Two Wild Soviet Personal Computers of the 1980s
The Agat 4 and the Iskra 1256. The height of Soviet-styled, Sci-Fi inspired personal computers. ⌘ Read more

My 2022 in Review
2022 is over, welcome 2023! A year full of unexpected events, many personal changes and a lot of new experiences… But since I wrote a review every month, I just want to highlight the highlights here. ⌘ Read more

And the magical person behind this, thanks and the best wishes to you

❤️ 🎶: What a Person Like You by Shim Soo Bong

TIL: gwern has met Jürgen Habermas in person: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DXcezGmnBcAYL2Y2u/yes-a-blog?commentId=nhpQK5787tMoaYDWp

If intelligence enables a person to identify problems, and problems make a person unhappy, then an intelligent person will have at least one factor that tends to increase unhappiness. If you’re so smart, how come you’re not happy? | Hacker News

would it be possible to have some indication if you already follow a person? like where the profile pic is - some indication if you are already following or not? I often have to click in to know.

This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

This is by design due to Google culture. The only way to get promoted into the higher pay scales is to ship a new product. So you have people shipping what worked before without regard to how it will exist within the product ecosystem. Also, why they seem to die off so quickly after launch. see allo and duo for example. The person that launches gets promoted to a higher level and off the original team and so it is left to wither and die.

I was inclined to let this go so as not to stir anything up, but after some additional thought I’ve decided to call it out. This twt:

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is exactly the kind of ad hominem garbage I came to expect from Twitter™, and I’m disappointed to see it replicated here. Rummaging through someone’s background trying to find a “gotcha” argument to take credibility away from what a person is saying, instead of engaging the ideas directly, is what trolls and bad faith actors do. That’s what the twt above does (falsely, I might add–what’s being claimed is untrue).

If you take issue with something I’ve said, you can mute me, unfollow me, ignore me, use TamperMonkey to turn all my twts into gibberish, engage the ideas directly, etc etc etc. There are plenty of options to make what I said go away. Reading through my links, reading about my organization’s CEO’s background, and trying to use that against me somehow (after misinterpreting it no less)? Besides being unacceptable in a rational discussion, and besides being completely ineffective in stopping me from expressing whatever it is you didn’t like, it’s creepy. Don’t do that.

Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
Fine-grained personal access tokens offer enhanced security to developers and organization owners, to reduce the risk to your data of compromised tokens. ⌘ Read more

I heard COBOL devs get paid a ton…
You probably want to share this with everyone you know. Because, you know, you’re a nice person. The Lunduke Journal Community — About the Lunduke Journal — Subscriber Perks The Lunduke Journal Weekly Schedule: Monday - Computer History Tuesday - Computer & Linux Satire ⌘ Read more

Tigase Blog: Tigase Instant Communication, Presence and Messaging

First things first. What is this all about?

We say this is “Instant communication” or “Near real-time communication” and indeed, this is about communicating,
talking, sending messages, sending other information, documents. Instant or real-time means, whatever you send, is sent
right away, it is also delivered right away.

Would the receiving person get it right away too? Well, it depends, if the person is online, it … ⌘ Read more

How Lunduke handles conflict, personal attacks, & political differences in the Tech industry
Listen now (51 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast - September 7, 2022 ⌘ Read more

Contributing to open source at GitHub
A software engineer’s personal journey to becoming an open source contributor. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I think those are fine because its just sharing someone elses post to people who follow you. Those people who follow you might not follow the orginal person and in return might never see that post unless its retoos/retweets. The thing that is harmful is likes.

What you can expect at GitHub Universe 2022: cloud, security, community, and AI
Register now to attend GitHub Universe virtually or in-person at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on November 9-10. ⌘ Read more

Tips & tricks for using GitHub projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity. ⌘ Read more

Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It.
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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I just discovered that my phone app (on my personal smartphone) shows me the total call duration of all calls made with the phone so far. A total of about 137.5 hours, which is over five and a half days (!). And that’s just the calls I’ve made using the phone app in the last 22 months. With Telegram and WhatsApp (and my landline phone), I’m sure a few more hours could be added. I’ve often heard the statement that smartphones are hardly used for making calls anymore these days. But apparently I can disprove that. On … ⌘ Read more

One developer’s journey bringing Dependabot to GitHub Enterprise Server
A personal story about building the feature you want and sharing it with the world. ⌘ Read more

The “news” makes very little impact on the average person’s daily life. Why won’t some people pay for news? | Hacker News

The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 30, 2022
Listen now (17 min) | Lunduke is heading back to in-person conferences! (SO EXCITED!) ⌘ Read more

The Lunduke Journal is heading to in-person conferences!
Want to help? Here’s how! ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2020
Watch now (73 min) | The first Linux Sucks not recorded in front of an in-person audience. ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022 is now available!
“This time it’s personal.” ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022
Watch now (68 min) | “This time it’s personal.” ⌘ Read more

No standstill?
When I reflect on myself like this, I have long had the impression that I am a person who cannot live at a standstill. I always need a topic that keeps me busy, a thing in my life that I can optimize or at least a frequently changing topic that I can dive into. ⌘ Read more

In ancient Athens, there was a punishment named rhaphanidosis - inserting a radish into the person’s anus. I think that, once I’ve become the leader of the free world, I will reinstate said punishment for people who call keyboards “keebs”.

Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977’s West Coast Computer Faire
The introduction of the Apple II and the Commodore PET. ⌘ Read more

Childhood Toys
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okay, so here’s a claim: axes of personal development à la Kegan are in principle orthogonal to meditative attainments

Google reportedly planning subscription service for your personal data
“For the first time ever, we will allow people to own their own data. This is truly revolutionary.” ⌘ Read more

Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a real personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists

short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind

Lots of personal preference, but I disagree on Acme: it’s far and away my preferred editor on unix-like systems, too.

that is to say, both might be relevant for personal effectiveness, and both are tangentially related to big problems (how do we bring about good states of consciousness & how does society organise sexuality so that everything works ~well), but not much beyond that.

i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is bad, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.

that’s why cold approach in person works so well, or why programming is easier than mathematics, or why you should build explicit models as quickly as possible (even if they’re shit), or why meditation is so hard

Trudeau, Freeland met with Ukrainian neo-Nazi party cofounder

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A person’s feelings don’t have one answer like a math problem. Fantasy and Love: Mischievous Kiss Quotes | Korean Drama Quotes

funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)

This morning Kaja’s condition deteriorated and by about 6h they weren’t able to recussitate her. I already miss the huge personality from such a small creature

. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first

you are a successful person who has started recently reading lesswrong, i am a novel rodent control agent

every copy of Jensen’s inequality is personalized

A new text-mode “Psuedo-3D Engine” written in BASH
Imagine an old-school dungeon crawler, first person game. In ASCII art. Running in your terminal. It’s a thing of beauty. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I am seeing a problem in which not-so-active users, such as myself, are ending up having a blank “Recent twts from…” under their profiles because, I assume, the cache long expired. What can be done about it? Business personalities such as myself can’t be around here that often! Could something be implemented so that, say, the last 10 or 20 twts are always visible under one’s profile? Neep-gren!

Peter Saint-Andre: MLK and Personalism
In my recent post on idealism and identity, I mentioned my attraction to the philosophy of personalism, with its emphasis on human dignity. It is perhaps a little-known fact that Martin Luther King, Jr., was greatly influenced by that very philosophy. Early in life he ventured north to study at Boston University, then the center of personalist thought in America, where he completed his doctorate under theologian Edgar Sheffield Brightman. We can see the deep influence of personalism on King’s … ⌘ Read more

Finding our Nerdy Happy Place
I’d like to take a step back from my regular Mega-Nerdy ™ articles for just a moment… To talk about things from a more personal point of view. Today was a rough day in the news. I won’t go into the details here, but things were happening out there in the world that made me pretty sad. And frustrated. And afraid. Things that hit close to home. ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity
Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what’s more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other (“I’m a Capulet, not a Montague”, “I’m a proletarian, not a bourgeois”, etc.)…. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net sorry about the spelling mistakes. English is my third language.
Also I didn’t mean to question the vision as such.
Just ment a mobile up that pulls in files directly from the users follow list would line up better with the idea of decentralizing personal data. Since not everyone will be running a pod, but most everyone can have a public facing folder. Specially now with services like Skynet coming online.
Sorry hope I didn’t offend you too much.

new blog post hashing out my personal good, bad, and ugly of 2021

My 2021 in Review
The year has almost reached its 100% progress, so it’s time again to take a look back and see what happened especially for me personally so 2021. I have written a monthly review every month (already the second year in a row), so here are the highlights of the past 12 months: ⌘ Read more

Web3 being “democratic” makes perfect sense if you can’t tell the difference between a dollar and a person.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m a big fan of using PyCharm and IntelliJ on large Python and Java codebases respectively. In my personal life, I mostly use Emacs (because I don’t hack much Java outside of work), but I do wonder what GoLand is like.

How to Select the Docker Subscription That’s Right for You
On August 31st, 2021, we announced updates to our product subscription tiers. These changes are helping us to deliver on our mission to ​​simplify application development and remove complexities for developers, while also providing the security and scale businesses rely on. With four different subscription options: Personal, Pro, Team, and Business, it might be difficult […]

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@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com You might not want to .. like the other tiktok it is rather pointless noise. Especially because its set to my personal timezone.

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com You might not want to .. like the other tiktok it is rather pointless noise. Especially because its set to my personal timezone.

Hmmm so… We seem to have a few pods offline in the network 😂 Also 😢

• @jlj@twt.nfld.uk’s twt.nfld.uk => 504 Gateway Time-out
  
• @adi@f.adi.onl’s f.adi.onl => 200 OK but doens’t appear to be a pod anymore?! 🤔
  
• @eldersnake@yarn.andrewjvpowell.com’s personal pod => offline due to lack of Solar/Battery power? 😅
  
• @lohn@tw.lohn.in’s personal pod => 503 Service Unavailable
  

It’s a bad day for Yarn.social 🤣

Good thing it’s all decentralised 😉

10 personal finance lessons that changed my life ⌘ Read more

Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

Screaming In the Cloud with Corey Quinn and Docker CEO Scott Johnston
On August 31st, Docker announced updates to our product subscriptions — Docker Personal, Pro, Team and Business. Our CEO Scott Johnston recently joined Corey Quinn on an episode of Screaming in the Cloud to go over all the details and discuss how the changes have been received by businesses and the broader developer community.  The […]

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@darch@twtxt.net
It will only use the nick of the person to whom you are replying, no the occasional never ending chain link of nicks. 😄

#BUG (or feature?) when I hit reply twtxt.net no longer fill in the @mention of the persons who’s post I’m replying to…

009.02 FWUP: I increasingly don’t like how personally people tend to take things…

Docker Desktop 4.1 Release: Volume Management Now Included with Docker Personal
Thanks to all of your positive support of the Docker subscription updates we announced on Aug 31, 2021, we’ve been able to focus on delivering more value to all users, starting with making Volume Management available for users on any subscription tier, including Docker Personal. Just update to Docker Desktop 4.1 to start using it. […]

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Assuming the DNS is playing ball now, my little personal site https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/ is now self hosted and solar powered. As @mckinley@twtxt.net can attest, running on the original nearlyfreespeech.net non-production plan could use as little as $0.01 per day so there’s not really any advantage to this, its just… because I can 🙃

Obscenities are symptoms of weak minds.
Over the past few years, I made the decision to totally cut obscenities out from my speech. You might actually be able to find recordings of me cursing four or five years ago, but as of now, I really stand by my decision.

Obscenities are the linguistic equivalent of an trashy emaciated person entirely decked in tattoos, smoking cigarettes and wearing a shirt with nudity on it. They’ll defend what they do on the idea that it’s someone “their right,” or “e … ⌘ Read more

New GRU Devlog published - first contribution from other person and more tools ideas :)

Can I rely on IPFS mirrors only yet for serving my personal static website? Probably only when you’re a popular IPFS oriented site.

musical experience that involve harvesting, farming, growth, and caretaking of virtual musical creatures with personality. creatures would socialize with eachother and their interactions would change the overall musical sounds implicitely. #halfbakedideas

Making sure my personal profile site is navigatable using a keyboard only for fun

I am not the sort of person who worries a lot about their career growth. I never was a manager and I was always happy to just quietly hack on interesting problems. If you can find the right corners to work in, Google is a pretty great place for that kind of attitude. Tech Notes: Leaving Google

Potentially. What environment/language(s) are you working in? I’d dump fuse for 9p, personally :-)

Hypothes.is is now enabled on my personal site https://johanbove.info - so I can give some insights in what I wrote and it allows for interaction with visitors.

“You’ll hear irrelevant, personalized music…” wait, what?

On the blog: Do the Work https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/06/06/do-work.html #rant #personal #ally #harm

Octoverse Spotlight 2021: The Good Day Project—Personal analytics to make your work days better ⌘ Read more…

Conspiratorial Thinking and “Multiple Outs”

Magicians have this concept called “Multiple Outs.” It’s actually how you can do simple magic tricks. Suppose you have a person pick a card and say you will guess the suit of their card.

They pick a diamond card and announce it, and you tell them to check underneath their chair to reveal a slip of paper that says, “You will pick a diamond card.”

That might sound like a nice trick, but if they had picke … ⌘ Read more

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

But I want to get back to reasonable hours so I can work on personal stuff and study

Either you die a good person, or you get old enough to see yourself turn into an Omohundro monster.

If you are leading and or managing a team, one of the most important things you need to know are how do people want their feedback. My experience is that it varies from person to person (I suspect that there are many more than two camps :-)) and as such it is unlikely that you can meet that need in group feedback. Toxic positivity does more harm than good | Hacker News

So… @darch@twtxt.net and @sorenpeter@darch.dk are the same person right? 😀

The Visitor The coming of a person is, in fact, a tremendous feat. Because he comes with his past and present and with his future. Because a person’s whole life comes with him. Since it is so easily broken the heart that comes along would have been broken ― a heart whose layers the wind will likely be able to trace, if my heart could mimic that wind it can become a hospitable place. That poem in ‘Because This Is My First Life’ – 반짝반짝 한국어

When you want someone, you don’t say that you need that someone. Tell them “I want to be the person you need”. “Ssanggabpocha” Episode #1.5 (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb

Back to twtxtland after rebuilding my personal server

Back to twtxtland after rebuilding my personal server

@prologic@twtxt.net sure. I don’t use signal much because I have to disclose my personal phone. Telegram? https://www.t.me/xypheri

@prologic@twtxt.net sure. I don’t use signal much because I have to disclose my personal phone. Telegram? https://www.t.me/xypheri

I’ve recently been reading up on zettelkastens again, since it is very closely related to the ethos of a personal wiki system like !weewiki. The thing that interests me is the emergent patterns that come from linking things to things. Which is exactly the sort of solution I’m looking for !sample_curation. #halfbakedideas

as the person who motivated CompuServe’s USENET gateway https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-10-07-9410070309-story.html I’ve see what happens when the unwashed masses are turned loose in techie playgrounds

Coronavirus: ‘Dr Johnny Bananas’ And ‘Dr Person Fakename’ Among Medical Signatories On Herd Immunity Open Letter ⌘

thinking of moving my personal projects to the Parity Public License, but then I see that the developer appears to be abandoning them?

On the blog: Personal Pronouns, Revisited https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/20/pronoun.html #rant #pronouns #label #representation

The personal Internet needs more weirdness

Since you cannot go back in time to change the past, forgiveness is about giving up the hope of a different or better yesterday. It relates to forgiving actions that were taken, that gave you the feelings of loss of control over your happiness. It’s about acknowledging those things that another did or said that caused pain and making the decision that you are not going to let that hurt or control you anymore. Forgiveness can be very empowering. It can give you the chance to be free of another person’s emotional control. It has nothing to do with the other person. As was said before, it is something that is for you and you alone.” Why forgiving someone else is about you | Hacker News

a microblogging creative coding platform like dwitter, but for sound. users would be encouraged to remix, the output of one persons code would become the input of the new code. only text would be stored on the server, with audio rendered client-side. to save on time, there could be caches of frozen audio for remixes. #halfbakedideas

Being right in a relationship doesn’t count for much. Even if you are objectively correct, relationships are about helping the other person live their life. All partners in a relationship compensate for the other’s shortcomings. That is one of the benefits of a relationship. Beware of Being “Right” | Hacker News