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Alex Schroeder

@aw I make local copies the remote server to my laptop using rsync. As I'm slowly starting to use more sqlite, I really need to add skipping of sqlite files and using sqlite-rsync. This is perfect! The only problem is that I now need to know all the sqlite files on my server! 😬 Maybe keep a list of known *.db files in a file, run sqlite-rsync for the files in this list and warn about all the *.db files not in this list, with an option to silence that warning for known not-sqlite .db files… Do you already have something like this?

@aw I make local copies the remote server to my laptop using rsync. As I'm slowly starting to use more sqlite, I really need to add skipping of sqlite files and using sqlite-rsync. This is perfect! The only problem is that I now need to know all the sqlite files on my server! 😬 Maybe keep a list of known *.db files in a file, run sqlite-rsync for the files in this list and warn about all the *.db files not in this list, with an option to silence that warning for known not-sqlite .db files… Do you...

alex

I basically have 1 project idea that I've been repeating and refining since 2020

alex

saw a good short video about tea that explained something key about commodity production. in china, they said, tea is loose leaf and local, you may have a personal relationship with the tea grower. in the west, tea is usually ground up and uniform. the latter is not "more efficient", but turns tea into something that is better suited for commodity production: something uniform, anonymous, easily exchanged

alex

kohei saito says the same can be said about coal. capitalism's interest in coal being not primarily its productive capability, but rather its nature being well-suited to commodity production and exchange (in a way that, say, watermills are not -- they are rooted, without cost, and unexchangeable)

alex

read and reviewed low tech magazine's "heating people, not spaces" alexw.nyc/blog/2024-02-01-lowt

alex

redesigned my website (no more build script, just raw html) alexw.nyc/

Introductory post: alexw.nyc/blog/2024-01-06.html

mikael

@aw nice! don’t want to lead you into another endless hole, but have you thought about Server Side Includes? Under used low tech IMO! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_S

You could have an include with the HTML until the title tag, then write out the title after that. Continue with another include until <article> begins. End with an include that goes from </article> to the end of the the document (footer etc).

alex

we have controller on uxn5

probably have written more js in the last few days than I ever have in my life prior lol

git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn5

Devil Lu Linvega

@aw very nice! I'm hoping we can hook in @remko's wasm core and see what sort of speedup we get :)
github.com/remko/uxn.wasm/blob

alex

Any NY/east coast folks going to strange loop? I’ll be taking a train from nyc and it’d be fun if anyone is able to join!

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makeworld

@aw a good example of how the small web is not just a big web site that isn't visited often. The paradigm has to be different!

cathos

@aw That's an interesting point - the rules that inform the culture are arbitrary, but also important for setting the scene of the community

ティージェーグレェ

@aw pretty common in the BBS era to have similar policies, sometimes outright questionnaires, if more 1337: sometimes listing scene affiliations was a prerequisite to being granted certain kinds of access.

That stuff never went away, but there was a marked difference in the intention and design of the web. View Source was not an afterthought, it was an ethos. The intention was that WWW was supposedly going to be open from the get go.

That didn't last long, we didn't even make it through the 1990s without the so-called "browser wars" and commerical vendors trying to lock people into things.

Ironically, it could be argued (I think rather successfully) that the 1960s era RFC driven nature of the Internet was even more open than the World Wide Web. Unfortunately, the Web came after Micro$oft and other nare do well technocrat robber barons were plundering and commercializing technology. Few today know of the underpinnings spearheaded by Doug Engelbart with NLS (oNline System, earlier than even RFC-1 or UCLA joining) even within academia these days. Whereas Doug was a personal friend of mine.

To be honest, while I've seen lovely levels of BBS era fine grained permissions and close knit communities since the web, I've rarely, perhaps never, seen them on the web.

Too many, particularly in recent years, sword rattle about so-called "gatekeeping" when, at least from my vantage it's always been a bit more: "you must be this tall to ride" and most people, aren't.

@aw pretty common in the BBS era to have similar policies, sometimes outright questionnaires, if more 1337: sometimes listing scene affiliations was a prerequisite to being granted certain kinds of access.

That stuff never went away, but there was a marked difference in the intention and design of the web. View Source was not an afterthought, it was an ethos. The intention was that WWW was supposedly going to be open from the get go.

alex

branch for dusk OS featuring a sort of llvm-like assembly layer was merged today. very good and cool

git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos

alex

there has been renewed interest in activitypub, some folks may be interested in the work I did with github.com/alexwennerberg/gour

alex

"To a forth programmer, if a problem is worth doing on a computer at all, it is worth doing on a computer well" (starting forth)

alex

Slack is valued at $27 billion. Imagine if that much $ was spent on open communication protocols instead. People have legitimate criticisms of FOSS, but relative to the amount of money and engineer energy spent on FOSS vs big tech, FOSS is orders of magnitude more effective. The problem is there exist only relatively weak and broke institutions building software explicitly for a holistic vision of the public good.

Eugen Rochko

@aw Valued at doesn't mean that money has actually been spent by anyone on it

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