@lucidiot@tilde.town @kas@enotty.dk There’s also Keybase as good GPG tool. They offer a lot of encrypted services as well :)
@kas@enotty.dk Oh I didn’t know a recent release brought autocrypt directly to neomutt. When I tried some 3rd party tool was necessary.
@johanbove@johanbove.info : re bulletjournal : Yeah I tried keeping a bullet journal, it lasted about 6 months I think. But yeah, that could be a good managing tool :)
I have nothing to say, but by god I’m going to spend a lot of time looking for tools to help me say it
Can one use nerd tools to live-blog an internet outage (without tethering)? Let’s find out.
New repository: aquilax/gitkat - GTK quick notification tool
Close my account, Robinhood!
On 23 April, 2019 I sent an email to Robinhood, using their on-line help tool, because I couldn’t find a phone number to call on their website.
Couldn’t find […] a proper choice under “support issue,” so picked something that is close to what I want, but not quite. I would like to close, and delete my account (not just deactivate). Thanks!
The reply promptly arrived the same day, stating, along other things:
We’ve submitted a request to close your … ⌘ Read more
first tool-using species, then bool-using species
New repository: aquilax/app.text-tools-online.com - Text Tools PWA
Random link from the archives: https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece originally archived Fri Feb 1 12:13:36 EST 2019
New repository: aquilax/md2html - Markdown to HTML command line tool (wraps Blackfriday)
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs: The Power of Agency - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Tool-AI
LOOPY: a tool for thinking in systems https://ncase.me/loopy/
New repository: aquilax/cutdoc - Shortcut cheat sheet tool
New repository: aquilax/urlcat - Command line URL manipulation tool
We ought to be suspicious of business plans that resemble manifest destiny: expansion into supposedly-unclaimed regions, turning inhabitants into tools & discarding the resistant (who now have nowhere to go) or worse.
Re: https://adactio.com/journal/14888 – it’s a competent reframing job, but if common behaviors require complicated hacks for literally years, you’re using the wrong tool.
Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/03-ted-nelson
Gossip was a powerful tool for the powerless in Ancient Greece | Aeon Ideas https://aeon.co/ideas/gossip-was-a-powerful-tool-for-the-powerless-in-ancient-greece
YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers’ Extortion Tool - TorrentFreak https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-strikes-now-being-used-as-scammers-extortion-tool/
today’s procrastination tactic: writing a README (pretty much a spec) for an as-yet unwritten command-line tool
Twenty-Five Useful Thinking Tools | Scott H Young https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2018/12/04/25-thinking-tools/
Tooling (in progress) | Irene PoschIrene Posch http://www.ireneposch.net/tooling/
People become what they can imagine becoming, & access to tools has as much to do with this as representation. If it’s easy to fall into programming accidentally, then it’s easy to imagine yourself programming regularly.
The Anime Cult - The Mike Toole Show - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/the-mike-toole-show/2015-12-13/.96470
New repository: aquilax/colorcount - Command line tool to count colors used in image
GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge
17: visible but cannot be typed on, fingers hit emptiness.↵1?: invisible, produces characters indistinguishable from spaces. except when I try to run binary analysis tools on the output, which invariably crash.
SimCity, Cellular Automata, and Happy Tool for HyperLook (nee HyperNeWS (nee GoodNeWS)) https://medium.com/@donhopkins/hyperlook-nee-hypernews-nee-goodnews-99f411e58ce4
TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/
how i found out about twtxt btw: gopher://fuckup.solutions/0/enkiv2/medium-backup/2018-06-15_Exocortex-tools-part-I–social-media-automation-with-very-small-shell-scripts-62d995242a57.txt
Apparently hot take: automation tools don’t obviate abstract discussions about how best to think about decisions (like ‘should translations be precise or should they be accurate’ or ‘what is the good’) but make them more important.
TempleOS: an educational tool for programming experiments - TechRepublic https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/software-engineer/templeos-an-educational-tool-for-programming-experiments/
Notion “ The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. https://www.notion.so/tools-and-craft/01-andy-hertzfeld
Band name of the day: power tool massacre
Cursed ontologies in forbidden orthographies. Special tools are required to handle them safely: wands, swords, cups, pantacles – all important safety equipment in any conceptual laboratory environment.
More Hints for Writing Unix Tools | Mario Campos https://www.mariocampos.io/blog/more-unix-tools-hints/
Hints for writing Unix tools https://monkey.org/~marius/unix-tools-hints.html
In the future when people tell me the web stack is an acceptable GUI layer I should just show them this: https://www.vox.com/2018/5/3/17309078/digital-art-diana-a-smith-francine-coded-browser-art ; if drawing a picture is impressive with your tools, your tools are shit
GitHub - motherboardgithub/mass_archive: A basic tool for pushing a web page to multiple archiving services at once. https://github.com/motherboardgithub/mass_archive
How K-pop became a propaganda tool | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4269/k-pop-propaganda-south-korea-north-korea-demilitarized-zone
GitHub - robey/font-problems: command-line tool for reading and writing console bitmap fonts https://github.com/robey/font-problems
Daniel Dennett on Tools To Transform Our Thinking - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0
Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/
Hot take: mashups & references can be powerful tools for getting your message across, but if you don’t have a message (or your message is this is my taste) it’s just masturbatory. (Fite me.)
@robbinaer@robbinaer.info, ok I think it’s normal for such a nerdy microblogging tool to be rather quiet.
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
We need tools that will encourage us to do what Jefferson did to his bible with razors and glue. These tools will be discouraged and limited for the same reason that these practices were discouraged on the bible.
AR MMORPG overlays as a tool of social policy and peacekeeping, giving everybody their own reality so that consensus reality is fought over less
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii