Finished another hand sewing project, used an old bathrobe for a pattern, though I added buttons and changed how it closed in the front. Wanting to do some cool sort of wide belt to finish it off, but will need to explore fabric options for that first. On this project I also did 99% of it without a table, seated and sewing on the floor. I can't figure out how to lay the fabric out and cutout the pattern pieces without a table, though I guess the answer there is the floor as well. I have a feeling the cats will make that a nightmare. #handsewing #sewing

# Return from Vacation I've been on vacation for roughly the last three weeks, and it's given me much to write about. It was wonderful to slow down, no alarm clock, no schedule, surrounded by friends and/or family. The major focus each day was food and recreation, a far cry from my normal daily grind. Deep conversations, stretching long into the night. Pipes and cigars. Bourbon, gin and tonic, and some really good chocolate. And singing! We tried to sing all of American Pie, and realized we didn't quite know it well enough. But Wagon Wheel and Country Roads went off without a hitch. I even sang my attempt to turn Numb into Gregorian Chant (it's not perfect yet, but it's getting there). I rarely checked social media, because I didn't want it. I didn't check the news either, because I had people to talk to, and that's always better. We watched a few movies, but less than we did last year. A few times we cried, over innocence lost, friends who faded away, and the cruelties of this life. We knew the depths of sadness, and the heights of joy. I received a lot of compliments on my homemade overalls at the restaurants and other places we visited, typically followed up by the question: "where did you get them?" And then the response to their handcrafted origin was some variation of: "you should start a company and sell them." A reminder of how deeply consumerism runs in this culture. And that's really the thing I want to bring back from vacation: the best things in life are friends, making things, and singing. I want more of all that, and whatever that costs, it's worth the price. ### And just because I'm curious, what are some songs y'all sing with your friends?

Found a cool thing: a scrabble game that is statically generated, and the game state can be shared by url. Here's the link to a new game:

Untitled Word Game

For an example, here's the link to a game I've been playing with a friend to test it out:

Untitled Word Game

And here's a writeup about how it works:

Ross Wintle

Static not-Scrabble. - Ross Wintle

I made a server-less Scrabble clone that saves data in URLs. This post explains why and how, including a primer on binary data representations, and...

Hey @Vitor Pamplona , not a feature request, know you are busy maintaining and improving this wonderful app, but just wanted to draw your attention to something a few of us were discussing, in case it makes sense to pursue it at some point:

#memes

Some new ground for me in my mending attempts. Up to now it's all been woven material, but this pair of athletic shorts had a seam come undone, and figured no better time than now for trying out the herringbone stitch (the one you're supposed to use for knits and stretchy material). Stitches are not even, but seem like they will hold, and they stretch beautifully. I also love the contrast between unbleached linen thread and synthetic material. #mending #sewing

My 16 yr old camera came in clutch for the eclipse, not the best picture, but I love it:

Testing out a new camera: The camera is a Canon G10, at this point a 16 year old camera: In my overall move towards treating my phone as a redundancy, I started carrying around my Sony a6400 for taking pictures. But it's so precise and expensive, and a little too large, so I didn't use it often. Found this used G10 for cheap, much lighter, smaller, and I don't care if it gets lost or broken. Still need to figure out all the options and everything. The top picture was one of my tests, while I like how the colors came out, sharpness is lacking. Will need to play around with it some more.

# Continued Adventures in Archiving ## SingleFile After trying out a huge number of archiving tools for webpages, have finally landed on one I like. SingleFile is a browser extension, it archives the webpage exactly as you see it, and generates a single html file. The file is a little bloated compared to what other tools will generate, but it will look exactly like what you originally viewed, and it is responsive to different screen sizes (at least that's what I've found in my tests). If you want to explore further, here's their Github:

GitHub

GitHub - gildas-lormeau/SingleFile: Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file

Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file - gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Just read a cool essay by Ploum, nothing earth-shattering, but I loved these lines in particular: > The world we are living in is that same chess game on the easiest setting. Everything happens immediately, all the time. White-collar work can now be summarised as trying to reply as fast as possible to every single email until calling it a day and starting again in the morning, a process which essentially prevents any deep thinking, as pointed by Cal Newport in his book "A world without email". > As we don’t have the time to think anymore, we masquerade our lack of ideas with behavioural tricks. **We replaced documents with PowerPoints because it allowed lack of structure and emptiness to look professional** (just copy paste the data of the last PowerPoint you received in a text file and see by yourself how pitiful it is. PowerPoint communications at NASA were even diagnosed by Edward R. Tufte, author of the "The cognitive style of PowerPoint", as one of the causes that led to Space Shuttle Columbia’s disaster). > The root problem is that, for the first time in human history, our brain is the bottleneck. For all history, transmitting information was slow. Brains were fasts. After sending a letter, we had days or months to think before receiving an answer. Erasmus wrote his famous "Éloge de la folie" in several days while travelling in Europe. He would never have done it in a couple of hours in a plane while the small screen in the backseat would show him advertisements. > In 2012, the French writer Thierry Crouzet had one of the first recorded "online burnout". Being connected all the time with interesting strangers and interesting ideas to which he wanted to reply quickly was too much for his brain. One night, he had a strong panic attack and decided to spend six months without the Internet, an experience he told in his book "J’ai débranché". I also love that in just a few paragraphs, got like 3 things to add to my reading list. Can find the rest here:

A Society That Lost Focus

A Society That Lost Focus par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Or on Gemini here: gemini://ploum.net/2024-03-18-lost-focus.gmi

A nice and simple thing to share: my cat Heloise is stealing the show, but I'm really excited about my new 100% wool socks! Took me a while to find someone who makes size 14. I've been trying to make as much as possible of my wardrobe myself, but decided to go with someone who knew what they were doing for socks, don't trust my knitting skills that much. So far they are amazing, fit perfectly, not too warm, and made of worsted weight yarn, so I should be able to repair them no problem.

Made a quick little vid on how I'm already using LogGit with presently available stuff, which of course you can LogGit here:

Forgejo

techpriest_tv

techpriest_tv

Or watch it on Youtube: Or Odysee:

Odysee

Let's LogGit

Let's LogGit!

#LogGit

# LogGit ## Using Git to distribute digital media. Right off the bat I want to set expectations: I know almost nothing about programming or dev work, all I can really do is html, and if I want to make myself hate the world, I can do some css. So essentially I format documents. That said, I love offline-first, p2p, smallnet, and all that good stuff. So when I saw Solderpunk's article on using Git for p2p distribution (

SmolNet Portal

and then saw Degauss's project gwit (https://sr.ht/~ivilata/gwit/) that was inspired by it, I wanted to help. But I quickly realized there wasn't much I could do to help build out gwit, quick look at what Degauss was doing, and realized it was above my head. Decided to go in a different direction, lean on my strengths as an artist, and just give the idea (of using Git to publish stuff) a name and an image. Started with the name, after a few different iterations, settled on LogGit. Wanted the name to express the intention of using 'Git' as a 'log' to track changes to files over time, thus allowing for changeable content. Then the image, drew inspiration from the Git logo, but kept it simple and small (32x32 pixels): And then the idea: use Git to distribute stuff. For anyone who is comfortable with computers and has some basic understanding of Git, we can start doing this now. I'm testing out the idea in my free time, using a Git gui on my computer, and cloning static sites whose author's have made their Git repo public (many thanks to 100r.com and j3s.sh to making their repos easy to find). I also added the LogGit image and the link to clone from the public repo for my personal site and a few other projects I work on. Cool thing I've found already, is that rss is no longer needed, whenever a change gets made to a site, I can pull the changes, look in the Git history, and see what was added or deleted. What I like about this, is that nothing needs to be built, nothing major needs to change, just need to publish a link to clone the repo. I also like that you can use the infrastructure of the enemy to publish. Go ahead and host the repo on Github or any other major git forge, can typically do it for free, but the original always remains on your device, and you can move it elsewhere whenever you want, and leave your new location as your last commit. Next level would be to self-host it on a Forgejo/Gitea/whatever instance, or what I haven't tried out yet (but plan to soon) is host it yourself on Tor and keep things really sneaky. I threw together a basic site with the info here:

LogGit

but you can also LogGit here:

Forgejo

loggit

Proto-LogGit app

to get the most up-to-date version (I won't be adding updates to the Gihub version unless they become necessary). Lastly, here's the repo where I'm trying stuff out, so far, have just been messing around with the idea of blogging, seeing how easy it would be for people to comment on posts via pull request:

Forgejo

LogGit_stuff

A place for LogGit projects and experimentation, nothing serious, just fun.

Probably will test stuff out there, and if it seems promising, move it over to Github so it will be easier for others to interact.

Had a fun idea the other day, of a cathedral built on the back of a Strandbeest. Tossed it in an ai as a prompt to get some starting points for a sketch, and low and behold, there must not have been enough Strandbeest images for training, the images were useless. Which was a blessing in disguise. Having to do some research, merge together some stuff in Gimp, and start some of my own rough sketches in order to brainstorm has been a fun process. Below is my furthest along wip: I'm going to finish this sketch,  but I already have a ton of ideas for the next one. And my end goal is a thought me and my brother came up with while discussing it: a nomadic group of shepherds, living in yurts built on the backs of smaller strandbeests, following their chapel wherever the winds blow over the great plains. When storms come, they lower the sails and stretch them over the legs of the strandbeests as shelter for their sheep. And of course they will have anchors to keep their beests steady in the storm. I can picture it in my head, will be a sweeping scene. Hope I can do it justice. https://image.nostr.build/670d34d7a0d22f3e2b73311d4862683f91d13f35bed90a6e1ff5983d68ede936.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1920x1440&blurhash=%239R%7BDJtS%3FvWCx%5DxuMyRjof%3FwazIUofM%7BRjx%5DogWBWDazbbfkxubHRPj%5BfQR*ofxaR%25Rjt7WBWBt7%25MWBM%7Bt7ayRjt7ofWBM_fkt7ayt7j%5BRPf6fQxvofaeWBM%7Boet7WCs%3A&x=d74e364ce73cb3e14eb83e9c388888dfcdd875f8c611ef9fbf7db8f06c56e8de

@npub1nnn3...kzrt @sms from Spooner I wanted to break my reply into a top level post, since it would be kind of long for a comment. To clearly state my point, it is not impossible to prompt some sort of change to happen collectively, but at a grassroots level, the price of social change is too high for most individuals to consider paying it. The Texas Secession Movements are a perfect example. These movements have happened in Texas since they joined the union, and have gotten nowhere. They grow to the level of collectivity pretty quickly, the desire is there, they can raise funds, they can convince politicians, they can sway public opinion. But the way the cards are stacked against any sort of change, they need a lot more money, in order to run a sustained campaign, as well as the necessary lawsuits, over a long period of time, even to win some small victories. Working class people cannot raise these funds, or sustain this amount of spending, over the length of time that is necessary. And so these movements will only succeed if they can get corporate and/or government backing, which is not easy when you want to make life more difficult for government and corporations. I referenced the Whiskey Rebellion because it highlighted this fact early on in US history. The people that rose up where small farmers on the frontier who were being unjustly taxed to the same extent as large manufacturers. Their grievances were dismissed and ignored, and when they finally fell back to violent means of protest, the federal government responded with overwhelming force. The tragedy of the US is that though it was formed through violent protest and revolution, since that time when any group tries to do something similar, they are silenced. And the repercussions are often not terribly visible to those outside the local community. Try to fight city hall, and all the sudden you start getting pulled over all the time whenever you drive somewhere. Your property gets reassessed at a higher value and your taxes go up. Your utilities become unreliable. Emergency services don't respond to your calls. I said disappear, but I didn't mean killed. That does happen, but most of the time it's easier to shut people up by making their life hell. They disappear because they learned it's better to shut up. Marvin Heemeyer and his killdozer are another good example. The frustration of trying to work with government bureaucracy makes most people just quite trying. In Marvin's case he decided to go out with a bang, but for the vast majority, they don't have enough capital and determination to keep fighting in the face of constant setback and frustration. And who can blame them. I've stuck with mostly well-known cases for example, but I know about so many from the local communities I've lived in that are not recorded anywhere. The crushing weight of inability to do anything meaningful to even change something on a local level is insidious and it breaks your soul. The wide-spread drug use in this country makes complete sense. The only thing left is getting high and forgetting about this hell for a while. While I understand the drug use, it's not for me. Subversion is the only realm of protest that makes sense to me. Build small things locally that make government redundant, with the understanding that if it becomes too well-known you will get punished. As long as you're willing to play dumb and pay the fine, you might make it out with just that. Worst case is jail, but that can be a method of protest. Live on the state's dime, and realize you're just living in a slightly smaller prison than you inhabited previously.

Midnight mass by candle+Christmas tree light has been accomplished, Merry Christmas! https://image.nostr.build/c9dcb374e4f094ee851eaae3899df2ae7fc892744d0eb59d99c76fe2831aeb9e.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=960x960&blurhash=U4BV-6%25M8%7Et7%7D%3AjFENn%2500RPF%3BRkKjkWwJX8&x=ef0f182a251b2f6273ab21e23c5d9a31a21527201252462541a52d88019cda74