@movq@www.uninformativ.de as if there’s any other way to do it? :-)

reflection:

there was a time in my life where i was obsessed with high-density/high-performance computing. having command of hyperscalar clusters and workstations that could scorch the earth was a deeply embedded part of my work and research years ago.

over the years i realised that i didn’t require access to these sort of things to conduct research and work. in fact it became quite the antithesis to my philosophical belief system. in the past my work focused on space-time complexity and performance measured in sub-ms. when i look back at how much energy was consumed to experiment, my head falls low.

in addition, by becoming dependent on this tier of machinery i created multiple fail points in my toolchain since we designed systems that had an inherent requirement for massive power and scale.

in the end, it felt like having a raptor system to open chrome.

these days i’m quite pleased with my thin/low-power thinkpad i procured for nearly nothing. funny how things work out as you grow older

28h32m

divide by your day wage and determine how many iphones you can buy.

lessons from xx years of self-hosting:

• build a community, not userbase
  
• bots cannot predict human folly
  
• you don’t need 42u of metal to serve a website
  
• communities grow best slow and organically
  
• quality > quantity
  
• automate as much as possible
  
• have your system(s) tell you what’s up || down
  
• add service(s) slowly, understand attack surface(s)
  
• sandbox || isolate pids and services when you can
  
• when stress > fun, revisit self-hosting

recently i’ve been rebuilding many of my workflows striving for efficiency, less key-hopping, less mouse-travel, and overall lower resource consumption. have been changing notes with @mckinley@twtxt.net on this who’s penned an excellent primer on watching online videos like a pro using free software

if you like youtube or other video content but don’t want to fuss with a browser and want to minimise tracking definitely give it a read. i’m adding some bits to my own workflow based on his work. really love where this is going.

tails 5.0 is out

excited to know that it’s been rebuilt off of bullseye which brings the distribution in parity with debian 11 stable.

experience seems to be better so far.

cc: @mckinley@twtxt.net

@prologic@twtxt.net furnace

@prologic@twtxt.net

need to spike a new feature to somehow schedule the banner. time to go to work

@prologic@twtxt.net @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com

sounds like we have a proper topic for the chat today. looks for banner

@mckinley@twtxt.net i sincerely hope you do. i’m writing my own now that i’ve picked a domain after many months :-)

i’m building a small tool that lets you do vpn up --region lon --proto wg which will then hit an api and bootstrap the entire thing and bring up the interface automatically. when you’re done, vpn down

more on this soon.

@mckinley@twtxt.net the setup i use is the same. i was recently working on some .dotfiles to make the process a little smoother. work in progress like most things

@prologic@twtxt.net i saw this behaviour as well prior to working on the infra-setup. we had to manually pass the -i and -u on the cli to get it working properly if running only salty binary versus saltyd

@mckinley@twtxt.net @eaplmx@twtxt.net would you mind opening up an issue on this for follow-up? i use mostly cli so can likely assist and work through things async with you. irc is also option

@mckinley@twtxt.net was just looking at this the other day, dropped it into swarm and it worked a-okay.

@prologic@twtxt.net @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com

topics for next week:

• cleaning your shoes with ketchup
  
• the mystery of the 20 year old edible burger
  
• the angry guy at sun microsystems
  
• yet another chat about browsers

meeting notes from yarn social call:

• the shady business of trading mini-horses
  
• patents and spoons with noodles falling through
  
• clumsy math and the iphone per minute wage system
  
• embracing bots, as long as they have solid ai and good jokes
  
• running insert os here in javascript
  
• testing yarn social on netscape navigator
  
• ordinances to promote wine on the beach
  
• building a browser with bash, curl, and jq
  
• ecuadorian haircuts, cambodian donuts, and ye olde bartering system
  

good catching up @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com @prologic@twtxt.net

been here for a few months and have met some really amazing people. thanks for having me. makes me feel at 127.0.0.1

@prologic@twtxt.net

we live in a free world. just opt-out. in some parallel dimension there’s an engineer who really likes this stuff.

balance is key here.

@prologic@twtxt.net have you considered changing the weekly call time so you and the .au folks aren’t smoked tired and the rest of the group can be half-way awake?

@prologic@twtxt.net nodejs? ducks and runs....

@mckinley@twtxt.net very reasonable and i don’t disagree with your tactics. my own view is less about tracking and more about not being distracted. in a world where attention can be currency, i try to preserve it. i do have a mobile, but there’s no sim and it’s a glorified messenger when i don’t want to lug my laptop around.

i was speaking with @prologic@twtxt.net recently who mentioned, like myself @off_grid_living@twtxt.net prefers not to have a phone number (and possibly a phone).

this raises a bigger question. can you, a netizen of the world survive sans phone?

let’s loop through reasons why one needs a phone in 2022 (and my responses to each):

• social media: nope.jpeg
  
• banking: if your bank supports mfa via email, or better yet totp/secure tokens nope.jpeg
  
• friends: most are on signal, twtxt, session, threema, irc
  
• family: don't have any, but if i did, session or salty(once it's finalised)
  
• work: fvck em
  
• doctors: they can send an email
  
• car repair: i do my own
  
• online shopping: nope.jpeg
  
• in-person shopping: get rekt
  
• government: fvck em too
  
• pharmacy: email me
  
• significant other: don't we spend too much time together?
  

what am i missing here?

| question the operator, not the machine. for human failure is absolute

• redacted: these old things don’t work, want them?
  
• me: i’ve no room for salvage
  
• redacted: buy you lunch to clear this out?
  
• me: i’m at your front door
  

couple of bad drives replaced. now alpine linux

@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk was it by chance a network and routing issue? or something else? i run one on my darknet that i’ve built but there’s only a few people on it.

@prologic@twtxt.net curious if you think all oligarchs are assholes?