Notices by Wim ???? (wim_v12e@octodon.social), page 4

季節が終わる前に あなたの空を 流れる雲を 深く眠る前に あなたの声を 忘れないようにKYOTO (JUDY AND MARY)#京都 #photography #japan

@kensanata It is definitely a mismatch between usage models, which I suppose translates to expectations. I am on fedi mostly to engage with people and to post pictures ???? . But I am also here to learn. And for learning, blog posts are great. But most people are not here to learn. A lot of people don't even seem to be here to engage, or they engage in a very different way.

@toneji

@kensanata @toneji

For me personally, I can't see a better alternative though. I don't think anyone is subscribed to my RSS feed, and the chance of anyone finding my blog via a direct search is vanishingly small. So I just post and hope ???? . After all, even when my posts sink like a stone, I still like fedi.

@toneji Indeed, and that is what I do. But to get readers, people must know about my blog. So I post about my new articles on #fedi.

My observation is that these posts reach very few people, because the cross section is low.

@toneji Thank you for the invitation. But matrix is real-time, so the information cross section will be even lower than on #fedi. I think it is a great way to interact with people, but to share information with a lot of people I think a slower moving medium is needed.

Unfortunately #fedi is rather ill-suited to my main mode of communication, which is to share information. The loss rate is much too high. Or more accurately, the cross section (Wirkungsquerschnitt) for the post-reader interaction is too low.

I could off course try to increase the luminosity but that would conflict with the sentiment in my previous post.

Here is my updated guide for running #pleroma v2.2.1 on a Raspberry Pi 3

https://github.com/wimvanderbauwhede/limited-systems/wiki/Pleroma-on-the-Raspberry-Pi-3

#raspberrypi

I wish you all a Happy New Year!

@toneji I have to use a dictionary for some of the words, for example 筋道 and こだわり and a few more. In Firefox there is a dictionary plugin that makes it easier.

@toneji とねぢさんは哲人ですね。

@toneji Thank you. Have you read it?

I set myself the task of creating a textual version of low-res GIF of the original Japanese version of the Nobel lecture of Yasunari Kawabata.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1968/kawabata/25542-yasunari-kawabata-nobel-lecture-1968/

It takes of course ages but is very instructive.

I came across another very compact Japanese word, a Buddhist term "onri" or "enri", 厭離, meaning "Departing from this world in disdain."

厭 means "to get tired of, to dislike"離 means separation

And it's done! The entire original Japanese text of the Nobel lecture of Yasunari Kawabata in HTML, complete with furigana and a different font for the quotes.

I'll publish it tomorrow.

Now I can actually start to read it in Japanese. And then I can write an article about it.

If you are interested in the performance of #rakulang, I wrote an article about my experiences with optimising an expression parser in Raku.#programming

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/writing-faster-raku/

Glasgow tower blocks, from last Saturday's walk.#photography #fediart

The same tower blocks but from a different angle, further along the walk. I quite like the low sun this time of the year, even though it means the days are very short.#photography #fediart

@toneji I like kaki too! I don't know Hike, is it a place?

歴史は面白い：

富山県南砺市の真宗寺院・大福寺の太田浩史住職によると、福島県相馬市の民家の庭にある渋柿の約8割が「蓮如柿」「加賀柿」「富山柿」と呼ばれる蜂谷柿の一種なのだそうです。東日本大震災の少し前までは南相馬市の晩秋でも軒先にこれらの干し柿が一面に吊るされた光景が見られたといい、それらは江戸時代に北陸からの移民「入り百姓」がこの地へもたらしたものでした。

　1780年代、浅間山の噴火や世界的な冷害により天明の大飢饉が起こると、白河藩や笠間、宍戸藩、相馬中村藩など北関東の諸藩が行った施策の一つが「入り百姓」と呼ばれる国内で完結する移民政策でした。移民のほとんどは加賀藩や越後因幡の真宗門徒だったといいます。北陸は戦国時代からの人口爆発の地ですが、加賀藩などは江戸時代の初めにはもう既に利用できる平地という平地を水田に開発し尽くしてしまっており、千枚田なんてものまで出来ていた時代でした。その中で加賀に住む次男・三男家族などは開墾すべき新しい土地をどこかに探さなければならないわけです。

I found this on the site of a Shin Buddhist temple, because of something I read about a type of persimmon in Yu Miri's Tokyo Ueno Station.

And that got me to read "The Politics of Migration in Tokugawa Japan: The Eastward Expansion of Shin Buddhism" byDrixler, Fabian, The Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 42 (1) – Feb 14, 2016

tl;dr: Why the old gardens in Soma on the East coast of Japan have kaki from Kaga on the West coast.Because the Shin Buddhist monks brought them with them.

I know I can't expect many people besides me to be interested in such trivia, but to my mind it is amazing how the type of tree in a garden can have such ramifications into stories of poverty, migration, politics and religion.

Well, here is a kaki tree from Kyoto, and that is quite another story. They are ripe in this season, and I would dearly love to be there now.