Learning European Languages (Michel Thomas)

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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

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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.

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

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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.

1. English King James Version (including Apocrypha) —Github, Gitlab, Local git server
   
2. Latin Vulgate —[Github](https://github. … ⌘ Read more

Hating Brave is Cool!

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I like and use the Brave Browser.It’s a free and open source browser with features like:

1. Ad-blocking by default.
   
2. Tracker-blocking by default.
   
3. Anti-fingerprinting mechanisms to prevent you from being monitored.
   
4. Built-in Tor windows.
   
5. 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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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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Someone brought us pie for Pi Day. 💯

using a forked version of ed to do live coding #halfbakedideas

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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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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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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.

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.

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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

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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

😲 #Linux #Tips

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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

@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@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.

@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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@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 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 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.

@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.

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@twt.u53.us and @xuu@txt.sour.is 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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@felixp7@twtxt.net “Yo, crypto-heads. Encrypted communication doesn’t protect your privacy. Laws …” I guess crypto-heads are often happy with acknowledging this, but also arguing that e.g. deniable crypto is a useful way out here (and, of course, just doing illegal stuff if it gets really rough).

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PeerTube v3 is now live with Live Streaming abilities
PeerTube has recently released version 3.0.0, which has added many things, including the ability to livestream. I’ve already updated by PeerTube instance to version 3 (it is linked from this RSS entry), but the link is just videos.lukesmith.xyz .

I’m not sure if I’ll end up immediately using the livestream ability, but it is certainly nice to have a non-YouTube option which is, in fact, self-hosted.

Aside from that, I strong recommend you … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I am trying to cut costs, so I deleted all my Digital Ocean droplets. For a month I will be using a free s390x VPS, so I needed to adapt some of my Docker images, scripts and configurations for that architecture. Also took another chance with Traefik Proxy, I ditched it long ago for nginx-proxy, but this time I made it work. #h5nn5tq

@prologic@twtxt.net I am trying to cut costs, so I deleted all my Digital Ocean droplets. For a month I will be using a free s390x VPS, so I needed to adapt some of my Docker images, scripts and configurations for that architecture. Also took another chance with Traefik Proxy, I ditched it long ago for nginx-proxy, but this time I made it work. #h5nn5tq

@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

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@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net using regex. which can be a rather inexact science ;)

@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net using regex. which can be a rather inexact science ;)

the !zet I have written for my wiki is probably going to end up replacing what I’ve been using twtxt for these past few months. this means less spam here. you’re welcome.

If you’re an average man, my calculation tells me that freezing your sperm & getting a vasectomy is worth ~ in expectation (https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#Vasectomy–Sperm-Freezing-CostBenefit) (in the US, caveat caveat caveat)

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life. Follow Your Curiosity. Read Your Ass Off | Hacker News

Used bash to remove the timestamp of the just -posted tweet to twttxt.txt and passed that to twt to re-post to the configured pod