implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

gonna start crediting Carl Shulman for some of my ideas, seems trendy right now

No, I’m still doing them manually. 🤣🤦🏻 But I do think they are a good idea and will be adding them, I just haven’t gotten around to finding a compatible implementation of the hash yet.

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.

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

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.

@prologic@twtxt.net @anth Sounds like a good idea. The hash to conv/search url should stay local to a pod.

@prologic@twtxt.netFor example, this should work (no idea if it does).

@pbatch@pbat.ch “Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.” <3

Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.

I’m finding the microblogging format to be really useful for working out ideas.

@prologic@twtxt.net that would be an interesting idea. I think your current spec of using an SMTP proto is probably best for DM.

but having a federation of IRC servers would be interesting for realtime twt propagation.

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds about right. I tend to try to build my own before pulling in libs. learn more that way. I was looking at using it as a way to build my twt mirroring idea. and testing the lex parser with a wide ranging corpus to find edge cases. (the pgp signed feeds for one)

@prologic@twtxt.net the add function just scans recursivley everything.. but the idea is to just add and any new mentions then have a cron to update all known feeds

@xuu@txt.sour.is Are you interested in getting on Signal and swapping contact details and such so we can discuss some ideas in collaboration in more real-time? You have great ideas, I think we could benefit from a bit more real(ish) time 😀

Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.

@prologic@twtxt.net after stewing on it. I really like the idea of a wiki. throw it on the roadmap after DMs 😆

Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.

@prologic@twtxt.net My thoughts on it being if they switched from a different way of hosting the file or multiple locations for redundancy..

I have an idea of using something like SRV records where they can define weighted url endpoints to reach.

@prologic@twtxt.net I have some ideas to improve on twtxt. figure I can contribute some. 😁 bit more work and it will almost be a drop in replacement for ParseFile

Kinda wish types.Twt was an interface. it’s sooo close.

a concept that’s organically grown with my !literate_programming efforts is this idea I call a !proof_of_thought #literate_programming #thoughtful

collecting my half-baked ideas over at !halfbaked

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

@lucidiot@tilde.town very cool idea! may have to try something like that at some point…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think the idea is to minimise the spread from one customer to all customers, but also from a sick driver to you if the driver wears / changes gloves regularly and doesn’t handle the food too intimately.

#Ideas RSS to twtxt, Twitter to twtxt, jrnl to twtxt…

@lucidiot@tilde.town [re: abandoned ideas] Thanks for the inspiration! How do you keep track of projects now? Do you know about TaskWarrior?

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the suggestion using Keybase. Playing around with the authenticity idea.

@von@tilde.town having topic-specific twtxt feeds is not a silly idea. Not sure if the clients allow easy switching though.

@kas@enotty.dk twtxt.txt file splitting for achival is an interesting idea. Should not need to be yearly only. High volume feeds could split faster. Needs a spec though.

Bad idea of the day: do your bibliomancy with Green’s Dictionary of Slang – fate will tell you what it really thinks of you, for once.

Programming for the Expression of Ideas https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Expression-of-Ideas

Bad idea of the day: whenever somebody talks about Green Book, pretend you think they’re talking about Green Room

Bad idea of the day: twitter except it just updates your local ~/.plan file & keeps no history

Muhammad: an anticlerical hero of the European Enlightenment | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/muhammad-an-anticlerical-hero-of-the-european-enlightenment

Random link from the archives: https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece originally archived Fri Feb 1 12:13:36 EST 2019

Philosophical writing should read like a letter written to oneself | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/philosophical-writing-should-read-like-a-letter-written-to-oneself

Bad idea of the day: a soap opera that is also a space opera AND a rock opera

Bad idea of the day: vending machine art project that takes bills & sets them on fire as you watch through a little window

CS programs encourage the idea (already common among students) that software engineers are professionals. First contact with the industry demonstrates that to the extent that folks have grown since graduation, its in their ability to delay the inevitable collapse of ugly hacks.

Bad idea of the day: a professional wrestler whose persona is a thinly veiled version of Slajov Zizek

Alan Kay brings the shade: https://www.quora.com/What-will-Silicon-Valley-do-once-it-runs-out-of-Doug-Engelbarts-ideas

Bad idea of the day: give up the letter e for lent

We aren’t really in control so why worry about neurointerventions? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/we-arent-really-in-control-so-why-worry-about-neurointerventions

Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/descartes-was-wrong-a-person-is-a-person-through-other-persons

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.

Trendism is the idea that, in Dellio’s White Noise, when people photograph the Most Photographed Barn In America, they are not acting absurdly but creating net value for society.

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you

Bad idea of the day: make UBI contingent only on compulsory voting

At the end of the day, think outside the box about clichés | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/at-the-end-of-the-day-think-outside-the-box-about-cliches

Esquire’s March Cover Is a Monument to Whiteness and Toxic Masculinity - Pacific Standard https://psmag.com/ideas/why-esquires-march-cover-is-sort-of-dangerous

The Real “Dangerous” Ideas | Current Affairs https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/the-real-dangerous-ideas

Big Idea Famine https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-negroponte

Why no-platforming is sometimes a justifiable position | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-no-platforming-is-sometimes-a-justifiable-position

Bad idea of the day: a repl for inform in inform that describes your desktop environment as a haunted house

‘Playing the victim’ is politically vital and morally serious | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/playing-the-victim-is-politically-vital-and-morally-serious

Bad idea of the day: One of those franchise-themed fighting games, except it’s a rap battle. You get dealt a hand of possible lines, with points for internal rhyme and novelty, & multipliers for referencing previous lines & opponent backstory. External rhymes are combo attacks

The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/

The revolutionary idea revealing the body’s hormonal democracy | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-revolutionary-idea-revealing-the-bodys-hormonal-democracy

I feel like the simplified and cliched ideas about slashers that informed Scream kept me from discovering the strange and wonderful world of actually-good slashers like Sleepaway Camp, Happy Birthday to Me, Tourist Trap, etc. Like, a lot of them are surreal and moody and great.

Bad idea of the day: Do a free machine-generated text class at a library (using tracery or something), self-publish the course materials as a book (with proceeds going to the library as donations), & get a couple copies for the stacks.

Misbehaving: being clever and wicked is a form of creativity | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/misbehaving-being-clever-and-wicked-is-a-form-of-creativity

Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece

This is math-heavy but the idea that ‘keys are meta-taxonomic dimensions’ reminds me of ZigZag & other elements make me think of parallel prolog-likes like mycroft – should re-read carefully later: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009002_qod.pdf

Apparently, when I pitched the idea of replacing backtracking with forking (with lazy side effecting of course) a ~year ago, I was reinventing STEPS work from 2008: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2008003_john.pdf

Interesting idea: create a search-by-meaning for functions using the memoization database http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2017002_memoization.pdf

One of the ideas I was playing with in MfoM was the distinction between player & player character with a ‘possession’ metaphor, & how that relates to the time loop. I didn’t go so far with it. Maybe in Book of the Damned I’ll have the player be a possessing-spirit.

Legal standards invoke the ‘reasonable person’. Who is it? | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/legal-standards-invoke-the-reasonable-person-who-is-it

USA Wants to Restrict AI Exports: A Stupid and Dangerous Idea – Lauren Weinstein’s Blog https://lauren.vortex.com/2019/01/02/usa-wants-to-restrict-ai-exports-a-stupid-and-dangerous-idea

Bad idea of the day: train chess engines to play like specific historic players

Why symmetry gets really interesting when it is broken | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-symmetry-gets-really-interesting-to-physics-when-it-is-broken

Why a market model is destroying the safeguards of the professions | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-a-market-model-is-destroying-the-safeguards-of-the-professions

Bad idea of the day: Evangelion fanfiction in the form of Kaji’s hand-annotated copy of a Fire in the Valley style popular history of the development of Tokyo-3, casting Gendo as an Elon Musk type figure.

Modernist Microfiche Minotaur : “‘User agent’ is a great idea that has been weirdl…” - Eldritch Café https://eldritch.cafe/@/101360959314313478

Bad idea of the day: A shuffle-novel in the form of an oracle deck, with strange or absurd predictions & the premise that it is describing the life of the parallel version of the reader who lives in the world described by the deck.

Bad idea of the day: International ‘journalist exchange’ agreements – newspapers in different countries have an arrangement where they’ll trade journalists periodically & reprint each other’s stories in translation, by entering into clubs.

Slaying the Snark: what nonsense verse tells us about reality | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/slaying-the-snark-what-nonsense-verse-tells-us-about-reality

Folding Ideas - End of Eva Follow Up - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTAQhgXD75I

Folding Ideas - End of Evangelion and the Audience Author Membrane - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAMAwErYRpQ

Bad idea of the day: autonomous self-driving solar-powered vending machines

Bad idea of the day: set your terminal font to Brand New Roman before starting to code

Bad idea of the day: bumble bee mounted wifi mesh network APs

Why your favourite film baddies all have a truly evil laugh | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/why-your-favourite-film-baddies-all-have-a-truly-evil-laugh

Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/sedimentation-the-existentialist-challenge-to-stereotypes

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/an-ant-colony-has-memories-that-its-individual-members-dont-have

‘User empowerment’ is a useful idea that gets abused to glorify user-hostile design. It’s usually used to refer to situations where the user is empowered to do as we (devs or PMs) tell them, or where the empowerment is too abstract to be proven.

One of the reasons I’m so hard on the original macintosh is that the team appropriated fantastic ideas from better projects that they were totally unprepared to do justice to, then delivered warped & broken versions of them.

Bad idea of the day: a campaign to ensure all life extension therapies are completely covered by medicare, medicaid, & ACA-compatible insurance

The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.

Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)

Since related ideas are circulating again, here’s my freshly reheated take: making sure your criticisms of reprehensible people are on-topic (focusing on the represhensible parts of them) solves all kinds of problems.

Bad idea of the day: a browser extention that requests the wayback machine spider whatever pages you visit as you visit them

Why A Fringe Idea About The Supreme Court Is Taking Over The Left | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-a-fringe-idea-about-the-supreme-court-is-taking-over-the-left/

Bad idea of the day: live your life as though it is a bayesian poisoning attack on the basilisk

Bad idea of the day: require all ‘tech’ companies to be registered nonprofits – make them prove that they are putting their revenue into ‘changing the world’ instead of just saying it

Bad idea of the day: get commit access to leftpad and make it so that it spawns a thread that loads amazon.com in an infinite loop for every injected space

Bad idea of the day: The Medium Is The Massage, dubstep edition

Bad idea of the day: a mandala of the names of all the people you’ve ever wronged except the names are transliterated into katakana for no reason

Bad idea of the day: supercut of every numinous image set to yakkity sax