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Grand Vizier of Cyberspace. Just a guy interested in technology and science. I write tutorials and other stuff for cyberspace: "https://cyberspace.online/wiki"
No effort is ever wasted
A really good video by Hank Green.
Some of the core ideas:
- Everyone has this drawer of full of bits and pieces, experiences and skills from various parts and stages of life, and each of these is a tool that might at some point help you out.
- Most things you do, such as making contact with another person or doing something creatively, won't have any real effect on your future. But any of them have a small chance of being a big positive, so you should...
PSA: Brace for impact
A lot of you are probably already aware of this, but the world is heading into a major oil crisis due to recent 'Events' surrounding the Strait of Hormuz.
While gasoline prices have already gone up, the full impact has yet to materialize in a lot of western countries, and will include severe price increases in everything (because everything needs electricity and/or transportation), not to mention a lot of people loosing their jobs.
Petroleum is also a precursor for fertilizer, meaning food prices will...
Nowadays everyone can link their own page on the webring just by linking it on their profile, but for those who want a description attached, the Cyberspace Directory of User Pages is still available as a complementary option for those who would like to see a description attached to their personal site or project.
Just shoot me a DM with your url if you want to be added.
Something that surprised me about Java is that it's not just "Object-oriented", it's straight up entirely class-based.
Everything in Java is written as classes, attributes and methods.
Even the main function is just a 'main' method on the programs 'main' class.
You want to define a function that just transforms something without being related to an object? Still gotta be a method on a class! (Though at least that part results in familiar syntax where you can just import that class as if it were a...
Guess it's time for me to finally learn Java
Last time I was in contact with it was as a kid put into a coding course from which I learned very little and remember less. At this point, only really that we used the Eclipse editor.
Patch notes for my cyberspace client [Link]:
- By default, exiting the client will now keep you 'logged in'.
- Added proper logout command.
- Previously, the client could bug out and display some strange things if you tried to use it without API access. There is now a check in place to prevent that, and inform users of what's likely going on. (Thanks to @grey for informing me of this problem and helping me debug it.)
I've also updated the...
There's some webpages that I think were linked by someone very early on in cyberspace history, that I wanted to reference once more for the newbies:
https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
How to make websites that are designed to endure.
Methods and mental tools for thinking about problems.
nothing
great stuff for your...
Just remembered this absolute gem of a video. The kind of thing that makes the internet special.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfu39l0kxg
why don't you join me?
Last night was the first time this year I was disturbed by a mosquito while trying to sleep.
Been quite a while since that last happened, in fact I think it barely happened last year at all. Though part of it's probably that I'm visiting my father in the countryside, instead of being in the city.
The falling presence of mosquitos is probably a bad sign for general insect populations, but man I really don't miss these bastards in specific.
There's this channel on youtube that has hour-long outside recordings of wind and distant thunderstorms sweeping across the countryside.
Highly recommended as background sound.
Whenever I turn it on, I can almost feel myself relaxing just seconds after.
Recommended to check out the visuals, not just the sound alone.
The wheel turns.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed and the world has changed once more.
Cyberspace is six months old today.
What do you remember from that time?
Went to a soldering workshop today, which was held by 'Munich Maker Group'.
I did some soldering before, but that was 10 years ago in school.
Assembled a small electronic kit, for an 'atom', i.e. a set of lamps that go on and off in turns.
Today while walking through a park I hadn't been to before, I looked to a greenspace couched between some vegetation, and was astounded at what I saw: Bunnies.
Just a bunch of them on the grass, no fences or anything.
Never seen that before.
When I arrived, I talked to someone who told me that this place and another local park had a bunny population.
Later when I walked back during the night, across paths without illumination, sometimes something small would speed across the streets or paths, which I...
Cyberspace reaches 10.000 registered users
And on this most auspicious day of days, almost 6 months after it first saw the light of our screens, it has occurred that Cyberspace crossed this significant threshold of having ten thousand accounts encoded in its database.
It's been a long journey since this all started, and much has changed. I remember the earliest days, when Khan was still just working on implementing the formatting features for the text editor, before dithered images, before the...
Today, I recreated SSH from scratch in go. Well, ssh without the s for secure. And really, without most of the other features either. It's mostly just remote use of a shell process, with the output being piped back to the client. Still, that's not nothing! And I learned a bunch more about TCP in the process, which was really the true purpose of the exercise. And about how Go conceptualizes os.Stdin/Stdout via interfaces, which helped understand how some of the tricks I used in my cyberspace client work...
By using tools such as ansible, terraform, kubernetes and ASGs, technologists have at long last achieved what philosophers have struggled with for centuries: Solving the Is-Ought Gap.
Historical Landmark: Cyberspace 2.0
Ladies and Gentlemen of the historical society, after almost exactly half a year of existence, the grand day has come:
Cyberspace 2.0 has been released, and a number of refinements and new features with it. Any interested scholar may refer to the patch notes for detail.
After the release of the API, we have also seen a number of local clients for Cyberspace appear over the last two...
Tip for the gamers: You can currently get Homeworld Remastered Collection + Deserts of Kharak for 8.24 € on humblebundle. Plus a few other games, but I don't know those. [Link]
I think (?) you could get similar combined prices during sales, but I'm not actually sure.
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