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@notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
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experiments in online gardening

permacomputing, mycology, queer poetry

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notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
sometimes feels like silicon valley has never read wittgenstein

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304
screenshot of paper "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models"
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
from october 6th
October 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
i made a thing with some other people and im not entirely sure how to explain it but the website tries to do that

https://gateway.commoninternet.net/
image of logo of gateway co-op infamous slide of ssl added and removed here meme
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
if you can say “tailscale funnel and cloudflare tunnel” five times fast, without thinking of the edward snowden “ssl added and removed here!” meme, then you don’t need gateway co-op

https://gateway.commoninternet.net
an image of the gateway co-op logo of a gateway image of the infamous ssl added and removed here slide (source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ssl-added-and-removed-here)
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
mastodon probably also wants to see this https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f
screenshot of llm destroying database and explaining it afterwards
July 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
for reasons I don't yet understand, it appears my home server network traffic increased by around 5x on 5-28-25 after pretty consistently being ~1gb per day before then

may need to start breaking this down by domain somehow to actually understand this (output of vnstat -d)
output of vnstat showing network taffic by day
June 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
excited to share the third round of class projects from solidarity infrastructures: from local archives of neighborhood street art, to an rfc for maintenance dinners, to a self-hosted signal directory, and many other experiments and reflections on servers and […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
screenshot of website showing class links to class projects
June 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
screenshot of search in progress
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
always a lover of the accidental intermediary stages of things in the process of making them
screenshot of lichen-markdown UI showing the background of a web page weirdly repeated many times screenshot of solidarity infrsastructures website with Miete? nein danke. repeated many times
May 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
the year is 2025, perhaps surprisingly im still in patchwork, connecting to a little private network of pubs through various tunnels

-- more explanation coming soon
screenshot of patchwork connecting to two different pubs
May 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
@liaizon so the site is made with lichen-markdown, and @chillygorilly.bsky.social and I share a login to the admin interface. so we can both add and edit pages. we sometimes chat about it, or just spontaneously add things and tell the other. so far just the two of us, but thinking to grow
screenshot of flowers.commoninternet admin interface
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
this release also includes the ability to rename files and folders (spent some time making it look pretty)
April 5, 2025 at 9:28 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
I was looking back at the beloved "How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?" (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website/) and I'm having trouble understanding the table where they list "Embodied energy in oil […]

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Table showing embodied energy in oil equivalents (L / year) and carbon emissions (kg / year) for different solar setups*
March 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
working at a cafe, channeling inspiration from older person i saw shamelessly playing starcraft with a mouse at the public library ten years ago
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
a lot going on in this page from "gay berlin: birthplace of a modern identity" by robert beachy
February 27, 2025 at 8:30 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
this thread could be seen as an argument towards more solutions like @cblgh social-norms-based crdt-replacement idea
screenshot of cblgh interface where "you pass the word" between authors
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
weird computer thing:

(my tiny version of uncovering the xz exploit)

while looking into a very specific bug in lichen-markdown, encountered a weird thing in inspector where stylesheet link was being replaced with this weird string that mentions […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
January 21, 2025 at 9:33 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
recurring relevance in different waves

https://xkcd.com/743/
xkcd comic 743 https://xkcd.com/743/
January 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
> The Resilience Journal uses the idea of data-tracking as an objective tool for holding space for illness. The data is neither good or bad, it just… is. I wanted to show to myself and others that living with chronic illness/ disability is not always something […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
image of resilience journal image of page of resiilience journal showing notes and data visualization in a circular format
January 2, 2025 at 4:47 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
somehow used ncspot for months assuming you had to use keyboard shortcuts and there was no mouse interaction ... then yesterday realized you could use the mouse and was happy about it lol
screenshot of memory footprint of ncspot and spotify ncspot: 46m spotify: 1000mb
December 29, 2024 at 7:24 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
excited to share that lichen-markdown is now in the yunohost application catalog ⚙️ 🌿

https://apps.yunohost.org/app/lichenmarkdown
screenshot of lichen-markdown installation page in yunohost screenshot of lichenmarkdown_ynh github readme which shows its CI testing score of level 7
December 7, 2024 at 7:51 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
🌿
meme that says "catch me in the zoom call with my camerra: off mic: off computer: off"
December 5, 2024 at 5:11 AM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
according to this fifty year calendar, in 48 years, in 2052, the calendar year will be the same as 2024, and november 5th will also be a tuesday and also an election day assuming the continuation of the current us election cycle
Image of small circular 50 year calendar
November 6, 2024 at 1:00 AM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
flyer for "narrative constellations" flyer for "drawing data by hand" flyer for "the browser is already a game engine" flyer for "relational reconstructions"
October 29, 2024 at 7:51 PM
notplants.sunbeam.city.ap.brid.gy
the new round of sfpc class for winter '25 is out now, classes are from january 12 to march 27

https://sfpc.study/sessions/winter-25

* Narrative Constellations: Exploring Choice, Time, and Location-based Storytelling

* Relational Reconstructions

* Drawing […]

[Original post on sunbeam.city]
image of a cd with the names of the different sfpc teachers around it image of a cd cover for sfpc winter 25 class graphic flyer flyer for "gift interfaces" class flyer for "solidarity infrastructures" class
October 29, 2024 at 7:50 PM