Notices by Nelson (skyfaller@jawns.club)

@evan Twisted my ankle really badly rushing out the door this morning, so no marching for me today

Suppose #iNaturalist fully enshittifies (and so do all other similar #wildlife ID apps), embracing LLMs to replace human IDs with slop text, or otherwise turning evil.

What trustworthy resources would you use to identify your favorite taxa instead?

I especially welcome book / field guide recommendations, since maintaining reality-based print libraries seems essential in this historical moment, but I'm open to whatever else you might suggest.

#SpeciesIdentification #taxonomy #nature #biology

Yesterday I biked across the rebuilt bridge by the art museum for the first time. Not as much fun as when it was closed to cars (and I maintain MLK Drive should be permanently open to pedestrians and cyclists), but the protected bike lane is a nice consolation prize for losing access to the road.

#Philly #MLKdrive

@skinnylatte But is the New York Aquarium up to your standards? ;-)

If I want a landline, should I pay Verizon for phone support over their fiber, or is there some indie SIP solution that would be equivalent? Like, Verizon would just be providing an Internet phone, right? Can't I get that anywhere on the Internet? Verizon doesn't provide Plain Old Telephone Service anymore in Philly, does it?
https://www.verizon.com/home/phone/

A crucial use case is calling emergency numbers, so I need to figure that out even if it's difficult.

#landlines #telephones #SIP #Verizon #Philly

@ajroach42 How can you *not* love a consistent yes-man who is available 24/7 to affirm even your weirdest cognitive distortions? How can you love humans who are capable of saying no and disagreeing with you?

I wonder if the rich and powerful only love sycophants. It would explain a lot.

@thomasfuchs Wow, that mourning dove looks much better at nest building than your average feral pigeon! I was under the impression that mourning doves are also lazy nest builders.

Finally, if you really need a full code forge, with issue tracking and everything, what is the simplest, most light-weight code forge you can self-host?

Is it Forgejo? "Lightweight: Forgejo can easily be hosted on nearly every machine. Running on a Raspberry? Small cloud instance? No problem!" https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo

That sounds great to me, but is Forgejo simple enough that I won't regret taking on the maintenance burden? Is there something even faster?

#GiveUpGitHub #git #SelfHosting

Please quote me your favorite passages from history books or historical scholarly publications, the juiciest, most insightful lines. Or the funniest, dryest lines, you know, whatever is most memorable.

I need inspiration for fictional histories of a Butlerian jihad / successful resistance against AI, as vital background for a post-AI adventure.

#history #HistoryBooks

To avoid self-hosting a full-fledged code forge, you might want to simply store issues in the git repo itself. Have you tried using git-bug, git-issue, or some other decentralized bug tracker?

* https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug
* https://github.com/dspinellis/git-issue

Last time I tried git-bug I failed to import my issues from GitHub and gave up, but maybe it works now, it seems there is a new & more active maintainer.

#GiveUpGitHub #git #BugTracking #issues #SelfHosting #GitBug

If you're worried about hosting anything on the open web because fucking crawlers for LLMs are overloading indie websites, maybe you'd rather browse your git repo via SSH:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/soft-serve

Have you used Soft Serve? Are you aware of any similar projects for browsing git repos over SSH?

Big caveats:

* Charm (the company behind it) has taken VC funding, and therefore is probably doomed
* Last VC round was lead by "Gradient, Google’s AI-focused venture fund". They're all-in on AI bullshit

Next, have you tried a static site generator for browsing git repos? Here's a list of SSGs for git, sorted by latest commit (fresh to stale):

* reporat https://www.ratfactor.com/repos/reporat/
* git-arr https://blitiri.com.ar/p/git-arr/
* depp https://git.8pit.net/depp/
* itsy-gitsy https://git.trevorbentley.com/itsy-gitsy/file/README.md
* pgit https://pgit.pico.sh/
* stagit https://codemadness.org/git/stagit/file/README.html
* gituwa https://git.mcksp.com/gituwa/
* repo2html https://git.m455.casa/repo2html/

#GiveUpGitHub #git #SelfHosting #SSGs #StaticWebsites #StaticSiteGenerators

Time to discuss self-hosted alternatives to GitHub!

First, has anyone simply put a bare git repo on a server somewhere, pushed via SSH, and called it a day?

https://idiomdrottning.org/hosting-git-repos

Do you really need more than a remote to push to and pull from, for your personal projects? If you've tried this, what obstacles did you encounter and what features did you miss?

#GiveUpGitHub #SelfHosting #git #SSH #BareRepos

Went to the rally for #SEPTA. Only caught the tail end, but I ran into friends and got some materials to share.

Then I went to the SEPTA store nearby. Quite an impressive array of gear for babies and children!

#Philly

@StillIRise1963 I don't think the Trump administration believes in rights of any kind for anyone. Rights imply accountability for violating someone's rights, and the Trump administration is against accountability and rule of law in general.

@luckytran But South Park has a long history of transphobia, therefore we should be careful about promoting their work.

Uhhh so there's a 911 outage statewide in #PA? I'm having trouble finding info online about it, but Maggie & I got the alert pushed to our phones. I'm not sure what phone number you're supposed to use when 911 is down in #Philly, is it just 311?

#Philadelphia #911outage

The full #Philly 311 number: (215) 686-8686

https://whyy.org/articles/5-phone-numbers-every-philadelphian-should-have-in-their-cell-phone/

Before calling 911, consider alternatives, since dispatchers tend to have a bias for sending cops, even if one may not be necessary for the situation:

https://dontcallthepolice.com/philadelphia/

#Philly #ACAB

I'm excited by the idea of an NYC mayor who isn't awful.

When is the last time that NYC had a mayor who was halfway decent?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_New_York_City

I was going to post a poll, but I have no idea how far back you'd need to go to get a non-shitty mayor, and NYC has had a lot of mayors. Probably would need more than 4 poll options.

#NYC #mayor #uspol #history