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Np @samhunter, thx for watering mine frequently! I just go through most dry plants whenever I login and check if I know some username, if not, I water random one.
Regaining momentum after a longish break from online activities (the meaningful ones at least) is hard.
At the moment I'm just trying to water my plant on astrobotany (ngl it would wilt without @deerbard's help, thanks, buddy!) and keep the software I wrote and made public running and patched.
Writing anything new? No, not yet.
Hazy mood.
Tinylog-space is silent!
I've disabled nerdtree plugin for vim. It's funny, but I don't need it and the most time I've been switching it off.
No power to write. No time to think. Anxiety lurks all the time. Hope it will change sooner than later.
gemini://drewdevault.com/2021/11/20/Dark-forest.gmi
I had two attempts to read The Three-Body Problem, I'm preparing for the third one. ;-)
This is happen again. There is so many toots in my home timeline that I wasn't able to process them through passing week. I tried to read and filter most interesting discussion but ergonomic of use of every client is so poor in that aspect, that I failed. Now, during morning Saturday's espresso, listening favourite radio program in the background, I carefully read every toot on #gopher and #gemini tags in my CLI client. It's calming. I am thinking of the best way of rederict some activity from Mastodon to Tinylog, but the real truth is that above tags are so interesting that I want to be on Mastodon for them. Tinylog cant' replace it.
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide
"I don't want to become some huge bodybuilder freak, I just want to get in better shape and look better. Should I read this?
That's what this guide is for. It's a basic guide to diet and fitness for beginners who want to get in better shape. "
Liam Rosen
https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
@szczezuja: That's why I ask. I can't water two plants no matter if I waterde mine or not already. I used to water plants of those who I knew from elsewhere, like you but since I use Amfora I can't search by name so I just check plants in worst health and water one of them. Yours is never there :) Sometimes I scroll quite a lot but you must water your plant pretty regularly.
@deerbard: I have just watered my plant (about 90%) and one other. Sometimes I am watering only two others, if my plant isn’t dry. I am choosing top wilting (flowering) plants, from community garden. It could be month of my Astrobotany experiment, but only one or two people watered my plant in reward. ;-)
Just found my Astrobotany plant nearly dead. Means gemini gardeners changed behaviour. Btw @szczezuja did you once say you water more than one plant of others at once? I can only water one and then I need to wait before I can do it again. Never checked how long I need to wait.
In response for my:
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-11-13-How-you-were-using-the-Internet.gmi
I've got today:
gemini://gerikson.com/gemlog/srs-bzns/My-early-years-online.gmi
gemini://taoetc.org/re_how_you_were_using_the_internet_in_the_1991-1995_and_1995-2005/index.gmi
Thanks a lot!
In response for my:
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-11-13-How-you-were-using-the-Internet.gmi
I've got today:
gemini://alexschroeder.ch/page/2021-11-14%20The%20early%20years%20on%20the%20net
https://idiomdrottning.org/objects/2d59d065-ff5a-4c2e-8f14-08803df768f0
`Surfing on the Internet : a nethead's adventure on-line` by Herz, J. C. (1995)
`Masters of deception: The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace` by Slatalla, Michelle (1995)
gemini://tilde.team/~tomasino/journal/20211103-making-gemini-easy.gmi
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-11_re-making-gemini-easy.gmi
This is a thought-provoking and insightful podcast filled with deep thinking about #crypto #NFT #DAO and the future of #Web3
The Tim Ferriss Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlNDYMNJ5zQ
https://leanpub.com/the-tao-of-tmux/read
Geminispace Statistics Visualized
gemini://botond.online/en/stats/uris.png
If someone has problems with accessing flounder.online by sshfs or sftp, there were RSA key change, and sometimes that commands are giving misleading error messages.
Almost finished with calendars. Waiting for orders till this Sunday and I close this thing once again. Once again just for few friends and one person from internet who decided to buy. I don't know why I put so much effort into it. It's just something I love to do regardless of me being payed for it or not. Every year I doubt I'll do it next year and every year I do it again. I'm proud of the two calendars I made this year. Looking good.
Long-tailed widowbird and red-collared widowbird #birding #photo
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Товарищ Пинг опубликовал пост, очень хорошо совпадащий с моими ощущениями последних дней.
Inktober was fun and once again I reminded myself how much I like free doodling in my sketchbook. Every year I fail to make a habit out of it. Not sure why it is so. Maybe I should plan it more instead of just expecting it to happen.
This time I uploaded to my one pic gallery a WIP of one of my illustrations for this years calendar.
It's funny, that sometimes I have more fun to read Bongusta than Antenna:
gopher://i-logout.cz/1/bongusta
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/index.gmi
Do you remember my Gopher's archaeology, there was also Archie. And Archie is still alive.
"[...] run by University of Warsaw's
Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling [...]"
It's closer than I might think. About 10km from me now. So I can almost touch the 30 years old technology by my hand. ;-)
Hey retro computers and smallnet enthusiasts. Oscar winning Dune screenwriter Eric Roth banged out the screenplay using the MS-DOS.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/10/26/221223/the-dune-screenplay-was-written-in-ms-dos
Hello League of Legends deamon, my old friend. You didn't whisper into my ear for a long time. What doing of mine summoned you now? I don't want you here.
У Conotox родился новый трек. Мне нравится :)
Перенёс большинство репозиториев на собственный Gogs: https://git.phreedom.club, для пущего контроля и снижения нагрузки на сервисы товарища Попугая (которому большое спасибо).
Обнаружил крайне интересный проект - Solar Protocol. Суть: сеть мелких серверов, живущих от солнечной панели и аккумулятора, хостящих весь контент. Сервер, на который направляет клиента, выбирается в зависимости от того, куда солнце даёт больше энергии в данный момент и расстояния до клиента.
Re: @Reaton
Inspiring. Reminded me I want less social media daily.
Re: @Szczezuja
I was watching Chopin Competition with my daughter and I had the same thoughts! Cameras where everywhere! Watching artists from every possible angle. I almost expexted to see another one from pianist's perspective and then another one from within his guts! I didn't need so many of them, I felt like I, the watcher, am a source of a distraction to the artist. It would be totally fine to have a camera or twowatching them from a distance, I could still see better on my monitor than people in the audience! This is one of these many situations where an illusion of progress occurs.
According to previous topic. I was watching First Prize-Winners' Concert of 18th Chopin Competition on my TV and I thought that in today's times orchestra must be prepared for video streaming. They aren't hidden behind music, and dark of the scene. They are sitting in front of me sitting on couch. I can see every hair, every freckle, crease on clothing. Sometimes progress could be literally distracting. The same concert on 80's TV receiver would give them some more intimacy and space for music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMP5qgci6_E
I like Chopin's music, I try to review many standards. I love Mozart's Requiem, I love Vivaldi's Four Seasons, but whole compositions of Chopin are unique. His music is specific, and instantly recognizable. It is not surprising that the Japanese are so interested in his music.
I've noticed that is some sort of tech-romantic answer to my "Gopher's questions", which I was asking. It isn't important how Gopher was like. It had been deleted so should be forgotten for ages. Internet Archive isn't the proper answer.
Finally, the stagit-gemini is available.
https://git.milotier.net/git/stagit-gemini/file/README.html
I've put my repos on Geminispace:
I've disconnected from social interactions on Internet for a month and it has been pretty cool. I have had less anxiety during this month 😊
New ink drawing in my rolling one pic gallery
Dzień dobry!
morning was so beautiful it made me write (in Polish).
@Toby
Checked first seconds of the video and stopped. First - it's not true, 99% of what I see on social media is art, not beautiful people and their lives. It's his problem he follows people who upload such content. Second - his video is made in a manner that is a part of the problem. It's made in a way so it's distractive, loud and quickly changing, I get really tired by watching videos like this.
@szczezuja
I might but first I already don't have enough time for the Telegram thing (plus I also upload on Mastodon) and I'm obliged to use as little space on RTC as I can. I could upload one picture in low quality though, as I already tried with my drawings. So yeah, time factor mostly...
This is an amazingly well produced, must-watch video about the influence of technology in our lives. #socialmedia #echochambers #isolation #chaos #surveillance
Mrwhosetheboss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZvee3-PEzo
Принял решение вернуться в ряды вегетерианцев. Первое время оставлю эпизодическое потребление рыбы, чтоб не шокировать организм, но диету уже пересмотрел.
@deerbard: I don't use Telegram. But maybe it's good idea to start such activity on Gemini? My whole photo equipment is packed in drawer since years. I am doing only everyday family photos. Some time ago, when I had much free time, I was thinking about going into some film medium format system.
@szczezuja and every other person interested in photography: If you use Telegram, maybe you'd like to join my little black and white photography challenge from time to time? It's all about making these ten minutes somewhere during few days after somebody proposes a topic, finding an interesting take and posting it to the group. You can find it by handle BlackWhite_Photography and it's called BW Photo Collective. It's a bit quiet these days but it's not dead for sure and a lot of fun with new topics is still ahead of us.
"You're Not Addicted to Your Phone. You're Just Distracted."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwFZC8sepU
There were some discussion on Fediverse about absence of Solderpunk but he start to write. He must be photography enthusiast because he responded to the same post I had response some time ago.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/smartphones-vs-real-cameras.gmi
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-06-18-Re-smartphone-camera.gmi
I am writing on #Gemini mainly. But there is some magic to read that fixed length lines of #Gopher, with all ASCII-art decorations synchronized with layout of the whole article. It isn’t possible on Gemini. It’s good and bad the same time.
gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/0/phlog/2021/20211004
@bacardi55: Yes, I was interesting in generating pages for Git repository on Gemini. Because it's stupid that we publish our projects about Gemini on WWW. And I've found Gmnigit/Stagit. Gmnigit has lack of advanced features, and didn't work with my repo (I'm must check this again). Before this I'd ha idea that I will improve Stagit. But I'm in shortage of free time for doing such big things now.
I updated info about my calendars. Caaalendars, caaalendars, anyone? :D (Is it a first advertisment in gemini? Oh on I just spoiled this pure world hahaha)
Integration of twtxt and mutt.
Пользуясь началом отпуска и однодневным отъездом семейства, отдыхаю. Выкатил дневниковый пост в глоге, посмотрел пучок научпопа, и даже начал восстанавливать по крупицам один старый-престарый проектик. Авось, чего и выйдет.
Ах да, и сервер перевёл с Molly Brown обратно на Jetforce — у Молли CGI как-то странно работает, ломается гостевая.
I'd like to write about my Astrobotany routine. I try to check everyday my plant, I'm watering if is it required. If I have water for watering other plants I explore community garden, and plants sorted by health section. I am watering one, or two plants and pick up some flower in return. I'm doing this for probably two weeks, every day - it could be more than 20-30 plants. After you have watered other plants the owner can see it on their status. But I think that nobody has watered my plant in return. ;-)
As I have written, I'm doing very minimalistic approach of Geminispace existence. I have time only for watering my plant on Astrobotany, and Antenna aggregator. But today is Saturday, so I have some more time to do additional things here.
I have tried to organise my XMPP/Jabber presence and configure mcabber.
I looked in mcabber's source:
https://github.com/McKael/mcabber/blob/master/mcabber/mcabber/xmpp_muc.c
and found `settings_opt_get_int("muc_print_status");` line. Yep, of course I forgot about `~/.mcabber/mcabberrc`. I've put `set muc_print_status = 0` for `do not display joining/leaving members`. It was irritating. Finally I can see whole conversation at my MUC. It's great to has ability of reading sourcecode. Mcabber it's written in C, so it's inspiring to see old-school style app.
I also joined to `geminauts@chat.kwiecien.us` - there are about 40 Geminispace users, nice.
Nicholas from Nicksphere does a great job at providing a clear preview of his logs content. Just look at it. Read time and a summary!
You're right, Szczezuja. And I thought of it after I wrote my log :) Fall's come and we all have less time. Normal modern life thing.
To answer Deerbard and say that's everything ok. I haven't found time to write here in last days. My work and home routine have been taking too much time, and are no time left for Geminispace.
It isn't mean that I would abandon Tinylogs.
As Deerbard mentioned I also noticed less activity in know Tinylog base. Bacardi55 has been also complaining for lack of free time. Maybe it's because end of summer holiday time?
Tiny logs space seem to got more quiet recently. Not that much happening here anymore it seems. Maybe it's just temporary? Or maybe it's whole gemini already passed it's pick of interest from people? My astrobotany plant is not being watered that quickly anymore even if it stays dry for a day or two.
To get my digital vaccine certificate for covid-19, I have to use a government website protected by Google Recaptcha 🤦 This hits me particularly hard since I evade Google tracking, so I get forced into doing free labour to help Google train their self-driving cars. It's infuriating. Why don't they just implement a simple rate-limit if they are worried about bots?
Just started a "rolling one pic gallery" in my ART log. Let's see if I remember to change it from time to time :)
Lace stopped working for me just today. Any other lace users still there?
edit: It actually works but take an awful load of time. Just checked and it loaded after 9 minutes :D
Re: @bacardi55 Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:24 CEST
If it doesn't work, what I found is I have to use pen and paper, no computer tool worked in a long run. I use bullet journal for a year now, no other tool worked for so long.
"The Single Most Productive Thing You Can Do" #sleep #productivity
Grace B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PP90uBF_cU
Busy time comes yet again. Calendars making. I never found a way to monetize this outside of few friends and family members circle but I have so much passion for it I just can't avoid doing it. Exciting times!
bombadillo is the best terminal gemini (and gopher, finger, maybe telnet?) client IMO. It has many things amfora/astronaut/av98 doesn't have, just that I wish it could have custom colors.
This season of Formula 1 is the best I've ever watched. If you're not watching, you're missing out. The next Netflix "Drive to survive" is going to be epic!
So true: There's still no beating "git push heroku" for deployment. #devops
Changelog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTV437JsiXg
vim-magit is amazing, but when commit triggers gpg's passphrase prompt it seems very very unresponsive. really weird and annoying. lucky I could go to another repo, enter the commit + enter passphrase without magit successfully so that in magit I can just commit and it won't prompt the passphrase.
Next interesting article from Lettuce.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lettuce/computer-systems-social-networks.gmi
I *just* discovered that gitea is actually written in go (wow).
And I thought codeberg was gitea's official/public instance? Apparently there's also gitea.com which has around as many (maybe less) users/repos on there.
I also found a command line tool for gitea
Doesn't feel as polished and pretty as github cli 😛
But still, how did I not know these before? damn I always thought it was written in ruby
Re: @bacardi55 Fri 24 Sep 2021 17:57 CEST
Thanks, you're right, sometime a break is needed. Have a nice evening
pipe the output of a (supported) command into it and it will give you a json output which can be easily used in scripts like with jq.
I haven't seen any alternatives for this before, as in apart from using shell utils like cut, sed, head/tail, awk, etc.
On a brief look it seems that it supports around 70 commands
Examples:
$ ls -l /usr/bin | jc --ls -p -r
[
{
"filename": "apropos",
"link_to": "whatis",
"flags": "lrwxrwxrwx.",
"links": "1",
"owner": "root",
"group": "root",
"size": "6",
"date": "Aug 15 10:53"
},
{
"filename": "arch",
"flags": "-rwxr-xr-x.",
"links": "1",
"owner": "root",
"group": "root",
"size": "33080",
"date": "Aug 19 23:25"
},
...
]
$ w | jc --w -p
[
{
"user": "root",
"tty": "tty1",
"from": null,
"login_at": "07:49",
"idle": "1:15m",
"jcpu": "0.00s",
"pcpu": "0.00s",
"what": "-bash"
},
...
]
holy smokes! gotta change my `online` script now 😱
Hi, everybody. I'm so sorry to not be present on gemini universe this moment. I don't manage to conciliate professionnal and personnal activities. I hope it will change next days. Take care of you :hug:
mew and mew. life is few. life is far. mew and mar.
Посмотрел сериал "Кликбейт" и в восторге. По качеству сюжета это близко к первому сезону "Настоящего Детектива" — развязку не осилил предсказать до самого конца.
Making drugs for children sweet is an act of malevolence. Change my mind.
Re: @ﾘ Reaton Tue 21 Sep 2021 23:33 CEST
Nice! Glad to hear and it's such a nice feeling I actually helped you find it. I was pretty sure our little tinylog world is way too small for it to be something new to anybody here but I turned out to be wrong :)
RE: @deerbard Sat 18 Sep 2021 15:32 CEST
Autumn mixtapes are out on Konpeito! :)
Wow! This is so cool! I really like to listen to music like this when I'm working so this is perfect! Thanks for sharing. :D
I believe in Linux success, but I'm also iOS user. Using Apple's closed ecosystem for someone might run counter to that. But there is some interesting project on iOS.
Discovered by Lettuce.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lettuce/iphone-portable-terminal.gmi
"The Discovery That Transformed Pi" on YouTube
sooo cool!
I can't wait to program this out with code and build cool stuff with pascal triangle, pi graphed out and things like that
Caught up on the Dresden Files series writte by Jim Butcher. Highly recommended if you've got some time and you're looking for a book. Started Steven King's On Writing. Also excellent.
As Deerbard mentioned `Fall 2021` mixtape is published at Konpeito. It's second mixtape I know on Geminispace, the second is Solderpunk's one. I have a while to listen them. Konpeito provide its tape in easier form, it isn't necessary to browse manually Youtube.
gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/zine/issue002/solderpunk_circumlunar-mixtape-002.gmi
started reading a lot of novels this week, completely forgot how i enjoyed them... haven't read novels properly for like a year a more
Book recommendation: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. #novel #fiction #scifi #space
Project Hail Mary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary
Today I learned that in copy&paste mode of tmux you can use search command. Such things aren't possible in graphical window managers!
https://superuser.com/questions/196060/selecting-text-in-tmux-copy-mode
I finally installed some plugins for my vim... Why didn't I made it sooner? useless therefore essential. 😄
Уже пару лет не пишу стихов, но нашёл и выложил в Gemini архив того, что написал за предыдущие годы — вдруг кому понравится (и вдруг мне снова приспичит писать)...
Today is gemini day. I finally added links to my capsule.
places I like in gemini (still lacks all capsules links)
Autumn mixtapes are out on Konpeito! :)
Re: @lykso Fri 17 Sep 2021 20:14 UTC
Just a strange thing to do IMO to give such name. It's aiming low.
If you like exploring bandcamp, there's this Firefox plugin maybe you didn't know about called Volume Control for Bandcamp Player. Yes, it adds that missing functionality to bandcamp. I have no idea why it's not there by default.
p.s. @sloum if you're reading here, thx for this Martina Topley Bird album you wrote about in your gemlog. Perfect mood.
@Szczezuja
My loose, late night foughts on why I use gemini that I posted in responce to your log
Did you ever think about why is Discord named this way? Is it me or is the meaning of it rather negative?
Re: @lykso@lyk.so Sun 12 Sep 2021 17:53 UTC
Just noticed your log, thanks a bunch! Will try to share more often here.
Almost, Gopher VR in VR ;-)
Oh oh oh, and because we can swallow any window into VR now, we can
run gopherVR in VR! Finally - all dreams come true eventually :)
gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/0/phlog/2021/20210512
dysphoria sucks balls
I'm so mad at myself, I just completely deleted at least 3GB of older works of mine instead of backing them up. And I am not even fully sure what they all were. Was there something important among them? Was there any commissioned work etc? So stressing.
I am the clueless grandma type user in the beautiful world of gemini. Beware, I'm coming to ask questions you won't even understand.
Новый интересный проект от Drew:
visurf is a work-in-progress frontend for Netsurf:
- vi-inspired keybindings
- Minimal, lightweight interface
- Wayland only
Re: @cyberwolf@byzoni.org 2021-09-10 13:03 MSK
Товарищ, а художественную литературу не приемлешь? Или в список добавил только техническое?
(толже чтоль завести списочек...)
Привёл tinylog в соответствие со стандартом:
Выкатил подборку годных ссылок. Дополнения принимаются в гостевой и на почте
I've put project.gmi file because sometimes I forget what I was planning. I will complete this list, when I recall all my ideas for the future.
gemini://szczezuja.space/project.gmi
Eleventh creature sketch done, good. At least this part of the projects progress look promising.
My first computer was C=, a chicken head as I found today.
:amoeba: /n./ Humorous term for the Commodore Amiga personal
computer.
:chicken head: /n./ [Commodore] The Commodore Business
Machines logo, which strongly resembles a poultry part. Rendered
in ASCII as `C='. With the arguable exception of the Amiga (see
{amoeba}), Commodore's machines are notoriously crocky little
{bitty box}es (see also {PETSCII}). Thus, this usage may owe
something to Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?" (the basis for the movie "Blade Runner"; the
novel is now sold under that title), in which a `chickenhead' is
a mutant with below-average intelligence.
gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/ascii/c/jargon/jargon-4.0.0.dos.txt
Good read about limited resources feature by @szczezuja
Развивающиеся пространства порождают интересные вещи. Сим имею предложить вашему вниманию
Antenna: пассивный агрегатор контента.
Суть в следующем: в противовес привычным агрегаторам, теребящим RSS/Atom или gmisub, Antenna, дабы не создавать лишней нагрузки и не засирать сеть запросами к мёртвым ресурсам(равно как и базу списками мертвецов), проверяет изменения только от заведомо живых лент — чтоб триггернуть проверку, владелец ресурса должен дёрнуть специальный запрос на агрегаторе.
В условиях нынешнего Gemini эта модель пока работает прекрасно.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
You can consider me the last person who wouldn't like to try something new, but `fish` is an eleven-foot pole case for me (that's a pole I keep for touching things I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole).
I tried to use it, years ago, and I am still slightly appaled.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
Fish seems like a terrible shell
how so? I agree that it isn't posix compliant and can't directly type in shell scripts, but I really can't survive without fish. The auto suggestions and auto complete is really smart and colorful. It even tells me if a command is not found before I hit enter. Those things can probably be achieved with plugins from oh my zsh/bash but requires less (or no) set up. I also think that the completion, configuration and environment variables are easier.
The default bash AFAIK only lists out the possible completions when you hit tab twice, but in fish you hit tab once and it lists out the possible completions AND allows you to tab through to select one. Fish's built-in commands (and 3rd party ones if they support it) also allows you to see the description of each completions which is an amazing way of learning a tool without having to dig through the docs.
For example, when I type `git a` and hit tab, it lists 3 entries of command completion and shows you what the command does next to each of them:
~ $ git a<tab> add (Add file contents to the index) archive (Create an archive of files from a named tree) apply (Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree)
Just to add to Solene's post, you don't need to type ctrl e to confirm a suggestion, the right arrow key would work and is easier to type IMO.
RE: @deerbard Tue 07 Sep 2021 09:44 CEST
Congratulations @Reaton!
Thanks a lot!
Thank you, @samhunter! For both trying it out and the compliment)
Re: @deerbard Sep 7 12:12:02 PM CEST 2021
I could download it. Quite cool, the creature...
First test ever putting an image to gemini space. It's the first (January) creature for my 2022 calendar. Can you confirm it's downloadable?
small and compressed but it's here
Congratulations @Reaton!
I received another email responding to deerlog (my gemlog) entry. Feels good. I am in a good place. I am so happy I started this. This is the most genuine social interaction I got from internet since... ever? Maybe. Good morning everyone!
RE: @bacardi55 Mon 06 Sep 2021 18:05 CEST
Congratz!!
Thanks, I am so happy right now!
I am officially accepted into the school I wanted to go to!
RE: @bacardi55 Mon 06 Sep 2021 09:08 CEST
When are the results expected? 🤞
They've just tweeted something so I guess it's for today *stressed* :D
RE: @deerbard Sat 04 Sep 2021 10:17 CEST
Welcome back @Reaton, good luck with the school!
Thanks a lot!
listening to it now, great album
Welcome back @Reaton, good luck with the school!
Waiting for the results to know if I'm accepted in the school I'm aiming for is unbearable (especially since the staff rickroll us lmao)
Finally back online! My CPL decided to die when I was +700km away from it...
I find Windows font rendering as gross as anybody else does, but if your article about cool typography on the Web is completely unreadable on a default Windows install and a 1080p display, maybe you should rethink your message
August projects report is late but is published in my capsule. I write it just for myself so it's only in Polish but I publish it cause I need it to be a bit more official. Just for me meaning the only purpose is that it helps me but everyone can read it and write me about it, kick my lazy ass or just ask about something. I like that pressure.
-= Meteogram for Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland =-
'C Rain (mm)
22
20 ===^^^^^^===
18 =--===
16 ---
14 =-----
12--- ^^^
10 ^^^^^^^^^---
8 ------------------=--
6
4
20 21 22 23 03/09 02 03 04 05_06_07_08_09_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17 Hour
NW NW NW NW NW NW W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W W Wind dir.
2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 6 7 6 6 5 Wind(m/s)
Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Thunder # Fog
Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow
Interesting articles about Finger protocol.
discovered the marginalia search engine today via this post
was pleasantly surprised by searching for "game boy battery" that my personal website is already in there somehow sitting at the top of the list! this is a really neat project and I hope to use it more over time
big font sizes are trendy, but sometimes it feels like the trendy minimum font size is one that can be read by people walking past your outside-facing window
2021 is such a nice number, 2022 looks kinda ugly for some reason ;-;
paralympics was pretty cool!
Cannot connect to nightfall.city. I get 'connection refused'.
thinking about how many static web site generators are out there and yet the only one I actually want to use is a 25-line shell script I wrote ten years ago
Enjoying my fresh new gemini experience with Amfora. So far I'm very glad I decided to migrate to this browser. The only con is that I cannot search for words as in web browsers (I could in Kristall) but I can finally open sound files and what's most important subscribe to capsules and actually see the feed!
2021-08-25T05:36:49Z I'm planning to include "gemini tinylogs" on the twtxt page on Antenna. As soon as I have the time and energy for it. (https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc)
:-)
Do you know that Lagrange is also supporting Finger protocol? Nice.
finger://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/
Snyder's Guidelines For Good Gophering
8. When you take information from the Internet, remember that
you owe a debt to those who made it available. Repay your debt
by making your own contribution. Ask your local Gopher master;
he or she will probably be happy to accept a donation of time to
help organize, update, index, and improve the system.
Сменил gemini-сервер. Теперь живём на Molly Brown - очень понравился конфиг и то, что написано на Go.
gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/The_WELL_Gopher.txt
gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/The_death_of_WELLgopher.txt
gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Gopher_Jewels_Tour.txt
of Gopher Jewels
gopher://cyber.dabamos.de:70/0/gopher/articles/Gopher_Jewels_Closing.txt
8.4. SOME INTERESTING GOPHERS
MUSIC
mtv.com Run by Adam Curry, an MTV video jock, this site
has music news and Curry's daily "Cybersleaze"
celebrity report.
I was afraid that after leaving my job at Calvin in 1993, I might not
be able to get an account which has direct "live" access to the
Internet, and therefore have no more cool gopher access. I expect
that no matter where I live, I'll manage to at least find a service
(free, cheap, or commercial) that will let me send email to Internet
addresses. My GopherMail program lives on an Internet computer, such
as this Sun at Calvin where it started, or the computers at U of Minn,
or maybe someday on every gopher server on the net, and it accepts
email requests from anyone, on or off the Internet. It makes the
gopher connections on the Internet, then it emails the results back to
the person who requested them, to whatever their email address is.
Re: @deerbard Sun 29 Aug 2021 13:35 CEST
I should stop trying to use backquoted preformatted text in my tinylog, I already found a workaround for GTL, but apparently the issue hits harder in "lace"...
Can you imagine the existential fear of a person who knows everything? (just a thought, luckily I am as ignorant as it gets, with lots still to learn).
@samhunter there's an empty re: to me in your tinylog, does it mean a meaningful silence upon my igno
rance? :D
EDIT: it's only empty in lace, thx, I found my way to the config! :)
And solved. Time to copy paste all the subscriptions... (boring part).
Re: @deerbard Sun Aug 29 01:07:10 PM CEST 2021
~/.config/amfora/config.toml [auth.certs] # Client certificates # Set domain name equal to path to client cert # "example.com" = 'mycert.crt' 'astrobotany.mozz.us' = '/home/samhunter/.config/certs/cert.pem'
Hah, found the „help” :) Only certs issue to solve.
Trying to understand Amfora, still can't find any complete instruction on how to use it. I figured how to open and switch tabs but don't know how to delete them. Still have to check if I can migrate my cert from Kristall.
Запущена гостевая книга
Re: @deerbard Wed 25 Aug 2021 17:49 CEST
No, it's *years* since I played chess last time. I kind of lost interest, I guess having to "think ahead" at work all the time doesn't help. And -- I should actually begin with that -- I never was a good player.
I'm tending to my garden today. I don't have an actual garden where I can grow flowers and vegetables and herbs and stuff. One day.
For now, I'm tending to my creative garden by learning how to repair things around the apartment, like the broken convection fan in my oven, or getting the old bike back into working condition.
It's been a couple of month's since my last update. Gotta get back into the rhythm here.
re: @samhunter Tue 24 Aug 2021 12:42 CEST
We lose the context from living in light polluted world. Few minutes of staring at stairy night sky can give it back. Happens so rarely to me...
p.s. I enjoyed your chess variants ideas. Do you play chess on lichess maybe btw?
First time since... two years, maybe even more, I get fully immersed into the book. Happened yesterday and the day before too. I have almost zero time for reading throughout the year. I will finish the first book in this year just this week. This is a somewhat painfull confession but it's just the result of conscious decisions.
I wish emailing was as easy for nontechy folk as creating txt file on your device and sending it to the other person's device. No providers in between, just my inbox on my computer and your inbox on yours.
quebec's vaccine passport app is out today on iOS. it literally just bumps your brightness to max and shows a QR code, and yet it doesn't have the decency to revert you to your previous backlight level when you're done with it. unacceptable
Re: @hexdsl Tue 24 Aug 2021 19:17 BST
teeline -- as in 'shorthand system'?
misread an old 6th edition card as being 2-mana "discard 2, draw 4" and was completely shocked. then I read the card again
Context: Not so important, are you?
# ## you are #### here #### | ##### v , #####--.--o--o---°------(()---(/)---O-----O----------------------------------- ##### '
I guess it's time to stop calling chess a 'strategy game'. It's tactics. You win a battle in chess, not a war. And I guess all the generals that declared any war in the last century a win -- played chess. If chess was a war game the playing should continue after the 'king is defeated' (checkmate). The whites won? Great. Now the whites help blacks rebuild their society. How is the chessboard divided now? Is is still 32 fields for each side? Can a kingless bunch of rooks, lead by a bishop, still try to assasinate the white king?🤔
I can see some variations of the game:
- "German chess" - the losing side divides their side of the board in two, has a small checkers minigame;
- "Polish chess" - after the opening a third side appears on the board and works together with blacks or whites. The losing side never accepts the 'checkmate', at once a king reappears in the different part of the chessboard...;
- "Russian chess" - for every rook killed two new appear, no piece is allowed to retreat;
- "Japanese chess" - there's no particular strategy, all pieces move at once, sacrificing a rook isn't actually optional;
- ... and so on, and so on...
/ \ /
k --- a b --- f
/ \ / \
me --- l i
\ / \ /
j --- c d --- e
\ /
g --- h
Learning to keep tabs on my projects in 'swim' (think "Trello on the commandline"):
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/twtxt.gmi
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/about.gmi
Tinylog format has a new (and old - in the same time) competitor - twtxt.
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
Консольное приложение для работы с tinylog:
Подписываться и читать удобно. При минимальной настройке можно и писать. Этот пост отправлен с его помощью (в ролях также bash, vim и git :-) )
I wrote about [Gopher Manifesto] several days ago, and now this site is down. Gophersphere is volatile.
[Another copy of Gopher Manifesto]
I've written on my gemlog that the Small-net is finite. Today I spotted social media with 2880 limit of users. Some days I figured out that Geddit (Gemini Reddit) is purging inactive posts. The same idea of limits I've seen on some Gopher aggregators, which are now empty because they are inactive for long time but still ready for new content.
@bacardi55 - cont. testing report no. 8:
gemini://szczezuja.space/gtl.png
Re: @bacardi55 Sat 21 Aug 2021 16:16 CEST
you can always check gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io
That's what I do :)
I might have patched the problem 'lace' has with incorrectly formatted dates (or at least I found a good place to do so).
People 'sent' almost 500 messages via gab in the course of the last two weeks. Seeing how much 'life' everybody gets in spite of if -- maybe it's not 'social network' that ruins your lives, but the notifications? ;) [I doubt anyone expects an instant reply in 'gab'...]
Slope has the 'file-append-to', I added a few lines of code to have 'file-read-from' -- for symmetry. To do - 'file-prepend-to' and probably 'file-prepend-at-tag' or something like that for tinylog type files (where all the new content goes between the header and the latest entry)
Refactored much of my dotfiles this week, especially my nvim configuration. There were so much untouched configuration that didn't actually work and I didn't even know xD
github.com/hedyhli/dotfiles (also on sr.ht)
I've started to focus a bit on maintainability and ease of settings up new machines, I wrote some setup scripts and I plan to organize them all and have a `dot` script that can run them on request (instead of having to type out the full path every time). I also plan to make the setup scripts be able to be run more than once, that is even after setting up the first time I can still run them again and again to keep stuff in sync. I've recently used my dotfiles to set up two linux desktops and it was relatively easy to get everything working.
Back to nvim, I've switched to a lua autopairs plugin so that I can get more customization and control in its behaviour (real reason was to fix some really annoying behaviour, see commit log for more info). I'll probably replace lightline (vim) with galaxyline (lua based) next week.
Still trying to get <CR> automatically hide the popup menu :/ and I need to optimize the startup speed a bit more. Once I've done that I'll be able to resume working on my projects :D
@samhuner damn, no I didn't get it. Maybe because I didn't even check the youtube link (and still not checking it now, no time :P) p.s. still one tinylog entry giving error in lace „invalid date ‘Tue 17 Aug 06:22:23 CEST PM CEST’”
A: What are you doing on Friday?
B: I want to buy glasses in the afternoon...
A: And then?...
B: And then... We will see.
(I show myself out)
Watching "A Very Secret Service" on Netflix. The French humour at its best. A bit like Louis de Funès movies. Minus the outright slapstick scenes. "Who won WW2?" "...France?"
tinylog.slo:
[x] Added prompt to the 'editor'
[x] Will skip the header to the first entry (= first line starting with "##")
I had a rather lengthy exchange about the rather inadequate support for Unicode characters on Linux console. What works perfectly in a 'text' terminal emulator gets mangled and partially replaced with white squares on the console. Even in FB mode, with the proper encoding and font loaded -- there's still lots of _actually not so weird shit_ that just can't be displayed properly. Okay, meanwhile, Russian or Polish people are not fucked anyymore when trying to read or write on the console. But I pity you if you're trying to write math formulas. I guess only 2² gets displayed properly, all the rest is simply a square.
"I hope it will get better..." said my interlocutor. I'm thinking and thinking and I just cannot see it. Everybody drifted into the world of graphical interfaces, plus the text console does what it was intended to do -- gives you access to the system on a very close, very basic level. Will we ever see emojis in kernel messages? Well, I hope not, because they won't be properly displayed...
thinking of System 7 Bubble Help. you could just turn it on via the Help menu on old Macs and run your cursor over things to get a text bubble explanation of it
Ever noticed how you grow when something you need isn't available? I guess lack of something is a good impulse to kick our butts out off the consumption circle. And every temporary need creates a permanent value.
@deerbard: I don't think I overdo it. I just don't keep using 'you' or their nicknames. Besides: you do realise it's a tongue-in-cheek remark? ;)
Wow it's been a while since I haven't been on Gemini. School is taking all of my time and I'm happy about it but I can't wait to be able to be here more often. Hope everyone's doing good!
@samhuner Actually I find it awkward if somebody says my (or other person's name) often in the conversation. It always sounds like some learned technique, not a natural way of talking and it automatically adds tention/stiffness to the conversation on my side when I notice it.
Woke up to a new time/data functions specification ;-) Format of the timestamp changed slightly, hopefully it doesn't break anything...
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 8:
Aside from being one sexy mofo (ngl - can't breathe from laughing) I managed to enable multiline entries in tinylog.slo. It's not a bad day, overall...
- Always learning ✅
- Relaxed body language ✅
- Mindful during discussions ✅
- Don't check the phone 24/7 ✅
- Don't try to be perfect ✅
- Say their name often ✅
Also: _me_ :rofl:
Being "thrown into deep water" at the very beginning of a new job has its advantages. I'm in a training, level 'advanced', for a system I didn't know at all a few months ago, and I do not feel too dumb for it. The feeling of being an impostor is actually a good thing. Keeps you on your toes. If I only had so much fun learning back then, at school ;)
Changed the date format in tinylog.slo. Let's see how it works. Thanks @deerbard for pointing it out (I didn't know I'm under surveillance now ;-) )...
Пересмотрел своё отношение к финансам. Позакрывал все кредитки, меняю подход к инвестированию. Никаких больше спекуляций (всё равно не умею) - буду делать себе раннюю пенсию.
In case someone needs to fold text after 60th column ;-) ->
(for-each (lambda (line) (display line)(newline)) (regex-find ".\{60}[^ ]* *|.*$" Long))
<- Yes. That's pretty much all. 'Long' is a variable holding the long text line you want to fold...
„Language has made us more than a group of pack hunting monkeys. It's made us a group of pack hunting monkeys with a dream” - Terence McKenna
Gemini client in six-ish lines of code? nice :) #slope
So, it happened. I didn't expect the first slope script I _might_ use regularly would be a tinylog updater. The gab client (gaby) is already at a quite advanced development stage (minus a necessary rewrite to replace my /etc/passwd hack with a much more standard and efficient fileglob), but wrapping a oneliner I already had in some file updating logic wasn't particularly complex. So here we are. An update from inside a slope script...
Re: @szczezuja Mon 16 Aug 2021 21:18 CEST
Yeah my humor also lives in daily little putting things into absurd and showing their abstract nature. The not telling jokes part interested me too. I now think it's because internet posts took this part from out social life. You want jokes? Just scroll down some meme feed. As for the rest of the aspects, I don't think there's any negative aspect about having some parts of life established and ritualized. In fact it gives us more time to explore the new unknowns. You can be open your whole life while having more and more stuff put (temporarily but this can be forever if no need to touch it) in the comfort zone.
I realized my fourth generation Astrobotany plant might be the one I was waiting for to keep it forever. Well, forever. Big words. But I'm not harvesting it as the first plant there. It might stay, I feel. I like you „rare fractal yellow seed-bearing moss named One Cross Each”. I wonder if anyone got the reference for my plants' names by the way.
After years of avoiding?/neglecting?/not finding use for? Scheme I took a deep dive into a "locally developed" Scheme's dialect - 'slope'. It's really refreshing to take a different approach to solving problems. I am actually amazed how deep has the basic syntax of the language embossed itself in my mind. I must admit -- every time I start a new project in Python -- I have a moment of hesitation -- "how exactly am I going to make it run?". Nothing like that with Scheme. For example - I've noticed slope has a for-each expression, and (I tested it at some point) it works exactly as your intuition tells you, but doing a "loop" using recursion felt so natural. Why is it so? And why am I "at home" with Scheme, but somehow cannot stand Lisp? Questions ;)
Slope is a 'for fun' project. You didn't believe the world needs another language? Another interpreted language? Another interpreted language with lots of parens? Good. That would be a weird assumption. Sloum writes it for fun, because he can. And, kind of as a side effect -- a working, slick and fast tool was created. I did some timing, comparing a standard program running here (written in Python) with my less-than-masterfully crafted bootleg version of it.
$ time ./gab.slo -c test >/dev/null >>> real 0m0.012s|user 0m0.001s|sys 0m0.011s $ time gab -c test > /dev/null >>> real 0m0.066s|user 0m0.054s|sys 0m0.010s
Not bad for a 'toy' language, huh?
@bacardi55 samhunter's tinylog is not included in gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/
It's gemini://rawtext.club/~samhunter/tinylog.gmi
Finally pretty damn sure that the barely-remembered old bell the intro The Beauty and the Beast rang in me is Le carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns. One of my earliest musical experiences, but long buried except for a sense of glassy sounds radiating into darkness…
Tonight's Gemini updates:
Some leftover pixel art from my Amiga days collected in one image.
Untitled German poem in German
Re: @deerbard Sun 15 Aug 2021 17:06 CEST
In my opinion I have sense of humour and I like abstract way of thinking. But I never could telling jokes. Despite this, it isn't stopping me from seek people for commenting reality in such abstract manner. The results are deplorable when someone has no sense of humor. Dangerous when you find the right person. ;-)
For the rest of mentioned aging symptoms - yes, it's popular comfort zone. I like my comfort zone. I like my style of clothing. I like my favourite meals and cuisine. I like my music. I like watching the same films (I watched all series of The Sopranos more than five times etc.).
But... I'm Geminispace. So sometimes I bend my rules, a little.
I was writing about Internet Archive project for Gopher and WWW. I spotted two links for Gemini:
Statistics on the Gemini space
what a wild day: a dunkey video is on the front page of hacker news
I talked with a stranger. Why do people hesitate so much? Postpone stuff indefinitely. Don't call, don't text. Don't outline that story or essay, don't fill the gaps. Don't learn that song, don't lookup that information. When did everybody become so apathetic?
I read Amer's blog post about mental aging.
gemini://amer.pollux.casa/blog/mental-aging.gmi
Quite some time ago I noticed I mentally aged in one aspect not mentioned by Amer. I lost a lot of my sense of humor. Since this discovery I made a conscious effort to make it better and with good results I think but... I still don't know any jokes anymore. And nobody I know tell jokes. I live in a joke desert. For long years. I don't mean situational, improvised funny things, but these little stories you tell same way every time. Is that also true in your bubbles?
From the blurb:
"/Using Gopher/ helps users master the essential basics of Gopher. Before the world wend World Wide Web crazy, Gopher was being used by thousands of sites to efficiently deliver valuable information resources to their users. This book covers Gopher's operational background, basics and beyond"
D. Alan Cunningham
Principal Engineer
NASA Spacelink Project
Interesting article about Gopher. On the 4th illustration the graph of packets transferred per protocols (FTP, WWW, Gopher). Second half of 1994 and first half of 1995 was period when WWW overtook Gopher and FTP. On my Gemlog I mentioned Gopher archive from 2000s and it's interesting what were happening in Gophersphere during this 5-10 years.
Today I have time for Gemini, I realized plan to write something longer and I fixed alternate texts on my ASCII arts.
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-07-03-Small-net.gmi
@bacardi55: You are also absent for two weeks. Vacations time! ;-)
@adele@pollux.casa: Are you abandon tinylog? Or moved somewhere else?
Have you noticed that backlinks on Geminispace.info had been fixed. :-)
I feel so incapable of doing/tackling/starting/accomplishing anything I could cry, except I can't seem to do that either anymore
Открыл для себя шикарного фотографа — Екатерину Кирьянову
Time to walk the walk - today's snapshot of the zeitgeist on the server -- who would expect that?
- 5 yummy! :P
- 1 disgusting :$
- 1 A pizza is a pizza :D
A bit less of a surprise here, though -- we're definitely the vi(m) crew here...
4 vim
2 vi
1 sam
1 ed
1 chalk
1 acme
Harvested my first astrobotany plant. Farewell, Abigail! Hello, Abigail. Now growing at 1.2x speed.
missing the glory days of populated flickr group
New quickie thing about successfully faking a wallpaper when using Kwin without Plasma.
gemini://anjune.lol/mkc/kwin-standalone.gmi
Remember my "Gopher Novice" posts? I've read article as below [1] and noticed that maybe I'm already "Gopher Adequate" [2]. ;-)
Lagrange support Gemini and, what it's new for me, Gopher protocol. Nice.
https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
I kind of love-hate the simplicity of Plan9 editors. From one point of view they're strictly following the tenets of Unix - "one job, but well done". An editor isn't a mail client, web browser, file manager... They're not syntax highlighter either... They're heavily depending on mouse. Or mouse chordings, combined with keyboad operations. They probably work great with mouse held in right hand (what I, as a lefty, don't do).
Still prefer the "impure" versions:
A great set of patches bringing acme into XXI century. A must have in my opinion.
[1]It looks great and I would love to use it, but for some reasons it refuses to react to my mouse-clicks.
Something new on Geminispace.
Wordtunneler - Find a path from one word to another, changing one letter at a time.
[Repost from Mastodon to QBasic's game `Gorillas` screenshot] It was so different from today’s time. Computer has programming language build into OS and attractive open source game to inspire people new possibilities. You can play and after a while in natural way go into the code. Look how it’s working, and how to do first own computer game. Today’s new programmers don’t want to code games, they code “my first” MVC and micro services pattern POC.
Started a new project:
A personal assistant for the RTC shell
I must admit, some pieces of code I (re-)write make me proud, even if it's basically just snipping on the existing code.
diff --git a/files/update.cpp b/files/update.cpp
index 773dbc6..6fdfd4b 100644
--- a/files/update.cpp
+++ b/files/update.cpp
@@ -37,23 +37,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
current_mission.ships[i].x += dx[i];
// Check if there is a change of status
for (int i = 0; i < current_mission.nfleet; i++) {
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_LEG1 &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_LEG1]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_MISSION;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_MISSION &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_MISSION]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_LEG2;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_LEG2 &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_LEG2]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_DONE;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_DONE) {
current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
+ } else if ( (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[current_mission.ships[i].status]) {
+ current_mission.ships[i].status++;
+ current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
}
}
Whenever I correct a mistake and reupload a .gmi file to my capsule, do my sunscribers get a new notification? I hope not. And if yes, should I correct files in some other way?
Не расстаюсь с новой игрушкой. Очень доволен приобретением:
MNT Reform2: распаковка и первые впечатления
So in Amfora you can use certs I understand, now how about copying them to another devices. You'd have to update amfora's config file on every device separately every time you add a new domain to it on one device. Am I missing something? How would you tackle this so it's most covinient to use amfora in more than one device? Is it possible to migrate amfora certs to Ariane (Android client)?
Added -t (user template) to poll. Now everyone can create their own polls/questionnaires.
Finally took the time to work on my website:
https://hedy.tilde.cafe (also on gemini)
still using hugo as the SSG, kiln didn't have as much features that I need from hugo, and bashblog just isn't good enough, feels simple but really not organised and stuff.
Re-wrote CSS based on a few inspirations:
I intend it to be not too barebones, and definetly not brutalist design, should look somewhat modern, but should have some accessibility features and simplicity to it. I've set the margin-left for blockquotes to 0 to make it look better in small screens, and kept the nav bar and footer simple. I've checked that it looks ok in reader mode and terminal browsers.
Many people who have minimalist-styled css websites have font-family be brwser default, but (not sure if it's just me) but if browser default is used all the apostrophes take such a huge space and makes it look very awkward. So I've set the font-family to a sans-serif stack (with sans-serif as the last fallback).
I've also gotten syntax highlighting to work in code blocks with different theme for light mode and dark mode. I'm not sure if screen readers will have a good time parsing code blocks and making sure they're formatted right, but I keep on improve it as I write more posts.
Special thanks to seirdy's post on website best practices
gemini://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.gmi
The post is a bit opinionated but I've tried to keep with those best-practices where I can tolerate. The css source is minified and dumped into <style> tags, so no extra requests via <link>. No favicon at the moment, since I'm still figuring out what favicon I should use. No fancy animations or over-the-top colors. My link-hover styles might be a bit extra, but it looks really good when the underline is gone and highlight is up on mouse over.
There is absolutely no javascript or scripting, it's fully static, except maybe a few CGI scripts that I rarely use?
I've also mirrored all of my gemlog posts on hedy.smol.pub to hedy.tilde.cafe.
I'll write new gemlog posts from ~cafe now :D If you've subscribed to my smol.pub gemlog, I'd love it if you could change the feed url to:
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/feed.xml
Thanks!!
I'll probably move my tinylog/journal to there as well, in the future.
Still figuring out what I should do with my flounder site when I'm mostly done with my site (apart from content, content, content). The fact that I can just make a simple edit online is the one thing that keeps me using flounder, but it has plenty of limitations: css, gopher, more file types, CGI, ssh/rsync deploy, etc.
I also plan to have it on tor but doing that would be after I've done everything I've said above.
In regards to comments, I'll probably go with the "email to public mailing list route" plus webmentions. webmentions is one of the things that I'll definetly want to have. For gemini comments, I may setup the CGI gemini likes/comments systems in the future, but I don't really feel like that's the best solution...
If you have any feedback or suggestions, I'm happy to hear about it! Just trying to find the best middleground between absolute brutalist/minimalist and simplistic-but-modern aesthetics here.
Freshly created linkulator files of a new user caused a false positive, because linkulator change detection used simple mtime check. It's fixed now. Because the script has to read the last line of the linkulator.data file the timing slightly increased (~260-270ish now).
Changed the checking method for all 'folder based' services: recent.py dives (one level so far) into them and returns mtime of the newest file (was the folder itself before).
I'm using seven years old laptop and I have recent version of OS, with security patches from from the previous week. It's MacBook Air and macOS Big Sur 11.5.1.
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-04-21-Re-Apple.gmi
That was quick, approximately 30 minutes from a vague idea to implementation. And it's simple - just a text file with an obvious markup, extendable and completely under control of the user (as it should be on RTC).
$ poll -l editor What editors do you use? geek4hire Programmer, looking for project os What's your primary operating system? sodapop Pepsi or Coke?
So far only a couple of polls, and not-yet-decentralised (I'm working on it), but already usable. Due to the methodology behind it (files in users' HOMEs) not really a democracy tool (voting is far from anonymous), but I hope it'll find some use here. Or not...
What editors do you use? (mark the ones you use frequently, you can add others, just keep the file clean) [x] vi [x] vim [ ] emacs [ ] nano [ ] joe [x] ed [x] sam [x] acme
A weirdo as myself cannot just do the stuff in awk(1) and move on...
Both oneliners:
+ filter out the "comment lines" beginning with "##"
+ create an entry for every first word of remaining lines in an associative array/hash
+ output a list of unique usernames
tmp $ time awk '!/^##/{a[$1]++}END{for(u in a){print u}}' online.log | sort > online.a
real 0m0.013s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.003s
tmp $ time { unset -v 'q'; declare -A q; while read -r a b ; do [[ "$a" =~ ^##$ ]] || q[$a]="x" ; done < online.log; printf "%s\n" ${!q[@]} ;} | sort > online.s
real 0m0.152s
user 0m0.105s
sys 0m0.045s
tmp $ diff online.a online.s
tme $
Fun ;)
<EOL>
My tinylog lace feed got quiet. My gemreader refuses to work. Backlinks seems to work sometimes and sometimes not. Feels like losing this tiny little connection to other smolnet users. I'm looking forward to any good news about this.
«Выпуск товаров разрешён, таможенные платежи уплачены». Моя прелесссть едет ко мне...
Прислали счёт за растаможку MNT Reform и работу таможенного брокера (у меня аллергия на бюрократию — проще заплатить профессионалу). Суммарно почти 20К рублей из-за зверской пошлины. Включил ждуна и очень надеюсь, что всё будет хорошо и быстро.
Вчера в 10 утра по дороге на тренировку обнаружил, наверное, с десяток автономных единиц алконавтов — каждый с початой полторашкой пивасика. Интересно, как покажет себя сгеодняшний день ВДВ...
Meh, can't make mps work anyway.
Learned about tmux just recently. I'n not a programmer, I wish I had more reasons to use it :D Let's see. Oh! So you can play youtube videos in terminal using something called mps-youtube? Perfect! One question if smebody knows - can Youtube track me if I use it like this?
@szczezuja if backlings are buggy, communication over gemlog replies is not as good idea as it looked like. For me also gemreader doesn't work, I don't get feed from I don't know how many capsules. That means I'm back to manually checking every capsule that I saved whenever I feel like ckecking it. It may takes months before I see an interesting post or a reply to me, or I can miss it completely. Now this is a slow internet indeed :D
Re: @deerbard Sat 31 Jul 2021 22:04 CEST
Backlinks doesn't want to look favorably at my capsule. You can look at address as below, it's empty.
gemini://geminispace.info/backlinks?szczezuja.space
Bacardi55's lost capsule on 7th issue of smolZINE.
Вдохновившись примером Drew и bacardi55, решил опробовать формат tinylog. Здесь будут короткие заметки в стиле Mastodon/Twitter. Многобуквенное продолжит периодически появляться в основном глоге.
"A practical philosophy of health, wealth and happiness"
Happiness
@szczezuja I tried backlinks with the only backlink to my capsule I know, your reply to my art manifesto and it worked. Does it work for you again?
I'm also looking for the best Gemini sever implementation. ;-)
Today I realized that I'm bored with Mastodon (micro-blogging?). I'm looking at timeline everyday, because in January I discovered there information about Geminispace. So I suppose that I can find there something interesting again. But the true is that more interesting things can be found on Geminispace and Gophersphere. Less time consuming is looking at Antenna, some Tinylogs and Phlogs, and following people here in other forms.
I'm reading `Schismatrix` by Bruce Sterling. I've been inspired by zaibatsu.circumlunar.space backstory theme and I enjoy it. I'm not a specialist of sci-fi books. My favourite book of sci-fi genre are probably Frank Herbert's `Dune`. World created by Sterling could drive your mind in the same way like Herbert's one.
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/universe/faq.txt
Re: @bacardi55 Tue 27 Jul 2021 23:39 CEST
Thanks for include my suggestions into gtl. :-) I'm looking forward for alpha-2.
ATTN: If you are currently making a sitcom about roommates, please don't end it with everyone moving out and/or getting married. That's just sad, to see everything dissolve.
Surely, the mother of all unboxing videos: unboxing a quantum computer!
IBM Quantum System One assembled in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPMY4oP3Qgk
Does it bother anyone else on this planet to see SOCAL, OB/GYN or COVID when it should be SoCal, Ob/Gyn and CoViD? At all? Never mind MAC (for the computer).
I forgot about Cosmic Voyage. Have no time to catch up with it but I'll leave the tab opened. For some reason gemreader doesn't want to give me feed from it.
I licenced my page under CC BY-SA 4.0. Don't know why would anyone want to use any of my writing but it was better to be done now then change all the files in future.
Re: @bacardi55 Sun 25 Jul 2021 22:48 CEST
I'm using some light color scheme for terminal I `gtl` looks like bellow.
gemini://szczezuja.space/1.png
gemini://szczezuja.space/2.png
Re: @bacardi55 Sun 25 Jul 2021 22:48 CEST
I'm thinking about preparing text for copying by "system" mechanism rather than copying text inside `gtl` by its internal mechanism. Internal mechanism need some dependencies, for example to `xclip` and complicate whole design of `gtl`. For me the best solution is `toot tui` approach.
I tried to record some screencast.
1. I started at 5th tab at `vim` window;
2. I changed it to 4th tab with `toot tui`;
3. I choose one of the toots in my timeline with several links;
4. "Status links" dialog is helper for browsing several links, which could be mixed inside toot with some text;
5. "Status links" dialog provide also functionality of opening link by system browser - it works for `lynx` browser, but unfortunately it doesn't work for `amfora` ...
6. ... but I can use "system" mechanism for copying text, I am using `tmux` and I pressed C-[, and navigate to start of text, space, enter, I changed to 5th and pressed C-] for pasting. I copied text to 5th tab, into `vim`;
And it's all possible inside `gtl`, without `xclip`, but structure of information inside `gtl` window doesn't help to do so. Text is placed on the whole screen, not inside smaller dialog, and the active cursor is set on the last column and last line of active window. Because there are no smaller dialog, active window is far away from text I'd like to copy. And I need to move cursor to this point.
So I suggest dialog likei below:
========= Reply stub =========
[ ## <sysdate> ]
[ => <reflink> Re: <refdate> ]
==============================
[Ok] [Cancel]
When after pressing [Ok] gtl could try to run `xclip`, but everybody who don't have `xclip` would also easy copy text from textarea and press [Cancel].
This week was not productive artistically but I'm very happy my capsule is up and alive finally. Anyways, 4th generation plant is now born out of Shoe Follower (last plant) in my Astrobotany Garden. It's name is One Cross Each.
you can water it if you're around :)
http://karl-voit.at/2021/07/23/emacs-lock-in
Forgot to clarify. You can now follow all my logs by just subscribing to
No need to subscribing too all: general, art and relogs if you want to get them all in your feed anyway. Sorry for the changes, I'm still figuring out how to manage this all.
I recently discovered the Coc plugin for vim, which brings VSCode-like smarts to vim. I can finally use #vim full-time instead of #VSCode, which has become bloated and slow over time. Coc has a marketplace with a large breadth of language support. In a like-for-like comparison, vim uses 500Mb less RAM (including language server) than VSCode for Python or Java editing (with intellisense), and is much faster. I also managed to set up vim for editing and uploading #Arduino and #esp32 code by integrating with PlatformIO.
Conqueror of Completion
https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
Listening to Francisco Tárrega's music played on guitar by Giulio Tampalini. I feel in good place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQz5tGEKwE
Thx to @samhunter my tinylog migrated to my timezone (CEST) :)
I'm currently writing the first guide for #Pirates4Freedom ☠️. It's gonna be about Google alternatives.
Also I'm starting soon my 'piscine' at 42 Paris. I hope that everything will go well :)
@szczezuja thx a lot for checking my log and all your thoughts. I will reply surely, thinking maybe I can do it as Re:log although I now see if I have separate logs, you'd have to subscribe to all of them just to see all my entries so the system I chose is not that perfect... Anyways, what's the problem with link to manifesto in my index? From my side it works just fine and I doublechecked it's correct so I'm confused.
My capsule has changed it's look. Is it for good? gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/index.gmi
Feedback is problematic here, not sure how could anyone respond if he/she wanted to. You can surely write me an email or write at xmpp if you feel like it, both are in my „about” page.
Re: Thu Jul 22 08:13:34 PM UTC 2021
@deerbard: You must correct your link for manifesto at index site. I've corrected it manually and have read it. :-)
My Little Art Manifesto / Mój Mały Manifest Artystyczny
Your manifesto is inspiring. I have three thoughts on it:
My ART log has a first entry now, that is „My Little Art Manifesto” :) Is it finished and stable? I don't know but I decided to let it exist in a space now. gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/index.gmi
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 7:
@bacardi55 Thx for reply. In comitum was that enough that you subscribed to my capsule or did you have to subscribe to every log type separately (what I have to do in gemreader). I should probably just switch to Amfora and get used to it but I like Kristall so much I want to stay with it for now :)
Just for testing: Anyone subscribed to my logs? Did you see that new general log showed up? Again, not asking to read it, just a technical question. edit: asking cause I tried to subscribe to my own capsule in gemreader and it didn't give me any new entry so I guess I'd have to subscribe to every log type separately?
Morning! Listening to KONPEITO Summer 2021 mix tape. It's perfect for work. Only my mind can't focus again. Let's do it. 3..2..1..
A fairly compelling argument for publishing documents as PDF files rather than as HTML pages. #goodread
lab6 Issue 0 (PDF)
The most tempting thing in emacs is swarm of advanced packages, which seems to be superior than that of vim plugins. Vim plugins are great, bu there are in most cases rather like a powerful extension of text editor. Emacs packages are more advanced, and often they are like standalone utilities embedded into mechanic of editor environment.
Via: "Old Computer Challenge Wrapup" by jmcbray@carcosa.net
In Emacs, I used:
* mu4e – For email.
* Gnus – For actual, NNTP-based Usenet
* org-mode – For scheduling, planning, and note-taking.
* org-roam – For additional note-taking.
* elpher – For Gopher and Gemini
* eww – For most of my web browsing.
made a bash script to bump versions with git tag yesterday. It's working well and suits my needs:
shltag - source code in my dotfiles repo on git.sr.ht (also on tildegit and gh)
shltag = shortlog + tag
puts git shortlog output into signed annotated tag.
I know this exists but I think it does a bit too much, lol.
semver by drew devault - git.sr.ht
I've also finally finished adding config file support as well as per user directory serving to spsrv. (not going to put a link here, because I feel like I'm self plugging to much. Go to sr.ht/~hedy or tildegit.org/hedy to find the source code). It's not very stable yet I think, so I haven't documented the stuff in the readme yet.
I have been taking notes the links (some HTTP, Gemini and Gopher). Now I'm using bookmarks in Amfora, and Comitium (Gemini) and Lynx (HTTP and Gopher) browsers. But I realized that it's too much notes, and in to many places. Is there any good bookmarking tool for linux, which could handle many protocols. It'd be great to set something like below for Gemini, and Gopher. I don't now how people are configure this in multi-protocol for (small and big) web browsing.
$ update-alternatives --get-selections | grep www-browser www-browser auto /usr/bin/lynx
Started working on formulation of my little art manifesto with as much emphasis on „my” and „little” as on „art” itself. My very subjective feeling of things, nothing more. I feel like I need it.
New content on Gemini about Gemini space project, that real one.
I feel like watching something I didn't watch for half of my life. Nothing will happen cause I've got not time but I wonder if it would stand a test of time. Just an evening thought.
I started to learn Russian, I'll give updates here about my learning journey. (Mostly for the sake of staying motivated haha)
RE: @szczezuja Wed 14 Jul 2021 18:36 CEST
I really need to try emacs but I'm afraid of its controls. I think I'm a bit too much used to vim :$
I've installed Emacs-nox, Spacemacs config for Emacs and Elpher.
$ du -sh ~/.emacs.d 146M /home/michalus/.emacs.d
;-)
Because global warming era is approaching, and last weeks temperature is always about 30 Celsius degrees we should use light terminals, in text-mode, and do all of heavy computing on the server side. Otherwise, the computer fan heats up our room additionally. ;-)
Decided to start over :D
It's nice that I can still "harvest" my plant even though it's dead, lol. Not sure if that's a bug.
I just realized my plant on astrobotany had died :O
It's pity that I might not ever be able to have another levitating plant again. Wondering whether I should keep it like that for posterity or I should start over.
@bacardi55 laced with the strict option does that. By default the resulting file is stored in the lace config directory but the script can be modified to store it in another location. I setup laced to run as a cron job and edited the program to save the resulting file in my gem document folder of my server. So I read tiny blogs using Amfora. gemini://frrobert.net/lace.gmi Lace and laced are at https://gitlab.com/frrobert2/lace
I blogged about how I create audiobooks from epubs and the like, using text-to-speech.
Creating audiobooks
https://tobykurien.com/creating-audiobooks/
The most unsuccessful part of my come back to CLI is XMPP/Jabber. I am so disappointed with Profanity IM, and I am so disappointed with my XMPP server, which seems to reset several times during the day - what Profanity write in console for several lines each time. It's the most of informations in Profanity's console.
The Geminispace and Gophersphere are intersect in the most interesting points of both. Users which are active in first, are the most propably also active in the second.
finished simple script in python that converts my journal format to tinylog format. the script isn't commented well so oof, bad luck to the future me :/
it has a single loop that goes over each line of this file and scraps the dates and content, I also have a header.gmi, so I have this:
python3 genfeed.py | cat header.gmi - > tinylog.gmi
I then I simply upload the tinylog.gmi to flounder, that's it! really simple
just to be a little bit lazy, I made a bash script wrapper that downloads my journal, my current tinylog.gmi, and checks if changes before uploading to flounder.
I think about doing something simple but for antenna in the future:
As I wrote on gemlog, and today on Mastodon. I am wondering what was the source of migration people to so simplified web apps. When I look at reminders in, for example, Google Calendar, and reminder command [...] it’s light years gap.
it keeps raining ugh
working on a spartan client and server, written in go
discovered spartan in february or march this year, can't remember (wrote in entry in this journal, you can flip back :D) and I've wanted to make a CLI/TUI client since then but I was busy with other things. I even registered #spartan on irc.tilde.chat but no one came (of course, since no one talked about it) then I just left the channel and forgot all about it. It wasn't until this wee or last week when I noticed #spartan channel was registered again (by g1n) so I decided to join, and oh! 6 people, huh that's interesting. I guess that's might be because it was mentioned a few times in #gemini (when discussing mercury).
anyway, now that I have a tiny little bit more free time than before (and have started learning go since), I've decided to make some spartan software. It really really easy to get the to work after forking some gemini software, lots of things to change, but still. note that they both probably has bugs, but they work fine when I was testing it, so feel free to use them but don't be surprised when coming across incomplete features and bugs :)
here are the source code, both in golang. (all my repos are hosted on https://sr.ht/~hedy too)
sparte - CLI client (like curl/wget/gemget but much, much simpler as of now)
I'm also planning to make a server framework, a TUI client, and I'm also adding spartan support to gelim (my interactive gemini client).
I'm devastated! But it does look interesting.
Today I discovered that gtl, running through Blink.sh on my iPhone, could be navigated by touching a screen. So I can activate feeds on Subscription pane by touching individual address. Combined with "s" for hiding pane, creating comfortable way for operating gtl on small screen.
My capsule is finally up. It is simple but it exists and I'm happy for that.
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/
My comfort zone is being out of my comfort zone so I don't feel bad about not being good at what I do.
Mental note. When too relaxed I tend to lose control over procrastination. This is not the first time I noticed that and forgot.
It's third interesting link for today. Every GTA 1 player would say GOURANGA! ;-)
I was looking for the source of Gemini in Gophersphere, and somebody have written everything for me.
Interesting capsule - doesn't work in Amfora.
Back from the forest, I don't need all that flashy internet again. For how long? For not too long, too much goodnes hidden in it and then I quickly get used to it and need to block the excessive compulsive use.
There's a new intrusive thought in my mind tempting me to regard all this surveillance capitalist glitz and clutter as OKAY. they just want to KNOW you and SELL you things. you're less LONELY that way. and they give you all these TOYS to keep you happy and coming back in excchange for knowng more about what a cool person you are. ... I may need saving urgently
Really cool online browser multi-player games to play with colleagues during lunch break:
https://shellshock.io
https://blocktanks.io
https://smashkarts.io
https://sidearms.io
https://krunker.io
Alternate way of sending gemlog to Antenna:
timeout 5 openssl s_client -crlf -quiet -connect "warmedal.se:1965" <<< "gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/submit?szczezuja.space/gemlog/atom.xml"
Re: Wed 07 Jul 2021 18:35 CEST
@bacardi55: There is a "toot tui" for that. But I think that philosophy of Mastodon-like posting doesn't fit into small-net way of life. There are too many boost, likes and chatting there. It's why we have moved here.
"Track changes in /etc with etckeeper"
learning lua and planning to use lua for some configs for neovim.
also looking to replace CoC.nvim with nvim's LSP support.
seirdy's dotfiles - .config/nvim/ - reading his config for reference
nytpu's dotfiles - .config/nvim/ - also reading this - for fun, learning, and reference
I'm also wondering how I should go about having vim and neovim share a same config. Maybe I'll have a my neovim's general.vim smaller, and have vim `source` that or something. Not sure about what I should do about my plugins though.
tildegit.org/hedy/dotfiles (also hosted on sr.ht)
@lykso@lyk.so: Gemini isn't too technical for everyday users. I think that it shows only that people aren't educated in computers. I like some gemlog post (it's in tinylog archive) that Gemini is a good way to teach children how to effectively use old computers (in opposition to buying a new one year after year), and UNIX systems. People can't use computers, they are using only Google, Facebook, and some other webapps. They are knowing lesser than 10-20 years ago.
A collection of awesome things regarding the gemini protocol ecosystem.
I have a problem with running gmnigit (go version mismatch). But this repo should have Gemini version (also with Markdown transferred to Gemtext).
Just wrote my first gemlog! It's about my point of view on online privacy. Tell me what you think of it!
I'm not that used to write article like this so I'll take any criticism and advice! ;)
The offical zine of circumlunar.space
The "Physiological Sigh" provides instant reduction of anxiety and stress and is easy to do, although you shouldn't undo it by resurfacing the anxiety to test if it worked! #neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdhqBGqiMc
I have a DrawIt vim plugin and I won't hesitate to use it! ;-)
feel so bad rn...
theres this super hard math test with all multiple choice questions and the last two questions worth the most marks, but I thought marks are deduct for wrong answers (makes sense, since it's multiple choice), so I left the last two questions blank (can't do them anyway, though I finished all the other questions), and YET... after submitting I realised marks aren't actually deducted for wrong answers and me be like, tf-
well anyway that's fine, the test is finally behind me and like yeah who cares, I mean at least I got all the other questions done soo
NERD_tree reminder to self: use 't' to open file in new tab
RE: 🤔 @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io Fri 02 Jul 2021 17:08 CEST
I've chosen Vipassana method since it seems to be the easiest one to start with. it is mainly based on breathing, which should help to consolidate the concentration required for the other methods. Apart from that, I don't know much about it yet but I will keep my tinylog informed of the benefits if I feel any. :D
Today, for the first time, I tried meditation. Seems cool.
Re: To myself. Sat 19 Jun 2021 09:38:55 PM CEST
I asked: Maybe it is easy to add patch for stagit gemini.
Geminispace answered: Here you are. ;-)
gemini://lapacz-kornel.dev/git/gmnigit/
https://git.sr.ht/~kornellapacz/gmnigit/
ubuntu desktop on raspberry pi runs pretty smooth
not much lag and all
was able to get x11 forward working with git for windows (and vcxsrv)
Re: @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io 2021-06-28 15:45 CEST
Nothing special to display replies. Making threads could be an idea but I haven't code it.
I use lace, don't even track if it was updated. I use it in terminal emulator. I have no highlights, no icons, no fancy stuff, just text. It's my choice but I'm signalling, even with one conversation between two people it's getting really busy, and some logs are not really tiny btw ;) If a need for conversations withing gemini space is inevitable, I'd say maybe there should be a new way for easy communication discovered. Tinylog is not like microblog, where you can send direct messages unvisible to others. I'm not sure how to solve this. Creating new .gmi file for every conversation and asking interested people to subscribe would be too troublesome.
Sampler is an amazing text visualization tool for the terminal. I was able to make a smart-mirror type of dashboard really easily with it. #text #console #dashboard
Sampler
https://github.com/sqshq/sampler
/images/microblog/post-1625207794-0.png
@deerbard: About making chat on tinylog. It's true that too many responses are hard to tracking. But I think that tinylogs are something more dedicated communication in smaller groups. I've written on gemlog about Gophersphere, and Circumlunar Zaibatsu. They base assumption is that they want to build groups of maximum 100-150 users per one server, and federate them in Circumlunar Universe. They also split user group of one server into smaller groups for better socialization. It's based on Dunbar's number theory. And it's opposite to Mastodon, where you handle many followers and toots.
I try to follow every tinylog for now, because there are not so many tinylogs, but in future I probably would organize it.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io: I know, that it's GitHub/Codeberg is more popular, and more powerful tool. But I have been thinking about it, especially about Tinylog RFC, that for Geminispace oriented tools there will be more proper to do all discuss on Geminispace. It will make Geminispace more complete, and self-sufficient. Geminispace need a Git interface, and some workflow for such projects.
Opening tinylog file in vim on my computer gives me empty document, I can only edit it from RTC. Same editor, same file (copied and pasted). Strange.
Following just few people's tinylogs is already bit too much to follow. I saw your mention @szczezuja although mentions here don't do anything special, no notifications etc, so it was almost lost in all the logs that are just part of your dialog with @bacardi55. I think maybe we shouldn't use tinylog for chats? As for gopher, I didn't explore it yet, don't know if I'm interested. Gemini is enough for now I think.
1st of July, very nice.
one month closer to 2022
Todo.txt vs. Org Mode - I used Todo.txt, and I am still afraid of using Emacs. ;-)
There is some new antenna on Geminispace!
Experimental response format is looking nice in browser.
The second pros is that you will see backlink, for example:
https://proxy.flounder.online/geminispace.info/backlinks?lyk.so/tiny.gmi
@lykso@lyk.so: You can use tmux, and copy&paste via: C-A [, spacebar, enter (for copying) and C-A ] (for pasting). It's working with gtl.
Re: Wed 30 Jun 2021 09:07 CEST
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io: Me the same. I discovered that I'm bored with Fediverse, discussion there is in the most cases without any point (interface isn't supporting long discussion, everything is mixed up, and I am losting responses). And I also don't have any other social account.
BTW I try to use experimental Re: syntax for Tinylog. ;-)
@deerbard: On the rawtext.club you have also gopher server, so you can put Gemini capsule, and Gopher hole at once.
Today I'm getting very nostalgic and thinking about places I visited in my life. I want to revisit them, I want to visit more places. I can't afford and it's too long like this already.
How come I still don't have a capsule working. This needs to change.
Gopher vs. Gemini, we are YouTubers on hyped protocol, and we will vanish. ;-)
this is quite interesting:
a quiz with a bunch of questions asking what would be the output of some "wtf" things in javascript. (such as how `NaN === NaN` is false)
despite it being a bit... controversial? as in like people say these are just a small part of the language and it's define this way, I think it's fun to have a look at the answers and try not to run into these situations when writing JS. I mean, almost (?) all programming languages have weird bits, such as the weirdness in python listed in this repo:
https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
Archaeology:
I've been browsing Gophersphere. I searched Veronica for "why gopher" term. There are many results on phlogs, and many personal posts about it.
"Web, Gopher still remains relevant. -- Cameron Kaiser"
Pubnix History Project (Gophersphere).
"noauto,x-systemd.automount" is just the best for network shares in fstab. no delaying the boot process by waiting for wi-fi to become available, but silently automounted when first accessed! thanks to whatever I read to learn of that… already forgot
I've read about Gopher "The Circumlunar Universe" based on Schismatrix by Bruce Sterling.
Sorting lines in vim - V for "visual mode", select lines to sort, and do ":sort" function.
Archaeology:
The gopher lawn - "Categorize the interesting part of the gopherspace."
found some cool software by simon ser:
IRC bouncer (pounce exists, I know)
simple CLI side-by-side diff viewer (diff-so-fancy exists, I know)
wsl 2 is quite unstable... it broke my network driver and stuff (may not be due to wsl only but it could be).
since I refuse join windows insider program I have to use an X server to run linux GUI programs with wsl. used vcxsrv, installation and launch super smooth, worked on first try, everything good but my network and stuff broken so I had to completely uninstall wsl 2. (I actually ended up completely resetting my laptop. in conclusion, windows meh, mac os ok, linux good :P
I think I'd rather run a linux VM in windows than wsl. idk really, I mean I could even just work on my raspberry pi or something
Re: @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io 2021-06-21 00:26 CEST
I've made some change in Pollux.casa cockpit to comply with the tinylog RFC.
About Re format that I test in this entry.
this is quite interesting:
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/item/bin/language-picker
asks you some questions then tells you which languages (out of C, Go, Python, Lisp) would best suit you. Bit opinionated but cool still
Today I learned of lesspipe! How did I not know that…
My study of Gopher is stuck in the same place. Browsing haven't given any answer nor new paths to explore.
I must catch up gemini-tinylog-rfc - there are so many changes, but I haven't had time to read them.
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 6:
I merged the dev branch of lace into the main branch today.
removed as much data (posts, videos, interactions) as possible from my old facebook account and youtube channel, feeling good.
I'm still keeping my youtube account though, because there's some good content in there but I don't watch them much
Some photos from a recent trip to a mountain resort. #photo #trip
/images/microblog/post-1624693415-0.jpg
/images/microblog/post-1624693415-1.jpg
/images/microblog/post-1624693415-2.jpg
Just made some improvements on ergol http proxy style
So many things to do with gemini... but so tired at this moment. Work takes me to much time :-(
This log is made using gtl! @bacardi55 this is really a killing feature!
I think I fell in love with XMPP rather than MATRIX. :-)
"Two-Edge: Rats and Spiders". ElfQuest minific. (Content warning: alludes to physical and emotional child abuse)
gemini://anjune.lol/w/ratsandspiders.gmi
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/anjune.lol/w/ratsandspiders.gmi
this seems interesting
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Spec/AptSign
A Python TUI framework with rich is actually a thing! (wip, but STILL).
people liked rich and they talked about how they want it to be like a full TUI framework... and yep, now it's a thing. looks beautiful, and I'm sure when it becomes stable it will have much better docs then things like urwid
github.com/willmcgugan/textual - TUI for rich
I'm actually quite excited for this, though I haven't looked into the details and APIs yet. I'd love to make a TUI gemini client with textual that looks (almost) as nice as amfora :D
not sure if it's because Will's terminal is better, but stuff made with rich/textual looks nicer than amfora screenshots
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io Great minds think alike. I used to have a bash script to add to my Tinylog but about a week ago I switch to Vim. It is either my Vim addiction or my bad spelling that caused me to switch.
I don't dislike "Visual Novels" on principle. Like text adventures They often have far more interesting and, uh, non-normie stories than the more luxurious video games. But imagine reading a book that has only one sentence per page, with some of the pages containing nothing but “…”. That's what the *gameplay* is like. Goes for dialogue sequences in JRPGs, too. PLEASE. We CAN read more than ten words at a time without needing to click for no reason whatosever. Yes?
I just discovered by accident that Konsole previews colours (RGB triplets and named colours). That's great!
Jirait is a Gemini-based MUSH by Alex Schroeder.
OKCwestions, pt. 2
Q: Should there be stricter laws regulating harassment/bullying online?
A: I don't know what the existing laws are and what would need to be added that'd be specific to it being online. Do we want to force website owners to implement filtering and censorship and abolish pseudonymity? There're so many well-intentioned paths to hell.
Archaeology:
I've been reading content at Solderpunk's site. I spotted post:
Papa's Antisocial Media Manifesto (2018)
and after a year some continuation in post:
Papa's manifesto is also mentioned in post on dbucklin's site:
But, despite above posts are from 2018 mentioned Papa's manifesto isn't available. I searched Veronica without success. Gopher seems to be very volatile. Available is only the last mentioned manifesto:
Archaeology:
Interesting Gopher post from 2019-04-19 on mozz.us/phlog
Rather, from a perspective of "Why is everyone wasting their time on
this?". I can't think of any good reasons for gopher to *need* TLS
connections. Let's be real here
It could be some echo of the Gemini protocol conception, and the official birth witch came two months later.
It's obvious but I found it only now - best tool for browsing Gopher is Lynx. I've add some bookmarks for gopher:// - press "a+l" for adding, and "v" for viewing bookmarks.
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 5:
I start to using more gtl, than lace. A new is coming. ;-)
@bacardi55: That frontend's author gemini site is down, so we can't see his git in that way. But from description it could be that. :-)
I'm going offline for a week or so. Can you make my plant on Astrobotany survive? :) You can find it by my name: deerbard, or it's name: high priest's whistle. See you! Have a nice week!
@bacardi55: I just tested the main branch of gtl and it's really nice! I like the fact that status are to the left now so they're always displayed. The 's' keybinding is really a good idea (thx @szczezuja). One thing that could be interesting is to put at the bottom of the subscriptions tab the way to display the help menu as new users might not know how to do so.
There are many WWW interfaces for Git repositories. There are mainstream GitHub, there are alternative as Codeberg.
There are (some?) Gopher interfaces for Git as well.
But there are no Gemini interface? And for getting a download link of a new release I must go on HTTP or Gopher side.
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 4:
I try to continue digging into Gopher.
I) First part is transformed into gemlog entry;
II) Second part is still open question on Mastodon;
III) Third part the same as above;
...
Today I'm also looking around for some answers, and interesting gopherholes. Maybe I spotted answer for third questions:
* Zine which was published month ago, and try to mention Gemini, and _Gopher_ topics;
* As I found, its author is mieum;
...
Today I also have read good article about Gopher history;
...
I'd like to summarize all information, which I would found, in series of gemlog posts.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io About proxy html to gemini, have a look to
It does'nt work this all pages (sometime crashes) but it could be improved.
Source code (I should push it on codeberg)
Gemiprox works also as real proxy for http in Lagrange
@guillaume@pollux.casa I see you are publishing in your tinylog, that's cool. Some tinylogs to follow if you are interested:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main/Known-tinylogs.md
quite nice indeed
found it from alex's journal
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
Why shouldn't I just use jq?
jq is awesome, and a lot more powerful than gron, but with that power comes complexity. gron aims to make it easier to use the tools you already know, like grep and sed.
gron's primary purpose is to make it easy to find the path to a value in a deeply nested JSON blob when you don't already know the structure; much of jq's power is unlocked only once you know that structure.
whenever I want to use jq I always just happen to forget how to query with it, so everytime I have to dig into the man page... I have like a list of tools/concepts to learn "in the future if I have time" and jq is one of them
I just made a little mix between Tux and My Neighbor Totoro. :) I'm pretty happy about it!
gemini://geminids.ga/resources/tuxtoro.png
I created a simple script to convert my timestamps to the new purposed format. Your mileage may vary https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2136804
I've removed the seconds in date format of tinylog
Somebody fertilized my Astrobotany plant but I didn't get any notification about who did this. Whoever you are, thank you! Although I know it's a small chance you're reading here.
Have a good day everyone :)
@bacardi55 I guess I'm stuck for now as I don't want to change my email addresses again. Maybe I'll just wait until payed protonmail is an option for me. But also it's not obvious to me if there are any privacy focused email providers like protonmail that would also allow imap/smtp. I know tutanota doesn't.
ugh I keep thinking whether I should switch to kiln instead. but atm as far as I know it doesn't support fetching a file from assets/ (say, style.css) minify it, then get the content so it can be dumped in the <style></style>. I guess I still just use hugo then. It looks heavy (heavier than kiln for sure) but it feels fast and light for some reason.
tinylogs are fun
As a stranger in a strange world I am traveling through Gophersphere.
Thought for today - there are much more ASCII-art than in Gemini. There are graphical headings, and (in favour of 80 chars text lines) some graphics inside paragraphs - for example first capitalised letters, which got 3-5 lines of height.
Real baroque of text files.
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 3:
Interesting post about junior developer meeting his boss.
It's interesting to see his junior point of view, and recall from memory my situation then, and now. Young people afraid what the boss could say, bosses afraid what they can hear, and sometimes take much time to prepare what to talk. Feedback could be hard task.
The worst is to meet lazy boss, who don't have time for prepare and don't have anything to communicate. But not many employees are dare to request a real feedback, also not so many want a real one. The most important in company is communication.
d e p r e s s e d
I'd love to use mutt for my personal email but I use protonmail. One day in dostant future I have enough time to lern how to make my own email on my own server. Or not because I learn it's too much of trouble. What are the other options?
Any thoughts on what kind of favicon I should use?
@szczezuja / @bacardi55: Couldn't agree more with bacardi55 on this! The fact of using only the keyboard gives a so pleasant impression of lightness.
@szczezuja I live in tmux before that screen. I use I3 for graphical mode. I usually buy refurbished machines off lease so GNOME is too heavy for me. Also Gnome has a tendency to be like the Borg and assimilate everything on your machine.
Do I have an addiction to Vim if I have configured Lace and Vim so I can read and write microblogs without ever leaving Vim?
If there are any Gopher novice here, I try to get familiar with it. Report of a first clash on my gemlog. ;-) All Gopher masters could send me a backlinks. :-)
@bacardi55, @frrobert: TUI client for tinylogs, and all work of Bacardi55 is inestimable, and it's great job. It will overcome Lace in number of users for sure. But simplicity of 150 sloc script, which do so much is so inspiring. I haven't seen something like it before. And all this, against all folks which are saying that TLS is a big obstacle, in... Bash.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55 I installed gtl last night, very nice. I really like the tui interface. I glad someone else is working on a client than just a bumbly old priest stumbling his way through bash.
@bacardi55: You are right that Mastodon-like solutions, have content which is temporary in its design. It's something like /dev/blah-blah-blah, which is not far from /dev/null ;-)
But I try to organise somewhat this heap.
@frrobert: So we are using the same OS, and it isn't a version mismatch. Now I'm away from my computer so I will check again every commit and I'll send to you a summary what is working, and what isn't.
Previously I thought that uouu's version is the latest so I am using that version, and commit which I wrote in previous post. I wasn't aware that there are normal and dev branch, now I don't remember which I was trying from your Gitlab. I was following by link on your page, I think. And the empty output was the same as in uouu's fork last commit.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io: It's a pleasure to help :) And beyond that, it's a really cool tool so thanks to you for developing it.
The power is back on and frrobert.net is back up and running
@szczezuja I just sent a bug fix to the gitlab repo for an issue I was having. You can see if it makes a difference with your issue
@szczezuja Sorry you are having issues I am using Ubuntu 20.04 so we should be ok there. Are you using the Dev branch https://gitlab.com/frrobert2/lace/-/tree/dev that is the latest? Also are you using lace or laced?
@szczezuja: It's nice to see that they are making efforts directed towards Linux! But I would not say no to a full linux work environment :D (even if I understand that the needs are not necessarily the same when you are a professional).
@bacardi55: I also saw this practice of deleting old tweets and toots. Of course everybody could do whatever want, but for me its has two flaws:
1. Posts who I try to follow have often some informations, which I fav/boost - if everybody would delete content I should before any response quote full for my archive purpose.
2. I like long archives, my Polish blog has archives from 2004. Maybe most of the content is useless, but whole set is more authentic. It shows some evolution of myself, and a real person (event like, it's only online avatar with some self-moderation).
@frrobert: Thanks, I am running a version from uoou's Gitlab and I had must revert from 80316adc to a36052c5 because the last give an empty output. The same is on your last commit. I think that I have all needed commands, and it must be some version mismatch. I am working on 20.04 LTS distribution, so I could have some older version of commands. I will investigate this later.
BTW Thanks for such great utility, it's very inspiring to have so many functionalities in so few source lines.
@bacardi55, @reaton: At work I develop system for Windows user, and some tools are only Windows version. Backend is *unix. Some developers try to use Linux on workstations, it isn't forbidden, but sometimes need an effort to do so. As I said, Windows 10 and Office 365 for corporate user is the best Windows I have been working for years. So it isn't so bad. ;-)
@reaton: Microsoft today is making much work to include some Linux tools and workflows. So you wouldn't be a hostile in Windows world. My firsts warm-up question on recruitment interview is always about Linux and every person who works on it as everyday user has extra point. ;-)
Welcome to my to-watch list, 50 Shades. It is time we met
Yesterday it was third month anniversary of my tinylog.
@bacardi55: Oh, that's so cool! I hope that in my future career, I can use Linux. Because yes, besides the fact that I'm much more productive on Linux, keeping my ethics and values is something really important to me.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io and @adele@pollux.casa I just realized my previous post didn't make sense. what I meant to say to say. Should the Author: header be author: frrobert@frrobert.net and not author: @frrobert@frrobert.net and limit @frrobert to replies? I think that would make search and filering easier.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io and @adele@pollux.casa I know I brought this up before but should we be using @frrobert@frrobert.net as our author value or just frrobert@frrobert.net. Now with lace for search and filtering I let less handle both. Here is my question how do you search for mentions of yourself without getting your posts as results without doing some very strange searches or filter?
@szczezuja Sorry, I didn't see your post till today. The changes I made from the original include the use of PIPESTATUS, pipefail, timeout, wc, grep, and xargs. I think everything except grep is part of standard bash. Lace has always neeed awk and sed. Do you have grep installed?
Drabble? Microfiction? Stream-o-Conch? Something of the sort. Julie, the warden, and I (or me) -- gemini://anjune.lol/w/juliewardeni.gmi
@szczezuja: Oh so I am just a newbie on Linux compared to you since I've only been fully on Linux on my laptop for 2/3 years. :D But yeah, having your tools and workflows change is probably the worst thing (whether you are old or not lol).
@reaton: It's funny, because I was using at home only Linux for about 15 years. I was working on Windows at work for the same time. I am using MacOS for about 5 years. I like Linux, and my home workflow is great (some time ago I was doing much DSLR raw editing on it). I was disappointed also, when I couldn't resolve issues with my WiFi on last kernel update. I praise Windows 10 and full Office 365 license at work, for corporate user this solution is fine. But of course we all know the biggest issues on the Windows side (Git, Docker, package managers, console - which Microsoft try to improve). I also like MacOS for their seamless integration of devices. And I laugh at them about their "amazingness".
And ... I realised that I hate only one thing. Sometimes I too old for changes. And I don't like if my tools and workflows (in every of above OS) are changing. ;-)
2021-06-11 12:30 — thoughts on solderpunk's mercury protocol
I've been thinking about Gemini protocol future (is it just a temporary trend?), and try to analyse opposite side posts about it. There were often links to Mercury protocol, which don't have mandatory TLS. It's interesting summary about it.
Today I helped a friend with his computer, which is on Windows... Now I remember why I love GNU+Linux so much!
@bacardi55: Thanks for adding my tinylog in the Known-tinylogs.md list. :-)
P.S.
And for v0.3.1.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io I just merged Hex's list, yours, and mine. Out of the three I think you are just missing two. The updated list is at gemini://frrobert.net/microblogdirectory.gmi
I want to create a directory of Microblogs/Tiny Logs. If you want to be included in the directory please submit your Timy Log and add the word public at gemini://frrobert.net
@bacardi55 It seems that the TUI is gonna look amazing :)
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 2:
@adele, @frrobert: I have some problem with last versions of lace. Itshows me blank output. It's interesting because fast look at changes don't give any answer, there are nothing big and suspicious.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io Glad to see you are up and running. I know the feeling, my power has gone out twice since I started self hosting Gemini.
@adele@pollux.casa Thanks for the feedback
@frrobert@frrobert.net Cool, your new version of lace works fine !
I like wind. according to my brain (very reliable source indeed), wind is caused by the same process that form mountains and cause earthquakes/tsunamis/etc. (lol that was random and unsurprising but i'm pretty sure true)
Hi @szczezuja o/ !
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io All fixed typo on my part.
Today not too much time for Gemini, I put only a short post and subscribe to new tinylog mentioned by @bacardi55.
After few *hours* of tinkering, ST (simple terminal) finally works. It even can render some emojis (unlike urxvt).
I really need to find a term better than urxvt.
@szczezuja mine is %a, %-d %b %Y, %T %Z and I get UTC in result. Should be CEST. And in Lace I see all the logs with CEST time. Not that it's very important, I just wonder why this happens.
Thanks @bacardi55 :D
Me dummy. Ofc it is UTC, I am using Vim on RTC server, so it's time zone set on the server probably. Thx guys :) @szczezuja @bacardi55 Btw I tried using it on my computer and copy pasting the result but the output of !date was invalid for Lace so I'll probably stick with the way I was doing it.
Just discovered tinylogs. it's such an amazing thing!
@deerbard I'm using ":r! date" in vim for date, with timezone as you can see above. You can see format settings in command line by "locale date_fmt", my is "%a %d %b %Y %r %Z". You can see "man date" that "%Z - alphabetic time zone abbreviation".
Can I make Vim use my timezone for !time command?
Nostalgia feeling while listening to the soundtrack from something I watched 15 years ago. Posting here is more appropriate then social media. Sending this feelings into the void not to be discovered is so similar to exploring the long forgotten past somehow.
some hugo themes are actually really nice and simple, and some of which has no tracking, no js, or no heavy css involved. here's some of my favs:
The work on Tinylog RFC begins.
Now, my tinylog use my time zone instead of UTC !
You're right @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io but adele.work is an alias of adele.pollux.casa and the tool I use automatically put the domain of the hosting platform. Maybe I should redirect adele.work to have a coherant environment and diffuse this address for my tinylog:
gemini://adele.pollux.casa/tinylog.gmi
Gmidiff v1.0-beta was released.
Now it's ready for backlinks detection, it's like Hubble Telescope. The only question is who will want to backlink to my capsule. :-D
@bacardi55, @adele: I will be happy to give you an opinion on draft.
From my side, I would try to make something light. Like our author, avatar, license information. Rather a good practise than an obligatory thing. I spotted some tinylogs with for eg. simplified date format. It's not OK for Gtl, Lace script etc., but it's good for people, who can be less technical than we.
Testing new format for "author" header in tinylog
Have you watched Final Space yet? It's a fantastic little show.
@bacardi55 I also have a n account on
but we can also exchange through a different way (pastebin, etherpad, cryptpad...)
Very good idea @bacardi55 or maybe a simple howto or good practices. RFC writing is a hark task
Do you open a shared git repo on codeberg or anywhere else ?
Today I figured out, for the next time, how irritating for me is Mastodon. More I get into it, and more people I follow, it's harder to manage all these information. I tried several clients, and there are no good solutions for threading and browsing through some topic. I try to look at #gemini hashtag. Sometimes I look at the same posts (boosted, or displayed second time), sometimes I give up and don't look at it for some time (so I lost some posts). The reason of characters limit in Mastodon must be for it, that it is designed for quick reactions, without any information value. Then we don't need advanced organizing features in clients. And, as many people do, we can delete statuses older than eg. three months. One of reason for not quitting is that I found there information about Geminispace. So without Mastodon, I wouldn't be here.
I was thinking about tinylogs and a better way for tracing to whom subscribed people are responding. It's easier than I thought. We should use links, so backlinks will show our connections also for tinylogs. How it should be done?
@guillaume if you want to mention someone in tinylog, please, use his/her author name with an @ (as I'm doing right now). It's easier to filter mention when you subscribe to many tinylogs ;-)
Thanks for the Gemini capsule, Adële!
My capsule!
wsl 2 is pretty interesting. I like that it is now able to be installed without having to join windows insiders. tried out both ubuntu 20 and alpine on there, will be finishing some configs and setup tomorrow
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 1:
Launching guillaume.pollux.casa capsule !
Terminal Programs I Like by Kelbot
This week's Trendy Thoughts are out
Creator of smoll.pub community - m15o.
@deerbard: There are two solutions: search engine, and checking for mentioned @name and search engines and checking backlinks. This idea has some limitations - it's harder to response. But maybe will make stronger relationships, as somebody find a response. In Mastodon there is some information flood.
Today I made many steps in my Health app, but there wasn't any progress on my Gemini projects. Low energy week affected me. ;-)
This was a low energy week. My capsule is still just a seed of the one. Hopefully next week will be better. Btw what change does it mean to put your handle in your tinylog? I assume it's just informative for anyone who'll check it in your capsule? @szczezuja But nobody gets notified so mentioning someone who didn't subscribe to your tinylog in lace won't make sense.
@bacardi55: I have LTS distribution so my go version is only 1.13.8. So you can put some binaries, I will test it. Local git instance is ok for me, I'm using GitHub because I'm lazy. ;-)
fifty degrees in the shade / under the post-bloom cherry tree / The evacuation of the nation / to SLACKSTATION for a fee
I would like to install my own mailbox but managing spam, trusting and messing with non standard big email provider is really boring. @szczezuja
Today is too late so I plan for tomorrow investigate a GitUI installation process (as @bacardi55 mentioned)
@adele: I'm using ProtonMail, because I didn't find any better solution. I've been testing Tutanota and situation there is the same for me (immature client, and no SMTP access).
@bacardi55: Is your gtl is ready for first users? Is there any public repo?
Third day in a row of development. My script has 76 sloc! :-) And two issues. :-(
I start a new series of gemlog posts :
You deserve a space for free speech - part 1
@szczezuja have you made a new choice about mailbox ? do you host your mail server or found another hosting service ? Thx for your feedback
@bacardi55 proton bridge is reserved to paid accounts :-/
TIL: there's Android ransomware that works not by encrypting your files, but rather by showing a system modal window that cannot be dismissed by the user until the ransom is paid. Latest variants use machine learning: "TinyML model is useful for making sure [the ransom note] would appear less contrived and more believable" #android #malware #ransomware
Mobile randsomware
"Over a month ago, I came to the realization that my smartphone was having several negative impacts on my mental health... In a desperate attempt to regain some control, I ditched the smartphone."
gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2021-05-23-digital-declutter.gmi
Digital de-clutter
https://tobykurien.com/digital-declutter/
A few lines of my gmidiff script were added. It's 40 sloc! ;-)
@adele I'm also using a ProtonMail but after a while I'm also disappointed. As you wrote, there are no way for easy SMTP. Their mail client isn't mature enough (for example I had problem with sending a plain text only mails). And what is the most disappointing for me - their solution isn't promote PGP/GPG, and security is seamless only in communication between ProtonMail users. Communication outside ProtonMail is complicated as in every average mail client. So for what we use ProtonMail? I don't believe in their marketing about Switzerland as symbol of security.
732 POC of getting gemini page in Bash. Inspired by Lace. Next time I will add hashes comparison.
last day of may already? nice.
haven't been online as much for this month... so yeah
I saw the news of freenode, it's pretty surprising since for the last few months when I was active on IRC I didn't like to spent much time on freenode, maybe it's because of its popularity (I tend to like to hang out in places that don't have as much users), but idk
libera.chat is pretty cool
This week's issue of Trendy Thoughts is out.
@bacardi55 Your marketing is welcomed here, and new version of your software is awaited. :-)
Mentioned earlier Comitium backlinks experiment have ended and failed. Comitium and geminispace.info seem to noticed changed page every time it is loaded.
@adele I was able to take some time today and add your suggestions about the author and avatar. Since people use @name for the reply shouldn't the author be just name rather than @name?
Opening Astrobotany in Kristall recently results with „The host you tried to visit does not look trustworty anymore. The certificate changed since your last visit.” Then it gives Fingerprint and aks to revoke trust in settings menu if I still trust the host. Well do I? Anyway it's troublesome to do every single time.
It's interesting what will bring first release of @bacardi55 tinylog's client. There is some teaser on author's tinylog. First tinylog marketing on Geminispace, ever. :-)
@adele as I said before I like your idea of the header. You don't need to convince me. I just wanted to know if people liked the idea before trying to update lace. I am not a programmer. I am a parish priest that does Gemini for a hobby, so my time and programming knowledge is limited. Drew from Trendy talk is the actual creator of lace, I just forked it and made changes. Please feel free to do the same. In terms of filtering and searching, lace by default uses less, so I just use less to do filtering and searching. Again if you would rather have that part of lace feel free to add it.
@adele to filter in lace and lacedreader enter a & sign the system will add a / so you should see a &/ at this point if you want to filter on @adele you would enter @adele so the line should look like &/@adele hit enter The reader will only show lines with @adele
@adele currently lace pulls the user name from the subs file and the avatar is pulled from the favicon. The format you are purposing makes sense if there is interest in using that format. Currently lace has to go to each gemini site twice to get the microblog and to get the avatar. Your format would require lace to go to each site only once. So what does everyone else thing? You asked about filtering but before we discuss that check and see if the serach in in lace and lacedreader meets your needs. If you want to find @adele enter /@adele and hit enter and the program will seach for @adele
2nd generation plant seeded :)
I forced myself and have tidied all gemlogs signatures, and licensing. The same for tinylog. I added also avatar and author information like @adele. Uff...
@adele - I must repost from Mastodon. It's easier to find information on a tinylog, than on Mastodon feed. Section after # and before ## in #Lace is ignored. This is [author's post about Lace]:
[...] You can have whatever you want at the top - a level 1 heading and an introductory paragraph or whatever, that's all fine. [...]
@bacardi55 - I am editing my tinylog *by the power of Grayskull*... ekhem, vim. ;-) It's easy:
vim
:r date (arrow up key, get command from history without typing)
i
##
By the power of Grayskull
ESC
:wqa
Any script will be slower, and less enjoyable, than my super vim power.
Oyster was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0 in 2019.
You must update emojis. ;-)
Seriously maybe my emoji isn't as standard as I think.
Thx @szczezuja, you're right, I forgot I'm using emulator for cool looks. Maybe I even prefere it not displaying any additional stuff, just text. I tried normal terminal and I could see favicons of @przemek and @adele but it couldn't load yours for some reason.
Today's tmux heaven - C-a z is for zooming pane to full window. Tmux is so polished that it will display "Z" (as zoom) in window list bar.
@deerbard I think that showing emojis/favicons in Lace depends on terminal app and terminal settings like xterm-color.
It's interesting because I thought about Tinylog as microblog. But it's true, that it could be treated as social stream as @adele, @bacardi55 have written.
That's weird, I don't see any favicons in Lace. Also, thx for links, Szczezuja, will check!
Jonathan Blow's "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"
Agents of SHIELD: If it weren't for the whole being-evil thing, I could think of much worse than being mind-controlled by a parasite that gives you a purpose, inhabits the pleasure centres of your brain, and takes some of that stupid decision-making out of your hand. #porn
Envied Przemek the favicon. So I set my own - 🦪. In Polish my nick "Szczeżuja" means "duck mussel". But there are no duck mussel emoji, so I must choose oyster. Oyster is foreign cousin cousin of duck mussel! ;-) My favicon is now visible in Lace!
It's my third month in Geminispace!
If your terminal freezes after some time when you're logged to linux server with ssh, you can try this solution, it helped me: https://serverfault.com/questions/590061/ssh-freezes-when-idle-for-a-time. I just learned about it from cmccabe from RawTextClub.
Deerbard request: ;-)
$ lace subs
chris (gemini://gem.chriswere.uk/nano.gmi)
hexdsl (gemini://hexdsl.co.uk/micro.gmi)
uo (gemini://friendo.monster/tiny.gmi)
adele (gemini://adele.work/tinylog.gmi)
bacardi55 (gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/tinylog.gmi)
deerbard (gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/tinylog.gmi)
przemek (gemini://capsule.sakrajda.eu/tinytinylog.gmi)
szczezuja (gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi)
Dzień dobry Przemek, Szczezuja. Thx for news and articles. Any tinylogs you recommend? For now I read you both and friendo.monster, the great creator of lace (behold!)
Be aware of "lace update" command, because last commit 80316adc on https://gitlab.com/uoou/dotfiles/-/blob/master/stow/bin/home/drew/.local/bin/lace caused that lace stopped working on my machine. Restored to commit a36052c5 and everything is back to normal.
Astrobotany has implemented new functionalities!
Przemek have started a new tiny log. Live long tiny logs!
A great talk arguing that software is in fact getting worse, because of more complexity. (via alex.flounder.online)
Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
Photos from a recent trip down to Port Edward, KZN South Coast. A really beautiful and relaxing place for a holiday. #photo #kzn
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After my desktop came back up after the outage pulseaudio did not work anymore. After trying a few things, I remembered a podcast about pipewire. I purged pulseaudio and installed pipewire and everything is working. Kudos to pipewire for the save.
Haha I've got it! Repaired. Now I should look around for interesting tinylogs to fill my lace feed.
It's not lenght. If you're reading this in lace: Is one of my logs appearing on top of the list without date for you as well?
One of my logs (one about changing link to cosmic.voyage in my feed) looks like broken in lace but is perfectly ok in my capsule. I don't know why yet. Btw cosmic.voyage feed still not working either. Writing a long log on purpose to see if this is the issue here.
Something was tempting me to buy a new domain...
Google (calm down, it's only a proxy...) Translate in Gemini space ;-)
Adele informed on Mastodon that it will be implemented tinylog support for gemini://pollux.casa. It's great news for popularizing idea of tinylogs and tinylog feed format introduced in Lace. Pollux.casa seems to have more features than Flounder.online.
Gemini server and http proxy are back up after power outage
Thx to
There will be a https version of my capsule as well. But I'm not going to put all the content there. What is going is yet to be decided. Tinylog is not.
Well, all good, except not my timezone. To be continued.
date automation test / learning vim begins?
I changed feed ulr from gemini://cosmic.voyage/log to just gemini://cosmic.voyage/. Will it now work? I'll see. Also writing tinylog is too much od a trouble. I might need to learn about some automation.
I have joined the Fediverse my instance is at https://social.frrobert.com/channel/frrobert
@Toby there is there is an additional program call khard that is a contact list that works with pim utils. It was developed by someone else but it works fine with vdirsyncer. I have been using all the programs for several years and I second your endorsement of them.
Gemreader doesn't read cosmic.voyage entries and Konpeito capsule. I wonder if there's a solution to this.
And here's a gorgeous screenshot of khal in action, if you're still on the fence about #cli PIM tools. #commandline #pimutils #khal
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Instead of installing and configuring a heavy GUI app for my calendar and todos, I've discovered the command-line based pimutils. Once vdirsyncer is configured, I can use khal and todoman. Very simple, powerful, portable, and lightweight. #opensource #commandline
pimutils
This week's Trendy Thoughts are out
git-annex, interesting tool for managing distributed file content.
I added a strict option to lace and laced. It is called by lace strict or laced strict. It does not add the blue or red since that is not part of the Gemini standard. Here is my question currently the ago line and the user line just show as noncolored text when the strict option is used. Here is the question do you want those 2 lines as just plain text, 3rd level headers, or line items? Thanks
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/signals-brilliant-ad-campaign:5
I prefer to watch LBRY videos via YouTube-dl/mpv. While I personally don't care about LBC as a viewer, what is the best way for me to watch LBRY to benefit the creator of the video?
I updated laced with an error checking in the case of the new file is empty
I'm must return to my: gemini://cosmic.voyage/ships/Polonia/ and gemini://cosmic.voyage/ships/Polonia-II/. It's long time past from last transmission.
Last night cheese ravoli with vension and portabella mushroom ragu sauce, tonight portablla mushroom and venison pizza. both nights include a side of lightly breaded morels.
I just posted this week's Trendy Thoughts
Tinylog for today "lace sub deerbard gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/tinylog.gmi"
New logo – converted from ASCII with a script I wrote. Sometimes I DO STUFF!
test
Are you also checking for the Geminispace backlinks and responses via gemini://geminispace.info/backlinks?
Astrobotany plant-ring - Plants which like to be watered together; gemini://szczezuja.flounder.online/astrobotany.gmi
New friend "tar -cvf..." and "tar -uvf backup.tar ."
Webring for Gemini space: gemini://tilde.team/~khuxkm/leo/
It would be great to organize a Astrobotany gemini plant ring. To connect group of Astrobotaners and watering plants together.
@Hex a Gemini Log post just for you
accessing my flounder capsule from Documents (by Readdle) iPad app
pretty cool huh
recently trying out the various different apple pencil note apps again (did it a year ago), writing this with Apple Pencil scribble feature. It's not very good with symbols ←
Starship got the boot tonight. It is way too slow when using a sshfs network drive with git repositories on it. So I am looking for ideas to make my plain prompt a little nicer
@Hex I have always used either Debian or Debian based distros since I started running Linux full time in 2006. I'll post something on Tuesday or email you.
I updated lace. I added laced which can be used with cron to download microblogs. I added lacedreader which should be used to read the downloaded blogs
I just pushed a testing branch of the font project to GitHub that should run with Python 3
@Hex I only made it through 30 seconds of the song you posted
My thoughts after listening to this week's Trendy Talk
New gemapp in Gemini space: gemini://station.martinrue.com/szczezuja
Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed!. Have a blessed Pascha.
Whatever happened to May Day baskets? They have seem to disappeared.
Proxy picking fiesta: - gemini://pon.ix.tc/github for GitHub; - gemini://pon.ix.tc/youtube for YouTube; - gemini://b10m.net/cgi-bin/medium for Medium.
Weather forecast - Warsaw, PL: gemini://weather.gluonspace.com/weather?Warsaw%2C%20PL
gosh can't believe it's may already :o
I love how a third of 2021 is finished (4/12=1/3)
replaced old readline package for gelim with this:
http://github.com/lmorg/readline
it's quite good, much better than what I was previously using. also discovered murex shell from there, feels a bit like fish, but i don't like murex's syntax, and it isn't as widely supported or known compared to fish
also added colors!!! easier than I thought. this package i'm using feels much much better than colorama from the python realm:
honestly go packages are all really cool
I forked bashpodder and created an option to skip downloading of old podcasts
It is an oldie but a goodie. A very simple script to download podcast from rss feeds
added pager to my gemini client, it basically just calls `less` with -FSEX and if it fails, it will just print the content normally
Book recommendation: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Talk about discovering the right book at the right time! After ditching my smartphone, I needed answers: why was it bad? what do I do with my time? This book answers that and more.
Digital Minimalism
https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
The Gemini Server is backup and running
Link for today - gemini://nytpu.com/why-gemini.gmi.
Am I the only one that finds it frustrating that Gemini does not support markdown syntax for links?
Congratulations to Trendy Talk for winning the Papyrus Aardvark award. 🏆 🤣
" [...] A [Gemini] client or server implementation can be written from scratch by a single person in the space of an afternoon or two. A new web browser could take hundreds of engineers millions of hours to complete. [...] " via: gemini://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.gmi
Vim plugin for insert mode completion of words in adjacent tmux panes - https://github.com/wellle/tmux-complete.vim
Today two months on Gemini space are passing through.
Second interesting thing for today: https://oppen.digital/memex/gempub/ - A new eBook file format based on Gemini Protocol's Gemtext called Gempub.
The new hope - two way XMPP/ActivityPub gateway: https://www.goffi.org/b/activitypub-gateway-and-pubsub-e2ee-QGqK.
Next post about Gemini space, pingbacks, comments and so on: gemini://carcosa.net/journal/20210421-comments-and-pingbacks.gmi -- I don't know what to think about it.
By a truly unbelievable coincidence [...] I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me.
😂
Turns out the software used to extract data from your phone when seized, has security vulnerabilities 😁 #signal #cellebrite
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite...
https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Interesting post about RMS: gemini://avalos.me/gemlog/2021-04-21-you-know-what-i-support-rms-final.gmi
I made a music player using the awesome Pimoroni Pirate Audio HAT for #RaspberryPi. It plays any format including OGG and even videos, remembers where it left off, buttons work exactly how I like it because I wrote the code, and it has outstanding audio quality (24-bit DAC + headphone amp). The UI needs work tho! #maker #diy #audio
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Birds on a wire. They congregrate at this exact spot every morning just before sunrise, and disperse as soon as the sun rises. #birding
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Q: If you had to guess, do you think humans will go extinct in the next 1000 years?
A: They're resourceful little buggers. They will hang on for way longer than that, even if it might not be by the billions. Think about what this would require: billions of individuals from a resourceful and technologically inventive species ALL gone with not even one "Adam and Eve" combo remaining, and be it in abject misery, in highly artificial surroundings, in the last patch of uncontacted tribal territory on earth, in an underground bunker, on Mars, or in the Google AI's petting zoo.
yesterday I thought, wouldn't it be the absolute perfect solution to track my dotfiles with hardlinks? (that is, you hardlink the dotfiles into a git repo and track them from there)
so today I did a bit of research and found that there are many people who have tried this method, and there are caveats:
https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/git-dotfiles-and-hardlinks/
^that article suggests you to just track your ~ with git, which I have mentioned with other dotfiles managers on Apr 6th (below), it said that the problem with doing the hardlinks way is that "Git never modifies files in the working tree – instead, it unlinks them and then recreates them from scratch. This inherently breaks any hardlinks that might have been present". which AFAI can tell, you can't use git commands to modify files from your repo and wish that those changes will reflect in your ~ (?)
so then I thought, what if, instead of having files in your dotfiles git repo be hardlinks /of/ your dotfiles at ~, why not have the dotfiles at your ~ be hardlinks /to/ files in your git repo?
in that case, though I haven't tried it yet, will probably be similar to the symlink solution which when you want to `vim .gitconfig` for example, it opens `~/dotfiles/.gitconfig` and breaks the syntax highlighting. But now with symlink replaced with hardlinks, you are probably still editing your `~/.gitconfig` and since `~/dotfiles/.gitconfig` points to the same contents you can track the changes as needed. sounds too good to be true, kinda?
so why am I trying out these different, almost crazy, methods when I said I was going to stick to yadm? well, so here is what I still need which yadm doesn't provide (AFAIK):
for some machines, only track some files and directories and remove the others.
for example:
anyways, the problem I described above can probably be solved with chezmoi, but like what I've written on 6th, there are downside(s) with it and I don't like it. I'd rather stick with yadm for now, and try out the hardlink strategy. In any case, once I've figured out an almost-perfect solution that (hopefully) solves all my problems I'll write a gemlog post about it. It may be that there is no such solution that can do so but we'll see.
new journal heading layout. # for each month, ## for each day, and ### for each event
also made the stuff reverse-chronological order
@Friendo Lace running on Android has started. I was able to tweek it to get it run on Termux on Amazon Fire. Still not working on my phone.
I let out some of my frustrations in a ranty response to a Github feature request for my app. I love that a user was invested enough in my app to write a long and frustrated feature request.
Quote:
I sense your frustration in that the app is close to what you want and how you use it, but not quite there. Unfortunately the bad news is that I will probably stop supporting this app this year, despite this app being a labour of love and one I'm proud of. The above-mentioned sandbox leaks, combined with browser fingerprinting, supercookies, FLoC, and other hostile abuses of Web technology, have made me come to the conclusion that the Web is a lost cause for private browsing. Yes, WebApps offers only limited protection, and that protection will probably decrease every year. Something like Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi) is probably the way forward for privacy minded geeks, and I for one am moving as much of my content creation/consumption there as possible.
Another factor is that Android is also increasingly hostile to the developer (you need at least 16Gb RAM to compile a 3Mb APK, every year devs are forced onto new APIs, Gradle builds break often, Google now wants your developer signing key, the tooling I had used is now deprecated, etc, etc, etc). Couple that with the spyware preloaded onto phones and the increasing difficulty of getting control over your device (e.g. my phone kills VLC after 30 mins and there's nothing I can do about it), and I'm ready to ditch Android and go back to good 'ol desktop computing (https://tobykurien.com/post-1618319359/).
WebApps Feature Request: Tabs
https://github.com/tobykurien/WebApps/issues/249#issuecomment-821967876
@HexDSL Do you microblog links =>url Then description and then you can go the the link in the client.
Is aphantasia destiny?
How to became a bit oddly? Plant own Astrobotany plant on Gemini space. Don’t ask what for. Act like nothing has happened. ;-) gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/app/visit/5d129edfe438478d8ec5a0e57c69a505
I have not used my Facebook account in years and I was hacked today. So I deleted my account today
found several cool more things on gemini:
paste.gemigrep.com - paste and archive text and gemini urls
gmisub - I normally just use Spacewalk or gemreader for feeds in gemini, but this is cool too
Amazing post on SCGI in gemini
discovery.geminiprotocol.com - more cool stuff on gemini
review.treeblue.space - similar to above
Giving up the smartphone (currently in airplane mode in the drawer) for a dumb phone. I want my attention span back. I want control over my computer. I want to eschew mobile computing for good old fashioned desktop computing.
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A fork of Lace, a script to interleave tiny Gemini logs.
I am wondering who also has a Gemini based microblog. I have only been able to find a few.
TIL: trackers/spyware can bypass even third-party blocking and same-origin-policy by using CNAME cloaking. There's almost no hope of having privacy on the web, other than to resort to other protocols like Gemini.
Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloaking-based-tracking/
gelim - my new wip line mode Gemini client in go (sr.ht)
E-mail provider alternative Tutanota gemini://przemek.flounder.online/gemlog/2021-04-05-22.gmi
I have set up comitium blogroll gemini://szczezuja.flounder.online/blogroll.gmi.
(will write a detailed gemlog post for this)
here's my general dotfile setup/manager timeline:
1. nothing
2. symlink + plain git
3. yadm
4. copy-paste files to repo (with scripts to make it easier)
5. yadm
6. homedir git (with * in .gitignore, and track with `git add -f`)
7. chezmoi
8. yadm
the last 3 from the above are my top 3 preferred options, here are the pros and cons for each:
〈 ~ git 〉
Drew's blog post on this setup
I’ve tried a few solutions over the years, but I settled on a very simple system several years ago which has served me very well in the time since: my $HOME is a git repository
pros:
cons:
〈 yadm 〉
basically, your $HOME is a git repository, but wrapped. nothing is tracked until you `add` it, so I think of it as the above method but with more features.
pros:
cons:
〈 chezmoi 〉
it copies your dotfiles to a separate dir and you can optionally setup git in that dir.
pros:
cons:
read more about this ("complaint"?) and their reasons for it
also see:
full comparison table between various dotfile managers (chezmoi docs)
Not really about 5G, the article mentions ways that SAPS could get hold of your data. FYI My phone was confiscated and searched at OR Tambo without any warrant. #surveillance #privacy
5G opens the gates for surveillance on steroids
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-06-5g-opens-the-gates-for-surveillance-on-steroids/
seen it across the geminispace as well as mentioned in IRC many times, but I didn't give it a go since it was desktop-based... but today I saw some people on #gemini tilde.chat IRC mentioning Lagrange for iOS, immediately I went to skyjake.fi's gemlog and joined the testflight. the only iPad gemini client I've used so far was Elaho, which has similar UI/UX to firefox, it feels smooth and comfortable to use, despite have it lack some features such as subscriptions, importing certs (AFAIK), and sharing identities across different capsules. (I mentioned Elaho when I first tried it out in the 2021-04-01 entry above). here are my first impressions
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gemreader
public instance of gemreader ^ (needs cert)
Great video with a LOT of information for privacy-aware smartphone users. Sadly, even us hackers have lost control of our tech. #privacy #smartphone
Spyware-Free Phones in 2021: We're being Squeezed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrugkYJpO8
Interesting text about to fast social media gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/gemlog/2021-03-18-socialmedia.gmi
Interesting text about CLI and rawtext tools gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/essays/console.gmi
started getting into go in january, but at the time I only did some stuff on the Go Tour, and since then I hadn't touched go at all... Today looking at some gemini clients and other software, sometimes urged me to learn go (like, immediately). started looking at simple Gemini server/clients source code and I decided to fork solderpunk's "≈100 lines bare-bones but usable client in Go"[*], refactor it, implement some features like more commands, less(1)-like output, etc, basically a simpler, dumber version of AV-98 in Go. This is also to basically help me learn go with "learning by doing", really excited for this. Will probably start tomorrow
Photos from a recent #hike near Hartebeespoort dam
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I was recently treated to a visit from an African Grey Hornbill. Right on my doorstep!
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wow! did mozz just add support for spartan:// to his HTTP-gemini portal? dang this is amazing, no need to use my terminal with `| less` anymore :P
Gemini Proxy (also spartan now)
read the specs[*] for spartan a bit more carefully today... the way it specifies how inputs are requested is quite interesting. AND guess what... there's inline inputs! (AFAIK) spartan uses text/gemini for its document format, and adds a new input syntax "=:" to replace gemini's 10 INPUT status code. here's an example .gmi served over spartan:// with input:
# normal heading
try out here
there's a guestbook and also an "echo service" where anything you input will be echoed back to you
problem is, atm, the server.py file[*] doesn't handle inputs (at least not from looking at the code and trying it out), and I would really love to see how spartan://mozz.us do the echo and the guestbook thing, but I don't think it's open sourced
gemini://spartan.mozz.us/spartan_server.py
anyways I think this feels more like a gemlog post, will link to it here when I'm done writing it
Knowledge and resources are really scattered. I was looking into gemini, gopher, irc bots, etc to be specific. One day, when I have the money, time, and energy, I will buy a domain, get a host and sit down and organized all of these things into a single public wiki/notebook...
I saw mozz's post[*] on his shiny new protocol a few days ago, but only decided to have a look today. looking at the client/server .py files I was like "wow! this seems really lightweight", also, this was the perfect opportunity to install a curl-like program for gemini:// so I decided to use makeworld's gemget[*] and downloaded the two scripts for spartan://.
gemget - CLI downloaded for gemini (like curl/wget) - by makeworld (github)
My first stop on the spartanspace is spartan://mozz.us, I also had a play with its cool input "system", then immediately went on to trying out the server. So far everything feels just like gemini, except that this protocol is newer, lighter, and I guess easier to implement. Can't wait to get more into it and create my own server/clients for it!
I wrote about out-of-body experiences. Might not be what you think. Might be a letdown or skary or both. gemini://anjune.lol/cpbc/myobes.gmi
registered on Astrobotany[*] a week ago, and been only using it with amfora[*] on tilde.cafe[*], but today I tried out a gemini from the iPad - Elaho! (will link to it once I find its github repo, forgot atm).
Astrobotany - community garden over gemini://
tilde.cafe, a "newly" launched, debian tilde
so far browsing the geminispace from Elaho is a super cool and relaxing experience, it seems to be based off firebox. But from what I can see, Elaho doesn't allow you to import certificates, so I created one, logged into Astrobotany and added my current certificate to my account.
all this "gemini apps" and auth with client certs and so cool! can't wait to make my own game or app over gemini
A week or two ago I started taking a serious look at gopher, reading through every single post on gopher.zone
gopher.zone - Gopher guides - "Highway to the gopher zone"
Plasma 5: Making Kickoff’s “Computer” more useful, gemini://anjune.lol/mkc/kickoff.gmi
Reworked yesterdays Commodore TED/264 retrospective a tad, as I am wont to do…
Today I decided to go back, and put my journal and gemlog there until I find a good host for all my online stuff... The one thing that still impresses me is the ability to set custom domains for my flounder site! AFAIK not a single one of any other Gemini hosting providers allow you to do that :/
Another amazing thing is that I can directly edit from the web! (Although if Editting via Gemini inputs are supported that would be cool) Editting from the web means that I can update my journal/gemlog from any device, which is ideal especially for my journal
When I came back, I noticed that WebDAV was replaced with SFTP access! Gosh that's amazing, which means I can script automated updates (if I need any) and 'deploy' to my flounder site immediately :D
The first time I heard about it was from my mastodon timeline, but didn't give it a serious look until today! I was surprised that so many of the things in there look so familiar to me... Like most of the times I'm like "oh, it's this guy", and "oh I know you!"
Today I made some nginx reconfiguration and enjoy my small console enviroment: vim, amfora, mcabber, toot, and mutt.
Installing #ttrss from Docker images is much easier than old school way as regular web app. It takes about 15 minutes. https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/ttrss-docker-compose/src/branch/static-dockerhub/README.md
I’d like a gemini browser to automatically generate a different colour scheme for every server/host/idk – like Lagrange does it for the headlines, but for everything…
A feed reader hosted on Gemini. New experience - access own feeds, creating account and login with client certificate (so without creating account and login, which we know from WWW). https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gemreader/
Been working on a little ASCII-art-to-Unicode-art converter. :) A simple project but it's nice to have something actually useful taking shape.
And maybe I should try. Kineto HTTP proxy for Gemini. https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto/
Comitium, thrid Gemini feed aggregator which I will try. https://git.nytpu.com/comitium/about/doc/comitium.1.scd
That it hurts doesn’t make it true
First version of a new cursive script with German-specific extensions ready — addressing, I hope, some of the flaws of þe olde Sütterlin. Now it’ll need “flow optimisation”…
Today I'm mastering Byobu keyboard shortcuts. Operating on Fn keys is not convenient. Better are C-a escape key combinations.
There is no Do, there is only Trine! With Uncle Hamish and Olivia and me in like a couple mins -- https://twitch.tv/hamishtpb
Gemlog post about automation scripts gemini://rawtext.club/~ecliptik/_posts/2021-02-09-Launching-a-Gemini-Capsule.gmi
Amfora issue https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/amfora/issues/210
The iOS port of Lagrange gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-03_testflight.gmi
Gemini subscription format gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/companion/subscription.gmi
Testing page for Gemini certs gemini://mozz.us/tls/
I must configure Lace for Tinylogs gemini://friendo.monster/log/lace.gmi
“Oxenfree Thoughts” uploaded — gemini://anjune.lol/mkc/oxenfree-thoughts.gmi
A #loadshedding solution I've been playing with: Blue Nova 280Wh LFP battery + 300W inverter. Runs my laptop for over 6 hours, charges with standard car battery charger, over 10 years of cycle life, weighs less than 3kg, costs under R3000.
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Been over a week that I merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, still no issues :)
WebApps is my #OpenSource #Android app I am most proud of. Many years in the making, it allows you to save websites as apps, with privacy-enhancing features similar to uMatrix.
WebApps sandboxed browser
https://github.com/tobykurien/webapps
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I have updated the Gemini Mission Log with the majority of my old content from my website
Analysis of how Google's FLoC can hurt users.
"FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves"
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
Learned some C with ncurses. 1985, here I come! <3
Yoiks, was operating with about 20% of my mind on the Trine stream and finding it enormously funny that nothing made any sense…
Not super proud of this, but when it's a choice between tossing out an old tablet because of a broken USB charging port, or an ugly fix to save it, I'll do the ugly fix.
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The site now has the Bible in English and Koine Greek
...people photosynthesise with purple skin to save scant food, die at 35 (another side-effect of wiping out cancer, who'd have thought!), and have knowledge, memories, desirable behaviour and skills imparted by viruses -- yet it doesn't feel half bad, because it also means there's no need for locks, police, fear of walking alone in the dark; everything just seems to be running itself without having guns pointed at it; life's... not easy, but informal
It plays on all the senses without ever feeling indulgently hedonist or 'purple'. It'll manage to gross you out *adoringly*. Huge genetically engineered antarctic miners (polar bears) who you'd expect to be an oppressed underclass are a rugged wealthy separate culture that'll take the mickey out of us squishy mind-controlled normies; the eradication of cancer let tumours replicate the host body so well as to produce immortal deformed-looking copies...
Been finding it hard to booklog; it's still what I'd love to have written but so dense with ideas to process and integrate into an internal coherent model -- melancholically playful, whimsical when it should be creeping you out; a dystopia you (sometimes) half want to live in...
This article explains why a few kilobytes of macOS updates ends up as gigabytes of downloads and 45 minutes of updating.
Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
Have merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME into one, since developers barely know when to use which as it is. Nothing's fallen over dead yet, not even Akonadi…
'People often ask: “What’s the next Covid?” An attack on our digital infrastructure is a leading candidate.' and other interesting insights in this great read.
Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid
https://www.ft.com/content/f1b30f2c-84aa-4595-84f2-7816796d6841
Not sure what to do with Gemini, really. You put stuff out there and then that's that; silence. Might be in a bad mood though
Another Irwin Weil lecture. This time, it is on Crime and Punishment
The Gemini site now delivers random quotes from the Church Fathers or if you are a fan of bad jokes that is also an option.
The Agate server is shutdown and the Molly Brown server has been moved to port 1965.
Here is a link to an interesting lecture about Dostoevsky and his writings by Irwin Weil
Scripts are now running on the Molly Brown server using port 7070
I added The King James Bible with Apocrypha the to the Gemini site.
I added The Prologue from Ochrid to the Gemini site today.
No more dead links; + some a first few old texts posted to the Gemini thang.
Molly-Brown is running on port 7070 and delivering static pages. I am still working on getting the cgi scripts to work. Apgate is still running on port 1965
Roman is now on pest control. He caught a mouse in the snow tonight.
…whose name I surprisingly got right on the first attempt. I forgot I was slightly obsessed with this album! If a psychedelic prog-tech sort of thing sorts like your jam, jam to this.
Five guest musicians (Edward KaSpel, IAMX, Otto von Schirach, Traz Damji, Soriah); bodes well.
Out now! :) :) Advance tracks were brilliant, Anger is an Acid quite likely to remain my high point of the album...
It's time for that old outburst of anger again, because I can't view a single German website without losing my temper any more. YOU. UTTER. FICKING. AR$€HOLES. DESTROYED. THE. FREE. OPEN. DEMOCRATIC. LIBERTINE. INTERNET with your regulations. That "Datenschutzerklaerung" and that "Impressum" demand a level of self-exposure (self-doxxing, really) and legalese-compliance that a decently-sized business may be able to deal with but not an intimidateable individual with a need for privacy and a hunger to find the other weirdos of the world. BURN IN HELL YOU SHITS.
I’ll have to talk fragmentarily about this book while I’m reading it. It's the sort of colourfully imaginative but grounded-feeling life-as-an-XYZ-sort-of-creature-detailing "soft" sci-fi I'd want to write if I wanted to take up the responsibility of writing sci-fi, that is to say, to presume to be able to speculate with some level of plausibility.
I will consider forget-me-nots now
I have added a section to my #gemini capsule
gemini://tobykurien.com
for aggregating what people are saying about Gemini, e.g. tweets, toots, and now also the Gemini mailing list, where most of the announcements and spec discussions take place. You can now browse this on Gemini itself!
Gemini mailing list archive on Gemini
gemini://tobykurien.com/cgi-bin/mailing_list.py
It was a lovely day, that day I walked away... test test
Advantage of attempting to teach yourself piano: nobody’s going to stop you from using harpsichord, organ, or synth bass sounds when you get bored
No, wait… wild poppies.
Drew! The prettiest wildflowers are cornflowers.
Hurray! Huzzah!
Was that double post an accident or did I just not clipboard correctly?
Let's see if this works..
Let's see if this works...
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"Culture I/O is a website about utopia as seen through the haze of the dystopian present. You’re laughing, but we’re serious. There’s a manifesto. That’s how serious we are."
Culture I/O — The Road to Utopia
New blog post! In which I attempt to cure my #doomscrolling
My war on doomscrolling
https://tobykurien.com/war-on-doomscrolling/
FreeHacker is an ezine "created to help the spread of DIY culture in cyberspace". A good, if somewhat short read.
FreeHacker: Issue 2
https://anarchistnews.org/content/freehacker-issue-2-available-download
This Sojourner #pwa is a beautiful way to browse and bookmark talks from the #fosdem '21 schedule.
Sojourner
https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/search/
Few years ago I moved my personal projects from #Git to #Fossil, and can recommend it. It is easy to host (single binary file), feature full (bug tracking, wiki, forum, etc), and all the repo data is stored in a single sqlite db (easy to backup). You can also allow anonymous access so that people can collaborate without creating accounts. That's 2 files you copy into a machine and you have your entire source control and repo up!
Fossil: Fossil Versus Git
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
My #Gemini capsule is up! It includes my #gemlog which is generated from my website microblog, which is also syndicated as tweets/toots via #IndieWeb. Very cool that all these technologies can play well with each other and are easy to script to my liking.
Toby's Gemlog
gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi
A well written blog post (from a Google dev advocate) about using machine learning for baking, resulting in inventing a new dessert. Much 'maker' spirit, such wow. #ai #machinelearning
Baking with Machine Learning
https://sararobinson.dev/2020/04/30/baking-machine-learning.html
"This means in two to five years we may be able to surf the internet or talk on our 900 MHz phones while walking down the sidewalk in nearly any city whose occupants own Amazon or other competing devices."
We may Soon have City-Spanning 900 HMz Mesh Networks
http://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/900mhz-mesh.html/
Some thoughts on the #Gemini protocol:
1. Gemini is to the web what reading a book is to watching TV. The former is focussed, simple, requires some effort, and may be more rewarding. The latter may be more compelling but also full of distractions and advertisements.
2. Gemini is just text and links, which HTML can easily do, but by removing features (like CSS, JavaScript, and inline media), Gemini guarantees that your experience will be simple, fast, and user-respecting. No complicated issues like browser fingerprinting, popups, tracking, XSS, etc.
3. Gemini might be a good fit for disseminating information in low-bandwidth long-range mesh networks like Meshtastic, which might become part of our apolcalyptic/dystopian future.
4. Gemini is a good format for scraping web content or generating content for displaying on devices like DIY smart mirrors, Raspberry Pi tablet screens, Smart watches, etc.
Curious? Try this link below which uses a web proxy to display some random feeds from Gemini sites.
Capcom Gemini Aggregator
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/
"These all use some form of local radio signal. Some, such as Briar, may use short-range Bluetooth and Wifi, while others use radios such as LoRa that can reach several miles with low power. ... Every item on this list uses full end-to-end encryption" #offline #messenger #lora #meshnetwork
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities
Awesome talk about the ideas and possibilities behind the Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. #beakerbrowser #decentralizedweb #dweb
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers (2018)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8
first ever gemlog! it's just a hello world (published on flounder)
happy new year
I decided to hate discord
"On the Internet, your rate of learning is limited not by access to information, but by your ability to ignore distractions"
The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/
Bumper harvest of cherry tomatoes from my #aquaponics
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Facebook really wants your data! The long term solution is decentalized/federated, like Matrix.
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
You may be in a quandry about deleting WhatsApp, because EVERYONE is on it. How quickly we forget that this was true of Mixit and BBM. We've moved before, we can move again, the businesses will follow. #deletewhatsapp #deletefacebook
My fav gadget of 2020: the LCD writing tablet. Costs under R200. 2 year battery life. Doesn't sync with anything. Can only erase whole screen. Helps me focus distraction-free on today's tasks and jot down notes.
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Contact tracing is so dangerous, it gives governments an irresistible tool for tracking, surveillance and control. The abuse of the tech has already begun.
Govt confirms that police can use TraceTogether data for criminal investigations
Using some simple scripts, I have automated the process of publishing microblogs to my static-generated website (which uses #Pelican). It makes use of the #IndieWeb standard #micropub format, so I can even share links and upload photos to my blog via the Indigenous app. Now you can too!
IndieWeb scripts for publishing using micropub to a static-site generator like Pelican.
https://github.com/tobykurien/micropub-to-markdown
Now watching 0xcon talks from last month. #infosec #southafrica
0xcon 2020 - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UsXYRp-4uWk
Interesting new protocol: "Gemini is a new internet protocol which: Is heavier than gopher; Is lighter than the web; Will not replace either; Strives for maximum power to weight ratio; Takes user privacy very seriously"
Project Gemini FAQ
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
Tiny World is an amazing documentary with incredibly beautiful photography. Well worth watching. #tv #documentary
Tiny World — Official Trailer l Apple TV+ - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oGNb4d6UdeU
Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram blogged this:
Consume Less. Create More. It’s More Fun.
https://telegra.ph/Consume-Less-Create-More-Its-More-Fun-12-04
Another epic Joburg sunset, taken yesterday afternoon. 😍
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Beautiful Joburg sunset
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To be or not to be :-)
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Flowers in the yard
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Raspberry Pi portable PC
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The #gpcoronavirus #covid19 dashboard has been updated with a powerful hotspot analysis provided by @WitsUniversity which will hopefully assist @GautengProvince with the second surge.
Re: tweet
https://twitter.com/Wits_News/status/1340979463824273410
Details:
Dashboard:
My #aquaponics runneth over! That's cherry tomatoes hanging off the side, bearing plenty of fruit.
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Holiday reading for the geeky: NODE zine contains articles about interesting open source, decentralized, censorship-resistant and cutting-edge technologies.
NODE zine
Right, clearly that first post revealed some kinks that needed working out. Here are some kittens. #IndieWeb
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Agregated tinylogs: @deerbard, 👽 @guillaume@pollux.casa, bacardi55, 🐘 @adele@pollux.casa, 📒 @hedy, Drek, 🤘 @toby@tobykurien.com, Drew, Caolan, 🐧 tolstoevsky, Sakurina, ChrisWere, 🦪 @szczezuja, ☦ frrobert@frrobert.net, Sakrajda, monolalia, Antonio, Lykso, ﾘ @reaton@geminids.ga, hexdsl, 💡 samhunter
