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a tinylog by: @smallpatatas@gemini.patatas.ca
trying to get tootik running on the same server as a bunch of other things. it's *mostly* working, but I think there's some sort of port issue or TLS Cert conflict and I can't figure it out.
cool - just added pagination to this tinylog :))
Astonishing what ADHD meds can do once you find a dose that's about right - and not, for example, double what you really need. Pretty sure I've read more books in the last couple months than I did in the previous decade, maybe longer. Mind still wanders off pretty regularly, but not, like, after every few sentences anymore. A relief, but also a bit sad, since my life might've taken a very different path had I been diagnosed as a teen or young adult.
Now, somewhat paradoxically, it's the desire to make up for lost time, and frantically consume, that is the biggest barrier to getting in the mental flow for an extended period. Need to let go of that. I can't change the past.
added matrix to my server last night. Bunch more fiddling than I'm used to, but seems to be working!
Bit of a memory hog though, considering how little I'm doing with it. Might see if it's possible to reduce what it's getting allocated?
Have been thinking about doing two things lately, that I might try to combine into one:
first one that I've been mulling over is to create a very crude 'relay' for Gemini, something in-between Antenna and BBS, like, Antenna but you can subscribe to topics. Explicit opt-in, and moderated.
The other - I've been wanting to read Søren Mau's 'Mute Compulsion' for a while, but probably need the social pressure of a reading group to do it, and also my grasp of Marxist theory is rudimentary at best.
So maybe a dedicated relay that requires a login (or really, a persistent identity) to view the messages?
or could just use matrix for that, and make the relay thing seperately
Hopped back into CS50x recently and loving it again. Python is amazing to learn after C. Even typing it is physically easier, by a mile. SQL is neat too!
It's gradually become clear as to the corporate influence over the curriculum though, especially with the Spotify stuff in Week 7's 'listener aura' calculation, something that reduces the art of music to a list of metrics, and makes the experience of music listening into a (no pun intended) purely instrumentalized relationship, where music is only there to serve as a tool to boost a listener's focus, productivity, energy, etc.
Sure, we can and do use music in this way - but the real magic happens when music defies our expectations.
Struggling with this probably-stupid question about allyship. Is it fair of me (a mostly-straight, mostly-cis white guy) to hide behind a pseudonym online, given that many queer, trans, and BIPOC folks who do use their real names may risk becoming targets simply for existing online, and/or speaking up on their own behalf?
No doubt there's lots of possible reasons for using a pseudonym, even for people with similar privilege, not trying to handwave that away entirely. I just worry that personally, maybe I'm not really standing shoulder-to-shoulder with less-privileged folks if I do.
tbh I should consider it a luxury to be able to ask this question. Which means maybe I already know the answer? Hm.
Meredith Whittaker is 100% right here, and we've done basically nothing about it, in just over year since she called it out:
and I'm tempted to put it in even more explicit terms: these still-accelerating, otherwise un-recoupable AI infrastructure investments - gen AI, for instance, is losing these companies billions with no path to profitability - are poised to become the fully realized merging of state surveillance/control with corporate surveillance capitalism.
A terrifying thought. Frankly I'm not sure if governments still have enough power to prevent it if they wanted to. Just look at Musk's antics.
(actually it was when I was uploading a recipe but whatevs)
ah crappity crap - when I uploaded my server's files from my laptop (to add a gemlog post) I overwrote my recent tinylog entries.
silly me. time to make a cron job for backups I guess