Somebody apparently once went up the the great philosopher Wittgenstein and said “What a lot of morons people back in the Middle Ages must have been to have looked every morning at what’s going on behind me now, the dawn, and to have thought that what they were seeing was the sun going around the Earth, when as every schoolkid knows the Earth goes around the sun and it doesn’t take too many brains to understand that.” To which Wittgenstein replied, “Yeah, but I wonder what it would have looked like if the Sun had been going around the Earth.” Point being, of course, is that it would have looked exactly the same. swans on tea » You See What Your Knowledge Tells You You’re Seeing

@prologic@twtxt.net My thoughts on it being if they switched from a different way of hosting the file or multiple locations for redundancy..

I have an idea of using something like SRV records where they can define weighted url endpoints to reach.

notation as a tool of thought [[https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm]] #links

thought it might be interested to post some of the code used to produce one of my !breathing_cards: !waigel

Prosodical Thoughts: XMPP at the IETF ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/xmpp-at-the-ietf/

@prologic@twtxt.net to answer some of your previous questions, i’m using txtnish for my timeline and user controls, and plain twtxt for posting. the alternative to that would be setting up a bunch of shell aliases or small scripts. or making my own client in Go. There’s a thought… ;)

@prologic@twtxt.net I’\“ve thought through the git issue a bit. Comments on https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/38

if you thought emails were great at getting stuff lost, wait til you check out this thing called twtxt

suddenly I have an urge to build a concatenative macro language to go along with this !txtvm project of mine. Together, they maybe could build a more @!(ref “thoughtful_programming” “thoughtful”)!@ !runt? #halfbakedideas

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.7 released ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.7-released/

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@lyxal@twtxt.net My thoughts exactly! :-D

@lyxal@twtxt.net My thoughts exactly! :-D

Prosodical Thoughts: Great Invitations ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/

Prosodical Thoughts: Great Invitations ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/great-invitations/

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.11.6 released ⌘ https://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0.11.6-released/

Home to telepathic fireflies, the forest, while incapable of understanding our thoughts, still lets them extend way past our heads, eddy around trees and branches, reflect in ponds, intertwine with those of others

a concept that’s organically grown with my !literate_programming efforts is this idea I call a !proof_of_thought #literate_programming #thoughtful

I never thought I’d ever say this, but I am officially done with Csound. I’ve been using Csound since I was 16 years old, but now I feel like throwing my copy of the Csound book in the trash. Good riddance.

Basically all current social media ends up optimizing for creating outrage, spawning mobs, less thoughtful discussion and more vitriolic arguments, etc. PG: The biggest source of stress for me at YC was running HN | Hacker News

@mdosch@mdosch.de Oh wow. I thought Apple was the only org out there shipping zsh by default. What was their rationale for not defaulting to bash?

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Part of the wisdom of meditation lies in the following: There is baggage we all carry, the self, this belief we’re the center of it all, the author of (and subservient to) our own thoughts. How do I stop doing what makes me unhappy, if that’s “who I am”? But, in reality, I can abandon “who I am” and find new processes of living and new ways of thinking about the world. A researcher on how to live a happy life | Hacker News

@hjertnes@hjertnes.social I always thought hg was better than git but no one else used it

I don’t need a new home office chair. I thought I did, but I don’t

Woke up after six hours of uneasy dreams and thought “at least I haven’t been transformed into a giant bug.”

Adobe Flash Player EOL
After ten years since Steve Jobs expressed his thoughts on Flash, effectively banning Flash from ever existing on iOS, Adobe has finally decided to announce that as of 31 December 2020 they will stop distributing, and updating, the Flash Player. Why, they say, they are doing this?

Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also … ⌘ Read more

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Free Social Networking Showdown - Final Thoughts https://john.colagioia.net/blog/media/2020/04/18/thoughts.html #socialmedia #freesoftware #socialshowdown

@tux0r@rosaelefanten.org holy moly, ed? I thought I’d be the only ed user I’d ever hear about. (2) http://www.catb.org/esr/src/ should be fine in Dropbox, too, right?

one can find infinite novelty in those thoughts that erase themselves, but never share them or remember those hours

some classes of thoughts are unlocked by walks and showers, others yet closed to us require vacuum, cloud dives into gas giants, nova blasts searing away one’s skin

attempting to build arm-none-eabi cross compiler from source. why have I never thought of this?

@frogotbits.com Well actually I don’t have that much to right down (I think) so a bujo might be overkill. Actually I’m good with Taskwarrior for now, I find it faster to manage tasks, but having a place where I can put tasks and thoughts on paper is nice. That’s why i’m gonna go with dash-plus as @lucidiot@tilde.town showed me :)

@johanbove@johanbove.info I mean, I’d keep this one, but also create another one just to let go thoughts. But yeah, the more I think about it the sillier it gets.

@mdosch@mdosch.de I thought it was a nice practice to share interesting twtxt-ers through a follow tweet

This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good.

Non-programming thought of the hour: “I want pancakes”. Also the non-programming thought of the previous hour, and the hour before that.

Programming thought of the hour: “if everything knew about everything else, I wouldn’t have this problem.” Of course, I’d have different problems later…

alien thoughts encoded in the growth of ice crystals, every evening a brief instant of awareness, every morning oblivion

@mdosch@mdosch.de that would be great! i thought i had the audio working for a second but then i didn’t

Closing LinkedIn
Not long ago—not even a year now—I re-created a LinkedIn account, mostly following an invitation to join from one of my friends. I did it against my will, because for whatever reason I have hated LinkedIn even since before it was acquired by Microsoft. Yet, I joined, filled very little information, set privacy settings to fully closed—or so I thought—and moved on.

Soon after I started receiving UCE from medical, or pharmaceutical related companies. As many as ten emails per day. I calle … ⌘ Read more

Never thought I’d see a night-owl-pride thingo like this.

hello I’m an intrusive thought, I have a right to live too, please do not stop thinking me

protagonist backstory: escaped from a thought experiment, and on the run ever since

One can construct a bingo sheet to group together anybody. A bingo sheet constructed to group together people who don’t act or think similarly will not reliably predict those people’s thoughts or actions.

disinfo never dies. I ran into somebody the other day who thought LSD stayed in your spinal fluid permanently & caused flashbacks – despite definitely not being alive when that BS was last seriously floated.

Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.

Distinctions in Types of Thought | Otium https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/distinctions-in-types-of-thought/

Band name of the day: new evidence for the strange geometry of thought