R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org

@sachac 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.

I guess I should write an #introduction.

I've been using the internet since 1992 and contributing to #Wikipedia since 2001. I haven't used Twitter since early 2021 because I decided it was unhealthy, and I used Mastodon a fair bit that year, but then lost my account through, apparently, inactivity, which I didn't realize was even a thing.

I guess I should put some kind of tag cloud here of stuff I'm interested in? Maybe #physics, #Linux, #Debian, #manufacturing, #DSP, #Python, #Numpy, #math (more #algebra than #analysis), #raytracing, #commonsbasedpeerproduction, #creativecommons, #piracy, #scihub, #libgen, #emergence, #solarpunk, #history (especially #Hellenistic and #Mohist), #UX, #HCI, #controltheory, #lifesupport, and #infosec.

@Hortense just to clarify, by "your timeline" I meant "one's timeline", and similarly with "before you read"; I'm not talking about you personally, I've just met you!

@Hortense Sure, I've seen flaming since I joined the internet 30 years ago. Usenet was full of flames and trolls. But Twitter is special and unique: the 140-letter format is suited for zingers and calls to action, but not for reasoning, and the tweets that "blow up" are the ones that get massively retweeted and replied to, which is to say, the controversial ones that succeed in resonating with primal emotions in the five seconds before you read the next, unrelated tweet. That is, trolls.

The way people amass large followings on Twitter is either by already being famous, by brigading, or having their tweets "blow up". And your timeline on Twitter is disproportionately made of retweets of or replies to famous people's tweets, who are selected for being trolls and flamers in a way that Usenet never approached.

The upgrade to 280 characters helped, but ten seconds instead of five is not much of an improvement.