Radio advertisements slapping away sustained thought on the coffeeshop stereo. I’d like a real-life ad blocker.

Feathers dripping dry from the drainspout with a new thought on his lips: this is tedious.

The power of control
You know, I’ve found a pretty effective way to reduce my addiction to certain websites: blocking them at the DNS level using NextDNS. It’s a trick I picked up after realizing I was spending far too much time on Hacker News (my addiction to that is gone for quite some time already!). And now? I’ve extended it to a forum I used to frequent multiple times a day. ⌘ Read more

Get the first look at CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024’s schedule, add-on events, and more
The schedule for CloudNativeSecurityCon North America 2024 is now live, and is filled with 75 sessions offering practical solutions and thoughtful discussions of some of the biggest challenges in security today. The conference will be held June 26… ⌘ Read more

From my father, there’s still an old Commodore 64 he used when he was young. I kept it since I thought I might try some retro-computing. But now (some years later) in the process of cleaning up my flat and throwing out things I no longer need, I tried to connect it to the TV, but somehow didn’t get it working. It might be the wrong cable, the wrong adapter, or just a faulty graphics unit in this device. I will just sell it on eBay untested. In the end, I think I wouldn’t enjoy that device much anyway. I grew up w … ⌘ Read more

Outback blogger’s creative outlet away from farm life strikes chord with foodies
What started as blog posts centred around her thoughts, recipes and life on a remote sheep station more than a decade ago has become a popular creative outlet for Jane Smith. ⌘ Read more

Open source software in AI and cloud trends to watch in 2024: thoughts from the Netris community
Member post originally published on Netris’s blog Let’s face it: The world of open source software can feel boring – in a good way. Open source has become so pervasive, and so deeply entrenched within modern software stacks… ⌘ Read more

** books, the end of winter, video games and javascript **
Since my last update I’ve read a handful of books. Some standout reads include Tales from Earthsea, The Other Wind and The Left Hand of Darkness, all by Ursula K. Le Guin. I’d read them all before, accepted for The Other Wind. I thought I’d read The Other Wind, but hadn’t! Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick was also a fun read. I liked it for the rabbit holes it invited me down; I’ve been thinking a lot … ⌘ Read more

What a week!
What a week! This week I was on vacation, but I didn’t relax at all. I worked harder than on workdays. Since my mother and I finally emptied all the furniture from the apartment I grew up in and moved out of two years ago (I even moved again after it). ⌘ Read more

XMPP Providers: XMPP Providers Server

We recently started to set up our own XMPP server to provide a support chat.
Our goal was to automate as much as possible to reduce the maintenance effort to a minimum.
While doing that, we also thought about how the experience is for XMPP newcomers to set up their own XMPP server.

There are many XMPP servers available.
But only few projects focus on q … ⌘ Read more

Home Server Offline ☹️
Today, I woke up and noticed that my home server, located in my second flat, and also the router, all behind a 5G connection (that was showing as working fine on the provider’s website), were offline. No VPN connection anymore, and also Tailscale showed the nodes as being offline. I’m glad that I had automatic backups and was able to easily restore the three important services from that server on my VPS, without the need to travel to the second flat first. ⌘ Read more

Scaleway Serverless Jobs
Scaleway continues to build a European AWS alternative. Today, I tried one of its new products: Serverless Jobs. ⌘ Read more

Extended content warning
I realized recently that I wrote some cringe (to put it mildly) posts in my late adolescent phase. On the one hand, I would of course like to banish these posts from my blog, after all, my opinion has changed completely in some cases since then. But on the other hand, it would be a shame to let this part of my personal development simply disappear. ⌘ Read more

What should I do with my new domain?
I recently complained about domain registrars. But I also recently registered a new domain: j7s.me. A numeronym of my first name. And the .me TLD to show that I am a person. (And it is a short domain that was available.) ⌘ Read more

Kory Reeder - if the thought evaporates #nowplaying

Somewhere I read that changing location, like entering a room, can rejigger neural pathways so that some thoughts and memories are somehow associated with the space. It’s the same for me when picking up a laptop. My purpose feels clear until I open a blank web browser window and my mind goes blank, too. In all the moments where I’m drawing a total blank, and then suddenly the thoughts come easily again: maybe that’s my brain looking for the room it was in before.

Where’s the perfect domain registrar?
Why is there no pure domain registrar? ⌘ Read more

Where’s the perfect domain registrar?
Why is there no pure domain registrar? ⌘ Read more

https://aerc-mail.org/ Discovering and hacking the #aerc email client. A modern CLI app that is very well thought.

Trying Spaceship.com
Some time ago, I somewhere read about Spaceship.com, a new player in the domain registration business, and registered an account to try it out. Some things kept me from transferring any domains to it (don’t really remember anymore, though), but it was also still in the beta phase back then. ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me this is interesting. Is the square bracket something used in the wild for multilingual twts?

@prologic@twtxt.net what are your thoughts? Should we extend the parser to handle [lang] and [boost] ? Or a generic attribute spec. Single word is a boolean attribute. And one with an = is a string key/value.

Status 2024-01-29
Friday is my day off from work, as usual. So when I’m typing this I’m
in front of the hackstation (not a battlestation, obviously) with my
third cup of coffee, writing an update again.

I’ve been doing these status updates on my Gemini log, but I’m
increasingly aware of the dropping amounts of traffic, so I’m thinking
about doing them on the blog instead, but see below for some thoughts
on Gemini.

In which I speak about an intense week, feeling good(?), spending … ⌘ Read more

Sam Whited: Thoughts on a New Software Commons
I use various legal and economic terms of art in this post, but I am neither a
lawyer or an economist.
They should be read in the way a layperson might read them, not as a serious
legal or economic analysis or advice.

I’ve long held that software being open source1 is necessary, but not
sufficient.
Using copyright and contract law to enshrine the freedom to use your software
instead … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I have read the white papers for MLS before. I have put a lot of thought on how to do it with salty/ratchet. Its a very good tech for ensuring multiple devices can be joined to an encrypted chat. But it is bloody complicated to implement.

Muscles are made in the kitchen
This Christmas, I got a cool gift – a door pull-up bar. I wanted it because I do (Freeletics) workouts two or three times per week without any equipment (except some resistance bands I got a while ago), and I thought pull-ups would add some variety. Plus, I heard they’re good for working out different muscles like the back, arms, and grip. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org
I use Jenny and I thought the multi line did work. Will keep that in mind when I am writing out posts. Also do you know how I can see if someone mentions me that I am not follwing? I know the user agents exist but I can’t view the server lgos since I host this on codeberg but if I do switch to my own server it would work.

Pinellas County - 90’: 9.10 miles, 00:09:28 average pace, 01:26:06 duration
brrrr…. pretty decent run. thought the HR would creep more with how much i was wearing. only stopped five times to hack up a lung.
#running

Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉
The GitHub Awards recognizes and celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the developer community, honoring individuals, projects, and organizations for their impactful work, innovation, thought leadership, and creating an outsized positive impact on the community.

The post Celebrating the GitHub Awards 2023 recipients 🎉 appeared first on [The … ⌘ Read more

Pinellas County - 75’: 8.22 miles, 00:09:09 average pace, 01:15:10 duration
pretty average. at about 2 miles in my right knee hurt a bit but i corrected my form and it went away. the last mile (or after the hill really) i pushed it a bit to see if i could sustain around what i thought was an 8:00 pace.
#running

Docker State of Application Development Survey 2023: Share Your Thoughts on Development
Participate in the Docker State of Application Development Survey 2023 to help us better understand and serve the developer community. We want to know where developers are focused, what they’re working on, and what is most important to them. Your participation and input will help us build the best products and experiences for you. ⌘ Read more

Long term career thoughts
When I read this article by Herman Martinus, creator of Bear Blog and some other projects, about how he stays motivated as a solo creator, it triggered some thoughts about my own career. ⌘ Read more

5G chaos in my head
One of the reasons I like blogging is that it sometimes helps me organize my thoughts. There’s a lot of chaos in my head before I write them down, and after, my head is sometimes calm. ⌘ Read more

Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Our experts at Code BEAM Europe 2023
The biggest Erlang and Elixir Conference is coming to Berlin in October!

Are you ready for a deep dive into the world of Erlang and Elixir? Mark your calendars, because Code BEAM Europe 2023 is just around the corner.

With a lineup of industry pioneers and thought leaders, Code BEAM Europe 2023 promises to be a hub of knowledge sharing, innovation, and networking.

Erlang Solutions’ experts are working har … ⌘ Read more

Catching COVID-19
So far, I had been spared from COVID-19. “Had,” focusing on the past, because now it has affected me, or us, after all. We had to cut short our vacation, which I used to share little glimpses of here on the blog. We quickly went back home, wearing masks the whole time and hoping not to infect more people. ⌘ Read more

Here are three things I’ve noticed in the UK that I really appreciate: ⌘ Read more

Here are three things I’ve noticed in the UK that I really appreciate: ⌘ Read more

Tailscale and Mullvad
This is some really cool news! You can now use Tailscale and Mullvad simultaneously without any additional setup required. ⌘ Read more

Prosodical Thoughts: Prosody 0.12.4 released
We are pleased to announce a new minor release from our stable branch.

We’re relieved to announce this overdue maintenance release containing a
number of bug fixes and also some improvements from the last few months.

Especially the prosodyctl check tool which gained some new diagnostic
checks as well as handling of configuration option types the same way
Prosody itself does.

A summary of changes in this release:

• core.certmanager: Update Mozilla TLS … ⌘ Read more

ChatGPT Plus?
It’s been a while since ChatGPT was introduced to the world, and after the initial excitement, things seem to have settled down. While there’s still daily news about various services and companies integrating the GPT API into their products, the buzz around it has quieted. At least, that’s how it appears to me. ⌘ Read more

How much CPU you got in the server farm? I thought you had a whole rack.

@prologic@twtxt.net hmm, bummer. I was hoping that translating the docker commands to podman syntax would work but it looks like it’s more subtle than that. Thanks for trying!

The weird thing was I wasn’t getting errors like that on my end when I tried it. podman thought the connection was created, and it set it as the default. But I don’t think it was sending anything over the wire. When I have more time to tinker with it maybe I’ll play around and see if I can figure out what’s up.

@prologic@twtxt.net aha, thank you, that got me unjammed.

Turns out I thought I had an SSH key set up in github, but github didn’t agree with me. So, I re-added the key.

I also had to modify the command slightly to:

ssh -p 2222 -i PRIVATE_GITHUB_KEY GITHUB_USERNAME@cas.run help

since I generate app-specific keypairs and need to specify that for ssh and I haven’t configured it to magically choose the key so I have to specify it in the command line.

Anyhow, that did it. Thanks!

@prologic@twtxt.net Well, you can mute or block individual users, and you can mute conversations too. I think the tools for controlling your interactions aren’t so bad (they could definitely be improved ofc). And in my case, I was replying to something this person said, so it wasn’t outrageous for his reply to be pushed to me. Mostly, I was sad to see how quickly the conversation went bad. I thought I was offering something relatively uncontroversial, and actually I was just agreeing with and amplifying something another person had already said.

Release Radar · Spring 2023 Edition
It’s been a while since we’ve published our Release Radar. You can blame IRL conferences coming back, getting influenza, and being struck down by the weather. But those are just me problems. While I’ve been down or travelling, the community has been hard at work shipping new releases and new projects. So, we thought we’d […] ⌘ Read more

Finding peace in ignorance
During and after my studies, I used to refresh my Miniflux start page (the feed reader, which I use to keep up with things on websites I want to follow) every few minutes. As soon as there was a new article, I would read it. I also used to use this tool to read the news by following a local national newspaper website. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I thought you were talking about the cloud storage 🤣

Interesting thoughts about multi thread vs single thread performance.

Social media trap
reddit going dark (a protest action by many subreddit moderators over some planned API changes) reminds me that I should probably stop scrolling through Reddit so much. Reddit is a social network, and as such it attracts you with new content almost every time you visit. Which can be addictive. I once had a profile that I deleted because I wanted to leave all social media. But I fell into the same trap again. ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: The urgency has never been higher. In a separate study, @JoeriRogelj and colleagues found the carbon budget is shrinking faster that previously thought. If emissions continue at the current rate, the world will exhaust its budget for 1.5C before 2030. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-all-time-high-study-finds
The urgency has never been higher. In a separate study, @JoeriRogelj and colle … ⌘ Read more