daily reminder that most politicians wouldn’t be able to explain the concept of expected value to you if you asked them

Open Source Monthly: July 2022 Edition
July’s Open Source Monthly features Zag.js, which leverages state machines to make framework agnostic components. ⌘ Read more

I seem to have way more ideas for things I want to write when I’m out and about than when I’ve got some time to write at the end of the day. I think this has been going on for months with multiple thoughts I’ve had.

So far I configured most (almost all) settings for GoBlog through a YAML file. But this is not so optimal, after all it happens sometimes that I want to change a small setting, such as the description of a post section, from my smartphone. This would work somehow via SSH, but ideal is something else. Email conversations with Andrés Cárdenas inspired me to finally start the project “settings in the database”. The first step was to make it possible to configure the mentioned post sections. This is now finally possible … ⌘ Read more

Exclusive: Microsoft revealed to be creator of Snap Packaging for Ubuntu Linux
“See? I told y’all we love Linux,” snickered the Microsoft CEO. ⌘ Read more

I’m trying to switch from Konversation to irssi. Let’s see how that goes. Any irssiers out there who can recommend specific settings or scripts? I already got myself trackbar.pl and nickcolor.pl as super-essentials. Also trying window_switcher.pl. Somehow my custom binds for Ctrl+1/2/3/etc. to switch to window 1/2/3/etc. doesn’t do anything: { key = "^1"; id = "change_window"; data = "1"; } (I cannot use the default with Alt as this is handled by my window manager). Currently, I’m just cycling with Ctrl+N/P. Other things to solve in the near future:

• better, more colorful and compact theme (just removed clock from statusbar so far)
  
• getting bell/urgency hints working on arriving messages
  
• nicer tabs in status bar, maybe even just channel names and no indexes
  
• decluster status bar with user and channel modes (I never cared about those in the last decade)

Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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[47°09′35″S, 126°43′58″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

This OneDrive feature to remind about pictures from x years ago is really awesome! I captured this sunset 4 years ago today. ⌘ Read more

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How to Make Linux Hate You
Watch now (14 min) | Three ways to make Linux just a little more abusive towards you. Because… why not? ⌘ Read more

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Writing and Running a BBS on a Macintosh Plus
In 2015, I wrote a custom BBS server in Ruby and had been using it to run the Kludge BBS on a small OpenBSD server in my home office since then. ⌘ Read more

There is a project to recreate the Prodigy online service
Because… why not? ⌘ Read more

Minkowski Space
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Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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Erlang Solutions: Updates to the MIM Inbox in version 5.1

When a messaging client starts, it typically presents the user with:

• an inbox
  
• a summary of chats (in chronological order)
  
• unread messages in their conversation
  
• a snippet of the most recent message in the conversation
  
• information on if a conversation is muted (and if so how long a conversation is muted for)
  
• other information that users may find useful on their welcome screen
  

Mongoos … ⌘ Read more

**The SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 35 Years!

Here’s what I wrote about SDF back on the 20th anniversary, only now more impressive as SDF goes on in operation, and still faithful to the same ideas, objectives and modus operandi.

Happy birthday!

https://mindboosternoori.blogspot.com/2007/06/sdf-celebrates-20-years.html**
The SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 35 Years!

Here’s what I wrote about SDF back on the 20th anniversary, only now more impressive as SDF goes on in operation, and still … ⌘ Read more

Time to go to sleep, hoping I do get any given how how it is here right now…

A few hours left to lock in the lower Lunduke Journal pricing
Subscription price goes up in a few hours – but current rates will be locked in. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.2 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.2. This version fixes a number of bugs and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

A major highlight of this release is fixing of BOSH bugs found under load testing.

You can find [download artifacts](https://ign … ⌘ Read more

Thanks for the feedback! This site was designed to look perfect on good old 800x600 monitors (I even left a comment next to the meta tag). Maybe I’ll add a mobile-friendly version someday :-) P.S. Nice try with SQL injection, haha. Do you have any plans for XSS attacks? :D

@win0err@kolesnikov.se I agree with @prologic@twtxt.net about the text size. Adding content="width=device-width" to your viewport meta tag will help massively with scaling on different device widths.

Eg. The first screenshot is the current site with a device width of 440px and the second is with the updated viewport meta tag.

Other than that, I like the aesthetic of it 😊 It gives me early-ish internet vibes, which I wasn’t online for (I’m a ‘90s baby) but I’ve seen some pretty early websites.

Funny Programming Pictures Part XI
Because it helps to laugh. ⌘ Read more

The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
Nassim Taleb had this old anecdote of the sheer absurdity that while the suitcase and other bags had existed for lifetimes, it was only in the 1990’s that people had the idea to put wheels on the things so they didn’t have to haul them around airports all day with their strength.

It reminds you of the fact that while children in the Incan Empire did indeed have some toys with wheels, apparently no one thought to use the wheel to make a simple … ⌘ Read more

The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
Nassim Taleb had this old anecdote of the sheer absurdity that while the suitcase and other bags had existed for lifetimes, it was only in the 1990’s that people had the idea to put wheels on the things so they didn’t have to haul them around airports all day with their strength.

It reminds you of the fact that while children in the Incan Empire did indeed have some toys with wheels, apparently no one thought to use the wheel to make a simple … ⌘ Read more

To post something again, here are three songs I’m currently really enjoying: ⌘ Read more

I launched a new version of my website (https://kolesnikov.se) last night. What do you think about it? Don’t forget to leave a message in my guestbook ;-)

**Apparently, there are still those who they’re able to fool others with the argument “we cannot fight the climate crisis now, because we have to take care of the economy.”

This “economy first” approach is naive: the climate crisis attacks the economy too:

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/06/impact-climate-change-global-gdp/**
Apparently, there are still those who they’re able to fool others with the argument “we cannot fight the climate crisis now, because we have to take care of the economy.”

This “econ … ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: Me (anytime):
Me (anytime): ⌘ Read more

**2007: “you still buy CDs? So much waste, all that plastic, why? I only buy and listen to mp3s now…”

2022 (15 years later): “what, you buy music? Why? I just stream whatever I want, whenever I want, without needing to carry a music library around with me…”**
2007: “you still buy CDs? So much waste, all that plastic, why? I only buy and listen to mp3s now…”

2022 (15 years later): “what, you buy music? Why? I just stream whatever I want, whenever I want, without needing to carry a music library around wi … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft: “Using an open-source solution may introduce risks”
Remember how Microsoft used to warn against using Open Source? Turns out… they still are. ⌘ Read more

reading reddit thread about advice for women fighting men rn, and one of the advices is to yank an eye out, not considering that eyes are pretty hard to yank out

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❤️ 🎶: Want to be your everyday by Sondia

Seems I forgot how to use my twtxt client

In reply to: episode 8

👋 Oh hai!

I was interviewed on a podcast! ⌘ Read more

Finally started Stranger Things and watched episodes 1 to 5 so far, I quite like it.

pet peeve: scales that have a neutral or default or average point, but which are nearly or completely on the positive. why are people asked to rate happiness from 0 to 10, not -10 to 10, where 0 is the neutral state? why are movies rated from 0 to five stars?

[47°09′43″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

Net Neutrality. No big deal.
Watch now (33 min) | Back in 2017, this video caused some people to get very, very grumpy. ⌘ Read more

In reply to: A simple mess

This is also something people keep getting wrong about Markdown as originally presented. Markdown isn’t a format. It’s a convenience tool that helps you write some of the boringest and commonest parts of HTML easier, and you can easily drop into more wonky HTML at any time.

Yes yes yes yes yes yes! ⌘ Read more

Don’t you hate it when you try to get to Inbox Zero, make it to Inbox Three, and then by week’s end you’ve got even more messages that you can’t get out of your inbox permanently?

“Linux Sucks 2022” is now free for all to watch!
“Lunduke’s enthusiasm is infectious!”, “I laughed so many times” ⌘ Read more

[47°09′11″S, 126°43′00″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

[47°09′55″S, 126°43′39″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain

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[Cosmic Queries] How To Not Die in Space w/ Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ana Diaz-Artiles ⌘ Read more

“im not a furry, though, i just listen to the music”

No more Telegram Premium
Telegram decided to cancel my Premium, I got the following message from the @PremiumBot: ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: June 2022
In June, we experienced four incidents resulting in significant impact to multiple GitHub.com services. This report also sheds light into an incident that impacted several GitHub.com services in May. ⌘ Read more

good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.

** Lamination for a lost explorer **
I remember the days when Kicks Condor used to update regularly. I miss those days.

For a while every post seemed to unearth some new, yet weirder corner of the little internet (maybe not yet the smol web).

There are folks doing similar web archeology…I do some of it myself…but no one does it like Kicks was doing it; there was often a feeling of unknown, but ulterior motive behind the curation — bits building towards a cohesive something.

Perhaps … ⌘ Read more

Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Push Notification Openfire plugin 0.9.1 released
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a bugfix release for the Push Notification plugin for Openfire!

This plugin adds support for sending push notifications to client software, as described in XEP-0357: “Push Notifications”.

[This update](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/plugins/0.9.1/pushnotificatio … ⌘ Read more

I will probably crash in the afternoon but right now I am going to use my energy to take a walk outside

No One Was Hurt
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I have become so jaded that when I meet people who are genuinely good I am taken aback and surprised as I do not expect it to happen anymore.

**R to @mind_booster: Of course, kokori’s track is not the only one worth listening to. The compilation starts with the Argentinian project “Bosques”, with the track “El Planeta Es Una Nave”, a version of it available here:

https://soundcloud.com/bosques/el-planeta-es-una-nave**
Of course, kokori’s track is not the only one worth listening to. The compilation starts with the Argentinian project “Bosques”, with the track “El Planeta Es Una Nave”, a version of it available here:

[soundcloud.com/bosques/el-pl…]( … ⌘ Read more

**Ten years ago, the 3CD compilation “Bearded Snails” was released, featuring 16 tracks and 19 artists of the “A Beard of Snails Records” roster.

The last of those tracks is kokori’s “Attention”, in its first release to the general public. Now here: https://the20th.bandcamp.com/track/attention**
Ten years ago, the 3CD compilation “Bearded Snails” was released, featuring 16 tracks and 19 artists of the “A Beard of Snails Records” roster.

The last of those tracks is kokori’s “Attention”, in its first release to … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′03″S, 126°43′30″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June 2022
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June 2022.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, especially throughout the current situation, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter team? Read more at the bottom … ⌘ Read more

i’m now pretty sure the urbit whitepaper is impossible to parody.

Ladybird: A truly new Web Browser (with a from-scratch engine) comes to Linux
The mad scientist behind Serenty OS brought the Serenty OS Web Browser to Linux. And you can watch the video of him doing it. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′27″S, 126°43′36″W] Working impossible due to blizzard

Agree. we should parse the form but not output to feeds.

Agree. we should parse the form but not output to feeds.

Spent the afternoon updating my tilde and now it is time to unwind with some meditation and a book!

Hierarchies make people optimize for raising in the hierarchy, and accumulating power, at the expense of actually doing what the group needs. Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity | Hacker News

i find the removal of the “master/slave” thing in computer protocols to be kinkshaming

[47°09′17″S, 126°43′47″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

[47°09′22″S, 126°43′23″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

RT by @mind_booster: I was super excited to see pre-orders open for a RISC-V laptop, less so to see it loaded up with #crypto bullish!t.
I was *super* excited to see pre-orders open for a RISC-V laptop, less so to see it loaded up with #crypto bullish!t.

nitter.net/risc_v/status/1542972543232946176#m

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Extend your dependency information in the GitHub Dependency Graph with new GitHub Actions
New Actions from Anchore, NowSecure, SBT, and Trivy are now available to create a more comprehensive GitHub Dependency Graph. ⌘ Read more

How the GitHub Security Team uses projects and GitHub Actions for planning, tracking, and more
Can projects and GitHub Actions be used by your non-developer teams? They absolutely can. Check out how our Security Team uses GitHub to run the department effortlessly. ⌘ Read more

**You know your life is getting back to normal when …

You’re back to buying music.

(@I_Killed_Techno tape just arrived!)**
You know your life is getting back to normal when …

You’re back to buying music.

( @I_Killed_Techno tape just arrived!)

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Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects
High-quality Git commits are the key to a maintainable and collaborative open- or closed-source project. Learn strategies to improve and use commits to streamline your development process. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh.. reading comprehension is strong today.. you went to US and now back.

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh.. reading comprehension is strong today.. you went to US and now back.

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What to do when your open source project becomes a community?
Maintainers answer your questions about how to manage an open source project that grows into a community. ⌘ Read more

Climate Change: Chinese offshore oil and gas giant eyes major clean energy output expansion to help nation reach environmental goals
China National Offshore Oil will aim for non-fossil fuel to make up over half its domestic output by 2050, and to reach peak carbon dioxide emissions arising from its own operations by 2028. ⌘ Read more

JD.com extends access to Tencent’s WeChat for three years with US$220 million in stock
JD.com is keeping its preferential access to WeChat’s 1.29 billion users, extending a partnership with Tencent that gives it a short cut on the platform. ⌘ Read more

How tropical islands on Indonesia and Thailand are the new working from home
Tourism hotspots Thailand and Indonesia are trying to take advantage of business-leisure travellers – a subset of digital nomads, living and working abroad for longer than a typical holiday without taking up permanent residence. ⌘ Read more

How leaders mingle after Nato meetings: with fine food, art and music at Madrid’s famous Prado Museum
Nato country leaders and European Union heads of state and government got to admire some of the world’s greatest art and listen to a Ukrainian classical orchestra live as they gathered to dine at Madrid’s Prado Museum. ⌘ Read more

China’s art-market rebound gives way to mood of uncertainty as economic challenges mount
A surge in enthusiasm among Chinese art collectors early this year may already be waning, as investment confidence is undermined by poor global economic growth and weak domestic consumption, industry insiders say. ⌘ Read more

Google’s ‘fast track to surveillance’ sparks backlash from European consumer groups over ‘deceptive’ practices
The Regional consumer organisation BEUC accused Google of using ‘deceptive design, unclear language, misleading choices and missing information’ for extensive data collection. ⌘ Read more

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warns Nato of China’s rising assertiveness
New Zealand has in recent years tried not to antagonise China, its largest trading partner, at times choosing not to co-sign statements from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance criticising Beijing. ⌘ Read more

In 1 word: how 25 people describe Hong Kong, a city close to their hearts
As Hong Kong marks the 25th anniversary of its return to Chinese rule, we ask people with close ties to the city to describe it in one word. ⌘ Read more

Fewer billionaires in mainland China as ultra-wealthy feel pain of Beijing’s tech, property crackdowns, study says
The ranks of the ultra-wealthy in mainland China slipped slightly last year as wealth creation was subdued by Beijing’s crackdowns on the technology and property sectors, according to a study by New York-based Wealth-X. ⌘ Read more

What Chinese President Xi Jinping told Hong Kong in 2017 and key messages he can be expected to deliver on 25th anniversary of handover
In 2017, Xi delivered a tough but tempered message warning of red lines but also speaking of opportunities, and analysts expect him to delve again into sovereignty, national resilience and economic integration. ⌘ Read more

Dino: Project Stateless File Sharing: First Steps
Hey, this is my first development update!
As some of you might already know from my last blog post, my Google Summer of Code project is implementing Stateless File Sharing for Dino.
This is my first XMPP project and as such, I had to learn very basic things about it.
In my blog posts I’ll try to document the things I learned, with the idea that it might help someone else in the future.
I won’t refrain from explaining terms you might take for gran … ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster:
nitter.net/ZEROasts/status/1542078848535339008#m ⌘ Read more

Russia fights to encircle Ukraine’s last eastern stronghold
Moscow’s forces are pushing towards the city of Lysychansk in a bid to wrest the entire Donbas region from Kyiv’s control. ⌘ Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping repeats call for tech self-reliance, innovative talent
Remarks come as country gears up for Communist Party’s national congress, where the president is expected to deliver a report on strategy for the next five years. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology gets approval for Guangzhou campus, in time for handover anniversary
The HKUST Guangzhou campus aims to open its doors to students in September this year. ⌘ Read more

US protectionism hits China hardest, and Chinese are more averse to trade because of it, study finds
If China makes trade concessions to US in the face of strong domestic opposition, it ‘would risk a potentially destabilising domestic backlash’, according to a PIIE study that cites ‘worrying implications’ for open trade. ⌘ Read more