# ☛ xj9's letters to the void. ###################################################################### ###################################################################### # << Can you please stop asking Santa for the perfect woman? ~xj9 was almost kidnapped 3 times today. >> ~NeikoCat # << everyone on fedi are children waiting for the adults (xj9 and I) [to] come in and tell them to take more drugs and think more (respectively) >> ~tosti # << we get it, you're smart and cool and hot >> ~deadsuperhero ###################################################################### ###################################################################### # ☛ profile fields ################################################### ###################################################################### ###################################################################### # nick = xjix # url = //xj-ix.luxe/.well-known/twtxt/xjix.txt # avatar = //xj-ix.luxe/.well-known/twtxt/xjix.gif # description = working with bright lights in darkness # pronouns = she/here # lang = en # lang = eo # lang = es # lang = pt # follow = devine https://wiki.xxiivv.com/links/tw.txt # follow = oak http://eight45.net/oak.txt # follow = cblgh https://cblgh.org/twtxt.txt # follow = royniang https://royniang.com/tw.txt # follow = anth http://a.9srv.net/tw.txt # follow = news__lobsters https://feeds.twtxt.net/lobste_rs/twtxt.txt # follow = news__osnews https://feeds.twtxt.net/osnews/twtxt.txt # follow = news__aeon https://feeds.twtxt.net/aeon/twtxt.txt # follow = news__gvb https://feeds.twtxt.net/gorilla-vs-bear/twtxt.txt # follow = youtube__the_thought_emporium https://feeds.twtxt.net/the-thought-emporium/twtxt.txt ###################################################################### ###################################################################### 2020-01-23T09:16:11-07:00 hello world! 2020-01-26T22:24:16-07:00 creating an off-grid culture that can live in harmony with nature, as a bit 2020-08-07T08:52:08-06:00 so long feddy, and thanks for all the fish - gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/posts/2020-08-07-social-admin.gmi 2020-08-07T11:06:33-06:00 Doubtless, we've been through this So if you want to follow me you should know I was lost then and I'm lost now And I doubt I'll ever know which way to go 2020-08-07T15:46:54-06:00 i think i need to adjust my ADD meds. having a rough time concentrating today :/ 2020-08-08T18:26:44-06:00 Cultural revival - this is survival 2020-08-08T18:26:44-06:00 Let it connect you to the powers that be With healing rhythmic synergy 2020-08-08T18:26:44-06:00 Natural magical patterns of percussion Is the discussion, so listen up close 2020-08-08T18:26:44-06:00 Techno tribal and positively primal Shamanic anarchistic archaic revival 2020-08-08T20:04:07-06:00 the patterns they control your mind those patterns take away my time 2020-08-08T20:08:42-06:00 stable homes are important for civilization. they don't have to be cis or straight or anything particular other than safe loving places for families to grow together. 2020-08-08T20:39:08-06:00 aes sídhe 2020-08-09T19:34:49-06:00 thumbdog millionaire 2020-08-09T20:32:57-06:00 instant legolas device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJnyQ-bZLU 2020-08-09T20:32:57-06:00 instant legolas device https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URwuU0bRMpU 2020-08-10T16:44:18-06:00 gemini://sunshinegardens.org/~xj9/CAPCOM/ 2021-02-12T15:04:01-07:00 i'll prob'ly end up fucking up and make it super awkward 2021-02-12T23:08:45-07:00 tomo - a stripped-down inferno distribution and FORTH runtime for building graphical network applications 2021-02-12T23:09:23-07:00 i dont even need to quote this i dont think 2021-02-13T10:39:39-07:00 slowly making progress learning how to use mk to build my gem capsule 2021-02-13T10:50:16-07:00 donny burger fucks 2021-02-13T12:35:38-07:00 [nexus] resilver in progess since 2021-02-12T12:29:36-07:00. no estimated completion time. 2021-02-13T13:32:46-07:00 twtxt.net looks quite nice, but i wish it was designed to encourage an offline / async workflow 2021-02-13T13:33:54-07:00 owo 2021-02-13T14:00:04-07:00 me? crazy? why that's madness 2021-02-13T16:38:13-07:00 [nexus] letting resilver run with the regular workload turned off just to be nice to the machine 2021-02-13T21:24:26-07:00 maybe social networking is just terrible and bad 2021-02-13T21:59:47-07:00 this one was actually pretty cool https://xj-ix.luxe/posts/2014-connection-machine.gmi 2021-02-14T12:08:58-07:00 walkaway wiki ONLINE gemini://walkaway.wiki/ 2021-02-14T17:46:16-07:00 youmi zouma makes me think about a room mate showering.. hmm 2021-02-14T18:46:23-07:00 are your thoughts always words? mine are only sometimes 2021-02-14T20:45:58-07:00 i have a compulsion to post. why do i have a compulsion to post? 2021-02-15T09:05:24-07:00 i have but one use of feddy per day, and i used mine this morning just to waste time 2021-02-15T16:57:18-07:00 agile / scrum is fine, but as a tool for developers to keep tight feedback loops with people who don't know what they want well enough to give a formal spec; not as a tool for managers to squeeze productivity. 2021-02-16T09:46:22-07:00 @ (#) i'm trying to decide how i want to relate to social networking. i'm taking it slow and making my own tools for interfacing with the networks that i care about. 2021-02-16T09:48:28-07:00 @ (#<6rzhdgq https://twtxt.net/search?tag=6rzhdgq>) i might be interested in working on twtxt in some capacity. still testing the waters though. most likely i will write and publish my own compatible take that encourages an offline-first workflow. 2021-02-16T11:05:17-07:00 maybe some day i will figure out what is making my server crash. slowly working my way down the list of things that cause a soft lock on a ryzen 1800x 2021-02-16T11:38:49-07:00 i like being sincere. 2021-02-16T11:43:04-07:00 it would appear that twtxt puts me into the same domapine loop i would like to avoid this please. 2021-02-16T12:47:47-07:00 my body is ready for oberon https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf 2021-02-16T13:09:53-07:00 email-based gossip protocol :ac_mischief: 2021-02-16T13:12:27-07:00 my feddy friends are too fucking cool 😾 2021-02-16T16:51:37-07:00 thanks to the peculiar tenacity of fixed-width typefaces, most programming languages can still be comfortably written on a 50-year-old typewriter. How’s that for backward compatibility? 2021-02-17T09:11:09-07:00 nexus crashed again... this time i will disable c6 and see how it goes. 2021-02-17T14:02:03-07:00 mfw alternative web = the same web, but good XD XD XD XD 2021-02-17T14:11:21-07:00 (#) maybe the problem isn't the implementation or how open the thing is. maybe the problem is the design. maybe being compatible hurts your ability to do something that's interesting and useful. maybe the web isn't a perfect thing. just a thought. 2021-02-17T14:21:16-07:00 (#) honestly, one of the things that appeals to me about project gemini is that solderpunk went and made a new box to experiment with. gemini has its own weaknesses, but the idea that you can go and easily build a useful protocol in a small amount of code is really inspiring and much more interesting than most of the projects i hear about these days. https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ 2021-02-17T14:31:33-07:00 ![plantifa](https://xj-ix.luxe/files/plantifa.png) 2021-02-17T14:39:29-07:00 @ (#) lol ok 😂😂😂 there are lots of things wrong with the web 2021-02-17T14:52:42-07:00 @ (#) nah, the web sucks and i would like to never use it again if possible https://xj-ix.luxe/posts/2017-kill-the-web.gmi 2021-02-17T16:09:14-07:00 the future is paying 60 USD for a game you already own 2021-02-17T16:24:42-07:00 @ (#) this is one of the major issues that i have with web technology. really basic shit like an email client or a git browser is really heavy for no good reason. to wit: when i am talking about the web i am mostly taking issue with web browsers, not web servers. 2021-02-17T17:34:48-07:00 this web discourse is pretty hilarious, time to stop checking twtxt.net tho XD i can just stick to my own subs ^^ 2021-02-17T17:41:08-07:00 capitalism has not produced genetically engineered catgirls so 2021-02-17T17:45:48-07:00 > Last year, we spent 51 days at sea during the passage from Japan to Canada, it was the hardest thing we had ever done. We kept a physical logbook of daily happenings onboard. This is that logbook, revised, and with a ton of extra notes. https://hundredrabbits.itch.io/busy-doing-nothing 2021-02-17T17:45:48-07:00 i've been meaning to read these notes, maybe putting the book on my ereader will be a better reminder than whatever i did last time 😅 2021-02-17T17:48:32-07:00 seems like the \u2028 approach breaks some clients, maybe i will try another way https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/pull/166 2021-02-17T17:49:36-07:00 > counterpoint: it is now the year 2021. if folk were going to develop any infosec hygiene regarding the web browsers they'd have done it by now. ~djsundog 2021-02-17T17:52:59-07:00 mm yeah newlines without unicode is much better https://github.com/jointwt/twtxt/issues/215 2021-02-18T09:42:42-07:00 maybe i should update my kernel then i wanted to stick to lts, but that may not be an option. does alpine still have a hardened kernel? 2021-02-18T21:59:36-07:00 and pay a sin tax for the privilege 🙏 god bless america o7 2021-02-18T21:59:36-07:00 in the land of the free, i can only buy tequila at the state liquor store. 2021-02-19T09:32:28-07:00 reject modernity, embrace email 2021-02-19T10:10:15-07:00 https://linguistics.berkeley.edu/sei/progress-overview.html 2021-02-19T10:10:15-07:00 https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20248-mayan-update.pdf 2021-02-19T10:10:15-07:00 https://www.unicode.org/roadmaps/smp/ 2021-02-19T10:10:15-07:00 very happy to see progress on this front, i would love to use this as an opprotunity to go over my nawat learning materials again and copy them into a textual format using the new maya unicode allocations when they are ready 2021-02-19T11:32:46-07:00 i'm not malicious, i just expect you to be able to think for yourself. 2021-02-19T11:32:46-07:00 if you take my advice, be sure you know why. 2021-02-19T11:33:41-07:00 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 2021-02-19T11:35:55-07:00 weird shit is normal, what's weird is when folks think stability and permanence is normal. 2021-02-19T11:52:22-07:00 i get it. to a certain extent, stability benefits agricultural humans. by now that's baked into the culture quite deeply. sometimes it works even, but when things start to change nobody is prepared. things are supposed to change in an orderly fashion! they plea, horrified with the truth that we are not gods. we are not in charge, we are inhabitants of a world that can adapt to changes on a scale we can scarcely comprehend. 2021-02-19T12:06:24-07:00 i really need to make my own client so i can stop browsing random tw.txt pods 2021-02-19T14:39:18-07:00 i'd say in most cases, having another program in the mix is not the solution unless the problem is inherently technical and other software either misses the point, or solves a different (possibly overlapping) problem. its easy to think that hitting things with keyboards is a universal solution. especially if you have a lot of experience doing that. the common blindness of software people is the human elements that are often handled by other teams which eventually frame problems in technical terms for developers to deal with. then the naive developer goes home thinking they can replace the humans that make their work possible. 2021-02-19T21:09:18-07:00 yup, everything is coming together now 2021-02-19T21:34:39-07:00 keeping a local copy of my posts in tw.txt format :ok_hand: 2021-02-19T21:37:45-07:00 mostly for the purpose of offline / async posting, not so much as a backup microblogs are not very important in an archival sense, its more about the transient moment 2021-02-20T00:06:53-0700 (#) (#) well i'm not claiming to be solving any problem, i'm just writing software for fun :^) 2021-02-20T14:37:34-07:00 on second thought, fuck x86 and big computers. small simple and stupid is all i want to deal with anymore 2021-02-20T14:56:32-07:00 fighting spam and illegal/unethical content is much easier if you have explicit control over who you accept messages from. 2021-02-20T14:56:32-07:00 the spam problem can't be solved efficiently by maintaining extensive deny lists. the only scalable way to handle spam is with allow lists and trust networks. 2021-02-20T17:52:07-07:00 i guess another question is, do we need networking to be secure? or maybe should private messages be delivered another way? 2021-02-20T17:52:07-07:00 or maybe: instead of encrypting the transport, we make a habit of sharing encrypted files. 2021-02-21T15:10:38-07:00 my website is hosted on my laptop now, good luck everyone 2021-02-21T15:31:45-07:00 "rc is my new best friend" 2021-02-21T15:34:50-07:00 wait, can i just not quote this? 2021-02-22T09:36:24-07:00 and of course, we all know that apple went bankrupt in the mid 90s after they purchased Be, Inc. and gave steve jobs the finger. 2021-02-22T09:36:24-07:00 it was glorious and they left us with Haiku as a parting gift. 2021-02-22T09:36:24-07:00 no point in differentiating either. 2021-02-22T09:36:24-07:00 there's no difference between google, amazon, microsoft, or you know whatever other techbro CEO company you can think of 2021-02-22T12:24:34-07:00 oh you poor things. having more ways to pay for internet doesn't change anything and you know that. 2021-02-22T12:30:24-07:00 oh wow you made money that's amazing and not like every other fucking thing on the planet 2021-02-22T13:22:08-07:00 > Everything since has just been layers of monetized, corporate controlled, walled garden crap that has objectively ruined society and turned the techno-utopian dreams we had then into a dystopic Orwellian nightmare. 2021-02-22T13:22:08-07:00 > I've always said we peaked at the technology level of the late 90s. 2021-02-22T13:22:08-07:00 > We had everything we needed, and none of the BS; cell phones, e-mail, instant messaging, SMS, file sharing, blogs, forums, and broadband internet were all widespread at that point. 2021-02-22T15:46:55-07:00 fitness is a lifestyle, not an event 2021-02-22T15:47:49-07:00 the right way to run searx is on localhost 2021-02-23T13:46:51-07:00 elon musk is the new thomas edison 2021-02-23T13:57:24-07:00 i'm most interested in systems that are meant to stay small enough for folks to go build their own clients and servers easily and without big teams. 2021-02-23T13:57:24-07:00 of course, there are parts of doing any networked thing that require collaboration and that's GOOD. it just isn't often that projects encourage many alternate clients and server to be made. 2021-02-23T16:51:12-07:00 (#) depends on the direction that things end up going. at a certain point i am likely to consider the software done and i won't pick up additional features. i have added additional protocol support (mainly gemini right now, but my friend asked for 9p support and i'm happy to oblige), but generally i'm good with being compatible with mainline twtxt. 2021-02-23T16:51:12-07:00 (#) yup, that's why i'm writing my own client and eventually my own server ^^ 2021-02-23T16:54:46-07:00 (#) its a backhanded insult lol 2021-02-24T08:11:42-07:00 oh don't mind me, just porting srfi-1 to rc shell 2021-02-24T08:12:15-07:00 an rpi based computer with its own punishment! 2021-02-24T08:12:25-07:00 tfw boobs too small to suffocate anyone 2021-02-24T11:01:59-07:00 UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF LOVE💕 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugo6ASPVu9g 2021-02-24T11:24:36-07:00 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1353230/Bomb_Rush_Cyberfunk/ 2021-02-24T11:24:52-07:00 https://gamejolt.com/games/JSRFMP/336004 2021-02-25T09:35:35-07:00 @ (#) my client is coming along slowly. gemini://xj-ix.luxe/src/memex/memex-{fetch-twtxt,feed} its really barebones atm, but i'm getting close to the point where i can start thinking about ux and building a gemini cgi app for browsing. 2021-02-25T10:19:51-07:00 i am surprised when things are not utf8, please support unicode not everyone is speaking english you know. 2021-02-25T10:22:15-07:00 災害の̴女王dreamspace 2021-02-25T10:26:24-07:00 myself included, some stuff was coming across corrupted because one of my servers did not have its charset set to utf8 2021-02-25T11:00:30-07:00 𕅲 2021-02-25T13:07:19-07:00 porting my memex scripts to rc shell has been fun. having lists is huge, even if they can't be nested. 2021-02-25T14:44:22-07:00 computers bad 2021-02-25T15:00:30-07:00 Let's talk about a better plan for the teens at the border.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY9GkB8VUIM 2021-02-26T10:28:31-07:00 cyberpunk begins: NYPD have deployed robot dogs. Here's a guide on how to combat them if you get robo-attacked. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/02/guide-to-combat-against-robot-war-dogs/ 2021-02-28T13:21:18-07:00 made a sauce so spicy for dinner that the cast iron made my breakfast spicy too 2021-02-28T23:16:35-07:00 rapping in english is hard. i can do it, but its so much more work to grasp the flow. i can cover some aesop rock tracks and a struggle some, but then i'm just flowing in spanish. maybe i should just rap in spanish lmao 2021-03-01T09:54:30-07:00 i wonder if i can replace my uses of haproxy with iptables 🤔 generally its a yes, but i do need some SNI sniffing in there to direct the streams at the right hosts in yggdrasil. 2021-03-02T09:48:39-07:00 xj-ix.luxe is ONLINE, but missing some content. i am in the process of converting my bbweb proxy into a static site generator so i can just rsync the assets rather than host a daemon. https://git.hackers.town/xj9/bbnet/src/branch/bbweb 2021-03-02T11:12:55-07:00 (#) there's really nothing wrong with GMO as a technology. its not like we haven't been modifying organisms for thousands of years. the real issue, which is mentioned in this video, is the way intellectual property is handled wrt genetically modified organisms. i can agree with more research into the topic, but i certainly cannot get behind the idea that GMO bad. there are lots of positive applications of GMO that we miss out on with this view of biotech https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChemlife 2021-03-02T13:27:08-07:00 Genetically Modifying Yeast, Then Baking With Them! - Beta Carotene Yeast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHNPnO5UOYQ 2021-03-03T13:04:56-07:00 all major content sections for the abridged web mirror are being statically generated! 2021-03-03T18:26:43-07:00 nobody: WIP - an unholy fusion of FORTH and SCHEME gemini://xj-ix.luxe/wiki/2682/ 2021-03-04T11:21:20-07:00 it's not about why things evolve to crabs, i want to know why indie laptop projects always end up looking like macbooks. 2021-03-04T11:21:20-07:00 classic lack of imagination 2021-03-04T11:21:20-07:00 your source of inspiration: the expensive computer your work got you 2021-03-04T11:21:20-07:00 my source of inspiration: junk from a second-hand store (palm pilot, atari, super famicom, old school palm tops) 2021-03-04T11:26:38-07:00 I can't wait for this week to be over! It's just been one of those weeks — every human, every week ever 2021-03-04T11:34:12-07:00 (#) sms good https://silence.im email good https://delta.chat reject modernity, embrace tradition 2021-03-04T11:47:21-07:00 Let's talk about Congress limiting Biden - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivDc53KNAa0 2021-03-04T16:03:18-07:00 peak aesthetic https://mirror.xj-ix.luxe/files/peak-aesthetic.jpeg 2021-03-04T16:08:07-07:00 (#) i like this, but i also wonder if this is actually saving a significant amount of energy. i mean like, you have these servers which are solar powered, but the network they're connected to certainly is not. its definitely an interesting way to coordinate resources though. 2021-03-04T16:10:58-07:00 @ (#) i've no solutions, but that's definitely a problem that i've some interest in. the point-to-point design of IP really is a non-starter for something like that though. named-data networking is a more interesting direction, but there are still other challenges with wireless mesh that are not addressed by IP or NDN. 2021-03-04T17:25:25-07:00 one bad gloop and she do what i yoinky 2021-03-05T16:36:05-07:00 tfw you've been smoking weed (among other things 😼) with the same girl for 3 years and your heart still flutters when she give you blow backs https://mirror.xj-ix.luxe/files/blowback.gif 2021-03-06T09:46:09-07:00 9front sysupdate is running since like 12h ago. compiling an OS on rpi is maybe not the greatest idea, but i'm doing it anyway 2021-03-06T13:27:47-07:00 oh cool it didn't work. same error as building git9 so that's doubly nice