finished Sandworms of Dune and added some photos to the Earth shrine

No, I’m still doing them manually. 🤣🤦🏻 But I do think they are a good idea and will be adding them, I just haven’t gotten around to finding a compatible implementation of the hash yet.

Added to the fun.

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Added to the fun.

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new recipe added to the !food page: !brownies.

added a shrine to Earth, updated Wheels shrine

added a !projects page. it’s dynamically generated :)

added nilFM twtxt feed

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The Problems with Utilitarianism
I originally wrote this essay in 2014 or 2015 in a Chinese buffet in Athens, Georgia. I’ve changed some of it and am re-adding it here. I talk about the issues with Utilitarianism and a bad book by Sam Harris.

At a dumb intuitive level, the “ethical” idea of Utilitarianism in principle gets pretty close to what most people reflexively want from social-political affairs: the greatest good for the greatest number of people—who … ⌘ Read more

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My blog system now has tagging (all pure POSIX shell of course)
This isn’t live on the old blog system’s Github, but partially inspired by by Based Cooking’s tag system which is based on blogit, I’ve added in the feature to tag articles.

I’ve been wanting to write more articles and informational pages on my website, but doing that with no organization is somewhat … ⌘ 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

YouTube Channel Deletion (updated)
For info, I’ve added a list of the striked videos so you can see how innocuous they are. ⌘ Read more

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@niplav@niplav.github.io I wouldn’t disagree with your characterization of people who’re interested in radical life extension, but their messaging, generally, seems to not mention “adding life to your years” at all. “Live to be 150” doesn’t sound all that great if you’re going to have 15 years of being in your 80s, so to speak.

added some more words to the !LIL page.

@(frogorbits.com) “@niplav Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.” -> I disagree, the people who i know that are interested in life extension look to me more engaged in life than the ones who are not (though that hinges on definitions of ”adding life to their years”). i agree that “adding life to your years” is underappreciated, though.

added a new algo to sndkit @!(sndkitref “scale”)!@.

@niplav@niplav.github.io Seems like most of the (radical) life extension people are interested in adding years to their lives, but agnostic about adding life to their years. “Be old longer” doesn’t appeal to a lot of people.

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added biramp to sndkit: @!(sndkitref “biramp”)!@.

added recipe I use for brown sugar cinammon poptarts: !poptarts #food #breakfast #baking

@prologic@twtxt.net the meta info on the top I added manually. it’s following what I have seen from some other twtxt feeds. the new parser will read them.

@prologic@twtxt.net the meta info on the top I added manually. it’s following what I have seen from some other twtxt feeds. the new parser will read them.

@xuu@txt.sour.is Btw… I noticed your pod has some changed I’m not familiar with, for example you seem to have added metadata to the top of feeds. Can you enumerate the improvements/changes you’ve made and possibly let’s discuss contributing them back upstream? :D

@prologic@twtxt.net in theory shouldn’t need to let users add feeds.. if they get mentioned by a tracked feed they will get added automagically. on a pod it would just need to scan the twtxt feed to know about everyone.

@prologic@twtxt.net in theory shouldn’t need to let users add feeds.. if they get mentioned by a tracked feed they will get added automagically. on a pod it would just need to scan the twtxt feed to know about everyone.

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

lots of links added to overview page on monolith wiki: @!(monolithref “overview”)!@.

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@prologic@twtxt.netdd ooh I am adding that to my test suite

@prologic@twtxt.netdd ooh I am adding that to my test suite

@prologic@twtxt.net Testing if this will be added to the thread just adding the hashtag. #utwnv7q

@prologic@twtxt.net Testing if this will be added to the thread just adding the hashtag. #utwnv7q

added a !meta page. this proof of concept integrates with the weewiki !zettelkasten I am developing to produce something similar to this !feed.

@prologic@twtxt.net def would be a wider discussion on preventing the pod from adding its own key to a users device list. Or using device keys to authenticate instead of user/pass.

@prologic@twtxt.net def would be a wider discussion on preventing the pod from adding its own key to a users device list. Or using device keys to authenticate instead of user/pass.

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added some pages on #permissive #publicdomain licenses that I often reach for: !CC0 and !unlicense.

@prologic@twtxt.net an added benefit of the avatar: would be the user could put their gravatar/libravatar image url like https://key.sour.is/avatar/01bc6186d015218c23dec55447e502e669ca4c61c7566dfcaa1cac256108dff0

@prologic@twtxt.net an added benefit of the avatar: would be the user could put their gravatar/libravatar image url like https://key.sour.is/avatar/01bc6186d015218c23dec55447e502e669ca4c61c7566dfcaa1cac256108dff0

added weewiki and orgparse to the #loom today [[/loom/weewiki]] [[/loom/orgparse]]. #updates

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added an initial !bitwrite page #updates

added channels page to !monolith wiki: [[/proj/monolith/wiki/channels]]. #updates

added a few notes on woven program output on the !monolith wiki page #updates

added @!(sndkitref “bezier”)!@ to !sndkit today. coupled with @!(sndkitref “oscf”)!@, it is capable of making some really weird wet FM-y sounds. Me like! #updates #sndkit

added a #1bit dither page to the #monolith wiki: [[/proj/monolith/wiki/dither_1bit]] #updates

initial ugens page added to !monolith wiki, with link to woven ugens scheme file. the first non-C woven file in monolith. [[/proj/monolith/wiki/ugens]]. #docs #updates

new words added to the !index

added a twtxt activity section on the !monolith page

I added scripts to my bash so it cheers me up with friendly greetings and messages

The master plan is to export the !worgle bits of !monolith to a !weewiki, then begin adding user-level documentation that is able to dynamically reference bits of source code as another wiki page.

some example graphics added onto my !btprnt page.

LiberaPay now added (It’s better than Paypal and Patreon) ⌘ https://liberapay.com/LukeSmith

Adding transparency and removing whitespace from images automatically with imagemagick ⌘

Block Ads, Tracking, Porn and whatever else with /etc/hosts ⌘ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPfpCVW7ZvM

Full MSMTPRC support added to Mutt Wizard ⌘

@tolstoevsky@tolstoevsky.ml You’re version of fzf is too old then. Reload was added in https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/1750

@tolstoevsky@tolstoevsky.ml You’re version of fzf is too old then. Reload was added in https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/1750

Thank you @kas@enotty.dk, I would like to be added to @we_are_twtxt

Thank you @kas@enotty.dk, I would like to be added to @we_are_twtxt

Added a header to the twtxt file

Added a header to the twtxt file

Added double log to the diary maybe that would be easier to maintain than creating daily files

Just added a WriteFreely instance to my server, so that I can create an “anonymous” blog and be angsty alone

Added clients and articles sections and added domgoergen’s twtxt.txt to https://indieweb.org/twtxt

Added myself to the user list at https://github.com/mdom/we-are-twtxt

added paragraph blocks and code blocks to weewiki HTML output. things look decent.

@kas@enotty.dk (re @ ) The ‘%F %f %s’ doesn’t make problems now as I quick and dirty added replacing % with %%. 😁

added some more stuff to https://tilde.town/~mox/longer.html

/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz About images, sure, I understand it’s useless for CLI-only use. But if we added our own format, maybe something like Markdown

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neat, casually adding a 1,000-person orchestra

neat, casually adding a 100-person orchestra

The New York Times sells premium ads based on how an article makes you feel – Poynter https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2019/the-new-york-times-sells-premium-ads-based-on-how-an-article-makes-you-feel/

Facebook Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine https://theintercept.com/2019/04/03/facebook-ad-algorithm-race-gender/

Ads Written By the Guy From Your Poetry MFA Who’s In Marketing Now - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ads-written-by-the-guy-from-your-poetry-mfa-whos-in-marketing-now

“hey did you hear the one about…” “yea the pink laser told me that back in ‘73… or last week… or maybe 50 AD….”

Banner Ads Considered Harmful (Here) - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Ads

Disney reportedly pulls ads from YouTube following child exploitation controversy - The Verge ⌘ https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233726/disney-ads-youtube-child-exploitation-scandal-adpocalypse

Amazon is using purchase data to sell targeted ads, which is creepy, but not because they’ve invented a mind-control ray / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/02/06/trivial-insights.html

What a brandless brand is selling you | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6698/brandless-brands-instagram-ads-capitalism

Teletext graphics characters among those added to Unicode – Teletext Art http://teletextart.co.uk/teletext-graphics-characters-among-those-added-to-unicode

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

raised by machines, the feral kids of the robotic undercity recite ads as greetings, talk in beeps and whirrs and modem chirps, go still and make fan noises when stressed

Enlightenment can be yours for just $10 | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6889/school-of-practical-philosophy-philosophy-works-new-york-subway-ad

Hacker Banner Ads Are Totally Wild - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa5vwb/hacker-banner-ads-are-totally-wild

Protip: leave recordings of old public access TV in languages you don’t speak on youtube on in the background, in order to encourage incorrect inferences & poorly targeted ads

Also found that adding sorting = ascending to the config file shows the most recent post last better for simple terminal viewing.

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Adorable Optimism of the IPCC. https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8433

Love it we have a “contract” developer but he is not in the right group to push commits to the code repo. When I suggested that he be added to the right group one of the other developers was like that will give him access to everything. I’m sorry but what is everything? It’s not like he can pull from any of the repos as it is. Right now he just can’t commit.

It really pisses me off when people use ‘infinite’ to mean ‘really big’. If something’s actually infinite, adding more to it produces the same number (like in Hilbert’s hotel)

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » The Split-brain Universe https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8255

No Moods, Ads or Cutesy Fucking Icons » A/Political (and a deferral on Doomsday) https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8415

If we added up all the time spent in airport security in the past seven years, how many average human lifespans would it be?

Why targeted Facebook ads are so weirdly personal - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/25/17887796/facebook-ad-targeted-algorithm