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/

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

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

@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org holy moly, ed? I thought I’d be the only ed user I’d ever hear about. (2) http://www.catb.org/esr/src/ should be fine in Dropbox, too, right?

attempting to build arm-none-eabi cross compiler from source. why have I never thought of this?

@frogotbits.com Well actually I don’t have that much to right down (I think) so a bujo might be overkill. Actually I’m good with Taskwarrior for now, I find it faster to manage tasks, but having a place where I can put tasks and thoughts on paper is nice. That’s why i’m gonna go with dash-plus as @lucidiot@tilde.town showed me :)

@johanbove@johanbove.info I mean, I’d keep this one, but also create another one just to let go thoughts. But yeah, the more I think about it the sillier it gets.

@mdosch@mdosch.de I thought it was a nice practice to share interesting twtxt-ers through a follow tweet

This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good.

Non-programming thought of the hour: “I want pancakes”. Also the non-programming thought of the previous hour, and the hour before that.

Programming thought of the hour: “if everything knew about everything else, I wouldn’t have this problem.” Of course, I’d have different problems later…

@mdosch@mdosch.de that would be great! i thought i had the audio working for a second but then i didn’t

Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.

One can construct a bingo sheet to group together anybody. A bingo sheet constructed to group together people who don’t act or think similarly will not reliably predict those people’s thoughts or actions.

disinfo never dies. I ran into somebody the other day who thought LSD stayed in your spinal fluid permanently & caused flashbacks – despite definitely not being alive when that BS was last seriously floated.

Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.

Distinctions in Types of Thought | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/distinctions-in-types-of-thought/

Band name of the day: new evidence for the strange geometry of thought

If you thought Quora’s anime tag was bad, wait until you see their The Beatles tag. If you think that’s bad, wait until you get on the automatic recommendation list for answering questions in ‘acronyms’.

CBC Arts https://www.cbc.ca/arts/this-canadian-dial-up-art-is-older-than-the-internet-and-was-long-thought-to-be-lost-until-now-1.4662086

Extending Interactivity – Creatures of Thought https://technicshistory.wordpress.com/2019/01/24/extending-interactivity/

A Flower for Your Thoughts | Lapham’s Quarterly https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/flower-your-thoughts

Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought:
A History of Computation, Logic and Algebra https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra

Am I the only one who thought the Bumblebee trailer was a trailer for a gritty remake of Herbie the Love Bug?

Periodic reminder that even Tim May thought bitcoin hype was out of control: https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get-rich-quick-lambo-crypto

Thoughts on (and pics of) the original Macintosh User Manual – peterme.com https://www.peterme.com/2007/08/27/thoughts-on-and-pics-of-the-original-macintosh-user-manual/

Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/

Thoughtful Programming and Forth Philosophy, Essay by Michael Misamore http://www.ultratechnology.com/forththoughts.htm

Thoughtful Programming and Forth http://www.ultratechnology.com/forth.htm

It too quiet here for a Monday morning. I swear if I didn’t know better, I would have thought someone died.

Dodo Thoughts https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/20/dodo-thoughts/

Read some excepts from a book I randomly found yesterday. While the writing was a little dry, I thought it could be an interesting read. However when I looked on Amazon, found out the book was 80 USD. I’m sorry but it was not that interesting.

@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes. I first thought gopher would be a good protocol for this purpose. But HTTP has the advantage, that you don’t always need to fetch the whole file. You can do a HEAD and check for last-modified header.

Suffering-oriented programming - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html

@sdk@codevoid.de That’s an interesting thought. I Know most are text files but at one time there was someone that used a python CGI Script. That person would have had to make a script for the follows.

Any thoughts about decentralized ways to discover twtxt users? I’ve set up https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt which is my following list plus whatever comes in via user-agent. If everybody would set this up with the with an added .following we could fetch each others list and discover users that way.

Zero-copy deserialization in Julia http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2018/08/28/zero-copy-deserialization-in-julia/

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I thought so too. Color me surprised when I surveyed my follow programmers in my dept and only 3 out 12 knew what I was talking about.

I always thought about putting together some sort of micro-blog/journal where I can post my daily brainfarts and list them on my webpage. Now, after adding twtxt to my page I have exactly that. It’s kind of cool.

Somehow, http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2016-09-01_A-Qualified-Defense-of-Jargon—Other-In-Group-Signifiers-2fe2cd37b66b.html is getting a lot of hate. I thought it was pretty even-handed. Do people dislike it because I said culture fit should only matter when it impacts effectiveness, or that it’s useful at all?

The thing that worries me about MovieBob’s ‘man thought’ pilot is that up until the last few minutes poe’s law is in effect way too much and it’s just indistinguishable from the shit he’s making fun of

Fate/Extra? More like, What? You Thought Fate Was Already / Extra

Thought as a Technology http://cognitivemedium.com/tat/

Hello World is a Dream – Thought Flow https://davidlebech.com/thoughtflow/hello-world-is-a-dream/

samim - Thoughts on Botnets and CreativityToday, Botnets impact almost every aspect of human life. Promoting products, providing… https://samim.io/p/2018-04-23-the-solution-to-exploding-fake-news-and-spam-botnets-ca/

My Brain Keeps Turning Thoughts into Memories - VICE https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kjxpb/my-brain-keeps-turning-thoughts-into-memories

@robbinaer@robbinaer.info I think I should also increase. 140 is often too short. I thought Twitter had also 140.

My Own ‘Bad Story’: I Thought Journalism Would Make a Hero of Me https://longreads.com/2018/04/03/my-own-bad-story-i-thought-journalism-would-make-a-hero-of-me/

Uh, thought I made a mistake while adding more functions to my bot but actually it is the default twtxt client crashing when doing a unfollow. :-/

Shower thought: ‘Yubikey’ is the English pronounciation of ‘ubique’, means ‘everywhere’. Ha, those rascals!

How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisi… https://aeon.co/ideas/how-schopenhauers-thought-can-illuminate-a-midlife-crisis

@kas@enotty.dk Not sure about the size though. The most known is sopran but i started with concert and still thought it was too small. #ukelele

@kas@enotty.dk Not sure about the size though. The most known is sopran but i started with concert and still thought it was too small. #ukelele

Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson - An Interview with Prop Anon - Mondo 2000 http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/11/13/chapel-perilous-life-thought-crimes-robert-anton-wilson-interview-prop-anon/

@reednj@twtxt.xyz It was mentioned in a sdf.org bboard, so I thought I’d check it out.

Thoughts On Programming (In Parentheses) - Recent posts ⌘ http://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/blog/

Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Be the First One to Not Do Something that No One Else Has Ever Not Thought of Doing Before http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2017/07/cory-doctorow-be-the-first-one-to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-not-thought-of-doing-before/

The Rise of the Thought Leader | New Republic https://newrepublic.com/article/143004/rise-thought-leader-how-superrich-funded-new-class-intellectual?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her | US news | The Guardian ⌘ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-theft-racial-justice

For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her | US news | The Guardian ⌘ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-theft-racial-justice

@dave@davebucklin.com, @kas@enotty.dk I thought about propsing “There is no maximum length of a message. Clients should show at least 140 characters of a tweet after collapsing the mentions.” Or something like that.

@dave@davebucklin.com, @kas@enotty.dk I thought about propsing “There is no maximum length of a message. Clients should show at least 140 characters of a tweet after collapsing the mentions.” Or something like that.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we 100% on the same page about self hosting. I thought the article was more about stopping to cooperate with the corporate web. We need to develop standards with our own priorities forefront.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think we 100% on the same page about self hosting. I thought the article was more about stopping to cooperate with the corporate web. We need to develop standards with our own priorities forefront.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’ve thought you lived in Brazil, but right, Canada has also regions with -04:00 …

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I’ve thought you lived in Brazil, but right, Canada has also regions with -04:00 …

Does anybody has a good idea where to do some promotion for twtxt? A subreddit or online community i haven’t thought about?

Does anybody has a good idea where to do some promotion for twtxt? A subreddit or online community i haven’t thought about?

@kas@enotty.dk The path starts with /Hund. Collapsing mentions is harder than i thought. #txtnish does now lowercase the hostname to handle 0x1A4.1337.cx vs 0x1a4.1337.cx in mentions.

@kas@enotty.dk The path starts with /Hund. Collapsing mentions is harder than i thought. #txtnish does now lowercase the hostname to handle 0x1A4.1337.cx vs 0x1a4.1337.cx in mentions.

@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Okay, following one self seems not so obvious as i thought. With commit 4b9b067 #txtnish displays the local twtfile.

@durcheinandr@durcheinandr.de, @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Okay, following one self seems not so obvious as i thought. With commit 4b9b067 #txtnish displays the local twtfile.

Uh, I thought the vegan bacon thing was about synthetic meat. But it’s a recpie for bacon made from rice paper and marinade. Bookmarked!

Uh, I thought the vegan bacon thing was about synthetic meat. But it’s a recpie for bacon made from rice paper and marinade. Bookmarked!

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Interesting post about sharing. What’re thoughts about closed sharing community where you have to contribute to get something?