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As you may or may not know, I run the XMPP server for circumlunar.space. In general, I really like XMPP, but it has a few shortcomings. One of the real drawbacks involves the use of multiple clients. As originally configured, the circumlunar.space Prosody server would deliver your messages to the last active client -- and only to that client. So each client only had parts of conversations. I recently learned that XMPP supports message carbons, so I have added that module, and the server now supports them: each client will send a copy of both incoming and outgoing messages to the others. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work unless you're logged in on all the clients (at least, that's my experience so far). I usually close my laptop when I'm not using it, so it ends up offline a lot -- and I guess I still won't have all of my messages on every device. A solution would be to limit myself to a single device, but I prefer to use the laptop when I'm at home. We now have three users (including Solderpunk and myself) on www.circumlunar.space, and I've set up the first sftp account on the server. So far so good. Check out Julienxx's page[1]. It's got a cool retro-green CRT feel to it. I've decided that I'm going to learn a real programming language. Back in the 80s, I knew a bit of BASIC and Turbo Pascal. A couple of years ago, I learned a lot of Javascript. The book Eloquent Javacript[2] is a great resource if you're interested. I learned Javascript in order to do some webOS and web app programming, but it's really frustrating because of the constraints around file access (which make a lot of sense!) and the arcane 'dialects' you have to learn to do anything useful (I hate you, Mojo and Enyo!). Anyways, I want to learn something practical and relatively friendly to dabblers. I considered Python, Go, and Rust, and in the end, I think I'm going to try Rust. I'll report back on the experience. On another note, after reading John Jewitt's account of his enslavement by the Nuu-Chah-Nulth[3], I ended up reading the (sometimes heavily edited for publication) logs of Richard Cleveland (a trader), and James Cook and George Vancouver (explorers). After doing so, I have a new respect for Jewitt, who demonstrated amazing cultural respect given the era and his situation. All of the books are well out of copyright, so I should post them here at some point, or at least post a set of links. Eschew your civil right, Sundogs! [1] https://www.circumlunar.space/~julienxx. [2] https://eloquentjavascript.net/ [3] gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/%7evisiblink/phlog/20190413