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miblo

@miblo@mas.to

video indexer & publishing services provider (for hire via https://miblo.net/cinera#hire) • software developer • strummer • baker • mistake maker–learner • coexister

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evan, (edited ) to random
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How big should the fediverse be?

miblo,
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@evan Nice easy one here, cheers, Evan! We're already over 12M, enough for the population of Benin (https://mas.to/@miblo/110577846040839604), and we don't feel anywhere near capacity to me.

I mean, if we can't make a global network function well with enough accounts for a geographically bounded nation, what hope do we have, really?

evan, (edited ) to random
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"All social software should support ActivityPub."

miblo,
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@evan [Somewhat agree] Couple of caveats for me:

  1. I don't know ActivityPub or physics well enough to say if AP may do for software-based comms to the extent that sound waves and photons do for verbal and visual comms. Nor if I've even scoped the real-world protocols fairly there, or if AP is closest.
  2. I reckon the work involved in adding support for protocols may not yet be little enough to reasonably say all social software should do it for one.

These caveats resolved, though, I'd agree!

miblo,
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@evan Aye, same.

I find myself wondering if these kinds of people who disagree disagreeably, also even agree disagreeably.

Tired: Agreeing agreeably
Wired: Disagreeing agreeably

miblo, to random
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"Ach, I couldn't use a terminal!" they say.
"It's so much effort having to type literally everything!"
"I don't have time for all that!"

Well here's a fun one for them. How about doing what I just did and running ls -1 because you couldn't be bothered minimising / resizing / whatevering (and subsequently un-whatevering) the window that's obscuring your previous ls invocation? That's the kind of time–effort management – or, let's face it, laziness – realm terminal users like me operate in.

miblo, to music
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Today in we have the porcelain jubilee of, for me, a transitional album to celebrate:

[20: Porcelain] The Mars Volta's "De-Loused in the Comatorium": https://us.cloudshillshop.com/products/the-mars-volta-de-loused-in-the-comatorium-2lp

If there's a bridge between the music of my earlier and later days, it's this. From the adrenaline of Deftones, to Shellac's dissonance, The Ex's hairpin turns and Warpaint's groove and weird yet totally cogent guitar parts.

Happy Anniversary, Cedric, Omar, Jeremy (RIP), Ikey (RIP), Flea & Jon! …evaporated the fur…

TomF, to random
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Tired: Euler is pronounced "oi-ler"

Wired: Euclid is pronounced "oi-slid"

miblo,
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@TomF Euclid an dat dere koi pat

miblo, to music
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Today in we have an ancestral album release anniversary to celebrate:

[14] Tortoise's "Beacons of Ancestorship": https://thrilljockey.com/products/beacons-of-ancestorship

By this point, Bundy had left the band, David Pajo – one of my favourite guitarists – had been and gone, and Jeff Parker had well settled in on guitar.

Happy Anniversary, Jeff, Dan, Doug, John & John!

georgetakei, to random

Narrator: He would never be President.

miblo,
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@georgetakei Strong 'Paranoid Android' vibes here (besides the differing characters of Mike and the song's eponymous Marvin).

miblo, to random
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What even is nation-building if not the process of establishing the means of coordination and progressively unburdening each individual citizen of having to deal with doing, being and suffering from all the things?

miblo, to music
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Today in we have the release anniversaries of a trio of broadly experimental albums (two on Thrill Jockey) to celebrate:

[36] Einstürzende Neubauten's "Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala": https://neubauten.org/en/funf-auf-der-nach-oben-offenen-richterskala/
[29] Tortoise's self-titled début: https://thrilljockey.com/products/tortoise
[24] 竹村延和 (Nobukazu Takemura's) "Scope": https://thrilljockey.com/products/scope

Happy Anniversary, Blixa, Alexander, Mark, N.U. & F.M., Dan, Doug, Bundy, John & John, and Takemura-san!

miblo, to random
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I'm currently halfway through the 16-episode 2016 Korean TV series Signal, enjoying it, and at the point where I'm wondering if it'll turn out to be a grand metaphor for the development of civilisation.

evan, (edited ) to random
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Do you use the self-serve checkout or go to the human cashier?

miblo,
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@evan UH: Because I typically only do infrequent, big shops these days (so I don't churn through my disposable masks), and in places that happen to have only human cashiers.

Before the pandemic began, though, when I may've just bobbed in for one or two things, I'd go for self-serve if they had it and the queue was shorter than for a cashier.

miblo, to music
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Today in we have a real throwback (for me) of an album release anniversary to celebrate:

[23] Deftones' "White Pony": https://uk.shopdeftones.com/collections/music/products/white-pony-cd

Bit of personal trivia: My first ever rock gig was to see Deftones at the Apollo in June 2003 (oh! just over 20 years ago). I had an exam the following day and went in there still absolutely buzzing from the night before. They played stuff off "White Pony": https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/deftones/2003/carling-apollo-manchester-manchester-england-33c94441.html

Happy Anniversary, Chino, Steph, Frank, Chi (RIP), & Abe!

miblo, to random
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@Cognessence Hiya Robert, cheers for following me and dragging ye olde follower count kicking and screaming into triple figures!

miblo, to music
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Today in we have many album release anniversaries to celebrate:

[37] The Smiths' "The Queen Is Dead": https://www.roughtrade.com/gb/product/the-smiths/the-queen-is-dead-lp
[26] Radiohead's "OK Computer": https://www.radiohead.com/library/#okc/ok-computer
[6] Alison Moyet's "Other": https://www.alisonmoyetmusic.com/other-2/
[6] Hidden Orchestra's "Dawn Chorus": https://tru-thoughts.co.uk/releases/dawn-chorus/

Notably, this anniversary of "The Queen Is Dead" is the first since life and art aligned.

Happy Anniversary, Johnny, Morrissey, Andy & Mike, Thom, Jonny, Ed, Colin & Philip, Alison, and Joe!

miblo, to music
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Today in we have the release anniversary of the quintessential album of deepest, darkest nights to celebrate:

[44] Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Pleasures

Happy Anniversary, Ian (RIP), Bernard, Peter & Stephen!

miblo, to music
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Today in we have the release anniversary of surely one of the all-time top 10 EPs about nomadic living to celebrate:

[13] Autechre's "Move of Ten": https://autechre.warp.net/release/249383-autechre-move-of-ten

Happy Anniversary, @sean_ae & Rob! <æ

miblo,
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@sean_ae Aww Sean, you're welcome!

By the way, it was only after landing on the "nomadic" thing today that I spotted the wordplay in the title of 'no border'! I'd seen it in 'M62' from the start, probably because I live pretty close-ish to it. I reckon that's my favourite track too. Kinda get vibes of Tortoise's 'Jetty'…

miblo,
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@sean_ae Ohhh cool! 🛣️

miblo, (edited ) to random
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"period software" – software written for, and during the same period as the lifetime of, the hardware that was first targeted to run it
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Thanks to @JamesWidman for the clarification

miblo,
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@JamesWidman Aaah, yes, I reckon I get you!

So, by my definition TeX could be considered period, despite them having maintained it to run on newer gear?

But by yours, TeX would only be considered period if they hadn't maintained it in this way, and it only ran on the originally targeted hardware?

I do hope this is what you're driving at, dude, because this sounds more like what I'm after!

By the way, https://mas.to/@miblo/110533409164172276 is where this train of thought began.

miblo,
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@JamesWidman Aha! Yep, gotcha.

Basically, simply getting the thing running on newer hardware isn't enough to say it was written "for" that hardware. Sounds good to me. And I reckon the analogy holds for stuff like period music and costumes. Editing!

lhgmk2, to random
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Life. Left winger suggests a policy that is good.

Right winger co-opts it and executes it in the worst conceivable way, leading to discrimination, ignorance, theft and corruption, raging hatred, infrastructure destruction and parasitism, and often social murder, while achieving the total opposite of any desired goal. Forever creating disfavour for a great idea while profiteering at a level that should require a gibbet intervention.

Right winger: " It's all the left wings fault".

miblo,
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@lhgmk2 This reminded me of the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/26/contents/enacted

So untrustworthy was the then-PM, Boris Johnson, that they had to pin him down by explicitly writing the letter for him right in the bill! https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2019/26/schedule/enacted

If only policies could reasonably be laid out in full like this, and the public willing and able to recognise it when it's the co-opted execution, not the originally intended thing, that isn't up to snuff.

miblo, to random
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Cinera Database Performance

It's been a while since I've had to get creative with speeding things up in Cinera, but the addition of timestamps to the mix has brought performance to the fore, and I figured it'd be handy to document it.

Here's the amount of data we're dealing with:

Projects: 27
├ Strings: 5865 (5.7 KiB)
└ Entries: 821
├ Strings: 35353 (34.5 KiB)
└ Timestamps: 43860
└ Strings: 2893145 (2.8 MiB)

And our two broad operations:

  1. Fresh build
  2. Resync existing build
miblo,
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Our fresh build time of 2.09s is now okay, so let's turn to the 3-min resync.

The difference here is due to our resync deleting the existing timestamps before ingesting them afresh. And doing it – you guessed it – one-by-one.

So, like the preexisting copies and new insertions, let's batch up the deletions. Deleting at once all timestamps of each entry took ~20s. Then it dawned on me: why not now wipe each whole project's timestamps at once?

Fresh build: 2.09s (=)
Resync: 2.87s (↓ from 2m 54s)

miblo,
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In summary, simply batching up our preexisting item copying, insertion and deletion has reduced our sync time from the region of 35 minutes down to 2 seconds. This is the kind of timescale where printing to the terminal makes a difference, taking ~0.3s (over 10%) just for that!

So that's it for the speed-up of this data set. There's more stuff to ingest – each timestamp's metadata, no less – which will surely affect our performance, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

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