Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.

Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better … ⌘ Read more

NYTimes: Biden Could Still Be Proved Right in Afghanistan
the idea that Afghans didn’t know how to fight and that just one more course in counterinsurgency would do the trick. Really? ⌘ Read more

What am I doing and why am I doing it, I have no idea. Today is one of those days.

I have no idea what I’m doing today

implicit music, or the idea that music naturally exudes from everything. composition is not the act of making music, but of starting with music and working backwards. #halfbakedideas

gonna start crediting Carl Shulman for some of my ideas, seems trendy right now

No, I’m still doing them manually. 🤣🤦🏻 But I do think they are a good idea and will be adding them, I just haven’t gotten around to finding a compatible implementation of the hash yet.

Oooooh idea! I should use this for microblogging! Far superior to Twitter or Mastodon! ;P

Good idea. Plan 9 sets $NPROC on boot to the number of cores, so other things can use it. mk will dispatch things in just that way.

We welcome prospective students to submit their own ideas, but we’ve got a page full of suggestions: http://p9f.org/wiki/gsoc-2021-ideas/index.html

With the finger server specifically? No idea, it’s a toy. I’d honestly forgotten I had it on until someone mentioned finger.farm and I was inspired to poke at it again.

@prologic@twtxt.net @anth Sounds like a good idea. The hash to conv/search url should stay local to a pod.

@prologic@twtxt.netFor example, this should work (no idea if it does).

@pbatch@pbat.ch “Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.” <3

Writing a “tweet” is low-friction, and the medium forces you to chunk out ideas into (mostly) self-contained thoughts.

I’m finding the microblogging format to be really useful for working out ideas.

@prologic@twtxt.net that would be an interesting idea. I think your current spec of using an SMTP proto is probably best for DM.

but having a federation of IRC servers would be interesting for realtime twt propagation.

@prologic@twtxt.net sounds about right. I tend to try to build my own before pulling in libs. learn more that way. I was looking at using it as a way to build my twt mirroring idea. and testing the lex parser with a wide ranging corpus to find edge cases. (the pgp signed feeds for one)

@prologic@twtxt.net the add function just scans recursivley everything.. but the idea is to just add and any new mentions then have a cron to update all known feeds

@vain@www.uninformativ.de i don’t think mastodon is a good idea but then again i never really understood the twitter format and its appeal, so there’s that.

Project idea: search for books that are most effective at converting people from one ideology to another, for any two ideologies.

@prologic@twtxt.net after stewing on it. I really like the idea of a wiki. throw it on the roadmap after DMs 😆

Would online dating without images lead to deeper, more human connections? I.e. only descriptions of people. If yes, is it different because of molochian reasons? More beautiful people have no problem showing their faces, so not showing ones face is seen as a low-status signal at some point. Counter: The idea of deeper, more human connections is in itself flawed, most mating choices are the result of a combination of class/status signals and physical attractiveness anyway.

@prologic@twtxt.net My thoughts on it being if they switched from a different way of hosting the file or multiple locations for redundancy..

I have an idea of using something like SRV records where they can define weighted url endpoints to reach.

@prologic@twtxt.net I have some ideas to improve on twtxt. figure I can contribute some. 😁 bit more work and it will almost be a drop in replacement for ParseFile

Kinda wish types.Twt was an interface. it’s sooo close.

Trump Proved That Authoritarians Can Get Elected in America - The Atlantic ⌘ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/trump-proved-authoritarians-can-get-elected-america/617023/

i just realized i have no idea how to tag/mention someone else on this thing. i tried but i don’t think it worked?

idea for gifts ⌘ https://hellacomfy.com/products/free-shipping-high-quality-80cm-sea-lion-toys-3d-novelty-throw-pillows-soft-seal-plush-stuffed-house-warming-party-hold-pillow?s=09

a concept that’s organically grown with my !literate_programming efforts is this idea I call a !proof_of_thought #literate_programming #thoughtful

How would I improve RSS? Three ideas (Interconnected) ⌘ http://interconnected.org/home/2020/07/29/improving_rss

collecting my half-baked ideas over at !halfbaked

the idea would be to build and share tiny 6.5 bit programs encoded as printable ascii characters. this could then in turn be read by a virtual computer to do things like paint a picture or compose a piece of music. #halfbakedideas

@lucidiot@tilde.town very cool idea! may have to try something like that at some point…

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net I think the idea is to minimise the spread from one customer to all customers, but also from a sick driver to you if the driver wears / changes gloves regularly and doesn’t handle the food too intimately.

#Ideas RSS to twtxt, Twitter to twtxt, jrnl to twtxt…

#Ideas RSS to twtxt, Twitter to twtxt, jrnl to twtxt…

@lucidiot@tilde.town, thanks for the bug report. Does anybody have an idea for https://github.com/mdom/txtnish/issues/12?

@lucidiot@tilde.town haha why not :P But for now it’s all in personnal notes or drafts ^^

@lucidiot@tilde.town [re: abandoned ideas] Thanks for the inspiration! How do you keep track of projects now? Do you know about TaskWarrior?

@lucidiot@tilde.town I had this idea. I can probably just set the gz header and send gzip. The request is ending up in a cgi script written in C, which assemples the response. I can do pretty much everything there…

I have trouble with a web crawler using the TOR network. It’s misusing the gopher proxy on my page. I don’t want to disable/block tor (that would be the easy way out). It’s permanently changing user agents and ignoring robots.txt. It ignores HTTP status codes. I’m currently serving it 4MB binary garbage in form of Link. It sucked in about 40GB of data now, but it doesn’t explode and keeps crawling. Any other idea about what to do with it?

@von@tilde.town: I stole the idea from a random webpage that listed a finger address for contact information. I would assume it’s pretty effective against spam ;)

@kas@enotty.dk Thanks for the suggestion using Keybase. Playing around with the authenticity idea.

@von@tilde.town having topic-specific twtxt feeds is not a silly idea. Not sure if the clients allow easy switching though.

@kas@enotty.dk twtxt.txt file splitting for achival is an interesting idea. Should not need to be yearly only. High volume feeds could split faster. Needs a spec though.

@kas@enotty.dk: private twtxt file: Haha, could also be agood idea yeah :)

i just started using i3 (i3-gaps) on my laptop and holy shit this is so wonderful… i had no idea tiling WMs were so amazing but i’m never going back

Bad idea of the day: do your bibliomancy with Green’s Dictionary of Slang – fate will tell you what it really thinks of you, for once.

Programming for the Expression of Ideas https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Expression-of-Ideas

Bad idea of the day: whenever somebody talks about Green Book, pretend you think they’re talking about Green Room