Bad idea of the day: a machine that uses oscillators to manufacture high-quality sand

Botnik feat. The Strokes - I Don’t Want To Be There - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07dUOrktTQ4

How the English Failed to Stamp Out the Scots Language - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language

I love how I just got an email to tell me that something I ordered was shipped. Funny thing is, this email came 2 days after it was delivered to me.

A gallery of paintings that know where you look: Animals that hide in your blind spot, portraits that always meet your eyes, a little man with a sign running around trying to block the view, Escherian paradoxes that you’d swear were tangled differently the last time you checked

An easy and practical way to understand a complex universe is to simulate it, let its inhabitants contact you, and then quiz them about how they navigate it↵↵”conservation of energy? uhuh wild, and uh how large are your being-patterns again, in terms of fundamental lengths? wow”

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-persuasion-and-manipulation

The Socialist YouTuber Using Cities: Skylines To Explain Politics https://kotaku.com/the-socialist-youtuber-using-cities-skylines-to-explai-1829245653

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I also always try to have a few ssh servers with several ports available for me to use. My favorite port is 443. Once had a firewall that wouldn’t allow SSH on 22 but 443 was acceptable because it expected encryption on it.

LOW←TECH MAGAZINE https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/09/how-to-build-a-lowtech-website/

@sdk@codevoid.de Why doesn’t that shock me. Hell I’ve worked places where they had a strong firewall that blocked a lot of sites and yet I was allowed to SSH out, setup a tunnel, and bypass the firewall.

a drug suppressing unconscious volition so that every decision is deliberate, used in small doses by judges to debias verdicts - large doses are possible but considered an expert’s trip, not everybody can breathe manually for hours even if it is to survive

but then, more and more wake up, poke the glitches, form theories↵↵the simulators have left but not cleaned up properly, given us just enough to get root, and we hide what’s left of our world in spare cycles, sidechannels, unused memory

Moderan reads like if dril was a battle-cyborg & tried to write his autobiography but kept on getting distracted by how COOL it is to PLASTIC-WRAP THE EARTH.

A Response to Yuval Harari’s ‘Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind’ > C. R. Hallpike https://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?sec_id=189085

Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article ‘Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting’ for me? Is it just something stupid like ‘priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu’?

I’m getting used to OpenBSD rather fast. I’s really very consistent and joyful to work with. #openbsd

[after mindswap]↵”hey this is an outrage why do I still have the same body”↵”well we had to take care of body image, muscle memory, the parts of your aesthetic preferences located in your guts and skin, etc etc, it adds up”

How to Suffer Well: Sympathetic Characterization in Madoka and Magical Girl Site - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kmaba2TopE

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Paradox - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlkt5Q9a9Ek

In the grim dark future of 2020, nobody goes outside without first applying temporary tattoos of additional eyes to their face. Positioning of these additional eyes must be rotated every few hours for security purposes.

Despite a really crappy title, this is a good article: https://medium.com/s/story/were-primed-to-be-addicted-to-social-media-b6b31cfc4099

idea for a nonlethal drone weapon: swarm of drones with strings tying up the target to carry it away afterwards

No I know they’d like to study it harder, but now imagine something that’s both as ravenous as life and as competent as technology hitching a ride back up and escaping onto the interstellar stage, we’d lose that whole galaxy

You see, this planet has developed technology and life, remarkable really, problem is that all the probes we sent to study its biomechanosphere have so far either been eaten or shot down by local wildlife, so we’ve quarantined it

Not having a CoC is the closest thing to achive what a CoC is supposed to achive.

at last, first contact comes - from the storms, then from the waves, then the mountains, “sorry we didn’t realize animals could be intelligent, to be honest we wrote you off once you left the oceans, how dumb is that hahah

The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas

Underrun – Making Of
I participated in this year’s js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.

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For this competition I set out to produce something with a dense atmosphere – which is inherently difficult to do with so little … ⌘ Read more

Tell Me It’s Going to be OK | Miya Tokumitsu https://thebaffler.com/salvos/tell-me-its-going-to-be-ok-tokumitsu

[disclaimer for those into factual accuracy: I expect that if regression to the mean is applicable here, it would play out over a few years and not 30]

if human civilization really did survive a few decades of quantum suicide during the cold war, shouldn’t we be seeing regression to the mean by now↵↵instead of, you know, the opposite

On The Road To Chaos In East Berlin (published MONDO 2000 1991) - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/09/17/on-the-road-to-chaos-in-east-berlin-published-mondo-2000-1991/

If you mixed human ashes into concrete (say, to make a cornerstone for a building) would the concrete still set properly? How much corpse-ash would you need to add before it started to compromise structural integrity?

How To Kill Your Tech Industry https://logicmag.io/05-how-to-kill-your-tech-industry/

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.

From: A. Causal <mail.⇋⇋.⌱⌛>↵Subject: Unique investment opportunities in YOUR past!↵↵attached file contains vital information on how to reclaim negentropy from the past, kindly open and run

It doesn’t pay to be smart in interstellar space - once out of the gravity well, most races lose their sentience in favor of longevity, radiation tolerance and stealth

Hot take: a thick skin is a really useful skill to develop, but having it isn’t really correlated with other useful skills, so we shouldn’t use it as a proxy for who gets to contribute to things.

Pet peeve: folks who identify the neoliberal techno-utopian california-ideology currents with cyberpunk. To the extent that the cyberpunk literary movement had consistent politics, they were critical of Regan-flavored capitalism.

Hot take: the profit motive is incompatible with goals of social equity simply because those who can afford to pay for their services will always be privileged by a profit-motivated organization

Proposal for a book to be adapted into a movie starring Dwayne The Rock Johnson https://www.robinsloan.com/proposal-for-a-book/

Advertising is obsolete “ here’s why it’s time to end it https://theconversation.com/advertising-is-obsolete-heres-why-its-time-to-end-it-101639

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net: As long as they are dimmable or relate to the screen brightness. I’m often working in the dark with 1% screen brightness.

Bad idea of the day: Current prisoners have mandatory voting while non-prisoners (including ex-prisoners) have the option to vote

Should People in Prison have a Right to Vote? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXXZucuS7s4

When Will Security Go Back to Normal? | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyzd_a6vLWY

TFW you’re trying to balance your desire to recommend a long list of books on some subject with your distaste for the concept of a canon, and then realize that it’s probably OK because you don’t have enough power to impact what people actually read

Splain it to Me | Status 451 https://status451.com/2016/01/06/splain-it-to-me/

…when you realize that the automated API you’re using is really just sending an email to someone who will perform the task.

What To Do If You Do Not Own Your Website’s Domain Name ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/owning-your-website-domain.shtml

Peer-to https://peer-to.peer-to-peer-web.com/

Band name of the day: conspiracy to riot

Since homing pigeons are extinct, I guess we will need to distribute our SSB micro flash cards via trained falcon.

@mdom@domgoergen.com my own custom client I wrote, I use cron to run the update my timeline every 20 mins. My update process also processes 10 curl calls at time. I did that to save time when I poll everyone.

Lisa Hanawalt of BoJack Horseman Talks to Heather Havrilesky https://www.thecut.com/2018/09/lisa-hanawalt-of-bojack-horseman-talks-to-heather-havrilesky.html

How psychoanalysis came to Japan and was turned on its head | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-psychoanalysis-came-to-japan-and-was-turned-on-its-head

Intro to Hegel (& Progressive Politics) | Philosophy Tube - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNt1C72B_4

A Time-Twisting Visit to the Museum of Capitalism - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/museum-of-capitalism-boston

And we still could use range requests to just get updates, if everybody uses sorted twtfiles.

If your subscribed to 1000 users, you have other problems. None of our clients would handle that gracefully.

And we still could use range requests to just get updates, if everybody uses sorted twtfiles.

If your subscribed to 1000 users, you have other problems. None of our clients would handle that gracefully.

And to be honest, http 1.1 is (mostly) fine, it’s the stuff that is usually transmitted with it that worries me :)

And to be honest, http 1.1 is (mostly) fine, it’s the stuff that is usually transmitted with it that worries me :)

@mdom@domgoergen.com did you think about not putting all followers into the twtxt file, but a URL to a follower list? Think performance. If the network grows to 10000 users, you’d have 10000 extra lines in each twtxt file.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org If everybody is happy with the format, sure! Writing a new spec is on my todo list for a long time. Maybe that’s a good reason to do it.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org If everybody is happy with the format, sure! Writing a new spec is on my todo list for a long time. Maybe that’s a good reason to do it.

@mdom@domgoergen.com That’s interesting. So does txtnish read that metadata? or would an end user just look at the file to see it? Is the meta data going to be the standard?

New feature for txtnish: After setting add_metadata to 1, txtnish will, uhm, add metadata to your twtfile. Currently i only add followings, client and your gpg fingerprint. See my file for an example.

New feature for txtnish: After setting add_metadata to 1, txtnish will, uhm, add metadata to your twtfile. Currently i only add followings, client and your gpg fingerprint. See my file for an example.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net It’s nice to be way ahead of the curve no? LOL.

@kas@enotty.dk the only thing I can think is that people are finally re-figuring out that static sites are really fast because the content doesn’t need to generated on the fly. I noticed there were a lot of static content generators out there.

dummy tweet to fix my gopher page #wontfix

In other news: I’m doing my first ever diet. I lost 5kg already. No big deal really. Just reduce calories. I don’t understand all that fuss about diets… just eat a little less and stick to it.

@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.

@sdk@codevoid.de I see as I am reading your tweet. Just tried to add you and it works. 😃

Nothing says that the other room has to be static, imagine for example having your morning coffee in there, setting down your cup, and the cathedral’s pillars curl up like ferns to reveal the sky

Well that was disappointing. Was all set to run my Savage World game on Roll20 and 3 of the 5 players had to cancel.

@sdk@codevoid.de Well I’ve added the special datetime to my kitbashed client. I store the URL it gets but I’m not doing anything with it right now.

@sdk@codevoid.de as for the 140 character limit. I swear I read somewhere that the limit was really more of a suggestion than anything else. I don’t think any of the clients I’ve looked out enforce it. As long as it’s on a single line, no one seems to care too much.

unicode 2040 features (2):↵- support for 2D writing systems, lines can now turn by multiples of 45°↵- in-band parsing directives for ligatures (finally with context-free grammar support)↵- in-band layout directives↵- camera glyph can now store up to ten seconds of video

QOTD: ‘The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.’ (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)

QOTD: ‘I am now at work on an apparatus by means of which, when it is perfected, I hope to manifest in their essential purity the radiations of malign force.’

It’s not that anonymity produces bad behavior, but that the absence of the ability to ignore or remove bad actors makes it difficult to prevent bad behavior, and persistent names assigned to persistent identities provides a convenient handle for dealing with individual bad actors.

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Either that, or provide URL to a follower file: #followfile https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt

@sdk@codevoid.de you know the more I think about it, it might make sense to have it the twtxt file. It would just need to be a comment line something like “#follows sdk gopher://codevoid.de/0/tw.txt” on a single line. That way it would be easy to parse out those follows by finding the #follows.

When they sense death approaching, they withdraw into pocket universes, unmoor, and die there so that their remains may be a Garden of Eden to whatever follows

@sdk@codevoid.de a random mix into the the twtxt file seems less clean to me. The former would be easier to implement and simpler for another program to get and parse.

The Art of Good Ecchi - How Not to Summon a Demon Lord - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC6wit4Epeo

All It Takes to Create a Ghost Is a Good Story - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/true-ghost-stories-portland-oregon

@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: It’s just an idea. Not a clean one thoug, as clients would not know upfront who serves such a fiele and who not. Another idea would ne to mix a number of random followers into the twtxt file, which are updated when a person tweets.

@sdk@codevoid.de That’s an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.

Confirming the intelligent designer’s existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle

Computability theory but for telos:↵* What can be achieved with certain overarching goals like Survive, Understand, and Profit?↵* How would a society balance them to get off this rock?↵* And how would you deal with something like Profit emerging?

Humanity’s nascent hivemind, so far, is a blind writhing mass of pain and reflexes, simply not conscious enough to warrant contact yet

Silicon Valley’s attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They’re also not new. -… https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/silicon-valleys-attempts-to-self-police-are-anti-democratic-theyre-also-not-new/2018/08/17/cd44fb22-9b1d-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?noredirect=on

How to teach yourself hard things - Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/09/01/learning-skills-you-can-practice/

We live in a world where both Guy Madden’s The Heart of the World & Matmos’s Ultimate Care II exist, and that has to count for something.