- Kickstarted the spacemacs / spacemacs packages update dance.
- Because of the error “Invalid type in command series” from org-super-agenda.
- As always, kind of wish I hadn’t. Updating spacemacs 2024-03-12.
- I created a quick function to help extract bold sections from text into bullet points.
- Most narrative text is usually just verbose prose around a few relevant points.
- So when I’m parsing some text, I bold the relevant bits.
- Then I pull those out to review them as bullets.
- This function helps quickly pull the bold text into bullets.
- Love the fact you can so easily configure Emacs to do this kind of thing!
- Listened: Brian Merchant, “Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech”
- Spam.
- Our website is experiencing an uptick in spam over the last few days.
- Incredibly irritating.
- With comments like
1*if(now()=sysdate(),sleep(15),0)
. - We have Akismet and a honepot enabled. Adding a very noddy manual captcha (e.g. 4+8 = ?) helps. But if it continues, we’ll probably have to enable ReCaptcha. Which I’d prefer to avoid if possible.
- Seemingly emanating from the same IP address.
- The host lists an abuse@ address. But when I contact that address, the mailbox is reported as being full
- Listened: The cybernetic jacket
- The left receives threats that Jakarta is coming.
- A reference to the brutal murder of Communists in Indonesia.
- Read: The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)
- The Jakarta Method.
- CIA involvement in brutally violent suppression of communist societies.
- Read: For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought
- Listened: The cybernetic jacket
- The left receives threats that Jakarta is coming.
- A reference to the brutal murder of Communists in Indonesia.
- Read: The Jakarta Method Comes to Latin America (Review)
- The Jakarta Method.
- CIA involvement in brutally violent suppression of communist societies.
- Read: For years, I suspected MI5 interfered in the miners’ strike. The truth was even more shocking than I thought
- Listened: The cybernetic jacket
- Ep 4 of The Santiago Boys.
- strike action across Chile.
- And how Allende‘s government deal with it, with the help of the Cybersyn team.
- Watched: Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain
- Finished the first episode. Focused on Shirebrook. The division between strikers and those that crossed the picket line. Still raw.
- Concept maps seem like something I’d be interested in. A visual way of organising knowledge focusing on the relationships between concepts.
- Vulpea and publicatorg look like they might be useful for my org-roam life.
- Listened: Jeremy Hunt’s election budget for big earners and big owners
- Spring Statement 2024.
- This is a budget for big earners and big owners.
- It’s not good for public services.
- Don’t think I’ll be able to do a new connections page.
- At least not easily.
- It would require amending org-roam to allow for link annotations.
- See chat at https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/recording-the-date-that-connections-were-made/3379
- Adding a new connections page to my garden
- Listened: What if we became better Protopians?
- Good discussion, but it seemed more utopian than protopian.
- Lots of nice things listed for how the future could be. But, not much discussion on how to get there. Even in protopian increments.
- Listened:Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust
- Read: Oregon Just Struck a Blow to Parts Pairing and Won a Decade of Repair Support
- Read: What’s the latest on Right to Repair in the EU? And what it means for the UK
- Been having fun looking at repairability scores from the French repair index as displayed on Amazon.fr.
- Impressive how prominent they are (being mandated to be placed next to the price).
- Claim: The free software movement is an example of neo-Luddism.
- Claim: The right to repair movement is an example of neo-Luddism.
- Both sound defensible – both movements are clearly not anti-technology, just anti the political economy of how software and hardware are controlled and commodified to the detriment of society.
- US PIRG has a short report on what it considers to be the best laptop brands for repairability.
- Listened: Nvidia: 2 Boom 2 Bust
- Nice to see a mention of the Austrian Repair Bonus voucher scheme in National Geographic Kids.
- Plus we (The Restart Project) get a shoutout 🙂
- Read: A political ecology of the repair manual
- A lovely-looking political and philosophical ode to the repair manual by Shannon Mattern.
- Ive only skim read it for now. But check out some of the historical and hand-drawn manuals.
- Like with The Maintainers, there’s also the expansion of the concept of repair and maintenance to the wider social context.
- iFixit and Lenovo.
- Listened: Hotel Bar Sessions: Breaking Things at Work (with Gavin Mueller)
- What could technology created under a different value system look like?
- He gives right to repair as another example of neo-Luddism.
- Right on. With that and free software, I seem to fit the description.