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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-16 at 01:17

A video of the cafe in operation and how it came to be. Actually its a very moving story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iLcOLvNfz0

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-15 at 15:21

"If you repeated what you did today 365 more times will you be where you want to be next year?"

-- Kevin Kelly

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-13 at 14:41

University of Helsinki is offering a free online course to learn Python programming in 2025 that starts today:

https://programming-25.mooc.fi/

[#]Python #MOOC

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-11 at 18:44

I installed Bluefin DX this morning on my Thinkpad T480s. It has some very different ideas about working with a Linux desktop. I'm going in with "beginner's mind"! 🙂

https://projectbluefin.io/

[#]Bluefin #uBlue #Fedora #Linux

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-11 at 13:41

DO NOT SPARE YOURSELF

by Mario Benedetti

Don’t stand motionless

by the side of the road

don’t petrify your joy

don’t desire with reserve

do not spare yourself now

or ever

      do not spare yourself

don’t fill up on tranquility

don’t claim from the world

only a quiet corner

don’t let your eyelids fall

heavy as judgments

don’t remain lipless

don’t fall asleep unready to dream

don’t think yourself bloodless

don’t deem yourself out of time

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Source: https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/01/10/no-te-salves/

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-10 at 13:36

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

-- Kahlil Gibran

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-08 at 20:42

What little I know about HTML and CSS has been picked up in bits over the years.

I would like to develop a more comprehensive overview of the subject starting with the basics. These HTML and CSS modules offered by freeCodeCamp as part of their "Certified Full Stack Developer Curriculum" look interesting:

https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/full-stack-developer/

[#]HTML #CSS #freeCodeCamp

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2025-01-04 at 19:04

Is the creation of AGI that meets/exceeds human beings only a question of more resources? Require a different paradigm?

Or does reasoning from first principles make it the wrong question to ask; the wrong quest to pursue?

What instead could be achieved by combining the best aspects of the analog and digital towards a new state of being? This essay by @cyberhuman really stirs the thinking pot!

https://medium.com/@leonidkorogodski/ai-human-cyberhuman-a32e49b8ff70

Perfect read on a snow day over :cupofcoffee: 🙂

[#]AI #Transhuman #Digients

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-12-30 at 13:36

Avatar Robot Cafe Dawn in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district is staffed by robot waiters that are remotely piloted by people with conditions and disabilities that limit their ability to leave the home:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240913/p2a/00m/0na/036000c

[#]Robot #Tokyo #Japan

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-12-29 at 21:36

Its been a long time since I've tried any of the openSUSE variations. This particular one - Aeon - uses an immutable core OS layer in combination with user-installed applications courtesy of flatpak + distrobox.

An interesting talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K_kGbmlewo

[#]openSUSEaeon #openSUSE #distrobox #immutable #linux

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-12-27 at 15:59

2/2

Commodore PET was the first computer I actually physically touched and entered my first commands. It wasn't intended for us younger kids but I snuck into the school lab and had to try it out! 🙂

The artist is Fran Seeley. She has a Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@artbyfseeley

[#]drawing #art

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-12-27 at 15:58

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Yesterday for Boxing Day I received a framed drawing of a Commodore PET to my total delight!

Background: A few months ago I attended the Vintage Computer Festival in Kitchener, Ontario with friends. One of them purchased raffle tickets where you could designate what item being raffled you would like to win, and asked me what looked good. I liked this picture best of all. Lo and behold they won and kept it a secret for Christmas!

[#]commodore #drawing #art

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-12-24 at 13:46

In my mind I'm hearing the Christmas version:

"Oh ho ho ho / Life can be cool / Life in Tokyo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyfiYP1hS98

[#]music

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-12-08 at 14:37

Takeover : Hitler's Final Rise to Power by Timothy W. Ryback

I had previously thought the Nazis pushed into office on a wave of support, but in fact by the end of 1932 they were hemorrhaging votes and money. A majority of Germans voted for other parties and the Nazis were divided and near bankruptcy.

An incredible story and one of my top reads of the year... the months leading up to Hitler becoming chancellor of Germany in January 1933.

Highly relevant as we head into January 2025.

[#]Books

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-11-13 at 20:00

Such a good idea and inspiring!

"Make 50 of something"... could be ANYTHING... a series of small projects centred around a theme and created in rapid succession. @blinry describes 50 projects they created using a Software Defined Radio. I think I might even have one of those SDR dongles...

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

[#]SDR #Radio

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-11-11 at 15:41

A very human post-human novella: "The Epiphany of Gliese 581" by Fernando Borretti. Enjoyed it very much!

https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581

I need to learn more about Nikolai Fyodorov. More books to add to the "To Read" list...

[#]SciFi #Transhumanism #Books

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-11-07 at 15:32

Benno Rice is a FreeBSD developer and gave this excellent presentation - at a Linux conference - for anyone interested in the history of Unix, init systems in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

Very illuminating!

I also highly recommend reading the post about "contempt culture" cited near the beginning of the talk:

https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture

[#]SystemD #Linux

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-11-06 at 15:27

Americans! Greetings from a neighbour in Canada.

So you had an election. Not the results many of us here hoped to see!

No matter. Let us speak no more of hope, or despair, or calculate the odds of doing THIS thing over THAT other thing.

Rather let us THINK and SPEAK of what needs to be DONE, and DO that with the full force of our being. Always moving forward with humility, resolve, and good cheer.

Per ardua ad astra.

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-11-03 at 21:18

Sometime in the future I might self-host my blog on my home server, but to start I went looking for a VPS from one of the cloud hosting providers. DigitalOcean has received positive feedback in the past from my local Linux Users Group.

I created a new account, spun up a "droplet" running Debian, and moved from Netlify to self-hosted using the Caddy web server.

So... Nice and shiny new droplet. What next?

My notes:

https://www.dwarmstrong.org/droplet/

[#]SelfHosting #VPS #Server #Debian #Linux

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Written by Daniel Wayne Armstrong on 2024-10-29 at 15:26

My intention is to move my static blog (created with Zola) from Netlify to self-hosting on a DigitalOcean VPS (running Debian). I would like to have a better idea of what is involved in hosting a website.

Documentation on DO is quite good.

I'm thinking of using DO for DNS management and Caddy as the web server:

https://caddyserver.com/

[#]Selfhosted #VPS #Debian #Linux #DNS #Caddy

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