• https://codeberg.org/ for personal or small FOSS project
• https://gitlab.com/ for more complex projects (requiring issue tracker, CI, deploy, etc…)

Metal Gear Solid ending theme, the best is yet to come.

25 years later, it still gives me goosebumps and tears.

Thank you M. Kojima.

Moved from github to gitlab when it was acquired by Microsoft. Moved from gitlab to codeberg last month because I don’t need a behemoth with dozens of services I never use to store my 3 shitty code files.

What:

• wiki on how to self host a wiki
• contact (cardDAV)
• calibre (eBook collection)
• custom app to handle my finance
• HomeAssistant to follow solar production
• PiHole so I don’t have to install adblock on all devices

How:

• mainly yunohost hosted on my internet box
• some dockers in a raspberry Pi 3

How to I secured it:

• I changed the default ssh port 😎
• Excepted some chineeses bots, no one except me connect to this server. I’m convinced that when you live alone in the wood, you don’t need to lock your door. So I think the basic auth system provided by yunohost is enough for me.

I’m pissed off by all the whiner complaining ScHoOl doEsn’t tEaCh aNytHiNg uSeFuL.

You want to build a small hut in your garden, what dimension should be the carpentry ? How much concrete do you need ? How many tiles ? You are in top of your leader and need to put the roof at 17°, how do you do without protractor ?

You have to put chemical in your pool, how to compute It’s volume ?

You have to write a letter by hand for whatever administrative reason, how do you do ? Some administration do require hand written statement.

You’re in a hotel where floors are numbered in roman, how do you go to your room ?

You read a book, how do you know in which chapter your stoped ?

You are in a real estate agency to buy a land. The land is trapezoidal and you notice the surface doesn’t correspond to what is written because those retard don’t know how to compute area of trapezoid (true story).

And for god sake, life is not about just doing things that are useful ! Just watching the stars with your kid, and tell him “that is Mars and that is Jupiter”, doing quiz with friends and win a free beer, growing its own sodium Cristal in a glass, writing poesie, all of those are completely useless but are the best parts of life !!!

Have you already heard about a thing called “carpentry” ?

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Hey dawcas,

I don’t know who you are, nor what you did, but I just want to tell you that someone, maybe in the other side of this world, for a few minute, care about you and just hope you’ll be doing well.

Love yourself.

Rule 30 of internet: https://archive.org/stream/RulesOfTheInternet/RulesOfTheInternet..txt

Where did you get your license bro ?

God, please, someone do a Nerdfont version of this !!!

Initial reference in https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month.

Good book to read BTW. Explain lots of organizational issues we have today.

Marketing also request for a kitten.

Take a pen. Draw a line of 80cm. That’s your life. Draw a tick at 14cm. That’s where you are.

Life is long.Take your time, don’t rush it. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.

I won’t tell the same thing to a 20 year old, but teens tend to think that life last just a few year and want to rush anything by their 20 🙂

Was discussing about physics, relativity, quantum, etc… with a colleague after a few beer and he told me “a model is just a model, it’s not the reality.” Mind blowing moment. I’ve always considered the physics we learned at school was a description of reality, but no. It will always be just an approximation.

You can use vi in emacs, so it makes emacs a pretty good os actually.

AI, killing all the fun from creating since 2022.

I have a high IQ and diagnosed as “gifted” by psy at nearly 40.

I won’t argue about IQ and Giftedness having scientific base or not. All I can do is a professional clinical psy told me I am gifted. And what I’ll say is just my way of thinking.

I have a systemic brain. I have very poor memory concerning names, date, etc… but I can remember complex system (basically, what cause create which consequence) really easily. I also understand problem, and find solutions much faster than most of peoples, I have strong Intuition of things, but I have difficulties explaining how I’ve found the solution. Scientists think it may be related to Myelin. That stuff increase connection speed between neurons, so it makes you think “faster”, but sometime faster than you conscience.

I also wants to give meaning to anything. If I take a nap and hear the wind in the trees, I immediately imagine air molecules traveling and hitting leaves, sound wave propagating and hitting my ears. Wind also blowing the small layer of hotter air near my skin, explaining why it feel cold, etc…

I see object through their functioning, not their usefulness. When I see any new machine, I don’t really care what it does, but more how it does it.

I’m constantly flooded by information, and I’m constantly analyzing everything. Being in a crowed area is exhausting for me, because there are too many stimulus. I’m not going to faint or something, but I think being in a crowd for me is like being in a kindergarten class full of screaming children.

I don’t talk a lot because I’m easily bored by small-talks. I don’t see the point of speaking about what I’ve done this week end, or the weather, or anything. I prefer staying in my own bubble speaking to myself.

I don’t feel part of this world, I more feel like an observer watching some weird TV show. I don’t understand most of human reaction.

If you are French speaking, I strongly encourage you to read the comics Comme oiseau dans bocal. It’s based on serious research and is a very good popular science story about IQ, giftedness, etc…