netvor

netvor, 10 months ago

when I can buy complete version of the game for like 10-20 bucks 1-3 years later

…or, for like 1-3 bucks 10-20 years later.

Life is short, but not that short.

netvor, 10 months ago

Seems related, if not the same.

Some consumers (especially those who don’t appreciate world burning around their kids) don’t want to buy a new device every 1-3 years just because of batteries.

netvor, 10 months ago

Looks like we’re going to switch from plates back to bricks.

Big deal? Not sure… 🙃

netvor, 10 months ago

Front left. Front right is keys, handkerchiefs and change (in the special smaller pocket-in-pocket thing).

Back right, slim leather wallet. Back left, usually nothing or “clean junk” that I want to throw out soon such as bills, tickets, etc.

netvor, 10 months ago

We may have an uphill battle though, like biology

I’m afraid the joke’s on you on this one. The biology simply is not that simple as we were taught in kindergarten.

There’s lot about this on the nets, my favorite is this episode on Huberman Lab.

netvor, 10 months ago

The hard part is which one will you remember. (I already had 43 different ages.)

netvor, 10 months ago

🤔

But pockets at seem to force me to have some sort of system.

I feel that if I had to wear a bag it would be a holy mess.

netvor, 11 months ago

• Comfy chair, check.
• Heat from the laptop, check.
• Constant head massage, check.
• Being next to my master, check.

I give your setup a WOOF! out of 10.

netvor, 11 months ago

Whatever hosting service you’re going to use, if you’re not afraid of a little bit of Lua coding, consider using imapfilter – it’s a swiss knife for backups, pre-sorting, hooks and migration.

imapfilter is a (criminally underrated, IMO) tool for writing e-mail rules in Lua, which allow you to do tons of things, but my favorite is migrating e-mail, regardless of account.

See, unlike most filtering/sorting systems which are either completely proprietary or limited to single account (exportable as Sieve, if you’re lucky), imapfilter does not care where each “end” of the rule is: you can write rule that migrates from account1/folder1 to account2/folder3.

This allows you to completely decouple any sorting, pre-processing, hook or backup system from the actual locations or providers you happen to be using, as well as it allows you to combine any number of locations in any simple or complex way you need. Whatever system you will end up creating will stay with you as long (as you can use IMAP locations), so you can really focus on making it work long-term and have it fit into the big picture.

I’ve been using it for almost 10 years and ever since it has changed my whole world of e-mail. I have constant set of rules that take e-mails from set of inboxes (each box for different purpose, each on different provider, for reasons) and sort them to folders on my “actual” account, where I get to read them on my terms. I also have several of rules that run custom scripts exporting CSV’s, etc. (The rules are Lua programs, after all, so sky is the limit.) If I ever need to migrate my domain to another service (believe it or not, happened more than once in 10 years), all I need to do is set up the new account as base for the rules, but all of my rules are always going to be preserved.

In my past work I actually used imapfilter to move all IMAP from company Gmail to a locally maintained (on company laptop) Dovecot instance so that I could eventually use a sane client to get my work done. (And because the instance was local, I could access my e-mail offline with best possible speed.) One could do a similar thing with personal/freelance e-mail – just run Dovecot somewhere at a trusted place (you won’t be sending/receiving e-mails here, you will be only using IMAP to IMAP commands, so none of the horrors of self-hosting e-mail apply) and use imapfilter to route all email there, then back up your dovecot folder and you’re all set.

Except for need of coding, the disadvantage is that, I need an independent machine that runs 24/7 in order to keep sorting the e-mail (I do it cron-based but you can also do it continually) but that has not been a problem for me as I’m the self-hosting-nerd that’s going to have such machine anyway.

netvor, 11 months ago

Again, perhaps with more clarity:

With imapfilter you can

1. choose where you will host your “actual” e-mail, let’s say you choose according to best spam filter.
2. choose where you will store your e-mail long-term.
3. choose where you will access the e-mail for everyday use (this could be several separate accounts if you wanted to eg. use one on your phone and another one on your workstation)
4. choose where you will run imapfilter and any script hooks
5. start building your rules.

1-3 could be same provider or different providers, including your custom dovecot instance, you will simply choose based on convenience and limits. If you ever need to change one of the endpoints (providers), you just need to rewrite them in your ~/.imapfilter/config.lua. (And migrate, which can be done using imapfilter or manually using any sane client, eg. Claws Mail…)

netvor, 11 months ago

…aand, we’re back to Web 0.0.

By the way, is this how most sites are going to work in Metaverse?

netvor, 11 months ago

I don’t know if I’m answering, but few years ago I’ve figured out and started to test this hypothesis:

Memory is context-driven, and such is our own ability to retrospect about spent time.

For example, let’s say I spent whole Saturday doing one of my favorite combos; playing Factorio and listening to podcasts. Next day I would go to a dinner with a friend who (as most people on the planet) is not really interested in neither of these things. There’s no way I could justify day spent, to my friend it would look like time wasted. Thing is, it’s actually easy to come to a similar conclusion just myself – I would feel like from some “objective”, “classic” point of view, the time spent in Factorio was wasted.

However, one thing is easily missed: due to the contextual nature of our memory, the memory spent in one mindset (playing Factorio with podcast) is not readily available outside that mindset. (It has to be like this to some extent, right? we don’t need to remember how to ride a bike when not close a bike!)

It sometimes happens to me that when I open old map from Factorio, memories from “the Factorio mindset” would start coming (including topics from podcasts or audiobooks), as if I visited some old place. If my friend walked up to me while I’m playing Factorio and asked me about how I spent my time, I could probably share lots of stories about how I came up with this structure and how I found myself stranded among enemy bases, etc. It’s he change of context that prevents me to do so at the Sunday dinner – part of the new context is that I’m with someone who’s not interested in Factorio or podcasts.

The question is then, do all these experiences contribute in a positive way to something more long-term, like my personality? While playing/listening, am I training something that is going to be useful later on? It boils down to comparing what else could I have done, which is ultimately a futile enterprise anyway.

TL;DR: Could it be that in retrospect time can feel wasted but it’s just because we’re trying to “reach” the time from another context? Maybe we always spend our time the best way we can, it’s just that we’re not equipped to judge the time properly, at least not from any context.

netvor, 11 months ago

I just figured out a better example:

You can spend Saturday walking through forest, or walking by the lake, or gardening at home. Let’s say that objectively, all of the three activities are identical in terms of value added to your life.

You choose the lake.

Next day an alien/angel figure appears and asks you to judge and justify to him how well you spent the time, on a scale 1 to 10. Your judgment, feeling, and answer is going to vary based on where you exactly are when being asked:

• If you happen to be by the same lake again, you will give 10. Your brain will be much better at producing the justification by reminding you what you have seen and thought about.
• If you happen to be by the forest, then you will give 5. It will be harder to come with justification, your memories won’t be accessed so readily. However you’re still “on a walk”, so there’s some overlap
• If you happen to be at home gardening, you will give 3. You are now in a completely different mindset and you have probably realized few more things to do in the garden.

Of course, your judgment will vary based on other factors as well, such as your mood, or your relation to the figure.

So my point is that no matter any objective measure (if such thing even exists), your judgments of the time spent will vary by many factors, and the difference in context will certainly contribute to the difference in judgment.

netvor, 11 months ago

My example explicitly assumes them equal because it’s trying to isolate and illustrate the factor of memory context.

In real life, options are never really equal, but you also never have enough information to sort or compare them properly. Whatever path you choose is eventually judgment call.

I like to imagine that decision process, and every decision process like this: Inside of my mind there’s a painter, painting a picture for me. My cognitive skills are his painting skills. Health of my mind is health of his hands and his eyes. The information that I have is colors and shapes that he can use. He paints a picture, then I look at it and decide, entirely on gut feeling that I get from the picture.

Any decision that I make, and any action that I do, can only ever activated using feelings. Rationality is essential and possible, but rationality is for the painting. The action must come from the feeling.

Pictures are painted over pictures every second, and by the time we reach adult age, there are thousands if not millions of pictures painted over and over. However, some pictures are bigger than others so they rarely, or never get painted over. They can stay there for years on end. Often, pictures painted by much younger painter with far less skills and information will stay. Some of them are happy and fascinated with the beauty of the world, sometimes, some of the old pictures will be unsettling, like the kinds of pictures abused children would draw. They can stay there, lurking in the background, making us feeling like we’re watched, like we owe them something.

It’s these old pictures that can alter our feelings in a way that does not seem rational–why do I feel my time is 99% wasted could be example of that–you feel it because it’s the feeling you get from some of the many old pictures in the corners of the canvas. There’s nothing wrong with you: the feeling is true to the picture–any of us would feel the same from the same canvas. There’s no reason to blame yourself.

There’s also nothing wrong with the pictures, and nothing wrong with the little painter that painted them years ago. These were his shapes, colors and his skills. So there’s also no reason to blame the painter. After all, he’s frozen in time, there’s no point in blaming a memory, memories cannot change.

You can, in some meaning, however, connect to with younger painter in terms of understanding him and his situation a bit better and seeing which pictures are still relevant to you. Some of them will, for some of them you will already know better. Then, maybe you can work with the current painter and get him to re-paint some of the old pictures or at least mark them as the historical artifacts that they are. It’s all hard work but you’re not alone.

To some extent, maintaining the paintings and teaching the painter is the point of life. We were never meant to be alone in that.

netvor, 10 months ago

Well the past does not exist in any meaningful way, does it? Maybe the past painter was “stupid” (I would not express it in that way) but doesn’t it mean that the present one is smarter?

I am not a doctor, professional psychologist or anything even remotely close. As far as I know, having strong (especially negative, such as shame or hate) feelings towards your (past) self can be a residue of a normal reaction to abnormal circumstances, otherwise known as psychological trauma.

It’s worth knowing that psychological trauma is really common. When I say “common”, I don’t mean to diminish it – quite opposite, psychological trauma can be pretty debilitating. What I mean is that many aspects of psychological trauma have been known and studied for a long time, and lot of methods have been developed to explore it and help people deal with it – or even heal it. I suggest you try and find someone safe to talk to.

Trained therapists are excellent for this, because, well, they know lot of effective methods on how to help people speak, and second, they are normally from outside of our close circles, which is a surprisingly huge advantage. I’ve experienced this myself: as soon as I sat into that comfy chair, I’ve realized that this nice person was not ever going to judge me (she’s probably heard sh*t i can’t even imagine). Within first five minutes of conversation I’ve already noticed myself, how I put away a mask I didn’t even know I was wearing. If only for this single realization, it was worth it.

netvor, 11 months ago

The banana shaped one.

netvor, 11 months ago

First I wanted to downvote because the picture is sideways, but then I realized I’m wrong and the picture is perfectly right.

See, I’m in Czech Republic and this is in Colorado, so… it’s about right.

netvor, 11 months ago

Emperor Tickles

netvor, 11 months ago

btw note that the carbon footprint of one person’s lifetime is equiv to 1 second of worldwide factory emissions (source: kurzgesagt)

I love kurzgesagt but this comparison is… it’s like two abstractions multiplied.

netvor, 11 months ago

Feditors.

netvor, 11 months ago

Lonely as I am, together we cry