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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • No, I don’t. And that’s going to be one of our big differences here. Everyone in my family is tech literate and knows at least a little bit of programming.

    I would strongly suggest dokuwiki. It’s like having a forever Journal of Family affairs and I really like it. I know it’s not quite the social media aesthetic but in my experience I found it to be the thing that stuck.

    I would argue against Mediawiki though. It may be more user-friendly for some family members, but the maintenance becomes a nuisance And pulling things out of the database involves half a dozen joins.

    Even though dokuwiki editing is text in markup, It’s not a hard concept to grasp and the simplicity makes it feel more tangible which may be appreciated by older family members.


  • There’s a plugin that does it, FoF or something, and then you can upload an image from your device and it’s pretty good. Some videos play others require downloading after uploading though.

    Our family uses a post in flarum for a monthly feed and then moves a few of those images into a dokuwiki page with the gallery plugin.



  • We tried it and didn’t like the clunky UI.

    We also tried Lemmy but it was a bit of a nuisance to maintain.

    In the end we settled on a forum with a wiki.

    We tried a few forums but in the end Flarum was the nicest, Just a bit of a pain to set the domain to be dynamic but it can be done with some PHP, alternatively, just use a reverse proxy with dnsmasq and wireguard pointing to that DNS.

    As for a Wiki We have tried mediawiki, WikiJS And a couple others. I would recommend dokuwiki. (I hear good things about bookstack too).


  • I found reading through the rust book was a nice walkthrough of problems one can hit and how that language elected to solve them.

    In terms of practice:

    • Write a vim config
      • Shell out to python if you’d like
    • Learn a bit of elisp and org-mode
    • Rewrite all your shell scripts into a python CLI
    • Write a pyqt6 GUI for tasks and notes on the exact way you’ve always wanted it to work
    • Write an AI tool to auto-format links etc with phi3
      • Very exciting how much these smaller models can do!






  • They are not taken seriously by law enforcement. They are advertised to be taken seriously.

    It’s awful but that’s the way it is. If your experience working with a victim in your jurisdiction has been a positive one I’m really glad to hear that and I would love to know what things made it work so we’ll.

    In my experience supporting a victim, there’s no ramifications for the perpetrator, no appetite for investigation and no support for the victim outside the private system (the support hotlines are particularly useless).

    Police simply are not there to protect and support victims of personal violence offences.

    You can call bullshit all you want, but this is my lived experience in a western country and I have nothing to gain by being deceptive 🤷.