Daily Journal 📓 August 2023

⭐️ akaalias/obsidian-footnotes Makes creating footnotes in Obsidian more fun!

• I’m finally making some DWebYVR/Drop-In notes from Aug 18th, 2023
  • Riad came by and we talked about local #Vancouver moonshots and other tech
    • Global Fusion
    • Some quantum startups like DWave and Qubit
    • New focus on biotech in Mount Pleasant, anchored by Abcellera
    • Apparently MDA has the new contract for a #LEO network?
  • We had a German visitor
  • New to #vancouver folks from Australia, working for Replit
    • Recommended Revolver, Nemesis, and Timbertrain as three local coffee shops that are excellent

⭐️ endojs/endo Endo is a distributed secure JavaScript sandbox, based on SES

• I’m in London, Ontario today and for the week
• Completed #reading Lords of Uncreation

⭐️ beryllium/verifier Acts as a callback target for CLI-based oauth1 authorization flows

• Stacher a desktop GUI for YouTube download, via Rosano
  • In order to enjoy Jack Rusher‘s music

    • The bird was bad for sharing original music; let’s try Bluesky… Tribute to David Lynch: finger drumming on the Ableton Push, some keyboards for bass and organ, then a layer of guitar. Image is Berlin’s Landwehr Kanal in winter, manipulated with pixel-sorting software I wrote in Clojure. https://bsky.app/profile/jackrusher.com/post/3k56gkjsllc2c

- Web Monetization in the Fediverse Jeremiah Lee Web Monetization Mastodon Interledger - In April 2023, I began working with the Interledger Foundation as a technical ambassador to advance Web Monetization in Mastodon and other applications using ActivityPub. ActivityPub is a W3C standard that adds a social layer to the Web platform. It enables any website or app to have social networking functionality that can interoperate with other websites and apps. Instead of everyone having to join one social network, people can now pick a social network provider like they can pick an email provider. My…

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• Vitalik Buterin on Twitter/Community Notes What do I think about Community Notes?
  • via Subconscious/Discord

  • Community notes is a sort of hope-pill for me. It feels like it’s on its way to becoming a positive example of people making sense together over the internet. Gordon Brander
• 11:16 quick capture: https://polyglotgeek.com/polish-idioms/

- Subconscious Beta Subconscious Noosphere - Subconscious is local-first software. Your data lives on your device, so you always have it with you. It’s also synced to IPFS, a decentralized network. This means you have the multiplayer features of a cloud app, but you own your data, and have credible exit through your device, or any IPFS peer. - Noosphere is open like email, or the web. Anyone can run a node, and developers can build new tools on top. But it also goes a step further, using self-certifying cryptography and decentralized protocols to eliminate the need for any centralized…

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⭐️ bluesky-social/pds Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server) container image, compose file, and documentation

⭐️ filecoin-project/motion :motorcycle: Accelerating Data onto FileCoin

⭐️ olizilla/all-relative 💫 convert a static site to use only relative urls

⭐️ filecoin-saturn/browser-client Integrates Filecoin Saturn CDN into a website

- The OpenTF Manifesto is exactly what you think it is: an "Open Terraform", reacting to the Hashicorp BSL licensing of Terraform - Terraform was open-sourced in 2014 under the Mozilla Public License (v2.0) (the “MPL”). Over the next 9 years, it built up a community that included thousands of users, contributors, customers, certified practitioners, vendors, and an ecosystem of open-source modules, plugins, libraries, and extensions. Then, on August 10th, 2023, with little or no advance notice or chance for much, if not all, of the community to have any input, HashiCorp switched the license…

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- Update: Open vs Hidden Maya Land - Where there’s material worth spending time on, it doesn’t feel right somehow to make one’s every thought and reaction public. - I like Maya Land’s writing. Very great turns of phrase, intensely link stuffed posts that has you open dozens of tabs - I might tag this dark forest for this discussion about how much to put on the open internet today. A vague feeling of unease about being open. - Ok one more quote (which is right before the above quote), because I want to savour extralaboral time as a phrase: - The third part is that in the extralaboral time that…

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- Julia Evans Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server Mastodon - I’ve found Mastodon quite a bit more confusing than Twitter because it’s a distributed system, so here are a few technical things I’ve learned about it over the last 10 months. I’ll mostly talk about what using a single-person server has been like for me, as well as a couple of notes about the API, DMs and ActivityPub. - Marginalia, an independent search engine, via Jacky Alciné on Mastodon - ((64d7abfc-e818-43d5-be23-8bd95429672a)) - Open Source - The other angle really is that code costs nothing to copy, so I am in…

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⭐️ zkorum/agora Monorepo for Agora Citizen Network

• She’d picked the locale, and it really was a local locale, which meant either she had good googlefu or she was more local than she was pretending to be on the phone. Rose House

• Completed #reading Rose House
  • Yep, that was a quick read! Spooky.
• Started #reading Lords of Uncreation

- “A version of a thing is a 40 char string of hex noise” - Via Erlend Subconscious/Discord, this is Graydon Hoare explaining how the affordance of hashes-as-versions became normalized. @[email protected] - And: - (IMO this is also why all the web3 stuff as well as secure p2p messaging like SSB and nostr had their moments when they did: elliptic curve crypto finally meant a public signing key could be "a 32 char string of hex noise", which is actually a psychologically tolerable threshold in UI we hadn't previously identified, but is real. Dropping below the "full page of hex" RSA/DSA key-size…

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- DWebYVR/Drop-In first event today collapsed:: true - Posted about the space with some photos https://cosocial.ca/@boris/110860822079172675 - Wesley Finck and I immediately started talking about tools for thought - demo of pdf upload and markup with LogSeq - I drag and dropped this PDF, a brochure about a cool event space in Istanbul called The Seed: - - LogSeq/Hierarchy is a thing I'm showing Wesley Finck - The DWebYVR/Website is built on an Obsidian vault and then rendered and published by Quartz - Brooklyn Zelenka - Ian Vanagas - Oh damn, I just realized that Ian wrote Smart Young BC: -…

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⭐️ lassejaco/pretix-eth-payment-plugin An etheruem payment provider plugin for pretix

⭐️ efdevcon/pretix-eth-payment-plugin An etheruem payment provider plugin for pretix

• Maddy “Maddy Mail Server implements all functionality required to run a e-mail server”
  • ((64d2e45a-1695-4a81-8ba0-0bdf63f73a43))

⭐️ trace2798/passage_fullstack Post iT - Milestones, memories, and more. An web application to share your milestones, memories and more. Authentication using Passage by 1Password

⭐️ spruceid/teal bluesky client built with ssx

- Looking at BMC/Homepage and tinkering with my .well-known - I already have a Webfinger document from earlier experiments with using my email address as account login for remotestorage, delegated to 5apps - Found this neat hack, just add a redirect to your site! Alias your Mastodon account to your own domain with Netlify Redirect - I can do this as well with IPFS/Redirects - Note: you'll need to add redirects to your includes command in your Jekyll config.yml for it to pass through this file, as well as the .well-known folder - - Adding to the BMC/Homepage collapsed:: true - Colophon tweaks…

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⭐️ muffinista/rust-rss-to-fedi