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https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
https://sebastian.graphics/blog/truly-forever-computers.html
Semiconductors are not sustainable, we need mechanical relays for a truly sustainable computer.
https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/inks
inks source code
https://adactio.com/journal/17997
Orwell said:
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.
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A listing at NCIX shows a new AMD processor model - the Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, a 333FSB CPU based on AMD’s brand-spanking-new chip.
My own effort to assemble the Multimedia PC of the West was previously including a 333FSB 2600+, listed at $500 Canadian at NCIX.com. If this 2500+ chip is not a ghost, it is listed at $200 less, a massive savings for a PC, yet somehow to critics only a "meager" cut to the new iMacs.
This would definitely allow me to increase the multimedia factor in Multimedia-PC
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A new article discussing a PowerPC Blade product from IBM has revealed new information on the PowerPC 970 chip. Originally said to be released with a clock range of 1.4 to 1.8 GHz, this document now shows that the range may be 1.8 to 2.5 GHz, in addition to revealing IBM’s fab process and other processor details previously revealed.
The article also mentions AltiVec, the trademarked name for Motorola’s PowerPC SIMD unit, for the first time in an official IBM document.
In related news, IBM has an article on the 970 in their monthly PowerPC News ezine.
And in further, interesting related news, Architosh is hosting an article discussing the consequences of Apple moving to a new CPU architecture.
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From WirelessPhoneGallery, they ship to the US and Canada. Listed at $52US. This is the corded handsfree with the AM/FM tuner. Officially on my wish list.
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We are proud to announce the release of SubEthaEdit 2.0. Here are some of the new features SubEthaEdit - News
Oh right, and now there is a…Drupal mode! Now all it needs is MetaWeblog API support so that you can team-edit blog posts. And EditThisPage remote support. And direct editing over FTP. And SSH.
(Somebody stop me, I’m spewing buzzwords)
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Via my contact form, Antony Vickery writes:
Interesting press release at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb140769.htm. Someone's selling the source code to a J2EE SIP Presence and Proxy Server and SIP development platform for $9,500.
Looks like the company nLoci is the one that developed the code, and then ran out of capital. Now the trustee is selling the assets. Of course, with companies like Pingtel going open source, it may be that even $9,500 is too high of a price.
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My "old" P800 gave up the ghost: the keypad stopped working. I got pretty frustrated with it in any case — the UI felt kludgy and the stylus wasn’t that great for working with it. The scroll wheel was nice, but not enough to make up for all the other deficiencies. I briefly used a temporary, do-nothing phone with no computer synchronization, no Bluetooth, nothin’. The experience was not pleasant, just lots of flipping open the laptop just to get someone’s number.
After seeing what Bryan Rieger is doing with Flash on phones, and the fact that only Nokia has licensed it so far, I decided to get a Nokia phone.
I got my new Nokia 6630 just yesterday, and am still figuring it out. This Loud Thinking blog post has lots of good info on why it’s the Best. Phone. Ever… as well as linking to a lot of useful applications.
I’m also going to link to this page of Fido GPRS settings, since I had to re-enter them.
(Yes, I do have to wait until Tiger before it will sync with my laptop, but it’s *really* easy to add contacts as people call)
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There seem to be lots of cranky people about the Web 2.0 meme. I think that used as hype, it’s not that useful. As a general label for a lot of things that are happening with technological, social, and business changes, I find it useful. After all, it seems to be one of those things that you can recognize when you see it.
Brent Holliday, a partner in Vancouver-based Greenstone Venture Partners, recently posted an anti-hype rant on the BC’s T-Net site. He makes some really good points, but comes across a little bitter about some of the useful aspects of Web 2.0. I’m hoping to help explain some of those useful aspects, in plain natural language at the October 25th Vancouver Enterprise Forum event. Dick Hardt is running the show, and there are some really great local speakers lined up, including:
Note to Brent: when BC T-Net updates their CMS 1.0, you can get them to fix the mis-spelling of your name at the top of your bio page. :P
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It's late notice, but myself and Andre Charland will be presenting on Using the Tools of Web 2.0 at the BCTIA Go 2 Market Roundtable tomorrow morning (Sept. 28th). It's taking place at the BC TIA Boardroom.
What are the tools of web 2.0? Well, the audience will mainly be marketing focused, so we'll cover some interesting marketing ideas and basic concepts around blogs, wikis, and customer interaction. That's code for "I need to work on some more slides tonight". I'll definitely cover how for small businesses, blog == Better Listings On Google.
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Having completed my move and gotten a little breathing room, I've decided to schedule the Batchbook intro / user group sharing session for Tuesday, June 15th, for 6pm at the Bootup Labs offices.
Batchbook is a social CRM tool useful for managing contacts, deal flow, sales leads, and many other things related to people and companies.
I'm a big fan of the tool, and will be explaining how *I* use it, and some of its major features. It's in a similar space as 37Signals' Highrise, and is probably a better choice for smaller / web based organizations than the big daddy Salesforce.
If you're an existing user of Batchbook, please come and share your experiences - for example, a particular way that it fits in your workflow, some of your custom SuperTags, etc.
See my previous post about Tungle and Batchbook for more info. Head over to RedRovr for the event entry and to let me know you're coming using your Twitter account.
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Drupalcon Copenhagen 2010 takes place August 23rd to 27th in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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The Grow Conference is August 19th - 21st in Vancouver, BC.
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The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit takes place October 2nd & 3rd in Vancouver, BC.
What is Flancia in 2020?
Lots has happened since I last wrote here. I continue to try to advance the principles of the Agora, as I can. I continue to have a day job; the day job has been particularly busy due to Covid-19; the product I help maintain at work was affected particularly by it, and I worked long and hard in the last four to six weeks.
Nevertheless, I also found the time to think a lot. I’m lucky in that, even while working hard, I have time and energy to think; at least on the weekends.
Flancia in 2020 must be about our weekends, and about quarantine: about what we can do together in this special time and place.
These are my goals for 2020:
It’s not much of a plan; it’s simple enough that I can tell you most about it in a short post like this. I came up with this by thinking on the weekends; and, of course, by living a privileged life that allows me to be in the position to do so.
Leaving distances aside for a minute, what is your plan for 2020?
2020 was a wild year because of how so much happened. i went from getting a new computer, to staying inside for months on end because of covid. it was just so weird and it happened all so suddenly.
now that we’re in 2021, i don’t really know what to say. that year was just so weird and unpredictable, so many things happened.
but i guess the only thing we can do is move on. no matter how we think about it - time moves on, and so should we.
Weekend project was more [[self-hosting]], mostly via [[setting up YunoHost]]. I’ve got NextCloud, Invidious, Syncthing and the anarchist library self-hosted on it so far.
In the process, a bit of research into [[Cloudron vs Yunohost]].
Which led to a bit of [[reflection on self-hosting]] and a detour into the [[Free software economics]].
Which links a bit to the [[Post-Open Source]] article from last week. Particularly a comment from @ntnschndr:
"I’m increasingly convinced that OSS as such is broken as a means of protecting against corporate exploitation, and it should not be celebrated as an end in itself. … Rather than fixating on licensing, it might be more relevant to all of us to discuss the possibility of an "exit to community"
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2862/why-not-make-cloudron-fully-open-source-again/35
Listened to the [[General Intellect Unit]] episodes on [[The People’s Republic of Walmart]]. About planned economies and how corporations are doing them internally, despite all the lip service paid to the power of the market.
No long walks this weekend, just a couple of shorter ones around Lancaster. I like the cemetary.
Thinking about the importance of good documentation. If knowledge is power, then [[Documentation is praxis]]. I want good tools for documentation then.
node "knowledge is power" as knowledge
node "documentation is praxis" as documentation
knowledge --> documentation
Crossposting augments my writing to not only exist as something else (blocks) but to interact with more types of media (not just other words but images and video) in a different way (connecting blocks to other blocks).
This is really interesting from CJ Eller on [[the potential of crossposting]]. Interesting to think about how it fits in with the IndieWeb ideas of owning your own content and POSSEing (publishing on your own site, syndicating elsewhere).
I’ve thought of POSSE before more as a means of transitioning away from the big platforms (the [[bit tyrants]]) while they still have the network effects. But this is more about your stuff existing in various locations as a means to enable new creative uses of it.
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/bit-tyrants
Listened to this interview discussing the book "[[Bit Tyrants]]: The Political Economy of [[Silicon Valley]]" with Rob Larson on Rev Left Radio. The bit tyrants here being the 5 big ones, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook.
The discussion touches on the "two guys in a garage" origin myth of lots of big tech, and the narrative that these new corporations are somehow better than the oil and steel monopolies of old, that they’re ‘good [[capitalism]]‘ with no violence. But there’s plenty of violence and exploitation - just hidden away somewhere in the [[supply chain]].
They also talk about how they got where they were mainly from network effects built off of the back of research from the public sector.
The proposed solution of "online socialism" seemed a bit barebones - just focusing on organising and unionising of tech workers. Probably expanded upon more in the book, but here at least there wasn’t any mention of building or using alternatives.
Also its apparently one chapter at the end of the book. Fair enough, it’s good to have scene-setting and an evidence-base of what the problem is, but I’m more interested these days in ideas for the solution.
Really great to read your thoughts on this, Ton! 15 years is a lot of experience. I also came across a post from Lilia Efimova related to the [[wiki/blog combo]] from a BlogWalk salon from 2004(!) - My dream wiki/weblog tool.
I feel both hemmed in by how my blog in its setup puts flow above stock, and how a wiki assumes stock more than flow.
I think you are right and that perhaps we are restricted by thinking about this in terms of wikis and blogs, because there is a lot of preconceptions associated with each of those. Perhaps thinking at the level of values/requirements, about something which can help us produce both stock and flow, can help us think about the process first, and then later comes the thinking about what tool or combo of tools can support us with that.
I often struggle with the assumed path of small elements to slightly more reworked content to articles.
I really like the ideas of patterns, constellations, Gestalts. Constellations is naturally quite close to the idea of [[connecting the dots]]! For my wikiblog to help me learn and grow my ideas, it definitely needs to help me see these constellations. I do sometimes wonder about the merits of making every concept as small as possible. Perhaps in the right context, yes, but I don’t feel that doing it dogmatically will always be helpful.
visualisations may point to novel constellations for me, emerging from the collection and jumble of stuff in the wiki. That I think is powerful.
I am hoping to explore a bit more how some of the mapping and bi-directional links in org-roam might help me with this.
Perhaps the ultimate requirement is for something that helps us see the constellations of our thoughts? I think for me this will be part stream (for sharing/receiving ideas from others), part note-taking tool, part garden, part visualisation.
Plus plenty of staring out of the window, away from tools!
(with apologies to Full Metal Jacket)
(actually apologies to everyone)
Reading Hello World at the moment. Subtitled "being human in the age of algorithms".
It’s good so far. Clear and making its point well, drawing on plenty of examples of the problems with some present uses of decision-making [[algorithms]]. It’s being framed as ‘dilemmas’, so, the idea that there’s good as well as bad in what’s going on.
I wonder what the overall thesis will be though. Will there be some call to action as to what needs to be done? Or will it just be left that there is good and bad, and we need to be aware of that. Hoping for the former, something with some teeth.
I’ve been keeping Zettelkasten style notes in Obisidian for about a week now, and this morning I made the first new connection between some of my notes / thoughts. It was a bit of a ‘well duh’ realisation, but one I never made explicit for myself before even if in hindsight it is obvious those…
That’s great. I hear lots of good things about [[Obsidian]]. How did the connection happen? (I’m very interested in [[constellation]] formation!)
Bookmarked for reading (found in Neil Mather’s blog). Actual cases of ‘tethered’ economic transactions where a buyer is bound into an ongoing relationship with the seller with an uneven power balance, are already easy to find: John Deere suing farmers for tinkering with their tractors (with De…
It’s troubling too to think how this will encroach on more and more transactions, as so many things become are becoming so-called ‘smart’. As [[Frazee]] says in his [[Info Civics]] article, “All authority is borrowed from the server, and so the users possess no authority of their own. As a result we must describe these services as authoritarian.” It’s provocative but I think the same could be applied here.
We have an interview with one of the authors, [[Aaron Perzanowski]], here – https://therestartproject.org/podcast/crisis-copyright/.
[[The end of ownership]].
Another good find by Neil Mather for me to read a few times more. A first reaction I have is that in my mind p2p networks weren’t primarily about evading surveillance, evading copyright, or maintaining anonymity, but one of netwerk-resilience and not having someone with power over the ‘off-switc…
Yes it’s interesting that they focus on privacy. I do agree with the main thrust of the article, that without diligence, and when just focusing on the tech, the decentralised can easily be centralised again. And in some cases the absence of privacy can be the attack vector. But I think I find things like the [[anti-disintermediation]] of blogging, email (gmail) and git (github) as more low-hanging examples of what we need to prevent against, where privacy had nothing to do with it.
I made my wiki have a [[Miller columns]] view. I like it, I think it works well for wikis.
I think it’s probably something that could be a browsing style option built into the browser, rather than forcing it into an individual website, but hey, it’s not, so here we are. Roll on [[Xanadu]]!
I copied most of the code for it from Jethro Kuan’s Cortex Hugo theme (which he says he mostly copied it from azlen.me), and then wrangled it into my org-mode [[publishing]] process.
Re: [[assemblage thinking]] and [[actor-network theory]]:
Both have a topological view of space, in which distance is a function of the intensity of a relation.
^ this makes me think of [[Ton]]‘s idea of [[social distance]].
I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading and not much writing the past week or so. I think that’s OK. It’s things I know I’m interested in, just don’t know that much about yet. I think the notes will coalesce into something eventually, with a bit of tending. The note-taking I’ve been doing is a bit too much copy-paste, not enough writing in my own words, so I could probably do with revisiting them a bit.
I’ve noticed some [[constellations]] of interest forming around [[agency]], [[self-determination]], [[networked agency]], [[assemblage thinking]], [[actor-network theory]], the [[actor model]]. Which tie into my past interests in [[agent-based systems]], and technological and political distributed systems.
Also a strand on meditation, [[appropriate technology]], [[Buddhist economics]], and [[Schumacher]], triggered by the Rev Left Radio episode on Meditation, Materialism, and Marxism. Panda previously recommended Buddhist economics to me.
I really enjoyed the latest episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, on a successful community action in Melbourne to stop Apple plonking an [[Apple]] store in their public square. It’s less about digital transgressions, more about the use of public space in the physical world, an interesting change and a reminder that the big tech firms have global physical presence too.
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/4872008-how-to-defeat-an-apple-store-w-tania-davidge
The World Wide Web was all about you create knowledge and how you create hyperlinks to different pieces of knowledge. So over time we kind of create this tapestry of humanity and what we know, which at another level of abstraction is kind of creating this meta-map of humanity. This meta-map of humanity is now controlled by these companies that are the ones who have access to the backend.
– The Global South Holds a Better Future of Tech w/ Juan Ortiz Freuler
I love the phrase tapestry of humanity here. I like the [[IndieWeb]] and [[personal wikis]] as a way of being part of the warp and weft of that tapestry.
unix problem — using strings as a basis for the operating system abd. define type system as basis for the os.
editing (kind of): editing text without using plaintext. projectional editors are interesting but not something im interested in working on or coding.
information control and transparency
personal info management and history logging
inspiration engines and incoming content management
minimal resource usage with web, mobile etc. protocols for this? definitely want to contribute but not sure if i should add to standard or just use minimal practices in my own work
federating content creation — and getting paid for it!
Liking the report on the idea of a ‘[[British Digital Cooperative]]‘.
The BDC would be tasked with developing a surveillance-free platform architecture to enable citizens to interact with one another, provide support for publicly funded journalism, and develop resources for social and political communication.
– The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution
i need to learn how to improve my health! here is how i can do that
http://karpathy.github.io/2020/06/11/biohacking-lite/
nutrition! he experimented a lot with some crazy shit and wild research over the course of a year, learning more about the body
weight is blunt instrument and barely associated iwth health
weight loss is sensitive and complex
weight: bodies are 'full' batteries are adipose tissue and triglycerides stored within, stored by body to be burned for energy
all discharge to synthesize ATP from ADP; some also goes to redox power
common to all life on earth! everything performs this active transport operation
four batteries
phosphocreatine system :: super short term battery. buffers phosphate groups to quickly cycle ADP to ATP; attached to createne. athletes take createne supplements barely anything here but good for short bursts
glycogen :: short term battery. stored in liver and skeletal muscle. can hold 120 grams in liver, 400g in skeletal muscle, with about 4g in the blood. we get 4kcal/g from oxidation of glucose, so glycogen battery stores 2k kcal, or the base metabolic rate of an adult for 24h. not very energy dense and binds a lot of water
adipose tissue :: fat; long term body. dense high capacity battery pack. significantly more energy dense, 9 kcal/g for energy.
lean body mass :: when fasted, biochemistry burns lean body mass like muscle for fuel as a last resort
all are charged and discharged at all times cookie -> glucose -> bloodstream if too much glucose: anabolic pathways -> glycogen in liver if in vast abundance: convert glycogen to fat catabolics: use creotine for first 3 seconds, glycogen for next 8-10 seconds, then ramp into 2 and 3 as heart rate, breathing rate and oxygen transport increases
moving energy around is expensive: creotene is cache, anaerobic is ram, and aerobic respiration is the disk, moving fatty acids through fatty tissue through the bloodstream but is super efficient storage wise
body weight is just a sum of the atoms; day to day fluctuations mostly due to water retention (in turn controlled by sodium, glycogen levels, horomones) + some stool we breathe out most of our weight in carbon dioxide! was triglyceride molecule in fat
combustion = weight loss cellular respiration: 'slow motion' combustion of ADP and ATP ATP Synthase traps 40% of energy in ATP, more efficient than internal 'motor' which operates at 25% lots of stuff happens in the chain: foot chopped into acetate and electrons are stripped, flow down to electron transport chain etc
humans have simple way of consuming energy - breakdown of food, narrow subset of organic molecules proteins, fats, carbs and molecules like alcohol cannot metabolize:
celluluse/fiber, also a harbohydrate
hydrocarbons: only by internal combustion
not mostly from movement! we are super efficient with movement and it is expensive to just exist
homeostasis
thermal regulation
respiration
heartbeat
brain/nerves
blood
protein synthesis
active transport
basically the 'passive energy' of being human is far more expensive this is 'base metabolic rate' and we burn this for free every day common estimate for BMR for men: 10 weight(kg) + 6.25 height(cm) - 5 * age(y) + 5 this is a free win! workout is a drop in the bucket for weight. cv health is different but this workout has nothing to do with losing weight
greater deficits could stress out, make hangry, and sacrifice lean body mass !!! good to lose maybe 1 lb per week to do this, 1g of fat about 9 kcal, adipose is ~87% lipids, so 3500 kcal is 1 lb of fat
this means target deficit of 500 kcal per day; can be much easier to make this up with cardio than with pure calorie restriction
helps to adopt 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule :: skip breakfast, eat only from 12 to 8 pm this controls appetite and reduces snacking
low carb, mostly pescetarian avoid nearly all sources of sugar stopped drinking calories in any form regular cardio a few times of week, regular existance training improved a number of biomarkers supposedly
track:
calories in food
energy output
compute actual weight loss input/output!
discrepancy varies iwth the amount of carbohydrates in diet eating increases glycogen levels, glycogen soaks up water
body composition: need to better understand specific body composition
eat from 12 to 8pm only
do not drink any calories
avoid sugar
exclude carb heavy sugar
lesser extent: natural sugars, berries are ok
meat: chicken > beef/pork
ethical: intelligent large animals
envionmnetal: large footprint, lots of deforestation
read meat associated with some cause for concern
lots of diseases are zootopic and come from livestock
only shop on outer walls of the store, stay clear of the cetner! michael pollan heuristic
french doctor or something
main problem is sugar, not fat
eat as many veggies as you can
as many fish as you want (bake not cook!!)
eat meat as if you had to hunt it with a bow
ban every processed food, sauce, appetizer; if you wouldn't need a single ingredient don't eat it
learn how to cook plz
very strong measures correlating with dexa scans:
waist just above belly button; no muscle and principal deposit of internal body fat take body weight and waist size every day
weight track
must have a diet to weight less
must have distinct diet to lose weight
most do low impact cardio, like walking several miles a day
must do resistance training
these accomplish:
stable weight
take off weight
increase background caloric burn
encourage lean body mass loss over fat loss
you must develop a routine and not vary from that routine for the rest of your life
eating japanese is easy
bowl of rice
several small sides
small cup of miso soup can be boring but helps stick to consistent diet https://elemental.medium.com/ichiju-sansai-how-to-construct-meals-like-a-japanese-centennial-7cb878366994
Moved my WordPress site over to my new VPS at [[GreenHost]] now. That’s everything then - can turn off the old Digital Ocean droplet now.
The new VPS is Ubuntu 20.04, which is MySQL 8, so had a little [[bit of a faff with some errors]] as the old server was MySQL 5.7.
Here’s my rough notes on the [[steps for setting up the new server]].
Getting to the point with my setup where the ‘manual til it hurts’ publishing of the things in my stream to my org-roam static site first, then manually copying the content to my WordPress site, is starting to get just a tad painful… can feel some blisters forming.
Why am I doing that way again? Couple of reasons - I much, much prefer writing in Emacs than in WP’s editor. Second, I like the [[stream-first]] approach, where daily logs accrue as backlinks in my wiki and help build up its content. But it’s only by posting to WordPress that I’m getting the IndieWeb social goodness (including cross-posting to Mastodon, which is where I get most of the interaction right now to be honest).
Couple of ideas. First: add IndieWeb social goodness to my org-roam published site, removing the need for WordPress. That’s not going to happen anytime soon. Second: use micropub to post straight to WP from within Emacs. I’ve already got this partially set up in the past. Just need to revisit and refine that a bit.
radically easier to create new communities
easier to find members to scale
people look to nurture small communities for growth
it's so easy to find places to gather together!
Rume
Gather.Town
Icebreaker
Discord
focusing on people connecting with each other and bootstrapping communities
Commsor
People & Company
as the public web becomes too crowded, entertainers continue to build in public, but the rest of us look for smaller, more private spaces; connecting everyone means that nobody has a true community, so people are driving towards smaller, intentionally brewed community groups
how to bootstrap
tribal knowledge
tools are cruel and disconnected
what are the 'best practices' for starting a small community? evetns? meetups? traditions? customs? subgroups? how can these be encouraged? mandated?
https://www.sohohouse.com/en-us/membership
srcog paper Learned sort :: beter performance than RadixSort including time to train model
build a CDF of the data
put each item into position estimated by the CDF
use sorting algorithm very efficient with nearly sorted arrays
solving collisions:
scan for nearest vacant slot
list of elements for each position
spill bucket merged to the end of the array
'experimentally', spill bucket worked the best
lost to radix sort because of a sequential cache; make it cache efficient? use model prediction to bin the elements, not just insert them!
first phase: cascading fucket sort, making predictions to put input elements into one of f ordered buckets
after buckets of size t, each are sorted using the model predictions to put elements in the right position within the bucket concat the buckets in order merge and sort the spilled bucket with the others!
model!
linear spline fitting for training what is this? learn it if you want to come back! leads to faster training and fewer key slots used
thanks ava it's like walking on a tightrope there are infinite ways to fuck up don't think about it! you'll psych yourself out and never get something done. thinking is never equivalent to doing the thing. it's fantasy, reassurance, but never movves you closer than actually getting things done. getting things done will alleviate your anxiety and help you continue to work on progressing. do not think thoughts of taking it all back or giving up; just progress day by day
ramble on and on without properly expressing things - may be helpful to journal! it is so nice to have worries that are so very mundane. often lots of others have our same feelings — even successful others — but they still manage to progress.
just because something is common doesn't mean it's not scary talking feels like a distraction! it's ahrd to talk about things so vulnerable muddle through and do the thing. try your best
it's not normal to know everything about a subject without touching it. it's much more common to have actually tried things out and understand them from that perspective
actually went back to school living situations weird kees frat, eric karmen j oh living outsid pants stuck down, making bd sml talk witg girls anna sequitur come#, have equally bad small talk
i find my memories are most strongly associated with smells; when an idea occurs to me, it's due to a difference in environment, and is ither impacted by the smell of the room or introduces a smell of its own. the memory of these smells — just out of reach — seems to invade my consciousness when i'm thinking of childhood, of food or of friends.
consequently, i find myself detesting strong, artificial smells - perfume, cologne, the intrusive spray jutting out of teen clothing stores, the sickly sweet fanned barbecue and sugar from many american diners, and often even deoderant. the smells themselves don't necessarily bother me; it's the notion that they're constructed artificially, that they're misplacing key memories by drowning out more interesting voices with something that just does not belong in this context.
Enjoying the TV show at the moment, and feeling tempted to reread the [[His Dark Materials]] books again. I read it many years ago now, I guess when I was a teenager - I think there’s a lot of subtlety there (and less subtlety perhaps!) about religion and science.
Also I’ve had another recommendation for the Murderbot series (the first one being from Ton’s list), so I think I’ll read those at some point too.
Cool to see [[social.coop]] get a link in this article in Logic, in the section "A New Barcelona", riffing on anarchist Barcelona during the [[Spanish Civil War]]. (Not so keen on [[Manchester]] being lumbered with the symbolism for capitalism, given it also played roles in [[Chartism]] and [[co-ops]] among other things, but hey ho). https://logicmag.io/nature/from-manchester-to-barcelona/
"The [[WordPress]] 5.6 release comes to you from an all-women release squad" That’s excellent. https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-6/#the-squad
Revolutionaries, communists should be able to explain in five sentences what their program is (Aaron Benanav Antifada interview)
I’d kind of like something in between TBL’s Solid and the ideas of Dan Hind’s [[British Digital Cooperative]] (https://www.common-wealth.co.uk/reports/the-british-digital-cooperative-a-new-model-public-sector-institution).
Like a state-funded kickstart of infrastructure for every citizen to have their own personal data pod, with apps that can work on it, that’s not too top-down and is contextual to each municipality, with legislation on interoperability so you can pick and choose your service providers if you want.
Could [[DisCOs]] and/or [[Worker self-directed nonprofit]]s be good models for maintaining free software projects?
rename command is really helpful for working with images copied from my phone to my NextCloud folder. e.g. rename 's/IMG_//' *.jpg.
Revolution is downstream of economics. Capitalism had established itself by the time of the revolutions in Europe, the revolutions were just a means of catching up
Drawing divisions between what marxism is and isn't is a result of the systemization of marxism in the Stalin period, and doesn't do justice to either marxism or things that are outside marxism
Good art is art that speaks to the universal
The fall of c the soviet union marked a back sliding of global feminism
Can alienation be abolished? Derrick says capitalist alienation is only negative
Positivism in its objectivity and rationality leaves no space for subjectivity or teleology
Marx criticized the German idealists for being anti-semetic, but felt that their antisemitism spoke to a real criticism of the world
The German idealists claimed that the state was producing civil society in a dialectic
People make the distinction between good national capitalism and bad international capitalism, but they are two sides of the same whole
Anti-imperialism is not inherently anti-capitalist
Capitalism imposes a set of constrains on all behavior in society, and even society in general. It's better to be a capitalist but they are still constrained
this is the day i started my agora :) but besides that:
made plans to return my pair of HyperX Cloud Alpha headphones.
made plans to buy a mechanical keyboard finally
created project to render my notes in a webpage similar to [[anagora]] the working name is called [[graph]] yeah I know, so original met [[flancian]] who works on above project, seems pretty cool fucking up my sleep schedule by staying up all night hacking
Need to find a way to get daily journal/git integration on [[android]] device
Ooooh derp I was turning ON notifications for [[android]].
Dmitri tommorow around 5 Look for jobs for 30 minutes
Vericace combination of our names on [[shae]]‘s chat
My day thus far: got out of bed and there like 5 extra people in my house. Get up to piss and both bathrooms are full. I find something to piss in and it fills up. I pinch my dick to find something else and now my dick is leaking out blood
Yuki
ok
cool
found [[spacehey]] from [[flancian]]. Looks cool. My gay ass already found some cute girls on there :halo:
Thoughts on [[tending the garden]]. The process of pruning branches and editing notes to be better formatted and refactoring note information.
Good note take systems seem like they require a non mobile device. There could be issues with classism and a [[pay to win]] model for note taking success.
Insurrections and revolutions die under the name of anti-fascism and democracy —- Giles Deuve, paraphrased
If there's a civil war in the US the left will not be a side
Inauguration day. wtf. so surreal. i don’t know what to think
at least cheeto out the damn white house.
here we go….
[[DjVu]]
hopefully this doesn’t mess up git since it’s not good with large files, we’ll see
A cool way to discover new sites is to look at backlinks for #go node
[[notes on quantum mechanics]]
my roomate introduced me to [[a-b-o]] [[fanfic]]
trying to [[create your own content]]
i found my groove and started being productive today. it's funny how much a small thing - the throbbing pain from my jaw — can cause such a serious collapse of effort.
don't read everything about what you want to know; read just a bit, then try something yourself. find a good book. read the book. read about open problems. design and finish a project. retrospective on the project!
limit the amount of time you spend entertaining ne ideas; it's distracting. just evaluate how much you're learning!!! level it up with a learning buddy - someone to hold you accountable for your work.
https://thesephist.com/posts/life-models/ time estimates in articles: good! good to find out what's possible to do in a lifetime that we don't necc. see
brett victor
thing to change the world: thing don't change the world. the focus is on the use of the thing; invent better human computer interaces and continue to do so. follow him!
omar rizwan: more interesting computing interfaces!
hundred rabbits:
XOXO fest!
writing software for small systems - outside of the envelope of the obvious life.
neri oxman: designer and researcher at mit media lab
projects around nature inspired architecture and design
air force -> architecture -> mit -> media lab!
change core assumptions about the reality of how we make things essential
bryan cantrill
solaris -> sun -> joyent to oxide!
both eloquent and skilled at developing good technology.
follows his principles. software engineers are balances: "Software engineering is an almost paradoxical juxtaposition of collaboration and isolation: successful software engineers are able to work well with (and understand the needs of!) others, but are also able to focus intensely on their own… They must be able to build castles of imagination, and yet still understand the constraints of a grimy reality: they must be arrogant enough to see the world as it isn’t, but humble enough to accept the world as it is."
"I like thinking of planning life as a game of exploration. What kinds of lives are possible outside of the ones you’ve grown up knowing? If any of them appeal to you, how can you venture off trail safely without making a dumb mistake?"
https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/bib/ss/nonstd/ecal11-17.htm: OO architecture for open ended innovation. http://liza.io/roee-self-modifying-go-simulation-experiment-part-1/ what is this? this is fascinating!
i always have to remind myself about this http://liza.io/sleep/
do not read too late - sleep!
sleep helps move memories to long term memory stores. commit to no longer than 7, and give a sleep opportunity of at least eight. do not forget this.
screens off by 9pm
must sleep by 11pm. turn things off too. turn off, not just put them away.
fin some way to track sleep.
venture capital and pr are drugs
it's okay for your startup to be copied; beat them with product market fit
entreprenuership is a marathon and not a sprint.
online courses are valuable - find them!
learn anything and connect with anyone - obvious
get used to rejection; have conviction
ask questions. most importance
always be recruiting - find the best people for the best team.
keep not to do list to drop things and focus on what's important.
personalize!
what can i do to be better tomorrow? how can i better appreciate today?
reservation value :: set to best alternative to negotiated agreement. what do you get if it doesn't happen? allows you to define what you need from the negotiation and indicates when you should walk away. this ensures you find balance and get what you want.
aspiration value :: most you can ask for. set this to research. you want to be as ambitious as possible.
your counterpart has these values too. you must balance these with theirs, and that determines the zone of possible agreement. honing your best option decreases the zone and makes the possible deal better.
make the first offer if you have a lot of information. its risky otherwise. if you don't have another offer, you can be honest and continue to work or allude to it somehow.
focal points :: justifications you provide regarding why you should be paid more or deserve the raise. discuss resources, benefits, etc. approach the discussion as a joint fact finding mission where you reveal more information that brings each party closer to what they want. this also lets you be more concrete, and allows both parties to come to the conclusion with good faith.
https://danluu.com/tech-discrimination/ excellent article and writing. https://danluu.com/programmer-moneyball/ ' we only hire the trendiest ' https://danluu.com/p95-skill/ basically focus on getting rid of bad things also choose the right problems: this will substantially dominate execution speed though we care too much about productivity, we can convert time into anything else we enjoy or value always get feedback guided exercises or exercises with solutions this is one of my favorite essays make sure to get constant feedback on your work and how you can improve seek to build a network of people who can give you feedback and shoot ideas off to them! it is so valuable! taking feedback and asking questions is the most important thing you can do. just ask people who are better than you at things to evaluate you adn help you out.
make sure to spend time doing these two things: working on things or looking for feedback on others on them. use the work of others asking for feedback from you for reference on how to iterate on your own projects. do not ask for feedback after fully developing the idea. this is a trap that could lead to many bad distractions
if you're in an "oppressed" nation you need to work with the working class of your oppressor nation, but the onus is on the working class of the oppressor nation
successfully hosted wiki! i pushed through!
spent some time with friends
wasted a lot of time waiting for package that didn't come (i need to work on doing more things on demand rather than by need)
knock off and/or add a few issues to the wiki. make progress! continue brainstorming how i can improve its functionality
work on the sandbox project to hopefully get somewhere?
clean the house
Been noodling with [[publishing org-roam via GitLab CI]] today, and made a good bit of progress.
today my goal is to:
complete the bf part of the beautiful racket textbook
start making my way through the TAPL textbook. flip through chapter 1
write a quick julia program to upload local files to the remarkable
write basic review of the two bags! (with this, images and org mode!)
come up with some more article ideas!
try to film some b roll footage for product reviews!
go for a walk!
make a reddit post about my OS layout
clear out part of my email
extras: wiki, product review and edit photos!!
First time journaling in awhile. I took a break to gather my thoughts. I think I’ll start writing here again for [[mental health]] purposes. I feel like there is a certain degree of [[self care]] in this
Today was a team activity day at [[Fission]]. Two RPG sessions playing DnD over Zoom. A new experience, I think everyone enjoyed it.
A good excuse to use our new [[TiddlyWiki]] app to write down notes on my character.
via [@jamescham](https://twitter.com/jamescham/status/1372984959577690117 ), need to read The Man Who Lied to his Laptop.
Managed to successful build orgzly locally on my machine today, to get a few features that are in the source but not yet released.
Many are more familiar with the Chrome DevTools console than they are with a Unix command-line prompt. More familiar with WebSockets than BSD sockets, MDN than man pages. Bash and Zsh scripts calling into native code will never go away. But JavaScript and TypeScript scripts calling into WebAssembly code will be increasingly common. Many developers, we think, prefer web-first abstraction layers.
The people behind the [[Deno]] programming language announce a commercial company with venture investment.
Not pursuing [[Open core]], full [[MIT License]] for the language.
People noticed the [[NodeJS]] bashing going on.
Also Deno Deploy:
Deno Deploy is a distributed system that runs JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge, worldwide. The service deeply integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high performance asynchronous web server to provide optimal performance without unnecessary intermediate abstractions.
this email was sent on march 2nd, but i've just found it now: the more you can focus, the best you can get into deep work
but if you are not able to get into deep work, there is likely some distraction
physical distraction. your environment is physically cluttered and has more visual interest. this prevents tou from concentrating on the task at hand and influences you to interact with other things
temporal potential distraction. this occurs when you are placed on a time scale other than your own. if you know you have a looming deadline, you hesitate to begin or progress with a specific task because the initial investment may not be worth the time spent on the task.
brain distraction. these are lingering thoughts, ideas and opportunities that distract from your current task. avoid these
always multitask - multitasking is good - but never in multiple ways. separate physical activity from mental. go on walks or runs with big questions in your head to come back with answers or progress. watch tv while doing pushups or situps. often abusing the distraction of a mental activity allows you to better perform the physical activity, and does not drain you nearly as much - though it certainly costs you some productivity in terms of physical fitness it will be net productive later, i think
Woke up early today. I have an interview with a new [[communal house]] today
messed around with [[elasticsearch]] to try and get notes into a database, it decided to eat all my available ram and freeze my computer. yay.
I really like the free form flow of the [[daily note]] since the topic is literally just what day I’m on, everything is relevant, by definition
Thanks to a tip from Jacob, I’m registered for my first dose of vaccine using TeleHippo.
Apparently they partnered with BC Pharmacies and got this done.
The form filling worked and got me a booking, so I’m glad it exists. But I shook my head at the “phone numbers only no spaces or dashes” and the two incompatible ways of entering in birthdates.
Along with limited open data and collection timing by the PHO here in BC after 13 months, I really do wish we could have better government digital services.
Meanwhile in California, a volunteer team is working to pull together vaccine availability. Simon Willison just joined the team and talked about porting from Airtable to Django. 40M population vs our little 4M population province. Volunteers doing a great job. But still — volunteers!
I’m going to try to start writing longer form in my journal entries; as of recently I’ve mostly done arbitrary-levelled item lists, which map nicely to trees, but I miss the expressivity of prose.
This week is critical at work; there are many decisions to be made for my project, and two review sessions scheduled. I’m finding the concreteness of what needs to happen this week helpful; I dislike deadlines in general but whenever they actually make sense to me I find them useful and can get behind them.
git fsck --lost-found.Testing sync on [[obsidian]]. I wonder if this will overwrite or append my existing note when I connect back to wifi
[[portland highway]]
Today I learned about [[windows]] multi task settings. Now I can run apps on diferent desktops. It’s good for apps that I want to run in the background and not have to stare at a taskbar icon
Trippy [[text to speech]] samples: https://audio-samples.github.io/#section-1
[[benhylau]] told me about [[Cosmos ATOM]]
[[wallet.io]]
used my [[air fryer]] today. Damn I think I’m a convert
Doing some [[blockchain research]] for potential [[flancia projects]]
Listened: [[The Internet as a Super-Commons]]
Bookmarked: [[Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright]]
Bookmark: [[Governing the Information Commons]]
[[RSS-Bridge]] is not working out that well so far for bridging Facebook and Twitter to be honest. I keep getting the same old posts reappearing in my feed reader.
It’s been a nostalgic pleasure to have stumbled on old thoughts of mine from 15 years ago. Even though I was hosting it independently, the timelineliness of it all made me nonchalant - about my own thoughts! I got lucky that the Internet Archive has saved some of what I appear to have thought were ephemera to me at the time. With digital gardening I feel I’ll be more respectful of my notions going forwards.
[[Repair and jobs]]
To say nothing of the impact on jobs: landfilling a kiloton of ewaste creates <1 job; recycling that waste creates 15 jobs, while repairing it creates 200 good, local jobs that can’t be offshored (you don’t send a phone overseas for repair).
[[Modephone]] - "the phone that pays you" - sounds hellish.
[[Nexta-Live]]
[[Mass surveillance]] in [[India]]
Under the laws, encryption – which keeps communications on the app private and inaccessible to outside parties – would have to be removed from [[WhatsApp]] in India and messages would have to be put into a “traceable” database. The government would then be able to identify and take action against the sender if any content was ruled “unlawful – WhatsApp sues Indian government over ‘mass surveillance’ internet laws | Indi…
The legal challenge is the latest escalation of a battle between big tech companies which have a huge and growing user base in India, and the Indian government, led by prime minister Narendra Modi, which has brought in increasingly heavy-handed measures to regulate the online sphere, which is seen as a space for dissent.
[[Influencer]]
French and German YouTubers, bloggers and influencers have been offered money by a supposedly UK-based PR agency with apparent Russian connections to falsely tell their followers the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is responsible for hundreds of deaths. – Influencers say Russia-linked PR agency asked them to disparage Pfizer vaccin…
I am reminded by Wayback Machine that for a brief period in time my blog strapline was: "annulled by idle gusts of electronic massacre since 2006". Quite prescient, past me.
That being from a quote of [[Alexander Cockburn]]:
There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre
[[Property]]
[[Sociocracy]]. "A patterns-based approach to organisational change."
As I near the weekend I can feel the Agora calling me.
Reading: [[Parable of the Sower]]
Bookmarked: [[Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration]]
[[CS Unplugged]]
[[Federated Wiki]]
Read: [[Federated Education: New Directions in Digital Collaboration]]
In terms I’m more familiar with right now, I’d say something like:
narrative (I): garden
dialogic (we): stream
exposition (it): agora
Read: [[Appropriate Measures]]
"In comparing social with cerebral organisations one important feature of the brain should be kept in mind; we find no boss in the brain, no oligarchic ganglion or glandular Big Brother. Within our heads our very lives depend on equality of opportunity, on specialisation with versatility, on free communication and just restraint, a freedom without interference. Here too local minorities can and do control their own means of production and expression in free and equal intercourse with their neighbours. If we must identify biological and political systems our own brains would seem to illustrate the capacity and limitations of an anarcho-syndicalist community." [[Grey Walter]]
(sidenote this was written on 2021-07-31 lol)
hey it’s me again~
i’ve decided i’m not going to treat this as a requirement, i’ll just write when i feel like it. after all i think it got boring just writing "i played games" after a while.
i got my first part of the covid vaccination, pfizer to be specific. it was definitely quicker than i expected. all that’s happened is my arm feels sore, so i’m happy with that. can’t wait for the second shot to knock me down :D /s
after that i got raising cane’s (chicken), enjoyable as always. went home and ate, then played minecraft with my friend for the rest of the day. it was a pretty decent day overall.
i am a little worried about my vaccination schedule though. unfortunately for me i signed up for an [[osu]] tournament a week or so ago and qualifiers are going to start very soon. so i don’t know if i’ll be able to make it through the tournament before my 2nd shot in 3 weeks or so.
anyways, that’s all for today.
"the history of man, in one sense, is the sum total of his successive rebellions" – [[Albert Camus]]
[[Letter from Birmingham Jail]]
Athens Research pivots towards "[[Collective Knowledge Management]]" Season 2 of Athens — A Collective Vision
(eight hours pass)
Me gusta la estática [[I like static]].
the Center for Humane Technology ultimately functions not as a solution to our technologically exacerbated problems, but simply as a way of making those problems slightly more palatable.
– Be Wary of Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience: on The Center for Humane Technology
[pedagogy of the oppressed]: ../pages/pedagogy of the oppressed.md "pedagogy of the oppressed" [new york city organized crime]: ../pages/new york city organized crime.md "new york city organized crime" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
[[Inner garden]]
[[Journal pages]]
[[Fleeting notes]]
I’ve got a problem with my [[org-publish]]. The export of tracks.org seems to be super slow and in fact causes the gitlab runner to kill the process. tracks.org is a huge unordered list. For now I’ve just excluded it from the publish in the :export option. I guess I’ll try and recreate with a minimal setup and then get help from the org list if it persists.
[flancia social impact]: ../pages/flancia social impact.md "flancia social impact" [ethmail]: ../pages/ethmail.md "ethmail" [giving tuesday]: ../pages/giving tuesday.md "giving tuesday" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"
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I want a [[community]], not an [[audience]].
My social media usage is something like this.
I do like the phrase ‘digital garden’ but I still don’t feel comfortable enough to not put it in quotes.
[[Kaweah Colony]]
[[Mutualism]]
Bookmarked: Network intersubjectives - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious
[[Especifismo]]. [[Platformism]].
Listened: [[Trip 20: Revolution]]
how the idea of political revolution ever became thinkable, and if it’s still thinkable today. Was the sexual revolution a real revolution? How did disillusionment with Soviet communism affect our political imagination? And who is the revolutionary subject?
Looking at the [[Triad of Commoning]] for [[node club]] this weekend.
[[exposure therapy]]
[[mindfulness]]
took a stab at [[@evan]]s version of [[wikilinks everywhere]]
[[toby kiers]]
[[lateral thinking]]
Garden vs stream?
Sending brain-to-brain messages directly through a quantum teleportation channel seems like a dirty, invasive way to communicate compared to [[Oubliette]] [[co-remembering]]. The latter is much more subtle: embedding messages in the recipient’s [[exomemory]] so that information is recalled rather than received.
– [[The Quantum Thief]]
[[Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi]] : it’s available to read online now: https://jacksonrising.pressbooks.com/
[[ValueFlows]] / [[Value flows]]
Listened: [[Shaun Chamberlin on David Fleming’s Vision of Post-Capitalist Life]]
[[binance academy]]
[[BUSD]]
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I’ve started playing with [[Epistemic disclosure]] on notes in my digital garden, as well as thinking of different types of notes, e.g. definitions, feelings, claims. See e.g. [[gift economy]] (definition), [[I like gift economies]] (feeling) and [[gift economies build community]] (claim).
Listened: [[Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy]]
[[The Hi-Tech Gift Economy]]. Looks good. By [[Richard Barbrook]].
In These Times - Give It Away - article related to [[gift economies]] by [[David Graeber]]
[[Maya]] has an article related to [[Oblique Strategies]] and [[tarot for thought]] - introducing randomness into chaos: culture, oblique strategies, and tarot for… (shared by Maya in hypothesis annotation to my journal from yesterday, thanks Maya!)
I wonder out loud if there is any linkage between [[Law of Requisite Variety]] and the [[pluriverse]], [[Nested-I]], [[Ubuntu Rationality]] stuff from [[Free, Fair and Alive]].
Listening: [[Platform Socialism and Web3]]. Great stuff (the platform socialism more of interest to me than the web3, but chat around that is interesting too.)
Listening: [[Nathan Schneider, Pt. 2 (Blockchain Governance)]]
LATER [[agora ext]] needs some convergence, there’s three repos around including I believe a rewrite by [[@evan]] who didn’t ship yet?
[[agora bot]]
DONE [[agora matrix bot]] needs some bug fixes
[[agora server]]
[[empoderadas]]
#push [[extraterritorialidad]]
[[saer]]
DONE pomodoro
DONE pomodoro
[[agora discuss]] is just mindblowingly good
Here’s a weakness I hadn’t identified: I only put planning-type creative notes into my system, not proper creative notes (mostly).
I can identify this as a weakness relative to this thing about [[robin sloan]]. of course I look up to someone who’s got the words-aesthetic-tech trifecta with some actual physical reality skills on top.
(is there a word that’s less disgustingly enlightenment-mentality than "Renaissance <man/woman/person>" and less pretentious sounding than "polymath"?)
thinking a bit about this as well. should I have curation routines for my notes? can I gamify it somehow?
I am writing this from [[MX Linux]]! My notes on [[Setting up a new box]] have been super helpful - glad I made those. I’m fleshing them out now as I set up this fresh box.
[[Problems with an old mouse]] now! Freezing/dying occassionally. What’s going on, this stuff seemed to have all been ironed out. Maybe the mouse is busted.
[[syncthing]] is amazing. I have no idea how it works most of the time, but it does (most of the time). It just magically picked up a suggested peer, presumably because they’re on the same network.
Had fun clicking around on [[Thompson Morrison]]‘s wiki.
Bookmarked and read: [[The Stigmergic Revolution]]
[[Pharo]] and [[Glamorous Toolkit]] look interesting.
Listened to Novara Media on [[Ukraine]]. In a nutshell describing what’s currently happening as [[information warfare]], where it’s almost impossible to know what’s actually happening. Their advice: read from plenty of disparate sources. And that it’s probably more fruitful to familiarise with history, reasons for current grievances, etc. than try to follow current events. Adam Tooze has good blo g on this, they say. https://adamtooze.com
DONE donate further to [[ukraine]] related efforts
DONE agora speed
DONE agora speed
DONE agora speed
DONE fix [[buddhist orange]], which means fixing [[images in the agora]].
LATER in [[empty nodes]] wikipedia should be auto pulled by default?
[[People like wind power]]. [[Windpunk]]?
Following what’s happened in Bucha and Kramatorsk the rhetoric on what the West should do about the [[invasion of Ukraine]] is escalating. Even in places like The Observer. Seems necessary to help the people of Ukraine. But worrying as to where it will end up.
There’s an avian flu outbreak in the UK at the moment. [[UK avian flu 2022]]. Low risk to people.
Listened: [[The week the world woke up to Russian war crimes in Ukraine]]
Listened: [[The world of mesh networking with Elektra Wagenrad]]
Listened: [[Sovereignty for the Commons]]
DONE write [[pkm book]] chapter abstracts
LATER write [[building bridges]]
[[agora server]]
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Signed the petition to [[Stop water pollution in the Lake District]]
Filling in a bridge with concrete for £124,000 rather than repointing it for £5,000. Highways England may have to reverse concreting of Victorian bridge arch | He…
My Nitter and Miniflux combo on YunoHost still going well for [[reading tweets without being on Twitter]]. I use it to keep up with what’s going on with organisations local to me, who are still on legacy social media platforms. Could still do with something that works well for RSSifying Facebook.
Been frequenting Mastodon more again recently what with the new wave of interesting people joining. Quickly remembering how [[microblog-style social media]] has a habit of sucking me in and distracting me. Even when the platform isn’t designed to do so. It’s just something about the medium I think. Of course it’s fabulous for connecting and discovering. Just need to keep up the willpower so it’s not distracting.
Been reading [[Red Plenty]] in the evenings of late. Still great. The promised plenty of the planned economy goes sour over time. You get insights into the ways in which trying to plan everything can have unforeseen consequences. And the social ramifications of that. The chapters on the factory that deliberately breaks some of its machinery in order to get a replacement; on the ‘pusher’ who greases the wheels between different parts of the planned economy; and the horror of a psychoprophylactic childbirth regime (due to shortages of medicine, according to the author); they are all excellent.
Wouldn’t you know it, there’s an Adam Curtis doc that looks at [[Gosplan]]. Should be a fun watch. [[The Engineers’ Plot]].
Relistened to [[A Cooperative Vision for Technological Innovation w/ Dan Hind]]. Great interview, chimes a lot with my vision for municipalist technology.
Also listening: [[Commons Based Peer Production on the Blockchain]]
Someone mentioned that [[social.coop]] is on an outdated version of Mastodon: https://matrix.to/#/!aIpzDTRzEEUkMCcBay:matrix.org/$165299479719247IHyJU:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=converser.eu&via=autonomic.zone
Useful guide to the oauth nonsense to use the Mastodon API. Not sure if there’s much I’d want to do with it? Hmm.
Xe did a nice guide to ssh keys and yubikeys. I should bother to set that up…
Took me a bit to find https://death.andgravity.com/f-re on verbose regular expressions! Luckily the right search terms were iterated towards…
Listened: [[BACK TO NATURE: tackling the biodiversity and climate crises]]
[[Tipping point]]
Woke up with a sore throat, didn’t feel great through the day but made it through the work day. I think I’m feeling better now, nothing serious it seems :)
[[Open Referral]] has been adopted as a UK standard.
[[Open Green Map]]
Watched: [[Cloud Atlas]].
Oh yeah, a couple of days back we watched [[Wonder Woman]].
I did my first [[parkrun]] in about 2.5 years yesterday. I got a new personal worst, but still pleased to be doing it again…
We visited [[Walney Island]].
Did the [[parkrun]].
Read: [[David Bollier, P2P Models interview on digital commons]]
Read: [[A Syrian democratic social economy in the making]]
[[Food]]
[[Climate fiction]]
Did the [[parkrun]].
One [[pomodoro for the revolution]]
New claim: [[Cuba is a good model of a green society]].
Listened: [[David Ehrlichman, "Impact Networks: Creating Connection, Sparking Collaboration, and Catalyzing Systemic Change"]]
[[Our feelings are not just biological, but also social and cultural and therefore historical]]
Noding my highlights from [[The Ministry for the Future]]. There’s a lot. For my reference, currently done up to page 357.
My [[YunoHost]] server seems to have run out of space, and now I can’t remotely ssh in. Sigh. Will have to fix.
Listened: [[Grassroots Organising 101 w/ Sasha Josette and Olly Armstrong]]
Listened: [[Climate Change as Class War with Matthew T. Huber]]
[[Monarchy]]
Attended [[Conversations with Gamechangers: Cooperation Jackson]]
[[Energy price freezes are a direct result of campaigning like Don’t Pay UK]]
I [[worked]] today. It was fine. I’m looking forward to the next two weeks.
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#WorkingInPublic in [[hypatia]]
as of [[2022-11-20]] we are truly living in the future… as long as you don’t want a wildcard cert :)
this screenshot contains a mistake ;)
Messing with [[obsidian]] again. I was trying to play with [[logseq]] but it wasn’t liking my hacked together fuse filesystem.
I think I’m going to start using this as a free form blog tool.
I’m trying to connect to remote host without storing anything locally because my solid state drive is so small. My plan is to fuse mount a [[gitfs]] folder so it will auto commit when it syncs the files via sshfs; fuse on fuse on fuse
Thinking about setting my desk back up again. I took a break from programing for awhile and now I’m getting back into it. Writing code on the couch without a desk setup is getting to me.
I’ve also been playing with [[webtop]] which is a browser based linux distro that runs in the desktop
I went back to putting the files on my local computer. It was a cool idea but the downsides are greater than the gains. everything is a tradeoff
So. This stuff about [[technological determinism]] is very interesting in the Fuchs book. Makes me think about how all the types of tech that I’m interested in come firmly with leftist social relations attached to them. e.g. libre software. Community broadband. Data commons. Without the modifiers, they’re just technologies. I think this is important.
I feel that perhaps ICT4S has been quite deterministic in general. Divorcing the technology from the social relations? Perhaps not. Definitely worth exploring.
Governable stacks. Another one. I wonder if you could subsume all of the modifiers into simply ‘ecosocialist’. Intersting. Hmm yes, very interesting. They all kind of amount to the same thing.
Agency, social justice, climate justice. Actually they’re all missing that last one. They in fact tend to refer more to that first one - agency.
So my research is about a merging of those strands perhaps, so in a sense you could potentially just use ecosocialist as the modifier. Maybe not in practice as it might not be as snappy. But in theory, yes.
Federated social media. Kind of about agency, at the nub of it. Platform socialism. Platform coops etc.
So I’m interested in those things where there is at least one of the 3 aspects (agency, planetary boundaries, social equity) and evaluating and filling in the other section. I’m looking at both socialist ICT and green/sustainable ICT and finding the gaps in both of them.
In theory the modifier of ‘ecosocialist’ is simply ramping up of the ‘sustainable development’ modifier, as SD purports to be about both social and environmental issues. But in reality it’s more than that.
I will show you the shape of my [[heart]] if you want to.
[[Read]]: [[How systems theory can help us reflect on the world]]
[[Read]]: [[When nature and society are seen through the lens of dialectics and systems thinking]]
[[Panarchy]]
[[Listened]]: [[After the Robots: Aaron Benanav on Work, Automation and Utopia]]
[[Listened]]: [[The Mute Compulsion of Capitalism]]
[3*n*(n+1)+1 for n in range(1000)]I installed [[cool retro term]] today and it was immediately more fun than I thought it would be. There is something weirdly satisfactory about typing and seeing a blazing trail preceding your words.
I wonder how hard would it be to make it so that anagora.org renders text in this style — optionally, of course :)
Previously on [[2023-08-08]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
OSS work at [[recaptime.dev]] or whatever
Personal side projects
Across the interwebs
At Tuesday’s repair cafe: [[Repairing a Canon Pixma TS3150]]
Listened: [[Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation"]]
Listened: [[Frank Jacob, "Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century"]]
i also use avidemux for simple video editing. 20:22 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:love your naming scheme! Samuel Klein says:this diagram also suggests scale-free design [which is compelling; not privileging zoomed-in or zoomed-out parts of the whole] Samuel Klein says:++ 20:36 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says:Flask is a lightweight web application framework for Python Peter Kaminski says: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/
20:41 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:is that like agreeing on a hashtag? 20:47 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:One thing I’d like to see more easily is the list of repositories in your agora, and which ones have a node for a given wikilink Samuel Klein says:I have to run! This was great to see, worth tuning to a 15-min pitch Samuel Klein says:❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 21:01 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:oho my next meeting was moved back I have 15 min 😃 21:02 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:yay! Jerry Michalski says:it’s a hypertext catfish! 21:05 Aram Zucker-Scharff Aram Zucker-Scharff says:I found this very useful! I have to drop 21:07 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:see you! 21:07 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switch
21:09 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:there’s probably room a tool like "full auto-linker" that could look through your doc + its context, check your agora for entities that exist across the conjoined namespace, and autolinking concepts the first time they appear in your doc
Listened: [[A blast in Manhattan]]
Read: [[Doughnut Economics]]
Listened: [[Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site]]
Listened: [[Hotel Bar Sessions: Trust]]
[[Listened]]: [[The cybernetic jacket]]
[[Read]]: [[The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)]]
Changes in the [[forces of production]] come into conflict with the [[relations of production]].
[[Listened]] to [[The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield]]
[[Listened]] to [[How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe]]
/YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).
For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.
I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.
So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.
Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.
What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].
I’ve logged in to [[Fediverse]] again the last couple of days. To make a new connection and do some Restart related posting. But: already found myself scrolling aimlessly through things which though very interesting are of minimal relevance to my actual life. Might just be a phase, but, sadly I can’t spare that idle time right now.
I’ve been cultivating a setup for logging the [[repair data]] from [[Ulverston Repair Cafe]] that, once I’ve taken a copy of the paper forms on my phone, I can then log it all digitally and get it into Restarters.net, all from my phone.
Look, an #agora!
[[2024-10-20]]
I’m [[microblurting]].
Blurt
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I’m thinking that blurting is probably better semi private.
[[HeliBoard]] is going well.
[[Wasteland]]
Writing prose in [[Emacs]] with [[Termux]] is a little weird.
Going all in on [[libre software]] and [[open hardware]] is a key part of [[digital ecosocialism]].
Provisioning the [[knowledge commons]] with info on what software is good, how to use it, how to switch to it, etc, also very important.
[[Wasteland]]
[[Waste]] and what you do with it is an important part of any [[system]].
[[Doughnut Economics]] has a nice, simple definition of what a [[system]] is.
[[Bookmarked]]:
[[Wasteland]] has a nice description of [[Oil]]:
Via [[Chris Aldrich]] (| Chris Aldrich), this looks good: [[A System for Writing]].
Learned about [[chezmoi]] from [[Flancian]]‘s note about it yesterday.
Learned of the existence of the native [[Linux Terminal app for Android]].
[[Bookmarked]]:
Read: [[Repairing Our Way out of Commodity Fetishism]]
Bookmarked:
[[compost.party]] is fun.
What happens to Zettelkasten, digital gardens, etc, with the advent of generative AI and agentic AI?
I’m enjoying using [[orgrr]] for adding [[Folgezettel]] ids to (main) notes.
[[org-node]] looks neat and an improvement over org-roam in many ways.
[[Bookmarked]]:
[[Zettled]]:
[[Bookmarked]]:
I’m trying to recognise digital shocks, to see how are playing out in relation to resilience and transition. To learn from that for future shocks.
Published:
[[Bookmarked]]:
Zettled:
[[Listened]]:
[[Bookmarked]]:
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Back again after enough hiatus to forget what I’m doing. It is now monsoon season, and so I would like to start the fall garden. I will likely make notes about that. I just got back from open sauce a few days ago. That was a great time and I also need to make notes from my readings. But I also need to catch up all the notes I started. I don’t remember if I fixed the templates or not, but I guess I’ll find out soon.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
“Interoperability” is the act of making a new product or service work with an existing product or service: modern civilization depends on the standards and practices that allow you to put any dish into a dishwasher or any USB charger into any car’s cigarette lighter.But interoperability is just the…
https://anhaidgroup.github.io/py_stringmatching/v0.3.x/HammingDistance.html
Looks like a cool collection but requires numpy as a dependency.
https://borretti.me/article/unbundling-tools-for-thought
Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.
They use [[iFixit]]‘s [[repairability rating]] as a reference for most of the phone’s where it exists. Motorola’s phone do well because of the deal they have with iFixit.
TBD
[[P- Chris Granger]]: If we do our job, my assumption is that the folks who are likely to change behavior will have more than enough incentive to do so in this system. The question is then how do we either provide some of the value for those that won’t or create interesting dynamics that might get them there by accident.
[[P- Rob Haisfield]]: Right, I’m also pointing out that identifying concretely what those behaviors are is still important. In the very least, your behavioral statements during our conversation were good but generally abstract. I’ll have more questions about it when I can see a UI. I have little doubt that people will want to use Jump on their own in excellent ways! I’m sure people will be itching to get their hands on dirty when they see more demos.
here’s what i got that year:
- a pair of Razer Kraken X headphones.
- was exchanged for a pair of HyperX Cloud Alphas headphones
- eventually just returned for a refund
- a $20 gift card to Steam.
- bought all *Payday 2* DLC, *Left 4 Dead 2*, and *Mindustry*.
- a $20 gift card to Nintendo's eShop.
- bought the Nintendo Switch edition of *Among Us*. saving the rest for later
Event launching an updated strategy for the [[community wealth building]] model in Preston (AKA the [[Preston Model]]).
Notes - Preston City Council: “Community Wealth Building (CWB) 2.0: Leading Resilience and Recovery in Preston”
Thursday 25th February 2021
Claims for Preston Model so far: Increased employment and self employment above NW average Increased wage rises above NW average - stimulated by major push for real living wage for employees in council/anchor institutions. Local Public Procurement supporting upskilling of Preston workforce. Providing opportunities for local/regional agenda Helps reduce carbon footprint What are new objectives in Preston Model 2.0?: Changing the culture within the city - more money and resources going into CWB Supporting job security as part of pandemic recovery, including via targeted local public sector recruitment. More cooperatives and promoting workplace democracy Having a local community bank in 5 years.
CWB looks to explicitly include minorities and women Seeks to tackle inequalities and hoarding of wealth Addresses issues of fairness in communities feeling ‘left behind’. Looks at new ways to rebuild an economy that promotes social cohesion. Framing the narrative - solidarity, cooperation and working together the only way forward for minority and disadvantaged communities. Examples of 19th century cooperatives. Central vision to unite differing perspectives - need workers and community reps in decision making positions at all levels across the economy. Can’t have democracy without economic democracy. Pandemic responses - offering technical assistance for businesses wanting to sell to their employees. Bypassing traditional financing structures. Mandating community based businesses have a place in any property sales/developments. Lobbying for increases in minimum wage. Looking to collaborate with other cities/places. Can’t separate CWB from community politics - need to bring people together to jointly develop solutions. Seeing local government more as an economic engine. How to persuade people that CWB is worth it - take stakeholders on learning journeys - going to see places where CWB is happening and talk to people there.
Defining features of an economy - understanding where does the wealth go, and who gets it? Not just wages, but finance and capital. Democratising and better distributing wealth (not just wages) through remaking the economy is what CWB is seeking to achieve. Public sector Investment and economic development needs to change people’s lives, and increase ownership - not support and encourage extractive businesses. “It is a direct attack on those who have wealth and power, and keep it to themselves” Preventing money and profits being taken out of the economy by externally based companies. Supporting local businesses being exploited by the finance sector through high interest rates - through access to low cost credit and support locally. CWB has given back a sense of agency to councils and communities. Other projects for Preston - community owned cinema, local bank, community land trusts. Local Taxi and food co-operatives. More about quality of outcomes than equality of opportunity. Urgent post pandemic issues - local recruitment by partners/anchor institutions from deprived communities/ those who have lost their jobs. Economic and workplace and a say in economic strategy to communities will keep focus. Community land ownership in Scotland given as an example - if communities own land they make it work more effectively. What is the ‘best deal’ in procurement and spend? - not financial, but social, environmental and community benefits should be more important. Collectivism may be coming back, through the rise of mutual aid in the pandemic. An opportunity to take forward. Need to learn for experiments across the country and share information. Benefits in influencing procurement across all local institutions.
Setting up a North West community bank covering ‘from Wirral to Scottish Borders’ Looking at the German model of local banks (historical model in the UK is the Trustee Savings Bank before de-mutualisation). Community banks should be owned by their customers. One member, one vote for savers. Community banks have more trust from savers and borrowers. The bank has to be competent and also won’t ‘do you over’. Current UK banks are seen as competent, but remote, not aligned with customers and not benevolent. Many of the things people or places want to do require money. Banking system is an important part of this picture. Local branches staffed by local people are vital - not decisions made by people in the City of London.
Public sector can transform services for community and maximise social benefit.
NHS is complex, but can change procurement.
Covid was an opportunity to change procurement policies.
How to ensure CWB engages and retains all stakeholders? Recognise that there are multiple inequalities, stress on one partner can be relieved by intervening elsewhere (‘underlying issues’/ ‘wider determinants’).
Need to collectively imagine a future that benefits all partners. Give stakeholders a reason to come together in a place.
Role of universities -need to see themselves as civic - local cultural, social and economic actors. Have significant spending power, locally and regionally. Also widening participation should be pursued.
Formula for places - create the wealth, retrain the wealth, fairly distribute the wealth.
How do you measure success of community inclusion and make sure CWB reaches everyone? Making agencies accessible - going to communities not having them come to you. Leaning again from pandemic - reaching out to grass roots communities.
CWB should be a ‘ground up’ movement. Hard to reach communities need to identify with CWB.
Community and faith centre can build trust and support. Preston model literature translated into local minority community languages.
Bring different stakeholders (business, education etc) together in the same arenas.
Why should businesses support CWB? Better off doing business with people you know. Local tendering supported local businesses, also improved quality. 10% of procurement score linked to the aims of CWB. An employer gave a £5 daily spend voucher for local shops to employees working in the city centre.
Challenge now is to bring this to scale. CWB as a label helps create conversation and belief of ‘it doesn’t happen to be this way’. ‘Not an anti business agenda, but an anti business as usual agenda’ Small businesses are treated badly by big business as well. Recovery is an opportunity for change.
See [[Week 1 - Introduction]] or the [[Main AI Page]]
From [[AI is not magic - Demystify and Apply]]
AI is becoming as fundamental as electricity, the internet, and mobile as they were born into the mainstream. Not having an AI strategy in 2019 will be like not having a mobile strategy in 2010, or an Internet strategy in 2000.
By Rob Thomas
I like the [[deltoidal hexecontahedron]]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltoidal_hexecontahedron
It makes for a cool [[d60]] :) I have two at home
[[Emacs]].
Didn’t catch much, just a couple of talks from [[Leo Vivier]] and Bala Ramadurai, but was nice to see diverse community and content. Emacs seems very much alive and well.
I had this Error U130 come up on a Canon Pixma MG6150.
I can’t remember the exact wording, but something about it not being able to determine how much ink was in one of the cartridges. The cartridge wasn’t an official Canon one, so maybe that’s related.
Anyway - from watching this handy video on YouTube it turns out that just holding the red ‘Stop’ button down for 5 seconds or so stops you being pestered by the error, and you can print again.
Now, whether there’s any longer term repercussions to ignoring the error, I don’t know, but it’s useful to know if you need to print in a pinch and this error is blocking you.
[[Global temperature]] is likely to rise by more than [[1.5C]] above pre-industrial levels by [[2040]]
So sayeth the [[IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]].
concluding that it is “more likely than not” that the global temperature increase will hit 1.5C by 2040. Current temperatures globally are, on average, 1.1C above pre-industrial temperatures.
IPCC: Half of global population ‘highly vulnerable’ to climate crisis impacts…
Global temperatures were likely to top 1.5C above pre-industrial levels in the next two decades
– Worst polluting countries must make drastic carbon cuts, says Cop26 chief | C…
Within the next two decades, temperatures are likely to rise by more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, breaching the ambition of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, and bringing widespread devastation and extreme weather.
– Major climate changes inevitable and irreversible – IPCC’s starkest warning y…
You might have heard the news: [[Google]] lays off [[12000]]. In the meantime the company has over [[100 billion]] in the bank.
The time has come to ask ourselves: what if [[Moloch]] took Google?
Under what is watch Google was taken maybe, in many worse than average timelines. With this I mean: Google as a corporation was always both good and bad — prosocial and antisocial in turns — like all human groups, and maybe more generally all cybernetic groups (of humans thinking with computers). As a corporation in [[late stage capitalism]], it has developed in an environment that rewards profit seeking. But note that, like many corporations of Silicon Valley, its core ideas came from people with an academic background, and its cultural DNA was seeded and nurtured by interesting people who overall wanted to disrupt the world positively, contributing [[towards the democratization of knowledge]].
I’ve worked for Google for more than [[10 years]] now, and I can say this: I wholeheartedly, non-ironically believe in the company’s mission. "To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful." I will always get behind a group with such intentions. Google in 2004, in 2005 was a thing to be admired: a group that always gave users innovative services for free, or rather for the cost of seeing ads. But Google was reasonable, non-greedy, generous.
Not the problem with what Google is doing is the fucking [[mediocrity]] of it all, which goes against its self-proclaimed culture.
About alternate deals as grownups.
I took part in Inktober 2020. I completed all entries. Sometimes I lagged behind for a couple of days, but then I caught up. Originally, all entries were published on Twitter, but in June 2022, I deleted all my tweets and republished the pictures here.
2020-08-31:
28 рисунков — чёрно-белые
1 рисунок — чёрно-белый+красный (30-й)
2 рисунка — цветные (1-й и 23-й)В ходу были 3 блокнота, 1 белый и 1 чёрный лист А4. 23-й — полностью цифра, 22-й — частично. Грибы были на 10 рисунках, ханива — на 6, кактусы — на 2.
I don't like some of them, but I really like the rest.
A total galaxy brain for me just now with regards to [[progressive summarisation]]. I’ve realised that just by virtue of having ‘layer 0’, the source text, as part of the progressive summarisation process - I feel less bad about having hundreds of unread articles saved in Wallabag. I feel good about it in fact! It’s the first step of note-taking - I know I have source material on the topic to come back to, recommended by someone I trust, when this topic comes back into my focus. I can dig deeper into it then if I want.
This is very positive. I had started to think of the wealth of information out there on the web as [[information overload]]. But now I can go back to thinking about it as an amazing resource, to be tapped into when needed.
See: [[Antilibrary]].
Ishmael sitting on a crystal tree
Looking forward to trying the improvements in [[Matrix 2.0]]:
https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/?resubmit
Mycoclipper 2.0 was an idea of a program for clipping web content and inserting it to Melanocarpa. It could have been a direct descendant of Mycoclipper 1.0 which did the same but with Cyberrachel. In the end, it was not needed due to the introduction of Betula and its bookmarklet, thus Mycoclipper 2.0 was never implemented.
The new version would have supported fuzzy search and in-place hypha creation.
Thanks to a different content model, inserting content to Melanocarpa this way would be much enjoyable. In Rachel, I had clippable hyphae for topics, but not for subjects, id est I couldn't have cyberpunk and solarpunk, I had a hypha for all -punks. It works ok while it is easy to determine where goes what. When it's not, it's a hassle.
A : [[podcast]]
URL : https://neweconomics.org/2019/02/weekly-economics-podcast-public-ownership-2.0
[[public ownership]].
See [[Week 1 - Introduction]] or the [[Main AI Page]]
#ToDo find the study quoted in the week 1 Impact and examples of AI video stating PWC quoted $16 Trillion worth of GDP (no target mentioned) will be added by 2030.
Part of Experiment no. 31.
Рыбная улица
Проекционный проспект
См. рыба. На этих улицах живут рыбы.
Адрес дома в центре: Рыбная 6. Дальше направо Рыбная 8 и Рыбная 10. Получается, это чётная сторона.
Reported problem: doesn’t print anymore.
Yesterday I repaired a Canon Pixma TS3150 at our repair cafe.
Another volunteer at the cafe had looked at it previously and the display was reporting a paper jam (error E03). They opened it up and found a pen inside. They removed this, closed up the printer, and - hey presto! It no longer turned on :confused: .
I’ve come across on other Pixma’s before that they sometimes have some ribbon cables that if you’re not careful slide out of their connector the moment you open the printer up, sometimes such that you’d barely notice.
That was the same here. Though fair play at least to get in it was all Philips screws and some spudgable plastic clips. We identified and spent a while trying to get this fiddly ribbon cable back in… turned back on… and power! But the LCD display was no longer working - not displaying anything. Though it didn’t seem directly related to the display we fiddled around a bit more with the original ribbon cable, tried connecting it a bit more tightly. Put stuff back together and turned on again and the LCD was back on - maybe just a loose connection somewhere.
However still reporting E03. We looked around again inside the printer. Came across a white part with a hoop that looked skewiff and wasn’t sitting properly on a small black pole. Somewhere near the drive belt / sliding rod. Fitted that back on, tried again.
No error! And we successfully printed a test page. :raisedhands:
Thanks to this guy on YouTube for his disassembly video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-YpuL8_nIs
also on: https://talk.restarters.net/t/today-i-repaired/716/208
It turned off out of the blue, and now no signs of life.
Things to try
It’s listed as: 19.5 V output, 3.34A
Testing the power supply with the multimeter, it actually was reading out around 19.5. And lo and behold, the LED is actually back on again now.
So let’s see if it’ll power the laptop again OK.
Wait, weird, it’s gone again. Is it a loose connection? Or the laptop shorted it? Yeah, the laptop shorts it out it seems? The light goes off when you plug it into the laptop.
My laptop charger turns off as soon as I plug it in to the laptop. It’s not t…
It sounds like it might be a short circuit on the motherboard… oh dear, not good.
Dell power supply light goes out when plugged into the laptop computer #short… Laptop shorting out charger | DELL Technologies laptop adapter light turns off when plugged in - YouTube
Possibly the laptop overheating could have caused it?
laptop motherboard "shorts" when connected to adapter - Super User
This post suggests a couple of things to try:
Latitude E7450 Power Failure | DELL Technologies
check the voltage of the internal power cable if possible
This guy has a great video, same symptom:
Dell Latitude E7450, no power, charger cuts out - LFC#318 - YouTube
He shows how to check the internal DC jack.
I think he’s checking the 2nd and 3rd pins there. If I do that, no continuity.
Here’s a handy teardown video for replacing DC jack:
Dell Latitude E7450 DC Jack Replacement Video Tutorial - YouTube
URL : https://rebootproject.uk/download-the-free-guide/
During this stage, you’ll think about who you can help and what kind of devices they need. You’ll also learn more about accessories and connectivity.
Possible recipients
Ask in the community, e.g. Citizens Advice, Localgiving, local social media. Schools, libraries, online learning centres.
Understand recipient needs. This is made easier if you work with local community organisations. You might choose to own the relationship with recipients, or work with community partners.
Community partners: schools; hospitals; jobcentres; libraries.
Next, you need to think about the types of devices your recipients may need. We’ll also explain how you can make the restoration process fit your capabilities by restricting what people can donate
Laptops, smartphones, and tablets. Basically minimum requirements of age / functionality.
Option 1: settings strict guidelines. Be clear about what you can take on. Option 2: relaxed guidelines. You’ll get more donations, but may end up needing to get rid of the stuff that really isn’t up to snuff.
i.e. chargers, usb connectors, mice, stylus pens, dongles
Three options:
Seems simplest to require that chargers are required. Maybe take it on a case by case basis.
Many vulnerable recipients won’t have any form of internet access available to them other than free public networks, such as those at libraries. This means that recipients with mobility issues can find it really difficult to get online.
Can try to partner with another org who can offer mobile data, broadband of dongles. Or simply find out where free public networks are in the area - that’s probably a good one to begin with.
During this stage, you’ll find out more about launching your project. You’ll explore what information you need to give to potential donors and how you can maximise donations.
During this stage, you’ll discover more about diagnostics, repairs and data wiping.
In this stage, you’ll decide how to deliver devices and give their new recipients ongoing support. We’ll also show you how to dispose of unsuitable devices.
Cuban science fiction book. Heard about it in [[Capital is Dead]].
Trusted Platform Module 2.0.
A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a secure cryptoprocessor that implements the ISO/IEC 11889 standard. Common uses are verifying that the boot process starts from a trusted combination of hardware and software and storing disk encryption keys.
TPM 2.0 can be used a tool for enforcing corporate control.
[[TPM is rarely used to protect users]]. [[TPM is used overwhelmingly to protect media conglomerates]].
URL : https://www.uk100.org/
UK100 is a network of highly ambitious local government leaders, which seeks to devise and implement plans for the transition to clean energy that are ambitious, cost effective and take the public and business with them.
It supports decision-makers in UK towns, cities and counties in their transition to [[Net Zero]]. It is the only network for UK local leaders focused solely on climate, clean energy and clean air policy.
Upgrading [[Linux Mint]] from 19.3 to 20.
All seems to have gone pretty smoothly so far.
Just followed the instructions here: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-20.html
I feel like some of the removal of ‘foreign packages’ that it suggested might bite me at some point, but let’s see. I also cleaned out 13G(!) of apparently unused flatpak gubbins. It may be that I was using something these… but flatpak list didn’t show anything.
A few minor things, like some of my desktop environment preferences seem to have changed / gotten lost.
Version 0.5.0 is the first pre-release of Betula. It was released on 2023-02-04.
See the installation guide.
Single-binary single-user installation.
Use a Web UI to save your collection of bookmarks to a SQLite database.
Query the SQLite database directly, if needed.
Save a link with any protocol, give it a title.
If you want, you can write a description of the link, formatted in Mycomarkup. Mycomarkup supports links, emphasis, headings, nested lists, images and tables.
Add links into multiple categories.
Browse links saved in one specific category.
Hide links you do not want to share, make them private.
IndieWeb microformats are produced.
Betula 0.7.0 is the second pre-release. It was released on 2023-03-12, five weeks after the previous pre-release.
See the installation guide. If you are using v0.5.0 now, you are encouraged to upgrade because of some security fixes.
Implement the Settings page and all of its functionality. — bouncepaw
The Save link page now has an access key: s. Depending on the browser, you can press some hotkey involving this letter to visit this page. Try Alt+s, Alt+Shift+s, Ctrl+Alt+s. — bouncepaw
Implement autocompletion for existing categories when saving or editing links. — handlerug
Drop rounded corners in the design. — bouncepaw
Show total number of bookmarks on Bookmarks and Category. — bouncepaw
You can set the site description now. — bouncepaw
The DB schema has been changed. — bouncepaw
CLI option -port lets you set the network port from the shell. — danilax86
You can mix Title and URL fields. As long as one of them looks like a URL, Betula will understand you. — danilax86
Categories can be renamed and merged. — danilax86
Add Submit another option. — danilax86
Add /last endpoint. — danilax86
Fix many bugs. — bouncepaw, danilax86
bouncepaw worked on features and reviewed Danila's patches.
danilax86 worked on features and sent them as patches.
handlerug implemented the autocompletion script.
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Betula 0.8.0 is the third pre-release. It was released on 2023-06-17, three months after the previous pre-release.
See the installation guide. If you are using any older release, you are very encouraged to upgrade.
RSS Feeds. Subscribe to daily digests or individual post feeds with any web feed reader.
Set your site URL in the Settings. It is needed for feed generation. If you don't, the feeds would be broken.
Titles are fetched automatically if you don't write one. Betula makes a HTTP request to the given URL to do so.
Categories were renamed to tags. And all the mentions of the older terminology were removed. If any of your custom scripts depended on the old name, please update them.
Implement Day pages. They list all posts saved on a given day. Click on posts' dates to go to the corresponding day page.
The About page now lists the number of tags.
Mycomarkup text for posts can be accessed with /text/<id>.
Numerous subtle visual changes, bug fixes.
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Betula 1.0.0 is the first full-blown release of Betula. It was released on 2023-08-03, five weeks after v0.8.0.
See the installation guide. If you are using any older release, you are very encouraged to upgrade.
An advanced bookmarklet is shipped out of the box.
Searching was implemented.
You can also require or exclude tags in your search queries.
Built-in documentation was written. Make sure to check it out.
Only 4 articles are available for now. Future versions will ship more.
Post lists are paginated in pages of 64 items.
You can write custom CSS.
New setting: network listen address.
bouncepaw did most of the work.
handlerug implemented the bookmarklet.
danilax86 merged in the bookmarklet and helped with the pagination logic.
ninedraft contributed the new setting.
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Betula 1.1.0 is the second full-blown release of Betula. It was released on 2023-11-13, three months after v1.0.0.
See the installation guide.
Reposts using ActivityPub were implemented. Currently, they are experimental, not so handy to use and incompatible with the rest of the Fediverse, but you can safely repost from one Betula to other already. People already do that.
Percent-encoded links are shown unencoded in the interface.
Settings are shown on the first run after registration.
Many bugs and poor choices were fixed. Thanks for reporting them.
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Betula 1.2.0 is the third release of Betula. It was released on 2024-01-29, almost three months after v1.1.0.
See the installation guide.
People from across the Fediverse can follow Betula. Betula instances are available with nicknames like @betulist@links.example.org, where @betulist is the username you've chosen when registering and @links.example.org is the domain of your Betula. Make sure to set the correct domain in the Settings.
Followers will receive all new public bookmarks, as well as updates to them.
Betula can also follow other Fediverse profiles but cannot yet receive incoming bookmarks. To follow somebody, enter their double-@ nickname in the search bar and click Follow. The bookmarks will flow in in the future.
The bookmarks were redesigned.
They are grouped by date, which is clickable and leads to the day page.
The timestamps are removed from feeds.
Both links in the title are external URL:s.
The little number, which is the bookmark's ID, leads to the internal bookmark page.
A Copy link button was added to every bookmark.
Emoji visibility indicators were replaced with text.
More stuff fits now in general.
More bookmarking websites can be reposted now thanks to a more robust microformats parser.
We are also working with Postmarks to make them repostable.
URL:s are displayed with Punycode in mind.
Many bugs were fixed.
If you want to join the Fediverse with your Betula and you use nginx as a reverse proxy, update your configuration to pass the Host field verbatim to Betula. It is required for HTTP signature verification.
So, your server configuration should look something like this:
server {
server_name links.example.org;
client_max_body_size 3M;
location / {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1738;
proxy_set_header Host $host; # NEW LINE
}
# Certbot configuration is probably somewhere here.
}bouncepaw worked on Fediverse, updated the design and fixed bugs.
goldstein worked on URL display, fixed DB migrations.
I also want to thank Grishka of Smithereen for ActivityPub advice, Tedu of Honk for the httpsig library, Andy Piper for the ongoing work on Postmarks compatibility.
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Do not use this version. Use v1.3.1 instead, it fixes a critical bug.
Betula 1.3.0 is the fourth release of Betula. It was released on 2024-06-08, about 4 months after v1.2.0.
See the installation guide.
You can subscribe to any Betula now, and bookmarks will be shown in your Timeline.
It actually works! You can also repost these bookmarks.
Less reasons to open your RSS reader.
Known bookmarks by other people are shown on their profiles.
In general, your Betula remembers only those bookmarks that were published while you were subscribed to the their authors.
New link in the sidebar: Random.
If you click on it, 20 random bookmarks will be shown.
Dark theme
-version and -help command-line options were added.
Hotkey added: press / to focus on the search bar.
A session manager was added, you can find it on the Profile page.
Minimal Go version requirement lifted to 1.22.
Bugs were fixed.
bouncepaw worked on Fediverse support, the CLI options and the dark theme.
danilax86 worked on Random, the session manager and the / hotkey.
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Betula 1.4.0 is the sixth release of Betula. It was released on 2025-03-31, about 9 months after v1.3.1.
See the installation guide.
Archive copies can be created on bookmarks' pages. Archive copies are compressed HTML documents with all external scripts, stylesheets and media embdedded.
A birch logotype was created. It's used as a favicon too.
Betula's own user agent was introduced.
In RSS, titles link the original URL instead of the bookmark's.
Session token can be copied (useful for the Miniflux integration).
The Settings link was returned to the left menü.
Bugs fixed, visuals improved.
bouncepaw worked on archives, made the logo, fixed bugs and worked on the visuals.
danilax86 worked on the session manager, RSS and fixed bugs.
Arnes worked on user agent.
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Betula 1.5.0 is the seventh release of Betula. It was released on 2025-10-18, almost 7 month after v1.4.0.
See the installation guide.
Since this release, there are changes to the organization of the Betula project.
Sourcehut project is no longer the source of truth for Betula development, Codeberg repo is going to be the main repo from now on.
Sourcehut git repo will remain as a mirror, mailing list and the ticket tracker are deprecated but will not be deleted for the time being. Tickets are slowly being migrated to Codeberg manually.
Betula landing website and Mycomarkup library remain hosted on Sourcehut for now.
No changes from packagers are needed. The go module name remains the same.
Federated search is introduced. You can search your mutuals' public bookmarks. To do that, on the search results page click “Search mutuals instead”. Results will be fetched from their instances. The same search syntax is supported. Please note that the mutuals' instances might keep logs of your federated search queries, be wary of what you search.
Progressive Web App (PWA) is available. You can install Betula as an app from the browser. The procedure varies between environments, but usually you'll have to add Betula to home screen as an application from the browser menu. Links can be shared to this PWA directly. Internet connection still required.
Custom JavaScript can be set up in Settings. There are separate public and private scripts. Public script is served to everyone, private one is only served to the admin of the instance.
In the user interface, go-links are used instead of direct links in the bookmark cards. The “Copy link” still copies the original link. With that, you can analyze your logs to find out what bookmarks are the most clicked, and make your instance more linked across the web.
When trying to bookmark a link you already have bookmarked, a notification is shown. You can still save a duplicate, if you want.
If you have incorrect Host header passed from reverse proxy, a notification is shown. This is the most common misconfiguration issue with federated instances. Betula cannot fix your reverse proxy config for you, but it provides some documentation on how to do that.
Reposts are no longer listed on a separate page. They are on the bookmark page now instead.
Archives can be deleted now.
Some bugs fixed:
Non-UTF-8 non-latin pages are archived correctly.
Dead accounts can be unfollowed.
SiteDomain issue with tests was fixed.
Et cetera.
bouncepaw implemented the federated search, added custom JS and other stuff.
danilax86 fixed dead account unfollowing and the archive bug with encodings, moved the repost list to the bookmark page and added the duplicate bookmark confirmation.
Puida implemented the PWA.
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Betula 1.6.0 is the eighth release of Betula. It was released on 2026-01-25, three and a half months after v1.5.0.
See the installation guide.
Likes. Betula bookmarks can be liked from other Betula and Fediverse servers. The standard Like activity is used. Only available on federated Betula servers.
There is a Like/Unlike button under remote bookmarks in every feed they are in.
You can also like your own bookmarks if you want. The button is accessible on the bookmark page, which is found by following the numbered link. It's not shown on feeds because it's rare to like your own bookmarks often.
Unlike some Fediverse software, like counters are synchronised across the Betula network. This is done without revealing identities of likers to third parties.
Like counters might still be out of sync in non-Betula software.
Notifications, accessible from the sidebar link. Not annoying. Currently, only like notifications arrive, with more come in future versions.
The design of bookmark cards was adjusted to accommodate for like buttons.
Documentation regarding the Miniflux integration was written.
The bug with bookmarks from people you no longer follow appearing in the timeline was fixed.
Other minor changes.
A new CI setup was added that runs builds, unit tests and linters and checks for REUSE compliance.
Most of source code was marked up per REUSE recommendations.
Following the suite of v1.5.0 moving Betula source code main repo to Codeberg, Betula landing website source was moved to the Codeberg repo for editing convenience. The old Sourcehut repo remains a mirror from now on. Sourcehut Pages remains the publishing system.
Compilation without GOPROXY no longer requires Mercurial.
This release was funded through Open Social Fund, a fund established by NLnet. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
bouncepaw worked on likes and notifications. Follow @bouncepaw@links.bouncepaw.com.
danilax86 worked on docs, CI and fixed the remote bookmarks bug. Follow @danila@links.danilax86.space.
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Betula 1.7.0 is the ninth release of Betula. It was released on 2026-05-05, three months and a week after v1.6.0.
See the installation guide.
The new address of the project is https://joinbetula.org!
The contents of this website are now under CC0 v1.0 (closest thing to being in public domain). Note that Betula itself retains the AGPLv3 license, and the libraries have various licenses.
We now provide pre-built executable files for FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9, Mac OS, and Windows. All are available in amd64 and arm64 variants, except for Plan 9, which is amd64 only.
For packagers: we encourage you to keep building the packages the old way, without relying on our pre-built packages.
Betula is now available on Docker Hub! See bouncepaw/betula.
To quickly run Betula with Docker, you could use this command:
docker run -p 1738:1738 -v betula-data:/data --name betula bouncepaw/betula:v1.7.0We also provide an example compose.yml file.
Log servers integration. In Settings > Logging, it is possible to set up a URL server to send JSON logs to in ECS format. Compatible log servers include Victoria Logs, the ELK stack, Loki, and other systems.
We recommend Victoria Logs. This is the only log server we test with.
It is possible to use any number of Betula instances with one log server.
Fediverse compatibility improvements:
Betula now acknowledges reposts made in non-Betula software with ActivityPub's Announce activity; that includes non-quote-reposts in Mastodon-like software.
Betula profiles now have proper userpics (the project logo) seen in other networks. They are the same for every Betula for now.
New Ctrl/Cmd+Enter shortcut available in all forms (such as saving a new bookmark) to quickly submit them.
Internally, we refactored a lot of things, made visual adjustments and enabled many linters.
When you save a bookmark without providing a title, a default title should take less time to fetch.
REUSE annotations are more complete now.
We replaced the CGO build of SQLite to a WASM build.
For packagers: you can drop the CGO requirement now.
New version of Mycomarkup library with a fix to parsing nested lists.
Required Go version bumped to 1.24.13.
Experimental feature: you can explicitly refetch the profiles of other people by visiting /experimental/refetch-actors. This will be reworked heavily in the future versions.
It's no longer possible to repost IndieWeb-formatted non-ActivityPub bookmarks.
We believe few people knew about this feature, and none of them used it. Conforming websites are rare, and it's impossible to tell if a website is conforming without looking at the markup.
Betula continues to produce the IndieWeb microformats.
Links in the profile that led to the oldest and the newest bookmarks and the corresponding endpoints are removed.
We might show the day a betulist joined the network in the profile in the future, similar to Mastodon.
This release was funded through Open Social Fund, a fund established by NLnet. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
bouncepaw worked on moving the project website, log servers integration, deprecated features, removed CGO requirement and fixed some things. Follow @bouncepaw@links.bouncepaw.com.
danilax86 worked on pre-built executables, linters, the hotkey and internal things. Follow @danila@links.danilax86.space.
Vitstark worked on the container and the Docker Hub release.
broadway_lamb fixed some text. Follow @broadway_lamb@links.broadwaylamb.com.
On Mycomarkup side, timds contributed the nested lists fix.
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Betula 1.8.0 is the tenth release of Betula. It was released on 2026-06-06, a month and a day after v1.7.0.
See the installation guide.
Import and export your bookmark collection in multiple formats.
Import bookmarks from Netscape Bookmark File (used by all web browsers), Pinboard JSON or Raindrop CSV files. If you provide an unsupported file, Betula will still attempt to extract as many URLs as possible from it and bookmark them.
It is possible to assign tags to the imported bookmarks, adjust their visibility and set whether duplicate ones should be kept.
Export bookmarks in the same three formats.
It is possible choose whether to export all bookmarks or public ones only.
Some fixes, including the bug with broken timeline pages and erroneously changed margin in the sidebar.
This release was funded through Open Social Fund, a fund established by NLnet. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
bouncepaw worked on import and export. Follow @bouncepaw@links.bouncepaw.com.
danilax86 worked on internal things and helped with review. Follow @danila@links.danilax86.space.
Icars provided a typo fix.
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Betula 1.9.0 is the twelth release of Betula. It was released on 2026-10-24, three and a half months after v1.8.1.
See the installation guide.
Remarks. The previous repost system was extended, improved and renamed. It is no longer considered experimental.
A remark is a special bookmark, consisting of another bookmark (usually made by a different person), and your commentary (a remark, so to say) on that bookmark. The original bookmark is linked, its text is preserved as is and cannot be modified by the remarker.
Remarks have their own tags, distinct from tags on the remarked bookmarks. The remark texts is formatted in Mycomarkup, just like regular bookmarks.
Remarks themselves cannot be remarked.
If your bookmark gets remarked, you will get a notification. All remarks (along with likes) are listed on the corresponding bookmark's page.
On the ActivityPub layer, remarks are federated as what is often called “quote posts”.
There are two ways to make a remark:
Open the Remark form from the top/right sidebar.
Click the Remark button in Timeline under a bookmark; that would open the same form, but pre-filled.
The remark text may be empty. Older Betula versions do not accepts remarks made in Betula v1.9.0 or newer. Old reposts made in Betula v1.8.1 or older are still accepted in new versions. Non-Betula quote posts and “boosts” are also accepted.
Limitation. Currently, Mastodon and other Fediverse software that does thorough checking of authorization stamps of quotes will display quotes of Betula bookmarks as unverified because Betula does not issue such stamps as of this release. We plan to implement these stamps in the future.
New logo and website design. You can see both on this website.
The website now looks similar to a Betula instance, rather than just a generic website. We used to use Simple.css before, we thank them for a reasonable CSS framework.
Further redesign. Continuing the work from the previous release.
The bookmarks were completely redesign to fit the new remarks better, and generally be more rhythmic. This is what the Timeline looks like now:
Custom CSS notice. If you had a custom stylesheet that modified bookmarks, you may find it not working anymore. We changed almost all bookmark-related CSS classes. Please revise your custom CSS stylesheets if you wish to continue using them. On an unrelated note, we noticed that some Betula servers have been providing custom dark themes since the days Betula did not have them; this is not the case anymore, there is an in-house dark theme, we invite you to try it.
Easier following. In the past, to follow a betulist you had not interacted with yet, you had to paste their nickname (@user@server) to the search bar to access their profile, and follow from there. This is an interface idiom copied from other Fediverse software.
This release introduces a simpler way. In the top/right sidebar, the new Follow link redirects you to the Following page. This page now has a form for following people.
These formats can be typed in:
@user@server, the Mastodon-style WebFinger nickname.
https://server/@user, the ActivityPub ID. Non-Betula software may have different URL patterns.
https://server, the Betula root URL. Only works for servers running Betula v1.9.0 or newer (older versions do not expose required metadata).
Missing documentation for logging, federated search and PWA was written.
Internally, a lot of code, mostly ActivityPub-related, was refactored. Some bugs were also fixed.
Go version was bumped to Go 1.27.3.
This release was funded through Open Social Fund, a fund established by NLnet. Learn more at the NLnet project page.
bouncepaw worked on the FEP, contributed to other projects, worked on the redesigns, on remote profile descriptions, on database communication refactoring. Follow @bouncepaw@links.bouncepaw.com.
danilax86 worked on the internal refactoring, fixed links to your profile and the paginator on day pages. Follow @danila@links.danilax86.space.
hugmouse improved link rendering. Follow @mysh@bookmarks.mysh.dev.
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In contrast, Web 1.0 required users to manually code, design, and manage their own spaces on the net and interact with others on the web in ways such as clicking links, copying an email address, or manually linking to other webpages.
– [[404 Page Not Found]]
this Web 1.0 relationship, which joined the user to a new, exciting, naive, futuristic, and quite limited internet as a creative medium in and of itself
– [[404 Page Not Found]]
The Web 1.0 was essentially read-only. Organizations started to create content and connect them via the HTML hyperlinks: click on the underlined (mostly) blue link, and it will take you to a different document or Web page.
Internet culture historians since the mid-2000s have shown a marked distaste for the rhetoric that has guided Web 2.0, a term coined to describe the new social/participatory and interactive web of complex, pre-made user interfaces and architectures, where users became active consumers, creators, and participants of a service in which they had very little, if any, agency.
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And she argues that though Web 2.0 encourages the broader, ever more interconnected amateur web population to upload, share, record, and participate at increasing rates, it does so by ensuring the erasure of the personalized, Geocities-ugly "Welcome to my Home Page" aesthetic long hated by web designers and other members of the professional class. Users, in other words, must now operate within the hell of beautiful interfaces designed by experts. TL;DR: Website Eugenics.
– [[404 Page Not Found]]
Web 2.0 saw the emergence of Web applications and the consumer’s ability to generate content via Social Media.
A fuzzy, amorphous term for some of the upcoming trends for the web.
As might be expected, different people have different ideas for what it is.
Some themes:
[[Decentralisation]]
[[Semantic web]]
Spatial and immersive
Web 3.0 IMO should be: as weird as [[Web 1.0]], as easy to do and connect as [[Web 2.0]]. Agency, privacy, and ownership.
It should be more data ownership than self hosting. Self hosting is one route to ownership, but can be exclusionary. You shouldn’t need to be a server administrator.
There is massive blockchain hype around the decentralisation piece. But this is putting the tech choice before the design choice.
There is a focus on some of the social and platform-based stuff, but what about the less social stuff? Banking, services, whatnot. (How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web? — Irina Bolychevsky)
Web 3.0 should also be about (dis)connectivity. [[Designing for intermittency]]. Moving away from ‘always on’. Embracing things that are able and happy to go offline. To reduce energy consumption. Blockchain is the opposite of this. h/t to peter molnar in indieweb-chat for this thought.
The web3 concept that is slowly congealing is an interesting inversion of web 2.0. Back then the idea was "build social websites and figure out the money part later." Today it’s "build money stuff and figure out some non-speculative use for it later.""
– https://mobile.twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1448007556656369666
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"Advance your independent learning"
A research module I’m doing with the [[Open University]].
My topic is sustainable development, specifically ecosocialism, and ICT.
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