Merge branch 'master' of github.com:flancian/garden

.vscode/settings.json

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   "foam.edit.linkReferenceDefinitions": "off",
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+  "vscodeMarkdownNotes.newNoteDirectory": "WORKSPACE_ROOT",
   "foam.openDailyNote.titleFormat": "yyyy-mm-dd",
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agora bot.md

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 		- [[current]]
 			- replies to @mentions if the tweet/toot contains [[wikilinks]] with links to anagora.org
 			- follows back
-		- [[planned]]
+	- a [[project]]
-			- reply to @mentions with resolved wikilinks for whole threads
+		- [x] use the convention
-- https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1415398630731681793
+		- [x] reply to @mentions 
+		- reply to @mentions with resolved wikilinks for whole threads
+		- https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1415398630731681793

agora-bootstrap.md

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+# agora bootstrap
+
+- the agora runs in a user in your computer. I use `agora`.
+  - `sudo adduser agora`
+  - `sudo su - agora`.
+- you can optionally set up this user so it auto-starts all agora services you want to run.
+  - `sudo loginctl enable-linger agora` to have user services stick across restarts
+  - then set up [[systemd]] user services for [[agora server]] (frontend/reader) and [[agora bridge]] (writer) in the `agora` user (more details to come soon)
+- [[clone repos]]
+  - agora: `git clone https://github.com/flancian/agora.git`
+  - agora-server: `git clone https://github.com/flancian/agora-server.git`
+  - agora-bridge: `git clone https://github.com/flancian/agora-server.git`

agora-outage.md

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+# agora outage
+
+- the [[agora]] went down significantly today (at least 10 minutes) for the first time I'm aware of since at least the beginning of the year.
+  - I've procrastinated on implementing best practices so there's plenty to analyze in this postmortem! I'm looking forward to it.
+  - [[you can run an agora in your laptop]]
+

book.md

@@ -31,4 +31,8 @@ In lieu of the book, you'll have to accept this: this note you're reading, and t
 
 Please consider this an offering to the [[people]].
 
-Have a nice day! I hope you [[thrive]].
+Have a nice day! I hope you [[thrive]].
+
+# Towards Flancia
+
+- [[tweets]]

embracing-piracy.md

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+# embracing piracy
+
+- a [[blog post]].
+  - [[go]] https://flancia.org/mine/embracing-piracy/
+

entropy-and-diversity.md

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+# entropy and diversity
+
+- a [[paper]]
+  - by [[tom leinster]]
+  - [[go]] https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.02113
+

journal/2021-05-07.md

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+# 2021-05-07
+
+- [[vathek]]
+- [[ctzn]]
+  - [[pleco]]
+- [[rusp]]
+  - [[samanta schweblin]]
+    - [[distancia de rescate]]
+- [[karlicoss]]
+  - told me about [[orbit db]]
+- [[kepta]]
+  - discussed [[slugs]]
+  - and [[wikilinks]]
+- [[webmentions]]
+- [[flancia collective]]
+- [[push]] [[research]]
+  - [[toot]]
+- [[do]]
+- [[meet coop]]
+- [[hypercore]]
+- [[busy cafe]]
+- [[vera]]
+- [[foam]]
+  - [[slugify]]
+- [[gen studio]]
+
+I'm tired of manually auto pulling and auto pushing. I think [[auto push]] and [[auto pull]] need to happen.
+
+https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1390723019027501058

journal/2021-08-01.md

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 # 2021-08-01
 
+- [[patterning]] very early edition :)
 - I wonder if I can make [[foam]] not start each file with a header, I need to find the doc showing all settings.
-- [[trying to disable slugs]]
+- [[trying to disable slugs]]
+- [[push]] [[2019]]
+  - [[embracing piracy]]
+- [[tweet]]
+  - [[tweets]]
+- [[do]]
+  - [[agora bot]]
+- [[agora outage]]
+  - [[you can run an agora in your laptop]]
+  - [[you can run a flancian in your laptop]]

journal/2021-08-02.md

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+# 2021-08-02
+
+- [[agora bootstrap]]

patterning.md

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     - [[git stoa]]
   - [[dropbox]] https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5rf0aq0hky456nz/AAAZi2LtJBWxHr7t-pFmuk-Pa?dl=0
   
+ ## [[2021-08-01]]
+ - [[lorand]]
+   - tension between writing something understandable for everyone and going deep
+   - thing with the lightbulbs ended up attracting a lot of attention
+     - aside
+       - [[flancian]] it feels like a high dimensional celullar automata
+     - [[systems theory]], kept wondering about whether people knew about it
+   - the other "leg" is chapter 15, using feelings.
+   - ultimately would love to have some text that has a couple of the ideas that were interesting, drilling down on those.
+- [[simon]] 
+  - interaction between the environment and people
+  - there is something in the environment, in the object themselves, which encodes ways of behaviour
+  - [[ezra klein podcast]] and the extended mind
+  - you can divorce the form/pattern, reuse it in different ways
+  - a pattern language is a collection of forms
+  - extended mind -> a way of getting around the 'problem' of feeling
+  - in architecture we're always looking at plans
+    - you can take the form of a plan, take it into a different context and use it in a different way
+  - [[lorand]] love the list of paradoxes
+    - +1
+- when you went back to the toy model, did you understand it better?
+  - got incremental understanding
+  - didn't go all the way into convincing myself with the actual mathematical proof
+- [[flancian]] [[celullar automata]], [[game of life]]
+- [[lorand]] [[entropy and diversity]]
+- [[homeostasis]]
+  - [[flancian]] key word
+    - a failing proposition :)
+  - aided by [[modular approach]]
+  - [[simon]] top down and bottom up approaches, which seem to map to selfconscious and unselfconscious in [[notsof]]
+- [[simon]] often work with planning laws, which interact with data variables (traffic, rate of light, etc.). 
+  - there is also a decisive factor: the qualities you want in the building you are trying to build.
+  - [[flancian]] how do you think about the time variable in architecture? aging in buildings, entropy :)
+  - you begin a project with a long list of requirements that you have to meet -- but those are day one. unclear how they will evolve over the years.
+- [[modularity aids upgradability]] in information theory
+  - are building upgrades modular?
+  - [[simon]] 60s-70s: yes. but that failed :) see capsule hotel, which remained unchanged because people liked it how it was.
+  - but often it's the older building stock that is easiest to upgrade -- you can tear down walls and build new walls easily.
+  - are there typical reasons that projects fail?
+    - bad context: buildings placed in the wrong place/without the right support
+    - buildings that are built with a very specific use, e.g. a fashion center when the fashion industry is moving away
+    - hard to adapt office to residential and residential to office
+  - are there any projects that are designed to have a short timespan, or need continuous updating?
+    - classic project by [[alejandro aravena]]: https://www.archdaily.com/797779/half-a-house-builds-a-whole-community-elementals-controversial-social-housing 
+    - it's hard to know the needs of the future, so he built half a house and left the other half up to the user
+    - [[japanese]] architecture doesn't value longevity the same way
+- [[requirements elicitation]]
+- Q: would patterns of pattern connectivity be interesting?
+  - seems like something to keep in mind but it would quickly get too abstract?
+  - [[simon]] reminds me of the diagrams at the end of [[notsof]]
+
  ## [[2021-07-11]]
  - [[armengol]] [[lorand]] [[simon]] [[flancian]]
 	 - [[flancian]] proposal: meet a few more times but perhaps more spaced out?

requirements-elicitation.md

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+# requirements elicitation
+
+- [[wp]] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requirements_elicitation
+  - [[go]] [[wp]]
+

tweet.md

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 # Tweet
 
-- [[pull]] A [[twitter]] [[toot]].
+- a [[post]]
+  - on [[twitter]]
+  - [[pull]] [[toot]] [[tweets]]
+- an [[action]]
+  - [[tweet]] [[tweets]]
 

tweets.md

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+If you know how to type, why don't you write?
+
+Moloch is the god of closed source.
+
+I'd like to talk about [[techne]] vs [[episteme]], and their synergies.
+
+[[draft]] In Flancia they tried a law: every time a corporation clearly goes into decline, with decline being defined has betraying their original set of values for pecuniary interests, they must change their slogan to "crappier every day" or dissolve and be reintegrated.
+
+In Flancia they tried a law: every time a corporation clearly went into decline, with decline being defined has betraying their original set of values for lesser interests, they had to change their slogan to "crappier every day" or dissolve and reintegrate.
+
+I failed there and just posted that on Twitter when I had originally meant not to go to Twitter. This is what Twitter *does*, I tell myself -- but in reality it is also what I do to myself.
+
+When I'm afraid I'm not alone, when I'm alone I'm not afraid.
+
+Now I'll go actually code for the Twitter API (yikes).
+
+How should I make it so that this document gets tweeted out? 
+    It would be easy to tweet these as @an_agora
+
+@bmann I think what we should do with [[moa]] is make it into a smarter/social cross poster: its users should be able to 1. easily find each other in all supported networks and 2. depend on Moa to cross-post threads with minimal information loss when several thread participants are in both sides across an interop interface. Like in this thread: if you reply to me in either network, it would make sense for your reply to be interoped.
+
+Failed again. Back to work :)
+
+One incantation to enter the Agora is: sudo su - agora
+
+Me parece que encontré la forma de simularme a mí mismo, al menos cuando estoy frente a una computadora.
+
+I think I might have found the way to simulate myself, at least while I'm sitting in front of a computer.

you-can-run-a-flancian-in-your-laptop.md

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+# you can run a flancian in your laptop
+
+- [[tweets]] [[2021-06-01]]
+- only in the sense of running a model of myself as I'm sitting in front of my computer.
+- essentially: I'll make memory states of my personal laptop open, and include models in different levels of abstraction.
+  - git repositories with code and data I use
+  - VMs
+  - window manager state, including which programs I'm running and (pending program support) which content it's loaded in them
+    - currently including browser tabs.
+  - state at different levels can be restored optionally
+- [[pull]] [[project snapshot]]
+

you-can-run-an-agora-in-your-laptop.md

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+# you can run an agora in your laptop
+
+- [[agora bootstrap]]
+