Daily Journal 📓

• docker login gives me

• WARNING! Your password will be stored unencrypted in ~/.docker/config.json.
  Configure a credential helper to remove this warning. See
  https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store

• OK, I’ll look at that later

• DEPRECATED: The legacy builder is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
              Install the buildx component to build images with BuildKit:
              https://docs.docker.com/go/buildx/

• Let’s see if brew has this, yep brew install docker-buildx
• With some advice about linking it into ~/.docker/cli-plugins
• New error: ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
• Ugh. I guess I actually do have to install Docker on this Apple/Macbook Air M1 2020 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44084846/cannot-connect-to-the-docker-daemon-on-macos

• Google Cloud and OAuth apps are just… extremely complicated https://cal.com/docs/introduction/quick-start/self-hosting/install-apps/google
• I can add up to 100 users in test mode, which seems like lots if anyone else wants to share a Cal.com instance
• I like that Cal.com can in fact setup weekly limits for bookings
• My remaining wishlist item for this is to be able to select daily / weekly limits across all event types!

• These Jitsi servers are pretty basic, unclear how much load there actually is?

• Looking at storage usage on #Cloudron, Tools for Thought Rocks/Mastodon is at 8GB
  • This will be mostly cached media attachments
  • For reference, #CoSocial goes through 2TB of cached media attachments per month, with about 100 users

1. Do the work required to have an opinion

2. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind

3. Cultivate intellectual humility

4. Choose your words carefully

5. Be kind, even if you are right

"v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100"

• Got an error, filed a bug

• wget --adjust-extension --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links   --recursive  --user-agent "Googlebot" https://venturescouts.ca

• Google Domains has been sold to Squarespace so I need to migrate away from there, as a future to do
• Not really that comfortable with Namecheap any more

• It’s got quite a lot of setup steps, I’ll have to go back and see about getting Google integration going

Community is a resource. Maybe we should stop mining it. One reason I’m here is because I believe that well-architected, user-centric social media can be regenerative of community instead of extractive.

• When a message arrives, it feels like (and this requires real precision and control) you have just received a long rambly email from a (very smart, hugely successful) friend.

  Lorde’s messages do not belong to the internet of Twitter or Instagram; they don’t belong to the internet of Substack, either. You can’t link to them! So they aren’t even part of the World Wide Web — not really. They constitute their own special thing.

• I won’t quote Sloan quoting Lorde, but it’s excellent

Oozification is a process that makes the technological future visibly *illegible, *especially to those closest to it and working hardest to make it happen, and this fear is the temporal analog of high-modernist fear of illegibility.

• /opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl ipfs://bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3doro7ydrevyr2mzarwidgadawmamiteydbzi | ffplay

• That should fetch the Big Buck Bunny movie encoded as #webm video, using a local IPFS gateway
• I didn’t alias curl over system curl, so that’s the full path of where the HEAD version of curl is installed for me using #Homebrew

• I used brew install curl --HEAD to get the newest curl, installed at /opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl
• I used IPFS Desktop to run a local IPFS node
• I ran this one liner, which will download the hash representing and output it to a file named bigbuckbunny.webm in the directory where you run the command

  • /opt/homebrew/opt/curl/bin/curl ipfs://bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3doro7ydrevyr2mzarwidgadawmamiteydbzi --output bigbuckbunny.webm

  • You’ll see a progress bar in your terminal
    • 
  • And if we look, you’ll see incoming bandwith to IPFS Desktop
    • 
  • On MacOS, double clicking the file will open and play it in a browser like Chrome which has webm video support
  • You’ve just tested IPFS support in curl!
• Exploring Big Buck Bunny with IPFS Desktop
  • It’s also available in your local IPFS node now, so if you paste in the hash into IPFS Desktop bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3doro7ydrevyr2mzarwidgadawmamiteydbzi and hit browse, it will prompt you to open it with your local gateway
  • 
  • Your local gateway link is this: http://bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3doro7ydrevyr2mzarwidgadawmamiteydbzi.ipfs.localhost:8080/ — and it will play directly in your browser
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  • If you select the “More” button, you get a drop down of options
  • 
  • I picked “Set pinning” so that I can help keep Big Buck Bunny online. The next time someone fetches it, my desktop might be helping to serve up the bits
  • 
  • I’ve got this 160MB file saved locally, and I also sent it to Web3Storage

• fplay ipfs://bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3doro7ydrevyr2mzarwidgadawmamiteydbzi

• On #MacOS, you’ll need to use brew or similar to install ffmpeg for that to work
• And Mark had one more for me:

• mpv ipfs://bafybeigagd5nmnn2iys2f3doro7ydrevyr2mzarwidgadawmamiteydbzi

  • mpv also just works. There you see the power of re-using implementations. mpv knows nothing about it besides white-listing ipfs and ipns, it uses ffmpeg internally and just forwards it. https://mpv.io/

    it also has a mac version https://mpv.io/installation/

Several people I follow are actively trying to move users from Twitter/X to alternatives, but I don’t hear about exciting new features, and I do hear about them being kind of dead. Fragmenting the networks seems value-destructive for the world; is it really just to spite Elon? https://x.com/id_aa_carmack/status/1699060703272010047

• Global Fusion
• Some quantum startups like DWave and Qubit
• New focus on biotech in Mount Pleasant, anchored by Abcellera
• Apparently MDA has the new contract for a #LEO network?

• Recommended Revolver, Nemesis, and Timbertrain as three local coffee shops that are excellent

• The bird was bad for sharing original music; let’s try Bluesky… Tribute to David Lynch: finger drumming on the Ableton Push, some keyboards for bass and organ, then a layer of guitar. Image is Berlin’s Landwehr Kanal in winter, manipulated with pixel-sorting software I wrote in Clojure. https://bsky.app/profile/jackrusher.com/post/3k56gkjsllc2c

In April 2023, I began working with the Interledger Foundation as a technical ambassador to advance Web Monetization in Mastodon and other applications using ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a W3C standard that adds a social layer to the Web platform. It enables any website or app to have social networking functionality that can interoperate with other websites and apps. Instead of everyone having to join one social network, people can now pick a social network provider like they can pick an email provider. My project’s goal is to adapt Web Monetization to work within federated social networks with Mastodon being the reference implementation.

Community notes is a sort of hope-pill for me. It feels like it’s on its way to becoming a positive example of people making sense together over the internet. Gordon Brander

Subconscious is local-first software. Your data lives on your device, so you always have it with you. It’s also synced to IPFS, a decentralized network. This means you have the multiplayer features of a cloud app, but you own your data, and have credible exit through your device, or any IPFS peer.

Noosphere is open like email, or the web. Anyone can run a node, and developers can build new tools on top. But it also goes a step further, using self-certifying cryptography and decentralized protocols to eliminate the need for any centralized authority. That means you own your data forever. Noosphere is a knowledge commons for thinking freely with others.

Terraform was open-sourced in 2014 under the Mozilla Public License (v2.0) (the “MPL”). Over the next ~9 years, it built up a community that included thousands of users, contributors, customers, certified practitioners, vendors, and an ecosystem of open-source modules, plugins, libraries, and extensions. Then, on August 10th, 2023, with little or no advance notice or chance for much, if not all, of the community to have any input, HashiCorp switched the license for Terraform from the MPL to the Business Source License (v1.1) (the “ BUSL ”), a non-open source license. In our opinion, this change threatens the entire community and ecosystem that’s built up around Terraform over the last 9 years.

Our concern: the BUSL license is a poison pill for Terraform.