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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.
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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
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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
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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!
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
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Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)
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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Urban Fish Ponds: Low-tech Sewage Treatment for Towns and Cities
In the mid 20th century, whole cities’ sewage systems safely and successfully used fish to treat and purify their water. Waste-fed fish ponds are a low-tech, cheap, and sustainable alternative to deal with our own shit — and to obtain high protein food in the process. ⌘ Read more
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Arnaud Joset: Using Prosody with a HTTP Reverse Proxy ⌘ Read more…
PEP 656: Platform Tag for Linux Distributions Using Musl ⌘ Read more…
Using GitHub code scanning and CodeQL to detect traces of Solorigate and other backdoors ⌘ Read more…
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…
Monal IM: Using XMPP to get a vaccine ⌘ Read more…
The advice about interviewing being exhausting is spot-on. Recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates is a very different type of work than most of us engineering types enjoy. Until you’ve developed a thick skin, it can also be emotionally draining to reject candidate after candidate. I’m an interviewer at my company and burnt out | Hacker News
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My finger server now includes the last post from tw that doesn't have a subject. 'finger a@9srv.net'
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No, totally not useful. 🤣 I mean, the finger protocol is pretty trivial, and it’d be fun to add, but doesn’t replace anything you’re doing.
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I have been using Unix for 25+ years and I just learned about the status character in shells (often ^T). Huh.
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This was macOS. I don’t really use gnu. Of course, it’s also not on Plan 9, the system I know best.
I have been using Unix for 25+ years and I just learned about the status character in shells (often ^T). Huh.
Compiling Qt with Docker Using Caching ⌘ Read more…
Possible climate change intervention: Improve performance of widely used but neglected open source projects.
@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.
@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io @jlj@twt.nfld.uk in old school terminal jargon the ^H means control H or the sequence used in some terminals to indicate backspace. The “joke” is that the term failed to interpret it correctly and you can see the partially typed word before they changed it.
feels good to be using tmux again more regularly. ansi-term in emacs is well, special.
Hey @xuu@txt.sour.is another mention that didn’t render ☝️
@thewismit@twtxt.psynergy.io Hey! It’s easy. Just install the twt CLI with something like:
go get github.com/jointwt/twtxt/cmd/twt/...
Then use it in some hooks/scripts to post some content to your Pod.
The keys that have some use would be nick, url/feedurl, avatar, lang
The keys that have some use would be nick, url/feedurl, avatar, lang
a decentralized community !zet. individual zet feeds could be managed using something like git/git submodules, then built locally into self-contained SQLite files. zet items would be referenced by their zet nickname and UUID. #halfbakedideas
Using CWE and CVSS scores to get more context on a security advisory ⌘ Read more…
trying to get myself to reach for !links browser instead of firefox for locally testing my wiki. For the most part, it really doesn’t need the heft of firefox. When links -g is used, it really really doesn’t need firefox.
💁♂️ If you’re ever on a UNIX machine of some kind without any useful networking utilities like ip or ifconfig, fear now! You can view the network topology of the Kernel by just doing:
cat /proc/net/fib_trie
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@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten – and then letting it languish :-( – really belongs in Anki.” i have only used SRS for ~3 months now, so I’m not sure how long i’ll continue
new algorithm in @!(ref “sndkit”)!@: @!(sndkitref “phasor”)!@ generates a normalized periodic ramp signal, typically used for table-lookup oscillators.
@hxii@0xff.nu There is another twter that uses !<wikiword wikiaddr> or !wikiword for their wiki intigrations.
@hxii@0xff.nu There is another twter that uses !<wikiword wikiaddr> or !wikiword for their wiki intigrations.
Mirroring my private sites on the IPFS network. Generating my static site using 11ty
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added recipe I use for brown sugar cinammon poptarts: !poptarts #food #breakfast #baking
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I’m finding the microblogging format to be really useful for working out ideas.
Sadly I believe the world managed to make us feel guilty when we’re not doing something that makes someone else rich I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year | Hacker News
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@thewismit Soo all good all round? 🤗
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@prologic@twtxt.net @thewismit@blog.thewismit.com () Ya I get that error a lot. I mostly use the web on mobile as a result.
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@prologic@twtxt.net @thewismit@blog.thewismit.com () Ya I get that error a lot. I mostly use the web on mobile as a result.
@prologic@twtxt.net @thewismit not sure.. im using Caddy instead of nginix
@prologic@twtxt.net @thewismit not sure.. im using Caddy instead of nginix
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@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.
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@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.
US declining quickly, europe slowly?
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I just built a poc search engine / crawler for Twtxt. I managed to crawl this pod (twtxt.net) and a couple of others (sorry @etux and @xuu I used your pods in the tests too!). So far so good. I might keep going with this and see what happens 😀
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@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)
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I just built a poc search engine / crawler for Twtxt. I managed to crawl this pod (twtxt.net) and a couple of others (sorry @etux and @xuu I used your pods in the tests too!). So far so good. I might keep going with this and see what happens 😀
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@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)
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I just built a poc search engine / crawler for Twtxt. I managed to crawl this pod (twtxt.net) and a couple of others (sorry @etux and @xuu I used your pods in the tests too!). So far so good. I might keep going with this and see what happens 😀
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@prologic@twtxt.net yeah it reads a seed file. I’m using mine. it scans for any mention links and then scans them recursively. it reads from http/s or gopher. i don’t have much of a db yet.. it just writes to disk the feed and checks modified dates.. but I will add a db that has hashs/mentions/subjects and such.