[47º09’20”S, 126º43’13”W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
someone (not me) should try to learn the 1k most common words in as many languages as possible
How to Perform a Social Media Autopsy - Galaxy Brain ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’53”S, 126º43’29”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
Worth Listening “Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality” - Intense, Packed talk about the amount of things we have to digest if we want to pivot our existing systems ⌘ Read more…
Born to Run Farther with Dr. Irene Davis and Chris McDougall ⌘ Read more…
Yes, I can shoehorn interpreting extropianism into every poem by Schiller. This is going to be a regular thing.
[47º09’30”S, 126º43’01”W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
On the blog: Tweets from 05/17 to 05/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/05/21/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Learned how to make baguettes last week: !baguette.
What Not to Miss at DockerCon 2021 ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’49”S, 126º43’14”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
One of the problems with trying to get to inbox zero is that some of the older messages deserve to be saved but don’t really belong in any kind of final resting place…
Manufacturing mRNA Vaccines is Surprisingly Straightforward And the world can’t afford to be half vaccinated ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’25”S, 126º43’09”W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm
[47º09’23”S, 126º43’43”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47º09’13”S, 126º43’04”W] Working impossible due to blizzard
Ignorance isn’t a sin, but refusing to learn is. I choose to sin and remain ignorant. I can’t be bothered. Quotes from Vincenzo | thyQuotes
@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device
[47º09’33”S, 126º43’45”W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication
On the blog: Tweets from 05/10 to 05/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/05/14/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
“Remember: the internet didn’t have to be like this. A better world is possible.” I love this. telnet issue1.anewsession.com
Odysee stream over, worked well!
Just finished by first stream on LBRY/Odysee. If you missed it, don’t sweat it, we didn’t talk about anything too interesting, just trying Odysee’s new streaming abilities.
There was some bandwidth problems on my end, but Odysee itself seemed to handle the stream very well. ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: How to use RabbitMQ in service integration ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’03”S, 126º43’55”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
Join GitHub on June 5 to celebrate the Class of 2021 ⌘ Read more…
↳
In-reply-to
»
I just timed it: 59 seconds for my Raspberry Pi to boot, 33 of which is waiting for my keyboard firmware to initialize. That's just absurd.
⤋ Read More
Unrelated: my first response shows a rendering bug on your site: it’s dropping a backslash. Hard to mix markdown and genuine plain text.
[47º09’59”S, 126º43’26”W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
It is surprisingly difficult to build a carbon neutral sailing ship. This is even more the case today, because our standards for safety, health, hygiene, comfort, and convenience have changed profoundly since the Age of Sail. ⌘ Read more
I just timed it: 59 seconds for my Raspberry Pi to boot, 33 of which is waiting for my keyboard firmware to initialize. That’s just absurd.
@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: … < sharing ontologies: There’s an idea. If I want to write something, anything, documenting the words and concepts I use isn’t the dumbest idea.
On the blog: Tweets from 05/03 to 05/07 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/05/07/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
probably similar to solomonoff, just in the number of variables, and without the computability aspect (since we know that prop-formulas can be evaluated in exponential time)
Surely people have thought about this, but is it so useful to include proofs in textbooks?
[47º09’53”S, 126º43’44”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
Moscow using far right to infiltrate EU parliament ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’46”S, 126º43’23”W] Working impossible due to blizzard
Modern “Freedom” Means Being a Slave to Impulses
What does freedom mean?See this article in video form here.
Which of the following two people is more free:
- A drug addict.
- A average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain.
Most modern people will have a kind of cognitive disson … ⌘ Read more
Modern “Freedom” Means Being a Slave to Impulses ⌘ Read more…
Conspiratorial Thinking and “Multiple Outs”
How to do magic tricks…Magicians have this concept called “Multiple Outs.” It’s actually how you can do simple magic tricks. Suppose you have a person pick a card and say you will guess the suit of their card.
They pick a diamond card and announce it, and you tell them to check underneath their chair to reveal a slip of paper that says, “You will pick a diamond card.”
That might sound like a nice trick, but if they had picke … ⌘ Read more
The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.
At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more
Video: How to Dockerize a Python App with FastAPI ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’00”S, 126º43’58”W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
New repository: aquilax/psql2csv - psql output table to csv convertor
much lower than we’d expect from naively extrapolating just to the increased lifespan.
discount rates seem to spring mostly from being sure of ones own death. beings without aging would have extremely low discount rates, I think?
major difference between updating on evidence vs. morals: we know that a bayesian is converging (monotonically?) towards truth with each piece of evidence, while with moral progress, it seems likely that we are not bounded in how wrong our updates can be (even if we grant that the arc bends towards justice in the end). we might need to escape moral local maxima. therefore, it seems good to preserve option value.
My searx instance has changed domains
For those that use my SearX instance (which was formerly searx.lukesmith.xyz, I have now relocated it to searx.cedars.xyz, so if you use it as a default search engine, remember to change its url.
For those who don’t know what SearX is, it’s a metasearch engine that polls whatever search engines you want and aggregates the results. It is free software that can be installed by anyone on any server.
Read more about it … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Tweets from 04/26 to 04/30 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/30/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
10 Reasons to Attend DockerCon LIVE 2021 ⌘ Read more…
every permutation is a bijection, not every bijection is a permutation. this wasn’t obvious to me!
[47º09’03”S, 126º43’38”W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication
[47º09’03”S, 126º43’20”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47º09’44”S, 126º43’43”W] Working impossible due to heavy rain
How we use GitHub Actions to manage GitHub Docs ⌘ Read more…
[47º09’53”S, 126º43’24”W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm
↳
In-reply-to
»
Pinboard describes itself as "Social bookmarking for introverts". Maybe txtxt is social networking for introverts.
⤋ Read More
Or maybe that’s old-school twtxt, and twtxt.net is those people who’re constantly trying to coax the introverts out. ;-)
@antonio@twtxt.net @mckinley@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net i did use Wireapp for a little bit. it is pretty polished and doesnt rely on phone numbers for connecting. The ownership had some shady changes but im not sure it ever led to issues in the security model.
@antonio@twtxt.net @mckinley@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net i did use Wireapp for a little bit. it is pretty polished and doesnt rely on phone numbers for connecting. The ownership had some shady changes but im not sure it ever led to issues in the security model.
lol. yeah i am in deep at the new job. probably need a little more time to settle in
lol. yeah i am in deep at the new job. probably need a little more time to settle in
[47º09’23”S, 126º43’58”W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
Monero Maximalism: Or, How Bitcoin Is a 💩coin
Most normal people hear the word “cryptocurrency” and assume that means that they are “cryptic” or “private,“but that’s actually a huge, perhaps the hugest misunderstanding of our time and it has some big consequences.The “crypto” in cryptocurrency merely comes from its cryptographic nature.
When it comes to actual privacy, cryptocurrencies are an unmitigated … ⌘ Read more
Stay frosty: possible test stream on PeerTube and YouTube in a bit
I’m going to probably be doing a test livestream in a bit. Hopefully I fixed the issue in the previous stream with Pulseaudio and buffering.
I’ll probably go live on PeerTube first, test it there, then test it on YouTube. I’m mobile and on limit battery though, so it won’t be a super long stream if everything works out.
PeerTube stream will be at this link: [https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/vi … ⌘ Read more
[47º09’30”S, 126º43’38”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
On the blog: Tweets from 04/19 to 04/23 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/23/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Monal IM: Vaxbot continues to grow ⌘ Read more…
How to Insert Meta Tags into a Web Page with BlueGriffon ⌘ Read more…
Prototyping on the Mu computer, and nudging people to throw the first one away: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/106112499040193446
My blog system now has tagging (all pure POSIX shell of course)
This isn’t live on the old blog system’s Github, but partially inspired by by Based Cooking’s tag system which is based on blogit, I’ve added in the feature to tag articles.
I’ve been wanting to write more articles and informational pages on my website, but doing that with no organization is somewhat … ⌘ Read more
The Fragility of Physics
Physics has a reputation of being a uniquely “scientific” field.In other fields, you might hear of the concept of “Physics Envy” which is supposed to be a deep-seated desire of academics of other disciplines for the rigorousness and elegance of physics.Only physics, so the popular understanding goes, is truly able to abstract away from the messiness of detail and create truly beautiful and solvent models of their subject matters.Physics is thus the queen of the “hard sciences.”
… ⌘ Read more
Making Free Money off Credit Cards
While I’ve done a video on this topic before ( PeerTube, YouTube), some people asked me for more information, so here it is.
In America, people are so notoriously dumb with credit and money that credit card co … ⌘ Read more
Why I Use the GPL and Not Cuck Licenses
Every piece of software I write I license under the GNU Public License Version 3 (GPLv3) unless I have forked it from something else.
The GPLv3 is the premiere copyleft license, meaning that it not only allows users to run, modify and distribute their own versions of what I write, but it also requires that no one in that chain of development restrict and close-source that software: it and sof … ⌘ Read more
Notes on Learning Languages
I get asked a lot about learning languages, so I have a few comments about it here.Hopefully I can awaken you from some dogmatic slumbers about language.
This is hard for people to understand because I think most monolingual people think that languages are just different word lists that people use.As a result, 101 students will manually look up every word in the dictionary to translate.This actually … ⌘ Read more
Reviews of All Linux Distros (That Matter)
Firstly, once you reach basic competency in Linux, different distributions don’t matter. A lot of newbies analyze distros based on what they look like when you install them, often not realizing that it’s a pretty simple affair not just to change superficial things like your theme and setup, but entire desktop environments. Basically all distro reviews online are wastes of time for people who know what they’re doing. When I came to YouTube, all … ⌘ Read more
Only Use Old Computers!
If there is a single point of advice I can offer novice computer users, it is stop using modern computers.
If you look at “technology YouTube,” part of my neighborhood, but I more mean the massive multi-million subscriber channels, nearly all of it is devoted to constantly reviewing and comparing every new computer, processor, graphics card and product. There’s big money in it be … ⌘ Read more
Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
I’ve said on a couple livestreams that the ideal way for an English speaker to begin learning or excel in learning other major European languages (Spanish, French, Italian and German) is to use Michel Thomas’s audiotapes. They can be found for free on Pirate Bay and other sites, but you can also buy them [on his official … ⌘ Read more
Learn Latin
Latin was the first language I learned and has probably been the most useful. Here I’ll talk about some of the things it’s gotten me and some recommendations for how to learn it well.
What I’ve gotten out of learning Latin You get multiple languages for one.Latin, as you probably know is the ancestor of Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, etc. Once you know Latin, it is quite literally downhill learning any of these. In college … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP
To put it in other words…The common way of looking at Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is that it’s a metric of economic success: more GDP is more wealth.Wealth is good. “Poverty” (meaning low per capita GDP) is bad.Nowadays, pretty much everyone talks about “economics” like this as if this truism was scribbled on the back walls of the cosmos.
This is just looking at one side of the ledger in a kind of global double-entry accounting book.A logically equivale … ⌘ Read more
Why It’s Bad to Have High GDP ⌘ Read more…
Science vs. Soyence
There’s nothing necessarily wrong with science, reason, knowledge etc. To some degree, they’re fundamental for survival in this world in one way or another. But one of the more worrisome problems which have arisen since the Enlightenment, and especially in the past several years, is the fact that whenever scientific knowledge has increased, human arrogance has accelerated even faster. This isn’t a metaphysical, moral arrogance; it’s one that is more and mor … ⌘ Read more
Learn Chinese
Chinese is the hardest language to learn according to normies who have never tried to learn it.
In reality, Chinese is really easy. It has literally no complex morphology: no tense, plurals, gender. It doesn’t have irregular verbs or nouns because it has no verb and noun endings whatsoever. It’s almost difficult to explain how easy Chinese is.
The only different thing is the writing system which is I hesitate to say anachronistic. The Chinese character system i … ⌘ Read more
The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.
Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)
They can still learn about … ⌘ Read more
We Want Our 4 Causes Back!
Aristotle, in his Physics argued that there are four causes behind everything that exists. These causes answer the question of “How” or “Why” something is the way it is.
The Material CauseThe material from which something is made. E.g. the stone of a statue.The Efficient CauseThe external force that causes something to be made. E.g. the artisan and his tools who make a statue.The Formal Cause … ⌘ Read more
I like and use the Brave Browser.It’s a free and open source browser with features like:
- Ad-blocking by default.
- Tracker-blocking by default.
- Anti-fingerprinting mechanisms to prevent you from being monitored.
- Built-in Tor windows.
- Run by a based Christian and not furry leftists.
As far as I’m concerned, Brave is indisputably the best general-purpose browser out there.There are other okay brows … ⌘ Read more
[47º09’44”S, 126º43’00”W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47º09’43”S, 126º43’58”W] Upgrade completed [storage increased to 15u]
I keep going back ‘n’ forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what’s involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better yarn.social advocate. ^⨰^
Open source goes to Mars 🚀 ⌘ Read more…
Whether to invest in stocks is moral tracks with whether general economic growth is moral.
2x3: {lives in social/physical reality}×{views things generally as positive/zero/negative sum}. To be honest, I think there’s relatively few people in social positive sum reality frames.
↳
In-reply-to
»
@lyse What do you do at your day job?
⤋ Read More
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome man! Welcome to the Go coding for work club!
↳
In-reply-to
»
@lyse What do you do at your day job?
⤋ Read More
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de Awesome man! Welcome to the Go coding for work club!
huh, txtnish seems to have problems with linebreaks & unicode;.
On the blog: Tweets from 04/12 to 04/16 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/16/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump
Good idea. Plan 9 sets $NPROC on boot to the number of cores, so other things can use it. mk will dispatch things in just that way.