@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I also always try to have a few ssh servers with several ports available for me to use. My favorite port is 443. Once had a firewall that wouldn’t allow SSH on 22 but 443 was acceptable because it expected encryption on it.
They used Saint Pepsi as hold music, not Macintosh Plus. No one noticed.
a drug suppressing unconscious volition so that every decision is deliberate, used in small doses by judges to debias verdicts - large doses are possible but considered an expert’s trip, not everybody can breathe manually for hours even if it is to survive
but then, more and more wake up, poke the glitches, form theories↵↵the simulators have left but not cleaned up properly, given us just enough to get root, and we hide what’s left of our world in spare cycles, sidechannels, unused memory
I’m getting used to OpenBSD rather fast. I’s really very consistent and joyful to work with. #openbsd
The Joe Rogan Experience Is a Safe Space to Launder Bad Ideas - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kv9qd/the-joe-rogan-experience-is-a-safe-space-to-launder-bad-ideas
Underrun – Making Of
I participated in this year’s js13kGames, a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.
Play Underrun – A WebGL shooter in 13kb of JavaScript
For this competition I set out to produce something with a dense atmosphere – which is inherently difficult to do with so little … ⌘ Read more
The global economy: gamblers betting on the effectiveness of bad assumptions made based on wide but shallow surveillance in influencing the distribution of ads that don’t work for products that nobody wants and nobody can afford to people who are using adblock.
Hot take: a thick skin is a really useful skill to develop, but having it isn’t really correlated with other useful skills, so we shouldn’t use it as a proxy for who gets to contribute to things.
…when you realize that the automated API you’re using is really just sending an email to someone who will perform the task.
@mdom@domgoergen.com my own custom client I wrote, I use cron to run the update my timeline every 20 mins. My update process also processes 10 curl calls at time. I did that to save time when I poll everyone.
And we still could use range requests to just get updates, if everybody uses sorted twtfiles.
And we still could use range requests to just get updates, if everybody uses sorted twtfiles.
@sdk@codevoid.de Although i’m a gopher fanboy, I wouldn’t use it for twtxt. It’s really a optimal fit.
@sdk@codevoid.de Although i’m a gopher fanboy, I wouldn’t use it for twtxt. It’s really a optimal fit.
@mdom@domgoergen.com Or limit the the amount and use random 10 followers or so…
@mdosch@mdosch.de: Yes, #txtnish uses curl and can therefore handle all curl supported protocols.
Cowards and Trolls Log Off: Dril’s New Book Is Awesome - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvmqew/dril-new-book-tweets-interview
Valve: ‘It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people
@nblade@nblade.sdf.org: Check my tw.txt file. The specification does not allow a comment. I’ve added this now: 1970-01-01T01:00:00.000000Z▸FF:https://codevoid.de/tw.following.txt. I’d use the special date/time + FF: comment as trigger. This is backwards compatible and shouldn’t really come up in anyones’ timeline.
@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.
Confirming the intelligent designer’s existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle
mind over matter works a lot better if you use a hammer
While certainly not a solution to everything, I find I’m using temporary SQLITE database a bunch to solve problems with a few lines of sql and less then 50 lines of code (to insert data into the SQLITE DB) instead of several hundred of lines of code and a bunch of arrays.
Migration successful. My page (http version) is now running on gopherproxy-c. Unfortunately not without functionality loss. If you used my site as search engine, you need to replace the smiley with “q”. The redirect is now handled by nginx and nginx can not read emoji variables.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth
Bad idea of the day: using spaced repetition software to remind yourself to meditate on open questions
@enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net Minifesto uses more code than i would expect :/
@enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net Minifesto uses more code than i would expect :/
You can now use https://codevoid.de/?q=%s as search provider in your browser. Requests that do not start with gopher:// will be forwarded to the non-JS version of duckduckgo. Gopher will be shown directly. I’m not logging anything. But you must be aware that your search terms would touch my server first.
I just used the word “Kludge” and no one in the office knew what I was talking about.
@mdom@domgoergen.com: I’m using txtnish on FreeBSD and I had to switch it to gawk (not sure why BSD awk fails) and disable color. Just fyi. I didn’t look into it any further.
Use the x-use-gopher header on your http proxies.. “curl -sI https://codevoid.de | grep ^x-u” bitreich.org, r-36.net, taz.de are already there. #gopher
Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
What (Else) Cells At Work Can Teach Us - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2Uh4SWGd8
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org If you use imap s-nail is way ahead of mail, but for local mail, uhm, mail is just fine.
Fun fact: OpenBSDs vi does not support utf8. That’s probably the first time I haven’t just used the default system vi.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org If you use imap s-nail is way ahead of mail, but for local mail, uhm, mail is just fine.
Fun fact: OpenBSDs vi does not support utf8. That’s probably the first time I haven’t just used the default system vi.
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use them a lot myself. Plaintext is beautiful.
@71m@timmorgan.org did you send mail from within mutt or using mutt in a script?
Recognition Models: Scale World War Miniatures Used to Tell Friends from Foes - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/recognition-models-scale-world-war-miniatures-used-to-tell-friends-from-foes/
What algorithmic art can teach us about artificial intelligence - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/21/17761424/ai-algorithm-art-machine-vision-perception-tom-white-treachery-imagenet
So, the Pseudomonarchia is like A Thing in anime, isn’t it… Using goetic demons as comic relief characters is something I see occasionally but it wasn’t until You’re Being Summoned, Azazel! that I realized that it wasn’t just like 3 guys doing it.
Not using the vi(m) editor is a lifestyle.
I never really felt familiar with #vim or #emacs everytime I tried and always fell back to #nano but it seems I could really get used to #spacemacs http://spacemacs.org/
Translit is a little like bittorrent, if bittorrent used literally the same bytes for AMVs and trailers as for the corresponding scenes in the show/movie. Transcopyright is like assembling AMVs from your own DVD boxed set based on a list of instructions & leaving a gap if you’re missing a disk.
This is a very hot take and also not a new one but here we go: the goal of a properly functioning software engineer is to obviate themselves, not by solving the customer’s specific problems but by blurring the line between using a computer and programming one to the point where users can solve their own problems.
Pet peeve: when people are so used to the model of defense against the strongest possible adversary that, in the case where that’s not possible, they consider smaller guarantees useless. Things don’t need to exist at google scale.
Pet peeve: when people conflate correctness with secrecy. Crypto can provide both, but the two are actually often in conflict. Please, think about the mechanisms you’re using systematically & also with respect to your actual threat model.
> when your thoughts are regularly interrupted by captchas because your implant’s subscription expired a month ago and you have to use the ratelimited public APIs
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?
Anyone using sendxmpp wants to try go-sendxmpp. It should already cover the most important use cases and I would be interested if it was compatible in your use case. https://salsa.debian.org/mdosch-guest/go-sendxmpp #xmpp #golang
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org Also you can still MITM https with a locally trusted cert for the mitming instance like McAffe does in a lot of company proxies. I think this could also be used for caching proxies.
Hot take: the existence of garden path sentences tells us that: 1) language isn’t so much a representation of meaning as a way of representing constraints for possible intepretation, and 2) we start processing before all the constraints have arrived
@kas@enotty.dk Have you done something with nncp? I like the idea, but somehow i don’t find a use case for it… :)
@kas@enotty.dk Have you done something with nncp? I like the idea, but somehow i don’t find a use case for it… :)
The Victorian Occultist Accused of Killing Men With Her Mind - Broadly https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/mbp7pb/the-victorian-occultist-accused-of-killing-men-with-her-mind
The gods have profiles just like us, except when they retweet stuff, it comes true and we both eagerly await and dread these moments↵#invisiblenetworks (day 3)
Greenfield maintains the MIB are just really good practicioners of enochian magick. We know from Lachman that sometimes secret chiefs have been enemy spies & occultists ‘useful idiots’ like Bennowitz. What if both?
@metamurks@www.metamurks.org I use to but I downgraded this account, since I had two MetaArpa acconts and I really only needed one.
Bo Burnham and the Illusion of Meritocracy - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus http://nautil.us/blog/bo-burnham-and-the-illusion-of-meritocracy
Meet the Anarchists Making Their Own Medicine - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pngb/how-to-make-your-own-medicine-four-thieves-vinegar-collective
Managing TLS connections using Lua and Lua coroutines - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm http://boston.conman.org/2018/07/23.1
Folks who don’t use medium – do they have misleading popups or something? I have an account so I never see any of this crap, but people have indicated to me that they think they need to pay for (non-paywalled) posts.
Thread by @enkiv2@www.lord-enki.net: “An article I’m considering writing: the (explicit) political use of ghost stories. The idea of the ‘confederate soldier ghost’ was explicitl […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1021352318028087297.html
The US town ruled by an AI storyteller • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-07-14-the-us-town-ruled-by-an-ai-storyteller
In case anybody cares, I’ve fixed up my mirror of all my medium posts. (Useful if you are a cheapskate!) As always, I prefer people with a medium account to actually go there & clap so I get a dime. http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/
The more I use acme and sam, the more I notice that I start editor wars on Twitter. At least it’s Rob Pike’s fault.
Remember when this happened with latin & it turned out lorem ipsum was being compared to political blogs, like 10 years ago? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/j5npeg/why-is-google-translate-spitting-out-sinister-religious-prophecies
JavaCard: The execution environment you didn’t know you were using – Bentham’s Gaze https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2018/07/13/javacard-the-execution-environment-you-didnt-know-you-were-using/
Hot Chili Peppers, War, and Sichuan Cuisine http://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-spicy-food-rp
We shouldn’t let people get used to the idea that software fails - Rakhim.org https://rakhim.org/2018/07/software-shouldnt-fail
You have the right to a wheel. If you do not have a wheel, one will be provided for you. Please use METAL – not ORGANIC – limbs. We disclaim all liability if you use your own limbs during a sonic attack!
Using Artificial Intelligence to Augment Human Intelligence https://distill.pub/2017/aia/
Pro tip: avoiding the signifiers of commonly-understood identity constellations both allows you to shape your identity beyond cliche & jams the signal used by advertisers to classify you.
The Company That Makes Mechanical Keyboards Clack - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3qzy5/the-company-that-makes-mechanical-keyboards-clack
I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say: knowing the ideological diversity of your enemy is TACTICALLY USEFUL because, when observed closely, any group large enough to be politically powerful is full of hidden fault lines and tense cease-fires
do not attempt to use your own limbs
@kas@enotty.dk I’d love to have a ‘real’ Linux in my phone. The closest was when I was using #SailfishOS.
Why the US national anthem is terrible “ and perfect - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdl8p9akJJw
Glossary of Commonly Used Terms in the Western Mystery Tradition - Introduction to the Western Mystery Tradition - Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition - Hermetic Library https://hermetic.com/jwmt/v1n0/glossary2
Encode and Decode Strings using Base 64 ⌘ Read more…
Apparatus: A hybrid graphics editor and programming environment for creating interactive diagrams http://aprt.us/
Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable https://www.fastcodesign.com/90177573/how-blue-became-techs-favorite-color-and-why-it-shouldnt-be
The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf
How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
@kas@enotty.dk nice. 😎 Let’s see if this addon works: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hooktubeify/
‘Suffrajitsu’: How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34425615
I’m not used to a second match in a tournament already being a ‘do or die’ match. Go #Germany! #GERvsSWE #WorldCup2018
Ecological “law” turns out to just be the result of us fishing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/ecological-law-turns-out-to-just-be-the-result-of-us-fishing/
Periodic reminder that the state exists at the pleasure of the people who compose it, and should be dissolved when it ceases to benefit them. This means all of us, not just politicians or billionaires.
Making Interactive Fiction: Using Generative Prose - sub-Q Magazine https://sub-q.com/making-interactive-fiction-using-generative-prose/
periodic reminder that weapons in of themselves don’t have a moral valence & we should think materially about whether or not their use is appropriate to our goals, instead of vaguely about accidental associations. this includes social/memetic weaponry like protest techniques
The difficulty in translating ‘dokidoki’ for non-otaku audiences is a great example of why conceptual frames are a useful idea. You can literally translate it as ‘badump’ because it’s the heartbeat sfx, but you lose something.
@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net you’ll probably have a lot of 404 on /wp-admin if you don’t use WordPress. 😂
Bad idea of the day: Use ssb to coordinate pinning of ipfs objects
Bad idea of the day: Scroll back through GUI input events & application states like you scroll back through shell history; inject conditionals and loops; use speculative execution of applications to show projected state from these changes.
Bad idea of the day: creating ads that target asemic combinations of dictionary words order to identify people who use dictionary-based chaffing techniques