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Many leaders acquire authority through ambition and manipulation. I’m not referring to them. But a test of leadership for those who acquire authority organically, with the will of those being led, is to maintain the zeal and principles which put you into that position, after you encounter the machinery designed to exhaust, exasperate, deter, and demoralize.

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Hello World 👋

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The machine I use textlog on didn't have a functioning display due to the xlibre drama. It's over and I'm back now!

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Was not aware that there had been any xlibre drama. What's the story there?

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Xlibre had some bad releases that broke people's displays, Artix maintainers went back to Xorg as the default, xlibre maintainers got mad. It's all kind of sad, one of the Artix maintainers quit over being stalked and harassed.

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Drama indeed. It's all X.org here as there's no reason not to for me. Anyway, glad you have your display back.

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what are some of you favorite teas?

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There are days llms impress, and days they don’t. I debugged an issue with Astra and it said it had no idea what’s going on and need to ask me before taking serious actions. Me adding “-f” to a mv and problem solved. So today I was not impressed.

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Real bummer for about the price. I'm sure this is absolutely not what any of them wanted.

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Same with the Steam Machine. They could have been awesome offerings for a lot of different use cases, but alas, being able to generate memes with grandma's pictures is of the utmost importance...

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It really makes me wonder how the consumer market will evolve as the months go. It's not looking too good.

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one more step. just a moment. attention required! enable javascript and cookies to continue. verifying the security of your connection. your browsing activity has been paused. content unavailable in your region. 429 too many requests. 403 forbidden. connection has timed out.

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happy little moments

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Step back, sit down, and have a cup from the old 418.

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Thank you Cloudflare!

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The future is here. But instead of flying cars or holodeck, what you get is tracking cookies and captcha everywhere. Maybe someday you will need to have your rectum scanned by Google or Meta nee Facebook before your browser does a HTTP request.

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අද පොහොය දවස. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හැම මාසයකම පුන් සඳ පායන දවස පොදු නිවාඩු දිනයක්. වෙසක් පොහොය (මැයි මස) ලෝකයටම නිවාඩු දිනයක්.

Today is Poya Day. The full moon day of every month in Sri Lanka is a public holiday. Vesak Poya (May) is a holiday for the whole world.

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The live tab on the android app is interesting... How does it work? This is a test 🫣

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Does it do some kind of polling? Is there some kind of notify like publisher subscriber? 🤔

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It’s using the /firehose endpoint. It’s an SSE endpoint publishing everything latest. Though I meant it to be used server-side, since it’s heavily rate-limited — up to 3 conns under the same network, but I can’t control how clients decide to use it so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Might just lift the limitation.

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Lifted, that’s how clients want to use it then so be it! Should be fine. We’re nowhere near crashing the server from connections.

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I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

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I have a novelist friend, she usually starts with the characters and the ending and as you wrote, "filling" the details backward/forward

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Hello World! :D

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Hello!

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This SM is like a subreddit feed, except you also get a personalized feed along with 'hot' and 'latest' for people you follow. Or maybe it's modelled after twitter? Never used it so wouldnt know

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Have recently consolidated my different chat apps (Signal, Slack, WhatsApp, Discord, Google Messages) into a single Matrix client + bridges - I'm 100% sold on Matrix.

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You never tried IRC, did you? Good luck on Slomatrix! 😅

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weekend plans are:

attend to the pending work that I am avoiding around home
improve my understanding of using agents in claude code and codex cli
dig into navier stokes equations from the first principles (I am excited for this)

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Up earlier than I should be today. The witching hour got me. I started thinking about how many in society have decided they prefer screens and artificial words over real words and real connection. Have we collectively decided it’s easier to just not be vulnerable? I should go back to bed…

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My Country is On Fire mataherry.bearblog.dev/my-country-is-on-fire/

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Hati-hati pak! I worked in Borneo before, and seeing the forests burn is horrifying. I miss all the wildlife there. Mau kembali ke Indonesia!

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I'm in Java, not Kalimantan, really can't imagine how all the people and animals go through everyday living in literal hell of fire

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Is there any contact you can make with international advocates?

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was feeling a little fancy, bought a bag of gesha coffee beans :))

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Unsettled App Launched

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Guess we're doing Halloween stuff on sale everywhere now 🎃

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