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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

the latest wandering update from lichen.page/blue-paper the artwork was created by my friend frsw (www.instagram.com/frsw_franz)

a pixel art drawing of blue person halfway submerged in water with a face reflecting out of the water

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

all nix users love booting into nix via kexec and then wiping debian off the host machine and installing nix, it is our pastime

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

entertaining my friends children has been an unexpected upside of learning more songs on guitar

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

self-congratulatory righteousness masquerading as activism is a big obstacle for actual activism

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

thinking a lot about how "saying no is also saying yes (to everything else you already said yes to)" on a personal level wrt time management, and also on a political level and its made me appreciate a lot of beurocracy which an earlier version of me would have been skeptical of

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

my roommate just finished making a canoe

picture of see-through canoe in the sunlight propped up against a wall

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

enjoyed making semolina halva this morning

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

while doing a large refactor i watched a squirrel run across a telephone line and felt we were not that different

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

spammers are like free infrastructure stress tests as a public service

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

watching my mother (age 60) use lichen.page to make a website for her book group via ai was really cool this direct experience has made most mastodon discourse about llms dissatisfactory to me

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

after much mucking about, got the matrix database size down from 406GB to 60GB ... at once both pleased and annoyed that this was necessary at all

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

wrote an article with thoughts about atproto, AI agents, P2P, malleable software and permacomputing here, lichen.page/green-paper.html the website also includes some beautiful pixel art by www.instagram.com/frsw_franz based on a fork of […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

Pixel-art illustration of a person, sunflower, stones, cat-like creature, mushroom and tree. Created by https://www.instagram.com/frsw_franz/

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

feel like its harder to pack a bag as a non-binary person whose presentation ranges around the gender spectrum from day to day. unless I'm willing to commit to a floral dress + leggings as all purpose tactical gear

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Co-op Cloud @coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 23/03/2026

Details confirmed for the next Co-op Cloud Convergence at @ridgewoodcommons.nyc in so-called New York City: Spring Lightning Talks, coming to you this Sunday, 4-6pm Eastern time!

co-op cloud spring lightning talks

sunday 29th march 2024, 4-6pm
ridgewood commons, 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, HY 11385

a gentle thunderstorm of 10-minute talks, with live music from @Cole,
2 followed by ridgewood commons donation-based community dinner from 7pm

1. ¡tu aplicacidn puede hablar espanol! @3wordchant
How we translated the Co-op Cloud command-line tool ‘abra’ into Spanish, and how you can copy-paste our approach for your own (or someone else's!) libre software project

2. art & music in the context of capitalism and AI @cole

3. identity & authorization @micro
how do your community members log into your tools? surveying the state of open-source identity providers, and how to keep the option of migrating between them.

4. «your awesome talk goes here»
got something you'd like to present, tech or non-tech? get in touch & seize the stage

masks required; see resistcovideugenics.carrd.co for why

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

tfw the whole internet feels like people arguing with their straw man of choice

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

communicating with another being in language already seems like a borderline impossible proposition and the fact that we add the possibility of typos on top of that feels like adding insult to injury

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

made a co-op cloud recipe for a bluesky-pds git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/blues… curious to hear if it works for you if you try it out

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

its funny in a way that humans can generate unparsable language if the universe were logical to begin with, its sort of illogical that it could ever generate anything illogical ∴ the idea of a pure logic was always a bit of a scam in the first place

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

two areas where I think llms increase problems in the short term but could inadvertently lead to beneficial changes in the long-term (by crisis): - even without ai-generated content, digital media of unknown provenance was already not trustworthy (requires deep infrastructural solutions: media […]

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 17/02/2026

Always amazing when I say some shit on the internet and people share it. I'm just another rando with opinions, and so are you! Amazing we are all just a bunch of meat bags really.

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026

if tooling for self-hosting could really be ironed out to be as seamless as possible, the killer feature is not autonomy, but that cloud server pricing is kind of a scam

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

⚘ nyc coop cloud convergence #2 ⚘ this thursday february 19th at ridgewood commons from 8pm to 11pm this one will be more hands-on than the first one we will be looking at the ridgewood commons coop cloud deployment (to give a helping hand) and getting to […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

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

another flyer image of the terminal with flowers in the background. it shows the event information in a cat command:

cat <<EOF

coop cloud nyc convergence

thursday feb 18 8pm to 11pm

@ ridgewood commons

5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385

<3

EOF

a third and final flyer image of the terminal, shows figlet command outputs which create ascii art text of the inputted strings

figlet "co-op cloud"

figlet "on thursday!"

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

publishing a short conversation with claude that demonstrates that the curtis yarvin conversation "redpilling claude" proves nothing about its arguments and is just a misunderstanding of sycophancy The Deredpilling Of Claude "on curtis yarvin and the epistemology of sycophancy" […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

configuring your own app sandboxes seems like an interesting practice in autonomy that I could imagine a lot of semi-technical people enjoying for having more of a sense of autonomy in their own computer

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

the most under-reported news story of 2026: a crdt merge will always produce output -- but "no conflict markers" doesn't mean "semantically correct"

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

⚘ permacomputing meetup nyc ⚘ this tuesday february 10 in nyc at ridgewood commons from 6pm to 8pm there will be a conversation about permacomputing and then aftewards a L5 Contributors meetup, working on the language and documentation of the […] [Original post on sunbeam.city]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 07/02/2026

learned too much about sandboxing methods and the hypervisor and its making some topics more confusing/blurry

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

nix is inspiring me again that beautiful software is possible

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

on nixos, my operating system a sterile lab, creating a docker container with debian installed in it, installing all kinds of junk in it without concern, in my lane, unbothered, thriving

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

crazy that in an evening you can write down a project idea that would take a decade to implement

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

I want a music library in nixos-style config form that then can reproducibly reconstruct/download it from various sources

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

interesting non-moralizing article that complicates the venn diagram between adhd and the effects of stimulants www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-be…

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

decided to take this fine occasion of my laptop's ssd failing to switch from debian to nixos

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

for many years "try to make code idempotent" was one of my most useful internal directives, and it seems like the one im thinking about the most now is "try to make error states unrepresentable"

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

while working on a code subproblem for something complicated, when I start working on it, initially, in the first day or so, while considering different options, I feel like I have taken the wrong road and its shitty and then after a couple days of mucking with it, I start to feel like what I […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

dreaming of a yunohost variant where every app is sandboxed in systemd with ProtectSystem=strict ReadWritePaths=<folder-that-app-actually-uses> ... and if an app can't function with that requirement then its not allowed seems like this would turn security into something that was easy to […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026

@cblgh I am helping to maintain like tens of servers now, and on every new server I paste a little one-liner to download, add and resource a file of bash aliases now ... so ty for the ops change you introduced

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

if you are in nyc or nearby, come join this sunday for the first ever nyc co-op cloud convergence, at 2:30pm at ridgewood commons ❄️ co-organized with @3wordchant and paul flyer created by @halopoem more info about co-op cloud at coopcloud.tech

“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.

Flyer titled ‘NYC Co-op Cloud Convergence’ in blue text on a white background with abstract black ink drawings resembling roots or branches along the right side. Bullet points read: Learn what Co-op Cloud is and learn about tech co-ops; Meet Co-op Cloud co-operators; Donation-based dinner afterwards; Masks required before 6 PM, masks optional after 6 PM. Text at bottom reads: Come for any or all parts. Location: Ridgewood Commons, 5-85 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY 11385.

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

there is a lot that could be said about the age of instagram health influencers like brian johnson etc. ... but at the very least, at a basic scientific level, it doesnt make a lot of sense to give health advice on a one-to-many-platform given how human biology widely varies person to person

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

the ux of certbot and nginx interactions is unconscionable

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

RE: indieweb.social/@alineblankertz/115… I got got by "fake news" and reposted the screenshots from the whistleblower about delivery services going to be more mindful going forward to not repost or share anything that comes from totally unknown sources here is what I […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

I don't resonate with the discourse about people making too many requests of open source maintainers because I think of good "open source software" as a service that is offered if you actually want to serve someone, then you are happy if they make requests and tell you what would be helpful to […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.267 "In this paper, we study how well humans can detect text generated by commercial LLMs (GPT-4o, Claude, o1). We hire annotators to read 300 non-fiction English articles, label them as either human-written or AI-generated, and provide paragraph-length […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

rust seems to be insisting that i am very clear about what i am doing, which is sometimes helpful but also not always realistic

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 23/12/2025

a lot of my personal notes takes the form of "append-only logs" on a particular topic, in the sense that I write the date and write down some things I often make these "logs" as a single note file, where the entries are in reverse chronological order from the top, so I add new entries to the […]

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

I know that Arc stands for "Atomically Reference Counted' in rust and I understand what it means but some of part of my brains thinks of it is as a little arc boat that is protecting the data as it goes between threads

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

i love the feeling of not understanding something while writing rust, and then slowing down into the rabbit hole to understand it

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

mycology often feels to me like a type of queer love -- learning to know and understand and care for strange beings with needs both entirely different and similar to ones own

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notplants @notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

yelling at the wind while biking levels of frustration lol

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