Mastodawn

Angine de poitrine et death from above 1979 au bluesfesssst!!!
https://ottawabluesfest.ca/artists/#/event/angine-de-poitrine
https://support.ottawabluesfest.ca/hc/fr/articles/13558516572955-Programme-Journalier-Horaire-Journalier

Tis' gonna be good.

Artists - Ottawa Bluesfest

Ottawa Bluesfest

Charles Dec 25

James Gleick Dec 25

RE: https://mas.to/@kissane/115771219606234540

We are in the midst of an informational cataclysm lwith little precedent, and Erin @kissane has developed the perfect metaphor to help us understand. This is essential reading. Take your time.

Charles Dec 25

https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/

Let's brace for the landslide.

Landslide; a ghost story

On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.

wreckage/salvage

Charles Dec 19

8-bit Boléro (The World's Most Ambitious Chiptune?)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kMGbGGllQoE&si=nCZr0UVoc5iHVCg9

Amazing

Charles Dec 11

The Robot Body
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TJFMMOlbyIw&si=DwW3lLFFMcSNeea8

Beautiful essay on philosophy of mind, robotics, AI, tech grift, animes, maybe other things.

The Robot Body

YouTube

Charles Nov 3

Axel Knauf Nov 2

I wanted to bridge IRC to XMPP and vice versa, here's how to do this with matterbridge.

After having set up both IRC and XMPP servers on my VPS recently I realized that it's annoying to keep multiple clients running with accounts logged into each of them. So I wanted to bridge a specific IRC channel with a XMPP/Jabber group chat channel.

After a little research I went with matterbridge and set it up like this:

Created a dedicated IRC user to join my existing channel #lounge
IRC runs ergo with SASL auth enabled
Created a dedicated XMPP user to join group chat bridging
XMPP is a prosody server with mod_muc enabled

My matterbridge.toml looks like this:

[irc]
        [irc.default]
        Nick="bridge"
        NickServNick="bridge"
        NickServPassword="secret"
        Server="irc.example.org:6697"
        UseTLS=true
        UseSASL=true
        SkipTLSVerify=false
        RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "

[xmpp]
        [xmpp.default]
        Server="xmpp.example.org:5222"
        Jid="[email protected]"
        Password="secret"
        Muc="muc.xmpp.example.org"
        Nick="bridge"
        RemoteNickFormat="[{PROTOCOL}] <{NICK}> "

[[gateway]]
name="irc2xmpp"
enable=true

        [[gateway.inout]]
        account="irc.default"
        channel="#lounge"

        [[gateway.inout]]
        account="xmpp.default"
        channel="bridging"

I've created a dedicated non-login user on my VPS, downloaded the latest binary release, verified the checksums and set up a systemd unit with this config (as per the docs):

[Unit]
Description=Matterbridge daemon
After=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/matterbridge/bin/matterbridge -conf /home/matterbridge/matterbridge.toml
Restart=always
RestartSec=30s
User=matterbridge

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then I ran reloaded systemd's config and enabled the service. Logging in to the two chat solutions I was able to verify that messages are sent across. Hooray for interoperability!

Having this infrastructure in place I may want to bring in all kinds of other chat protocols that are supported, .. <3

#SelfHosting #IRC #XMPP #bridge #matterbridge #interoperability #chat

GitHub - 42wim/matterbridge: bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API...

GitHub

Charles Oct 24

https://www.linusakesson.net/programming/pipelogic/index.php

Wonderful bit of geekery.