max

@notplants.bsky.social

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experiments in online gardening permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry they/them https://mfowler.info https://sunbeam.city/@notplants

today thinking about how the metaphor of “waves in an ocean” and death as a “wave returning to the ocean” is often regarded as “woo” but from another perspective the idea that the universe is continuous and that objects being discreet is just a sort of temporary appearance, is pretty straightforward to explain and not really more or less woo than the alternative
a picture of a laptop on a table, and a cat, surrounded by plans and various items
screenshot of info about rust temp dir
screenshot of lichen cms ui with site of @glb
docs from instrument error level at https://docs.rs/tracing-attributes/latest/tracing_attributes/attr.instrument.html#examples-2
screenshot of lots of tests passing
screenshot of lichen ui editing a hugo blog post
Pixel-art illustration of a person, sunflower, stones, cat-like creature, mushroom and tree. Created by https://www.instagram.com/frsw_franz/
a screenshot of two editors with the same filetree shown
screenshot of collabora showing the text "lorem ipsum, after much debugging, it is working now"
cherry blossom tree
a flyer image of a terminal with pixel art flowers in the background. the terminal shows a user typing commands in natural-ish language and getting errors from bash: please just deploy me some infrastructure, save me from Google bash: please command not found no surveillance, no ads, looks nice, works well, no mistakes pls bash: no command not found oh also community-operated and in a federated network with other tech co-ops bash: oh command not found ideally none of those "message failed to decrypt" warnings but ill take what i can get bash: ideally command not found dang this isnt working is it, i may need to use co-op cloud bash: dang command not found please also make it cute and gay, ty bash: please command not found
a meme of garfield that says "you are not immune to sycophancy"
flyer for permacomputing and programming meetup. showing a screenshot of a simplified almost mathematical flower diagram and the info about when and where the event is (tues feb 10, 6pm to 8pm at ridgewood commons, 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385)
a picture of an anti-ice protest outside of the boston public library in the snow. a sign can be seen that says "jews against genocide and ice"
Flyer titled ‘NYC Co-op Cloud Convergence’ in blue text on a white background with abstract black ink drawings resembling roots or flowing branches along the edges. Event details read: Sunday, January 18th at 2:30 PM at Ridgewood Commons. Schedule: 2:30–3:30 PM, tech co-ops and co-op cloud; 4:00–6:00 PM, co-hacking; 6:00 PM onward, cooking and dinner.
screenshot of paper "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"
an image of the infamous ssl-added-and-removed-here slide (source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ssl-added-and-removed-here)
output of vnstat showing network taffic by day
screenshot of website showing class links to class projects
"In 2023, our total GHG emissions were 14.3 million tCO2e, representing a 13% year-over- year increase and a 48% increase compared to our 2019 target base year. This result was primarily due to increases in data center energy consumption and supply chain emissions. As we further integrate AI into our products, reducing emissions may be challenging due to increasing energy demands from the greater intensity of AI compute, and the emissions associated with the expected increases in our technical infrastructure investment"
screenshot of lichen-markdown UI showing the background of a web page weirdly repeated many times
screenshot of patchwork connecting to two different pubs
screenshot of the flowers.commoninternet.net lichen-markdown cms interface
p2p internet radio :: body-double-radio (inspired by https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/being-socially-motivated-is-not-a) :: - as I play music, what I listen to is broadcast as internet radio and my friends can tune into my stream - my stream is not just broadcast live, but broadcast with a 24 hour play history, so people can see the last 24 hour history and tune into any part (inspired by store and forward gossip networks with broadcasts via relays) - the player that tunes into a stream "plays before downloading", so its a broadcast not reproduction (but clients have seamless built-in analog hole plugins to save streams with the correct metadata) - imagining a terminal-user-interface for this whole thing kind of like cmus, but with an extra window to see all of my friends/peers who have play history in the last 24 hours along with a browsable timeline of their play history along with possibility to leave little notes with songs on your broadcast ... sort of a halfway-house in between soulseek, spotify friends are playing, and internet radio...
screenshot of interface where "you pass the word" to pass authorship
image of a page of the journal, showing a circular data visualization for the month in blue colors
screenshot of memory footprint of ncspot and spotify ncspot: 46m spotify: 1000mb
screenshot of lichen-markdown in the yunohost install interface
Image of small circular 50 year calendar
Meme of clippy saying “it looks like you’re trying to solve intractable human problems with technology”
A cow with the text overlaid “she’s never had to get a code from her authenticator app”
Max with an orange flower in their hair on their friends balcony
Picture of purple flower