Peg Otis

Now, my postscript stuff is still interesting. https://web.archive.org/web/20201116223836/https://sysadmintools.com/1/5/ Tell you what!??? I've had a...

Ever find old code you wrote and it is so ugly it is useless? My-o-my, I was just starting out and figuring Python was the way. Ugh... not sure I can ...

My local-first vs. offline-only vs online-available needs a flowchart. Of course, I need to create a knowledge graph, so I had to look up some old wor...

This one is growing on me. #NowPlaying #AnasaziKaha #CodingMusic https://archive.org/details/anasazi_kaha_-_space?webamp=default

Yes. You are more famous than I. I drank beer in a tent with Larry Wall in 1999. I was fourteen feet away from him. He didn't know I was there, but th...

Anybody else sing all three every time? (Stevie onward) https://youtu.be/lOfZLb33uCg

you are direct to Coolio?

My insistence on monolithic things over ecosystems has created some bad design decisions. I need to step back and rethink my stance in light of my int...

https://codeberg.org/ajcain/gibbon_declineandfall

fetch messes up offline-first. I can hack it with a recent Electron binary release and a handful of JS or manual browser config (dangerous to suggest!...

deep sound coming down https://archive.org/details/wild-at-heart-clip-dern-dafoe-2

Quite literally... this is on my screen right now. I'm running with the key as the node with graph/subject/predicate, and the value as the object. Fo...

I've long been aware that intellectually timid/lazy folks whine about semantic triples, and yet they overload keys with semantic information. If you d...

yes https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition

There must be a label for somebody that starts a paren but doesn't finish, and another for somebody that notices and comments about it, and another fo...

Watch her rule (a song off my second favorite album of hers... very close, very close. Speaking of Dylan... would have loved to have witnessed his "I ...

Don't interrupt the sorrow Darn right In flames our prophet witches Be polite A room full of glasses He says "Your notches, liberation doll" And he ch...

The best part of my walks is the children playing in public parks.

Sometimes elegance is simple. Sometimes "elegance is refusal".

For the Nostr crowd, the infrastructure problem is acknowledged. There is still a bit of fantasy in how it is addressed, but compared to a typical str...

You can see both the explosion and shift in culture around 2012. This was when the WWW showed its capability for collective intelligence. At the same ...

Kobayashi Maru needs a ~

There is a follow-up to this: https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition

https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f750ee4ca06cb27c12fca58/6193906486c1e91fec7d17ba_ATributeToWinAmp_site-p-1600.png

"in some states of consciousness environment seems as if it was in some kind of active dialogue with us" indeed

Some directly, some inferred, yes.

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

I used the wrong term. It should be "Climate adaptation corridors"; however, I see it as broader than most. Close enough.

I'm not going to follow that link, but I will say that Mark Cuban has shown some metrics like that that with his drug company have helped some of my f...

The more I think about it, the more a cultural change to facilitating adaption pathways, rather than being self-appointed center stage silver-bullet t...

My theory on heptad element placement is that I should sort the data I stick in the PNG so that the main text at the leaf nodes (markdown, html) is cl...

I see the truth of what you are saying. I have no trouble with criticism, and when I do get it, it is great to have. With my technical stuff as I'm fe...

GM I'd love to get one of those myself. My kiddo is freshly on his own. I'm still trying to gauge how often I text him (he won't read email).

Sharing as I learned, particularly with my weird take and requirements, made me very noisy. I alienate folks quickly. The academics see my flaws (alth...

Finally, before I STFU, my biggest mistake was sharing as I learned. I'm still learning. I wasn't a developer when I started. I had to figure that out...

One small example for those that think "instance" is easy. The model, the ontology, forms a nice map. But, we think in instances *or* model. So, if yo...

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A huge mistake I've made is trying to explain the design of knowledge graphs up front to non-academic folks. The difference between attributes, classe...

I am refactoring heptapp completely to take advantage of the PNG compression better by re-arranging the heptad elements, and making the app more perso...

Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT c...

I saw her in the 88 DOA remake this week (OK movie)

twirling toothpaste panty grooves not horrible, really https://blossom.primal.net/6fe5ce0337c8c22f0b2119d3d7bdac2d209da4f79b9b7ca2d712cf602ce9f7d8....

As a veteran NIP-09 tester, you can scare up posts by rotating around njump.me. There may be a better automated tool, but that is what I've done in th...

Twenty years ago I'd agree with you about tracing identities. These days that kind of correlation is cheap. Regardless, I'm rooting for you, so I hop...

this comment was captured by who knows how many relays. will just nuked his store, so this one has some time. i know it is constantly mined. you are f...

LLF Large Language Fluffer

One question I need to ask more is "What are you shilling?".

I read that Motorola and grapheneOS were working together a few months ago

Ontology off origin is weird and difficult, but I have the correct entities hanging off. https://blossom.primal.net/6f9401f078a5c520339c337638c35a3e...

preparing for the death match of the century https://blossom.primal.net/ed302364ce154d2775d5551224a82356b9a9fccb0af51cd66e8f9e4201b5368e.jpg

It would be a funny joke on me, considering the other threads, if you ran the OP through an LLM and used that to reply here.

I can't believe it took me this long to realize how AI (as we call it) will disrupt the game card industry. Yu-Gi-Oh²

same. ;-)

What is your cadence? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2026/05/a-note-on-patch-tuesday

The last (and only) time I was on that sidewalk was August of '85. I looked similar to you in stature. I had a really thin gold tone digintal watch. ...

I'd bet 25% of workflows could be done with a checklist. Perhaps a machine assist checklist that adapted during the flow, but way simpler than typical...

One thing about my version of collapse that might help explain, is that I don't see collapse as a big armageddon event. It is something we are in righ...

I want to. I'll wrap up the related heptapp stuff this year, and it will either be a relief or an existential crisis (the real meaning). I already wra...

My kit. (I haven't written in this in years. I seem to be stuck in a loop.) https://blossom.primal.net/543b3c7c1bbb28b669dbe3d5ff5d6ce7cafeaa041b240...

Not sure if they still make them, but I have a bunch of tiny Moleskine notebooks I use with my space pen. Love my space pen.

Truth. Teslas are bonkers insane, and not in the same ballpark. What is even crazier is that I'd trust the Tesla engineering better over time than the...

My $1,000 wrench beats your $5 wrench all to hell. This is the way.

As Y2K rolled over I remember wondering about all the cars with microcontrollers in them. They are everywhere from 80s on, including one of my persona...

For any of you devs trying to maintain offline tools, MDN yari is an excellent one. The problem is if you let it set for too long before you do yarn -...

Every single Nostr client acts differently, I swear. As I was told by a Nostr dev once, the only thing that really holds is NIP-01. This link comes ...

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Also, the LLM bit is mainly on social media. I imagine that IRL, a conversation with you and some others on Nostr would run a bit more like My Dinner ...

I do not exclude myself from this behavior. I am just as human as you are, and have the same grey matter. AND, like Cypher, I enjoy the steak, too.

I'm having my own little chuckle here on the sidelines thinking about federating with atproto and your own PDS in a sovereign way (it uses Merkle tree...

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Skip down to page 11. https://web.archive.org/web/20070418142809/http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/ppig/readinglist/tomasello_et_al2004.pdf Now... imagine...

The text doesn't matter. You wouldn't read it. Not being an asshole, just pragmatic. My point was the main interaction I got was by a handle called Do...

Imagine having an autist dad. I can't help myself. I'm not so sure it helped my parenting.

https://image.nostr.build/3aee73d02305d154d7782dfcef22e0dbbfa6d1ec963bb8879be4a8ca2aa784fa.jpg

Also... Adrian is a permaculture person, much like some of those on Nostr... same motivations, and he is your generation thereabouts, not a boomer. Th...

Tainter: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/86rtp7/what_do_historians_think_of_joseph_tainters_book/

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We can build a social network with just signed JSON? Hold my beer.

https://blossom.primal.net/7a2b79ab8f8396db0cdc48841a5643dd62dff830a47853e645ca8a5b7d5fa777.jpg

Funny you should mention the dog of all things. I walk every day, and the bit about the mass of dogs is always on my mind. Once I stopped and talked t...

Breen, in his book Tripping on Utopia outlines the reason and some of the cultural hacks. It is a great book. It dances around the darker implications...

One interesting bit about modern modernity, is in our feeds we are all acting like LLMs w/ our view of the world to establish who is on our team, but ...

If you scroll my profile and figure I'm a bot... just gotta say, WTF? Anyway, I scrolled yours, and one of my favorite Carlin routines is this one: h...

I didn't vet the quote... no alarm bells went off. Oh my, that would be funny if it was fake. Seems real. Gah!

Saw this in one of my other social media feeds. Different topic, but some good thread intersects. https://blossom.primal.net/eec54eb2cad8c5d34dad1b3c...

A great thing about a journal is that it can surprise you when you follow threads. I want to know more about this "anarchist witch on the mesa". I kno...

https://blossom.primal.net/ccfb1720ba77e3daf8800b742c776801e11a7379183d546352a6daf60ebf165b.png

When does the tunnel end? One gauge is easy breath? https://newtribal.org/?siteask=orn#art318

Figuring out what quotes are fabricated these days is a huge time sink. I chase down ones that seem suspicious sometimes, but the entire fucking inter...

One of the most profound pop song lyrics for me is a line from the Cure's Other Voices: "Change your mind, you're always wrong." It was in the context...

Not bad... not bad. One interesting thing about cursive writing (for me) is the cognitive connection. True, I rarely write in cursive anymore, but it ...

Ha! Posts crossing in the night.

Getting a pure signal in an opposing subculture is priceless as you build a model of our situation. It is a useless goal to be comfortable in the subc...

Robin Hanson, a seed for lesswrong https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/S69ogAGXcc9EQjpcZ/a-brief-history-of-lesswrong

https://youtu.be/5DSww2aH3aU

I'm sure I've seen that... can't place it.

Not wrong, TBH. One thing I like about Nostr is you see a high percentage of posts from lesswrong.com. It isn't your normal social media crowd. But, s...

I got the node editor to send messages back to the Deno web server over websockets. Deno will upgrade the socket and handle the HTTP and WS traffic se...

My point is that humans are thriving just fine, us and our livestock. We are killing it! I have zero doubts about our success here. We have displaced ...

Humans and their livestock FTW https://xkcd.com/1338/