Just setting up a quick Mastodon instance to test some compatibility is a pain. Using test accounts on public instances is also unreliable, because many instances are already overloaded and I don’t want to create spam. So I got a new DigitalOcean account with a $200 starter credit… ⌘ Read more
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+1 for pass, I switched to password store ~ 2 years ago
Ignite Realtime Blog: Help us translate Spark and Openfire!
We have started to experiment with an online tool that facilitates the process of translating Spark and Openfire. Both already have a bunch of translations, but none are complete.
I’m looking for people wanting to test the tool and/or provide translations. The aim is to make providing translations become so easy that little technological know-how is required.
If you’re interested, please sign up to [Ignite Realtime localizati … ⌘ Read more
Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023
I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.
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Why I Won’t Go to Restaurants in 2023
I’ve decided after some consideration to not go to restaurants at all in 2023.
You can call this a New Year’s Resolution.
It’ll require at least some sacrifice, pain, annoyance to myself and perhaps others, but I’m going to stick by it and I think it will have a good effect.
Restaurants are a drastically over-used creature comfort of … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Tweets from 12/19 to 12/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
What’s with all the ducks?
What in the world do rubber ducks have to do with programming? And why were they everywhere at GitHub Universe? A lot of you asked, so I’m here to help explain. ⌘ Read more
**Missed my #Merankorii concert earlier this week? Not to worry, you can still see me trying to #livecode with #tidalcycles here:
https://youtu.be/NSjgJyNJl4M**
Missed my #Merankorii concert earlier this week? Not to worry, you can still see me trying to #livecode with #tidalcycles here:
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@prologic@twtxt.net see where its used maybe that can help.
https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/app/peerfinder/http.go#L153
This is an upsert. So I pass a streamID which is like a globally unique id for the object. And then see how the type of the parameter in the function is used to infer the generic type. In the function it will create a new *Info and populate it from the datastore to pass to the function. The func will do its modifications and if it returns a nil error it will commit the changes.
The PA type contract ensures that the type fulfills the Aggregate interface and is a pointer to type at compile time.
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Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language -- Okay @xuu I quite like Go's generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I'm glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 Media #GoLang #Generics
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@prologic@twtxt.net see where its used maybe that can help.
https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/app/peerfinder/http.go#L153
This is an upsert. So I pass a streamID which is like a globally unique id for the object. And then see how the type of the parameter in the function is used to infer the generic type. In the function it will create a new *Info and populate it from the datastore to pass to the function. The func will do its modifications and if it returns a nil error it will commit the changes.
The PA type contract ensures that the type fulfills the Aggregate interface and is a pointer to type at compile time.
How to create a keyboard shortcut to export the current slide in Keynote
Lately I’ve been using Apple Keynote to create graphics for using in videos and blog posts. It’s a quick way to arrange things on a page, copying and pasting most things just works, and there are enough built in shapes and tools to get the point across. However, after spending a full day creating graphics for a video, I found myself frustrated by the number of clicks required to export a single slide at a time. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′56″S, 126°43′32″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′35″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard
@deepend@yourtilde.com We here in the twtxt universe are too Calm™ for the birdsite. Its dramas — which are neverending — do not concern us. Its madness is not our own. Isn’t it a great feeling to be separate from all that?
Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters. ⌘ Read more
philosophical technique: A is X, B is Y, but there is a continuous transformation from A to B, but there isn’t from X to Y, where does the switch occur?
tbh whenever someone is like “the existing arguments for agi xrisk were insufficient/unclear, here’s my better version” the arguments read exactly the same to me as the existing ones.
Hey @prologic@twtxt.net, are you planning on switching git.mills.io over to Forgejo when it launches?
GitHub Gives 2022: Creating positive, lasting contributions in our communities
This year, we took GitHub Gives, our company-wide giving campaign, to new heights and wanted to share our learnings to provide best practices in programming a successful hybrid giving campaign for employees. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: New Mastodon service for the Ignite Realtime community!
Some of you might already have followed along with the discussion on this in the open_chat chatroom, but: the Ignite Realtime community now has its own Mastodon service at toot.igniterealtime.org! This service is graciously sponsored by Free Solutions Sàrl - a big thank you to Claude and his team!
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How To Argue Like A Scientist At Holiday Dinner: A Cosmic Perspective from Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.) ⌘ Read more
WordPress implemented SQLite support! 😱 (Not merged into Core yet, but you’re able to test it.) ⌘ Read more
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@prologic: Reduced refresh interval to 7200 seconds :-)
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@prologic@twtxt.net I guess that refresh field could be easily replaced with Expires HTTP header (I realize that users on neocities.org cannot control this header, for example). And clients should also respect headers like Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since (304), you’re right about that. P.S. twtwt doens’t have a caching mechanism for now, but I plan to implement it in generic way using HTTP headers.
How we use GitHub to be more productive, collaborative, and secure
Our engineering and security teams have done some incredible work in 2022. Let’s take a look at how we use GitHub to be more productive, build collaboratively, and shift security left. ⌘ Read more
Reduce Your Image Size with the Dive-In Docker Extension
Use the Dive-In Docker Extension to see how to reduce image size in an easy-to-use UI. ⌘ Read more
Everyone is upgrading to the Fedora 37. So I felt thet it is time to upgrade my POWER9 syustem from the 35 to the 36.
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I decided to become popular in decentralized social networks. 1. Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/win0err — mostly landscape photography; 2. Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@win0err — software engineering content
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@win0err@kolesnikov.se @prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org never seen aurora, but there are nights (after solar storms) that people get to see it here in the south of Norway, but I have not seen it my self yet. But I sure wish to one day.
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@prologic@twtxt.net: Reduced refresh interval to 7200 seconds :-)
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org: Thank you, it’s really nice to hear that! Sometimes I think I’m a moss, because I really love northern nature :D Pixelfed is very slow indeed, and also buggy. @prologic@twtxt.net: I plan to add an RSS feed for the photography page instead of cross-posting to twtxt.txt. Maybe I should post updates of my website here? For example, I made a fancy New Year’s design of https://kolesnikov.se (which makes @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s eyes hurt, haha)
**RT by @mind_booster: 🇪🇺@vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty – a toxic agreement hampering EU’s Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals 🎉
Why is @EU_Commission keeping ECT on life-support?
Listen to 1M people: Coordinated EU withdrawal now!
#ExitECT #NoECT**
🇪🇺 @vonderleyen: France has withdrawn from the Energy Charter Treaty – a toxic agreement hampering EU’s Green Deal and Paris Agreement goals 🎉
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@prologic (re: Just discovered ...) On the one hand, twtxt has become more popular thanks to Yarn.social. On the other hand, subject and hashtag extensions took away the simplicity of the protocol. For example, it is impossible to understand which conversation (#base32hash) a tweet refers to or to reply to a tweet without going to a yarn.social pod. Compare with re: in this tweet which can be written without using any client at all
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@prologic@twtxt.net: I understand the benefits of using hashes, it’s much easier to implement client applications (at the expense of ease of use without the proper client). I must say that I like the way the metadata extension is done. Simple and elegant! It’s hard to design simple things!
Since you’re a fallible human, you will screw things up. And when you do, you’ll be tempted to mislead and cast blame elsewhere. Resist. Advice on being managed
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′25″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net On the one hand, twtxt has become more popular thanks to Yarn.social. On the other hand, subject and hashtag extensions took away the simplicity of the protocol. For example, it is impossible to understand which conversation (#base32hash) a tweet refers to or to reply to a tweet without going to a yarn.social pod. Compare with re: in this tweet which can be written without using any client at all
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I switched from twtxt client to twtwt (https://github.com/win0err/twtwt). It's a pre-alpha version now, but it works pretty well and so much faster than the official twtxt client by @buckket. Feel free to check it out :-)
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@prologic@twtxt.net: Hmm, I just checked, it should work. Anyway, I will post updates about the project. First of all, I want to complete some features and create packages with pre-compiled binaries
Apple has changed… and not in a good way.
Apple of 2022 is not the same company it used to be. It has, to be frank, lost its way. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Busy Year in 2022
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers, one app; Free as in Freedom; Sha … ⌘ Read more
I switched from twtxt client to twtwt (https://github.com/win0err/twtwt). It’s a pre-alpha version now, but it works pretty well and so much faster than the official twtxt client by @buckket@buckket.org. Feel free to check it out :-)
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Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language -- Okay @xuu I quite like Go's generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I'm glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 Media #GoLang #Generics
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one that i think is pretty interesting is building up dependent constraints. see here.. it accepts a type but requires the use of a pointer to type.
https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/pkg/es/es.go#L315-L325
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Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language -- Okay @xuu I quite like Go's generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I'm glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 Media #GoLang #Generics
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one that i think is pretty interesting is building up dependent constraints. see here.. it accepts a type but requires the use of a pointer to type.
https://github.com/sour-is/ev/blob/main/pkg/es/es.go#L315-L325
I decided to become popular in decentralized social networks. 1. Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/win0err — mostly landscape photography; 2. Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/@win0err — software engineering content
I learned how to make gopls syntax highlight go templates in VSCodium.
By adding the following to my config
i could go from 
into 
I learned how to make gopls syntax highlight go templates in VSCodium.
By adding the following to my config
i could go from into
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@prologic@twtxt.net I started to write a snarky twt about Kafka and then deleted it because I didn’t want to be too negative 😆
Erlang Solutions: GraphQL interfaces in MongooseIM 6.0
MongooseIM is a robust, scalable and highly extensible instant messaging server. Recent releases have improved its configurability and opened new use cases, and the latest version 6.0 continues that trend. By introducing the brand new GraphQL API, we made MongooseIM much easier to integrate with external web services. The entry barrier is also lower than ever because of the automatically generated API documentation, interactive web UI, an … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′41″S, 126°43′40″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′07″S, 126°43′39″W] Working impossible due to blizzard
Twitter has a new “social platforms” policy… is it maddening? Hilarious? Ridiculous? All of the above? I laughed, but to be clear, I don’t think ‘funny’ is a good way to describe it.
I have a question: Is there something similar to Telegram channels in Matrix? What should I do when I want to enable people to be notified about new blog posts using Matrix? ⌘ Read more
“AirTags Expose Dodgy Postal Industry”
Last year, YouTuber MegaLag tried to send several AirTag-ged packages from Germany to North Korea with DHL. But instead of arriving there, they were either misrouted to South Korea or ended up in China. In a new video, he further researches the reasons and also takes a look at DHL’s sorting center in Frankfurt at their invitation. Very interesting! ⌘ Read more
Feels to Colts fans. It was in the bag. Tough loss.
Vikings down 33-0 at halftime, no less, come back to win 39-36 over the Colts in OT. Amazing.
[47°09′06″S, 126°43′20″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain
The Linux Foundation launches map foundation to compete with Google
And, you know what? It’s actually pretty well licensed! ⌘ Read more
“I don’t know why anyone would ever want to do that, so we should punish it” is a beautiful warning sign (milder form is “I don’t know why anyone would ever want to do that, so nobody should even try”)
i am looking forward to seeing whether aliens similarly have two sexes, and whether they roughly split up by “sex that does the investing in the offspring” and “sex that provides a lot of variation in mating success”
Forgot to made pictures or screenshots today. But I hope that this older picture of my desk is good enoug,
[47°09′27″S, 126°43′36″W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm
Almost MIPS-only session today! Actually, I also briefly ran my PowrBook G4 and the Gemini PDA in attempt to fix my Pebble. But mostly the SGI O2 and the Indigo, too!
Tutorial: Getting started with generics - The Go Programming Language – Okay @xuu@txt.sour.is I quite like Go’s generics now 🤣 After going through this myself I like the semantics and the syntax. I’m glad they did a lot of work on this to keep it simple to both understand and use (just like the rest of Go) 👌 
#GoLang #Generics
“The Sidecar” – Adding advanced networking, and a Linux shell, to a Psion palmtop
One of the coolest designs I’ve seen for extending older computers via the serial port. ⌘ Read more
“But I’d love to be pinned down” — Toby Ord (The Precipice p. 397)
On my blog: Tweets from 12/12 to 12/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Release Radar · November 2022 Edition
We promised we’d be back soon and here we are! There has been an incredible amount of open source projects shipping major version releases before the year wraps up. I can’t believe we are all saying that now. “When the year wraps up!” or “See you next year!” What happened to 2022? Well, we know […] ⌘ Read more
BREAKING: EU orders Apple to add RS-232 port to iPhone
“We’re… super… excited to add a serial port to the iPhone,” stated Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a not at all forced tone of voice. ⌘ Read more
Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.
It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more
Retiring My Fiat Donation Portal
I’ve decided to retire my fiat donation portal at donate.lukesmith.xyz, where people could donate to me via debit and credit cards.
This will happen by the end of this calendar year.
It’s more in keeping with my principles of free software, self-ownership and everything else to only allow cryptocurrency donations.
This also is a subtle nudge to people who want to donate in streams to get into Bitcoin and Monero, as opposed to using fiat o … ⌘ Read more
Configure, Manage, and Simplify Your Observability Data Pipelines with the Calyptia Core Docker Extension
Find out how to use the Calyptia Core Docker Extension to build and manage observability pipelines in Docker Desktop. ⌘ Read more
RT by @mind_booster: #DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @enddrm
#DRM isn’t just an annoyance – it’s a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campa … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′22″S, 126°43′59″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication
Translators seem to be working now. I didn’t touch them though.
Bunny AI
Bunny.net joined the AI hype and created “Bunny AI” (docs), AI images created on the edge. I tried it out, because it’s currently free during the preview, but somehow I don’t find the generated images aesthetic or I’m just to stupid to write better prompts. I guess the Bunny developers also need some distraction from time to time, because they are working hard on S3 support for Bunny Storage for years already. 🐰 ⌘ Read more
ChatGPT is good, but it’s not that good 🤣 I asked it to write a program in Go that performs double ratcheting and well the code is total garbage 😅 – Its only as good as the inputs it was trained on 🤣 #OpenAI #GPT3
My website is powered by GoBlog, a simple and dynamic blogging system that’s open source, actively developed and implements most IndieWeb functionalities. It packages everything in a single binary and I’ve been so over the moon using it and seeing it improve week after week that I’m surprised it isn’t more popular. So I put on my evangelist boots to share how I use this “stupidly-simple” blogging system to power my online presence. ⌘ Read more
Forgejo
A few weeks ago, it came to light that Gitea has been owned by a for-profit Gitea Ltd. for several months. The lack of transparency has disturbed the trust of many contributors and users. That’s why Codeberg (a German based non-profit association - disclaimer: I am a member of the association) has now started a soft fork: Forgejo. ⌘ Read more
Leaked a secret? Check your GitHub alerts…for free
GitHub now allows you to track any leaked secrets in your public repository, for free. With secret scanning alerts, you can track and action on leaked secrets directly within GitHub. ⌘ Read more
Anyone uses the putr command? (to access pdp11 disk images)
** Thoughts on accessibility in smol computing **
What follows is my attempt to spark a conversation in a few converging, but separate communities I lurk in.
I’ve already had a bunch of amazing conversations around this topic with a lot of people. Those conversations helped to shape what follows. Thanks to everyone who was willing to think this stuff through with me.
Before I get into it I want to say at the top this isn’t meant as an accusation against anyone in these communities, nor the goals of t … ⌘ Read more
I should write better tests or at least create some automatic tests. 😬 (But ActivityPub is so complicated to test!) ⌘ Read more
Development RSS feed location has moved
Please point your feed reader to https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/releases.atom to continue receiving hnrss development updates. Thanks! ⌘ Read more
Should I sell my PC?
I’m not sure yet what I’m going to do with my desktop computer (ASRock Deskmini A300), which I don’t really use anymore since I got my new laptop. ⌘ Read more
I think it was a very wise decision to buy some long merino underwear, a new and warmer jacket and new winter shoes. It’s so cold! The whole week already under 0°C. ⌘ Read more
Raising the bar for software security: next steps for GitHub.com 2FA
GitHub will require all users who contribute code on GitHub.com to enable one or more forms of two-factor authentication (2FA) by the end of 2023. Learn more about our approach, when we’ll begin our rollout, and what you can expect as we begin requiring 2FA. ⌘ Read more
Learning how to use ImageMagick for something else than just for resizing of pictures.
If intelligence enables a person to identify problems, and problems make a person unhappy, then an intelligent person will have at least one factor that tends to increase unhappiness. If you’re so smart, how come you’re not happy? | Hacker News
The translators don’t seem to be working. Also I found a sports news feed: gopher://gophernews.net/1/topic/sports
I need to learn how to crash dates that are going nowhere with way too much escalation. That should be fun
Optimal Bowling
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I’m honestly thinking about switching browsers, because this “new feature” where Firefox always downloads PDFs first to display them is annoying me so much. I don’t want my Downloads folder to be cluttered with all those random PDFs. If I open a restaurant’s menu PDF, I just want to take a quick look, but don’t want to have the PDF in my Downloads folder until I manually delete it and then delete it from the Recycle Bin again. There are some work-arounds, but no real solution. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.2 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a regularly delayed release containing a number of fixes for
issues that we have come across since the last release of the 0.12
series.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvements[47°09′32″S, 126°43′05″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
Erlang Solutions: Change data capture with Postgres & Elixir
CDC is the process of identifying and capturing data changes from the database.
With CDC, changes to data can be tracked in near real-time, and that information can be used to support a variety of use cases, including auditing, replication, and synchronisation.
A good example of a use case for CDC is to consider an application which inserts a record into the database and pushes an event to a message queue after the record has … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′19″S, 126°43′20″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work