Journal

83 entries for March 2024

Sunday, March 24, 2024

The more we need to represent our own interests (because ‘representatives’ won’t), the more power decentralizes.

Saturday, March 23, 2024

So many of us throw out orange peels..

[Turn orange peels into an insect repellent for your body or plants by boiling and cooling, then strain the liquid into a spray bottle.]

[Or peel the orange part of the peel, rinse with cold water, blend, then mix with a teaspoon of baking soda and water into a paste for a natural teeth whitener you can brush with weekly.]

[Chop them up and use as fertilizer.]

Friday, March 22, 2024

Language compresses thoughts into a lossy format, like blurry images.

It’s okay to want what you want, even if you don’t know why.

How to get rid of a pimple fast!

[Make an overnight pimple treatment by combining one teaspoon of baking soda and honey with two of apple cider vinegar, then mix into a paste.]

Thursday, March 21, 2024

I’d rather be uncorrupted ’like a child’ than detached from my essence ’like an adult'.

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Spinach powder!

[Turn a bag of baby spinach into powder by dehydrating at 125掳F until crispy and dry before grinding.]

Protocols will not make data fluid and interoperable without people talking to each other and making it happen.

Monday, March 18, 2024

Finally managed to install a custom app via Cloudron by following the tutorial documentation, and without installing Docker.

1. Install the Cloudron CLI locally

sudo npm install -g cloudron
cloudron login my.example.com

2. Setup build tools

One-click install the Docker Registry App (replace alfa.bravo below with this app domain) and Build Service App (replace charlie.delta below with this app domain) via your Cloudron App Store. Configure the latter’s credentials in /app/data/docker.json via the File Manager

{
  "alfa.bravo": {
    "username": "CLOUDRON_USERNAME",
    "password": "CLOUDRON_PASSWORD"
  }
}

and restart the app.

3. Install the pre-packaged custom app

Replace the simple tutorial app with yours:

git clone https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/tutorial-nodejs-app
cd tutorial-nodejs-app
cloudron build --set-build-service https://charlie.delta --set-repository alfa.bravo/echo/foxtrot --tag golf
cloudron install --image alfa.bravo/echo/foxtrot:golf

If you want to update, run cloudron build again, then call cloudron update like so:

cloudron build --set-build-service https://charlie.delta --set-repository alfa.bravo/echo/foxtrot --tag golf
cloudron update --image alfa.bravo/echo/foxtrot:golf

Resources

Aside from the tutorial documentation, I found some hints in these forum topics:

Typing in 2FA codes is a mistake regardless of how elegantly designed the form is.

Follow what feels fun instead of clever ideas.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Jacob Collier: Fascinating Rhythm

This video is almost ten years old.

Avoid social structures that use a calculator.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Let’s talk about toxic masculinity and men’s movements….

[Glorification of violence convinces stupid people to fight in wars of a state.]

Identity | Language | Knowledge

[When we’re starved for deeply meaningful experiences, it becomes easy to counterfeit consciousness and sell us a shell of it.]

[Most of what exists is likely unknowable.]

[Religion and science collapse the super-container into incomplete representations.]

[The world is fundamentally one being first, unless we separate it into distinctions. Therefore if we destroy it we’re destroying ourselves.]

Friday, March 15, 2024

Louis cole: Palmdale Cruisin’

melodic phrasing feels vaguely baroque; harmonies make giant steps; solid groovy beat; bought this rigtht away

Sullivan Fortner: Once I Loved

mixing multiple voices, dense crunchy textures, jazz harmonies with quirky extensions, slight atonality, never heard this kind of playing.

Sullivan Fortner: Sunny Side of the Street

non-ironically making an older style feel current.

There are no leftist startups.

Money as Addiction

[As addiction to cigarettes changes your body and turns your into a different person, material progress changes our baseline expectations for what is necessary to live. Solutionism wants to measure progress cumulatively, but this ignores how each stage of development rebases our ‘zero point’.]


I’ve been trying to articulate the false sense of pioneering characterized in the fintech reference at the end: the story that businesses tell themselves and the world about ‘heading towards the future’ while essentially anchoring us deeper into this monetary system; today’s version in my head is “There are no leftist startups.” Yes to acknowledging where we are. 馃憤馃徑