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@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ that I don't have enough time with everything else I have going on; what I want
to write and the ideas I've had take longer to get on paper (or screen) than I'm
able to dedicate at the moment.[^1] However, I love the intent behind it and
want to continue in a somewhat less involved manner. Enter
-[#100DaysToRead.](https://social.nixnet.services/tags/100DaysToRead)
+#100DaysToRead (dead link to hashtag on fedi instance).
## The "rules"
Quotes are used because they're not solid rules; it can be hard to learn
-something significant from fiction, you might miss a day here and there,
-what you learned could be a bit personal and not really suitable for
-social media, any number of things might result in "breaking" one or all
-of them. Just do your best. :simple_smile:
+something significant from fiction, you might miss a day here and there, what
+you learned could be a bit personal and not really suitable for social media,
+any number of things might result in "breaking" one or all of them. Just do your
+best. :simple_smile:
### Read for an hour a day
I recommend using some kind of timer or stopwatch to track how long
@@ -62,13 +62,12 @@ future; whenever I read another book and have a related thought, I'll
return to this note and add links between them.
### Post a short summary
-Whatever you've learned that day, post a condensed version along with
-the book/page/paragraph on social media using the
-[#100DaysToRead](https://social.nixnet.services/tags/100DaysToRead) tag!
-Expanding a short summary then condensing it again with different
-wording helps to ensure you understand the material and will aid in
-recollection. Posting about it will give others the same information and
-might even pique their interest about what you're reading.
+Whatever you've learned that day, post a condensed version along with the
+book/page/paragraph on social media using the #100DaysToRead tag! Expanding a
+short summary then condensing it again with different wording helps to ensure
+you understand the material and will aid in recollection. Posting about it will
+give others the same information and might even pique their interest about what
+you're reading.
## Thoughts
Inspiration for this comes partly from [episode
@@ -20,11 +20,10 @@ tags:
toc: true
---
-I [recently
-posted](https://social.nixnet.services/@amolith/103918629088941744)
-about getting through 487 feed items in less than half an hour and I
-thought I would write about my setup here. There are three primary
+I recently posted about getting through 487 feed items in less than half an hour
+and I thought I would write about my setup here. There are three primary
applications that require some configuration:
+
* [Feed reader](https://tt-rss.org/)
* [Browser](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/)
* [Read-it-later service](https://wallabag.org)
@@ -161,20 +161,17 @@ box.
```
## Web chat
-The last thing every stream needs is something for web chat. I tried a
-few different solutions and had mixed results. The first was
-[KiwiIRC](https://kiwiirc.com/) but the iframe wouldn't even finish
-loading because it connected to so many third parties with a lot of
-tracking. It functions very well and I might set it up on my own site
-eventually but it was a bit much to go through at the time. As an
-intermediate solution, I embedded [my
-instance](https://irc.nixnet.services) of [The
-Lounge,](https://thelounge.chat) a fully-functional web-based IRC
-client. This loaded perfectly right out of the box but it wasn't quite
-what I wanted; there were *too* many options and the friends of mine who
-tested it got frustrated because some of the essential UI elements were
-hidden due to the small viewport. It's just not quite suitable for
-embedded webchat.
+The last thing every stream needs is something for web chat. I tried a few
+different solutions and had mixed results. The first was
+[KiwiIRC](https://kiwiirc.com/) but the iframe wouldn't even finish loading
+because it connected to so many third parties with a lot of tracking. It
+functions very well and I might set it up on my own site eventually but it was a
+bit much to go through at the time. As an intermediate solution, I embedded my
+instance of [The Lounge,](https://thelounge.chat) a fully-functional web-based
+IRC client. This loaded perfectly right out of the box but it wasn't quite what
+I wanted; there were *too* many options and the friends of mine who tested it
+got frustrated because some of the essential UI elements were hidden due to the
+small viewport. It's just not quite suitable for embedded webchat.
Finally, I landed on [qwebirc](https://qwebirc.org/) and it was pretty
much *exactly* what I wanted. When the iframe loads, you're prompted to
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Pen](https://www.tutorviacomputer.com/inkscape/the-bezier-tool/) and
created it completely from scratch. It's still just a silhouette but
I've always avoided this tool because it's so hard to use. You can view
it on [my Gitea
-instance.](https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/secluded/src/branch/master/content/assets/pngs/guitar.png)
+instance.](https://git.nixnet.services/Amolith/secluded/src/branch/master/content/assets/pngs/guitar.png)
Anyway, this is my anti-climactic third day out of 100! Prepare for some
music tomorrow :wink:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ what your workflow will look like. Mine will be as follows.
1. Take *very* concise notes on something I learned in a *physical*
notebook
2. When I'm able, go through those notes and add them to my [digital
- Zettelkasten,](https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/zettelkasten) expanding
+ Zettelkasten,](https://git.nixnet.services/Amolith/zettelkasten) expanding
them a little and fleshing the thought out more
The last step is *the most important* as this is the one where you sit
@@ -61,22 +61,22 @@ desktop/laptop, [Vim](https://www.vim.org/) on Debian-based systems,
[vi](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi) wherever else.
## NixNet plans
-Today, I fleshed out some of my thoughts on reprovisioning all of my
-over the summer. I'm going to have [Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/)
-or [Salt](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/) build and deploy
-[LXC](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/introduction/) containers to a
-baremetal server from [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/sb) running a
-*very* minimal [Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/) installation.
-Whatever setup I have for those will of course be available on
-[Gitea.](https://git.nixnet.xyz/NixNet) From there, my local NAS will
-use something like [borgmatic](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/) to back
-up files and databases from all of my servers and
+Today, I fleshed out some of my thoughts on reprovisioning all of my over the
+summer. I'm going to have [Ansible](https://docs.ansible.com/) or
+[Salt](https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/) build and deploy
+[LXC](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxc/introduction/) containers to a baremetal
+server from [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/sb) running a *very* minimal
+[Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org/) installation. Whatever setup I have for
+those will of course be available on
+[Gitea.](https://git.nixnet.services/NixNet) From there, my local NAS will use
+something like [borgmatic](https://torsion.org/borgmatic/) to back up files and
+databases from all of my servers and
[LXD](https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/introduction/) to create container
snapshots[^1]. All of that will be mirrored to
-[BackBlaze](https://www.backblaze.com/) likely using their B2 model as
-paying per GB per month is generally the most reliable option. Under one
-of the others, there's always the possibility that I might upload more
-than they think is reasonable and start limiting me in some way.
+[BackBlaze](https://www.backblaze.com/) likely using their B2 model as paying
+per GB per month is generally the most reliable option. Under one of the others,
+there's always the possibility that I might upload more than they think is
+reasonable and start limiting me in some way.
Short-term, I'm going to consolidate some of my servers to a single
baremetal machine from Hetzner. Long-term, I'm going to look into
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ download a course or two every month using
* Install
[`youtube-dl`](https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html)
* Make sure you have a browser handy
-* Create a community account on [Linux
- Academy](https://linuxacademy.com/join/community)
+* Create a community account on Linux Academy
* Get some food
* Maybe a drink
* Sit back down in your chair
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ tags:
I'm only 8 days into 100 Days To Offload and I've already missed two. The
biggest reason is that this is finals week and all my time right now is taken up
-by studying for exams. [As I said on the
-Fediverse,](https://social.nixnet.services/@amolith/104103245015944134) I have
+by studying for exams. As I said on the Fediverse (dead link to post), I have
been exhausted the past little while and I'm not getting nearly as much sleep as
I really need. I've enjoyed it so far but I'm going to take a break until finals
are over; I'll still be coming up with post ideas, however, I just won't
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ page](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_reading) (where I got most of my
information) is really interesting and well-worth a read.
## Edits
-* [@caltlgin](https://masto.nixnet.xyz/@caltlgin) recommended
- [flrdr,](https://octobanana.com/software/fltrdr) a TUI tool for
- reading with RSVP
+* @caltlgin (dead link to fedi profile) recommended
+ [flrdr,](https://octobanana.com/software/fltrdr) a TUI tool for reading with
+ RSVP
[^1]: The technical term is
*[subvocalisation](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization)*
@@ -158,14 +158,12 @@ The one command *every* Oragono oper[^4] should know is `/quote helpop
index`. It will list all the available commands so you can read through
them and discover what each does.
-You've reached the end of the post. You are now disallowed from telling
-anyone that IRC is too complicated. If you want to test a server you're
-setting up, feel free to use my instance of [The
-Lounge;](https://thelounge.chat/) it's at
-[irc.nixnet.services](https://irc.nixnet.services/) and any IRCd details
-can be entered but mine are default. Speaking of my IRC server, you
-should [join #secluded](ircs://irc.nixnet.services:6697/secluded) and
-mention this post :D
+You've reached the end of the post. You are now disallowed from telling anyone
+that IRC is too complicated. If you want to test a server you're setting up,
+feel free to use my instance of [The Lounge;](https://thelounge.chat/) it's at
+irc.nixnet.services and any IRCd details can be entered but mine are default.
+Speaking of my IRC server, you should [join
+#secluded](ircs://irc.nixnet.services:6697/secluded) and mention this post :D
[^1]: A *gzipped tarball* is just a compressed archive like a zip file
[^2]: You should definitely [join
@@ -157,14 +157,13 @@ set mouse=
---
-In all, I'm hoping that the work I've done today for improving my
-markdown workflow will help me create a more effective Zettelkasten. The
-*big* thing was really being able to follow internal links around
-because that's the main thing with keeping a Zettelkasten: following
-your ideas to see where they lead and discovering what connections you
-can make to form entirely new ideas. Mine will be stored in
-[Gitea](https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/zettelkasten) for now but I'm
-thinking about putting it here at some point. It would be cool to have a
+In all, I'm hoping that the work I've done today for improving my markdown
+workflow will help me create a more effective Zettelkasten. The *big* thing was
+really being able to follow internal links around because that's the main thing
+with keeping a Zettelkasten: following your ideas to see where they lead and
+discovering what connections you can make to form entirely new ideas. Mine will
+be stored in [Gitea](https://git.nixnet.services/Amolith/zettelkasten) for now
+but I'm thinking about putting it here at some point. It would be cool to have a
map of my own mind very easily accessible from anywhere.
@@ -200,9 +199,9 @@ if has("autocmd")
endif
```
-I won't keep editing this post to provide updates on my config. Instead,
-I recommend looking at my ["production" version on
-Gitea.](https://git.nixnet.xyz/Amolith/dotfiles/src/branch/master/dotfiles/pc/.config/nvim/init.vim)
+I won't keep editing this post to provide updates on my config. Instead, I
+recommend looking at my ["production" version on
+Gitea.](https://git.nixnet.services/Amolith/dotfiles/src/branch/master/dotfiles/pc/.config/nvim/init.vim)
---