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So today I want to work/play on:
I also met a new friend, [[Elena]], picked up the keyboard package and mailed out some forms, and thought about some personal matters/emotionally processed.
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Hi there! this is one of the first few livestreams I’ve done. I keep iterrating on the format. As it is now, I am recording my typing but I don’t know to which extent you can hear the music or anything I say. I need to check up the setup later, so excuse any disruption please :)
I will now [[flow]] with my friends [[bobby lyte]] and [[adriene]] :D
For more of this, check out https://anagora.org/yoga-with-x .
I guess at some point once you’ve written enough you can drop the bullet points and go back to full prose, whatever difference this makes. To some extent paragraphs are a two level list hierarchy, in the sense that every sentence that follows a previous instead of beginning a new paragraph can be though to be a children to one that preceded it.
So, anyway, writing makes me feel good; it feels cathartic you could say, and also just necessary at times. Noticing that something feels good also helps oneself do that thing again, remove resistances to doing it.
Why is it that I want to write so much? It is because [[writing is an aid to memory]], and [[writing is a tool for thinking]], and for communicating of course.
What do I want to remember so much, you might ask yourself. Well, to answer that thoroughly and clearly is that I like to build [[Agoras]].
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Today and yesterday I thought also of writing, in general — how much I do it and how much I don’t, how many of my thoughts seep into the ether as weak electromagnetic radiation and are only occasionally recorded. (That’s alright; with every thought "lost" we radiate some heat, we feel something, we experiment our beings and let the universe shape our consciousnesses).
For the purpose of focusing more often on writing I’ve started to think of [[Sariputta]] as my writing computer, keeping also [[Sila]] and [[Paramita]] as general purpose/development computers, and [[Nostromo]] as media centre/MIDI terminal.
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and sometimes in journal/YYYY-MM-DD.md
, depending on how I created the entry.[[
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and… I have to say it might indeed be more readable than with :)/Library/Journal/New%20Page/Daily%20Note
(template) in your instance.Here we go. Once more onto the breach; maybe it is today we start writing a book I started writing years ago, and will take me or us many more years to write.
These its chapters.
I’ve started recording my screen more often, as a way of screencasting — even though very often I don’t get to actually publish it. I have a [[Youtube channel]] but I mostly upload Yoga sessions there, at least so far. Still, just recording sometimes makes me feel reassured — because theoretically that means I may get to actually publish it in the future, or because others will find these files and look for anything [[interesting]] in them, or because even if they are lost they will influence my behavior in some ways.
I sometimes feel that I think and write more coherently when I remember to think about you, dear [[reader]], dear [[viewer]], please [[like]] and [[share]] if willing :)
I wrote the above, which I’m calling [[2024-07-02]], and then I’m moving on to do whatever’s next in the list, or whatever arises.
I was thinking recently of
Here’s a [[joke]]:
An alien and a human go into a bar.
The alien asks: how many drinks are you having?
The human says: just one.
With a flash of insight, many aliens realize at once that humans don’t know the complex plane.
…of Agora development, and of the fact that I still need to fix [[agor.ai]], and…
Here again on [[2024-07-19]], is this cheating time? :)
Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup!
Tara Burup Tara-burup!
Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:
Salve!
Bella muy bella Burup, bella muy bella Burup.
Mi true Burup, true Burup.
Bella muy bella [[Burup]]:
Sea!
I found a weeks old todo to follow [[Peter Murray]] ([[peter_murray]] in [[hypothes.is]]) and I see why: he uses double square brackets in posts in platforms that don’t support them yet too!
It was an emotional weekend; Saturday being upbeat, Sunday being more meditative and at times low energy but ending well.
Today I worked and had a fully meetings free afternoon as the US was out due to [[memorial day]].
My mum was/is sick (pneumonia again) and that makes me think of death and impermanence. But it’s a good occasion to meditate.
I thought of someday maybe picking back up some of the draft short stories I started around [[2017]], like [[Caramel City]], [[Cannazon]] and the one about the [[Wu-Tang Clan]].
I received a letter about Christianity out of the blue the other day and today I came across it and saw it had a reference to jw.org, which ended up being [[Jehovah’s Witnesses]]. I have a negative affect towards the organization because of things I have heard about how the doctrine affects the freedom of its members, but the message that I received seemed innocuous enough. Interesting that they didn’t include the name of the organization anywhere, just the domain.
I’ve been meaning to work and play on:
alpha.social.coop
using [[coop cloud]] but it’s not up yet.I’ve been living [[Protopianism]] in my personal life; dealing with bed bugs, every iteration across the six months of process for eradication a show of the many small complexities of life, all the while feeling lucky and aware.
After 4x fumigation adding [[diatomaceous earth]] stripes all around (quite ingenious packaging+spilling resistant) the new bed seemed to seemed to give us that additional (feeling of) safety :)
Not necessarily in that order :)
I like [[silver bullet]] but I come back to [[wiki vim]] because it’s on the terminal and that’s where I sometimes want to write.
I like [[senegal town]].
Also: [[mexico city]], [[paris]] :)
Suddenly you become [[[[more [[aware]] of the [[nature of existence]]]].
I’ve played with them on my site here - https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/well-connected and https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/new-connections
I worked half a day as I was sick; cold symptoms, nothing terrible though. I attended two meetings and did writing.
Then I read [[Aaron Copland]] on music, thought and wrote about [[Moloch]].
I eead the [[Dalai Lama]] and [[Thubten Chodron]]. I’m in chapter 2 of book 2: [[The Foundation of Buddhist Practice]].
-ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Back to regular programming :)
[[sadhana]]
[[Lojong]] seems linked to a long list of contemplative [[slogans]]
[[Tonglen]]
[[Bootstrap]]
[[Open Letters]]:
I did some processing of [[social coop registrations]], [[go/cwg/bugs]]. I enjoyed it. Interesting as usual. Yielded a pointer to…
[[e acc]]:
I read (re-read? I don’t think I’ve forgotten it, but I did read a lot of SSC at one point) [[Scott Alexander]]‘s review of [[Age of Em]].
If you are reading this from the future, by the way: thank you for being here! How are you today/tonight?
To respond, you can always use the [[stoa]] of the day.
If we haven’t spoken in a long time, please reach out over [[matrix]]!
Please disable copyright enforcement in AI. I want to be able to ask LLMs to pirate things for me, or help me pirate them. [[I take full responsibility]], as some are wont to say ;)
I usually buy books in one format but want several. Many authors make it easy for me to give them money on Amazon, but then I want an epub. Etc.
In the meantime I have to go to https://libgen.is manually I guess?
I’ve been thinking of parsing this format in the Agora, meaning longer subnodes separated by — in a newline — and publish it to the [[Fediverse]] as individual posts :)
I believe things are going to be pretty amazing anyway; I sometimes get caught in the day to day and fail to notice it, or remember it, but all things considered I think the likelihood of humanity and our friends making it happily in cosmic terms long term is quite high.
I’ve been writing about the Agora for about 5 years now: https://github.com/flancian/flancia/commits/master/pages/agora.md.
I finished [[Taixu]], meaning the translation by [[Charles B. Jones]] and his commentary. I am thankful for it!
I had noding "my favourite things" in a post-it so I decided to do it right here using a push above.
[[Meditate]], said [[Nostromo]].
I meditated. Thank you [[Taixu]] — meaning the Buddhist Monk and also the [[shell]] script that I run in computer [[nostromo]].
I’ve been missing writing; I always feel like I should write more, and more often — I feel the same for action [[read]] of course as well, as do many of us. So I decided to start writing more right here — in my journal in the [[Agora of Flancia]].
Traditionally up to now I’ve been focusing my efforts more on [[noding]], in the particular meaning of exploring connectivity space; more interested in building links (between concepts, things and people) than about producing widely legible output. This under the hypothesis that the connections are important in building an [[Agora]] in particular, or at least [[bootstrapping]] it.
This reminds me [[bootstrapping]] is either chapter [[0]] or [[1]] in the [[Flancia Pattern Language]].
…anyway :)
I slept. It was great.
Today I plan to continue doing laundry and finally open and clean up one of the rooms affected by [[bed bugs]] (the lesser one, no obvious infestation).
Also I plan to work on the [[Agora]]. Or should I say in the [[Agoras]]?
Digo, ahora que empiezo a escribir en el escritorio número 7.
Finalmente exporté [[goodreads]] e importé en [[bookwyrm]]:
As I deal with [[pain]], I think of my [[friends]] and the [[heart sutra]].
Gone, gone beyond!
All gone to the other shore
Gone kindly
If you have to go
[[Go kindly]]!
Yesterday I woke up with back pain in a new place, mid-back; it got a bit worse in the evening after attending the beautiful event of [[AG]] presenting. It didn’t get in the way of enjoyment but I need to keep an eye on it/take care and try to rest and recover.
…Having said that, I cleaned the bathroom and [[Lady Burup]]‘s toilet and my back got a bit worse :) But I feel it still gave me energy.
Then I worked a bit more, after oncall handoff, and I got several things "out of the way" in a relatively short time. It felt great.
<<<<<<< HEAD
As I write this, I’m roughly above [[Baku]] about to cross the [[Caspian Sea]]. I don’t have an internet connection so I’m jotting down these local notes which will be synced to the Agora later.
I guess much has already been said about the relatively rareness of being offline nowadays; I am old enough to remember a time before being online at all was possible; then a time in which being online was rare; then the transition to always-on home internet and then mobile internet. I welcomed each increment of extra connectivity, and I still love how far we’ve gotten in this respect; but I can also appreciate the focus that being fully offline for a bit seems to bring. If nothing else it announces that the same focus is always available — behind the impulse to catch up with messages, or check feeds, or read about Baku and the Caspian Sea on Wikipedia (which is surely what I would be doing right now instead of writing these words were I not truly offline.)
I’m thinking a bit of Agora development during these holidays; it might or might not happen, based on all the sightseeing and experiencing we’ll be doing out there in the analog world :) But I thought it would still be nice to think of which things I could improve in the Agora if I have some time available.
I might write some [[executable subnode]] or other, if nothing else because they are fun and self-contained.
I think I will try to do one or two quick iterations on the [[Agora Server]] UI, maybe finishing the move to [[zippies]] as base widget as I’ve already done for nodes, stoas and most sections really. If I am able to move all sections under the search button/field to zippies the UI will probably look a lot more streamlined/be easier to understand, less confusing (this I’m guessing based on earlier feedback). Also it’s not hard to do and it is apparent, so it sounds fun.
Moving on to larger things, [[mycoverse]]/[[fediverse]] integration is something I would love to get done in this Q4 2023 so getting started on it would make a lot of sense. I would love to understand what is the minimum that Agora Server would need to do to be able to expose user accounts as Fediverse feeds. Then new/updated nodes could generate something close to new posts/notes? Unsure.
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Today is [[14 October 2023]] and I am glad you are here with me.
It has been ages since I’ve in Flancia, sometimes it feels, even as time is varying.
Here is what I call a poem: [[trees]].
This weekend I intend to advance what I call [[open letters]]: documents addressed to groups, openly published even as they are being written.
As of 21:45 CET I did some ‘day job’ stuff (having chosen it) and started a proposal (open letter, as per the above) that I had on my todo list.
Now switching to [[paramita]], planning to continue on related topics but in the [[commons]].
Today we bought the tickets to and from [[Sri Lanka]], happy about it!
Discussed divorce with [[L]], we’ve been separated for around 1.4 years. Things are going well and I wish us both happiness!
[[Imaginate un mundo sin latencia]] me dije, habiendo solucionado los problemas de conectividad bluetooth en [[nostromo]] :)
A veces extraño el [[español]] como idioma.
Mientras escribo esto, estoy escuchando [[hola frank]] de [[sumo]] :)
Let us pray, dice Luca Prodan :)
Here I would like to take the opportunity to say that the [[HedgeDoc]] Stoa, although it could be much improved, is already useful.
I think I’m going to start using it more often. And maybe enable logins? It seems to have [[oauth]] integration…
Which reminds me I want to work on that for the [[Agora]] proper, and maybe also on [[Google docs]] integration…
[[Flancia, or the revolution against Moloch]]
research [[Gosinga]]
De quién son [[las jaras]]?
Están las de Maitreya, las de Tara, las de Avalokiteshvara!
i also use avidemux for simple video editing. 20:22 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:love your naming scheme! Samuel Klein says:this diagram also suggests scale-free design [which is compelling; not privileging zoomed-in or zoomed-out parts of the whole] Samuel Klein says:++ 20:36 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says:Flask is a lightweight web application framework for Python Peter Kaminski says: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/
20:41 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:is that like agreeing on a hashtag? 20:47 Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:One thing I’d like to see more easily is the list of repositories in your agora, and which ones have a node for a given wikilink Samuel Klein says:I have to run! This was great to see, worth tuning to a 15-min pitch Samuel Klein says:❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 21:01 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:oho my next meeting was moved back I have 15 min 😃 21:02 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:yay! Jerry Michalski says:it’s a hypertext catfish! 21:05 Aram Zucker-Scharff Aram Zucker-Scharff says:I found this very useful! I have to drop 21:07 JM Jerry Michalski Jerry Michalski says:see you! 21:07 PK Peter Kaminski Peter Kaminski says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_switch
21:09 avatar Samuel Klein Samuel Klein says:there’s probably room a tool like "full auto-linker" that could look through your doc + its context, check your agora for entities that exist across the conjoined namespace, and autolinking concepts the first time they appear in your doc
Loved the [[Majihima]] discourses on [[Heartwood]] (I already knew this), [[Cowherd]], [[Gosinga]].
[[3149]] is an interesting number. It’s not prime: it’s [[47]] (we will defeat Moloch) * 67 (Bodhi, Bodhisattva).
As I sit here with my laptop (with [[vim]]) and no internet connection, I realize that I don’t write here longform as much as I could. I guess the availability of the internet does make it easier for me to get distracted, which granted I see sometimes as a positive (it motivates a form of exploration), but might not be conducive to practicing the skill of writing coherently and consistently for more than a few bullet points in each journal.
The thought of writing in my blog again (meaning https://flancia.org/mine) has come up a few times recently. I’m unsure; I like the process of writing in my garden, and how everything I write in it automatically shows up in the Agora moments later (at least when I have an internet connection). So maybe what I want is to embrace this space as a blog, and just try to write longer form alongside with my mainly outline-style notes, like other Agora users already do so beautifully.
I’m getting more comfortable using Foam alongside Obsidian, especially inside a Gitpod workspace.
One of the particularities of writing about [[Flancia]] is that it seems to require a certain commitment, a belief in the feasibility of facts in possible futures.
I installed [[cool retro term]] today and it was immediately more fun than I thought it would be. There is something weirdly satisfactory about typing and seeing a blazing trail preceding your words.
I wonder how hard would it be to make it so that anagora.org renders text in this style — optionally, of course :)
It was that time of the year, your birthday, when you finally got to Flancia and were able to stay for good, stay in it in a definite sense, being free from suffering.
I wasn’t planning on seeing [[Nils Frahm]] live, nor did I know he was playing in Athens until the very same day it happened; I heard the sound test coming from the [[Odeon of Herodes Atticus]] while I was climbing down the southern slope of the Acropolis and I decided to get a ticket just in time. I’m happy I did so, it was a memorable experience for sure to see him live under the moon and stars in this ~2000 year old amphitheatre.
[3*n*(n+1)+1 for n in range(1000)]
Amanecí y llegamos a la tarde con alegría con [[AG]], y después comimos y caminamos con [[Diego]] y [[Dominic]].
[[taixu]]
I will show you the shape of my [[heart]] if you want to.
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to see the introduction to fractals it ships with.Restart=always
, you need to also pass StartLimitIntervalSec=0
in the [Unit]
section.