• Sick so I [[WFH]], but nothing serious.
• Resuming from [[2024-10-01]]:
• [[agora development]]:
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
          • Objections -> [[objectio]]
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
            • Lex Fridman et al?
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share?
• [[AG]] stayed over and it was great.
• I will now do two (planned) pomodoros to finish work for the day, in particular do some long standing expense reports. After that I will segue into the weekend :) But you could also say the weekend already started, I’m fine with the program and having a very chill day with [[Lady Burup]].
  • 0 gather all [[receipts]]
  • 1 fill details and deal with [[concur]]
  • will be flowing with [[bobby lyte]]
• [[ekumen]]
• [[analytical seclusion]]:
  • [[sabbatical]]
  • may 2025-july 2025? one month to start with?

• I read about [[polymers]] and [[acrylic]] a.k.a. [[PMMA]] via… the [[Cotton-Mouton Effect]] (?).
  • Also about [[Sky Pool, London]] which "was criticized as emblematic of economic inequalities in London.".
• [[Magnets]]
• [[Zine]] (enjoying it, working in [[overleaf]] with vim bindings is a pretty nice setup)
• Thought of [[Right Resolve]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]], [[Right Freedom]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • [[agor.ai]] is partly fixed since yesterday (finally!) in the sense that link.agor.ai and flancia.agor.ai are back up in [[hypatia]] \o/
  • I still want to make https://agor.ai work and serve a ‘default Agora’ that lists the known Agoras in the domain ("network").
  • I fixed my [[wiki vim]] setup to allow for easy markdown editing again and things like interacting with checkboxes.
  • I wanted to work on the [[plus operator]], a quite simple thing on the surface but it runs deep
  • I want to experiment with embedding images in nodes using [[Silverbullet]].
• [[flancia]] in [[pomodoros]]:
  • [[zine]]
    • 0
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish?
  • [[letters]]
    • 0
      • which are the three letters I want to work on?
        • to [[WS]]
          • Thank you
          • Objections
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Musk (Burup chose this one while hacking just before shutting down the computer)
          • Objections
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
        • to Maitreya
          • meaning: one or more friends
          • Thank you
          • What I will try to do forward
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5 finish/share one tomorrow?

• read about the [[Karmapa]]
• I have this week off, will probably keep today and tomorrow off and resume work on Wednesday
• #push [[do]]
  • I crafted, and then went through, a lengthy todo list :)
    • do laundry (2x)
    • donate (2x)
    • run [[collect]] over todo items/notebooks, they’ve gotten out of control as usual :)
      • add items to this todo list or ideally to the [[root node]] for my tasks
      • maybe add images directly, although that could take time it will be less time than entering manually, and I could pipe the collection to AI at some point?
    • write
      • zine (2-4x)
      • get java [[minecraft]]
        • server url
        • I visited [[Plitnyakovo]] for the first time today on [[2024-09-30]]. Thank you [[Ishmael]]!
      • one or more of:
        • open letter to musk
        • open letter to maitreya
        • open letter to lex and sam
    • code
      • get into a code-release flow again by shipping one little change to anagora.org
      • one or more of:
        • save button
        • activitypub support
        • agora bot posts updates from the agora?
        • users post updates from the agora?
    • systems
      • fix agor.ai
        • recycle
        • make free space
        • try again

• [[flancia]]
• [[sadhana]]
• [[dhyanas]]
  • I read about the two first [[immaterial states]], very interesting.
• [[zine]]

• I’m back :)
• [[social.coop]]:
  • Updated moderation announcement
  • Review pass issue reported by edsu
• [[bobby lyte]] mentioned the importance of "the shared and collective belief and energy toward a common goal" and I liked how he put it

• [[work]] was OK.
  • tomorrow will be even better I think :)
  • it will start weirdly.
• I thought of [[tanzwerk]] and [[hardturm]] again, and of cycling through the city, thanks to the Agora/my digital garden. Maybe during the weekend?
• While using the Agora, I thought of some things:
  • It is a shame that so few different users show up in recent, BUT there are a few contributors I didn’t know about and that felt cool/interesting and I found several nodes by old friends I want to read.
  • It really should have a ‘pin’ or ‘star’ or ‘save’ button as "mvp" for storing state originating from the web client but not tied to an editor. I found some wikipedia-articles-within-the-Agora that I wanted to ‘pin’ as having been interesting, and just being able to save a subnode that says ‘flancian was here on X’ would suffice really. Like a visitors log, old web style maybe. Or just a bit in sqlite?
    • I need to find vera’s branch that took me too long to review :(
      • Better late than never? Or, well, in any case it is an inspiration.
    • I want to catch up with [[j0lms]]
• I want to do [[yoga]] tonight.
• It is 22 as I write this and I’d like to be in bed tonight by 1am.
• Also, [[Tschenresi Sadhana]].

• I’m back!
  • In the wrong location ;) [[sariputta]] has an old-style editor which adds journal entries to /journal :)
  • I’ll live with the discrepancy, they are coalesced reasonably well by the Agora in any case.
  • See also: [[2024-09-24]]

• Back in [[Flancia]]!
  • Or did we ever leave?
  • [[Mallorca]] was beautiful!
  • Thank you [[AG]] for your kindness and your beauty.
  • Reunited with [[Lady Burup]] yesterday evening.
• Today I cleaned and I worked around the house, catching up with:
  • [[Mohammed]]
  • [[UNICEF]]
  • [[Mum]]
  • [[Friends]]
    • :)
  • [[AG]]
• Today I noticed that [[37]] = [[19]] + [[18]], meaning a centered hex number plus its center-less partner.
  • So it seems like a very good packing for two hex numbers, in one figure.
• Then I [[flowed]].
  • [[Social Coop]]
  • [[Ekumen]]
  • [[KPT]] and paperwork review
• [[zine]]
• Music: [[rainbow folding]] and others
• [[37]]
  • [[yoga]]
  • [[Zelazny]]

• [[I’m back]]!
  • I spent the week in [[Stockholm]] for work.
  • Flew back to [[Zürich]] on Friday and reunited with my [[Lady Burup]], it was lovely.
  • Now writing these lines on the train to [[Paris]], where I’ll reunite with [[AG]] before we move on to some other destination for five days of further enjoyment.
  • We will reunite once more with my [[Lady Burup]] on the [[20th]] if everything goes according to plan.
  • Back to work on the [[23rd]].
• Donated to:
  • [[Medico International Schweiz]]
• [[Fediverse]]:
  • [[On the internet, nobody knows you’re old]]

• Today I finished the one week course with [[Lama Jigme Rinpoche]]. He was kind and inspiring.
• It is nearly time, I think?
  • [[Open Letter to Elon Musk]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• I’ve gotten [[paramita]] back up and running, it had broken in a variety of ways (broken nvim with a bus error, broken gammastep)
• [[Jigme Rinpoche]]

• [[master plan]] -> [[main plan]] :)
• Thank you [[Jigme Rinpoche]] and [[Dhagpo Switzerland]].
• [[Chenrezig practice]]
  • [[37 practices of Bodhisattvas]]
• [[Flancia]]
• [[Agora development]]
• [[Friends]]

• [[197]]
• [[jigme rinpoche]]:
  • [[chenrezig]]
  • [[bodhisattva]]
  • [[maitreya]]?

• [[OGM]]:
  • Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom:
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09

• Maybe things will turn out to be [[funny]] in retrospect
  • I have been told that [[Flancia]] seems to lack humour, even though it started as a well-meaning joke! I guess I lost/deprioritized that along the way…
• [[work]] has been tough since last Thursday and I realize that has made it so that I haven’t noded much here for a while.
• [[fellowship of the link]] :)
• [[2024-08-29]]: Jerry says:8am PT, in my usual Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4154650256?pwd=Zm5DWGRJcmFmZGtBMmI1Wkx2WUQyZz09
• [[storm]]

• [[entropy]]
• [[divisibility rules]]
• [[sucederá]]
• [[maitreya]]!

• [[Google IPO]] twenty years ago today
• [[zine]]
• [[AG]]
• Had lunch with [[Stapelberg]]
• I banged my right elbow hard when moving near an open window, I hope it doesn’t swell :)
• Good day overall in any case!
  • I cycled to work and back and it was great.

2024-08-18

• Chill rainy Sunday at home :)
• Spent it with [[AG]].
• Then in the afternoon [[VK]] and her boyfriend [[Sascha]] came about, it was very nice!
• [[feedback 2024]]

2024-08-17

• [[Maitreya]]!
  • Maitreya on Saturday is extra special

• [[Burup]]
  • I played the piano, I’m enjoying recording midis while practicing even if it’s sometimes cacophonic — as it sometimes isn’t :) and saving the midi seems interesting and would let me extract fragments later
• [[Fediverse]]
  • Had a conversation with [[foolishowl]]
• Wrote [[practice.py]] on a lark :)

2024-08-16

• I got here the long way around :)
  • For sure I did! Cool — back here something like… 18 hours later, at 22.
  • Yesterday night I had a wild ride restoring my preferred [[Agora editor]] to working order, and then exorcising my digital garden from a file over 100MB which I accidentally committed and made Github refuse me all service with insufficient explanation :)
    • I had to do a [[git rebase]], which didn’t work, and (re-) learn about [[git filter-repo]] and such
• [[Silverbullet]]:
  • Now running [[Silverbullet dev]] having worked around the actual trigger for the most critical part of https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/1010, which ended up being not due to garden scale only but also due to a recent change I had made to my config :)
    • Keeping an eye on the other performance issues.
    • You wouldn’t believe how much I missed having a web-based [[Agora editor]].
    • It made me think I still have to keep honest and actually offer this as a service in the [[Agora of Flancia]] — I would love to provide hosted Silverbullet for whoever wants it.
  • Thought of:
    • [[Agora demo]]
    • [[AG]]

• "I’ve seen what will happen, many a time".
• [[Work]] was alright, looking forward to tomorrow actually :)
• I spent time with:
  • [[AG]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Candles]]
  • [[Magnets]] (as usual) :)
  • [[WS vision]] ;)
  • [[Flow]]

• I played the piano and played with [[Lady Burup]] :)
  • The smell of [[Petrichor]] in the balcony.
• A few days ago I learnt that [[stanines]] were/are a thing.
• [[work]] happened, ups and downs, I was a bit tired; I think I should go to bed earlier on Mondays as Tuesdays demand energy :)
• [[nostromo]] crashed again and then exhibited a [[heisenbug]] (I wrote about it on Fedi).
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the experience of the community
  • it’s pretty out there how much time I’ve been spending trying to keep nostromo alive — it crashes quite often, I should prioritize that
  • [[backup nostromo]]
  • then maybe I could get a replacement, or just use it to the end but try to work around the issues with more automation? because they’re hardware triggered (overheating, plus some likely adapter related issues for what is a laptop with many functions)
• some [[social.coop]] work, it made me a bit sad to revert an experiment that I thought could be positive due to spirited pushback but it’s important to respect the feedback of the community
• thought about:
  • [[forking]]
  • [[merging]]
• [[bangers]]:
  • [[banger]]
• [[silverbullet bug]] which makes it harder for me to write in the Agora :(
  • but things will hopefully get better :)

• Found [[3493]] on the way to work today, it was great.
• Then in the night I thought of [[cryptobuddhism]].

• [[Building Bridges]] then :)
  • Between [[platforms]], between [[formats]], between different resources in one [[garden]] or [[Agora]] :)
• [[donna haraway]] has interesting/surprising (to me) contents!
  • [[A Cyborg Manifesto]]
• I thought of the question of defining [[canonicity]].

• Sad morning but I think it was also cathartic.
• Then I cleaned the house, and I did practice :)
• Got back to [[Building Bridges]] after long, finally — it’s been on the backburner for a year or so, at least?
  • Will try to do a pass on it, with the occasion of also
  • Fixing formatting issues on [[Agora Chapter]] for legibility before sharing further
• I need to fix the issue that on some computers [[wiki vim]] writes journals on /journal/.md and in some others I have it set it up to /.md
• [[Flow state]]

• I read what [[NG]] wrote
• Bought shoes, which was on my todo list :)
• Bought a book gift
• Received a book gift :)
• Found [[standardgalatic]]

• I biked from [[AG]]‘s place to [[Flancia central]] in the midnight sun and it was beautiful :)
• Then I saw [[VK]], it was great!
• Then I flowed.
• Updated [[bill flancian]]

• [[zine]]

• [[zine]]:
  • [[bella burup]]
  • [[lady burup]]

• I [[whistled]]:
  • and then used [[spectroid]]
  • and played the [[piano]] :)
  • a very fun combination

• [[don’t worry eat curry]]

2024-08-03

• Now on the [[third]], early in the morning you could say :)

• [[Flancia meet]] was quiet but I enjoyed it anyway, took the time to do stuff leisurely on the laptop.
• [[Hzian]]

• I found [[burning chrome]] and I thought it could be a good Agora demo node.
  • It links to [[burning chromium]], which I started (barely) long ago and I immediately felt like continuing/fixing up :)
• [[Work]] was alright — I did what [[bobby lyte]] does and tried to do the day’s worth of work in one hour, and it sort of worked believe it or not
• I posted about the [[magnetic projector]] I made to the [[Fediverse]] :)
• I had an amazing meeting with [[Eduardo Mercovich]] about the [[Fediverse]], the [[Web]], and [[Sutty]] and the [[Agora]] and [[Confluencia]].
• I [[flowed]] :)

2024-08-01

• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
  • I moved my journals here also to the root of my garden, as I did with wiki vim a few days back, so you will see them at /YYYY-MM-DD.md from now on instead of at /journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
  • Happy to hear that [[vera]] is also using Silverbullet!
• I read criticism of the [[Gemini ad]]: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
  • You could say the ad does miss any note worth hitting; but I did like some aspects like the dad’s voice (is it the real one, though, I wonder?) and the fact that it’s not too long.
  • It has the usual by now out-of-touch aesthetic of Google ads, which you could call [[enterprise whimsy]].
  • And it’s just… a bit nonsensical, on top of the other criticisms. Why is the dad involved at all? He comes across as lazy. If this was an ad showing how the little girl can use Gemini to help her with her writing, it would feel a lot more natural/less problematic probably. It is true that kids are going to be using generative AI to learn how to write (presumably they are already doing this), and the ad could have shown some of that instead. Maybe this was considered but lawyers didn’t want to show too young people using the technology for some reason, and we got the lazy dad as a compromise?
  • Anyway. Google ads are pretty bad on average these days IMHO, so I’m not super surprised.
• Yesterday [[2024-07-31]] in the [[Fellowship of the link]] call [[Aram]] shared a nice article he wrote as part of the [[semilink]] activity we were experimenting with: [[the internet is a series of webs]].
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I wrote on the Agora today. This is a good day :)
  • I intend to also do some [[Agora development]].
    • I fixed an issue that [[vera]] reported with transclusion in Silverbullet — interesting.
    • I wrote a script to assist in Agora maintenance, health.sh

2023-08-01

• Back on [[Silverbullet]] after a few days.
• Today is [[National Day]] in [[Switzerland]] and I don’t work. So I plan to do some Agora :)

• I read this [[Gemini ad]] criticism: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5056201/google-olympics-ai-ad
  • I first read the article and then I watched the ad.
• [[movies]]

• I worked, it was fine — I almost didn’t as we were just returned from beautiful [[Ischia]] yesterday and Thursday is a national holiday, but in the end it was good as I made progress on several fronts and meetings were light for a Tuesday :)
• Then I did some [[social.coop]] following up on some of yesterday’s topics from the [[twg]]
• I thought of:
  • [[Magnets]] as usual ;)
    • New today, but also recurrent in a way:
      • About [[Magnets in space]]
      • About [[Magnetic computing]]
    • About [[free energy]] and [[entropy]] :)
  • By the way any of the ideas I write down, which I’m sure are old hat to any physicist and many common folk like me, are for the benefit of all beings if they ever turn out to be useful in any way; any [[patents]] are dedicated to the benefit of humanity and friends :)
  • [[Agora letters]]
    • Maybe sounds a bit better than just [[Open Letters]] for what I am trying to do — at least for me :) Because these are open letters with a particular intention? Or at least that’s a particular interesting subset of all [[open letters]] tracked in this [[Agora]] and elsewhere in the [[Internet]].

Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).

For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.

2024-07-27

• In [[Ischia]]! Now for a few days. This is the first I’ve noded as days have been quite intense in [[bodyspace]] (in a nice way).

• I want to submit some poems for the [[zine]] that [[bouncepaw]] is editing by EOM, will try to work on those today from the beach. If not today, tomorrow.

• What’s one [[feeling]] you can [[own]] and consistently deliver?
• [[Search and Seizure]].
• Short [[videos]]: collapsed:: true
  • [[Contrast]]/paradox I want do X but Y is in the way
  • How am I going to do X?
  • Simple, universal to [[audience]], ideas
  • First word has to be a [[hook]] "Free" is good, "this" is bad
  • Hook has to be clear about what the conflict is and what is at the end
  • First frame has to be like title or thumbnail, high saturation and high contrast
  • [[Foreshadowing]] tells the user what gift they will get at the end
  • Rewatchable: Lists Easter eggs "Twists"?
  • Add conflict as the video goes on
  • [[But]],so But, [[therefore]]
    • South Park
  • Include a [[Why]]
  • Keep ending short but with a payoff
• Incident management game collapsed:: true
  • Rescue -> recovery, budget drops drastically
• A pilot is constantly seeking [[balance]]. collapsed:: true
  • "Redefine the fight"
  • Aviate navigate communicate
• [[Links]] should be [[titles]] worth clicking on.
• Let yourself be possessed by the web that has the [[problem]].
• [[Constraints]] [[shape]] multiple [[parts]] into one.
• "ecology is the science of understanding consequences"
• [[Plants]] for BSk shortgrass prairie. collapsed:: true
  • Pediomelum esculentum id:: 66a01c43-fa3a-4c3a-8ddf-21bf715090c5 Blue grama Crested wheat Western wheatgrass
  • Textile Onion
  • Winterfat
  • Chokecherry
  • Fringed sagewort Arrowleaf balsamroot Hawksbeard Sticky purple geranium Scarlet globemallow Sulfur-flower buckwheat Tumblemustard Western wallflower Western yarrow Rosa woodsii
  • Antelope bitterbrush Gardner saltbush Greasewood (livestock need high calcium grasses to counter) Green rabbitbrush Mountain mahogany Shadscale saltbush Shrubby cinquefoil (good for goats, bad for cattle) Silver sagebrush Wax Currant
  • Mountain snowberry Serviceberry
• “An earthquake achieves what the [[law]] promises but does not in practice maintain,” one of the survivors wrote. “The [[equality]] of all men.”
• Anytime there’s a [[block]], move back and restart the [[attack]] from a stronger [[base]].
• Getting past the [[elbow]], [[handfighting]] [[unarmed]] collapsed:: true
  • If their arms are down, [[attack]] the head. If they’re on the [[inside]], go around the [[outside]]. If their arms are up, go under for the body. If they’re narrow, go for the outsides. If they’re wide, go for the insides.
  • If they’re inside legs, they can attack legs but not so much upper body. If they’re outside, they can attack upper body but not so much legs.
• "[[time]] given away…is time you don’t [[own]]"
• Show them [[chaos]], and present an alternative of [[order]].
• [[Dormancy]] lets [[seeds]] disperse through [[time]].
• [[Distance]] gives you [[time]], Angles give you a way [[out]] or to [[flank]].
• "never sit against a [[swarm]] [keep [[moving]]]"
• John Allen Paulos on complex systems: "[[Uncertainty]] is the only certainty there is. And knowing how to live with insecurity is the only [[security]]."
• Improve [[entertainment]] first before [[ask]].
• [[Copywriting swipefile]]
• A sensory 3d map of the [[odor]].
• "it must hold the country by the [[sword]] or in [[fear]] of it"
  • "For if the vanquished has lately felt the sword, the victor may for a time carry an empty scabbard with impunity. But in the end, to rely on the scabbard alone brings more bloodshed than to have the sword always ready within."

• Just completed the [[shutdown]] ritual from [[Cal Newport]]‘s [[Time Block Planner]] and I think the system is totally working out for me so far (a few weeks in). Feeling happier at work and productive.
• Travel incoming! [[Ischia]].
• A friend gifted me [[This is How You Lose the Time War]].
• [[AG]] gifted me [[Dürrenmatt]]‘s [[The Physicists]]
• I thought of [[Revolutions]] after work.
  • During lunch today I read about [[anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th century]], thanks to [[voltairine de cleyre]], and I met interesting people.
  • If you read this, [[Moloch]], know this: we will defeat you for the good of humanity and our friends.

• Woke up with [[AG]], enjoyed the morning. Then I cleaned and did laundry and started packing for the trip :)
  • Also managed to lose one my earbuds while cleaning, but then I found it thanks to [[find my device]] which I didn’t know existed — it’s an option in [[bluetooth settings.]]- [[Flancia]]:
  • [[Flancia.org]]
  • Talking to [[Mohammed]] about getting formal verification about our charitable endeavours as the bank in Yemen is giving trouble/they seem to be suspicious of ill intent (which we don’t have).
  • Wrote https://flancia.org/homes pull today (I should have one it earlier, it was somewhere on my todo list — but here we are, I hope it helps).

• So it turns out that for years I have been sometimes journaling in /YYYY-MM-DD.md and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md, depending on how I created the entry.
  • If I press e.g. ctrl-w ctrl-w in [[vim]], I go to the daily page as configured by [[wiki vim]] — which is the later.
  • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the past, I usually will have a journal already, and wiki vim will redirect there.
  • If I link [[YYYY-MM-DD]] in the future, though, I will not have a journal yet, so the file will be created as a "common node", outside of journals.
  • I thought I had moved to a ‘flat space’ with everything including journals in the [[root of my garden]], but apparently that didn’t happen yet :)

• [[agora development]]:
  • Fix some quirks?
    • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
      • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
        • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
        • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
        • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
        • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
    • Take e.g. [[zine]]
      • It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
• I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.
• [[zine]]
• [[agora]]
  • I thought about 7:
    • [[7 presidents]]
    • [[7 ceos]]
    • [[7 revolutions]]
    • [[7 good leaders]]
    • [[Gloria]]
• [[AG]] told me about [[Arthur Koestler]]
• We swam in [[Letten]] :)
• Listening to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Christof Hoch]]. Interesting, they had a "sidebar" conversation I’d love to comment on among other things.
• I read a bit about the life of [[Muhammed]] and his wives, like [[Aisha]].
• I read about [[Thalassemia]]
• [[Bryce Huebner]]
• [[LM Studio]]
• [[skreutzer]]
• [[sensecraft]]
• [[agora development]]:
  • Fix some quirks?
    • Take e.g. [[2024-07-20]]:
      • Showing the whole path for a subnode was a good idea I think, it:
        • Makes it clear this is a filesystem-like thing, some users will immediately get the idea
        • Disambiguates between subnodes for free
        • Made it so that the header is now ‘user contributed ‘, I think I like it.
        • Also took the chance to add tooltips/make the UX more intuitive by adjusting where each part of the header links to.
    • Take e.g. [[zine]]
      • It should transclude the whole of [[agua para los sedientos]], meaning the push should work.
• I intend to make it to [[Flancia Meet]] around 10AM UTC today.

• [[19]] is [[Right Freedom]] in the [[pattern language]] I’ve been working on.
• [[Wayland]]:
  • [[gammastep]] is the new [[redshift]]:
  • [[gammastep -O 4000]] to cut to the chase and go a nice night reddish
  • [[gammastep -O 1000]] to go to the minimum supported temperature, which is essentially as red as it gets
  • Those are [[Kelvin]].
• [[Open Letters]]:
  • [[Open Letter to Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Open Letter to Maitreya]]
  • [[Open Letter to Tara]]
  • [[Open Letter to Moloch]]

• Day 17 is here!
  • [[17]] is [[Maitreya]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]]:)
  • [[7]] is [[Avalokiteshvara]].
  • So you could say today is a pretty great date.
• [[2024-07-16]]

• [[Work]] was interesting
• [[AG]] had good news
• [[Kris]]
• [[Lex]]
• [[Musk]]

• [[agora chapter]] is now one step closer to being properly readable in the Commons :)
  • I linked all wikilinks using [[apps script]]
  • I also have a version without [[ and ]] and… I have to say it might indeed be more readable than with :)
• Caught up with [[collective sense commons]] after a long while and it was great/interesting!
• [[topic maps]] by [[Jack Park]] is now linked.

• [[Silverbullet]]:
  • The new [[Silverbullet]] supports transclusion!
    • It works using the syntax I think [[Obsidian]] also uses:
    • 

      ⥅ [[tabs]]

      will transclude the content of note [[tabs]].
    • In the case of the [[Agora]] this could be treated as a [[pull]] — but that transcludes the whole node below the current one, and maybe in this case what is intended is to transclude one particular resource in-place.
    • Oh, what currently happens is that the Agora assumes this is an image being transcluded — that is the one kind of direct transclusion we have implemented so far. I guess I could hack that codepath and see how hard it is to actually transclude e.g. the subnode with full subnode view in an iframe? Unsure.
  • In other [[Silverbullet]] news, today I figured out how to make dailies go to the node YYYY-MM-DD instead of to Journals/Day/YYYY-MM-DD:
    • You open special page /Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note (template) in your instance.
    • You change suggestedName.
    • I commented out forPrefix but I’m unsure if you need that.

• [[tabs]]

• [[2024-07-13]] was both emotional and productive.
• Writing this in an up-to-date Silverbullet that works again with my garden :)
  • Thanks [[zefhemel]] for [[silverbullet]] and for fixing https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/934 so promptly!

• Back in Silverbullet after reporting a bug :) https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/issues/934
• I wanted to write to (…)

• threw [[261]]
  • leading to [[hex/10]] = [[271]]: es todo perfecto como es.
  • I realized [[hex/6]] = [[97]] is prime, the last I had yet to memorize below 100. That concludes a particular interesting sequence, I guess :)
  • [[primes]]:
    • The number of primes below 100 is perhaps interesting to know: 25. So a fourth of the 100 first numbers are prime! Huh.
    • Knowing up to 1000 would unlock getting a statistical feel of how quickly primes ‘thin out’.
    • Of course we can also count to 10: 4 primes below 10, so about two fifths.
    • I think they thin out logarithmically but I’m not sure which base, I could look it up but maybe I’ll think about it :)
    • It would be cool if it was the natural logarithm. It’s the kind of thing that could happen :)
• [[bluesky]]:
  • now has an [[agora bot]]!
  • it’s alpha but it works sometimes (tm)
  • #go at://anagora.bsky.social
    • is that a valid [[at protocol]] uri? I believe it sort of should be but I haven’t checked :)
• [[primes]]:
  • Here I am having counted the primes up to 1000: [[168]]. So down to 16.8% of numbers being prime.
    • The [[Prime number theorem]] is what I was inching towards
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting_function#Table_of_%CF%80(x),_x/log(x),_and_li(x) pull is a [[great table]]
    • The ratio of primes below number n which is exactly 1/#primes_below, can be estimated by 1/(x/log(x))
    • Wow, had I never heard of [[logarithmic integral function]] before?
    • So it turns out that li(x) estimates pi(x) better
• I’m going back to [[Flancia book]], and it made me think of what I would in my best dreams try to publish during [[2025]]:
  • A new [[essay]].
  • A [[book]] (with publish meant loosely/playfully maybe).
  • A [[paper]].
• [[paul bricman]]: [[straumli ai]]
  • is down?
• [[celeste]]
  • is pretty great

• [[flancia book]]:

Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.

These its chapters.

• [[Manifesto]]
• [[In Flancia there is an Agora]]
• [[In Flancia we will defeat Moloch]]

• [[kowloon walled city]]:
  • [[warehouse kawasaki]] (arcade reproduction)
• [[chungking express]]
• [[Flancia]]!
  • [[poems]]
  • [[eugnosia]]

• [[2024-07-09T23:38:48.463Z]] @[[flancia.org]]: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xu4fhdxwmrptiwfvq5ymbkxx/post/3kwv662nzkx27

• [[Flancia]]!
  • I’ll be in Flancia as much as possible Monday and Tuesday; Wednesday I’m back to work.
  • (Decided to take a mini two day holiday with the occasion of my birthday and the anniversary of my dad’s death.)
• Thank you [[AG]] and [[Brigitta]] for the beautiful weekend!
• [[L]] told me about [[Brook Farm]] :)
• I thought of:
  • My [[father]].
  • [[Ananda]]
  • [[Water]]
  • [[Polyhedron]]
  • [[UNICEF]]

• [[work]]
• then [[dinner]] with an ex-coworker (who fell to one of the 2023 layoff rounds) and people from my team
• then… Flancia!

• [[work]] was alright :)
  • most of the meetings of the week are past, will now try to focus in decent blocks :)
• [[flancia]]
  • [[catharsis]]
  • [[music]]
  • [[fractals]] :)

I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.

I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)

I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.

I was thinking recently of

Here’s a [[joke]]:

An alien and a human go into a bar.

The alien asks: how many drinks are you having?

The human says: just one.

• One what?
• One drink.
• That’s in this reality, what about the imaginary part?
• What do you mean?
• In how many timelines are you right now?
• What… what do you mean? Just the one
• One reality, all real?
• Yes

With a flash of insight, many aliens realize at once that humans don’t know the complex plane.

…of Agora development, and of the fact that I still need to fix [[agor.ai]], and…

Here again on [[2024-07-19]], is this cheating time? :)

• [[Agora plan]]:
  • I #liked [[flow state]] [[power hour]] #22
    • The above is the kind of update that I would like to see automatically generated whenever an [[Agora bot]] detects opted in [[social activity]] ;)
• Thought about [[7 revolutions]], [[3 leaders]], and other patterns.
  • I thought about possible manifestations of [[heterarchy]].
  • The strength of [[triumvirates]] and of "leadership" [[groups]] in general, when well defined and resilient.
  • [[Heptad]]:
    • I searched [[equivalent of triumvirate with 7 members]] in the Agora and the [[AI]] assistance gave me the right answer :)
• [[6pm]] update: [[Flowing]] in [[paramita]] :)
  • experimented with the [[Bluesky API]]
  • now fixing [[agora server]] dependencies after upgrading to [[Ubuntu 24.04 LTS]] :)
    • that was hairy! but we persevered ;)
    • ended up disabling [[orgora]] for now in my up to date local development environment, reached out to [[V]] about it
• [[AI]]:
  • [[Mistral]]
  • [[ChatGPT]]
  • [[Gemini]]
  • [[Claude]]
• [[helvetas]]
• Revisited [[i annotate 2021 slides]]
• Set up two [[patreon]] sponsorships, donated to [[unicef]].
• Thought of [[Ananda]].
• [[auto pull social]]:
  • I’m thinking I usually want Mastodon embeds to be auto pulled in nodes, will probably try that default/to make it work again. Currently you have to press ‘Pull All’.
  • So I guess the simplest fix would be to locate the code that is supposed to click that button and check for its running condition.

• Maybe it’s time to check [[Silverbullet]]‘s settings for journal entries? :)

• [[work]] was fine :)
  • three days of summit, plus very interesting conversations with visitors from [[STO]] and the team!
  • tomorrow, no meetings except for an [[ER-CH]] one.

Daily Note 2024-06-26

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, :

• "That’s where the jets lag, feat. Jet Lag The Game S10" - My note on Facebook Messenger

• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

  • To mix things up while watching [[JoeHillsTSD]]‘s stream featuring [[ZombieCleo]], I pulled up DJ X from Spotify webapp for some music listening.
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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• [[work]]

Daily Note 2024-06-25

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 25, 2024:

• Created a new repo in @recaptime-dev for transparency log/communication threads, similar to delegate communication threads in Arbitrum governance forum
  • Here’s mine if you want a preview: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/transparency-log-threads/issues/1
• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
  • Nothing new for now.
• A bit of catching up on Jet Lag: The Game series while waiting for the Season 10 finale.

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• [[work]]
  • until late actually, but it was enjoyable :)
• [[sqlite code of ethics]]
• [[Bella Burup]], a [[song]]:

Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup!

Tara Burup Tara-burup!

Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:

Salve!

Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup.

Mi true Burup, true Burup.

Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:

Sea!

• [[work]] :)
  • This week is expected to be heavy duty due to a combination of:
    • [[oncall]]
    • visitors from [[Stockholm]] (with associated interesting discussion/training sessions)
    • a summit
  • But started out well enough with a quiet Monday… so far :)
• [[2024-06-21]]

Daily Note 2024-06-23

!!! warning "This is a bit incomplete" But working on it as soon as possible, hopefully before Thurday.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 23, 2024, alongside what’s happened in the past two weeks:

• Pardon the week-long silence on the daily journaling. Just needed a quick recharge as well for warming up Minecraft skills (currently in peaceful mode for a lot of resource gathering sessions).

• Did a cleanup chore with my sister (since we share the bedroom space, which sometimes chaotic when comes to schedules on the study table¹) on 06-22.

• Here’s what been cooked since last two weeks:

  • Officially brought the Bedrock edition on mobile (formerly known as Pocket Edition) for Android. Chaos at mining ensure, with my first death from falling gravel.[^2]
  • Who thought you want to go deeper into Minecraft lore, via the Legends spinoff? Like literally watching the full gameplay for 2-3+ hours[^3].
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• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

  • ….

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• I planned to do [[Agora]] work but in the end didn’t get to it; maybe I will be able to do a bit of it on Monday after work.
• We managed to do a mini bike-and-run with [[AG]] and it was great :)
• VC’d with my mum :)
• Also VC’d with [[Berni]] as we watched the second half of [[Switzerland-Germany]] together.
• And caught up with [[Kris]].

• [[Sebek]] and family came over and we had lunch at home :) It was great!
  • [[Lady Burup]] found it hard to deal with two children at the same time, but I think she might get used to it with time (and the children will also learn how to communicate with her) ;)
• Then [[Janosch]]‘s [[party]] with [[AG]] 🥳
• Then [[2024-06-23]]

• Attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly gathering in [[Paulus Akademie]] with [[AG]]. It was great!
• Then [[2024-06-22]].

• I [[worked]].
• Then I attended the [[Helvetas]] yearly general assembly with [[AG]]. It was quite interersting! Highly participative (votes for accepting the yearly budget, etc.) and with a focus on the foundation’s activities in [[Bhutan]].

• [[agora chapter]] got updated :)
• [[work]] was lonely but worth it
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[organizing circle]]
• then some housework and [[fellowship of the link]]
• [[GGUF]]

• at [[work]] — relatively tough Monday and Tuesday with lots of meetings, but getting through them :)
• [[new moon yoga]] was interesting the other day, even though (or maybe because) it didn’t come out on [[new moon]] at all :)
• [[Flancia]], in my heart, is deep and meaningful.
• [[bangers]]

• [[psionica]]:
  • went away at some point? the site is down.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220315104111/https://psionica.org/ has some remnants.
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20220418085349/https://psionica.org/thoughtware/ was cool.
• [[sakka]], [[pancasikka]]

2024-06-15

• The [[social model of disability]] is very interesting.

• Now using [[silverbullet]] as embedded in the Agora proper :)
  • It’s at the bottom.
  • It only works for me for now — sorry!
  • 

    ⥅ [[2024-06-14T16:18:08,984568739+02:00.png]]

    I know it’s a bit self-centered to add the edit box to anagora.org when only I can use it for now, but I wanted to experiment with the editing experience before investing a lot in developing it for others :) I hope it doesn’t get in the way of the experience of others.

• Maybe it makes sense to make [[1]] my [[bootstrap]] screen, given that [[0]] is taken over by remote desktop usually.
  • In any case one of 0, 1 should probably be it at any given time?
  • This way in case I forget what my "main thread" is, I can visit it.
• [[Hans Widmer]], in his dedicatory, taught me the word… [[umwerfend]]?
• [[Flancia]]!
  • is again prominent in my heart
  • we ran with [[AG]] in Flancia
• [[Agora development]]
  • will try [[bold usernames]] as I want to emphasize the social aspect of the Agora, and the [[Agorans]] are those who make the Agora amazing!
• [[cats]]

Hello there, editor Andrei speaking on the line. This should be technically published exactly in the Philippine Indepedence Day, but since I am currently between a mini sabatical and EOSY rest for the next school year, I apologize if it took longer than expected. So I decided to publish it now from the backburner and finalize it later.

Hello world, and welcome back to the monthly dump/status update! Pardon the radio silence over the few months, I am just busy at school during those period, but since I am in the end-of-school-year break, we’re actually back for at least two issues of this, alongside the daily journaling on [my personal wiki] Buckle up, since there will be mentions about Gildedguy Story #8 and you don’t want to [get snuck-up on][md-spoilers-ep7], right?

By the way for the Agora community, I’ll be pointing my notes here while keeping the old ones up as an archive via the new [[@ajhalili2006-archive]] once the patch for sources YAML file are merged upstream soon.

And since this is the weekend (as of 2024-06-01) to officially kickoff my mini-sabbatical between school year, this is the first edition of my monthly dump of the year, also known as monthly status updates if you keen checking the archives. So read on to know what I am cooking behind the scenes.

The [[Gildedguy Story 8]] Premiere Experience

I literally woke up early on May 12 to catch up the Twitch premiere ([original VOD link], [archived in 1080p] via Storj DCS) just few minutes before it start. Based on the first watch, not only it was another banger¹ by [Michael Moy][mikedmoy] and the production team based on what the community saying, but there are new lore have been dropped since [[Gildedguy Story 7]]. I’ll be not able to take note them all here in detail, but please take a watch for yourself.

It’s a blast after all, so [grab your "I Was There In Premiere" badge][luma] for free if you’re there (either via Twitch or YouTube). And expect a in-depth post on it and more on [my blog] later this month (or just before the next school year starts). If you need some Gildedguy Stories-themed mixtape on your library, [I made one since March] and currently open for song suggestions.

Chores on Personal Wiki

Since this Material for Mkdocs-powered site [started in last year][initial-commit], I am currently working to merge both the old digital garden and Jiroh’s Kooky Insane Stuff into here, alongside an upcoming one for Traumatized Autistics Department. Due to how the content migration is currently underway, you may see this non-dismissable banner on the top of every page similarly to this one below ([link to commit]):

!!! info "" :construction: Wiki under consturction Please accept our apologies for any broken links while migrating content from different repositories. Learn more

But wait, what’s [[Traumatized Autistics Department]]?

[Here]’s the Google Doc for the project README (currently a public draft), but in a nutshell, this is where

Meanwhile in Recap Time Squad

In summary for everyone asking, just self-documentation, janitorial and admin work on Recap Time Squad lately.

Nothing too heavy other than bringing the Staff SSO terms and mini reorganization chores in our [policy site], content updates on [the Squad Wiki], and even setting up a [brand assets repository] to host our different brand assets as we export them from Canva, similarily to the cdnjs/brand GitHub repo and others.

Signing off

That’s all for now and thanks for reading. Talk to you soon on the next edition, or [read the archives for this year so far][archive]. For occassional chaos on your feed and for comments, [follow me/tag on socials] or send a e-fanmail.

[archive]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/garden/daily-notes/archive/2024/ pull [original VOD link]: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2143318582 [archived in 1080p]: https://vod.cdn.andreijiroh.xyz/twitch/gildedguy/2143318582/vod.mp4 [luma]: https://lu.ma/gildedguy-story8 [blog]: https://ajhalili2006.substack.com [policy site]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/legal-policies/commits?author=ajhalili2006&since=2024-04-30&until=2024-05-30 [follow me/tag on socials]: https://ajhalili2006.start.page [I made one since March]: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0qW0g1QAeChWLSKXuasuM3 [the Squad Wiki]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/squad-wiki/commits?author=ajhalili2006&since=2024-04-30&until=2024-05-30 [brand assets repository]: https://github.com/recaptime-dev/brand-assets [mikedmoy]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/go/mikedmoy https://mau.dev/andreijiroh-dev/wiki/-/commit/649b4b7520ace6235f5fb45299d659a9bb3cbdd1 [md-spoilers-ep7]: https://murder-drones.fandom.com/wiki/Cyn#:~:text=%22Oh%20yes%2C-,get%20snuck%2Dup%20on,-.%22 [Here]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HQc19r6K2ZYSFWaJObqxg_36Mbk6SMD1jiGJPuIEifc/edit?usp=sharing [link to commit]: https://mau.dev/andreijiroh-dev/wiki/-/blob/f0949fe1055f30a79fe3870f0be5207218484bda/overrides/main.html#L17-22 [my personal wiki]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/garden/daily-notes pull

• [[Kraftwerk1]]:
  • [[Tanzwerk 101]]
  • [[Hardturm]]
• [[brennenstuhl]]
• [[adding a new search engine in chromium]]
• [[Agora]]:
  • [[Agora Development]]:
    • Add systemd service for panda.anagora.org in [[paramita]]
      • :D
    • Develop one small feature
      • better latest
      • better navbar
      • start on edit
        • shipped edit at the bottom of anagora.org even though it only works for me for now (guilty pleasure? :))
  • [[adding a search engine]] in chromium
    • my linux worked, now for chrome on mobile…
  • [[chrome]]

• Back in the Agora, back in Flancia :)
  • The visit from [[Berni]] and the birthday of [[AG]] were beautiful.
  • Now enjoying the rest of the [[week off]]:
    • catching up with housework (deep cleaning mode!)
    • catching up with messages and letters
      • reading and writing invites
      • doing writing in general
    • and [[flow]]!
• Did some [[maintenance]] of home and computer setup; converged more [[wayland]] related configs after incorporating a new computer into my [[chezmoi]] setup and doing and taking the occasion to do an interation of improvements.
  • I dropped some templates for reduced complexity, e.g. [[sway.conf]].
  • My computers in this system are currently:
    • [[paramita]] (personal)
    • [[nostromo]] (personal)
    • [[sariputta]]
    • [[guanyin]]
• [[go/flow/12]] was great, one of my [[favorites]]

• Read about [[Kozmonavt]] for the first time on [[search engines with own indexes]]

• [[Day off]] from work as I spent some last time with [[Berni]]! It was beautiful having him over, and seeing many [[friends]] over the weekend.
• Later did [[pomodoros]] with [[bobby lyte]].
• Set up gifts for [[AG]] :)
• Ordered something from [[Joom]] for the first time, let’s see how well it works :) It was than 3x+ cheaper than my previous magnets supplier

Daily Note 2024-06-09 and Weekly Wrap Issue No. 1

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today alongside anything else you missed this week, June 9, 2024:

• For this week’s edition of the Weekly Wrap (stats galore)

  • What did you missed this week
    • The week starts with The Return of Daily Notes and ends with Friday Mixtape Hellscape, featuring Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department and support for comments on these via giscus and GitHub Discussions APIs.
    • See all posts here in one place
  • From my Wakatime stats this week¹: I am literally on VS Code for more than half a day (12h+) this week, mostly to edit Markdown files on my personal wiki locally, although I do use GitHub’s web editor (VS Code for Web edition) and Codespaces for some.
  • For the recap yesterday, apologies if I didn;t write one: Nothing particular happened, just a day off updating my personal wiki in the machine to rest up and catch up with my Duolingo streak before clock strikes midnight.
  • For my listening activity at Last.fm for the period of May 31 to June 6 (archived link):
    • Scrobbled 559 tracks (up 38% from last week), with 66 this week on 9:00 PM hour block.
    • Listened for almost 2 days (1 day 23 hours), averaging 80 scrobbles per day, with 126 as highest this week on June 3.
    • For the music ratio, I listened to 110 tracks (with ratio of 5.08 scrobbles/track compared to 87 with ratio of 6.43 last week) from 41 artists (ratio of 13.63 scrobbles/artist compared to 39 last week with ratio of 14.33) across 49 albums (ration of 11.41 scrobbles/album vs 36 last week with ratio of 15.53).
    • Top Album, Song and Track: [Starcadian] [^2] and his [Sunset Blood] album | [BOSSFIGHT]’s [Ballistic] (also top new track and album as single this week)
  • Perfect attendance this week on Duolingo’s Spanish or Vanish sessions (7 out of 7 days this week, totaling 174 days streak, compared with 6 last week).[^3]

• What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):

  • Next up from my podcast queue, featuring Anthony Padilla: The Try Guys Tell All
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  • [CONTENT WARNING: TRAUMATIZING CONTENT] A quick refresher on Gaza war from Al Jazeera’s The Inside Story Podcast: What does it mean for Israel being on the UN’s ‘blacklist’?
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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.

[Starcadian]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/indie-music/starcadian.md pull [BOSSFIGHT]: https://wiki.andreijiroh.xyz/multiverse/monstercat/bossfight.md pull [Sunset Blood]: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl2bxnbryx0AKbl8TGu8KA9z-khhYfKcS&si=Aebm6tSSF_8CFULV [Ballistic]: https://youtu.be/_aLxnMuwFxA

• Very nice day with friends!
  • [[B]], [[AG]], [[V]].

• Yesterday we visited [[Bern]] with [[B]] and saw [[L]].

Daily Note 2024-06-07

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 7, 2024:

• Actually enabled comments for daily notes (currently on per-entry basis until meta officially graduates from Insiders-only status), using a self-hosted instance of giscus. You can try it out now below and it’ll be appear in the andreijiroh-dev organization discussions in GitHub.

• Officially installed Node.js into my custom mkdocs Docker image through copying files from the official Docker image (and some symlink trickery)

• Yesterday, I added docs for golinks, will work on Content Migration status reports later in the weekend.

• What I have been listening to (check today’s scrobbles):

  • [[TTPD]] on Spotify?!? (interpretting the lyrics, ey? Also lurking around r/TaylorSwift for hints maybe.)
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  • I may feel like a madlad lately, but I listened to the whole album in order (from a community playlist) for the full experience. As my older sister told me, I may become the first (and only) Swiftie in the family once I go deeper into the discography in the future.

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  • Still playing some of Starcadian’s music on loop, of course.

  • Fresh from The Vergecast: Apple’s AI moment is coming at 40m55s (If they do AI-generated emojis as JPEG images through RCS at WWDC (some even shortened it as "dub dub"), that would be chaotically funny at same time bloody for Android users.)

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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care, and keep it decent in the comments.

2024-06-07

• [[Human physiology]]

  • Cardiovascular system
    • Pumping blood, supplying nutrients and removing waste.
  • Respiratory system
    • Breathing. Gas exchange.
  • The human body is amazing. All of these intricate interconnected systems working away all of the time.

• Listened: [[Jeremy Corbyn & Mhairi Black: Left Culled, Centre Cracked and Right Reformed?]]

• Listened: [[The ‘blue wall’ road trip: Tories jumping ship?]]

  • Exploring whether previous Tory strongholds will be turning Liberal Democrat or other in the upcoming election.
  • I like these John Harris roadtrip interview style episodes where he goes and chats to real people around the country.

• Listened: [[New Frank Hester allegations]]

  • New allegations that the main Tory donor is a bit of a shit (misogynistic, racist). Shocker.

Daily Note 2024-06-06

EDIT 2024-06-07: My god I forgot writing what been cooked yesterday, but don’t fret. I’ll include it in [[2024-06-07]] instead.

Comments are disabled for this entry to avoid chaos.

• Noding from [[work]] through [[silverbullet]] :)
• Started the day with [[AG]], lovely as usual.
• Today [[Berni]] arrives! He’ll be visiting for a few days.
• Now noding from my phone :)
• Some stuff I’d still like to get done before Berni arrives tonight:
  • Check books by the sofa
  • Vacuum below sofa
  • Answer one more comment from the stream at work.

2024-06-06

• [[Digitisation]] vs [[digitalisation]]
  • Digitisation is basically turning the act of encoding analogue into digital.
  • Digitalisation is the wider process of more and more of processes of society being digitised and filtered through digital processes.

Daily Note 2024-06-05

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 5, 2024:

• Nothing particular happened lately for now, just regular household chores and chilling out during the break

• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

  • Tuned in a bit of BCC Radio 1’s morning show (stream archive in BCC Sounds player or via my own archives)
  • [[The Spawn Chunks]] EP300 (youtube, pod.link) - mainly to catch up with Minecraft news and Q&A section with the hosts
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• Maybe seen about the Minecraft 15-Year Anniversary docuseries from their official channel then?

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

2024-06-05

• Listened: [[Politics Weekly Westminster: The first TV debate]]
  • [[Keir Starmer]] and [[Rishi Sunak]] both being uninspiring from the sounds of it.
  • No clear winner. Unlikely to change opinion polls much.

Daily Note 2024-06-04

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 04, 2024:

• The holy grails: Fanfictions, neck kisses (goddamnit [[Smallishbeans]])
  • Will link them later, it’s just past midnight Wednesday now.
• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
  • [[BOSSFIGHT]]‘s Vermin
• Just finished watching a short flim by Patrick McDonald featuring Amanda and Angela from Smosh
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  * They are married couple in this movie’s storyline

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• [[agora]]
  • [[agora development]]:
    • add save/star button
    • embed silverbullet as edit ‘section’ / [[node edit]]
• From the [[notebooks]]:
  • Write about the importance of [[simulation protocols]]:
    • And of defining a pro social [[corpus]] together.

2024-06-04

• Why the fuck is [[The Guardian]] advertising some private healthcare subscription to me on their podcasts.

• [[Commonism]].

  • Discussed in Agora Discuss.

• Listened: [[Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back]]

  • [[Nigel Farage]], opportunist extraordinare, now leader of [[Reform UK]] party.
  • Bad for the Tories, which is usually good, but generally just bad for everyone all round. Especially if he gets elected to Clacton.

Daily Note 2024-06-03

Here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 3, 2024:

• Literally lurking around Gildedguy fanart + community on Tumblr for fun and profit

• Also I’ll be doing my usual Spanish lessons on Duolingo, maybe some German and Italian next soon.

• Did a long late afternoon nap to recharge a bit

• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):

  • Smosh Mouth episode 44 - just finishing it btw
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That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

• [[work]] was intense and even emotional, it being mostly a one day workshop — very productive. We had a great coordinator, [[Anna Raverat]].
  • then some meetings until 19:30.
• edited [[tanka]].
• reviewed [[notebooks]], which is my default activity when I start working on personal projects after work :)
  • I had this in an old page: "Write about [[blessed bits]] and the entropy in [[Lady Burup]]‘s writing", which I think I would enjoy :) She walks often over keyboards and has a knack for hacking (disabling wireless, even crashing Wayland on occasion to my surprise).

2024-06-03

• Listened: [[Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?]]

  • Teflon Trump. He’ll still run. And this will make no difference to people who already like [[Donald Trump]].
  • Best hope is that maybe it will affect some swing voters.

• Listened: [[Has there been a purge of the leftwing of the Labour party?]]

  • Shitty treatment of [[Diane Abbott]] and [[Faiza Shaheen]].
  • Attempts to stop them running as Labour candidate.
  • General bad treatment of candidates from the left of the party.

It’s been more than 7 months since the last one and it’s nice I could do it all again here in the new wiki, and it’s good to be back again with the daily journaling hellscapes.

By the way, here’s a quick summary of what’s cooking behind the scenes today, June 2, 2024:

• Chilling like madlad, currently recovering after a almost all-nighter clothes folding before 3AM local time
  • Also earlier (and since yesterday): I am casually rewatched One vs Skid/Skid vs One for a refresher after watching the [[Gildedguy Story 8]] premiere VOD on Twitch
  • I am such a madlad to download it twice and store it in Storj DCS. That should cost me 15-20 PHP more on storage (long-term) and egress (for the month of May 2024).
• Expect the [[May 2024 Status Update]] to published on or before June 12 ([[Philippine Independence Day]])
• What I have been listening to (check today scrobbles):
  • [[BOSSFIGHT]]‘s Ballistic right off [[Release Radar]] Spotify playlist
  • [[Starcadian]]¹‘s He^rt and Entoptica
  • Punch Deck[^2]’s Dominant
  • Duolingo’s YouTube short sent me to Jaxomy & Agatino Romero Remix version of Raffaella Carrà’s Pedro[^3]
  • Ending off with The Verge’s interview with Google CEO, currently at 32m33s as of time of writing.

That’s all for now, see you again soon for another daily note. If I miss something today, I may edit this page or just add it for next daily note instead. Take care.

2024-06-02

• [[Read]] / [[Listened]]: [[Taming Big Techification? The European Digital Markets Act]]

  • [[Digital Markets Act]]
  • [[The EU has no homegrown Big Tech companies of its own]]

• Read: [[Children die of malnutrition as Rafah operation shifts threat of famine in Gaza]]

• [[June 2024]] is here!
  • Truly we are living in the future :)
  • I will miss May and with it the idea of [[International Workers Month]], but it will come back (quite surely)

• Read about [[Alexander Berkman]], who I got to through [[Emma Goldman]].
  • From the [[serendipity department]]: the last issue of his magazine [[The Blast]] was published on [[1917-06-01]].
• Sometime this week I applied to [[XOXO]] the conference which takes place in [[Portland]].
• Very nice morning with [[AG]].
• Had a short but sweet [[Flancia Meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] after a while!
  • Looking forward to the [[zine]].
• [[Ve]] visited and it was nice!
• Then I cleaned the house and went to [[coop]].
  • Then it was [[Agora]] and [[social.coop]] time for a while :)
• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[Agora discuss]]
    • [[neil]] brought up interesting topics as usual!
    • What comes after [[digital capitalism]]?
      • In the [[node club]] and otherwise :)
  • Review [[PRs]]
    • Agora root
    • Open ones for [[agora server]] and [[agora bridge]], it’s been a long while since I did due diligence there, apologies for the delays
• [[Social.coop]]:
  • Update to latest security patch

• [[work]]
• [[mexico city]]
• [[spectrum analyzers]]:
  • [[friture]]
  • [[spectroid]]

2024-05-31

• Learned about [[Bunny Fonts]] from James.

  • Looks great. GDPR friendly, and a much simpler way of of replacing Google Fonts than [[replacing Google Fonts remote server usage with a locally-served font]].
  • [[Replacing Google Fonts with Bunny Fonts]].
  • ([[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]])

• [[Listened]]: [[Digitalisation and the Security State]]

  • Important stuff. Everyone should listen to this.
  • The connection between digital technology companies and state surveillance and violence.
  • Israel is a major source of surveillance and weapons technology companies, selling to US and Europe technologies they have built to control the Palestinian people.

• [[git rebase]]
• [[design from trust]]

2024-05-29

• [[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
  • Some of the discussion around counties reclaiming agency over their trade overlaps with the material on the [[digital trade]] agenda in the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].

• Interesting that in [[Silverbullet]] linking to a date and then visiting it doesn’t do the "right" thing in some sense, as it doesn’t navigate to the journal entry but rather to the node about the date.
  • In some ways this is the correct thing, as that’s the behavior I use elsewhere to get to the journal.
  • But by default alt-shift-d goes to Journal/Day/, so the two aren’t convergent when I would a priori wish them to be.

• [[work]]

2024-05-28

• [[Listened]]: [[How the North Plunders the South w/ Jason Hickel]]
  • [[Imperialism]] and [[neocolonialism]].
  • [[Unequal exchange]].

• the [[weekend]] was intense!
• [[work]]
• [[mantras]]

I found a weeks old todo to follow [[Peter Murray]] ([[peter_murray]] in [[hypothes.is]]) and I see why: he uses double square brackets in posts in platforms that don’t support them yet too!

• Back in [[silverbullet]] for [[Flancia]] :)
• Worked, did some deep cleaning.
• Thought of:
  • [[mantras]]
  • "[[emma goldmann]]" :)
    • I received a sticker with an interesting quote but with her name spelled with an extra n.
  • [[Paulus Akademie]]
  • [[Tanka]] poetry

It was an emotional weekend; Saturday being upbeat, Sunday being more meditative and at times low energy but ending well.

Today I worked and had a fully meetings free afternoon as the US was out due to [[memorial day]].

My mum was/is sick (pneumonia again) and that makes me think of death and impermanence. But it’s a good occasion to meditate.

I thought of someday maybe picking back up some of the draft short stories I started around [[2017]], like [[Caramel City]], [[Cannazon]] and the one about the [[Wu-Tang Clan]].

I received a letter about Christianity out of the blue the other day and today I came across it and saw it had a reference to jw.org, which ended up being [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]]. I have a negative affect towards the organization because of things I have heard about how the doctrine affects the freedom of its members, but the message that I received seemed innocuous enough. Interesting that they didn’t include the name of the organization anywhere, just the domain.

I’ve been meaning to work and play on:

• [[Agora development]]:
  • try embedding [[edit]] in every node, even though for the time being it will only work for users opted into a very special beta :)
  • add [[star]] action, even a stub, and see how it "feels"
• [[Agora writing]]:
  • [[node club]]
  • [[daily]]

2024-05-26

• I finished off Week 3 of the [[Digital Capitalism online course]].

  • This week the topic was [[Digital colonialism]].
  • With mostly a focus on [[Data colonialism]].
  • In that focus on data I feel perhaps it omits some other colonial practices - such as in mining, manufacture and disposal related to ICT.
  • Still - good stuff.

• Started listening to the masterclass for week 4, on the digital trade agenda.

  • The point about why corporations love trade deals is really enlightening - easy way for them to bypass democratic discussion; lobby to get their way; once a trade deal is made, it’s very hard to change.

• Learning about ecology on Kinnu, I realise that it’s a great source of ideas for thinking in systems.

  • It’s the ultimate system, basically.
  • I think [[The Systems View of Life]] would be about this to some degree.

• I want to reactivate my [[work garden]].
• I worked until late and I tried to enjoy it :)

• TIL:
  • [[das Rudder]], [[die Rudder]]
• I worked from home with [[AG]] and [[Lady Burup]] while a kind technician fixed a window that didn’t either close nor open. It was good!
• Then I transitioned into [[Flancia]].
• This weekend I’m working on:
  • [[Agora development]]
  • [[Agora writing]]
  • [[p10g]]
  • [[ai]]
• I plan to visit a convention: [[canna trade]].

2024-05-24

• [[Listened]]: [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]

  • Mostly [[Ulises Mejias]]‘ section.
    • [[Data colonialism]] is his topic, works on it with [[Nick Couldry]].
    • He outlines the scale of the land grab of [[colonialism]].
    • Makes the connection to data colonialism.
    • Draws a line from [[Cheap Nature]] to [[Cheap Labour]] to [[Cheap Data]] (the first two based on [[Jason W. Moore]]‘s ideas I’m assuming).

• [[World-Ecology]].

2024-05-22

• I’d like to redesign the look and feel of my digital garden.
  • Nothing drastic, but to move more to a representative aesthetic.
  • I want to try to maintain the cheap-n-cheerful weird web vibe, but also incorporate more of a nature-labour-technology solarpunk-ish look.
  • I want my digital garden to be more visual, less textual.
    • To be fair it is majority text, but I still want it to feel a bit more visual.
  • [[My commonplace moodboard]]

• Back to [[work]]!
  • Going pretty much alright until now :)

• [[alt-shift-d]] now works on my [[silverbullet]] to open the [[daily page]].

• [[work]] was actually interesting in high proportion!
• then [[Flancia]] time :)

2024-05-21

• [[Data colonialism]]
  • Mentioned in [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]

2024-05-20

• [[Listened]]: [[Digital colonialism: Geopolitics of data and development]]
  • From [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • A mention of "Within the system, against the system, and beyond the system"
  • Matches exactly with [[resist, regulate, recode]]

2024-05-19

• [[Cooperation Jackson]] and the [[Jackson-Kush Plan]] are explicitly [[ecosocialist]] in outlook.

  • There’s a good summary of [[ecosocialism]] in the intro to [[Jackson Rising Redux]].

• They also work on the principle of instituting [[non-reformist reform]]s.

  • What might some non-reformist reforms for [[digital ecosocialism]] be?

• [[Digital counterpower]]

• [[silverbullet]]:
  • should open the daily on startup?
  • [[go/daily]] achieves this for me for now ;) e.g. [[go/daily]] or just use the embed in anagora.org/daily.

• going over "old" (and new) notebooks, trying to make sense of the hugely distributed task list they imply :)
  • happy to see that a lot actually happened in the last 1-2 quarters!
  • I’m thinking this could be a nice ‘tradition’ to reinforce on the [[17ths]], being [[Maitreya day]] ;)
• [[do]]:
  • [[numbers]] pull all number-related actions, e.g. [[557]] (example comes from a notebook) pulls [[hex/557]], [[prime/557]] and any others we have in the future.
  • [[today]] should probably pull today’s date instead of redirecting? maybe!
  • next steps on [[activitypub]]
  • define [[equivalence classes]] in the Agora; right now they’re implicit and a bit of a mess?
  • [[oauth]] is mentioned so often in my todos that I wonder how it is I actually haven’t even started on it!
    • I think at some point I wanted to do these flows through [[agora bridge]] instead of [[agora server]]?
    • But that might have been a mistake/complicating stuff needlessly?
  • [[open letters]] show up profusely in the last 1.5 years, yet I have not properly published a single one since (except by default in the Agora, like pretty much everything I write that is not work related)
    • [[Building Bridges]]
    • [[Beyond Markdown and Git]]
    • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Agora]]
    • [[Open Letter to the Sangha]]
  • develop [[whisper]] as an action (
• "[[Flancia]] is a [[Pattern Language]], the [[Agora]] is a [[Pattern Repository]]" — from a notebook.

2024-05-17

• Read: [[Critique of techno-feudal reason]]

  • Well, sort of read it - actually half listened to it via Wallabag while taking the bubba out for an early walk.
  • Dense and erudite, as you expect from Morozov.
  • Didn’t follow half of it this first time around to be honest, but I take away the basic message that he’s critical of the general idea of [[techno-feudalism]].

• [[There is no capitalism without colonialism]].

• [[work]]
• [[ssc]]

• [[True Names]] == [[343]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]]
  • Which I guess can now be said to contain at least 343 patterns :)
  • [[7^3]] calculated mentally (it might be wrong for all I know!)

• [[15]] means [[Right Effort]] in the [[Flancia pattern language]].
• Tough day at work. I got demotivated yesterday after hearing some bad news and that bled a bit onto today. But nothing terrible :)
• [[Fellowship of the link]] was nice and energizing though.

2024-05-15

• [[Listened]]: [[The dangers of digital capitalism]]
  • Excellent webinar from [[Transnational Institute]].
  • On [[digital capitalism]] and more.
  • Some great speakers, I should find out more about them.
    • I’ve come across [[Jack Qiu]] before from [[Goodbye iSlave]].

• Another [[day]], another [[node]].
  • Or more than one :)
  • I definitely need to work on editing though! On doing more of the actual curation and maintenance of an actual [[digital garden]].
  • In the meantime, thanks for making do with all the rough edges ;)
• Resuming [[Agora development]]:
  • I have a few commits to push to anagora.org this week.
    • -> done, or at least started :)
  • I did some [[verschlimmbessern]] on the index to the [[Agora]] on the flight to the US that I never quite pushed — and better that way :) it needs ‘cherrypicking’ to put it mildly. It suffered a lot in directness.
  • Also added support for [[silverbullet]] style [[attachments]].
• [[social.coop]]:
  • No [[twg]] meeting this week, will try to continue working on onboarding [[evan]] to the group.
  • I "installed" alpha.social.coop using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet.
  • [[upkeep]]:
    • You could call it [[life]] ;)
    • [[nostromo]] was getting broken enough that I decided to update Ubuntu to the latest release to unbreak [[wayland]] and some sites in [[chromium]]. It had been long in the making, it’s a bit like house cleaning, it can be relaxing after work :)
    • I tried taking the occasion to also [[garbage collect]] tabs/try some new organizational principles in [[paramita]], [[guanyin]] and [[sariputta]].
• [[GPT 4o]] was released yesterday and I got access.
  • Impressive.
  • But it failed to analyze a video I attached on desktop meaningfully though.

• Noding from a new computer — [[Guanyin]] :)
  • Now back in [[Nostromo]] after work
• Thought of [[17]], and explored 17 musically as [[13 + 4]] (today it’s the 13th) and [[7 + 10]].
• [[digital capitalism]]
• [[yoga with x]]
• I found two notebooks that I had misplaced, or that had anyhow gotten out of my working context. It felt great, in particular one that I call [[25]].
• [[flaming lips]]:
  • [[summertime]]

• It turns out all my [[silverbullet]] journals were being left out from my [[garden]] — I corrected this and in the process dumped a few tens of journals that had never shown up so far :) Glad I checked and found this!

• Trying [[attachments]].
• [[AG]]
• [[Stapelberg]]
• [[Lady Burup]]
• [[17]]
• [[scc]]

2024-05-13

• [[Listened]]: [[Evgeny Morozov: Competition and Cooperation in Digital Capitalism]]

• Using both [[wiki vim]] and [[silverbullet]] these days, will make a case of checking out how anagora.org renders this and consider improvements
• [[AMITAFO]]

I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.

After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)

• Started the day with [[AG]] in the [[balcony]] :)
  • We managed to also do a mini bike tour before she went to the [[Mothers Day]] festivities :)
• Now thinking of:
  • [[patterns]]
    • as per usual you could say :)
  • [[patents]] (don’t worry, more in the abstract than anything :)
    • relevant to [[digital capitalism]] surely
  • [[visions]]
  • [[true names]]
• I got a small book by Meister [[Yaw Hwa Chin]] in the Chinese supermarket, I want to check them out.
  • it’s titled [[The wisdom, philosophy and education of Buddha and Chinese]]
  • He writes [[AMITOFO]] just before signing; it turns out it’s the Chinese spelling of [[Amitabha]] ~ [[Amitayus]].

2024-05-12

• After a long hiatus, low-key writing [[Reclaim the Stacks: reflections, May 2024]].

• Reading [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis. Introduction to the Special Issue]]

• [[flancia meet]]:
  • [[bouncepaw]]
    • [[pipepunk]] and its evolution
    • [[zine]]

• [[2024-05-10]]
  • I think I prefer dates as ‘flat hierarchy nodes’ overall — this way I can just link to the date and get to the journal entry.
  • Also most generally this makes it so the convention for gathering journals is just ‘look for [[nodes]] whose [[topic]] is a time period show those that fit the current [[context]]’

• [[flancia meet]] with [[bouncepaw]] was great!

2024-05-11

• [[Digital Capitalism online course]]
  • I finished Week 1.
  • (Mostly - not had chance to go through all the further materials yet.)

• Cycled to [[Greifensee]] with [[AG]], it was a beautiful day!
• In the evening we saw [[Episode V]]

• [[Agora development]]:
  • [[Fix the Agora]] :)
  • Make the open letter readable
  • test and iterate on fixes! :)
• [[gone]]

• Back in [[Silverbullet]] on my new work laptop, named after [[Guanyin]].
• Thought about [[Open Letters]] and [[Right Intention]], [[Right Speech]], [[Right Action]]
• [[xkcd machine]]:
  • a [[game]]
  • https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
  • #go https://xkcd.com/2916/
  • uses [[rapier]]:
    • a [[physics engine]]
    • #go https://rapier.rs/
• Working to fix [[agor.ai]]
  • [[hypatia]] ran out of disk at some point and this can really break [[coop cloud]], it seems!

• Back here at [[11pm]]!
  • The work day was long (with a gap in the middle) and interesting :)
  • Now doing yoga and thinking.
• [[mexico city]]
• [[AG]]
• [[L]]
• [[Lady Burup]]

• This May I’m trying to get back into writing in [[node club]] — enjoying it so far!
  • This month the default topic is [[digital capitalism]] :)
• I [[meditated]] — I do not usually mention that I meditate 10 minutes in the morning but I do — and it makes a great difference to pretty much any day in my experience/according to my perceptions!
• I [[worked]]
• Then I thought of:
  • [[Avalokiteshvara]]
  • [[Maitreya]]
  • [[Tara]]
  • [[Lady Burup]]
  • [[AG]]
  • my friends in general!
  • [[light]]
  • [[entanglement]]
  • [[magnetism]]
  • [[open letters]]
  • [[open source]]
• I found out today that [[Hannu Rajaniemi]] is Finnish, not "south asian" (?) as I initially thought :)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannu_Rajaniemi pull born 1978.
• I listened to [[flow state]].

Not necessarily in that order :)

I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.

I like [[senegal town]].

Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)

• [[BLDGBLOG]]
• Now I’m back in [[silverbullet]]. I’m unsure if I want to unify the journal or not. Probably yes? But I’m curious about e.g. Journal/Month/2024-05 if that exists :)
• [[digital capitalism]]:
  • did a pass over [[Open Letter to Google]], maybe it’s more readable up to… a few paragraphs in? :)
  • I think it is starting to take shape.

• I wonder what a [[quick note]] is meant to be used for in [[silverbullet]] :)

• Back in [[silverbullet]], now using it as a ‘web app’ — meaning after pressing ‘install’ on chromium while visiting edit.anagora.org :) - For now edit.anagora.org only works for this [[flancian]], but I hope soon enough I will be able to offer it to the community.
  • Intend I intend to keep using [[wiki vim]] though, as I value having a terminal client for writing in the Agora - Experimented with a bluetooth keyboard on mobile as a way of having more fluid Agora editing on the go.
  • Tried [[silverbullet]] in firefox mobile and vim mode didn’t quite work :)
  • Also my hardware keyboard is set up to have esc go to the android home screen, which does not go well with vim mode ;)
    • Update: realized I can set the keyboard to [[windows mode]] and it will disable most of what I consider intrusive functionality :)
  • Still the prospect of having a fully featured Agora editor on mobile is thrilling!
• [[agora discuss]]: [[neil]] suggested [[web mentions]] as the ground level on which to build [[agora likes]].
  • I agree it’s an interesting approach; it seems complementary to [[activity pub]] support which I’ve already started working on, inspired by [[bouncepaw]]‘s work on [[betula]].
  • The basic abstraction might be: the Agora publishes, and produces, feeds of social activity in different formats. Their states influence UI elements like emoji reactions and a log of activity.
• A few hours later…
  • [[Winti Tap Jam]]:
    • I’m in [[Winterthur]] in a [[tap dance]] event, against my expectations enjoying it quite a bit! The [[jazz band]] is great, and I didn’t know people could dance like this while interacting with an improvising band. It’s really quite cool.
    • With [[AG]] and [[Nushya]]!
• Really enjoying [[noding from mobile]] quite a bit, it encourages [[live noding]].
• [[open letters]]

2024-05-04

• Read through some of the materials from week 1 of [[Digital Capitalism online course]].
  • What is [[digital capitalism]]?

• [[work]] was fine actually! I finished the weekly todo list I believe to good standard. People at work are great!
  • I keep thinking about the [[python team]] and others of course.
• [[social coop]]:
  • [[cwg]] meeting, it’s great working with both old and new members.
  • discussed onboarding, oncall and [[twg]].
• [[node club]]:
  • [[digital capitalism]]
  • [[cannabis]]
• [[Open Letter to Google]]:
  • read, and [[annotated]], [[the man who killed google search]]
• [[open letter to the Agora]];
  • [[Maitreya]] is the (default) greater warden of the [[Agora of Flancia]]
    • and what this means, in [[node club]] through this [[International Workers Month]] of [[May 2024]] :)
• thinking of [[AG]]

2024-05-03

• I finally managed to start (just as it’s finishing!) the [[Digital Capitalism online course]] from the [[Transnational Institute]].

  • "6 week essential course for activists to understand how digitalisation is shaping our world"
  • The first week of which is titled ‘What is digital capitalism?’
  • I’m most looking forward to week 6 - titled ‘What’s the alternative? The digital world we want to live in’

• And the [[tripleC]] special issue on digital capitalism just came out.

  • [[Critical Perspectives on Digital Capitalism: Theories and Praxis]].

• Apropos of the above, for [[node club]] (AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]) I’m going to write about [[digital capitalism]].

• Trying [[Obsidian]] after a looong time — after remembering, and then trying on a lark, [[Roam Research]] again :)
  • I also tried [[logseq]] but it did a mega-commit automatically on my garden which almost broke it, not super happy about that (it tried to commit and push a 101MB file that is a database for [[silverbullet]] and probably, granted, should have been in .gitignore).

• Happy [[International Workers Day]]!
  • The last year flew by in some ways :) I remember attending the festivities/events in Zürich yesterday. Looking forward to doing the same today, at least a few hours.
• I got into [[biking]] again and I’m enjoying it tremendously :)
  • We may bike tomorrow with [[AG]].
• I also plan to catch up with [[Berni]]. I have been catching up with friends finally after a hiatus due to [[work]] + [[travel]] and I’m looking forward to the VC!
• [[doxometrist]] told me about [[netwik-obsidian]] as being in [[agora space]]
• [[j0lms]] had good news!
• [[l]] had good news! and we had an interesting conversation
• [[Brunello]], the father of a friend of mine, died last week at [[90]]. I knew him and he seemed like a good and sensitive person. I lighted a candle for him/his memory.
• [[Agora]]!
  • [[Agora development]]:
    • Fixed images, they were broken in prod due to a logger misconfiguration — thank you [[neil]] for reporting!
    • Made some progress towards fixing git.agor.ai — [[hypatia]] got into some weird state after running out of disk.
    • Reached out to [[protopian]] to try to unbreak his garden :)

• [[eminems]]

• Listening to [[Brad Mehldau]].
• Worked with [[jet lag]] — it was alright :)
• [[Pattern Language]]:
  • [[3]] [[7]] [[10]] [[11]] [[12]] [[17]] [[21]] [[23]] [[51]]
• [[Open Letters]]
  • [[Open Letter to Google]]
    • I’ll just quit stalling and write two letters I guess, or continue writing them, as I started years ago by now :)

2024-04-28

• [[Ecology]]

  • [[Keystone species]]

• I should put more images in my garden.

  • I stumbled on the page on [[Jean Baudrillard]], which has no text. But the picture is fun.

• Finally finished watching [[Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain]].

  • National Working Miners Committee. David Hart.
  • Arthur Scargill. Sequestration of funds. Connection to Al-Zulfikar and Colonel Gaddafi for financial support.
  • Ultimately that negative press seemed to be the final nail in the coffin of the strike.

• Read [[Palestine speaks for everyone]]

• Back here after a few more days of hectic travelling :) I intend to stick around in the Agora for the next few days, for a change!
• Thinking again (as per usual?) about [[open letters]] — which hasn’t necessarily meant I have been making much progress on any of them. I wonder at times why I got so enamoured of the genre even before penning my first complete one; but then again my enthusiasm is known to often predate competency ;)
• I thought about [[telling stories]].
• [[Google]]:
  • [[Letter from the Founders]]
  • [[2004 update]]
  • [[2019 update]]

2024-04-27

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• [[Digital weeding and watering]]

  • Adding a page for keeping track of little bits of content cleanup that need doing on my digital garden.
  • This has been very useful already.
  • I’ve found:
    • pages that were using old file: links (e.g. Praxis)
    • duplicate nodes (e.g. Philsophize This).
    • pages that I’m interested in, but just had never had time to write anything about (e.g. climate action)
    • mistakenly created pages
  • And it has been fun to revisit various older pages in the process.

• I am really looking forward to the release of [[Jathan Sadowski]]‘s new book.

  • [[The Mechanic and the Luddite]]

• [[Repairing a Dell Latitude E7450]]

2024-04-26

2024-04-23

• Read: [[What a waste: our study shows almost half of electricals sent for recycling could be reused]]
  • [[The Restart Project]] set up in a Household Waste Recycling Centre (in Brent, London).
  • Assessed the reusability of products being brought in for recycling.
  • Shocking results: almost 50% could have an easy second life (either fully functional as is, or in need of only minor repair).
  • There needs to be less focus on recycling, and much more on reuse and repair.
  • Filtering and diverting initiatives should be mandatory.

2024-04-22

• [[Listened]] to [[There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance]]

2024-04-21

• Soccer96 - I was gonna fight fascism

• [[Listened]] to [[Seto Kaiba is My Role Model]]

2024-04-20

• Changes in the [[forces of production]] come into conflict with the [[relations of production]].

  • The infinite replicability of digital assets is in conflict with the wishes of corporations who profit from artificial scarcity.
  • From memory, I think Paul Mason discusses this in Post Capitalism.
  • Also the phrase [[What is possible in the information age is in direct conflict with what is permissible]] from [[the Telekommunist Manifesto]] comes to mind.

• [[Listened]] to [[The Tao of WAO: S09 Episode 4: Adam Greenfield]]

• [[Listened]] to [[How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe]]

2024-04-19

• [[Replacing Google Fonts usage with locally-served font]]

  • [[What’s wrong with using Google Fonts?]]

• It could be time for a new season of [[Node Club]]…

  • AKA [[Homebrew Commons Club]]

• I should back up my Doom config on Termux.

  • Given I’ve spent enough time configuring it now that it would be a pain to have to redo it.
  • [[Backing up my Doom Emacs config on Termux]].

• Flying to the [[US]]!
  • Not staying super long, but I’m attending a wedding and visiting a few museums I’ve never visited before.
  • I slept badly tonight, and the day before, due to different reasons — the first night it was due to trip prep, the second it was due to a (surprise, as usual) allergy attack that kept me up/very uncomfortable until late. Happy to have made it to the flight only looking slightly like a cat (because of how my eyes swell, I get a bit of a feline look for hours-days after an attack).
  • Listening to [[Lex Fridman]] with [[Jimbo Wales]] on topics like the history of wikipedia. Very interesting as most Lex conversations I’ve heard as of late!
• [[Agora]]:
  • I’m back in the Agora, finally :) I took a more prolonged break from journaling as I moved with [[Lady Burup]] temporarily to [[AG]]‘s place (she is very kind!) and I adapted my routine to that space; also I’ve been busy at work and with other projects.
  • Thank you [[neil]] for keeping the journaling section of the Agora alive and interesting!
  • I reworked a bit the Agora’s [[README.md]], which is what is rendered at the Agora root URL — e.g. https://anagora.org pull. Hopefully it’s more cogent and informative without being overwhelming. But you tell me :)
  • [[Agora Development]]:
    • Fix local dev environment which is now sending https to itself even though it’s http only due to bug in agora.py:56 :).
• [[Flancia]]:
  • I thought back a bit about the history of Flancia while I was rewriting the above. It’s been running for a number of years at this stage!
  • Maybe I should write a belated update in https://flancia.org pull proper.
    • Include a reference to the [[flancia meet]] landing page.
    • Include a TLDR on what the Agora now is/how it developed through the years/where do we want to go next.
    • Maybe take the opportunity to have some extra fun and write something more clearly fictional again :)

2024-04-18

• I [[listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]].

  • It’s a good episode.
  • I like [[Kai Heron]], and I’ve found the debate between various strands of [[ecosocialist]] thought very interesting.
  • But I also lament the time spent disagreeing amongst ourselves on the left.
  • Is it ultimately useful? What if all this intellectual effort could be spent on bringing about a transition away from capitalism, and towards ecosocialism?
  • I don’t know - perhaps the debate is contributing to that transition, in part, in a roundabout. And I suppose that if we don’t know what we stand for, we can’t meaningfully work towards it.
  • But still. It has vibes of [[The People’s Front of Judea]] vs the Judean People’s Front.
  • Not got to the end yet, so perhaps this will be covered…

• Listened to [[Opening the Vicious Circle of Risk Rating (ft. Ariel Bogle)]]

2024-04-17

• [[Listened]] to [[Degrowth vs Eco-Modernism]]

• [[Listened]] to [[Is the Middle East on the brink?]]

2024-04-16

• [[Shells]].

  • Bash vs Fish vs Zsh vs Nushell? | Lobsters

• Listened to [[Israel’s AI Kill List: “Once you go automatic, target generation goes crazy.”]]

  • About Israel’s AI targeting system, "[[Lavender]]".

• Read: [[Emacs: Dead and Loving It]]

  • "What is dead cannot die"
  • [[Emacs]]

• Working on some improvements to the look and feel of my writing mode that I use when in org-roam.for Emacs.

  • [[Improving my Emacs writing mode]]

• [[Lex]]:
  • Listened to [[Sam Harris]] with [[Lex Fridman]] and it reminded me I also like Lex and I think he has lots of potential.
    • Sam came across as a bit more close-minded on some topics than Lex, which tracks with some of the conversations with him I’ve been listening to him recently — he is still one of my favourite public persons though. It’s just that Lex seems to be more of the "open heart hippie" and in that sense closer to me (at least at times).
  • Then listened to his conversation with [[Joscha Bach]] and it reminded me I like Joscha as well.

2024-04-15

• Not sure if this has happened just recently, or I’ve been living with it for a long time, but: case sensitive node search in [[org-roam]] was starting to bug me.
  • Turns out that it’s [[Helm]] that is doing it, when set to the ‘smart’ completion algorithm.
  • I just need to (setq helm-case-fold-search t) and all is good - much smoother completion experience.
  • See: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/v2-case-insensitive-completion-and-backlinks-not-working-as-expected/1701/17
  • In Doom, something different.
  • I’ll pop it in a separate note: [[Turning on case-insensitive search in org-roam]]

• In [[Flancia Meet]] with [[bouncepaw]].
• Started the day in [[AG]]‘s place with her and [[Lady Burup]], it was beautiful :)

2024-04-14

• Listened to [[New Economics Podcast: Should we be going for growth?]]

  • Good discussion.
  • Growth. GDP . Degrowth. Green growth. Decoupling. Doughnut economics. Policies for alternatives to growth. Growthism. Growth is structurally baked in - how to change that?

• [[Listened]] to [[Ghosts in the Machines: Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, & Capitalism]]

  • LLMs. AGI. Political economy of AI. Neo-Luddism. [[Left spirituality]]. Fun wide ranging discussion.

• [[Habitat loss]].

  • One of the most significant threats to [[biodiversity]].

• [[Film theory]] looks at films and the effect they have on society.

  • I find this really interesting so learning a little on it via Kinnu.

2024-04-13

2024-04-12

• Did a bit more on [[Setting up a literate publish.el with org-babel]].

• The AI [[hackathon]] I’ve been working on went well \o/

2024-04-11

• Learning about [[biodiversity]] via the Kinna app.

  • Variety of species. At various levels.
  • Essential to the health of the planet.
  • Genetic diversity, species diversity, ecosystem diversity.

• Listened to [[Post Capitalism w/ Alnoor Ladha]]

  • Fascinating discussion. Post Capitalism. Post here not meaning ‘after’ but ‘in relation to’. Pluralistic. Past and present examples: Zapatistas. Rojava. Indigenous worldviews. Relational ontologies and OntoShift.

2024-04-10

• Migrating my publish.el to a [[Literate publish.el]].
  • To make it a bit more understandable to others, and also as a push for me to tidy it up.

2024-04-09

• Made good progress on [[adding planted and last tended dates to pages in my digital garden]].
  • [[Testing my org-export customisations with ERT]] was incredibly helpful, would have been a bit of a nightmare otherwise.

2024-04-08

• [[Listened]] to [[Should the UK stop arming Israel?]]

  • Drone strike killed seven aid workers. (Some of whom British).
  • While Israel says it was a mistake, suggestion is that this is in line with Israel’s current rules of engagement.
  • UK sells a small amount of arms to the UK. Sunak threatening to stop this unless more aid allowed.

• [[Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software]]

  • From the [[Aspiration Manifesto]].
  • Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software - I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
  • One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to [[exit to community]] / exit the software to cooperative.

2024-04-07

• My publish.el file would be a good candidate for a literate config approach. Would make it more useful for other people to make use of then I think. Also would make me tidy it up.

• Listened again to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]

  • [[Parallel Polis]], Vaclav Havel.
  • Touches on similar stuff as recent [[Vincent Bevins]] podcasts re: failed revolutions of the 2010s.
    • Technology helped spread viral messaging for movements, did little to help collective decision making and long-term organisation.
  • Mentions [[Loomio]], [[Action Network]].

• When I get a moment I’ll make a page of gardening tasks for myself.

  • Just simple things like reviewing nodes that haven’t been edited for a long time; reviewing empty nodes to either prune or flesh out; etc.

• [[Ecology]].

  • interaction between organisms and their environment.
  • communities, ecosystems, biomes.
  • producers, consumers, decomposers.
  • food chains, food webs.
  • energy flows, trophic levels.
  • nutrient cycles.

2024-04-06

• If you share your [[commonplace book]] to the knowledge commons, is it then a [[commonsplace book]]?

• [[work]]
• [[flancia]]
• [[cleaning]]
• [[danger]] codes

2024-04-05

• [[Listened]] to [[Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet]]
  • Love this interview of [[Nathan Schneider]] by [[David Bollier]]. New book out, [[Governable Spaces]]. Sounds like a synthesis of a bunch of recent papers (e.g. [[Governable Stacks]]).
  • Main thesis is about the need for inclusion of democracy in our everyday online tools. To avoid ‘[[Implicit feudalism]]‘.
  • [[Decidim]] referenced favourably.
• And [[listened]] to [[Building human economies using technology]]
  • Bit of a sprawling rambling discussion, but still interesting talking points. Technology, communism. [[Telekommunisten]]. Struggles of leftist tech to get a real foothold. [[Theory of value]].