Notices by neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop), page 8

@nicksellen Nice! Yeah that's exactly the idea. Your NAQ (lol) also nicely covers the reasons I'm doing it, too.

I'm also interested in the interplay between blog / timeline-based stuff and the wiki / kbase format too - have you written about that?

@deltaidea It's really basic at the mo, I'm using org-mode and org-publish, mainly because I'm a big Emacs nerd and also wanted something just plain text that I keep in version control but can publish to HTML. I can already see some limits.. but does the job for now. Gollum and ikiwiki both seemed decent candidates too. @syndikalista recommended looking at Zettlr.

As I'm starting my personal wiki / knowledge base, first thing I'm noticing is that I feel like I shouldn't just be trying to collect 'knowledge' on 'topics'... if it becomes just a set of 'facts' that I've discovered about my particular interests, then it's just a poorly maintained subset of Wikipedia... I think the trick is to make sure not to lose the personal and the personality. It should be the stuff that Wikipedia deliberately avoids.

(Where 'friend' is someone in the A and B channels of my discovery strategy - https://doubleloop.net/2019/10/05/discovery-strategy/.)

Trying to keep my software social (https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2019/06/the-blog-and-wiki-combo/), so I've started tagging articles that I save to Wallabag for reading later with a couple of new tags - 'wbaf' and 'sbaf' - short for 'written by a friend' and 'shared by a friend' respectively.

When I have some spare time to read something, I go to wbaf and sbaf first. Should be good for building bonds, and a win against filter failure, possibly a loss against filter bubble, but let's see how it pans out...

@rachel0964 Green Oil say they only use plant oil, no petrochemicals

https://www.green-oil.net/environment.html

Booo, got the following error when installing #Guix:

```
Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
/gnu/store/'dzr35fc1wvgkgz2d4qp3xzhn6wg313c-grub-efi-2.02/sbin/grub-install: error: failed to get canonical path of '/boot/efi'.

guix system: error: failed to install bootloader /gnu/store/kcimndl2hncnng4vhyylipabdxk7f0r9-bootloader-installer
```

On the plus side, I feel like I'm installing GNU/Linux 20 years ago again, kind of nostalgic in a way

Steve Ballmer running around a stage, but shouting 'LIBERATORY TECHNOLOGY' instead of 'DEVELOPERS'

Would be good to have an overall progress indicator during #Guix install. There's indicators for each individual package, but no clue as to how far is left in the overall install process.

Can you install Guix (the OS) on just a single partition? I tried going through the graphical installer and mounting a single existing free partition as /. Thinking that all of Guix would then go on that partition. But the next step in the installer said 'We are about to format your hard drive, is that OK?'. So I bailed out at that point... Presumably you don't *have* to format the whole disk? - what's the way to use just a single partition?

@Flophouse_Sam @pfefferle No worries, happy to help further if I can, but probably better to open a github issue (https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/issues), Mastodon not so great for code discussion.

@Flophouse_Sam @pfefferle

You could McGuyver it. The quickest and dirtiest way would be to edit lines 67, 73, and 78 from

\get_author_posts_url( $user->ID )

to something like

\get_site_url() . '/author/' . $user->name

This is *very* dirty though as you lose these changes next time the plugin is updated. But perhaps worth doing as a quick check to prove the concept.

A better way could be to add to your theme a filter for author_link that checks if its webfinger and acts accordingly.

@Flophouse_Sam @pfefferle

From what I can see, ActivityPub plugin uses WordPress's built-in function get_author_posts_url (https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-activitypub/blob/ad691bc4888c21d1977cc3c349c9b737d77f4009/includes/rest/class-webfinger.php#L73)

So I'm guessing that ProfileGrid somewhere intercepts that function call and rewrites it to use its own profile link.

I don't think you can tell the ActivityPub plugin to use a different link.

Do you make use of the ProfileGrid profile pages? If not, perhaps you could look to see if there's a setting in ProfileGrid to turn them off.

@Flophouse_Sam @pfefferle

Ah yeah I *think* Profile Grid is probably the issue then.

If you look at the result from webfinger for the profile identifier - ( https://www.theflophouse.co.uk/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:FLOPHOUSE@www.theflophouse.co.uk ) it says your profile being at https://www.theflophouse.co.uk/my-profile/?uid=13

which is indeed behind a login. I think the ActivityPub plugin is expecting to find the standard WP author page so it can do some processing on it.

So for it to work the webfinger should really be giving this as the profile page: https://www.theflophouse.co.uk/author/FLOPHOUSE/

@Flophouse_Sam @pfefferle The equivalent of this page, basically: https://doubleloop.net/author/neil/ - mainly just trying to find the name of the user you are searching for from Mastodon, then I can help debug. (Also, what is displayed in the Fediverse / Profile identifier section of your user profile?)

@Flophouse_Sam @pfefferle No probs! It could possibly be related to the author page being being a log in - as you'll see in my blog post, I had an issue where the Yoast plugin had deactivated my author page.

It's only guesswork from me though, I don't know the ins and outs of the plugin.

Out of interest, what's your blog address and author page?

@Floppy If only the world used OpenStructures, the answer would always be yes! https://openstructures.net/

You can see in the video the reason for the argument that if you're stuck at the bottom of the pile, you'll take whatever slim possibility of change is on offer.

The galling thing is though is that the hardline Tories couldn't give less of a shit about the people who need the change the most. It's criminal of them to pretend they speak for the people.

If you look at Wigan (my hometown) it's part of the picture of why Labour's never taken a strong leave or remain stance. Wigan's been a safe Labour seat since 1918 but voted 64% for Brexit.

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=y4uIC0AwD68