Statisticians: NOoooooo you can’t execute a t-test on elements from a Likert scale! Psychologists: Hah NHST go brrrrrrrrr

some blogs have a “start here” page that is not the default landing page: why? most people visiting your site will be there for the first time, but they have to perform an additional click to go to the “start here” page, unnecessarily.

i don’t know of any Gentle Introduction to Why Prediction Markets are Awesome, à la Wait But Why, with stick figures and just going slow in on the topic, answering objections along the way. i consider it a collective action failure that no such text exists, and also that i don’t know of any book that does this (other than superforecasting)

The First Lunduke Journal Founding Member Hangout… a success!
So much fun. We’re definitely going to be doing more of these! ⌘ Read more

the joy of having written down a possible improvement for a wikipedia article, only to go & find out somebody else has already done it. glorious

Achieving SLSA 3 Compliance with GitHub Actions and Sigstore for Go modules
Learn how to build packages with SLSA 3 provenance using GitHub Actions. ⌘ Read more

Linguistics Degree
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im gonna go out onna limb here and claim that theres not enough positive utilitarians around

rereading the wikipedia page on ramanujan, we should absolutely clone him and von Neumann, and have them talk to each other. this is either going to destroy the world or usher in utopia, not sure which

not the best move on the side of the red cross to call me and tell me it’s because of my blood donation — i nearly had a panic attack for the 10 seconds that they didn’t tell me it was all fine (why would you call me then‽ and why speak as if you’re going to tell me i’ll be dead in a month‽)

Six years ago, I was with my family on a cruise on the North Sea. During this trip we also visited Amsterdam. Today, however, I would no longer go on cruises because of the enormous environmental impact. ⌘ Read more

Six years ago, I was with my family on a cruise on the North Sea. During this trip we also visited Amsterdam. Today, however, I would no longer go on cruises because of the enormous environmental impact. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net

#!/bin/sh

# Validate environment
if ! command -v msgbus > /dev/null; then
    printf "missing msgbus command. Use:  go install git.mills.io/prologic/msgbus/cmd/msgbus@latest"
    exit 1
fi

if ! command -v salty > /dev/null; then
    printf "missing salty command. Use:  go install go.mills.io/salty/cmd/salty@latest"
    exit 1
fi

if ! command -v salty-keygen > /dev/null; then
    printf "missing salty-keygen command. Use:  go install go.mills.io/salty/cmd/salty-keygen@latest"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
    export SALTY_IDENTITY="$HOME/.config/salty/$USER.key"
fi

get_user () {
    user=$(grep user: "$SALTY_IDENTITY" | awk '{print $3}')
    if [ -z "$user" ]; then
        user="$USER"
    fi
    echo "$user"
}

stream () {
    if [ -z "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
        echo "SALTY_IDENTITY not set"
        exit 2
    fi

    jq -r '.payload' | base64 -d | salty -i "$SALTY_IDENTITY" -d
}

lookup () {
    if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    printf "Usage: %s nick@domain\n" "$(basename "$0")"
    exit 1
    fi

    user="$1"
    nick="$(echo "$user" | awk -F@ '{ print $1 }')"
    domain="$(echo "$user" | awk -F@ '{ print $2 }')"

    curl -qsSL "https://$domain/.well-known/salty/${nick}.json"
}

readmsgs () {
    topic="$1"

    if [ -z "$topic" ]; then
        topic=$(get_user)
    fi

    export SALTY_IDENTITY="$HOME/.config/salty/$topic.key"
    if [ ! -f "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
        echo "identity file missing for user $topic" >&2
        exit 1
    fi

    msgbus sub "$topic" "$0"
}

sendmsg () {
    if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
        printf "Usage: %s nick@domain.tld <message>\n" "$(basename "$0")"
        exit 0
    fi

    if [ -z "$SALTY_IDENTITY" ]; then
        echo "SALTY_IDENTITY not set"
        exit 2
    fi

    user="$1"
    message="$2"

    salty_json="$(mktemp /tmp/salty.XXXXXX)"

    lookup "$user" > "$salty_json"

    endpoint="$(jq -r '.endpoint' < "$salty_json")"
    topic="$(jq -r '.topic' < "$salty_json")"
    key="$(jq -r '.key' < "$salty_json")"

    rm "$salty_json"

    message="[$(date +%FT%TZ)] <$(get_user)> $message"

    echo "$message" \
        | salty -i "$SALTY_IDENTITY" -r "$key" \
        | msgbus -u "$endpoint" pub "$topic"
}

make_user () {
    mkdir -p "$HOME/.config/salty"

    if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
        user=$USER
    else
        user=$1
    fi

    identity_file="$HOME/.config/salty/$user.key"

    if [ -f "$identity_file" ]; then
        printf "user key exists!"
        exit 1
    fi

    # Check for msgbus env.. probably can make it fallback to looking for a config file?
    if [ -z "$MSGBUS_URI" ]; then
        printf "missing MSGBUS_URI in environment"
        exit 1
    fi


    salty-keygen -o "$identity_file"
    echo "# user: $user" >> "$identity_file"

    pubkey=$(grep key: "$identity_file" | awk '{print $4}')

    cat <<- EOF
Create this file in your webserver well-known folder. https://hostname.tld/.well-known/salty/$user.json

{
  "endpoint": "$MSGBUS_URI",
  "topic": "$user",
  "key": "$pubkey"
}

EOF
}

# check if streaming
if [ ! -t 1 ]; then
    stream
    exit 0
fi

# Show Help
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    printf "Commands: send read lookup"
    exit 0
fi


CMD=$1
shift

case $CMD in
    send)
        sendmsg "$@"
    ;;
    read)
        readmsgs "$@"
    ;;
    lookup)
        lookup "$@"
    ;;
    make-user)
        make_user "$@"
    ;;
esac

apparently i have LOST ANOTHER 3 KILOGRAMS WHAT IS GOING ON I EXERCISE LIKE 3 HOURS A WEEK AND EAT LIKE A BEAR AND A TIGER

One down! More to go.

BREAKING: Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s super yacht, one of the biggest in the world, seized in Germany - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacomotognini/2022/03/02/germans-seize-russian-billionaire-alisher-usmanovs-mega-yacht/?sh=8b18f5052ddd

to do: go nuclear on a date and explain that im just performing an act, that i studied this in detail and trained myself to do it, that this is a deliberate effort to escape my patheticness

Google no longer allows in-app donations that don’t go through Google Play. https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/3768

Why didn’t I think of the very helpful Go module “net/http/pprof” earlier? This way I can profile my blog live. 🤓 (And hopefully find parts that I should or can optimize.) ⌘ Read more

noticing that i should go to sleep because the guitar opening on Robot Rock seems awfully fast

going back to vim. #updates

Tractor Beam
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My January ‘22 in Review
Crazy, new year and yet January is already over, how time flies! What was going on? ⌘ Read more

Finally sleeping better 😴
I have a very light sleep. The first brightness in the morning makes me wake up, noise from the neighbors in the evening does not let me fall asleep. No matter how late or early I go to bed, no matter how little I slept in total. ⌘ Read more

One year ago to the date I made the lastest update for #phpub2twtxt to github and now 365 days later I have published #pixelblog as its successor - lets see where things are going for trip around the sun

Image

** Chess Rules **
I love when folks say stuff like“there are only a finite number of states a chessboard can occupy, therefore a computer can play chess.”

To the folks who say such things — I wish you to play chess with my 6 year old.

Be not confined by rules! The only things governing chess in this house here are the laws of physics!

…and even then, not all need apply.

For instance, during a recent game the opposing kings left the board in order to go out on an adventure. They returned later with a large, plastic dragon. The dra … ⌘ Read more

Alien Mission
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For me, it always makes me feel better to look at the CVs of similar bloggers and see how little they’ve accomplished in comparison. I’m proud of my posts and my accomplishments, and I’m not going to h

@prologic@twtxt.net, who calls me name when I am busy profiting? 😂 In a less serious note—because nothing is more serious than making profit, of course—yes, it seems your avatar issue has been fixed. I am kind of sad, I looked forward each day to see which random one was going to show. LOL.

LundukeFest final schedule announced!
Linux Sucks, Retro Computing, and so much more. January 29th is going to be a very, very nerdy day. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net let us take the path of less resistance, that is, less effort, for now. I am going to be a great-grandfather before search ever get implemented locally, least one to search on “all pods”. In other words, let us don’t bite more than we can chew. 😹 Neep-gren!

Finding our Nerdy Happy Place
I’d like to take a step back from my regular Mega-Nerdy ™ articles for just a moment… To talk about things from a more personal point of view. Today was a rough day in the news. I won’t go into the details here, but things were happening out there in the world that made me pretty sad. And frustrated. And afraid. Things that hit close to home. ⌘ Read more

Seamless Sign-in with Docker Desktop 4.4.2
Starting with Docker Desktop 4.4.2 we’re excited to introduce a new authentication flow that will take you through the browser to sign in, simplifying the experience and allowing users to get all the benefits of autofill from whatever browser password manager they may use. Gone are the days of going to your browser, opening your […]

The post [Seamless Sign-in with Docker Desktop 4.4.2](https://www.docker.com/blog/seamless-sign-in-with-docker-desktop-4-4 … ⌘ Read more

the repugnant conclusion turns around: “It’s too full here, let’s go home.”

a hedonium shockwave, a utility monster and the repugnant conclusion go into a bar.

I feel like it took me a bit longer to fully understand how to work in Smalltalk than it did most languages. The IDE is different than anything I’ve used before, and probably anything you’ve seen as well. You’re not going to be opening myscript.st in your favorite text editor, and then run it from the command line as you would a Python program. It takes a little mental adjustment to start with.

That’s not the warning, howe … ⌘ Read more

Linux Sucks 2022 - Jan 29, 4pm Pacific
Streamed live at LundukeFest. This is going to suck more than anything has sucked before. ⌘ Read more

I just went to type the phrase “I avoid Linux like the plague” but then remembered that we’ve all learned that most people won’t actually go much out of their way to avoid the plague.

Although blocking off this footpath, we’re not going to tell our colleges until the day after tomorrow. Please report back tomorrow, @movq@www.uninformativ.de.

Ntfy.sh
I subscribe to the Hacker News front page via RSS. There is a lot of stuff there that I just mark as read without taking a closer look. But sometimes something catches my eye and I take a closer look. Today “Show HN: A tool to send push notifications to your phone, written in Go” is one of them. ⌘ Read more

rewrite of getwtxt (as getwtxt-ng) is going okay. i’m much happier with sqlite for storage.

I was going to eat some chocolate, but apparently I ate all of it last night 😢 It seemed like such a good idea at the time!

** Introducing Guava **
I’ve been fascinated by Forth and concatenative programming for a while now. I can’t remember how I initially stumbled in to it, but once I got going I’ve been unable to stop. I’m a wee bit in love with it.

Wanting to play a bit with implementing my own spin on things and having opinions about tooling, I picked up a little scripting language called [Ripen](https://felix.plesoia … ⌘ Read more

Future of Yarn.social

Today I’m going to talk about Yarn.social’s future, a roadmap into where we’re going and thinking. I’ll also write a little about it’s history of where we came from and highlight how Yarn.social is different and in my opinion better.

For those of you new to my blog or Yarn.social; Yarn.social is a decentralised social media platform, a microBlogging platform. It was originally crea … ⌘ Read more

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com the things Gemini has going for it are mutual TLS and lack of JavaScript. Which makes for a secure albeit boring experience (much like gopher). The fake markdown is a bit of a drag.

A render mode for Gemini probably wouldnt be too hard. There are markdown to Gemini libs out there.

With Web3 the whole trust a 3rd party browser ext + high fees + env impact for compute and storage are serious no gos for me.. I have heard one too many horror stories about clicking the wrong link and some script draining your metamask wallet.

Notifications
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What’s new from GitHub Changelog? November 2021 recap
We shipped a ton of updates in November, from the push notification for PR review activities on the go, to an easy way to create Markdown links. ⌘ Read more

Isode: Successfully Managing HF Radio Networks
With the potential for new technologies to cause interference to traditional communications networks and even space itself at the risk of becoming weaponised, it is important to make sure that you always have a backup plan for your communications ready and waiting.

Should the worst happen and your primary network, typically SatCom, go down you need to ensure that you can still communicate with your forces wherever they are, and that c … ⌘ Read more

fake english word generation for Go and CLI: [[https://github.com/nwtgck/go-fakelish]] #links

Apache Log4j 2 CVE-2021-44228
We know that many of you are working hard on fixing the new and serious Log4j 2 vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, which has a 10.0 CVSS score. We send our #hugops and best wishes to all of you working on this vulnerability, now going by the name Log4Shell. This vulnerability in Log4j 2, a very common Java […]

The post Apache Log4j 2 CVE-2021-44228 appeared first on Docker Blog. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org more often than not, it is! I mean, I try to go over the changes, but soon find myself in a web (not pun!), all entangled. Then say, “screw it!” and to the bin it goes. 🥴