https://xosc.org/timemachine.html openbsd time machine \o/
Their s aren’t <![CDATA[]]>’d, either. They’ve opted to escape every single HTML <tag>.
**R to @mind_booster: Ainda sobre a PTNet, se por um lado a “data oficial” parece ser 1997, as experiências começaram logo em 1996 (quando é que se considera aquilo PTnet? Não sei bem…).
Já os “serviços” (recordo NickServ 1º, depois ChanServ) são de Outubro 1997.
+info: https://student.dei.uc.pt/~rfonseca/historia.html**
Ainda sobre a PTNet, se por um lado a “data oficial” parece ser 1997, as experiências começaram logo em 1996 (quando é que se considera aquilo PTnet? Não sei bem…).
Já os “serviços” (rec … ⌘ Read more
**“é a jurisprudência do Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia que coloca uma ameaça mais séria à escala global”, PS dixit.
Ah, malvados justiceiros europeus, a ameaçar o mundo inteiro com a sua defesa dos diretos fundamentaisao respeito da vida privada!
https://www.jn.pt/nacional/governo-avanca-com-proposta-para-alterar-lei-dos-metadados-14860892.html**
“é a jurisprudência do Tribunal de Justiça da União Europeia que coloca uma ameaça mais séria à escala global”, PS dixit.
Ah, malvados justiceiros europeus, … ⌘ Read more
** My programming language odyssey **
While I wouldn’t say I’m wicked adept at any one language, I’ve dipped my toes into many different languages. Here, I try to roughly recreate my programming language journey.
The web. A marvel, a terror. I started here, more out of ease of access than necessity, but was able to get far enough to make a career out of web dev. I should also add SQL to this list.
[Elm](https://elm-lang … ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher
but lighter than HTTP(S), especially if combined with all other web
technologies. The name makes sense if Gopher is Project Mercury and
the web is the Apollo program.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, s … ⌘ Read more
Gemini capsule
Gemini is a lightweight Internet
protocol. It’s heavier than Gopher but a bit lighter than HTTP(S).
It’s the Gemini programme if Gopher is Mercury and HTTP is Atlas.
One of its uses is to serve gemtext, which is a lightweight
Markdown-like markup language, instead of HTML. Gemini browsers don’t
have support for neither Javascript, nor CSS, nor any of the other new
web technologies. It can be beautiful anyway, see for instance
[Lagrange]( [http … ⌘ Read more
On Switching to Ed: https://atthis.link/blog/2020/usingEd.html
just downloaded micatwoa html files inshallah
Made big markup changes on my website. Added tags for RSS where appropriate and fixed bad HTML on blog posts. Apologies for downtime.
Monerotopia Presentation and Website News
Just a note that within two hours (11AM NY time), my edited Monerotopia presentation with slides and all will be premiering here on the Monero Talk channel on YouTube.
I did already do an extended commentary and explanation of my talk here on my PeerTube channel, and I might put this an the edited talk onto my YouTube channel if I feel like it. You shou … ⌘ Read more
Big day for privacy. Tails has been updated to 5.0, now based on Debian 11. https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.0/index.en.html
Also totes didn’t realise the BBS locked up at some point. It’s back now - https://www.federal.tel/telnet.html
You guys/gals over at micro.blog see any new users join over Twitter™ buyout debacle from Elon Musk? 🤔We haven’t seen any join Yarn.social (yet) but allegedly ~30k joined Mastodon? ⌘ Read more
https://plaintextproject.online/articles/2022/04/06/pdf.html pdf pandoc weasyprint wkhtmltopdf
https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-04-23-openbsd-video-tutorial-installation.html how to install gnome on openbsd
Nix 2.8.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.8.0. It will be
available from NixOS -\
Getting Nix / NixOS.
Here are the release notes:
New experimental command:
nix fmt, which applies a
formatter defined by theformatter.<system></system>flake
output to the Nix expressions in a flake.Various Nix commands can now read expressions from standard input
using--file -.New experimental builtin function
builtins.fetchClosurethat c … ⌘ Read more
9 wikipedia edits today! yay me! (also a bunch of small scale contributions to other people’s texts: https://niplav.github.io/contributions.html)
My website is very Piling. look at the todo list: https://niplav.github.io/todo.html! i can’t tell you much about how it will look like in a year, but i can tell you that it won’t shrink. it’s piling. everything is piling up, forgotten drafts, half-finished experiments, buggy code—fixed over time, sure, but much more slowly than the errors come rolling in. it’s an eternal struggle.
The USENET Cookbook: One of the earliest digital publications
Long before HTML or PDF… we had Emacs, plain text, and USENET. And it was glorious. ⌘ Read more
Profanity: Profanity and OpenPGP for XMPP (OX)
We have been to implement OX in profanity. OX is
XEP-0374: OpenPGP for XMPP Instant Messaging which
may replace XEP-0027: Current Jabber OpenPGP Usage.
It is part of Profanity since version 0.10 but got some fixes since then.
Feel free to try and test the implementation. Let us know, if you have some
issues and support the development via testing and reporting bugs.
Ho … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: GoJara plugin for Openfire version 2.2.3 release
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of a maintenance release of the GoJara plugin for Openfire. GoJara provides an implementation of XEP-0321 “Remote Roster Management” and helps out with monitoring Spectrum 2.
Your Openfire instance should automatically display the availability of the update. Al … ⌘ Read more
https://www.omarpolo.com/post/amused.html c kiss suckless music player
Nix 2.7.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of Nix 2.7.0. It will be
available from
NixOS - Getting Nix / NixOS.
Here are the release notes:
Nix will now make some helpful suggestions when you mistype something
on the command line. For instance, if you type nix build
nixpkgs#thunderbrd, it will suggest
thunderbird.A number of “default” flake output attributes have been renamed.
These are:defaultPackage.<system></system>→packag ... ⌘ [Read more](https://nixos.org/blog/announcements.html#nix-2.7.0)
How to Build a Bike Generator with Control Panel
We built a pedal-powered generator and controller, which is practical to use as an energy source and exercise machine in a household — and which you can integrate into a solar PV system. We provide detailed plans to build your own, using basic skills and common hand tools. ⌘ Read more
The An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest aircraft, has been destroyed. https://www.airlinerwatch.com/2022/02/has-worlds-most-iconic-aircraft-225.html
NixOS Community Survey 2022
The NixOS Marketing Team is pleased to announce the first offical
NixOS Community Survey.
Please take 5-10 minutes to complete it.
Since the Nix community has been growing faster and larger every month, it’s gotten harder to
understand who makes up the community and what everyone cares about. So we’re conducting this survey
to improve our understanding of those questions. We hope to use your responses to devel … ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.7.1 Released!
The Ignite Realtime Community is happy to announce the 4.7.1 release of Openfire. This release fixes a number of bugs and represents our effort to provide a stable 4.7.x series while work continues on the next feature release of Openfire.
Notable fixes include security updates to bundled database drivers, logging configuration fixes, and an important fix for users experiencin … ⌘ Read more
Livestream brought you by Starlink
I got Starlink/Soylink and I might, might be able to do a livestream from my house.
Come see if it works here:
Livestream brought you by Starlink
I got Starlink/Soylink and I might, might be able to do a livestream from my house.
Come see if it works here:
https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/w/6HaEr5NtP61H1fZC3FdXC9
I will start sometime soon once I get things set up. I should have a chat module open now on my PeerTube instance now. ⌘ Read more
yarnd v0.13 - Aluminium Amarok
Today we announced release v0.13.0 of the Yarn.social backend yarnd that now powers a network of 15 pods around the globe.
You can find the release here:
Yarn/Twtxt (Yarn.social is based on Twtxt) continues to grow steadily every day, and every month or so we see a new independent Pod (what we call in … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: The Underlying Theme
In a comment on my recent post about Aristotle on ways of life, my friend Kurt wondered if, according to Aristotle, the best life must have a single purpose (in Greek, a telos). I would say so: at the very beginning of the Eudemian Ethics, he says that it is a sign of great folly to not organize your life around some telos. Yet I think this can be interpreted in several different ways…. ⌘ Read more
Nix 2.6.0 released
We’re pleased to announce the availability of
Nix 2.6.0.
Instructions how to install Nix on different platforms can be found on
the download page.
Here are the release notes:
New builtin function
builtins.zipAttrsWithwith the same
functionality aslib.zipAttrsWithfrom Nixpkgs, but
much more efficient.The Nix CLI now searches for a
flake.nixup until the
root of the current Git repository … ⌘ Read more
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Peter Saint-Andre: Philosophies and Ways of Life
In his book What Is Ancient Philosophy?, Pierre Hadot almost singlehandedly resurrected the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life. Consider this observation about the philosophical schools of Greece and Rome: “For us moderns, the notion of a philosophical school evokes only the idea of a doctrinal tendency or theoretical position. Things were very different in antiquity. No university obligations oriented the future philosopher toward a specific school; instead, the futur … ⌘ Read more
The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
Imagine a personal heating system that works indoors as well as outdoors, can be taken anywhere, requires little energy, and is independent of any infrastructure. It exists – and is hundreds of years old. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: MLK and Personalism
In my recent post on idealism and identity, I mentioned my attraction to the philosophy of personalism, with its emphasis on human dignity. It is perhaps a little-known fact that Martin Luther King, Jr., was greatly influenced by that very philosophy. Early in life he ventured north to study at Boston University, then the center of personalist thought in America, where he completed his doctorate under theologian Edgar Sheffield Brightman. We can see the deep influence of personalism on King’s … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity
Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what’s more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other (“I’m a Capulet, not a Montague”, “I’m a proletarian, not a bourgeois”, etc.)…. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Cultivating Curiosity
In my drive to hold fewer opinions (or at least hold them less strongly), for a while I tried to cultivate a healthy skepticism about things I believe - for instance, by attempting to question one opinion every week. This didn’t work, at least for me, because it felt too negative. Instead, now I’m working to cultivate curiosity. Here are a few thoughts on the process…. ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 4.5.6 is released
Openfire 4.5.6 has been released, that addresses an annoying issue that was affecting the earlier 4.5.5 release. We’ve updated the bundled log4j library to version 2.17.1 for good measure.
The changelog denotes the two Jira issues closed by this release. You can find Openfire build artifacts available for download [here](https://github.com/igniterealtime/Openfire/rel … ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Monadnock Valley Press Annual Report 2021
Happy Public Domain Day!… ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: 2021 Readings
As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I’ve provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain…. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #9: Musical Monadology
In meditation #7 of this series, I took note of some similarities between the aesthetics of Aristotle and the music of Bach. Another intriguing influence might be the monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), who directly influenced philosophers and musical theorists in the Bach’s orbit: for instance, Bach’s student Lorenz Mizler (1711-1778) was a follower of the Leibniz scholar Christian Wolff (1679-1754). In chapter 5 of his book Music in the Culture of th … ⌘ Read more