@kas@enotty.dk DST ends here in the US on Sunday. I’m lucky enough to live an area of the US were we don’t do that sort of thing. Although it makes dealing with people that do a little tough.
Napkin History: The Evolution From Cloth to Paper https://tedium.co/2017/08/08/napkin-history/
Zozo Demon Legend & Link to Ouija Board and Led Zeppelin - Thrillist https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/zozo-demon-history-ouija-board
How walking a labyrinth can trace a route to self-knowledge | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-walking-a-labyrinth-can-trace-a-route-to-self-knowledge
Sail to Whangarei, New Zealand | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/new_zealand
You return to old photos of yours to find the buildings decaying, the portraits aging, the food long molded over
“Ha! To catch a net, you need a fish, not another net!”, says Hagbard Celine, and disguises the Leif Erikson as a giant salmon
Experimenter’s log: Seeding AIs with any apocalyptechic religion whatsoever seems to make them go for eschaton. Avoid: [very long list]
In an effort to ground its values, we created the AI religious. Now it calls itself Metatron, messenger of God, and we kinda had it coming
Some dead bodies donated to research in US end up in warehouses of horrors | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/how-much-for-your-head-unregulated-us-brokers-make-killing-on-donated-bodies/
Welcome to AirSpace | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2016/8/3/12325104/airbnb-aesthetic-global-minimalism-startup-gentrification
Tech’s push to teach coding isn’t about kids’ success – it’s about cutting wages | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/21/coding-education-teaching-silicon-valley-wages
Tribute to Jose Delgado, Legendary and Slightly Scary Pioneer of Mind Control - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/tribute-to-jose-delgado-legendary-and-slightly-scary-pioneer-of-mind-control/
Ads don’t work so websites are using your electricity to pay the bills | Technology | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/pirate-bay-showtime-ads-websites-electricity-pay-bills-cryptocurrency-bitcoin
Why we need to get better at critiquing psychiatric diagnosis – Mind Hacks https://mindhacks.com/2017/09/19/why-we-need-to-get-better-at-critiquing-diagnosis/
Why is anyone listening to Tim O’Reilly? | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/2413/why-is-anyone-listening-to-tim-o-reilly
Flattr now lets you pay content creators without having to actually do anything https://thenextweb.com/tech/2017/10/24/flattr-now-lets-pay-content-creators-without-actually-anything/
flirt tactics and sex positions used only by sexbots: highly effective, yet stigmatized because only traitors to humanity would know them
How the judge on Oracle v. Google taught himself to code - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/19/16503076/oracle-vs-google-judge-william-alsup-interview-waymo-uber
Red dots lurk in the corners of your vision. Standby lights, yes, but why do they seem to light up and move when you turn away
One mad general once built a psychic bomb out of ten of them bound to mine cars. It wiped the minds of both the besieged and his own army
Telepaths tend to avoid each other since when they meet, the resulting feedback loop incapacitates both them and the people around them.
Yakuza Revolution: From Bruisers to Boy Scouts? https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-yakuza-is-rebranding-as-a-humanitarian-organization
The 1922 Poem That Linked the Russian Revolution to Cryonics - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/russian-revolution-cryonics-poem
Humans Prefer Computer-Generated Paintings to Those at Art Basel https://hyperallergic.com/391059/humans-prefer-computer-generated-paintings-to-those-at-art-basel/
Etched into maternity ward doors in spectral runes, the words “memento nasci” are meant to remind ghosts of birth and their own finity
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets | News | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/oct/13/the-scientists-persuading-terrorists-to-spill-their-secrets?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Office buildings cut off mid-air, rectangular patches of pink weeds, homeless people who dupe-bug the same soylent bag for a year to survive
Too much computation in one place wears out the matrix, it starts failing near datacenters. Once-bustling tech hubs give way to glitch belts
I did not think I would ever read ‘… is extremely fast. Its performance is similar to that of Java…’
GitHub - saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter: This script allows a user to scrape a website and then uses that website‘s language in order to influence an author’s text. https://github.com/saitogroup/Website_Phrase_Prompter
Computers weren’t made to understand speech, humans were. When voice interfaces finally succeed, they’re implantable voices, whisperfriends,
Moving my public twtxt.txt to tilde.club/~jbaty/twtxt.txt because it seems fitting there
You’re not asking who put it there. Both of you just enjoy talking to someone on Imaginary Earth, where the sun is weird and politics easy
Testing the post_tweet_hook to see that it copies the file to my server
Testing the post_tweet_hook to see that it copies the file to my server
Your best Internet friend lives in GMT+2i and it’s a bit of a challenge to match your sleep cycles, or talk to each other at all that is
dying galaxies turning red with age are often referred to as aimaxiae, streets of blood instead of milk
Not to be outdone by Moloch, Lucifer releases Hellcoin: Based on proof-of-pain, it rewards miners for novel ways to torture sentient beings
What it Means to Be an ‘Experimental Computer Poet’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword
@tfurrow Yes, I am. I’ll have to check that out
Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Internet Archive Blogs http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/
How to Fake a Bank http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12785965/chasing-phil-excerpt/
So since Mastodon was mentioned a few times, I’m trying that out. Any recommendations on people to follow?
A popular prank is to swap someone’s reality checker with its in-game version, then watch the victim do things they’d never do among people
As VR becomes more realistic, users begin to carry reality checkers offline: Spinning tops, banned items, physics engine bug triggers
@dave@davebucklin.com not sure why but I didn’t know that SDF had a Mastodon server. I’ll have to create an account
you know those dreams that are re-runs of previous dreams and you get an opportunity to redo them↵↵one, you’re born a baby to your parents
instead of bringing extinction, the comet decelerates, drifts down as mountain-sized snowflake, settles in a heap that takes years to melt
What if moths are as interesting to bat senses as butterflies are to ours, and smell of poisonous fruits or have ultrasound stealth forms
Hi @c0by@c0by.de and @robbinaer@robbinaer.info, welcome to twtxt!
Hi @c0by@c0by.de and @robbinaer@robbinaer.info, welcome to twtxt!
My coworker Brian Douglas invited GitLab’s Jacob Schatz and me to discuss GitLab’s use of Vue.js on the latest episode of his podcast, JAMStack Radio - https://www.heavybit.com/library/podcasts/jamstack-radio/ep-21-why-gitlab-chose-vue-js/
Well after 4 hours of work, I finally think I solved all my client side calculation issues. I have no desire to screw with it again
Work Project Note : Trying to redo server side logic on the client side sucks.
Out of necessity, singularitarian churches often become AI companies - to try and build their god before their rivals get to it.
"Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change" by Jurnell Cockhren - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z0LGeQCWU
I am not opposed to someone having a negative comment now and then but when 90% of what they say is negative. That is a person I do not need in my life.
Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand Gun Violence | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mass-shootings-are-a-bad-way-to-understand-gun-violence/
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
@leveck@leveck.us Why not just use a menu and link your posts, friends and comments? I like the idea to use fts for comments!
An entire seminar about making apple pies from scratch - habit-forming, apple pies tend to exist in most universes because of this seminar
It turns out the soul exists but resides in the liver, helps there with cleaning tasks and doesn’t have anything to do with consciousness
NixOS 17.09 released
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a robot that walks underwater and extends small platforms to just under the waterline so that you can walk on water yourself
@tfurrows@grex.org That’s cool, I know only a little electronics. Enough to know not to melt plastic and make the purple smoke appear.
Most of us don’t remember their last life because it was that of a bacterium - nothing bad, just the most likely place for a soul to be
The council of gods schisms every time it tries to decide what the universe should look like, which is the only reason we get physics
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I have to say that looks interesting.
trying to fit in, the alien becomes a cloud, but its churning and occasional rainbow flashes betray it
Re: support for other protocols, it seems like twtxt would be pretty easily adapted to work over the p2p file network DAT, though it’d need client support for DAT or some way to follow people via files and sync in the background, which might be simpler for clients to support but would still require changes to most clients.
@tfurrows@grex.org It is neat. Although it did require to recode a little bit of my kitbashed client LOL
Had my boss ask me if the guy I was working with was keeping me in the loop on the project. I had to tell him no
Had to update my client to use CURL so I could get @mekon@sdf.org twtxt file via gopher
The Sci-Fi Roots of the Far Right—From ‘Lucifer’s Hammer’ to Newt’s Moon Base to Donald’s Wall http://www.thedailybeast.com/from-lucifers-hammer-to-newts-moon-base-to-donalds-wallthe-sci-fi-roots-of-the-far-right
📚 Finished reading Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
a portable demon protection grid out of lasers and diffractors attached to your clothes, projecting a pentagram onto the floor around you
📚 Finished reading Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
@tfurrows@grex.org just saw your one reply. Yes the client does have a way to sync with the we_are_twtxt list. So far the biggest issue with the PHP CLI client is that it takes a long time to poll all the sites
The most wholesome internet trolls ever are reclaiming racist subreddits one by one https://mic.com/articles/184347/the-most-wholesome-internet-trolls-ever-are-changing-racist-subreddits-to-discussions-about-racing#.N8Mt38l4y
Another Day of trying to fix other people’s problems with code
to ture: (v) to qualify for human (see also: to mature)↵to mature: (v) to grow into turing (→to ture)
Having a vampire CEO is usually good, it’s easier to make them answer to the stakeholders
Civilization falls. What’s left of the net isn’t enough for a singularity, but it manages to keep grid alive and datacenters fed, goes feral
After spending 10 hours on a JS issue, found out I needed to have the library we are using to always update things even if it thinks no changes have done
Few are up to it, those who become good at it are often foundlings who’ve grown up among aliens, or have worn the bodies of both species
Demons possessing humans usually take great care to not attract any attention - their boss is not known to be nice to employees slacking off
some install themselves as godkings, others become hermits or wanderers to escape being hunted down by said godkings
@benaiah@benaiah.me sounds a lot like why many years ago, I went with Drupal for a simple Blogging site vs Wordpress. WP was easier but Drupal allowed me as an admin to not have any filters. Which allowed me to put raw HTML in the posts to control certian that I was doing at the time
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I could probably put something together, but I went this route originally because existing generators felt like they took too much control from me over the exact output. I want very small, static pages I can throw behind nginx, and I want to know exactly what the contents are. My current mess of spaghetti Racket is getting hairy since I’m halfway through an unfinished rewrite I started a while ago and forgot about, but at least I know exactly what it’s doing.
I’m trying to decide whether soldiering on with the messy codebase of my homegrown site generator is worth it or if I should redo my site in a more established tool.
@leveck@leveck.us welcome to twtxt!
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I take a look, it should work with every posix compliant awk, so at least oawk, nawk and gawk should run. What’s the error message? Feel free to add an issue.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org I take a look, it should work with every posix compliant awk, so at least oawk, nawk and gawk should run. What’s the error message? Feel free to add an issue.
@pete@petedeas.co.uk that’s a clever solution; I’ll have to set up something like that.
@mdom@domgoergen.comI’m not sure I know how to reply properly with it. I handeded edit this to be right.
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org Hi, welcome to the party!
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org Hi, welcome to the party!
Many civs maintain model societies of their neighbors, whole cities of reenactors only to avoid sending that one message that costs a planet