duncanhart

antlerboy, 6 days ago to random

Just accidentally discovered a lifehack: when eating a crummy croissant sitting in bed - wear your jumper inside out!
Isn't is great how slobbiness * executive dysfunction ^ 2 = life hack?!

duncanhart, 18 days ago to random

@jimcarroll how do you start to build the skills to be a great MC or moderator?

duncanhart, 23 days ago to random

@jimcarroll what as your motivation for self hosting Ghost? I’m interested in how you approached the trade-off decision between hosted vs self-hosted.

duncanhart, 26 days ago to random

@jimcarroll have you had any gotchas or snags running your own self hosted Ghost 👻 installation?

duncanhart, 1 month ago to random

@jimcarroll out of curiosity…. What’s your daily, weekly workflow look like?

jimcarroll, 2 months ago to random

Happy St. Patrick's Day. I might hang out in my green room today LOL.

And here's a little bit of my Irish proof!

Jim Carroll's green screen broadcast studio.

duncanhart, 2 months ago to art

‘Fun Fairy at Daisy Nook’ (1953) by L.S. Lowry #art #dailylowry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry

duncanhart, 2 months ago to art

‘Flowers in a Window’ (1956) by L.S. Lowry #art #dailylowry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._S._Lowry

jimcarroll, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Please sign up to my daily newsletter!

Backstory - based on a post by @molly0xfff , I was intrigued by the idea of Ghost - and leaving Substack. I read the Platformer newsletter last week about all the controversy and will bail out of there shortly.

I started out creating a site over at Ghost.io, but I like self-hosting my stuff, so on a cold wintry day, I went down the rabbit hole.

I'm a huge fan of RunCloud for my server management, and so I followed this handy guide.

https://blog.runcloud.io/ghost/

.... and used a Linux server in my home to extract a few hundred posts from my Substack account to drag over to my Ghost, and then imported them.

The result is I'm running a new instance for my Daily Inspiration over at https://daily.jimcarroll.com

A shoutout to @markstos for some guidance!

I'll use it as another path to post my Daily Inspiration post, which I have been writing every morning since early August 2016 (when some personal circumstances drove me to a life of clarity.) My next one goes out ... tomorrow morning.

If you could help me stress test my setup by signing up, that would help me out. You might like my posts too. You can leave at any time.

Visit at https://daily.jimcarroll.com

J12t, 5 months ago to random

I'm looking for historical examples where a closed, monopolistic network (like, say, Twitter), was supplanted by an open one (say, the Fediverse) and what turmoil ensued.

AOL and the internet is the obvious one, but is there anything else?

jimcarroll, 5 months ago to random

Canada.

"Build that wall, build that wall!"

fsmontenegro, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Curious about something. How do you go about planning things for yourself or your family?
Thinking of the following high level options but curious about other options so mention them in comments.
Please share for reach. Thanks!

maique, 6 months ago to random

A great review, LOADS of great photos too. What else was I expecting from Craig?

"And while I was suspicious of the value of the camera at first, these past six months have made it clear that this machine has serious legs. I now understand the limitations of this photographic instrument, of which there are few. And I trust and enjoy it more than any other camera I’ve owned."

🚀 The Leica Q: A six month field test - by Craig Mod https://craigmod.com/essays/leica_q/

maique, 7 months ago to random

mastohost, 7 months ago to random

I will be starting the installation of Mastodon v4.2.1 on Masto.host.

There will be about 15 seconds of downtime during the upgrade.

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.1

mastohost, 7 months ago to random

One of the RAID disks in the database server 5 failed and it needs to be replaced as soon as possible.

I requested the replacement and expect it to be done in the next couple of hours. This requires the server to go offline but it should take less than an hour.

I will update here once the intervention starts/finishes.

Only instances using the Database 5 will be impacted (see the database server in your Masto.host account).

Sorry for the inconvenience. This week servers decided to act up :|

65dBnoise, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Absolute nonsense #ESA plans for space generated solar power. IIRC, one of the studies was supposed to be delivered two years ago.

Such huge structures in space will be highly vulnerable to space debris or malicious attacks, to name just two apparently unsolvable security problems. It'll be interesting to see what the numbers say, when comparing the total cost for such a monstrosity with similar plans for solar power generation on the surface of the Earth.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/tim-peake-backs-idea-for-solar-farms-in-space-as-costs-fall

#space #Hype

mastohost, 8 months ago to random

I will be starting the installation of Mastodon v4.1.7 on Masto.host.

There will be about 15 seconds of downtime during the upgrade.

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.1.7

antlerboy, 8 months ago to random

Half of ICBs don’t think PCNs are able to deliver on ICS strategies https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/pulse-pcn/half-of-icbs-dont-think-pcns-are-able-to-deliver-on-ics-strategies/

65dBnoise, 9 months ago to ai

Don't call it Artificial "Intelligence" if it's just statistical pattern matching. Intelligence has a lot more to it than just that.

Here is a good article about wildlife and technology, reduced to #AI #hype and missing its central point by sprinkling AI everywhere, and even polluting its title with AI nonsense. It makes a good science editor appear cheap and shallow.

A better title could be:

"Railroad tracks help monitor and identify wildlife with modern technology".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/13/only-ai-made-it-possible-scientists-hail-breakthrough-in-tracking-british-wildlife