It’s a new one in the instant messaging game :P https://getsession.org It’s a fork of Signal and claims no metadata. I too have my chatting tools, but it doesn’t prevent to check new stuff ^^
@mox@tilde.town I don’t really get the point of being in bandcamp while removing the tools bandcamp provides. Too bad I won’t add it to my library then :/
New repository: aquilax/m3u-combine - Command line tool to combine multiple m3u playlists
📚 Finished reading Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
📚 Finished reading Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It by Adam Savage
New repository: aquilax/daily-checklist - Simple tool for generating daily checklists in markdown
despite all the tools I’ve made, it is still a chore to update this thing. some things you just can’t automate
@lucidiot@tilde.town @kas@enotty.dk There’s also Keybase as good GPG tool. They offer a lot of encrypted services as well :)
@kas@enotty.dk Oh I didn’t know a recent release brought autocrypt directly to neomutt. When I tried some 3rd party tool was necessary.
@johanbove@johanbove.info : re bulletjournal : Yeah I tried keeping a bullet journal, it lasted about 6 months I think. But yeah, that could be a good managing tool :)
I have nothing to say, but by god I’m going to spend a lot of time looking for tools to help me say it
Can one use nerd tools to live-blog an internet outage (without tethering)? Let’s find out.
New repository: aquilax/gitkat - GTK quick notification tool
first tool-using species, then bool-using species
New repository: aquilax/app.text-tools-online.com - Text Tools PWA
Random link from the archives: https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece originally archived Fri Feb 1 12:13:36 EST 2019
New repository: aquilax/md2html - Markdown to HTML command line tool (wraps Blackfriday)
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI
LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems https://ncase.me/loopy/
New repository: aquilax/cutdoc - Shortcut cheat sheet tool
New repository: aquilax/urlcat - Command line URL manipulation tool
We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.
Re: https://adactio.com/journal/14888 – it’s a competent reframing job, but if common behaviors require complicated hacks for literally years, you’re using the wrong tool.
Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece
YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool - TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/
today’s procrastination tactic: writing a README (pretty much a spec) for an as-yet unwritten command-line tool
Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/04/25-thinking-tools/
Tooling (in progress) | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/tooling/
People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it’s easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it’s easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.
The Anime Cult - The Mike Toole Show - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-12-13/.96470
New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image
GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
17: visible but cannot be typed on, fingers hit emptiness.↵1?: invisible, produces characters indistinguishable from spaces. except when I try to run binary analysis tools on the output, which invariably crash.
SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4
TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/
how i found out about twtxt btw: gopher://fuckup.solutions/0/enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-06-15_Exocortex-tools-part-I–social-media-automation-with-very-small-shell-scripts-62d995242a57.txt
Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.
TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/
Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/01-andy-hertzfeld
Band name of the day: power tool massacre
Cursed ontologies in forbidden orthographies. Special tools are required to handle them safely: wands, swords, cups, pantacles – all important safety equipment in any conceptual laboratory environment.
More Hints for Writing Unix Tools | Mario Campos https://www.mariocampos.io/blog/more-unix-tools-hints/
Hints for writing Unix tools https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html
In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit
GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive
How K-pop became a propaganda tool | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4269/k-pop-propaganda-south-korea-north-korea-demilitarized-zone
GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems
Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0
Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/
Hot take: mashups & references can be powerful tools for getting your message across, but if you don’t have a message (or your message is this is my taste) it’s just masturbatory. (Fite me.)
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info, ok I think it’s normal for such a nerdy microblogging tool to be rather quiet.
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.
AR MMORPG overlays as a tool of social policy and peacekeeping, giving everybody their own reality so that consensus reality is fought over less
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
Dymaxion: Please Stop Writing Secure Messaging Tools https://dymaxion.org/essays/pleasestop.html
Fun with text tools today https://www.baty.net/2017/some-text-based-things-today/
I’m trying to decide whether soldiering on with the messy codebase of my homegrown site generator is worth it or if I should redo my site in a more established tool.
New repository: aquilax/python-android-webview - Simple WebView Android App Tool
RFC 439 - PARRY encounters the DOCTOR https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc439
Hackers‘ Own Tools Are Full of Vulnerabilities - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59pvp8/hackers-own-tools-are-full-of-vulnerabilities
Ravens ignore a treat in favor of a useful tool for the future | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/ravens-ignore-a-treat-in-favor-of-a-useful-tool-for-the-future/
5 Gaming Tools to Help Your Writing | Tor/Forge Blog http://www.torforgeblog.com/2017/07/10/5-gaming-tools-to-help-your-writing/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=na-haspilarticle&utm_content=na-readblog-blogpost&utm_campaign=torjuly17newsletter&et=35866-n19595941
“You mean they invented large brains, tool use, culture, swarming and malthusian trap evasion AT THE SAME TIME? Who leaked the cheat codes?”
Tarot cards: a tool of cold tricksters or wise therapists? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/tarot-cards-a-tool-of-cold-tricksters-or-wise-therapists
the class of geometric problems that can be solved by geometric tools constructed with compass and straight edge
@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed
@kas@enotty.dk If i’m reading http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.5 correctly, the character ‘:’ is explicitly allowed
@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2
@quite@lublin.se There is even a section rfc7234 about heuristic expiration times: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-4.2
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx ircpipe looks neat! Starred! Do you know http://tools.suckless.org/ii/?
@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx ircpipe looks neat! Starred! Do you know http://tools.suckless.org/ii/?
Hello from #txtnish, a new twtxt client with minimal dependencies: posix tools, wget and xargs with -P: https://github.com/mdom/txtnish
Hello from #txtnish, a new twtxt client with minimal dependencies: posix tools, wget and xargs with -P: https://github.com/mdom/txtnish
Sometimes you know a new tool is better but you are so used to the old one… :)
Sometimes you know a new tool is better but you are so used to the old one… :)
New repository: aquilax/me-report - Personal reporting tool
New repository: aquilax/imrepository - Instant Messaging Backup Tool
apart from these advantages for their communication, are legible concepts (often narratives) maybe also better tools for thought?
A time knife to cut timelines with, sever someone’s purpose and maybe spin a new one - a tool for diviners discontent with mere foretelling.
An essential tool in spell analysis is to diffract it through a wrought iron grid to split it into its semantic constituents.
Human civilization in Limbo has nothing but their naked selves on a featureless plain. Often, members serve as someone’s tool or dwelling.
A crackle and the smell of ozone, and another little lightning bolt scurries away from the workbench to disappear behind the tool locker.
Anybody has http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033 running for twtxt? And what to use for rel? https://twtxt.org/twtfile?
Anybody has http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7033 running for twtxt? And what to use for rel? https://twtxt.org/twtfile?
Parsing iso8601 is way to hard, maybe http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339 would be a better choice?
Parsing iso8601 is way to hard, maybe http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339 would be a better choice?
New repository: aquilax/goreadit - Command line speed reading tool
inventor of emotions↵their workshop full of discarded prototypes↵patents in a drawer↵tools that you can’t look at for longer than 5 seconds
New repository: aquilax/diffcsv - diff tool for csv files
New repository: aquilax/dirble-cli - Command line tool for accessing https://dirble.com API
NixOps 1.0 released
NixOps\
1.0 has been released, the inaugural release of the NixOS
cloud deployment tool. See the announcement
and the manual
for details. ⌘ Read more
Google, the most dangerous monopoly ever
I use almost all Google services ranging from search engine, over Gmail, Calendar, Android and Google Voice all the way to Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. If you combine all that data, I think that Google may know me better then I know my self, and that is starting to make me nerves. Don’t get […] ⌘ Read more
LDTA 2008 paper
Eelco Dolstra presented the paper “Maximal\
Laziness — An Efficient Interpretation Technique for Purely\
Functional DSLs” at 8th\
Workshop on Language\
Description, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2008). It’s about
caching of evaluation results in the Nix expression evaluator as
a technique to make a simple term-rewriting evaluator efficient.
Slides are [here](h … ⌘ Read more