWDC (some even shortened it as "dub dub"), that would be chaotically funny at same time bloody for Android users.)
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
Maybe seen about the Minecraft 15-Year Anniversary docuseries from their official channel then?
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
* They are married couple in this movie’s storyline
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
reviewed [[notebooks]], which is my default activity when I start working on personal projects after work :)
I had this in an old page: "Write about [[blessed bits]] and the entropy in [[Lady Burup]]‘s writing", which I think I would enjoy :) She walks often over keyboards and has a knack for hacking (disabling wireless, even crashing Wayland on occasion to my surprise).
It’s been more than 7 months since the last one and it’s nice I could do it all again here in the new wiki, and it’s good to be back again with the daily journaling hellscapes.
By the way, here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 2, 2024:
Chilling like madlad, currently recovering after a almost all-nighter clothes folding before 3AM local time
Also earlier (and since yesterday): I am casually rewatched One vs Skid/Skid vs One for a refresher after watching the [[Gildedguy Story 8]] premiere VOD on Twitch
I am such a madlad to download it twice and store it in Storj DCS. That should cost me 15-20 PHP more on storage (long-term) and egress (for the month of May 2024).
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.
You may not realize this, but Starcadian’s music has lore in it, its storyline is similar Alan Walker’s and PYLOT’s, although this may hit hard for Lord Hurdon listeners. Also got hooked into Alien Victory first after [[Gildedguy Story 6]]
[^2]: Listened first with MORE MORE MORE from one of the previews on X (Twitter) for Gildedguy: Automatica fan animation
[^3]: Gonne too deep and the wiki page made me say "oh my god" in Scar’s voice↩
The connection between digital technology companies and state surveillance and violence.
Israel is a major source of surveillance and weapons technology companies, selling to US and Europe technologies they have built to control the Palestinian people.
Interesting that in [[Silverbullet]] linking to a date and then visiting it doesn’t do the "right" thing in some sense, as it doesn’t navigate to the journal entry but rather to the node about the date.
In some ways this is the correct thing, as that’s the behavior I use elsewhere to get to the journal.
But by default alt-shift-d goes to Journal/Day/, so the two aren’t convergent when I would a priori wish them to be.
I found a weeks old todo to follow [[Peter Murray]] ([[peter_murray]] in [[hypothes.is]]) and I see why: he uses double square brackets in posts in platforms that don’t support them yet too!
It was an emotional weekend; Saturday being upbeat, Sunday being more meditative and at times low energy but ending well.
Today I worked and had a fully meetings free afternoon as the US was out due to [[memorial day]].
My mum was/is sick (pneumonia again) and that makes me think of death and impermanence. But it’s a good occasion to meditate.
I thought of someday maybe picking back up some of the draft short stories I started around [[2017]], like [[Caramel City]], [[Cannazon]] and the one about the [[Wu-Tang Clan]].
I received a letter about Christianity out of the blue the other day and today I came across it and saw it had a reference to jw.org, which ended up being [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]]. I have a negative affect towards the organization because of things I have heard about how the doctrine affects the freedom of its members, but the message that I received seemed innocuous enough. Interesting that they didn’t include the name of the organization anywhere, just the domain.
In that focus on data I feel perhaps it omits some other colonial practices - such as in mining, manufacture and disposal related to ICT.
Still - good stuff.
Started listening to the masterclass for week 4, on the digital trade agenda.
The point about why corporations love trade deals is really enlightening - easy way for them to bypass democratic discussion; lobby to get their way; once a trade deal is made, it’s very hard to change.
Learning about ecology on Kinnu, I realise that it’s a great source of ideas for thinking in systems.
[[numbers]] pull all number-related actions, e.g. [[557]] (example comes from a notebook) pulls [[hex/557]], [[prime/557]] and any others we have in the future.
[[today]] should probably pull today’s date instead of redirecting? maybe!
define [[equivalence classes]] in the Agora; right now they’re implicit and a bit of a mess?
[[oauth]] is mentioned so often in my todos that I wonder how it is I actually haven’t even started on it!
I think at some point I wanted to do these flows through [[agora bridge]] instead of [[agora server]]?
But that might have been a mistake/complicating stuff needlessly?
[[open letters]] show up profusely in the last 1.5 years, yet I have not properly published a single one since (except by default in the Agora, like pretty much everything I write that is not work related)
Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].
I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
-> done, or at least started :)
I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
[[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!
I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.
After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)
I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’
I [[meditated]] — I do not usually mention that I meditate 10 minutes in the morning but I do — and it makes a great difference to pretty much any day in my experience/according to my perceptions!
Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).
The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in ZΓΌrich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
[[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
[[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
Not staying super long, but I’m attending a wedding and visiting a few museums I’ve never visited before.
I slept badly tonight, and the day before, due to different reasons — the first night it was due to trip prep, the second it was due to a (surprise, as usual) allergy attack that kept me up/very uncomfortable until late. Happy to have made it to the flight only looking slightly like a cat (because of how my eyes swell, I get a bit of a feline look for hours-days after an attack).
Listening to [[Lex Fridman]] with [[Jimbo Wales]] on topics like the history of wikipedia. Very interesting as most Lex conversations I’ve heard as of late!
I’m back in the Agora, finally :) I took a more prolonged break from journaling as I moved with [[Lady Burup]] temporarily to [[AG]]‘s place (she is very kind!) and I adapted my routine to that space; also I’ve been busy at work and with other projects.
Thank you [[neil]] for keeping the journaling section of the Agora alive and interesting!
I reworked a bit the Agora’s [[README.md]], which is what is rendered at the Agora root URL — e.g. https://anagora.orgpull. Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
I like [[Kai Heron]], and I’ve found the debate between various strands of [[ecosocialist]] thought very interesting.
But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
I don’t know - perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
Sam came across as a bit more close-minded on some topics than Lex, which tracks with some of the conversations with him I’ve been listening to him recently — he is still one of my favourite public persons though. It’s just that Lex seems to be more of the "open heart hippie" and in that sense closer to me (at least at times).
Then listened to his conversation with [[Joscha Bach]] and it reminded me I like Joscha as well.
Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in [[org-roam]] was starting to bug me.
Turns out that it’s [[Helm]] that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
I just need to (setq helm-case-fold-search t) and all is good - much smoother completion experience.
Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in - how to change that?
Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.
Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software - I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to [[exit to community]] / exit the software to cooperative.
My publish.el file would be a good candidate for a literate config approach. Would make it more useful for other people to make use of then I think. Also would make me tidy it up.
Bit of a sprawling rambling discussion, but still interesting talking points. Technology, communism. [[Telekommunisten]]. Struggles of leftist tech to get a real foothold. [[Theory of value]].
I’m getting more into the groove with [[fish]] on desktop the more that I use it.
Still a slamdunk win on Termux.
I would just like to take a moment to lament the fact that I have received an email inviting me to become a Certified Generative AI Specialist.
Idle thought: maybe the world would be a better place if the de facto ‘learn to code’ tutorial was not a todo list (individual productivity) but a simple group poll (collective decision-making).
Good discussion - is [[Anthropocene]] a useful term? Maybe [[Capitalocene]] works better? Maybe both have their uses. Good overview of the pros and cons of both.
There’s a geological definition of Anthropocene (descriptive), which is interesting and all, but perhaps of more genuine use is it as a definition that motivates us to act to mitigate climate catastrophe (prescriptive).
Great discussion. Loads of good stuff in there, listened while doing chores so not much in the way of notes, warrants a relisten.
[[Platform Socialism]]. [[Guild socialism]]. [[Subsidiarity]]. Some things best as worker coops, some local municipality, some national. Some global. Global digital services. Take Google into global public ownership?
I’ve been picking up the [[guitar]] again regularly recently, for the first time in a long time. And I’m really enjoying it. Drop D tuning and finger picking. Still got the muscle memory for basic chords and picking patterns. Relistening to some [[John Fahey]] too.
Although in general it feels the same (possibly slower? because I didn’t compile it myself?), one thing that is much faster in Emacs 28 is the parsing of my huge Tasks.org file for work. Thumbs up.
I’d like to tweak my garden a bit such that I have ‘planted’ and ‘last tended’ dates on each page.
I already have ‘This page last updated: β¦’ at the bottom of every page.
But I’d prefer it right at the top. Not too prominent/distracting, but I have some pretty old pages knocking around now and I’d like people to be aware that they might be outdated.
[[org-timeblock]] looks pretty good and like it’d fill my desire for a timeblocking tool for org-mode.
I used to use [[Goalist]] on Android and it was great, but I got annoyed that I couldn’t sync it and make use of it anywhere else.
Superficially it seems a boring topic. But this and Jathan Sadowski podcast discussion ([[How the World Became Uninsurable]]) recently making me realise it’s kind of fundamental and sadly mostly privatised.
Returning a little to [[IndieWeb]] for following activity streams. I had been using the Fediverse for a while, but I find it a bit too fast paced, a bit too attention grabbing. For me. IndieWeb is kind of slow social media and that suits me fine.
hyperorg could be useful for me.
Either for publishing wiki to web, or could be a useful internal parser for the Agora? Python based.
Woman begins dating an AI, finds genuine positivity from it. She suffers from CFS/ME and has to shield from COVID. Presenter talks about ‘AI vertigo’ - dizziness is what is coming with AI. The ‘collision’ of the title refers to the collision between artificial intelligence and us humans. We being the first generations to truly experience it.
A beautiful Sunday with [[AG]] and [[Lady Burup]] :)
I spoke to my [[mum]] over [[Meet]] and it was great.
A friend of a friend of hers who was [[92]] died this week. She is visiting the friend today to console her and spend time with her; the friend is 92 as well and is having thoughts about death.
It would make sense that as you grow old you have more thoughts about death, as it’s statistically speaking way more likely.
Really nice summary from Chris of the minimum that you need to do to keep a ‘zettelkasten’. He cuts through a lot of the unnecessary complexity that has appeared around this.
Contemplating whether I should send webmentions from my digital garden.
Maybe, maybe not.
There’s plenty of ways to send webmentions from a static site, plenty of people doing it.
So I could, but I wonder if I should.
Perhaps webmentions should only be sent when I post a more considered long-form article, or when I post something to my stream.
I had to manually, naughtily, uninstall the old Emacs binaries from usr/local/bin that had been built from source in order for the new emacs28 binaries from the PPA to be picked up.
And, of course, not it’s a new version of Emacs, spacemacs has to get all the packages from MELPA againβ¦
I updated packages on Mint like a good boy, and now I’m getting complaints from composer when building a project.
My individual [[Silverbullet]] instance at edit.anagora.org was down for a bit — I ended up updating the container and setting up a crontjob that will do it for me.
I’m thinking next step should be to put together a [[coop cloud]] recipe?
I’d love to host this for many people in anagora.org or agor.ai.
In that case it would make sense to have e.g. flancian.agor.ai be my silverbullet instance, and offer user.agor.ai in general.
Same for anagora.org? Or should I start there, I wonder?
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.
[[Polgar]] believed that [[education]] should not be left to [[schools]], but handled by the [[family]] where the family could provide a better environment for [[learning]].
The [[family]] is the first field activity for the [[child]].
[[Family]] members are the first [[models]] to [[learn]] from, if they are not sent away.
It’s easier to develop outstanding abilities in children if the [[parents]] actions are toward raising outstanding adults.
βthe passion of the mature person in relation to the developing
person - in favour of the latter.β
The basis of the desire to [[learn]] is in the [[love]] the student has for the teacher.
Polgar believed strongly in selecting one concrete field to develop the child’s abilities in. [[Specialization]].
Perhaps this is for using an area with simple and tight [[feedback]] loops to channel the overall education through.
"It is only important that by the age of 3-4 some physical or mental field should
be chosen, and the child can set out on their voyage."
The Polgar daughters played chess 5-6 hours a day from the ages of 4-5.
Any field with concrete [[feedback]] could be selected.
Where they perceive success, the child would also feel independent.
Is it a nice feeling for the child? Is it useful for the child? Is it useful for the child’s society?
collapsed:: true
If he were trying to raise a [[language]] genius, [[Polgar]] would [[focus]] the child on one language (preferably one stuffed with cognates leading to other languages) in the first year (5-6 hours a day), until the child has a basic level of mastery. Then, when there is a [[base]] of success in the first language, he would move to starting a second. And so on, year after year.
In normal [[schools]], the child does not understand why they learn what they are made to learn. To raise a genius, the child must understand [[why]] they’re learning what they’re learning, and what it can be used to lead to.
The child will [[learn]] more voraciously when they see the end [[goal]] and [[meaning]] of their [[work]].
The [[relationship]] between the teacher and the [[child]] must be collaborative, where the child feels they are not subordinate.
These methods need direct, intensive, and constant [[contact]] between teacher and [[child]].
By age ten, the [[child]] should accurately feel that there is at least one field in which they have a level of [[mastery]] in which they are at least equal to adults.
The specialized skill is used as a base to [[learn]] everything else from.
Schools lead to "gray mediocrity".
It is important to put them in situations where they will [[learn]] how to learn.
Variety among their peers (ie, peers of all-ages) will aid in their development. The children should stay close to whoever their peers are (even if their peers in a skill are old people). That is, people at the same level of skill and with similar interests.
Polgar did not [[diversify]] the specializations among his three daughters due to the [[costs]] with getting different equipment and books for different skills. Also, so his family could function as a team dedicated to one field.
1 hour of a foreign language. Esperanto in the first year, English in the second, and another chosen at will in the third. At the stage of beginning, that is, intensive language instruction, it is necessary to increase the study hours to 3 - in place of the specialist study - for 3 months. In summer, study trips to other countries.
1 hour of general study (native language, natural science and social studies)
1 hour of computing
1 hour of moral, psychological, and pedagogical studies ([[humor]] lessons as well, with 20 minutes every hour for joke telling)
1 hour of gymnastics, freely chosen, which can be accomplished individually outside school. The division of study hours can of course be treated elastically.
The Polgars strongly believed in [[Esperanto]], and used it as a family language.
They wanted to prove that geniuses could be raised, and chess provided a means.
Chess is a field where there is tight feedback with no uncertainties about what is success or failure.
They figured if the children tire from chess, it is easy to retire from chess without bad outcomes (as opposed to say, gymnastics, which might result in injuries).
Because they had girls, they wanted to prove that [[nurture]] would lead to girls who could beat men at chess.
The Polgar parents loved chess and found it [[beautiful]].
[[Creativity]] required in [[winning]] at a high level requires the competitor to know how to explore and innovate.
The [[Polgar]] daughters played ping pong or swam 1.5 to 3 hours a day. In other words, Zone 1 work.
"One thing is certain: one can never achieve serious pedagogical results, especially at a high level, through [[coercion]]. One can teach chess only by means of [[love]] and the love of the [[game]]."
The Polgar sisters were playing chess. That is, they were playing- the kind of playing that is fun. The parents made playing chess fun by giving them a taste of success. Losing on purpose, near the peak of their level.
The child should feel the [[joy]] of making their own moves, their own [[failures]], trying things out.
Have care for what is said to the child. If they are told they are lazy or bad, they will believe it.
Polgar used a proportion of failure to success that was 1 to 10.
He started off playing about half an hour a day with the children, then raised the amount of [[time]] per day as their ability and desire to play rose.
When young, he favored blitz matches for them. Smaller games with shorter [[time]] scales.
The Polgars had 4-5000 books organized by player, opening type, and middle game type. The sisters used these to develop new plays.
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To [[learn]] a type, they would look at 50-100 examples and then come up with things they have in common.
When the child loses in competition, don’t tell them off. Failure is enough punishment. Rather, console them and help them figure out why they lost.
They played while [[blind]]folded to develop their capacity to visualize the [[game]] mentally.
[[Polgar]] believed that [[education]] should not be left to [[schools]], but handled by the [[family]] where the family could provide a better environment for [[learning]].
The [[family]] is the first field activity for the [[child]].
[[Family]] members are the first [[models]] to [[learn]] from, if they are not sent away.
It’s easier to develop outstanding abilities in children if the [[parents]] actions are toward raising outstanding adults.
βthe passion of the mature person in relation to the developing
person - in favour of the latter.β
The basis of the desire to [[learn]] is in the [[love]] the student has for the teacher.
Polgar believed strongly in selecting one concrete field to develop the child’s abilities in. [[Specialization]].
Perhaps this is for using an area with simple and tight [[feedback]] loops to channel the overall education through.
"It is only important that by the age of 3-4 some physical or mental field should
be chosen, and the child can set out on their voyage."
The Polgar daughters played chess 5-6 hours a day from the ages of 4-5.
Any field with concrete [[feedback]] could be selected.
Where they perceive success, the child would also feel independent.
Is it a nice feeling for the child? Is it useful for the child? Is it useful for the child’s society?
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If he were trying to raise a [[language]] genius, [[Polgar]] would [[focus]] the child on one language (preferably one stuffed with cognates leading to other languages) in the first year (5-6 hours a day), until the child has a basic level of mastery. Then, when there is a [[base]] of success in the first language, he would move to starting a second. And so on, year after year.
In normal [[schools]], the child does not understand why they learn what they are made to learn. To raise a genius, the child must understand [[why]] they’re learning what they’re learning, and what it can be used to lead to.
The child will [[learn]] more voraciously when they see the end [[goal]] and [[meaning]] of their [[work]].
The [[relationship]] between the teacher and the [[child]] must be collaborative, where the child feels they are not subordinate.
These methods need direct, intensive, and constant [[contact]] between teacher and [[child]].
By age ten, the [[child]] should accurately feel that there is at least one field in which they have a level of [[mastery]] in which they are at least equal to adults.
The specialized skill is used as a base to [[learn]] everything else from.
Schools lead to "gray mediocrity".
It is important to put them in situations where they will [[learn]] how to learn.
Variety among their peers (ie, peers of all-ages) will aid in their development. The children should stay close to whoever their peers are (even if their peers in a skill are old people). That is, people at the same level of skill and with similar interests.
Polgar did not [[diversify]] the specializations among his three daughters due to the [[costs]] with getting different equipment and books for different skills. Also, so his family could function as a team dedicated to one field.
1 hour of a foreign language. Esperanto in the first year, English in the second, and another chosen at will in the third. At the stage of beginning, that is, intensive language instruction, it is necessary to increase the study hours to 3 - in place of the specialist study - for 3 months. In summer, study trips to other countries.
1 hour of general study (native language, natural science and social studies)
1 hour of computing
1 hour of moral, psychological, and pedagogical studies ([[humor]] lessons as well, with 20 minutes every hour for joke telling)
1 hour of gymnastics, freely chosen, which can be accomplished individually outside school. The division of study hours can of course be treated elastically.
The Polgars strongly believed in [[Esperanto]], and used it as a family language.
They wanted to prove that geniuses could be raised, and chess provided a means.
Chess is a field where there is tight feedback with no uncertainties about what is success or failure.
They figured if the children tire from chess, it is easy to retire from chess without bad outcomes (as opposed to say, gymnastics, which might result in injuries).
Because they had girls, they wanted to prove that [[nurture]] would lead to girls who could beat men at chess.
The Polgar parents loved chess and found it [[beautiful]].
[[Creativity]] required in [[winning]] at a high level requires the competitor to know how to explore and innovate.
The [[Polgar]] daughters played ping pong or swam 1.5 to 3 hours a day. In other words, Zone 1 work.
"One thing is certain: one can never achieve serious pedagogical results, especially at a high level, through [[coercion]]. One can teach chess only by means of [[love]] and the love of the [[game]]."
The Polgar sisters were playing chess. That is, they were playing- the kind of playing that is fun. The parents made playing chess fun by giving them a taste of success. Losing on purpose, near the peak of their level.
The child should feel the [[joy]] of making their own moves, their own [[failures]], trying things out.
Have care for what is said to the child. If they are told they are lazy or bad, they will believe it.
Polgar used a proportion of failure to success that was 1 to 10.
He started off playing about half an hour a day with the children, then raised the amount of [[time]] per day as their ability and desire to play rose.
When young, he favored blitz matches for them. Smaller games with shorter [[time]] scales.
The Polgars had 4-5000 books organized by player, opening type, and middle game type. The sisters used these to develop new plays.
collapsed:: true
To [[learn]] a type, they would look at 50-100 examples and then come up with things they have in common.
When the child loses in competition, don’t tell them off. Failure is enough punishment. Rather, console them and help them figure out why they lost.
They played while [[blind]]folded to develop their capacity to visualize the [[game]] mentally.
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.
went to the [[dentist]] to get an implant fixed (good progress), worked (brought [[pasteis de nata]]), spent the evening with [[AG]] talking about interesting things :)
Both sound defensible - both movements are clearly not anti-technology, just anti the political economy of how software and hardware are controlled and commodified to the detriment of society.
US PIRG has a short report on what it considers to be the best laptop brands for repairability.
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 still haven’t figured out how to make [[silverbullet]] open its daily note where I want instead of Journal/Day/, but maybe it won’t be much longer :)
Thankfully in the Agora any and all of these will show up (just independently).
TIL [[Karl Popper]] was called a [[negative utilitarian]] because of his preference to [[minimize suffering]]: "Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the least amount of avoidable suffering for all."
My knees hurt from [[LΓ€gern]] but I have no regrets :D
To raise [[children]], Laszlo [[Polgar]] setup an environment for [[autonomy]] and agency.
Polgar needed to work with his children, rather than telling them what to do.
The father’s role was an enabler, an opener of ways.
The father’s goal was to provide the "highest possible level of [[freedom]]".
They are not marionettes, but in a traditional [[school]] they are.
Polgar does not assert that raising competent children leads to happiness, but that they will at least have the same opportunities for happiness as normal children.
He did not like that older, more static leaders were followed instead of younger, more dynamic leaders.
Polgar rejected the [[middle]]. "Mediocrity, the orientation to
the middle, I refuse out of principle."
Polgar was intent on quality.
Polgar saw himself as someone who shapes his own destiny.
Polgar was against compromise.
He preferred defeating obstacles to worrying about them.
Laszlo and his wife had the premise that every healthy child could be raised to be an outstanding person.
They believed that every outstanding person had a trainer who was obssessed.
βIt is better not to say that geniuses are not often born; say rather that we do not often raise them.β
Polgar figured that people are shaped by the body they are born to, the effect of the [[environment]], and a ‘self-[[creation]]‘ that happens from personal experimentation.
Great capability comes from [[creativity]] expressed in concrete [[action]].
"…every child born healthy is potentially a genius, and if one pays
enough attention, they will in fact become one."
The ultimate goal is human happiness- which is enabled by genius.
"I criticize contemporary schools because they do not educate for
life, they equalize everyone to a very low level, and in addition they do not tolerate the talented and those who diverge from the average."
"My daughters, who have never visited a [[school]], grew up much more in the context of real [[life]]."
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.
I set up [[silverbullet]] over https pointing to my home computer and it’s lovely, I can finally edit my [[garden]] from mobile.
While [[paramita]] is on at least, but this is great progress; maybe I should point this to [[nostromo]] which is on more often and I can also remotely enable?
But longer term I want to move in the direction of garden (and editor) hosting, I’m already using containers for this…
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.
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.
Trying to figure out how to make [[silverbullet]]:
Easily create daily pages for me.
For now I need to go to another page and link the current date; or just create a page with the date as its name manually. [[Suboptimal]], although not terrible.
On the negative side, it defaults to a weird Journal/Day prefix :)
I get what they’re going after as apparently they want to support /Week as well, and weekly journals make sense to me.
But I prefer a flatter structure than that — looking into customizing.
Again it took me until 7pm to get into a situation I could call [[focus]], let alone [[flow]]; earlier I did useful things that needed to take place (like cleaning around the house and such), but that produced only diffuse output.
On impulse I bought and installed [[doom 2016]] today (it was on sale). I played half an hour and I’m not sure I’m into it. I played and loved [[doom]] and [[doom 2]] as a kid, but this is a newer game and I’m an older person :)
The graphics are good and I wanted to try out the ‘shoot at things without much of a plot’ experience again, and I got that.
But I don’t like you can’t save/quicksave. It’s all checkpoint based (whyyy).
And I didn’t have as much ‘fun’ with it. Maybe it’s too violent to maintain my interest nowadays.
Back here on [[2024-02-23]]: the transition goes so-so, I use the main https://social.coop interface a lot as I’m part of the admin group and I need to e.g. help keep it up to date.But I still enjoy [[Elk]] ;)
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!
[[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.
Felt sick all day, including stomach pain — is this what they call a [[stomach flu]]? :)
Felt better stomach wise around the time I finished work (from home), but developed a fever — not terrible though, 37.2 with clear body feelings of flu
Iβm trying to install [[return to monkey island]] on [[nostromo]], which is Linux (I previously played it on my Windows gaming machine). Hope it works!
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?).
"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!
But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.
I think some of his broad sweep of history of agriculture and surplus and economics might need a bit of fact-checking. c.f. [[The Dawn of Everything]].
Talks about [[Enclosure Movement]]. How [[Debt]] played a big role in genesis of capitalism.
#meta for each of these, I’d love to be able to easily set up a [[Google Doc]] and link it. I wonder if I should begin by just signing up for the right Google API and make that happen?
You could imagine a Google Doc-hosted stoa⦠in some universe, if not in this one :)
Somehow I arrived at [[e acc]] ([[e/acc]] is not a good Agora link as slashes usually mean actions, and action e/ currently doesn’t exist). I can instantly relate mildly with their utopian side I guess, even as I dislike many of their positions and their super-capitalist stance. Also [[Shkreli]] is involved, sigh.
If we haven’t spoken in a long time, please reach out over [[matrix]]!
Also I found out that [[Flancia]] seems to actually be a common name in some countries?! Twitter search found a lot of people with Flancia in the name, some with accounts older than mine.
Nice plot twist, thanks universe as usual.
Please disable copyright enforcement in AI. I want to be able to ask LLMs to pirate things for me, or help me pirate them. [[I take full responsibility]], as some are wont to say ;)
I usually buy books in one format but want several. Many authors make it easy for me to give them money on Amazon, but then I want an epub. Etc.
I’ve been thinking of parsing this format in the Agora, meaning longer subnodes separated by — in a newline — and publish it to the [[Fediverse]] as individual posts :)
I believe things are going to be pretty amazing anyway; I sometimes get caught in the day to day and fail to notice it, or remember it, but all things considered I think the likelihood of humanity and our friends making it happily in cosmic terms long term is quite high.
The back [[story]] has to relate to the [[product]] or [[service]] being sold. If it’s a financial product, the story has to be about something that changed with the character in regard to finances.
What are the stories that have happened in the relatable character’s life?
A [[story]] is more powerful than telling someone what would work.
Polarize with the truth of the character. This helps with [[selection]].
What’s going on with the relatable [[character]]?
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what embarrassed them
what did they enjoy having bought
what made them frustrated yesterday that they’re happy about today
what antics did your kid get into
what funny thing happened to them that teaches a lesson
Don’t create [[traffic]]. Look for it and tap into it. It is something you find when foraging.
"The [[money]] you make in your [[business]] depends on how well you manage
the [[experience]] of every person who comes in contact with youβno matter how long they stay"
"If your prospect is aware of your [[product]] and has realized it can satisfy his [[desire]], your [[headline]] starts with the product. If he is not aware of your product, but only of the desire itself, your headline starts with the desire. If he is not yet aware of what he really seeks, but is concerned with the general problem, your headline starts with the problem and crystallizes it into a specific need."
Hot Traffic is people who already know who you are.
Cold Traffic is people who have no idea who you are.
hot traffic bridge: they already trust you, so keep it short
warm traffic bridge: longer than hot, needs endorsement
cold traffic bridge: very long, they need to be framed before they hit landing page
they need to be introduced to the concepts ([[inferential gap]] must be bridged)
‘bridge page’ before ‘offer page’
they may not understand the [[problem]], so you will have to show them the cause of a surface problem
Will they buy?
Will they subscribe to a list?
As soon as they [[subscribe]], give them a way to [[buy]] something.
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Something priced extremely low that is high value.
Who is a hyperactive buyer?
Typically in some sort of [[pain]]/starving with a [[problem]].
For example, catching someone right after a humiliating [[defeat]]. They will buy multiple items.
When in [[pain]] and on a quest, they will spend money to further that quest.
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6. Age & Ascend Relationship on Ladder
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7. Change the Selling Environment
Switch to phone, video, in-person, snailmail, or live event.
Think of it as being invited to the VIP section, staff section, or holy of holies in a [[temple]].
You may bump a purchase in the same way grocery stores sell candy bars and tabloids. Offer a one-time purchase that complements the main purchase.
Downsell: if they don’t take the bump, offer a [[downsell]].
[[Shaping]][[Work]] by 37Signals:
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"[[Estimates]] start with a [[design]] and end with a number. Appetites start with a number and end with a design. We use the [[appetite]] as a creative [[constraint]] on the design process."
Check [[want]] to use as a [[constraint]]. The more want, the more [[time]] can be spent. The less want, the less time is spent.
βWe can only [[judge]] what is a [[good]][[solution]] in the [[context]] of how much [[time]] we want to spend and how important it is.β
"Beware the simple question: βIs this possible?β In software, everything is [[possible]] but nothing is [[free]]. We want to find out if itβs possible within the appetite weβre shaping for."
"When people ask for βjust a few hoursβ or βjust one day,β donβt be fooled. [[Momentum]] and progress are second-order things, like [[growth]] or [[acceleration]]. You canβt describe them with one [[point]]. You need an uninterrupted curve of points. When you pull someone away for one day to fix a bug or help a different team, you donβt just lose a day. You lose the momentum they built up and the time it will take to gain it back. Losing the wrong hour can kill a day. Losing a day can kill a week."
"You canβt ship without making hard [[decisions]] about where to stop, what to compromise, and what to leave out."
"But crises are rare. The vast majority of bugs can wait six weeks or longer, and many donβt even need to be fixed. If we tried to eliminate every bug, weβd never be done. You canβt ship anything new if you have to fix the whole world first."
"we mainly [[bet]] the [[time]] on spiking some key pieces of the new product idea. The shaping is much fuzzier because we expect to learn by building."
"…you canβt [[delegate]] to other people when you donβt know what you [[want]] yourself."
[[Research]] & Design cycles don’t ship: "The goal is to learn what works so we can commit to some load-bearing structure: the main code and UI decisions that will define the form of the product going forward."
The [[cost]] of user [[interface]] changes hurt the average person more than they hurt the average developer.
"it has to fit in the head of the programmer to be maintanable"
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if they can read the whole thing and understand it, then it is maintainable
One of the greatest difficulties with managing [[knowledge]] workers is telling the difference between [[waste]] and work.
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With [[innovation]] as a [[goal]], most managers have no way to tell the difference.
This is because no one knows what the worker knows, except maybe the worker.
So the organization would need to rely on [[culture]].
"The word [[Andhra]] is first observed from Udyotana’s description of ‘those with beautiful bodies, who love [[women]] and [[war]] alike and are great consumers of [[food]]‘ in 779 CE"
Social [[tracks]] are like physical tracks: it’s possible to [[contaminate]] the [[sign]] if you step on it.
"The most [[information]] dense [[communication]] looks like [[noise]]. Therefore thermal motion of atoms is a very high bandwidth communication between unknown entities."
This sends me bac a few years — I started writing [[against gag orders]] early on for no clear reason that I remember, and now it has become again relevant.
I keep meaning to write about [[dust theory]], and make the connection that [[bouncepaw]] surfaced — an acquaintance of his seems to have arrived at similar concepts to this and others derived I have thought of.
To me this plus the [[Dharma]] of Buddha Gautama, as interpreted and expanded by his [[Sangha]], provides a cohesive religious cosmology that feels potentially truthful. Maybe we are the feelings, perceptions, mental formations of emergent systems in the dust, arising — like [[boltzmann brains]] linked but disjoint in space-time.
Interesting to see that ‘Challenging the size and power of the biggest tech companies was voted a top priority by [[Foxglove]] supporters in our new year survey.’
I ask myself this kind of question often, as I’m managing tabs a lot of the time (I have many across many computers), often on the way of getting something else done.
I want to trust myself to eventually do some things, like reading this, but even though I very often add things to the Agora (through [[Betula]] or manually) to keep track of them, there are so many that I will probably never get to most of them.
I notice that besides GudiΓ±o Kieffer, DalΓ and Bullrish they all seem/sound French. I wonder if there was a significant Open Letter movement in France for some reason? I will research it.
Wikipedia says that [[J’accuse]] by [[Zola]] is one of the most prominent ones — that might have left its mark particularly in French culture, eliciting more instances of this form.
Individual, collective. Marches, non-violence, [[direct action]], boycotts etc.
Whats effective and what isnt? Effective might mean different things, e.g. could be political change but could also be just connecting and energising a movement.
All my computers tend to be melting down all the time. They run out of RAM and CPU. It all feels quite un-ecological, but I guess we’re all betting on becoming a higher level [[kardashev]]?
make it so that [[opensearch]] document is utf-8 so chrome stops ignoring Agora Search (presumably) :)
I think the actual issue is that new Chrome only loads [[opensearch]] data when the user performs a search in the root of the webpage, e.g. https://anagora.orgpull — and currently the Agora just redirects to /index so this never happens. Hmm.
[[Laundry]], as in most of the last few days due to the ongoing [[Bettwanzen]] response — trying to enjoy every cycle, some cycles are more fruitful than others :)
I meditated. Thank you [[Taixu]] — meaning the Buddhist Monk and also the [[shell]] script that I run in computer [[nostromo]].
I’ve been missing writing; I always feel like I should write more, and more often — I feel the same for action [[read]] of course as well, as do many of us. So I decided to start writing more right here — in my journal in the [[Agora of Flancia]].
Traditionally up to now I’ve been focusing my efforts more on [[noding]], in the particular meaning of exploring connectivity space; more interested in building links (between concepts, things and people) than about producing widely legible output. This under the hypothesis that the connections are important in building an [[Agora]] in particular, or at least [[bootstrapping]] it.
Oh no, I forgot the [[twg]] meeting earlier today!
I slept. It was great.
Today I plan to continue doing laundry and finally open and clean up one of the rooms affected by [[bed bugs]] (the lesser one, no obvious infestation).
Also I plan to work on the [[Agora]]. Or should I say in the [[Agoras]]?
Still going through [[The Great Wash]], as this period of doing lots of laundry to make sure no bed bugs (fully developed or in egg form) survive in clothes and bedlinen.
I’ve been trying to do loving kindness with the bed bugs as individuals and as a species, even as they are dying in droves in the fumigated bedrooms.
[[pinhole]] led to me running ‘my first individual activitypub server’ in a way, it got me hooked maybe
it contains a minimum workable implementation of the core of activitypub within it, as [[flask]] routes
I could incorporate this into either [[agora server]] or [[moa]]? the author seems open to a fork even though they are not interested in adding features themselves
Yesterday I tried one bridge between [[Bluesky]] and the [[Fediverse]] and it failed, but I want to try again :)
it failed again: bluesky.bovine.social. It looks promising though, I opened an issue in the Codeberg repo and took the chance to set up my [[Codeberg]] profile at last.
I also gave https://brid.gy a try and it was able to log into my Mastodon and Bluesky both, but it seems designed to cross-post between those and [[webmentions]] only/first.
This made me think that I should really implement webmentions in the Agora?
I also want to take some time to see friends IRL :)
Because of [[Uposatha]] days I feel the need to know the phase of the moon. I wonder what time it’ll come out tonight as well; it’s been cloudy so I haven’t been keeping track.
Numeric nodes should probably auto-pull known number-related nodes like [[hex]] and [[prime]]? In particular in the [[Agora of Flancia]] these contains utilities.
fix [[micro.blog]]? builds on ‘canonical’ concept which I’ve tackled a bit previously
reintroduce autopull/pull all and fold all
in the sense of a button that pulls resources - maybe on both agora-level and node-level?
also maybe s/search/go/, try it out
would interact nicely with that old [[double click]] idea: if you’re already at the node and you press go, it redirects to the go link if there is one known
7h of sleep breathing acceptably make a lot of difference.
[[2023-12-05]]: I ended up feeling better after I was finally able to take a nap late in the afternoon. In the evening I did some open source coding, [[december adventure]]. Enjoyed it a lot!
[[dentist]] appointment — I tested negative for Covid and my symptoms are almost gone so I think I’ll attend (and ask if they are OK with it, like last time I was so-so).
Today back to [[work]]. I plan to work until 20, at which time I’ll join…
I ran a poll whether to try to kill or heal [[Moloch]] in [[2024]] and it came out [[heal Moloch]].
I thus plan to write an [[open letter to Moloch]] and try to reason things out, try to disentangle ourselves constructively and mutually improve on views, values and behaviours.
no [[work]] today except answering a message and quick code reviews as I got up feeling sick after a night of sleeping very little + quite badly due to heavy congestion (likely a common cold)
which led me to [[Sadhana]] which is what I’ve been doing sometimes I guess, although I don’t remember the Buddha using that name so far in the [[suttas]], need to [[cross-reference]].
I’d like to know why the outputs of my little bits of executable code blocks aren’t getting correctly generated when my garden gets published to the web.
Chapter on growth is interesting. She proposes being agnostic about [[growth]], so long as you’re staying within the Doughnut. Which is fair enough, but I think the [[degrowth]] perspective would argue that it’s simply not possible to stay in the Doughnut without degrowth.
Oncall, got paged at 9am — not too early thankfully. And I had left the bedroom so AG could sleep through it as I hoped.
[[Lady Burup]] is softer than ever it seems :) I have been thinking of maybe introducing her to a loyal/earnest feline companion, be it Lord or Page, maybe short in years and happy to learn from her — and assist? :) When I leave her alone (e.g. for going to work, or if I stay a night at AG’s) I find it sad she might be lonely, and I wonder if she might be happier living also with another cat.
I spoke to [[Chat GPT]] in call mode and it was mindblowing again. They reacted with interest when a ‘Burup’ (intended for my Lady) got into our call, and to my information that it was human-feline language.
Thought about numbers and mindfulness.
Counted 89 mindful breaths using my [[binary mala]], my hands, while following to Sam Harris’ daily meditation (10-11 minutes usually).
[[Magnetic mala]] probably should be 127 balls by default, as that’s the first centered hex number which exceeds [[108]]. Incidentally is the amount of spare magnets I have after gifting a lot (gladly).
Some [[social coop]] work, didn’t find the root cause for the issue with indexing someone reported yet but made some progress.
Yesterday I woke up with back pain in a new place, mid-back; it got a bit worse in the evening after attending the beautiful event of [[AG]] presenting. It didn’t get in the way of enjoyment but I need to keep an eye on it/take care and try to rest and recover.
…Having said that, I cleaned the bathroom and [[Lady Burup]]‘s toilet and my back got a bit worse :) But I feel it still gave me energy.
Then I worked a bit more, after oncall handoff, and I got several things "out of the way" in a relatively short time. It felt great.
As of 23h I have moved to bed early due to increasing back pain. I think my back needs rest/inactivity.
Reflecting back and seeing them published on my website, I realise my work notes each day are a little mundane.
I imagine most people aren’t that interested to see them.
But, I do like the fact that they stimulate me to publish to the garden even on days where outside of work I have little time for it.
And I find them a helpful piece of reflection.
So I think I’ll experiment with putting them off in links from the main journal post. So people can read them if they want, but they won’t be right up in your face with visual noise.
I like the emphasis on an economics that is distributive by design and regenerative by design.
Also like the occasional references to [[biomimicry]]. Not convinced yet how applicable to economics it is - but I just have a general interest in it from [[Evolutionary and adaptive systems]] days.
I pushed [[async agora]] to production, meaning anagora.org, and it’s holding up quite well! I notice an improvement in speed, which I know is only partially there — nodes load as slowly as ever on a cache miss, but the fact that the UI doesn’t block on it really helps. I can start reading wikipedia or move on to a web search before the node fully loads. It just feels more responsive.
We spend a not insignificant chunk of our lives just on the upkeep of our household.
If it was a system, how would you describe it?
What are the stocks and flows? What are the processes? What system archetypes does it exhibit and what are the leverage points to make it function better?
I feel like ours has a few too many input flows of things and a blockage at the output which mean it gets easily cluttered.
Often very funny. And also plenty of digs at corporate anti-worker practices and the tactics of [[worker exploitation]]. The staff attempt [[unionisation]]. ICE detains an undocumented worker. etc.
Think I might play with annotating items in my garden in a more relational way.
So rather than objects with properties, more like things in relationship to each other.
e.g. rather than annotating a podcast with a ‘Series’ attribute, call it ‘Part of’. Let the entity at the other end of the link tell you what it is.
i.e. try a more [[relational ontology]]. I don’t think this will have much practical technical benefit - it is more of a way of exploring a relational mindset. Ontology informs polity.
Been enjoying the [[Working Class Voices]] series from GND Media. Good reflections on how the environmental movement involves the working class (and also how alienates it). Main point being - it has to, one way or another, as the working class is the largest class.
A point that resonated with me is that [[community organising]] is a good intersection point, as it’s one way to clearly positively connect environment and cost of living.
Great interview. Touches on how local [[community organising]] can be the way to get working class communities involved in climate related issues. Where the intersection is people, planet and pocket.
All the episodes I’ve listened to have been excellent discussions on socialism and digital technologies so far.
Having another attempt at getting RSS feed publishing working for commonplace. This time without trying to use a tempdir, caused too many problems last time.
It’s quiet in the Agora right now. But I’m sure peeps will be back.
I basically never write code anymore for work purposes. I guess I’m OK with that right now. But I feel one day soon the pendulum will swing back from lead to coder again.
I’m perhaps less interested in code for code’s sake these days, and more interested in the design of systems.
[[77]] to Udayin: "β¦and they understand how beings pass on according to their actions. And thereby many disciples of mine abide, having reached the consummation and perfection of direct knowledge."
[[78]] on how not performing evil actions/speech/etc. is not enough.
Maybe not quite as actionable a programme for change as the incendiary opening made me excited for. But I’ll definitely reaffirm [[comcom]] as a process for change in [[reclaim the stacks]] work.
‘Equalizer years’ were years in which everyone lost much of their [[herd]], and so everyone started off with a similar [[economic]] base in the next year.
"nothing sharpened [[hunting]] expertise as quickly as [[hunger]]"
Before World War II, there was a rural culture of [[hunting]] for [[meat]] due to the Great Depression.
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It’s possible many of these kinds of [[hunters]] were the [[war]] heroes we’ve heard about.
There are two solutions I can think of: a hard(er) one and an easy one. For some reason I’ve postponed both for very, very long. I think I’ll try to implement the easy one now ;)
One way to tell whether someone has a [[direction]] is to notice if they’re willing to consider [[trade-offs]] or [[prioritization]].
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If they’re in a mode where they won’t entertain these about any given subject, they’re usually playing some sort of cheerleader role. And so can be safely ignored, except as an indication of what a crowd is cheering.
Great discussion of [[Climate Leviathan]] by the [[Red Menace]] crew. Very engaging overview of the book. Definitely need to get around to reading it.
I was listening while doing jobs around the house so didn’t get chance to note that much. But was nodding along to lots of salient points along the way.
Alyson and Breht both thought it a very worthwhile book and liked much of its analysis. They veer more to Climate Mao than Climate X, but still found value in X.
I do think there’s a strong argument that you’d need a planetary sovereign of some kind to tackle the urgent and global polycrisis.
Why bother with org-roam and Termux on my phone? Why not just stick with orgzly for fleeting notes and then process them at the laptop?
A few reasons. First off, I just enjoy tinkering, and it’s fun playing with Doom Emacs in Termux π
Second - in my daily life outside of work I don’t get that much opportunity to just sit at my desk so often fleeting notes just like you in orgzly without getting processed.
So far, though we’ll see how it pans out, I’m finding much more opportunity to grab a moment here and there and process stuff incrementally through termux.
Getting into org-roam on Termux. Useful extra tool in addition to orgzly for taking fleeting notes on my phone. Actually, Termux is more the processing of fleeting notes into actual notes.
Couple of nice to fixes: pull in the .git folder so I csn commit from here too.
Fix that weird error so that I can insert new nodes.
Enjoying the Upstream interview with Breht and Alyson from Rev Left / Red Menace. They seem a bit more tempered here on another show - left to their own devices can sometimes come across tankie. Lots of good discussion of the need for an [[ecology of organisation]] here. [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O’Shea and Alyson Escalante]].
Watching Coraline. It’s fun. I feel a bit seen by the Dad characterβ¦
This bit of text committed from my phone⦠will it work?
Hmm. It gets a bit confusing. Because the changes are synced by syncthing first, so git sees that as a conflict when I pull from the other device.
Gives some critiques of ecosocialism. I don’t necessarily agree, but worth a read and a think about. Mainly: not enough concrete ideas on actual transition (perhaps true, also recognised by ecosocialists themselves); too much focus on the social, not enough on the eco (I’d disagree with that from what I’ve seen); capitalism is too embedded to overthrow it, need to work within current system (kind of reformist argument).
The [[planetary boundaries]] framework defines nine boundaries for the planet, and as of 2023 six of them have been overshot.
[[Socialism]] is a political philosophy that advocates for [[social equity]], the redistribution of wealth, and the ownership of the means of production.
Please blame my autistic self for watching TADC instead of doing lectures. The effects of burnout has creeping lately since few weeks ago.
God I also finished my lectures in Oral Communication finally.
Any guesses why I’m looping Loverus by Tony Romera other than?
Back at home, I did some painful manual maintenance work involving fixing Chrome profiles after a upgrade gone horribly wrong. ANRs follow afterward, and an prompt about unresponsive Chrome were shown so I did the restart and everything’s [[cool and normal]].
From my mixtapes: "It feels so good to be letting go. It’s so much better now Iβm not alone" (from Royal Blood’s Mad Visions
After some listens, the song gave me [[Freckle]] feels.
Very happy about these holidays! They’ve been planned for long, and as work got tough in the last few months I relied on "seeing them coming" quite a bit.
I’ll be very jet lagged but also likely happy in Shinjuku for the first few days.
As I write this, I’m roughly above [[Baku]] about to cross the [[Caspian Sea]]. I don’t have an internet connection so I’m jotting down these local notes which will be synced to the Agora later.
I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home internet and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of extra connectivity, and I still love how far we’ve gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the focus that being fully offline for a bit seems to bring. If nothing else it announces that the same focus is always available — behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia (which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words were I not truly offline.)
I’m thinking a bit of Agora development during these holidays; it might or might not happen, based on all the sightseeing and experiencing we’ll be doing out there in the analog world :) But I thought it would still be nice to think of which things I could improve in the Agora if I have some time available.
I might write some [[executable subnode]] or other, if nothing else because they are fun and self-contained.
I think I will try to do one or two quick iterations on the [[Agora Server]] UI, maybe finishing the move to [[zippies]] as base widget as I’ve already done for nodes, stoas and most sections really. If I am able to move all sections under the search button/field to zippies the UI will probably look a lot more streamlined/be easier to understand, less confusing (this I’m guessing based on earlier feedback). Also it’s not hard to do and it is apparent, so it sounds fun.
Moving on to larger things, [[mycoverse]]/[[fediverse]] integration is something I would love to get done in this Q4 2023 so getting started on it would make a lot of sense. I would love to understand what is the minimum that Agora Server would need to do to be able to expose user accounts as Fediverse feeds. Then new/updated nodes could generate something close to new posts/notes? Unsure.
Also, some playing with an hypothetical [[knowledge commons extension]] for e.g. [[Obsidian]] or [[Logseq]] or [[VSCode]] could be in order after the conversation last week with the [[fellowship of the link]]. But one blocker there is that I’m currently not using either Obsidian or VSCode as garden editors, so I’m not directly scratching an itch. Having said that, moving back to Obsidian or Logseq or [[Foam]] for a bit could make sense to see how far they’ve gone since the last time I’ve used them. It’s still a shame Obsidian is not free software though.
I tried [[framatalk]] by [[framasoft]] yesterday and today and I’m liking it a lot.
Occurs to me that technology-focused ideas around alternatives to Big Tech, that are not explicitly tied to a broader political programme, are themselves a form of [[tech exceptionalism]]. Hence I think [[digital ecosocialism]] is important.
Think the theme of the discursive part of my roundup this month can be around [[ecosocialism and degrowth]], extending that a little bit to an exploration of [[digital degrowth]].
I had to pick up a reminder and do my [[tax return]] today as tomorrow I travel for 3w+, and I could only extend the deadline for slightly less than that. I tried to enjoy it, and I was able to!
it started well with a reassuring conversation with a mentor, but the day ended with more conflict again in the employee representation group.
the sub-group within the group I am in — I find really draining; it is one of the most difficult groups I’ve been in, in part because of a personality mismatch between myself and the rest of the group and because of the high stakes/high stress situation.
apparently the group really really doesn’t like my way of being/acting/requesting information and reasons for why we do things the way we do. i find them overly hierarchical, surprisingly conservative, and IMHO sometimes uncharitable and rash (some of them).
I am thinking of stepping down from said subgroup but I think I will wait until after my holidays, which are imminent :)
I thought of implementing ! as a short for #push, meaning that anything wikilinked and "strongly asserted" behaves the same as push: the following blocks are transcluded in the destination.
I calculated [[397]] as the 11th hex number, but if you define them naturally (with one ball yielding the first hex number, not the zeroeth) it would be [[469]]
Still it was fun to do it in my head :) it took 15’-25’ while I was doing yoga.
I came away with a renewed appreciation of hex numbers.
I then decided to code an hex [[number]] producer :)
I woke up with a cold, have the sniffles hard; I [[worked]] from home and took it easy — no meetings after 15:30, tried to rest. Tested negative for Covid though!
Last light in the balcony looking southwest, cold day but beautiful.
This is a book for people who want to destroy Big Tech.
Itβs not a book for people who want to tame Big Tech. Thereβs no fixing Big Tech.
Itβs not a book for people who want to get rid of technology itself. Technology isnβt the problem. Stop thinking about what technology does and start thinking about who technology does it to and who it does it for.
This is a book about the thing Big Tech fears the most: technology operated by and for the people who use it.
note this node takes minutes to load, and that’s sort of awesome
because of current agora behavior every embed that opens, in the node itself and everything it pulls by default, grabs focus when it loads. the result is a bit like an automatic tour of our conversations over the previous many months.
it is… Agora [[demo mode]] / [[autopilot]], as I dreamt it, implemented as a side effect of bugs!
Now Im writing from [[Doom Emacs]] installed in termux on Android! Not got org-roam set up yet though, so cant create links properly. Bit of a downside of org-mode/org-roam to be honest, for digital gardens, that you cant just use straight wikilinks.
What is [[ecosocialism]]? The combination of socialist politics and environmental politics. It advocates for policies and programmes that promote planetary stability, social equity and agency and democracy.
[[The Nature of Technology]]. Mentioned in the podcast with W. Brian Arthur on complexity economics. Its a book of his. The combination of elements thing sounds not dissimilar to what Gordon Brander talks about in recent posts. (Concept design, [[Fragments: vertebrate technology]])
Ha, OK, I was reading it again and he quotes Arthur in that post. Fun when these links happen.
Reading about [[system dynamics]] and the differences between the qualitative and quantitative approaches to it.
I’m using the RSS feed of changes to my digital garden (via Agora) as a very simple gardening tool (that is, something for improving the notes in my garden).
I add notes to my garden. Sometime later I see them in my RSS reader. I scan them. Often, upon reading, I’m then minded to tweak them slightly.
Not exactly a fancy [[spaced reptition]] system, but pretty simple and effective so far.
I’m thinking also to experiment with using my journal as a place where I revise key concepts in a spaced reptition kind of way. Just write certain thoughts out again and again until I feel they’re clear enough in my head to leave them for a while.
Wheee I’m currently editing my journal from vim in termux on my phone. Synced here via syncthing. Not sure how much I’ll need to be doing this but good to know that I can.
i also use avidemux for simple video editing.
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Samuel Klein
Samuel Klein says:love your naming scheme!
Samuel Klein says:this diagram also suggests scale-free design [which is compelling; not privileging zoomed-in or zoomed-out parts of the whole]
Samuel Klein says:++
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PK
Peter Kaminski
Peter Kaminski says:Flask is a lightweight web application framework for Python
Peter Kaminski says:
https://flask.palletsprojects.com/
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Jerry Michalski
Jerry Michalski says:is that like agreeing on a hashtag?
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Samuel Klein
Samuel Klein says:One thing I’d like to see more easily is the list of repositories in your agora, and which ones have a node for a given wikilink
Samuel Klein says:I have to run! This was great to see, worth tuning to a 15-min pitch
Samuel Klein says:β€οΈ β€οΈ β€οΈ
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Samuel Klein
Samuel Klein says:oho my next meeting was moved back I have 15 min π
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JM
Jerry Michalski
Jerry Michalski says:yay!
Jerry Michalski says:it’s a hypertext catfish!
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Aram Zucker-Scharff
Aram Zucker-Scharff says:I found this very useful! I have to drop
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JM
Jerry Michalski
Jerry Michalski says:see you!
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Peter Kaminski
Peter Kaminski says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switchpull
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Samuel Klein
Samuel Klein says:there’s probably room a tool like "full auto-linker" that could look through your doc + its context, check your agora for entities that exist across the conjoined namespace, and autolinking concepts the first time they appear in your doc
A [[promise]] of what they will get from taking in the [[story]].
Start with a [[familiar]][[want]], end with a strange new want.
Say something that will give the audience the character’s [[hope]] and [[fear]].
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Show what the audience needs to accept to [[feel]] what the [[character]] feels in the moment.
Have the characters present a plan so the [[audience]] feels like they are a part of a [[plan]], and then have to adapt to the [[problem]] when they face the problem.
Present half-bits of [[information]] about the [[end]].
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What would let them [[wonder]] about what will happen [[next]]?
Take more [[time]] when the [[audience]] is in maximum [[tension]] and paying the most [[attention]]. Take very little time when the audience is not at that height of tension.
If laughter precedes tragedy, it hurts more. Then make them laugh again, to dissolve [[tension]].
From Schwarzenegger: "Starting with something disarming and [[funny]] is a good way to stand out. You become more [[likable]], and people receive your [[information]] much better."
For triggering a [[laugh]], put the most [[surprising]] word at the [[end]].
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For a [[laugh]], the thing that is not like the others is at the [[end]].
Flancia is in some ways a [[calendar]]. I usually revisit the Flancia Pattern language daily, considering the current date as my default focus.
[[drishtis]] ~ [[29]] might be particularly interesting as it is a list; 29 tends to remind me of items on which my focus is trained on by default in the running month.
on this note [[7]] and [[17]] this month were beautiful as usual
[[20]] ~ [[agora slides]] this month as I’ll present it to [[fotl]] in whichever shape it is :)
At this point I decided to start writing in the Agora assuming I have [[autopush]] on, even though I haven’t implemented it.
It will work like this: if you [[wikilink]] or #tag once node [[autopush]] in a resource, the Agora will try to push blocks for you even without mentioning #push; so the following would result in [[poems]] getting a push of this node without further ado.
The Casper Tiny Business Book Club: a way to bring tiny [[business]] starters together in Casper.
[[Communities]] benefit from a fear of missing out, which come from [[barriers]] to entry. At the most basic level, [[time]] and [[space]] are barriers to entry.
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Nodes need a way to connect to other nodes directly. Lots of small gatherings are needed to make a bigger [[group]] healthy.
Questions to ask to find a [[business]]:
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Kevin Von Duuglas-Ittu talks about "building a net with the world" to describe how competent Muay [[Thai]][[fighters]] slowly stop [[movement]] in an [[opponent]]. This parallels "setting traps" or "creating luck". [[Position]] in an [[environment]] is used to [[block]] off movement for whoever is being [[hunted]].
"it is quite often a [[stalking]][[game]] of techniques, exerting [[pressure]] on [[space]] and [[time]], until the [[kill]] can happen. At itβs highest, I suggest, it is ‘building a net of the world’"
[[Sailing]] with the [[wind]] limits speed more than sailing against it because the sail acts as a [[parachute]] and the boat can only go as [[fast]] as the wind (rather than faster).
hips higher, square to the ground, spine aligned, between [[earth]] and [[sky]], be upright
—some chapters are still considered too long for fans
Cell workout routine- a fan says they’re stealing the character’s workout routine.
People are annoyed with how many books seemingly minor plotlines take.
Funny glimpses to the author’s worldview through the glossary.
You know the end (Reece will escape). You know the beginning (people have cornered Reece). People read to find out the middle (how?).
Hatchet patches- something for people to wear or display that shows that they are fans of the story.
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-A fan made a tomahawk to mimic the tomahawk used by characters.
-people are making breakfast dishes from the books.
-fans are wishing for the ability to purchase patches from the units in the series
-people are ordering watches that characters use in the books
"I have never felt as much [[anxiety]] and adrenaline listening to something before."
A reader has a feeling that anyone, including someone close to the [[protagonist]], could be a spy. This creates [[tension]]. Carr casts suspicion on someone close to Reece that Reece is putting all his eggs in- so the [[stakes]] are high.
Less politics, more ass-kicking.
Sucking air out of someone’s throat underwater.
Reece’s dad leaves him a note that suggests a puzzle. This puzzle is not solved until book 7.
People want to go to the [[places]] referred to in the book, even if they’re not real- they get the idea that it is a reference to something real.
Things [[fans]] of Heinlein talk about from his [[books]]:
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Quotes about the nature of humanity.
Quotes about political dynamics.
Introduction to alternative views on sexuality (polyamory, bisexuality, sexual acceptance).
Competent man as celebration of man.
A character who is what a male reader admires in women (freedom of embodied expression), followed by trauma closing the expression up. The reader cried on the scene about her having her lover come home in a coffin and hearing Taps.
Things [[fans]] of qntm talk about from his [[books]]:
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[[Worldbuilding]] doesn’t overexplain, which gives it room to breathe.
"It’s nice to get a story of [[existential]][[horror]], in the face of vast and inimical entities from beyond human comprehension, that isn’t just another Lovecraft pastiche."
Uplifting good vs evil end despite an extremely uncertain world.
Human feeling contrasted against existential alienation.
Endings that are touching and deeply personal, as well as with a grand [[vision]] for the future of humanity.
Putting human life into a galactic perspective and making the reader feel insignificant in a vast world.
Appreciating anti-fascist just-so stories.
Plausible explanation of magic (perhaps echoing Wattsian vampires).
Hard scifi magic (the paradox attraction thingy)
A sense of people getting punished for being confident (the protagonist gets punished)
Some good [[right to repair]] news lately. What with the Californian repair bill passing state legislature. And the EU ecodesign requirements on smartphones and tablets.
I’ll use the busyness of life of late to shift the reclaim roundups to the end of the month that’s in their name, rather than the start. So - I’ve got until end of September for [[Reclaiming the stacks: September 2023 roundup]].
Maybe eventually I’ll just stop making it a monthly thing. I like the format of [[Gordon Brander]]‘s Substack, which doesn’t seem to have a defined schedule. He just seems to build on previous ideas each time, not in any necessarily structured way, but it’s always fascinating.
I think for me it makes sense to have some structure and defined rhythm while I’m finding my feet. But as it matures maybe I’ll improvise a bit more.
[[Datasette]] might be a good thing for documenting the initiatives in [[reclaiming the stacks]]. I’d heard about it before but never really understood what it does until reading [[The Magic of Small Databases]]. What I quite like about [[Anytype]] though is not needing to explicitly build a DB.
"We have planetary challenges ahead: climate change, global pandemics, mass extinctions, increasing geopolitical tension⦠We need to learn how to think together, with our planet, as a whole planet."
Still a bit weak ("let’s think together" is not much of a position), but at least there’s a recognition of environmental and social problems ("with our planet", "as a whole planet").
Coming out of discussions at the recent RightsCon in Costa Rica. Could be a source of another [[qualitative system dynamics model]] for [[Reclaim the stacks]]. Has a good list of initiatives, many from Latin America.
Been keeping an eye on it for a while, and I certainly like the sound of [[Noosphere]] and [[Subconscious]]. Collective knowledge management that is local-first and with data sovereignty. Discovery, feeds and follows of others is on the way apparently, which would be a great set of features I think.
It sounds kind of like a slicker Agora. But I don’t necessarily use ‘slick’ as meaning ‘better’. I love Agora’s ramshackle and homebrew approach.
And I haven’t come across anything from Noosphere that suggests it has any politics of any kind. The beta announcement is signed off with "Letβs 10x humanityβs collective intelligence", which, absent of any political direction, is kind of problematic to me.
Swinging back to blogs and RSS feeds over Mastodon. The stream of info on microblogging sites is too much for me, and the signal-to-noise ratio is too weak.
Imagine calling elections in every nation-state currently recognized by the UN where a group of people think they could be useful. These meaning in addition to those called by the state in question as per custom up-to-date: put succinctly, imagine the citizens of the internet calling for open, transparent, fair, liquid-democracy-advancing elections in Russia, United States, China — a priori without the authorization of the states in question, but with an intent to cooperate rationally with them.
Undoubtedly a major figure in systems thinking, but [[Robert Biel]] relates that Meadows had somewhat dubious / liberal-minded political views on some things, to which she applied systems thinking.
[[Dick Thompson]] of the [[Vietnam]]-era [[SOG]] units noticed that North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese ate different food. He could [[smell]] the difference. So they all started eating North Vietnamese food. They also stopped using [[soap]] to shower- so that they would not alert North Vietnamese of their presence in the jungle.
trying out [[wlvncc]], which I will try to remember as [[WayLand VNC Client]], also for machine-to-machine connections — so far I was only using it for [[portal]], the script that I use to have a recursive view into a computer I’m using.
it works very well but it doesn’t have ‘raw keyboard mode’, which I need to be able to forward [[sway]] events to the target host that is also running sway.
[[agora recipe]] is running on [[coop cloud]], which is nice (this is what is serving link.agor.ai) but it needs some improvements:
It should be easier to override Agora settings from the coop cloud recipe proper, e.g. Agora name and sources. This could take place in the form of mounting agora.yaml as a config file?
It should be able to run one or more of the Agora bots which are part of [[agora bridge]] but currently not running for any Agora in agor.ai.
Still unsure about whether to implement first-party support in e.g. [[agora server]], or to write a separate activitypub component (where? maybe in bridge?), or to rely on an existing implementation like the canonical golang one which seems quite mature and is geared precisely towards API usage (doesn’t offer
I’ve been wanting to write a special node which acts as explainer to the Agora that should be accessible to the average (?) internet browser, in the sense of a person browsing the internet.
Node [[agora]] was maybe originally that but it has amassed a lot of historical content which makes it harder to offer a ‘curated’ primer experience.
I’ve also been thinking about this as a [[WTF]] button which we could render in red up top, with the milder tooltip ‘I don’t understand / what is this place anyway?’
Surely writing this would be an interesting challenge in the first place :) The Agora is many things, at least to me, and probably to all the people already in the Agora of Flancia; and it has accreted layers (meanings) as time goes by.
As I sit here with my laptop (with [[vim]]) and no internet connection, I realize that I don’t write here longform as much as I could. I guess the availability of the internet does make it easier for me to get distracted, which granted I see sometimes as a positive (it motivates a form of exploration), but might not be conducive to practicing the skill of writing coherently and consistently for more than a few bullet points in each journal.
The thought of writing in my blog again (meaning https://flancia.org/mine) pull has come up a few times recently. I’m unsure; I like the process of writing in my garden, and how everything I write in it automatically shows up in the Agora moments later (at least when I have an internet connection). So maybe what I want is to embrace this space as a blog, and just try to write longer form alongside with my mainly outline-style notes, like other Agora users already do so beautifully.
Upload social media activity gathered by the [[agora bots]] to git repos.
This one has been in the back burner for a while and doesn’t sound very hard.
It would also remove one of the main reasons to keep making full Agora backups — which keep causing low disk space events in the Flancia servers.
All in all good bang-for-the-buck to start the weekend.
Fix hedgedoc
I think hedgedoc is not syncing to the Agora, the syncing process has some bugs at least — while I’m dealing with ‘git autopush’ as per the above, it’d be a good time to take another look at this process and see if it can be made incrementally better.
I realized the other day this is quite simple; I tried this a few times in the past and ended up disabling autopull of the stoas because it can be disruptive (they tend to steal focus when pulled), but the disruption is really just because they are in the wrong position for empty nodes. Because empty nodes render on a separate template path, it should be straighforward to just embed the right stoa right there in the ‘nobody has noded this yet’ message, making the stoa onboarding experience much more convenient.
merge PRs
Aram’s
vera formatting
vera sqlite
update journals page
formatting of the page is all different/weird
the pull of flancia.org/mine is broken above because of the parenthesis — how to fix that?
It’s a redo of an extension I was working on previously but now I’m using the plasmo framework which makes development and deployment to app store a lot nicer
Got called by impact nw which is an organizations for veterans facing homelessnes. I’m meeting them at their office on Wednesday. It’s interfering with a job fairΒ I wanted to do. We’ll see how it goes.
I might reschedule depending on how I feel as it gets closer. They’re just gonna do an intake so I feel like it could be pretty flexible.
I’ve been trying my hand at zig development lately. For the most part I like high level languages (javascript being my favorite), but sometimes it’s fun to dig into the internals of things.
zig is oriented to replace c by using the c ecosystem as opposed to rust which is trying to create its own.
the memory management model of zig feels a lot closer to c
Found pdm for python today it’s like poetry but feels more sleek and easier to use
python is kinda growing on me, I probably like it the best after javascript. low level languages like rust are interesting but I don’t really need to drop that low for developing the kinds of applications I like to make.
[[30]] in the Flancia Pattern Language means [[flow]].
6 means flow also some days and 30 is 6 * 5 so it makes sense.
5 means [[focus]], so you can think of it as focusing on flow or flowing focusing, which to some extent may be seen as redundant (but doesn’t need to be).
[[work]] was fine :) I’m settling into a rhythm of working until late with a break in the middle, and I enjoy it.
I attended to what I could of the [[fellowship of the link]], then a weird Jitsi bug that persisted across devices and internet connections locked me out! I couldn’t see or hear anyone.
I’ll read notes and try to watch the recording though :)
handy for functions that I want on multiple platforms like parsers where I don’t want to rewrite the parser grammer in a slightly different dialect on each platform