April 13th, 2020§

• Still working on [[Internal Chrome extension]]. I expect to have something working in the dev environment today?
• Would like to get started on [[External Chrome extension]].

June 13th, 2020§

• Attending [[EAGxVirtual 2020]].
• Live tweeting.

# August 13th, 2020

• Talked to [[x]] about P2P
• Talked to [[AbstractFairy]]
• Talked to [[Jonathan the Utopian]]
• Wrote about [[Go Links]]
• Remembered [[techpractical]] and [[CommonsPub]]
• Met [[Sarah of the Past]]
• Thought of all the Agoras thanks to [[snufkin]]
• Remodeled both bedrooms!
• Tried something new with [[Flancia]]
  • https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1293960630697897988 pull

September 13th, 2020§

• 11AM:
  • created https://flancia.org/go/2020-09-13 pull (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k1Dr7eJVGhd7n_4jnEdZUThOUrRPHZTDCvGMxADHJRI/edit)
  • opened [[Daily]].
• Nice interactions with [[Codex]] as per usual.
  • Recommended [[John Cowper Powys]], I downloaded a book of his.
  • Recommended [[Nyiregyhazi]]: https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1261626600010866688 pull, https://youtu.be/M4neWR7CwgA
• [[Quick Capture]]
  • https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1305080515347664896 pull?s=09
• Nice conversation with [[thewiseturtle]].
• [[dyokomizo]] wrote a meditation manual: https://twitter.com/dyokomizo/status/1296070537396002817 pull

2020-10-13§

• [[B.]] recomendó [[Gris de Ausencia]] de [[Roberto Cosa]].
• Tried out [[Tweetdeck]]. Seems FOMO-inducing, but potentially useful as a dashboard.
• [[Carnivalesque]] was trailblazed by [[Bakhtin]] when critiquing [[Doestoevsky]]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivalesque pull
• [[dan-whaley]] forwarded a very interesting email that prompted me to take up work again on [[Agora Protocol]].
• In the [[Foam]] discord, someone asked about an [[Agora Roadmap]]. Yeah, that makes sense. I sketched one on paper yesterday casually, need to write it down in the [[Agora]] proper.
• Learnt about [[mathieudutour]], author of the most promising rendering solution for the Agora: https://flancia.org/go/agora-rendering pull.
• [[Jay Dugger]] asked me to get back to him in 36 hours about problems of writing: https://twitter.com/JayDugger/status/1315997842968899584 pull [[todo]] [[2020-10-16]] [[2020-10-17]]
• [[G.]] suggested I prep a slide deck about the Agora, and also that I give a presentation over Meet about it (perhaps before even having a slide deck). Great idea.
• Worked on [[Agora publishing]].

22:12 setting goals!

• what sacrifices do you need to tkae in order to achieve your goal? as everything has an opportunity cost, you have to give up things to pursue others. weigh the costs and benefits of your decisions

• rather than focusing on just goal setting, focus on designing a good system

• progress should always be recorded. makes you feel good

• only through measurement can you really track if you've been getting better this applies to everything; mental and physical

tool: https://motion.hoanhan.co/goals/hoanhan/

tynan: time scale

we are dictated by our principles and the lenses through which we view the world by recognizing - then changing - these lenses, we can effect positive change, but when this positive change really matters can change a lot

it's clear that we all want to make decisions that are good for us, but what matters is the time scale; drug addicts optimize for the immediate rush, while those who save forever optimize for infinity - for things they want to have eventually in their lives, so they are worried about doing things in the near future

optimize for 5 - 10 years in the future instead! these things seem a bit silly but they will pay off. make a list of things you'd like to accomplish and continue to track it.

when you optimize for further out, you'll have much more leverage and you'll be able to create much bigger change in that long term. You're trading some enjoyment in the next few years for a much better rest of your life, and you'll have had control over the rest of your life in a better fashion!

whenever you're making a decision, ask yourself if it'll be something you'll be glad you'd have done in 5 to 10 years. your physical and mental health now are obviously the most important, but other things should be considered as well

your time scale does and will become part of who you are — make it a core part of the decision making

22:29 no free lunch

always keep in mind the no free lunch theorem: all optimization strategies, as long as they're dedicated, are considered equal averaged across all mathematical problems

2020-11-13§

• Very weird I didn’t write this journal during the day; I guess all my notes went into the corp garden.
• I met [[armengolaltayo]].

2020-11-13§

• Interesting question: What happens if your org gets locked out of Google? How likely is it to happen?
• Interesting question: How do you explain the importance to spend time on ‘invisible’ things like backups, disaster recovery, security patching etc to non-technical peeps?
• MINDFLAYER are on Bandcamp, this is good
• I was thinking how [[Agora]] could be useful for a team knowledge base. Each person maintains their own, and Agora rolls it up in to one space.
  • Relies on everyone being happy using markdown files and wikilinks, etc., though. Might need to bridge between various systems, as usually people have their own favourite personal tool, especially when it comes to knowledge management.
• Discussed pipelines and WIP a bit.
  • Can definitely see how reducing context switching is important. That’s a massive problem for me.
• Enjoyed listening to The Stooges.
• The idea of a [[digital gardening practice]] came up in the DG telegram group. I don’t really have one at the moment, but I’m getting in to a better ‘daily log’ habit. I tend to start in a private journal and add bits from that in to the public daily log as and when it makes sense to share. I’m starting to pop a few more work-related notes in during the workday, too.
• the [[Ness Labs]] [[Collector to Creator]] course is starting on Monday. It’s at 4pm for me, so can’t attend as I’m at work. But I’ll try to follow along with the assignments anyway.

2020-11-13§

• Started working on the ELF reader/writer for [[sledge]].
• Played [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]] with [[Sirius902]] and [[SamSeawell]].

2020-12-13§

• Talked about [[utopias]] with my family.
• Talked about [[hypothes.is]] with [[h. m.]], [[anr]], [[g.]].

2020-12-13§

• Leeré textos de [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Sigmund Freud]] y [[Karl Marx]] para la clase [[Introduction: The “Linguistic Turn” – and what came before: Marx, Freud, Nietzsche]]
• Escucharé la [[Lecture 02: Saussure and Russian Formalism]]

2020-12-13§

• Is there a danger in making decentralised, individual self-hosted easy? If it isn’t combined with making maintenance and updates easy.

• Great thread on the licensing and business model of Cloudron - https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2862/why-not-make-cloudron-fully-open-source-again/1?lang=en-US. A casy study of a bigger issue.

  • Includes a contribution from @ntnschndr discussing [[Exit to community]] and the inability of OSS licensing by itself to prevent corporate exploitation. Really interesting, and reminds me of what was also discussed in the [[Post-Open Source]] article.

  • Nathan links to his article "The Culture War in Open Source is On".

• Truth: setting up [[Yunohost]] and using it to install [[Invidious]], is easier than just installing Invidious by itself.

• I feel proud to say I am using YunoHost. I wouldn’t have the same pride in announcing I am using Cloudron, as useful as it is.

• Baikal - I can’t immediately see a way to import calendars. So given that and that it doesn’t seem to work with LDAP, I’ll going to uninstall it and try NextCloud.

• YunoHost - interesting the default preference for subfolders rather than subdomains. I kind of prefer subdomains, but I feel like that’s maybe just familiarity. Obviously some nice reverse proxy magic being set up by YunoHost too, would be interesting to look at that.

• The way the YunoHost SSO straight in to NextCloud works is pretty sweet.

• The fact YunoHost has the Anarchist Library as an app tells you something about its ethics :) (I think it’s partly building on top of Debian, which also bundles that library IIRC).

• On [[libraries]]:

@richdecibels Question for atheists: how else can we build a cathedral?

@ClearMask@merveilles.town

@richdecibels How about we use state funding to build non-denominational knowledge repositories and operate helpful public services out of them for society’s under priveleged. We could enforce an attitude of hushed reverence in them to provide an environment conducive to concentration and reflection. We could call them… Libraries?

• [[Self-hosting conundrum]].

• I like this little talk from [[EmacsConf 2020]] about using [[org-mode]] to prioritise tasks based on a vision for life. Dead simple, just add a tag to each of the headlines that flags what the long-term impact of doing a particular thing will be.

  • It looks like you could run the risk of never doing daily chores though, if they all factor in as 0 towards a long-term goal. Maybe it needs to be a mix of urgency and importance that you tag things with.

• Firefox blocks autoplay on video sites by default. You might watch to allow your [[Invidious]] instance to autoplay if you’re listening to a playlist. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/block-autoplay

2020-12-13§

• Continued work on my [[Minecraft]] mod that aims to teach functional programming concepts via game progression, [[monadmachines]].

I’ve been blogging a lot lately. Daily posts about doing a walk outside. Basically "Instagram-style" photo posts with a few words.

Having Mb with [[Gluon]] on my phone and it "just works" is nice. I can write something short, or just keep typing and it ends up as a blog post, all written and posted direct from my phone, like this post about @kemitchell’s [[StrictEq]] project. Yes, it’s being renamed, head over to the [[Artless Devices Forum]] for longer discussion.

Longer posts like this music one were done sitting at my desktop, composed and posted with [[Mars Edit]]. This is good for short posts, too, like documenting some tide / calendar research I did for my mom. A side effect of spending lots of time WFH — having default desktop app tools.

I’ve turned on [[cross posting]] to [[Mastodon]] and [[Twitter]] automatically. People seem to enjoy my more "social" posts on Twitter, which is great. And I definitely reach different people on Mastodon, in a nice way.

Using the StrictEq post as an example again, yeah, I hate the "title":

“The code you depend on depends on you” @kemitchell’s commercial license sales for public software

But I have to craft it knowing that it will get cross-posted to Twitter and to Mastodon. I guess that’s another wishlist item for [[Micro.blog]]: for non-micro-blog posts that have a title, allow for a "cross posting excerpt".

Otherwise, your only other option is to:

1. turn off cross-posting for the initial publish of the blog post and then
2. make a micro blog length post that links to your blog post.

Hmm. Now that I think about it, that’s actually not bad, but I’ve found toggling cross posting to be really confusing. I need to experiment with the Mb mobile app and run some experiments to see if I can figure it out, the UI is just not good for this.

2021-01-13§

• Review [[daily]].
• [[agora plan]] I need to add an automatic [[yesterday]] link in the [[agora]] for journal entries.
  • [[2021-01-12]]
• [[linguistic example sentences]]
• [[mastodon]]
  • [[navertal]] told me about [[extropian.net]]
  • [[pee-zombie]] told me about [[pinafore]]
    • [[vera]] knew about it already: [[fediverse]]
      • I wonder if I should start using [[fediverse]] instead of [[mastodon]]; I need to clear up my categories in this space.
• [[push]] [[mastodon instances]]
  • [[shelling]]
  • [[social.coop]]
  • [[extropian.net]]
• [[douglas crowford]]
  • [[The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil]]
• [[boris mann]] told me about a new [[ethical license]].
  • Also [[polyform]]
• [[push]] [[music]]
  • I like [[juliana barwick]]‘s [[prizewinning]]
  • [[defcon radio]]
  • [[soma fm]]
  • [[nts]]
  • [[slow focus]]
• [[push]] [[licenses]]
  • [[ml5.js]]
  • [[blue oak]]
• I sometimes feel like a [[hype man]].
• [[ana ulin]]
• [[hypnagogic]]
  • Pointed me to [[liberapay]], [[libravatar]].
• [[bip39]]
• [[push]] [[agora plan]]
  • [[anonymous subnodes]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1349330715553505280 pull
  • [[extensible redirects]] https://social.coop/@flancian/105548504652791347
• [[foucaults turtlenecks]]
• [[foam settings]]
• [[protopoi]]
• [[moa party]]
• [[flask]]
• [[anarchist]]
• [[mapping the fediverse]]
  • [[david mynors]] told me about [[fediverse.space]]
• [[agora plan]]
  • [[push]] [[done]]
    • [[implement]] [[push]]
      • Parse markdown tree with [[marko]]. Find [[push]] blocks, grab children.
        • This ended up being horrible.
        • But I’m already rendering markdown to pretty nice looking html, so…
      • [[lxml]] saves the day again!
      • Render as detached subnodes in the target for now.
• Caught up with some emails and agora related [[comms]].
• [[push]] [[meditations]]
  • Where I fail, may [[you]] succeed.

[[doing]]§

• [[gift]] [[escuela de aprendices]] to [[ana]]

[[do]]§

• [[agora plan]] today, a [[wednesday]], I want to:
  • Fix [[nested [[links]]]] to some extent
  • Export [[goodreads]] database, import into the [[agora]].

11:46 log and daily standup

forgot to do this for the past few days… and i suppose it's not exactly the start of the day today either. oh well.

Previously, I:

• Worked through all of the NixOS configuration ideas I had and formatted them, rephrasing in both my wiki and on github issues to map out future work

• Started to learn colemak on my keyboard

today I'm going to:

• Set up matrix, hosting both the web app and the server, on my VPS configuration

• Get through all of the mails in my inbox

• Fix my planck so that it always uses colemak so that I can continue to learn it

• Ship the cards that I sold a few days ago

• Hunt down my Google Fi SIM and deactivate it

• Evaluate how I want to deal with the 'TODOs' in my wiki

2021-02-13§

• [[flan]]
• [[merveilles]] is a [[town]]
  • [[in the arcades]]
• [[datascript]]
• [[proposal]]
• [[review]] [[textkonzept-mtr]]
• [[push]] [[recipes]]
  • [[pull]] [[jerusalem]]
  • [[flourless banana bread]]
• [[symbiont]]
  • [[satyagraha]]
• [[2021 eneri]]
• [[agora promnesia]]
  • [[eq]] [[promnesia agora]]
• [[push]] [[boris mann]]
  • [[ipfs]]
  • [[fission whitepaper]]
  • [[micropub]]
• [[remarkable]]
• [[teodor-heggelund]]
• [[brian kernighan]]
• [[nobu hibiki]]
• [[push]] [[snufkin]]
  • introduced me to [[omar rizwan]]: https://twitter.com/sn_fk_n/status/1360657129431068677 pull
• [[public keys]]
  • [[public key]]
• [[devine]]
• met [[maleza]]
• [[auto wikilinking]]
• [[in the arcades]]

21:50

shame and guilt

src "Shame is distinct from guilt because it isn’t about responsibility: it’s about feeling like the very way you are is insufficient and bad and embarrassing. If you’ve read any Brene Brown you probably already know that guilt can be adaptive and helpful, but shame is dangerous."

It's scary to keep putting yourself out there - to say the one thing that will be deemed wrong - and fall into the depths of the internet's vilification of your choice of words.

Effort

src social media success off of the back of all of the money and effort towards preparing a public image if someone is much better than you at something, they are probably trying much harder. we're underestimating how much effort they put in into what they're interested in!

why the process? the ugliness of trying and wanting and hoping and working are fascinating. sustained tenacity - and deep work - are so so so valuable.

a lot of people want to be but do not want to do - and there is an obvious solution to this. i am incredibly ashamed of rejection and of imperfection, so i stray from trying to do things, but in doing so i constantly grapple with not doing things. it's clear that my doing things would be much better than not doing so. if the writer isn't having fun then the reader doesn't either. if you love the process, then your work will be better enjoyed - because it is done out of love.

two types of people: people who are ashamed of something and choose not to do it, and people who choose to do it anyway and just hide it. it is so much harder to be the latter - but being ugly is 'the price that unlocks everything beautiful in the world'.

bury your insecurity by making things and making them so well that you look good.

angel investments and startups as a new grad

src

• join an accelerator! learn more about this

• look into venture funding and venture partners. these could be super useful. contrary capital seems very cool, as does the dorm room fund.

• keep studying and reaching out to others. building credibility through product helps with this

• apply to tons of hackathons and conferences to get travel reimbursed!

• start or join a small, supportive community

• advantageous twitter work:

  • network, network, network. personally

  • stick to your own voice and identity

  • cold message everyone who inspires you!

  • build cool things : )

thinking, better

lessons learned from self teaching

• use spaced repetition system and review ever yday without fail

• learn math rigorously! work hard! start learning math - hard! drill on what to remember. lots of good anki tips in this article.

• read several textbooks concurrently. this allows the brain to cement the topics you're learning at the same time so that everything builds and cements concurrently. blurry to sharp approach rather than progressive one

• as you read more you learn what's most important. don't strive to go front to back

• read easier textbooks! don't struggle for fun!

• be comfortable learning approximate models rather than focusing on learning with depth right away

taboo

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/M8cEyKmpcbYzC2Lv5/exercise-taboo-should

• virtue theory: people who eat virtuous foods will be rewarded, and sinners will be punished

• this could actually be true if you look at the paper lol what

2021-02-13§

• [[Issue when updating spacemacs: Failed to checkout ‘evil-impaired’]]

• Trying out homage-white theme for [[spacemacs]] look’n’feel. Quite nice.

• [[Nextcloud issue: "Error creating conflict dialogue!"]]

2021-02-13§

• Started reading [[Blockchain Chicken Farm]] by [[Xiaowei Wang]]. Such an interesting perspective on the relationship between technology and current geopolitics in China. I’ve historically have had zero interest in treveling to China but now I might reconsider…

I find most of the tension between the recently labeled [[content web vs app web]].

The people who complain about unreadable pages bloated with JS to read a blog post are right.

The people who want to build local first, browser-centric apps are right.

From a discussion in the [[wikilinks]] Matrix channel with @karlicoss

A listing of single purpose scripts and widgets that use Vanilla [[JavaScript]] rather than being part of a larger framework.

2021-03-13§

• [[yesterday]]: [[2021 03 12]]
• [[el evangelio del coyote]]
• [[do]]
  • answer [[codex]]: https://twitter.com/codexeditor/status/1370185921010622465 pull
• [[accesskey]]
• [[x]] told me about:
  • [[prettier]]
• [[book]]
• [[entity]]
• [[13e4c4ff6674e94819e7b22bac56e91645a9b389]] made [[agora urls]] fully user controlled.
• [[drive safe homie]]
• [[can’t get you out of my head]]
• [[push]] [[dj shadow]]
  • [[building steam with a grain of salt]]: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5CE2IfdYZEQGIDsfiRm8SI
  • [[midnight in a perfect world]]
• [[love will tear us apart]]
• [[convergence]]
• [[done]]
  • [[uprank stoas]]
    • did it the lazy way: just put stoas second everywhere, and have the ‘not found’ message be more welcoming for nodes with no agora contributions: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1370843753951420417 pull
• [[push]] [[2021 03 14]]
  • [[push]] [[todo]] [[distributed agora]]
    • read about [[ipfs]] and [[ipld]] and discuss with [[x]]
  • [[push]] [[todo]] [[reading alexander]]
    • [[read]] [[notsof]]
  • check out [[ultra fractal]]
• [[frantz fanon]]

2021-04-13§

• [[flancia foundation]]
  • [[goals]]

2021-04-13§

• Reading: [[Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother’s Garden Club]]

I get the [[single dose vaccine]] today. They issued a statement saying it was giving people blood clots. I’m kinda scared but I’m gonna get it anyway because fuck corona

I have a housing interview tomorrow. It’s further out of town than I wanted but we’ll see if the people are cool.

[[nepomuk]]

Ive been digging more into [[kde]] internals lately. Plasma is such a good desktop. I want to try it on mobile some day.

[[teratogen]]

• [[trailmarks]]
• [[push]] [[2021-05-27]]
  • [[tools for thought]]
• [[push]] [[josephine foster]]
  • reminded me of [[karen dalton]]
• [[watch]]
  • [[ikuru]]
• [[bag of holding]]
• [[yoga 17]]
• [[nts]]
• [[agora ctzn]]
• [[rosa sabater]]
  • [[avianca 11]]
• [[cosmos network]]
• [[chorus one]]
• [[schelling point]]
• [[do]]
  • [[moa]]
  • [[agora server]]
• [[flask]]
• [[tmux resize]]
• [[self defense]] and [[satyagraha]]: compatible or not?
• [[usability]]

2021-05-13§

• [[Space Cats Fight Fascism]]
  • It arrived recently. We’ve been playing it a lot and it is great fun.
• Watched: Nadia Eghbal: The Making and Maintenance of our Open Source Infrastructure
  • [[Free software economics]]
  • [[Libre software]] as both a [[public good]] and as a [[Commons]].
• [[How to get RSS feeds of Facebook pages]]
• Listened: [[Dare to Repair: How We Broke the Future]]
• Read: [[The Nature of Lisp]]
• Reading: [[Free, Fair and Alive]]
  • The insurgent power of the commons.
  • [[commons-public partnerships]]
• [[What is the relationship between cooperatives and the commons?]]

editing my daily

Bro this is rad

more edits from phone

Rocklin

Just realized you can edit the height of rich text editor by dragging.

• [[agora actions]]
  • [[ack]]
  • [[receive]]
• [[vera]]
  • [[twitter bridge]]
  • [[twitter api]]
• [[rusp]]
• [[org mode]]
  • [[orgzly]]
• [[logseq]]
  • tried it again. it’s improved a lot
  • took 3 minutes to
• someone recommended [[inside]] (comedy special) on [[hn]]
• got back to [[ryan]]
• did a run through [[do]], it felt great — must remember this
  • also wondered

2021-06-13§

• [[Decentralisation]]:

  As Vitalik Buterin once layed out, it helps to see decentralisation as having multiple dimensions, in his view these three: technical, political, and logical. A technically decentralised network with a single developer influencing its progress is politically centralised. And if all nodes have to share the same data (the modus operandi of blockchains) it is logically centralised.

  – Redecentralize Digest — April 2021 — Redecentralize.org

• What is [[Web 3.0]] actually.

• [[Peer Production License]].

• Read: [[At least 130,000 households in England made homeless in pandemic]]

  • And that was with the eviction ban - due to domestic abuse and loss of temporary accomodation. The eviction ban ended 1st June 2021 in the UK. There will probably be a lot more evictions.
  • I could perhaps use IndieKit as a Micropub endpoint - it pushes to git repos for content storage.

• going back to daily note, weekly was giving me too much of an excuse to not have a daily routine. The every day creation of at least one note is beneficial to my mental health.

• [[cheap calculator]]
• [[flancia]] is [[living in the future]]
  • [[the people united will never be defeated]]
• [[edsger dijkstra]]
• [[vitaly kaloyev]]
• [[anything]]
• [[stpa]]
  • [[stpa workshop]]

⥅ [[Pasted image 20210714003755.png]]

2021-08-13§

• First Friday of summer vacations. It’s gotten warm again, but it seems like weather will turn colder and rainier again over the weekend.
• [[james baird]] https://twitter.com/james_d_baird/status/1372936895668322309 pull
• [[gyuri lajos]]
  • told me about:
    • [[open sherlock]] https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
    • [[hyperknowledge]] http://hyperknowledge.org/
    • [[topic quests]] http://www.topicquests.org/
    • [[image snippets]] https://imagesnippets.com/
    • [[decentralized media]]
      • a [[panel]]
        • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mwbNhmlEA&t=2906s
• [[font of augurs]]
  • [[unfurling]]
• [[ted nelson]]
  • [[intertwingularity]]
  • [[computer lib dream machines]]
• [[push]] [[done]]
  • proofread [[teresa]]
  • get back to [[pesho ivanov]]
  • catch up with [[gyuri lajos]]
  • catch up with [[vera]]
  • catch up with [[mohammed]]
  • [[donate]]
    • [[isrg]]
    • [[eff]]
  • finish iteration on [[agora install]]
    • better now!
  • finish setting up second [[agora]] in [[patera]]
    • [[push]] [[patera]]
      • https://1.anagora.org pull
    • [[push]] [[thecla]]
      • https://0.anagora.org pull
  • [[yoga]]
    • [[earth practice]]
  • [[agora bridge]]
    • [[gardens.py]]
      • is now [[pull.py]]
        • auto creates target directory if it can
• [[do]]
  • [[push]] [[code]]
    • decide whether we want autopush or not, and when it’ll happen
    • continue working on [[url pulls]]
  • [[push]] [[edit]]
    • see [[meta]], I think this could be interesting

2021-09-13§

• [[bolo bolo]]
• worked half a day today because of good old weird [[knabenschiessen]]: the second weirdest holiday in ZRH.
• a [[privileged container]] process in [[firefox]] was taking up almost 10g of RAM, brought me into OOM killer territory. what was that about?
• ran into [[jpreston]] in [[hn]]
  • https://jpreston.xyz/1d-isomorphic-chromatic-piano-keyboard-mod.html
  • [[searx]] https://jpreston.xyz/custom-search-engine.html

2021-10-13§

• backnoded [[2021-10-12]]
• [[escaping flatland]] https://escapingflatland.substack.com/p/apprenticeship-online
• [[jorge olmos]] reached out about the [[agora]]
• [[wuxga]]
• [[hypha]]
  • [[compost]]
  • meeeting tonight
• [[agora bridge]]
  • testing [[agora repo api]]
    • git.anagora.org
      • GET / crashes node due to git-backend.ts:10 not handling unset path
        • fixed, now prints help
    • api.anagora.org
      • GET / now works
      • need to test endpoints with curl
        • done — added README.md to [[go/agora-bridge]] with curl invocations (directory: api)
    • discussed changes with [[vera]]: we want to support multiple repos so they can be forked/turned on and off independently (and have per-repo auth)
    • I guess I could use vscode to do typescript development?
      • it’s working better than vim, at least out of the box, for sure
• [[i am a strange loop]]
  • nice coverage of [[principia mathematica]] and [[gödel]]‘s theorems
  • [[chapter 16]] has the tightest definition of self as a strange loop so far
  • [[chapter 18]] was strangely moving
  • [[non serviam]] by [[stanislaw lem]] reminded me of a book I wanted to read

• You are here to settle all argument.
• [[Authority]] is what is like an author, and an author is a male agent who [[nourishes]] to [[enlarge]].
• It costs much less [[energy]] to [[move]] yourself than it does to move others.

• [[hypha 2021-10-13]]

[hypha 2021-10-13]: ../pages/hypha 2021-10-13.md "hypha 2021-10-13" [//end]: # "Autogenerated link references"

• [[hypha 2021-10-13]]

2021-11-13§

• [[jazz at the pawnshop]]
• [[bernardo]] and [[martin]] came over, are visiting until Wednesday.
• [[james joyce]]
  • [[james joyce’s grave]]
• how could the [[agora]] contribute to other efforts?
  • [[push]] [[do]]
    • [[indieweb]]
      • make the [[agora]] support some of its protocols. [[neil]] recommends [[microformats]] to begin with.
      • also [[webmentions]] for [[comments]] and [[annotations]]
  • [[push]] [[do]]
    • [[fedwiki]] perhaps contribute to surfacing great fedwiki content elsewhere? and just use it ([[vera]])
• [[push]] [[do]]
  • fix [[firefox]] locale
  • test case; https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ijqtIU2ryjw&feature=share
• [[wikilinks everywhere]] -> [[patterns everywhere]]
• [[ramon llull]] inspired [[leibniz]]

2021-11-13§

• Hey, it’s [[Aaron Swartz Day]] today.

• Some good talks/projects at the hackathon (https://www.aaronswartzday.org/)

  • [[Bad Apple]] - holding law enforcement accountable and putting an end to police misconduct
  • [[Open Library]] - an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published
  • [[Internet Archive]] seem to be talking about decentralisation of IA
  • [[Cory Doctorow]] talking about various things including the [[right to repair]]
  • [[SecureDrop]] - whistleblower submission system to securely accept documents from anonymous sources

2021-12-13§

• [[push]] [[2021-12-12]]
  • I ended up working yesterday too on incident response :)
    • It was tiring but I don’t regret it.
    • I’m taking two days of time off in lieu in the following 2w.
• [[push]] [[code]]
  • [[noindex]] in dev
    • plus some slight improvement to the title of the site, which shows in tabs and titlebars
    • feel like improving the [[landing page]] now — it’d be nice to [[graph the Agora]], I’ve been meaning to do that for a while.
      • we currently only graph nodes — even improving that graph with node names would add a lot. hmm.
  • [[agora rss]]
    • delayed from the weekend but that’s alright :)
  • [[import stoa]]
    • [[hedgedoc]] nodes with actual text should be auto-imported into the [[agora]] so we get wikilink/push/pull/go support.
  • rank streams lower than gardens?
    • so social media doesn’t obscure in-agora resources
• [[indie web]]
• [[yoga 11]]
• [[electric octopus]]

• You surprise an opponent by presenting them with more choices. How may you present an opponent with more choices? [[war]] [[unarmed]]

2022-01-13§

• [[do]]
  • answer pending emails
  • review [[2022-01]]
  • [[start writing]]

2022-01-13§

• [[Buy Nothing]]

• Learning a bit more about the policing bill. [[I strongly dislike the policing bill]].

• [[Nathan Schneider]] has published his paper on [[Governable stacks]], can’t wait to read this published version.

• Really enjoyed a short day away in nature.

  • Saw a red squirrel running along a fallen tree.
  • Saw a buzzard across the lake with the binoculars that wouldn’t have been able to perceive otherwise.
  • Saw lovely patterning of the underside of buzzards’ wings as they hovered high above.

• [[Coronavirus]] claims, mostly depressing.

  • [[More Covid variants are inevitable]]
  • [[Omicron will not fizzle out in the foreseeable future]]
  • [[It’s not in Covid-19’s own interests to become more mild over time]]
  • [[T cell defences have proved far more robust against Covid]]

• I’ve been studying the effects of [[psychodelic drugs]] on [[neuroplasticity]] and [[depression]]
• [[gregg shorthand]]
• [[Oliver Cromwell]]
• [[Brittany]]
• studying languages for my own shorthand language. I enjoy being an [[amatuer linguist]]
• listening to [[lofi girl]] playlist [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qap5aO4i9A]
• messing with [[gitea]] integration with the [[agora]]
• editing [[agora plans]] with things I want to change for my own sanity

• Testing [[liberal dates]] :)

• [[resonate]]
• [[candles]]
• try [[resonate]] today
• [[theruran]]
  • [[triple bottom line]]
    • [[fourth bottom line]]
• [[eric lortie]]
  • [[church of earth]]
    • "Using the platform is intended to be monetized through crypto and the data generated by using the platform is intended to be relevant to AGI research. It’s also intended to bridge the gap between virtual and physical communities so I developed a democratic social movement around it intended to manage and operate the platform."
    • "In many ways it’s basically the simplest and most unsubtle thing I could make using all of my skills with the goal of improving the world for everyone."
    • I can relate!
• [[do]]

  • see also [[now]], [[later]] :)

  • DONE talk to family

  • DONE pay taxes

  • DONE laundry

  • DONE yoga

  • DONE [[one pomodoro]]

  • DONE meditate

  • DONE [[one pomodoro]]

    CLOCK: [2022-02-13 Sun 18:29:49] :END:

• [[green]]

• Leí [[Pinceladas sobre una poeta española. Ángela Figuera Aymerich]].

2022-02-13§

• Really enjoyed reading @ntnsndr’s article [[Governable Stacks against Digital Colonialism]] for [[node club]]. Makes a ton of sense to me.

  • The ability to self-govern feels key to any alternative to big tech that we build or use, and feels a lot like commoning.
  • And the ‘stack’ element is vital - what use would a democratically-owned social media platform be, say, if it runs on a server owned by Amazon and you access it on a device locked down by Apple or Google over internet from a big telco.
  • And take it further, long-term what use is any of it if at the very bottom layer of the stack is a capitalist society?

• Cooperatives and commoning seem a good model for socialising the layers of the stack. I think [[Libre software]], [[libre hardware]], [[right to repair]], [[peer-to-peer networks]], [[Community broadband]] are all good projects to spend time on.

• I loved this interview with [[Fritjof Capra]] on his new book [[Patterns of Connection]].

  • https://newbooksnetwork.com/patterns-of-connection
  • As you might expect, there’s a lot about systems thinking, complexity science, science and sprituality, activism.
  • Some random notes:
    • Systems thinking is about patterns, relationships and contexts.
    • The machine metaphor from 17th century science is still too prevalent. The network is a better metaphor to live by.
    • The [[Battle of Seattle]] was the start of a global civil society.
    • He recommends the [[Earth Charter]].
    • There’s generally conflict between science and religion, less so science and spirituality.

• For today:

  • DONE get appointment with dermatologist for regular checkup

  • LATER do one session of [[capra course]] (backlogged)

  • DONE [[mastodon]] bot improvements

    • DONE cleans up lists

    • DONE catches up!

    • DONE twitter bot improvements

      • this is supposedly done but [[twitter 429s]] keep getting in the way
      • I complained to Twitter, again: https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1503111740506132484 pull
      • If only they responded to questions/complaints from users
      • I even signed up for their developer forum, others have the same issue without any answers

  • [[agora matrix bot]] linked repo

  • LATER decide next step :) take a look at [[NOW]] and [[LATER]]?

• [[society of mind]]
• [[adriene mishler]]
  • [[yoga with adriene]]
    • [[go/move]] [[flight]] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev9cKmJZy8c&list=PLui6Eyny-Uzyp5P3Vcuv5qCHQOC8W6grN&index=14
• [[luciana]] recommended [[martha nussbaum]]
  • [[for love of country?]]
• [[masa de empanadas]]
• #push [[gil]]
  • [[global interpreter lock]]
• #push [[agora twitter community]]
  • #go https://twitter.com/i/communities/1503048861581037573/
• should [[agora bot]] be a [[boost bot]] by default?
  • or only for [[agorans]]?
  • …probably only for [[agorans]].

I posted about the [[glitch tiddlywiki setup]] on [[reddit]]. I hope that’s not too self-aggrandizing — for some reason, since spending so much time working on my website, ordinary [[social media]] feels very attention-seeking. Like that’s the point of it. I don’t think that’s really true exactly — that isn’t how I used to feel when I was using it more… but since I’m used to, you know, [[Mastodon]], where my average post engagement is a flatline… my own intentionally flaky site metrics… the choice to use something normal, once removed from habit, seems like it could only be because you want to point the "discovery" eyeball hose at your thing. (I know that’s not, like, reality, and of course I’m only musing on this because of a post made to a 2.1k-subscriber subreddit, which is, like, rounding error in Reddit terms, but…)

Anyway, I like the idea that [[glitch]] can make [[tiddlywiki]] point and click simple. Maybe it’s not quite there. Always comes down to [[documentation]], doesn’t it?

2022-03-13§

• Thinking about better ways for [[Syncing my annotations from koreader]].

• Listened: [[Becoming Organizers]]

  • The bit about the need for [[collective memory]] for political organisations seems like a potential use case for [[Agora]].

• [[work]]
  • long day but with fewer meetings, I was able to get done what I set out to do in the day for a change, which felt nice :)
• [[sci fi]]
  • we’re watching [[severance]] and it started well.
  • I had come up with a similar premise for a short story a few years ago (not surprising, it’s not very complex: people choosing to forsake their memories from periods of work) — so it’s naturally interesting to see it unfold.

2022-04-13§

• There’s a good amount of mentions of [[repair and reuse in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report]].

• [[Google and right to repair]]

  • Read: [[Google Will Sell Pixel Batteries, Repair Parts to Customers]]
  • Read: [[Google joins Samsung in working with iFixit on a self-repair program]]

• [[Manufacturers and the right to repair]]

  • Read: [[Manufacturers are Joining the Fight for Repair]]

• Read: [[Can urban mining help to save the planet?]]

• finally set up [[remote access]] to my home computers ([[ssh]] + [[public key]] auth only)

  • the asus router dyndns never worked, turns out it’s completely broken for all providers
  • why are routers so broken all the time?
  • a [[cronjob]] in the computer I expect to leave with one [[curl]] invocation solved it
    • can do the same with the router later I guess but I’m not sure I’m going to keep this one

• LATER [[social coop tech group]] meeting tonight! looking forward.

• [[chris aldrich]] recommended I take a look at [[logseq opml drummer]], [[phone to note]]

  • https://twitter.com/phonetonote/status/1522347570269499397 pull
  • LATER will do so [[tonight]] or over the [[weekend]]

• #push [[maybes]]

  • #push [[maybe]]
    • [[creo que me gusta alguien]

• I try to love all sentient beings by default, always kindly

  • [[if you love, love kindly]]

• [[rodrigo baraglia]]

• [[diego de la hera]]

  • [[hypothesis]]
    • [[dan whaley]]

• [[phone to note]] == [[phonetonote]]

  • [[scott]]

• [[mantra]]

• [[shantideva]]

• [[eroica]]

• [[]]

2022-05-13§

• [[Red Plenty]] is so good. Francis Spufford is a great writer.

• Feeling quite inspired by the [[Transition Together Summit]]. I know there are criticisms of [[Transition town]]s but hard not to be inspired by all these examples of community projects. It all feels quite [[municipalist]]. There is a cadre of peeps there interested in the tech to support this kind of local community building, too.

• Testing out logseq
• LATER figure out how plugins work on mobile

• Traveling to the [[US]] after three years!
  • For [[work]] but of course I’ll try to enjoy the weekends as mini vacations (without going too crazy, I need rest).
  • Will be meeting friends in [[Raleigh]], [[Seattle]] and [[Portland]].
  • I plan to keep a travel journal in [[us trip 2022]], let’s see if it sticks.
• [[agora]]
  • Discussed options with [[mohammed]].
  • Lots of pending messages, I’ll try to catch up on my free but jetlagged day after I get to [[Durham]].
  • [[agora server]]
    • review next action, see pending items from the weekend?
  • [[agora bridge]]
    • opt in writes is still pending and it seems relatively straightforward to do
  • I forgot to check out repositories locally so I wasn’t able to work on any of this in the airplane (I don’t like paying for wifi).
• #push [[meta]] as of today, my [[digital garden]] has 247k words — I checked using [[wc]].
  • Is that a lot? I just realized I have no idea, and having no internet currently, checking is not trivial.
    • I think a thesis has about 30k words, but I forget if that’s bachelors or masters? And I might just be off.
    • 30k words is precisely what my journals so far have.
  • I started my garden back when I was using [[roam research]] in the first half of [[2020]].

• [[arghzero]]
• [[work]]
• #push [[meditations]]
  • [[gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha]]
• [[diego de la hera]]

2022-07-13§

• So cool that [[KeePassXC]] comes with a CLI! Makes sense but I hadn’t realised. That is very handy for me.

• Listened: [[The Uber files: the unicorn]]

  • Generally been avoiding a lot of the [[Uber Files]] stuff so far. Not quite sure why… it’s just kind of depressing I guess. And kind of confirming what was already known or suspected - that a firm built on aggression, growth and toxic masculinity is corrupt and rotten on the inside as well as the outside.

• [[Growth]].

What the system has done, as a mechanism to continue with growth at all costs, is actually to burn the future. And the future is the least renewable resource. There is no way that we can reuse the time we had when we started this conversation. And by building up a system which is more debt-driven—where we keep consumption going, but by creating more and more debt—what we’re actually doing is burning or stealing the time of people in the future. Because their time will be devoted to repaying the debt

– The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization's Collapse | WIRED (h/t Doug Belshaw)

• [[memberspace]]
• [[open freely]]
• comcast technician is currently drilling through concrete in my basement
• [[bloom]] new gpt-3 competitor

• [[yoga]] at midnight, backdated technically: [[go/move/12]]
• [[poems]]
  • [[burn burn burn]]
  • [[gone gone]]
  • they could be one or two?
• [[flancia]]
  • [[flancia meet]]
    • nobody showed, but it was a good motivation to start the day relatively early even though I went to bed very late :)
  • [[elena]]
    • [[carlas bargalló]]
    • [[beethoven]]
      • [[7]]
      • [[5]]
      • [[9]]
      • [[3]]
      • [[6]]
      • #todo [[4]]
    • [[serrat]]
      • [[mediterráneo]]
      • [[caminante]]
    • [[violeta parra]]
    • [[paseo]]
    • [[agora]]
  • [[agora]]
    • #push [[agora pkg chapter]]
      • received updated [[guidelines]] yesterday
      • will probably move to a [[google doc]] as that’ll be the medium used for editing (makes sense because of the comment flows)
        • although the end result will still make it back to Markdown
        • happy about this I think? it’s a good opportunity to "reboot" the effort which I partly need to do.
    • found some bugs I really feel like fixing :)
      • feed updates are missing the node name for some reason
      • agora bot mastodon keeps responding to push nonstop!
        • this I need to fix as I’d be a bad fediverse citizen if I didn’t?
    • [[agora doc]]

• ‘What is the lay of the land’ is generally more useful than ‘who am I’?

• [[vacation]]
  • as I’m on holiday, I’m taking some time to try to update [[paramita]] to [[wayland]] :D
  • this will be my second computer on wayland, after [[sila]] (a work laptop).
  • installed:
    • [[sway]]
    • [[kanshi]]
    • [[kitty]]
    • [[grimshot]]
    • [[swaylock]]
    • [[wofi]]
  • [[revolution]]

I sometimes [[procrastinate]] on important things, does that make me a [[jerk]]? I think maybe it does, and I should [[curb my bullshit]].

People don’t seem to be, on the average or even at high percentile, nearly as interested on the [[revolution]]] as I am. Does that make me a [[jerk]] if I practice it, which includes talking about it? I’m not sure, but I don’t think it does.

• I wonder if I should let [[agora protocol]] go, let the chips fall as they may, move beyond it which could mean leave it behind (sometimes), write light as a feather if I have to.
  • (I’ll take the [[path]], I’ll cross that [[bridge]] if I have to.)

So I asked a few friends what they thought of the Revolution as it relates to the [[Flancia]] project; I’m interested on their take.

• [[l]]
  • visited to pick up clothes; we took a cool 2h walk to a nearby mountain/hill with a view of the city, had a nice chat and drank mate.

Now I am in the park near home with my laptop for a short outdoors [[hacking]] session (?).

• #push [[pipewire]]
  • [[stream audio over the network]]
• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]

• spending the day with [[friends]]! very happy about it.
  • [[m]] has his birthday.
  • [[v]] and [[b]] are also here.
• [[cscw]] ~ [[computer supported cooperative work]]
• [[synthesis infrastructures workshop]] ~ [[siw]]
  • [[metasj]]
  • [[jonny]]
  • [[joel chan]]
  • [[breakout rooms]]
  • [[meta]]
    • [[zoom]] https://discord.com/channels/1029514961782849607/1032530308505026611/1041357236909383680
    • why [[zoom]] instead of [[jitsi]] or [[big blue button]]?
• [[confoederatio helvetica flanciana]]
• [[v]]
  • importance of [[calendars]], [[reminders]]
• [[mpdominguez]]

2022-11-13§

• Upgraded [[orgzly]].

  • Nice to see it seems to be actively developed again.
  • Got an error from f-droid: No versions with compatible signature
    • Think it was because I’d installed a different custom build previously.
  • New version looks different! I’ll get used to it.

• Listened: [[Pakistan Floods and COP 27 with Asad Rehman]]

  • On the [[2022 Pakistan floods]]. The paucity of the global response and the effects of debt servitude - the majority of Pakistan’s taxes go on debt repayment.

2022-12-13§

• [[Sprucing up an old Windows 8.1 laptop]]. I’m honestly surprised by how crappy the Windows 8.1 experience is. The number of things that just don’t work. I can’t create a new user. I can’t turn on Family Safety. It just comes back with random errors. Honestly - I’m not a blind partisan, I am always pragmatic. But Linux is much better than this, and has been for years.

• [[2023-01-12]]
• [[work]]
• [[yoga with x]]
  • [[center]] day 13
• [[2023-01-14]]

2023-02-13§

• [[Synchronized pomodoros]]
  • [[Pomodoros]]
    • p0: reviewing presentation 2 for [[YXM830]]
    • p1: reviewing presentation 2 for [[YXM830]]
    • p2: reviewing presentation 2 for [[YXM830]]
      • Interruptions
        • External, had to stop halfway through and come back later
  • People
    • Just me
  • Music
    • [[The Black Dog - Brutal Five To One Mix V2]] - via resonate
  • Thoughts
    • Boom! Smashed it. Doing these pomodoros has kept me on track to review my peers’ presentations for YXM830. I’ve noticed I’ve gotten a lot better with avoiding internal distractions as I’ve gone along, too.

• [[Work]] until ~21, although I had a [[social.coop]] meeting before my last meeting.
  • It was all nice.
• Slept very well at night.

• New [[businesses]] will need a tighter feedback loop with potential [[customers]].
  • [[Explore]] what the [[people]] you want to serve [[want]] and [[need]] before deciding on a [[product]].
• [[Who]] do you want to serve? Who [[needs]] you most?
  • What are their most [[pain]]ful [[problems]]? collapsed:: true
    • Can they [[pay]]?
      • Look for a [[solution]] that solves the [[problem]] inside their workflow.
• Looking at [[things]] close by, how were they [[made]]? Who made them, and who were they made for? How do they use it?

• [[flancia]] all day!
• [[flancia meet]]
  • [[java assignment]]
  • [[apl]]
  • [[nodeinfo]]
  • [[mycomarkup]]
  • [[sourcehut]]
  • [[git email]]
    • Sent trivial patch to [[mycomarkup]] to learn how to send email patches — worked well after the initial gmail setup.
• [[social coop]]
  • want to advance the wiki-alpha setup, maybe finish it?
  • and start hacking on the ansible recipe to move registrations to join.social.coop
• [[buddhism]]

  • #push [[mala]]

    • a typical mala has [[108]] beads, and the reason is combinatorial :)
      • 6 senses * (past, present, future) * (good, bad, neutral) * (internal, external)

  • [[shaolin monastery]]

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Monastery pull

  • [[taixu]]

    • is incidentally one of the buggy Agora locations that redirect to Wikipedia automatically
      • I like it as a potential feature maybe but it should feel more optional ;)
      • fix
• [[agora]]
  • So many bugs to fix :)
  • But first, I want to add [[mycomarkup]] support!
• #push [[AG]]
  • [[Reithalle]] Bern
    • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturzentrum_Reitschule pull
  • [[Beautiful]]

• Triggering [[resistance]] in someone makes it more likely that they will commit to the position they talked about- after they’ve talked about it. So, it will make it harder for them to [[change]] if they talk with a position against the change.
  • "[[Turn]] in the [[direction]] of the skid" while [[driving]] on [[ice]]. Once [[traction]] is established, then turn.
    • The person who is to be changed has to be the one to [[talk]] about why they should [[change]].
      • To [[change]], [[people]] need to see a difference between what they [[want]] and what is.
        • When something someone is doing goes against something they deeply [[want]], it is what they are doing that will [[change]]. collapsed:: true
          • Mis[[alignment]] can be necessary for [[change]], since it is the first step to noticing a [[difference]] between what they [[want]] and what they do. collapsed:: true
            • What would make someone consider how the way things are doesn’t [[fit]] them?
            • What would make someone consider a [[change]] to [[fit]] them?
            • What would make someone consider that [[change]] is possible?
            • What would make someone [[talk]] about how they are going to [[change]]?
          • [[Change]] can only come to people if a part of them really does [[want]] to change.
          • [[Change]] is easier when it is drawn out gently, instead of pushed.
        • A kind of [[talk]] to people to help [[change]]. collapsed:: true
          • collapsed:: true
            1. [[Accept]] where people are. [[Listen]] to them to hear where they are.
            2. Help [[explore]] what they [[want]] until they see a difference between what they want and what is.
            3. Go in the direction of their [[resistance]] to [[change]]. This is [[Kuzushi]].
            4. Give [[energy]] to anything they say that [[moves]] toward [[change]].
            • When something is seen as a [[block]] to their [[want]], they will be more likely to [[change]] it.
            • The perceived [[difference]] between what they [[want]] and what is has to be amplified to bridge the difficulty of [[moving]] to get what they want.
            • Ask about wants that might be blocked by the thing they are doing that needs to [[change]].
            • People are most persuaded by what they say. What do they [[notice]] that they say to themselves? What feels interesting to them? What are they excited at having said?
            • When there is [[push]] back, [[pull]] and [[move]] to [[change]] an [[angle]] very slightly.
            • Involve them in solving the [[problem]]. The [[solution]] has to be theirs, for them, to [[trust]] it.
            • When there is [[push]] back, [[shift]] to another [[angle]].
            • Someone cannot be [[responsible]] for [[change]] if they think they cannot change.
            • Offer help to [[change]], and give them the [[choice]] of taking it or leaving it.
        • A [[talk]] can move toward [[harmony]] or [[dissonance]].

• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
  • [[AG]] :)
  • My mum is visiting for a month and she’s been resting / enjoying being home with Lady Burup while I finish up with work before we travel :)

• Previously on [[2023-08-12]], note that time and date are in Philippine Standard Time as I write this, although you do you use UTC for simplicity.
  • TODO: Update this soon if hyperfixation/hyperfocus don’t make me forget to take notes here.
• Gonna do some hand laundry later the day
• OSS work at [[recaptime.dev]] or whatever
  • Anything you done so far, among other things
• Personal side projects
  • Nothing to see here.
• Across the interwebs
  • I forgot I have the multifandom multiverse mixtape over at Spotify, gonna reorganize shit later at YouTube side.
  • Actually installed Telegram Dekstop via Flatpak, because why not?

• In [[Flancia]] all weekend!

2023-08-13§

• Working on [[adding an RSS feed of recent activity to my org-roam digital garden with org-publish]].

  • And including it as a widget on my WordPress site.

• Read: [[The Brilliant Immanuel Wallerstein Was an Anticapitalist Until the End]]

• Listened: [[Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael, "Design Journeys Through Complex Systems Practice Tools for Systemic Design"]]

• Just adding (org-roam-db-auto-sync-enable) to my startup file seems to have fixed both my problem with completion at point of org-roam, and having to run org-roam-db-sync regularly. So that’s good!

• Sunday today that means Satsang. It’s always a nice end(beginning?) to my week
• It’s supposed to break 100F today. I’m grateful I have air conditioning 
• Was reading Bhagavad gita this morning. I have the kashmiri version with commentary from abhinavagupta

2023-09-13§

• Read: [[The Magic of Small Databases]]

  • Enjoyed this. Thoughts about an indie web approach to curating and sharing and collaborating on small lists, indexes, collections.

• [[Subconscious Beta]].

  • Been keeping an eye on it for a while, and I certainly like the sound of [[Noosphere]] and [[Subconscious]]. Collective knowledge management that is local-first and with data sovereignty. Discovery, feeds and follows of others is on the way apparently, which would be a great set of features I think.
  • It sounds kind of like a slicker Agora. But I don’t necessarily use ‘slick’ as meaning ‘better’. I love Agora’s ramshackle and homebrew approach.

• And I haven’t come across anything from Noosphere that suggests it has any politics of any kind. The beta announcement is signed off with "Let’s 10x humanity’s collective intelligence", which, absent of any political direction, is kind of problematic to me.

2023-11-13§

• Enjoying the [[This Machine Kills]] podcast.

  • All the episodes I’ve listened to have been excellent discussions on socialism and digital technologies so far.

• Having another attempt at getting RSS feed publishing working for commonplace. This time without trying to use a tempdir, caused too many problems last time.

• Listened: [[Kill the Ecomodernist in Your Head]]

• Listened: [[No King But Ludd (ft. Brian Merchant)]]

  • [[Blood in the Machine]] definitely sounds worth a read.

• org-roam on the mobile with Termux is going well. Using it regularly.

• Going to start posting my daily journal/log in the stream as well. So it’s a bit more discoverable/subscribeable.

• Been reading through [[Doughnut Economics]] again. Appreciating the chapter on [[systems thinking]].

• [[Hugo Blanco]] passed away.

• Watching [[Captain Fantastic]]. A lot of fun. Points out the problems of American (Western) society. Is what they have in the woods any better though?

• [[Flancia]]!
• [[13]]:
  • Stands for
    • [[Right Action]] ~ [[Right Conduct]]
    • [[Bodhicitta]] (second occurrence)
  • …in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
• [[AG]]
  • thank you!
• I re-watched:
  • [[Spirited Away]]:
    • loved it, I didn’t quite remember how surreal+beautiful it is
    • saw it after seeing [[Miyazaki’s last]] recently
  • [[Seinfeld]]:
    • Started with two classics; [[the stakeout]] and [[the jacket]].
• I remembered:
  • [[Avalokiteshjara]]
• I’ve been meaning to write [[open letters]] for some while now. So I think I’ll just do ahead and [[do it]].

2024-01-13§

• Listened: [[Microdose: A Festive 50 for 2023]]
  • Some good recs in here. To come back to and jot them down.

• [[yoga with x]] to start the day :)
  • and to finish it!
  • and the other way around, etc. ;)
  • [[go/flow]] means anagora.org/go/flow
• [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

2024-02-13§

• Read: [[Forest and Factory]]
  • So far: very interesting.
  • But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
  • And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
    • Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
  • Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.

2024-04-13§

• Noding from a new computer — [[Guanyin]] :)
  • Now back in [[Nostromo]] after work
• Thought of [[17]], and explored 17 musically as [[13 + 4]] (today it’s the 13th) and [[7 + 10]].
• [[digital capitalism]]
• [[yoga with x]]
• I found two notebooks that I had misplaced, or that had anyhow gotten out of my working context. It felt great, in particular one that I call [[25]].
• [[flaming lips]]:
  • [[summertime]]

• It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!

• Trying [[attachments]].
• [[AG]]
• [[Stapelberg]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[17]]
• [[scc]]

2024-05-13§

• [[Listened]]: [[Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism]]

• I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • The smell of [[Petrichor]] in the balcony.
• A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
• [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
• [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
  • it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
  • [[backup nostromo]]
  • then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
• thought about:
  • [[forking]]
  • [[merging]]
• [[bangers]]:
  • [[banger]]
• [[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
  • but things will hopefully get better :)

2024-11-13§

• The [[Our Changing Climate]] video channel is good.
  • Watched: [[Why We Need Socialism]]
  • Watched: [[What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?]]

• I’m writing this on my way to [[Japan]] ([[Fukuoka]]) from [[Honolulu]] :)
  • I just finished [[Story of your life]] and other stories by [[Ted Chiang]], I liked it a lot. I don’t know why I waited so long to read him more intensively after liking some of his short stories I read online.
  • Some related concepts/topics:
    • [[Fermat’s Principle of Least Time]]
    • [[The Castle of the Pyrenees]] by [[Magritte]]
  • He likes [[Borges]] (so do I as you might know). This came across most clearly maybe in his [[Golem]] related story, but there’s such an undercurrent in several stories and he uses the adjective [[Borgesian]] (IIRC) once.
• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[agora bot migration]]:
    • The current [[agora bot]] for Mastodon is still ceasing to work on [[2024-12-15]] as per https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ but I have failed to do anything about it… until now :)
    • To start with, I’ve now requested a post archive to save the 14k posts it has produced since it started operating two years ago.
    • I’ll also look for an alternate instance, and try to set up a migration flow (for keeping followers).

• Yesterday I ended up working on Sunday as planned and I enjoyed it.
  • I also took time to practice, and play, and that made a large difference.
• [[flow state]]:
  • [[flow state radio]]
• I made the move to the office around lunch, now I’m heading into a longish in-office flow session which might last five hours! Wish me luck :)
• [[bull]]:
  • I like the addition of ctrl+s to save a page a lot
  • I’m also using ctrl+e to edit — maybe it would be ideal if it started the editing session at the end of the document instead of the beginning?
  • Alternatively I think ctrl+s maybe should save but not go back to view mode; unsure.
• Researching how to publish [[snippets]] at work from the command line :)

2025-01-13§

• Reading [[Not the End of the World]]
  • Hmm, just plainly stated that [[Degrowth]] is wrong.
  • There was a mention of ‘effective’ optimism. Hope that’s not aligned with effective altruism.

• [[Sevilla 2025]]
• Hablé con [[Berni]]!
• [[Peter Murray]]
• I met [[Smurp]] for the first time this past Wednesday.

• Mi [[mamá]] me contó de la vez en que mi papá le pegó, ella hizo la denuncia en la comisaría antes de escaparse a la casa de los padres y los hijos de puta de la comisería llamaron a mi papá y le avisaron para que la fuera a buscar.
  • Mi [[tío]] desapareció tres días después de que mi papá (que era de la derecha peronista) lo llevó a un embarcadero de Tigre a una reunión de montoneros.
    • -> [[7 de enero de 1977]].

2025-06-13§

• I’ve been naughty and haven’t upgraded to a new major version of Linux Mint for a while.
  • I’m on 20.3. Support expired April 2025. Latest version is 22.
  • Apparently you can’t go directly between the 2.
  • You need to go 20.3 -> 21, 21 -> 21.3, 21.3 -> 22.
  • Yeesh. I can imagine this being quite a faff.
  • [[Upgrading Linux Mint 20.3 to 22]].

• Mi mamá tose mucho mientras duerme :(
  • Espero que se le pase pronto!
  • En todo caso la pasamos muy bien en Calp! Me hizo muy bien.
• I am now writing in [[tara]], the "main" project computer as of now :)
  • I have just [[meditated]].
  • I am thankful for existence!
  • I am thinking of my commitment to try to work for the benefit of sentient beings.
• Also I am wondering why nvim in [[guanyin]] is sort of broken, extensions that work fine in [[paramita]] and [[tara]] don’t quite behave like I expect here. I suspect a [[chezmoi]] conflict, let’s see…
  • (These are the sidequests that make up so much of life… I try to enjoy them!)
  • I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
    • It is the smallest keyboard I have typed on in very long, but I am happy to report it works! Maybe I wouldn’t use it for coding initially as some key combinations I use are relatively awkward to press (it involves extra modifiers), but it is very pleasant to type prose or [[Agora]] text in which I’m very happy about, and it seems to easily support three bluetooth connections. I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :) I am tying this on my new keyboard, a [[Royal Kludge]] :)
      • (See, [[nvim]] is indenting for some reason when I start a new line while doing outlines… I’m rolling with it for now…)
        • (OK, I spoke too soon, it turns out that [[paramita]] is broken too! Editing wise. So it could be I have fixed nvim only in [[tara]] and forgot to push that change to [[chezmoi]]…)
  • Hmm
    • Yep, it’s fixed in Tara!
    • How nice to have a working vim based setup for the Agora again ;)
    • Now to figure out why it’s broken elsewhere \o/
    • Oh, I was missing bullets.vim in my init.lua! And tara somehow still had it, I think because removing plugins from init.lua doesn’t actually uninstall them (this is good to remember as it means that my nvim is not yet [[fully reproducible]] starting from init.lua).
    • Fixed then! :D

• A lovely Saturday with [[KM]] and [[Lady Burup]] at home. Relaxing and interesting. With [[KM]] we did a nice walk in Zürich in the cold weather, knowing it will just keep getting colder.
• The week was pretty brutal at work (3x presentations, 2x reviews, plus planning and some ad hoc meetingsd) — it feels great now that it’s in the past though. I feel I ‘survived’ the last tricky week of the work year; things should quiet down from now on as people start going into holidays mode.

• I met [[Omega Attraktor]] again today in [[ZW]]! Nice to see them, looking forward to listening to their music.
• Work after the break started fine actually, even though today I didn’t sleep that well for some reason I still had enough energy to go through the first meeting-packed day.

2026-03-13§

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Ecosocialism at the Limits of Capitalism: The Climate Politics of the Democratic Socialists of America
    • "analyzes the [[climate politics]] of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] (DSA) as a diagnostic case for the structural limitations facing [[eco-socialist]] movements under capitalism"
    • Google Scholar alerts

• [[Are the Green Party of England and Wales ecosocialist?]]

2026-04-13§

• [[Read]]:

  • [[How the left can win back the internet – and rise again]]

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • After soaring 2,200%, DDR4 RAM prices finally fall — but don’t get too excited
    • "We’ve witnessed another hint that the RAM crisis is deescalating — at least a touch — along with an interesting move by the Korean government to try to protect consumers from the worst excesses of PC component price hikes."
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]]
  • Old public PCs for vulnerable groups amid chip price surge
    • "[[South Korea]] will increase the reuse of computers previously used by public agencies and expand support programs for vulnerable groups in response to rising prices of semiconductors"
    • [[global memory shortage crisis]]
  • ‘Computers are no longer a bicycle for the mind’: Frameworks founder says the Steve Jobs era is over and PCs are now a ‘self-driving car that takes you directly to the destination’
    • "[[Framework]], the computer company fixated on letting you define and endlessly update your PC, is now taking a stand against the cloud, AI, and the lack of PC [[ownership]]"
  • Google’s Free Windows PC Upgrade Offer—Millions Must Act Before Deadline
    • "Google has simplified this with “a new ChromeOS Flex USB Kit," available through its partnership with Back Market to “help you install our fast, secure and free operating system.”"
    • According to this article, uptake of BackMarket’s ChromeOS Flex USBs (as a means to come off Windows 10) has been ‘huge’ and now sold out. Disappointed they chose to push Flex rather than Linux.
  • Report - A repair voucher scheme for London: an overview of different models and their potential impact
    • "This report summarises research exploring the feasibility of a regional [[repair voucher scheme for London]] that covers both textiles and electricals and electronics by examining the possible delivery models, enabling conditions, and the benefits of such a scheme."
  • Resistance in the data-driven society
    • "This essay explores the possibility of individual and collective resistance vis-à-vis datafication, drawing on examples from across the globe. It shows how infrastructure, political agency, and tactics have changed in response to datafication. It reviews six resistance tactics, distinguishing between “defensive resistance” and “productive resistance”: self-defence, subversion, avoidance, literacy, counter-imagination, and advocacy campaigning. Investigating them offers insights on the ability of social actors to contribute to innovation in mobilising practices amidst intrusive surveillance."
  • What is and how do we achieve a resilient digital democracy?
    • "the paper introduces a holistic approach to resilient digital democracy that spans environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural domains, and advances strategies such as public-commons digital infrastructures, platform co-operatives, public service Internet platforms, free/libre open source software (FLOSS), participatory innovations, and hybrid offline/online democratic practices"
  • Introduction to the special issue on Digital Solidarity Economies
    • "Drawing on traditions of the [[social and solidarity economy]], free and open-source cultures, and feminist and decolonial technoscience, the special issue explores how communities across the world build [[technological sovereignty]] from below"

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[A lot of people use Meta products]]
  • [[The world uses Meta products for some positive functions]]

• Structured:

  • [[Why and how to move away from Meta]]

• Wrote:

  • [[Reminder: abolish Meta]].

• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: I’m sorry..? You said to "ship slop,", right..?
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Our AI Robots are designed to never ship slop. * slop is shipped Zhat’s a code defect. Obviously. Known as a "bug." in zhe tech industry. . It’s a common mistake! * slop is shipped You’re using it wrong.
• BunnyNabbit “Aon”: Steve Jobs once said "You’re holding it wrong.". You’re recording it incorrectly. Here’s how not to do zhat. https://notes.bunnynabbit.com/Recording-lossless-video-with-OBS

2026-05-13§

• [[Bookmarked]]:
  • The AI Denial Industry: The Left’s MAHA - by Alexei Gannon
  • Artificial Intelligence, Universal Machines, and Killing Bourgeois Dreams
  • Artificial Intelligence

2026-06-13§

• I’d like to start a blog carnival themed around leftist digital politics.

  • I think [[blog carnival]]s are great. A fantastic way to [[ritualise togetherness]] in a community, and an excellent nudge to blog regularly.
  • I’ve been doing the [[Emacs Carnival]] for a good few months now.
  • I’ve not yet found time for the [[Indieweb Carnival]], but I’d like to.
  • We used to do [[node club]] on Agora too, which is pretty similar to a blog carnival.
  • A carnival on lefty tech politics would be a good motivator to write, and a fun way to find the writings of others too.

• [[Bookmarked]]:

  • Pluralistic: The world has moved on
    • Via [[Flancian]].

• I had a thought that alongside the ‘indie’ web ([[IndieWeb]]), what I also like is the idea of a ‘slow’ web.

  • It captures what I’ve said before about not really doing that well on microblogging.
    • I like the people and the content on the microbloggy side of the Fediverse, for example, but the pace and volume of it doesn’t work well for me.
  • Of course, there’s plenty of prior art and thought around a [[slow web]].
    • There’s a summary and links on the Indieweb wiki.

• Blog carnivals are part of the slow web, for me at least.

2026-07-13§

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Big Tech companies are the primary vector for enacting digital colonialism]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[Digital colonialism is enacted by companies but enabled by states]]

• [[Zettled]]:

  • [[The United States is the frontrunner of digital colonialism by a long distance]]

• [[Read]]:

  • [[Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival]] .

• It’s a bit odd that completely independently, I’m using; or have called stuff “silver.”. Including:
  • The note taking software [[SilverBullet]].
  • A fictional universe / corporation called [[Silver Forest]].
  • A server named “Soft Silver.”.
  • Think I might just need to look into [[Microsoft Silverlight]] for laughs and giggles, as is a deprecated technology.

• Switched from [[KeePassXC]] to ChiPass.

editing my daily

Bro this is rad

more edits from phone

Rocklin

Just realized you can edit the height of rich text editor by dragging.

• [[da5nsy@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@da5nsy/110692429194388867 pull
• [[da5nsy@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@da5nsy/110695572075184926 pull

Day Planner§

• [ ]

Attendance§

• [[flancian]]
  • eduardo from argentina
  • currently in switzerland
  • day job is sre, background in sysadmin, unix/linux
  • more like a hacker, hacker of things
  • spent 9 years in a company
  • since 2 years out of the bubble
  • feels old school
  • python server side stuff
  • interested in the web3, dweb approaches
• [[vera]]
  • from [[portland]]
  • radical anarchist, @flanciavera on twitter
    • [[especifismo]] anarchism, federation like
  • been into crypto since ~2009, mined 50 btc on a laptop at one point :)
  • into distributed/federated systems
• [[udit]]
  • with hypha since the beginning, that’s 2019/late 2018
  • background in [[electrical engineering]]
  • working on product/project management, research, product strategy at hypha
  • [[projects]]
    • [[compost]]
    • [[cosmos]]
    • [[speculative fiction]]
      • https://fromlater.com
      • https://memory-work.com
    • https://solidarity.tech
      • was thinking of having a [[web ring]] here
      • [[mondegreen]] [[web brain]]
• [[benhylau]]
  • (we’ve met before)
  • interested in alternate forms to [[web rings]] that are more distributed, going beyond
  • how can we

Agora§

• nodes are entities

  • just text; a freeform text label

• [[pubsub]] topics

  • publish anything by publishing canonical wikilink

• global presence, out of social media into the web as a holistic concept

Solidarity§

• [[merveilles]] town web ring is a nice example of a web ring
  • https://webring.xxiivv.com/
• flancian:
  • webring as just the presentation layer
  • curated experience through a community
  • [[knowledge futures group]]
    • [[metasj]]
    • [[underlay project]]
• [[udit]] web rings
  • one concern with the distributed approach: high level of curation needed
  • see web rings as an onramp
  • would like to make sure they work with [[distributed press]]
• webrings with a purpose

  • examples:

    • webring of wealthy individuals willing to contribute to UBI

  • gamify them

  • democratically controlled

  • more inclusive so people can participate

    • [[accessibility]]

  • people submitting to moderation queue

UBI§

• current projects
  • https://joincircles.net/
  • https://www.gooddollar.org/
  • wealthy individuals giving directly
    • [[effective altruism]]
• potential projects
• are there better ways to do similar things?
• [[udit]] some concerns over whether it could backfire and end up preserving existing power structures
  • [[vera]] if we have UBI it needs to be decentralized / not nation based
• [[flancian]] how do we help/solve the problem of matching people with interesting projects in this space?
  • [[udit]] it is a very large problem, economics as a field tries to tackle solving coordination/matching problems
  • [[vera]] we need to have problems be defined and contextualized by the people that are suffering them
  • is there a generic structure that could aid in the quest to find solutions to people’s problems?
  • [[vera]] UBI seems like the most efficient path forward
• [[effective altruism]]
  • how to solve problems
  • internet freedom
  • I have time/resources where do I go? What do I do?
  • value flow
    • https://valueflo.ws/

• see stoa for collaborative notes
  • https://doc.anagora.org/hypha-2021-10-13 pull

Backlinks§

• • [[hypha 2021-10-13]]

Backlinks last generated 2022-01-28 07:55:20

• see stoa for collaborative notes
  • https://doc.anagora.org/hypha-2021-10-13 pull

Attendance§

• [[flancian]]
  • eduardo from argentina
  • currently in switzerland
  • day job is sre, background in sysadmin, unix/linux
  • more like a hacker, hacker of things
  • spent 9 years in a company
  • since 2 years out of the bubble
  • feels old school
  • python server side stuff
  • interested in the web3, dweb approaches
• [[vera]]
  • from [[portland]]
  • radical anarchist, @flanciavera on twitter
    • [[especifismo]] anarchism, federation like
  • been into crypto since ~2009, mined 50 btc on a laptop at one point :)
  • into distributed/federated systems
• [[udit]]
  • with hypha since the beginning, that’s 2019/late 2018
  • background in [[electrical engineering]]
  • working on product/project management, research, product strategy at hypha
  • [[projects]]
    • [[compost]]
    • [[cosmos]]
    • [[speculative fiction]]
      • https://fromlater.com
      • https://memory-work.com
    • https://solidarity.tech
      • was thinking of having a [[web ring]] here
      • [[mondegreen]] [[web brain]]
• [[benhylau]]
  • (we’ve met before)
  • interested in alternate forms to [[web rings]] that are more distributed, going beyond
  • how can we

Agora§

• nodes are entities

  • just text; a freeform text label

• [[pubsub]] topics

  • publish anything by publishing canonical wikilink

• global presence, out of social media into the web as a holistic concept

Solidarity§

• [[merveilles]] town web ring is a nice example of a web ring
  • https://webring.xxiivv.com/
• flancian:
  • webring as just the presentation layer
  • curated experience through a community
  • [[knowledge futures group]]
    • [[metasj]]
    • [[underlay project]]
• [[udit]] web rings
  • one concern with the distributed approach: high level of curation needed
  • see web rings as an onramp
  • would like to make sure they work with [[distributed press]]
• webrings with a purpose

  • examples:

    • webring of wealthy individuals willing to contribute to UBI

  • gamify them

  • democratically controlled

  • more inclusive so people can participate

    • [[accessibility]]

  • people submitting to moderation queue

UBI§

• current projects
  • https://joincircles.net/
  • https://www.gooddollar.org/
  • wealthy individuals giving directly
    • [[effective altruism]]
• potential projects
• are there better ways to do similar things?
• [[udit]] some concerns over whether it could backfire and end up preserving existing power structures
  • [[vera]] if we have UBI it needs to be decentralized / not nation based
• [[flancian]] how do we help/solve the problem of matching people with interesting projects in this space?
  • [[udit]] it is a very large problem, economics as a field tries to tackle solving coordination/matching problems
  • [[vera]] we need to have problems be defined and contextualized by the people that are suffering them
  • is there a generic structure that could aid in the quest to find solutions to people’s problems?
  • [[vera]] UBI seems like the most efficient path forward
• [[effective altruism]]
  • how to solve problems
  • internet freedom
  • I have time/resources where do I go? What do I do?
  • value flow
    • https://valueflo.ws/