• [[SamuraiSatoshi_]] https://twitter.com/SamuraiSatoshi_/status/1523911252011008001 pull

• [[gate gate paragate parasamgate]] + [[bodhi svaha]] :)

• Author:: [[George Orwell]]
• Full Title:: 1984
• Category:: [[books]]
• 

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• Highlights first synced by [[readwise]] [[September 2nd, 2020]]§

  • Hate Week. (Location 102)
  • The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely. (Location 107)
  • You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised. (Location 122)
  • WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. (Location 135)
  • Two Minutes Hate. (Location 210)
  • Thoughtcrime, (Location 337)
  • when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: (Location 459)
  • The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible. (Location 547)
  • His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully-constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them; to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy; to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word ‘doublethink’ involved the use of doublethink. (Location 558)
  • doubleplusun- good (Location 605)
  • sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator. (Location 675)
  • In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. (Location 799)
  • And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered? (Location 1053)
  • Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. (Location 1056)
  • It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. (Location 1097)
  • ownlife, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity. (Location 1212)
  • in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body. (Location 1504)
  • For the messages that it was occasionally necessary to send, there were printed postcards with long lists of phrases, and you struck out the ones that were inapplicable. (Location 1601)
  • Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act. (Location 1828)
  • If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones. (Location 1865)
  • The proles, normally apathetic about the war, were being lashed into one of their periodical frenzies of patriotism. (Location 2146)
  • the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible. It was still true that men were not equal in their native talents and that functions had to be specialised in ways that favoured some individuals against others; but there was no longer any real need for class distinctions or for large differences of wealth. (Location 2911)
  • Even if it was still necessary for human beings to do different kinds of work, it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or economic levels. Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an ideal to be striven after, but a danger to be averted. (Location 2915)
  • by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. (Location 2921)
  • in the general hardening of outlook that set in round about 1930, practices which had been long abandoned, in some cases for hundreds of years—imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations—not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. (Location 2923)
  • The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking. Even the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages was tolerant by modern standards. Part of the reason for this was that in the past no government had the power to keep its citizens under constant surveillance. (Location 2935)
  • but, since military and commercial rivalry are no longer important, the level of popular education is actually declining. (Location 3006)
  • They can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect. (Location 3008)
  • Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity. (Location 3027)
  • The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. (Location 3093)

1984§

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1549830474922704897 pull

layout: post title: "CNET: VoIP top priority for Bell Canada in 2004" created: 1071735540 categories:

• VoIP

Another VoIP article to fan the flames. The chosen quote shows how this is actually mis-titled:

Michael Sabia, chief executive officer of the Canadian Baby Bell, outlined his company’s strategy for moving all of its communications services onto an IP-based communications network.

The distinction here being that they are moving their core network to IP. Well duh! This does not mean VoIP — it means that inside the core, all the traffic (even if it starts life as analog) gets shunted over IP, instead of continuing to use analog connections.

But it seems like there are some end-user plans as well. Read on.

Bell Canada plans to launch a consumer VoIP trial in early 2004, and it will also progress with IP TV trials. The company plans to more aggressively market VoIP services to small and midsize businesses.

I think “aggressively market” is code for “make prices less ridiculous”. The IP TV fits with Bell’s goals of being a converged communications carrier. They already offer Bell ExpressVu satellite services today.

I continue to say that getting video to the home isn’t the tricky part — it gets hard when you want to start pushing some fairly large video streams around the home to multiple devices: I did a study on in-home distribution methods, and there are cost and/or bandwidth issues with every technology in use today (e.g. what significant other is going to allow Ethernet cables tacked along walls throughout the house? Never mind the cost of installing those cables…).

The other issue used to be the backplane capacity of the <acronym title="Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer">DSLAMs</acronym> being used — the switch that connected DSL customers to the larger network didn’t have a large enough upstream connection to support the required number of video streams. I’m assuming that’s been solved.

Basically, once you start pushing converged services into a home, the need for a home server, home gateway, multimedia PC, etc. etc. becomes greater. Something “smart” that sits at the edge of the service provider network and the home network.

And yes, Rogers is doing the VoIP thing too, although they’ve specifically said it won’t be here until 2005.

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/108012539685122264 pull
• [[maya]] https://occult.institute/users/maya/statuses/108012552801058084/activity

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1507036221637283843 pull

layout: post title: Skype to Speak Out at VON Canada 2004 created: 1083336303 categories:

• Canada
• VoIP

As the communication industry press starts to understand the significance of [co-founder and CEO of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom’s] presence at our conference, I expect the number of press requests to attend VON Canada 2004 to just continue to rise. Jeff Pulver Blog

Hmmm…wonder if Jeff will let me attend as part of the “blogging press”. Look at all the VoIP stuff I publish!

Much like the low level of education around VoIP in general, there are many people that haven’t heard about Skype either. Jeff’s right when he says that Zennstrom’s presence will cause some press interest, and likely raise the level of awareness.

I am going to try to make it to VON Canada one way or another.

layout: post title: Primus Talkbroadband is currently down (June 1, 2004) created: 1086135158 categories:

• VoIP
• Canada

The TalkBroadband service is currently down. The tech support page has not been updated.

Patricia H. at tech support from Primus explained this to me, as they apparently don’t have access to update the website. There is no ETA, and she was not able to say what the problem may be.

Primus tech support may or may not be checking in here to leave comments.

Update: the status has been updated to say "the system is down" (obscure Strongbad reference).

Use my cell phone number to get in touch with me in the meantime.

Update 2: so it looks like it’s back up again. No explanation of what was going on. Might I add, I posted this initial notice at around 5pm, and it took another one and a half hours to get a notice up on the status page (which didn’t have any more information, and is simply listed as "resolved"). The call center techs weren’t too pleased about it either — Patricia H. acknowledged that they knew that many (if not most) of their customers were themselves technically savvy, and that their instinctive reaction was to go check things out online.

For me, I had recently fiddled with some network settings on my router, so I spent a bunch of time tearing apart my network and trying to figure out what was going on. Only to have tech support tell me that yes, the network had problems.

The lesson? Give your tech support people access to a tool that allows them to post updates themselves, instead of waiting for some other department to do it for them. Oh ya — I’d also subscribe to an RSS feed of network status for my broadband provider, cellphone provider, and VoIP provider.

layout: post title: "Links of Interest: December 12, 2004" created: 1103349462 categories:

• Links of Interest

These are my links of interest, remaindered links, link-list, whatever you want to call it. They’ve been sitting as open tabs in NNW for far too long. Which leads to a request: a script for NNW that takes all the open tabs and pastes the link for them into a new post in the associated blog editor.

• Alec Saunders .LOG: Good experience with Zip.ca: he says "I’m pretty impressed!" (I thought it only fair to link to that, given the little complaint thread I seem to be hosting)
• Mark Evans: Comparing VoIP in Canada: Mark writes excellent stuff about telecom in Canada. I don’t think anything, even relatively low prices for local phone service, can hold VoIP back (I want features!).
• Scottstuff: A few days with MythTV: he’s conquered home VoIP with Asterisk, now he’s turning his attentions to the video/PVR world
• Ton’s Interdependent Thoughts: Bye Bye Ecademy: what he said
• Feld Thoughts: Sales Tools - Keep Them Simple (e.g. A Heat Map): Excel as fancy-schmancy sales analysis tool.
• Yahoo Local Listings: you can get a free local listing for your business or pay for an enhanced one. Is there a format for this? Some sort of "open yellow pages listings"?
• Rufus Wainwright: I heard the same song on CBC twice today ("The One You Love", from his "Want Two" album), so I bought the track off iTunes; no incentive to link to iTunes, since I don’t get any cash from it.

Phew! That felt good. Safely stored in my backup brain, so I can forget about them.

layout: post title: "Links of Interest: March 20, 2004" created: 1111379049 categories:

• Links of Interest

I don’t do these very often, but I really do need to point a handful of things out before they age too much:

• Todd Sieling’s holycola.net - Wiki critics: Todd, this was an awesome round-up post of everything it means to be wiki. Lots of great quotes, I probably like this one best: "A given technology won’t work like it’s supposed to unless it’s used like it’s supposed to be used!"
• Gnomedex registration is open: it’s in Seattle, and Julie is going to be there. But the big question…do I get to play with the kids again if I go? Also on tap for afterwards: Bowen Island FamilyCon? We’ll see on both counts…
• Nokia Lifeblog: OK, it’s installed on my new phone…but it doesn’t seem to work. I set up the details for it to work with Flickr, but pictures never actually show up in the Lifeblog app. I haven’t read any docs yet, but shouldn’t this just work?
• Kris Krug - Vancouver BeerCasting at Subeez on March 16, 2005: there are so many things I need to be saying about Kris. He’s been "embedded" in our office for the last couple of weeks. He put on a BeerCast that I attended, and ended up talking about Reality TV (direct MP3 link). Kris is also doing interesting things with Event Blogging — he did a fantastic job covering Northern Voice, and now he’s experimenting with audio as well. Any event you need photographed, blogged, or recorded, Kris is your guy. Actually, I just talked to Shayne at Coastal Trek about having Kris do photography work. I probably have more reasons to throw props Kris’ way, but just want to say: been great having you around so far.

I don’t think I need to say anything about Flickr being acquired by Yahoo. I’ll say something including more Y!s over on the company blog.

And like that, two weeks have passed since I last wrote here. I started four or five posts in the meantime, but none made it out of draft. Work has been busy, so I end up taking work home, and then I run out of time for some things — like writing here.

I was able to get other stuff done this weekend, though, so that was great. I studied ML, paid some bills, played the piano, played games with L. We also cooked a curry and baked a cake. We didn’t leave the flat except for taking out the garbage. The most beautiful weekends sometimes don’t make for very exciting blog posts, perhaps, but that’s alright.

It was a bit weird posting that last thing about GPT-2. It’s probably the thing most closely resembling an article that I’ve written outside of work in many years. Reading it back, I spot so many issues — mainly lack of critical thinking as applied to the possible developments of the field that I mentioned. There’s so many things that could go wrong as the story progresses; both scientifically (dead ends) or ethically. But it was lots of fun writing the piece as it is. I could make a hobby of writing this kind of thing; I think as I study more ML I should be able to write more interesting things about the subject, hopefully addressing the pitfalls in my writing I mentioned (and others I’ve yet to find) as I go. I sort of am looking forward to that.

I think I should be "done" with my 50000 feet introduction to ML in a few weeks, and be able to move on to a 10000 feet review of some of the more interesting or promising subtopics I have spotted. Natural Language Processing could be one of them.

Whoa, there go 15 days without posting. It’s funny, how many times have I run into random abandoned blogs where the last few posts begin like this post? I wonder if I’ll quit anytime soon. I don’t feel like quitting really, I’ve just been busy with other things. Let’s wait and see :)

I wrote several things that I thought of posting, then didn’t because I felt they needed work. It’s funny — I don’t really have any regular readers, I think, so it doesn’t make an immediate difference whether I post what I write straight away (and perhaps edit it live) or postpone publishing until I’ve "polished" it (which realistically may never happen).

I feel like I mostly write for archive.org; what I write could end up persisting there, and might be read many years from now. This train of thought led me to write one of the pieces I mentioned. I will probably clean it up a bit and post it after finishing this entry (but then again, maybe not).

Going back to the 15 day long hiatus: I’ve been busy with several things related to Machine Learning — and, to put it succinctly, that makes me happy.

I have this fuzzy long-term plan to learn it well, and a more tactical approach that consists in just keeping an eye out for reasonable opportunities to apply what I’ve learnt hands-on. Now I’ve finally found a project at work that could benefit from ML, so I’ve put aside some of my time to experiment with it. Everything is taking long, as it’s usually the case with programming (for me, anyway), but I really enjoy the process so for once I don’t really mind. It’s such a nice change; I don’t really feel this way about my day job, usually. I don’t think I’ve felt this way about something technical since I was in university.

I’ve also read papers that I found stimulating:

• "Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners" — the GPT-2 paper (really should have read it before writing about GPT-2, shame).
• "Attention Is All You Need" — a.k.a. the Transformer paper.
• "Generative Adversarial Nets". I need to keep reading on GANs, a lot of the math went over my head.

I’ve probably spent 35h over the last three weeks doing ML, and if I remember correctly I’ve enjoyed all of it. Overall I reckon I’ve probably put 100 hours into learning ML in all formats (Coursera and podcasts included) since I started.

Going by the now contended 10000 hours rule of thumb — I have 9900 hours to go.

2020-04-04§

[[Separation of article concerns]]§

I just wrote a big ol’ blog post about [[indiewebifying my event discovery and RSVPs]]. Thinking about it just now, however, it’s a bit of a mish-mash between why I wanted to do it, and how I did it.

For someone coming to the post who is new to the IndieWeb, it’s probably bit off-putting (and maybe fuel for the fire of ‘IndieWeb is too complicated’). And for someone who already knows about the IndieWeb, but isn’t using WordPress, they might skip over the hows and in the process miss some of the whys.

So in future I might try and split these kinds of articles into two - a ‘why’ post, and a ‘how I did it’ post. The ‘why’ post will kind of be my [[behaviour-driven development]] specs, so to speak, and probably mostly links to various pattern pages on the IndieWeb wiki. And the ‘how’ post will get into the weeds of one very specific implementation, liberally referring back to the ‘why’ post.

I think that would work well and make the articles a bit more reusable and less niche.

[[Cultural references]]§

Been doing a small bit of wiki gardening on my [[books]] pages today. Nothing major, just starting to link the different ideas from different books to the concepts they’re discussing.

I really like how Nadia Eghbal‘s writings are peppered with cultural references. When I’m getting to the point where I’m writing longer-form articles on an idea, I would like them to have a similar cross-pollination vibe. Like Mark Fisher, too.

[[Wiki graphs]]§

[[org-roam]] has a nice feature that lets you graph the notes in your wiki and the links between them. I just saw that there’s a pull request to produce that map for the current note.

When that lands, I’d like to try and hook up my [[publish]] step to add the note-specific graph to each published page. That’d give a navigation path something like the one in [[FedWiki]]:

⥅ [[Wiki_graphs/2020-04-04_09-39-41_screenshot.png]]

Though I would still want my own curated [[paths]] in addition to this generated map o’ everything.

Watched Making Connections in your Notes§

Fairly high-level intro to [[org-roam]], and why you might want to use it instead of Roam (and also why you might not).

[[Stream-first]]§

The [[Roam]] approach to [[note-taking]] is to start with your daily page, and then link to things from there. This makes a lot of sense to me, and fits in with my [[current process]] for the [[blog and wiki combo]].

You just start with whatever is currently on your mind, and that goes in the stream, but links out to things in the wiki. I tend to copy it into the wiki at the same time, too, if it makes sense. Probably one thing to think about though is what in the stream do I want to be [[public versus private]] - that would change the workflow a bit.

April 24th 2020§

2020-04-24§

Outside In§

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May 4th 2020§

2020-05-04§

Read Big Tech Won’t Save Us: The Case for Social Transformation over Coronavirus Surveillance§

[[Surveillance technology]] such as [[contact tracing]] is being rolled out to track [[coronavirus]], by delightful companies such as [[Palantir]].

Rather than contracting profiteering [[disaster capitalists]] to roll out technologies of dubious efficacy and inherent [[racial biases]], it would be better to invest in reforms that build social safety nets and reduce structural inequality.

Pouring funding into technology that can detect COVID infection from vocal signatures, doesn’t provide the social safety nets that allow people to take time off from work when they are ill.

2020-05-14§

Mapping ideas over time§

In reply to: https://twitter.com/MentalNodes/status/1261010969230270470 pull

There is git for projects—should we have git for ideas?

https://www.mentalnodes.com/the-revision-history-of-an-idea

I’m hoping that at some point I’ll be able to use the version history of my [[wiki]] to turn the evolution of my [[graph]] into a nice timelapse animation – I think that would be a really fun visualisation, to see it grow and morph over time, new links forming, new clusters.

May 24th 2020§

2020-05-24§

Beaker§

I got myself a little [[hyper://]] profile via [[Beaker Browser]], after seeing [[Kicks]] post his hyper link. (I tried it a little before when it was [[dat]] but Beaker had a bug that made it unusable for me on Linux…)

I am: hyper://9f711600ba98dd6013aed1689dff47655ddedd360aee74fd151ee91fa7f70206/

Dunno how far I’ll go with that (I mainly just want to mess around with Duxtape when it is up again!), but I do like the notion of sites and apps hosted straight from the browser, removing the server from the equation. It feels like it could be democratising (in some future world where it’s not pitched at ‘web hackers’).

A fully forkable read/write web is a solid aim too.

Though I don’t think this is really a goal of Beaker, I am also totally a fan of the idea of sites sometimes just not being online. Like low-tech magazine’s [[solar-powered website]].

[[The social industry is a simulacrum]]§

June 4th, 2020§

• 73% of people think I should not bother with [[Ayn Rand]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1267403773149958150 pull
  • [[Adam Fitchett]] implied reading [[The Virtue of Selfishness]] might be worth it due to high signal/noise.
  • Due to this poll, the likelihood I will read any of her novels has gone down.
• I should write "[[Context]]", a Chrome Extension that for example replaces dollar amounts with the potential impact of that sum as applied to some constructive/charitable goal (e.g. against malaria/saving lives).
• [[Flancia the game]]

June 14th, 2020§

• [[Chongli Qin]] from DeepMind gave a talk in [[EAGxVirtual 2020]]
• [[Michael Aird]] — why we need a database of existential risk estimates.
• [[James Fodor]] — pitfalls of Bayesian reasoning.
• [[Joey Savoie]] — tools for decision making.
• [[Olga Babeeva]]

June 24th, 2020§

• Listening to https://www.villageglobal.vc/podcast/ with [[Yancey Strickler]], recommended to me by [[Bardia]].
• Remembered [[everything2]] and wrote a thread about it.
• [[Rodrigo Baraglia]] reminded me of [[c2]].

July 4th, 2020§

• Thought of the [[Arcades Project]]
• In [[Flancia]] there are [[Arcades]].
• Should I read something by [[Taleb]]?
• [[Yakomo]] told me about [[Foam]] and [[Speech and Language Processing]]
• [[AbstractFairy]] had an idea about a [[Book Club]]. Told me about [[Heather Marsh]]
• Started reading [[Seeing like a State]]

July 14th, 2020§

• Someone recommended https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_nice_guys on Twitter.
• Five books looks interesting: https://fivebooks.com/category/religion/buddhism/

July 24th, 2020§

• P. H. (work) told me about his favourite islands in [[Bali]].
• I had my most popular tweet in the end with transcripts from my conversations with [[GPT-3]].
• [[Mountains]]: yoga, essay by G., song about mountains on "Luke Mele, 11 Jul 2018" in https://www.nts.live/infinite-mixtapes/slow-focus.

18:43 thinking about college

more time in college is important! moe opportunities, the potential to work real jobs, and more time for internships and the like.

August 4th, 2020§

• Went to bed way too late last night :)
• Read about the [[anti-civ]] movement
• Read about [[temporal discounting]]
• Read about [[Fichte]]
• Installed a lamp. Always have to look up the [[swiss wiring code]]

2020-08-04§

Reposted [a tweet](https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/1288836873482379266 pull) by Martin Kleppman§

I am concerned that a lot of computer systems research is solving problems that only huge tech companies have (eg. fast datacenter networking, big data analytics systems), rather than working on technologies that empower individual users and the underprivileged.

– https://twitter.com/martinkl/status/1288836873482379266 pull

Martin does research into [[CRDTs]], which actively try to shift power from cloud services and back towards end users.

Local-first software§

I’ve been re-reading Ink & Switch’s article on [[local-first software]]. (Possibly related to me currently being in the middle of the Lake District with patchy connectivity…). It really is a great read, I highly recommend it if you’re interested in distributed systems, and if you’re interested in the issue of ownership of data and [[digital self-determination]].

Cloud apps are a bit like supply chains§

Cloud apps are a bit like supply chains. In the sense that we have little agency over the things we use or create. We are removed from the production of the things that we use. A supply chain being disrupted is like a cloud app going down. We have no local means to support ourselves.

[[Appropriate digital]]§

Like [[appropriate technology]], but for specifically for digital services (mainly software). Dan Hind talks about something like it in his interview on Tech Won’t Save Us.

Reading [[The Twittering Machine]]§

First chapter focused mainly on some of the problems with the [[social industry]]. Spun slightly different than most accounts, focusing on the profligacy with which we are all writing these days. Touched on trolling, fake news, etc. Some psychoanalysis, some theory, e.g. mentions of society of the [[spectacle]].

While I don’t feel like it’s telling anything novel so far - we already know the social industry is rife with problems - Seymour’s account is an interesting take, and very urbane to boot.

August 14th, 2020§

• [[doikayt]] does not believe in companies: https://twitter.com/doikayt/status/1294299633443721217 pull
• Need to check out [[exuo]] for [[x]]
• [[evaricweicksel]] pointed out [[Scatland]]
• [[Quick Capture]]
  • If you’re on Linux look at perf list then perf top -e […]

August 24th, 2020§

• Renewed anagora.org for two years. By impulse went up to two years, then checked what I had done for flancia.org back in July — two years as well. I forget but I am sometimes consistent.
• Vi parte de https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyRaDJwP1u4 con Lu, sobre [[Macedonio Fernandez]]
• Anoté idea de regalo para [[G.]]
• [[TODO]]: research open source ways of drawing 1. protocol diagrams and 2. graph visualizations. Is dia the best there is, or should I use something higher level? This is sort of implicitly blocking calling my [[Go Links]] post finished.
• Found https://github.com/thomaswang/minimal-twitter, could be a good base for [[Meritocracy]].

September 4th, 2020§

• [[M. B.]] told me about [[Douglas Adams]]‘s Pink Glasses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem pull
• Yesterday I met [[whomademecrispy]], a [[person]] on [[twitter]]. I should read this: https://twitter.com/whomademecrispy/status/1301301690235117568 pull
• Liked this: https://twitter.com/jolielizabeth21/status/1301315843783929856 pull
• OK, so I’ve been procrastinating this for long enough that it seems insurmountable but it clearly isn’t: today I finish perf.
• [[Felix Hoesch]] wrote to me from the [[SP]]. Perhaps I could help them translate material to English? Or write in English. Unsure. Something to [[think about]].
• Idea: have a [[think about]] list for non-directed periodical revisiting. Could be spaced repetition I guess; see what [[roamcult]] is doing perhaps?
• I love Roam. The ideas behind it.
• Roam is an Agora.

September 14th, 2020§

• [[tyler alterman]] wants to buy a castle (?): https://twitter.com/TylerAlterman/status/1303492867311230976 pull
• Opened [[daily]]
• Chatted with [[harveykrishna]] on Twitter DMs. Weird I didn’t have a node on him/her already!
• [[unknownquant]] recommended https://ia803108.us.archive.org/5/items/ThatWhichIsTattvarthaSutraNathaMalaTatia/That%20Which%20is%20Tattvartha%20Sutra%20Natha%20Mala%20Tatia.pdf as a starting point to understand [[Jainism]].
• [[hyperanomalous]]

20:36 things i stole from people smarter than me

article

• see reading as a moral imperative! people died to give us the ability to read.

• if you have not read widely, you are as good as someone who is not read at all. read diversely.

• do not criticise without advantage

• assume others know when something is wrong

• quality time vs garbage time!

  • ordinary moments can be gifts if we appraoch them from the perspective

  • alive time vs dead time — sit around and wait or make every second count

• some people lean in and some lean away

• Years ago, in a high school English class, I shared something with my discussion group. Later, people used what I had said in their essays and presentations and got credit for it. I brought this up to the teacher, telling her that people were using my ideas. She looked at me and said, “Ryan, that’s their job.” I’m very glad she said that and that I heard it at a young age.

  • amateurs focus on outcomes more than processes; we should always focus on the work and know we can rely on the systems to deliver us results

  • there are professional habits and amateur habits; make sure you are practicing the right one

  • 'competition is for losers'; when you compete, someone loses! run a race with yourself

  • Years ago, in a high school English class, I shared something with my discussion group. Later, people used what I had said in their essays and presentations and got credit for it. I brought this up to the teacher, telling her that people were using my ideas. She looked at me and said, “Ryan, that’s their job.” I’m very glad she said that and that I heard it at a young age. i don't know how to explain that you should care about other people

  • ask the best questions. questions are what separate us from others, not answers

    • what do you do with your money?

  • production and peace are very different and cannot be compared

  • choose what will teach you the most, not what will pay you a most. make sure you choose opportunities that you will learn the most from and take the most out of

  • put your precepts up for display! make your commitments public so that they will be honored

  • no man steps in the same river twice - heraclitus

  • your last book won't write your next one

  • run rates always start at zero

  • former Coca-Cola CEO Brian Dyson: “Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them — work, family, health, friends, and spirit… and you’re keeping all of these in the air. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls — family, health, friends, and spirit — are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged, or even shattered. They will never be the same.”

  • there is no party line for what you should and should not do

  • do not feel obligated to do anything with your money

  • feel free to just not reply to things selectively ignoring is the key to productivity do not feel obligated to entertain everyone

  • sometimes you can just take a break

20:50 learning more

i learn more every day man make sure your work helps you learn every action takes some mentral weight

September 24th, 2020§

• Had a great DM conversation with [[seconds_0]].
• Did 1 like = 1 thought about the Agora and it did well: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1309088913194188801 pull
• Started reading https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2016/double-crux as per the above [[rationality]] [[double crux]] [[dyokomizo]]
• [[Quick Capture]]
  • https://twitter.com/dyokomizo/status/1308896445878218753 pull?s=09

2020-09-24§

Interview with Gaël Duval§

Check out our interview with Gaël Duval (@gael@mastodon.social) of e foundation! On the e alternative OS, de-googling your phone, data privacy, and software obsolescence.

https://therestartproject.org/podcast/efoundation/

2020-10-04§

• Yesterday I got roped into some kind of weird Twitter feud and it was not my favourite thing. I think I’ll try to skip those as much as I can.
• Had a long, interesting conversation with [[dyokomizo]] about [[communication]], [[models]], [[theory of mind]], [[Buddhism]].
• TODO for today: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1312463931168813056 pull
  • VC with family.
  • Scheduling didn’t work out.
  • Read Benjamin.
  • Advance the Agora: [[Agora v1]]
  • buy books about [[ADD]]: [[driven-to-distraction]], [[scattered-minds]].
  • Perhaps I should explore [[zulip]] [[interop]] soon using [[matterbridge]].
  • Didn’t get to this, moving to long term TODO.
• [[ArtVolumeOne]] sent me this [[flan recipe]]: https://organicandrea.com/easy-organic-vanilla-flan/.
• Found out about [[telekommunism]] in [[theproject.is]].
• [[ablueaeshna]] told me about the concept of privacy in [[A pattern language]].
• [[ding levery]] chimed in with an interesting bit from [[Deep Work]]: https://twitter.com/dinglevery/status/1312849766124929024 pull.

20:27 favorite manga

blame! one piece akira (check it out!) bleach beginning and art (but not story……)

20:55 hillel newsletter

http://email.mg.buttondown.email/c/eJyNTstuhDAM_BpyS5QnIYccti39jZUh3g1tgApSUP—yV4q9bSSbY3tmdEE36HlypLJSy654FzWKSwTzL5a8eJsL_reuDdzaTSf72z4znldwnouDGeYEom-SowU2EmrjROj1la1QjpseRChsyT5mPPX3qhLI99L_fcopzilhOmEnwXLBtsYp6OiEzekAwQKme6113TgtpcP2fwHfOIYD8iQSrh7tWLjOpPssR1bY0xHB367Ua0C0EF2ljrAoFGhAiPIX4zrI8Z1Cs8JH-ynqL8LVGqg

• semidefinite programming

satsolving notes

famous np complete problem: must find satisfying formula for the boolean varaibles and statement for sanity we format the statement to assume conjunctive normal form find assignment that satisfies the equation

all np-complete problems can be converted to 3-sat problem sat solvers can quickly solve problems with lots of variables! this is mostly used for dependency management. but how do you prove a transition from your problem into sat?

• aside: cleverness is communicated in a domain with experience, but can be transferred

• posits that cleverness is only necessary with a lack of communication

• smt community -> off of sat -> puts effort into affordances

2020-10-04§

Just reinstalled koreader on my kobo§

I just reinstalled [[koreader]] on my [[kobo]] ereader. It’s come on so much since last time I used it (a year or two ago?) The fact that it’s a built-in menu in Nickel (Kobo’s default system) makes it so much easier to launch.

Dark mode is so nice. And now it has its own [[Wallabag]] plugin, for reading articles you’ve saved online, which is awesome. (I was using Wallabako, which was cool but no longer needed).

My notes here: [[Installing koreader on my Kobo]].

Listening: [[An ethics of agency]]§

Listening to the FOSS and Crafts episode on [[an ethics of agency]], Chris Webber’s ethical framework. Liking it so far, and the links to the recent [[Declaration of Digital Autonomy]].

https://fossandcrafts.org/episodes/11-an-ethics-of-agency.html

2020-10-14§

• [[Agora v0.5]]: publishing
  • I still have the problem that gatsby-digital-garden does not play well with having notes in many different paths. I should fix it or look elsewhere?
    • Alternative: https://github.com/yenly/foamy-nextjs
  • Another problem: some pages aren’t found.
    • [[Stephen Wolfram]] is found.
    • [[X]] is not (what is X?)
  • published just my digital garden to https://anagora.org pull for now.
  • Probably need to learn [[Gatsby]] proper today, or part of it. Go through a tutorial?
  • Read about underlying technologies: [[React]], [[GraphQL]]
  • Perhaps should at least check out the [[React]] docs as well.
• I’d like to cook [[Baingan Bharta]].
  • https://www.cookwithmanali.com/baingan-bharta/
• I need to order more coffee
  • [[Utopia Coffee]]
• Started recording a [[podcast]] in [[anchor.fm]], recommended by [[meshachthomit is a bit clunky, if only because it is actually an extension for a text editor, vscode.as]].
• I’m really unclear at this point on whether Foam likes filenames-with-dashes or "Filenames Just as the Title".
• Met [[scottjoe]] on [[foam]] [[discord]]. He’s also doing multi-workspaces, calls them ‘bottles’: https://github.com/scott-joe/foam—workspace.
• [[mathieudutour]]

13:33 corner office

src In distributed organizations, everyone can have a 'corner office' - a space that they own. there is so much more you can do in terms of space management when you define the office; and you can choose to define your office as the space you feel that you will be most productive in!

This blog might be relevant for future work, it's written by the creator of Wordpress.

13:41 slow march of attention

https://linus.zone/latest control, attention and relationship how to feel in control be conscientious about where attention is. is your complete attention going in the right direction? scattered attention can quickly contribute to a sense of chaos and lead to a lack of control over work!

Do not think just of spending attention, but also of redirecting the attention you waste into things that make your time more variable and enjoyable.

When you are working on something, redirect all of yourself into it! FOcus on focus. [[]] what do we need to know to start making a difference?

• ds knowledge: vocab and ontological understandign

• prerequisite is vocabulary - you must speak the lnaguage to understand the ideas

• ontological knowledge is so easy to pick up when you're doing the work vs relaxing format text to be scanned easily!

2020-10-24§

• Ran errands, but it was a beautiful sunny walk.
• Tried to advance the goals of the gentle revolution.
• Great conversations with [[abstractfairy]] and [[ding-levery]].
• Listened to a bit of [[william-macaskill]] with [[lex-fridman]].
  • Remembered [[sean carroll]] and [[mindscape]]. I think it was there where [[william-macaskill]] spoke about the potential of groups researching outside of academia?

01:56 NATs

src What is the future of the internet? The need for global collectivity is super important; one of the biggest blockers is NAT traversal. NAT :: Network Address Translation. A mechanism used to map from one IP address space to another to redirect IP packets in transit. We must prevent every connected device from requiring a public IP, so they should be freely redirected to our own private subnetworks from our router to the local devices connected to it.

2020-10-24§

[[Adding a 404 page with .htaccess]]§

I wanted to add a 404 page to my garden, especially as I’m currently renaming pages. Might end up with some broken links.

Easy enough - I created a 404.org in org-mode. It gets published as 404.html.

And in .htaccess, just needed to add:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.html

Prep school for prison§

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

– [[Angela Davis]]

[[Updating to org-roam 1.2.2]]§

[[McKenzie Wark]]§

Came across [[McKenzie Wark]] via the latest issue of [[STIR]]. Her work on the [[commodification of information]] sounds really interesting. Will have to check out [[A Hacker Manifesto]] and other works. The identification of the ‘[[Vectoralist class]]‘ back in 2003 sounds pretty on point.

Changing the filename that org-roam gives new notes§

2020-11-04§

• Election recount day in the US. It looks like it’ll be a mess. I tweeted a meme about this then realized it was probably not Right Speech (thanks to [[aeyokay]]) so I deleted it.
• Yesterday I had an interesting conversation about the [[agora]] with [[D. C.]]
• Met [[trailhub1]]. They pointed out something interesting about the term ‘[[agora]]‘: https://twitter.com/TrailHub1/status/1323921488358068224 pull
• [[mwiik]] is using Twitter web intents that let you post with GET to a URL to advance his [[tweetbond]] idea: https://twitter.com/mwiik/status/1323787415698505728 pull.
• [[codexeditor]] and [[reddy2go]] reviewed this [[agora]]! I am thankful.
• Will be off Twitter until 19 to focus on the day job more thoroughly; I have a backlog I’d like to clear.
• Did:
  • Added /today to redirect to the right daily page.
  • Integrated [[s5bug]]‘s garden: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1323030467008991246 pull
• Next:
  • [[agora-plan]]
• [[offline twitter]]:
  • "[[41666]]", a [[short story]] in which whoever just cracked [[Dread Pirate Robert]]‘s wallet and got $1bn out of it sets up a system that gives 41666 individuals around the world a basic income of $500/mo for four years.

2020-11-04§

• Worked with [[Flancian]] to squash some bugs in their Agora renderer and in my garden.
• Looked into human-readable duration parsing for [[Java]] and was recommended NaTTY.
• Looked into reverse-engineering the protocol used by the ASCII GameCube controller, meant for Phantasy Star Online.
  • Discussed with [[Sirius902]] on how feasible it is to get the ASCII GameCube controller working as a normal PC keyboard.

2020-11-14§

• Review [[2020-11-13]].
• Tried [[nested [[links]]]] in [[foam]] and the [[agora]]. They don’t work; yet :) Should they? [[agora plan]]
• Ordered hot sauces from elmaiz.ch and yerba mate from yerbamate.ch.
• Talked with [[fpallopides]] about [[cults]].
• [[arghzero]] finished a roam importer!
  • [[todo]] try it out: https://twitter.com/ArghZero/status/1327441592228212742 pull
• [[new music]]
• Yesterday I played [[skribbld]] with coworkers and it was fun.
• I had a nice chat with [[d. p.]]
• Wrote on the [[agora]] and [[twitter]] about [[memory]].
• [[Liminal]] things are those whose reality depends on whether people believe in them. The [[Agora]] is liminal.
• [[stack overflow]] could be an [[Agora]].
• What is [[time]], anyway?
• [[Memory]] is a footprint left in [[time]].
• [[semantic versioning]].
• [[Codex]] has a [[motto]]: https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1327439075511472128 pull, https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1327664339957010432 pull
• [[solomon-naim]] created [[utopoi]]!
  • reminded me of [[edunev]]‘s [[sensagora]]
• [[agora-plan]]
  • [[agora-0-5-1]] is out!
  • [[ethan-plante]] is interested in [[go links]], and might be interested in collaborating on [[agora-go-links-integration]].

2020-11-14§

• Reading more of [[Capital is Dead]]. Finished Chapter 1.
  • I like the idea of [[détournement]] as a means of interpreting Marx for the current times.
  • feels like there is some relationship between [[Glitch]] and [[détournement]].
  • really liked reading Wark say how that to understand the current informatics-based forces of production, comrades with technical knowledge are needed to collaborate with those with the theoretical knowledge. I feel like I sit in the space between theoretical and technical where I could have something to contribute here.
• my reflowed PDF scan of Capital is Dead has its own pleasing glitches that I’m rather enjoying

⥅ [[../images/capital-is-dead-glitch.jpg]]

2020-11-24§

• [[offline twitter]]
  • "In Germany, dick pics are often just pictures of body-positive people."
  • I wonder if this is offensive.
• [[bendini-fettuccini]]
• when in doubt, think of the [[algorithm]].

2020-12-04§

• Sad when I went to bed.
• Not anymore!
• [[tweet]] about [[cringe]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1334825462200197121 pull
• [[tweet]] about [[middle way]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1334839349217808384 pull
  • [[paleoludic]] told me about [[L’allegro, il penseroso ed il moderato]] by [[george handel]]: https://twitter.com/paleoludic/status/1334848378077900801 pull
• Great conversation with [[luciana]]. [[shortlist]] (who to read more of/about).
• [[mondegreen]]
  • [[raymond williams]]
  • [[rainbow williams]]
• Thought about [[virtue]] and [[cringe]].
• Worked on [[agora plan]] :)

11:43 changing mindset

this week i've realized how easy and free it is to be completely independent. it takees a bit of self control, sure, and i think everyone has work to do in that department — but thinking uncouples from home is freeing. decoupling the idea of a living space from a home, work from life and career is one necessary step towards self realization, i think. i can work independent of my expectations, of a conventional life path, of a path i want to pursue (even if it's not the most rational) and i absolutely have the means to do so. i want to live in nature! limit my access to the internet! i want to learn to treasure local, small software to better approach technology in a minimal fashion. some advice for living digital nomad full time realistically, even when overpaying for airbnbs for rent month by month, finances often end up less expensive than establishing oneself in a large city. not having to keep things and enjoying the living spaces of others is a blessing, not a curse; one gets to enjoy how other people live their lives, to change their environments without defining themselves, and to learn from the choices of others — letting external factors define their lifestyle. in a digitally connected and homogenous society, we simply don't have access to this anymore.

2020-12-04§

• Siempre olvido cómo abrir una nueva journal entry, hoy lo tuve que googlear.
• Ya envié tarea a mis estudiantes y ahora leeré a [[Raymond Williams]] para mi examen de Teoría literaria.
• Ayer leí el cuento [[The Open Boat]] de Stephen Crane, un buen ejemplo de la imposibilidad de capturar lo sublime y de cómo la postmodernidad puede detectarse ya en textos pre-modernos.
• seguramente podría hacerse un análisis parecido con [[Joseph Conrad]], de quien [[Stephen Crane]] fue amigo.

2020-12-14§

• Set up a separate node for [[feature requests]].
• [[agora plan]]
• [[pull]] [[push]] [[aka]]
• I should add a new action and [[document]] it: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1338270566420262916 pull

12:20 stepping back from autopilot

after seeing a post from tiffany day this never really occured to me as something i can or should be interested in.

advice !

lol candy bad no need to question originality there's never any pressure to know all of the answers conclusions aren't the answer, sometimes it's the thought process itself that matters — drawn back to the endless conversation about dsl for mtg game between dustin and i that never took off, but lead to a lot of valuable conversations about semantics

2020-12-14§

Escucharé la [[Lecture 03: Structuralism in Anthropology and Literature]]

2020-12-24§

• [[talked]] to [[thor ciphers]]
• [[chen]] recommended [[13 sentinels: aegis rim]]
• Unjammed our [[printer]]
• [[agora client]]
• [[codexeditor]] recommended [[gtoolkit]]
  • previously mentioned by [[ethan-plante]] IIRC
  • [[try]] it
• [[agora-plan]] code [[jump]]
• [[victor hugo]] introduced me to [[james gleick]]
• [[kyosaku-jon]] gave me a [[challah]] [[recipe]]
• [[memories of green]]
• [[hackers]]
• [[groundhog day as a sci fi movie]]

07:54 volunteering

things to do with your time instead of looking at bullshit on social media :a reminder record audio for librivox reading audiobooks add data to open street map! code; work on one of many personal projects you have going on organize wiki; refine language, make it more presentable, etc. read a book : ) or a paper you've shelved for the moment. lots of textbooks to read, not enough time

2020-12-24§

• Two excellent things added to the reading list…
  • [[The DisCO Elements]]
  • [[Platforming Equality: policy challenges for the digital economy]]

2021-01-04§

• [[petru]]
  • [[permaculture]]
• [[gamification]]
• [[oliver-sauter]]
  • [[memex]]
  • [[worldbrain]]
• [[s5bug]]
• [[flanbook]]
  • [[worldbrain]] cited yearly value of a [[facebook]] user at 250 USD.
  • [[conaw]] objected: https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1346061184542199809 pull
  • Closer to 7.5 USD it seems: https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1346065811497074691 pull
  • Matches https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1335550881933234176 pull
• [[meditations]]
• [[central mid levels escalator]]
• [[aprender de grandes]]
• [[beepb00p]] [[exobrain]]
• [[17:40]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1346134251700412423 pull
• [[browser extension]]
• [[pulling]]
• [[dendron]]
• [[solarpunk]]
• [[distdns]]
• [[marko]]
• [[feature requests]]

16:00 various thoughts

what's wrong with posix io

src

• stateful: file descriptors must always be opened before reading or writing them, but this is all tracked internal to the kernel rather than externally; this measn that things can't be done asynchronously

• the posix io model causes the cost of opening a file to scale linearly with the number of requests in userland requesting the opening, even on parallel file systems!

• prescribing metadata doesn't seem all that bad… their point is that files are all kept track of independently but still must maintain the same standards. this cannot adapt to additional metadata information we want to store

  • isn't it fine to just use extra files to denote additional specs? you can use the format of the file to carry that additional information, or manage it in other files as metadata. perhaps another system may want to track extra information… in this case, the separation is not quite ideal, but this does not seem like a significant issue

• semantics: after a write, each read returns the data specified by the previous write until the next write. this means that a write is required to block execution until a read call will produce the result from that write, which is grossly inneficient for async systems - but it provides strong guarantees to those systems, and without this guarantee you'd have to check back to see if the file was updated when monitoring files

  reduces consistency to a single node relaxes stateful requirements of parallel data

  i don't think this article was quite meant for my work - in my world, the POSIX guarantees provided are better than alternatives. they're standards that provide guarantees I do think that certain technologies - synchronous requirements for linting, for example - that I use could be done asynchronously more effectively, but the real solution here is not to serialize out to files at all. programming shouldn't be about the file, it should be about the program!

partial rebuttal of the previous by robb, a plan9 author

src

• microkernels may not be the way to go for consumer software; plan9's kernel is much smaller than the linux kernel or any distributed system. [perhaps a monolithic kernel isn't the best for abstraction, but it offers much more compact functionality and better performance]

• unix as an application program? seems like an emulation layer that's way too difficult to approach

• enabling RPC but leaving it to the user to implement is silly and terrible. having to implement RPC standards for every userland program ruins the consistency of the system and any power necessary to maintain it

• async is not the answer to synchronous inneficiencies. they solve different problems!

  • new languages are needed — they say no, but 29 years later i think the answer is an obvious yes — it's the lack of programming language development and higher level features, particularly in systems programming, that has hurt the user of such programs. languages like rust have carried a lot of the systems programming development, though its fixation with the imperfect LLVM

• distributed shared memory diss - i kind of agree

• if you have a good process model, you can ignore all of these process/thread distinctions and substantially simplify the machine. having both is a substantial flaw.

the reddit thread about rewriting unix-like

src

• the user system was designed to protect the system from users rather than protecting users from malicious software, as is more often the case today. there are mitigations - 'hacks' like running each program 'in a container' with an isolated file system and new user, but this is a stopgap measure. proper single user environments should see real implementations; we don't share computers or systems as much as someone computing before the 80s would anticipate

• cool video from leonard pottering— making the user's data independent from the operating system means that you don't have to worry about reinstalling over it.

• config files need better and improved standards

• a standard way of parsing and returning command line inputs! if you standardize that in the kernel, then user programs trivially have to support identical interfaces! [there isn't that much space for creativity on the command line anyways…]

• shifting responsibility to things the user can't modify to guarantee consistency is excellent when done right - that is, when it's clear that there is a solution that will be liked or at least generally accepted. see the amigaos docsand command line standards document

• look into the selinux/apparmor permissions systems, just like what's implemented in android. these properly 'fix' the mermissions we have in mainline linux systems

cool things about languages:

• nim: completely c interoperable; nimscript handles a lot

• zig: lightweight and memory safe

• rust: takes a significant amount of time to learn, a bit bloated, but a powerhouse and a joy to program in — particularly functionally

the obvious one: why is piping plain text in and out the basis for an operating system? did ken thompson hate OO that much? microkernels are just better for software though, right?

learn more about redox; it will be beneficial for the future https://doc.redox-os.org/book/ch01-05-why-redox.html Operating Systems https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/assorted-thoughts-on-zig-and-rust/ zig seems significantly easier to learn than rust while offering similar security, for the most part. it also seems to offer some ml style power, albeit without the syntax

zig compilation is lazy, has very good support for cross-compilation. cool build system that differs from cargo and allows for the creation of arbitrary build systems

zig has much lower cognitive overhead than rust, and seems better for faster development speed, but it doesnt have a good method for uaf escalation, data races, data sharing etc. rust lifetimes are cool and so are traits, but zig might have the facilities to implement them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system) sequel to plan9 - it even runs as a userspace application inside of the plan9 operating system. the fact that it provides an inbuilt virtual os is incredible. try this one out sometime when you want to learn more about os research. on android though? on nintendo ds????

what's wrong with fork? some research:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2019/04/fork-hotos19.pdf

• https://drewdevault.com/2018/01/02/The-case-against-fork.html the OOM killer…….. KnightOS? the spawn model, in which a new process is created and kept in limbo, then you can change its environment, pass it more file descriptors, and so forth until you're ready for the process to actually begin

• TIL you can use dashes for bullets, I’ve been using asterisks.

• Pushed the [[agora]] browser extension to public repo

  • https://gitlab.com/veracantcode/[[[[agora]]]]-ext

• Tempted to move my private notes into another system, I’m kinda tired of managing two repos. Maybe obsidian can do that bit for me

  • GitJournal only allows me one repo turns out

• Thinking about if I want to start using a feed reader or if fedi is enough

• TIL ¤ is unicode for "generic currency symbol"

  • Woke up later than I was meaning to.

  • I wish there was a better [[roam-like]] for mobile. I’m using [[GitJournal]] and it’s a little too limited.

  • My msg on [[fedi]] got a bunch of likes

    • https://freethinkers.lgbt/notice/A2qsRhPmh5lGsDvTNo pull

  • A bunch of intellectual types started following me on [[twitter]] recently

  • Been talking to my friend Grace about [[dmt]] and the nature of reality. We got stoned on her [[volcano]] the other night and listened to [[Terrance McKenna]] talks on YouTube

  • TIL [[git]] comes with examples for [[git hooks]] in .git/hooks for every new repo you initialize

• It doesn’t look like [[agora]] currently supports triple-tick format, I’m not sure the proper name for it

• Started using [[hypothes.is]] to comment on nodes in the [[agora]], I’m mostly just writing comments on flancians dailys

• Was just checking out https://beepb00p.xyz/blog-graph.html interesting to see blog as a graph very [[roam-like]]

• checking out [[dendron]] It’s a [[vscode]] extension like [[foam]]

  • An actual dendron is so simple in its structure yet so complex in its function. I love that
  • https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Neuron_Hand-tuned.svg/2880px-Neuron_Hand-tuned.svg.png pull

• reading about [[ditherpunk]]

  • #go https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

• reading about [[ontic structural realism]]

• The [[daily note]] idea is interesting because the bounds of the "note entity" are not set by the content of the note but instead by an external celestial cycle, planets orbiting stars is literally what determines the start and end of my files. That’s pretty nuts

• Talking to my friend about some of the frustrations of both [[matrix]] and [[xmpp]]

  • thinking of looking into [[tox]]
  • found https://darkcrystal.pw/
    • being implemented in [[briar]] which seems like a cool app but I don’t know anyone using it
    • also looks to be plugged into [[ssb]]
      • Might check out again since it seems like they added some stuff?
  • found [[arbor.chat]]
    • Arbor is an open-source chat collaboration system that thinks a little differently about conversations. Arbor captures more of the context of messages than traditional chat, allowing you and your peers to communicate more clearly with less effort.
    • it looks like pretty early days but still interesting

• turns out the [[matrix]] homeserver was just needing to be restarted. software as a service is so finicky

• found [[simplecss]]

• my friend [[shae]] showed me a video about geometry in higher dimensions

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr2sIoD7eeU&feature=share

With Trump being kicked off Twitter, the discussion about Parler being kicked off [[AWS]], there’s lots of discusison about federated and censorship proof social networks.

I got drawn into a long thread [kicked off by Stefan George](https://twitter.com/StefanDGeorge/status/1347861734716035074 pull) of [[Gnosis]], who wanted to post a bounty to save/store Twitter stuff to IPFS. I [pointed out that Twitter archives already exist](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1347937473494618112 pull?s=20).

From there I got into a whole back and forth, including people suggesting that Twitter data should be mass exfiltrated to setup an alt social network. Maybe at one point I would have reached for a purely technical solution like this, but here’s my final take:

Technical tricks to try extract Twitter data is probably orders of magnitude harder than …just doing the work in building out critical mass communities.

The difference between the two approaches? One is technical challenges, the other is marketing and community building. [@bmann](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1348350579072921605 pull)

I am… somewhat distraught that a lot of decentral type people think about this issue as censorship, rather than the "let’s deplatform fascists issue" that it actually is. Twitter is in no way a public utility. Own your "distribution" — whether it’s direct mailing list subscriptions or your own community social network: run your own Discourse or Mastodon server. Twitter is today’s mass media: use it for distribution, but know that you’re there at the company’s sufferance.

And of course, when I see lots of crypto people happily using Medium and Substack, I’m not going to take the rest of their opinions seriously. Your words need to get backed up by actions, my dudes.

Jeff Henshaw popped back up on Mastodon — and he’s hosting his own Mastodon server. He was asking me why I’m on Mastodon, here’s my answer:

the concept of collective ownership / maintenance.

Nothing wrong with “multi user” systems, but we have to clearly understand that it costs people time and some server resources to run things.

I’m working on a model of awareness that people should pay for apps — that behind that app are real people, not just corporations.

“Exit to community” is a related theme. Plus governance, etc etc @bmann@social.coop

Yes, I’m posting my own content back to my own site. Which means it becomes part of my forever content, and also I can link to and include it in search.

I guess I should document my [[Twitter Archive]], which lives at https://tweets.bmannconsulting.com/. In a week or so, when [[Fission]] has [[Github Actions]] support, I can start publishing this to [[IPFS]] directly, instead of hosting it on Github Pages. Doing this direct from Google Sheets to Fission would be ideal, as a little one off Twitter Archive app.

It was really easy to setup. Michael Hawksey’s @mhawksey post explains it all: [[Keeping your Twitter Archive fresh and freely hosted on Github Pages]].

I just emailed Michael to see if I can send him some thank you money, or donate to some project on his behalf.

2021-01-14§

• [[2021-01-13]]
• [[day]]
• [[push]] [[meditations]]
  • If you ever lose your [[focus]], sit down and find it.
• [[true names]]
• [[visakanv]]
  • [[context collapse]]
• [[fediverse]]
• [[garden]]
• [[discord]]
• [[siphon]]
• [[ucan]]
• [[ctrl-shift-p]] https://social.coop/@flancian/105556198635904899
• [[twitter embeds]]

• Kautsky believed that imperialism would gradually move to a period where imperialist powers would exploit the third world collectively rather than competitively and individually. This is why Lenin called his book on imperialism "the highest stage of capitalism", because he rejected the idea that capitalism would move into a new era of imperialism. History shows that Kautsky was correct, though. (link

2021-01-24§

• [[push]] [[keyoxide]] wants to be [[open source]] [[keybase]]
• [[push]] [[zulip]] [[matrix]]
  • [[zulip matrix bridge]]
• [[foam]] stopped autocompleting [[wikilinks]] a while ago and it’s annoying, need to file a bug report.
  • Triggering intellisense (ctrl+space) works around this — perhaps it’s better this way even?
• [[agora bridge]]
• [[gphotos uploader cli]]
• [[vera]] told me about [[dokieli]]
• [[flaneur]]
• [[agoreans]]
• [[markdown links]]
• [[riccardo ferretti]]
  • [[riccardo]]
• [[frank lloyd wright]] [[synagogue]]: https://twitter.com/DrewCoffman/status/1353384939899654145 pull
• [[push]] [[agora plan]]
  • [[prioritized]] https://pinafore.social/statuses/105611876863194013, supporting links of the type [[user/node]].
    • [[@flancian/readme]]
    • [[readme@flancian]]
    • [[done]]
  • [[user mentions]]
    • [[@flancian]] should be like [[flancian]] plus [[readme]].
    • [[prioritize]]
• [[push]] [[grabador]] primer uso antropológico: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Oscar-Lewis-ebook/dp/B004G60G0I/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=oscar+lewis+s%C3%A1nchez&qid=1611510026&sr=8-1
• [[push]] [[utopia]] según [[ursula k. leguin]]: https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/las12/13-1316-2004-07-09.html
• [[thrive]]
• [[isoperimetric inequality]]
• [[social coop]]
  • [[socialcoop]]
• [[node permutations]]
  • [[itertools]]

Sunday, January 24, 2021§

Hello world. Today I decided to try out agora. I heard about it from this toot on mastodon from [[readme@flancian]].

2021-02-04§

• [[music]]
  • [[girlpool]]
• [[push]] [[2021-02-06]]
  • [[11am]] [[jonathan-the-utopian]]
  • [[agora music]]
• [[food]]
  • [[want to go]] [[restaurant]] [[bar shu]] in [[london]]
• [[flags of flancia]]
• [[push]] [[s5bug]]
  • [[recommended]] [[solokeys]]
• [[herzpraxis]]
• [[l.]]
• [[music]]
  • [[reflection]] by [[brian eno]]
• [[codex]] asked a great question as usual: https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1357316675482210305 pull

2021-02-04§

Really enjoyed the [[When Preston Meets the Doughnut]] webinar. Inspiring to hear more about what’s going on in [[Preston]], and to see how Kate Raworth has been working on adaptations of [[Doughnut Economics]] to the city-level.

• "absolute knowledge is a permanent agenda"

  • indeed, the construction of society is a permanent agenda

Worked on [[agora server]] yesterday. Made som decent progress on a [[svelte]] frontend.

2021-02-14§

• [[push]] [[merveilles]]
  • [[met]] [[fred]]
  • [[met]] [[rez]]
• [[armengol-lorand]]
• [[stoa]] needs an [[agora wiki]]

2021-02-14§

Saw this article, makes me think of [[Mike Caulfield]]‘s work on [[misinformation]] and the importance of [[web literacy]].

John became increasingly radicalised by an online barrage of far-right disinformation. “Posts of homeless British soldiers were set against Muslim families being given free homes. Now I know the posts were all fake, but the 15-year-old me didn’t bother to fact-check.”

– How far right uses video games and tech to lure and radicalise teenage recrui…

• [[public key]]

  #push [[test]] testing

  #push [[agorans]] yolo

Via Roland, Tom MacWright wonders if the future of programming is more common data types:

What if a simpler programming language had first-class representations of a lot more than strings and arrays?

But if the aim is ease of use and giving power to people who otherwise wouldn’t be doing programming, type-rich systems with lots of assumptions seem like a logical first step. And one that doesn’t need a visual editor or a new dialect of a rare programming language.

Helder is starting a public monologue channel on the Fission Discourse. Monologue channels are something we developed for Fission’s internal Discord chat spaces that seem to have worked out well for people, so Helder is trying it in public.

It’s been fun to evolve how we work as a distributed team.

Woo hoo! I am so stoked!

I now have this site auto-publishing using [[Github Actions for Jekyll]], with a [[Fission Publish]] Github Action at the end.

I used the nicely commented limjh16/jekyll-action-ts and then just added fission publish at the end.

Main thing I need to do to complete the rollout of these new journal logs — other than pagination — is to truncate long posts and strip HTML from them.

For short posts, I should not truncate, and actually render markdown.

Probably something like, if the content is bigger than 500 characters, strip_html and show 250 chars with a read more link. If less than 500, display the content.

For reference, this post is about 480 characters without HTML tags.

2021-02-24§

• [[athens research]] launched.
  • It’s not fully [[free]] :(
  • (you have to pay to disable analytics)
• [[s5bug]] told me that [[misskey]] supports ‘quote notes’, which are like [[quote tweets]]
• [[push]] [[dmt]] [[nick-cammarata]] https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1364424378688110592 pull

21:17 standup!

yesterday and today i:

• watched some movies and tv (jojo - anime, american psycho, office space)

• relaxed and reflected on what i wanted my priorities to be

• sorted out some of my possessions

• started a workout regimen

next, i will

• continue working on my wiki - finding a way to make the main page great!

  • revise some of my wiki pages to make sure that it's fit for formatting

• edit some photos

• start to write and publish reviews!

• attend career fair (or at least check it out)

An open source [[Drop in Audio]] server. User logins are via Twitter or GitHub account. Built in [[Elixir]] and [[React]].

Built by @benawad

Brave Browser bought a search engine, “promises no tracking, no profiling – and may even offer a paid-for, no-ad version”.

Good timing for clearing my tabs of other [[Brave]] related stuff. This PDF white paper describes the Brave Search Team’s plans — [[Goggles]]:

This paper proposes an open and collaborative system by which a community, or a single user, can create sets of rules and filters, called Goggles, to define the space which a search engine can pull results from. Instead of a single ranking algorithm, we could have as many as needed, overcoming the biases that a single actor (the search engine) embeds into the results.

via Daring Fireball

2021-03-04§

• [[armengol]] introduced me to [[protopia futures]], [[monika bielskyte]].
  • https://twitter.com/armengolaltayo/status/1366785221279027200 pull
• [[cristina]] recommended [[steve blank]]
• [[foam config]]
• today I found my [[bodhictta]] again.
• [[techno]]

2021-03-04§

[2021-03-04 Thu 09:58]§

Can’t quite put my finger on why, but having my garden [[publish automatically]] has given me a bit of a kick to note in it more often again. And also tweak it a bit more often.

I guess it removed some friction. For me it’s generally good to remove as much friction as possible, when it comes to writing and publishing (even tiny things).

[2021-03-04 Thu 11:35]§

For work purposes, I’m recently using my [[org-mode]] and [[org-roam]] as a kind of dashboard - shortcuts to the various Jira views, Google Docs, etc, that I need to work on. So I don’t bookmark them in my browser, I just flip to the right page in org-roam and hit enter on the link to where I need to go.

Open source database designed to be an [[Airtable]] alternative. [[MIT License]], with SaaS and premium versions available.

Sells Intel [[NUC]] mini-PCs — which are basically like a Mac Mini.

I’m exploring [[SSG]]s again, and trying out [[GitLab Pages]] for the first time. Now that I’m helping to run [[Moa Party]], I’m going to make a static site for it, for status updates and documentation and so on.

[[Hugo]] I’ve used a bit, because [[Micro.blog]] uses it, so to make a custom theme, I installed it locally for testing.

[[Zola]] is a [[Rust]]-based SSG. I haven’t really had any personal experience with Rust, but I’m very interested in it, especially because Rust is very commonly used to compile to [[WebAssembly]].

There is a page documenting Zola with GitLab pages. The mention of git submodules is not comforting.¹

OK, Zola experiment over. I used the Juice theme and got Zola running and it is nice and fast. But — I want to maintain this as a docs site using [[wikilinks]], likely also being compatible with [[Obsidian]] as an editor. I know [[Jekyll]] best so I’ll just use that.

Started created a blank Jekyll site, and briefly wanted to make a "status" type like my journal logs here, but really just can keep it simple for now. Saving my fragments of setup for this here in case I want to come back to it.

  - scope:
      path: "_status/*"
      type: status
    values:
      layout: status

collections:
    status:
      output: true
      permalink: /status/:year/:month/:day/

Well, that ended up being an epic build out of a full [[Jekyll]] site. I went back and used the [[Digital Garden Jekyll Template]]. It is a lot slimmer than the [[Simply Jekyll]] theme I use here, which has me itching to tinker some more.

I’m pretty happy with how the site turned out: https://moaparty.com

2021-03-14§

• [[yesterday]] == [[2021 03 13]]
• Met [[utopiah]] thanks to [[karlicoss]].
• [[cant get you out of my head]]
• [[talon]]
• [[nikolai kingsley]] told me about [[walkaway]]
• [[tv series]]
• [[dharmachakra]]
• [[rclone]]
• [[take a walk on the wild side]]
• [[brettkromkamp]]
• [[agora embed]]
• [[music]]
  • [[endtroducing]] by [[dj shadow]]
• [[done]]
  • Clean up and translate text to French.
    • [[chapitre]]
  • Undo folding/scrolling for links in the agora, not needed now that they come last?
  • Undo auto-focus on CLI, annoying
  • [[stoa]] length
  • [[light mode]] — sort of
  • make the nodes less wide
  • Finish setting up [[backups]] for [[patera]]
    • and thecla [[actually]]
  • sync moa changes
• [[do]]
  • Bring up secondary agora just in case? beta.anagora.org perhaps.
  • Add plus button that just creates an individual pad that you control? e.g. node-name_timestamp? node-name_hash?
    • This could be as simple as:
      • Add button that adds a div with an embed and scrolls to it
      • Make it so that the agora queries pads as subnodes? Or, actually better: set up a process that dumps stoas to markdown.
  • pilot [[wikidata]] integration
• [[push]] [[2021 03 17]]
  • verify backups

You can’t separate the software from the community that built it. Therefore, true openness must dictate how that community is formed and run. We are what we choose to tolerate; in the same way that free software communities do not tolerate proprietary lock-in, they should not tolerate exclusionary social practices that lock people out.

— Ben Werdmüller, Equitable Community Software

Kevin Drum: Why have blog audiences declined over the past decade?

Short (theoretical) answer: RSS impacts the insertion of advertising.

2021-03-24§

• [[anarcho communism]]
• [[procrastination]]
• [[prometheus]]
  • [[blackbox exporter]]
• [[noise colors]]
• [[experiment]]
  • whenever I have something to do, do a [[pomodoro]] with it.
  • actually [[try]] not to procrastinate.
  • every time I feel the need to do something, pack it in a two-piece pomodoro with something I know I have to do.
  • to begin with:
    • start pomodoro
    • fix anagora.org/go/flancia/playlist (easy)
    • read handoff email
    • do perf
• [[platos dialogues]]
• [[revolt]]
• [[guppe]]
• [[moa]]
• [[parties]]
• [[party]]

2021-04-04§

• Thinking about [[Improving my note-taking]]. At the moment, I’ve just jotted down what it is that I currently do as food for thought on where the pain points are.
• [[ox-agora]] continues to be functional, and I am enjoying sharing my content in [[Agora]] (https://anagora.org/@neil).
  • A side benefit, or perhaps a full-fledged co-benefit, is that I have my notes always in a Foam-y/Obsidian-y format. I don’t foresee myself moving away from org-roam anytime soon, but regardless I do like the idea of having my notes in a more portable format. I mean, org syntax is of course plain-text and readable, but it still has its own lock-ins, of sorts.
• I note here Jethro’s use of org-id-extra-files in his export process. This could help me [[Preparing for org-roam v2]].
• Twitter archive is now ready. Continuing [[Archiving my tweets in my garden with orger]] now then.

[[rebus principle]]

2021-04-14§

• [[patterning reading group]]
  • [[patterning]]
  • [[a fortiori]]
  • [[notsof]]
• [[proper subset]]
• [[jlaurelc]]
• [[wikilinks everywhere]]
• [[herbert simon]]

14:27 building first, building outright

it's often hard to realize or rationalize, but it's impossile to build the perfect tool outright. the perfect tool is only built over many iterations and trials; it's important to continue to iterate, rather

trends are cast over shorter time periods than we account for. when working with data, it's often risky to extrapolate with just two or four data points; with human behavior, these trends are often both pointed out and lost.

2021-04-14§

• Listened: The death of George Floyd and the case against Derek Chauvin
• [[Public Money, Public Code]] … makes sense. Can’t believe it isn’t a thing already to be honest.
• [[Web Monetization]]

It’s that part of the day where I force myself to write a daly note. There. Done. Mission accomplished lol

Oh yeah, I went all the way to fuckin [[hood river]] to get my [[single dose vaccine]] and the fuckin [[FDA]] recalled it the same day. I’m so pissed. This corona thing is such a nightmare. Just end already

playing with new software for [[android]]

• [[do it now]]

• [[otter]]

• [[notion]]

  I’m looking for a good [[agora]] app for [[android]]

  TIL kde has as a [[matrix]] webchat

  [[ctzn]]

Green vs Brown Programming Languages:

but I distinctly remember Ruby being the hottest language back in 2007, and although it does have more competition today, Ruby is a better language now than it was then. Yet now it is dreaded. Part of the difference, it seems to me, is that now people have 14 years’ worth of rails apps to maintain. That makes Ruby is a lot less fun than when it was all new projects. So watch out Rust and Kotlin and Julia and Go: you too will eventually lose your halo.

TLDR — older programming languages are more likely to have older codebase (brown) which are less fun to work on. Newer languages means new projects that are about building new stuff which is fun, rather than maintenance.

2021-04-24§

• [[dej]]
  • [[notsof]]
• [[agora ctzn]]
• [[friend]]
  • [[g. i.]]
    • [[g.]]
    • [[anita]]
  • [[rodrigo-baraglia]]
  • [[lorand]]
  • [[armengol]]
• [[best sci fi movies]]
• [[flancia]]

10:11 exploring spacial software

src designing your space is designing your product - by shaping user interactions within that space, you control how it is experienced.

2021-04-24§

• Listened: [[Rethinking infrastructure: the case for social investment]]

  • [[Care work is infrastructure]].

• Pleased to be coming up with a few more [[notion]]s now. In the interests of keeping track of what I’m thinking about, as a kind of mishmash of [[speculative outline]]s, now pages, and [[Spaced repetition]], I’m going to have a make a page called (awfully) [[nowtions]], which is a list of latest notions.

• [[Citizen participation platform]]s: [[Decidim]], [[Your Priorities]], [[Consul]]

• Could you describe Agora as a [[citizen participation platform]] for citizens of a virtual place?

• [[musicForProgramming]] mix #1 by [[Datassette]] is rad.

• Stumbled on a software suite for UK town and parish councils. Managing allotments, playgrounds, cemeteries, planning, inspections, etc etc. This stuff is kind of fascinating, e.g. https://www.edgeitsystems.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/AdvantEDGE-Allotments.pdf

  • Sucks that this is one business somewhere and of course it all appears to run on Microsoft tooling.
  • I think all this should be a libre stack, supported and set up locally by local tech coops, working together and committing back to the stack.

• trying out [[agora clients]] again. I’ve been messing with [[joplin]] I’ve used it before, let’s see how it goes.

  I got my [[covid vaccination]] finally so I’m stoked about that

  I went to the doctors to get [[sti testing]] my results came back negative for everything. #testingissexy

  I’m downloading a bunch of note apps to see what works on mobile. I signed up for [[notion]] [[api]] so we’ll see what happens with that

2021-05-04§

• Writing this from [[bangle]] on my workstation.
  • I don’t currently want to create notes from it as its convention does not match the rest of my garden, but that seems relatively easy to fix; I might move away from slugified filenames onto using full unicode filenames including spaces.
  • I miss a ‘daily’ shortcut, alt-d.
• [[push]] [[john swartzwelder]]
  • https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-swartzwelder-sage-of-the-simpsons
• [[push]] [[site reliability engineering as high modernism]]
  • https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/seeing-sre-site-reliability-engineering-high-modernism
• [[push]] [[casio ai-1000]]
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yuZ2pejGU
• [[push]] [[nft]]j
  • [[hope or hype for art]]
• [[flancia goals]]
• [[hypha]]
  • [[benedict lau]]

NFT dweb myspace meets minecraft https://www.cryptovoxels.com/

[[webaverse]] dweb ways creators can earn in virtual worlds ownership of their labor self ownership anti capitalist

virtual world where nft is the asset

ipfs nft, adressing

nft.storage free nft storage

artists own the copyright even when they sell their art

futherfield

async.art programable art platform

unwalled.garden -> [[ctzn]] stuff

[[distributed press]]

sutty.nl

[[hypercore]] -> dweb -> [[ctzn]] -> [[distributed press]]

there has to be a common theme here; connections

pay transaction fees for them

https://hackmd.io/@XR/avatars

i don’t make stuff, I make systems: sarah

nfts offer a new model that don’t depend on [[capitalism]] and surveilence

cryptovoxel

[[hypha call 2021-05-04]]

[[flancia goals]]

Installed [[obsidian mobile]]. It’s super sexy

• [[tomorrow]]

  • tackle issues in [[wikilinks everywhere]] repo

    [[sablier.finance]]

    [[portis wallet]]

    I got verfiied for [[circles]]

    Don’t try to fit in if you were born to stand out

• [[tft]]
• [[entr]]
• [[systemctl]]
• [[push]] [[gyuri lajos]]
  • [[fission]]
• [[nationstates]]
• [[push]] [[nft]]
  • [[abstract fairy]]
• [[push]] [[xaos]]
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1393257978455904258 pull
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1393230586786029569 pull
• [[push]] [[hftf]]
  • discussed push with them: https://twitter.com/hftf/status/1393278395484618757 pull

2021-05-14§

• [[YunoHost]] has loads of [[Fediverse]] platforms available for install.
  • epicyon
  • Funkwhale
  • Hubzilla
  • Mastodon
  • Mobilizon
  • osada
  • PeerTube
  • Pleroma
  • Plume
  • WriteFreely
  • Zap
• It would be good to get some [[IndieWeb]] platforms in there. I would start with [[Aperture]] so I could self-host my feed reader stuff.

• [[agora ext feature ideas]]

test

• [[remarkable 2]]
• [[agora]]
  • [[agora prs]]
  • [[agora feature requests]]
  • [[agora proposals]]
  • test stoa as requiring user intervention
    • fixes annoying auto-focus [[workaround]]
  • ship some version of [[auto pull]]
  • fix graph colors
  • experiment with toggle/sidebar
• [[flancia]]
  • [[hypha]]
• [[gardens yaml]]
• [[subjective censorship]]

• I checked out [[fission drive]] today. pretty cool stuff. I think I’m gonna use it for managing users in the [[agora]].

• [[push]] [[do]]
  • [[weekend 22]]
    • ship [[obsidian attachments]]
    • code new [[agora bridge]]
      • probably [[mastodon]]?
      • or [[mediawiki]]
    • code [[autopush]]
    • write [[an open letter for an open society]]
    • write [[arcologies]] (find thread with [[metasj]] mentioned)
    • fix broken agora snippets/link embeds in tools like [[element]]
    • CL for [[agora ext]]
• [[bingke]]
• [[hypha]]

2021-06-04§

• Listening: [[Kate Raworth on Why Our Times Demand ‘Doughnut Economics’]]

• [[Acoustic Commons]]

  • Live streaming of little isolated pockets of nature.
  • Currently enjoying Pond, South Walney.

Acoustic Commons is dedicated to building resilient networks across sites, distributing creative technical resources and cultural know-how and contributing to the long term cultivation of knowledge commons.

• http://acousticommons.net/

• [[slow focus]]
• [[mozilla]]
  • [[standards positions]]
• [[python]]
  • [[cli]]
    • [[fire]]
• [[clojure made simple]]

14:12 philosophy from ryan

• read frederick beiser, a philosopher and scholar of german idealism. he has intimate knowledge of the german idealist period and is one of its leading scholars, so learning his work may be super important to understand the influence of german idealism on contemporary philosophy

• who are post kantians? they're revolutionaries in practical philosophy, converting kant's idea that 'the principles of morality should be sought in human rationality and freedom', "completing" kant's revolution in practical philosophy by deepening his morality and developing kantian legal and political ideaologies

20:36

2021-06-14§

• [[Tor and Wordfence]]. I use Wordfence on some sites. It seems that [[Wordfence]] blocklists certain exit nodes from [[Tor]] if it associates those nodes with bad activity. Fair enough, I guess, though a shame that Tor users get bounced as a result. If it happens to someone, they can start a new Tor circuit to find an exit node that isn’t blocklisted.

• Bookmarked: [[Appropriate Measures]]. Critique of [[appropriate technology]].

  • https://reallifemag.com/appropriate-measures/

• [[Holochain]].

• [[https everywhere broke the internet]]
• [[annotation]]
• [[dan whaley]]
• [[internet in a box]]
• [[marginal syllabus]]
• [[the timeless way of building]]
• [[phil jones]]
  • [[interstar]]
• [[i annotate 2021]]
• [[music]]
  • [[edit]]
  • [[cliqhop]]
  • [[codex]]‘s recommendations
  • [[neil]]
    • [[cliq hop]]
    • [[music for programming]]

Todos vivimos exiliados de nuestros mundos ideales.

El [[copyright]] es una forma de opresión.

12:44 workout pro tips

1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=TN9i9Ni0Xr4&feature=youtu.be might be a good series? would prefer a science guy to a trainer guy though

• enjoy training!! you will stick to your programs better. optimizing training program is fine, but focusing on sustainability requires focusing on personal health

• if you hate training might be good idea to min max time and training

• variety of training is fine rather than tracking the saem things every week, and it can add interest, but ensuring that you train the same things the whole time is incredibly beneficial

  • different exercises with the same core movements?

• most people in gym aren't pushing themselves hard enough!! don't leave most reps in the tank - 20% of trainees leaving 10 reps or more. have to push yourself to work out almost to failure

  • need to pack the stress on - don't leave any reps left in the tank at the end of the workout! that's what makes it a great workout!

• good guideline to level up on weight: if you can do two additional reps on the same exercise at that weight during two sets of that exercise for two weeks of working out. this means you're now far too comfortable with it. always push yourself!!!

• failure sets are great for isolation work but not for multiple joint movements that could impair other exercises and impact other training programs.

work 2

track number of workign sets. total work: about sets x reps x load number of working sets - tough sets, without warmups - properly measure the number of working sets and should counrt towards the training volume i was right about this guy being a total gym bro. he's spent ten minutes pointing at a graph that has volume on the x axis and gains on the y axis, explaining how you have to increase volume to increase gains over this hump, and what he's saying really doesn't line up with the graph at all, because it depicts gains decreasing at some level and he's advocating for people to push towards that. lots of acronyms i'm sure he's come up wiuth that dont mean anything…………….this is a bit of a joke. i like the heuristics and numbers this guy provides but those are useful only because it's better to have some arbitrary heuristic to follow over nothing. all really questions for measuring strength - though at end of the day all that matters is that you're applying appropriate effort from the outset.

this is what i love about the gym. effort you put in is effort you can seriously feel through this natural feedback solution. coding has all of these strange side effects that cause physical fatigue instead of the coding - take eye strain, back pain and RSI for example!

conclusion

most workout advice on the internet is (as expectd) very poor. don't trust most or all of it. just try to work out every muscle group, push yourself to your limit, and feel good while doing so. that's the best way to build a strong foundation.

21:18 perceived effort where it counts

it's still not clear to me what i should do where, when and why. halfassing a neovim configuration provides no value to anyone, and it's unclear whether porting mine over is even worthwhile, but i feel like i have to carry on with it because it's practically done and it was on my list.

maybe sticking to a todo list despire a lack of motivation is very helpful for keeping my priorities straight, maybe it isn't. enthusiasm is hard to measure, track, and maintain, especially when working on projects with long time scales. it's often hard for me to see what the right decision, level of dedication or measure of effort is to invest into a task, so i will go all or nothing.

i think most of this is a result of being overstimulated - overexposed to loads of information i can't absorb at my own pace, because social networks set the pace instead. i should write more about how unhealthy social networks are but i feel like i've leveraged instagram very well - though what real connections has it lead to? regardless, i'll keep up my posting regimen to ensure that i'm holding myself accountable in terms of my creative goals - three posts a week no matter what.

there are too many places to go and too many things to do but i know i need to just focus on one or a few. i'm a good software engineer and i should continue to hone that skill. what else?

• cleanup [[pr review 2021-06-23]]
• Intro call with portland chapter of [[zebras unite]]

• [[would you agree]]
• [[logseq]]
  • [[tienson qin]]
    • [[deta]]
• [[agora social media integration]]
  • [[agora social bridge]]
• [[the future of note taking]]
• [[wikipedia]]
• [[do]]
  • [[agora bot]]
  • pay bills
  • call family
  • pomodoro
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2021-07-04§

• [[Architecture of participation]]
  • "systems that are designed for user participation"
  • [[The Architecture of Participation]]

• https://social.coop/@flancian/106524900883614017
• deta.space

• [[yemen]]
• [[iq]]
  • [[the bell curve]]
  • [[architectonyx]]
• [[push]] [[cory doctorow]]
  • [[the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away]]
• [[push]] [[trees]]
  • [[carbon capture]]
    • [[klaus lackner]]
• [[push]] [[flancia]]
  • [[agora]]
    • [[agora bot]]
• [[stpa workshop]]
  • [[stpa handbook]]
• [[color qr]]
• [[village idiot]]
• [[wikilinks]]
• [[people]]

2021-07-14§

• Reading: [[The Left Hand of Darkness]]

• Listened: [[Restart Radio: Our 2021 Summer Reading List]]

• Read: [[The UK’s new ‘right to repair’ is not a right to repair]]

  • [[Right to Repair in the UK]]

• Interesting to learn that [[Niklas Luhmann]] (of [[zettelkasten]] fame) had some work in the area of [[second-order cybernetics]] and [[autopoesis]].

• creating entry with [[logseq]]
• wooo
• I got tooth bling today. I’m not gonna post a pic because I’m self conscious of my teeth

• sic (nessuent.xyz)
• [[anonymous dictatorship of the market]]
• coleifer/sqlite-web: Web-based SQLite database browser written in Python (github.com)
• Tarrare - Wikipedia
• Asa’pili - Wikipedia
  • [[bolobolo]]

• creating entry with [[logseq]]
• wooo
• I got tooth bling today. I’m not gonna post a pic because I’m self conscious of my teeth

• [[conversation]]
• [[gloria]]!
  • [[populi]]
  • [[dei]]
  • [[shantideva]]
• [[many nines]]

2021-07-24§

• [[Setting up a new box]]

• In the process of setting up on the new box, I’ve been pushed into setting up [[org-roam v2]]. It seems v2 has been made the default version of org-roam now. Fair bit of yak-shaving to get things working again, hey ho.

  • [[Preparing for org-roam v2]]

• [[Podcasts]] I like.

2021-08-04§

• half a day off work, let’s see if it sticks :)
• [[canonical debate lab]]

• Mañana:
  • ADP:
    • analizar a Rosas. criterio de análisis:
      • A partir de la función Word Sketch y viendo las colocaciones más salientes se delinean los siguientes temas en torno a Rosas:
        • La oposición entre Rosas y Europa/la civilización
        • La violencia, vinculación de Rosas con el rojo, la muerte, la sangre
          • tiranía de Rosas/odio a Rosas
        • simultánemente la ineficacia de Rosa

• [[deep future]]
• [[word2vec]]
• [[psionica]]
  • explore ML possibilities in agora wrt [[m-prime]]
• [[project snapshot]]

• [[deep future]]
• [[word2vec]]
• [[psionica]]
  • explore ML possibilities in agora wrt [[m-prime]]
• [[project snapshot]]

2021-08-14§

• [[agora]]
  • [[agora bot]]
    • [[twitter api]]
  • [[agora server]]
    • [[async search]]
• [[vera]]
  • [[logic]]
  • [[forgiving]]
  • [[vanna white]]
• [[push]] [[do]]
  • [[push]] [[2021-08-21]]
    • [[push]] [[2021-08-28]]
      • [[2021-09-14]]
• [[image magick]]
  • [[mogrify]]
  • [[thought magick]]
• [[defcon]]
  • [[defcon radio]]
• [[pyramids]]
• [[do]]
  • [[push]] [[later]]
    • [[slay moloch]]
      • see screenshot, restore state if needed
      • check with [[flancia collective]]
      • push reliability improvements first
• [[flancia: on building bridges]]
• [[caiac]]
• [[neil]]
  • [[indieweb]]
    • [[rel me]]