I brushed my hand against my laptop’s touchpad at the wrong time, in the wrong way, and moved some icon around in the Dock but didn’t catch which. I had to stare at the icons and try and figure out which one was out of place immediately because I hate having perma-pinned Dock icons in the wrong place

https://t2bot.io/docs/2020-matrix-org-lag/ Some confirmation why I prefer the good ‘ol (actually it’s improving to current demands all the time) #XMPP and don’t switch to the fancy new kids in town like, currently, #MATRIX.

The 4-Second Workout. Intense bursts of exercise throughout the day may have surprising metabolic benefits. The 4-Second Workout - The New York Times

The world is an incredibly complex place and everything is changing all the time… trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

One reason why the world is in a mess is because, for a long time, the ratio between ‘explore’ and ‘exploit’ has been badly out of whack. Entities like procurement have been allowed to claim full credit for money-grabbing cost-savings without commensurate responsibility for delayed or hidden costs. The Illusion of Certainty | Hacker News

Time to write a RISC-V emulator I guess, https://book.rvemu.app/

@kas@enotty.dk That must be wrong for a long time then or was there a release recently?

What’s a good amount of time for caching twtxt files? Looks like @freemor@freemor.homelinux.net has it set to 15 minutes.

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Freenode has been doing this for over a decade. The next time you connect, check your server messages. They explain this.

Yesterday I visited the #munich #philharmony for the first time as the ‘Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg’ and the ‘Neuer Kammerchor Berlin’ were playing ‘The Sound Of Quentin #Tarantino’ – awesome!

winter is not a good time to take it outside, but in spring you often let it play with the neighbor’s pond, or divert a fingerbreadth’s worth of a creek into it to feed it (it is a very young ocean)

@frogorbits.com@www.frogorbits.com Well I needed it immediately so it’s too late, but sleeping is not allowed in every situation ^^ But thanks ! I’ll try to remember it next time :)

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Real Life in Star Trek, The Naked Time https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/02/06/trek-naked-time.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

@von@tilde.town: ah dang… i’m wondering if bandcamp is going to get it.. the last time i checked she didn’t have it on her page

This would allow for clients to only be required to download the latest chunk of messages instead of the entire feed every time.

I had some time while compiling and so I wrote a name generator https://codevoid.de/idgen

I just reinstalled pi-hole on my server. I’m having a hard time because my router is kinda closed

@kas@enotty.dk Will try some other time. I realized the new neomutt doesn’t like my config and I am not in the mood to debug this I’m back to the one in debian/testing.

@kas@enotty.dk Last time I tried to activate autocrypt for neomutt nothing worked. How hard was it for you to set up?

Funny how not that long ago I made a remark to a friend who was keeping all his notes as txt files and now I am looking at doing exactly that. txt will probably be the one format that will be around for a very long time still.

I said that I would publish an article last week, but I just couldn’t find the time, and it’s been a while since my blog hasn’t been updated :(

My 2014 Android Moto-X is finally out-of-order - the battery life is close to flat-lining and when it boots it gets stuck for a really long time in the optimizing apps mode. The case is cracked. Goodbye old friend.

Except this time, there were these huge carbon supplies in the ground that none of the alien scientists anticipated (what kind of sane planet has that, the local life would usually break it all down before it became geological) and the planet got written off

Feeling really down lately, I have a lot to think, about a lot of stuff, and I’m not good at managing lots of stuff at the same time in my head, makes me want to implode

Just took a raw photo with Halide for the first time. It looks pretty awful compared to its companion JPEG because it’s horribly noisy. Not sure what magic turns awful raws into better-than-JPEG images. Probably lots of know-how.

@mdosch@mdosch.de Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net : [XMPP] I have an account for a long time, but only talk with one person, not that often :/ I’m sad not a lot uses it

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

it is time to add a test suite for orgparse/weewiki.

I’d say that 75% of the notes I take are never used again. Why spend so much time on the process of taking notes if they’re just going to disappear anyway?

What a match. Ingolstadt was leading 3-1 and 4-2 but Munich fought back and won 4-7! #INGvsRBM Also 5th regular time win in a row, so Munich remains unbeaten in the new season. Seems this season will be a lot of fun again.

Voidcall – Making Of
Like last year with Underrun, I participated in this year’s js13kGames – a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Voidcall, a Real-time Strategy game.

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@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I think my pulse would be high a lot of times if using iOS. I hear of so many problems from #xmpp devs fighting iOS and push. Not having a reliable chat app due to apples design constraints would really piss me off.

this heritage is still apparent when every time life opens a new niche, it becomes fire and burns through all available fuel before remembering what it is

a stopped clock that you remove the hour hand from is right 24 times a day, remove the minute hand and it’s 1440 times, and without hands it’s right all of the time

a clock that runs backwards is right four times a day

you return to find only her glassy outline, fading, and can only wonder whether she’ll have the strength to return this time

wait, gcc is a run-time dependency for dungeon in Homebrew?

Elections 2020
Election time is always an important time. We, the people, get to vote for the person that will be our nation’s president for at least four years—and with any luck, eight. The presidential election of 2020 is going to be an interesting one. I know, I know, we could say the same for every election. This time, though, it’s easy to understand why the upcoming election holds an extra weight.

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@mox@tilde.town Sorry had no time yesterday and today I’m also busy but maybe I find the time to dig in my configs.

Using Gnupg and openssl for encryption
I have used Gnupg to encrypt my private files, specially those that I upload to the clouds, for a long time. I used to encrypt to self, using my own key, then later moved to symmetric encryption only. The command is easy:

To encrypt:

gpg --cipher-algo aes256 --symmetric file.txt

Adding the option --armor to the above will produce an ASCII armoured encrypted file.

To decrypt:

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This then does happen, many times, but the simulators (or rather, the watchers they put in place when they created the universe, meant to be scientists and not soldiers) wipe out species that use certain ‘noisy’ technologies, and this is why the universe is so quiet.

There is always a first time
For eleven years I have used iPhones exclusively. More than half of that time, I have used them without any cover. My rationale? It is a beautifully crafted device, why to hide its beauty behind a cover? I never had an issue with it, until today. I am coming here to mark the first time my iPhone screen has ever shattered. I didn’t drop it, but placed it in a way that, after a few vibrations, made it fall to a tiled floor. RIP!

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/meta @ckipp@chronica.xyz Ok, I figured it out, sorry :) I entered my local time manually and forgot it’s supposed to be UTC, so my posts were in the future.

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@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com Two line fortunes were posted at the same time it seems.

Looking for a reason to use Firefox more when developing sites? on macOS it’s the browser that smashes into the least horizontal space. Good if you like having a browser window running all the time. Doubly good if you like running it in Split View.

A popular extreme sport among superintelligences is jumping into black holes and counting how many event horizons you survive before hitting one where you couldn’t figure out the physics in time

things have quieted down here but i’m working all the time