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Subscribed to every RSS feed. Just listened to Josh's podcast. Wicked. 2020-07-13T14:47:11+01:00 Anyone else Folding@home? 2020-07-13T15:37:58+01:00 True empathy: startled by a bare toilet in a darkened room, following your wife's dealing with your son's potty. 2020-07-18T20:42:28+01:00 Just used xsetwacom to set an undo button on my Huion H950P tablet. Giggled. 2020-07-19T20:42:59+01:00 @ Sweet! hallway.amorris.vercel.app is pinned in my browser now. Loving it! 2020-07-20T17:03:32+01:00 Your own joy can be something that you produce: https://youtu.be/E5Q0tuGAC3k?t=205 2020-07-24T09:20:58+01:00 Today I hate everyone. 2020-08-02T14:31:11+01:00 I am now a Splunk Architect. All of life seems a bit easier today. 2020-08-02T21:33:14+01:00 @ Thank you! For that, and the Hallway; so clean; so simple. 2020-08-04T12:59:41+01:00 Just installed a Chrome extension on the work laptop to stop all the stupid animations on the intranet. Ah, _relief_. 2020-08-14T09:26:44+01:00 A knowledge-bolstering day, ahead of a late meeting. Hope my credibility won't be this sheer a year from now. 2020-08-16T12:15:37+01:00 He said the world was as soft as lace. And I don't love anyone. 2020-08-17T09:53:53+01:00 This demo Vault cluster is brought to you by Sabbath. (He says with confidence.) SU-PER-NAAAUT! 2020-08-22T18:18:48+01:00 Just got my partner's old Amilo Pro out of the loft. Seems in surprisingly good nick; bet it'll add a few more VMs to the home cluster. 2020-08-22T22:32:56+01:00 640x480 was making me _sad_. 1024x768 is a dream. Hadrian <3: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1733957#p1733957 - HAYYY-DRIAN! 2020-08-25T19:35:36+01:00 So chuffed. Partner got on the ole Amilo Pro and Bang! was bankin' 'n' spreadsheetin', oblivious to Linux. 2020-08-26T13:35:43+01:00 Next challenge: her slow Lifebook A Series. Wants to keep Windows, so I'm trying to shrink its volume (for dual boot). It resists. 2020-08-27T10:09:52+01:00 @ (Re MDXJS) After failing to say that twice, I'd be reaching for... a thesaurus? Baby names? 2020-09-03T10:44:51+01:00 Commandeered my MIL's old Dell desktop. It's now running Xubuntu, under the stairs. Gonna set-up a Consul node on it shortly, over SSH. :-D 2020-09-13T21:02:14+01:00 Slowly starting to tweak Weechat. Can feel the power throbbing, under the hood. *gulp* 2020-09-14T00:19:06+01:00 @ _The_ most vanilla, I assure you: https://envs.sh/i_ -- after a _long_ IRC hiatus, I was unhappy with Hexchat. 2020-09-16T21:48:52+01:00 OpenWrt on my new WRT1200AC! My ancient printer needs WPS, but BusyBox is calling the button ๏ฟฝwps right now. H'm, UTF-8 _is_ supported... 2020-09-17T11:04:33+01:00 H'm. Can ssh to the router, but not between boxes. iptables-fu is weak. Happily, Day 9 of /r/linuxupskillchallenge is very topical! 2020-09-18T21:04:03+01:00 @ (#<3batpvq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=3batpvq>) Yup. Details: https://envs.sh/iL 2020-09-20T15:13:19+01:00 OK, OpenWrt is definitely filtering by default for some reason: https://envs.sh/i5 -- gen. some syslog for more info, maybe? 2020-09-22T10:28:11+01:00 @ (#) My thoughts exactly! :-D 2020-09-25T11:52:29+01:00 @ Oh my! Ended up down a fraidyc.at rabbit hole! Thanks! (I think ;-) ) 2020-10-05T20:36:35+01:00 Ubuntu 20.04.1 on an Acer Aspire E5-511. Needed 5.4.0-42-generic. -48 killed it. 2020-10-06T20:11:44+01:00 Making good headway on my visa. Got dnsmasq configured properly on OpenWRT as well. Plus, I got out on my bike. Great day! 2021-01-13T23:01:13+01:00 Identity is built: "Everyone needs someone who reflects back to them who they are, objectively." --John Amaechi 2021-01-15T22:18:47+00:00 Want to run my own instance of twtd. (Gets head down in docs.) In other news, I got a raise and a bonus today! 2021-01-15T22:48:02+00:00 @ (#) Yeah, a completely-unsolicited surprise! :-) And, sweet! To IRC then! 2021-01-16T21:35:04+00:00 @ (#) lol. quitfacebook.org is still up. twt is set to be on more radars, though. ;-) 2021-01-16T22:11:57+00:00 @ (#) The favicon in particular! :-) 2021-01-16T22:17:23+00:00 Existing NGINX as my twtd ingress controller, maybe? Got big pod dreams, but also just want to get it up; Traefik is new to me. 2021-01-16T23:31:59+00:00 @ (#) Really helpful context: was definitely over-engineering. Cheers! 2021-01-17T00:25:41+00:00 @ (#) I see Consul service mesh everywhere these days, X-D thanks to a 180 career change and major upskill. 2021-01-17T16:52:11+00:00 Like a hermit crab today, bringing about a year's worth of Tetra-Pak recycling to the depot on my bike; kids' trailer was fit to burst! 2021-01-20T09:51:36+00:00 @ (#) Wow! Really interesting perspective! Thanks for sharing. :-) 2021-01-20T11:45:20+00:00 Food on the table while giving away code: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/01/15/food-on-the-table-while-giving-away-code/ 2021-01-20T12:12:57+00:00 Feel like chronosonder must represent the biggest leap in maturity for most humans: https://youtu.be/zHL9GP_B30E?t=1003 2021-01-25T09:58:53+00:00 Hoping this will be my last twt from this Ctrl-C Club locale; my pod is up & running at twt.nfld.uk. :-) Planning to migrate this week! 2021-01-25T15:47:25Z Hello nfld! ๐Ÿ‘‹ 2021-01-25T17:08:34Z @ (#) Thanks for the heads-up! The redirect is fixed. On TLS, I think I got a bit confused: @ said something about `twtd` only speaking HTTP, and I sort of put certificates out of my mind after that. But can I just terminate the tunnel at my reverse proxy instead? 2021-01-25T20:09:50Z @ (#) Oh, neat! I'll have a closer look, when I get a moment. :-) 2021-01-25T21:33:10Z @ (#) Right, that's now top priority in my twt project, in Taskwarrior. Cheers! (One idle search later) Ooo, turns out they just released a new version of `task`! :-D 2021-01-25T23:18:16Z @ @ (#) Configuring the reverse proxy with certbot seems fairly straightforward, but I too am confused, around how `twtd` integrates, without changing $BASE_URL too, in my case. 2021-01-26T02:06:32Z @ (#) Ah, OK, that makes more sense. (Hamster furiously working...) So, that means all outgoing connections from the pod are unencrypted, right? It can't initiate a TLS connection? Just browsers and twtxt clients to it? 2021-01-26T02:12:06Z @ @ @ (#) Understood. On this subject, outside of major/security updates, what are your expectations around the frequency of pod upgrades? Weekly? Monthly? Just curious. ๐Ÿ˜† 2021-01-26T10:19:02Z @ (#) Lots of (nascent) ideas on this! :-) One question, to start: what's the goal? Is it sustaining, say, one order of magnitude more in terms of users and pods? Bigger? Or is the current level of engagement fine, if it could support a few developers full-time? 2021-01-26T11:03:46Z @ (#) Thanks! Yes, that definitely helps: bigger than I'd imagined! :-D (Which is great, and very exciting. :-) ) OK, more thought required... I think I'm ready to blog about it, at this point. :-) 2021-01-26T12:51:52Z @ (#) Oh, that's interesting. I discovered Roam about six months, and was really excited to get on the wait list. In the interim, I started using Obsidian, with the thought that I needed to give org-roam some time as well. My note-taking has since dropped to nil, though. ๐Ÿ˜• 2021-01-26T15:06:54Z @ (#<6xbvytq http://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6xbvytq>) Nice! Great progress! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘ 2021-01-26T19:36:27Z @ @psibr (#) High praise, indeed! ๐Ÿ˜œ Hi! And welcome! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-26T21:45:43Z @ (#<4h2wx7q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4h2wx7q>) I demand a trial by a jury of my peer^H^H^H^Hpeople who've never heard of twts, decentralised anything, or interwebs. Information super-highway users only, actually. 2021-01-27T08:55:44Z @ (#) "foot-guns" ๐Ÿ˜† Nice post! Subscribe! ๐Ÿ˜ Hadn't heard about BundleWrap, but I work with Terraform, and am keen to learn about everything in the configuration management space; thanks for sharing! 2021-01-27T10:53:38Z Anyone using [Delta Chat](https://delta.chat)? Really impressed with it, so far, and so happy to have something that's nice and seamless for connecting with older family members. (Till I get them on my pod. ๐Ÿ‘ด 2021-01-27T11:52:04Z @ (#<6v47qxa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6v47qxa>) ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-27T15:06:49Z @ (#) I could give it a shot, in, say, five hours, after the kids are a-bed. So some of the jobs are failing, and others simply aren't running? And SSH between the hosts is seamless, when you're manually invoking it? And they're all running Manjaro? 2021-01-27T17:36:59Z @ (#) Just starting the tea (supper) and bedtime madness here, but, h'm, interesting. As with the environment variables, the account running the cron job needs to know where to find the executable, to have its own SSH config file, etc. Let's look at the errors, in a bit. 2021-01-27T19:47:39Z @ @ (#) I played around with both that as the environment variable, and with the switches too; dark remained the default. 2021-01-27T19:50:53Z @ (#) Ah, maybe we should put it off then, as I'm just coming free now. Need to configure backups of my pod too, come to think of it. 2021-01-27T19:56:27Z Goryon is consistently coming up with an "unexpected" error when attempting to load twts since I switched to https. Anyone else using the app? Suspect I've misconfigured my reverse proxy. 2021-01-27T23:28:38Z [Growing twt.social](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/01/27/growing-twt-social) 2021-01-28T10:16:02Z @ (#) H'm, I actually reinstalled the app; wonder whether some config persisted. I'm using NGINX to host my domain and two subdomains, so it seemed like a natural choice for the proxy. Given @'s comment, I'm going to widen my investigation, beyond proxy config. 2021-01-28T10:22:00Z @ (#) Will do! I'm all over the shop when it comes to backups, and none of them are ideal. Specifically around the pod, I want to make sure I'm respecting my users' rights to the best of my ability; so I'm thinking limited copies, encrypted, under my control, etc. 2021-01-28T10:24:16Z @ (#) Thank you! ๐Ÿ˜Š This is all very exciting, I must say! ๐Ÿ˜€ cc @ 2021-01-28T10:32:17Z (#) @ Bloody hell! _GREAT_ video! ๐Ÿ˜€ Seriously! Now I'm back on the fence, about the rebranding. ๐Ÿ˜‹๐Ÿ˜‰ Just shared it in the Matrix room that I'm hoping will be a big contingent of my initial pod users, when I'm ready to launch. And, yes, please send that interview video along. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-28T11:47:06Z Oh, yay! Just received my copy of Jorge Luis Borges' Collected Fictions, translated by Andrew Hurley! Love holding a new book -- might have to take a peek over lunch. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-28T12:16:02Z @ (#) ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฒ _That is BRILLIANT!_ The production level on both pieces is excellent (to say nothing of the message, and how succinctly it's delivered)! I don't know how tough they were to make, but that needs to be factored in any rebranding. Do you mind if I share this? 2021-01-28T12:52:17Z @ (#) Great point, well made. I would add that you need to make sure you include the appropriate alt text with any screenshots you post: so much of this new reality -- well, not that new now, I guess -- is made inaccessible to the visually impaired otherwise. 2021-01-28T13:32:59Z ๐Ÿ˜Œ The boost from a brisk walk on a sunny day is not to be underestimated! ๐Ÿ˜Œ 2021-01-28T13:35:42Z @ @ @ (#) Awesome! (And, noted! ๐Ÿ˜) 2021-01-28T13:38:53Z @ @prologicnet (#) cc @ They facilitate replies (and, by extension, conversations) on twt.social. I think a few clients support them now, but @ can give you the particulars. ๐Ÿ™‚ 2021-01-28T15:20:18Z @ (#<5YzUyZA https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5YzUyZA>) Oh my! _GORGEOUS!_ ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-28T15:52:39Z @ @ (#<5YzUyZA https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5YzUyZA>) Just bought some merch to support them. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-28T19:50:08Z @ (#) Ah, interesting. So, if I've skimmed that well, all you need to configure after that is some sort of automation, yes? 2021-01-29T01:56:17Z @ (#) Such a great course! I did it six months ago; was reminded of lots, and learned plenty of new stuff too! 2021-01-29T12:50:39Z @ @ @ (#) Interesting. Looking forward to more details on your reasoning. I'm planning on twt.social being the only way I can interact with some users of my pod; in that case, I can see the utility in both features (even if they're out of scope, in spirit, maybe). 2021-01-29T13:50:48Z @ @ @ (#) Re harassment: Oh, I hadn't thought of that. And the pod administrator wouldn't have any oversight of that. That's concerning, outside of its potential utility. And public contact details in a tagline would be a decent substitute, I guess. ๐Ÿค” 2021-01-29T14:20:04Z @ @ (#) I would agree, re the heart, actually (now that I see it, after updating): I can imagine some people confusing that with some sort of endorsement of the twt itself. 2021-01-29T14:35:01Z @ @ @ (#) I really like the feature! And I'm sure people would quickly realise their mistake, if they did confuse its use. I was just saying that I could _see_ how someone might get a bit mixed up on the point. ๐Ÿ˜œ 2021-01-29T16:38:50Z @ (#) It was winding down nicely for me... Then a support ticket came in a few minutes ago, and now [I'm testing regular expressions](https://regex101.com/). ๐Ÿ˜•๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜– 2021-01-29T20:16:32Z @ @ (#) Welcome! :-D 2021-01-29T20:52:32Z @ (#<53yx2pa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=53yx2pa>) Seinfeld had a bit on that; very funny. But, honestly, it's the same thing you look for in your poo -- we all look at our poo, right? ... ... Ahem, hello? Where'd everyone go? ... ... I'm not looking at it _right now_... 2021-01-29T21:27:36Z @ (#) Yeah, I guess I was -- spiralling out, I'll be the first to admit -- thinking about a scenario where the victim didn't feel comfortable reporting the harassment. Grounding the conversation once more, I _am_ happy with the current state of features and policies. 2021-01-29T21:31:21Z @ (#) Great point, re executing the aforementioned policies. Yeah, otherwise you have to have that conversation in public, which changes the dynamic completely: suddenly they can't simply step down gracefully, etc. And I love the long form too; want to use it regularly. 2021-01-29T21:33:48Z @ @ (#) Sounds great. I've found that I'm on my timeline in a browser more than I expected, actually. More real estate for twts would be nice. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-29T23:53:59Z @ (#) Wow. I think much of what drew me to zettlekasten -- and then letting it languish :-( -- really belongs in Anki. 2021-01-30T12:19:40Z @ @ (#) Incredible. These algorithms are "shoot first" and there are no significant repercussions for Google, time after time. I finally installed F-Droid this week; surely that approach is the way forward. 2021-01-30T12:44:21Z [On language](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/01/30/on-language) 2021-01-30T19:07:02Z @ (#) Actually, I was wondering about those follows too: seems that the ones for twtxt and stats repeat hourly on my pod. 2021-01-30T19:10:26Z @ (#) cc @ Thanks, both. :-) I think a meeting of twtizens would be amazing! :-D 2021-01-30T20:09:56Z @ @ @ (#) I'm definitely thinking about doing just that! :-D 2021-01-30T20:12:55Z @ @ @ @ (#) Making use of mkws.sh, that is. :-) 2021-01-30T20:48:09Z @ @ (#) Welcome, fellow twtizen! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜ 2021-01-31T10:46:36Z @ @ (#) Oh my! The good news is the data is still in my `blogs/` directory, but, yes, I too get a 404, even when trying to follow the link from `Settings > Blogs`. I had to publish my *On language* blog post, but not that one; part of the issue? Should I repost it? 2021-01-31T10:51:35Z @ @ (#) Ah, yes, I remember the discussion about that in `#jointwt` now. Thanks! Oh, bit of a tangent, but, while I'd imagine `stats` and `twtxt` are automated accounts, was it your idea that, for example, we post pod news from @? And, if so, how do I register it? 2021-01-31T15:48:21Z @ @ @ @ @ @ (#) ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿ™„ Wonder of wonders, that works perfectly. _sigh_ Apologies for wasting your time! ๐Ÿ˜œ 2021-01-31T15:51:16Z @ (#) Unfortunately only *Edit* and *Delete* follow both entries now. (Although, I did have to *Publish* my latest blog post before it appeared in my feed, and was listed with something other than the beginning of epoch time or some such as its last modified date.) 2021-01-31T17:44:56Z @ (#) Is this directed at all pod owners? I've only just started my research, but it looks like I might be able to achieve this with an `add_header` line in my NGINX proxy pass configuration. 2021-01-31T18:22:45Z @ @ (#) Ah, I see. :-) 2021-01-31T21:26:42Z @ (#) Absolutely: the former pair imply much stronger allegiance. The latter can be but a ripple on the surface of a conversation between esteemed colleagues. ๐Ÿ™‚ 2021-01-31T21:31:12Z @ (#) At times, it seems to me that you're a bit of a wizard. This is one of those times. ๐Ÿ˜ Is it back up from your point of view as well? cc @ 2021-02-01T17:00:13Z @ @ @ (#) "... [I]f @ and @ would continue to grow their pods to rival my own..." I'm working on it! ๐Ÿ˜† Still only advertising in specific, mostly-closed forums for the moment; want a core of nice folks on my pod, to start. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-02T07:47:56Z @ @ (#) Yikes! Sorry to hear that. My bed's two feet away the whole work day; I'd be in trouble if I had many days like that! 2021-02-02T19:13:46Z @ (#) Indeed. Nothing short of revolutionary, considering this time last year I was doing (backbreaking) shift-worker, as a carer. 2021-02-02T20:03:54Z Ugh, I'm sick of trying to migrate my Splunk Enterprise trial to the free license; I forgot to do it before the trial expired, and now everything has seized amid a license violation storm. I'm going to try Graylog instead. Not tonight, though; it's movie night. 2021-02-02T23:28:34Z @ (#) I had this feeling it was, just from my searching. I noticed you like Grafana, and I already use it too; somehow Loki passed under my radar. Thanks! 2021-02-03T07:47:12Z (#<6oinhra https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6oinhra>) @ I'm on Fosstodon, but inactive. The point of federating is that you have one account, where you're home with a Local feed, like your pod, but can follow folks on other instances with that same account. 2021-02-03T08:25:37Z @ @ (#<6oinhra https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6oinhra>) Honestly, I prefer it; for those reasons and more. :-D 2021-02-03T12:40:47Z @ (#) Loki looks great! Was a bit worried I'd need mature metrics after watching this: https://envs.sh/bO -- but it looks like Ruler will suit me to the ground: https://envs.sh/ba -- I'll be able to start 'noisy' and then calibrate things to my environment. Excited! ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿค“ 2021-02-03T13:14:40Z @ (#) Whatever the reason, glad to have you here today! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜€ 2021-02-03T15:53:05Z @ (#) Neat! Following now. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-03T15:54:13Z @ (#) Agreed! Right up my alley! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-03T18:31:30Z @ (#) Indeed. I'm inactive now, but I did enjoy my time there. 2021-02-03T19:58:04Z @ @ (#) Made some progress: https://envs.sh/bm ๐Ÿ˜ Need to study up now, on Promtail job syntax and LogQL. This definitely feels like a good fit for me; thanks again, @! # # 2021-02-04T17:22:44Z @ (#) There's a dead room on matrix.org that could use your input. ๐Ÿ˜ *sigh* So many dead rooms... ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜ž 2021-02-04T20:31:39Z @ @ (#) genuine lol! ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ‘ Love a good pun. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-04T23:42:14Z @ (#) Dang. Get well soon! Hope the fam can avoid it! ๐Ÿค’๐Ÿคž Headin' to bed, I think. ๐Ÿ˜ช Pretty chuffed to have my reverse proxy up and working in front of Loki, with basic authentication; really having fun messing around with this stuff. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-05T07:50:26Z @ @ (#) https://discourse.zynthian.org/t/zynthian-tips-and-tricks/5338/8 -- Neat! 2021-02-05T07:57:49Z @ @ @ (#) Should've said that I enjoyed your blog post too! :-D Welcome twt'izen! :-) 2021-02-05T09:42:05Z @ @ (#) Cool! I'd already earmarked some time -- 'cause Future Me has loads to spare ๐Ÿ˜‰ -- to play with this; sounds like a solid decision on my part! ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-05T15:48:11Z Just fixed a colleague's Linux problem over screen-share. Booyah! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช Yes, I'll take an extra helping of those endorphins, thanks very much. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-05T16:32:22Z @ (#<6mnheha https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6mnheha>) Oh, well done! I 'used' it for months, avoiding certain functionality that would crash it every time. :-) 2021-02-06T00:38:49Z @ (#) Can confirm, re yarn and Canada. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-06T09:05:42Z @ @ (#<7332bqa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7332bqa>) Cool. :-) OK, will do; probably this afternoon or evening. 2021-02-06T09:09:02Z @ @ @ (#) Oh, sweet! A bonus with today's update then. :-D 2021-02-06T23:46:53Z (#<7332bqa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7332bqa>) @ @ @ Thanks, indeed! ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿ™Œ 2021-02-07T00:13:49Z @ @ (#) Need to work on breaking out my plots, but, so far, 24 hours in, neither the new parser (nor NGINX, nor Jitsi Meet) seem to be causing my (low powered) pod any issues. :-) ![Grafana dashboard showing CPU usage](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/ZUYjNMdGCErbn25ryGP8dn) 2021-02-07T08:24:00Z (#<7332bqa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7332bqa>) @ @ @ It's a scalar vector graphic that @ fixed for me, for an interim pod logo. :-) 2021-02-07T08:27:58Z @ @ @ (#) No problem! Crawl away. :-) I'm really interested in it, as a way to promote sustainability. :-) 2021-02-07T09:56:56Z Interesting article (and study) on the correlation between parking infrastructure and car ownership: https://www.sightline.org/2021/01/28/more-parking-isnt-harmless-it-actually-makes-us-drive-more/ 2021-02-07T15:53:40Z @ (#<2ZjBkNA https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2ZjBkNA>) I, for one, am following it with great interest! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘ 2021-02-07T15:58:47Z @ @ (#) And you could also have a poke around under *Feeds*, as there are some long-time twt'izens in that we-are-twtxt file. :-) Oh, and welcome, fellow twt'izen! :-) 2021-02-07T23:43:52Z @ (#) @ can't thank you enough for the recommendation; I'm havin' a blast playing with Loki and Promtail. ๐Ÿ˜€๐Ÿค“ 2021-02-08T17:07:57Z @ (#) Yes, I didn't know about it either, until I did the *Linux Upskill Challenge* last autumn; I'd been using `netstat` for my whole career, prior to that. But I'm definitely a convert. :-) 2021-02-08T17:52:28Z @ (#) Oh, that is truly a thing of beauty! So snappy! I was looking for `htpasswd` the other day; just learned loads about it, in a fraction of the time it would've taken using my original research method. :-) 2021-02-08T21:01:28Z @ (#) I don't know about better; I'll defer to @ on that point. But it **is** easier to get digestible output, shall we say. I used to pipe `netstat` to `less` regardless of where I was. Now `ss -lnpt` usually gives me what I want, only needing a pipe when UDP's included. 2021-02-09T09:21:00Z Anyone know whether `rss2twtxt` supports parameters? I tried to create a Hacker News 500 feed, using *Hacker News RSS*, but it just seemed to update the base HN RSS feed on `feeds.twtxt.net`, according to the last modified time in parentheses beside the feed name. 2021-02-09T17:36:31Z (#) @ Oh, it just took its time, is all. :-P [It's available now](https://feeds.twtxt.net/hacker-news-newest/twtxt.txt). H'm, that isn't a particularly helpful name, is it? :-D The RSS feed is `https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500`, FYI. Might be an idea to rename the feed, if poss. 2021-02-09T20:47:11Z Discovered RSSHub while trying to transition from email to RSS for all our project's issues. (That isn't one of [the feeds GitHub provides](https://docs.rsshub.app/en/programming.html#github).) Fought with `npm`, trying to get it to use a pre-built version of `OpenCC`; gave up. (1/2) 2021-02-09T20:51:00Z @ (#) Decided to try `docker-compose`, since it was the first deployment option listed; worked flawlessly, the first time. ๐Ÿคฆ I feel like this was supposed to be the promise of Java. Ah-mazing. Now to set up a reverse proxy, so I can use all my feeds with my Newsblur account! 2021-02-09T21:02:52Z @ (#) Was just wondering about you, sir! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘‹ How's it goin'? I'm well. Playing around with self-hosting RSSHub, as a replacement for my expired Feedity trial. And I'm contemplating starting at [freeCodeCamp](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/about/). ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿค“ 2021-02-09T21:10:25Z @ @ (#) Huh. Interesting. This works for me: `/usr/local/sbin/twtd -ORt "light"` 2021-02-09T22:24:09Z @ (#) It's basically a gated community for your RSS feeds. I've paid for Pro ever since Google killed Reader. You can share feeds internally, but the similarities end there. 2021-02-09T22:28:22Z @ @ (#) Been a bit of a love/hate thing. Depending on how RSSHub goes, maybe I'll host my reader too, and donate that $25/year to Yarn! :-D 2021-02-09T22:54:23Z @ (#) Scale is mostly the issue, for me: I've got 4500+ unread items right now; 2100 saved items. It would flood my timeline here, any way I look at it. But I want to do more with RSS: better searching and alerting, to start. 2021-02-09T23:17:13Z @ (#) Oh, preachin' to the choir there, mate! ;-) Absolutely. I mean, part of my problem is I use RSS for what I used to use del.ico.us for as well; a sort of memory, with crummy tagging. None of it is really fit for the purposes I have in mind. I've had to... [1/2] 2021-02-09T23:17:22Z @ @ (#) 2021-02-09T23:19:39Z @ @ (#) ... I've had to explode my learning in the last year, in this new job. So, yeah, my feeds have followed a similar trajectory. And, yeah, Newsblur has 'intelligence' around why something becomes a 'focus' item, but it's still very rudimentary. 2021-02-09T23:40:15Z @ (#) I had been thinking that I could force myself to be witty. :-P Doesn't seem to be working. But, yeah, I had seen the setting. :-D 2021-02-10T10:07:54Z (#) Sleeping on this reminded me that I wanted to play with Miniflux. And it looks like you can [use Newsboat as a front-end](https://newsboat.org/releases/2.22.1/docs/newsboat.html#_miniflux); the scripting around this latter software sounds like something that could help with my RSS firehose. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜œ 2021-02-10T13:30:46Z @ (#) Ah, good to know! Cheers! I've just now got Miniflux ingesting a local RSSHub feed of all `jointwt/twtxt` issues. :-D But I'll definitely be looking to pick your brain as I explore using Newsboat as a front-end to the lot. :-) 2021-02-10T16:58:38Z "[A] lower-bound on 2020 ransomware revenue: **$350 million**, four times more than in 2019." ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ณ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/02/ransomware-profitability.html 2021-02-10T17:16:48Z @ Just read your post about Gab; was interested, 'til I went to the site. ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜ฐ Immediate spike in anxiety! Why would they go with that design? Is this satire? 2021-02-10T20:46:25Z 'Amber Benson... Tara on Buffy, wrote... โ€œBuffy was a toxic environment and it starts at the topโ€ฆ There was a lot of damage done during that time and many of us are still processing it twenty plus years later.โ€' https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/charisma-carpenter-accuses-joss-whedon-of-abusive-behavior.html -- Awful. ๐Ÿ˜ž So many lovely memories of bonding with my wife over that show, now surely at least somewhat tarnished. ๐Ÿ™ 2021-02-10T20:58:48Z @ @ (#) https://www.andrewjvpowell.com/articles/get-on-gab 2021-02-10T21:08:52Z @ (#<4qeibma https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4qeibma>) Hadn't heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I'd been reading a critique of his earlier work -- in Overall's *Why Have Children?* -- that really wasn't up to scratch. Now I'm reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-) 2021-02-10T21:42:49Z @ (#) Oh, I see. To be honest, I skimmed the post, amongst hundreds today, in what history will call the Feed Cull of 2021. ;-) Really liking Newsboat, so far. 2021-02-10T21:58:15Z @ (#) Gotcha. Shirky on the subject: "A veritable natural law in social media is that to get to a system that is large and good, it is far better to start with a system that is small and good and work on making it bigger than to start with a system that is large and mediocre and working on making it better." *Cognitive Surplus,* ***2010***. 2021-02-11T08:21:01Z @ (#<3nlpdeq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3nlpdeq>) Dang! Didn't stand a chance against that sucker! 2021-02-11T09:01:06Z Neat tools! https://doodad.dev/ -- And a great post on the many benefits of dithering your 'net presence: https://goodbyeworld.dev/why-you-should-dither-images/ -- all via @ 2021-02-11T09:30:01Z @ (#<6h5sfca https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6h5sfca>) Oh my! Yes, indeed. ๐Ÿ˜ Thanks for the pointer! ๐Ÿ‘ 2021-02-11T09:37:48Z @ I meant to ask whether you've talked with @ at all. [The Hallway](https://hallway.amorris.vercel.app/) was lovely, for a while. :-) 2021-02-11T11:55:55Z "The Good Friday Agreement is not about โ€˜the cohesion of the kingdomโ€™. [It] is the recognition that in respect of Northern Ireland there is a contested polity. **The agreement then regulates that contested polity by positing the absolute standard of consent.**" -- [David Allen Green, cutting through the miasma brilliantly](https://envs.sh/b6), as usual. I'd be ripe for bamboozling without him, no doubt about it. 2021-02-11T13:05:33Z Lovely bit of lunch-time reading: [Babbage was a true genius](https://envs.sh/bV). 15 years old! (Updated five years ago.) I think the best *Doctor Who* script on the AE is yet to come! (Or I hope so; so much potential!) -- via lobste.rs 2021-02-11T15:00:18Z [(#foicupa) Configuring Newsboat](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/02/11/foicupa-configuring-newsboat) 2021-02-11T15:03:56Z @ (#<2spqcua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2spqcua>) cc @ -- Oops: thought including a subject in my blog post might work; clearly not. :-) 2021-02-11T16:39:27Z @ (#) Oh, wow. Hadn't heard of Mojeek; and they're based right here, in the UK. Sweet! Thanks for the tip! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-11T17:39:06Z "There are approximately 54,000 distinct drinking water systems in the United States... [Most] serve fewer than 50,000 residents, with many serving just a few hundred or thousand... Virtually all of them rely on some type of remote access to monitor and/or administer these facilities... Many of these facilities are unattended, underfunded, and do not have someone watching the IT operations 24/7... Many facilities have not separated operational technology... from safety systems..." ๐Ÿ˜ณ https://envs.sh/bx 2021-02-11T19:48:36Z @ (#<2spqcua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2spqcua>) Ohhh, of course! *That's* it! The `snap` policies! I didn't even think of that! (Wow, that's a lot of exclamation marks. ๐Ÿ˜œ) OK, changing tacks. โ›ต๐Ÿ˜ Wish me luck! 2021-02-11T20:53:26Z [Newsboat, The Sequel](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/02/11/newsboat-the-sequel) 2021-02-11T20:54:20Z @ (#<2spqcua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2spqcua>) That was indeed it. ๐Ÿ˜ Thanks! 2021-02-12T11:25:06Z Today's free tunes: [Million Miles - Dance With Me](https://www.thecurrent.org/feature/2021/02/01/million-miles-dance-w-me) -- Well, technically, it's from a few weeks ago; I'm catching up on my feeds, including Minnesota Public Radio's fab *Song of the Day*! ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/eAaRGc6UTR78iGwyxwLTyP) 2021-02-12T16:24:04Z @ (#) cc @ -- MPR: I know, right? Had so many similar feeds; most of them are defunct now. My fav was a CBC one: great way to learn about new Canadian music. :-)โ€จโ€จWhitelisting: ah, so you had to open that image manually. H'm. I guess we'd need to have a dynamic list of valid pod domains... But couldn't unscrupulous pod owners get inappropriate content on your... Oh, wait, you'd still need to follow them, wouldn't you; never mind. :-) Btw, I had whitelist parsing issues the other day; all the domains should be enclosed in square braces, yes? 2021-02-12T16:41:30Z (#) @ @ @ H'm, `twt.social` oddity: I only saw @ 's "Cool song" because I also subscribe to the `twtxt.net` RSS feed; it never appeared in my timeline. And when I go to his profile now and scroll down, it's just "No recent twts..." -- Searching the conversation on my pod gives different results to on yours; is this expected behaviour? ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿคท Actually, all his twts have disappeared from my timeline now... Strange... 2021-02-12T19:22:20Z @ @ @ (#) Corrected itself now, it seems. Odd. 2021-02-12T21:10:41Z @ (#) ๐Ÿคฆ I do, but didn't make the connection. *sigh* Sure glad it's the weekend! ๐Ÿ˜œ๐Ÿ˜ซ๐Ÿ˜ช 2021-02-12T21:19:52Z Squee! ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿค“ Just got Miniflux on my phone, over TLS, working! Now I can read RSS feeds in Newsboat on my workstation, and continue to read them in a browser, when I'm away. I've already cancelled the automatic renewal of my Newsblur subscription. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-12T22:22:21Z @ (#<2xrzlkq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2xrzlkq>) We all mess up. Just do the best with what you know now. The rest is the river. 2021-02-12T22:27:35Z Latest earworm is Napalmpom's *Greg Ginn's Sweater*: https://napalmpom.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/04-greg-ginns-sweater.mp3 -- show them some love [on Bandcamp](https://napalmpom.bandcamp.com/), if this is your sort of thing. :-) 2021-02-14T01:38:26Z @ @ (#) I like it. :-) 2021-02-14T09:16:36Z @ (#) Great read! I've learned a lot following you on this journey. :-) 2021-02-15T16:31:07Z @ (#) Oh, it passed unacknowledged in our household. ๐Ÿคญ๐Ÿคฆ A shame! Must add it to the calendar for next year, as I certainly do love it! ๐Ÿ˜๐ŸŽ‰ 2021-02-15T16:32:29Z @ (#<4qoykfa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4qoykfa>) Oh, lovely! ๐Ÿ˜ Reminds me of home (i.e., Canada). 2021-02-15T16:34:31Z @ (#) Oh my! I'll have a proper look later, but my initial reaction was: envy! Well done, sir! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-15T16:36:45Z @ @ (#) This captures my sentiments on both points absolutely perfectly! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿค— 2021-02-15T16:38:45Z @ @ @ (#) Oh, yes, `saved.io` looks neat! 2021-02-15T16:45:45Z (#) @ Neat. :-) Personally, I like how I can really articulate things in *TaskWarrior*, without actually knowing how I'll tackle them: e.g., I'll know a rough priority, and create a dependency tree, but then life will happen and I'll just `wait:1m` that whole tree, confident that I don't need to keep it somewhere in my head to make sure it gets done, *eventually*. :-D 2021-02-15T17:35:53Z OMG, this is heartbreaking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26123463 ๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿ˜ž๐Ÿ˜ข 2021-02-15T17:44:34Z Oh, wonderful stuff: http://linesandcolors.com/2021/02/13/charles-dana-gibson/ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/2jGyZhpuAQwf6b32bV4LuG) 2021-02-16T12:53:53Z What's more disturbing than a sudden, possibly-hardware-related problem? One that then disappears completely overnight. ๐Ÿ˜• I had been using the Keybase file system to backup some data, but, over the weekend, things got horribly out of sync and my main desktop ground to a crawl; eventually I gave up, powering off the tower for most of Sunday. After abandoning `kbfs` yesterday, removing it and restarting, my Ubuntu install had this horrible static-like flicker associated with mouse movement. Now, today, that's completely disappeared. No power problems. New monitor. ๐Ÿ˜• 2021-02-16T13:00:28Z In other news, I just donated to Miniflux. Can't recall a more opaque, yet seemingly well-support, open-source project. :-) One developer, no links to any community, no obvious call for help; guess they're just happy getting on with it. It stands out, in that respect, amongst the other FOSS projects I like. :-) Not a criticism; just curious, to me, anyway. It pushed me to donate, I think, which is potentially a psychological phenomenon worth exploring. 2021-02-16T13:52:17Z (#<2tc2lfq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2tc2lfq>) Yeah, I've never seen a display... don't know what word to use... stutter? It's like lines of the background would flicker through the main bar (or whatever you call this border that has the tray in in Ubuntu) and the dock, but only on mouse movement. Some searching suggested that dynamic display features could cause it, but I wasn't using any; I tried turning off 'Night Light' (like a native version of f.lux), to no visible effect. Hardware really is the most logical source, I think; got this HP *24 fh* back in... November? Ugh. 2021-02-16T13:55:40Z @ (#) Oh, this'll be great! I've already had a few occasions where I've been eight pages back in my timeline, trying to find a yarn I wanted to reply to from a few days earlier. :-D 2021-02-16T20:02:26Z @ @ (#) This seems most sensible. I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labours! 2021-02-16T20:16:01Z Trigger: partner volunteering, ringing up folks who haven't taken advantage of their place on the vaccination list, clearly being screened because the phone number shows up as withheld. Result: rant about corporate interests eroding public trust in a system largely funded by their taxes, leaving us with fractured communication in a pandemic. Now reading *The evolution of infrastructure and utilityโ€จownership and its implications* (Helm and Tindall, 2009), despairing of a solution. 2021-02-16T20:59:30Z (#) Doubting my claim that it's "a system largely funded by... taxes." Companies can apply to Ofcom for funding: "As the โ€˜Universal Service Providersโ€™, BT and KCOM are entitled to request compensation for any cost of delivering universal services that it would not be appropriate for them to cover themselves." [Source](https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/195774/statement-uso-funding.pdf) -- but this hardly equates to "largely." Most of the references I've found this evening concern public funding of broadcast television. 2021-02-17T21:21:35Z Treated myself to a Pi 3 as a (very) early birthday present. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-02-18T08:34:44Z @ (#) Neat! Thanks for the pointer! :-) 2021-02-18T08:41:49Z @ (#) (#) Thanks! :-) Yeah, still deciding, to be honest. I didn't go high-end, so, while I want to run Synapse, I think I might move my pod over to the Pi instead, as my current web/pod server is a little bit closer to the Matrix minimum spec IIRC. I really want to run my own mail server, but it seems like a lot of work. @ shared what looked like a low maintenance option a few days ago; what do you run? 2021-02-18T15:59:32Z @ @ (#) Yeah, I've got keywords. So, I'm trying Mojeek, but it's still a work in progress, so I can type `d` then `tab` and continue typing to get a DDG search instead, leaving Mojeek as my default. That's in Brave, but I'd imagine it's Chrome functionality. 2021-02-18T16:06:11Z Whoop! Successfully used the Okta Terraform provider to build a policy in Okta. :-D I'm a coder! Terraform counts, right? ;-) Proper scripting yesterday, HashiCorp Configuration Language today; tomorrow... Go? I may have missed a few steps in there somewhere. 2021-02-18T22:10:47Z @ @ (#) Good to know! I'm excited. :-) I've literally just found [this tutorial on running Matrix (Synapse) on Ubuntu](https://jonathanbossenger.com/setting-up-a-matrix-server-on-ubuntu-20-04-part-1/) with a measly DigitalOcean spec, so now I'm back on the idea of trying it out on the Pi. :-D It'll be fun, regardless. :-) 2021-02-19T10:28:24Z (#) @ Awesome! Every step of this rebranding is really exciting, to me; don't know about the rest of you. ;-D Thanks for your efforts! 2021-02-19T10:30:27Z @ (#) Oh, interesting. I was thinking about setting up a form for Code of Conduct type complaints in my Matrix rooms, but worried about what I'd be opening myself up to; care to share your code/ideas? :-) 2021-02-19T10:34:47Z @ @ (#) Yeah, good spot! I wasn't considering that step -- very new to rpi! It's shipped today, btw! -- but, as you say, not insurmountable; just need to plan it out. :-) 2021-02-19T10:40:43Z @ @ (#) I like it. It's definitely now a tool in my belt, and, as I said, I'm trying to make it the first one I pick, when I don't have other requirements. On the latter, as an example, I immediately went incognito+Google+Wikipedia when I was trying to remember the Twitter storm that was Joel Osteen+Hurricane Harvey while chatting with mates; I don't think anything competes with those tools, when you can't remember anything specific -- not yet, anyway. ๐Ÿคž 2021-02-19T11:10:24Z @ @ (#) Ah, I see. Neat! Thanks for those details. :-) 2021-02-19T11:11:45Z "We hear from Sarah Leadbetter who's mounted a legal challenge over inaccessible Covid related information. She argues the government did not give her accessible details about shielding. She's now been granted a judicial review at the High Court." Oh, sounds like an interesting episode: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s9vz 2021-02-19T13:56:57Z @ @ (#<4reeetq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4reeetq>) Nice one! 2021-02-19T17:21:55Z "In 1879... George argues... that poverty had grown due to the increasing speculation and monopolization of land, as landowners had captured the increases in growth, investment, and productivity through the rising cost of rent... George proposes the complete taxation of the unimproved value of land, thus returning the value of land, created through location, to the community. This solution would incentivize individuals to use the land they own productively and remove the tendency to speculate..." https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-george/progress-and-poverty 2021-02-19T21:37:00Z Anyone running [Urbit](https://github.com/urbit/urbit)? Thinking about having a play with a comet. โ˜„๐ŸŒ’ 2021-02-19T21:59:38Z @ (#) Valid. :-) And, yeah, what about Yarn, folks? :-D It's more that I've been on the mailing list for a year now, and, with this recent rewrite of the docs, for the first time I finally see how I might be able to participate -- talk about obtuse! 2021-02-19T22:12:36Z @ @ (#) Yes, absolutely! Talk about dedication. :-D So exciting, seeing all this progress. :-) 2021-02-20T09:08:27Z (#) Yup. :-) Bit intimidated by the prospect now, though, to be honest. :-D Particularly with the rebranding going on. Maybe I could start by soliciting an agreed approach, broadly, and then start building out some tasks -- and their dependencies -- in a GitHub project, in our org. Then folks can see what I'm working on and know where to lend a hand. Thoughts? 2021-02-20T09:14:37Z @hacker-news-newest (#) Ha! Super fun and interesting. :-D Always been fascinated by icebergs, growing in Newfoundland, where they would pass so close almost every year. 2021-02-20T13:35:30Z @ (#) OK, gonna start with a survey of all our issues; see what docu tasks have already been identified, and what the others say about the direction of the project more broadly. 2021-02-20T13:37:39Z @ @movq (#) Wow! A significant investment for a rainy day. ;-) Well, it's in TaskWarrior; we'll see when I get around to it. :-D 2021-02-20T14:55:32Z (#<2gx3vlq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2gx3vlq>) @ @ What, like Terraform's state file? So it's idempotent? 2021-02-20T16:55:19Z @ (#) Looks great! :-D So exciting! :-D I love the logo, and the text and font around it, in particular. Fantastic work! :-) 2021-02-20T17:11:20Z @ @ (#) OK, I still need to do that GitHub issues survey -- don't get much time on the weekend -- but [I recorded some ideas](https://nfld.uk/audio/yarn_docu_1.mp3) for what I'm calling my *yarn docu* project. :-) Apologies for my daughter in the background. Also, I need to troubleshooting why I got a 400-series error trying to upload it to my pod; probably a browser permission issue. Anyway, yeah, it's seven minutes long. Oh, and, just as we're talking about binning non-hash subjects, I thought a rebranding subject would actually be nice. D'oh! 2021-02-21T08:43:25Z @ (#) Ha ha! Thanks for your time. ๐Ÿ˜ OK, that gives me the confidence to start laying out some of this stuff properly. Stay tuned! 2021-02-21T10:04:06Z @ (#) All over the place. :-D CS, in programming and system administration about 20 years ago. Then computer security focused. Then intelligence analysis for a few years. Then CERT. Then care work for five years. Now software systems administration, focused on Splunk/HashiStack, for the last year. 2021-02-21T10:12:05Z @hacker-news-newest (#) Wow! A horrid UI, in front of a ridiculous system. But I was particularly interested in how pointless human checkpoints are in the absence of regular training. 2021-02-21T16:04:37Z (#) Indeed! @ I sure hope you're alive, well, and eager to see Yarn fl^H^Hspin? :-D I just tagged you in the documentation project where I'm throwing my ideas, for the moment. I'll merge it with the main and landing page repos, respectively, once they're renamed and I'm further along; don't want the clutter, for the mo. :-) 2021-02-21T21:31:42Z @ (#) Oh, cool! Embarrassed to say I haven't heard of Shogi, but, what better way to learn than through this awesome software! 2021-02-21T21:39:26Z @ @ (#) I actually chuckled while reading that description ๐Ÿ˜ -- well said! (Now I feel **really** old. ๐Ÿ˜›) 2021-02-21T22:17:14Z ๐Ÿ˜ฏ๐Ÿ˜ฆ "Last year, a passenger train struck and killed a partially sighted man who had fallen on to the track from a platform at Eden Park station in South London... It concludes itโ€™s likely the passenger fell from the platform as he wasnโ€™t aware that he was close to the edge." https://v.gd/NSnLxC 2021-02-21T22:52:54Z It seems like overkill, all the DBS checks I've done in my life. Not sure I want another organisation holding that data, though. https://blogs.ncvo.org.uk/2021/02/19/developing-a-national-volunteer-passporting-scheme/ 2021-02-21T23:12:23Z (#) Lessons for Canada: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/02/beware-the-unintended-consequences-some-warning-signs-for-canada-from-the-australian-government-battle-with-facebook/ 2021-02-22T13:15:21Z @ Just saw your review of the *reMarkable 2*; very interesting, indeed! I too have notebooks scattered everywhere; I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this technology. :-) 2021-02-22T20:18:21Z Another neat project from [endtimes.dev](https://endtimes.dev): [Missing Dice](https://missingdice.com/dice-roller/) -- I had to send Nathaniel a message, to let him know how much I enjoy his stuff; I get excited every time he pops up in my feed reader. :-) 2021-02-22T20:24:05Z The nostalgia around Timmy's is almost overwhelming for any Canadian of a certain era; seems I'm still not immune: https://www.soglos.com/food/49443/Tim-Hortons-is-coming-to-Gloucestershire 2021-02-22T22:35:42Z These principles arose around corporate participation in open source projects, but I definitely see how they could apply more broadly: https://authentic-participation.readthedocs.io/principles/01-starts-early/ -- I'd like to explore including some of them in our CoC or other documentation. 2021-02-22T22:53:42Z @ (#) Oh, sorry: Code of Conduct. 2021-02-22T22:56:26Z Which archetype most closely matches Yarn? https://blog.jwf.io/2020/11/open-source-archetypes-unicef-open-source/ -- I think quite a few apply, but, as much as I dislike the name, I think *Mass Market* might be the closest. 2021-02-23T06:14:17Z I've long advocated for electoral reform. Good arguments for why it's just part of the problem: [politics.co.uk op-ed](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/e34a1b4a0bac4daddaab880bae73d1390d880fa3) 2021-02-23T06:23:10Z (#<5wcqapa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5wcqapa>) It's really inaccessible, unfortunately. PDFs abound. I did find this text version, but it's hardly a summary: https://github.com/ruphy/open-source-archetypes -- there's a video I don't want to watch too lol: https://youtu.be/Lo61OOi8_4Y 2021-02-23T09:55:25Z @ (#<5wcqapa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5wcqapa>) Bloody hate how screengrabs of text, and PDFs, are so prevalent on the 'net. It's annoying and inconvenient for me, to source and share information, but it's a non-starter for you and many, many others. 2021-02-24T01:21:00Z Oh my git! ๐Ÿ˜ https://github.com/git-learning-game/oh-my-git -- looks interesting! 2021-02-24T01:35:27Z (#) @ I think reaching out to them is a great idea. Initially, I thought, oh, it's too close to Yarn, and they're passionate. But, then, as you say, development stopped in August. Maybe the time is ripe for a new project! 2021-02-24T07:21:53Z @ (#) Wow. Didn't expect you to say that! I'd be honoured to. :-D I'll do my best! :-D 2021-02-24T08:42:03Z (#) @ @ Re ๐Ÿคฃ: lol. Re "... there are a few SSB based social things out there..." I had no idea! Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfox, Oasis, Planetary, and well as Feedless... My initial thought is: awesome! I find it rather hopeful. :-) 2021-02-24T09:10:47Z [Unified Modelling Language versus 'masala diagrams'](https://garba.org/posts/2021/uml/). ๐Ÿคฃ Food for thought, certainly. 2021-02-24T10:39:27Z @ @ (#) I'd agree. I mean, I get that cancel culture is terrifying, but, by in large, once something's out there, someone's grabbed a copy, no matter what you do. I don't know... I'm happy with that, and, if the worst happens, to just pull it out down and go radio silent. 2021-02-25T07:21:37Z @ @ (#) Noted! I'm not there yet, but I'll be keen to get all your feedback on a first cut of our manifesto. :-) cc @ 2021-02-25T11:08:11Z @ (#) cc @ @movq Yeah, I like the concept of local discovery, on my pod, and then the option of wider searching, based around common interests and topics. 2021-02-25T20:52:27Z @ (#<5hixuoq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5hixuoq>) Thanks! :-) I actually commissioned a new one; need to learn SVG first, though, so that it transitions properly between themes. But, yeah, I'm in no hurry, 'cause the one I mocked up in 30 minutes is growing on me. :-D 2021-02-25T23:40:53Z @ (#<5hixuoq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5hixuoq>) Yeah, I hired a really talented guy I met on Matrix. :-) So, like the original twt.social logo, I'm assuming I can combine the SVGs I have of these two, so that, depending on whether my pod users choose a light or dark theme as their default, the best looking one will be displayed. ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/sJoSqpsMrnBW6uWSN9tUPk) ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/oKM4uRoC6zdRqEJd6dxLmi) 2021-02-26T07:15:29Z @hacker-news-newest (#) Gosh. Crying in my cereal this morning. What an amazing woman; so positive and enthusiastic, after all she's lived through and with. Just wonderful! 2021-02-26T08:11:26Z My obfs4 bridge is up and advertised. Cool. Nice to be running a Tor node again, after almost 20 years! ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/R2UQ7mBcsYXDRcoeJp2cra) 2021-02-26T11:18:47Z Successfully built Synapse on Linux i386. \o/ My Matrix 'homeserver' is one step closer! :-) 2021-02-26T12:54:06Z @ (#) Reading more of the docs, I think it was a bit ambitious, my looking to run Synapse on my Pi 3B. :-) It came a while ago, actually, btw! :-) I'm going to try to run Synapse on my old Asus netbook instead; we'll see. My latest idea for my rpi is to run a mail server on it; I think @ said they're doing that, and it runs well? Now I just need some time! I keep looking over at the beautiful Pibow case I got for it... I just really want to get this homeserver up first... I'm all over the place, if you can't tell lol. 2021-02-26T14:05:37Z @ (#) Oh, maybe it was your feed that gave me the mail server idea! :-D What are you running? Is the upkeep intensive? That's always been one of my top concerns with doing it, in the past: how to keep it working securely, day in and day out. And, yeah, I think the rpi would do OK, if it weren't for the ridiculous number of rooms I'm in, many of which are huge -- in fact, there's no guarantee this current set-up will be able to handle it either. Might have to scale back my footprint on there. :-) 2021-02-26T14:43:53Z @ (#) Oh, intriguing! :-) 2021-02-26T14:55:58Z @ (#) Neat! Yeah, love Delta Chat. It's even simple to set up across multiple devices. 2021-02-26T15:01:30Z @ (#) Cheers for this. Non-trivial, in a nutshell. It's funny: I never even thought about my ISP's mail infrastructure. I guess, I'd have to get on the horn to them about that too -- in addition to the two issues you've raised -- if I'm to relay mail out that has any hope of being delivered to most mail servers. Man, I've been using web-based providers for so long... Protonmail now, but still... Forgotten so much about what email was like 20 years ago. 2021-02-26T15:11:22Z @ (#) Oh, cool! Yeah, that'd be fun. :-) I'm using it on Linux and Android at the mo. Just so chuffed about how simple communication is with my older family now; I'd never get them on any sort of chat app, but now, unbeknownst them, they are! ;-) 2021-02-26T22:25:20Z @ @ @ (#) I knew **someone** was running a low-maintenance mail server! :-D Sweet! I'll check it out! :-) 2021-02-27T07:04:19Z @ (#) Oh, cool! :-D Good luck! 2021-02-27T20:28:37Z @ (#) Fantastic post! Yeah, there's so much to do with this re-branding project: some of what you've raised could certainly be considered nice to have, while other things would be something that we'd want on yarn.social from Day 1, I think. But, yes, overall, I think we need a way to coordinate and prioritise, so when we get a moment, we can pick off low-hanging fruit, or really roll up our sleeves. I've started a GitHub repo where I'm playing around with the docs, but I think there must be a better way to do this, across all the ideas you've raised. 2021-02-27T21:10:56Z (#) Just happened to read about [FLOSS-UX](https://github.com/dani763f/FLOSS-UX), on lobste.rs; very timely! I haven't read it all yet, but I will: I think it's probably worth everyone on this re-branding project having a scan @; certainly me, anyway, with my focus on presenting all the information about yarn.social. Also, it links to [Taskcafe](https://github.com/JordanKnott/taskcafe), which is the best contender I've seen to date for organising and project management. 2021-02-27T22:11:17Z (#) Success! \o/ Just tested my homeserver at: https://federationtester.matrix.org/ -- all tests passed! Now to see whether I can actually *do* anything with it without melting the old netbook it's running on. :-P 2021-02-28T20:39:22Z @ (#) Nice! I'll definitely be taking advantage of that nav menu tip, when I get my site together! :-) 2021-02-28T23:21:57Z (#) I may have celebrated prematurely. While federation seems to be working, client connections -- from Element desktop -- aren't. Client connections from Element Web *seem* to be working, though; oddly. I don't think my reverse proxy is configured correctly: while TLS is terminated properly for federation, all client connections are presented with my base domain cert instead of the one I generated for my `matrix` subdomain; likely related to some 404s for Matrix-related URIs on my base domain as well, in the debug logs I'm now drowning in. 2021-03-01T07:23:34Z @ (#) That's a great idea! I'm game for a call. Oh, and I run a Jitsi Meet server, FYI -- still tuning it, but it works OK for family calls. :-) 2021-03-01T09:18:55Z @ @ (#) re HackMD: Cool! Sounds ideal. :-) And [my Jitsi Meet instance](https://meet.nfld.uk) is running on the same server as my pod; guests can join calls, but you need an account to host one. That said, happy to create accounts for folks here. :-) 2021-03-01T13:47:11Z @ @ @ (#) OK, no problem: and, done. :-) [Same user name](https://hackmd.io/@jlj). Let me know if you need anything else. 2021-03-01T15:04:02Z @slashdot (#<3mxvm6a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3mxvm6a>) Interesting project! ... I keep starring these repos in the hopes that I won't forget about them; but I'm up to 133 now. :-P 2021-03-01T22:58:43Z @ @ @ @ @ (#) Good idea! I've added my availability. 2021-03-01T23:49:37Z Flipping through* my free copy** of the NGINX Cookbook by Derek DeJonghe is making me nostalgic for the days when O'Reilly was pretty much my only reference material. I've been trying to debug my config off and on for a few days, but I actually feel like this book might be the answer, for me. * = likely straining my eyes, reading it in Thorium, at almost midnight; ** = for the price of a business email address, which certainly isn't free 2021-03-02T00:23:25Z A good read: [Why I find longtermism hard](https://80000hours.org/2021/02/why-i-find-longtermism-hard/) -- "... I think we should expect effective altruism to feel hard: The more salient a particular problem is โ€” and the more compelling working on it seems โ€” the more we should expect it to already have people tackling it. So I should expect working on the most pressing problems not to feel as intuitively urgent and important as working on some other problems. If it did, it would be less neglected..." 2021-03-02T16:15:30Z (#) Har har! True success now! \o/ I needed an additional `server` stanza for my base domain -- which is the actual name of my homeserver: **nfld.uk** -- listening on the federation port of 8448/tcp, terminating the TLS connection, and then passing the traffic to my Synapse server on 8008/tcp. I don't actually know whether I need the same functionality on my `matrix` subdomain -- where it originally lived -- but that doesn't seem to be breaking anything related to clients or federation, so I'm tempted to step away for the moment, happy and proud. :-) 2021-03-02T16:29:00Z (#) Actually, I'm getting all muddled: my matrix subdomain is listening on 443/tcp exclusively now; and it's passing traffic to my Synapse server based on specific URIs. I now don't really understand how federation was working, with my old configuration. lol. Pretty confusing, this stuff. :-P 2021-03-03T15:42:04Z (#) Re recruiting the Feedless dev... Do you think I should stick with a philosophically based approach? I don't see any golang in his repos. I bet he could build up an amazing app in Swift, though. :-D I've been playing around with Feedless, just trying to get a better idea of where he was coming from... Just thinking out loud here, really. Re the actual approach, his Twitter handle is the best one I've identified to date, ironically. Might wait till our call, to talk this one through with you all, depending on how much time we've got. 2021-03-03T20:46:18Z @ (#) Isn't it wonderful? I just love it. :-) 2021-03-04T08:41:25Z @ @ @ @movq @ (#) Sure. :-) https://meet.nfld.uk/yarn -- I'll try to be in there ten minutes, for whichever day we go with, but there's a lobby to wait in, regardless. :-) 2021-03-04T08:46:01Z @ (#) Great! Glad I got there on my own. :-D OK, I'll go with that plan, soon. :-) 2021-03-04T09:41:24Z Just learned about the `shuf` command. It was the missing piece in my `conky` set-up: I wanted a way to keep a fresh set of tasks on my desktop, just as a little tweak for my brain, so I wouldn't forget about all the stuff on my plate. I still mostly use `task ready` to plan my day, but now, while I'm working, I can glance over and be assured of seeing a fresh list of random things that might be in my future. :-) And I can cut it off perfectly, for my desktop, with `-n 35`. `man sort`, down to related commands, and there it was, just waiting for me. :-) 2021-03-04T11:18:40Z (#) @ Oh, yes, it is! :-) And @, I can't get enough of monospace; I overuse it, I'm sure. :-P 2021-03-04T11:20:51Z @ @ (#) Huh. IIRC, I needed to remove the blog cache and restart my pod, when I had a similar issue. 2021-03-04T11:40:00Z It's produced for NBC :-/, hosted on YouTube -- **yeck** -- but I still really enjoyed [this seven-minute piece on the history of Postsecret](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/384086b80fb40aec82bbc63cc11aebca4ffd516c) 2021-03-04T12:30:24Z More YouTube. Yeesh. But I found this to be [a really good Q&A with the founders of Okteto and Kubesail; a k8s 101 of sorts](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/a06a1224a06a3b585ba55fa6c645d186e33a3348). I jumped around a lot, 'cause it's long and I've got the attention span of a gnat these days, :-D but that was really easy to do with all the bookmarks further down in the post. It's helpful for me to hear about a time, in cloud space, before docker compose, for example. I came to all this stuff at the same time, about a year ago; scene-setting is still very much needed. :-) 2021-03-05T07:28:49Z @ @ @ (#) cc @movq Re prep, I'd be happy to just have a general discussion at this point. Make sure we all agree on how to coordinate, via HackMD, I guess, what the broad priorities are, any big issues, etc. Btw, is it today or tomorrow? 2021-03-05T07:49:32Z @ @ @ (#) Yikes! Yeah, OK, that's 19.00 BST for me, this evening, I believe. Cheers. FYI, I'll get on, to host and make sure all's well, but then I'll pop off for a bit to help with kids' bedtimes, before reappearing. Hope that's OK. 2021-03-05T08:54:39Z @ @ @ (#) :-D Thank you! We *can* actually record the session... Well, I assume I have the disk space for that. :-) Or just take minutes. :-D Happy either way. Thanks, all. My availability is definitely towards the latter half of that two-hour window. :-) 2021-03-05T09:58:54Z @ @ @ (#) Nice use of yarn there. :-D I mean, an hour later is perfect for me -- well, assuming my daughter isn't sick all over me like she was during last night's bedtime! -- but I don't want to inconvenience others. :-) 2021-03-05T21:24:32Z Big props to the Jitsi Meet devs; our first yarn.social meeting went pretty much flawlessly -- on my ancient tower and dinky home broadband -- with five participants! So impressed. :-) ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/TJ5gkejQQzb3qH4A2Nurg5) 2021-03-05T22:45:00Z @ @ @ @ (#) Indeed -- lovely to meet you all 'in person'! :-) Looking forward to doing some great work together! :-) 2021-03-06T09:07:45Z (#) @ Of course! It's a piece of cake, by ID, from [their dashboards repo](https://grafana.com/grafana/dashboards). I regret investing heavily in InfluxDB-backed ones, tbh. Want to run the official Consul one, but need to translate the PromQL (Prometheus' query language) to IFQL (InfluxDB's) first. 2021-03-06T15:34:11Z @ (#) Cool! I read about it in TWIM, but didn't quite get it. I tried to sign up from my Synapse instance -- with jlj@nfld.uk -- but it didn't seem to work; same with my matrix.org account. Looks really neat, though! 2021-03-07T09:50:11Z [Another post from Rogerio, on all aspects of software development](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/455ab0e30c27101712b36406b8f15dd7b1439e62). Interested in flow, and pair programming. Question: I was thinking it might be cool to have a rough draft of our manifesto, for Rogerio to read, as part of my approach. Thoughts? 2021-03-07T10:19:22Z @ (#) Just tweeted it, crediting him. 2021-03-08T14:00:21Z (#) So, now that I have a Matrix homeserver running, I'm naturally thinking about how to usefully employ it. :-P What do you all think of having a bridge between it and `#yarn.social` on Freenode? [It doesn't look trivial to set up](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc), but I bet it'd be fun; and then we'd have an indexed history of the channel, for when our many new users start asking questions and looking for answers. ;-D 2021-03-08T16:11:04Z Found a neat site today, for royalty-free music; diggin' this track this afternoon: Acid Trumpet by Kevin MacLeodโ€จLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3340-acid-trumpetโ€จLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license 2021-03-08T16:55:44Z @ (#) Did you wake up, or have to deal with the fallout? :-D Back when my firstborn wasn't sleeping well, I used to dream he was falling out of bed -- not that we co-slept! On one particularly vivid occasion, I woke up shouting, hooking my foot over the edge of the bed, trying to 'catch' him. Scary stuff! 2021-03-08T17:26:44Z I'm giving [Aether](https://getaether.net) another go. I don't think the code has changed much since last I looked -- maybe not at all, as it hasn't been updated in ten months! -- but I'm much better informed, about snap and AppArmor, after troubleshooting an issue with my Newsboat snap. Pretty sure the failing to launch that stymied me at the time was just that sort of problem. 2021-03-08T21:13:20Z @ @ (#) So what you're saying we should provide support **solely** in a Matrix room. ;-D (And on our pods, of course!) 2021-03-09T21:22:58Z @ (#) Love it! Particularly like Page 2. :-) 2021-03-09T22:57:49Z I can SSH to my RPi3B now. :-) All ready for poste.io. I was a bit surprised to see that it was 32-bit; I'd thought it was 64-bit, when I was trying to decide how much to spend. Well, it turns out that while the architecture reported by default is `armv7l`, I can [set it to ARMv8 mode through the equivalent of the Pi's BIOS](https://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Enable_ARMv8_on_RPi3B). So now I need to decide whether that's a good idea, before I continue with my mail server project. 2021-03-10T06:46:21Z @ (#<24hd4wa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=24hd4wa>) Oh, wow! Awesome! 2021-03-10T07:02:33Z @ @ (#) I should be around on Saturday evening UTC. :-) Actually, Sรธren, I'll create an account for you today, so you can host in the future too. User name will be your handle in this conversation, and the password will be the country you connect from, capitalised, with 3 & 4 for vowels. :-D 2021-03-10T07:08:47Z @ (#) Happy... Wednesday morning, from the other side of the Atlantic! :-D And welcome to nfld, bro! \o/ 2021-03-10T09:11:17Z (#) Ha ha! Yup! Seamless! :-D 2021-03-10T12:12:21Z (#) For context, @, this software is running on Kathryn's old Dell tower, down on the filing cabinet in our entryway. :-) But most of the folks you'll see in this 'space' are actually using a copy of the software that's running on @'s kit: a -- very cool, by the sounds of it! -- data centre that he's got in his house. :-) That said, though, none of it really matters: we can all just chat together, as if we were in the same 'room'. :-) 2021-03-10T15:32:10Z @movq (#) Wow. Just reading up on the fallout now... 2021-03-10T18:59:16Z HN500+: [Remembering Allan McDonald, who refused to approve the Challenger launch](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/e0fcc2f5134b848ae1f786f8b476a24c8923edde) -- I'll never forget that day: TV brought into the classroom special, sent home early... 2021-03-11T06:56:36Z (#) Initially, I thought surely not, but, the more I think about it... Both are relative, measured in degrees. Tests for both are fallible, if subjects parrot the right words. Increasing confidence in any test results, over time, is also shared. Definitions of them are subjective too... Interesting! 2021-03-11T07:20:27Z (#) However, thinking about it some more... While trust is subjective, it isn't as relates to key signing parties: this person was in possession of this unique material when I met them is something you can represent mathematically. But, proof of the other... Well, it'd have to be some sort of combined score, wouldn't it? A BLM test, plus a MeToo test, etc. Not impossible to represent, but maybe trickier to prove the equivalence, or near equivalence, of the two. 2021-03-11T09:54:31Z @ (#) Morning! :-D 2021-03-11T10:58:25Z (#) Oops! I missed his reply. :-) 2021-03-11T11:51:01Z [Tesco to roll out soft plastics recycling points](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56345661). Then we need it curbside, I'd say. I took a year's worth of tetra-pak recycling to the Morrison's recycling point -- one of the few in our town, I believe, and certainly my closest -- a few months back; folks looked at me like my ladened bike was my only possession! 2021-03-12T23:12:30Z @ (#<24spv3a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=24spv3a>) Welcome back! :-D 2021-03-12T23:47:26Z [Format /etc/fstab files automatically](https://github.com/xyproto/fstabfmt). Cool! I think I might use this to learn a bit of Go -- looks like something I could get my head around. :-) 2021-03-13T11:28:43Z (#) Ha. Yes, agreed. :-) 2021-03-13T11:33:27Z @ @slashdot (#<645d7eq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=645d7eq>) Everyone wants a walled garden, where they don't need to think. >.< 2021-03-13T11:51:58Z [The design choices behind Snormal](https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/snormal) are almost schizophrenic: "... Instead of a newsfeed, Tik Tok uses an algorithm to show you interesting content. It's scarily addictive, and it seemed like an interesting challenge to construct something similar for Snormal." How can one acknowledge, yet then want to emulate, addiction? 2021-03-13T11:58:49Z (#) I'm game. :-) I created that account btw, @. What would be a good agenda? Want to make sure I'm prepped this time. :-) 2021-03-13T17:40:26Z @movq (#<2jya42q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2jya42q>) It's _so_ cringy. >.< 2021-03-13T17:44:12Z @ (#) Makes sense. :-) And I just confirmed once more that your account works, so now I'm worried that I messed up where you're from. >.< Oh well, I can share the credentials verbally this evening, regardless. :-D 2021-03-13T19:51:50Z @ (#) Might be slightly late. Daughter is still wide awake. _sigh_ Room is hosted now, though. 2021-03-15T10:00:36Z @ Could you share the article on that 'bear' platform, from Saturday night? I can't seem to find it in HackMD -- if that's where it was -- and I didn't save my browser history! >.< I can find the Cohen piece on SLC, but not the one that linked to it. :-P Thanks! 2021-03-15T13:40:14Z @ (#) That's the one! Ta! :-D 2021-03-15T13:41:13Z @ (#) Will do! Just trying to figure out whether there's any point in thinking about the midday ones... If it's sunny, the family will be on an outing, I'm sure. 2021-03-16T08:48:50Z @ @ (#) OK! Great! 2021-03-16T16:18:30Z (#<7cegtda https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7cegtda>) That link was outdated; [the relevant parameter is now documented as a boot option](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt/boot.md). I'm currently backing up my SD card, in preparation for switching to [a 64-bit image file](https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/). I'm also [considering running something other than poste.io](https://icyphox.sh/blog/mailserver/). Learning loads! :-D 2021-03-17T11:03:24Z @ @ @ (#) lol. Love it. :-) So much inspiration for my site, once I finally start it. :-P 2021-03-18T14:45:44Z [Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online, Nature 17/03/2021](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03344-2): "Together, these studies suggest that when deciding what to share on social media, people are often distracted from considering the accuracy of the content. Therefore, shifting attention to the concept of accuracy can cause people to improve the quality of the news that they share." One for the **yarn.social** manifesto, I think; how users can't fish for likes on our platform. 2021-03-18T15:17:51Z (#<7cegtda https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7cegtda>) Got the rpi up and running on `arm64` (i.e., v8), all headless! **poste.io** doesn't support that architecture, though, I belatedly discovered. But **docker-mailserver** does, which I found through that blog post I linked to previously. I've got it running on the rpi now, but haven't configured it. I'm now wondering whether I should [run it behind a proxy](https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver/wiki/Installation-examples#using-docker-mailserver-behind-proxy). A tough slog, overall, as I really know very little about running a mail server correctly. :-P 2021-03-18T16:14:24Z @ (#<7cegtda https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7cegtda>) It's 64-bit version of their Debian Buster port, which they call Raspberry Pi OS, and folks -- in the Matrix room, at least -- call Raspios; they're the ones that pointed me to these beta builds: https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspios_arm64/images/ -- Thing is, I only went 64-bit for **poste.io**; **docker-mailserver** actually has a `7l` 32-bit build too. Thinking about stepping back to that, away from the bleeding edge. ;-) 2021-03-18T16:18:40Z Sorry, @: I tried to go back, to see what you're up to, but Mastodon amps my anxiety too, it seems. RSSHub+Miniflux to the rescue, for me, anyway. This is what you'll look like, to me, from here on out. :-D ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/CtcCEVNKYMPi475Gu6rDya) 2021-03-19T08:28:33Z [We will not be missed!](https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/we-will-not-be-missed/) 2021-03-19T12:37:20Z @ @ (#) Oh, good. Great to hear! :-) 2021-03-19T13:49:02Z @ @ (#) Good morning, good evening, and @, goodnight! ;-D 2021-03-19T17:10:33Z Just built the latest release of Audacity -- version 3.0.0! All ready for editing my next impromptu 'podcast' lol. ;-) 2021-03-19T21:14:10Z @ (#<6loapua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6loapua>) Have to check my daughter's schedule. ;-D 2021-03-20T06:37:59Z @ (#) Amazing! Absolutely amazing! I've used his weather code for years and didn't know about this. Wonder whether I could get working golang, just from converted pseudocode. :-D 2021-03-20T09:28:36Z @movq (#) I'm right there with you. :-) That look she can give the camera... :-P 2021-03-20T09:30:11Z [The Open Source Initiative's board elections were hacked](https://opensource.org/election_rerun)! Wow! Guess we'll know more soon... 2021-03-20T10:35:31Z [Sleep Is The Mate Of Death](https://rss.nfld.uk/category/25/entry/16305): "Put these two lines of research together and you get something like: synapse density increases over the course of the day, then sleep prunes it down again. Depression is associated with low synapse density. So it would make sense that depression gets better over the course of the day (including the extra-long artificial days of sleep deprivation) and then gets worse again after sleep." 2021-03-21T08:45:55Z @ (#) Oh, wow! Thanks for the pointer. :-) 2021-03-21T10:16:56Z @ @movq @ (#) Yeah, I've been running Rockbox on high capacity iPods since 2007. :-) 2021-03-21T11:52:56Z @ (#<4rrsgta https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4rrsgta>) I'd been trying to start a conversation on Twitter. Just explicitly replied to a tweet of his, this morning. (He doesn't allow open DMs.) Fingers crossed! Sorry again about missing the meeting; I was in bed by 8pm, again. :-/ cc @ 2021-03-22T04:10:43Z @ @ @ (#) Slowly. ;-) Great to get your perspective, @! Welcome! :-) 2021-03-23T11:12:14Z @ (#) It's certainly old! :-) Like fine wine? ;-) 2021-03-23T11:16:16Z Many are very upset about the return of RMS, and how that could be seen to legitimise his views. I knew nothing about his views, really, controversial or otherwise. I'm currently correcting that. I do like how he's acknowledged that his views on certain controversial subjects has changed since 2013; an admission that he was wrong. I guess an important question is whether his new views on said subjects align with the current moral standard. More reading required... 2021-03-23T15:33:36Z @ (#) lol. [Richard Stallman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman). 2021-03-23T16:13:16Z (#) [A good summary of the situation](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/0d542797000782bd2e20eefaa690f378d07fec10); echoes what I read in the Telegram group devoted to diversity in open source projects, minus the personal accounts of being triggered by the news. :-( 2021-03-23T17:02:54Z (#) Forgot about this post from a few years ago, which, while explicitly not about RMS, is still interesting, and speaks to the differences between the FSF and the FSFE, and community-building more generally: [Don't sacrifice the right ideas to win the right words](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/02340fe0fc1eaa50d0b01131e97b205826566235). 2021-03-23T18:05:50Z @ (#) I think that's it: **rational** engagement; it seems to be missing. But I haven't delved too deeply, tbh. Ugh, Twitter. I mean, that thread you linked to screams cancel culture, to me. The Telegram group was more nuanced, linking to a Fediverse post requesting that people use CW or content warning on their updates, as the author found the whole subject triggering. Specifically on age of consent, if RMS has now walked back on his earlier posts, that would be enough for me, I think: it's about brain development, or lack thereof, not liberty, etc. 2021-03-23T18:55:43Z @ @ (#) Well, brain development, and power and influence in relationships. 2021-03-23T21:35:38Z @ (#<6sr4e4q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6sr4e4q>) Oh, indeed, very interesting! Cheers! 2021-03-23T22:35:30Z (#) Yikes! Had to stop reading [the appendix](https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix) to [this open letter against RMS' reinstatement](https://rms-open-letter.github.io/). Heck of a... Well, at the risk of using inflammatory language... Heck of a rap sheet! 2021-03-24T08:01:10Z @ (#) Wow. What a fantastic piece; particularly the excerpt from Nadine Strossen. Thanks for sharing! 2021-03-24T08:25:53Z (#) Just bought a copy of 'HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship' off the back of that. :-) 2021-03-24T09:20:12Z @ (#) Yeah, particularly when it's capitalised like that. 2021-03-24T09:20:46Z @ (#) Morning! Just sitting down to my first proper cuppa. :-) 2021-03-24T11:15:01Z @ (#) Yeah, we were talking about it yesterday; is it gathering momentum? Wonder what the rate of signatures being added is. 2021-03-24T11:17:45Z Nice: Sam Kieth's take on Spider-Man: https://rss.nfld.uk/share/65c5cc8cec199a824405b58f7a68df58c05d4d2c # # 2021-03-24T12:44:08Z @ @ (#) He certainly is. :-) That's probably the one thing everyone can agree on. :-D 2021-03-24T14:45:08Z Boy, Thunderbird's really come a long way since I last used it. OpenPGP support is pretty seamless; think my folks could even use it without too much trouble! 2021-03-24T18:04:58Z @ (#) There are a few threads here that might be of interest. cc @ Wonder whether topics would help with this... 2021-03-24T20:01:40Z @ (#) Sorry, I don't follow. Do you mean just one-word tags? Or camel-case? Or snake-case? It was more of a joke, if you're talking about the post I'm thinking of. Or are you referring to the # topic more generally? That's how would group this meandering conversation on birdsite. :-) 2021-03-24T20:29:41Z [FSFE statement](https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20210324-01.html) re #: "... Therefore, in the current situation [FSFE] see ourselves unable to collaborate both with the FSF and any other organisation in which Richard Stallman has a leading position. Instead, we will continue to work with groups and individuals who foster diversity and equality in the Free Software movement in order to achieve our joint goal of empowering all users to control technology." -- Seems like they would've been less upset with the decision if they'd been given a heads-up; just me? 2021-03-24T21:03:16Z @ (#) Fascinating. :-) Suspect # would have a violent physical reaction -- accompanied by some salty language -- after even a moment's contemplation of life under such complicity. :-D 2021-03-25T09:10:04Z @ @ (#) U'm... Yikes. I don't think I want to know what's at that URL. :-( And, yeah, two weeks on Aether has appreciably dragged down my faith in humanity once more. :-( 2021-03-25T09:12:04Z @ @ (#) Ahhh, I see. :-D _Those_ hashes are just part of my world now; didn't even consider that you were talking about them. :-) 2021-03-25T09:18:11Z Oh, looks interesting: https://www.practical-go-lessons.com/ # 2021-03-26T09:03:35Z @ (#) Holy cow! Best of luck! :-D 2021-03-26T17:03:08Z @ (#) Absolutely. I guess I had a completely different introduction to the concept, and putting it into practice... Which I can't recall, off the top of my head. But, yeah, hopping on to your subsequent post, what other babies are often chucked on the wood pil... U'm, no, that isn't quite right... ;-) 2021-03-27T17:12:41Z @ (#) Amazing! Very impressive. :-) And congrats on the PB! :-) 2021-03-28T08:11:43+01:00 (#<7cegtda https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7cegtda>) Think I'll abandon the mail server idea, at least for now. I've been playing around with the Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS), and it seems to scale for all sorts of set-ups, [including RPI](https://gist.github.com/peterVG/92c03ebef00575f14b2c051942d8ea09). Curious to learn more about [DWeb](https://getdweb.net/) in general. 2021-03-28T21:56:02+01:00 @ (#) Man, that shot over your shoulder really puts it in perspective, so to speak! Again, well done, indeed, sir! :-D 2021-03-28T23:37:31+01:00 (#<7cegtda https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7cegtda>) My IPFS node is up and running on my Pi. :-D It's steady at around 60โ„ƒ right now, which is OK, I think; read that it should be under 70โ„ƒ. I'm able to browse through that IPFS gateway on my main desktop -- using the native support in Brave -- and load pinned files. I've decided that a further fun project would be hosting a static site there, and I'll be using mkws to generate that, I think; :-) might even buy an Ethereum domain name for it. :-) 2021-03-29T15:21:38+01:00 @ @ (#) Oh, wow! This is awesome! Thanks so much for your efforts. :-D We're actually rewriting a lot of the documentation now, as part of rebranding the whole project; we'd love more of your help, if you have the time. :-) 2021-03-30T00:54:11+01:00 @ (#) Wow. That looks like a really cool site! Thanks for the pointer! 2021-03-30T11:27:26+01:00 @ @ (#) Amazing! As @ says, thank you so much! :-D 2021-04-01T15:09:17+01:00 [Set-up your own automated "On Air" sign](https://boeroboy.medium.com/automatically-light-up-a-sign-when-your-webcam-is-in-use-920f44e256ed), to avoid housemates interrupting your video chats or podcast recordings. :-D 2021-04-02T08:53:42+01:00 @ @ (#) Amazing! \o/ Thank you so much! 2021-04-04T10:56:20+01:00 Don't particularly like the title, but this is a nice article, at Slate, on the various angles to consider when looking at the intersection of free speech and education, and its history in US courts: https://rss.nfld.uk/share/59c4794e2b47c7b053dab5b1f2b61e4bb4b904ed 2021-04-04T15:53:30+01:00 Birthday weekend refreshment! ![Pint of Deya's Steady Rollin' Man](https://nfld.uk/images/deya_srm.jpg) And it's a local brewery, to boot, right in town. 2021-04-05T08:58:46+01:00 (#) Thanks ^ร—^ 2021-04-05T13:22:49+01:00 [Dunning-Kruger Effect as a data artefact](https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real) 2021-04-05T17:02:45+01:00 @movq (#) I know! I was disappointed; can't lie. 2021-04-06T15:38:55+01:00 @ @ (#<2lpzvhq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2lpzvhq>) I've spent probably an hour in total, over the last month, trying to understand this. I've failed. It seems far too expensive for what amounts to bragging rights; I must be missing something. 2021-04-08T22:05:30+01:00 @ @lobste_rs (#<7rhdpna https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7rhdpna>) Interesting. Been around a long time as well. 2021-04-08T22:14:08+01:00 Good ole LWN; go for the Linux; end up learning about electoral systems along the way: [Debian votes on a statementโ€”and a leader](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/851785/96e845a9d393528a/) via the [Condorcet method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method). 2021-04-09T14:02:00+01:00 @ @lobste_rs @ (#<7rhdpna https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7rhdpna>) Huh. All very cool projects. Hadn't heard of `twin` or `mtm`. Thanks! 2021-04-09T14:02:36+01:00 @ @ (#<7h44kua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7h44kua>) So cool! \o/ 2021-04-09T17:31:44+01:00 @ (#) So far, so good. 2021-04-09T20:23:04+01:00 @ (#<7h44kua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7h44kua>) Is this of any use? https://libretranslate.com/ -- Congrats on the new job! 2021-04-10T11:57:06+01:00 @ (#) Nice! That'd be great! My German is very rusty, for example. ;-) 2021-04-11T09:27:14+01:00 I've decided to join [IRCNow](https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Ircnow.Goals). :-) You know, 'cause I'm not busy enough as it is. :-P I will get back to that manifesto++ soon, @, promise! :-D 2021-04-11T15:46:21+01:00 @ (#) I didn't mean "in favour of my pod" btw, to clarify! I love it here! :-D It's just the way my brain works: off in ten different directions at once, on any given day. 2021-04-11T20:10:33+01:00 @ (#<32lyv6q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=32lyv6q>) Hear, hear! Drives me batty; that, and references to how "obvious" or "simple" such and such is. My friend, you don't have to think about any particular subject you might choose for more than a few minutes -- particularly from the perspective of others -- before such statements look naive and foolish. For goodness sake, I was reminded but a few hours ago that no two people see the same rainbow: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cTqRE4F6qJ4 -- YT, sorry. 2021-04-13T00:16:55+01:00 "In the larger sense, entrepreneurship in America is very much dead. That doesn't mean that it isn't thriving in a specific Silicon Valley subculture, that to be fair makes massive contributions to the broader economy. But it should make us question what makes the Valley so different from Main Street, USA. If not just to figure out how to export the model from Palo Alto to Oklahoma." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26781681 2021-04-13T01:02:17+01:00 Wow! "The current state of the art is humans, mostly quadriplegic people, with chips which let them control robot arms with enough accuracy to pick up small delicate objects, play games, and type by thinking words. Current state of the art implants let people get tactile feedback too - they can intuitively know the position of the arm theyโ€™re controlling and feel the amount of pressure on each finger tip." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26747773 2021-04-13T12:33:48+01:00 @ (#<2eing7q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2eing7q>) While I don't disagree with the points you've raised, I do think there are other aspects to consider on the subject # and the FSF: e.g., the future of the latter as a vibrant, thriving organisation in the next decade and beyond; in particular, I think [some comments on the recent LWN article](https://lwn.net/Articles/852393/) raise good points regarding this. 2021-04-13T17:37:33+01:00 @ @ (#<2eing7q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2eing7q>) I would never call you ignorant. ;-D But # would take umbrage with your conflating open source and free software, I'd imagine. '...โ€œopen sourceโ€ doesnโ€™t fully convey the importance of the movement and the potential long-term social problems caused by proprietary software. [FSF et al] sees OSI as being too concerned with promoting the practical benefits of non-proprietary software (including its profitability and the efficiency of a community-driven development model), and not concerned ethical [issues]...' https://envs.sh/PH 2021-04-14T07:52:52+01:00 @ @ (#<2eing7q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2eing7q>) Actually, I think you worded it well. Certainly makes sense to me. Swap "open source" for "free/libre software" and I bet even # would've been happy with what you emphasised. :-) 2021-04-14T19:04:12+01:00 (#) @ @ A new pod! Woo hoo! \o/ 2021-04-15T07:24:12+01:00 @movq (#) Oh, wow! Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing. :-) 2021-04-15T13:31:17+01:00 @ (#) Oh! Writing a novel? 2021-04-16T18:02:22+01:00 Huh. Just did a two-hour, recorded handover of Terraform code I wrote for a client. They had me destroy all the infrastructure live, pull the code apart in separate files, and build the infrastructure back up again. Exhilarating, and exhausting! Time for a beer. :-) 2021-04-17T16:40:44+01:00 [Social media is broken](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/04/17/social-media-is-broken) 2021-04-17T19:17:30+01:00 @ (#) Agreed. I like them. :-) 2021-04-17T20:20:02+01:00 @ (#) Heh. Yeah, just hoping for some comments/suggestions at this stage. ^ร—^ 2021-04-18T08:32:34+01:00 @ (#) Nice! Got mine too -- of AstraZeneca -- last week. 2021-04-18T08:34:20+01:00 @ (#) Oh, good. ^ร—^ Room for improvement/sourcing/etc., obviously. But happy to hear you like the bones of it. :-) 2021-04-19T07:21:32+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, that's right. Interesting. My wife got Moderna. 2021-04-19T17:48:13+01:00 @ (#) H'm... Isn't that an error message that you get when you haven't yet built the dependencies? Specifically the `go.rice` dependency? I think that running `make deps` -- to build *rice* and *minify* -- first *might* solve your problem. :-) 2021-04-19T18:54:22+01:00 @ (#) Oh, good to know. Ta! 2021-04-19T18:55:17+01:00 @ (#) Oh, great news! :-) 2021-04-19T20:36:56+01:00 I keep going back 'n' forth on whether to experiment with Pleroma on my Pi. :-) [A Tildes post on the sad news that Feneas is struggling](https://tildes.net/~comp/w8y/feneas_a_non_profit_provider_of_open_source_services_is_having_problems_covering_expenses_and_is_at) has rekindled the fire, oddly. I just like knowing, first-hand, what's involved in running these services; I feel it makes me a better **yarn.social** advocate. ^โจฐ^ 2021-04-20T07:54:47+01:00 (#<4keqgoq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4keqgoq>) @ Oh, wow. Didn't notice that. Yeah, that does seem expensive. 2021-04-20T07:56:09+01:00 (#) @ Welcome, fellow ^Cer! ;-) 2021-04-20T23:56:13+01:00 @ @movq @ (#<7625tqq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7625tqq>) Yeah, I got Synapse running and federating, but it was a bit tricky with my reverse proxy set-up. It isn't public, though, and I couldn't imagine my family using it or Element! Tech support nightmare! @ mentioned Session, which does look promising (minus the crypto-currency eco disaster). 2021-04-21T11:14:48+01:00 Still learning, when it comes to software licensing. I found this Q&A helpful, re the recent announcement by Grafana Labs: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relicensing/ 2021-04-22T09:09:40+01:00 @ (#<2ptyptq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2ptyptq>) Wow. maya.land is amazing. ^โจฐ^ 2021-04-22T21:14:41+01:00 @ (#) I was wondering! D:โ€จLovely photos; thanks for sharing. :-) 2021-04-23T07:55:10+01:00 @ (#<33yqnma https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=33yqnma>) T-Tโ€จSorry to hear that. Glad you're back, though. ^โ€ข^ 2021-04-23T08:07:02+01:00 @ (#<4gii7za https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4gii7za>) I'm reading up now. There are two different Proctorio legal challenges in the news right now: one against a teacher and one against a student, I believe. They conflated them on HN, so now I'm confused. :-D 2021-04-23T08:11:49+01:00 @ @ (#<4gii7za https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4gii7za>) I've really struggled to test under 'net-based proctoring this past year, for professional certifications; can't imagine taking a math exam that way. >โ€ข< 2021-04-23T08:36:42+01:00 @ @ (#) Those are conversation hashes. The source is still: https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt 2021-04-24T07:49:10+01:00 @ (#<4keqgoq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4keqgoq>) Well, Pleroma is non-trivial to set-up. And there is no archived source of support, that I've found. May abandon the idea for now. 2021-04-24T17:14:48+01:00 @ (#<4keqgoq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4keqgoq>) Yeah, I'm pretty discouraged. Phoenix died the first time, because the database migration failed, I think. Then a new, simpler instance failed after crippling my Pi for 12 minutes; the log wasn't clear on the eventual reason. 2021-04-25T23:18:56+01:00 @ @ (#<64he3pq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=64he3pq>) Welcome aboard! \o/ ^ร—^ 2021-04-26T07:34:47+01:00 @ (#) I don't think Facebook would provide reliable answers to those questions, without effort. I don't think your use cases are a priority for most people these days, sadly. It's about search and directory facilities. I think Usenet and Dmoz came closer to solving this. Similar communities today are more fragmented, over IRC, Matrix, and traditional social media, I'd imagine. 2021-04-28T07:20:48+01:00 @ (#) In the beginning, last year, when I was using Felix's client, it really felt like that; like I was humming to myself in the corridor. (Birdsite is the town crier in this analogy.) 2021-04-28T07:44:52+01:00 It upsets me when people come to a forum with a conclusion in need of evidence: anybody have research supporting X? Worse still is when these people later say that they "like discussions." No, I'm sorry, you don't; not truly. Maybe I'm wasting my time in said forums. (I haven't meet a single person like this on twt.social, I'm happy to clarify.) 2021-04-29T08:38:22+01:00 @ I think the certificate for your site may have expired, just FYI. 2021-04-29T17:34:58+01:00 @movq @ (#) Neat! ^ร—^ 2021-04-29T17:37:54+01:00 @movq @ (#) Very nice! Envious of your surroundings, that's for sure! ^ร—^ 2021-04-29T17:49:26+01:00 Playing around with bridging Matrix and IRC today, using [the former's Node.js implementation](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc/). It was very exciting to see messages mirroring so quickly, even with my wee homeserver; mind, it's just one room stroke channel a side, with single-digit users, at the moment. Still, lovely to get my Pi productive. Next, I'll study the config a bit more. Eventually, I'd like to have this resilient, on my OpenBSD VPS; not sure how tricky that build would be. 2021-04-30T15:00:02+01:00 (#) [The NGINX Handbookโ€”free!](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-nginx-handbook/) Wondering whether it might be a good idea to [use PM2](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-nginx-handbook/#node-js-with-nginx) with my Matrix-IRC bridge... 2021-04-30T17:01:48+01:00 LWN: [Growing open-source projects with a stable foundation](https://lwn.net/Articles/854908/) ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿค” 2021-04-30T23:31:42+01:00 @ (#) Yes. Almost feels like something I should congratulate you on. ;-) 2021-05-02T13:28:31+01:00 (#) Updated my bridge to work between an IRCNow room and a room I administer on the matrix.org main homeserverโ€”#tgr and [#greatreset](https://matrix.to/#/#greatreset:matrix.org), respectivelyโ€”and was so chuffed to wake up to almost 400 unread messages this morning. ๐Ÿ˜ Still plenty to figure out with it, but it's great to see how far the defaults can take you. 2021-05-03T08:48:18+01:00 @ (#) In that room? Well, it's very small: currently five or so from IRC versus maybe 20 on Matrix. But the scale of Matrix, writ large, is probably well beyond IRC in general, these days: there are lots of rooms associated with the main homeserver with 15000+ users; not sure how many are truly active, of course. IRCNow is a fairly small IRC network, I'd guess, at [between 700 and 800 users](https://wiki.ircnow.org/index.php?n=Openbsd.Ilines), it seems. 2021-05-04T09:45:47+01:00 @ (#) We hear you! And agree. โœ‹๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-05-04T15:32:38+01:00 @ @ @ (#) I know, which makes my comment pretty funny, actually. ๐Ÿ˜† And, *I believe,* **she** follows you, @. ;-) 2021-05-04T15:34:10+01:00 @ @ @ @ (#) Although, considering how many times you've talked about the clock drift on their end, I'm not sure that *following* equates to *reading*. ๐Ÿ˜† 2021-05-04T16:15:34+01:00 @ (#<7547j7a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7547j7a>) Looks it! Wow, stunning! 2021-05-05T09:40:50+01:00 (#) Truly disturbing. And I considered myself fairly well read on the subject, prior to reading this. [#quitfacebook](https://www.quitfacebook.org/) 2021-05-05T16:03:06+01:00 "... Frameworks for the fair allocation of resources should seek to adopt intentionally global standards. That is, while vaccines must ultimately be managed locally once supplies are delivered, high-level distribution principles should not assume national priority over vaccines, even implicitly... This would be a new frontier in global health policy... We donโ€™t underestimate the immense political effort this would require..." Are you sure you haven't? D: https://envs.sh/we 2021-05-07T06:54:35+01:00 @ (#<54yqsja https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=54yqsja>) <3 2021-05-07T09:18:52+01:00 @ (#<66aenwq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=66aenwq>) That's... a poor choice, I would think. Wonder what the rationale was. 2021-05-08T10:56:02+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, by design. But even 60s rackets weren't close to a longsword. I'd guess maybe discus or hammer throw. 2021-05-09T09:49:21+01:00 <3 https://rss.nfld.uk/share/ce6ea31677b9bca07d8ec81ca6ba29567bfa2908 # 2021-05-10T06:18:27+01:00 @ @slashdot (#) Really sad. :-( 2021-05-10T06:19:03+01:00 @ @ (#) Awesome! Thank you! 2021-05-11T06:43:37+01:00 @ (#<3724efq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3724efq>) \o/ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ 2021-05-11T13:17:28+01:00 Starmer is defeating himself. Brill commentary: "... [Cameron's characterisation of the Labour government that proceeded him] points to the first lesson in how to begin combating the Tory propaganda machine: counter myths quickly and hard. Combating Tory spin and propaganda does not mean the odd fact check or statement by a minor minister -- it means a senior opposition minister, or better still the Labour leader, doing the rounds of the broadcast media studios, because that is Labourโ€™s only hope of communicating with most people..." https://envs.sh/ww 2021-05-11T13:38:00+01:00 (#) Another (grim) take on making a living by building open source software. 2021-05-11T15:04:49+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, it's tough to say. Some of the comments on this post question whether that initial salary was too generous. I've been away from North America for too long; I can't tell. And that's only one aspect of this issue, of course. 2021-05-11T21:47:41+01:00 (#) That epic interview with Torvalds has a take: "... I'm personally 100% convinced that not only is open source sustainable, but for complex technical issues you really *need* open source simply because the problem space ends up being too complex to manage inside one single company. Even a big and competent tech company..." https://envs.sh/wS -- But that isn't quite the same thing as developers living comfortably from writing it, of course. 2021-05-12T09:14:01+01:00 (#) @ Another take, on dual licensing this time; re # 2021-05-13T14:57:57+01:00 (#) Another -- truly staggering, in this case -- example of the first principles these international giants seem to work from: truly, they seem to believe that they are beyond national constraints, and are justified in operating as such, until regulatory regimes catch up, one presumes. Reminds me of [TTIP, and its critics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership). 2021-05-14T21:54:32+01:00 (#<26wshsa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=26wshsa>) Oh my goodness... I hate... I just hate the way beautiful, stately, seemingly-enduring things... get stomped on. *sigh* @ I guess we should consider moving our channel? 2021-05-14T21:59:28+01:00 Neat! [Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing](https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/neural-implant-lets-paralyzed-person-type-by-imagining-writing/) 2021-05-14T22:07:04+01:00 (#<26wshsa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=26wshsa>) H'm... OK, seems like there's more to this than meets the eye: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27153850 -- I guess I'm a bit naive when it comes to the drama of IRC. Still, I maintain that it doesn't sound good. 2021-05-15T07:31:02+01:00 @ (#<26wshsa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=26wshsa>) Oh, yeah, I just meant for support, like when you were helping @ get up and running. 2021-05-17T13:12:39+01:00 @ (#<3ucdgkq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3ucdgkq>) Only subscribed a month or two ago; must be the last one to this (huge) party. ;-) Another brilliant piece; thanks for the pointer. 2021-05-17T23:06:27+01:00 @ @slashdot (#) Oh, cool! Phew! 2021-05-17T23:25:05+01:00 @ (#) Wow! Very impressive! 2021-05-17T23:26:35+01:00 Neat! [Caltech Professor Helps Solve Hindenburg Disaster](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/484bd71e7c560587235a474a05546aa318fdabc5) 2021-05-19T19:12:18+01:00 (#) Ah, so it *has* come pass: Freenode staff have resigned. :-/ 2021-05-20T07:31:26+01:00 @ (#) I'm even more confused, after reading Lee's statement. I thought this was about monetizing Freenode user data or something. Did tomaw's failing to inform staff properly cause all this?โ€จโ€จI spent an hour or so on Liberal last night; it was fun. 2021-05-20T07:32:50+01:00 (#) Oops. Liberal? lol. Meant Libera. ^ร—^ 2021-05-24T08:21:56+01:00 [To work well in care](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/05/24/to-work-well-in-care) 2021-05-24T13:32:37+01:00 @ (#<7po5x4a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7po5x4a>) Holy cow! ๐Ÿ˜ฒ Unreal! I was glad to see that you put that description in quotes! ๐Ÿ˜Œ 2021-05-24T18:56:19+01:00 @ (#) It looked like that might be the case, re the process. Glad you're able to confirm it. 2021-05-25T22:05:30+01:00 @ (#) Hiya! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜ Welcome! 2021-05-26T09:36:14+01:00 [On Freenode and Christianity](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/05/26/on-freenode-and-christianity) 2021-05-26T18:51:35+01:00 (#) RIP Freenode. Not sure how it can come back from this sort of activity; who would trust it? 2021-05-27T07:48:07+01:00 @ @movq (#) That's a perfect example of what this silliness looks like to outsiders: no one can speak in my commandeered channel, so I guess we have to move. Unbelievable. 2021-05-28T13:38:58+01:00 Might travel to see family this weekend; strange feeling. Guess that means I'll need to bump my VPN project up the to do list, as my reverse proxy has been a bit flaky since linking the config to Loki; might need to give it a poke at some point.โ€จโ€จGetting OpenVPN running OpenWrt seems fairly straightforward: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/serverโ€จโ€จAnd then I guess I'll use something like OpenVPN Connect on my phone. The latest Termux builds aren't supported on my old phone, but it should do, in a pinch. 2021-05-29T08:53:11+01:00 @movq (#) Wow. Neat! Ta! TIL that too. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-05-29T16:37:09+01:00 @ (#) Following you in fedi now. How are you mirroring posts? 2021-05-29T17:19:38+01:00 (#) Having trouble setting up an OpenVPN service on OpenWrt.โ€จโ€จRunning through the appropriate instructions on the relevant wiki page didn't generate an .ovpn file; I created one by hand, but now OpenVPN Connect is generating the following error in my OpenWrt system log: โ€จโ€จ```โ€จSat May 29 16:51:26 2021 daemon.err openvpn(client)[3024]: 86.8.XXX.XXX:10469 VERIFY ERROR: depth=0, error=unsupported certificate purpose: CN=client, serial=25861211816...โ€จ```โ€จโ€จI'm thinking those two problems are linked. 2021-05-29T17:49:40+01:00 @movq (#) Yeah, that definitely makes sense. I've heard about Wireguard, but haven't looked into it; will correct that now! 2021-06-01T17:10:41+01:00 We really are living in scary times. [A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says](https://www.businessinsider.com/killer-drone-hunted-down-human-target-without-being-told-un-2021-5). 2021-06-01T21:52:42+01:00 I *absolutely* **love** this! [The ethics of resource mobilisation: Confronting the discomfort](https://www.hrfn.org/community-voices/the-ethics-of-resource-mobilisation-confronting-the-discomfort/)โ€จโ€จIf only more of us directed so much care and attention to how our words and actions are perceived, out in the world, and then changed those words and actions to better reflect that which we truly value and desire. 2021-06-02T07:07:23+01:00 @ (#) More that the operator set terrible defaults and then lost network connectivity. I... I mean, your brain goes to all sorts of jokes and silly adverts, because, well, no one puts a grenade on a toy, pulls the pin and sends it over that hill in any world you think of as sane. 2021-06-02T18:45:30+01:00 (#) I couldn't remember when Atwood parted ways with them. 2012, apparently. 2021-06-03T00:19:14+01:00 @ (#) Hey, fellow ^Cer! ;-) Wonderful to have you here; welcome! :-) 2021-06-04T21:23:24+01:00 This great mood is brought to you by Airbourne: https://youtu.be/j2IyX5LXGygโ€จโ€จ๐Ÿค˜ Lemmy cameo! ๐Ÿค˜ 2021-06-05T21:05:37+01:00 (#) Interesting. "... There was, however, a big compromise to get this across the line. A minimum corporation tax rate of 15% is rather low. Although European finance ministers succeeded in including the phrase "at least 15%", which offers a path to get that number higher..." 2021-06-05T21:07:39+01:00 @ (#<3b2qoqq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3b2qoqq>) ๐ŸŽ‚๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ˜ 2021-06-05T21:10:26+01:00 @ (#) Agreed. The UX is taxing and off-putting. I don't understand how it's become so popular, even amongst those who don't care whether a company owns their data. 2021-06-07T21:52:56+01:00 [Columbus and the Flat Earth Conception (1951)](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/06/07/columbus-and-the-flat-earth-conception-1951) 2021-06-07T22:03:40+01:00 Very excited to have been invited to book -- and to have booked! -- my second jab. ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ˜ 2021-06-08T18:11:17+01:00 @ Tales of open-source devs continues, with...โ€จโ€จ[Docz](https://github.com/pedronauck/docz/issues/1634): "So, after a time working a lot here and on my business, I was with my healthy compromised and needed to choose between "keep my open source project" or "keep my mental and physical health". And for me the choice was very clear, I choose me." &โ€จโ€จ[Hyperscan regex lib](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27421665): "When you can't even say "thank you... don't be surprised when 75% of the people maintaining and advancing it don't have jobs anymore..." 2021-06-08T19:07:39+01:00 What a great post on intellectual property, as relates to Sandman, and from the horse's mouth, as it were: https://rss.nfld.uk/share/d5674fee99aa6f30c84beb620dc0522181c78c59โ€จโ€จGreen's blog is excellent, but this exceeded what I'd come to expect from it. :-) 2021-06-08T21:14:05+01:00 Oh, wow. Hadn't even heard of *Rejected Princesses*, and [Where'd You Go?](https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/full-width/wheredyougo) was an open browser tab for so long, I almost forgot where I found it. (It was [on Tildes, where some interesting comments were also made](https://tildes.net/~life/x47/whered_you_go), incidentally.) But I ๐Ÿ’“๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ’“ the heck out of it! A bit scary, frankly, how much I identify, actually.โ€จโ€จI'm on his mailing list now. Hope this book he wishes he had as a kid is actually a work in progress. 2021-06-09T20:32:27+01:00 I'm way late to the Paul Graham bandwagon, of courseโ€”got a lump in my throat when I saw Swartz referenced on the RSS feed ๐Ÿ˜žโ€”but [his latest essay](http://www.paulgraham.com/own.html) is great; it's sent me of in all sorts of directions!โ€จโ€จ1) A great chat in #, on Matrix, re Footnote #<2 https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2>;โ€จ2) Back to Deep Work by Newport, and how Bell Labs was physically designed for serendipitous collaboration; โ€จ3) Another thread in the 'Open source is hard' tapestry; andโ€จ4) What's lost, #?โ€จโ€จ[Re-posted from Fosstodon](https://fosstodon.org/@jlj/106382415054165705). 2021-06-10T22:36:44+01:00 @ @ Another reference for our manifesto, I'd say: [HN on ... end the data economy](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/484446b9348aafb9c1ce7b27e3d0b5e0a6a619b2). I *do* wish that its sourcing was more explicit, though; maybe as part of a Further reading section.โ€จโ€จBut that could just be me.โ€จโ€จI like that [this list](https://whynottrack.com/), inspired by an HN comment, is open to PRs too. 2021-06-11T08:41:03+01:00 @ @ (#) Yeah, there's a draft on Hackmd; think I want to tweak it now, though, in the light of this great piece. :-D 2021-06-11T15:18:45+01:00 @ (#<4pt2ata https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4pt2ata>) Sounds like a direct quote of the gentleman who runs IRCNow.org. :-) 2021-06-11T15:20:59+01:00 @ (#) Welcome back! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜ 2021-06-11T15:49:10+01:00 @ @ (#) Ooo, yes, intriguing. Always found the term _whitepaper_ to be clunky, but that's just me; the important point is that I think you used it correctly there. :-D 2021-06-17T21:01:53+01:00 @ (#) Ooo, intriguing. Hadn't heard of Logarion before, but I like the idea. :-) 2021-06-25T22:52:16+01:00 Some people are... very ignorant: https://fosstodon.org/@dajbelshaw/106473065874953323 # # 2021-06-26T22:49:59+01:00 (#) Happily, they seem to be engaging on this: https://fosstodon.org/@jlj/106479195871332758โ€จโ€จI'm used to fighting for those without a voice -- or without a conventional voice, shall we say -- in my previous work. That means that I do find fights, on occasion. I'm willing to admit that my reading of the original post may be an unconventional interpretation, but I stand by my overall point. 2021-06-28T20:57:35+01:00 Stewardship of global collective behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118 2021-07-01T21:11:16+01:00 This expat has had a lovely Canada Day. :-) ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€จโ€จHere's hopin' all my fellow twt'izens are faring well too. :-) 2021-07-04T10:49:54+01:00 @ (#) I can't believe there isn't a single question related to licensing in their FAQ; stinks of a list of planted questions, to me. 2021-07-05T14:05:31+01:00 @ (#) Wow! I had to look them up. :-) 2021-07-05T14:06:29+01:00 @ @ (#) Hey! o/ Good to see you! :-D 2021-07-06T05:15:52+01:00 @ (#<4slyykq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4slyykq>) That's... odd. Hopefully someone with more experience will chime, following my 'bump'. :-) 2021-07-07T17:01:30+01:00 I keep thinking I've probably watched enough *Star Wars* in my life.โ€จโ€จAnd then I get excited about a few sentences on *Rebel Moon*. ๐ŸŒ‘ 2021-07-08T20:52:53+01:00 (#) "The measure of metric units described in the report should not be dismissed -- as what is being described is a weight, nanograms (ng) within a liquid measure, microliters (uL). Ruby compares the ratio of the two substances and declares that the vaccine is 99.99% graphene oxide... So 747 nanograms of material would make up 0.0747% of one microliter by weight. Ruby also ignores that graphene oxide is a dark gray to black material -- if a vial contained 99.99 percent graphene oxide, it would be dark gray and also would be a solid, not a liquid." 2021-07-08T20:53:19+01:00 (#) https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/07/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-do-not-contain-99-percent-graphene-oxide-to-conduct-a-mass-poisoning.htmlโ€จโ€จhttps://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/08/facebook-posts/no-evidence-graphene-oxide-s-toxic-pfizer-covid-19/ 2021-07-08T21:25:03+01:00 @ @ Don't know whether you've seen this on HN: A call to minimize distraction. This is the transcript: https://digitalwellbeing.org/googles-internal-digital-wellbeing-presentation-transcript-and-slides/โ€จโ€จSeems it's from eight years ago, I believe, and leaked three years ago. The content is gold, for our documentation. How little has changed is also very interesting, to me, and maybe even something we could reference (as in, taking matters into your own hands). 2021-07-09T08:08:54+01:00 @ @ (#) Good shout; need to get on that. :-) 2021-07-09T08:09:26+01:00 Desktop uptime: 143d 15h 18mโ€จโ€จBloody love Linux :-) 2021-07-09T11:15:58+01:00 @ (#) Very nice! :-) 2021-07-09T11:38:30+01:00 (#) Oh, you have no idea, @! ;-) So I found that feed in an XMPP chat bridged to Matrix. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿ˜ 2021-07-12T19:56:53+01:00 (#) Counterintuitive, to me. I'm glad, though: everyone seems to be sharing b-ok links these days. 2021-07-12T20:02:37+01:00 @ (#) Nice summary! 2021-07-12T20:36:04+01:00 (#<46ctmtq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=46ctmtq>) Absolutely incredible! Sad that Sukellus Valoon doesn't seem to have been translated from the original Finnish yet. 2021-07-14T08:02:58+01:00 @ @ (#<2q7fuzq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2q7fuzq>) Oh, nice one! Will do, soon. (Enjoying a holiday right now.) 2021-07-14T08:16:36+01:00 @ (#) Wow. Hadn't heard about this architecture, or the company. Looks neat, indeed! 2021-07-14T08:20:16+01:00 @ @ @ @ (#) Depends on the numbers, of course, but I'm very much in favour of this, in principle. :-) 2021-07-14T08:32:05+01:00 @ (#<2q7fuzq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2q7fuzq>) A cottage in Wales, with good friends. :-D 2021-07-14T19:41:26+01:00 @ (#<2q7fuzq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2q7fuzq>) Ta! :-) Just had a wonderful day at a beach. (Literally, for my kids!) 2021-07-14T23:02:12+01:00 @ (#<2q7fuzq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2q7fuzq>) Attempted to. My four-year-old fancies himself a modern-day Attila or some such, though: sacked before the moat was even half finished. ;-) 2021-07-14T23:13:13+01:00 @ (#<5d6yojq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5d6yojq>) VERY interesting. :-) 2021-07-15T17:58:03+01:00 (#) FWIW, I can match that $50/mth contribution too. :-) 2021-07-18T02:48:24+01:00 (#) Well, happy to see you, regardless! :-D 2021-07-19T08:19:46+01:00 @ @ (#<4xjds2a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4xjds2a>) Very cool! Btw, do you know of any FOSS translation services? I'm familiar with this one: https://libretranslate.com/ 2021-07-19T15:29:20+01:00 @ (#) It worked! Welcome, fellow *^C*-er. ;-) 2021-07-19T15:40:39+01:00 (#<4xjds2a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4xjds2a>) @ I'm assuming you're talking about LibreTranslate: self-hosted is actually their preference; or at least registering an API key with their instance.โ€จโ€จI'm actually thinking about running my own instance; 'cause I have lots of free time. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‰ 2021-07-19T17:35:51+01:00 I'm now running *yarnd*! A small -- but very exciting -- step forward for the rebranding! :-)โ€จโ€จA very smooth transition, @, FYI. Cloned the new project, built it, set up new symlinks, decided to create a new systemd service, stopped the old one and started the new one (pointing at the same pod instance). 2021-07-22T15:01:50+01:00 @ (#) Haven't read the linked piece yet, but, gut-feel, not cool, CB! 2021-07-22T15:14:39+01:00 @ (#) Nice! I've had that 'push-back' about decentralisation as well, in response to my using it with *yarn.social*. I wouldn't say, by extension, that **all** open source projects could then fall under that definition, since, starting with the simplest argument, not all projects are code that's to be self-hosted and publicly-facing. But, even beyond that, many of those projects won't be designed to 'federate', in the loosest sense. And I think *yarn.social* **does** federate in that sense, and is therefore a valid example of a decentralised social platform. 2021-07-22T15:26:38+01:00 (#) That said, though, there is no redundancy whatsoever. I haven't spent enough time in this space to know how much redundancy/replication and federation are supposed to be a part of any and all things decentralised. I mean, there's a network's ability to sustain attack on its infrastructure, and then there's its ability to maintain the pseudonymity of its clients, writ large and under such attacks. So, in a nutshell, maybe I **am** using the term incorrectly when talking about *yarn.social*. :-P 2021-07-22T18:58:11+01:00 @ (#) Good points, on all fronts. :-) Not suggesting we need redundancy, btw; just that it's a part of resiliency, itself often part of a decentralised network that has some sort of service level agreement, or similar expectation. 2021-07-22T19:07:34+01:00 ๐Ÿ‘€ [Ncdu 2, the re-write!](https://lonely.town/@ayo/106624856406216223) ๐Ÿ‘€โ€จโ€จ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/erBe2Hz5SN2Rurzw29EuiR) 2021-07-23T13:26:22+01:00 @ (#<5jbtpjq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5jbtpjq>) Good, thanks. :-) Welcome back! :-D 2021-07-28T15:44:54+01:00 @ @ (#<5tcau6a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5tcau6a>) Ah. So is that true of everyone blogging on the old system? 2021-07-28T16:33:04+01:00 [Please Bring Back Our Downvotes: Society Desperately Needs It](https://theapeiron.co.uk/please-bring-back-our-downvotes-society-desperately-needs-it-5119e8d7547c) -- strongly disagree. ;-) Seriously, though, this ignores equally big (maybe bigger) problems with those platforms: like their addictive nature, off the top of my head. 2021-07-28T22:29:05+01:00 @ (#) I have a memory of one person/project mentioning it in the last five years. Might've been a webring, of all things.โ€จโ€จI think that pretty solidly proves you're correct. :-) 2021-07-28T22:39:52+01:00 @ (#<6zdhi5a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6zdhi5a>) Ooo, hadn't heard of that one; looks promising! 2021-07-30T18:33:41+01:00 @ (#) It's all relative, and, by the sounds of it, both people and infrastructure are buckling and expiring. No laughing matter, as you say. 2021-07-31T08:14:34+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) The rushed theory is false, as I understand it. They've been working on coronaviruses for a long time, and were largely successful in conducting in parallel many of the steps that were done sequentially in slower times. 2021-07-31T08:20:53+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) And the possibility of the vaccinated continuing to spread the disease is the CDC (and others?) being cautious, as I understand it. The trials focused on vaccine efficacy, unsurprisingly, so they're suggesting belt and braces until that testing is completed. 2021-07-31T08:24:19+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) That said, I too believe that this will be incorporated into a jab, like influenza, to be fought in perpetuity. And people won't take it. And they'll sneeze all over public transport. And continue to endanger the vulnerable all around us. :-( 2021-07-31T08:32:33+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) It's such a *%&#show, and governments share the lion's share of the blame, as far as I'm concerned. It was another thing to be gamed for their advantage, until it was too late.โ€จโ€จAnd don't even get me started on their complete abdication of the responsibility to inform their constituency, in a timely, clear, and concise fashion.โ€จโ€จUtterly shameful. Five minutes on Session or Telegram makes me mad enough to eat my phone. And I can't blame the doubters. 2021-07-31T08:34:30+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) @ Agreed. Could've stopped. Horses and the barn now, I'd say. 2021-07-31T08:39:02+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) @ I landed a tech job a month before lockdown. All my mates from care work got it. Crazy lucky for me.โ€จโ€จAnd, I'd heard about a riot; didn't realise it's been three! D: 2021-07-31T09:04:25+01:00 Trying to wrap my head around the latest SAGE report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/long-term-evolution-of-sars-cov-2-26-july-2021 2021-07-31T15:21:53+01:00 @ (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) It's irresponsible, blanketing with "a lot of false statements here." Thanks for treating us like peers. :-/ 2021-07-31T15:29:27+01:00 (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) But I guess you have more important things to do with your time. Sorry for cluttering your feed. 2021-08-01T03:59:22+01:00 @ (#) Just skimmed, so far. Heavy! :-D 2021-08-01T08:04:14+01:00 @ (#) Yes, absolutely. I use Nitter for this now, but, even moving around between different instances, it gets rate-limited regularly, which isn't a transparent experience when you're interacting via RSS vs live. Self-hosting it is on my To Do list. 2021-08-01T20:17:49+01:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/29/1030260/facebook-whistleblower-sophie-zhang-global-political-manipulation/ 2021-08-02T17:19:17+01:00 (#<4keqgoq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4keqgoq>) Not sure what I was on about: the [OTP](https://www.erlang.org/about) releases [install for Pleroma](https://docs-develop.pleroma.social/backend/installation/otp_en/) was very smooth (this time).โ€จโ€จAnyone who wants to dip a toe in the Fediverse is welcome to at: https://pleroma.nfld.uk -- I've got manual approval of registrations on for the moment, just to be safe, but you needn't worry about justifying the ask with an essay or anything. ;-) Now, to figure out how all this stuff *actually* works. :-D 2021-08-02T18:37:56+01:00 @anths @ (#<3qbo22q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3qbo22q>) I also support them, for the record, and had my second jab three weeks ago. 2021-08-02T18:54:10+01:00 This project has my wife written all over it: https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/raspberry-pi-weatherclock -- she's forever fretting about whether to hang out, or leave, washing on the line. :-) 2021-08-03T02:45:40+01:00 https://buttondown.email/jkleske/archive/38-a-readwise-lovefest/ -- intriguing intersection with zettelkasten, perhaps? 2021-08-03T09:02:16+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, slowly coming to that realisation, re email. Think it's been down for a few weeks. Sent you a replacement. In the meantime, yeah, I'm stepping back from my original opposition to the private messaging... Well, I think it was @ who really didn't like it, wasn't it? Anyway, yeah, agreed: there are certainly use cases. 2021-08-03T15:30:54+01:00 @ (#) That's some grisly dogfood. ;-) Third time's a charm? 2021-08-03T15:33:41+01:00 @ (#) Ah, right; knew someone coherently objected. ;-) Yeah, I hear you; some relaying / forwarding would be nice.โ€จโ€จ(I love Delta Chat!) 2021-08-03T16:37:34+01:00 "... [A]n attempt at systematizing skill and knowledge transfer so thoroughly that people begin to conceive of it as the task of school, rather than a normal consequence of work. Because of this shift, childhood contains the age where one can intuit very well how the world works while being prevented from acting upon it meaningfully. Instead of an adolescence full of rites of passage... we have made it full of waiting, and doing work... that nearly everyone knows is fake..." https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency 2021-08-03T16:55:33+01:00 @ (#<2d6tktq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2d6tktq>) He's lucky all his tenants are incredibly patient, and neuro-typical, one presumes. Or, let's say, I've worked a lot of people would completely lose their *%$ยฃ the first time that happened, never to be seen (by him) again, likely. 2021-08-04T01:52:52+01:00 @ (#) Ah, yes, excellent point; love that about pods. 2021-08-04T10:34:34+01:00 https://ar.al/2021/05/08/ethics-as-pr-or-the-some-very-good-people-work-there-fallacy/ 2021-08-04T12:02:53+01:00 @ (#) Is that to shorten them up, you mean? To save characters? It's a good point. I usually just want to be transparent, so people have an idea what they're visiting. If I am low on characters, normally I've use this: https://envs.sh/ -- in fact, I even run a copy of this locally, as they suggest on the main page: https://git.envs.net/envs/pb 2021-08-06T14:33:32+01:00 @ (#) Intriguing. Going to be repairing electronics? 2021-08-08T04:16:08+01:00 @ (#) Lovely! Enjoy! 2021-08-08T04:23:31+01:00 @ (#) Interesting. Yes, from a UX perspective, that could certainly be clearer. cc @โ€จโ€จIf you just follow the link back to the pod's landing page, top left, it should reset.โ€จโ€จAnd welcome! 2021-08-08T07:39:40+01:00 @ @ (#) Looks great, to me -- thanks for the quick turnaround! :-) 2021-08-10T11:01:45+01:00 [Joel Bakan quoting Marshall Ganz on the difference between mobilising and organising](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AAB7PsyJEiAjvyjuyW) 2021-08-12T09:42:26+01:00 @ (#) I participated in some activism around copyright reform, 20 years ago, in Canada; met with my MP, did a bit of advocacy. It's tough to get anywhere. And then they just try again, with new legislation, a few years down the road. Pretty crushing. 2021-08-12T09:47:20+01:00 On Culdesac Tempe, Arizona: [we need inclusive communities, by design](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AAF7jakzoE38ZCn1Zg); not just car-less ones. 2021-08-12T10:14:47+01:00 [Joel Bakan on market societies](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AAFDL7holjMFF01Eau) 2021-08-12T11:36:49+01:00 @ @osnews @markwylde (#) Oh, very positive indeed! 2021-08-13T16:00:05+01:00 @ (#) I wish accessibility was more of a priority. 2021-08-14T07:20:00+01:00 @ (#) Hiya! :-) 2021-08-14T07:28:05+01:00 Interesting comments on who's got large swathes of IPv4 addresses [on the HN post about Amazon's adding to the pool available to AWS](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28177807). 2021-08-14T10:45:48+01:00 @ (#) Well, I haven't really kept up with this space. I didn't even know about Carrier-grade NAT, for example; it sounds like it would mess up a lot of the self-hosting I do through residential broadband.โ€จโ€จAnd I didn't realise that the US DoD, Prudential and Ford had such a big chunk of the IPv4 address space. 2021-08-14T10:48:03+01:00 I seem to be enjoying getting banned from Telegram groups--got my third(?) ban last night--and being threatened with it in Session groups.โ€จโ€จI feel this isn't a good look. And a possible sign of a deteriorating mental state. 2021-08-14T13:38:01+01:00 (#<2kuchra https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2kuchra>) Ha ha. Well, I should start by saying that most of my run-ins are straight-up CoC violations: telling people about my community where advertising isn't allowed.โ€จโ€จBut last night it was for being incendiary on the subject of our encroachment in wildlife territory across the globe, and how that will define our lives in the years to come re disease.โ€จโ€จThere was much talk of horrible death and cussing. CoC violations again, I guess. 2021-08-14T16:21:51+01:00 Welcome to the pod, @! 2021-08-14T16:23:49+01:00 (#<2kuchra https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2kuchra>) I was more thinking it didn't reflect well on me.โ€จโ€จBut, yeah, absolutely, re your other point. 2021-08-14T23:06:41+01:00 @ @ (#) Interesting. I mean, in my case, the battle was lost: that particular bill didn't pass -- because the parliamentary session ended; nothing to do with us or our efforts -- but a different bill of similar effect was passed, a few years later. 2021-08-14T23:09:53+01:00 (#) I contributed to a political party that was founded in that fight and the fallout, for more than a decade afterwards. Nothing came of it. The party disbanded. 2021-08-14T23:14:55+01:00 (#) If I were to do it all again, I'd get directly involved, for the long haul. This stuff doesn't work, part-time, and that's all I can give, after my family, right now. That'll change in a few years, though, I'd imagine.โ€จโ€จI'd like my kids to have more hope than me. 2021-08-15T20:19:20+01:00 [Overdue phone replacement -- the current plan](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AAMIXjgBGlAyMlo2YS) 2021-08-16T09:48:15+01:00 "So the US set out to reduce the Talibanโ€™s ability to profit from the drug trade. But in effect, the US eliminated competition from government-friendly regions of the country, which INCREASED the Talibanโ€™s ability to profit from the drug trade. A disaster. 15/19" [Jeffrey P. Clemens, Twitter thread](https://twitter.com/jeffreypclemens/status/1426930889271877633)โ€จโ€จFrom the moment the US made the assumption that the organisation that chooses not to actively expel my enemy is also my enemy, circa 2002, they were lost, in my opinion. 2021-08-17T09:42:15+01:00 "... Hobbes had it right: when citizens are insecure and at the same time driven by competitive aspirations, they yearn for political stability rather than civic engagement, protection rather than political involvement..." [Wolin, on his coined Inverted Totalitarianism](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AAPWuVixInt6Zsjo6i) 2021-08-17T10:47:06+01:00 (#) Interesting, indeed.โ€จโ€จReminds me of a secretive organisation, that builds in networks by deliberately doing intakes as sizable groups that it then uniquely identifies as a cohort. Recruits are then tested, individually, but also in teams. Bonds form over the year. Then graduates are spread all around the organisation. A strong, internal network, outside the org chart, useful for busting groupthink, as well as the more traditional GTD. 2021-08-17T11:02:42+01:00 @ (#) Wow. Very interesting. First I'd heard of it, but, yes, looks polished. :-) 2021-08-17T14:22:56+01:00 @ (#) Done! :-) 2021-08-17T15:38:49+01:00 @ (#) No worries!โ€จโ€จOh, and, ouch, yeah; can't please 'em all, I guess. Anyway, yeah, as I said, keep it up! :-D 2021-08-18T16:33:20+01:00 LineageOS, with no gapps, is now running nicely on my (new to me, first generation) Pixel. 2016 feels like a leap ahead, for me, and really good, I must say. 2021-08-19T01:11:24+01:00 (#) \o/ 2021-08-19T09:13:06+01:00 @ (#<4jcueua https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4jcueua>) Yeah, I suspect so; although I've only dabbled in IPFS to date. 2021-08-19T10:47:32+01:00 [Sheldon Wolin & Jason Riley: a nonplussing convergence of opinion? Or an eminently predicable one?](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AATfWswT0GrdrAhsHY) 2021-08-19T13:25:16+01:00 @ (#) Aurora Store is... *astonishing*. I'm surprised it isn't talked about at least half as much as (the also to be lauded) F-Droid.โ€จโ€จTo be fair, I haven't dug deep on what I'm giving up, even by using it with an 'anonymous' token; but, for someone who'd really just disabled the main G apps on their vanilla Android phone, this is a _huge_ step on the journey to dropping Google (while still talking to family and friends). 2021-08-19T23:01:56+01:00 I'm self-hosting Nextcloud now! Can't believe it's taken me so long to try it out. I'm a bit worried about my soaring expectations, actually; if I can sync my work calendar with it, oh my, the elation at *finally* dropping Google Calendar... ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ™Œ 2021-08-20T09:24:13+01:00 @ (#) Ah, I see. I'll keep that in mind. I'm pretty motivated to get off Google stuff, though; willing to sacrifice quite a bit. ;-) 2021-08-20T15:42:47+01:00 @ (#) Well... good question. I've been playing around with syncing calendars and contacts, between my desktop and phone, and work (in the case of my calendar). Looks decent, so far. And I'd like to extend that out to my wife too, with her own account, eventually.โ€จโ€จBut, ultimately, photo management is the biggest challenge: I'd need to upgrade my home storage considerably before that could realistically be self-hosted, and even then I'd want to have some sort of off-site solution too. But I also need a solid backup option more generally; Backblaze, maybe? 2021-08-21T12:25:23+01:00 @ (#) That'd be awesome! I figured you're probably running the gold standard of this stuff, if the gold standard emphasises a small footprint and ease of administration. ;-) 2021-08-22T20:41:33+01:00 @ (#) Heck, yeah! +1โ€จโ€จIn before times, I'd happily spend days in secondhand bookshops, but I was never sure about the academic books I came out with. 2021-08-23T08:10:43+01:00 @ (#) Not crazy. Just trying to wrap my head around the implications. Does it scale? Sounds like, over time, it wouldn't look like a typical IRC server; which doesn't mean that the protocol can't handle it, of course. 2021-08-23T08:44:01+01:00 @ (#) I do, but need to get to work. :-P Later? 2021-08-23T19:43:19+01:00 @ @ (#) PRs are always welcome. :-) 2021-08-23T21:24:44+01:00 @ @ (#) I was wondering the same thing the other week. :-) 2021-08-24T10:10:42+01:00 @ @ (#) Ha ha. Yeah, a good point, indeed. :-) 2021-08-24T11:51:51+01:00 (#) [My tangentially related Fediverse post on this topic](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AAeE5gwuhh21AyU2fw) 2021-08-25T07:17:33+01:00 @anthk (#<3pt7jpq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3pt7jpq>) "Hola. Pues debido a un ligero fallo, tengo que volver a configurar el cliente, pues lo hospedarรฉ via Gopher y suelo usar un "tilde" remoto para ello. En unos dรญas estarรก listo. Un saludo."โ€จโ€จOK, great! See you around soon then! :-) 2021-08-25T11:47:28+01:00 @ (#<26gymaq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=26gymaq>) Good idea! Hope it was a nice walk. :-)โ€จโ€จAnd, welcome! :-)โ€จโ€จcc @ 2021-08-25T13:32:25+01:00 @ @ (#<26gymaq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=26gymaq>) That would be a pretty big PR, wouldn't it? :-)โ€จโ€จThe gateway is my fault: couldn't think of another way to subscribe to that feed, in the moment; open to (interim) suggestions, though! :-) 2021-08-25T13:43:36+01:00 @ @ (#<26gymaq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=26gymaq>) Oh, cool! On both fronts. :-) OK, done. :-) It's already faster than Floodgap. ;-) 2021-08-25T17:24:43+01:00 @ @ (#) Indeed! \o/ 2021-08-25T17:27:10+01:00 @ @ (#) 100%. What's with platform seppuku in 2021 anyway? Maybe I'm overstating what Twitter's decided -- I hope I'm not ;-) -- but Freenode for sure, and OnlyFans, probably. Mad world. 2021-08-25T19:20:42+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Yeah. :-Pโ€จโ€จIncidentally, I've since seen in my feed that OF has done a 180; surprise, surprise. ;-) 2021-08-25T20:14:18+01:00 If it is public money, it should be public code as well. I support this call for more public code under a Free Software licence: https://publiccode.eu/ 2021-08-26T10:49:18+01:00 It's becoming a bit of a game: what will land on the scaffolding platform outside my bedroom / office window (from the massive construction project that is the block of flats up against us)?โ€จโ€จToday it was a full clip of nails (for a gun) and a pair of prescription glasses!โ€จโ€จMost days, it's just stones and clods of dirt โ€” from the guttering up there somewhere, presumably โ€” making it feel like I'm working below an impending avalanche. _sigh_ 2021-08-27T22:02:37+01:00 @ @ (#) Neat! 2021-08-30T12:25:52+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Sorry, just saw this. Yeah, nothing there yet, but nfld.uk works, for when I get around to building a site. :-) 2021-08-31T19:12:41+01:00 @ @lohn (#<4y7bgma https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4y7bgma>) Oh, I'd missed this. Need to brush up on webmentions; it was something I was certainly interested in last year... 2021-09-01T22:05:57+01:00 Finally started playing around with `mkws`, @! Lots of fun! :-) Now I need some content. ;-) 2021-09-02T01:17:02+01:00 @ (#) Of course! I'll update it now. :-) 2021-09-02T01:31:29+01:00 @ (#) Ha! Missed that in my attempts to catch up. :-) Sorted too, now. But, to answer your question: yup, I think so. ;-) 2021-09-02T19:34:43+01:00 My Now page has been decidedly not-now, until now. ;-)โ€จโ€จhttps://blog.nfld.uk/now 2021-09-02T22:41:20+01:00 @ (#) * tips his hat * :-) 2021-09-03T08:34:58+01:00 @ @ (#) Cool! ^ร—^ 2021-09-04T14:19:02+01:00 Well, I wasn't able to build it on arm64, after many attempts, but [my instance of LibreTranslate](https://translate.nfld.uk) is up and running now on amd64. @, if you want to test anything out with it and `yarnd`, I'll be happy to issue you an API key (so you aren't rate-limited). 2021-09-04T19:42:22+01:00 Anyone aware of other ethically- / sustainably-focused VPS providers? https://indieweb.social/@jonatasbaldin/106862654617983230 2021-09-05T06:13:53+01:00 @ @ (#) I am. 2021-09-05T06:15:23+01:00 (#) It's the main Matrix server implementation, written in Python. 2021-09-05T06:16:36+01:00 (#) Incidentally, I've updated nfld.uk with all the services I run. :-) 2021-09-05T10:40:11+01:00 @ (#<72sxpxq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=72sxpxq>) Ha ha. Yeah, I hear that. ;-)โ€จโ€จJust added another one today: an instance of [rss-proxy](https://github.com/damoeb/rss-proxy); hoping it'll live up to its initial promise! I so often find that sites don't have feeds when I really wish they did. :-) 2021-09-05T12:15:49+01:00 (#<72sxpxq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=72sxpxq>) @ Yeah, will do!โ€จโ€จHe's still working on it, with a release this year, and a commit last month. Seems that rich-rss is the project that's really consuming him now, though; he's even planning a paid, premium tier with it. From my point of view, though, the good news is that rich-rss seems to rely on rss-proxy for one of its many features, so it's unlikely to languish. :-)โ€จโ€จTrying to figure out what he's trying to do now... It's fairly complex, clearly! https://github.com/damoeb/rich-rss/blob/master/docs/Social-RSS.md 2021-09-05T16:03:43+01:00 [18F: a great example of the power of open source for public good](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AB3Sceki9GTuEGO3Si) 2021-09-05T16:08:08+01:00 @ @ (#) H'm... Strange. I did play with their Matrix<>IRC bridge code for a bit, so I'm not completely unfamiliar with that means of invoking it, but, for my homeserver, for example, I'm just running it through `synctl`, which does actually look for all the yaml config, etc. in the current working directory.โ€จโ€จI'll be interested to see how you get on, though, as I'm also looking to run Synapse on OpenBSD in the near future, for IRCNow.org. 2021-09-05T19:07:01+01:00 @ (#) Nice! 2021-09-06T16:08:52+01:00 Dang it, @! You got me (very briefly!) reading 'birdsite' again! ;-) 2021-09-06T17:54:02+01:00 @ (#) Ha ha. You're welcome. Now I just need to pick @'s brain about keeping it all backed up and somewhat resilient. :-) 2021-09-06T20:29:50+01:00 [Civic information as critical infrastructure! \o/](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AB5uzFeWowgs4oyfL6) 2021-09-07T14:03:56+01:00 @ @ Stumbled upon this (very popular, it seems!) YouTube channel, and thought that they raised some good points to keep in mind with any revival of a landing page like we had with jointwt: https://youtu.be/lFb7BOI_QFc 2021-09-07T21:25:32+01:00 @ (#) Cool! I don't really have a local anymore, between moving a few years ago, kids, and a pandemic. Need to sort that out, I think! 2021-09-07T22:15:50+01:00 "... The feed is reverse chronological, not algorithmic. Post timestamps are vague. Nothing is monetized. There are no likes or follows or noisy notifications. The siteโ€™s only visible metric counts down, showing how many posts each user has remaining..."โ€จโ€จhttps://minus.social/ 2021-09-07T22:17:58+01:00 @ @ (#) Ha ha. I'm guessing no. ;-) 2021-09-08T07:02:41+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Yeah, it's an art project, was my understanding too. 2021-09-08T07:21:28+01:00 @ (#) Interesting! He certainly has some thought-provoking ideas.โ€จโ€จhttps://networkcultures.org/blog/2021/06/29/platform-realism/โ€จโ€จI've subscribed to his feed. :-) 2021-09-08T10:08:03+01:00 @ (#) :-) I really like the idea of platform realism (i.e., Big Tech is so big, we can't see solutions that don't involve them), as I said on my fedi account. :-) https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AB8y9XsWnM4Sps0PRI 2021-09-08T10:27:04+01:00 (#<2x4g7ya https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2x4g7ya>) Holy crap! I thought the PATRIOT Act, and the general tone of that response twenty-odd years ago, was bad. This is... well, unreal... except it is very much real.โ€จโ€จSide note: that is an extremely effective campaign by DRW, I feel. Appropriately chilling! 2021-09-08T10:35:07+01:00 @ @ (#) Actually, off the back of poking around DRW's site, I found what I think is a good example of these discussions with 'short horizons': https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/AB9CwXfXlFKvjZBpVw 2021-09-08T11:54:00+01:00 @ (#) Agreed! 2021-09-10T08:19:35+01:00 @ @ (#) Ha. I may have, at one time; no longer! ;-D 2021-09-11T17:29:43+01:00 @ (#) Nice! 2021-09-12T07:33:24+01:00 @ (#) Cool! 2021-09-12T07:36:16+01:00 @ @So (#) Yeah, agreed. :-( 2021-09-12T07:41:47+01:00 @ @ @ (#) H'm, the mentions got a bit messed up there. 2021-09-12T11:05:40+01:00 Just found RoMote on F-Droid. Donated! Who needs Play (or their owner)? ;-) 2021-09-12T11:30:12+01:00 @ (#) Oh, an app to control our Roku stick. I'd assumed I'd have to grab the official one that I had on my old phone (from the Play Store); happy to be mistaken! 2021-09-12T21:35:16+01:00 LAPD's targeted social media surveillance: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/08/revealed-los-angeles-police-officers-gathering-social-mediaโ€จโ€จI should hope the policy is under review: written records, and the labels therein, have a way of sticking, I have no doubt. 2021-09-13T00:16:04+01:00 "... And that is the great shame and indeed I would say crime. There seems to be an incredible complacency that people in some parts of [Australia] will put up with the current measures and not demand the government look for more practical measures to boost both liberty and security..." [MR](https://lns.nobin.dev/lW6vBm) 2021-09-13T00:19:12+01:00 @ (#) :-D It's great fun! Lovin' `mkws`! 2021-09-13T00:29:26+01:00 I've often wondered how Dune holds up. I made it halfway through in my youth. Think I need to try again, based on Cowen's praise. [MR also](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/94ff6542dcb69a758957dc9abf4569e628e0b9e0) 2021-09-13T00:44:19+01:00 "When you say you want more freedom from the world, you may just need freedom from your past self. You donโ€™t see things as they are. You see them as you are. Change yourself and you change the world." (Derek Sivers โ€“ How to Live) 2021-09-13T00:45:04+01:00 @ (#) Oh, Frank Herbert sci-fi. 2021-09-13T01:18:20+01:00 @ @ (#) Yeah. I'm a big Lynch fan, and I remember enjoying aspects of it in that vein, but I'm hoping this latest interpretation will be closer to Herbert's aesthetic. 2021-09-13T08:38:18+01:00 @movq (#) Ha! Talk about a 90ยฐ turn in a functionality! ;-) 2021-09-13T10:34:59+01:00 @ @ (#) ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ˜ฎ 2021-09-13T10:39:35+01:00 @ @ (#<23yvqfq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=23yvqfq>) ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿค– 2021-09-13T19:42:08+01:00 "... U.S. users were more influenced by changes in othersโ€™ high arousal negative (e.g., angry) posts, whereas Japanese were more influenced by changes in othersโ€™ high arousal positive (e.g., excited) posts..." https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pspa0000282 2021-09-13T19:45:44+01:00 [Cowen on reading](https://www.driverlesscrocodile.com/books-and-recommendations/tyler-cowen-on-reading-fast-reading-well-and-reading-widely/)โ€จโ€จSeems impractical for most, without some sort of organised, external support (e.g., a zettelkasten). 2021-09-13T22:29:59+01:00 @ (#) Well, they're the cream of the crop, obviously. ;-D 2021-09-14T06:21:42+01:00 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ (#<3ll4fja https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3ll4fja>) Yeah, infrequently is fine with me (e.g., once a day). 2021-09-14T14:39:12+01:00 @ (#) ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿงถ๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿ‘Œ 2021-09-14T19:12:38+01:00 @ (#) Agreed. Really like it. 2021-09-14T19:21:57+01:00 [Cowen: Why I'm reluctant to endorse preschool](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/why-i-am-reluctant-to-endorse-preschool.html) 2021-09-14T20:58:47+01:00 @ (#) Yup. Supported the site for a year, actually. :-) I'm jlj there too. :-) 2021-09-14T20:59:29+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, it's too wide. Need to rethink it. :-) 2021-09-14T23:46:11+01:00 @ (#<4y72sfq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4y72sfq>) This is so upsetting, on so many levels. Feels like we haven't made much progress at all.โ€จโ€จAnd how's it supposed to change, when policy makers are ill-equipped, for reasons you rightly highlighted? 2021-09-15T03:07:07+01:00 @ @ (#<4y72sfq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4y72sfq>) Yes, I too think that's the same source, @. 2021-09-15T06:38:55+01:00 '... In March, the researchers said Instagram should reduce exposure to celebrity content about fashion, beauty and relationships, while increasing exposure to content from close friends, according to a slide deck they uploaded to Facebookโ€™s internal message board. A current employee, in comments on the message board, questioned that idea, saying celebrities with perfect lives were key to the app. โ€œIsnโ€™t that what IG is mostly about?โ€ he wrote...'โ€จโ€จWell, that'd be a start... 2021-09-15T06:41:36+01:00 (#) Incidentally, when I joined, pre bookface, IG was about photography; sharing your shots, and interests.โ€จโ€จAnd I guess it wasn't making enough money for them, greedy $+*&s. 2021-09-15T06:43:50+01:00 (#) Oops. This was supposed to be part of (#<4y72sfq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4y72sfq>). :-) 2021-09-15T09:18:52+01:00 @ (#) (#<4y72sfq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4y72sfq>) Yeah, these companies can't continue without the people who write the code. But there are lots of people willing to do that, I guess. :-( 2021-09-15T14:04:58+01:00 @ @ (#) Oh, cool! When can I look forward to playing with this? :-D 2021-09-15T15:25:51+01:00 @ @ (#) ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿค˜ 2021-09-15T17:00:36+01:00 @ (#) ๐Ÿ‘‹โ˜• 2021-09-15T20:36:55+01:00 (#) Just saw this @, but came to the same conclusion independently. :-) 2021-09-16T00:15:02+01:00 (#) @ LinkedIn :-)โ€จโ€จ@ Happy birthday! ๐ŸŽ‚ 2021-09-16T06:18:37+01:00 @ (#<5i3df5a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5i3df5a>) I *think* it's a quick way to start a new conversation with the same people, so each conversation can stick to one topic. 2021-09-16T06:32:00+01:00 (#<5i3df5a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5i3df5a>) I finally started running the latest *master* branch yesterday, so it's new to me too. :-) 2021-09-16T12:14:03+01:00 @ @ (#<5i3df5a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5i3df5a>) Will do. :-) And I've added it to my Links section on nfld.uk. :-) 2021-09-17T12:18:58+01:00 (#) Who dis? ๐Ÿค” I like your moustache. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-09-17T14:32:19+01:00 @movq @ (#<7mepzeq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7mepzeq>) Nice! 2021-09-17T16:25:37+01:00 [Canadian and German elections put contrasting voting systems in the spotlight](https://www.politics.co.uk/comment/2021/09/09/canadian-and-german-elections-put-contrasting-voting-systems-in-the-spotlight/)โ€จโ€จI used to be a bit of a voting systems junkie; haven't kept up with it, though: I didn't realise that so many democracies have moved away from First Past The Post systems. 2021-09-17T17:57:11+01:00 [Fediverse woes](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/09/17/fediverse-woes) 2021-09-17T21:00:41+01:00 Ugh, humans.โ€จโ€จ"... The Doing Business report has been the subject of an external probe into the integrity of the reportโ€™s data. On Thursday, the bank released the results of that investigation, which concluded that senior bank leaders including Ms. Georgieva were involved in pressuring economists to improve Chinaโ€™s 2018 ranking. At the time, she and others were attempting to persuade China to support a boost in the bankโ€™s funding..."โ€จโ€จhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/world-bank-cancels-flagship-doing-business-report-after-investigation-11631811663 2021-09-17T22:21:30+01:00 Horrifying.โ€จโ€จ"... At times the CDC seemed more interested in its own โ€œintellectual propertyโ€ than in saving lives. In a jaw-dropping section, Dr. Gottlieb writes that โ€œcompanies seeking to make the test kits described extended negotiations with the CDC that stretched for weeks as the agency made sure that the contracts protected its inventions.โ€ When every day of delay could mean thousands of lives lost down the line, the CDC was dickering over test royalties..."โ€จโ€จhttps://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/scott-gottliebs-uncontrolled-spead.html 2021-09-17T22:24:43+01:00 @ (#) It wasn't a dig, mate, honest! You're doing great work, and it takes but a moment for interested parties to find their way here, I'm sure. :-)โ€จโ€จThat said, we could use an artist or two on the roster, you aren't wrong. ;-) 2021-09-18T06:38:50+01:00 [Instagram CEO Mosseri on its value to society](https://www.inputmag.com/culture/instagram-ceo-hit-with-backlash-after-comparing-the-app-to-car-safety): an article in need of an editor, but worth reading simply because it's a window on the mind of a person at the heart of broken social media. This isn't just Zuck.โ€จโ€จThat he thinks the complaints stem from being misquoted is at once laughable and horrifying. This company is not only willfully ignoring the objective harm it is doing, it's actively peddling a narrative advocating an intrinsic value above even that of the devices that run it.โ€จโ€จHubris. But hubris causing direct harm to millions. 2021-09-18T09:26:57+01:00 "... Then I remembered the Law Of Rationalist Irony: the smugger you feel about having caught a bias in someone else, the more likely you are falling victim to that bias right now, in whatever way would be most embarrassing..."โ€จโ€จhttps://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-play-in-threeโ€จโ€จPretty sure that's my kryptonite.โ€จโ€จAlso, I've ordered [The Scout Mindset](https://juliagalef.com). 2021-09-18T11:37:30+01:00 @ (#) Ha ha. Very nice! 2021-09-18T11:57:16+01:00 [Karnofsky on Asimov](https://www.cold-takes.com/asimovs-chronology-of-science-and-discovery/)โ€จโ€จI'd forgotten how prolific Asimov was. Picked up a secondhand copy of this beast, for fun. (A dad needs every trick he can get his hands on to seem smart in front of the kiddos. ;-) ) 2021-09-18T22:24:41+01:00 @movq (#) Idyllic! 2021-09-19T08:13:00+01:00 @ (#) Followed. I've kept your old feed as oldsnake. :-) 2021-09-19T16:50:52+01:00 @ (#) I like it! :-) 2021-09-19T16:53:33+01:00 (#) @ @movq +1 -- neat! 2021-09-19T17:01:43+01:00 (#) Interesting -- I had no idea that blogs were any different; thanks for the heads-up, @! Good to see you too. :-) 2021-09-19T17:07:42+01:00 (#) Looks like GNU social is now advocating a Docker based deployment; might opt for that instead, actually. That's the route I went down, hosting vaultwarden on my Pi 3A, and I'm pretty happy with the results, to date. 2021-09-19T17:11:50+01:00 (#<76gq4oa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=76gq4oa>) H'm, manually copying a hashtag to a comment didn't seem to work. Is this still associated with my latest blog post? 2021-09-19T17:14:14+01:00 (#<76gq4oa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=76gq4oa>) @ Ah, it is. So, for the time being, maybe immediately commenting on a blog post is the way forward. (#) 2021-09-19T17:59:14+01:00 [Hanson on elite influence on policy](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/09/elite-biases-make-policy-biases.html):โ€จโ€จ"... It seems to me that policy does tend to be overly trusting of elites and their status-gossip system, and overly punitive and disrespectful of rival groups. For example, policy pushes us to pick docs, lawyers, and other prestigious professionals based more on the prestige of their affiliations, and less on track records or incentives. Business does seem greatly overly regulated, and taxes seem overly punitive. And policy seems to rely too much on the consensus of elite gossip, relative to more accurate sources like experts or prediction markets..." 2021-09-19T19:23:09+01:00 @ @ (#<5gb3dqq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5gb3dqq>) That's an interesting point. It most certainly aids discovery, but at what cost? I hadn't considered that, up to this point. 2021-09-19T19:26:16+01:00 (#) @ Hanson actually uses the phrase free hearing; reminded me of your contribution to the yarn.social manifesto. :-) 2021-09-19T22:33:46+01:00 [Premier Jason Kenney implored to seek military backup as Alberta health-care system crumbles](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/kenney-military-alberta-health-care-1.6181646)โ€จโ€จD: 2021-09-19T23:19:16+01:00 ![Forty concepts you should know](https://twitter.com/g_s_bhogal/status/1438972527838117895)โ€จโ€จBirdsite, sorry. :-/ 2021-09-19T23:22:18+01:00 (#) D'oh, double sorry:โ€จโ€จ[Forty concepts you should know](https://twitter.com/g_s_bhogal/status/1438972527838117895) 2021-09-20T08:44:08+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, I put LineageOS on an original Pixel that was new (to me); couldn't be happier. 2021-09-20T08:52:17+01:00 (#) Cool. I'll check it out! 2021-09-20T08:59:59+01:00 (#) @ Yeah, sure. :-) I'll put together a final draft for review on HackMD first. 2021-09-20T09:16:59+01:00 (#<76gq4oa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=76gq4oa>) Oh really? I guess that's my fault, adding that second hashtag. Re ideas, I was wondering about that Blog button, beside Reply: couldn't we just treat a blog post like any other link? That we reply to, starting conversations? 2021-09-20T11:16:08+01:00 @ (#) Oh, yeah, good shout. :-) 2021-09-21T00:51:53+01:00 @ (#) Looks lush. Still hopin' Abby will go to sleep at some point, and let me do the same. :-) 2021-09-21T01:02:32+01:00 [MPs tell public: โ€˜Receive proper adviceโ€™ over vaccine concerns](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/a438d148857dffebc07552fc82076080e87201cd)โ€จโ€จThat feels like an abdication of responsibility, to me.โ€จโ€จSee, on the surface, that's sound advice. But, if ten million people decide to follow it over the next few days, can the GP surgeries cope? The government needs to be the source of clear, concise advice on this, backed by the best information we have, and transparently so. 2021-09-21T02:05:27+01:00 [More on Hanania and expertise](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/f138151075ce1e2a95ac90cfed8775efa5578383)โ€จโ€จWhat I like about his argument is the emphasis on the costs of getting this wrong: if we rely on unproven expertise, the costs can be horrific. And it isn't like Afghanistan was an outlier, an anomaly. I believe there's good evidence to suggest that, in the UK, the recession or recessions following the 2008 financial crisis wouldn't have been so prolonged had the government not leaned in on austerity policy as it did; even from an economic point of view, it wasn't a good decision. (I have strong opinions on austerity more generally, of course, but we needn't cloud this point with what could be misconstrued as politics.) 2021-09-21T07:11:37+01:00 (#) @ @ Yeah, let me know if you'd like an invite. 2021-09-21T09:37:48+01:00 @ (#) No prob :-) https://tildes.net/register?code=QL2C1-Z15TO-5OASBโ€จโ€จThey're one-time use, but I've got a few more if anyone else is interested. 2021-09-21T11:06:52+01:00 @ (#) Neat! Ta! 2021-09-21T11:15:52+01:00 @ (#) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-21T11:56:06+01:00 @ @ (#) ๐Ÿ‘ 2021-09-21T11:59:33+01:00 Speaking of tildes, [there's a story on the front page now about the e-waste Bitcoin produces](https://tildes.net/~enviro/yir/bitcoins_growing_e_waste_problem). As if the electricity requirements weren't bad enough! 2021-09-21T12:02:26+01:00 (#<25qamca https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=25qamca>) My wife was talking about a Guardian piece on it just last week. Can't help feeling that this and bookface is the sum total of some folks exposure to tech. Not a great look! 2021-09-21T13:35:42+01:00 Bloody minority Lib gov't again. The longer I'm away from Canada, the less I like the lack of fixed election dates.โ€จโ€จWhat a waste of time and resources. 2021-09-21T13:37:52+01:00 @ (#<25qamca https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=25qamca>) Ah, I'll check that out. Ta! 2021-09-21T13:39:59+01:00 @ (#) ๐Ÿ˜‚ She's a birdsite lurker, sadly. It's a longer term campaign on my part, shall we say. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-09-21T13:40:47+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Bauhaus is my favourite. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-21T14:36:30+01:00 @ Yeah, exactly. Sorry, @, just bein' an idiot. ๐Ÿ˜œ (#<5hkorya https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5hkorya>) 2021-09-21T17:41:37+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Ha ha. Yeah, happy to give proper multi-user hosting a go! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘ 2021-09-21T17:47:07+01:00 @ (#) Ha ha. Good point. And I've got Twitter RSS feed support working through self-hosted RSSHub too. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-21T18:06:29+01:00 [No, youโ€™re not โ€˜just asking questions.โ€™ Youโ€™re spreading disinformation.](https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/12/17/no-youre-not-just-asking-questions-youre-spreading-disinformation/)โ€จโ€จI assumed this was about Tucker Carlson, based on the headline. Sadly, it's about folks who really should know better.โ€จโ€จ[Tildes.net comments](https://tildes.net/~talk/yhw/no_youre_not_just_asking_questions_youre_spreading_disinformation) 2021-09-21T19:12:06+01:00 [Screen time and early adolescent mental health, academic, and social outcomes in 9- and 10- year old children: Utilizing the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Studyโ€จKatie Paulich et al.โ€จPLoS ONE, September 2021](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256591)โ€จโ€จWe investigate relationships between screen time and mental health, behavioral problems, academic performance, sleep habits, and peer relationships by conducting a series of correlation and regression analyses, controlling for SES and race/ethnicity. We find that more screen time is moderately associated with worse mental health, increased behavioral problems, decreased academic performance, and poorer sleep, but heightened quality of peer relationships. However, effect sizes associated with screen time and the various outcomes were modest; SES was more strongly associated with each outcome measure. Our analyses do not establish causality and the small effect sizes observed suggest that increased screen time is unlikely to be directly harmful to 9-and-10-year-old children.โ€จโ€จVia [National Affairs](https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/rightful-parents) 2021-09-21T19:15:09+01:00 (#) SES is socioeconomic status. I had to look that up. ;-) 2021-09-21T20:25:30+01:00 (#<25qamca https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=25qamca>) Luke Smith is great. Hadn't watched him for ages. Subscribed, in NewPipe, now. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-21T22:37:23+01:00 @ (#) Yes, sorry. Ambiguous response. ๐Ÿ˜œ List mine, please. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-21T22:40:23+01:00 @ Just works. @ has made more use of it than me, I believe, but, yeah, you're just entering your code under your account settings. I changed the default fonts, so far. (#) 2021-09-21T22:41:41+01:00 @ @ (#) lol. OK, scratch that. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-09-22T04:00:14+01:00 @ (#) How about A yarn.social pod hosted in the UK by jlj, linking to nfld.uk? 2021-09-23T00:39:22+01:00 @ (#) Ha ha. I never thought about trying to securely serve it over the Internet. It occupies a space of quaint antiquity in my head now, @, like the Cuckoo's Egg, and even GeoCities now, I guess.โ€จโ€จIt does actually work between ^C club members -- ctrl-c.club -- though, which is pretty fun, and around the time when I revived it as a trope for my personal sites.โ€จโ€จFor the twenty-plus years of my career, though, it's been a line item in your pentest report, not something for a howto. ;-) 2021-09-23T00:46:24+01:00 (#) Hi @! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome to my pod! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘ 2021-09-23T00:48:45+01:00 (#) Oops, missed some of the more recent replies on this before diving in. It's great, how active yarn.social is these days. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-23T00:52:01+01:00 (#<5x7ewsa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=5x7ewsa>) Yeah, I'll echo this: I have a rough budget, and if I like the project, I'll spend the time tracking down their preferred method. I even bought Bitcoin for this purpose, on one occasion. (Not trivial!) 2021-09-23T04:36:43+01:00 @ (#) I think I will! (But not at 4am. ๐Ÿ˜‚)โ€จโ€จIt's funny, the things you hang on to. Reducing the attack surface ruthlessly, versus tinkering and having fun (while taking sensible precautions); that's sort of the transition I've been going through, over the last year, in this new job. 2021-09-23T04:41:27+01:00 @ @ (#) Yeah, I always have the same problem with your /. replies. ๐Ÿ™‚ But, as @ says, it's just a matter an extra step to visit the whole conversation on your pod. 2021-09-23T04:50:14+01:00 @ @lin (#) Could [my instance of LibreTranslate](https://translate.nfld.uk/) help with building a prototype? 2021-09-23T07:47:06+01:00 @ @ (#) I do, yup. 2021-09-23T07:53:03+01:00 @ (#<4hbckpq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4hbckpq>) I'd have to do some benchmarking to answer that properly -- under normal and peak usage, etc. -- but, as it stands, it's negligible, in a Docker container, behind NGINX. 2021-09-23T10:09:20+01:00 @ (#<4hbckpq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4hbckpq>) Sure thing!โ€จโ€จI just use the defaults at: https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate#run-with-dockerโ€จโ€จBut they offer a number of customisations as well. 2021-09-23T13:04:51+01:00 @ (#<4hbckpq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4hbckpq>) Oops. Forgot that. Yeah, there's build instructions for offline deployment, where you grab all that beforehand. But it's big regardless, I guess. ๐Ÿ˜› 2021-09-23T19:44:16+01:00 [Westminster needs to learn from the rest of the UK when it comes to fairer votes](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/44b1af3731c6df7aee35f8ff73d6a0e7b4698755)โ€จโ€จ"... And there is more Labour can learn from the success of PR in Scotland, Wales and London. A recent report by the Electoral Reform Society looking at two decades of PR in Britain found that it produces much fairer outcomes for devolved elections in Scotland, Wales and London than โ€˜one party takes allโ€™ First Past the Post..." 2021-09-23T20:42:23+01:00 @ (#<4hbckpq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4hbckpq>) Uh... Well, to start, `docker stats` on the container returns:โ€จโ€จCONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDSโ€จeb3740950384 clever_maxwell 0.01% 73.93MiB / 15.52GiB 0.47% 3.81GB / 108MB 1.17GB / 0B 53โ€จโ€จIt's been up for two weeks with minimal usage afaik. 2021-09-23T22:52:33+01:00 ['Secure' Is Meaningless](https://nora.codes/post/secure-is-meaningless/)โ€จโ€จ[Such a great blog post by @tindall ๐Ÿ‘...](https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/ABfMONSykRwavPAbLs) 2021-09-24T10:23:27+01:00 @ @ (#) +1 re slick! ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-24T10:28:45+01:00 [โ€œIโ€™ve always thought that a free trade deal with the U.S. would be difficultโ€ โ€“ and what this Prime Ministerโ€™s falsehood tells us about law and policy](https://davidallengreen.com/2021/09/ive-always-thought-that-a-free-trade-deal-with-the-u-s-would-be-difficult-and-what-this-prime-ministers-falsehood-tells-us-about-law-and-policy/)โ€จโ€จ"... This is one thing that George Orwell perhaps did not correctly anticipate in Nineteen Eighty-four โ€“ *there would be no need to employ the likes of Winston Smith to go back and change the historical record, as it would make no difference as to whether people believed new false claims.*โ€จโ€จ... For as this blog has said many times: exposing lies is not enough when people do not mind the lies.โ€จโ€จSo we are now in a bubble of faux-historical sentimentality and hyper-partisanship, where the truth of the historical record makes no difference.โ€จโ€จYou may think the bubble cannot carry on, but yet it does.โ€จโ€จIt is the paradox of our age: it has never been easier to expose a falsehood, yet the falsehoods continue to have purchase.โ€จโ€จAnd from this many of our current problems in law and policy follow."โ€จโ€จ(emphasis mine)โ€จโ€จI have to say, the state of things right now makes me wish for a do-over; the only question is the scale of the do-over I desire. There are no hands to follow this one, otherwise, I think I'd fold. 2021-09-24T10:30:30+01:00 @ @ (#) Want, want, want! ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘โ€จโ€จLove this community! 2021-09-24T11:22:29+01:00 @ (#) I think heredoc is a poor name.โ€จโ€จIt's funny, I've been working with some really smart people over the last year, many of whom are new to Unix, or at least to the level we take it in this job. Heredoc is universally a concept that messes them up, and I think the name is part of the problem. I've seen it... three times now? They get it, in the end, of course, but there's always that stumble. 2021-09-24T11:33:32+01:00 @ @ (#) Interesting! I just had to point out *mentions* to @ the other day, as he wasn't sure how to find out whether anyone had responded in any of the conversations he was in or had started; this feels like it might be a subtle way to draw the eye to that.โ€จโ€จI wonder whether it would trigger any of that addictive behaviour we're trying to avoid here... ๐Ÿค” To be honest, that's probably always going to be a tradeoff, and this feels like it might be landing on the side of 'worth it.' :-) 2021-09-24T12:32:00+01:00 Latest arrivals! ๐Ÿ•ฎ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/vBo9dJLE2c4iLij3tnphUM) 2021-09-24T12:35:47+01:00 (#) Hey there! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-24T13:17:38+01:00 @ (#<45yvgxq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=45yvgxq>) Oh, wow, yeah! Right, I'm going update later too then! 2021-09-24T13:51:14+01:00 @ @ (#<45yvgxq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=45yvgxq>) It does! (I couldn't wait: had to update immediately! And it's looovely!) 2021-09-24T14:03:07+01:00 @ @ (#<45yvgxq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=45yvgxq>) That's correct (as he busily adds it to his pod's whitelist ;-) ). 2021-09-24T14:08:01+01:00 @ @ (#<45yvgxq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=45yvgxq>) If I go to your *sp* profile on my pod now, I see those images inline, straight away. :-) 2021-09-24T14:27:59+01:00 (#<25d6gla https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=25d6gla>) @ @movq Ha ha. +1 for yarn threads. :-) 2021-09-24T22:41:22+01:00 [Great interview with Amia Srinivasan](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/my-conversation-with-amia-srinivasan.html)โ€จโ€จI bought a secondhand copy of [Another Green World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Green_World) off the back of it. But it's got the ole gears goin' too. ;-)โ€จโ€จ[Cohen's comments, post-interview, are what actually piqued my interest](http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/09/a-few-observations-on-my-latest-podcast-with-amia-srinivasan.html) 2021-09-25T22:30:12+01:00 @ (#<3c6h5iq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3c6h5iq>) Heya! Family visiting, which has been fun. :-) 2021-09-25T22:37:30+01:00 @ (#) Love it! ๐Ÿ–Œ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ™‚ 2021-09-26T01:15:31+01:00 [A Woman and a Philosopher: An Interview with Amia Srinivasan](https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/09/22/a-woman-and-a-philosopher-an-interview-with-amia-srinivasan/)โ€จโ€จ"... I was supervised by two philosophers who work in very abstract epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic, and I would absolutely hate the idea that they would have to show the political relevance of what they do. While the arts and the humanities more broadly have an important social and political function, their justification should never rely on that function. And so, Iโ€™m very worried about an impetus to make the humanities politically relevant. I donโ€™t think their political importance lies in their relevance. When they are relevant, thatโ€™s a lovely thing, because it would be a tragedy to leave politics to the politicians or the social scientists..." 2021-09-26T10:11:48+01:00 @ @ (#) Nice stein! What were you drinking? I had a few IPAs last night. ๐Ÿบ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-26T10:14:01+01:00 @ (#<33ajpbq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=33ajpbq>) Nice! The twtxt.net URL doesn't resolve for me, though, FYI. 2021-09-26T18:41:14+01:00 @ (#) Nice! There ya go, @! ;-) 2021-09-26T18:51:22+01:00 @ @ (#) Oh, I think that's the best yarn emoji I've seen. ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-26T18:56:47+01:00 (#) Nice! I'm pretty lucky to have these folks right in town: https://deyabrewing.com/โ€จโ€จHard on the pocketbook, though! ;-) 2021-09-26T22:16:38+01:00 @ @ (#<2j2dlya https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2j2dlya>) ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-26T22:18:51+01:00 @ @ (#) Yes, welcome! ๐Ÿ‘‹ And to you too, @! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-26T22:42:59+01:00 @ (#) Thanks! ๐Ÿ˜ I'm having a lot of fun with it. ๐Ÿ™‚ I think I might incorporate the OpenMoji project next; thanks for the pointer, @! 2021-09-27T06:30:36+01:00 (#) So I don't seem to have anything in Mentions. Is there something I need to be doing? 2021-09-27T13:42:03+01:00 @ (#) Nah, no dice. But, yeah, I confirmed that I'm following both of your accounts properly. 2021-09-27T13:43:20+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Interesting. So, I wonder what my raw timeline looks like then, that that logic isn't matching mentions correctly in my case. ๐Ÿค” 2021-09-27T13:45:13+01:00 More new arrivals ๐Ÿ•ฎ๐Ÿ˜โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/73GvGZ6ngseYBESQppeGBF) 2021-09-27T14:35:31+01:00 @ (#) Ha. Neat! I'll check that out: it isn't skipping, when it's non-fiction; that's part of reading those books well, I think. :-) 2021-09-27T15:04:13+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Ah, nice. OK, I'll grab that update tonight. I don't really use it, but I know @ does, or would do, assuming it works for other pod members. So I want to make sure it does! :-) 2021-09-27T15:45:05+01:00 @ @ (#) A friend, from Matrix. :-) 2021-09-27T16:48:16+01:00 @ @ (#) A Pixel 3 [from this convo :-)](https://twtxt.net/conv/ugm2asa) 2021-09-27T19:14:57+01:00 My visa has been approved.โ€จโ€จWow.โ€จโ€จThat's... quite surreal.โ€จโ€จIndefinite leave to remain.โ€จโ€จWow. 2021-09-27T23:33:18+01:00 (#<2q6fhfa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2q6fhfa>) No, to stay. :-)โ€จโ€จThis is the (very positive!) conclusion to my applications that are collectively known as the Five-year route to UK settlement.โ€จโ€จAny other conclusion would've seen me trying to figure out how to move my life back to Canada. D: 2021-09-28T02:03:26+01:00 @ (#) Ah, nice. I feel like this is the culmination of my blog post / dig that honestly wasn't a dig. ๐Ÿ˜‚โ€จโ€จMan, your commitment to this project, in terms of both time and money, is inspiring! 2021-09-28T02:05:56+01:00 @ @ (#<2q6fhfa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2q6fhfa>) Oh, cool. Yeah, hoping to extend this pandemic mode of socialising a bit, at some point. Maybe in 2022? ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-09-28T10:22:59+01:00 @ @ (#) The LineageOS installation kept crashing for me, before I updated to the last Android release for the original Pixel. Then it went smoothly. 2021-09-28T10:28:57+01:00 (#) Done!โ€จโ€จI couldn't do Revolut yet, as they're waiting for official documents from me -- which I can soon supply, thanks to my visa being approved! :-) 2021-09-28T11:26:00+01:00 (#) Ha ha. Indeed: I can stay ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง, and, as soon as my biometric residence permit arrives, I can get my Revolut account working once again. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-28T13:04:27+01:00 @ (#) ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ‘ Enjoy! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-09-28T15:36:42+01:00 @ (#) I like it. Could maybe do with the 'tail' following a bit of a different path... Not sure. But, yes, I'd definitely put it up there with the OpenMoji you shared as a favourite. 2021-09-28T15:42:21+01:00 @ @ (#) As an [HI](https://www.hellointernet.fm/) fan, I'm on [Hover](https://www.hover.com/). :-) (Incidentally, I thought it was pretty funny to see [the Nail & Gear flag on OpenMoji](https://openmoji.org/library/#emoji=1F3F3-FE0F-200D-1F4CC-200D-2699-FE0F)! ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ˜‚)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/4LD7aCvUjUvqDJCDCzFywN) 2021-09-28T16:35:59+01:00 @ @ (#) They were a big sponsor of HI, in the early days. And, re the flag, they had this whole flag contest where people sent them designs on postcards, and that one was the winner, and now the official flag of the show. (It's a combination of Grey's gear logo for his YT channel, and Brady being 'Hard As Nails' Haran. ;-) ) 2021-09-29T10:27:43+01:00 [Chinaโ€™s Economic Statecraft in the Developing World with Dr. Matt Ferchen](https://www.gmfus.org/news/chinas-economic-statecraft-developing-world-dr-matt-ferchen)โ€จโ€จInteresting interview (at 1.5x speed, @search_social ;-) ). Near the end they talk about how competing with China's strategy in these parts of the world is supposedly a priority of Western governments, but then the private sector isn't really included in that approach, and, in fact, may not even consider it a priority, meaning that there may actually be limited alternatives to coal, for example, on the ground in these countries, and what they really see of the West is an emphasis on security arrangements almost exclusively. 2021-09-29T20:35:38+01:00 [Scout Mindset book review by Star Astral Codex](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-scout-mindset) ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿค“โค 2021-10-02T07:50:59+01:00 @movq @ (#) Yeah, I had to unfollow just to see anything else in my timeline! ๐Ÿ™„ 2021-10-02T08:04:07+01:00 (#) And me! Ta! ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ‘ 2021-10-02T08:05:50+01:00 (#) โž•โž• for saved.ioโ€จโ€จI loved delicious, back in the day. 2021-10-02T08:10:42+01:00 (#) Ooo, which one? ๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ˜œ 2021-10-02T08:12:48+01:00 @ (#) That's a great point; hadn't followed that through, logically, before now. 2021-10-02T08:18:58+01:00 @ (#<3sd6tia https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=3sd6tia>) Oh, noted! ๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ’ก 2021-10-02T09:06:04+01:00 @movq (#) Oh, interesting synopsis. Broadly, it reminds me of [Les Revenants] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Returned_(French_TV_series)). 2021-10-02T09:31:00+01:00 [In plain sight, Boris Johnson is rigging the system to stay in power- Jonathan Freedland](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/boris-johnson-rigging-the-system-power-courts-protest-elections) ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ 2021-10-02T10:39:25+01:00 I definitely don't want to give bookface any money, but, boy, I didn't realise how far productivity VR had come in recent years!โ€จโ€จSimulaVR even seems to be making progress on the FOSS front!โ€จโ€จ[Via HN500](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/d1f05c99c9549ceb96063e9fa48f8999e3cc9531) 2021-10-02T18:32:37+01:00 @ @ (#) Love a groaning bookshelf. ๐Ÿง๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜œ 2021-10-03T01:41:07+01:00 (#) https://pbat.ch/sndkit/ says SourceHutโ€จโ€จI follow him in the Fediverse too. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-03T08:29:18+01:00 [Hanson: The 'Long Reflection' is a Crazy Bad Idea](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/10/long-reflection-is-crazy-bad-idea.html)โ€จโ€จThis is... just as messed up as The Great Reset, in some ways; far more so, really. Setting aside that I don't see how you can reduce existential risk *without* space colonisation, it amazes me how tone-deaf philosophers can be, talking about a future with absolutely no individual agency.โ€จโ€จTerrifying.โ€จโ€จNo, thank you. 2021-10-03T09:29:40+01:00 [Hanson, on Cowen's interview with Srinivasan](https://www.overcomingbias.com/2021/09/srinivasan-gets-me-wrong.html)โ€จโ€จI enjoyed that interview. I think Hanson makes some great points too. 2021-10-03T09:32:40+01:00 @ (#) Quite ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-03T17:57:19+01:00 "I really wish OSS communities would stop defaulting to Discord or Slack. Your software isnโ€™t a lifestyle. I donโ€™t want to live with the goddamn thing. I want a forum I can visit once in a while, not to take out an attention mortgage."โ€จโ€จ[Baldur Bjarnason](https://toot.cafe/@baldur/106987614461450823)โ€จโ€จ๐Ÿ‘‰ "attention mortgage" ๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ‘Œ 2021-10-03T20:01:56+01:00 (#) Alas ๐Ÿ˜’โ€จโ€จThing is, if people are either bit busy, non-archived mediums are terrible for support. I'm trying to fix a puzzler of a problem (or problems) with my Pleroma instance at the moment, and even IRC is proving pretty barren.โ€จโ€จI'm now working with a friend of a friend administrator, and another one who originally reached out because my activityrelay instance was effectively spamming his. ๐Ÿ˜ฌโ€จโ€จGive me a forum or mailing list to search! Please! 2021-10-03T20:06:57+01:00 @ (#) On my web server? Not much. It's a 15+ Dell my mother-in-law had that was gathering dust. 4GB, maybe? 2021-10-03T20:34:18+01:00 [AI Movie Posters](https://noahveltman.com/aimovies/)โ€จโ€จFun! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-03T20:43:36+01:00 @ (#) Ah. Bought another 8GB for my main desktop last year, bringing it up to 16GB. That Dell actually has 2GB(!). My netbook, running Synapse, has 1GB. Same for my beleaguered Pi that's sort of running Pleroma.โ€จโ€จA bunch of zombies, really, is my army. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐ŸงŸ 2021-10-04T16:03:13+01:00 @ (#) ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ˜Ž 2021-10-04T17:16:29+01:00 (#) @ Oh, missed these questions: Discord runs OK on my Linux desktop, but I don't do it often; I use the Android app when I want to see what's up with those friends. I only use Slack on work's MacBook Air, which runs fine on 8GB of RAM.โ€จโ€จOh, and I've just moved my pod to a Pi with 500MB of RAM lol. Seems happy, so far, which is yet another 'selling' feature of yarn.social, I think. :-)โ€จโ€จYeah, overall, I have no idea what's normal these days. I think it's safe to say I'm under-powered, on that front (and others, no doubt!). ;-) 2021-10-04T23:14:16+01:00 @ @fastidious_anb @ (#<7zwkh2q https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7zwkh2q>) I don't know what happened to him; his Mastodon instance didn't last longer either. :-( 2021-10-04T23:16:53+01:00 @ @todd-davies (#) Ha ha. I had a similar thought. :-) 2021-10-04T23:45:18+01:00 @ (#) Thank you. :-) Pretty chuffed! 2021-10-06T00:38:38+01:00 (#) Oh no!โ€จโ€จYou've always struck me as an upstanding person, for what that's worth. :-) 2021-10-06T01:31:14+01:00 I feel like conflating sustainability with advertising is unhelpful, particularly given the attention this *New Public* project seems to be receiving.โ€จโ€จExcerpt from [A Field Guide to Social Media](https://newpublic.substack.com/p/a-field-guide-to-social-media):โ€จโ€จDecentralized Logic: What if social media worked more like email?โ€จโ€จPros:โ€จโ€จ Decentralized technology means that these platforms emphasize autonomy and privacy. โ€จโ€จ There is no central entity that controls user data, meaning centralized governance and surveillant advertising in the tradition of Facebook are essentially impossible. โ€จโ€จCons:โ€จโ€จ Finding sustainable revenue models for decentralized platforms is an open problem and a significant barrier to growth and sustainability.โ€จโ€จ Developers need incentives to create compelling platforms and, because decentralization (along with the entrenched positions of the dominant platforms) effectively rules out targeted advertising, new revenue models will have to emerge that can support sustainable growth. 2021-10-06T01:34:17+01:00 @ @ @ (#) Oh, jan6? Interesting. Just trying to get Abby back to sleep, and then do the same myself; give me a few hours. ;-D 2021-10-06T02:06:43+01:00 [Are.na](https://are.na) looks interesting, but fairly inaccessible: no syndication, even for their blog; exporting to PDF, zip and HTML; exclusive apps, etc.โ€จโ€จAnyone used it? It's certainly piqued my interest, regarding its longevity alone. 2021-10-06T09:13:56+01:00 (#) Yeah, I think it's like a creative wiki.โ€จโ€จJust wish these projects considered how differently we perceive and interact with the world: first impression is that it's unnecessarily visually focused; could be wrong, though, I suppose. 2021-10-06T09:21:16+01:00 (#) We're proving right now that people's efforts alone can create community, without advertising. Yes, there are limits to how this will scale, and what it will ask of its members even now, but let's talk about that, as opposed to jumping straight to "We need to commoditise the attention here now, or this will die." 2021-10-06T17:11:43+01:00 Now listening to ๐ŸŽถ *Divine the Rest (John Supko)* by NOW Ensemble ๐ŸŽต 2021-10-06T17:29:55+01:00 @ (#) I really like it! Particularly how everything a new user would need is 'above the fold'. :-) 2021-10-07T10:52:36+01:00 @ (#) Yeah, agreed. Initially I didn't notice, as I was following the yarns account; had to stop: too chatty! ;-) 2021-10-07T17:13:19+01:00 @ @ (#<4vlaleq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=4vlaleq>) I've often wondered this! And he welcomes all new arrivals in a timely fashion too, as far as I can tell! ๐Ÿคฏ 2021-10-07T20:07:52+01:00 Bizarre.โ€จโ€จ[The International Energy Agency publishes the detailed, global energy data we all need, but its funders force it behind paywalls. Letโ€™s ask them to change it.](https://ourworldindata.org/iea-open-data)โ€จโ€จ"... [The] problem is not so much the IEA itself, who surely has an interest in achieving its mission. The problem is the member countriesโ€™ imposition that the IEA has to raise a part of its budget through the sales of data licenses. To make it possible for the IEA to achieve its mission, the global energy and climate research community should therefore recommend to IEA member countries that they remove the requirement to charge for data use and close the relatively small funding gap that remains." 2021-10-07T20:49:05+01:00 [Cosmopolitan morality trades off in-group for the world, separating benefits and protection](https://www.pnas.org/content/118/40/e2100991118)โ€จโ€จSignificanceโ€จโ€จContemporary world challengesโ€”pandemic response, climate change, migration, global poverty, and trade policyโ€”require comparative moral judgments (tradeoffs) between oneโ€™s own and other nations. Such choices distribute benefits and protect security for just the national in-group or the whole world. In representative surveys from eight countries, most respondents are willing to sacrifice national well-being to aid foreigners, more to protect from harms than to redistribute benefits. This disaggregates two dimensions of moral cosmopolitanism (benefiting versus protecting), distinguishes it from adjacent constructs (such as group identity), and demonstrates links to attitudes and behaviors. Cognitive associations (global, inclusive words) reflect cosmopolitan thinking; making the world salient can elicit cosmopolitan behavior, at least temporarily. Understanding this global perspective can guide its enhancement.โ€จโ€จVia [National Affairs](https://www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/findings-a-daily-roundup/forcing-change) 2021-10-08T06:44:52+01:00 @ (#) I'll be a tester. :-) 2021-10-08T06:51:16+01:00 @ @ (#) Yeah, I'm liking LibreWolf so far -- it's been a few weeks -- and I'm posting this from Fennec, which I installed around the same time so I could experiment with the Bypass Paywalls Cleanly add-on. 2021-10-08T06:53:34+01:00 @ @ (#) Still waking up, clearly. I'm on Android / LineageOS. >.< 2021-10-08T06:55:06+01:00 (#<6qycaaa https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=6qycaaa>) Good points. H'm... ๐Ÿค” 2021-10-08T07:20:37+01:00 [Will parliament demand accountability for the Coronavirus Act this time around?โ€จpolitics.co.uk โ€“ Multiple Authors](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/580b724ce7501639b25c71ee921c8df26f8f0308) 2021-10-08T09:13:26+01:00 @ (#) Ta! ๐Ÿคช I've had more โ˜• now. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ™ƒ 2021-10-08T13:41:34+01:00 @ @ (#) I too am posting this from the new APK! ๐Ÿฅณ 2021-10-08T14:58:17+01:00 (Head on a swivel) Who... should... I... follow... *collapses* ๐Ÿคฏ๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿ˜‰ 2021-10-08T16:29:46+01:00 @movq (#) ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜›๐Ÿ™ƒ๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽค๐Ÿ•บ 2021-10-08T19:01:12+01:00 Just wrote a quick script to restart Pleroma -- restarting the database as well, and killing the inevitable [epmd](https://erlang.org/doc/man/epmd.html) straggler after that -- as a cron job, twice an hour. What a kludge. I feel... dirty. ;-)โ€จโ€จHowever, Pleroma has already federated some old events that it was obviously too poorly to pick up beforehand. So, result? 2021-10-08T19:56:47+01:00 (#<7wpqhsq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7wpqhsq>) I'll tell you what @, looking at my Pi 3A+ beside my 3B+, and all the shenanigans I'm having to do to keep Pleroma up on the latter while the former -- little brother, really! -- ticks along happily running `yarnd`, really encapsulates what yarn.social is about, I think, for me, anyway: โ€จโ€จYarn.social ๐Ÿขก Social. Simple. โ€จโ€จ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘ โ€จ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/qJrypSGBbFAskUwzpqiNg) 2021-10-08T20:40:48+01:00 @ (#<7wpqhsq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7wpqhsq>) [Pimoroni](https://shop.pimoroni.com/) ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-09T08:36:17+01:00 @ @ @ (#<24s2e6a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=24s2e6a>) Wow! So cool! And what a mature set of documentation! ๐Ÿ˜›๐Ÿค“๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จI might have to try running a server. I also like the way they're looking for a nominal fee to use their server(s); I think folks expecting free services is a path that leads to problems. 2021-10-09T08:42:23+01:00 @ @ (#<24s2e6a https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=24s2e6a>) Ah -- reading this convo backwards ๐Ÿ˜› -- I think I'm actually running a simple Prosody server as part of my Jitsi Meet set-up; exploring that has been on my to do list for more than a year now. ๐Ÿ™ƒ 2021-10-09T08:45:10+01:00 @ @ (#) What about a party / mingling / conference mindset? Sidebar? Breakout?โ€จโ€จI like fork, but I'm trying to be helpful. ๐Ÿ˜›๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-09T11:09:58+01:00 [20 things I've learned in my 20 years as a software engineer](https://www.simplethread.com/20-things-ive-learned-in-my-20-years-as-a-software-engineer/)โ€จโ€จNice list. Mind you, it's been that many years since I *was* a software engineer! ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-09T11:57:16+01:00 A mate just surprised me with tickets to see TOOL in Brum next May, as UK settlement prezzie! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿค˜โ€จโ€จSpeechless! ๐Ÿค— 2021-10-09T20:22:24+01:00 @movq (#) **So** much love for this! (And not just 'cause it feels like it could've been shot on Endor. ;-) ) 2021-10-09T21:02:59+01:00 @ @ (#) Indeed. Thanks, @!โ€จโ€จHere's what I have to look forward to: [Study The Greats: Danny Carey Live!](https://youtu.be/8lYueg-s_7g) ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿคฉโ€จโ€จI've seen them live twice, but not in twenty years now! So stoked! ๐Ÿค˜ 2021-10-09T21:40:16+01:00 "... He worried that so much emphasis on the ethical and political dimensions of economics might make the subject feel like a different discipline altogether. โ€œThe question is, do you want the students to feel like theyโ€™re coming out of, you know, to be blunt, a sociology class or an economics class?โ€ Gruber said..."โ€จโ€จhttps://rss.nfld.uk/share/0d894626259ea12b2436b12873669e4ba2a2ed98โ€จโ€จYeah, hot take, this crap is a significant factor in just about any global problem you can name. 2021-10-09T22:15:02+01:00 @ (#<7izr4iq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=7izr4iq>) Indeed. :-) That's a good, long run for a regular blog too! 2021-10-10T11:27:48+01:00 @ @ (#) This is great, James! Love it! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘ 2021-10-10T11:30:26+01:00 @ (#) Neat! Hadn't heard of them before. ๐Ÿ‘€ 2021-10-10T11:35:57+01:00 @ (#<2pee4uq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2pee4uq>) Nice to hear that my instincts on this are inline with your (excessive!) experience. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿค“โ€จโ€จThis was the first example, in *ages*, of an HN500 article I found **before** it ended up on that list; I'm normally always late to the party. ๐Ÿ˜› 2021-10-10T11:48:30+01:00 @ (#<2pee4uq https://twt.nfld.uk/search?tag=2pee4uq>) Ugh. Terrible night. Abby's poorly. Meant extensive. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ™ƒ 2021-10-10T15:23:45+01:00 Made to the Lit Fest here. Thoroughly enjoyed The Times Leader Conference, where they decide on the three opinion pieces for the paper; Monday's, in this case. 2021-10-11T10:25:26+01:00 @ (#fnav4ma) @ Agreed. I'll be yoinking that, once this is a ready to go. ;-) 2021-10-11T10:33:31+01:00 @ (#fnav4ma) That was my first look at text with the logo. (I always read yarns in reverse order. ๐Ÿ˜›) 2021-10-11T12:28:12+01:00 Minimum wage means that you can fill up your car once, costing your whole wages(!). [Hold Your Fire! Episode 6: Lebanon is Falling Apart](https://www.crisisgroup.org/hold-your-fire-podcast) 2021-10-11T12:56:10+01:00 (#4diigxq) @ Agreed. So, yeah, that was a poignant example, for me, of how untenable the situation is there at the moment. 400% inflation, a 48-hour warning that all the patients in the ICU of the country's top hospital would die if they couldn't source electricity(!), etc. 2021-10-11T12:59:46+01:00 (#4diigxq) The gold was last counted in 1996! And an audit of the central bank has been stalled many times. Is it still there? Unreal. 2021-10-11T13:15:18+01:00 @movq (#6ck6iaa) Congratulations! ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จI missed mine, I've just realised. ๐Ÿ˜ž Back in June, I can hardly believe! I'll have to plan for my pod's anniversary instead, on 25 Jan. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-11T15:03:04+01:00 I think I missed something in the last week or so: how are folks adding custom stylesheets to their pods? I see @ and @ have them, and, from the looks of their landing pages, it seems like yarn.social generated the paths to their CSS file. Is it a pod management setting that isn't in the `master` branch yet?โ€จโ€จcc @ 2021-10-11T15:05:21+01:00 Nice touch with the description, btw. ๐Ÿ˜ I'm on Season 4 at the mo, and so, actually get the joke. ๐ŸŽถ 2021-10-11T15:06:23+01:00 (#bjrh6ea) Oops. That was directed at you, @. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-11T15:27:55+01:00 (#o35rioa) @ Ah, OK. That's... remarkably straightforward. I should've thought of that. >.<โ€จโ€จTa! 2021-10-11T19:13:27+01:00 (#v2y2xga) Usually it's the user's software that's being referred to, in that context, I believe. So, what you and @movq code! :-) 2021-10-11T19:20:11+01:00 (#2pee4uq) Oh, sorry; forgot to reply. Yeah, fingers crossed she's on the mend, but today's nap was still punctuated with plenty of coughing. :-( 2021-10-11T19:29:38+01:00 (#7qkwe7a) @ Correlation does not equal causation, and, Mr A / B believer, please tell me you've heard of cognitive bias. 2021-10-13T01:28:12+01:00 @ (#7wpqhsq) Yeah, that's correct. I had been running it on an old desktop, but, more as an experiment than anything else, I recently moved it over to the 3A+ in the foreground there.โ€จโ€จ`yarnd` is so slick, it's running with a barely-noticeable dip in performance. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-13T01:30:46+01:00 @ (#xxsknmq) ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Š 2021-10-13T05:31:20+01:00 @ (#5ossspa) Nice. :-) The last one isy favourite. :-) 2021-10-13T05:35:15+01:00 @ (#w3hvheq) Done! :-) 2021-10-13T11:10:49+01:00 Wow. A huge reason to avoid GApps on LineageOS!โ€จโ€จ"โ€ฆ LineageOS sends similar volumes of data to Google as these proprietary Android variants, but we do not observe the LineageOS developers themselves collecting data nor pre-installed system apps other than those of Googleโ€ฆ"โ€จโ€จSource: [An LWN article about a Trinity College study](https://lwn.net/Articles/872639/) (my emphasis)โ€จโ€จBtw, I find that summary to be poorly worded; one could be forgiven for assuming that the bare LineageOS install sends heaps of data to Google. I donโ€™t think this is actually what theyโ€™re saying, having read what I think are the relevant parts of the paper. They did use GApps on their test device, and talk about how all Play Store usage is tied to a Google account.โ€จโ€จIโ€™m not saying that the spoofing done by the Aurora Store app is bulletproof, but I do think that that configurationโ€”which I runโ€”gets you much closer to the /e/OS level of protection than this study implies. 2021-10-13T11:12:14+01:00 (#a7jaixa) Ahem. Forgot to copy the emphasis. ๐Ÿคช Anyway, he's the original fedi post: https://pleroma.nfld.uk/notice/ACJo1NebZ7jTZBzoP2 2021-10-13T11:40:00+01:00 (#a7jaixa) @ Good point re CalyxOS! And, yes, I certainly had to wade through a lot of "You'll definitely want to install GApps" information before I was comfortable experimenting with LineageOS. For me, Aurora Store as a stop-gap in a few cases fits the bill nicely; and the rest is history: bloody love it! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-13T12:38:02+01:00 (#6x7hxwa) @ Nice! Broke my (long!) silence on birdsite to retweet that! (And quickly logged out again!) 2021-10-13T12:38:45+01:00 (#a7jaixa) @ Oh, good to know; haven't had that issue yet, but I'll keep this in mind now. 2021-10-13T15:59:39+01:00 (#6x7hxwa) lol. Partnership opportunity? ;-) 2021-10-13T22:01:27+01:00 I've been thinking a lot about how we as a society partition and signpost communal spaces; how we attempt to ensure not only that everyone is safe, but that they _feel_ safe, and welcome.โ€จโ€จI wonder whether we're seeing the end of communal changing areas, restrooms, etc. In care work, my focus was person-centric; that's fine on the scale of that charity, but can we really design a public space with that as a goal? I don't know. But Professor Stock isn't the first person to express misgivings in this space, and, beyond what I too feel is a defence of liberty itself, I find myself coming back, again and again, to questions that echo her concerns.โ€จโ€จ"... A university has no obligation to shield impressionable minds from opinions they may find challenging and even offensive. On the contrary it has a duty to ensure that a full spectrum of views are aired without restraint. It is no hyperbole to say that the defence of Professor Stock, a cogent thinker and valiant voice for womenโ€™s rights, is now the defence of liberty itself."โ€จโ€จhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-kathleen-stock-trans-row-assault-on-the-academy-nlfhggt00 2021-10-14T05:56:15+01:00 @ (#gysbkiq) I use Bypass Paywalls Cleanly on Fennec, which links to: https://archive.ph/20211012074218/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-view-on-the-kathleen-stock-trans-row-assault-on-the-academy-nlfhggt00 2021-10-14T06:05:46+01:00 ๐Ÿ‘€ "Foundations of Humane Technology [course]: is designed for people building software that engages with human attention..."โ€จโ€จhttps://www.humanetech.com/courseโ€จโ€จAnd it's free. Cool. 2021-10-14T12:57:09+01:00 (#fgednzq) Oh, wow! So cool! :-) 2021-10-14T14:34:03+01:00 (#5azncma) @ @ Yeah, I second this. I'm one behind the latest Android release, thanks to LineageOS, and mine is a first-gen Pixel! 2021-10-14T16:18:15+01:00 @ (#73zhdta) Just expensive, for what you get. But I love the idea, and will definitely be looking forward to where they go in the next few years.โ€จโ€จEthically, I was just as happy grabbing an old phone that had already been built five years ago. Much cheaper too: a quarter of what I would've spent. 2021-10-14T17:10:34+01:00 (#73zhdta) @ The 4 wasn't out when I was in the market. Quite a few people said I should hold out, but I was impatient. :-) 2021-10-14T17:17:41+01:00 (#tox6uya) @ Ah, looks like it; not officially, anyway. The list is more dynamic than you might think. My model dropped off the supported list earlier this year, for example. (But I'm still very happy with just getting updates for v17.1; it's still miles better than the ancient version of Android I was running on a Samsung J5, from 2016!) 2021-10-14T19:05:47+01:00 "... Britain on its current course is retreating from the world and indulging nationalist delusions. A liberal, non-socialist, internationalist appeal is where the partyโ€™s pitch should be."โ€จโ€จ[Starmer should learn from what Brown got wrong as well as what Blair got right](https://capx.co/starmer-should-learn-from-what-brown-got-wrong-as-well-as-what-blair-got-right/) 2021-10-14T20:27:35+01:00 https://behavioralscientist.org/steven-pinker-rationality-why-you-should-always-switch-the-monty-hall-problem-finally-explained/โ€จโ€จGood explanation. I also enjoyed the history around the problem's debut. 2021-10-14T20:50:22+01:00 @ (#ql6hxia) Very! :-) 2021-10-15T04:53:30+01:00 Couldn't agree more.โ€จโ€จ"... During a pandemic, rapid behavioural change is crucial, so people cannot be asked to โ€˜keep calm and carry onโ€™. *They need clear information if they are to take the crisis seriously enough to listen and to know how to act.* In early March 2020, that was my message on social media, in the media and, ultimately, to the Danish government..."โ€จโ€จhttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02758-2 (emphasis mine) 2021-10-15T08:43:18+01:00 (#44nacmq) @ Ah, the quoting markdown works too; wondered how @ was doing it. :-) Good to know! 2021-10-15T09:01:20+01:00 Highly mixed feelings about [this new That's Humanism campaign from Humanists UK](https://humanists.uk/thatshumanism/). (Disclosure: I consider myself a humanist.)โ€จโ€จPros: 1) So clear in the effort and energy invested in it; 2) not fusty or cult-like; and 3) Stephen Fry (which should be first, obviously).โ€จโ€จCons: 1) It's that dang style of art that, now that I watched that video I linked to a month back or so, I can't actually take in anymore; my eyeballs just slide off it, bored; and 2) while they do talk about community and supporting one another, I can't help but feel that, overall, the primary message is one of individualism.โ€จโ€จI'm not sure the world needs more of that, right now. 2021-10-15T13:33:05+01:00 Ordered some [heatsinks for my rpis](https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/heatsink?variant=16851450375). Curious to see how effective they'll be; the USB clip fan I have on them now is cutting a good 20โ„ƒ off my maxed-out 3B+. 2021-10-15T13:34:07+01:00 (#dd3vxja) @ @ @ You folks need to hop on more calls with him! ;-)โ€จโ€จcc @movq 2021-10-15T14:50:18+01:00 (#g64rpyq) @ lol. Sorta. Pleroma, but I certainly have a plethora of problems, thanks to it! ;-) 2021-10-16T11:32:15+01:00 (#6envoma) @ Morning! (For half an hour more.) โ˜•๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-16T11:37:07+01:00 @ (#lui7gdq) It's different, but in a good way. ๐Ÿ˜ Welcome! ๐Ÿ‘‹ 2021-10-16T11:50:25+01:00 [Doctor Who - Flux official trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDUvFdGu6JE)โ€จโ€จOh, now that got my attention! I've enjoyed plenty of the Whittaker era, but this looks like it might be next level. 2021-10-16T12:01:53+01:00 Great post!โ€จโ€จ> ... The downsides of extending support obligations for proprietary software in contrast to directly opening up aftermarket economies and reuse possibilities through the publication of source code under a Free Software license is manifold: what time span of support seems appropriate for electronic devices in general and others in particular? Is it three years, five years, seven years? Will the decision of today still be valid and up to date at the end of this decade? Even worse, this approach does not fundamentally help one of the core problems of our digital societies which is an e-waste overflow of often still pretty well-working devices that have only been thrown away because a proprietary manufacturer decided to stop support of the device. An extended support obligation does not solve this problem at its core - it just postpones the often unnecessary growth of e-waste for a certain time. Last but not least it takes away the freedom of manufacturers to not continue support for a certain device if, for example, it does not sell well enough...โ€จโ€จ[Ecodesign Directive: FSFE calls for Device Neutrality and Upcycling of Software](https://fsfe.org/news/2021/news-20211015-01.en.html) 2021-10-16T13:09:45+01:00 [DevOps Humble Bundle](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/863ebcea34252f0e2e61ab0978edb79874cd4c46)โ€จโ€จI think there's enough in this to justify ยฃ20. Plus it supports a good cause. 2021-10-16T16:26:16+01:00 (#rpg63yq) @ @movq Really good points. I mean, realistically, they need to believe in this; if they're looking for a bit of good PR and wiggle-room, they'll find plenty! 2021-10-16T19:09:44+01:00 Boy, it's been a steep learning curve, fighting with scalable vector graphics (SVG) over the last few days. Didn't have @ to fix my logo this time. ๐Ÿ˜†โ€จโ€จStill very much a work in progress, but at least I can switch to a dark theme by default now. Next step would be making it theme-sensitive, I guess. 2021-10-17T00:08:06+01:00 @ (#jfnzaca) Lovely! ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จGlad you found us! Welcome! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-17T07:26:04+01:00 (#lwbmxoq) Huh. Strange. I think my avatar is actually based on a PNG; as @ said, webp was yarn's decision. :-) 2021-10-17T11:34:54+01:00 Made a video of our charity event the other weekend: https://youtu.be/hKJUH6bGNpY 2021-10-17T11:52:47+01:00 @ (#uhj2tiq) Tandem bicycling for the visually impaired. This was a chance for our new volunteers to practice with our tandems.โ€จโ€จI helped found it back in 2016, but have stepped back a bit in recent years. I'm building them a new website, though: tandemonium.funโ€จโ€จNeed to blog about the day now and link to the video. 2021-10-17T12:04:20+01:00 (#uhj2tiq) Thanks both ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-17T12:50:46+01:00 @ @ (#uhj2tiq) The new one, I'm slightly ashamed to admit. ๐Ÿ˜•โ€จโ€จI just don't have the chops to make something that looks somewhat professional without a (bloated, I'm sure) crutch like Squarespace. ๐Ÿ˜›๐Ÿ™ˆ 2021-10-17T12:52:28+01:00 @ @ @ (#2mtktbq) Ah, cool! OK, I'll upgrade today! ๐ŸŽ‰ 2021-10-17T13:02:51+01:00 (#vt3skda) @ @ @ Sad times. :-( Is my avatar healthier now? 2021-10-17T13:06:15+01:00 (#vt3skda) Oh, oops. And I'm actually following that account with the proper nick now, @. :-P 2021-10-17T21:01:36+01:00 @ (#z5tfcnq) I'm also having trouble completing Follows; doing it in the browser instead. 2021-10-18T09:57:47+01:00 (#755faba) ๐Ÿ˜€ Thanks all! Took a lot longer than you might think, ๐Ÿ˜‚ but I'm pretty happy with it. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-18T10:19:49+01:00 @ (#yfmu2ga) Wow. Looks great! 2021-10-18T10:43:59+01:00 [๐Ÿ‘ถ Would you trust a sperm donor from social media?](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/a59a9ef337bf502c14323104eb66aed666376281)โ€จโ€จBit of a clickbait leader, but the excerpts from the 'bookface as Ford' bit caught my interest. I need to read the piece still, but it feels like, those excerpts, at least, don't really address how the world has moved on from last century: I don't know that we'll ever return to that level of government regulation (in the west).โ€จโ€จI used to say that with lament; I just say it now. 2021-10-18T10:45:10+01:00 (#yfmu2ga) Seriously! My dad built houses for a bit, but this is next level! 2021-10-18T10:47:56+01:00 (#mchagla) @ Nice!โ€จโ€จ(Does double-take)โ€จโ€จYou're following 584 accounts?! ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ต๐Ÿคฏ 2021-10-18T11:25:07+01:00 (#lbmwptq) @ ๐Ÿ‘€โ€จโ€จInteresting. ๐Ÿค” I can see that as a genesis: remote notifications. Not sure the other use cases land, for me, but that's as likely because I'm thick, as anything else. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-18T11:25:33+01:00 @ (#lbmwptq) @ Oh, wow! Neat! :-) 2021-10-18T17:44:55+01:00 @ (#5mtlmcq) @ @ Yup, ditto. 2021-10-18T19:56:49+01:00 @ @ (#755faba) Ta! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-18T20:00:02+01:00 @ @ @ (#5mtlmcq) Sorry: yeah, a unique, random string for each setting, that persists beyond restarts was what I meant (and didn't clearly state!). 2021-10-18T20:10:09+01:00 ![](https://64.media.tumblr.com/fb381b4a37fb4f94345410aaff747f43/03fb586a2b063044-7f/s500x750/2fef538c45d7944da56c375dced620935940f0b0.jpg)โ€จโ€จ๐Ÿ˜‚โ€จโ€จ[Sarah's Scribbles](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/ad5a6d10d7f04fbdc071a66711dcba3bf92df867) 2021-10-18T20:36:38+01:00 [There Is No Such Thing as Bragging Too Much About a Kidney Donation](https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/bad-art-friend-kidney-crisis-donation-altruism.html)โ€จโ€จMy aunt donated a kidney to her older sister. I hadn't really thought about donating one to a stranger before. It does seem like an organ donor card isn't enough, though.โ€จโ€จVia [the McGill Office for Science and Society Weekly Digest](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/d53d9ca6432e3df6f1f8e9bc77b8dcf5e9433d87) 2021-10-18T22:21:06+01:00 @ @ (#b7einla) Cool. Yeah, first I'd heard of them, but you've piqued my interest. Very reasonably priced, with just $12 for shipping to the UK too!โ€จโ€จI didn't know that about the 3 series, @ -- I bought the official adapter for both of mine. Interesting.โ€จโ€จI'm rebuilding my Pleroma instance now, after which, I too am hoping my use case will again be in the 3B+ sweet spot; ditching the floods of fediverse with the old domain. ๐Ÿคž 2021-10-18T22:22:55+01:00 @ (#h5ss2ka) re sharing, yes, please! Gorgeous additions to my timeline. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ™ 2021-10-18T22:25:25+01:00 @ (#b7einla) Yeah, that's a lot of red text, to be sure. :-) 2021-10-18T23:52:41+01:00 (#ncomiuq) @ Ha ha! She managed an '8' the other day, but she's got a way to go before this level. ;-)โ€จโ€จI'm just doing my lazy serving through Miniflux again. There is a link to the original in there, but it isn't obvious, I'll grant you: https://sarahcandersen.com/ 2021-10-19T16:39:29+01:00 (#3hulknq) Bad Canon! ;-) 2021-10-19T21:09:28+01:00 @ (#keaucja) Fair enough.โ€จโ€จI've enjoyed her books, and a live talk too, but I don't think she, nor DiManno, are on the winning side here, taking a longer view.โ€จโ€จI read [the article](https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2021/10/15/why-cant-we-say-woman-anymore.html), and found it inflammatory, especially in its opening; lazily so. I also found its evidence to be a bit too anecdotal for my taste.โ€จโ€จThe fact is that we don't actually know what portion of the population she (unnecessarily cruelly, in my view) dismissed, in a world where people are truly free to choose how they want to live. Norms are the very definition of insidious.โ€จโ€จBut things are changing. I'm sure they are changing for men too. I, for one, would like to see a world free from dysphoria around gender and sex. It will come. Soon, I hope. 2021-10-20T02:41:00+01:00 @ @ @ (#x4gjcjq) I didn't draw that myself, to be clear. ๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จI did look at how I might be able to make a theme sensitive logo, like the current default, some time ago, without much success; but I do plan to revisit it. 2021-10-20T07:28:39+01:00 @ @ (#ctdtuta) Yeah, agreed. I like it. ๐Ÿ™‚ 2021-10-20T10:20:33+01:00 @ @ (#ctdtuta) Oh, actually, yeah: the text to the right is nicer. (Guess that's why I went for it in mine too lol.) 2021-10-20T12:12:19+01:00 (#5cjjnba) @ Yes, +1 dragon! ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/559Px2RPKBUvBy5aZyDyEA) 2021-10-20T16:20:03+01:00 (#ztwih5a) @ @ A few comments:โ€จโ€จ1) I'm fairly new to devops, never mind k8s, :-P _but_ I found HashiCorp's blog post [A Kubernetes User's Guide to Nomad](https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/a-kubernetes-user-s-guide-to-hashicorp-nomad) really helped me get my head around where the 'nail' for the k8s 'hammer' is and isn't. (A similar page on the Nomad site generated [a 500+ point discussion on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28875764), btw, so I'll link to that too.)โ€จโ€จ2) It's actually HashiConf this week, and, honestly, you'd swear _they_ made k8s for the number of times it's come up in the keynote alone! It's very clear they're changing course on their new product from last year, [Waypoint](https://www.waypointproject.io/), to ease the lives of k8s users. Your devs know it really well, but, I don't know, if you're planning on bringing on new devs at any point, something like this, that abstracts away a lot of the deployment architecture -- that, in my opinion ;-P devs should care less about -- and, importantly, from a sysadmin's perspective, means they'll be less likely to break k8s and all its bits that they currently 'mess with,' might be a good thing.โ€จโ€จI don't know; all devs probably roughly fall into two camps: those that *love* the idea of `waypoint up` to deploy, so they can get back to coding, and those who absolutely *hate* it and want complete control over the whole process, for every architecture they could be called to support at 2am. :-P 2021-10-20T19:17:06+01:00 Sometimes I really dislike humans: https://social.nfld.uk/notice/ACZ16gGdEvaoQCgFbU 2021-10-20T19:36:53+01:00 @ (#ctdtuta) Looks so good! 2021-10-21T10:39:03+01:00 From a chat on Matrix, where it seems it was one of my more coherent moments: ๐Ÿคช โ€จ> โ€ฆ Why canโ€™t they just be individuals? Individuals with their own individual beliefs and their own individual reasons for having those beliefsโ€ฆโ€จโ€จAnd so just default to a stance of respect and courtesy. The fact is, most of your interactions with others will be very limited; approaching those encounters from a place of respect for the complexities of the human mind and an individualโ€™s experiences and traumas costs you very little, typically.โ€จโ€จTo be human is to generalise, but that doesnโ€™t mean you canโ€™t push back against those tendencies.โ€จโ€จ...โ€จโ€จWell, in the context of chat, it would be something like youโ€™ve just done: donโ€™t put words in my mouth, based on my avatar, nick, grammar, etc., and instead ask me to elaborate on points of potential confusion.โ€จโ€จAnd donโ€™t bring agendas to everything. Default to assuming that this is likely an interaction of hours, and people donโ€™t change based on that, typically.โ€จโ€จYouโ€™ll probably get more from interactions that youโ€™re open to, but, be honest with yourself: if you arenโ€™t up to that, because it isnโ€™t easy, then just default to respect and courtesy, which isnโ€™t difficult, and costs you little. And then excuse yourself, if theyโ€™re proper jerks. ;-) 2021-10-21T11:11:10+01:00 (#sojctqq) @ Yes, exactly. I mean, we were probably always this judgmental; but now we all have a platform to trumpet it from, solicited or otherwise!โ€จโ€จ@ pointed me to this wonderful quote from Hayek that's particularly relevant here too, I feel:โ€จ> [On true, and false, individualism, one] might even say that the former is a product of an acute consciousness of the limitations of the individual mind which induces an attitude of humility toward the impersonal and anonymous social processes by which individuals help to create things greater than they know, while the latter is the product of an exaggerated belief in the powers of individual reason and of a consequent contempt for anything which has not been consciously designed by it or is not fully intelligible to it.โ€จโ€จFrom *Individualism and Economic Order*, circa 1948. I wonder what **he'd** make of the Internet. :-P 2021-10-21T11:49:49+01:00 (#sojctqq) Agreed, @! :-)โ€จโ€จI mean, part of that is being a small community of higher than average intelligence, of course... lol! ;-)โ€จโ€จ**But** I think you deserve lots of credit for building software that has time to reflect built in; I honestly think that's hugely important, and I'm glad that we've preserved it through this rebranding / enhancing. 2021-10-21T12:00:55+01:00 (#sojctqq) @ Seriously! @ is gonna get sick of me pinging him on every platform we share, thanking him, but... Well, I just love it! It's on nfld.uk now, for cryin' out loud! :-P Particularly because I spent quite a bit of time reading Hayek over the last few years and came to the conclusion that we really don't share much of a worldview... How wrong I was! 2021-10-21T12:04:46+01:00 (#sojctqq) @ I do. And, yup, ๐Ÿ’ฏ%. 2021-10-22T15:04:55+01:00 (#w5r73xa) @ ๐Ÿ’ฏ%โ€จโ€จIt's no recipe for sanity, what we have now. I'm genuinely worried about my kids. 2021-10-22T15:07:35+01:00 (#ida5ssa) That menu is a great idea! 2021-10-24T23:28:06+01:00 @ (#nel3trq) Neat! Where will store the source code? 2021-10-24T23:34:27+01:00 @ (#dl7auta) Great shot! 2021-10-24T23:39:46+01:00 @ @ (#lhudyga) Thanks again for the help on this. FYI, my `meta.json` was empty, but my `config.json` had maybe 179 bytes in. 2021-10-25T06:12:12+01:00 @ @ @ (#fvdkerq) Cool! Are you still hosting this on your files server too? Aurora Store (I don't use Play directly) still lists the latest update as 17 Oct. 2021-10-25T07:01:58+01:00 (#fvdkerq) @ Wicked! Worked, and Settings works again too. :-) 2021-10-25T07:06:47+01:00 (#lhudyga) @ re my crash: unclear. I'm slowly becoming aware of some automated, systemd-initiated restarts on both RPis. Further investigation needed. 2021-10-25T07:08:13+01:00 (#fvdkerq) @ Oh, and About in the menu is very convenient! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-25T07:18:33+01:00 > ... Segregation is not merely the result of individual decisions, devoid of history or power relations. Schelling himself concedes that individual decision-making might be less pertinent than de jure or economically induced segregation and, furthermore, that โ€œthe lines dividing the individually motivated, the collectively enforced, and economically induced segregation are not clear lines at all.โ€ Take, for example, the role of real estate agents in perpetuating residential segregation today, more than fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act. Real estate brokers regularly make assumptions about their clientsโ€™ racial preferences before steering them away or towards certain neighborhoods, arguing that it โ€œfacilitates the sales process.โ€ Under market incentives, the responsibility for segregated outcomes is thus deflected onto individual consumers.โ€จ> โ€จ> Like real estate agents who curate the possibilities their clients can access, todayโ€™s algorithms selectively recommend online content in the name of increased convenience for users and, of course, larger profits for tech companies...โ€จโ€จ[Are we forming online communities or self-segregating?](https://newpublic.substack.com/p/-are-we-forming-online-communities)โ€จโ€จHaven't read this behemoth yet, but I didn't like that point. 2021-10-25T07:20:17+01:00 (#skjezyq) s/didn't/did/โ€จโ€จ_facepalm_โ€จโ€จ* Drinks more โ˜• * 2021-10-25T08:17:50+01:00 (#skjezyq) @ I think there is certainly an element of human nature in this, and how we choose associate. It's when others make decisions on our behalf that limit the breadth of options we will likely choose from that problems arise, in my opinion. 2021-10-25T08:20:36+01:00 (#fvdkerq) Oh, and follows work in the app too now! I don't know whether I've ever been able to do that. ๐Ÿ™Œ 2021-10-25T09:38:02+01:00 (#fvdkerq) @ Yeah, I grabbed `app-release.apk` off your Gitea instance. Seamless. :-) 2021-10-25T10:10:38+01:00 (#fvdkerq) @ Ah, well that might be something to do with your browser / download client then; `View Raw` shouldn't present anything as compressed or anything other than an `apk` file, as far as I'm aware. 2021-10-25T10:13:55+01:00 [Marginal Revolution on UAPs / UFOs](http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/nasa-chief-bill-nelson-on-ufos.html)โ€จโ€จ[What I believe is the 60 Minutes clip they reference](https://youtu.be/ygB4EZ7ggig)โ€จโ€จReally strange. We arenโ€™t just talking about flaky human perception when technology is reporting unexplained phenomena in parallel.โ€จโ€จPS: YT is showing me some really dodgy ads. A zoom lens to record teenage girls dancing on a basketball court? Farage going on about some crap? WTF? 2021-10-25T10:29:24+01:00 (#fvdkerq) @ Fennec. Huh, strange.โ€จโ€จAh! But Pale Moon interprets an `apk` file as a zip archive on my desktop. It still downloads it fine, though. Maybe this is a case of what default application opens zip archives on your phone, and how it's been configured to grab `apk` files as part of that. If you could pull that association apart, and have `apk` files trigger your package manager instead, you'd probably be good to go. 2021-10-25T10:30:09+01:00 (#svplj6q) @ Oh, interesting! TIL about olives. :-) 2021-10-25T10:32:07+01:00 (#732ge3a) @ That looks _amazing_! Wow. Literally awesome. 2021-10-25T10:47:58+01:00 I probably spent more time playing the second oneโ€”The Shadow and the Flameโ€”but, man, this is *so* cool: [Prince of Persia for 8-bit Atari](https://www.vintageisthenewold.com/prince-of-persia-for-the-atari-xl-xe-a-deserved-port-hits-the-atari-8-bit-computers) 2021-10-25T11:04:23+01:00 *No spoilers, I promise.*โ€จโ€จSo there are three albums associated with the new Dune film. [WaterTower Music says that my only options for owning any of them are Amazon or Apple](https://www.watertower-music.com/film/).โ€จโ€จReally? Does everyone just stream these days, then? 2021-10-25T11:04:46+01:00 (#fvdkerq) @ Fair enough. :-) 2021-10-25T13:30:52+01:00 [COBOLing Together UI Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Impact Aggregate Consumption](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3928948)โ€จโ€จ> Performing a back-of-the-envelope calculation using 2019 data, I find that real GDP declined by $181 billion (in 2012 dollars).โ€จโ€จNever mind the costs involved in fixing the Y2K problem in that code. I was in that industry in the late 90s, and there was _a lot_ of money to be made, on a lot of bad code.โ€จโ€จ[Via MR](http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/10/sunday-assorted-links-337.html) 2021-10-25T13:50:11+01:00 ![](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yBqFlYd_nDM/YXV8Pdk9GYI/AAAAAAAAN9k/9KPzgyD0WCA60RskYWpbvG-J3Bnw534LQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h325/00%2BMCP%2B86_cropped%2B.jpg)โ€จโ€จCool! I guess this was around Wolverine Issue 7_X_, where the adamantium is pulled from his skeleton. Love a bit of Kieth! Mark Texeira is still my favourite Wolverine illustrator (e.g. below), but this is pretty darn cool. :-)โ€จโ€จ![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/2/29/Wolverine_Vol_2_65.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/400?cb=20060808161007) 2021-10-25T13:52:02+01:00 (#yp3fkba) @ Happy to be an unintentional tester! ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-25T16:28:32+01:00 (#yp3fkba) @ lol. To be fair, that was taken ten years ago, versus fairly current lockdown scruff. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-25T20:48:16+01:00 (#vez43wa) @ Whisky here. A fav too: Ardbeg Ten. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿฅƒ 2021-10-25T23:25:30+01:00 (#vez43wa) @ I've enjoyed the privilege of travelling Islay, sampling her wares. :-)โ€จโ€จ@ lol 2021-10-25T23:26:36+01:00 @ How did you find us? I, of course, remember you from Matrix, and then, the Fediverse. 2021-10-26T07:40:55+01:00 (#xd3morq) @ I remember one of those chat, bridged to Matrix. :-) Cool! And, as @ said, happy to have you here. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-26T09:38:27+01:00 (#v5g2kyq) @ Agreed. :-) I need to check out her latest show, come to think of it. 2021-10-26T09:39:52+01:00 (#oesblva) @ Ah, interesting. I see the new one on my desktop, while the app still shows me the old one. 2021-10-26T11:17:50+01:00 (#oesblva) @ Agreed: clearing and restarting. 2021-10-26T19:23:10+01:00 (#htxyltq) @movq Oh, lovely choice of tipple. ๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จ@ Not much use to you now, but a great Czech beer memory for me was visiting 'tank' pubs in Prague, where you could get unfiltered Pilsner Urqell from just down the road. Wonderful! 2021-10-26T19:31:21+01:00 (#ezr5zyq) @ Huh. Aged pretty well, I'd say. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I think that other platform you linked to recently has a more polished version of this message, but, yeah, pretty pleased with that, as my havin' a go. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-26T22:12:46+01:00 > The world's best reading app. โ€จ> โ€จ> The internet broke reading. [We fixed it](https://readup.com/).โ€จโ€จJust bought a subscription.โ€จโ€จI've been watching, with interest, from the sidelines for a year now; it feels good to be contributing. 2021-10-27T09:48:30+01:00 (#6j2mb4q) @ Ooo, I see. ๐Ÿ‘€ Yeah, I've been having problems with Nextcloud, and wasn't totally happy with it even before that. 2021-10-27T13:00:40+01:00 (#turq4ga) @ Very nice! 2021-10-27T13:16:48+01:00 (#fbfj66q) Tried out Revolut for the first time. Pending, at the moment. :-) 2021-10-27T13:36:58+01:00 (#fbfj66q) Ah, yes, complete on my end as well. That was smooth! Cool. And, yw! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-27T13:45:42+01:00 Upgraded to v0.4.1, and changed the emoji I use at nfld.uk to match the new favicon. :-) 2021-10-27T14:14:42+01:00 [How I Knew I Needed to Quit Instagram](https://readup.com/read/-the-new-york-times-company/how-i-knew-i-needed-to-quit-instagram) ๐Ÿข  Readup link or NYT's paywallโ€จโ€จCompares Instagram to alcohol: for some, attempting to moderate use is doomed to fail.โ€จโ€จI like the analogy, but I think it has the potential to heavily misrepresent just how many people can 'safely' handle social media. (Or maybe I only *think* I can safely handle alcohol. ๐Ÿ˜‰) 2021-10-27T15:30:10+01:00 (#fbfj66q) @ ๐Ÿ‘Œโ€จโ€จBut don't worry: it isn't like I'm trawling yarns for receipts or anything. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-27T16:03:58+01:00 (#druqsda) @ That's it, yup! Sorry @ I was actually thinking about quoting emoji, since it's a bit of a kludge, using image tags. :-)โ€จโ€จAnd sorry about the lack of follow too. I thought Arrakis was dead! Glad to be proven wrong! :-) 2021-10-27T16:06:39+01:00 (#druqsda) Ah, interesting. I picked your arrakis account from the list that popped up after typing the at-sign, but that didn't actually translate properly upon posting: yarn picks the first match in the list, it seems. :-) 2021-10-27T16:15:21+01:00 OK, I've now switched the order of the fastidious accounts I follow, with arrakis first: testing mentions; as I compose this, it's the twtxt.net account I'm trying to mention now @ 2021-10-27T16:17:26+01:00 (#cpndlxa) Ah, OK; just saw your message, @. :-) (Aren't you supposed to be sleeping? ;-) )โ€จโ€จSo, to complete the test, this is supposed to mention the arrakis account: @ 2021-10-27T16:19:12+01:00 (#cpndlxa) Now I feel silly. That all works. I think maybe I just needed to stop following all the accounts and start again. :-) 2021-10-27T16:30:46+01:00 (#cpndlxa) @ Ha ha. I'm just a bit... compulsive, I guess: I wanted your busiest accounts to be listed under my follows without a domain; I've now achieved that.โ€จโ€จI'm a sad, sad man. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-27T21:57:16+01:00 (#taytvja) @ Ah, wasn't aware there was one behind that; project's bedevilled me, particularly on ARM; maybe they'd be a good avenue for support then. :-) 2021-10-27T21:59:12+01:00 Anyone played with [Etesync](https://www.etesync.com/) as a Nextcloud alternative? 2021-10-27T22:49:10+01:00 (#taytvja) @ Ah, that makes sense. (Need my bed, apparently.) It's been more than a year since I surveyed the tildes, but, no, not that I'm aware of. 2021-10-27T22:49:47+01:00 (#x7za7bq) @ Yup x2 :-) 2021-10-28T06:58:42+01:00 (#mrs6mua) @ Thought provoking indeed! 2021-10-28T07:03:04+01:00 (#x7za7bq) @ Cool. Yeah, I'll let you know! 2021-10-28T07:07:24+01:00 (#qhdg3oq) @ ๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ™ I had good source material and inspiration from you all. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-28T14:02:21+01:00 (#b5rmlxa) @ Thanks for this. [My response became a blog post](https://blog.nfld.uk/on-bauer-on-covid-19). 2021-10-28T14:16:21+01:00 (#r4fljja) @ ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-28T14:32:23+01:00 (#skioyiq) @ Guilt, mostly, that I (hastily) bought a three-year subscription last year and never use it. ๐Ÿ˜• [write.as](https://write.as) is a good service, but, now, given what I know and want to learn, even if I wasn't happy with my pod's excellent blogging platform (for some odd reason), my next choice would definitely be generating something static with `mkws` rather than a hosted service like that. Oh well, live and learn. 2021-10-28T16:26:07+01:00 [How To Fix Social Media](https://readup.com/read/thenewatlantiscom/how-to-fix-social-media) ๐Ÿข  Readup link, including a direct link to The New Atlantis pieceโ€จโ€จ[One of my comments](https://readup.com/comments/thenewatlantiscom/how-to-fix-social-media/5QKkOz): โ€จโ€จI will leave it to others more well read to comment on the originality of this piece. I do, however, agree with your overall assessment of it, up to, but not including, your opinion on his proposed solutions.โ€จโ€จ> Social media companies, and those who produce content on their platforms, should operate not under a liability shield that isolates them from the public interest but under a set of rules that makes them responsive to the public interest.โ€จโ€จI do think there is merit in thinking about these companies differently, and the idea of scale being the trigger -- tipping them over from 'private' to 'broadcaster' -- while hardly trivial, is not nonsensical, in my mind. A decent place to begin a discussion, surely.โ€จโ€จI think the parallels with history are, frankly, uncanny, and, well, humbling. The needs of public haven't changed -- I myself have really struggled to find the information I've needed, particularly early on in the pandemic -- nor have many of the challenges in this space, once one compensates a bit for the sheer scale of everything today. 2021-10-28T16:49:31+01:00 (#skioyiq) ๐Ÿ˜ขโ€จโ€จCool. I'll make sure to pull my posts off before upgrading. As you say, @, the community has spoken! :-) 2021-10-28T19:50:42+01:00 (#iaxmyuq) @โ€จโ€จ> ... I just mark them read...โ€จโ€จOoo, now that's the sort of killer feature that leads to adoption. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜‰ 2021-10-28T20:12:13+01:00 (#rr3dh3q) @ Hear, hear!โ€จโ€จI also note that their definition of [responsible innovation](https://about.facebook.com/realitylabs/responsible-innovation-principles/) includes nothing about the environmental impact of scaling the necessary compute power for V/AR to their world-dominating user base. 2021-10-28T20:15:37+01:00 (#iaxmyuq) @ โ€จโ€จ๐Ÿ‘€ `jenny`, you say ๐Ÿ‘€โ€จโ€จ๐Ÿ˜ cc @movq 2021-10-29T07:36:05+01:00 (#skioyiq) @ It's also lazy stream of consciousness writing, of course. No editing a birdsite thread! 2021-10-29T07:38:22+01:00 (#iaxmyuq) @ Actually, that's a really good point. A **really** good point.โ€จโ€จHow did I not see that? :-) 2021-10-29T07:44:20+01:00 (#iaxmyuq) It's like my instincts are all wrong. Social media has broken me: I'm like an addict, wanting that dopamine hit **everywhere**. ๐Ÿ˜‚โ€จโ€จSave me, Yarn.social, from myself! ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ซ 2021-10-29T09:36:35+01:00 (#fec32sq) @ Nice! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-29T09:37:54+01:00 (#iaxmyuq) @ Yeah, the read status. And, no, no, no more dopamine, please! ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-10-29T09:38:22+01:00 (#jy4ohqq) @ Awesome! ๐ŸŽ‰ 2021-10-31T01:02:00Z (#22qodla) @ Oh, wow! Amazing! ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-31T01:14:03Z (#x7za7bq) Snaffled my wife's rpi4 to have a play with this. ๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จRe open source code that caught my eye, [Nebula](https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) looks interesting; the [Yggdrasil screen reader project](https://yggdrasil-sr.github.io/) even more so! 2021-10-31T07:06:55Z (#xpvn34q) @ I've got one, if you're still in the market. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-10-31T07:12:52Z (#xpvn34q) Fat fingers. Meant this for (#tabrhxa) systemd convo. 2021-10-31T10:25:01Z ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/hPsMLUvgrtcu7NAbGRQtYj)โ€จโ€จMorning! โ˜• 2021-10-31T10:27:22Z (#tjfzcna) Ooo, nasty export. Let's try that again.โ€จโ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/gxGHSaUTCaZi74EAjTvR6b) 2021-10-31T13:26:34Z ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/wWeiWri3ewJmXQReqehUxB)โ€จโ€จHunting on a local pumpkin trail. ๐Ÿ˜Š๐ŸŽƒ 2021-10-31T14:30:44Z (#tabrhxa) @โ€จโ€จ```โ€จ661 0 jj@royale:~$ cat /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/yarnd.service โ€จ[Unit]โ€จDescription=๐ŸงถYarn.social is an open-source, self-hosted, de-centralised micro-blogging platformโ€จDocumentation=https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarnโ€จAfter=network.targetโ€จโ€จ[Service]โ€จType=simpleโ€จRestart=on-failureโ€จRestartSec=10โ€จStartLimitBurst=5โ€จStartLimitInterval=100โ€จUser=twtโ€จGroup=twtโ€จExecStart=/usr/local/bin/yarnd -ORt "dark"โ€จEnvironmentFile=/home/twt/twtd_envโ€จโ€จ[Install]โ€จWantedBy=multi-user.targetโ€จ``` 2021-10-31T15:24:35Z (#tabrhxa) @ Actually, it works as a simple kv:โ€จโ€จ```โ€จADMIN_EMAIL=jlj@ctrl-c.clubโ€จADMIN_USER=supportโ€จAPI_SIGNING_KEY=*redacted*โ€จBASE_URL=https://twt.nfld.ukโ€จCOOKIE_SECRET=*redacted*โ€จDATA=/home/twt/dataโ€จDESCRIPTION="๐ŸงถYarn.social is a self-hosted, Twitterโ„ข-esque, de-centralised micro-blogging platform. No ads, no tracking; your content, your data!"โ€จMAGICLINK_SECRET=*redacted*โ€จSMTP_FROM=nfld@mailo.comโ€จSMTP_HOST=mail.mailo.comโ€จSMTP_PASS=*redacted*โ€จSMTP_USER=nfld@mailo.comโ€จSTORE=bitcask:///home/twt/twtxt.dbโ€จ``` 2021-10-31T15:49:18Z (#tabrhxa) Oh, and, being lazy, I've just symlinked that `/usr/local` executable to my repo clone, so all I have to do is issue a `restart` after the `make` to complete an upgrade. 2021-10-31T20:14:52Z (#tabrhxa) @ Sure! On both counts! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-01T10:21:57Z (#hvo6xqq) @ We did find quite a few, but then the heavens opened. ๐ŸŒง๐ŸŒง๐ŸŒงโ€จโ€จI wonder what's going on with images? I guess maybe my rpi isn't serving them in a time manner? Maybe I need to adjust my max upload size. (Without going too far, like the coffee mug photo from earlier!) 2021-11-01T10:24:04Z (#27jyhna) @ Indeed. Deservedly 500+ on HN now.โ€จโ€จI've got a Huion. ๐Ÿค” 2021-11-01T14:28:00Z An HDD in my web / reverse proxy server is failing. I've lost remote access to it, and can't bring up another terminal locally either. ๐Ÿ˜ฌโ€จโ€จThis pod may go dark at some point, but, the silver lining is that it will return, since I (recently!) migrated it off that same server, to an rpi. ๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จReally should've invested in that backup solution sooner. ๐Ÿ˜› I'm (cautiously) optimistic about getting data off it, though, once I order a replacement drive, since NGINX seems to still be running. But maybe that's based on a configuration in memory; who knows! Anyway, I'll try to post an update before I take the server down for repairs. 2021-11-01T14:42:02Z (#w4qg37a) @ Man, you've got some corkers there! I really love 29 too: I think that would look really cool greyscale with some funky contrast; properly monstrous. ;-) 2021-11-03T09:31:52Z (#w4qg37a) @movq Oh, **indeed**! Nicely done. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ“ท 2021-11-03T09:35:41Z (#tptj33q) @ Back, I think! Too much to catch up on, but your search engine helped me find my mentions. ๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จDid I read correctly: you're looking for pod owners to try out the latest build(s)? 2021-11-03T10:10:15Z (#hb7s5nq) @ Whoa, good to know! 2021-11-03T10:10:51Z (#tptj33q) @ Ha ha. Roger that! 2021-11-03T10:34:42Z (#hb7s5nq) @ Very few, to be frank! I just can't help the ribbing. ;-) 2021-11-03T16:16:44Z (#kqjjkpa) @ And every time you create one, you've created another avenue of attribution. Lots of people don't want to be attributed to their activities on the Internet. They'd like to connect to systems, including your pod, through all sorts of bizarre routes, and never the same one twice. They could do the same thing with the email provider of that address they've given you, but that would be twice as hard (or more, likely, as I'm sure that doesn't scale linearly) as what I just previously described.โ€จโ€จThis is not me. But I'm happy to host pod mates who feel this way. 2021-11-03T18:57:17Z (#kqjjkpa) @ More like true pseudonymity, but, yeah. At least that's my understanding. 2021-11-04T09:32:58Z @ Browsing the issues and saw that we might have a new pod soon. :-) Koshroy isn't up yet, are they? 2021-11-04T09:37:22Z Oh, yeah, just about daily. >.< โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/3HXxPc6E9gEJtmD4Q2maaA) โ€จ[Source: Sarah's Scribbles](https://sarahcandersen.com/post/666841746512150528) 2021-11-05T09:54:00Z Went to a spoken word gig last night. Surreal. Realised how much my creativity has dropped off; these last few years in particular.โ€จโ€จGreat show. [Hollie McNish](https://holliepoetry.com/), with [Michael Pedersen](https://birlinn.co.uk/contributor/michael-pedersen/) opening. I want more. 2021-11-05T09:59:07Z (#vwzzy7a) @ Memorable! ๐Ÿ˜† Happy birthday! ๐ŸŽ‰ 2021-11-05T10:00:57Z Four-hour exam on the horizon. ๐Ÿ˜ซ Wish it was a four-hour nap. 2021-11-05T11:57:31Z (#vwzzy7a) @ Wow! Yeah, what @ said: some serious chops, there. In fact, now that I've been following you for a while, I'm wondering whether you're getting even better. :-) Anyway, I've never seen anything short of amazing in all you've shared; keep it up! :-) 2021-11-05T12:39:58Z (#rspsjfa) @ I'm helping alpha test the HashiCorp Vault professional certification.โ€จโ€จAnd I've just discovered it's actually six hours long. :-/โ€จโ€จThanks anyway, though! :-) 2021-11-05T12:41:22Z (#vwzzy7a) @ Nice!โ€จโ€จNext question: (paid) commissions? I'd love to see what you could do with Tux. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿง 2021-11-05T19:45:17Z (#vwzzy7a) @ Well, I'd pay for a custom Tux -- and have before! -- so let me know if that's of interest. (No pressure, though; wouldn't want to mess with something that obviously gives you a lot of enjoyment. ๐Ÿ˜Š) 2021-11-05T19:50:56Z (#x47anoa) @ I entertained the idea, in my youth. But no, mostly blogging, since 2003, and bad poetry. ๐Ÿ˜›โ€จโ€จDoesn't prevent me from enjoying a dabble, though, nor appreciating the talents of others. ๐Ÿ˜Šโ€จโ€จI've got a comic book project kicking around in my head; one of the reasons I bought that Huion tablet I mentioned a few days ago. One day... 2021-11-05T20:16:03Z (#vwzzy7a) @ A friend from Matrix gave me this one for Xmas last year; you've probably seen it, as I use it as the avatar for my `matrix.org` account.โ€จโ€จ![](https://nfld.uk/images/jlj_tux.png) 2021-11-05T20:21:22Z (#x47anoa) @ Nah, didn't go overboard, seeing as I wasn't sure: a) that I'd actually use it any time soon, and b) that it would have as good support on Linux as I hoped.โ€จโ€จWent with the Huion H950P in the end, and I'm really happy with the performance / support on Linux, so far. But, yeah, haven't really kicked the tyres, tbh. 2021-11-06T17:17:13Z (#zjbg2ia) @ Yeah, working on better backups now. ๐Ÿ˜› Bought a Synology DS220+, which will help. 2021-11-07T13:38:29Z ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/YEciua4oCECtexzZF3JEsN)โ€จโ€จCousins 2021-11-08T08:28:41Z (#4iu7x7a) @ Makes sense to me. They aren't talking about never working with them again: it's about setting an agenda free of their influence, and then working with partners, including the fossil fuel industry, to implement it. 2021-11-08T08:36:23Z (#cxmtlna) @ ๐Ÿ‘ Haven't been keeping up with the Yarn chatter, and was wondering whether some dust was still settling. ๐Ÿ˜โ€จโ€จI'll upgrade today! 2021-11-08T10:19:22Z (#cxmtlna) @ Understood. The only hiccup so far was `yarnd` failing to restart due to template related issues. I ended up removing the `-t "dark"` in my systemd file, and it came up fine. 2021-11-08T14:04:06Z (#zvavypq) @ Intriguing! I'll have to check it out. :-) 2021-11-08T15:54:02Z (#cjsz6qq) @ ๐Ÿ˜ข 2021-11-08T18:58:16Z (#knlqsca) @ Ooo, excellent! ๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-08T19:45:24Z [All in Our Genes: The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI) podcast](https://richardhanania.substack.com/p/all-in-our-genes)โ€จโ€จ> ... So, the implication of this is not that parents donโ€™t matter. They do. Kids canโ€™t grow up by themselves. Growing up, as Judith Harris used to say, who wrote this famous book about shared and non-shared environment, The Nurture Assumption is what itโ€™s called. She says parents matter a lot because itโ€™s a large part of the parentsโ€™ life and the child's life, and the relationship is very important. But you don't become a parent to mold your kid to be what you want it to be.โ€จ>โ€จ> I think the genetic message is find out what your kid likes to do; help them do it; but mostly, enjoy the relationship. I think a good analogy is if you married someone because, you said, โ€œWell, there's some good material here. I'm going to make him into someone that's really to my liking,โ€ itโ€™s a recipe for disaster. But thatโ€™s what so many parents do with their kids. They think that the way their kid turns out is just due to the way they parented them. Thatโ€™s really bad... 2021-11-08T20:10:16Z (#dliy3pq)โ€จ> ... I love the idea of thinking of yourself more as a resource manager. Find out what they like to do and help them to do it. Increasingly, I think appetites, what they like to do, is equally important to aptitudes for something. And itโ€™s a virtuous circle as well, you like to do what youโ€™re good at. But parents should notice that and help them go in that direction because you love them, not because you want to make them into something. You just do nice things. You help people that you love. Thatโ€™s the way the parenting relationship ought to be. Iโ€™m sure itโ€™ll work out better for both the parents and the kids if more parents had that point of view... 2021-11-09T04:24:04Z [Don't be spooky](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/cdd783d4216515554d8d4f29d41c0801541099a4)โ€จโ€จI thought this was someone hating on Halloween. >.< ๐Ÿ˜‚โ€จโ€จ[Via HN500](c1b685ed144ae91468c7c0d3befdf8155d058b7b) 2021-11-09T04:25:48Z (#zy43uoa) Oops. That HN link should be https://rss.nfld.uk/share/c1b685ed144ae91468c7c0d3befdf8155d058b7b 2021-11-09T04:38:25Z (#4u4kayq) @ Jarvis is my bro, so that'd be confusing. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-11-09T21:35:09Z As if I needed another reason to dislike Discord: https://social.nfld.uk/notice/ADEkYKyam89CQ96fBIโ€จโ€จcc @ 2021-11-10T11:28:48Z (#hfal6kq) Yeah, removal+preview here too 2021-11-11T00:19:08Z (#hfal6kq) Whoa. Had my head down in a problem this evening (that, happily, I think I've resolved). Good discussion. Sounds fine to me. 2021-11-11T10:26:58Z (#iqdws6q) @ Good to see you! I would see you in the fediverse from time to time, so I wasn't too worried. :-) 2021-11-11T20:42:18Z @ LCCC's site is beautiful! <3 2021-11-11T21:31:54Z (#hghxkca) @ Just noticed the logo too; love it! :-) 2021-11-11T21:41:44Z (#hghxkca) @ Ooo! Had meant the latter (i.e., LCCC), but, now, both! :-) 2021-11-12T12:40:14Z (#7evtnvq) Love it! As an avatar too! Envious! :-) 2021-11-12T12:41:37Z (#3lkdtda) OK, I'll upgrade now, and try it out over the weekend. :-) 2021-11-12T12:58:11Z Kids were amazing for the dentist this morning; super proud! ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-12T14:00:22Z (#cvlfm5a) @ Ain't that the truth. And I'm hardly the best role model: while my cleaning was pretty quick, I was the longest in the chair of the four of us by a significant margin. ;-) 2021-11-12T17:19:37Z (#cvlfm5a) @ Oldie but goodie ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-11-12T22:48:29Z (#s5x3jra) @ Devil's advocate: [Explaining NFTs](https://rss.nfld.uk/share/315a331e85772fd2c19b31ce5b9d547b6c94481d) 2021-11-13T07:00:56Z (#s5x3jra) @ Yeah, me either, and I think that's a good point: just like loyalty cards, this could be a means of attributing, aggregating, and ultimately monetising user behaviour.โ€จโ€จ@ Me either. My stake in the world has been bytes only for ages now. ๐Ÿ˜› 2021-11-13T17:36:01Z This is where my (101 year old!) Nan lives: [The Dildo Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i62RnsIQHM) ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-13T17:40:08Z (#wbfguja) @movq Wow. Amazing! ๐Ÿค“ 2021-11-13T17:41:48Z (#w7g7r4q) @ Hey, happy you're here! Welcome! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘‹ 2021-11-13T18:32:55Z (#tatqncq) @movq I'm sure she's said the same, many a morning. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‰ 2021-11-13T20:48:55Z (#tatqncq) @ Ha ha. That took me a moment. ๐Ÿ˜‚โ€จโ€จ@ She lived in the house where she'd raised ten children in up until her 98th year, in this isolated community(!). So, yeah, she was a bit put out by the move initially, I think, but has taken to it. Especially when the neighbourhood cat visits. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-11-14T20:20:16Z (#ptpfohq) @ Genuinely impressed! 2021-11-14T22:07:58Z (#q3z6xkq) And me! 2021-11-15T07:42:04Z (#fvhwhzq) Woke to find that `yarnd` wasn't responding; "too many open files" errors in the log. Just updated. 2021-11-15T09:48:30Z (#fvhwhzq) Seems OK now... Started around 4am my time, I guess -- [relevant syslog extract](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/jlj77/3be5b38bcdc00bd354f835f628f07a66/raw/afa937cf747940aa2edc09c4a7f501fb9b5d17ba/syslog) -- presumably related to the upgrade I'd performed... about five hours previously. 2021-11-15T09:50:13Z (#zo55cua) +1 on the great work, @! The count badges are really neat. :-) 2021-11-15T11:41:53Z (#fvhwhzq) Fair enough. Any of these settings jump out as a problem?โ€จโ€จ```โ€จroot@royale:~# cat /proc/21462/limitsโ€จLimit Soft Limit Hard Limit Units โ€จMax cpu time unlimited unlimited seconds โ€จMax file size unlimited unlimited bytes โ€จMax data size unlimited unlimited bytes โ€จMax stack size 8388608 unlimited bytes โ€จMax core file size 0 unlimited bytes โ€จMax resident set unlimited unlimited bytes โ€จMax processes 1376 1376 processes โ€จMax open files 1024 524288 files โ€จMax locked memory 65536 65536 bytes โ€จMax address space unlimited unlimited bytes โ€จMax file locks unlimited unlimited locks โ€จMax pending signals 1376 1376 signals โ€จMax msgqueue size 819200 819200 bytes โ€จMax nice priority 0 0 โ€จMax realtime priority 0 0 โ€จMax realtime timeout unlimited unlimited us โ€จ``` 2021-11-15T11:44:52Z (#fvhwhzq) That's the main `yarnd` process on my system currently, btw. Maybe I should try raising that soft limit on open files. That max core file size soft limit looks a bit worrying as well; not sure what that refers to, mind. 2021-11-15T20:51:36Z (#p2s7oga) @ She has replied to @ on occasion. And emailed.โ€จโ€จI go the other way, filling the fediverse with loads of posts signed with "Originally posted on yarn.social" links. ๐Ÿ˜› 2021-11-15T21:50:56Z (#keapznq) @ I'm a big Lego fan. Can't believe I hadn't heard of Bluebrixx before now! Very cool! 2021-11-16T13:30:30Z (#nzmpuzq) From the weekend :-)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/u3dxA92cSTNvjaX4R9cv5j) 2021-11-16T13:33:20Z (#keapznq) @ Great info! Ta! I saw that the booklets were available for download; didn't realise that that was *only* in some cases! :-) 2021-11-16T14:51:14Z (#uobojra) @ Did you need special permission to `push` to that repo? @, I think that's what this error means, yes?โ€จโ€จ```โ€จjj@zoo:~/Projects/yarn.wiki$ git pushโ€จGitea: Unauthorizedโ€จGitea: Unauthorizedโ€จfatal: Could not read from remote repository.โ€จโ€จPlease make sure you have the correct access rightsโ€จand the repository exists.โ€จ``` 2021-11-16T14:58:38Z (#nzmpuzq) @ You're gonna regret encouraging me. ;-) And, thanks, @! It's flying by!โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/u5dhQoshK7FTiaFd84WAvV) 2021-11-16T15:05:16Z (#uobojra) This is what I have so far, btw. :-)โ€จโ€จ# Running under systemdโ€จโ€จ***Note**: `yarn.social` is actively developed. Please see the latest documentation to take advantage of all the latest command line switches and configuration file parameters. The following example will likely be dated (but working!).*โ€จโ€จ`sudo vi /lib/systemd/system/yarnd.service`โ€จโ€จ`[Unit]`โ€จ`Description=๐ŸงถYarn.social is an open-source, self-hosted, de-centralised micro-blogging platform`โ€จ`Documentation=https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn`โ€จ`After=network.target`โ€จโ€จ`[Service]`โ€จ`Type=simple`โ€จ`Restart=on-failure`โ€จ`RestartSec=10`โ€จ`StartLimitBurst=5`โ€จ`StartLimitInterval=100`โ€จ`User=yarn.social`[^1]โ€จ`Group=yarn.social`โ€จ`ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/yarnd -OR`โ€จ`EnvironmentFile=/home/yarn.social/yarnd.config`[^2]โ€จโ€จ`[Install]`โ€จ`WantedBy=multi-user.target`โ€จโ€จ`:wq`โ€จโ€จ`sudo systemctl enable yarnd`โ€จโ€จ`sudo cat /home/yarn.social/yarnd.config`โ€จโ€จ`ADMIN_EMAIL=dog@heaven.above`โ€จ`ADMIN_USER=dog`โ€จ`API_SIGNING_KEY=not-for-m0rtal-eyes`โ€จ`BASE_URL=https://yarn.heaven.above`โ€จ`COOKIE_SECRET=also-not-for-m0rtal-eyes`โ€จ`DATA=/home/yarn.social/data`โ€จ`DESCRIPTION="๐ŸงถYarn.social is a self-hosted, Twitterโ„ข-esque, de-centralised micro-blogging platform. No ads, no tracking; your content, your data!"`โ€จ`MAGICLINK_SECRET=definitely-not-for-m0rtal-eyes`โ€จ`SMTP_FROM=gabriel@heaven.above`โ€จ`SMTP_HOST=mail.heaven.above`โ€จ`SMTP_PASS=aaand-fo-ahem-not-for-m0rtal-eyes-either`โ€จ`SMTP_USER=gabriel@heaven.above`โ€จ`STORE=bitcask:///home/yarn.social/yarn.db`โ€จโ€จ`sudo systemctl restart yarnd`โ€จโ€จ[^1]: Running this under a separate account is not required.โ€จ[^2]: You could also run this from `/etc/`, of course. 2021-11-16T15:06:10Z H'm. That looks better in Typora. >.< 2021-11-16T18:14:57Z (#uobojra) @ That did it! Ta! :-) 2021-11-16T18:22:42Z Vienna (2016)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/mUTsj8eMQjG84LkF8nEbJR) 2021-11-16T19:14:53Z (#zfn7siq) @ Thanks. :-) I was pretty chuffed to catch it. Was my desktop wallpaper for close to a year, I think. 2021-11-17T01:31:05Z (#rbyspeq) H'm. My pod just stopped responding. Nothing obvious in syslog (other than, man, I need to prune some dead feeds). I ran `lsof` anyway, before restarting: mostly `sock` (~60) with another ten of `IPv6`. Responding again. H'm. 2021-11-17T01:34:22Z Howth (2010)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/BK5Lxsnm2pwjHNtPDwXuHD) 2021-11-17T01:57:09Z (#w6kruca) @ Ta! :-) And, agreed: don't trust anyone who isn't compelled to look up, in awe. ;-) 2021-11-17T02:50:25Z [We are all frail](https://aeon.co/essays/i-hurt-therefore-i-am-a-new-approach-to-our-shared-vulnerability?utm_source=rss-feed)โ€จโ€จI feel that this is profound; truly so. Reading it was a case of, โ€œOh, I must share that excerpt; oh, and that. Oh, wow, and thatโ€ฆโ€ Maybe Iโ€™ll just leave this here instead: read this essay.โ€จโ€จ([Originally posted in the fediverse](https://social.nfld.uk/notice/ADTZsYmzdrkUvUsoRU), but only 'cause my pod was sad. ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜) 2021-11-17T10:42:40Z (#w6kruca) Thanks, all. :-) Setting a pretty high bar here, I think, as these have all made it to my desktop wallpapers folder over the years. We'll be getting to the mundane stuff in short order, trust me. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-11-17T10:46:07Z Snowshill, England (2010)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/oCeKBT9na76YDt3PhT3cTA) 2021-11-17T11:13:17Z (#cmwe37q) I thought he milked a cow! @, I _may_ have an idealised view of your life, I think it's fair to say, with all those lovely walks and whatnot. ;-) 2021-11-17T11:17:21Z (#o4yc7va) @ 'Tis! I _believe_ it's a peacock butterfly, to be precise. ๐Ÿฆ‹๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-17T11:55:43Z (#cmwe37q) @ Oh, wow, that's amazing! I love it! That's still an wonderful setting, if you ask me: I'm in a town as well, but am far from dairy farms (and have never seen such a neat set-up!). 2021-11-17T13:40:14Z (#cmwe37q) @ Thanks so much for sharing this. :-) In fact, I thought @ was saying that he could imagine all _this_, so evocative it was. But, yes, I guess you have a talent for that, across many yarns. ;-) 2021-11-17T13:44:31Z Algarve (2012)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/gspwyh6q9vrjgGP8eyBJia) 2021-11-17T14:33:31Z (#76sdi5q) @ We've got sun today, but I'm betting it's warmer there. :-) 2021-11-17T17:18:40Z (#76sdi5q) @ Oh, neat! And, yeah, the Gulf Stream is a lovely thing. ;-) 2021-11-17T17:19:52Z (#76sdi5q) Faro, on the other hand, was 17โ„ƒ today! :-) 2021-11-18T14:12:45Z (#xbacyoa) @ Aww, lovely! :-) 2021-11-18T14:14:54Z (#kot7uia) @ Classic! (Rummages around for his copy...) 2021-11-18T14:19:02Z (#nbknqxa) @ Daaang! Now **that's** panoramic! 2021-11-18T14:28:45Z The last image captured by my stolen SIII, before I remote-wiped it.โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/TPMe8RRaEoJVYsMrgwji96) 2021-11-18T14:35:32Z Vienna (2016)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/CzjtUu2n8amiJQTB65XoKb) 2021-11-18T14:41:11Z _Crusade_ -- a lesser known JMS (of _Babylon 5_ fame) show from the 90s -- Easter egg! That island, top right, was where I grew up. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ˜‚ Google Earth backdrops on a shoestring budget, I guess?โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/b2mB9tXD3VEBHJxra5aa2X) 2021-11-18T14:48:36Z (#53bkf4q) @ I did report it, yeah. I was, ahem, very drunk at the time, ๐Ÿ˜‚ in Edinburgh. As I recall, this was the next morning, geo-located to a services near Carlisle. I think. It's almost a decade ago now! 2021-11-18T16:25:51Z (#53bkf4q) @ I would _like_ to say that that was the last time I got completely smashed (with a couple of Aussies, come to think of it), but my bro-in-law is a Kiwi...๐Ÿป๐Ÿฅƒ๐Ÿฅณ At least parenthood (and age!) have tempered us! 2021-11-18T19:45:32Z Krugman isn't hopeful: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/gas-prices-economy.html 2021-11-18T20:33:58Z [On ACT / Alexander's Ivermectin monster post](https://social.nfld.uk/notice/ADXKDDBIM0RvMCuo0u) 2021-11-19T07:13:43Z (#fy22qha) @ Nice shot! 2021-11-19T09:25:25Z Cotswolds (~2014)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/QVJ7mWvHrdLujmwcVQePML) 2021-11-19T17:22:29Z (#qexno2a) Ta both. :-) 2021-11-19T17:23:50Z (#7lmd5xa) @ Loving this. Reminds me of home. :-) 2021-11-22T19:47:48Z @ Lost my Jitsi Meet server to a hardware failure. Decided to try Peer Calls instead: call.nfld.ukโ€จโ€จNot sure my config is top class yet, but it seems to be working. :-) 2021-11-22T20:05:07Z (#h4lrtpa) @ Who won? Are you on Lichess? 2021-11-22T22:08:32Z (#h4lrtpa) @ Ha ha. Cool! I'm jlj7; we should play! 2021-11-22T22:56:58Z (#h4lrtpa) @ I'm heading to bed soon, but I think I've now challenged you to a Correspondence match. :-) 2021-11-24T14:00:14Z Vienna (2016)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/5yRxfb5trwF8Nbj4Kbx8iB) 2021-11-24T15:45:42Z (#nj2stqq) @ ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-25T00:58:26Z (#kztamfq) @ There's a lot of info out there, obviously, but I found this blog post particularly useful when I was trying to see where Nomad and Kubernetes best fit: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/nomad-kubernetes-a-pragmatic-look-at-choosing-orchestrators 2021-11-25T01:13:26Z (#5pessxa) @ I stepped out of IT from 2013 to 2019 to do care work. I'm now pretty much full-time devops. I feel your pain: what the hell happened?! ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-11-25T01:22:33Z (#knlzd4q) @ I self-host Vaultwarden, then point the various Bitwarden apps (or my browser, if that's all that's available) at it. Auto-fill functionality in general does the rest. ๐Ÿ˜Š I've only had one passphrase for years now, and any breach notifications I get are dealt with in seconds.โ€จโ€จYou can create an account on mine, if you want to try it out. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-25T07:16:42Z (#zgpm4sa) @ lol. Is this close to yours then? A daily pick me up. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-25T10:17:06Z (#knlzd4q) Just read this yarn again... My command line workflow is rubbish compared to many of you. ๐Ÿ˜† Going to look at using the official Bitwarden command line client, and maybe some aliasing... Wonder whether I can use `bw get password` to seamlessly pass secrets to commands?โ€จโ€จIt doesn't happen very often, mind; I use `keychain` to persist my SSH agent. Still... H'm. ๐Ÿค” 2021-11-25T10:30:34Z (#knlzd4q) @ Neat! I mean, really, I should be using HashiCorp's Vault, to keep me sharp in the day job. ;-) 2021-11-25T10:54:21Z (#nvm2loa) @ lol. Indeed. A bazooka in a knife fight. ๐Ÿคฃ 2021-11-25T13:25:22Z (#yilfviq) @movq Same; daughter's full of flu and barely sleeping. ๐Ÿ˜ช๐Ÿ˜ด 2021-11-25T13:37:53Z Vienna (2016)โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/VcRLn8ZydFyu56qjxTHG3D) 2021-11-25T14:31:03Z (#iufxolq) @ Just upgraded after... a week? Wow! This looks great! Well done, indeed, all! 2021-11-25T15:03:13Z (#d7uqfda) @ Speaking of which, sorry @! I completely missed your joining my pod; a very belated welcome to you! :-) 2021-11-25T15:25:40Z Yup. โœ‹ Regularly. More so this week.โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/aPaDtLjMxktEV8ViHGhHKE)โ€จSource: [Sarah's Scribbles](https://sarahcandersen.com/post/668748050170347520) 2021-11-25T17:17:01Z (#k5k75ia) @ ๐Ÿคฃ Too right!โ€จโ€จOne shot. _"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do you, punk?"_ ๐Ÿคฃ 2021-11-25T17:24:37Z My old Rayleigh Wayfarer, which I traded in a few years ago for almost twice what I paid for it(!). A good steed.โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/pSQ8JHeg2rFPaGo2x5tpG4) 2021-11-25T18:06:59Z (#rewp7qa) @ Yeah, not reality. :-)โ€จโ€จReally forked out for an e-bike. French model. Don't have the details to hand, but it's worth half my current car! Such a good purchase, for commuting up a mountain four to five times a week. No wonder I'm so chubby, Mr DevOps now, not riding much or pushing wheelchairs lol.โ€จโ€จGot myself an old Triumph secondhand for the kids' trailer, and just generally leaving it in my light-fingered town. ;-) 2021-11-25T18:22:42Z (#d2b6dka) @ That's been a silver lining of my hardware failure: using an app associated with my newly-acquired Synology DiskStation to generate random playlists and rediscover old gems. My collection has been too big to host in one place for many years now, prior to this. 2021-11-25T18:28:28Z (#d2b6dka) Found some stinkers too, of course. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-11-25T18:29:35Z (#wgpudjq) @movq ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ฑ 2021-11-25T23:30:39Z (#zguxshq) @ It was **the** source of tech news back in the 90s. But CmdrTaco left a long time ago. ๐Ÿ˜ž 2021-11-26T20:24:42Z (#rewp7qa) @ Yeah, I just love it: the easy step through to mount (on mine), not having to faff with lights (other than turning them on when it gets dark ;-) ), and, well, the gears are much fancier and smoother than the ones on my older bikes.โ€จโ€จI still felt it in the hardest parts of that commute -- Leckhampton Hill climbs over 500ft(!) in a few miles along my best route -- but it meant the difference between walking my bike up most of it and staying on the whole time. :-) 2021-11-27T16:53:30Z (#2fwjhna) @ Lovely. Really stormy here.โ€จโ€จLooking forward to a fancy meal, with Granny here to babysit. ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-11-29T10:39:03Z Can't remember where this one was taken. Vienna, again, according to the metadata.โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/ECxKwS68RpPx8SyXNovqG4) 2021-11-29T11:05:49Z (#ymhuauq) @ Agreed. But the details escape me. :-) I'm sure it would become apparent if I looked at it in the context of the 'roll'. ;-) 2021-11-29T14:05:04Z (#rxvbtea) I'm running it now too. :-) 2021-11-29T14:37:21Z (#rxvbtea) @ Not for me.โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/QUqy7kKDJZ62wuhWbbRHo6) 2021-11-30T04:08:53Z (#yntzbtq) @ I was gonna say, I run afoul of those rules on a regular basis. ๐Ÿ˜… And have now again! ๐Ÿ™ˆ 2021-11-30T17:23:10Z (#rxvbtea) Ah, my pod shows up twice now, post upgrade: one as seen a long time ago, and the other, seconds ago. 2021-12-01T02:03:14Z (#lmeneba) @ Isn't this just game theory? Tipping as a universal concept has evolved to attempt to solve local, systemic problems, as you've hinted at, and no longer resembles that sentiment you desire in any of the countries I've ever visited; I've had to do that as an extra, on top of local custom, without exception, to the best of my recollection. A daunting task, as @ says! 2021-12-01T17:14:33Z (#xbn6g5q) @ It needs to be a public service. Like the actual telephone, back in the day. Government funded, appropriately, for required uses. And, to confirm that that's the case, the code needs to be public too, absolutely.โ€จโ€จpubliccode.euโ€จโ€จThere's just too much at stake to leave this to market forces, informal communities (however well funded), etc. 2021-12-02T01:17:50Z (#el5txcq) @ Is it open source? 2021-12-02T23:54:12Z Extraordinary that I've managed to avoid DS9 spoilers for twenty years. Really enjoying this final season, so far. 2021-12-02T23:56:54Z Had a great performance review today. Hard to believe I was paid to wipe bums two years ago. 2021-12-03T00:12:27Z (#gqmbyza) @ Got a bonus last year, and there were hints of it being an annual possibility. ๐Ÿคž 2021-12-03T00:15:27Z (#kjtkw7a) @ Nor me, when it aired; gave up in the second season, as I recall. Might end up competing for top spot, once all's said and done, none more surprised than me.โ€จโ€จSame with Voyager. Enjoyed it much more as a 'mature' fan. ;-) 2021-12-03T00:16:13Z (#kjtkw7a) @ Figured, based on your alter ego. ;-) 2021-12-04T20:13:57Z Well, I think I might be hooked. Not my preferred writing style, but, even knowing what coming, I thoroughly enjoyed the chapter _An Offer and a Gift_, a hundred or so pages in with _The Blade Itself_.โ€จโ€จMy fantasy gotos are last century; happy this was recommended to me. 2021-12-05T00:03:46Z (#wbw7niq) @ CmdrTaco left a long time ago. 2021-12-05T16:12:03Z (#qei2gja) @ Ha. Neat. I did wonder. :-) 2021-12-05T16:21:33Z First test of my Peer Calls instance, call.nfld.uk, went well! Need to stand up some monitoring for it now. 2021-12-08T15:15:15Z (#iilqvqq) Nice! Welcome @! 2021-12-08T16:06:32Z (#ke37fpq) @ Long story. :-) Felix is... not entirely happy with this project. :-) 2021-12-09T23:48:31Z https://news.itsfoss.com/eu-open-source-software/ 2021-12-10T09:54:50Z (#gofvztq) @ Indeed! ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/4xatf95iEjbN8i4kLNNNpg) 2021-12-10T10:18:54Z (#gofvztq) @ Already a step ahead of you, my friend! (Possibly foiled by caching somewhere...) 2021-12-10T13:34:56Z (#atjcqka) @ Nah, just a filter. I can't resist messing around with GIMP. :-) 2021-12-10T13:37:36Z (#atjcqka) @ lol. Alcohol impaired attempted earmuff wearing, no doubt. It's from a few years ago, and I honestly don't recall. :-) 2021-12-10T15:58:38Z (#w7jb7ta) Hello! :-) 2021-12-11T02:44:09Z Genuinely might be **the** essay of 2021, for me: [COMMENTARY: 8 things US pandemic communicators still get wrong](https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/12/commentary-8-things-us-pandemic-communicators-still-get-wrong)โ€จโ€จWarning: I _may_ have managed to traumatise myself all over again, reading this in the same week as the UK Gov 2020 Xmas parties revelations.โ€จโ€จSomeone needs to infographic this for the toilets of all public-facing institutions, globally. Now. 2021-12-12T07:14:37Z (#nrspnjq) @ Love the geometry in this! Back in Flickr's heyday, that library would've occupied me for hours, I bet. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ“ท 2021-12-12T07:17:37Z (#gajfsnq) @ ๐Ÿ™Œ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ‘ We're _getting_ there. ๐Ÿ˜‰ 2021-12-13T00:20:11Z (#dv7m7eq) @ Thanks for pointing out that rabbit hole! Ended up buying his short book. ๐Ÿ˜Š 2021-12-13T07:15:57Z (#weph26a) @ Horrific metaphor for the state of work (for many) these days, re hours / conditions / their humanity. ๐Ÿ˜žโ€จโ€จ@ I assumed there wasn't more than hours' warning (if that), and they'd already started shift. Families couldn't contact them, and their management... forgot about them? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ Dunno.โ€จโ€จJust awful. 2021-12-13T15:13:42Z _sigh_... Managed to simplify running Node.js projects, with `nvm`. However, for automating said projects? Not the best option, it seems. And who knew there were [so many options](https://www.npmtrends.com/n-vs-nodenv-vs-nvm-vs-nodeenv)!? I think I'll try `nvm-exec`, along the lines of [this example](https://gist.github.com/joepie91/73ce30dd258296bd24af23e9c5f761aa#gistcomment-2215867), and hope for the best. 2021-12-13T17:46:22Z (#emhiwna) @ Genuine lol ๐Ÿคฃ 2021-12-14T06:42:35Z (#ejl6bua) @ Oh, wow! Looks great! 2021-12-14T06:52:42Z (#ejl6bua) @ Something like this, maybe? ๐Ÿค” https://botsin.space/@randomColorContrasts/107383889891179041 2021-12-14T18:08:07Z (#emhiwna) @ Becccaussse... I'm still learning that process. ;-) But, I spent some time on it today, and now that very thing is working, and I actually understand why (mostly). ^.^ It's the first time I've published an image and then pulled it down through Portainer; only one failed deploy, which I figured out fairly quickly. :-) 2021-12-15T01:05:10Z [Senior Tory MP warns Brexit โ€˜destroyingโ€™ British agriculture and condemns government failure to act](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-farming-immigration-neil-parish-b1975696.html)โ€จโ€จI think there's a fundamental misunderstanding in HMG about how the visa system looks and feels at the business end. 2021-12-15T02:41:27Z (#dai4l3a) @ Yeah, nice to see you! ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ‘‹ 2021-12-15T10:27:03Z In the queue for a booster! ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ˜ 2021-12-15T14:39:22Z (#w3b4byq) @ Yup! I realised afterwards that I didn't ask what I was getting, and they didn't give me one of those cards. I'm guessing Pfizer; that's the booster my wife got, and both my previous jabs were AZ. 2021-12-15T14:40:17Z (#w3b4byq) Love the addition to your avatar, btw! ๐Ÿ˜๐ŸŽ… 2021-12-15T15:15:18Z (#rit7qlq) @ What he said. :-) Welcome back! 2021-12-15T17:02:12Z [The rich are "feeling emotionally drained" from "check writing"...](https://social.nfld.uk/notice/AEQy8XqTErRVkdYpcW) ๐ŸŽป 2021-12-16T11:52:23Z @ Hey, just fyi, I moved the Miniflux service off my desktop to a more proper set-up (i.e., in a Docker container running on my server). I was feeling a little off from my jab, so there were quite a few hours between when I took the database snapshot and when I actually fired up the new service; hope it hasn't inconvenienced you too much. 2021-12-16T13:48:39Z (#n6amdia) @ Oh, phew! That wasn't supposed to be passive aggressive or anything lol. I just had visions of you having plowed through loads of reading overnight (for me) only to find the items all unread again a few hours later! 2021-12-17T07:32:48Z (#uvw6qxq) @ Damning! (And I learned something too.) ๐Ÿ‘ 2021-12-17T07:33:37Z (#hi5wfiq) @ Whoop! ๐Ÿ™Œ One more day, for me. ๐Ÿ˜Š 2021-12-17T09:07:17Z "The party's over." A line for the history books, Johnson! ๐Ÿ–• 2021-12-17T17:21:03Z > โ€ฆ As a community, [F(L)OSS is] far better at acquiring puppies than we are at training themโ€ฆโ€จโ€จ๐Ÿถ โ€จโ€จ[Lessons from Log4j - LWN subscriber-only content](https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/878570/52f58b654bbdc437/) 2021-12-17T17:29:36Z (#zhhrrjq) Preach! ๐Ÿ™Œโ€จโ€จ> ... If a company is building an important product or service on a piece of free software, it behooves that company to ensure that said software is well supported and, if need be, step up to make that happen...โ€จโ€จ> ... Even a project like the Linux kernel, which has thousands of developers who are paid for their work, struggles to find support for maintainers. Companies, it seems, see maintainership work as overhead at best, helping competitors at worst, and somebody else's problem in any case... 2021-12-17T18:59:09Z (#zhhrrjq) @ Ah, interesting. I didn't realise there was training involved.โ€จโ€จI'd recommend the article. That's a link shared with permission, btw; a capped means of promoting the publication. :-)โ€จโ€จ@movq lol, yup, definitely counts. ;-) I'm on vacation too now! Whoop! 2021-12-17T19:09:18Z (#zhhrrjq) Topical ๐Ÿ‘€ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/mrCmta3b2GW8YVjKi7FPjP)โ€จโ€จSource: [free DevSecOps course](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-devsecops/) 2021-12-17T19:54:58Z (#zhhrrjq) @movq ๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2021-12-17T20:17:52Z (#2z4uj7q) @ Man, you'd hope to be well compensated, with those responsibilities, and on call in holiday time. I'm with @: why so much less than your peers? 2021-12-17T20:18:49Z (#zhhrrjq) @ It *is* a bit buzzword bingo. ๐Ÿ˜› 2021-12-17T20:26:31Z (#akcvkja) @ ๐Ÿ˜žโ€จโ€จSounds like you're hella marketable. Thought about a change? 2021-12-17T21:26:32Z (#akcvkja) @ I hear you. (47 here.) 2021-12-18T22:36:32Z I suspected this, but the difference between suspecting and knowing is... horrifying: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/rj6h1m/amazon_tornado_text_exchange_your_life_is_just/hp229sy/โ€จโ€จAmazon is a fucking human meat grinder at this point. I'll probably keep using them, and fucking hating myself for it. ๐Ÿ˜ž 2021-12-19T09:01:18Z (#di4txra) @ Oh, sorry. What about teddit? https://teddit.net/r/antiwork/comments/rj6h1m/amazon_tornado_text_exchange_your_life_is_just/ 2021-12-19T17:08:47Z New Tandemonium! blog post up: https://www.tandemonium.fun/blog/see-you-in-22 2021-12-19T19:04:44Z (#zulowoa) A friend made that for us. ๐Ÿ˜ Her other concept was really cool too. ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/DTukRgfhiLfwb5sssMDbZ) 2021-12-19T19:06:48Z (#k6tvroq) @ Yeah, agreed. ๐Ÿ‘Œ 2021-12-20T00:36:54Z [Charity is not Mutual Aid](https://polymerwitch.noblogs.org/post/2021/12/10/charity-is-not-mutual-aid/) 2021-12-20T11:42:43Z (#kb3rnaq) @ see also [Team America: World Police](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America:_World_Police). Getting harder to see as satire with every year that passes. 2021-12-21T08:50:57Z (#oqaxlra) @ Oh, do you an Autonomous desk too? 2021-12-21T08:53:26Z (#r4z52ea) @ Lovely, and seasonal! 2021-12-21T21:59:15Z (#jl6emhq) Ah, this is a known issue then. :-) 2021-12-21T22:01:34Z (#tnfj65q) Yes, welcome! ^โจฐ^ 2021-12-22T22:50:48Z (#odt4auq) Ah, right. Nice! I'll upgrade tomorrow. ๐Ÿ™‚ 2021-12-24T18:07:16Z (#khrhcoq) @ You too!โ€จโ€จHavin' a beer after the long drive to Granny's. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿบ Kids happy, eating pizza and watching Blippi. ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ•โ€จโ€จHappy Xmas, all! ๐Ÿ˜„๐ŸŽ…๐Ÿคถ๐ŸŽ„ 2021-12-28T23:36:55Z (#vx4gn6q) @ Welcome! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜ 2021-12-31T19:47:26Z (#ymi5bea) @ HNY! ๐ŸŽ‰ 2022-01-01T09:15:09Z (#ymi5bea) @ Ha. Very tame here: everyone was abed, save me; I was watching DS9, drinking a ridiculous raspberry white chocolate milkshake beer from Brewdog as the new year rang in. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-01-01T20:28:06Z (#aticadq) @ H'm I'm getting some duplicate yarns, locally, and my administrator's avatar has gone back to a default. Even after refreshing the cache and clearing browser content. cc @ 2022-01-01T22:30:06Z (#aticadq) @ Ah, just heading to bed, but, cool, yeah, I'll try deleting that in the morning. Nope, no custom theme. 2022-01-02T02:37:07Z (#zkvhj4a) @ โ˜น๏ธ Sorry to hear that. 2022-01-02T02:38:53Z (#aticadq) @ Ha. OK, good to know. 2022-01-02T11:00:25Z (#ubk7b4a) @ Hello! ๐Ÿ‘‹ A (very belated โ€“ sorry!) welcome to the pod! ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-02T11:02:11Z (#j7nsj2a) @ Agreed! That second shot in particular is very nice โ€“ looks like the makings of a lovely day out. ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-02T11:03:42Z (#nuxndgq) @ OK, I think I'm running that branch now. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-02T11:05:20Z (#nuxndgq) I haven't deleted any of the cache files yet, though; and we're about to head out to the park, before the rain. ๐ŸŒง I'll check in a bit later. 2022-01-02T19:56:48Z (#krlykza) @ Sounds like you're really struggling. Not sure where you are based; we have the Samaritans, in the UK.โ€จโ€จPlease consider a chat with me too: jlj@ctrl-c.club; happy to do voice at call.nfld.uk too. 2022-01-03T16:03:24Z (#bbozqla) @ Nice! Following you in the fediverse now too. ๐Ÿ™‚ 2022-01-03T23:36:09Z (#vbya4qq) @ Agreed! ๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜‰ And welcome! 2022-01-04T20:37:40Z (#n2nhhdq) @ Please don't. Was just (initially) worried about you. This should be a place for life, in all its facets. 2022-01-04T20:43:11Z [Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/13/revealed-biden-administration-was-not-legally-bound-to-auction-gulf-drilling-rights)โ€จโ€จ> The decision to go ahead with the sale has damaged Bidenโ€™s climate credentials after the Cop26 talks in Glasgow where he said the US would โ€œlead by exampleโ€ in slashing greenhouse gas emissions. The president, who has called the climate crisis an โ€œexistential threatโ€ to the US, said in a Democratic primary debate last year that under his administration there would be โ€œno more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.โ€โ€จ>โ€จ> This jarring contradiction has alarmed even some of Bidenโ€™s closest allies, with three Democratic members of Congress filing a brief last week with the federal court calling for a halt to the gulf lease sales. The three admitted that they are โ€œdeeply concernedโ€ and โ€œshockedโ€ that the government is pushing ahead with the drilling โ€œdespite its own findings that the largest lease sale in history has not had an adequate environmental rightsโ€‹."โ€จโ€จUnconscionable. :-( The US should have to fight for a seat at any climate conference from here on. Actions needed, 'cause their words mean nothing. 2022-01-05T02:35:12Z (#gyzrc7q) @ Charming. ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ๐Ÿ™„ And, hi! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome! ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-06T08:05:32Z Surrounded by her adoring fans. ๐Ÿ˜„ โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/YtJH8oJEqXxdDKEoYAqd78) 2022-01-06T11:56:43Z (#wikoqfq) Ha. Thanks, both. **And** she's wearing a jumper that a friend of the family made especially for her _with pockets_. She's obsessed with pockets at the moment, and very sad that the various pretty dresses we get secondhand are pocketless. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-01-07T09:55:37Z (#6ruzanq) @ Oh, interesting! As you've probably seen, I'm terrible at keeping up with pod news, so I'm looking forward to the help โ€“ which branch?โ€จโ€จOh, and nice avatar! 2022-01-07T11:43:17Z It's funny: I rank well for both "nfld" and "nfld" + "uk" โ€“ only losing out to non-fatty liver disease (and, fair enough ๐Ÿ˜‚) โ€“ and while the former (rightly) brings up lots about the Canadian province, the latter is almost exclusive about the dog breed! ๐Ÿถ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-01-07T11:47:14Z (#ijdvoga) Wow. That's the first time I've seen the option to edit or delete a yarn in recent memory. That changes the moment it's replicated to peers, yeah?โ€จโ€จI really came here to say that all of the sub pages that are indexed (on DDG, anyway) are Yarn.social conversations! Good advertising! ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-07T13:48:38Z Wow: a new version of Telegram just popped up on F-Droid, and it includes Tap to Translate! Very cool, even if it uses Googul Translate. ;-) 2022-01-07T13:57:52Z Looking at trying out Solus today. 4.3 Live disc is ready! ๐Ÿงโ›ต 2022-01-07T17:30:00Z (#3ydqrvq) @ Fair criticism. Just trying something new, really. Now that my backup solution is robust, I feel I can play around a bit more; this is both my hobby and my livelihood, happily, or maybe sadly. ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-01-08T18:52:45Z (#e3ynwpa) @ Ha! Love it. :-) 2022-01-09T19:25:01Z (#7pxmhma) @ Oh, yeah, sounds like quite the missed opportunity. (Not to rub it in. ๐Ÿ˜›) 2022-01-09T22:40:04Z (#3ydqrvq)โ€จโ€จ> Is it based on Debian?โ€จโ€จDoesn't seem to be based on any distro, surprisingly.โ€จโ€จI didn't have many expectations, going in, but, I have to say, I'm having fun right now. This has kept my interest, and made me smile on more than one occasion.โ€จโ€จI was just reading on their subreddit about big changes in the core team, though, so who knows where the project will be next year. 2022-01-10T14:39:27Z (#gt3cs2q) @ Running it now. I think I hit a memory leak or similar on the old `master`... Noticed a few hours ago that my pod was unresponsive, and, once I was able to get `htop` up, finally, I saw that the load was up near `31.00` where normally it'd be `0.31`(!).โ€จโ€จAnyway, I've restarted on the latest `master` now, obviously. 2022-01-10T17:48:19Z I forgot to backup my Thunderbird profile using their software; restoring the directory structure from backup wasn't doing the trick, until I found [a Mozilla support article explaining how Thunderbird uses `profiles.ini`](https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data#w_moving-a-profile). Bacon saved! Very happy. 2022-01-10T20:41:44Z (#4o6nasa) @ I think there have been some major changes, particularly around cryptographic integrations. I'm pretty vanilla in my usage since ending my hiatus from it last year; prior to that, it was probably the mid 2000s, when I was last what you'd call an active user.โ€จโ€จI initially wanted a palatable means of keeping on top of my spam awash cloud accounts, but it's properly won my heart once again since. 2022-01-10T22:59:48Z (#gt3cs2q) @ Ah, right, OK, sure! 2022-01-11T05:08:53Z (#gt3cs2q) @ No need to apologise โ€“ this is progress! Dogfooding is its own reward. ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-11T05:10:01Z (#akjvatq) @ Oh, wow! Well, welcome back! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ™‚ 2022-01-11T05:22:42Z ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/qAfVwie88WKBNfD2vKUuXJ.png) 2022-01-11T18:50:48Z (#kmno7oq) @ Oh, wow. Big news. Wonder what's next (once he enjoys a bit of life outside cell service ๐Ÿ˜‰). 2022-01-12T07:09:47Z (#ydtn3la) @ I was. Couldn't get it migrated, when I was moving everything over to Portainer / Docker, and then couldn't even restore the original set-up. ๐Ÿ˜…โ€จโ€จTbh, it was pretty useless, on my kit: it'd timeout on anything but the simplest translations. I'm still really hopeful about the project overall, but I've abandoned self-hosting it, at least for now. 2022-01-13T17:09:27Z (#rwnngea) @ I read that, in other, (relatively) comparable scenarios, paying people to participate is very effective.โ€จโ€จI also read that, after recently changing the policy to require proof of vaccination for entry to all liquor and cannabis shops, Quebec saw a big spike in vaccine appointments. ^x^ 2022-01-14T20:27:36Z (#cbp2zja) @ ๐Ÿ‘†โž•๐Ÿ˜› 2022-01-14T20:30:19Z (#cbp2zja) @ Do what you want, mate. I'm only on here every other day, so I just plow on as before, enjoying the new releases. 2022-01-14T20:31:23Z (#nqy5qwq) @ Yeah exactly. 2022-01-16T14:41:24Z (#fcyxb6a) @movq I didn't actually think that was a driver behind either (no pun intended). I like both projects for their locked down deployments, by default. When they're done well, the docs even suggest post-install connections that you might want to use and why. Mobile has been successful with that sort of model for some time, and I'm quite happy to have a bit of bloat to get it with my desktop. (Read something recently about the duplication Flatpak introduces.) Storage is cheap! 2022-01-18T13:43:51Z (#a5odlpq) @ Gonna use this as part of a new book club I'm setting up. ๐Ÿ“–๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-18T23:07:13Z (#a5odlpq) @ Yeah, I didn't do my own build (for now); that's the latest Docker image. I think those themes are available with a skins environment variable, possibly; I've set loads, but not that one in particular.โ€จโ€จNow I'm working on setting up a Calibre server for the club. ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-19T14:14:01Z (#a5odlpq) @ No DirtyDB file or some such was a default, I think. I went Postgres. 2022-01-19T14:22:02Z Making friends and influencing people ๐Ÿ˜ณ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/UV6C5rpEyRorq6Dq43UTjZ.png) 2022-01-19T14:30:41Z (#3cooobq) Oh, wow; in-line is not a good look for that. A chance to try the other display formats, clearly! ^x^ 2022-01-19T14:37:52Z (#3cooobq) @ I'd sent a Discord admin a proposal about bridging a Matrix room of similar theme with a channel on their server. Got shot down. Then a third party raised the idea independently in a chat later, and I replied with enthusiasm, but also repeating what the admin had told me. At which point the admin jumped in the chat to slap me. ๐Ÿ˜… 2022-01-19T14:38:53Z (#3cooobq) @ antiwork Discord 2022-01-19T14:39:54Z (#3cooobq) @ double tick for me! ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-01-19T15:08:20Z (#3cooobq) @ Maybe eventually. They've made impressive inroads in the German public sector, for example. But both Discord and Slack are still slicker imo. Enabling experimental features in the flagship client brings it a lot closer already, though! 2022-01-19T15:10:32Z (#3zub4pa) @ One thing that really bothered me was the opaque nature of the process. "It's not going to happy," was the extent of the view they shared on their reasoning. 2022-01-19T17:28:39Z (#4m22tga) Nice one, mate! 2022-01-19T17:33:20Z Calibre server is now up and running for my new book club. :-) The custom Docker image has already been downloaded 31 times! Need to update the repo I forked off at some point, I guess, if folks are actually using of my work.โ€จโ€จIt's my understanding that this is the best of limited options when it comes to hosting ebooks for others; any counterarguments would be most welcome! :-) 2022-01-20T09:47:15Z (#hhgz3fq) @ Ha, no, I've got Wireguard, vaultwarden and yarn.social running on the 3A+, with just an SD card. I have Pleroma running on my 3B+, with a 1 TB external HDD. I run PostgreSQL there, and, now, all my databases have been migrated there (incl., for example, the one Etherpad is using), save for Matrix: my Synapse server and PostgreSQL running alongside each other on that Asus 1000HE (2008). All my other servers are in Docker containers now, on my mother-in-law's old desktop: a 2005 Dell; the HDD failed on it last year, when I went down for a good week and a half, but other than replacing that, it's still doin' its thing. And now everything is backed up to my new Synology DS220+, with personal media further backed up to Backblaze. 2022-01-20T09:51:04Z (#o2bazrq) I've (sadly, I know) been pulled back to Reddit by a neat app, and, well, I had no idea just how much effort folks are now going to to stage stuff for views; really a step-change (at least!) from when I was last exposed to public videos regularly. 2022-01-20T09:56:43Z (#dyxf5da) @ _Comes close to spitting coffee_ Not wrong ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-01-20T09:59:53Z (#cfyud4q) @ Sure! All the details are at: https://pad.nfld.uk/p/bookclub_master 2022-01-20T10:13:14Z (#cfyud4q) Btw, anything in my yarns having to do with stuff I'm running will be reflected on https://nfld.uk somewhere. It may not be straightforward to find, though! Getting a bit hefty, for a home page. ;-) 2022-01-20T12:15:46Z (#spok4hq) @ Oh, no! Must - not - look. >.< ^x^ It's _Infinity for Reddit_, actually; don't even know why it grabbed me, if I'm honest. 2022-01-20T12:59:45Z (#fppvh4q) @ _big sigh of relief_ You are indeed correct, sir. :-) 2022-01-20T17:58:22Z Really enjoying The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef, so far: https://pad.nfld.uk/p/the_scout_mindset 2022-01-20T19:23:23Z (#4cjfpfq) @ Yeah, absolutely, that'd be the ideal, when I'm thinking about my new book club: https://pad.nfld.uk/p/bookclub_masterโ€จโ€จEither way, it's about staying motivated to learn. I'm always on the hunt for recommendations; this one came via Tyler Cowen from Marginal Revolution iirc.โ€จโ€จMy reading has taken a massive hit since becoming a dad, though, believe me! 2022-01-21T09:37:55Z Looks like my obfs4 bridge is getting some use! ๐Ÿง…๐ŸŒ‰ ^x^ ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/bRddEAWtSBkXqDwCr4iLpe.png) 2022-01-21T10:10:26Z (#4cetnaa) @ Basically, it's another way of connecting to the Tor network; bridges, generally, are non-advertised means of doing so, such that infrastructure operators' blocking of public Tor nodes doesn't prevent their customers from connecting to said network, should they choose to. The added benefit of an obfs4 bridge is that the Tor traffic over it looks random: https://support.torproject.org/glossary/obfs4/ 2022-01-21T10:55:21Z My son tested positive this morning. ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ It's all over his school, so this certainly felt inevitable. At least he's asymptomatic, for the moment. 2022-01-21T12:17:17Z (#i3moqkq) Thanks, all. ๐Ÿคž 2022-01-22T10:50:20Z There are [over 2200 active members on BookWyrm.social](https://bookwyrm.social/about)? Wow. Maybe I should sign up. ๐Ÿค” 2022-01-23T10:00:59Z (#hvjysrq) @ Hey @! Hi, welcome to our pod. ^x^ 2022-01-23T10:05:04Z (#px6ifpq) @ โ€จ> ... we have had this discussion many times on many long car rides ๐Ÿ˜ฌ ...โ€จโ€จHa ha! I bet. :-) Welcome @ also hope you stick around. :-) 2022-01-23T19:58:49Z (#sl3r34q) @ Hey, welcome back! ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-23T22:54:55Z (#32gen5a) @ Great! Glad to hear it. Coincidentally, I'm working on expanding my use of `mkws` today: writing a script to export a bunch of etherpads and incorporate them in my site. Lots of fun learning about `awk`'s `gsub` to make sure all the links in the pads are internally consistent in what `mkws` will output; felt particularly pleased when this line worked as expected: โ€จ```โ€จawk '{gsub(/\/nfld.uk\/[a-zA-Z0-9_]*/, "&.html")}1' parsed_master.html > final_master.htmlโ€จ``` 2022-01-24T07:55:47Z (#32gen5a) @ Good point. Yeah, just messing around with the logic at the moment. Ideally, I think I'll crawl the tree of etherpads regularly, and then only run this logic on any changes found. 2022-01-24T08:10:34Z OK, I'm hooked: Wordle 219 4/6โ€จโ€จโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โ€จโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โ€จโฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โ€จ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ 2022-01-24T08:54:16Z (#ph5nykq) @ Ah, no it probably isn't, come to think of it. ๐Ÿ™ 2022-01-25T17:15:12Z (#36up5rq) Wicked! Welcome! ^x^ 2022-01-25T18:38:15Z (#dioj4pq) @ Oh, lovely snap, mate! 2022-01-27T12:09:15Z (#e52ytya) @ Wow. Hats off to you, mate; I've never even gotten close. :-) 2022-01-27T12:11:42Z Had some fun messing around with bash and regex: https://github.com/jlj77/bookclubโ€จโ€จSuper kludgy, but it works! ^x^ 2022-01-27T14:52:13Z (#uc65s2a) @ Ha ha. Deal! 2022-01-27T15:46:10Z (#uc65s2a) @ Ah, OK. Yeah, I'd seen a proper RSS 2.0 feed that had the items as nested in channel elements. That shouldn't be too tricky; nor fixing the date. Thanks for pointing that out! 2022-01-27T17:21:30Z (#uc65s2a) @ Right. Makes sense. Thanks! 2022-01-28T09:37:13Z (#cw3yq3a) @ I was wondering how to structure it; OK, cool, I'll work on that framework and see how I get on. Thanks! 2022-01-28T09:40:20Z (#4xto2iq) @ Yeah, I remember. I haven't given up on running it again one day, but it's certainly fallen down my list of future projects. 2022-01-28T11:05:22Z Iโ€™m going to be bridging the biggest # room on Matrix with the biggest antiwork Telegram group (linked from the subreddit)! ๐ŸŽ‰ Really excited! ๐Ÿ™Œ Just sent this to everyone on the Matrix side: โ€จโ€จ> The flavour of this space might change a bit over the coming weeks... This doesnโ€™t change what [our other admin] and I are hoping to build with this community. We both want this to be a place of constructive disagreements, as well as friendships, and [the Telegram admin] has asked the same of me as part of taking on more responsibility on the Telegram side today...โ€จโ€จ[Read on, in the Fediverse...](https://social.nfld.uk/notice/AFtfkjpXJAOUx2CAOe) 2022-01-28T11:27:47Z (#cf7bctq) @ Ah, that, fellow yarner, is the question, isn't it? ;-) Seriously, though, this term means about 33 different things, depending on who you ask. Me? a) I'm about bringing people together to talk about it, and b) to answer your questions: no, YES, and yes. :-) But, to be frank, a significant portion of the community would probably say yes in response to your first question too. 2022-01-28T13:03:42Z (#nxxz26a) @ Yeah, it's pretty much like that for me too, without the replies from people I don't follow.โ€จโ€จThink what birdsite looks like from one of the company's operators / administrators. ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-01-28T13:05:51Z (#cf7bctq) @ I'd love it, man. Who knows? They're on IRC now, whether they realise it or not. And I'm never gonna stop going on about this, so... ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿค” 2022-01-28T13:50:56Z (#nxxz26a) @ Please do! Just put whatever in the Reason field or whatever it's called; it's just something to prevent loads of automated registrations. 2022-01-28T20:45:38Z (#nxxz26a) Yeah, exactly that. Sorry for the delay: the administration front-end for Pleroma completely hides pending requests in the users panel; bizarre. There you were, as soon as I asked it to include pending approvals in the list; someone could've been waiting months! ;-) 2022-01-28T20:54:05Z (#cf7bctq) @ Why don't you tell me how you _really_ feel?โ€จโ€จlol. Just messin' with you. I hate labour being a commodity; just more numbers on the books, up for crunching, with no thought to the lives being utterly destroyed in the process. That said, this person that was interviewed by Fox News, this subreddit, etc. is mostly a space to air rants, to sympathise, etc. It certainly isn't a movement, or a community; I even question whether it's an incubator, as an acquaintance put it the other day, likening it to Occupy. 2022-01-28T21:33:51Z (#cf7bctq) @ Oh, heck, yes. To be clear, @ and I are far closer on this than I am with most of the people I just connected up today. But, boy, do I love connecting people! 2022-01-30T20:02:31Z (#nvkfroq) @ take note 2022-01-31T10:03:14Z (#4drvrca) @ Welcome! We're still working on discovery with this platform; I'd recommend following the lead developer for the project @ to get a good flavour of the conversations going on. :-) 2022-01-31T14:18:29Z This site was linked in the off-topic chat of the whole UK Extinction Rebellion (XR) Mattermost, where I went on to read: https://cat.org.uk/reflections-on-cop26/โ€จโ€จI can't help feeling that "thanking people for travelling so far" and "feeling a bit overwhelmed by the heady experience of the conference" and "here's my selfie in front of cop26 signs" is part of the problem; just... not enough urgency, and... really low expectations.โ€จโ€จAm I out of line? 2022-02-02T19:38:38Z (#wckj5ca) @ Nice! I actually incorporated some of that in my `nfld_uk` repo on GitHub, but yours is clearly superior! Thanks! ๐Ÿ™‚ 2022-02-03T12:41:04Z (#wckj5ca) Awesome! Gonna try to get around to apply this one today... 2022-02-03T21:39:28Z (#wckj5ca) OK, looks like it's working now. I had to make an adjustment, as `wdiff` prints the separator regardless of whether there are changes. 2022-02-03T21:48:42Z (#b2xs35a) @ Also ยฃ0. I thought they had loads of funding.โ€จโ€จTo clarify, I donate to lots of other projects. :-) 2022-02-04T07:13:14Z (#62qacca) @ Where's the nearest hospital? ;-) 2022-02-04T09:39:14Z (#zzpxooq) @ Apologies if you've noticed Pleroma wobbling lately. Seems I might be in the market for a new external hard disk / solid state drive. 2022-02-15T19:16:20Z @ How are you monitoring `peer-calls`? I saw that you were promising a PR (or more?) on their Issues forum, :-) but that looked deployment related. I've got it serving metrics, but I don't see any related Grafana dashboards on community site; thinking about creating one, unless you've been down that road already. :-) cc @ 2022-02-16T15:59:41Z (#av3vtwa) @ yeah, that'd be neat. There was a cool ^C Club IRC bot that would store your location (roughly) and pong your local weather on command. Great conversation starter, as it was (is) an international club. 2022-02-16T16:01:22Z (#jhqc44q) @ Oh, watch out! He's sharp-tongued, this one! ;-D 2022-02-16T16:02:06Z (#j7vlbkq) @ Nice! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-02-16T19:58:15Z (#tjopiua) @ Great shot! 2022-02-17T10:14:16Z @ Pleroma is very sad; not sure why right now. It's offline until I can find time to investigate. 2022-02-18T04:51:03Z Really interesting opinion piece: https://www.involve.org.uk/resources/blog/opinion/end-politicians 2022-02-18T07:33:40Z (#36ko47a) @ โ€จโ€จ> One of the most striking features of the French Climate Citizensโ€™ Assembly is that it was initiated by the Gilets Citoyens, a civil society collective bringing together the Gilets Jaunes and climate activists. Unlikely bed fellows, but united in their desire to transfer power from politicians to people. The Pew Research also found that giving power to people instead of politicians was popular across the ideological spectrum. โ€จ> โ€จ> We are in my view about 30 years into the third great democratic struggle. The first was for universal suffrage, the right for all adults to vote; the second was civil rights; and the third is the right for citizens to make policy themselves. Each of these struggles is ongoing. Universal suffrage campaigns were initiated in the mid 1800s and took around 60 years to come to fruition; there are now powerful arguments being made, notably by David Runciman, for allowing children to vote. The civil rights movement is clearly still in full swing, as the George Floyd protests of 2020 bear testimony. And I believe the movement pushing for Citizensโ€™ Assemblies as a fix to everything from air quality to social care is simply a proxy for the third great democratic struggle to give people, not politicians, the right to make decisions. 2022-02-19T16:56:52Z (#atnxeoq) @ Welcome! ๐Ÿ™‚ Really happy to have you here, even if it's just as a brief reprieve from XMPP. ๐Ÿ˜‰ 2022-02-19T19:02:34Z (#atnxeoq) @ Ah, OK. Which network? Just used to seeing your XMPP chat bridged to Matrix. :-) 2022-02-19T21:59:39Z (#2jmshbq) @ Love it, as usual. :-) 2022-02-21T21:20:17Z (#azfcrsq) @ Welcome to the pod! ๐Ÿ˜ 2022-02-22T03:37:52Z (#beslqga) @ True. ๐Ÿ™‚ Mentions don't work on my pod anyway, so it's more of a thought that counts sort of thing. ๐Ÿ˜› 2022-02-22T08:47:24Z (#qxvtbha) @ Holy cow! They work now! When did that happen? I stopped looking at this tab ages ago, 'cause it was always empty. H'm, but, hang on, I think @ messaged me yesterday, and I don't see that. Maybe he did something different... Need to investigate now... 2022-02-22T08:52:57Z (#qxvtbha) Ah, it didn't expand to include the domain; that might be why. ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/VdUwAL3AEvwok6jABBbVyU.png) 2022-02-22T08:56:42Z (#at3pl6q) @ I did miss it, sorry! Hoping I won't, in the future, now that I've realised mentions are working. Anyway, there ya go! :-) 2022-02-22T13:13:41Z (#maximma) @ That one didn't work. :-/ 2022-02-22T14:51:30Z (#maximma) @ Nope :-( ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/yVdgFAVMBmjvrV42nAMbYH.png) 2022-02-22T16:34:46Z (#maximma) @ https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/issues/840 2022-02-22T16:35:22Z @ Hi! Welcome to the pod! :-) 2022-02-22T21:03:57Z (#maximma) @ Thanks! :-) I think you're probably right, particularly given that it's the old naming convention, to start with! 2022-02-24T09:37:55Z (#hb4bnra) @<~duriny https://envs.net/~duriny/twtxt.txt> :-( 2022-02-24T16:59:14Z (#z4hvddq) Unbelievable. Or, rather, I wish it was. 2022-02-26T18:54:06Z https://blog.nfld.uk/oulsen-argues-no-more 2022-02-26T21:16:30Z (#ytzjfeq) @ I've been talking with someone on Matrix about this. I've missed some important nuance by not watching the trial, I now feel. Your comments are very much on point. 2022-02-27T04:10:42Z (#6x34hpq) @ Interesting thread. Thanks! 2022-02-27T04:12:19Z (#xyygkdq) Oh, interesting software; ๐Ÿ‘€ thanks! ๐Ÿ‘ 2022-02-28T12:59:04Z https://www.tandemonium.fun/blog/new-smiling-faces 2022-02-28T13:00:33Z (#d6pxw6q) Ha ha. Well, in spite of that observation, I'm very well, thanks! :-) 2022-02-28T13:02:03Z (#lptwnmq) @ So far, so good, yup! As you imply, coffee always helps with that. ;-) 2022-03-02T12:29:42Z (#d6iwh2a) @ Oh, excellent news! Welcome back! 2022-03-03T07:21:13Z (#27p3dtq) Oh, interesting. Jack Baty probably would've weighed in on that, were he still here; he still posts in the Fediverse. 2022-03-03T07:23:37Z I guess I need to change my pod logo... ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/u4cDNfJvKdQGxonRafTHT9.png) 2022-03-03T09:54:42Z (#unv5g4a) Ah, OK. Thanks, @, but I think I'd prefer to have the CSS accommodate the current size, as I like the way it looks right now. @, just so I'm clear, that involves copying the current theming directory structure, making that change, pointing the daemon to the new theme (or updating it in pod mgmt), and then backing up that theme in some fashion, so I can replace it each time I update the code base; is that correct? 2022-03-03T10:58:11Z (#unv5g4a) @ Oh, wow! Sweet! I shall have a look then. :-) 2022-03-03T22:26:37Z (#bid5q7q) @ That is... incredibly disappointing. :-( 2022-03-08T17:09:54Z So... How can I see whether websub is working? :-) 2022-03-08T17:30:03Z (#tv3tyba) @ Ha. Aren't you supposed to be sleeping? ;-)โ€จโ€จThat didn't show up in my mentions, btw. :-( 2022-03-10T14:48:28Z (#xnjhgha) @ Pretty sure he stuck with Dendrite, yeah. 2022-03-13T17:58:25Z (#gpcekvq) What did I miss? Has he stopped posting? 2022-03-13T18:00:02Z Oh my. This main branch is the gift that keeps on giving; gorgeous work, folks. Really enjoying this 'code freeze'. ;-) 2022-03-13T18:08:52Z Ah, @, I've been going through the settings on this account, and realised I was following an account called me pointing at the non-TLS address of my feed. I haven't had problems with my avatar in quite some time, but I unfollowed that one anyway. I was also following my support account twice, which, unsurprisingly, was resulting in duplicate posts in my timeline. :-) That's cleared up too now.โ€จโ€จThat just leaves my Mentions tab, I guess, for outstanding issues; not a big deal. Really chuffed with the progress that's been made in the last year; looks amazing! 2022-03-14T09:11:52Z @ Yeah, +1 for sure: looks amazing! 2022-03-14T09:14:07Z (#ppbmueq) @ Yeah, +1 for sure: looks amazing! 2022-03-14T09:25:31Z I know we're moving the branding away from twtxt and twts, but I had to share this. Presumably it's the Welsh for toot (Mastodon's version of a tweet). ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/UeB78H5fuzcc8tJsrYTbkj.png) 2022-03-14T09:56:29Z (#yvdgphq) @ Yeah, it's the favicon for their Mastodon instance, toot.wales. :-) 2022-03-14T09:56:52Z (#5zrmi7a) @ Ah, I see. 2022-03-15T09:28:34Z (#go6lpla) @ Recursion IRL lol 2022-03-15T11:08:52Z (#3dlduhq) @ OK, I'm pretty impressed, so far: [Status of services @ nfld.uk](https://status.nfld.uk) 2022-03-15T11:10:42Z (#5eqpm3a) @ Nice one! I need to lose some weight; pandemic has **not** been good for me in that regard. 2022-03-15T12:43:58Z (#3dlduhq) @ Oh, that looks _very_ nice. Ta! 2022-03-15T12:44:14Z (#3dlduhq) @ D'oh. Noted. 2022-03-15T17:13:26Z (#3dlduhq) @ We need more accessibility consultants in software design. Man, that just isn't good enough. >.< 2022-03-15T17:14:22Z (#dj5zvhq) @ Neat. Bookmarked. :-) 2022-03-17T09:46:35Z (#dkwc5aq) @ That was _my_ question too. Wow! 2022-03-17T09:52:12Z Finally brought low by Covid. Rugrat's been pretty much giggling and laughing non-stop with it, and then there's me: half the day in bed yesterday, bangin' headache... 2022-03-17T18:28:32Z (#tbhkm4q) @ Ah, gotcha. Should I stop advertising it for now, then? 2022-03-17T18:31:08Z (#xuauuta) @ Cheers. Yeah, just keep shuddering at the thought of getting hit with this cold. My wife has a cousin who hasn't had any sort of Covid vaccine. :-/ 2022-03-17T18:32:03Z (#dkwc5aq) @ Ha ha. Nice! Recycling takes its toll, I guess. ;-) 2022-03-17T18:35:34Z (#5czflwa) @ Cool. I'll look at setting it up shortly then. :-) 2022-03-18T11:26:03Z (#5czflwa) @ Indeed :-D 2022-03-18T12:20:24Z (#m3rclfq) @ Thanks! Love this place. :-) <3 2022-03-23T17:07:28Z @ Hi! Welcome to the pod! ^x^ 2022-03-24T10:56:57Z (#c2incca) @ Ah, apologies; I did, indeed, miss it. And mentions are still flaky, for me. Just transferred some funds, and I'll definitely check out those scripts! :-) 2022-03-24T10:57:53Z (#tid7wea) @ One wonders why they didn't just go for the full garter belt... 2022-03-24T12:57:58Z (#ypqzxbq) @ Ha. That wasn't a dig, I promise! ;-) 2022-04-30T00:07:52+01:00 TIL that, according to one test at least, I'm not as centre as I thought I was! โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/xBycamSk2swYp9RSg8QWG5.png) 2022-04-30T09:26:25+01:00 (#jwkfiqq) Yeah, I think it has a left-leaning bias, judging from half a dozen other results amongst mates. A propaganda / disinformation tool, maybe? H'm... ;-) 2022-04-30T10:49:19+01:00 (#jwkfiqq) Well, my very conservative, traditional friend in another community came out hardly anything right of centre; and mid Y-axis. Seems off. 2022-04-30T11:00:44+01:00 Getting addicted to these now... :-) โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/pEQFSWVQeRUBN3iRiHdkHV.png) 2022-04-30T12:29:17+01:00 (#3j2jx3q) Can't... not... visit... ;-) 2022-05-10T17:45:10+01:00 (#dtw7loq) @ Didn't realise @ forked it! (Or, didn't remember, as I do seem to recall him contributing to the project.) So, yeah, the original (for now!). Is it performing OK for you? 2022-05-11T09:46:16+01:00 (#dtw7loq) I see, both. :-) 2022-07-04T15:01:20+01:00 (#vbrf4oq) Ha. I think they registered on my pod too. :) 2022-07-20T09:36:45+01:00 Working on upgrading to OpenBSD 7.1; on nastycode.com, not this pod! ;) 2022-07-20T14:49:41+01:00 (#omc26sq) Indeed, @! @, it's one of many IRCNow 'team' servers, primarily serving IRC (and bouncers)... And yarn.social? ๐Ÿค” 2022-07-20T16:50:54+01:00 (#omc26sq) Upgrade complete. \o/ Minor issue with `smtpd`, but quickly sorted. 2022-08-03T15:51:47+01:00 (#5unwita) @ Yeah, they hit my pod too; not really sure what to do about it, tbh. :/ 2022-09-01T11:02:39+01:00 (#ncy57vq) @ I was on holiday; my pod missed me, I guess. ;) 2022-09-02T14:26:11+01:00 (#ncy57vq) @ Thanks! @, I came back to a few problems across the services I run -- many of which are still down, in fact -- but my pod outage seems to have coincided with a service outage at my ISP; both h/w and s/w remain untouched right now. 2022-09-02T14:29:55+01:00 (#ncy57vq) The kicker was, I got almost all the services back up, and then decided to run a system update on my other RPi, which happens to host the databases of many nfld.uk services. Well, wasn't one of the packages built incorrectly? I'm still troubleshooting -- between work and jetlag -- but I think a PostgreSQL package was built for the wrong architecture, or some such; got `illegal instruction` shortly after the update, and now the RPi won't boot. D: 2022-09-02T14:39:47+01:00 Forgot how much I missed Canadian friendliness. ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Helped that I was in a couple of the friendliest place around: Newfoundland and Cape Breton! โค๏ธ 2022-09-09T14:29:09+01:00 (#hfz542q) Cool. :) Nice to see an active user on the pod! 2022-11-10T11:59:24Z (#locrp2a) H'm, where are they hosted, @? (That _nerdpol_ domain doesn't resolve for me, right now.) You used to have an account on my pod, didn't you? I had an hour or so of downtime this morning; don't suppose that's related at all... ๐Ÿค” 2022-11-10T12:00:29Z (#locrp2a) @ Yeah, I managed to read it, but that must've been hell for James! ๐Ÿ˜‚ 2022-11-10T12:13:58Z @ Wow, I've missed some big changes! Very nice. :) Poderator admin makes loads of sense. Two questions, more generally: 1) I'm guessing my help account avatar is no longer valid; how do I update that (under the support account somewhere, I assume)? And 2) What are the criteria for the special interest accounts that show up here again? I just deleted it, but some random account ended up right under help, for some reason. Ta!โ€จ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/ZsaV3kUkP8okGoXihQCxQW.png) 2022-11-10T13:54:09Z (#4vevvha) @ Yeah, maybe I'm missing something, but the accounts associated with the poderator account (e.g., news, help), don't seem to work that way; could be wrong, though. Either way, I'm an idiot: the avatar is working; it's just both mostly transparent and a terrible colour to mix with the yarn dark theme. >.< 2022-11-11T10:26:56Z (#eo6dbga) I'd like to come back to these. :) But not necessarily this week, as I'm in the problematic region, I see. ;) 2022-11-11T10:32:36Z (#4vevvha) @ Ah, I see. Yeah, it is. Also, fyi, my mentions still seem a bit finicky, with only that call for ideas on deleting twts from the wider network being listed there right now. (I have enabled that mentions related feature flag, btw.) 2022-11-11T10:33:59Z (#l5rahrq) @ ๐ŸŒž๐Ÿ‘‹ 2022-11-11T17:53:01Z Anyone else able to get [the app hosted at mills.io](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/app/src/branch/master/dist/app-release.apk) running? I'm getting an error when I try to install it on LineageOS. # 2022-11-11T17:54:26Z (#rjk3v6q) @ Oh, has it recently stopped working for you? It's never worked properly for me. 2022-11-11T17:54:59Z (#tdjjibq) @ Very atmospheric! Love it. :) 2022-11-11T17:56:27Z (#lkasllq) Such a clean, graffiti-free bus shelter! Obviously not the UK! ;) 2022-11-14T09:27:47Z (#mzedhpa) @ Heya, pod-mate! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Welcome! :) 2022-11-17T11:41:15Z How am I just finding out about VVVVVV now? Super excited to play it later; love a good game. 2022-11-17T13:18:52Z (#hj4nkea) @ Yeesh. Haven't we indulged enough? More than a century of conspicuous consumption. Isn't this a bit tone deaf, as a business model? Or am I the one who's out of touch? Anyway, welcome. Honestly. We don't all have to agree here, just so ya know. :) 2022-11-18T15:58:24Z Playing around with BunsenLabs Lithium this afternoon. Very nice, so far. 2022-11-21T10:30:20Z (#rdedjcq) @ Oh, it's a lightweight Linux distro based on Debian. 2022-12-07T17:33:46Z @ Apologies for going dark. Just set up monthly support through _Buy Me A Coffee_; not much, but I hope it helps. 2022-12-08T10:26:35Z (#cpwvyxq) @ Gotcha! OK, cancelled the bmac sub and set up a โ‚ฌ5 one with PayPal; plus โ‚ฌ40 for your domain. (I'm not using Revolut these days; might get back to it at some point, though, so I'll keep that in mind.) 2022-12-08T13:19:15Z (#gxbtvyq) @ T'is the season! ๐ŸŽ„๐Ÿ˜ 2022-12-08T15:32:12Z (#gxbtvyq) @ Most welcome, mate! ๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿ‘ 2022-12-12T10:57:10Z (#cc7gq4q) @ And here. Kids were over the moon! :) 2022-12-12T11:03:42Z (#cc7gq4q) @ Proof! ;) ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/H8oWUKvBoHzn9GRxErJ34b.png) 2022-12-23T19:06:18Z ["Opinion | Here Is What Is Really Strangling the Energy Transition"](https://readup.com/read/-the-new-york-times-company/opinion--here-is-what-is-really-strangling-the-energy-transition) # via @ReadupDotCom 2023-01-02T14:50:23Z (#jmbsa6q) @ Welcome! 2023-01-03T16:23:54Z (#gmavhfq) @ I'm well on from you, and while it's a _relatively_ recent development, I'm happy to say that these years are hands down the best of my life (to date). The downside for you is that it's largely blind luck that's landed me here. :P Best I can do is to suggest that you never stop listening, never stop learning. :) 2023-01-03T17:07:39Z (#jmbpmcq) @ Dang. I'd imagine a few threat models out there miss that avenue. 2023-01-11T16:21:28Z [The Point Program for Public Thinking](https://www.publicthinking.thepointmag.com): a great student program announced **today** by _The Point_ magazine: "[It] aims to cultivate habits of thought traditionally associated with liberal arts education... treating opposing opinions with humility rather than with hostility; reading generously rather than suspiciously..." 2023-01-11T16:23:59Z (#5ceeima) @ ๐Ÿฅบ Thanks for sharing. :( RIP Aaron. 2023-01-11T21:35:23Z (#37sgr2a) @ For the mo, yeah. I lost the shared database in a bizarre package update nightmare on that rpi, and simply never got around to attempting to restore it / rebuild it. It's back in the front of my mind now, though, as I just found out that I can no longer run vaultwarden on buster (or not well, anyway), which means even the rpi hosting Yarn needs to be rebuilt. I mostly use all this for learning, mind, so I'm a bit all over the shop, really: trying to set up Proxmox on the old ThinkCentre I got on eBay, and also thinking about redesigning my OpenWrt config. :P 2023-01-11T21:36:58Z (#fabtprq) @ Welcome! :) 2023-01-11T21:43:41Z @ Got a mention for the first time in recent memory, from @! ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/2vkQtajB2evyzFLiRtFnTD.png) Wondering whether the fully qualified nature of it -- or of how it displays, at least -- has anything to do with it showing up, but not this, from @. ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/hqi4GbEVZeUSsbp7qxWtVG.png) 2023-01-11T21:58:54Z (#l6v4niq) @ And that _doesn't_ show up under Mentions. lol. 2023-01-11T22:31:02Z (#l6v4niq) @ Ha ha. So, thanks to special characters in my poderator account's password, I managed to lock the account -- 429 Too Many Requests -- before I thought to quote it in the command. >.< And this account gets an "Endpoint not found," presumably because it lacks the permission. D'oh. About to head to bed; will it be useful if I try the dump again in the morning? 2023-01-15T21:36:45Z (#l6v4niq) @ Heh, indeed. Sorry for the delay: my boy's birthday weekend. :) I had to upgrade before that API endpoint became available, btw; [I'm serving the dump now.](https://nfld.uk/paste/yarn_dump.gz) 2023-01-15T21:47:31Z (#3pv65jq) @ Enabling the `filter_and_lists` optional feature is a notable departure for the traditional user interface. Personally, I like it. :) 2023-01-15T21:53:24Z (#ckd7blq) @ Many of the old features we used to have to enable this way have since been rolled into the main project now, I assume, yeah? Like ActivityPub support? 2023-01-16T10:00:59Z (#ktnjzmq) @ Welcome... in case you ever read this. ^x^ 2023-01-17T15:19:52Z (#ajpwnxa) @ H'm, missed that CircleCI news... Welcome to 2023; much like any year this millennium, in many ways. ;) 2023-01-18T09:09:01Z (#yc3kbca) @ I like the humanist angle to some of that; don't have much use for the rest of it, I'm afraid. 2023-01-18T09:12:30Z (#ynd4qxq) @ I think once you've decided to be arrested, you've crossed a line, you're part of something bigger, and it's the size of that body, globally, that really counts; less so what you've decided to stand in front of that day. We've got loads of Just Stop Oil people in prisons, for example, from last year; no one really remembers what they were arrested for; but they are being counted, to this day and every day, by a growing number of people around the world. 2023-01-20T16:55:33Z (#ynd4qxq) @ Sorry for the late reply: yeah, bender's right; crossing a line just means, in some regard (or many, in Greta's case), you can't go back. As an example, if I'd joined Just Stop Oil a few years ago, I'd now be faced with having to move my family to Canada, a lengthy (likely doomed to fail) appeals process, having to find a new job... But Greta is young; she probably isn't too concerned about where she can or can't visit or live, and she obviously feels very strongly about this cause. Frankly, I'm in awe of her, and wish her every success. But that is a line that cannot cross; or not for a very, very long time. 2023-01-20T16:58:27Z (#ynd4qxq) But that is a line that **I cannot** cross; or not for a very, very long time.* Oops :P 2023-01-22T18:51:14Z Any recommendations on a good intro to webfinger? I'm guessing the Yarn.social support centres around pointing out the administrator account, yes? I've been working on getting websocket support up and running for my vaultwarden instance today, and just noticed some nodeinfo errors in my reverse proxy logs; I'm guessing that's because I used to run a Fediverse instance (Pleroma) back in the day. Do nodeinfo and webfinger normally go hand in hand, or are all the search results about Nextcloud errors swaying my understanding? 2023-01-23T01:00:53Z (#76iaysa) @ Ah, neat. Ta! 2023-01-23T17:29:06Z Well, citizenship application is in. Now, the wait. 2023-01-23T18:51:05Z (#im45t7a) @ Mate, even I find it hard to believe I'm not legit yet. Well, six months, at most, to go, fingers crossed. 2023-01-23T19:07:10Z (#im45t7a) Been over ten years now: exemption visa (ending 2013) โ‡จ visitor visa โ‡จ charity worker visa โ‡จ charity worker visa extension (until early 2015) โ‡จ fiancรฉ visa โ‡จ spousal visa / start of the 'five year route' โ‡จ halfway point check-in (plus fees, obvs; 2017) โ‡จ indefinite leave to remain visa โ‡จ ? (citizenship ๐Ÿคž) 2023-01-23T19:15:55Z (#im45t7a) @ Ah, right. To be fair, I haven't gone the most direct route; comes from meeting your partner partway through and testing out the waters, as it were. ;) 2023-01-25T14:11:59Z (#jdlvdwq) @ Interestingly, I too lost data / twts, but it isn't immediately obvious because our peer pods seem to be replicating some or all of those. 2023-01-25T19:48:25Z Made decent progress over the last week with the homelab: all the services on the RPi 3A+ (including this pod!) have now been migrated elsewhere ahead of its rebuild. Then to focus on the other services that have languished (as folks like @ have rightly pointed out ;) ). 2023-01-25T20:27:30Z [BBC - Paramedics say people are getting ill because their homes are so cold](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64338770)โ€จ>โ€จ>They're sitting there [and] you can't get a temperature off them because they're so cold...โ€จ>โ€จ>NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde - Scotland's biggest health board - had 170 people taken to hospital with hypothermia in that period, when temperatures plummeted to minus double figures in many areas... 2023-01-25T20:29:30Z @ Charming 2023-01-25T20:57:06Z (#wjhw3ca) @ Here's hopin' it'll be behind you soon. ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿ™ 2023-01-25T21:37:54Z (#jdlvdwq) @ In effect, yeah. Lost some twts despite not much time between; wondering whether I should've taken advantage of those job functions for pod owners first, to sync the backend, for example. 2023-01-25T21:40:45Z (#262bora) @ I see. At the risk of jinxing it, the scammers seem to have moved on from my pod. But, yeah, you know they'll be back, so requiring that little bit of effort to ask for an invitation is probably worth it. ๐Ÿค” 2023-01-26T09:46:01Z (#vbzs66q) @ Wow, awesome! Thanks, both! Looking forward to the spoils of '23! ^ร—^ 2023-01-26T09:50:01Z (#yaw7nba) @ lol. Well, check back in a month! (And to be clear, the services were run on a motley crew of small and old hardware, not just one Pi. :) I bet I could've pushed one to do most of it, though, all the same!) 2023-01-26T12:33:42Z (#hnpqqoa) Submitted! (PR 20, fyi.) 2023-01-27T16:32:09Z (#hnpqqoa) Ha ha ๐Ÿ‘ My pleasure, mate โ€“ honestly! Bit of a freakish love of copyediting. ๐Ÿ˜… 2023-01-27T16:55:18Z Pretty sad about the state of affairs around buying music (and at least feeling somewhat confident that the artist is getting a good part of my custom). I still actually have an independent shop in my town, surprisingly, but they've had to specialise in specific oldies, and vinyl, for the most part. (I tried to get actual CDs of the music for the new Dune movie through them, and they tried, but failed, to source discs.) (I've got an HMV too, for now, but that's hardly a place where you feel the artists get their due.) And today I've just tried to buy Einaudi's music from his site, and they want โ‚ฌ27 for shipping a couple of discs from Italy to the UK. So, Bezos' gaff it is. Bandcamp is a nice (but niche) counterpoint to this; [I have the same handle on that platform](https://bandcamp.com/jlj), btw. 2023-01-27T18:37:56Z (#o4rjuoa) @ Wow. Amazing sights (when you weren't worried about cracking your head, it seems)! ;) 2023-01-27T19:36:09Z Familiarising myself with [pgbackrest](https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest). Need to make sure this extended service outage isn't repeated. 2023-01-27T22:50:10Z (#vyjlb3q) @ It's a valid question. I just didn't do it regularly? I was confused by the different formats? I read conflicting advice about whether things could still be running? Databases, writ large, are a bit of a boogeyman for me? End of the day, so far, this seems to be just enough validation / certification plus automation to get me over the line; _seems_ to be. We shall see. 2023-01-27T23:30:38Z (#vyjlb3q) Tell you what: [this demo](https://pgbackrest.org/user-guide.html#quickstart) is _just_ my speed; exactly what I need to get a feel for it, and, more importantly, to build up my confidence. 2023-01-27T23:33:28Z (#vyjlb3q) Anyway, that's enough for tonight. Daughter's still poorly, and'll be up afore the hour's done, I'm sure. ๐Ÿ˜ช 2023-01-28T16:34:31Z Belting out classic Billy Joel while automating my database backups, glass of white in hand and roast in the oven. Life is good, folks. 2023-01-28T16:36:48Z (#vyjlb3q) @ Thanks, both. She was still coughing a lot last night, but she's been full o' beans today; already been out to a friend's party this morning, and showing no signs of slowing down this afternoon. Kids, eh? ;) 2023-01-29T11:31:13Z Gloucester Docks ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/2wWAYEju53FnJNY2WtKjSH.png) 2023-01-29T20:04:10Z Didn't even make it to a main road before I had a wheelie bin's worth picked up. Pretty disgusted, to be honest, but I'm sure it'll make the school run more pleasant tomorrow. ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/f5zFxLhJZLAaxLNokKXS86.png) 2023-01-30T13:58:03Z (#w66qeka) @ Hey, welcome! I see you've also created an account on @'s pod (i.e., the mother-ship of our little corner of the world ;) ). Just so you know, you only need one account, on any pod, in order for you to put messages out for others to read and follow, and for you to follow theirs in return. :) Any questions, just ask! 2023-01-30T14:00:05Z (#w66qeka) Assuming you see this as anything more than yet another place to put your lame attempt at advertisement. :/ 2023-01-31T12:38:40Z (#w66qeka) @ :) Nuked the one here too, now. 2023-02-06T23:07:40Z (#vyjlb3q) >[Why] not just simply:โ€จpg_dump -F t DB_NAME > /backups/DB_NAMEโ€จ>โ€จNever found a more finicky format than pg_dump. Internet says dump and restore have to be the tools associated with the same release of the database, databases on the same version, of course; think that restore worked? Nah. This is my last hope now (pictured), as the jump from 32-bit to 64-bit means that my `pgbackrest` backups are 'corrupt' outta the gate. ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/Msv9NnkctnbVHWrEdLuyiF.png) 2023-02-06T23:11:31Z (#miozaaq) @ Amazing! Thank you so much! ^x^ 2023-02-06T23:15:56Z (#ibnayca) @ Yeah, I was dedicating probably thirty minutes a week to deleting accounts, at one point. Even gave up, at one point, which was right around the time that they seem to have as well, happily. ยฏ\_ (ใƒ„)_/ยฏ 2023-02-06T23:20:21Z Saw this book referenced on the HN500 the other day: [Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids by Scott Hershovitz](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58709514-nasty-brutish-and-short) โ€“ should arrive this week. :) 2023-02-07T19:04:52Z (#ibnayca) @ Sure! I just opened [Issue 1136](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/issues/1136) with some thoughts off the top of my head. :) 2023-02-07T19:06:54Z (#vyjlb3q) Yeah, that didn't work, of course: replication just reproduced the data / architecture problem I had with copying the `pgbackrest` backups over. Back to the drawing board. :/ 2023-02-09T18:57:41Z **FREE EBOOK**: [The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale](https://www.versobooks.com/books/3906-the-end-of-policing) โ€“ [4.19 / 5 on GoodReads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35403039-the-end-of-policing) 2023-02-09T19:06:55Z (#vyjlb3q) Latest attempt is using `pg_dumpall`; that and the restore will be done using 13.9 binaries (for different architectures, of course). Can't say I'm feeling particularly optimistic... 2023-02-10T22:18:12Z (#vyjlb3q) Well, _I'll be_. Didn't that just sort it. Amazing. [matrix.nfld.uk](https://matrix.nfld.uk) rides again! With a much whizzier, if remote, database. Time to start building back the rest of these database backed services then, eh, @? ;) 2023-02-11T10:02:00Z (#vyjlb3q) @ Thanks! :) Learned loads along the way as well, to where I was able to recover another database dump (for a different service) just by changing the locale in the dump file and creating the associated user ahead of the restore. 2023-02-11T10:04:58Z (#uccuyna) We don't go for promoting spam on this pod (or the wider community for that matter). You joined around the same time as two spam accounts, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, for the moment. 2023-02-11T16:07:50Z (#fj667bq) @ Holy cow! Sounds serious! Hope things continue to improve. ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿค— 2023-02-12T15:05:15Z (#s6nrtfq) @ Proper old skool. ;) Not much of that 'net era has survived, let alone kept its calibre. (Lookin' at you, /. ) 2023-02-14T20:29:32Z (#kxt2sua) @ So cool! Thanks for sharing. :) 2023-02-14T20:33:11Z (#obge7da) @ I love this place so much. :) 2023-02-14T20:34:16Z (#x25zbyq) @ Wow. Noted! 2023-02-14T20:38:50Z (#4thfhcq) @ I feel your pain, mate. ๐Ÿ˜‚ I'll check that out! 2023-02-14T20:42:35Z (#t6v675q) @ I haven't read this โ€“ yet! I know, classic ๐Ÿ˜… โ€“ but this advice has been indelibly absorbed by me, long before I had kids. I wonder where I first read it. ๐Ÿค” 2023-02-14T20:49:43Z @ Got my Matrix bridging services to both IRCNow and Telegram restored in the last few days. Plus my homeserver can now handle rooms with five-figure membership, thanks to the aforementioned migration to beefier kit. I'm havin' a ball! ๐Ÿ˜ 2023-02-18T20:28:37Z (#4pjoh7q) @ I'm well, thanks! Nice to see you. :) 2023-02-18T20:40:37Z (#6y5bpsq) @ I'd argue that only works for homelabs. Any business that follows that philosophy carries a huge risk of their resilience walking right out the door. 2023-02-18T22:41:15Z (#6y5bpsq) @ Yeah, fair point. I mean, I'm devil's advocate in this: you've outlined the dream, right there. 2023-02-21T08:32:54Z (#4u6tosq) [My Pleroma instance](https://social.nfld.uk) is back up now too, fyi, if you want to use that as part of any testing. 2023-02-23T02:45:06Z (#4u6tosq) @ Ah, apologies, mate. Congratulations on getting it working, though. :D 2023-02-23T02:51:03Z @ My, oh, my, [what a lot of green](https://status.nfld.uk) ;) 2023-02-23T13:53:56Z (#nuu7dxa) @ Ha! Amazing! :D 2023-02-24T01:07:15Z (#k4ykyaq) @ ๐Ÿ™‹ 2023-02-24T15:19:29Z Another ActivityPub service up: [BookWyrm @ nfld](https://wyrm.nfld.uk); let me know if you want an invitation. :) NB: I'm just getting familiar with the software, so I can't claim it's configured correctly or well at this stage. ;) 2023-02-25T11:28:09Z (#bbacqeq) @ Yeah, I'm a big fan of it. :) 2023-02-25T11:29:58Z (#ahw6eha) @ Amazing! Well done! 2023-02-27T22:33:03Z Ladies and gentlemen, it is with sincere pleasure that I inform you of my recent application for British citizenship having been approved. 2023-02-28T14:31:26Z (#pabfekq) @ Dang! Congrats, mate! Awesome comeback. :D 2023-02-28T14:34:22Z (#s6wx52a) lol @ โ€“ h'm, only @ populates on my instance _still!_ โ€“ and thanks, all. ^x^ 2023-03-05T07:28:05Z (#s6wx52a) Thanks, @! In theory, it should've taken five years. In reality, it took me twice that time because I kept resetting that 'clock' by changing visas. Wasn't cheap either, let me tell you! :P 2023-03-06T20:09:27Z (#symyrca) @ Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the `activitypub` option. H'm. Seems OK now... 2023-03-06T20:09:33Z (#symyrca) @ Had a bit of a hiccup, post enabling the `activitypub` option. H'm. Seems OK now... 2023-03-06T20:35:50Z (#symyrca) Wow, that was nasty. Even had some _502 Bad gateway_ messages, so I thought that yarn wasn't being published. I've backed out the _activitypub_ feature for now. 2023-03-06T20:48:59Z (#symyrca) [Issue #1147](https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/issues/1147) created 2023-03-07T20:50:14Z (#fxrwzaa) @ Interesting. I'll check it out a bit later. :) But it already has me thinking about linguists carving out a new niche in computer security. ^x^ 2023-03-22T21:57:41Z (#ujnpkna) @ Ha ha. **That** is an understatement. Still, super cool! 2023-03-22T22:00:34Z (#fesxt7q) @ I think it's normal to go through phases with this sort of thing. (Or maybe I'm projecting.) But, yeah, if you aren't developing some sort of relationships with peers on a platform, I'd say what you're talking about is inevitable. 2023-03-22T22:01:38Z (#jyduzqa) @ Nice! Keyoxide? 2023-03-22T22:14:26Z (#fesxt7q) @ Hehe. I certainly do: I've been talkin' up the ActivityPub integration on the Keyoxide forum and the Fediverse, only to return and find the family in crisis over it. D: Still not sure what the latest is, or which side I'm on. 2023-03-22T22:21:00Z (#fesxt7q) @ I figured you meant him, but it's true of me too. :) Roger that, re the rest. 2023-03-23T22:57:58Z (#o2ppuaa) @ Yeah, they are. I'm running Pleroma at social.nfld.uk, for example. 2023-03-23T22:59:35Z I'm compiling Minetest right now; feels like my kids shouldn't know. :D 2023-03-24T14:48:57Z (#kzuepsa) @ Ah, [the blurb](https://www.minetest.net/) is "[a]n open source voxel game engine," but, to me, it's indistinguishable from Minecraft (except it's free ^x^). Ages back, I helped bridge the IRC and [Matrix sides of a community](https://matrix.to/#/#minetest-modpol:matrix.org) based on a Minetest mod for what's coined [modular politics](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13701); looks like I may get roped into carrying on the work, lol. I consider it time well spent, though, as my kids love that interactive Minecraft stuff on Netflix; only a matter of time 'til they learn they can **play** it! ;) 2023-03-24T19:11:12Z Written over 5000 words over six days on [750 Words](https://new.750words.com). Really enjoying this return to journaling. :) 2023-03-25T09:59:28Z (#hx2c5ra) @ They have monthly challenges, I think, but, yeah, this is just me picking it back up, apropos of nothing other than an author I follow touting the site. :) 2023-03-25T10:00:04Z (#lt465kq) @ Ah, I meant to ask about that. OK, it **is** a known bug; cool. :) 2023-03-30T13:48:07+01:00 (#qx3u47a) @ Love this! ๐Ÿ˜ 2023-03-31T15:36:42+01:00 (#tdd2sjq) @ **Man!** You are gettin' some _crackers_, mate. Bravo! 2023-04-04T20:38:02+01:00 (#4rdsarq) @ Not so new, no. :) @ started coding in earnest back in 2020, so, yeah, some 'pods' are a few years old now. But, welcome! 2023-04-04T20:40:21+01:00 It's official! ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ![](https://twt.nfld.uk/media/RzQemKaruY7UUFRoKWhdFN.png) 2023-04-05T19:26:47+01:00 (#uxynzia) @ Thanks! ๐Ÿ˜ 2023-04-07T19:47:24+01:00 (#uxynzia) @ They do! Or you can have a private ceremony, for the tidy(!) sum of ยฃ200. @ He's a representative of the King's representative, in Hampshire. (Yes, that extra level of indirection was deliberate!) Nice chap. Great day, surprisingly. (Didn't expect to get as caught up in it all as I did.) 2023-04-07T19:49:26+01:00 Might start trying my hand at a bit of fiction. I'd be grateful for any feedback (positive or otherwise :) ): https://lotide.nfld.uk/posts/36