[[9]] is not a centered hexagonal number.
The closest centered hexagonal numbers are [[7]] (index # [[2]]) and [[19]] (index # [[3]]).
First 20 centered hexagonal numbers: [[1]], [[7]], [[19]], [[37]], [[61]], [[91]], [[127]], [[169]], [[217]], [[271]], [[331]], [[397]], [[469]], [[547]], [[631]], [[721]], [[817]], [[919]], [[1027]], [[1141]].
[[square]]: 81
[[square root]]: 3.0000
[[cube]]: 729
[[cube root]]: 2.0801
[[natural log]] (ln): 2.1972
[[base-10 log]] (log10): 0.9542
[[base-2 log]] (log2): 3.1699
As we fork we’ll merge as we merge we’ll flow https://t.co/FkMgbBO6lC- [[2022-10-09 17:42:30+00:00]] @[[flancian]]: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1579165421626064897
You can think of #Flancia as a well-meaning [[mashup]].
Here, [[go/move/9]] plus [[go/gould]]. https://t.co/fbvTgwGdpI
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https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-empty-atom-picture-misunderstands-quantum-theory
А мне папа как-то говорил, что вот атомы на самом деле пустые так-то. Вроде бы логично, но мне не нравилось, я не принимал. А вот тут статья попалась. Пишут, что это, оказывается, популярный миф. На самом деле атомы очень даже полные. Всякие элементарные частицы не точки, про корпускулярно-волновой дуализм не забываем. В статье стараются популярно объяснить, как это работает. Я не всё понял, но поверил.
https://bigthink.com/health/most-damaging-exercise-myth/
It is widely believed that it is normal to become less physically active as you get older. But this is a pernicious myth about exercise.
Working out is beneficial when you're old. Well, I'm young, and I'm already crumbling. I should work out, I really should, but I don't like doing it…
https://forum.eastgate.com/t/2024-tinderbox-meetup-calendar/7176
I’ve updated the Zoom link for the 2024 meetups: Tinderbox Weekly Meetup Zoom Link, Meeting ID: 617 924 9044, Passcode: tinderbox View and Subscribe to the Calendar Also, I’ve created a calendar so that we can all reference the schedule and track updated events. You can view it and subscribe to it here: Tinderbox Meetups
https://github.com/jointakahe/takahe
An ActivityPub/Fediverse server. Contribute to jointakahe/takahe development by creating an account on GitHub.
#19
One of my favourite songs by the [[Pixies]], live in #1989 https://t.co/3HIKr0fAHc
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Tomorrow is Northern Voice 2009. This is the first year where I was not an organizer. I’ve been feeling highly … conflicted about it this year, for no particular good reason. I guess it’s a combination of missing the organizing / the people, and feeling guilty about not helping more. And maybe just that I’ve had a host of changes in the past year and they’re still catching up with me.
I’ll still be using my “megaphone” voice to help run the morning MooseCamp wrangling. We have much fewer open slots than in years past, but I’ll suggest meeting in the open table area and other ad hoc corners to fill people’s wants for that.
The dinner party tonight at Federico’s Supper Club was amazing. It was a whirlwind of briefly catching up with folks, talking Semantic Web / RDf with skud from Freebase, and a whirlwind of dancing and singing. There are many pictures already.
It feels right and good and enjoyable to be among these fine folks.
I hope to see and talk to many more people over the next couple of days. I will enjoy catching up, brain storming the future, and just learning more about people.
I’ve set up a Friendfeed room for Northern Voice 2009. If you join it, you’ll be able to use the Share on Friendfeed bookmarklet to easily send links images, etc. directly to the room. Or, you can just set it to realtime mode and watch the content unfold.
As before every Northern Voice, I’m up late and need to get up early and I’ve already talked too much. Off to sleep, see you all tomorrow.
P.S. Since so many people like the “epic” version of my hair, I will repeat it over the next couple of days.
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I’m just wrapping up 4 days of this year’s North American Drupalcon in Washington, DC - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org. First off, the the DCDC team led by the folks at Development Seed have done a fantastic job. Everything from the venue to the identity design of the whole conference have been most excellently pulled together. They’ve set a new bar for organization and professionalism. And a new high of almost 1500 attendees, up from 900 in Boston a year ago.
For me, I’ve really enjoyed "coming back". I didn’t make it to Szeged in the fall, and I’ve spent the past 8 months not having Drupal as a day job. That has, in fact, re-energized me about being involved in the Drupal community in the context that I feel like being involved. I can work on concepts and projects that interest and excite me, without any ties to clients or projects or commercial interests.
This time around, I didn’t give a presentation around install profiles, although I did sit in on the session. I think we ended up with the catalyzation of having lots of the different overlapping solutions work together. Oh, and by the way, any bitching about install profiles not doing packages or post install stuff or any of a host of other things — we know, we’ve always known that, it was hard enough to get them in, never mind boil the ocean and have them do everything else. It took from 4.5 through to Drupal 5 to get them in at all! Anyway, core hooks for import / export sounds like a very achievable goal for D7.
The presentation I did give — Practical Semantic Web (and Why You Should Care) is up on SlideShare and also available as video on the Internet Archive. More on that in a complete post.
I said at the end of my presentation that Drupal’s mission is to “evolve the web”. I’d like to be a part of evolving the web, and I see my involvement in Drupal as keeping in touch with that.
Here are a few of things that I am going to be working on:
As always, I am both exhausted and energized by my time amongst the Drupaleers.
Year of the Earth Pig
[[ETC Summit]], [[Presentation - A new open source deal for Web3]]
Day trip to Nanaimo hosted at [[Input Cowork]], on the [[Fission]] blog: Coworking in Nanaimo + Input Cowork Nanaimo Tech Meetup
This week has been a bit more reading/listening than tinkering.
Discovered [[General Intellect Unit]] podcast while looking for info on the [[Viable system model]]. Seems right up my street.
I joined the [[Tech Won’t Save Us]] Discord group. That’s where I came across the article [[Why Does Agile Fail?]], which talks about the viable system model as a better alternative. Being related to [[Project Cybersyn]] as VSM is, that has definitely piqued my interested.
I went for a nice wintry hike up to [[The Cragg]].
Retrospective: I’m still much more in [[collector]] mode than creator mode. In the terminology of [[Ton’s PKM]], more notes than notions. A step more in the direction of creation might be to intentionally link things in to [[emergent outlines]].
left to right direction
actor "Stafford Beer" as beer
usecase "Hold My" as hold
beer --> hold
Adding in [[org-protocol]] to my set up looks like a good step. Along with org-protocol-capture-html, it allows me quickly capture snippets from the web. At the moment, it’s going into a [[clippings]] file in my wiki. It might be better to have things go straight in to a clippings section in my daily file - we’ll see.
If I link a particular concept in a page in my wiki, with org-roam’s backlinks, I see a list of all the things linking to that page. This should be quite useful if I’m doing some wiki gardening or writing.
Phase 1 of food buying in the UK is passing. In this article it’s referred to as the hamsterkauf phase, the German word for a hamster stuffing its cheeks. Physical superstores have coped better with this than online stores. We might soon be entering Phase 2, where supermarket staff absence levels might increase.
:: [[Coronavirus]]
Thanks to a couple of recent [[thinking prompts]] from [[Panda]] and [[Graham]], [[psychogeography]] was on my mind. And lazily putting the word ‘digital’ in front of another always seems to be on my mind…
…So I have been thinking about the idea of [[digital psychogeography]], [[drifting]] through [[hypertext]]. Perhaps as a means of rediscovering lost history, and maybe as a way to break out of self- and algorithmically-prescribed [[filter bubbles]].
And well what do you know, there’s already a rich vein of articles out there on the idea of being a [[cyberflâneur]].
(When I think cyberflâneur, I think ‘[[Kicks Condor]]‘).
For a brief period, I made a concerted effort to tag and categorise my posts. It seemed like a means of picking out themes in my writing, maybe discovery for me and perhaps also for people visiting my site.
But it always felt a bit weird and disconnected for me - I’ve written something, now I have to think about where it fits in to some abstract notion of my content. And it’s not fun. It’s just a thing that sits there staring at you in WordPress when you make a post. Hey you, eat your greens, and tag your posts. (If you don’t give it a category, you get the ‘Uncategorized’ label of shame). So I kind of gave up on it again.
But as I’ve started heavily hyperlinking stream posts to my wiki, I’ve realised that pretty much my [[wiki links are my tags]]. I’m just tagging as I’m linking things together. And that’s fun! (for me anyway…).
I’ve styled the wiki links diferent from other hyperlinks. I quite like it personally, but part of me wonders if it’s just visual noise. I’d quite like if I could get WordPress to pick up those links and set them as tags, mainly just as a easy way to have them separate from the main body of the post.
An earlier stage in the [[economy’s domination of social life]] entailed an obvious downgrading of being into having that left its stamp on all human endeavour. The present stage, in which social life is completely taken over by the accumulated products of the economy, entails a generalized shift from having to appearing: all effective "having" must now derive its immediate prestige and its ultimate raison d’etre from appearances.
I was thinking - [[digital gardens]] are an amazing, unique feature that the big [[silos]] don’t really have.
The [[stream]] stuff, to some degree we’re playing catchup. But other than a photo album here, a pin there, an ‘on this day’ here, there’s very little mainstream investment in letting you turn your stream into a commonplace books, your knowledge base over time.
There’s big platforms that do note-taking things, of course, like Evernote, etc, but the big companies in charge of the streams, I thought, don’t seem to see the link between what goes in your stream being the seeds to grow a garden over time. You’d think they’d be all over that.
But… of course, the silos do have a digital garden for everyone. It’s just it is [[enclosed]]. You don’t have access to your own garden. They are reaping the benefits of the seeds you are sowing, collecting, connecting your dots, and then selling your fruit. [[People farming]], as Aral Balkan would have it.
And the real magic trick is to put them both together. To keep the ball bouncing with your [[flow]]—to maintain that open channel of communication—while you work on some kick-ass [[stock]] in the background. Sacrifice neither. The hybrid strategy.
Twitter and Facebook are all flow and no stock.
I water my [[garden]] to help it grow. I get the water from the [[stream]].
[[Facebook]] will make some changes around its policy on hateful content, but only from the threat of lost ad revenue. Not from actually caring about the victims of it.
“Let’s be honest,” said Moghal, "these tech platforms have generated income and interest from this divisive content; they won’t change their practices until they begin to see a significant cut to their revenue."
Sucks that only big companies pulling out can have an effect on FB. But props to Stop Hate for Profit for putting pressure on companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/29/how-hate-speech-campaigners-found-facebooks-weak-spot (thanks [[Ellie]] for the link!)
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NixOS has been a great experience so far. I've had some issues regarding permissions with the read-only file system, but otherwise things have gone smoothly.
i'm finally getting the hang of this
Searching for whether actor-network theory has anything to do with post-structuralism, I stumbled on to ‘[[assemblage thinking]]‘ and its relationship to [[actor-network theory]]. They both seem to have some tie in to [[networked agency]], too.
[[Relationship between assemblage thinking and actor-network theory]].
Stumbling on [[object-oriented democracy]], also from [[Bruno Latour]] of ANT, was cool as well - would like to find out more about that.
Just an interesting linkage that I’ve noticed in a couple of places recently. I’ve seen [[Chris]] mention a few times the mnemonic systems used by indigenous peoples. And there was a chapter in [[Future Histories]] on lessons to be learned from [[indigenous communities on ownership and governance]].
Seen via [[Jacky]] - the anti-capitalist software license.
Seems very similar to the [[Peer Production License]].
Both examples of [[copyfarleft]].
I’d love to see someone put something like [[Deleuze and Guatarri]] or [[Debord]] through GPT-3…
One of the side effects of getting a veg box from the local food co-op is I know now more about squash varieties than I ever really expected I would.
Also that there is a Wikipedia on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gourds_and_squashes
- Marxism and Buddhism | Aeon
https://aeon.co/essays/how-marxism-and-buddhism-complement-each-other
In other words: Why can’t we get it done by the end of today (GMT)?""
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i wonder how much parental divorce would have changed me extremely privileged to realize that i have had a good upbringing without substantial trauma, but i wonder if a divorce and the subsequent process of navigating my relationship with my parents and others would have been beneficial for me in terms of personal and interpersonal development.
navigating coplex familial relationships feels like a headache, but it may have made me more sociable.
i suppose i am just looking for justification for my current state :: why am i not currently having an easy time reaching out to others? how do i begin to navigate a new environment?
maybe these things will come with time
i used to be afraid of permanent modification now i welcome it :: it feels like i am recording myself at a moment in time to be ashamed of the past is to welcome the future it is good to acknowledge myself now && continue to move on!
https://freddieyam.com/gen2/p/the-day-my-kundalini-woke-up.html the kundalini is the way to enligntenment
focus your attention on the place you expect to find them
prana :: associated with defecation
apana :: associated with breathing
senstations in rectum and chest, respectively the sleeping Kundalini is said to coil around the coccyx, or vestigial tailbone
attempt to visualize light stretch physically to induce feeling of hollowness perceive energy moving downward throuhg lungs, contracting chest muscles abdomen: contract muscles to induce accumulating energy perceive feeling of lower spine moving towards the head anus downward moving energy due to apana two attentions: induction of particular percentpions and looking with imprecise expectations
sphincter muscles quivered light in head becomes increasingly bright and dense voltage building between head and anus kundalini explosion from deliberate isometric contractions of anus, buttocks, perineum and thighs shaking legs violently, sometimes pressing thighs together. tiring
link between sensations in head and anus cold sensation in abdomen below navel
after three days of meditation and several hours on the third day mind becomes quieter with head splitting between anus and head brilliant and deafening noise, work dark and huge jet of energy through the body completely filled head and body, originating at collar bone light and noise vanish instantly
clearly elevated spiritual state others seem divine, aware of essential goodness and infinite importance condition lasted three days; conviction that world is benevolent and good humored you become a saint and smile at everyone! you can permanently remain in state and stay a saint
absolutely happy and fearless : )
https://realization.org/p/freddie-yam/after-my-kundalini-woke-up.html we realize that everything is god.
i basically got lost in sodermalm seeing christmas music in the park, people fly fishing, park in the city it was like bliss everyone so happy feels like heaven hard to say that people are depressed here, people seem to be very content and to worry less i also got lost and that was very stresffful but i love the nature vibe
the namesake article can be found on andrej karpathy's blog
maximizing variance
extreme period of personal growth and self discovery
high density of exceptionally bright people who will become your best friends
expertise, only opportunity to become a recognized expert in the world at something !
there are lots of downsides! this is a very specific kind of experience that deserves a disclaimer. will end up working very hard and have to be OK with the suffering. need mental fortitude to handle the pressure, push through adn become successful
will have to put up with friends making actual money and living while you toil at PhD: (i'm actually totally okay with this, honestly.)
struggle that months of work are put into paper with a few citations while friends are working on exciting startups and pushing product will continue to question your life decisions must be certain that you can thrive in environment pursuing science. unsure: lean negative by default but mbe open to transformation phd has strong intrinsic value, not necc a means to an end !!!!!!!
should be a top school top schools will attract other top people
have potential advisors — more than one! — that you would like to work with. student advisor relationship is incrediblt important. must prioritize each persons goal, understand advisors incentive structures and department projects you must help them gain more recognition through you! this is actually not just pro interaction
many axes to be aware of: fluffy vs professional, details of work vs hands off, some on specific models and others on specific tasks, some will meet you frequently and some wont, some answer emails right away and others never, some strongly support and others are cool with whatever
should first collect references; talking to students in casual environment etc want truthful answers to super specific questions must impress advisor and appeal to them for them to pick you! consider the entire lab
an exercise in the outer loop. fun adn frustrating experience, operating at a meta outer loop what problems are worth solving? what problems are ripe for solving?
we must develop a sense of 'taste' when it comes to problems; what problems are worth solving? what are worth thinking about? is it time to solve those problems yet? make sure you develop that taste as you come in the problems should be well conceived, tractable and relevant. make sure to start refining these.
make sure you know your advisors interests and strengths interests and strengths intimately
:: a 10x more impactful problem feels 10x harder, but this is a fallacy! it is often at most 2x - 3x more difficult to achieve, and can be easier but it forces you outside of the box, confronting the real limitations, thinking from first principles, changing strategy and innovating improve by 10% you are likely to, improve by 100% you will have to do things differently
there are lots of important problems that do not make great 'projects' "If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll every do important work. Great scientists have thought through, in a careful way, a number of important problems in their field, and they keep an eye on wondering how to attack them."
Ex. The three outstanding problems in physics were never worked at at Bell, but they are not actually important problems because there is no attack! The reasonable attack is the most important part of pursuing a problem.
be the person who did x. make a mark. you develop incredible skills !! according to Gladwell, a PhD makes you a bona fide expert imagine being an expert — will these tools advantage you or excite you? hell the fuck yeah
not very productive, but will not be highly cited or used
ex. his thesis: took a long time to navigate the metaproblem and actually find the problem space and problem to be excited about working on.chat about interesting problems and see where interesting things are going. find something fertile, something promising, something with a lot of interesting possibilities find something practical at the moment - is it time for the technology? is it not there yet?
the advisor is not invallible
a phd is more than just a sequence of papers you are a member of a community and your motivation is to further the interests of this community look beyond the academic game and think about what you can improve beyond all of these papers! e.g. blog improve academic search tools! improve teaching! improve the work.
make sure to review lots of papers to learn have large exposure to lots of bad papers to learn what not to do — more important than just 'following a formula' to a good paper rely on the 'gestalt' of the papers; how does it look? how is the density? how is the framework? use the same language as others so that professors will pick them up and favorably judge identify the core contribution of the work and focus entirely on what forwards that develop a vocabulary to use. do this by writing frequently
go! go! go to the confreences! make sure to visit and it is so worth it to pay for them it is so important to become part of the community and share ideas, and many of the problems you are working on are so in line with the priorities of others in the field that you might as well play an active part in discussing methods, ideas etc
'there are three stages to a phd; in first, you haven't read most of the papers. in second, you recognize all of the papers. in third, you've had a beer with the first authors of all of the papers!'
there are no shortcuts or cheats. you can't game the system or put up false appearances ultimately you are trying to do good research and if you game any of the proxy metrics you won't be successful in the long run
The dedication to Amazon in Doctorow’s Little Brother didn’t age well:
"Amazon’s in the process of reinventing what it means to be a bookstore in the twenty-first century and I can’t think of a better group of people to be facing down that thorny set of problems."
Cool that [[Mobilizon]] (federated Facebook groups/events alternative) is released now. Hope it does well!
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read an interesting reddit thread about how much we tend to disregard luck in western culture.
the belief that we have the ability to transform our circumstances means, conseqently, that we take responsibility for many of our faults, trying to attribute them to concrete actions and failures of our own or of those around us rather than putting them to 'luck' or 'circumstance'.
one of the most important things one can do is to determine what is in their control and what is outside it. this is the first step towards seizing opportunities that are in one's control rather than those that are down to chance, taking advantage of the circumstances we currently possess is vital to being able to succeed.
all the same, of course it's dangerous to say that life's luck; we can take charge of our own decisions to a degree. the balance is stricken when we dismiss things we cannot control and seize control of those we properly can.
i suppose this is not a new idea but i needed a reminder of this
After adding the [[logo]], the header section doesn’t look so hot on the garden on my mobile - the logo doesn’t adapt so adds too much width. It looks fine in the browser dev tools in Firefox on on small screens, but not in the Chrome dev tools.
Seems like my backlinks in [[Flock]] don’t publish when I run make republish, but they do if I do org-publish-current-file. Why?
org-roam-db-location pointing at the wrong place in publish.el.Why do I have to keep restart [[syncthing]] on my mobile in order to sync files to my laptop?
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Maybe other people might find this useful, too.
Contribute to someone else’s safety, health, or pleasure. Secure your own oxygen mask before helping others — so that you can help others. Do 1 thing at a time. Multitasking is counter-productive. Eat a moderate amount of a wide variety of foods. Eat breakfast. Reduce (but don’t completely eliminate) sugar and alcohol. Listen to even more kinds of music, even more often. Read even more kinds of text, even more often. Read more long-form than short-form. The mind is the body. Meditate, in some form, for at least 30 minutes each day. Walk at least 10,000 steps each day. Clean your body, clean your clothes, clean your home. Prefer craft and technique to tools. But do use the best tools, and take care of them. Doubt yourself — but not too much. Doubt yourself before doubting others, but do avoid confirmed fools. Nail the fundamentals. Be open to improvising around the fundamentals. “The shortest answer is doing the thing.” — Ernest Hemingway Habits are free. (That can be bad.) Be aware of your habits and break them if necessary, or even just to change perspective.
Taken from blog. Most of it's obvious but reminders can never hurt.
I’ve set up [[syncthing]] on my [[YunoHost]] box. I already had it on my desktop and my mobile. The whole point of Syncthing is kind of that it’s [[P2P]], without a central server, but I thought this might be handy as an extra node for those two to sync between. I do occassionally get sync conflicts when I’ve edited stuff on both while they weren’t in communication with each other. It’s not a central server, just a more available node, I guess.
[[Syncthing]] or sync via [[NextCloud]]? I think I prefer via syncthing where it’s possible, because it’s P2P. You don’t rely on some central server to always be available. That said, it can be really handy sometimes. It made Calibre-web setup pretty easy for example, and photo syncing too.
I’ve set up a [[basic automatic photo sync from my phone to NextCloud]]. Chuffed to get that working. I struggled in the past with syncthing for that some reason I’ve forgotten now, and it made me have to stick with Google Photos.
Dual poweris situational and can contend with decaying capitalism, not necessarily a practice (red library)
Lenin feared a workerist identitybecause if a worker could identify with their working conditions only they didn't necessarily need to be anti capitalist. Therefore he stressed proletarian identity
WWII was the end of the /ancien regime, with the aristocracy being integrated into the bourgeois class
Lawsare written to constrain others, not the ruling class
Political kitsch is a means of talking about politics in a very neoliberal way: everyone is their own entrepreneur and the purchasing of these products is seen as an expression of identity
Nazicinemawas fascinated by death, much like Nazism itself. Deaths in Nazi cinema were happy and self-sacrificing (see also: Nazi cinema
Nazicinemacreated a false fantasy, traditional life (see also: Nazi cinema
Age regression was common in Nazi films innocence and child-like behavior
Nazi moviesoutright copied Hollywood in terms of popular genre film
As the Nazi final solution rolled out, Nazi cinemabecame more openly antisemitic
Capitalism has thus far managed to eliminate the hungry mob, therefore making revolution difficult
Revolution is more likely in autocratic countries (pop the left)
Most socialist revolutions weren't even majority proletarian, they always made compromises and worked with other groups
starting a 'daily standup' or journal so i can better keep track of what i get done and want to do every day.
yesterday i did not do much, hence why i am starting this journal. today i will:
travel to osu and spend time with friends
set up git crypt for my nixos configuration
full file encryption is fine, don't have to just encrypt secrets.
generate a pgp key for jake@isnt.online and use it in fun places
ship some cards
clean my room and try to get rid of a couple of things
solidify my plans for the rest of the semester.
Mulling over ideas involving [[remoteStorage]].
Checking out [[hyperdraft]]
One of the most basic presuppositions of communication is that the partners can mutually surprise each other. Only in the way can information be produced in the respective other.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_responsibility#Hard_determinism
I need to review and cleanup notes. good reason for info to be offloaded into separate notes. Dailies aren’t evergreen
Woke up early and started cleaning friends house with my morning coffee
My notebooks aren’t a record of my thinking process. They are my thinking process. — Richard Feynman
that you have already found and read all of the content you're interested in learning or doing. This means that you shouldn't expose yourself to new ideas or information.
Focus on learning and doing what you've thought about in the past!
Tomorrow I want to:
Fix keyboard
start FOSS android launcher (it shouldn't be too hard to clone the one I'm using now)
send some emails and get to an inbox of 0
make sure i can have my things picked up from the storage people
think about my backup system and network; it doesn't feel very seamless…
Open this up tomorrow and get to work!
fixed keyboard
starting foss android launcher now
will check emails
will send email to storage people
will chart out network i slept most of the after noon but it will be better… may need to wear warmer clothes
"Neither sex nor gender", but a unique experience of people
Being trans involves existential issues as well as identity issues. The goal should be making life liveable
Sex is tied to the death drive
The unconscious believes itself immortal
[[ulauncher]]
editing notes when day changes is interesting because [[obsidian]] automatically goes to note for that day with the [[daily note]] button
I’ve been trying out new desktop environments. [[xfce]] is kinda slow not sure if it’s just aging or if it’s because it needs to load [[kde]] for the [[kwin]] window manager.
fast but hideous UI
I think it messed with my network settings because it uses [[connman]]
I’m trying out [[lxqt]] which is fast but kinda ugly. I wish designers were more into lightweight [[desktop environment]]s
experimenting with different types of [[note refactoring]]
TIL [[flancian]] is in [[CET]] which is the same timezone as Paris and Rome
[[svelte]]
One of the things I like about tending my [[digital garden]] is that there is no pressure on display or content, if I was feeling like writing a blog article I have to form complete sentences and such, but note taking, by design, is very free form.
[[Especifismo]]
https://bluecheckhomes.com/: what is this dystopia? work on web ui projects! build fake portfolios, imitate the apple 2, etc… there is lots of potential
Journaling again. I’m gonna have to force myself to do this. I just need to remind myself it isn’t that hard and I need to make it more personal so I’m more invested.
I really like [[obsidian]], I can’t wait until they release a mobile client
Just discovered [[cabal.chat]] it reminds me of [[tox]] and [[session]]. Personally I prefer [[matrix]]
I’m really stoked that I found [[pinafore]] because it turned me onto [[svelte]] which has re-invigorated my interest in [[front end development]]
relaxed a bit : )
did some room cleaning
participated much more actively on social media
got a basic wiki generator working - works on all the files at once!
try to have a wiki generating to a url
plan interview meeting
keep up the active social interaction! participate in things!!
catch up with some old friends
Someone day I will publish the extensive chat notes and article links between @hitsmachines and I, talking about [[NFT]]s and art.
The answer to some of your questions currently are xDai Chain and Nifty.Ink.
@acroll is posting on Substack. I don’t understand why he’s posting somewhere without mapping it to his own domain name.
His latest is Nothing in the middle, about the creator economy. Good read.
Just prepaid for a year of Beeper. This is letting me "jump the line" and get into the beta. Plus, I reserved my username as @boris there. It is supposed to connect all your messaging apps in one "app" — even iMessage on non-Apple systems, through a jail broken iPhone.
I really do have the need for a unified messaging app. I’m not super interested in a proprietary paid service to do it, but I’d like to try it out.
[Community-curated knowledge networks @sariazout](https://twitter.com/sariazout/status/1326253159447097344 )
We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks
(a thread on why)
An automated job board for portfolios. Mostly targeted at investors, but could be used by any group of aligned companies.
Free version can host jobs from up to 5 companies. Crawls different ATS systems as well as custom careers pages to keep listings up to date.
Been watching [[The Hunger Games]] films.
[[ko-fi]] [[ecovillage summit]] [[ecovillage]] [[ubi]]
implement a SAT solver to learn how it works try to incorporate elements of that paper which is super cool check out https://github.com/max-heller/sat for a brief student implementation! https://github.com/theseus-os/Theseus this looks very interesting as well - shifting responsibility to the programming language from the OS! figure out what this is! https://github.com/BillHallahan/G2
Imagine if your social media platform gave you, the individual, all the insights about you that the big tech platforms have about you but sell to others. Imagine if your platform built you a lovely [[digital garden]] to return to, out of whatever you posted to your stream.
Platforms optimize for chatter as “engagement,” not decision, resolution, or consensus. Community control is not in the spec.
– [[Vanguard Stacks: Self-Governing against Digital Colonialism]]
The [[Agora]] describes itself as an experimental social network with an intent to coordinate users in the solving of problems.
giving [[literal]] another try because [[memex]] costs money to sync to mobile
I need to read through the [[ctzn]] whitepaper again, lots of goodies in there
Woke up with a headache, lots of stress, a lot of it good though [[good stress]]
I got accepted into a house I interviewed for. I’ll probably be moving in the next couple of weeks
I talked to [[flancian]] a lot about possibly using [[ctzn]] as a [[data store]] and identity layer. I need to research the [[whitepaper]] some more to learn the nuances
Good post on [[Cloudron vs Yunohost]] from socialism.tools:Cloudron vs. YunoHost - the self-host app showdown.
Reading: [[Cybernetic Revolutionaries]]
Listened: [[Nathan Schneider on Cooperatives and Digital Governance]]. Brilliant. So much great stuff in Nathan’s work. Some of my takeaways: Resistance movements need alternative building. Coops can be a means towards economic justice and social justice. Coops can go awry without a culture of commoning. Incubators and exit to community for growing coops.
Distinct lack of principles when it comes to the governance of most software commons. The culture and the tools suck. Feminist economics can help a lot.
[[vlang]]
Messing around with [[wsl2]]. Configuring my system to run [[windows]] as daily driver, I’m slowly shrinking my [[linux]] partition over time as I need more space.
Also looking at [[nft]] stuff
[[sybil.org]] online [[governance]]
good [[ethereum]] explanation video https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/n5wjjq/wonderful_explanation_of_whats_ethereum/
researching [[DAO]] options for [[flancia]]
[[coinranking]] [[crypto exchange]]
[[radicle]]
where i list my opinions and rank my confidence in those opinions. maybe use the sorter ecosystem thing to rank how highly i believe in the opinions
how other people use the internet is probably my favorite hobby. it's fascinating to me how others choose to navigate the same spaces in such different ways - eventually accumulating experience to some peak, dropping off the internet entirely, becoming inactive, or flatlining and posting consistently forever. some become more abstract - focusing more and more on art projects and metatheories of the internet rather than concrete ideas and discussions - while others become much more serious and real, playing internet drama nad political games to try to accumulate social clout. some people share as little of their life as possible while others are incredibly social and active, exposing every detail of their lives. this deserves more research - how does internet addiction craft and shape the people who choose to actively contribute to it? how does it transform the attitudes of those who don't use the internet frequently - as by virtue of existing now everyone plays a part? it's unclear
is the most incredible thing. put lots of energy out there and you will recieve all of it in return because the people you are reaching out to are people, not public figures or intimidating prescences or brick walls of content - they are people, people who will respond to you, people who can reciprocate their admiration of your work, people who share your passions.
it's really hitting me that i need to finish some work i'm proud of - without it i will not be able to really impress others or gain respect from others, which will lead to me learning more, which will lead to me doing other very cool things.
Call series about [[distributed press]] and related topics
Attendees
[[flancian]]
[[vera]]
[[Paul Frazee]]
[[benhylau]]
[[guo]]
[[sutty]]
[[fauno]]
[[ipfs gateways]]
[[Paul Frazee]]
[[guo]]
[[flancian]]
subsidies gateway not for profit
[[beaker]]
social network on beaker
got discouraged with social networks
people wanna be able to share around links
didn’t have push messaging system
take advantage of social graph
ux killer
really close to running gateway, running a service
let’s just use services
take your data and move to other "place"
all these technologies converge into this
[[indieweb]]
[[microformats]]
if we can determine ownership we can help with [[governance]] issue
if it’s my data, there is no [[governance]] issue
[[commons mesh]]
how do you end up in a situation where [[governance]] is required
what are defaults
sign up for first time, what’s being suggested
[[fatal ambiguity]]
going to start doing these - actually doing these - again.
took photos all day - great experience!
socialized and explored downtown portland
learned how to use pollen for multi output resume formatting
self-actualized - purchased everything i want i dont care!!! shorts and that killer patagonia jacket
put together my "onebag" and cut the chaff, figuring out what i want to get rid of! also figure out what's left to need.
take pictures of and list more of my old clothing for sale
use pollen to target xelatex pdf and html with the same source, following the fourth pollen tutorial work on basic formatting for it!
find a workout - use weights, go for a run in the evening, etc!!
conquer my email and other floating messages
[[Modern Unix]]. Really handy list of improved shell utilities. tldr is a great one - short and simple example-based man pages.
https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-2/
[[Solarpunk]], Big Tech resistance, AI policy, greenwashing, sustainable web craft, the [[commons]].
purr-driven development
[[Solar Protocol]]
[[Data Garden]]
By storing data nature’s way, in the DNA of plants, this work discusses the potential for truly green, carbon absorbing data storage, owned by the public rather than monopolistic corporations.
[[iem]]
[[events]]
[[agora protocol]]
[[the future of note taking]] [[video]] == [[go/font-video]]
[[cybersin]]
[[psi]]
[[dual]]
[[search engines]]
https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1409910872571625477
https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1409911480280039429
https://social.coop/@flancian/105548611374025585
[[The Fire These Times]] I realised I was subscribed to pretty much zero podcasts that aren’t presented from a wholly Western perspective. This one is good and isn’t: https://thefirethisti.me/
Any other suggestions?
[[Solarpunk and Storytelling the Present and Future]]. Nice wee podcast on some [[solarpunk]] stuff.
[[adrienne maree brown]]‘s [[Emergent Strategy]] is "inspired by [[Octavia Butler]]‘s explorations of our human relationship to change". [[God is Change]]! I feel like I should read this soon.
[portland zu 2021-07-29]: ../pages/portland zu 2021-07-29.md "portland zu 2021-07-29" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
ctrl-k ctrl-s.Back-journaled from 2021-08-20 as we got back late to the hotel, took a walk after a relatively late dinner in our first night in Genoa.
Took the 10:33 train to Milan, it was a pleasant ride that we’ve done several times before — but of course not since the pandemic started.
It feels weird to be travelling again; we almost didn’t follow through with the travel plans. It seemed… just a bit weird to be back to travelling while so many people are still heavily affectd by both the virus an its consequences. We’re glad we did, though. It’s good to see the world beyond our bubble, if we can do it reasonably, and 1w essentially across the border seems reasonable to us right now.
Ocell was another reason we had objections to travelling, but she is being taking care of by our neighbours, who are very sweet and even sent pictures of her today. We are very lucky!
After only 1h in Milan we took a second train to Genoa, where we’ll spend a few days and tour the surroundings.
I need to do [[perf]] before next week, I think I’ll grab a few hours tomorrow night and try to get it out of the way.
Listened: [[Liss C. Werner, "Cybernetics: State of the Art"]]
Listened: [[Eden Medina, "Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile"]]
[[Dynamics]]
Jamming: VHS Head - Dead to Morrow
One thing I wonder is how do [[agent-based modelling]] deals with models of things that are not geographically situated together? What I’ve seen so far (at least in [[NetLogo]]) feels very much like how do things that are physically situated together interact. What about if you’re not physically together? Perhaps that’s where network modelling comes in. Or perhaps you just represent things in a way that the physical geographical is collapsed / doesn’t matter.
[[node club]]
[zebras 2021-08-19]: ../pages/zebras 2021-08-19.md "zebras 2021-08-19" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
Read: [[Exiting the Vampire Castle]]
I set up Agora locally and have contributed a couple of small CSS changes (for blockquotes, and headings typography) and [[Flancian]] has pulled them in and deployed them. Feels good to contribute!
In a sense, procrastination is just an inefficiency in my scheduling that can be improved upon. I’ve been experimenting with techniques to unblock resources I need to continue with threads more often; and to schedule a bit more rationally and in a [[true to self]] fashion.
By the way, I realize I’ve been writing on Twitter far too much. Mastodon as well; both are addictive, and I like them anyway, because for me them and the Agora converge. The conversation yesterday with [[robert haisfield]] comes to mind.
But I miss writing without the silly obstacles and impairments of social media. Writing and reading on social media is great like having phones is great; but, like mobile keyboards are lacking, social media’s media UI and format has limitations.
I spoke to [[gargron]] over Mastodon: https://social.coop/web/statuses/107016519686720065.
So, back to procrastination: what just happened was a bit of it. I procrastinate a lot using social media. But that’s fine, as I was saying, because I think I can bridge social media and the Agora, and I believe the Agora has the specific quality that it can become one with anything that it [[bridges]] with.
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[[ubi projects]]
[https://smallpdf.com/ edit pdf]
Listened: [[Spritely Updates! (November 2021)]]
[[Petnames]]
[[code-review]] - code review library for [[emacs]].
garbage night
[[duniter project]]
[[animaze]]
[[fathom]]
[[OMI traversal call 2021-12-09]]
[[decentraland]]
[[omniverse]]
[[formatic]]
[[facebook torus]]
[[crypto voxels]]
[[textverified]]
[[fetch.ai]]
[[litemint.io]]
[[flexa]]
[[AMM]]
[[stellar]]
[[godot engine]]
[[v-sekai]]
[[Jeremy Lent]] mentioned this idea of an [[ecological civilization]] in the podcast I was listening to ([[Jeremy Lent: Wisdom Traditions, Science & the Search for Meaning]]).
Started reading: [[The Patterning Instinct]]
Heard about [[Dynabook]] from Thompson on FedWiki chat
A couple of new notions following a chat with [[Flancian]]:
derives degrees of certainty which are interpreted as a measure of subjective psychological belief.
Listing some of [[My garden circles]] - digital gardens of people in different areas that I like to read when thinking on a particular topic.
[[I like gift economies]] because [[gift economies build community]]
tags :: COVID-19
racial capitalism:: the mutually constitutive entanglements of racialized and colonial exploitation within the process of capital accumulation
The author argues that the accumulation of capitalwould not be possible with out racialized and colonial exploitation
"The black worker is the founding stone of a new economic system in the 19th century and for the modern world." (paraphrased) —- Du Bois
Many low-income food production jobs are done by people of color
Caribbean countries have outperformed the Untied States in terms of handling the virus
Caribbean nations are peripheral and made dependent on capitalist nations
The United States has made no effort to manage the virus in prisons, which are majority black
[[Millionaires call on governments worldwide to ‘tax us now’]]
[[Households across the UK will see rising prices and stalling wages in 2022]].
This article seems to confirm the assertion that [[Keir Starmer is a bit dull]]. ‘Stop talking about the problem – fix the bloody thing!’ Keir Starmer on Bori…
[[Gordon Brander]] [[geist]]s are a kind of [[info daemons]].
[[Oblique Strategies]] sounds cool. I like these random prompts for thinking about stuff. [[Tarot for thought]].
[[Idea webs]]. Nice simple phrase for digital garden / personal wiki adjacent stuff. https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/1482445254771064844 ?s=20
I got given [[Red Rosa]] for my birthday.
The purpose of recording and organising information is so that it can be used again.
The value of recorded information is directly proportional to the ease with which it can be re-used.
Reading [[Platform socialism]]. First chapter was a good intro, the next two are pretty heavy, focusing on the problems with Facebook and Airbnb. I get that it’s necessary for a thesis, if you’re going to propose something new then you need to examine what’s currently wrong. That’s fine but no longer new to me, and sometimes a bit draining just hearing about the problems. But the author stated early on that they will go on to discuss their proposals for how to change things. I’m eager to get to these parts.
[[I dislike big tech]]. Surprise!
Not without its rough edges, all this like/dislike stuff, but still finding it fruitful and definitely maintain that the best thing about personal wikis are the personal opinions. Will plough on and see where it ends up.
Addendum to the above: the best thing about reading other people’s personal wikis are the opinions. For sure. But in your own personal wiki, not having opinions on things is fine I think. Because you might just be learning about something.
[[agora]] [[2022-02-20]]
[[agora bot]]
LATER fix: [[agora bot mastodon]] keeps going offline
DONE make [[agora bot matrix]] link messages
LATER implement go/<date>/move, redirecting to the right video, probably using [[virtual subnodes]]
DONE clean the house
LATER review [[agora frs]], [[agora rfcs]]
LATER implement ‘add pull’, perhaps by adding a line to the stoa? hmm.
LATER write about 1..17 as they relate to my counting [[meditation practice]]
LATER look into [[anchors]] in repo
DONE integrate [[melanocarpa]]
LATER implement /random/n as returning a list of nodes?
DONE [[flancia meet]]
[[neil]]
#push [[flancia collective]]
I am sort of its dictator by default, and that’s something that I would love to discuss with the community
by this I mean I [[own]] anagora.org, protopoi.org and flancia.org
very interesting discussion about this in [[agora discuss]]
let it be known that I abdicate by default if a subset of my [[friends]] want me to
by default I abdicate to [[flancia collective]]
by default I abdicate if prompted to abdicate by [[@neil]] [[vera]] or [[peter singer]]
#push [[gradient generator]]
Since the [[RSS-Bridge]] thing was never much of a success, I’ve installed [[Nitter]] on my [[YunoHost]] to get RSS feeds of people I want to follow on [[Twitter]].
pluriverse.world is interesting, the written piece is interesting. But I’m not really sure what the thing is actually doing, and I have to have a wallet or use a Google form to contribute. And verify myself with a Twitter account.
I will watch this: [[Hacking for the Commons]]
[[Prosocial World]] - "Modern Evolutionary Science can contribute to prosocial objectives in all their forms"
NOW [[yoga with x]] as a [[short story]]
DONE fix links in /journals
LATER perhaps tell crawling bots to take it easy while I work
LATER [[sqlite]] experiment
LATER I should update to Python 3.8 so I can use f-strings with = at the end to print variable name and value in one swoop.
NOW agora load balancing
LATER experiment with [[podman]] as [[docker]] replacement
continue going through [[please contain yourself]] with [[podman]]?
nice, got it running just fine; I said I was not going to default to [[rootless containers]] but they seem to work fine for simple examples, and the
crawlers/bots are hammering anagora.org quite a bit, might need to actually write a [[robots.txt]] file to tell them to take it easy while we work on better performance :)
[[scaling]] must happen
DONE hmm, but there is [[low hanging fruit]]: the per-worker cache should not all expire in unison (!)
Read: [[Inside the Real Repair Shop 7]]
The [[Climate Action Plan Explorer]] is really, really excellent. For finding out what UK councils are doing with regards to the [[climate crisis]].
Read: [[Cumbria councils to be replaced by two authorities]]
I’ve been working on an R&D agora using JavaScript and gun.db
DONE fix bug with hashtags followed by :, punctuation marks — easy regex fix?
NOW add better support for CamelCase and such to [[agora server]]
[[gpg key]]
Writing this on the flight to Seattle. My connection in [[Charlotte]] was tight but I made it just fine in the end.
(I wonder who you are, you reading this. If you are interested consider leaving an annotation using the Hypothesis side bar or reaching out :)
Thank you for reading!)
Listened: [[Cuba’s Life Task]]
[[Conversations with Gamechangers]] is pretty awesome lineup.
I think we will do it, my [[friend]]. We will go into the heart of [[Moloch]] and together decide [[what we do with it]].
Should we kill it, or should we try to [[disentangle]] it from what’s [[bad]]?
Playing with very noddy [[programmable notes]] in anagora.
Anyway, today I was reminded to review my node on Climate Leninism and Revolutionary Transition, so off we go to do that!
Reworked [[eco-socialism]] a bit.
Adding [[cloudspotting]] to my nature journalling activities.
Today it was a good day; I worked, went to therapy and found it meaningful, and back home I did yoga and played with Lady Burup. I also talked with friends.
[[node club]]
[[Open Educational Resources]] are a commons.
[[2022-10-09]] as it happened, a journal entry in the [[Fediverse]]. https://t.co/aRJUHzJBTO
If you remember something about this whole project maybe make it that [[in flancia there is an agora]].
[[working in public]]
[[2022-11-19]] :)
Tengo dos [[jaras]]:
Flancia y el Ágora.
abra app run --user root foo.bar.com app bash then cat /run/secrets/your_sneaky_secretYesterday had a great time at another gig put on by [[Full of Noises]]. [[Lee Patterson]]. He did a live performance and a bit of an artist talk. Loved the live performance, amazing sounds from [[contact microphones]] and some kind of [[photosensitive microphones]]. No effects or digitalisation, just amplification, and it made the most incredible sounds. Springs sounded amazing through the contact mics. He also played some [[field recordings]] of audio from inside ponds from homebrew [[hydrophones]] which were also really incredible. Crazy throbs and pulses and sirens from little water bugs.
Been experimenting with being [[offline by default]] a little bit.
Reading: [[Internet for the People]].
Read: [[Envisioning real utopias from within the capitalist present]]
Listened: [[Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 1)]]
Yesterday I submitted my final output for [[YXM830]]!
Reading [[Capital is Dead]] (again, didn’t finish last time) and loving it. I really like [[McKenzie Wark]]‘s writing style in this. I’m finding the argument about there now being an information-based [[Vectoralism]] - something even worse than capitalism - quite compelling, though I know many disagree.
Used the borrowed orbital sander to sand down garden table and chairs that are a bit weather beaten.
Read: [[It’s not about your footprint, it’s about your point of leverage]]
As mentioned in [[2023-07-08]], a few org-roam things broke after upgrading spacemacs.
Bloody hell why I forgot writing this.
WARNING - BREACHING NET FUCKED BY 2050: MAY CONTAIN BLOODY SPOILERS, READ AT OWN RISK! Trying to hide some emotional baggage because of this.
Tags: #dailynotes #daily-notes
Per wiki, V’s status is still unknown after lift’s cables snap as more chaos ensured. The reason is "presumed (legally) dead, but no evidence of on-screen death". [^2]: Torture were also involved, especially some robotic head decapitation (we’re not talking about [this], but instead of Aunt Nina killing Rocky for telling the truth about his and Freckle’s activities, ).↩
I’m getting more comfortable using Foam alongside Obsidian, especially inside a Gitpod workspace.
A [[qualitative system dynamics model]] focuses on the structure of a system and the qualitative relation between system components.
[[Gordon Brander]] quotes [[Donella Meadows]] from [[Thinking in Systems]] a lot in his latest newsletter. ([[Fragments: vertebrate technology]] - on components, modularity, and [[hierarchy]]).
Undoubtedly a major figure in systems thinking, but [[Robert Biel]] relates that Meadows had somewhat dubious / liberal-minded political views on some things, to which she applied systems thinking.
[[The Internet Con]] looks like it’ll be a good read.
For all the (supposed) micro-rationalities of [[capitalism]], it produces some huge macro-irrationalities ([[overshoot of planetary boundaries]], [[social inequity]]).
Finished listening to [[What Is To Be Done? with Breht O’Shea and Alyson Escalante]].
Listened: [[Red Menace: Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future]]
Why bother with org-roam and Termux on my phone? Why not just stick with orgzly for fleeting notes and then process them at the laptop?
[[Planetary sovereign]].
[[Polycrisis]].
We had another play of [[Space Cats Fight Fascism]] today.
We spend a not insignificant chunk of our lives just on the upkeep of our household.
I had noding "my favourite things" in a post-it so I decided to do it right here using a push above.
[[Read]]: [[How to stop a data center]].
Read: [[Imagining social movements: from networks to dynamic systems]]
I’ve played with them on my site here - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/well-connected and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/new-connections
[[Listened]]: [[The Art and Science of Communism, Part 1 (ft. Nick Chavez, Phil Neel)]]
Read: [[Mute Compulsion]]
Listened: [[TMK BC5: Mute Compulsion, Introduction]]
[[Social reproduction]].
Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].
[[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]
[[Watched]]: [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]]
[[Concept map]]s seem like something I’d be interested in. A visual way of organising knowledge focusing on the relationships between concepts.
[[Vulpea]] and [[publicatorg]] look like they might be useful for my [[org-roam]] life.
I donated to the [[Amazon UK warehouse workers’ strike fund]] again.
Late night [[listened]] to [[What’s the Value of Data? (ft. Salomé Viljoen)]]
Also listened to [[The Supermarket into Prison Pipeline]]
Pretty much always find [[This Machine Kills]] interesting, whatever the topic.
Thinking about how I would go about [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].
It could be time for a new season of [[Node Club]]…
I should back up my Doom config on Termux.
[[Cooperation Jackson]] and the [[Jackson-Kush Plan]] are explicitly [[ecosocialist]] in outlook.
They also work on the principle of instituting [[non-reformist reform]]s.
Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today alongside anything else you missed this week, June 9, 2024:
For this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap (stats galore)
What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):
That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.
[Starcadian]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/indie-music/starcadian.md [BOSSFIGHT]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/monstercat/bossfight.md [Sunset Blood]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl2bxnbryx0AKbl8TGu8KA9z-khhYfKcS&si=Aebm6tSSF_8CFULV [Ballistic]: https://youtu.be/_aLxnMuwFxA
Downloading dashboard stats involves upgrading to premium, so apologies if I couldn’t dump the screenshot of my dashboard for now here. [^2]: For the uninitated (hello there if you have watched [[Gildedguy Story 6]] earlier), he makes "ear movies" or music with lore in a nutshell. [^3]: Track my progress at https://www.duolingo.com/profile/ajhalili2006 and follow me if you do.↩
Let’s dust this off…
[[International Repair Day]] 2024 today.
For [[Restart]] for Repair Day I worked on the global map of events, the Open Repair Alliance report, and the Open Repair Alliance dataset. Proud of all of those.
[[Human physiology]] - the processes and functions of living organisms. Rather than, say, the structure of the body or evolutionary history.
[[Passive repetition]] can result in an [[illusion of knowing]].
Actually, you could also do passive repetition in a digital garden.
One of the key uses of a stream and garden for me is active recall and repetition. So worth thinking about it a bit more.
Trying [[HeliBoard]].
[[Learning blurt]]
Traditional social media / microblogging can also be great for active recall.
[[Learning blurt]]
I listened to a good ACFM episode on the gut microbiome recently: [[ACFM Trip 41: Trust Your Gut]]
I think I’ll explore "[[microblurting]]" as a thing.
Microblurting with a mindmap.
[[causal loop diagram]]s.
Looking at Lend Engine and MyTurn as software options for our [[library of things]].
Watched [[Why Spaced Repetition Doesn’t (Always) Work]]
[[Wasteland]]
[[Listened]]: [[Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism?]]
[[Bookmarked]]:
[[Life]] wants to be; life doesn’t always want to be much; life goes extinct; life goes on.
I’m returning to a bunch of fleeting notes I’ve logged in orgzly over recent months, that haven’t made it to the garden yet.
Yasuraka ni nemutte kudasai. Ayamachi wa kurikaeshimasenu kara. / “Rest in peace, for X will not repeat the mistake.” This has been rendered, “Rest in peace, for the mistake will not be repeated,” which is far less problematical than the original. “Who will not repeat the mistake?” people wanted to know when the monument was unveiled. “And who made the mistake in the first place—the Americans when they dropped the bomb, or the Japanese when they started the war?” The transitive Japanese verb in the active voice calls for a subject—a responsible actor. The passivized translation makes far less stringent demands. With its unnamed subject, the Japanese sentence seems discreetly to avoid placing the blame on anyone, but it is far more thought-provoking than the English translation would suggest, for the inescapable conclusion to the unavoidable search for a subject is “we.”↩
Algorithms are thoughts. Chainsaws are tools.↩
[[Read]]:
[[Bookmarked]]:
Wrote:
Seen a couple mentions of [[Readeck]] lately.
[[Read]]:
[[Listened]]:
git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 on some large repositories..gitattributes from GitHub Desktop. * text=auto is a good default, but it can be made better for SilverBullet.* eof=lf in the .gitattributes file. This is because SilverBullet+ syncs files with LF line endings.[[Bookmarked]]: National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
[[Listened]]:
/Discord/.[[Zettled]]:
[[Zettled]]:
It strikes me that if one were to work on a [[collaborative zettelkasten]], then [[hub notes]] would be quite key.
[[Bookmarked]]:
[[Zettled]]:
[[2026 Makerfield by-election]]: phew.
/home if it runs as a systemd service.1 It was reading /home fine until the server had to be rebooted by its server host. I wouldn’t know why it was working fine before.root was changed to caddy.--output flag.If you’re running Caddy as a systemd service, reading files from /home will not work, because the caddy user does not have "executable" permission on the /home directory (necessary for traversal). - Caddy Documentation.↩
[[Read]]:
[[Zettled]]:
[[Zettled]]:
I got number [[279]] and I spent a few minutes factorizing it for fun, is this a normal pastime?
Not that I care, I enjoy it a lot, but I sometimes wonder
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https://grishka.me/blog/life-extension-thoughts/
Здесь я решил собрать свои свежие мысли о продлении жизни, подходах к нему, перспективных с моей точки зрения направлениях исследований, и всяких смежных темах.
Гришка отказывается умирать.
I really liked it.
See also: [[Blade Runner]]
~/Hosts/caggia-classic-2019)[[P- Chris Granger]]: Yeah this is something I’m very interested in. Our belief is that we can do it step-wise though. Due to Jump’s maleability, we first try to make it something a person can think with and then see what needs to change to support more and more distributed thinking.
[[P- Rob Haisfield]]: Yup, not a bad approach to start with individuals. People will inevitably have their own styles and it’ll be interesting to see what emerges. With idiosyncratic styles enabled by an infinitely flexible tool like Jump, it raises the question: how do all of these unique Jump instances come together? You may need to wait and see. I suppose that’s just a selection and refactoring question though?
Inspired by an afternoon installing a VM running Windows XP, than then was a trip to the past. No access to the internet because of the lack of the latest security cyphers for HTTPS in a world that has mostly moved on by now (thankfully).
A short story about someone that downloads Chrome 218 by mistake, and gets access to the internet of the year 2043.
Testing out [[ctzn]] pages functionality on mobile. It’s a nice editor
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This episode of Rev Left Radio sums up most of my views around the [[2019]] election pretty well: on Corbyn, the media, Brexit, limits of our electoral system, where to focus for these next five years.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/uk-election
The alternative is to build a greater resilience among working-class people to the siren song of the billionaires. This can only be achieved by renewing the working-class infrastructure of the country. This means a trade union movement that can provide power at work and a Labour Party that can fight the daily battles to improve people’s lives, but it also means cultural institutions that give people a sense of ownership over the places that they live and the ability to express class as something collective. It is only by overcoming the atomisation and alienation of our communities that we can prevent people being picked off by the right-wing press
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Canvassing attempts to talk to everyone in an area and to know who they are, a quite different approach to standing in a busy spot and talking to whoever comes by. It is an example of structural rather than self-selecting organising, which Jane McAlevey argues has much more potential for building big majorities and real power – growing your army rather than just mobilising those who are already convinced.
Many formerly squatted-in buildings emerged into collective ownership and some, like K9, where one of [[Freifunk]]’s founders lived, embraced radical principles of common governance. These principles included economic agreements limiting rents to the costs of maintenance and social agreements specifying collective decision-making supported by monthly meetings.
These buildings could have dozens of apartments, and at K9, apartments were inhabited in rotation so that all building residents would have an equal chance to live in the larger or more beautiful spaces.
This principle of fairness and justice resulted in a moving day every three years, when groups of apartment mates reconfigured as everyone moved house.
По какой-то причине этот рисунок нравится всем, кому его показывают. Я спрашиваю их: «Что тебе нравится здесь?». Они отвечают: «Необычная покраска». Моё отношение же обратное: покраску нахожу здесь неверной. Картинка мне нравилась гораздо больше, когда она была не раскрашена. Виноват использованный маркер, считаю.
Дом для жизни
@DmitrySokolowsky@lor.sh
серость, много дыма и совсем нет зелени. Это не жизнь
также отметь полное отсутствие инфраструктуры, две огромные грязнющие трубы, намеренно неудобное расположение окон/балконов и номер 113, намекающий, что таких домов ещё минимум 112
Робот-торговец. На основе inktober 2020/03 bulky
Slipping
Since it’s not just Scott Alexander doing it.
Since it’s not just[ Scott Alexander](https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/01/08/what-intellectual-progress- did-i-make-in-the-2010s/) doing it.
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Sometimes, it feels like my life hasn’t changed much in years, but looking back over the previous decade through a lens of considering how I’ve changed really highlights the progress I’ve made. My changes in intellectual positions during this period have mostly been motivated by direct experience & changes in circumstance (which has made certain ideas more accessible to me while the flaws in others have become more obvious), rather than mere argumentation, but that’s mostly because this decade happened to be when I first engaged in most of the things that constitute ‘the harsh realities of adult life’.
In 2010, I had been in college already for three years (though, because I was still working through the ramifications of a magnificently flubbed first semester, I would remain in college for another four). I continued the kind of heavy book learning that one can do when one has no major responsibilities (reading thick books on unfamiliar subjects for the hell of it, and finishing them in a few days because there’s nothing better to do for hours at a time) for only another year, at which point I got my first job. In short order, I also got into my first serious adult relationship, lost my virginity, started disposing of all my new disposable income, and got the opportunity to work with one of my long-time idols. Then, in 2013, I lost my job & got it back six months later. In 2014, I rented a house with a friend & my girlfriend moved in, & later the mental state of my girlfriend deteriorated and I went deep into debt and deep into burn-out. I inherited a house, slowly dragged myself back out of debt, got another girlfriend in 2016 (for only six weeks), & a few years later got into debt again. In 2018 I self-published a book & in early 2019 I published a video game on Steam. Right now, my life seems to be evening off: my life hasn’t really had any major new components since 2017, & things seem to be getting better for me in an incremental way (although they are, and always have been, a long way from ideal or even palatable).
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Working in my chosen industry disabused me of a lot of romantic notions about quality control that I had gotten from my education: actually-existing computer systems are, across the board, mostly piles of shit, and nobody is willing to budget much time to fixing them so long as they work well enough — in other words, well enough to avoid foreseeable catastrophes, though no effort is really made to guard against unforeseeable ones or to look very hard for potential catastrophe material.
Over time, I also got disabused of some notions about capitalist efficiency: while clearly legible waste will be optimized away (though only when doing so serves some internal PR goal), the least bit of plausible deniability will allow enormous waste of resources to go completely unquestioned — for years we spent more money licensing pieces of unreliable proprietary software to perform the equivalent of split-on-whitespace slowly than we did on the salaries of most employees, & for eight years of my employment I was never put on a project that wasn’t canceled before its initial deployment (in other words, from the perspective of the company’s bottom line, they essentially paid me a salary for eight years to do nothing).
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Recognizing that capitalist efficiency was overblown in practice did not move me to the left as much as the direct experience of debt and indirect experience with the insurance, welfare, medical, and disability systems did. I was well aware that I was making multiple times what other people do, while working less hard than they were — and even despite this, a little bit of sloppy accounting (a few too many takeout meals in a month, having to replace a phone or an appliance) can still put me into a level of debt that’s hard to escape from. I’ve responded to that by living hyper-frugally, but hyper- frugality only saves me from big, unforced errors — it cannot save me from expenses like a broken car or a broken furnace or an ambulance ride to the emergency room. Meanwhile, I’ve seen systems intended to insulate vulnerable people from the harshness of the market repeatedly fail (paperwork errors causing disability payments to be a tiny fraction of minimum wage, for instance, or sudden medical insurance policy changes that hike up the price of necessary medication by a factor of 3), and I’ve had to try to take up the slack myself when these systems fail. I became unable to convince myself that all or most people who are impoverished have themselves to blame.
All these experiences made me very suspicious of neoliberal solutions. Markets have big, predictable biases. Government regulation & government incentive programs intended to manipulate those biases tend to create new biases that are on average no better for human beings than the previous version (though they are often not substantially worse — they just redirect endless cash from one set of robber barons to a different set of robber barons).
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Being thrust into interaction with (and dependence upon) markets will, for the unlucky and open-minded, produce a state of transcendent existential nihilism akin to the sublime: I am living in the belly of a beast that is vast beyond my full comprehension, who cares little what I do but whose body presents a set of problems I must navigate to survive; the skills that allow me moment- to-moment survival (and indeed, any skills at all) will not protect me from the beast’s sudden mood swings or random whims, which will reliably maim me and which I have survived by luck alone.
This nihilism ended up being a good thing for me, psychologically.
When I could depend upon my parents for my continued survival, my biggest vulnerability was my ego. Throughout my childhood, and further into my adulthood than I would like to admit, I would boast, peacock, and belittle those around me whenever I felt unimportant. The reality of the economic pressures facing adults (and the need to carefully maintain the fragile emotional state of somebody on the verge of a much bigger & more violent breakdown than I would be capable of) made it crystal clear: nobody is important, and if I want to protect the things I care about, I will need to shamelessly prostrate myself sometimes to appease forces I find disgusting. For me, this realization is what characterizes “maturity”, and I have become less accepting of political projects centered around ‘tough love’ and more interested in projects aimed at making sure fewer people need to develop this traumatic form of “maturity”.
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Working with my idol made me recognize in myself the dangers of parasocial relationships. Everybody you can see is struggling against the same forces you struggle against, making mistakes, full of blind spots in different places than yours. Visionaries in one area aren’t saints. My experience was good, & it was only dispiriting because I recognized that my idol was human and a product of his environment. I tried to help him achieve his dream (which to a first approximation was also my dream), and failed because that dream couldn’t pay my bills and the job that did wouldn’t leave me with the energy to bring dreams to completion.
My bad relationship proved to me that it’s better to be alone than to be in a bad relationship, and it demonstrated that being totally selfless is not sustainable in the presence of serious need. My good relationship showed me a less dramatic, more casual kind of easy love — a love that you feel at home in, and that you fall into like a pillow-filled hammock — and then showed me that even when a situation is good in the short term, it’s sometimes reasonable to cut it off early when it’s doomed to eventually fail. It took me a while to really understand and internalize that, as much as it hurt after six weeks of wonderful bonding, it was going to hurt a lot more after six months — and since I was not prepared for the responsibilities I’d be taking on by taking the relationship to its next stage, staying together indefinitely was never really an option. Both reinforced a sort of anti-romantic mindset I began to develop this decade toward romantic relationships: that all relationships have a material basis that must be sustainable, and a healthy relationship is one that (while it occasionally requires maintenance) is largely self-sustaining — a buffer from the part of the world that demands you always do more than yesterday for less return.
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All of these experiences translated into an interest in politics and in group psychology. We live in a society that is profoundly dysfunctional. Building a less dysfunctional society is vital, if we want to see a world worth living in. Always having had an anti-authoritarian streak, I’ve identified as an anarchist for a long time, but it has been only during this decade that I’ve gotten serious about trying to understand what makes a social group healthy versus sick. I’ve spent a lot of time during the past five years trying to identify failure modes of society and write about them, just as I’ve spent a lot of time trying to identify the failure modes specific to those social assemblages built out of mixtures of computers and human beings. My attempts to synthesize this with an already-existing interest in magick have led to an interest specifically in myth and in the construction of new myths.
By John Ohno on February 2, 2020.
[Canonical link](https://medium.com/@enkiv2/my-intellectual- progress-2010-2019-ef7dec61cbf4)
Exported from Medium on September 18, 2020.
The MetaTraversal #2 session is tomorrow AM 9:30 PST -
speakers include
[[Alvin Graylin]], President [[HTC China]]
[[Anand Agarawala]], CEO [[Spatial]]
[[Kaspar Tiri]], [[Ready Player Me]]
[[Christine Perey]], [[Perey Research and Consulting]], [[AREA]], [[Open AR Cloud]]
[[Rene Schulte]], [[Valorem Research]]
[[Dominique Hazaël-Massieux]] l [[W3C]]
Gabriel René, Executive Director, VERSES and Spatial Web Foundation
Neil Trevett, The Khronos Group
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[[stellar]]
#go https://stellar.org/blog/announcing-protocol-19?locale=en
The Protocol 19 changes were designed to facilitate the creation of payment channels, which are Layer 2 protocols that support high-throughput use cases. Payment channels allow two parties who frequently transact with one another to move the bulk of their activity off chain, while still recording opening balances and final settlement on chain.
This is the Questioner, who lives in the Questioning wall.
Part of Experiment no. 31.
Ювелир Пориён из «Созданный в бездне»
Gifted to M-Kh.
Affordable housing
Robotic palletizers have become essential equipment in modern warehouses and manufacturing facilities, revolutionizing how companies handle product stacking and pallet formation. These automated systems replace manual labor for physically demanding stacking tasks, delivering significant improvements in throughput, consistency, and worker safety.
Types of Robotic Palletizers
There are several categories of robotic palletizers available today. Articulated arm palletizers use multi-jointed mechanical arms similar to industrial robots, offering exceptional flexibility for complex stacking patterns and multiple product types. Gantry-style palletizers move along linear axes to deposit items on pallets, providing high speed for standardized products. Collaborative palletizers work alongside human workers safely without safety barriers, ideal for facilities requiring frequent changeovers between manual and automated operations.
Key Benefits
The advantages of robotic palletizing systems extend across operational, safety, and financial dimensions. Labor cost reduction often provides the most immediate return on investment, as these systems operate continuously without fatigue or injury. Consistent stacking quality eliminates product damage from improper placement and reduces waste. Modern palletizers integrate seamlessly with existing conveyor systems and warehouse management software, enabling real-time monitoring and adaptive stacking strategies.
Payload and Reach Considerations
Selecting the appropriate robotic palletizer requires careful assessment of your product specifications. Key parameters include maximum payload capacity (typically 50-250kg for standard industrial models), reach radius, cycle speed (measured in cycles per hour), and the dimensions of products to be handled. For mixed-case palletizing with varying product sizes, prioritize systems with advanced vision capabilities and intelligent pattern generation.
Integration Requirements
Successful palletizer integration involves coordination between mechanical installation, control system programming, and safety validation. Most modern systems support standard industrial communication protocols including OPC-UA, Modbus, and PROFINET. Floor space requirements vary by configuration—articulated arm systems typically need less floor space than gantry configurations but require adequate ceiling height for arm articulation.
Total Cost of Ownership
Beyond the initial equipment investment, consider ongoing costs including preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts availability, and software licensing fees. Energy consumption varies significantly between manufacturers—variable frequency drive systems can reduce power costs during lower-throughput periods.
Partner with an experienced automation provider to evaluate your specific requirements and develop a robotic palletizing solution that maximizes return on investment. Our team specializes in designing Robotic Palletizer systems for diverse industries including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and consumer goods manufacturing.
Robotic palletizers have become essential equipment in modern warehouses and manufacturing facilities, revolutionizing how companies handle product stacking and pallet formation. These automated systems replace manual labor for physically demanding stacking tasks, delivering significant improvements in throughput, consistency, and worker safety.
Types of Robotic Palletizers
There are several categories of robotic palletizers available today. Articulated arm palletizers use multi-jointed mechanical arms similar to industrial robots, offering exceptional flexibility for complex stacking patterns and multiple product types. Gantry-style palletizers move along linear axes to deposit items on pallets, providing high speed for standardized products. Collaborative palletizers work alongside human workers safely without safety barriers, ideal for facilities requiring frequent changeovers between manual and automated operations.
Key Benefits
The advantages of robotic palletizing systems extend across operational, safety, and financial dimensions. Labor cost reduction often provides the most immediate return on investment, as these systems operate continuously without fatigue or injury. Consistent stacking quality eliminates product damage from improper placement and reduces waste. Modern palletizers integrate seamlessly with existing conveyor systems and warehouse management software, enabling real-time monitoring and adaptive stacking strategies.
Payload and Reach Considerations
Selecting the appropriate robotic palletizer requires careful assessment of your product specifications. Key parameters include maximum payload capacity (typically 50-250kg for standard industrial models), reach radius, cycle speed (measured in cycles per hour), and the dimensions of products to be handled. For mixed-case palletizing with varying product sizes, prioritize systems with advanced vision capabilities and intelligent pattern generation.
Integration Requirements
Successful palletizer integration involves coordination between mechanical installation, control system programming, and safety validation. Most modern systems support standard industrial communication protocols including OPC-UA, Modbus, and PROFINET. Floor space requirements vary by configuration—articulated arm systems typically need less floor space than gantry configurations but require adequate ceiling height for arm articulation.
Total Cost of Ownership
Beyond the initial equipment investment, consider ongoing costs including preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts availability, and software licensing fees. Energy consumption varies significantly between manufacturers—variable frequency drive systems can reduce power costs during lower-throughput periods.
Partner with an experienced automation provider to evaluate your specific requirements and develop a robotic palletizing solution that maximizes return on investment. Our team specializes in designing Robotic Palletizer systems for diverse industries including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and consumer goods manufacturing.
Robotic palletizers have become essential equipment in modern warehouses and manufacturing facilities, revolutionizing how companies handle product stacking and pallet formation. These automated systems replace manual labor for physically demanding stacking tasks, delivering significant improvements in throughput, consistency, and worker safety.
Types of Robotic Palletizers
There are several categories of robotic palletizers available today. Articulated arm palletizers use multi-jointed mechanical arms similar to industrial robots, offering exceptional flexibility for complex stacking patterns and multiple product types. Gantry-style palletizers move along linear axes to deposit items on pallets, providing high speed for standardized products. Collaborative palletizers work alongside human workers safely without safety barriers, ideal for facilities requiring frequent changeovers between manual and automated operations.
Key Benefits
The advantages of robotic palletizing systems extend across operational, safety, and financial dimensions. Labor cost reduction often provides the most immediate return on investment, as these systems operate continuously without fatigue or injury. Consistent stacking quality eliminates product damage from improper placement and reduces waste. Modern palletizers integrate seamlessly with existing conveyor systems and warehouse management software, enabling real-time monitoring and adaptive stacking strategies.
Payload and Reach Considerations
Selecting the appropriate robotic palletizer requires careful assessment of your product specifications. Key parameters include maximum payload capacity (typically 50-250kg for standard industrial models), reach radius, cycle speed (measured in cycles per hour), and the dimensions of products to be handled. For mixed-case palletizing with varying product sizes, prioritize systems with advanced vision capabilities and intelligent pattern generation.
Integration Requirements
Successful palletizer integration involves coordination between mechanical installation, control system programming, and safety validation. Most modern systems support standard industrial communication protocols including OPC-UA, Modbus, and PROFINET. Floor space requirements vary by configuration—articulated arm systems typically need less floor space than gantry configurations but require adequate ceiling height for arm articulation.
Total Cost of Ownership
Beyond the initial equipment investment, consider ongoing costs including preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts availability, and software licensing fees. Energy consumption varies significantly between manufacturers—variable frequency drive systems can reduce power costs during lower-throughput periods.
Partner with an experienced automation provider to evaluate your specific requirements and develop a robotic palletizing solution that maximizes return on investment. Our team specializes in designing Robotic Palletizer systems for diverse industries including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and consumer goods manufacturing.
Robotic palletizers have become essential equipment in modern warehouses and manufacturing facilities, revolutionizing how companies handle product stacking and pallet formation. These automated systems replace manual labor for physically demanding stacking tasks, delivering significant improvements in throughput, consistency, and worker safety.
Types of Robotic Palletizers
There are several categories of robotic palletizers available today. Articulated arm palletizers use multi-jointed mechanical arms similar to industrial robots, offering exceptional flexibility for complex stacking patterns and multiple product types. Gantry-style palletizers move along linear axes to deposit items on pallets, providing high speed for standardized products. Collaborative palletizers work alongside human workers safely without safety barriers, ideal for facilities requiring frequent changeovers between manual and automated operations.
Key Benefits
The advantages of robotic palletizing systems extend across operational, safety, and financial dimensions. Labor cost reduction often provides the most immediate return on investment, as these systems operate continuously without fatigue or injury. Consistent stacking quality eliminates product damage from improper placement and reduces waste. Modern palletizers integrate seamlessly with existing conveyor systems and warehouse management software, enabling real-time monitoring and adaptive stacking strategies.
Payload and Reach Considerations
Selecting the appropriate robotic palletizer requires careful assessment of your product specifications. Key parameters include maximum payload capacity (typically 50-250kg for standard industrial models), reach radius, cycle speed (measured in cycles per hour), and the dimensions of products to be handled. For mixed-case palletizing with varying product sizes, prioritize systems with advanced vision capabilities and intelligent pattern generation.
Integration Requirements
Successful palletizer integration involves coordination between mechanical installation, control system programming, and safety validation. Most modern systems support standard industrial communication protocols including OPC-UA, Modbus, and PROFINET. Floor space requirements vary by configuration—articulated arm systems typically need less floor space than gantry configurations but require adequate ceiling height for arm articulation.
Total Cost of Ownership
Beyond the initial equipment investment, consider ongoing costs including preventive maintenance schedules, spare parts availability, and software licensing fees. Energy consumption varies significantly between manufacturers—variable frequency drive systems can reduce power costs during lower-throughput periods.
Partner with an experienced automation provider to evaluate your specific requirements and develop a robotic palletizing solution that maximizes return on investment. Our team specializes in designing Robotic Palletizer systems for diverse industries including food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and consumer goods manufacturing.
[[Silver Forest/Flax]]’s sector. What was it used before? It was probably empty. It reeks in there. [[Silver Forest/Flax]] doesn’t know about the smell.
Imported from the build records:
I wasn't there, for the first time ever. The text below is written by those who were there. Due to them marking the text up with indentation, the text is not ready to be published as a well-formed. I just wrapped them in plain text blocks. Maybe someday someone will clean this up…
Ciprian
Kartik
Lion
Luke
Timur couldn't make it, due to class
* Ciprian --
Curious about what people are doing?
* Kartik (like arctic) --
"Spec" for lines.love drawings: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108736818665815873
Tailoring editor for coding;
Big picture is getting clearer to me
-- tools for helping programming
-- text editor
* Luke --
sad about Her Majesty the Queen dying
"It's a bit like a grandmother dying."
Messaging Bus stuff
Apps being made in a collaboratively distributed way
CRDT-Conflict Free Replicated Data Type
- synchronization of simple data, JSON-like objects
- replication, synching
Croquet Reflector Network
Syncthing -- files synchronization between multiple computers
Society of Dream
Lifemaps
Machine Learning, machines understanding intent, purposeLion
loomed at entity-link-model;
FileTalk / component work;
based on discussions with Luke looked at RabbitMQ;
phylosophical, organization problems:
the problem of open tabs; bookmarking doesn't work because there is no organization;
"I would like to know who's working on Tcl/Tk at this moment"; something like StackOverflow; ???
DnD campaigns, although set asside for programming;
thinking about "Society of Dreams";
writing is hampered by the thoughts about how editing could be better; :)
Luke: an agent that knows what you are interesned in, that follows a wiki to see if something is of interest to you.
Kartik - extracting or inferring topical keywords from text
* Ciprian
- email
- to Slack
- "I have no idea what happens around in my context"
- "It would be nice to have an agent that summarizes,
and puts into a summary, what has been happening."
- Maybe the main problem is:
Conversations are not a very good medium for conveying ideas.
- encourage people to quote and respond to material with care
Kartik:
- "nudge people to write with an eye towards the future"
- writing towards the present
- fostering serendipity
- a source of "coherent noise"
Ciprian:
"Chat is what we've got, so, how do we make something out of it?"
Kartik:
People still have email, but attn goes increasingly towards conversations.
To the extent that's what we have, reduce expectations, and try to
extract what signal is available.
Ciprian:
last resort, ...
some times like to pray for better
Kartik:
I have friends where we still write lengthy emails to one another.
Structured documents in organizations.
Ciprian:
Schneier --
"Do you have a design document where the data is?"
FB: "The code is our design document."
Kartik:
The people around me -- a good culture of writing documents.
Lion on Conversations:
- possibilitiesConversations mediated by text - Live conversations
Timur always focused on the pinning, the wiki-like interface to the chat discussion, …
"Do people actually use threads?"
Ciprian would like there to be two or three types of communication:
- live voice, optional video, for brainstorming and stuff
- for emergency: SMS, text
- for knowledge and ideas, they should be settled down in some kind of document that can actually be read
- I'd like text that was older than 2 weeks to just be deleted:
"So if it's important, it should go into a document."
A Discussion about Forgetting in Software
- finding the needle in the haystack is still ridiculously difficult
- how about "pinning" ..?
- but if I now have 100 important things that are pinned, ...
* the problem of privacy;
* the missed opportunity of organization;
Lion brought the subject of "oral culture": stuff that keeps getting up in our discussions. And how thought develops in the process of conversatoin.
Kartik: choosing an audience is like rubber duck programming
Lion: yes, and -- talking with people: other people can fill in blind spots
Lion's fantasy -- not using Discord, but our own system in a couple years
- the water level is rising
motives:
* security, vulnerabilities
Talking about self-hosting stuff, where having downtime is more important than having the data in a single entity.
* (something about -- random downtime..?)
* (somehow we got on to talking about federated computing & data systems)
* Secure Scuttlebutt
* Matrix? some kind of opensource IRC-like protocol
"Just because you can docker-up something, doesn't make it reliable." -- Kartik
If the stack isn't too deep, it can be reliable.
Larger is duable, but you have to pay a lot of attention to it.
a backing for YJS as well (Matrix)
- https://docs.yjs.dev/
Matrix:
https://matrix.org/
"An open network for secure, decentralized communication."End-to-end encrypted communications, everything becomes a chat protocol, and Ciprian's nightmare world comes real: Everything is a chat protocol.
"Why does everything need to be end-to-end encrypted?" — Ciprian
SecureDrop
From "Maelstrom" by Peter Watts (https://rifters.com/real/MAELSTROM.htm)
Arpanet.
Internet.
The Net. Not such an arrogant label, back when one was all they had.
The term cyberspace lasted a bit longer— but space implies great empty vistas, a luminous galaxy of icons and avatars, a hallucinogenic dreamworld in 48-bit color. No sense of the meatgrinder in cyberspace. No hint of pestilence or predation, creatures with split-second lifespans tearing endlessly at each others' throats. Cyberspace was a wistful fantasy-word, like hobbit or biodiversity, by the time Achilles Desjardins came onto the scene.
Onion and metabase were more current. New layers were forever being laid atop the old, each free—for a while—from the congestion and static that saturated its predecessors. Orders of magnitude accrued with each generation: more speed, more storage, more power. Information raced down conduits of fiberop, of rotazane, of quantum stuff so sheer its very existence was in doubt. Every decade saw a new backbone grafted onto the beast; then every few years. Every few months. The endless ascent of power and economy proceeded apace, not as steep a climb as during the fabled days of Moore, but steep enough.
And coming up from behind, racing after the expanding frontier, ran the progeny of laws much older than Moore's.
It's the pattern that matters, you see. Not the choice of building materials. Life is information, shaped by natural selection. Carbon's just fashion, nucleic acids mere optional accessories. Electrons can do all that stuff, if they're coded the right way.
It's all just Pattern.
And so viruses begat filters; filters begat polymorphic counteragents; polymorphic counteragents begat an arms race. Not to mention the worms and the 'bots and the single-minded autonomous datahounds—so essential for legitimate commerce, so vital to the well-being of every institution, but so needy, so demanding of access to protected memory. And way over there in left field, the Artificial Life geeks were busy with their Core Wars and their Tierra models and their genetic algorithms. It was only a matter of time before everyone got tired of endlessly reprogramming their minions against each other. Why not just build in some genes, a random number generator or two for variation, and let natural selection do the work?
The problem with natural selection, of course, is that it changes things.
The problem with natural selection in networks is that things change fast.
By the time Achilles Desjardins became a 'lawbreaker, Onion was a name in decline. One look inside would tell you why. If you could watch the fornication and predation and speciation without going grand mal from the rate-of-change, you knew there was only one word that really fit: Maelstrom.
Of course, people still went there all the time. What else could they do? Civilization's central nervous system had been living inside a Gordian knot for over a century. No one was going to pull the plug over a case of pinworms.
Authenticating History
Reputation and Trust
"By definition, history is that which spans multiple organizations, cultures, …"
Fall of the Roman Empire — a chain cannot survive that.
Ciprian — (death of a company)
Kartik - (science fiction story; much of 20th century is dark age because magnets wiped out records kept on disk storage)
Web Archive — independent organization, it could go bust
archive.org — Internet Archive — storing everything on hard drives, tapes, whatever, …
Legal Trouble with (c)opyright orgs; If they go bankrupt, what happens to the hard drives where all that data is stored?
So: "We have no public library of the Internet."
Kartik -- Software/Computing is in the Neolithic (did I hear right?)
- there's very little redundancy (???)
Library of Alexandria -- nothing to take it's place.
Too centralized
Trade network from Roman era vs. Medieval era --
lots of more links -- any single disruption doesn't cause the whole thing to go down
a certain level of maturity at that point
Our civilization is good at transporting atoms, but bits, we're not there.
Ciprian -- Library of Alexandria -- too centralized
Internet -- too *de-*centralized
-- AND too Silo'ed
ex: Google Plus - you can't access anything that's there
Internet Archive made an effort, but wasn't able to make it
Github -- a lot of our software has moved onto Github,
a lot of good stuff is on Github issues, and that stuff is not backed up
Signs that:
Our civilization is not mature when it comes to handling bits.
"So how do we solve it?"
"You can't solve it!"
"I'm ok that we'll all be forgotten. Ocassional panic attacks at night."
bitrot -- and yes, it's a bit of a misnomer
Ciprian's practical question:
"Imagine if you want to store something online, a small piece of information,
and be as sure as possible that nobody will delete that information."
An article on: "How you create time capsules."
no trust - hard disk, optical disk, ...
trust: acid free paper, soak in a resin (so it's oxygen free,) and then bury it
- store coordinates for this, in as many places as possible
Ciprian: okay, but constraint:
- digital form
- accessible online
Lion: "Put it in a movie, the greatest movie that anybody's ever seen, that people love, and put it in there."
Ciprian: Nice, but it doesn't scale.
Lion . o O ( 8bc.org)
The best way to build time capsules:
https://carlos.bueno.org/2010/09/paper-internet.html
Time horizon (for Ciprian's challenge): 20 years
Data Trust organization
https://theodi.org/article/what-is-a-data-trust/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
The Mormons and the Geneology Database of the World
Kartik's scifi trilogy: https://www.amazon.com/Salvation-Novel-Sequence-Book-ebook/dp/B07837SGSY. Highly recommended.
Kartik speaks about the developer helping tool:
* started a few years by rebuilding everything from botto-up;
* => https://github.com/akkartik/mu ??
* x86 machine code
* Historical auditability
* idea: a lot of problems in software -- mirage of re-use
* instead: people sharing whole computer images
- everything tested together
- slowly bugs ironed out from it
- approaching some asymptote of reliability
* distribute the love app to you,
edit it from within the app (???)
* remix rather than reuse
1. make it really accessible
2.
strcpy -> strncpy -> strlcpy
"allowing interfaces to freeze organicaly" -- applying the Lindy-effect to evaluate which interface is "stable" or not;
"We should only be exchanging apps, ..."
then: "We should only be exchanging working computers, ..."
Ciprian: "Well, what if we exchange functions specifically?"
Sharing a function, sharing a bunch of tests, ...
Kartik's favored test is: a test that is embedded within a functioning application.
The test is not for the function, it's for the entire application.
Testing Pyramid:
- 10x finer granularity tests, as 1x courser grain tests
Kartik: my claim is that this is an artifact of current tech and limitations
Kartik: my os interfaces are all testable, white box tests
Each test includes assertions about subsystems.
Kartik's website: http://akkartik.name
Ciprian:
Luke: github.com/lukestanley
Kartik's preferred "white-box" testing style: http://akkartik.name/post/tracing-tests
Development Model -- people collaborate on a core code-base that grows monotonically more complex;
instead: People who want to take software and add features to it -- instead, make a fork. That way people can delete features, and the total complexity becomes more manageable.
(Ciprian trying to summarize Kartik's development model) Instead of multiple people working on the same branch / repository, each developer (or small developer group) should fork one of the existing forks and adapt it for his own purpose. This way the idea evolves and doesn't get overly complex over time. Then applying Lindy-effect the better forks would survive and become the "main" forks.
"I want people to stop playing geopolitics with our code.
It's a commons." -- Kartik
Not pseudocode, but this whole text editor is fantastically readable: https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/
A map of my forks of Love2d apps: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/108938038084070027
Version Control + Tests -- tests mean that if something is written differently,
it can still be evaluated for what subsystems promises
are kept and not kept, ...
Kartik hates SOLID:
Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
Open/Closed Principle
Liskov’s Substitution Principle (LSP)
Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
Lion: I'm pretty sure that Chuck Moore is with you on this.
For example, Open/Closed (principle #2) -- I know he's firmly against.
Kartik: +100
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/conceptual_articles/s-o-l-i-d-the-first-five-principles-of-object-oriented-design
Lion has multiple applications that he is working at the same time on multiple layers.
The workflow is the main issue. A given project can have multiple repositories, or a repository can be part of multiple projects. In Lion's mind, Lion's way of thinking -- it's about the workflow, and the encoding of projects and repos.
Kartik says that sharing between multiple forks could also include tests, and in this way one could assess the functionality difference by just `diff`-ing the tests.
Keeping a flat file of manual tests.
Which can be turned into automated tests at a later point.
This is part of "diffing" the tests.
Code repositories branch outwards, but the code rarely shares/communes across from branch to branch, except to merge in like a pull request, to return to the idea of a single code trunk.
My previous attempt at making small, self-contained units: http://akkartik.name/post/wart-layers
"It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures." -- Alan Perlis, "Epigrams on Programming" (1982).
Upper-ontology?
https://discord.com/channels/695746339019030619/811137425291214868/1016439323014483988
Ciprian pointed out Lion is interested in Component Systems for note making with lots of sub-apps, relates to Multi-Agent Systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jini
"This is suprisingly difficult to do today!"
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