Text-to-speech is becoming more popular
I am a slow reader. I read a lot on websites, but not quickly and I often get distracted while reading. What I like therefore is a pre-reading option. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.0 released
ÄNTLIGEN! It’s finally here! After 3 years of development and through some chaotic times, Prosody 0.12.0 is released!
What’s the significance of this release? Like many software projects, Prosody follows a “branch” development/release model. We frequently make minor releases with bug fixes and improvements from our stable branch, while we implement more adventurous changes in our development branch, ready for the next major release.
Well, this is one of those adventurous … ⌘ Read more
Move mastered
Finally it’s done, after a super exhausting day, I’m finally lying in bed, the move is done! All the furniture I need and also a total of 18 moving boxes with my stuff are now here. My girlfriend and her family helped me with it. With a total of 8 people, everything went quickly and before 3pm we were ready so that my girlfriend could help me unpack boxes. ⌘ Read more
Hello! 👋 I haven’t lost the desire to blog, nor have I decided on Digital Detox, it’s just that I’m currently busy moving. Instead of continuing to program my own stuff after work and pouring my thoughts into blog articles, I had to pack boxes. Today was my last workday in the home office in the old apartment, Monday is the first workday in the home office in my new apartment. Then my blogging frequency will probably remain rather low, because I still have to clear out the old apartment, but I may have a little more … ⌘ Read more
Why I renamed my blogs
After a bit of consideration and a poll on Fosstodon, which shows a clear result even before it ends, I decided to rename this blog from “jlelse’s Blog – Thoughts, stories and ideas” to “Jan-Lukas Else – Thoughts of an IT expert”. Likewise, my German blog from “einGeek – Mehr als nur Internet und Programmieren” to “Jan-Lukas Else – Gedanken eines IT-Experten”. ⌘ Read more
i’m finally starting to get an inkling of how thoughts relate to/arise in the mind.
blog++; thoughts on my relationship to IT
Hi-Fi!
Deezer announced today that it is raising prices in Germany and Austria for new customers. Premium now costs 1€ more. But (for new customers) Premium also includes Hi-Fi directly. ⌘ Read more
Given that we don’t have a “home phone”, what’s the best way to create a “hunt group” for my partner’s and my cell phones? My first thought is Asterisk on a VPS, but my knowledge of such things is years out of date. Is there a better way?
First impressions of my new printer
I recently bought a new printer: the Xerox B225. I discovered it by chance (while looking for a good printer) as a reduced return in an online store. Someone must have just tried it out briefly and sent it back. I’m happy! ⌘ Read more
the silence prickles, a mind too fast for meaning, unwrapping my thoughts
In search of a new printer
Update: Thanks for all the answers! I have now tried to repair the ink cartridge, now something is printed again, but somewhat blurred. I finally decided to buy a black/white laser printer with scanner, a Xerox B225 as B-ware. I will probably report… ⌘ Read more
In search of a new printer
At the moment I do not have a working printer at home. I have an inkjet printer, but due to a long period of non-use, the cartridge or the print head has dried up. If I want to print something, I have to do it in a copy store or a drugstore. This is possible, but especially if I need to print something spontaneously, or only a few pages, then the effort is annoying. ⌘ Read more
“i admire your optimism”=“wow, you are way more r-worded than i thought”
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.13 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a(nother!) release for our stable branch to fix a memory leak caused
by the security fix. Deployments using websockets, SQL storage and possibly
other configurations may have noticed increasing memory usage after upgrading
to 0.11.12. This is resolved by this new release.
A summary of changes in this release:
Minor changesMicrosoft Buys Zork (and Kings Quest)… and I have thoughts about it.
Listen now (18 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast #13 ⌘ Read more
关于 Go 代码结构的思考
关于 Go 代码结构的思考- 原文地址： https://changelog.com/posts/on-go-application-structure
- 原文作者：Jon Calhoun
- 本文永久链接： https://github.com/gocn/translator/blob/master/2022/w2_Thoughts_on_how_to_structure_Go_code.md
- 译者： lsj1342
- 校对： xkkhy、 zhuyaguang
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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
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.12 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This is a security release that addresses a denial-of-service vulnerability in
Prosody’s mod_websocket. For more information, refer to the
20220113 advisory.
A summary of changes in this release:
Security- util.xml: Do not allow doctypes, comments or processing instructions
As usual, download instructions for many platforms can be f … ⌘ Read more
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@fastidious Oh But somehow @lyse saw the old Twt and replied to that 🤦♂️
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@prologic@twtxt.net I have thought about this because even though it doesn’t happen often, when it does it bothers me greatly. I haven’t found a solution. How about you? What could be done to avoid this from happening?
I know we have been over this in more than one occasion. Ideas about editing timeouts, or not allowing to edit/delete came up, but were quicky discarded as absurd.
A few email thoughts…
I recently switched to Purelymail, after mentioning a long time ago that I keep an eye on the service every now and then. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity
In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn’t work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I’m working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process…. ⌘ Read more
New year, new habits?!
Colin’s post yesterday inspired me to install the Loop Habit Tracker app. How did I not know about this app yet? Free, no ads, and even open source! ⌘ Read more
** Star Wars, and a year in review **
I tried to write a“ year in review” kinda post, but it got wicked melodramatic pretty fast. This year has been a slog…it really fucking sucked.
Rather than reflect on it further, I thought I’d write about something vapid that I’ve been thinking a bit about lately instead: Star Wars.
Despite my best efforts, I’ve always loved Star Wars. As a child I spent hundreds of hours pouring over novels, and comics, and books of sch … ⌘ Read more
Things You Thought You Knew - Bada Bing! with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more
Not enough tests
GoBlog’s test coverage is increasing (currently about 41%), but I keep being reminded there is nothing like enough or even too many tests. I still find some stupid bugs that aren’t covered by automatic tests. ⌘ Read more
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.11 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.
This release contains some fixes to PEP to control memory usage, along
with a small batch of fixes for issues discovered since the last
release.
This will likely be the last release of the 0.11 branch.
A summary of changes in this release:
Fixes and improvements- net.server_epoll: Prioritize network events over timers to improve performance under heavy load
- mod_p … ⌘ Read more
My thoughts on log4j summed up in one picture…
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I don’t know how to browse the web anymore. [[https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/i-don-t-know-how-to-browse-the-internet-anymore]] #links
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I thought it was just me. I drives me nuts to try reading on that page. I guess I am no longer capable to look at old CRT monitors without side effects.
Micro.blog’s new newsletter feature
I think the new micro.blog feature for newsletters is the right approach. Blog first, newsletter second. But newsletters are not difficult to set up, they only need to be activated by a checkbox. ⌘ Read more
Maybe I should write down my political views and thoughts in extra posts on my German blog in the future, instead of putting them in the monthly review and then translating them as well. English readers probably won’t get much out of it… Sorry! ✌️ ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Aristotle Research Report #17: Let the Re-Reading Begin
Just under two years ago, I thought I was done with phase one of my research into Aristotle’s views o human flourishing, having at that point read around 120 distinct works by or related to Aristotle (including all of Plato’s dialogues). Well, I was wrong: since then I’ve read an additional 150 works, almost exclusively in the scholarly literature on Aristotle. Now I have three whole shelves of books about Aristotle in my office…. ⌘ Read more
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@thecanine@twtxt.net thoughts and prayers
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🤔 👋 Reconsidering moving Yarn.social’s development back to Github: Speaking of which (I do not forget); @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com and I were discussing over a video call two nights ago, as well as @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org who joined a bit later, about the the whole moved of all of my projects and their source code off of Github. Whilst some folks do understand and appreciate my utter disgust over what Microsoft and Copilot did by blatantly scraping open source software’s codebases without even so much as any attempt at attribution or respecting the licenes of many (if not all?) open source projects.
That being said however, @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com makes a very good and valid argument for putting Yarn.social’s codebases, repositories and issues back on Github for reasons that make me “torn” over my own sense of morality and ethics.
But I can live with this as long as I continue to run and operate my new (yet to be off the ground) company “Self Hosted Pty Ltd” and where it operates it’s own code hosting, servicesa, tools, etc.
Plese comment here on your thoughts. Let us decide togetehr 🤗
What do you do with unlimited mobile data?
Do any of my readers have unlimited mobile data? If so, what do you do to with it? How has unlimited mobile data changed your usage behavior? ⌘ Read more
A Short Review of Selling on Tindie
I started using the Tindie platform in April to sell my WiFiStation kits. I’ve now sold out all of my initial inventory and am not planning on making any more, so I thought I’d offer my opinions of Tindie as a platform for selling things. ⌘ Read more
Showing GPX tracks on my blog
On my blog, I’ve had the ability to link posts to a location for some time now. There is also a map that shows all posts with a location. ⌘ Read more
Things You Thought You Knew - Metric system, acceleration, and heat shields with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ 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
Today I was out in the forest, in nature. To breathe fresh air, move, relax. The inspiration and thoughts you get there! ⌘ Read more
Apple’s event on Monday is bringing, as always, speculation to the table. One thing most outlets seem to agree is the introduction of an “M1X” chip, thought Apple might call it differently. M1X might also mean, M1(we don’t know what comes after, or next generation). Either way, I would really like to see the return of the 27” iMac, but I will not hold my breath. Nevertheless, Monday is going to be an exciting day for many, including me! 🍎
@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is awesome! Your server/connection is slow, thought. It took ages to load the GIF! Off topic, what font are you using on that screenshot?
Things You Thought You Knew: Why Does Ice Float? ⌘ Read more
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
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
I was receiving strange requests to mine spartan server, so i fixed that. Someone wanted to hack me (they thought it is webserver), someone tryed to send request from some browser on mac :)
I was receiving strange requests to mine spartan server, so i fixed that. Someone wanted to hack me (they thought it is webserver), someone tryed to send request from some browser on mac :)
I have launched my owwn tilde on raspberry pi zero! But for now avalible only thought tor. If interested message me on irc
I have launched my owwn tilde on raspberry pi zero! But for now avalible only thought tor. If interested message me on irc
A beloved colleague passed away after a terrible car accident a couple of days ago. Thoughts go to her family and colleagues.
Follow-up question to follow-up thought: “What does it mean if someone replies with a number on [1, 7)?”
Random follow-up thought: “On a scale from 7 to 14, how basic am I?”
update: got a 78 on the calc final, so I did better than I thought. passed the class with a B-, so i’ll get credit
guy who has had unkind thoughts about Eliezer Yudkowsky
@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.9 released ⌘ Read more…
Surely people have thought about this, but is it so useful to include proofs in textbooks?
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
@movq@www.uninformativ.de “Random thought: Would be great if you could do for i in ...; do something "$i" & done ; wait in a Shell script, but with the Shell only spawning one process per CPU.” -> Interesting which annoyances stay in the back of the head – I’d never articulated this, but it’s absolutely true that this would be great.
Sam Whited: Co-op Thoughts ⌘ Read more…
e.g. editing a text – I thought i was done with it!
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.8 released ⌘ Read more…
@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.
Never thought I’d want a 6K monitor, but I’m running VS Code and it sure would be nice to have a little bit more width. The proper layout for the task I’ve been doing is four editors wide, plus some more space on the left for a file picker.
That is why we like noise and activity so much. That is why imprisonment is such a horrific punishment. That is why the pleasure of being alone is incomprehensible. That is, in fact, the main joy of the condition of kingship, because people are constantly trying to amuse kings and provide them with all sorts of distraction.—The king is surrounded by people whose only thought is to entertain him and prevent him from thinking about himself. King though he may be, he is unhappy if he thinks about it All problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014) | Hacker News
@vain@www.uninformativ.de the truth is, i never “got” or liked twitter. i think it’s way too noisy and a terrible way to have a conversation, what with the character limit and all. and then mastodon came along and i thought it would be different, but then it became too twitter-like. i get what you mean about twtxt and discoverability, that is one of its drawbacks.
Somebody apparently once went up the the great philosopher Wittgenstein and said “What a lot of morons people back in the Middle Ages must have been to have looked every morning at what’s going on behind me now, the dawn, and to have thought that what they were seeing was the sun going around the Earth, when as every schoolkid knows the Earth goes around the sun and it doesn’t take too many brains to understand that.” To which Wittgenstein replied, “Yeah, but I wonder what it would have looked like if the Sun had been going around the Earth.” Point being, of course, is that it would have looked exactly the same. swans on tea » You See What Your Knowledge Tells You You’re Seeing
@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 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.
notation as a tool of thought [[https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm]] #links
thought it might be interested to post some of the code used to produce one of my !breathing_cards: !waigel
Prosodical Thoughts: XMPP at the IETF ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/xmpp-at-the-ietf/
@prologic@twtxt.net to answer some of your previous questions, i’m using txtnish for my timeline and user controls, and plain twtxt for posting. the alternative to that would be setting up a bunch of shell aliases or small scripts. or making my own client in Go. There’s a thought… ;)
@prologic@twtxt.net I’\“ve thought through the git issue a bit. Comments on https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/38
if you thought emails were great at getting stuff lost, wait til you check out this thing called twtxt
suddenly I have an urge to build a concatenative macro language to go along with this !txtvm project of mine. Together, they maybe could build a more @!(ref “thoughtful_programming” “thoughtful”)!@ !runt? #halfbakedideas
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.7 released ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.7-released/
Prosodical Thoughts: Simple Anti-Spam Tips ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/simple-anti-spam-tips/
@lyxal@twtxt.net My thoughts exactly! :-D
@lyxal@twtxt.net My thoughts exactly! :-D
Prosodical Thoughts: Great Invitations ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/
Prosodical Thoughts: Great Invitations ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/
Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.6 released ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.6-released/
Home to telepathic fireflies, the forest, while incapable of understanding our thoughts, still lets them extend way past our heads, eddy around trees and branches, reflect in ponds, intertwine with those of others
a concept that’s organically grown with my !literate_programming efforts is this idea I call a !proof_of_thought #literate_programming #thoughtful
I never thought I’d ever say this, but I am officially done with Csound. I’ve been using Csound since I was 16 years old, but now I feel like throwing my copy of the Csound book in the trash. Good riddance.
Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News
@mdosch@mdosch.de Oh wow. I thought Apple was the only org out there shipping zsh by default. What was their rationale for not defaulting to bash?
You are angry about the Marxist movement of the left?
Hey you thinker, here are some thoughts for you to ponder. STOP trying! We are preprogrammed not to trust anything that doesn’t look, feel, or smell like us. The more someone looks like us, and talks like us, the more trustworthy they appear to us. The second we meet someone we judge them. We judge […] ⌘ Read more
Part of the wisdom of meditation lies in the following: There is baggage we all carry, the self, this belief we’re the center of it all, the author of (and subservient to) our own thoughts. How do I stop doing what makes me unhappy, if that’s “who I am”? But, in reality, I can abandon “who I am” and find new processes of living and new ways of thinking about the world. A researcher on how to live a happy life | Hacker News
@hjertnes@hjertnes.social I always thought hg was better than git but no one else used it
I don’t need a new home office chair. I thought I did, but I don’t
Woke up after six hours of uneasy dreams and thought “at least I haven’t been transformed into a giant bug.”
Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News
Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Final Thoughts https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/18/thoughts.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #socialshowdown