R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org

@kate Wow, that's staggering! It's interesting that the slowdown knee happened so late; if I had to guess at a single cause, it would be the end of Dennard scaling in cutting-edge processes, but that would put the knee around 2005 rather than 2010, and that's certainly not what the data shows.

@publicvoit Well, I haven't read *all* of it!

I think Agenda was relevant to the dissertation because (a) it organized items primarily with tags (called "categories", with initial tagging of each new item applied using text matching rules and implication rules) and (b) it was the program the term "PIM" was invented to describe.

I agree about the drawbacks of the cloud. As the wise man said, there is no cloud; there are only other people's computers. #TahoeLAFS is a solution to the resulting loss of autonomy, but it's not widely adopted.

I don't think Flickr and del.icio.us were "totally different from PIM in almost [every] aspect". Most people used them for managing their own photos and bookmarks, in precisely the way TagTrees was designed to be used; they didn't allow you to apply or even suggest tags to other people's photos or bookmarks. (On del you could bookmark someone else's page, of course, with your own tags.)

@sachac@emacs.ch hopefully you don't lose that bacon today!

@finnegan Hey, the free-software tools for it are better than ever; #Blender is really kicking it. I can't wait to see what people come up mixing it with #StableDiffusion!

#Wikipedia is pretty worthwhile. If you can fix an error or improve an explanation on Wikipedia, even on relatively obscure pages, you're helping hundreds of people every day (just look at the page traffic statistics!)

@jeffdean @freemo @Pat we can probably expect the #fediverse to suffer a lot of performance problems this month

@sachac@emacs.ch nooo :(

The dissertation of @publicvoit on TagTrees, while interesting in its own right, also has a very interesting overview of historical #PIM #HCI research:

https://karl-voit.at/tagstore/downloads/Voit2012b.pdf#chapter.2

Oddly, though, even though it focuses on organizing personal information including files using free-form tags, and even talks about photo management and bookmark management as application areas, it doesn't mention Indecks cards (or other edge-notched cards), Lotus Agenda, or Flickr. It does mention del.icio.us once in passing on p. 67.

The TagTrees method he proposes doesn't rely on organizing the tags themselves in a tree (like Agenda). Rather, the #tags in a TagTrees path are intersected without any concern for their order; the tree view is just an "associative browsing" affordance.

#tagging #folksonomies

@publicvoit @hlegius sounds like good advice, overall. It's easy to get overwhelmed with all the possibilities of org-mode! Even just headings with TAB and M-up and M-down is a pretty useful feature set.

Probably the ideal subset varies between different people, so some exploration of features you'll end up not using is probably necessary.

Myself, I've found the spreadsheet feature useful enough to use orgtbl-mode even in files that aren't in org-mode, and the "evaluating code blocks" feature is one of those things I've been meaning to get around to trying for years.

@0x7f what do you think of HIPE?

`toot tui` is a bit snappier. I think maybe they forgot the command to scroll down in a toot when it doesn't fit on the screen, as well as a command to get a pastable link to media attachments. (There's a help screen listing the key commands on "h".)

Freezes when you type "t" to look at the thread of a toot until it's loaded the statuses (several more seconds).

Seems like a promising prototype! Maybe I'll try it again in six months.

This toot thing is pretty cool. I installed it with

```sh
pip3 install toot
```

It doesn't seem to handle Markdown formatting well, it takes 3-7 seconds for `toot timeline` or `toot notifications`, and it inserts newlines into media URLs when it displays them (but it does display them).

And although it is *mostly* CLI-controlled, it does occasionally have uncontrollable fits of interactivity, like in `toot timeline`:

```
Continue? [Y/n]
```

So it isn't the instantaneous responsivity you might hope for from a CLI app. But it does work and you can presumably run it easily from an arbitrary cloud VM over ssh.

@thom thanks!

@thom this looks cool, is it released?

@peterdrake maybe they're terrified of misgendering you in an email and getting called out on twitter?

Further #introduction tags about my interests: #electronics (#ee), #materials, #creep (in the sense of cold flow!), #simulation, #instructionsets, #piezo(electrics), #vacuum, #linguistics, #Lisp, #C.