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@prologic A cottage in Wales, with good friends. :-D
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@xuu @darch @prologic @adi Depends on the numbers, of course, but I'm very much in favour of this, in principle. :-)
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@prologic Wow. Hadn't heard about this architecture, or the company. Looks neat, indeed!
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@prologic @darch Oh, nice one! Will do, soon. (Enjoying a holiday right now.)
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Absolutely incredible! Sad that Sukellus Valoon doesn't seem to have been translated from the original Finnish yet.
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@prologic Nice summary!
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Counterintuitive, to me. I'm glad, though: everyone seems to be sharing b-ok links these days.
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Oh, you have no idea, @prologic! ;-) So I found that feed in an XMPP chat bridged to Matrix. πŸ˜†πŸ˜
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@chunk9 Very nice! :-)
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Desktop uptime: 143d 15h 18m\n\nBloody love Linux :-)
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@prologic @darch Good shout; need to get on that. :-)
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@prologic @darch 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/\n\nSeems 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).
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https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/07/fact-check-covid-19-vaccines-do-not-contain-99-percent-graphene-oxide-to-conduct-a-mass-poisoning.html\n\nhttps://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/jul/08/facebook-posts/no-evidence-graphene-oxide-s-toxic-pfizer-covid-19/
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"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."
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I keep thinking I've probably watched enough *Star Wars* in my life.\n\nAnd then I get excited about a few sentences on *Rebel Moon*. πŸŒ‘
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@prologic That's... odd. Hopefully someone with more experience will chime, following my 'bump'. :-)
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@prologic @xuu Hey! o/ Good to see you! :-D
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@prologic Wow! I had to look them up. :-)
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@prologic 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.
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This expat has had a lovely Canada Day. :-) πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦\n\nHere's hopin' all my fellow twt'izens are faring well too. :-)
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Stewardship of global collective behavior https://www.pnas.org/content/118/27/e2025764118
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Happily, they seem to be engaging on this: https://fosstodon.org/@jlj/106479195871332758\n\nI'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.
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Some people are... very ignorant: https://fosstodon.org/@dajbelshaw/106473065874953323 #inclusion #diversity
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@novaburst Ooo, intriguing. Hadn't heard of Logarion before, but I like the idea. :-)
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@prologic @darch 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
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@von Welcome back! πŸ‘‹πŸ˜
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@novaburst Sounds like a direct quote of the gentleman who runs IRCNow.org. :-)
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@prologic @darch Yeah, there's a draft on Hackmd; think I want to tweak it now, though, in the light of this great piece. :-D
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@darch @prologic Another reference for our manifesto, I'd say: HN on ... end the data economy. I *do* wish that its sourcing was more explicit, though; maybe as part of a Further reading section.\n\nBut that could just be me.\n\nI like that this list, inspired by an HN comment, is open to PRs too.
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I'm way late to the Paul Graham bandwagon, of courseβ€”got a lump in my throat when I saw Swartz referenced on the RSS feed πŸ˜žβ€”but his latest essay is great; it's sent me of in all sorts of directions!\n\n1) A great chat in #parenting, on Matrix, re Footnote #2;\n2) Back to Deep Work by Newport, and how Bell Labs was physically designed for serendipitous collaboration; \n3) Another thread in the 'Open source is hard' tapestry; and\n4) What's lost, #wfh?\n\nRe-posted from Fosstodon.
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Oh, wow. Hadn't even heard of *Rejected Princesses*, and Where'd You Go? 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, incidentally.) But I πŸ’“πŸ˜πŸ’“ the heck out of it! A bit scary, frankly, how much I identify, actually.\n\nI'm on his mailing list now. Hope this book he wishes he had as a kid is actually a work in progress.
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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/d5674fee99aa6f30c84beb620dc0522181c78c59\n\nGreen's blog is excellent, but this exceeded what I'd come to expect from it. :-)
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@prologic Tales of open-source devs continues, with...\n\nDocz: "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." &\n\nHyperscan regex lib: "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..."
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Very excited to have been invited to book -- and to have booked! -- my second jab. πŸ˜·πŸ’‰πŸ˜
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[Columbus and the Flat Earth Conception (1951)](https://twt.nfld.uk/blog/jlj/2021/06/07/columbus-and-the-flat-earth-conception-1951)
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@maya 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.
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@novaburst πŸŽ‚πŸŽ‰πŸ˜
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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..."
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This great mood is brought to you by Airbourne: https://youtu.be/j2IyX5LXGyg\n\n🀘 Lemmy cameo! 🀘
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@nttp Hey, fellow ^Cer! ;-) Wonderful to have you here; welcome! :-)
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I couldn't remember when Atwood parted ways with them. 2012, apparently.
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@prologic 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.
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I *absolutely* love this! The ethics of resource mobilisation: Confronting the discomfort\n\nIf 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.
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We really are living in scary times. A rogue killer drone 'hunted down' a human target without being instructed to, UN report says.
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@movq Yeah, that definitely makes sense. I've heard about Wireguard, but haven't looked into it; will correct that now!
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Having trouble setting up an OpenVPN service on OpenWrt.\n\nRunning 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: \n\n
\nSat 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...\n
\n\nI'm thinking those two problems are linked.
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@pbatch Following you in fedi now. How are you mirroring posts?
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@movq Wow. Neat! Ta! TIL that too. 😁
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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.\n\nGetting OpenVPN running OpenWrt seems fairly straightforward: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/openvpn/server\n\nAnd 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.
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@lyse @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.
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RIP Freenode. Not sure how it can come back from this sort of activity; who would trust it?
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On Freenode and Christianity
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@zach Hiya! πŸ‘‹πŸ˜ Welcome!
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@tfurrows It looked like that might be the case, re the process. Glad you're able to confirm it.
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@lyse Holy cow! 😲 Unreal! I was glad to see that you put that description in quotes! 😌
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To work well in care
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Oops. Liberal? lol. Meant Libera. ^Γ—^
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@prologic 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?\n\nI spent an hour or so on Liberal last night; it was fun.
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Ah, so it *has* come pass: Freenode staff have resigned. :-/
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Neat! Caltech Professor Helps Solve Hindenburg Disaster
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@prologic Wow! Very impressive!
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@prologic @slashdot Oh, cool! Phew!
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@lazarus Only subscribed a month or two ago; must be the last one to this (huge) party. ;-) Another brilliant piece; thanks for the pointer.
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@prologic Oh, yeah, I just meant for support, like when you were helping @thewismit get up and running.
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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.
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Neat! Neural implant lets paralyzed person type by imagining writing
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Oh my goodness... I hate... I just hate the way beautiful, stately, seemingly-enduring things... get stomped on. *sigh* @prologic I guess we should consider moving our channel?
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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.
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@prologic Another take, on dual licensing this time; re #idekqla
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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.
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@prologic 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.
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Another (grim) take on making a living by building open source software.
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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 Labour’s only hope of communicating with most people..." https://envs.sh/ww
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@antonio \\o/ πŸ‘πŸ˜
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@antonio @prologic Awesome! Thank you!
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@prologic @slashdot Really sad. :-(
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<3 https://rss.nfld.uk/share/ce6ea31677b9bca07d8ec81ca6ba29567bfa2908 #parenting
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@maya Yeah, by design. But even 60s rackets weren't close to a longsword. I'd guess maybe discus or hammer throw.
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@mckinley That's... a poor choice, I would think. Wonder what the rationale was.
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@lyse <3
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"... 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 don’t underestimate the immense political effort this would require..." Are you sure you haven't? D: https://envs.sh/we
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Truly disturbing. And I considered myself fairly well read on the subject, prior to reading this. #quitfacebook
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@lyse Looks it! Wow, stunning!
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@jlj @prologic @darch @maya Although, considering how many times you've talked about the clock drift on their end, I'm not sure that *following* equates to *reading*. πŸ˜†
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@prologic @darch @maya I know, which makes my comment pretty funny, actually. πŸ˜† And, *I believe,* she follows you, @prologic. ;-)*
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@maya We hear you! And agree. βœ‹πŸ’―πŸ˜
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@prologic 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, it seems.
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Updated my bridge to work between an IRCNow room and a room I administer on the matrix.org main homeserverβ€”#tgr and #greatreset, respectivelyβ€”and was so chuffed to wake up to almost 400 unread messages this morning. 😁 Still plenty to figure out with it, but it's great to see how far the defaults can take you.
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@hecanjog Yes. Almost feels like something I should congratulate you on. ;-)
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LWN: Growing open-source projects with a stable foundation πŸ‘€πŸ€”
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The NGINX Handbookβ€”free! Wondering whether it might be a good idea to use PM2 with my Matrix-IRC bridge...
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Playing around with bridging Matrix and IRC today, using the former's Node.js implementation. 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.
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@movq @lyse Very nice! Envious of your surroundings, that's for sure! ^Γ—^
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@movq @prologic Neat! ^Γ—^
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@adi I think the certificate for your site may have expired, just FYI.
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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.)
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@anth 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.)
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@maya 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.
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@prologic @readfog Welcome aboard! \\o/ ^Γ—^
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@xuu 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.