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@apex@twtxt.net - source is here
https://github.com/stig-atle/YarnDesktopClient

Some more info and screenshot:
https://stigatle.no/posts/2023-07-03-yarn-desktop-client/
Keep in mind it’s early still, but a lot of things works and I use it all the time my self..

I’ve been thinking in the back of my mind for a while now, that the Yarn.social / twtxt + ActivityPub integration was a mistake and a. bad idea. I’m starting to consider it a complete failure.

I never paid a lot of attention to Ben Shapiro before, but what he says is so transparently asinine it boggles the senses. You really have to have a Fox-addled mind to believe that the search for the submersible was completely faked and that the powers-that-be knew the entire time that it had imploded. To believe that a vast conspiracy among hundreds, thousands (?) of people from several countries and spanning several days was orchestrated to lie to the public in order to…..uh, achieve what exactly? “Undermine institutional credibility”? What does that even mean?

This is “the moon landing was faked” levels of conspiracy theory.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, same here, been no rain here. But honestly - I do not mind warm weather and such, but I also appreciate a bit colder. We’ll have some rain next week I think.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I think the problem is that NATO does not want to get directly involved, because that scales up everything.
So they provide with the things they can to help instead. It worries me a bit (even though I live in the South of Norway - and Russia borders in the north), but it helps a lot that we have Sweden and Finland next to us. But if shit hits the fan - then it won’t be easy to get anywhere from here, unless we steal a boat and go to England or something like that (or get on a plane).
I try not to worry, but it’s in the back of my mind still.. But we have talked about it in my family, and if things happen then we have a plan on what to do first.

Also - I would like to know where you all like to have git hosted..
Github? Some other place? Do you mind self-hosted git servers? (I currently have my own)..
What do you all prefer? Do you mind compiling software from source if instructions are clear and easy? Or do you prefer to download a released binary and run that?

I also later on (as soon as it’s in usable state) want to make flatpack, appimage as well, that is something I have not done before - but I want to set that up as well.

I just wrote a mega blog post that has been on my mind for months

@osnews@feeds.twtxt.net Exciting laptop! I would not mind having one of these.

A lot of more work needs to be done, but at least now I got the basic timeline stuff done, took a good while to figure out how to solve it, but now I know. The reason why the statuses are cut short on some is because of html tags and stuff like that - c++ is a bit picky with strings and stuff like that. but I’ll get that sorted as well.
At least I can show the first screenshot. Keep in mind the GUI is not at all finished, I’m working on the basics first, implement all the features, then I work on finishing touches.

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everybody starts with the same bad ideas <> beginners mind

@prologic@twtxt.net That is a good point. I do not mind either way, but I have to admit I do not know enough about it to tell if one solution is better then the other. But I think it’s important to make it so that it brings others onboard as well as you say.
I would definitely use it - since that would remove the need to set up other things to communicate with others, so It would be a most welcomed feature to have.

@prologic@twtxt.net I get the worry of privacy. But I think there is some value in the data being collected. Do I think that Russ is up there scheming new ways to discover what packages you use in internal projects for targeting ads?? Probably not.

Go has always been driven by usage data. Look at modules. There was need for having repeatable builds so various package tool chains were made and evolved into what we have today. Generics took time and seeing pain points where they would provide value. They weren’t done just so it could be checked off on a box of features. Some languages seem to do that to the extreme.

Whenever changes are made to the language there are extensive searches across public modules for where the change might cause issues or could be improved with the change. The fs embed and strings.Cut come to mind.

I think its good that the language maintainers are using what metrics they have to guide where to focus time and energy. Some of the other languages could use it. So time and effort isn’t wasted in maintaining something that has little impact.

The economics of the “spying” are to improve the product and ecosystem. Is it “spying” when a municipality uses water usage metrics in neighborhoods to forecast need of new water projects? Or is it to discover your shower habits for nefarious reasons?

Norway is buying 54 new tanks.
Sweet upgrade.
All though the current war is a distance from Norway - it’s still our neighbour who is causing it. So it’s always in the back of my mind.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net ah good point. Ill keep this in mind.

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@prologic@twtxt.net No, because we develop the best tech for it, with the strictest rules. we also adapt to new stuff, so I feel Im helping every day with making things better and better. But honestly it has crossed my mind at times. But Im here being part of innovation and new technologies, doing my part. :)

biology:philosophy of mind::ethology:meditation

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the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

@niplav@niplav.github.io Do you have a particular meaning in mind for “long site”, or do you mean all the possible meanings for “long site”?

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sometimes i think i should return to a cleaner state of mind, abandon all big never-to-be-finished projects, and write simple text-processing utilities on a raspberry pi running plan 9, improvising fractile jazz over a lonely lake and spend most of my remaining time meditating.

GPG’s user interface (yeah, a set of weird keys and arguments is also an interface) blows my mind!

some minds start cutting themselves if not dulled repeatedly.

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i’m finally starting to get an inkling of how thoughts relate to/arise in the mind.

the silence prickles, a mind too fast for meaning, unwrapping my thoughts

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don’t mind me, I’m just snacking some kakapo wings

🤔 Proposal: Refactor internal event handling and webmentions Please comment here or there (I don’t mind) 🤗

@prologic@twtxt.net
Keep in mind that there are plenty of icons already there, it is a quite busy “neighborhood”.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de OK, I am on request/question asking mode today. 😋 How do you cancel a twt, or a reply to a twt? Say I hit my reply, and then I change my mind? Right now, even exiting vi is creating an empty line on my twtxt.txt. Is there an obvious way to cancel a twt, reply, or fork that I am missing?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

If Subject contains the full twt, then you can skim over conversations just by reading those lines in mutt’s index pager

Yes, I do the same, true.

So I decided: Okay, let’s have mutt do it.

And Mutt does it well. I agree it was/is a good idea.

The subject lines are already “compressed”

I noticed, yes.

I am not sure why I asked to begin with; in retrospect, in was a silly request. Perhaps the OCD in me got triggered while viewing rich headers, on a specific twt, when I saw the huge subject line that is, otherwise, always hidden.

Anyway, don’t mind me, move along. 😂

From a chat on Matrix, where it seems it was one of my more coherent moments: 🤪

… Why can’t they just be individuals? Individuals with their own individual beliefs and their own individual reasons for having those beliefs…

And so just default to a stance of respect and courtesy. The fact is, most of your interactions with others will be very limited; approaching those encounters from a place of respect for the complexities of the human mind and an individual’s experiences and traumas costs you very little, typically.

To be human is to generalise, but that doesn’t mean you can’t push back against those tendencies.

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Well, in the context of chat, it would be something like you’ve just done: don’t put words in my mouth, based on my avatar, nick, grammar, etc., and instead ask me to elaborate on points of potential confusion.

And don’t bring agendas to everything. Default to assuming that this is likely an interaction of hours, and people don’t change based on that, typically.

You’ll probably get more from interactions that you’re open to, but, be honest with yourself: if you aren’t up to that, because it isn’t easy, then just default to respect and courtesy, which isn’t difficult, and costs you little. And then excuse yourself, if they’re proper jerks. ;-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I would not mind keeping a diff, if you tell me where to make the changes! I know nothing of Python, and I have spent already a couple of hours trying to make sense. I know it is there, in front of me, if only I knew Python. 😩

Obscenities are symptoms of weak minds.
Over the past few years, I made the decision to totally cut obscenities out from my speech. You might actually be able to find recordings of me cursing four or five years ago, but as of now, I really stand by my decision.

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Yeah, what’d you have in mind?

When tragedy strikes unexpectedly we cannot just go on as if nothing happened. Our minds need to be given time to deal with the blow. So it is necessary to pause and allow ourselves to process and recover.

A calm, reasoned take on the Stallman situation (some language warning as the creator doesn’t mind dropping an F-bomb now and then): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHxY-QsQkQ

@xjix@xj-ix.luxe Saw your oldish note about wanting an offline/async twtxt workflow. Do you have something that works for you? My (very young!) client was designed with that in mind.

Trying to move things with your mind might be good meditation practice.

Medicine is a type of engineering. Change my mind.

tool-mind vs toy-mind #halfbakedideas

LC is a new music programming language that is prototype-based, strongly timed, and designed with microsound synthesis in mind: [[https://www.hnishino.com/2019/05/09/lc-a-new-computer-music-programming-language-with-three-core-features/]] #links #composition

first thing that comes to mind: this can be used for ascii art.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, Dagger of the Mind https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/12/trek-dagger.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

The mind in itself is a wonderful tool. Dysfunction sets in when you seek your self in it and mistake it for who you are.

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Minds https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/02/01/minds.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #minds

@lucidiot@tilde.town Agreeing that BuJo kind of saved my mind too. It now takes me about three months to fill up 251 pages with tasks, notes and events.

@von@tilde.town Understanding you. For me: keeping a bullet-journal on a paper notebook helped me herd my chaotic mind into manageable streams. See https://bulletjournal.com

the mind-numbing task of undoing bad C++

the best vacations are the ones in your mind

But will my Headspace thingo be able to add the mindful minutes back to my iPhone?

Inside the minds of Elon Musk’s fans - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/26/17505744/elon-musk-fans-tesla-spacex-fandom

Psychedelic art of the 1930s: Mescaline and psychiatry at the Bethlem Museum – Museum Crush https://museumcrush.org/how-mescaline-made-art-in-the-1930s-at-the-bethlem-museum-of-the-mind/

GitHub - historicalsource/amfv: A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/amfv

Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018

all the jokes you remember whose origins you don’t recall were precision engineered by cosmic coincidence control for the purpose of nooforming the mankind biocomputer change my mind

Hyperloops for our minds – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers https://www.sicpers.info/2019/03/hyperloops-for-the-mind/

Band name of the day: emotion mind

Trendism is a complicated inversion of the aphorism ‘mediocre minds talk about people, and great minds talk about ideas’: we value most those who talk about whether or not people are talking about an idea.

Patricia Lockwood: The Communal Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibRVrQhSpA

Mind Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Takes

Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds

Band name of the day: mind, stamina, muscle, & feet

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

A Lever for the Mind https://codon.com/a-lever-for-the-mind

There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/

The Beautiful Mind-Bending of Stanislaw Lem | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-beautiful-mind-bending-of-stanislaw-lem

The Coping Economy | Dissent Magazine https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/coping-economy-mindfulness-goes-corporate

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Vallee is among the most lucid of the mid-century ufologists. The modern internet does to the global mind what a close encounter does to individual minds.

Book Review: The Mind Illuminated | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/28/book-review-the-mind-illuminated/

Band name of the day: watcher at the gates of mind

‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Three Nightmares of the Inductive Mind &mdash; Glass Bead http://www.glass-bead.org/research-platform/three-nightmares-inductive-mind/?lang=enview

Shades of ‘monkey mind’: http://yokai.com/satori/

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Stuff is heavy on the mind. What is a lightweight lifestyle worth? Trash everything under this value. You can always rebuy it.

a stationary bicycle for the mind. (stationery?)

a bicycle for the mind / tanks for the memories

mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

Hot take: smashing the state of mind (i.e., producing the mental and cultural conditions for statelessness) goes beyond class consciousness & requires almost everybody to ‘get’ social dynamics in cybernetic terms, at scale. It’s an anti-specialization; heuristics won’t suffice. Communities exist that already do this (ex., kink).

What’s On My Mind http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/zigzag/xybrap.html

The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind

Slack as group mind https://abe-winter.github.io/2018/07/31/group-mind.html

“Mind-boggling” Stanford research turns human blood cells into functional neurons https://newatlas.com/blood-cells-transformed-neurons-stanford/54948/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part two) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/15/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-two/

Kevin’s Meandering Mind | A Whale’s Lantern: The Oral History of a Musical Collaboration (part one) http://dogtrax.edublogs.org/2018/04/14/a-whales-lantern-the-oral-history-of-a-musical-collaboration-part-one/

Have you tried being very vague and confused in your descriptions of the problem, so that in your mind it metamorphoses into a different, more easily solved problem?

LSD research: Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html

Hive Minds, Mind Hives - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo

spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/26/spaced-repetition-darwins-golden-rule/

A graph that is made by perceiving it – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/02/25/a-graph-that-is-made-by-perceiving-it/

Review: John Bargh’s “Before You Know It” – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2018/04/04/review-john-barghs-before-you-know-it/

TAM 2014 - Julia Galef - How to Change Your Mind - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDePmv6h3II