30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more
It is scary how fast clickhouse can ingest data. Especially if you are using the binary protocol and not the HTTP one.
The npm registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher. ⌘ Read more
Start Dev Environments locally, Compose V2 RC 1, and more in Docker Desktop 3.6
Docker Desktop 3.6 has just been released and we’re looking forward to you trying it. Start Dev Environments from your Local Machine You can now share dev environments with your colleagues and get started with code already on your local machine as well as the existing remote repository support. It’s easy to use your local […]
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OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020)
My old 2017 Huawei MateBook X has been my most reliable laptop and has continued to be my daily-use workstation despite trying half a dozen others (and a desktop or two) in the past four years. Every time I’d try a new laptop, certain components wouldn’t work properly, or the keyboard would feel strange, or the screen would look bad, or the fan or some coil-whine noise would drive me nuts. And every time, I’d return to my MateBook X and everything would just work silently. ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.
Here are the changes in this release:
- Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
- Fixed duplication … ⌘ Read more
Securing your GitHub account with two-factor authentication
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
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A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7
I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.
Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more
Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”
You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.
Most people would have **do … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.3.1-1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.3.1 release 1 of the JSXC plugin for Openfire, our open source real time collaboration server solution! This plugin can be used to conveniently make available the web-based JSXC client (a third-party developed project) to users of Openfire.
The upgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 brings a small number of changes from the JSXC project whi … ⌘ Read more
people who use kilowatt-hours of something should go f**k themselves
“ah, but I use myself as a handle”
phew. took me long enough, but I finally got an initial draft for using the monome grid in C directly via libmonome: !grid_tutorial
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@prologic@twtxt.net check out this project for detecting language in two like strings. Could be useful when paired with translation services.
@prologic@twtxt.net check out this project for detecting language in two like strings. Could be useful when paired with translation services.
creating vocal tract shapes using the monome grid, and then morphing between them using something like !gest. #halfbakedideas
feeling good about !gest today. nearly ready to actually use it.
Uninstalled Brave browser and went back to only using Firefox.
Making sure my personal profile site is navigatable using a keyboard only for fun
I always need to look up how to use pbcopy. It’s counter-intuitive to me.
left not as good at babble as it used to be? more pruney, definitely
Exploring spartan (spartan.mozz.us)! Also trying to make simple client on netcat
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I wrote a 'banner'-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html
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I feel like this could be borderline useful if I stuck a web UI on it. 🤔
I wrote a ‘banner’-like program for Plan 9 (and p9p) that uses the Unicode box drawing characters: http://txtpunk.com/banner/index.html
Who’s Telling the Truth? Using “Gobble” - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
rational people can use very irrational people as babble generators in conversations, if the rational people are high prune (which they usually are).
@darch@twtxt.net Yes, nothing much to it. Full source code is free to use :-) I will probably add some analytics and sorting options later.
got #libreElec to work today. My Pi4 feels a bit more useful now.
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7CdoznhJaLEKHwvJW/p/LfGzAduBWzY5gq6FE uses color really well in proofs. I will need to copy that.
Erlang Solutions: 5 Erlang and Elixir Use Cases In FinTech ⌘ Read more…
I want to somehow use my monome grid to build out coarse vocal tract shapes for a physical model like !voc or @!(sndkitref “tract”)!@. 16 diameters with 8 steps of resolution, or 32 diameters with 4 steps of resolution. #halfbakedideas
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I built a Metal 3D Printer using my Welding Machine ⌘ Read more
I dislike it when people use two en dashes for an em dash
I used a computer today. I think that may have been a mistake.
Universal Control? I could use this.
idc i use dark sky
Live Text? I could use that occasionally.
Focus changes: useful for people who let themselves get inundated with junk notifications like what’s trending on Reddit. Me? Eh.
I wonder how much use 🧮 (abacus) gets. I think there’s a page that describes emoji usage, but I’d need to look it up.
My Robot Can Paint Using Bacteria ⌘ Read more…
Oh no I forgot to post again! Not really sure what to post about… Slowly getting used to my new glasses, and they seem to be working pretty well!
The Nice Way To Use Docker With VSCode | by Yash Prakash | ⌘ Read more…
I’m back on twitter, kind of. I’m only using it to mirror posts from my mastodon account: [[https://twitter.com/yesthiswaspaul]].
Whoops, forgot to post yesterday, my bad! I got glasses later in the day on my birthday, so that’s cool. For the first day of having them, I had a headache, which was quite annoying, but since then I’ve been getting used to them ^^
Oooooh idea! I should use this for microblogging! Far superior to Twitter or Mastodon! ;P
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@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.
Surely people have thought about this, but is it so useful to include proofs in textbooks?
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Yay! Biden admin drops IP protection on Covid-19 vaccine patents. #TRIPSwaiver ⌘ Read more…
Monero and Other Privacy Coins
As I said in other writings and videos, no serious cryptocurrency can function in real life which is not also a truly private cryptocurrency.
By far, the most popular of all these is Monero, which has already become the de facto currency of the dark web, but also of all cryptocurrency users _who actually use cryptocurrency … ⌘ Read more
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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
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@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.
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Programs and Equipment I Use
After many requests, here are the programs I use for everything. I’m only putting here programs I consider tried and true and have used for a while.
I’m about getting things done quickly and having as little space between my thoughts and actions on the computer.
I like having vim-like bindings and prefer running programs in the terminal for simplicity’s sake. That said, I’m very much against the cringey meme that things … ⌘ 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
Only Use Old Computers!
The ideal ThiccPad.
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)
From Gottfriend Hensel’s 1791 Synopsis Universae Philologiae
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
Command Line Bibles
I’ve made a couple very useful command-line accessible Bibles for a quick and scriptable lookup of Bible verses and passages. They exist not only in English, but for Latin and Greek as well.
- English King James Version (including Apocrypha) —Github, Gitlab, Local git server
- Latin Vulgate —[Github](https://github. … ⌘ 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
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Rocket engine that uses itself as fuel! (3D Printed) ⌘ Read more
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.
@xuu@txt.sour.is Is this of any use? https://libretranslate.com/ – Congrats on the new job!
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.
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Arnaud Joset: Using Prosody with a HTTP Reverse Proxy ⌘ Read more…
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Someone brought us pie for Pi Day. 💯
using a forked version of ed to do live coding #halfbakedideas
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I wonder what OS http://tilde.club/ is running.
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Hrm, that would’ve been csh probably, or tcsh if you were lucky. But Plan 9 uses rc, which is so lovely I use it everywhere.
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Join Us Next Week for Docker’s Community All-Hands ⌘ Read more…