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experiments in online gardening permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry all labels are temporary [bridged from https://sunbeam.city/@notplants on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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someone holding a box of girl scout thin mint cookies could easily train me to fetch

a lot going on in this page from "gay berlin: birthplace of a modern identity" by robert beachy

had a dream last night where a friend was telling me about the infinite potential of ai and i was showing her a @cwebber post and explaining that being especially good at producing convincing-sound falsehoods was inherently a non-trivial and not inconsequential issue

making software have no bugs down to very small details is a form of craftsmanship and devotion that more open source software projects could prioritize above new features

one of the best pieces of writing on atproto architecture. if you enjoyed the blog posts that @dustyweb.bsky.social and I exchanged, you should read this!

at the coffee shop, the table next to me they are discussing authoritarianism, global hegemony, the mental health of public figures. they have interesting opinions and seem to be getting along, the date seems to be going well

seems sort of tragic that humans have made so much beautiful music, and the average cafe or grocery store feels like a sonically hostile place to me

wondering about the connection between neurotypes and musical interests and niche neurotype groups

is there a tool that lets u share a playlist in whatever platform you listen to music, and it makes a link with duplicated versions of that playlist on every other music platform? so when you send someone a playlist it doesnt say anything about how they should listen to it? posse for playlists?

taking a splinter out of the bottom of your foot is such a concrete, direct and relieving feeling

in the parking lot at the 7/11 listening to ambient music waiting to meet up with a friend, winter sun is bright, ice is melting on the windows

i feel like some descriptions of crdts are making impossibly utopian promises in confusing technical and human "consitency guarantees" (or maybe im missing something)

the whir of the computer fan is a reminder (fill in the blank)

while i was carrying a large bag of groceries, my roommate (my grandmother) called me over to show her how to retract a mechanical pencil lol

weird computer thing: (my tiny version of uncovering the xz exploit) while looking into a very specific bug in lichen-markdown, encountered a weird thing in inspector where stylesheet link was being replaced with this weird string that mentions […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

being a caretaker of different servers, all with private ssh keys on the laptop, feels like being a node in root network. such a direct connection across long stretches of space

i think my sense of smell has improved / im starting to have day-dreams about home-crafted laundry detergents

again thinking about friendship as a solidarity infastructure

recurring relevance in different waves https://xkcd.com/743/

just went for a walk and a pickup truck pulled down their window to call me a faggot ... makes one appreciate all the times that did not happen lol

helped apply a sunbeam.city update for the first time just now and posting this to make sure this thing is still on

some time ago created a telegram bot that runs on my homeserver which allows me to reboot it, open an ngrok tunnel, or just show a sign of life, and was happy that when my zerotier tunnel I was using to remotely access the server randomly stopped working i was able to use the telegram bot to […]

appreciating this project https://www.yoyolin.com/resiliencejournal

curious how long a lenovo thinkcentre basement server will live for and what will be the astrology on the day of its last breath

somehow used ncspot for months assuming you had to use keyboard shortcuts and there was no mouse interaction ... then yesterday realized you could use the mouse and was happy about it lol

enjoyed learning that `&'a T` used to be considered contravariant wrt 'a, because 'static was considered as the "highest" (supertype) with all the other lifetimes below it, but then in 2014 they switched the terminology so that 'static was considered the "lowest" (a subtype of all the other […]

T, &T, and &mut T are all infinite sets, since it's possible to borrow a type ad-infinitum. T is a superset of both &T and &mut T. &T and &mut T are disjoint sets.

yesterday a friend got me excited about figure skating while skating at an outdoor rink with them

a question for people who like running untrustworthy software: on debian, whats the easiest way to run a piece of untrusted software on my laptop in an isolated environment? but so that I can interact with it with a gui?

one interesting thing about rust is when you ask chatgpt to explain something its often wrong, when you ask a person to explain something they are often wrong, and sometimes even the compiler is wrong (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/80772), and yet the platonic search for truth remains lol

was imagining a beautiful art/theory/anthropology book titled "SPAM" about the history of spam, content moderation, advertisement, the postal system, email, decentralized networks, censorship, and mail art, and learned a book with a similar title and topics exists

no one: she continues reading at the poetry open mic: An expression may have two roles: it always produces a value, and it may have effects (otherwise known as “side effects”). An expression evaluates to a value, and has effects during evaluation. Many expressions contain sub-expressions […]

reminding myself to bring a flower next time i go to a friends performance so that i can give it to them afterwards

I wrote about the importance of tools that bring different platforms and protocols together and how I believe that's the future of an open social web owned by people, not platforms. https://www.augment.ink/bridges-the-last-network-effect/