Update on my Fibre to the Premise upgrade (FTTP). NBN installer came out last week to install the NTD and Utility box, after some umming and arring, we figured out the best place to install it. However this mean he wasn’t able to look it up to the Fibre in the pit, and required a 2nd team to come up and trench a new trench and conduit and use that to feed Fibre from the pit to the utility box.

I rang up my ISP to find out when this 2nd team was booked, only to discover to my horror and the horror of my ISP that this was booked a month out on the 2rd Feb 2024! 😱

After a nice small note from my provider to NBN, suddenly I get a phone call and message from an NBN team that do trenching to say it would be done on Saturday (today). That got completed today (despite the heavy rain).

Now all that’s left is a final NBN tech to come and hook the two fibre pieces together and “light it up”! 🥳

@xuu@txt.sour.is Despite that these AoC math text problems are rather silly in my opinion (reminds me of an exercise in our math book where somebody wanted to carry a railroad rail around an L-shaped corner in the house and the question was how long that rail could be so that it still fits — sure, we’ve all carried several meter long railroad rails in our houses by ourselves numerous times…), these algorithms are really neat!

The best gift anyone could give me is the time to be able to finish reading some books.

On the book wishlist: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/10/thematic-book-series-how-to-downsize-a-transport-network/

http://cdg.neocities.org Come visit my website with a guest book and alternative news from around the world! ☻

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@New_scientist@feeds.twtxt.net because of course they have.

Emily Bender, a computational linguistic and excellent critic of this generative AI nonsense, uses an analogy of an oil spill to characterize what is happening as a result of generative AI. It’s polluting the world with false information, false images, false “academic” articles, false books. The companies that create this stuff are not cleaning up their misinformation spill; they’re letting the mess spread all over. It’s being used to commit crimes, and that’ll only get worse. Just like an out of control oil spill will destroy entire ecosystems.

An official FBI document dated January 2021, obtained by the American association “Property of People” through the Freedom of Information Act.

This document summarizes the possibilities for legal access to data from nine instant messaging services: iMessage, Line, Signal, Telegram, Threema, Viber, WeChat, WhatsApp and Wickr. For each software, different judicial methods are explored, such as subpoena, search warrant, active collection of communications metadata (“Pen Register”) or connection data retention law (“18 USC§2703”). Here, in essence, is the information the FBI says it can retrieve:

• Apple iMessage: basic subscriber data; in the case of an iPhone user, investigators may be able to get their hands on message content if the user uses iCloud to synchronize iMessage messages or to back up data on their phone.

• Line: account data (image, username, e-mail address, phone number, Line ID, creation date, usage data, etc.); if the user has not activated end-to-end encryption, investigators can retrieve the texts of exchanges over a seven-day period, but not other data (audio, video, images, location).

• Signal: date and time of account creation and date of last connection.

• Telegram: IP address and phone number for investigations into confirmed terrorists, otherwise nothing.

• Threema: cryptographic fingerprint of phone number and e-mail address, push service tokens if used, public key, account creation date, last connection date.

• Viber: account data and IP address used to create the account; investigators can also access message history (date, time, source, destination).

• WeChat: basic data such as name, phone number, e-mail and IP address, but only for non-Chinese users.

• WhatsApp: the targeted person’s basic data, address book and contacts who have the targeted person in their address book; it is possible to collect message metadata in real time (“Pen Register”); message content can be retrieved via iCloud backups.

• Wickr: Date and time of account creation, types of terminal on which the application is installed, date of last connection, number of messages exchanged, external identifiers associated with the account (e-mail addresses, telephone numbers), avatar image, data linked to adding or deleting.

TL;DR Signal is the messaging system that provides the least information to investigators.

Speaking of men getting owned, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on authoritarianism who wrote the book Strongmen, regularly calls out and degrades wannabe dictators like Elon Musk and it’s cathartic to witness.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was visiting Germany once, and saw a guy try to load his bicycle onto the bike racks they have on the front of city buses. There were rules about when you could do that, which were posted on the bus stop sign, and I guess the guy thought this was a time when he could do that. But no, the bus driver disagreed. The bus driver got off the bus with a rule book, flipped it open to what I guess were the rules about bikes on the bus, and showed him the rules. The guy pointed at the sign, the bus driver said no and pointed at the book, and they went back and forth for I don’t know how long. It felt a lot like these videos lol

There is a Polish saying that great Polish literature requires three people to suffer: the main character, the writer and the reader. If all three are suffering book becomes part of the school curriculum. A genius at suffering | Hacker News

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new version (1.0.4) of introduction to uxn programming e-book: launcher and raw runes | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html

Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless type. She doesn’t stand there and scream helplessly. She makes other people do that Look, sir, I know Angua. She’s not the useless… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books

Read the first 50 pages, if the author hasn’t earned your attention by then, you can stop reading. You’ll never read all the good books anyway, don’t waste your time on the bad ones. Reading fast, reading well, and reading widely (2020) | Hacker News

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create autocratic dynasties. Autocratic dynasties create supernumerary bureaucracies. Supernumerary bureaucracies create eunuch castes. Eunuch castes create drama. Drama creates Heavenly displeasure. Heavenly displeasure creates hard times. Book Review: 1587, a Year of No Significance | Hacker News

Spent the afternoon updating my tilde and now it is time to unwind with some meditation and a book!

I’m reminded today that books are still a great form of entertainment. Secondhand books in particular are always plentiful and cheap–a big plus in times of supply chain squeezes and rampant inflation.

I started adding a list of books that changed my life to my tilde at http://tilde.club/~melyanna/library/

📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur

📚 Finished reading Books that Matter: The Analects of Confucius by Robert André LaFleur

new version of our introduction to uxn e-book with the screen auto byte and other updates in varvara devices | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html

Alright, check this out. I just kinda completed today’s project of converting a jeans into a saw bag. It’s not fully done, the side seams on the flap need some more hand sewing, that’s for sure. No, I don’t have a sewing machine. Yet?

At first I wanted to put in the saw on the short side, but that would have made for more sewing work and increased material consumption. As a Swabian my genes force me to be very thrifty. Slipping in on the long side had the benefit of using the bottom trouser leg without any modification at all. The leg tapers slightly and gets wider and wider the more up you go. At the bottom it’s not as extreme as at the top.

The bag is made of two layers of cloth for extra durability. The double layers help to hide the inner two metal snap fastener counter parts, so the saw blade doesn’t get scratched. Not a big concern, but why not doing it, literally no added efforts were needed. Also I reckon it cuts off the metal on metal clinking sounds.

The only downside I noticed right after I pressed in the receiving ends of the snap fasteners is that the flap overhangs the bag by quite a lot. I fear that’s not really user-friendly. Oh well. Maybe I will fold it shorter and sew it on. Let’s see. The main purpose is to keep the folding saw closed, it only locks in two open positions.

Two buttons would have done the trick, with three I went a bit overkill. In fact the one in the middle is nearly sufficient. Not quite, but very close. But overkill is a bit my motto. The sides making up the bag are sewed together with like five stitch rows. As said in the introduction, the flap on the hand needs some more love.

Oh, and if I had made it in a vertical orientation I would have had the bonus of adding a belt loop and carrying it right along me. In the horizontal layout that’s not possible at all. The jeans cloth is too flimsy, the saw will immediately fall out if I open the middle button. It’s not ridgid enough. Anyways, I call it a success in my books so far. Definitely had some fun.

https://book.keybase.io/docs/chat/crypto

I would HIGHLY recommend reading up on the keybase architecture. They designed device key system for real time chat that is e2e secure. https://book.keybase.io/security

A property of ec keys is deriving new keys that can be determined to be “on curve.” bitcoin has some BIPs that derive single use keys for every transaction connected to a wallet. And be derived as either public or private chains. https://qvault.io/security/bip-32-watch-only-wallets/

updated our introduction to uxn e-books with a new table formatting and some minor corrections | https://compudanzas.net/publications.html

published our ebook: introduction to uxn programming! | https://compudanzas.net/introduction_to_uxn_programming_book.html

We all strive to be like the others - more exactly, like the others, but better. (Chapter 2) Book Review: The End of Average - LessWrong

I’m doing this thing again where I am collecting more articles and books to read than actual doing any reading.

The Weaving The Web Book by Tim Berners-Lee should be a required read for anyone building on the Web.

Decided to keep the smart-phone out of our bedroom and keep a note book instead. Already feeling lighter and fresher.

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 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net yep!some of the lexer is directly copied from monkey-lang. love that book series.

Money makes people happier than psychotherapy. 52 things I learned in 2020. This year I edited another book, worked… | by Tom Whitwell | Fluxx Studio Notes | Dec, 2020 | Medium

Being misunderstood is a great temporary moat. I could write a book on this, but suffice it to say, I didn’t have confidence in my own vision until I took the time to really look at others and realized that the main difference between me and the average idiot was that I had bothered to look at the ideas of other idiots at all. It was like their entire ontology had become an ant farm. It was the moment I realized, I am a super-idiot. I only half joke, because becoming a super-idiot liberated me from the perfectionism and the addiction to approval that caused a stultifying and primal narcissistic fear of criticism. If you are struggling with this, take it from someone on the other side of it: It’s ok, you’re an idiot. The Strength of Being Misunderstood | Hacker News

Probably career suicidal (never admit it in your application) but honestly the thing I’ve found helps is just not caring about work at all. It’s like the equivalent to acceptance in grief. Get the day done, look forward to the weekend, when you book time off make sure to book the following Monday. I’ll do the job as best I can for as long as I’m paid but if you think I’m here for any reason other than money to pay the bills you’re completely delusional. Survey: The average worker experiences career burnout – by the age of 32 | Hacker News

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News

When people are born, they all start good, but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!“. Translation Dr. Linebarger, aka Cordwainer Smith Ask HN: Which book helped you understand the world? | Hacker News

Geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck in it. Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay Geography is only physics slowed down and with a… - Quotes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Books

https://book.hacktricks.xyz/windows/active-directory-methodology/acl-persistence-abuse

https://book.hacktricks.xyz/pentesting/5985-5986-pentesting-winrm

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#til https://www.edelweiss.plus book catalog platform

Mu’s translator is growing complex. Lots of book-keeping for entering/exiting scopes: https://mastodon.social/@akkartik/103053133325948545

@metamurks@www.metamurks.org if you like Amazon for used books, try Alibris.

I came across the idea of a Book of Shadows and, with benefit of ignorance, compared it to the idea of a personal wiki.

I’ve been learning C from the second edition C Programming Language book by Kernighan and Ritchie. Good times.

📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald

📚 Finished reading The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons by David Fitzgerald