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Hi, I am playing with making an event sourcing database. Its super alpha but I thought I would share since others are talking about databases and such.

It’s super basic. Using tidwall/wal as the disk backing. The first use case I am playing with is an implementation of msgbus. I can post events to it and read them back in reverse order.

I plan to expand it to handle other event sourcing type things like aggregates and projections.

Find it here: sour-is/ev

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Hi, I am playing with making an event sourcing database. Its super alpha but I thought I would share since others are talking about databases and such.

It’s super basic. Using tidwall/wal as the disk backing. The first use case I am playing with is an implementation of msgbus. I can post events to it and read them back in reverse order.

I plan to expand it to handle other event sourcing type things like aggregates and projections.

Find it here: sour-is/ev

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org

Added some of my latest photos to my timeline :)

[47°09′35″S, 126°43′53″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain

topics i will never research: how the prussian military inventing boardgames with dice to train military strategists influenced modern eurogames and not amerigames

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.1 released!
Woopsie doodle! It turns out that a rather annoying bug was introduced in version 1.9.0 of the REST API plugin for Openfire, that we released earlier today!

To avoid unnecessary issues, we’ve decided to follow up with an immediate new release that addresses this issue. … ⌘ Read more

If you see this - then please give a reply so I know it all worked :)
Good to be back by the way.

It seems quite unlikely to me that humans will cease to care about wealth after the singularity (15% maybe?), or that markets will cease to exist after the singularity (30% or sth). so the best investment strategy now for post-singularity scenarios is to invest broadly in the economy. not sure about divesting from AGI companies (bc they accelerate danger) or AI hardware companies (ditto)—they’re going to especially valuable post-singularity.

**R to @mind_booster: “Temos de agir com urgência na denúncia deste caminho insustentável!”

Texto de Francisco Ferreira, na newsletter da @ZEROasts

7/7**
“Temos de agir com urgência na denúncia deste caminho insustentável!”

Texto de Francisco Ferreira, na newsletter da @ZEROasts

7/7 ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: “A par disto, quer ainda retirar quaisquer restrições ao tráfego aéreo noturno em Lisboa, quando os níveis de ruído já excedem imenso, como a ZERO recentemente demonstrou, os valores legais que procuram salvaguardar a saúde pública.” 6/7
“A par disto, quer ainda retirar quaisquer restrições ao tráfego aéreo noturno em Lisboa, quando os níveis de ruído já excedem imenso, como a ZERO recentemente demonstrou, os valores legais que procuram salvaguardar a saúde pública.” 6/7 ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: “retirar a avaliação dos processos de loteamento e a redução dos prazos para emissão de pareceres e licenças, licenças ambientais validadas automaticamente (atualmente as licenças ambientais têm a validade de 10 anos).” 5/7
“retirar a avaliação dos processos de loteamento e a redução dos prazos para emissão de pareceres e licenças, licenças ambientais validadas automaticamente (atualmente as licenças ambientais têm a validade de 10 anos).” 5/7 ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: “O estímulo ao deferimento tácito para facilitar ao máximo a aprovação de qualquer projeto, em que o foco é mesmo aprovar, seja o que for, de qualquer forma e seja onde for;” 4/7
“O estímulo ao deferimento tácito para facilitar ao máximo a aprovação de qualquer projeto, em que o foco é mesmo aprovar, seja o que for, de qualquer forma e seja onde for;” 4/7 ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: “Desinvestiu, deixou que os procedimentos se burocratizassem para depois ter argumentos de desvalorização deste instrumento, ao contrário de o credibilizar, valorizar e modernizar.” 3/7
“Desinvestiu, deixou que os procedimentos se burocratizassem para depois ter argumentos de desvalorização deste instrumento, ao contrário de o credibilizar, valorizar e modernizar.” 3/7 ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: “O Governo está a fazer com a avaliação ambiental, aquilo que fez com a conservação da natureza e a proteção da biodiversidade.” 2/7
“O Governo está a fazer com a avaliação ambiental, aquilo que fez com a conservação da natureza e a proteção da biodiversidade.” 2/7 ⌘ Read more

5 simple things you can do with GitHub Packages to level up your workflows
From hosting private packages in a private repository to tightening your security profile with GITHUB_TOKEN, here are five simple ways you can streamline your workflow with GitHub Packages. ⌘ Read more

from now on, when talking about fractions, i will only use the terms “upper number” and “lower number”. those both have fewer syllables AND they’re vastly easier to understand. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.9.0 released!
We have released version 1.9.0 of the Openfire REST API plugin! This version adds functionality and provides some bug fixes that relates to multi-user chat rooms.

The updated plugin should become available for download in your Openfire admin console in the course of the next few hours. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/pl … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′53″S, 126°43′33″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

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

R to @mind_booster: So what next in the vaportech train? Metaverse 2.0?
So what next in the vaportech train? Metaverse 2.0? ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more

**R to @mind_booster: “Web 4.0? Ridiculous!”, some will say, buy that hasn’t stopped anyone from keeping the madness going. Hm, that’s right, nowadays web 5.0 is coined already too - it’s “The Telepathic Web” or “The Symbionet Web”, or, I’ll call it “the Metaverse brain chip”.

https://www.timesnownews.com/exclusive/jack-dorsey-web-5-0-how-will-it-work-and-why-it-is-different-article-92209954**
“Web 4.0? Ridiculous!”, some will say, buy that hasn’t stopped anyone from keeping the madness going. Hm, that’s right … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.3 released
The Ignite Realtime Community is pleased to announce the release of Openfire version 4.7.3. This version brings a number of bug fixes and other improvements and signifies our efforts to produce a stable 4.7 series of Openfire whilst work continues on the next feature release 4.8.0.

You can find download artifacts on our website with the fol … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′49″S, 126°43′59″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop
Evolving from an enhanced calculator… to a full DOS compatible PC in your pocket. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′08″S, 126°43′47″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

You start playing with you words… And once you start enjoying drawing attention to yourself with your words…  theres no turning back Writers of Dramaland: Park Hae Young - MyDramaList

R to @mind_booster: So? “Anything above 1.5C will see a world plagued by intense summer heat, extreme drought, devastating floods, reduced crop yields, rapidly melting ice sheets and surging sea levels. A rise of 2C and above will seriously threaten the stability of global society, McGuire argues.”
So? “Anything above 1.5C will see a world plagued by intense summer heat, extreme drought, devastating floods, reduced crop yields, rapidly melting ice sheets and surging sea levels. A rise of 2C and above will s … ⌘ Read more

“to limit that rise to 1.5C […] global carbon emissions will have to be reduced by 45% by 2030.
[…]
Instead, we are on course for close to a 14% rise in emissions by that date – which will almost certainly see us shatter the 1.5C guardrail in less than a decade.”
“to limit that rise to 1.5C […] global carbon emissions will have to be reduced by 45% by 2030.

[…]

Instead, we are on course for close to a 14% rise in emissions by that date – which will almost certainly see us shatter the 1.5C guardrai … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′25″S, 126°43′22″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain

The heat lately and the heat in the coming weeks has been bugging me and getting to me so much that I bought a mobile air conditioner. It eats up a lot of electricity and will ruin my very low power consumption (< 800 kWh per year), but maybe it will help me sweat less. ⌘ Read more

No, I wasn’t set up for it. I wasn’t expecting to see the ISS at all, and you never know when an orbit will do the fade out thing.

‘Based’ Paganism vs. Christianity
I’ve been meaning to write about Paganism recently. I will frame it as a response to an email I received within the past day or so:

Hey Luke,

First off, I would like to thank you for all your efforts in making everything
you know accessible to everyone. You have exposed me to some of the most
thought-provoking people on the internet and Varg is one of them. I was
wondering if you can write an article or make a video on what you think about
Varg’s Paganism in r … ⌘ Read more

‘Based’ Paganism vs. Christianity
I’ve been meaning to write about Paganism recently. I will frame it as a response to an email I received within the past day or so:

Hey Luke,

First off, I would like to thank you for all your efforts in making everything
you know accessible to everyone. You have exposed me to some of the most
thought-provoking people on the internet and Varg is one of them. I was
wondering if you can write an article or make a video on what you think about
Varg’s Paganism in r … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′00″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

“we looked at how damaging the journey of overshooting the 2°C temperature target would be,
[…]
The results suggest that a temporary overshoot would cause waves of irreversible extinctions and lasting damage to tens of thousands of species”
https://theconversation.com/climate-crisis-even-temporarily-overshooting-2-c-would-cause-permanent-damage-to-earths-species-185929?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
“we looked at how damaging the journey of overshooting the 2°C temperature target would … ⌘ Read more

Proxy Variable
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R to @mind_booster: Cereja no topo do bolo:
Cereja no topo do bolo:

nitter.net/direitosdig/status/1552724566648279041#m ⌘ Read more

Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors
Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars. ⌘ Read more

GitHub Sponsors available in 30 new regions
GitHub Sponsors expands globally with 30 newly supported regions, bringing the total to 68. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′11″S, 126°43′21″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

@niplav@niplav.github.io if he’s willing to be even more nerdy he could use https://lojban.org/publications/cll/cll_v1.1_xhtml-section-chunks/section-evidentials.html and possibly color-code them in some less important color than red

solution to the fermi paradox: ~all species don’t have nerds bc nerds are locally maladaptive, get stuck at the social reality bullshit level, humans are a fluke in the regard (kindness to kin, but for…, uhh, nerds?)

JMP: Newsletter: Multilingual Transcriptions and Better Voicemail Greetings
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 numb … ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · June 2022 Edition
It’s been a crazy couple of months with the end of financial year and lots of products shipping. Our community has been hard at work shipping projects too. These projects can include everything from world-changing technology to developer tooling, and weekend hobbies. Here are some of these open source projects that released major updates this […] ⌘ Read more

Corrupting memory without memory corruption
In this post I’ll exploit CVE-2022-20186, a vulnerability in the Arm Mali GPU kernel driver and use it to gain arbitrary kernel memory access from an untrusted app on a Pixel 6. This then allows me to gain root and disable SELinux. This vulnerability highlights the strong primitives that an attacker may gain by exploiting errors in the memory management code of GPU drivers. ⌘ Read more

**We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.

But it seems that first we have other conversation we can no longer postpone:

https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-data-switch/**
We still didn’t have a (much needed) conversation about how to prepare for the next pandemic, so that next time we won’t end up with such ill-designed contact tracing apps.

But it seems that first we have oth … ⌘ Read more

Planning next to your code – GitHub Projects is now generally available
Today, we are announcing the general availability of the new and improved Projects powered by GitHub Issues. GitHub Projects connects your planning directly to the work your teams are doing in GitHub and flexibly adapts to whatever your team needs at any point. ⌘ Read more

lw events should give one the ability to report probabilities

Launching GitHub Community: Powered by GitHub Discussions
Today, we’re launching GitHub Community, which brings together GitHub Community Forum, GitHub Education Forum, and product feedback into a free, in-product, single space for all user-to-user interactions. ⌘ Read more

Introducing even more security enhancements to npm
New npm security enhancements include an improved login and publish experience with the npm CLI, connected GitHub and Twitter accounts, and a new CLI command to verify the integrity of packages in npm. ⌘ Read more

R to @mind_booster: Mais eloquentemente:
Mais eloquentemente:

nitter.net/direitosdig/status/1551908764193800192#m ⌘ Read more

[47°09′01″S, 126°43′42″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

RT by @mind_booster: A device that is designed for sneaky code execution and is legally off-limits to independent auditing is bad. A world of those devices - devices we put inside our bodies and put our bodies inside of - is fucking terrifying. 26/
A device that is designed for sneaky code execution and is legally off-limits to independent auditing is bad. A *world* of those devices - devices we put inside our bodies and put our bodies inside of - is *fucking terrifying*. 26/ ⌘ Read more

shoutout to the woman that broke my heart so that I now read papers titled stuff like “Multiverse-wide Cooperation via Correlated Decision Making”

todo: find a way to track ontology shifts in neural networks

Web hosting is being moved to Ouvaton, a French co-op and email not sure yet. Might use them or Nubo a Belgian co-op

I am at the moment starting to move my internet things over to cooperative run services

Gajim: Gajim 1.4.7
Gajim 1.4.7 brings performance improvements, better file previews, and many bug fixes. Thanks for all your reports!

Multiple issues with Gajim’s file preview have been fixed. If you want to disable file previews entirely, there is now a setting in Gajim’s preferences.

For people with many contacts in their contact list, this release will bring a significant performance improvement 🚀

Furthermore, notifications on Windows should not appear in the taskbar anymore.

just thought to myself “hopefully a bigger pandemic hits, that sounds like it’ll delay ai capabilities progres”, which, no,,,

[47°09′58″S, 126°43′39″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

Linux, Alternative OS, & Retro Computing News - July 23, 2022
Wordperfect for UNIX comes to Linux, Xbox Live 1.0 recreated, & Lego Atari 2600 ⌘ Read more

Old content warning
Recently I implemented a setting in my blog software to disable the warning above posts older than one year. A setting that has its justification. ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: REST API Openfire plugin 1.8.3 released!
We recently release version 1.8.3 of the Openfire REST API plugin. This version extends the MUC search capability to include the natural name of the MUC (instead of just the name). It also updates a number of library dependencies.

The updated plugin should be available for download in your Openfire admin console already. Alternatively, you can download the plugin directly, from [the plugin’s archive page](https://www.ign … ⌘ Read more

❤️ 🎶: How painful it must be to forget by ALi

❤️ 🎶: Words I want to say by GyeongseoYeji

Tips & tricks for using GitHub projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′11″S, 126°43′53″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

researchers drunkenly explaining 5-10 to each other

**The Legendary Pink Dots have an enviously prolific discography (@discogs counts 111 albums!), but this year’s “The Museum of Human Happiness” is definitely one of the “memorable ones”, perhaps the best of what they have to offer.

“preserved for you beneath a painted sky”**
The Legendary Pink Dots have an enviously prolific discography ( @discogs counts 111 albums!), but this year’s “The Museum of Human Happiness” is definitely one of the “memorable ones”, perhaps the b … ⌘ Read more

surveys probably get more results if people get their some summary statistic at the end—a way to increase participation rate?

Here’s how academic research is shaping GitHub Discussions
We strive to understand how developers collaborate and work on GitHub, and we sometimes partner with academics to better understand how we can improve our products. Here’s how we did that to build and evolve GitHub Discussions. ⌘ Read more

Chemicals
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6 strategic ways to level up your CI/CD pipeline
From incorporating accessibility testing to implementing blue-green deployment models, here are six practical and strategic ways to improve your CI/CD pipeline. ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds says VBA coming to Linux Kernel “like, right away”
“This is way better than that Rust junk,” stated one Kernel contributor. ⌘ Read more

Finally found the time to set up my Raspberry Pi to do something useful. It was on my shelf for only three years or so.

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:

Image

Or this:

Image

[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

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′36″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

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

[47°09′54″S, 126°43′48″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard

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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[47°09′51″S, 126°43′49″W] Working impossible due to blizzard

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:

Image

Or this:

Image

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…