more drone photos
i finally got my drone out this summer to take some more pics!
Tags: dji, drone, photography
tildeverse.org
since the last time i wrote a post here, i've registered the tildeverse.org domain and started moving some services over that were already intended for tildeverse use.
among those are gitea and the new link aggregator (which runs the same source as lobste.rs).
i've also started a phlog in my gopherhole with ~tomasino's new burrow gopherhole tool!
i'll try to post a bit more often too with updates from the tildeverse!
Tags: tilde, internet, links, git
tilde.team news
hey hi hello!
it seems that i haven't written anything on my blog in quite a while...
time to fix that! i've been quite busy in the last month or so with a lot of new ideas an energy for tilde.team.
after rediscovering my account on tilde.town, i hopped in the irc there and my enthusiasm translated into a couple new members over here on the ~team.
our irc has been somewhat more active recently which is awesome:)
some of the new updates in the last month:
- tildegit (our own gitea instance)
- tildemail with postfix and dovecot for smtp/imap as well as local command line mail in mutt and alpine
tilde
user script wrapper with submission and approval flows- password auth disabled
i'd like to make use of our new mailserver, so shoot me some mail. i never get enough personal mail. it's all still privacy policy update notices. :(
see you soon!
white pride vs black pride
What White Nationalists Don't Get
A common and seemingly reasonable argument for white pride or white nationalism is: why cant I be proud of my culture?
Well, you can. Always have been able to. We have Irish pride celebrations, we have German drinking festivals, we have Serbian food festivals. Any European culture you can think of has multiple organizations in North America dedicated to taking pride in their heritage and NO ONE gives them shit for it.
But, you see, when you start talking white pride, that's not a culture. That's a skin color. There is no white culture, never was. There is no pan-European culture, never was. Europe is a continent, not a culture or ethnicity.
Now, some of you are probably about to go, but wait! Black pride! How is that okay? Well, easy. Go find a black person and ask them if their ancestors were slaves. When you find one who says yes, proceed to ask them what country in Africa were your ancestors from? Do you know what their answer will probably be? I don't know. This is because their culture was taken from them. It was beaten out of them. They were enslaved, Christianized, and then white washed. The one unifying feature they have as a people is that history of slavery and that history of being black. They cant have Liberian pride, or Congolese pride, or insert African country pride because they have no fucking idea where their ancestors came from other than the broad region of West Africa.
Meanwhile us white people can often trace our ancestors to specific cities and regions. I can trace my mothers maiden name to a single fucking village in Ireland. I know where I came from. I don't have white culture, I have Irish culture.
So that's why white pride makes you an asshole but black pride actually makes sense.
Tags: politics
phoenix
inspired by oodsnet, (and my pull request to add darkmode), i started to create my own tilde.team fork (now forum.tilde.team).
the first step was to switch out the css to the tilde.team standard and update the classes for bootstrap. once i got it going and integrated with the tilde.team linux auth service, i asked other tildeans for input and suggestions.
~micaiah was interested in helping, but also wanted to learn a new language and/or framework, so we decided to start over, recreating the entire forum with elixir/phoenix. we'd discussed elixir previously, but never had a convincing use case to force us to learn it.
the project is live, with the source code on github.
the thing that i'm most impressed with is the speed of the erlang runtime :D
check out these response times. sub-millisecond!?!?!
give it a look, and join the tilde.team if you want to come hang out!
otm
just heard the latest episode of on the media. this is a super helpful guide i found on their twitter.
Tags: podcast
quote of the day
Be Alert! - the world needs more Lerts.
Tags: quotes
webassembly
according to this post on the mozilla blog, we will be able to compile wasm as it streams into the browser in much the same way that images are decoded. this is a huge game changer from the current paradigm of loading javascript completely before being able to parse and compile it.
JavaScript code is much more expensive, byte for byte, than an image, because of the time spent parsing and compiling it.
— Yehuda Katz (@wycats) December 19, 2017
It's possible to parse and compile wasm as fast as it comes over the network, which makes it much more like an image than JavaScript code.
Game changer!
this will make so many things possible in the browser that never were before!
i decided to follow this tutorial and ended up with this.
i don't know what to do next. any ideas?
pop quiz
is this real?
hint: it's not. it's the witcher 3. and it looks like a real place.
Tags: 4k-gaming, gaming, gtx1080ti, pc-master-race
git remotes with ssh aliases
did you know that ~/.ssh/config
aliases work for git remotes??
~/.ssh/config
Host gh HostName github.com User git IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gh_key
you can now use gh:username/repo
as the remote in place of git@github.com:username/repo
, which is much shorter and easier to type many times!
git clone gh:benharri/learngit
there are many other use cases for the ssh_config
file. for example, here is my config for the tilde machine for easy ssh connections.
Host tilde HostName tilde.team User ben
then use ssh tilde
to start a new ssh session. this also works with scp
: try something like this scp file.txt tilde:workspace/.
in place of scp file.txt ben@tilde.team:workspace/.
the ssh_config file is super useful. check man ssh_config
for a full list of options!