i just got back from a 10-day backpacking trip to italy and i'd like to share some of the photos i took!
-Tags: quotes
+the travel plan was rome -> venice -> florence -> naples -> pompei/vesuvius -> capri -> amalfi
+this is the roman forum (with colosseum in the background) as seen from the palatine.
+
+]]>https://tilde.team/~ben/blog/italy.html +
i somehow stumbled upon utterances today at lunch. (i think someone had it forked on their github page).
-Tags: thought-of-the-day
+no matter how i found it, i still decided to add it to my blog here with bashblog. utterances is a commenting system that leverages github issues. so, for example a comment on a post shows up on github like this.
+ +now we just need to figure out if it can be pointed at a gitea instance like tildegit. might be time for a PR!
+ +tags: blog
+ + + + +]]>i figured i should probably get some notes down about moving off google.
+ +to start, i'll get a list of the things i was able to easily replace:
+ +-
+
- gmail => @tilde.team mail +
- google drive => syncthing (with a persistent node running on my personal vps) +
i'm still using:
+ +-
+
- gplay music/youtube +
- google maps (open streetmap isn't good enough to replace it) +
- google photos - but this is going to be replaced long-term with syncthing +
tags: linux, net-neutrality
+ +]]>i've been thinking about transferring my domains off google domains for some +time now, as part of my personal goal to self host and limit my dependence on +google and other large third-party monstrosities. along that line, i asked for +registrar recommendations. ~tomasino responded +with namesilo. i found that they had $3.99 registrations +for .team and .zone domains, which is 1/10th the cost of the $40 registration +on google domains.
+ +i started out by getting the list of domains from the google console. 2 or 3 +of them had been registered within the last 60 days, so i wasn't able to +transfer those just yet. i grabbed all the domain unlock codes and dropped +them into namesilo. i failed to realize that the dns panel on google domains +would disappear as soon as it went through, but more importantly that the +nameservers would be left pointing to the old defunct google domains ones.
+ +i updated the nameservers as soon as i realized this error from the namesilo +panel. some of the domains propagated quickly. others, not so much. tilde.team +was still in a state of flux between the old and new nameservers.
+ +in a rush to get the dns problem fixed, and under recommendation from several +people on irc, i decided to switch the nameservers for tilde.team and tilde.zone +to cloudflare, leaving another layer of flux for the dns to be stuck in...
+ +of the five domains that i moved to cloudflare, 3 returned with a dnssec error, +claiming that i needed to remove the DS record from that zone. d'oh!
+ +i removed the dnssec from those affected domains, so we should be good to go +as soon as it all propagates through the fickle beast that is dns.
+ + + + + + + + + +]]>i'm not sure how i'll need to configure the network settings on the host machine (now that we're running +ubuntu 18.04 and it uses netplan for configs and not /etc/network/interfaces). another confusing thing is +that the main config in /etc/netplan says that the network config is handled by systemd-networkd...
+ +at least i have through the end of the year when my current vps runs out to get this up and running.
+ + + + + + + + + + + +]]>now i just need to figure out why my ssh config doesn't copy/symlink my config to ~/.ssh when it +already exists.
+ + @@ -131,30 +273,21 @@ thought of the day -]]>Tags: thought-of-the-day, words
- - - - - - - - - - +i've created a repo for the tilde.team customizations to bashblog.
+it will now make sure that your ~/public_gopher exists and symlink your blog into it with a nice gophermap to list all the markdown styled posts.
+try it out and let me know if there are any problems!
+ @@ -168,30 +301,21 @@ thought of the day -]]>i finally got my drone out this summer to take some more pics!
+
tags: dji, drone, photography
@@ -205,30 +329,23 @@ Thought of the Day -]]>Tags: thought-of-the-day
- - - - - - - - - +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!
+ @@ -242,47 +359,10 @@ thought of the day -]]>Tags: thought-of-the-day
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>What White Nationalists Don't Get
-among those are gitea and the new link aggregator (which runs the same source as lobste.rs).
+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
-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!
- @@ -344,49 +434,388 @@ tildeverse.org -]]>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!
+ + + + + + + + + + - -]]>
just heard the latest episode of on the media. this is a super helpful guide i found on their twitter.
+ +tags: podcast
+ + + + + + + + + -no matter how i found it, i still decided to add it to my blog here with bashblog. utterances is a commenting system that leverages github issues. so, for example a comment on a post shows up on github like this.
-now we just need to figure out if it can be pointed at a gitea instance like tildegit. might be time for a PR!
-tags: blog
-]]>Tags: quotes
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>+ + + +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?
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>
hint: it's not. it's the witcher 3. and it looks like a real place.
+ +Tags: 4k-gaming, gaming, gtx1080ti, pc-master-race
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>~/.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!
i'm so done with winter
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>
i started hosting a mastodon instance at social.tilde.team.
+ +check it out if you want some federated open source social goodness :)
+ +send me a toot @ben@tilde.team (from any mastodon instance!)
+ +thanks!
+ +tags: social-networks, mastodon, tilde
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>Everybody! We only have UNTIL TOMORROW to fight the FCC & the repeal of #NetNeutrality! Repealing Net Nutrality would result in an unequal access to online content including research, social/political organizing, and personal media. It would also allow powerhouse companies providing internet to charge more for regular quality internet, and charge certain users more than others. +HERE'S A WAY TO ACT - takes less than a minute.
+ +-
+
- Go to gofccyourself.com +(the shortcut John Oliver made to the hard-to-find FCC comment page) +
- Click on the 17-108 link (Restoring Internet Freedom) +
- Click on "express" +
- Be sure to hit "ENTER" after you put in your name & info so it registers. +
- In the comment section write, "I strongly support net neutrality backed by Title 2 oversight of ISPs." +
- Click to submit, done. - Make sure you hit submit at the end! +
Copy and paste this into your own status update! +Seriously, this is simple and so important. Do it.
+ +tags: net-neutrality, internet
+ + + + + + -- -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?
- @@ -466,10 +910,148 @@ of loading javascript completely before being able to parse and compile it. -]]>
episode 5 was uploaded today.
+ ++]]>
++ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
+
i've got nothing to say +don't be a coconut
+ + +Ask Me Anything - The Strokes (on First Impressions of Earth)
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>Tags: thought-of-the-day, words
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>some of the other games that i'm looking forward to exploring more of in 4k are:
- --
-
- destiny 2 -
- prey -
- overwatch (not that this will look insanely good, it will just be super silky smooth) -
- fallout 4 -
- battlefield 1 -
- dishonored -
- dishonored 2 -
- dying light -
- battlefront -
- pubg -
- doom (2016) -
- gta5 -
- just cause 3 -
- hellblade: senua's sacrifice -
- watch dogs 2 -
- many others -
tags: 4k-gaming, pc-master-race, gtx1080ti
- +sorry for the blast of posts. i recreated them from a wordpress blog on motd.org.
+i plan on posting some random thoughts here from time to time. thanks for checking in.
+ @@ -613,44 +1137,48 @@ white pride vs black pride -]]>
Tags: thought-of-the-day
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +]]>why do they tell us to use the stairs in case of fire? shouldn't we be using a fire extinguisher?
-it will now make sure that your ~/public_gopher exists and symlink your blog into it with a nice gophermap to list all the markdown styled posts.
+Tags: thought-of-the-day
-try it out and let me know if there are any problems!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>i plan on posting some random thoughts here from time to time. thanks for checking in.
- - @@ -758,10 +1259,86 @@ blog update -]]>For every nerd calling something sportsball there needs to be a jock that walks into a library and yells “WHAT’S UP WITH ALL THESE WORD BURGERS”
+ +Tags: thought-of-the-day, quotes
+ + + + + + + -
i'm so done with winter
- @@ -885,127 +1469,10 @@ cold -]]>i've been thinking about transferring my domains off google domains for some -time now, as part of my personal goal to self host and limit my dependence on -google and other large third-party monstrosities. along that line, i asked for -registrar recommendations. ~tomasino responded -with namesilo. i found that they had $3.99 registrations -for .team and .zone domains, which is 1/10th the cost of the $40 registration -on google domains.
- -i started out by getting the list of domains from the google console. 2 or 3 -of them had been registered within the last 60 days, so i wasn't able to -transfer those just yet. i grabbed all the domain unlock codes and dropped -them into namesilo. i failed to realize that the dns panel on google domains -would disappear as soon as it went through, but more importantly that the -nameservers would be left pointing to the old defunct google domains ones.
- -i updated the nameservers as soon as i realized this error from the namesilo -panel. some of the domains propagated quickly. others, not so much. tilde.team -was still in a state of flux between the old and new nameservers.
- -in a rush to get the dns problem fixed, and under recommendation from several -people on irc, i decided to switch the nameservers for tilde.team and tilde.zone -to cloudflare, leaving another layer of flux for the dns to be stuck in...
- -of the five domains that i moved to cloudflare, 3 returned with a dnssec error, -claiming that i needed to remove the DS record from that zone. d'oh!
- -i removed the dnssec from those affected domains, so we should be good to go -as soon as it all propagates through the fickle beast that is dns.
- - - - - - - - -]]>i've got nothing to say -don't be a coconut
- - -Ask Me Anything - The Strokes (on First Impressions of Earth)
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>now i just need to figure out why my ssh config doesn't copy/symlink my config to ~/.ssh when it -already exists.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>~/.ssh/config aliases work for git remotes??
+things are not what they appear to be. nor are they otherwise.
+ +Tags: thought-of-the-day
+ -~/.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!
cool pics +gatsby ssg +tachyons
-
tags: links, bookmarks, save-for-later
-episode 5 was uploaded today.
--]]>
i recently picked up a gtx1080ti on newegg (and a 4k monitor earlier in the summer on prime day). i can't stop playing the witcher 3. even though it's a couple years old, it just looks so good. plus, the story and gameplay are incredible as well. i find myself dreaming about the game and longing to play it when i'm not. i'll have to say it is definitively the best game i've ever played.
-the travel plan was rome -> venice -> florence -> naples -> pompei/vesuvius -> capri -> amalfi
- -this is the roman forum (with colosseum in the background) as seen from the palatine.
- -
-]]>
Tags: thought-of-the-day, quotes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>tags: links, bookmarks, save-for-later
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>i'm not sure how i'll need to configure the network settings on the host machine (now that we're running -ubuntu 18.04 and it uses netplan for configs and not /etc/network/interfaces). another confusing thing is -that the main config in /etc/netplan says that the network config is handled by systemd-networkd...
- -at least i have through the end of the year when my current vps runs out to get this up and running.
- - - - - - - - - - -]]>i started hosting a mastodon instance at social.tilde.team.
- -check it out if you want some federated open source social goodness :)
- -send me a toot @ben@tilde.team (from any mastodon instance!)
- -thanks!
- -tags: social-networks, mastodon, tilde
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>
tags: dji, drone, photography
- - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>-
-
- Go to gofccyourself.com -(the shortcut John Oliver made to the hard-to-find FCC comment page) -
- Click on the 17-108 link (Restoring Internet Freedom) -
- Click on "express" -
- Be sure to hit "ENTER" after you put in your name & info so it registers. -
- In the comment section write, "I strongly support net neutrality backed by Title 2 oversight of ISPs." -
- Click to submit, done. - Make sure you hit submit at the end! -
Copy and paste this into your own status update! -Seriously, this is simple and so important. Do it.
- -tags: net-neutrality, internet
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>i figured i should probably get some notes down about moving off google.
- -to start, i'll get a list of the things i was able to easily replace:
+some of the other games that i'm looking forward to exploring more of in 4k are:
-
-
- gmail => @tilde.team mail -
- google drive => syncthing (with a persistent node running on my personal vps) +
- destiny 2 +
- prey +
- overwatch (not that this will look insanely good, it will just be super silky smooth) +
- fallout 4 +
- battlefield 1 +
- dishonored +
- dishonored 2 +
- dying light +
- battlefront +
- pubg +
- doom (2016) +
- gta5 +
- just cause 3 +
- hellblade: senua's sacrifice +
- watch dogs 2 +
- many others
i'm still using:
- --
-
- gplay music/youtube -
- google maps (open streetmap isn't good enough to replace it) -
- google photos - but this is going to be replaced long-term with syncthing -
tags: linux, net-neutrality
+tags: 4k-gaming, pc-master-race, gtx1080ti
- -]]>
-
-just heard the latest episode of on the media. this is a super helpful guide i found on their twitter.
- -tags: podcast
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>“The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
-
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!
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>
hint: it's not. it's the witcher 3. and it looks like a real place.
- -Tags: 4k-gaming, gaming, gtx1080ti, pc-master-race
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -]]>