Miakoda
Gopher might be a good way to make my journal public.
I use my notes applications for journaling, it's a notebook within. These applications store notes as text files (more specifically, markdown). Gopher is just text files (mostly).
Seems logical.
Plus, once I figure out my deadman system, I can have a script simply copy the files from my non-public journal to public to put it all out there.
I just need to find a gopher host and hopefully an upload meyhod I can automate.
Miakoda
I specifically DON'T want to self host this. If I'm dead, all my hardware will get cleard out of here. That's not conducive to keeping a long term record of whatever I experienced and saw under fascism.
Someway to dual host both gopher and http, with it auto copying to Internet Archive would be ideal.
Miakoda
Why markdown via notes?
I can write from whatever device is convenient, and having the option to write just constantly on hand is the only way AuDHD is going to let me get anything down.
So far, supported methods -
NextCloud Web UI
Iota on Linux Phone
MarkNote on my laptops
Nano in terminal
any text editor on anything that can save or sync to the notes folder
I'm using YYYY-MM-DD date in the begining of titles to easily make them chronological on file systems.
Miakoda
And since they're synced, any one device getting destroyed will only lose whatever entries didn't sync yet.
They're also very easily printed, converted, published, shared... Really, markdown is the shit. They're tiny, and can still be easily read by humans without a markdown renderer. I wish I had groked the power of plain text and markdown much earlier in my computing journey.
Miakoda
FFS, if it came down to it, these are so tiny, I could resort to dead dropping these on old outdated USB drives if I had to.
I could literally put them on ewaste USB drives, SD cards, etc, stick the drives in cleaned out food jars, and just leave them to be found, if things got that fucking awful.
Yeah, I think markdown is probably the best format I could have picked to journal in.
Miakoda
Anyway... if you want to journal this way, I'm happy to share anything I've learned about this format and how to store them in various ways as I figure it out.
For starters, you can use any plain text editor, if you don't have anything that just does markdown. Save with the .md file extension.
# This is how to make a heading
**bold**
*italic*
***bold and italic***
There's more, but that's plenty of syntax to get startex
Miakoda
If the fascism ramps up to people in ovens levels, journals from ordinary people in the years leading up to mass murders is going to be very important for historians.
Doing it in files makes it easier to get copies in many places, which reduces the chance they'd all be destroyed.
Document even mundane shit. Historians will want to know about the lives of victims, and bistanders. History is often fucked with by fascists, so our little records are important AF!
Miakoda
If you're worried about my mental health doing this...
It's of some comfort. I'm at least doing SOMETHING that may be useful in the future. I can't save people from what's happening... but just maybe, a few markdown files I wrote can be useful in understanding what happened and how to keep it from hapoening again... Not that anybody kistened to history from the last fucking time. Fuck humans are stupid.
Miakoda
...and since it's just my journal, not an article, I don't need to fret about making it nice and presentable for the public. I just get whatever I'm thinking or seeing, as interpreted by some random autistic woman with a keyboard, typed out. It just needs to be there, in some degree.
Miakoda
@fishidwardrobe Yeah, I didn't like Obsidian. I wanted REALY plain, and I wanted the files specifically arranged where a folder is a notebook.
If a notes app is too loaded with bells and whistles, I get lost playing with bells and whistles. So I needed just enough bells to be a notes application.
I also didn't want to be relying on bells and whistles, as that could reduce how easily I can have it handy on whatever device happens to be near me when the drive to type hits me.
Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂
@hellomiakoda BIG markdown fan here. i also use Obsidian, which uses markdown but might not fit what you need?
Miakoda
I tend to include with them a plain .txt entry that explains how to open a .md file.
I figure every computer you can still boot can read a txt by default, and I don't expect that to change for like another 100 years.
Miakoda
@iwein
People thought I didn't pay attention in history class. I didn't retain the dates, but I sure AF retained the patterns. ALL of what's happening fit the Holocaust!
I think we will see live fire on protestors before the year is over, and we're like 2 years from whatever oven equivelent Trump is going to use, unless something very drastic changes this course. We are PAST voting them out off office. This was cemented when MAGA bought the voting machines company.
iwein
1. I think you're one of the sane ones tbh,
2. Awesome points, all of them,
3. If you need a server, off continent, managed by friends to drop copies of notes on feel free to establish a secure channel.
This (points at everything) is the level of shitfuckery we're in and it's absolutely delightful that at least some are at least acknowledging it. You're also acting on it and that's exactly what is needed. Thanks.
Miakoda
@masukomi @iwein I'm not saying it's the ultimate format and everyone needs to use it. I think the BEST solution is some people's will be digital in easily compatible formats like mine, some will be on more mainstream platforms and scraped by archive, and some people will put pen to paper.
This works best for me. If I were to go the rout of pen and paper, not a single page would ever get completed, and the pages would be quickly lost.
masukomi
@hellomiakoda @iwein I agree with all of this, but I'm not convinced that digital is a good solution for the dead to convey information to historians.
even if it's an easy to work with plain text format like markdown the server that holds it will likely be gone.
maybe if there were an international network of people replicating the stuff, but even then… we're still processing journals from the civil war.
the likelyhood of that network, or servers, or whatever lasting 160 years…
Miakoda
@masukomi @iwein As far as servers lasting 160 years...
I'm not planning to just stick them on *A* server and call it good.
I plan on storing them in multiple ways, and in multiple mediums - from Gopher holes, to USB drives placed in some sort of protective container. I might even print a copy on paper and stick them in my safe deposit box.
The servers it's on may or may not last, but SOMEONE is likely to still have them 160 years from now.
Miakoda
@masukomi @iwein Moto better not read this thread. She might end up printing them as plastic slabs on her 3D printers. lol
masukomi
@hellomiakoda @iwein
Yes digital too, but if you really want the dead to speak, nothing beats paper except rock / fired clay but those aren't practical for many reasons.
I guess you could CNC your text into like 1/8" thick plastic sheets, but then you've got cost and storage issues.
Miakoda
@masukomi @iwein Paper and I do not get along. Paper in my possession will 100% be lost very quickly. I am incapable of hanging on to paper, not even long enough to receive paperwork at a meeting, and drive straight home with it.
It is so bad that if a meeting is important enough, I will literally bring a laptop and a scanner with me.
masukomi
@hellomiakoda @iwein i’m thinking more of printing paper backups of your digital files
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