Just a page counter dev. Got bought out in 1997 by a famous page counter at the time, invested in a tenth of an acre, and grew some beans. They were heirloom seeds, so my costs were low.
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Last Notes npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy If I did do sats, I would make my default 23, not 21 (unless it's corndalorian who gets 1 sat, regardless). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy 💯 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://blossom.primal.net/405d6ff9b86fa3f15910827c827e1dbb1fe8032701837190c73b06fcd169dd5c.jpg npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy GM npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Clever, but your aunt's toddler just fucked your life on a visit. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy One of the weirdest shitposts I've ever witnessed. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy #IainMcGilchrist npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy A new #IaiMcGilchrist talk just dropped. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Exactly. https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/nobody-expects-the-spanish-inquisition npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://youtu.be/lAnruEKBBF4 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy 641a npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I was able to turn 11299 heptads into a fully functioning interactive journal reader in 46 lines of code. Next up, I'll publish the journal and code and create a video presentation. This year is the 40th anniversary of the two visions/meditations that started this journey ( which is in my journal). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Beat Happening npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Hit Stevie Nicks' *Sometimes It's a Bitch* and jumped my motorcycle through the air right on to the front of Meat Loaf's *Bat Out of Hell* album. If alters were different music tastes, I'd be locked up. What a strange and wonderful album, no? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy ... and Bella Donna has two stories, but I think one of them, at least, is in my journal. Double pin on those. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy OMFG, Wild Heart has a story too, but I'll have to put a pin in that and get back to work. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy More Stevie Nicks stories... Cry Wolf is on the headphones. I dropped out pretty hard for awhile, swearing off computers after several IT and electronic tech. gigs in the early 80s. I ended up baking pies at a local bakery. I got tennis elbow from lifting pie filling all day after I cooked it. My boss said it was my fault for after-work activities, which, translated, means he wouldn't support an L&I claim. I had no insurance. Who had insurance back then? Nobody I knew. So, I decided to go back to school at the local community college when I realized I was relying on my body for income, and it could easily wear out. I couldn't even carry a bag of groceries walking back from the store. I've never been a great student. I never really got the point of it, and was lazy because of this. The first quarter was very hard. Also, the concrete buildings were scary to me, in a THX-1138 kind of way. I could see that I was entering a tunnel, and didn't trust where it would end up. I'm not so sure that caution was unwarranted upon reflection, but the elbows were definitely a problem. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm on a Stevie Nicks binge as I code. She wrote Rose Garden in 1965, when she was 17 years old. It is a simple, beautiful song. I interviewed for an IT job at an early dot com in the late 90s. They liked me, but I shared that I wasn't going to work much over 40 hours. I was already burned out from my last job (my current job sucked too, but because I was bored). An engineer there said he had no problem working 80 hours, because he was going to retire and grow his own rose garden with all the money he would make from his options. He got this faraway, sweet look in his eyes as he said this. I felt included in his vision. I could see it too. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Chemistry? I've only dropped one class in my life because the first day scared me. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy It surprises me how many Nostr dev folks have Microsoft accounts via GitHub. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I added terser to my rollup bundle, and the PNG went from 2306207 bytes to 2296101. I'm removing terser minification. It really is surprising how much you get for free with PNG deflate. https://www.w3.org/TR/png/ npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Ah, yes. The magic of first experiencing icat from the command line. I also like terminology and tycat. TBH, though, I'm usually in konsole. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy There isn't anything that special about posting. It is just sending signed JSON to a relay over WebSockets. You can create the JSON yourself, or use something like Will's nostril [1]. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy GM npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The root node, attributes, instances, and relations are all distinct ideas that show up in code, particularly when you try and minimize. As an example, an attribute key is unique, but a relation is not. In another life, I would **study** Michael K Bergman's *A Knowledge Representation Practionary*. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I woke up and had the urge to strip out graphologyjs, and process heptads in memory for page rendering on the client app as needed. Alternating between proper graph databases, though, has helped my data model/schema. If Charles Peirce had a computer/JS, it would help reveal the nature of triples. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Until a couple of years ago, I refused to be labelled as well. It can be confusing until you realize just how differently the experience of the world is between ND and NT. Now, I don't think my particular fucked onion of features is the same as anybody else. The key part is that the nature of my fucked is way, way different. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy They are forming npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy "Whatever the Thinker thinks, the Prover proves." npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Your goals and expectations of the ride, to continue one of the metaphors, also forms your experience. Also, to used a mixed-drink metaphor: on the other side of the world, my coffee is hitting hard after a few cups and peaking on the day, and on the other side of the world , a couple of vodker and tonics could well be behind the keyboard. How many metaphors is that <counts on fingers>. From what I know, we share quite a bit of past experience, but I'm neurodivergent, and you seem neurotypical. There's that, too. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Your feed is public. I don't need to follow you to view it. Although, we did follow each other on a different npub. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy We are talking past each other. Or, at least, I think I understand what you are saying and have no disagreement, but it is missing my point (for both examples!) npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I just remembered something related. Personally, I like to code. It helps me understand a problem as I figure out the right data schema and code to express knowledge transforms. These are all tools for knowledge, right? Sure, there are material transforms, but knowledge drives those. I don't mind a wee bit of syntax/indent help, and hover for API like VSCode and others. Anyway... I have some friends that have a theory that people who drive Prius' don't actually like cars. I think this fits. It isn't a judgement. You don't have to be in love with your car. You might just have a destination in mind. Now, another question is if you are using current inference tools, are you just matching your idea well against what exists, or are you truly creating something new? That is probably a bigger conversation. You are still constrained by "something made from these legos". https://youtu.be/oaEM4JYFPfw npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Now... luckily I have my journal going back to 1990, so I really can trace my ideas and see where I've circled around. Also, I have dev stubs from my software archives where I built up to something and tried something else. I can see how I picked back up later when I had the skills to proceed. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy When I get that feeling that everything I've worked on since 1986 leads to what I'm doing in the moment, including almost every weird rabbit hole, and it is *amazing*, I need to check myself. This is likely self deception and brain-must-find-pattern. I'm running my trace, and it still seems true. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Where do chickens fit in your plans? I used to rotate a chicken tractor around my raised beds. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm nostalgic about this old icon. I created it in Xfig, likely over 20 years ago, but I lost the fig file. The head and arms are off center, but I'm going to go all Lynchian and work it into the story. It is my origin story, really, from 1986. I'm still figuring out what it means. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Are you joking? I don't even do bitcoin or shitcoins, and it seems like there are endless debates on this. I vaguely remember the "luke" guy pointing out 50 lines of code in question. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'll run with this and see where it ends up: graphology, lib-upng, and showdown w/ full heptads in the single PNG w/ ability to export locally to catch the libraries w/o needing fetch, so you can just open up the single HTML page in #offlinefirst mode. All heptads cumulative in IndexedDB w/ export. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I was referring to your statement "Today I did my first pull request." not your code. Your agent did the PR request, right? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy That's a good analogy. Many professional drivers prefer manual transmissions, or they don't feel they are really driving under control. Power steering is also tricky, as you can't feel the road. Feedback is good to have from the wheel. A 72 Datsun 510 was a great economical car to drive if you liked feeling the road, etc. Independent rear suspension made it good too... sometimes tech in between helps, sometimes it is a buffer that isolates. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I wonder at what point in the future when somebody says "I did something" do we assume that includes AI agents under their control? Quite serious, here. If we do manage to continue to push the complexity/entropy envelope with our techno civ we are part of, this will be more and more embedded in our assumptions about agency. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The stubborn, insane, awesome demonstration of simple knowledge assertions that the basic Nostr event object builds from (NIP-01) has been enlightening for me and informs my current work. For that I am grateful. As for the cultural aspect? It does provide insight into some subcultures I don't see much of on the Fediverse or Bluesky. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy @nprofile…3nvp npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy "85 million pounds of rotting food debris" npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The heptads for my journal edge case end up taking only 2.3MB in PNG form. These are 6.5MB uncompressed in JSON form. This includes signatures for each heptad. If I use a key of H7 in IndexedDB, it should still be painless to collaborate. Next step is to see what page load time is. I want < .5S. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm at a design juncture. Do I keep the heptads in the HTML, or do I wrap them in a PNG? PNGs have an advantage as far as scraping and other abuse. Once the bots find parsable text, they keep downloading forever (years). I'm ingesting into IndexedDB for offline use already. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Raw full body chicken pictures always make me flash back to Eraserhead. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy "A few are wrong on the Nostr" npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Re-using this XKCD as a meme is becoming unsustainable. I need to delete this and get back to work. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The question is, what kind of human would say "the rails are melting"? (Or, more accurately "thei rails are melting"). It doesn't really matter if it is actual AI slop, or a cultural propagation mechanism by well-meaning human agents that don't know that rails are made of steel and the most basic ideas of what temperature steel melts at. This does zero good. It is another form of righteousness porn and part of the information warfare. I'm unclear on what is *behind* the warfare. That is, did information warfare just *emerge* because of a lack of critical reasoning skills? Is it warring nations undermining targets? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy For some more dimensions on this, consider this blend of fiction. I think it hits harder than the info warfare social media format. Note that I generally groove on quite a bit of your channel. You have some good stuff to say. I also imagine that you didn't originate the OP, you are just passing it on in its info warfare format. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy They have a positive operating budget and some regular financial activity, so people still care somewhat about it. I always liked their vision, the original allegory (based in real-life founder), where you show up in port, connect to the network and sync up to find out the scuttlebutt. But, yeah... from most gauges dead. I use Ed25519 form my stuff as well, because it is included in the Web APIs (no external libraries needed for most modern browsers or JS runtimes). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I appreciate that you back up your swagger. 🫡 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I was curious about this bit of info warfare, so I did a bit of research on it. He does list a 122 shilling purchase of nine teeth in his ledger. I also found this bit of fiction: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Family first. Internet second. My mom and her mom helped with the early stuff, primarily. The internet existed, too, and Google had done a decent job indexing it and prioritizing via weighted knowledge graphs on the back-end, so it was a good resource. I was a very late father, but even before the Internet went beyond academic/military, Compuserve and The Source had online resources. I used to use The Source via one of these: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Tron, the 1982 version of the movie. Which... small tidbit for devs... is trace on from BASIC. The movie was groundbreaking in its day. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I'm proud of my country and what we have done, but I am also aware of how easy oil, rich topsoil, water, minerals, and genocide played into it. Greek and Roman Civs slap dick losers... yowser npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I failed to obtain a free hotdog. @nprofile…pk7w npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy TBD npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy We aren't all the same over here. I have my Domesday book out. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Heading out to find my free hotdog. Wish me luck. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://youtu.be/B6ffKGhD3-Q npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy ** CounterAntiDisIntermediation npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy In the last year, the only in-person meetups that sound interesting to me to attend were all in Berlin. Three of them (I only remember two right now, the counterantidisinformation Dmytri guy and his group and a permacomputing meetup). Not so sure there is a correlation with the OP or anything, but it is an interesting bit of info, no? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Hetpad 7 (Ed25519 sig in URL safe base64) serves as the unique ID for the entire heptad. I assemble the needed heptads for each page, prior, and this leads to duplicates. Using a Set to store them by H7 works well as I process. Nostr event objects use a similar method; however, by using N-Quads [1] with semantic meaning vs. whatever the hell we come up with later ("other stuff"=os from n.o.s.t.r.), I get some TBL W3C magic right up front in the data architecture. Unlike TBL magic, I'm at the logical layer, not lower, so it doesn't matter how the heptads are transported or assembled. The superpower of Nostr is that these assertions can be assembled into almost anything. I'm not sure the Nostr "experts" "building the next internet" [2] exactly understand where that power comes from or how it is related to N-Quads, but, frankly, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Everybody is comfortable in their world view, right? I'm not knocking the power of signed JSON with fully distributed identity, but it could be so much more if you design a better knowledge assertion. BUT, there is no reason somebody couldn't just spin up a NIP for the defined four elements in the content of an event object, or perhaps come up with graph, subject, predicate, and object tags or somesuch. It truly is remarkable what Nostr can do, despite the hubris and blindness. And, TBF, the entire dev world is on the same track. Triples are just too hard to grasp for most [3]. KVPs FTW is the battle cry. Quads? With fully distributed identity, provenance and timestamps? 🤯 What would B̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶B̶o̶i̶t̶a̶n̶o̶ OpenClaw do? Our new savior. Now, the fabulous thing is that I can just point to the ongoing Nostr dev work if people want to extend my dead simple ideas. They have worked through a world of extensibility aspects in the NIPs that inform and explore how a collection of assertions can come together. And, I've said it before, but I learned extensively through Nostr examples. Despite bristling at their hubris in [2], and lack of historical understanding and nuance of what the Internet is, I am grateful (seriously) for what I've learned from their work. And, also, I attack TBL a wee bit, too, for not making the entire knowledg graph flexible and logical right up front. Remember when he complained that URIs should be forever? Barry Smith will chide my scruffy ontology, as will most academics, so I'll get mine as well... I just won't likely know about it if it ever does happen. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Bully McBullface npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Empty nest as of four months, myself. The one thing I remember from back then, and reflection on the journey, is that everybody was wrong about all they said about the experience overall. The life involved has dimensions big and wide that words and platitudes just can't touch. Oh, my... our experience had dimensions, definitely. Dimensions of pain, joy... all emotions, really, wrapped up in blood and meconium. This is it, man! This is it. Enjoy it. I'm not even sure "over too quickly" even applies as a platitude. The gulf between now and before his birth I can hardly see across. As for your wife, she knows verity now, intimately, and that will never leave. https://blossom.primal.net/6d623c1ad413c3ac09b44bbb310e1209a8a56c452022b5bc94215a281470642e.png npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Just a few blocks from my house there is quite likely free hotdogs and a pop-up beer garden (not free beer, but perhaps free as in freedom). I'll have to walk over there for lunch and check. <hopeful> npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I use #vi keybindings, so my j key lost its ridge, and I was doing wacky things to my code. Usually the keyboard dies way before now. I have a stack of cheap kbds w/o transceivers and swap them out usually before this kind of wear. This dremel hack works! (do f the same). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Considering what flavor to use for showdown, and noticed that deity jgm says: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy <wonders where the free hotdogs are> npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy If I use showdownjs, I can publish my journal with zero external libraries. It will be all native, including signature verification. It has always been a dilemma to use markdown with a markdown library or render it prior. No more! Plus, the project is still active. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I spent time this morning mulling over results of my embedded heptad experiments yesterday. I think the 3D form for data/material is the best to demonstrate collaboration on models, but my biggest focus in the coming year should be the journal application with light collaboration on entry comments. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy It may be impractical, but I am attached to this particular visualization of combined data and material flow. I think this render using #d3 would be good to show off streamed knowledge (heptads) over MQTT. It will cover collaboration well. Perhaps an event board in the corner? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy fought in formation dressed in red, lol npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy on Nostr, because just too seXy npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://blossom.primal.net/491ba2a8d7b629d3ae39d41b6da3f51c28ff5f96e0fc12f5687fa6062889eea3.mp4 npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I want handlebars on that developing mustache. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I need to be very careful on this, and consider the advantages to the simple version. It may well be that viewing somebody else's changes by reviewing their page and merging their changes at that point is better than being a viewer of a show that everybody watches and pokes at occasionally. I'll work out the simple version first, before adding more complex notifications. Also, this works offline. The key thing is the heptads which can be serialized and sent in many ways. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I got the heptads to load in the HTML page directly. All that is left is to write the rendering code, now that the heptads are available in an object. I'm thinking that anything you want to collaborate on, you will see, first. So, since these are cumulative, Alice just views Bob's page, and the heptads are loaded into IndexedDB. Alice can modify/supplement, and post to her website, which will now contain both. Carol can view both and hers will update. A pub/sub w/ an MQTT topic of the graph ID? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy https://youtu.be/f9g4-5-GKBc npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy By bootstrap and visualization tool, I believe in Donella Meadows idea that we can use computers to help us understand important systems without computers. Extremely complex systems will be collapsing around us, and we will be juggling that as well as trying to learn from the experience and emerging in a new culture. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy I waded a wee bit into the #permacomputing hashtag today. I groove on Virgil Dupras' work and writing, but much of this seems like play to me, a slight variation on retro hacking with much money and time. I get it. I've done my share. Our situation is too grave to play, for me. It is oppressive. Also, it hides the problems of modernity. What I see is a transition through some very difficult times. I see computers as helping *during* that time, but mostly as a bootstrap and visualization tool. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Yes. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy If you managed to miss the Kenster McDonald's interview with Terry Davis, here you go: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy My desert island post reminds me of a story. When I was a freshman in high school we read Lord of the Flies. To kick it off, we had to show what we had in our pockets to see what we could build, etc. I had a pocket full of electronic parts that could conceivably build a radio, along with LEDs, a bunch of logic gates and a 5 volt regulator (lm309k). I'm sure there must have been a 555 timer too. I always had one of those. My pockets were banned from the scenario in disgust by our teacher. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy My entire sojourn into origin and graph definitions this morning was because I realized all integrations of knowledge when fully distributed centered around the graph (heptad element 1). I'm grooving on HTML presentation, and don't want to modify the heptads, as they have signatures. They are cumulative, so if Alice posts an origin page (index.html) and Bob wants to collaborate, Bob could either build off of Alice's graph directly by using the same ID, or just use Alice's predicates. By decoupling, it allows Bob to do stuff like use a different signature algorithm or expand the model in a different way. There should also be a similar choice for all nodes in collaboration. Bob might want to correct Alice's value. This is going a bit wide, but if Alice likes everything that Bob corrects except for a handful, Alice could exclude the edge made by quad. To picture how I intend this to work in reality, imagine multiple people just publishing a collection of HTML pages on the WWW. References to the graph could be set as an attribute. If Bob and Alice are working the same model, the graph "node" would have a URI reference. It could also have an nprofile or npub (although that limits the flexibility in Nostr land). I had to iron this out a bit and brainstorm (with myself... publicly in my ship's log) to get my bearings. Well... back to the JavaScript mines for now. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Notice that by removing physical, signature, and even ID bindings to URIs, message form, or algo, it is completely portable. I can assert a new form of signature algo at any time. Of course, you'd have to trust that I controlled the private key and you had a public ID that matched. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The root graph is always weird. Consistency appears to go away. This is the heptad for setting the signature algo: npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy The graph node (heptad element 1) must have an attribute for signature algorithm, for example, Ed25519 or secp256r1. This ensured the knowledge model is not tethered to any unneeded constraints, physical or otherwise. The model is portable between all messaging platforms (MQTT, Nostr, ATProto, HTTP, SMTP, SMS). The models are cumulative. A delete is an attribute on a new assertion (much like on Nostr relays). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy What the world hates is having to trace meaning from origin, rather than gleaning it from a knowledge assertion. Using an open-world assumption, it is completely valid to assert that `hasldkj - has_label - crunch` without declaring anything else about hasldkj. This comes up with WWW collaboration, as origin is likely /, or index.html. origin doesn't necessarily have a direct or inferred relationship to hasldkj. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy When I say "heptads in the page", it is core information, not a supplementary markup like RDF. I realize that I'm getting at the core dream of the WWW and TBL's visions, but I just think it can be more direct. I have to dig in and see. So, for now, folks, :wq . I have to disappear for awhile. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Well... I think I just completely tilted my timeline. If the heptads *are in the HTML page*, they can be collaborated on just like the WWW, but with provenance and integrity. There is no need for messaging hacks/protocols/platforms, just the ability to fetch and publish documents on the WWW. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy For domains where heptads are expressed directly by the browser, it is possible to have integrity and provenance directly from the HTML. Think of it as extremely scrappy and lightweight RDF (#BarrySmith of #suny would call it scruffy.) CSS could handle the layout directly. JS could layout/validate. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy Heptad knowledge assertions reveal meaning within the app. With knowledge/material flow, this is most likely a layout and visualization program like #graphviz or #d3. But, for collaborative written language models like the original WWW, the assertions could be expressed directly in the browser. npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy MDN Web Docs can be run offline, but it is still a bit picky. Figure it out now and test before your network connection fails (or some other socio-political-economic event breaks your connection). npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy If I was stranded on a desert island and could take one thing, assuming my physical needs were met, and it had to be solo, I'd take a copy of MDN web docs (assuming I could read, use, and work along with it, which would mean a laptop and a PV setup). 2? Add #Proust. 3? #Shakespeare. What about you? npub1ngs4dyj46z36ne6lrh3wfjyrexlzu4s43plj9vhv76cczw7dtp7sf96dlu floppy ¡Wow BoB woW!
