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• The same set of guides has Homebrew only instructions for installing Ruby — but I do need separate versions

Email is not a tool for thought.

• The link goes to Bill French post on LinkedIn Jan 28th, 2020 , actually in reference to using the Superhuman email client
• There’s a fun tidbit at the end:

  • 74 trillion email messages were sent last year. That’s about 500 million since you started reading this article. Even if a small fraction contains important nuggets of smartness, that’s a lot of good knowledge heading to the grave.

One thing about X, so-called, is that it’s become its own genuinely dystopian experience, and is guaranteed to become more so, which is in itself an interesting experience. For the privileged, at least (the privileged having been experiencing dystopia all along).

This is a list of things I think are important to understand if you’re new to Mastodon. A lot of how Mastodon works isn’t immediately clear, but the effects of how it’s designed can have a big impact on your experience.

ActivityPub is not really one thing. There’s the ActivityPub spec itself, but also ActivityStreams, HTTP Signatures, WebFinger, JSON-LD, and the working group note on authentication.

ActivityPub is too hard for most people to implement on a whim. What would it take to allow developers to create something that sits on the fediverse inside of an afternoon?

We’ve also seen various contributors start to face financial hardships given the lack of funding available for their crucially important work. I know this first hand, as my personal savings being decimatedwhilst I struggle to make contributing to the fediverse sustainable — and I’m not alone here.

after four revolutions replacing manual labour, the new technologies have found an enormous new territory to mechanise: mental labour! This has led MIT’s Brynjolfsson and McAfee and many others to consider it as the beginning of a ‘second machine age’. Nevertheless, even if that can prolong the experimental installation period, it should not stop a golden age from being unleashed.

Launched two years ago, it’s an open-source internet protocol that relies on cryptography to encode details about the origins of a piece of content, or what technologists refer to as “provenance” information.

The project, part of the nonprofit Joint Development Foundation, was started by Adobe, Arm, Intel, Microsoft, and Truepic, which formed the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (from which C2PA gets its name). Over 1,500 companies are now involved in the project through the closely affiliated open-source community, Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI), including ones as varied and prominent as Nikon, the BBC, and Sony.

In practice, this means you’re trading being vulnerable to the whims of centralized corporate services and rich weirdos for…being vulnerable to the whims of whatever rando spins up a server, unlessmigration is speedy, comprehensive, and safe. That’s why it matters that migration is both clunky and surprisingly lossy.

This is the affordance loop: Communities shape tools that shape communities, surrounded by everything happening in the world around us.

delv checks the DNSSEC validation chain using the same code that is used by the BIND 9 DNS server itself. Compared to  dig +sigchase, delv is much closer to what really happens inside a DNS server.

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• Yep that did it

• It links to other implementations (including #DGJ )
  • https://github.com/jhvanderschee/brackettest is “a repository proves that Jekyll allows Wiki-style links using just Liquid”

This is your semi-regular reminder that TextTile is a superior to MarkDown in every way: https://textile-lang.com

• activitypublink:: https://pkm.social/@austingovella/110758903297595720

The past few days, I wrote a thing that makes it easier to run personal & self-hosted services securely: https://boinkor.net/2023/07/tsnsrv-or-easily-accessing-services-on-your-tailscale-network/

Pretty excited about this, as it eliminates about 80kB of generated nginx config and replaces it with about 20 short shell commandlines.

• ActivityPubLink:: https://recurse.social/@antifuchs/110749421327715959

The new Llama 2 model has an additional licensing requirement which prevents use if you have >700M MAUs, which is an oddly high number. OpenAI’s ChatGPT hit 100 million MAUs in January, and has gone down since. It’s essentially a “Amazon and Google don’t use this k thx.”

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• twitterlink:: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/1681337241740910594

FB adding riders to “open” source licenses tells me they are consciously engaging in open source to commoditize their compliments

• discordlink:: https://discord.com/channels/1003419732516552724/1006037244815089715/1130905569457340488
• Joel Spolsky Strategy Letter V aka the commoditize your compliments post
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• It defines small business usage for which no paid license is required:
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• Needs to run tailscale cert on the docker container

• the bit i was trying to get at is the tendency to “structure/nodeify all the things” when using graph tools like logseq/roam—was wondering how much it pays off for the kind of notes you take
• why it still seems to be hard on mobile
• why publishing notes seems to keep turning into heavy js apps
• not that those things are bad, but if the tools are meant to support your process then how might it do so sustainably/effortlessly without lapses.

• Hyperdraft, Rosano’s note taking app
• My write up about my note taking practice and questions from Rosano from yesterday
• Anytype just launched — a note taking / tool for thought, which lets you create custom structured types
• The 2022 edition of my digital garden site, from the colophon
• Rosano’s digital garden is at https://rosano.hmm.garden/, powered by his own Garden software
• Gordon Brander is doing a good job of combining blog posts with also other information, and linking back to previously published things on the Subconscious Substack
• Stock and Flow is the title of an influential article by Robin Sloan that was much discussed in the blogosphere at the time; lots of relevance for Digital Garden structures and note taking, as well as notes vs blogs and so on

• Becky setup the Craig Recording Bot, which is a really great and powerful multi track audio recording tool

• As does Publish LogSeq from Mobile
• But, it’s a single 40MB+ index.html file!
• And, “article” publishing isn’t really great. Ideally I could throw a tag or property onto a page and get a better article version.

• I do it for me first, as I have always done for blogging, too
• I have notes like this that I can come back to, and especially how to’s or install details, are very useful
• I hope to get better at “asking questions of my notes”
• If I’m going to write something up to share with someone, chances are its useful for other people, so why not publish it so it can be easily shared
• My style for personal stuff is pretty documentarian heavy — so BMC/Microblog is adventures and food
• Questions I ask of my foodwiki and microblog are along the lines of “where were we last year” or “what was that place that Rosano took us to on south Main”
• Long ago and far away, I got excited by blogging and publishing because I connected with other people, a lot!
• I think I owe a lot to blogging
• I say I was one of the first 1000 bloggers — no idea if that was true; but that’s how “small” the people publishing in 2001 felt
  • We read each others’ blogs, and re-blogged, and commented, and wrote back and forth, with a cadence of days/weeks
• Also: it was the beginning of SEO, and it was exciting that my Drupal blog ranked highly for a ton of things, so I had people stop by and comment from all over
• Most of these feelings / interactions have been eaten by broadcast social media and cozy web spaces like Discord servers or Signal groups
• But, it’s hard to use posts into social media as an archive even just for yourself when its on someone else’s platform
• Using BMC/Microblog, I have it set to cross-publish to my #CoSocial Mastodon account and to #Bluesky
  • MicroBlog I have high confidence that I can export from
  • With CoSocial and Bluesky, I am leaning into them more also because I “trust” that that content will persist: both socially (CoSocial is a co-op I help run and I know it’s backed up) and technically (I own my username on Bluesky, and their AT Protocol/Personal Data Server model means I’ll eventually run my own)
  • But: the content isn’t here so it’s not searchable or cross-indexable to the rest of the #Second Brain here unless I link to it / copy it here
• And chat is ephemeral. At best, you write stuff here and drop it into social media or chat — so you have a copy, and that at least has a chance of being discoverable by others

• Build A Portable Lab In The Cloud Using Tailscale, Terraform and DigitalOcean #Terraform #homelab #Digital Ocean
  • Not quite ready to go Terraform although it’s a good idea
  • Will install #nginx apt-get install -y nginx
• Tailscale Based VPN on DigitalOcean Droplet #Tailscale #Digital Ocean
  • Not going to use most of this, but let’s start by installing Tailscale
  • curl -fsSL https://tailscale.com/install.sh | sh
  • What I should have done is tailscale up --advertise-exit-node but needed to do it afterwards
  • And now IP Forwarding needs to be enabled
  • I’m not following the firewall steps, at least not yet

• Those Docker services including the Nextcloud AIO restarted and are connected to Tailscale again, but it skipped some sort of setup step and is now asking for an admin login, so I’ll need to delete / re-run those docker containers I guess
• And, use gateway.bmann.ca as the domain? or nextcloud.bmann.ca or something
• Which is the part I need to figure out with Tailscale

We’re in a post printing press, post telephone world.

But we’re in the messy middle of figuring out the Internet.

What do we need to work on?

Engaging with and understanding the “governance stack” that both includes physical wires & servers and hard national borders and laws…

…and all the other software stuff that’s sort of everywhere.

Robin Berjon calls this The Internet Transition:

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bluesky:: https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3k2lde2kel22t activitypub:: https://cosocial.ca/@boris/110720460767823365

• Installed the Tailscale plugin for Docker/Desktop
• Install Homebrew
• Oh yeah, don’t even have shell aliases here 🤪
• time passes as I have fun updating a bunch of old LogSeq notes and pages

• Searched a bunch of #Tailscale stuff, which is mostly people saying “I’m not quite sure what I’m doing”
• I searched for AIO in Docker Desktop hub
• You can’t edit env vars in Docker Desktop? You just delete and try again?
• Couldn’t get it running using the graphical interface, did get it running using this command
• docker run --sig-proxy=false --name nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer --restart always --publish 8080:8080 --env APACHE_PORT=11000 --env APACHE_IP_BINDING=0.0.0.0 --env NEXTCLOUD_MOUNT=/Users/bmann/Documents/Nextcloud --volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config --volume /var/run/docker.sock.raw:/var/run/docker.sock:ro nextcloud/all-in-one:latest
• That includes the raw socket needed on MacOS
• Can’t quite figure out what IP address to use / what Tailscale settings are needed to get to the right port
• Can access it with https://127.0.0.1:8080 — but shows an error on localhost because it’s not using https
• Various other Tailscale DNS and IP addresses do work, but stuck at figuring out a real domain name
• There doesn’t seem to be any definitive guides that can be found by searching

• mastodon:: https://cosocial.ca/@boris/110681788599605945

  • I have a Mac Mini running MacOS Ventura (the last Intel version).

    My plan is to run it as the main server for a home lab now that I have a 100Mbps uplink.

    I think I’m going to run Docker for some things that I currently host on Digital Ocean, and add a kind of Gateway Server on DO that has a static IP, does caching, and a few other things.

    Anyone else have ideas on what to run from a home lab, especially on #MacOS

• Scott Nelson pointed to Headscale over Tailscale The Homelab Show https://thehomelab.show/2022/07/21/the-homelab-show-ep-64-tailscale-and-headscale/
• FreedomBox
  • I took a look but it looks mostly out of date. Of the apps included, the blog and the wiki seem extremely basic compared to what I’m used to
• Nextcloud was mentioned several times. I’ve been meaning to learn about administering this, especially in context of perhaps running it to support operations (and maybe members?) at #CoSocial
• I don’t really feel the need to run Pihole
• Jeff Henshaw says SyncThing
  • Longer discussion here, the majority of my files sync through iCloud and… it’s fine?
• Various people pointed at Home Assistant. I live in an apartment and don’t really have anything home automation wise
• Jason Cornick gave a whole list of stuff, the interesting ones of which I created local pages for here
  • mastodon:: https://hachyderm.io/@cornickj/110681867155829314

  • Boris I’m using homepage , pihole, bookstack , miniflux , audio bookshelf, actualbudget, it-tools and [home-assistant](Home Assistant). All running great in docker. I use Tailscale to securely connect to them all remotely, so I don’t need to open any inbound firewall holes.

  • He’s running everything on Docker, and also pointed at Watchtower for automating updates to the container images

There’s no reason to silo AI chat away from human chat.

• error "components/tryghost-adapter-cache-redis-5.40.1.tgz": Tarball is not in network and can not be located in cache

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies node
brew uninstall --force node

• brew install nvm