if you’re weird, spending time around non-weird people is not going to make you more normal. but if you spend time with marginally less weird people, you’re probably going to become less weird.

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I think I’m done trying to be social on twtxt. This is too hard. Enjoy my read-only feed?

humiliating how long it took me to realise that the Metamorphosis by Kafka was about disability.

This : I Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated - Common Sense with Bari Weiss ⌘ Read more…

@hecanjog@hecanjog.com “Just discovered an unsaved vim buffer sitting in a local tmux session I forgot about for days now. Yikes. At least it was easy to remember where I left off. :)” -> Hopefully something important

the universe needs to meditate

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk excellent! We could add a translate twt for twts of another language to the UI with this.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk excellent! We could add a translate twt for twts of another language to the UI with this.

@prologic@twtxt.net @adi@twtxt.net @jlj@twt.nfld.uk @readfog I too would love to see the “internal” package decrease and clearly defined / modular packages increase.

@prologic@twtxt.net @adi@twtxt.net @jlj@twt.nfld.uk @readfog I too would love to see the “internal” package decrease and clearly defined / modular packages increase.

On the blog: Tweets from 04/05 to 04/09 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/09/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

That said, I wouldn’t buy orange-blossom water just to dump into my tea. It’s much more useful as a cheesecake-batter addition, but in order to draw it down in a timely fashion I’d have to bake two cheesecakes a week.

Discovery of the day: if you have some extra orange-blossom water lying around that you want to use up before it goes bad, you could do worse than to splash some in your cup of black tea.

Livestream on PeerTube ONLY at 10AM New York time
As the title says, I’ll be livestreaming today on PeerTube only at this link.

I’ll talk about finishing my book reptinting project that you’re going to want to know about and perhaps “recent events” (several weeks late)
for example, on Richard Stallman.

I’ll read donations I get if you want to talk about other things.

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Anyone (preferably in the PDX area) have a way to read QIC-80 tapes?

Just over a week left to apply to Summer of Code. Plan 9 is in there, and ~200 other good orgs. Go apply and tell students you know. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-30/five-ways-to-make-u-s-streets-less-deadly

Bringing back blog system.
For the benefit of RSS users, I’m going to bring back the blog feature
on my website, which is done with lb,
a minor script I wrote a while ago.

This is where I’ll be posting updates. Old blog entries, while not on the RSS feed
still exist via their permalinks and can be accessed
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On the blog: Tweets from 03/29 to 04/02 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/04/02/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

published @!(sndkitref “chorus”)!@ to !sndkit.

@adi@twtxt.net “@niplav Your reasoning is that if Zeus would create mistresses he would create too many people?” -> Nope, that he wouldn’t be able to control them (since they are only slightly less powerful than him), and “you cannot put down what you have conjured up”

still suck at remembering to update this. gf broke up with me a few weeks ago and i’m sad. what’s new?

@prologic@twtxt.net I would to build a Chinese version, have you considered supporting different languages? I translated a README file.

when your work is done, forget it Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go? | Hacker News

Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
In the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal with our own shit — and to obtain high protein food in the process. ⌘ Read more

I can’t believe it’s controversial to say “somebody with a 30+ year history making women uncomfortable shouldn’t be in a leadership position”. That’s not “cancel culture”, it’s just friggin’ obvious.

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On the blog: Tweets from 03/22 to 03/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

YouTube Channel Deletion

by Luke Smith

Google is prepping to delete my YouTube channel.
As of today (March 26, 2021), I now cannot post for another two weeks.
YouTube “strikes” which are functionally unappealable (automatically rejected) last for 3 months.
If they give thee concurrent strikes, you channel is permanently deleted.

If YouTube Jannies delete my YouTube channel, remember that
**100% of my videos are still easily viewable, includi … ⌘ Read more

How to Play a Song (or Some Other Audio Clip) from a List on a Website ⌘ Read more…

Sure. I think search, if it’s going to exist, should be the client’s responsibility. But I also value the readability of the raw twtxt file a lot more than y’all do.

@alip@dev.exherbo.org “We are calling for Richard M. Stallman to be removed from all leadership positions, including the GNU Project. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/” highly contextual/simulacrous memeplexes exclude high-variance impact neuroatypicals, nobody thinks about incentives?

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He’s fine with gender-neutral pronouns when he gets to pick them, but insists on policing others’. The open letter calling for his removal has references.

I actually haven’t yet, it’s just easy enough to manually prepend the subject for now, if I skip the search URL. 🤣 I’ll do it properly eventually.

Not even a little. So pumped. https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tf20bce89ef96d4b6-M63f81768e4ffdfa4df402ec5/transfer-of-plan-9-to-the-plan-9-foundation

I just want to make cute cuddly characters that sing a chitter. I don’t know how else to say this.

Learning to Fly: Let’s simulate evolution in Rust! (pt 3) ⌘ Read more…

Bell Labs has now transferred Plan 9 to the Plan 9 Foundation, who has in turn re-released all releases under the MIT license. I am very excited about this. 🐇🎉

Many are very upset about the return of RMS, and how that could be seen to legitimise his views. I knew nothing about his views, really, controversial or otherwise. I’m currently correcting that. I do like how he’s acknowledged that his views on certain controversial subjects has changed since 2013; an admission that he was wrong. I guess an important question is whether his new views on said subjects align with the current moral standard. More reading required…

Shameful, Revolting : Rich Countries Signed Away a Chance to Vaccinate the World ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: Tweets from 03/15 to 03/19 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/19/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

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According to my fish history, the previous post was not the first one of mine that started with “In case you were wondering…” and I’m not sure how to feel about that.

Using GitHub code scanning and CodeQL to detect traces of Solorigate and other backdoors ⌘ Read more…

Docker Series B: More Fuel To Help Dev Teams Get Ship Done ⌘ Read more…

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Bookmarking this to read over a few more times. https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/qcon-china.html #practical #GO

Bookmarking this to read over a few more times. https://dave.cheney.net/practical-go/presentations/qcon-china.html #practical #GO

few know that if you manage to slip something of Earth into the possessions of one of the fair folk, you get access to faerie the same way they’d get access to Earth and can visit at any time

It’s easier to be prolific. On Writing More | Hacker News

Emergency: re: YouTube
Hi everyone.

YouTube has given an arbitrary strike to one of my videos.
I am temporarily blocked and banned from posting on YouTube for a week.

I mentioned in a stream that I was planning to wean myself off YouTube as a platform in 2021,
but now I might have to move faster, only three strikes means a permanent channel deletion.
Considering how inconsistent and ambiguous YouTube’s pretended rules are,
I expect to wake up every day with those final strikes.

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how to code a siren, done 6 ways @!(sndkitref “siren”)!@.

Barriers to entry are invisible. They are invisible to people on the inside and most frequently invisible to people who have a hand in creating those barriers. Go is not an easy language | Hacker News

https://Based.Cooking (non-bloated, non-soydev recipes and more)
Well, I figured that it’d be best and I go ahead and start a recipe site, since it came up. I’ll go ahead and tell you RSS chads.
It’s based.cooking (yes, apparently .cooking is a TLD nowadays).

The site isn’t much of a looker now. Just simple CSS, so feel free to open PRs with elegant improvements.
I don’t have much time today, so I’ll leave it to other people.
I might record a video on the site this evening or tomorr … ⌘ Read more

We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we’ve got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html

using a forked version of ed to do live coding #halfbakedideas

GitHub security update: A bug related to handling of authenticated sessions ⌘ Read more…

Code Log: In which I explore how to make sounds ⌘ Read more…

Salary is a negotiation between parties. Looked at soberly, you’re the business, your employer is your customer, and the salary they pay you is really the price you charge for your services. “Location-Based Pay” – Who are we to complain? | Hacker News

@niplav@niplav.github.io I wouldn’t disagree with your characterization of people who’re interested in radical life extension, but their messaging, generally, seems to not mention “adding life to your years” at all. “Live to be 150” doesn’t sound all that great if you’re going to have 15 years of being in your 80s, so to speak.

finally go around to completing my !donutmuffins recipe.

Thanks! According to /etc/os-releases, it’s Fedora 32.

added some more words to the !LIL page.

@(frogorbits.com) “@niplav Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.” -> I disagree, the people who i know that are interested in life extension look to me more engaged in life than the ones who are not (though that hinges on definitions of ”adding life to their years”). i agree that “adding life to your years” is underappreciated, though.

@(frogorbits.com) @niplav@niplav.github.io “I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…” -> It’s good that pen signatures are completely unfakeable. They’re unbelievably reliable. We can’t just copy & photoshop around the edges. Better worry about those definitely-soon-to-exist quantum computers that might crack cryptography.

look at me! Im Moldbug! I want to appoint $PROGRESSIVE_ICON as king/queen!

added a new algo to sndkit @!(sndkitref “scale”)!@.

On the blog: Tweets from 03/01 to 03/05 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/03/05/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

uname; I have an account. I just don’t know how to differentiate linux especially.

@niplav@niplav.github.io I sign a lot less stuff these days now that my phone can pretend to be a credit card. Also: an impostor with a quantum computer can’t pretend to sign documents on my behalf…

@niplav@niplav.github.io Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.

my tiny screen can comfortably display a text block of 45 lines with a maximum length of 79 characters. wonder what kind of information is possible to convey with that kind of information density… #halfbakedideas

Monal IM: Using XMPP to get a vaccine ⌘ Read more…

aversion to carrying out actions that increase my prediction error

The advice about interviewing being exhausting is spot-on. Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates is a very different type of work than most of us engineering types enjoy. Until you’ve developed a thick skin, it can also be emotionally draining to reject candidate after candidate. I’m an interviewer at my company and burnt out | Hacker News

@adi@twtxt.net “I usually seen the opposite. Women are more interested in longevity and happy that studies show that they live more than men.” -> I probably could have been clearer: It seems to me that women are on average much less interested in life-extension (methods beyond usual health advice such as the old “exercise, eat vegetables”) than men. This might just be founder/sampling bias (life extension comes out of the relatively male dominated libertarian/techno-optimist cluster). Actually, maybe there’s just a variance thing here: median man cares less about his longevity than the median woman, but the variance for men is higher.

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “A good read: Why I find longtermism hard – […]” -> Interesting! I don’t particularly share that emotional intuition (although my bias probably cuts the other way: I am more moved by interesting projects, and more interesting problems probably also less neglected)–I generally find most problems other people find salient not very moving at all (although probably equally strongly moved by extremely near suffering compared to other people, but with a stronger emotional distance discount). EA makes sense in a very different way to me (phenomenologically, probably closest to philosophical high valence states it evokes).

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GitHub Security Lab Capture the Flag: A call to hacktion ⌘ Read more…

How to Write a Great Talk Proposal for DockerCon LIVE 2021 ⌘ Read more…

Your guide to DevOps automation and CI/CD at GitHub InFocus ⌘ Read more…

How to Use Your Own Registry ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: Explaining Gender to the Biased https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/28/genders.html #quora #rant #politics

glyphs made to display in space that left scars in my screen, a few feral ones that moved, later an entire city of them, all the conway glider guns, a few codepages made of theorems that hinted at a non-enumerable representation

Yup, 1997 to… 2000 or 2001.

I don’t think the pod would have to be large. Even on tilde.club and the like, with a few dozen active users, it adds to the fun.

@prologic@twtxt.net Bug in your profile links: it’s repeating a segment. For example, your face tries to get to https://twtxt.net/user/https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt

No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it’d be fun to add, but doesn’t replace anything you’re doing.

With the finger server specifically? No idea, it’s a toy. I’d honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.

I just made the decision to allow a domain I own to expire. Personal growth is possible!

On the blog: Tweets from 02/22 to 02/26 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2021/02/26/week.html #twitter #week #socialmedia #linkdump

Finally! I was waiting for something like this : Table 2 Net - CSV to GEXF ⌘ Read more…

Unexpected benefit of going from Mojave to Big Sur on my main machine: being able to see the sun rise over Big Sur in glorious 5K

have i mentioned that i suck at remembering to update this?

an initial recipe for making fresh !pasta. pictures to come.

If you want somebody to help you, they should participate in the loss/gain of their helping to the degree of effect.

Mulling switching gears for the Mu shell to a less ambitious Lisp-based language: https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105771735864653468