Journal

27 entries for May 2024

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Stop travelling when you feel good somewhere.

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Secret Llama

[LLM chatbot that runs offline entirely inside a browser with open models like Mistral and LLama 3. Needs WebGPU so you need to use Chrome or Edge.]

Saturday, May 25, 2024

Other People as Crutches

[Perhaps obsession with individualism shames us if we are ’less disciplined’ when ‘alone’, while blinding us to how functional it is to live your best through other people.]

Friday, May 24, 2024

Write when hungry. Read when fed.

Programming require you to reify anything in order to act on it, whereas in the physical world you can directly engage with your environment.

It may be easier to change analog than digital.

I was wondering if it’s possible to load a local JavaScript file via bookmarklet (to get around Firefox’s character limit) but it seems file:// URLs will return an error. I can either load an https:// URL or embed my file inside an extension.

Monday, May 20, 2024

Let’s talk about a rabbit hole with foreign policy….

[Foreign policy supports domestic policy, so changing the former starts with deep systemic change in the latter.]

How can we reduce the size of homebrew-cask and homebrew-core folders?

[As of Homebrew 4, you can save space by removing certain packages only used for developing formulae or casks:]

brew untap homebrew/core
brew untap homebrew/cask

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Exploits of Play: The Cheating Other

When the masses laugh, the powerful quake.

As one can observe their own thoughts and feelings, the same with how we relate to one another.

A Sick Giant

With more politically homogenous audiences, the market demand for truth goes down a little bit in favor of an increased demand for viewpoint confirmation

[Narrowcast media turns boring political reality into a sensational reality show to entertain everyone who finds politics boring.]

A scam is like a virus that converts trust into cynicism, but it’s the news, in the name of keeping things entertaining and addictive, that distributes the virus across the whole country.

Geographic bubbles mean many people barely know anyone on the other political side personally, so the only information they have on what those people are like comes from information bubbles. And those bubbles have increasingly become hate-mongering machines.

An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Let’s talk about how to change the world (Part 2)….

[Older people who consider themselves unable to contribute due to physical impairments have decades of life experience and can often offer advice to simplify or streamline the more intense work.]

[Having events where people can help can signal being more active than having meetings where people talk, and will attract doers.]

Monday, May 13, 2024

List of Patterns

This project is an abridged, hyper-textual, and copyleft manifestation of the 1977 architecture classic A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander.

Let’s talk about how to change the world….

[Bring independent means having a network, and having a choice about how things get done rather than doing everything yourself.]

attachment to a specific strategy is not strategic

Saturday, May 11, 2024

On dexterity

He constrains himself only to the forgeable domains, often ones based on games of language, and so he is never put to the test. Since he can never definitively fail, he will never be cast out, but he will also never “pass” and become initiated. He remains anxiously in limbo, waiting in fear and hope for some immanent sense of identity to emerge from the undifferentiated mass, not realizing that he has already precluded the possibility of any critical event.

When being a nerd paid off

FAT32 doesn’t actually mark sectors as “deleted”. It marks the entire file as deleted, without permanently erasing any of its information until it’s needed. Testdisk knows this, and it makes recovery a breeze. The entire operation took 5 minutes.

Friday, May 10, 2024

People think that co-living community rules are whatever the first person told them.

memeable action

Thursday, May 9, 2024

No need to own my data when it’s okay to lose things.