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Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqD...

`fzf` definitely up-leveled my terminal
`eza` is a more beautiful `ls`
my ll: `alias a=eza -loA --group-directories-first --color=always --hyperlink --icons=always --no-user --no-permissions --time-style=long-iso --no-quotes`
`bat` "better `cat`" - more beutiful

$Code snippet: ```bash # ---- bat (better cat) ----- # export BAT_THEME=tokyonight_night export BAT_THEME="Monokai Extended Origin" alias bathelp='bat --plain --language=help' help() { "$@" --help 2>&1 | bathelp } # https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras/blob/master/README.md#installation # alias rg=batgrep alias bg=batgrep alias pb=prettybat # alias -g -- '-h'='-h 2>&1 | bat --language=help --style=plain' # alias -g -- '--help'='--help 2>&1 | bat --language=help --style=plain' alias man=batman export MANPAGER="sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'" ```$ $Code: ``` # https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqDYw9C30I # https://www.josean.com/posts/7-amazing-cli-tools # fuzzy search eval "$(fzf --zsh)" # -- Use fd instead of fzf -- export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND="fd --hidden --strip-cwd-prefix --exclude .git" export FZF_CTRL_T_COMMAND="$FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND" export FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS='--height 100% --layout=reverse --border' export FZF_ALT_C_COMMAND="fd --type=d --hidden --strip-cwd-prefix --exclude .git" # Use fd (https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) for listing path candidates. # - The first argument to the function ($1) is the base path to start traversal # - See the source code (completion.{bash,zsh}) for the details. _fzf_compgen_path() { fd --hidden --exclude .git . "$1" } # Use fd to generate the list for directory completion _fzf_compgen_dir() { fd --type=d --hidden --exclude .git . "$1" } show_file_or_dir_preview="if [ -d {} ]; then eza --tree --color=always {} | head -200; else bat -n --color=always --line-range :500 {}; fi" export FZF_CTRL_T_OPTS="--preview '$show_file_or_dir_preview'" export FZF_ALT_C_OPTS="--preview 'eza --tree --color=always {} | head -200'" # Advanced customization of fzf options via _fzf_comprun function # - The first argument to the function is the name of the command. # - You should make sure to pass the rest of the arguments to fzf. _fzf_comprun() { local command=$1 shift case "$command" in cd) fzf --preview 'eza --tree --color=always {} | head -200' "$@" ;; export|unset) fzf --preview "eval 'echo ${}'" "$@" ;; ssh) fzf --preview 'dig {}' "$@" ;; *) fzf --preview "$show_file_or_dir_preview" "$@" ;; esac } alias modheim="arch -x86_64 sh /Users/avanti/Library/Application\ Support/Steam/steamapps/common/Valheim/run_bepinex.sh -console" ```$

October 27, 2025 at 12:02 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

You are your environment

Text above image reads: "You become what you surround
yourself with. Energies are contagious.
Choose carefully. Your environment
will become you."
Image below: Illustration of two people in aquamarine monocolors, whose heads are touching, styalised overlay of swirly lines signifying one person's "brain", the squiggly lines from one "pouring" over into the others.

September 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

WH Executive order released this Monday, 28 April. Mandating militarization of local and state; federalizing over state's rights and powers. 👻☠️⏱️

Screenshot of Sections four through six of the April, 28th Whitehouse Executive Order with the text "shall increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions" highlighted. Text:

"Sec. 4. Using National Security Assets for Law and Order. (a) Within 90 days of the date of
this order, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the
Secretary of Homeland Security and the heads of agencies as appropriate, shall increase the
provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State
and local law enforcement.
(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the
Attorney General, shall determine how military and national security assets, training, non-
lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime.
Sec. 5. Holding State and Local Officials Accountable. The Attorney General shall pursue all
necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to enforce the rights of Americans
impacted by crime and shall prioritize prosecution of any applicable violations of Federal
criminal law with respect to State and local jurisdictions whose officials:
(a) willfully and unlawfully direct the obstruction of criminal law, including by directly and
unlawfully prohibiting law enforcement officers from carrying out duties necessary for public
safety and law enforcement: or
(b) unlawfully engage in discrimination or civil-rights violations under the guise of "diversity,
equity, and inclusion" initiatives that restrict law enforcement activity or endanger citizens.
Sec. 6. Use of Homeland Security Task Forces. The Attorney General and the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall utilize the Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) formed in
accordance with Executive Order 14159 of January 20, 2025 (Protecting the American People
Against Invasion) to coordinate and advance the objectives of this order."

May 2, 2025 at 1:22 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

www.cityarts.net/event/yung-p...

Screenshot:

“We've made a recording of this event free to all. Please support our institution and these productions by making a tax-deductible contribution.

If you are wondering who your people are, they are the ones who make your heart feel seen and your nervous system feel calm. It is that simple. – Yung Pueblo

Poet, author, and meditator Yung Pueblo (Lighter, the Inward Trilogy) focuses his writing on the power of self-healing, creating healthy relationships, and a blueprint to apply the wisdom that comes from the work of self-knowledge. In his upcoming book How to Love Better, Pueblo examines multiple aspects of relationships from the rose-colored early days to the challenges that can arise without clear communication.

Forrest Hanson is co-author of Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness, and host of the podcast Being Well.”

March 26, 2025 at 6:01 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...

Albert Einstein's essay from May 1949, "Why Socialism"

"Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."

March 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

Screencap from article reads: `So there is no negotiation to do. There is no yielding of anything to it in the hope that the cancer will be satisfied with whatever has been sacrificed. No appeasement of cancer is possible, because its appetite is insatiable. It will take whatever it wants if not stopped. There is no honor to appeal to, no conscience or even logical intelligence to convince to end its rampage. It doesn’t care about the worth of what it is working to kill, or how many will suffer from its loss. There is nothing to be reasoned with. Cancer just doesn’t care.`

March 4, 2025 at 12:14 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

Screenshot of article with text:

“That is how empires tend to fall. Either they are defeated in battle, and are conquered or collapse, or they suffer a succession crisis and fall apart (both often enabled by corruption and mismanagement). Or they are simply eclipsed by another power, as happened when the British Empire fell short and the U.S. succeeded it.
President Trump, by contrast, was handed an empire in splendid condition. The core alliance of NATO was stronger than it had been in decades, as Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine pushed Sweden and Finland to join. Thanks to President Biden's policies, the American economy was the envy of the world, with a post-pandemic recovery that outstripped any peer nation. The dollar was still by far the most important reserve currency, and the U.S. still had control over global financial pipelines.
No serious threats were on the horizon, either. In its war with Ukraine, Russia has burned through most of its gigantic stockpile of Soviet-era military hard
Privacy - Terms
taken nerhans on nnu estalties and”

Screenshot of text:

“But the DOGE Muskjugend recently illegally fired many of the workers who secure America's nuclear arsenal, apparently by accident, and they are rooting around in the IRS and the Social Security Administration (prompting the head of the latter agency to resign, which hold much of the most sensitive data in the government. It's not hard to imagine this going world-historically bad.
America suffered no military defeat. We were not outstripped economically by a bigger or better-organized competitor.
Rather, we elected an insane tyrant who is blowing up the foundation of our international power for no reason, all while he lets a South African immigrant ultra-billionaire and his crew of
teenybopper fascists tear the wiring out of the federal government-again, for no reason.
Never underestimate the destructive power of stupidity.”

February 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

Not to forget that the square of the sum from 1..n is also equal to the sum of the Cubes from 1..n ❗😅 🥂

` ⍝ The square of the sum from 1..9
2*⍨+/⍳9
2025
⍝ The sum of the Cubes from 1..9
+/3*⍨⍳9
2025`

Dyalog APL Code:
⍝ The square of the sum of 1..9
2*⍨+/⍳9
2025
⍝ The sum of the Cubes from 1..9
+/3*⍨⍳9
2025

January 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

Not to forget that the square of the sum from 1..n is also equal to the sum of the Cubes from 1..n ❗😅 🥂

` ⍝ The square of the sum of 1..9
2*⍨+/⍳9
2025
⍝ The sum of the Cubes from 1..9
+/3*⍨⍳9
2025`

January 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem):
samcurry.net/hacking-millions…

Lesson: Run your own equipment. ISPs using TR-069 Protocol can remote into their equipment, which opens potential attack surface; and grants them a lot of authority into your network.

Screenshot of the linked article, titled "Hacking Millions of Modems (and Investigating Who Hacked My Modem)".

December 29, 2024 at 11:14 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

There are some good implementations of Roaring Bitmaps devs can use today.

If someone were to make an effort towards a library implementation de novo, may I recommend following up on recent research making claims of improvements on RoaringBitmaps:
drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics…

Front Page Screenshot of paper titled "Trie-Compressed Adaptive Set Intersection" by Diego Arroyuelo and Juan Pablo Castillo

November 26, 2024 at 6:19 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

frontpage.fyi/post/fei.chicory…

Blog post detailing how to shoe-horn webhosting ontop of ATProto

November 26, 2024 at 5:19 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

flo-bit.dev/bluesky-visualiz…

Loving the Vibes :)

A Word Cloud visualizing the relative use of words (more frequent words being larger) from the last ten seconds on Bluesky. Some prominent words being: "good" "social" "like" "people" "think" "bsky"

November 21, 2024 at 8:42 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

frontpage.fyi/post/iroh.comput…

November 21, 2024 at 3:49 AM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

ash.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploa…

Ethics of Decentralized Social Technologies

November 5, 2024 at 10:36 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/where-di…

The history of Combinators, an important aspect to computational theory.

October 25, 2024 at 4:06 PM

Zachary 🦋

@zed.earth

Meta-interpretive learning as metarule specialisation - Stassa Patsantzis, Stephen H. Muggleton:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007/…

Then check out the implementation:
github.com/stassa/louise

Seriously one of the coolest Prolog projects I've seen in a minute.