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Technically speaking, I don't see the difference between sending a "gemini mention" and submitting my RSS feed to Antenna 🤔…
Sent my first Gemini Mention to someone than myself during testing/dev of RFC implementation :].
gemserv of pllux.casa has been upgraded to v0.6.6 !
@gnuserland There seems to be a problem with your Atom timestamps in the gemini://gnuser.land/gemlog/atom.xml feed. The "updated" time of a few entries is missing a date:
<updated>T12:00:00-0500</updated>
This causes CAPCOM to think the item is dated for the current day. (The circumlunar CAPCOM is also not filtering future dates, it seems... 🙂)
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
That's a great post, my thoughts aver /very/ similar to the ones in this post.
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
RE: Pen Thu 24 Feb 2022 10:30 UTC
Could it be, that gtl does not parse yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm, i.e. a time without zone, though it should consider it as UTC?
Just discovered Pen's new tinylog and this message. If you read this (I didn't find any contacts on your capsule), yes GTL consider UTC if you don't precise the timezone. Look below a screenshot of your tinylog in GTL:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/6e7f084bb002
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
Received my first gemini mention this morning, it's great to see it working! Thanks Paulsnar!
Seems the other responses I got were less positive, which I understand as it might feel too complex for gemini… But maybe it isn't as big as a problem than I thought? 🤷
This isn't at all a mandatory thing, it provides just a way to tell the other authors "hey look here" in a more standardize way.
It might die on its own in the next weeks as I said, or be used by just a handful of people at the end, like for tinylogs, but I least I tried* :]
(*"Do or do not, there is no try" said Yoda… But I can say I actually did it with the implementations :p. And yes, I'm quoting Yoda :D).
Have a great Sunday everyone and stay safe!
After some teasing, I've finally posted my thoughts and ideas (and implementations) for gemini response via gemlog…
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/02/27/my-take-on-gemlog-replies/
Gemini mentions status:
Missing pieces:
The golang server side implementation is the remaining big thing before I can share all this with everyone. I was hopping by end of the week end, but being realistic probably mean end of next week^^.
After a period of low-energy, of the sort I'm learning to ride out by taking some time to relax and play games or read things (rather than trying to force myself into "productivity," which really never seems to work), I've spent today almost entirely productively. Wife has termed this "business mode." It's been nice.
I've put in written my idea for gemini mentions (aka replies, backlinks, …). The content seems ok-ish right now for a draft proposal.
I've started a very simple bash implementation (but I really don't like bash :p) that should be ready this week end.
I'm also planing to write a better software for it (probably in go to provide binary files) that will have more advance feature.
Providing tools with the proposal will, I hope, help geminauts want to try it on their capsule (granted they agree to enable cgi scripts, if their server allows it).
I'd like to publish the proposal with the 2 tools at the same time but if I don't have enough time I may publish the proposal with "just" the bash script in the next few days 🤷.
Anyone using a Gemini client on iOS they'd recommend? Ideally looking for something easy without having to compile myself.
@skyjake While I'm on the subject, do you have longer-term plans to have an App Store release for iOS? Might be a nice way to support development. I'd happily pay premium for it.
Thinking about the backlinks again… I started a draft of my I'm thinking that I'll publish when ready, but if I'm being realistic, the main blocker will be the need for cgi scripts that capsule owner will have to setup.
Even if given the said script, it might not be easy for everyone and some user might be against the idea of having these kind of scripts on their server.
I also think that not every server allow them.
I have been thinking about replies in the gemini space and backlinks…
It isn't an easy problem as the solutions could be very simple or horribly complex…
But I want to give a shot, so my plan is to write a small concept and one or 2 implementations (eg: a very simple in bash and a more advanced as a go binary), so that's it is not "just" a concept but actually giving the tool to help the community embrace some kind of backlinks/pingbacks/refbacks
I really like the gemini community :) Thank you all!
Offpunk¹ browser seems very cool and bring very interesting changes to the way one would browse the web…
I really need to take the time "someday" to test it out!
I find my engagement with video content and text content is different. Video content "goes down" easier, but tends to not engage my thinking as deeply. Reading text *feels* more difficult, but I also feel like it forces me to consider every detail more thoroughly. I could easily spend all day consuming visual content, and I have in the past, but I find myself working to cut out that kind of content lately. I must be getting old. 😜
Hey all. This is a test of the ``paulsnar shortform`` system.
Short remark on the "remnants" article.
gemini://tilde.pink/~maria/log/2022-02-21_remnants.gmi
I feel as though I'm in much the same boat some days. Unfettered enthusiasm for computing feels good at first, but it becomes a burden if taken as an impulse to create when you're unable to. I reckon most people have a graveyard of half-finished projects (or even ones that haven't started) to show for it. And in that sense, perhaps it is better to recognize this early and avoid the emotional toll that comes with having to let go of something you had high hopes for.
That said, I can't say that should be a barrier to creation. When you can find something that's innately limited in scope and you are sure you can accomplish in a reasonable timeframe, there are few things better than having a project become useful. And maybe this skill of being able to call a project's scope and deciding whether to indulge in it is itself something that's harder for techies than it would be for people in the real world, given that computers are innately untangible and also are good at hiding pitfalls until you fall into them.
Either way, I loved that.
@Acidus¹ is managing a great search engine for gemini (Kennedy) that now can show cached results too³!
I find it so cool to have real good search engine now, thanks a lot @acidus for the great work!
RE: @deerbard Mon 21 Feb 2022 20:55 CET
Sick, weak and unable to work but at least learned it's not covid. And there is one positive side of it all - I read more. Always look on the bright side of life.
Wish @deerbard to get better soon!
I've just lost 10 minutes to a wonderful version of the I-can't-find-the-sunglasses-that-are-on-my-head problem in which I've been debugging code that randomly stopped playing sound, except it didn't, I just didn't have my headphones on my actual head.
Happy Monday folks. Hope everyone has an awesome week. I'm working on my own stuff this week, and I'm super excited to have only that as my sole focus. Single-tasking ftw.
Back in 2015, I predicted that once ad-blocking became common, we would be faced with server-side tracking:
You know what will happen once most of us install ad-blockers? Server-side ad SDK's, that's what. Unblockable ads, unstoppable tracking.
https://twitter.com/TobyKurien/status/628227819076775936
Well, it's here in the form of Server-side tagging in Google Tag Manager, and it's easier than the SDK I predicted. #adblock #privacy
Server-side tagging
https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html
When I was a kid, Myst looked amazing. I never got a chance to play it, but I really wanted to. Now I'm on a resource-constrained laptop with ScummVM... seemed like a good time to finally give it a go. I'm stupidly excited about it. 😂
Read this on station:
Hey Station! I've been looking for some "affiliate" capsules to link on the main page of mine. My capsule is at xxxxx if you want to take a look at it. Drop your capsules here if you'd like to be an affiliate, lol.
It feels to me like a very web oriented way of thinking. There is nothing to gain and no real SEO on gemini…
Start writing content and maybe add links to other capsules you like, and people will do the same if/when they like your capsule…
I could say a lot more but I'll stop there.
I also removed the actual link (but you can find it easily by going to station), because it is not against this specific geminauts but more for our community to start thinking differently.
Добавил пачку черновиков, возможно я сделаю из них нормальные записи и опубликую, но ничего не могу обещать. Если вы вдруг хотите туда заглянуть, то держите ссылочку.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/drafts/
"You've already been dead for 4.5 billion years." 👊
I love being shit at something. No ego, no embarrassment in trying and failing repeatedly, progress is obvious to see, everyone can help you. Holding onto this mindset once you really start to make progress is rare. Rare and valuable tend to overlap often.
[POLL 🐶🐱?] Dogs are the best boys/girls | Cats are cool | Rodents are adorable | Horse! | I'm a fish
I've added search (more like filtering) capabilities to GTL :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/commit/1343c80595cd5e2253ab4b46189e77156cf8236b
Upcoming version moving on nicely :]
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Thu 17 Feb 2022 17:39 CET
I find it pretty cool and easy to customize, you did a great job!
Thanks a lot for testing and the feedback :) I have a few other feature I want to add before the next release so it's nice to see this one work :)
Another one takes the red pill and wakes up from the Matrix - "I think the internet is broken - Chris Hawkes"
Chris Hawkes
https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=EB0hG32DSMc
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Tue 15 Feb 2022 20:48 CET
Happy to see @adele posting again in the gemini space (:
The custom theming feature for GTL has been moving nicely:
GTL screenshots in 3 theme (HTTPS)
I'm not that happy with the code that added a lot of mess I feel… But I like the feature.
I would love some testing though as it might differ in other systems and setups…
Gemini is a bad idea because you need a specific browser ?
Using a classical browser to access lightweight web sites is not secure ?
No problemo :
gemini://adele.work/gemlog/2022-02-15_Double_posting.gmi
I'm using more antenna and cosmos than my own commitium (feed agregator) right now… I don't know if it's good or not and if I should shut down the aggregator?
gemini://feeds.gmi.bacardi55.io
New smolzine #20 is out :-)
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-20.gmi
Hello gemini tinyloggers!
Now I'm part of "Tinylog timeline generated by gtl" thank you @bacardi55!
Also gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/ [1] now part of "Fediring" [2]! If you have account on fediverse you can join us.
[1] gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/
The speed increase on Station is really noticeable. Good job @martin !
I've made quite good progress on implementing custom themes in gtl¹ :)
More messy than I would have prefer… But seems to work well!
I may rework it a bit, but I'll push something this week (and would love more tests than me and my different terms)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/44
Sorry if you see tests in my tinylogs, I use my own tinylog feed for testing 🤷 :)
But happy to have fixed a couple of issue in GTL to get back on the horse, now I can start working on real improvements :).
I started coding a few patch for GTL in the train on Friday and today… Clearly rusty as I had to re-read some of my code to understand what I did a few months ago :D
But happy to start again, a few patches will be pushed soon to the main branch
Reflecting on an amazing year and I'm thankful for so many things. Here are some short (subjective) observations from "life" so far.
Добавил RFC: TinyLogs format и RFC: GEMPUB format в коллекцию.
2021-06-08 RFC: TinyLogs format
Hey Stationeers! Today is my birthday, so I made a few updates to our station (it was getting a little rusty). Station is now faster, and you can add polls to posts to get more structured feedback. All the details are in "Recent Updates" gemini://station.martinrue.com/updates
So, here goes – first poll on Station:
[POLL How long have you been on Station?] I'm really new | A few weeks | A few months | I'm an old guard
I'm spending the day in a very hot Arrecife, so hello from the beach where I'm pushing this update from 👋
В данный момент моя статья об Scuttlebutt мне не нравится. Надо будет её переделать, если получится.
These 3D printed computer terminals are simply gorgeous! #3dprint #retro #terminal
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
https://uri.cat/projects/modern-retro-terminal/
I'm motivated to take back working on GTL soon :]
I have a few ideas to implement and bugs to fix, and I miss writing go :P
Feel free to send any ideas or submit ticket to github/gitlab projects too (:
What the...? Is this really "Buy Instagram Followers" spam on Midnight Pub, in Persian? 😄
gemini://midnight.pub/posts/793
Apparently there is another security fix for gemserv, please update geminauts!
New tinylog:
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/tinylog.gmi
Houston¹ and Tinylogs agregator² are back online :) That's one thing less to do!
I also added a few tinylog generated by Station³ to the aggregator. Not sure who to add and who not to, so for now only @skyjake, @martin and @kelbot have been added.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/
Hanging out in mozz's chat room for a bit. 👍👍
Station has reached 500 users! Thanks @powerh00th00t for bringing this awesome little community on the fringes of the Internet to this new milestone. Thanks everyone who participates here for keeping this place alive, friendly, and full of interesting stuff every day! 🍻
Устал, но добавил в коллекцию вторую статью от Parimal Satyal.
2020-05-25 Rediscovering the Small Web!
Not sure why, but I can't make my gemini server hosting houston/tinylog aggregator to work again with gemserv since the last update…
I did the same thing for my "local" server (serving my gemlog and feed) and it worked without any issue…
Even tried recreating the tls certificate but no success… I'm thinking about installing another gemini server for this 🤔
Добавил статью в коллекцию Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web за авторством Parimal Satyal.
2017-11-02 Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
Убрал ограничение в 80 символов и теперь использую "длинные строки" в соответствии с документацией gemini.
Spellbinding is driving Gemini adoption in my social circle. My wife and I have been playing it, and now her sister and one of her friends have installed Lagrange in order to join us in playing it. 😁
gemini://spellbinding.tilde.cafe/
If the Doctor (Star Trek) and other holograms were indeed "photonics", they'd be visible in the dark. But no, they merely reflect light like the rest of us. They probably don't even glow in the infrared! What a scam. "Photons be free" indeed.
Issue 19 of smolZINE is out now. Check out Sunny's capsule in Hidden Gems for a cool wordle clone playable within gemini. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-19.gmi
Also to think about this week: Should I (auto) clean my tinylog file to remove old entries?
I think I should put a cleaning process to remove post older than X days…
That's also why I want to add a "bookmark" option in GTL.
Thought for this week: Should we try to simplify tinylog format a bit?
I feel like some resistance about it is because it can be too flexible (and thus potentially hard to parse).
A simple solution would be to have a more limiting format and then allow client to add feature they want on top of it.
I have no idea if that's really an option, as some user already feel "constrained" with the current format 🤷
RE: @lykso@lyk.so Fri 28 Jan 2022 20:35 UTC
Has twtxt completely supplanted tinylogs on Gemini? Feels like my tinylog feed is really quiet these days.
Funny enough, I wrote a gemlog about this recently¹.
I don't think tinylogs are dead, but as @deerbard said, I'm just posting this into the gemini void without too much thoughts :).
RE: @szczezuja Sun 30 Jan 2022 21:51 CET
@bacardi55: I've add to my GTL one feed of my colleague, and I realized that there are no any Station's tinylogs in your aggregated feeds timeline. Is it on purpose? I remember that Station had add tinylog support on the early stage of RFC creation, and It seems to be quiet about it from that time?
Indeed, I didn't add any station users to the global feed. The reason was: "who am I to decide who should or shouldn't be on that list?"… Then I could add "everyone" but that's a lot…
I could start with adding the "most known" users? I don't know tbh, so would appreciate feedback :)
Finally joined Astrobotany: gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/a76b6a12acf0444e8a8155c9a5984c5f
Hello from the Atlantic ocean! I'm on a ship headed to Lazarote and I'm somehow picking up a 4G signal, so I've tethered so I can use Lagrange. First Atlantic ocean post on Gemini? 😆
Написал небольшую заметку о том как установить новую версию go на старый debian.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/glog/2022-01-29-MY004.gmi
Пробую разобраться в tinylog и gtl.
Has twtxt completely supplanted tinylogs on Gemini? Feels like my tinylog feed is really quiet these days.
Using the electricity mix in my region, the servers I run put out around 5 tonnes of CO² a year. My laptop puts out just shy of 100lbs, or 45kg (assuming 12 hours of use per day). Seeing what tricks I can employ to begin keeping my servers powered off more. Already I've started keeping my media box turned off at night and much of the day by downloading music and video I want to consume in the near future to the devices I'll be consuming them on, but my VM server runs some things that should be kept on 24 hours a day. Next step is, I suppose, seeing if I can put some of those VMs onto SBCs instead. (I have a few from previous projects just gathering dust at the moment.)
Just improvised a lunch for me and my housemates. Writing it here to share and remember:
- 1/2 a head of garlic
- 1 onion
- A generous amount of sesame oil
- 340g (12oz) tempeh
- 60mL (1/4 cup) soy sauce
- 60mL (1/4 cup) pure maple syrup
- 3 packets of red pepper flakes
- 15mL (3 tsp.) garam masala
- Some shiitake mushroom
Fry onion, garlic, tempeh together in oil, add mushroom and fry until browned, add rest of ingredients, cook until sauce is absorbed/reduced. Serve w/ rice or eat as-is.
I've written a post about why I've chosen to be pseudonymous.
gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/009-why-a-pseudonym.gmi
Perfect score on Spellbinding. 🙌
Listening to KONPEITO #8. Anyone know of any other Gemini-native music/mixtapes?
@ewok reading challenge day 6: only read 10 pages today. I really need to start reading earlier, that would help sleep more too ^^
@skyjake site is down… I'm guessing his new server still have a few glitches :D
Joking aside, I think the gemini community really benefits from his hard work in clearly all gemini areas like @szczezuja said!
If you read this @skyjake, many thanks <3
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_dynamic-cosmos.gmi
Combing through my data, trying to create a reasonable accounting of and structure for it all. Seems almost like a never-ending project.
Didn't read at all yesterday (well, I did read a manga but that doesn't count). I'm going to do a wrap up of my experience in this challenge later today (or tomorrow), but I'm thinking about another challenge to start for the next 3 weeks. Not based on page / day but mainly just on "did I read X days per week". The number of page is not important for me, as it also depends so much on life constraint. But making the habit to open a book at least 5 days per week is what I'm looking for…
Mondays, right…? 😫
"Forced" myself a bit tonight to read before going to bed, but I may regret it tomorrow morning 🤷.
Anyway, I only read 20 pages tonight. But the main goal is to retrieve the habit of reading daily or close to it, so I'm happy to continue this challenge :).
Just upgraded Lagrange from 1.9.5 to 1.10.1. Really enjoying that it now shows me the identity that will be used to request a URL in the "URL" bar that pops up at the bottom of the window when hovering over a link.
Day 3 of the reading challenge! I missed day 2, but today I finished one of my book, reading 50+ page so I'm covered for the day :].
Yesterday was last day of the working week and my brain was entirely fried ^^
One of the benefits of the Reform having a clear bottom: I don't think I've ever cbeen this fastidious about keeping the inside of a computer clean before.
Finally the week end :]
I would like to propose the existence of a shameful "kink" among the privacy-minded: a secret, tortuous longing for the final blissful peace-bringing surrender of every detail of your life to Amazon, the government, Google, several other governments, et cetera. YOU WILL EXIST IN NAKED SUBMISSION TO A STATE OF GRACE ONLY NORMIES HAVE KNOWN
RE: @szczezuja Thu 20 Jan 2022 16:38 CET
It's funny that it seems that made more noise than . Twtxt was added to some time ago, and at this time there were about 10 active users aggregated by @bacardi55, and only several testing posts on twtxt provided by Antenna. Of course twtxt is reaching more far than Geminispace, but in Geminispace tinylog is more homely. For me the key benefit is that tinylog is readable for any Gemini client, ant it isn't only formatted text-file, at the same time it is offering the same functionalities, with the same simplicity.
Maybe I'm wrong When I say that txtwt is more popular, I don't know, but feels like it but maybe only because twtxt users are more vocal? In any case, the more I think about it the more I do prefer tinylogs. But maybe the RFC format is a bit too complex for micro bloging? I'll have a think later, in the meantime, I'm enjoying writing here (:
If you have missing glyphs (Emoji in particular) in #Lagrange, this may help:
https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/font-library/src/branch/main/build/get_symbola.sh
It's a shell/Python script that downloads Symbola from UFAS and converts it to TrueType (using "fonttools"). You can then drag-and-drop the .ttf on the Lagrange window to install it.
(Requires python3 and pip3.)
Symbola is quite a nice Unicode 13 compatible font, but available only for personal use so I can't put it in the Font Library.
I've decided to participate to ew0k reading challenge for the coming weeks.
Tonight, I read indeed 50 pages (from 77 to 127^^) of one my current book.
I'm hopping that this challenge will help me add more reading habits to my brain so that I can achieve the 24 goal this year!
So I've been thinking. Wanderlust, while used too often, is still a cool German word that captures the essence of wanting to be somewhere else – the desire (lust) to be wandering (wander). But eventually, such an unfulfilled desire doesn't feel so positive, so I've always been on a first-name basis with Fernweh – far pain, or the pain of not being somewhere far away (in contrast to homesickness). Reflecting on the last month hanging out in the Canary islands, I'm grateful that I've had no cause to use either of these words. In fact I now wish to coin a new pair: Hierlust (the desire to be right here) and Anderswoweh (the pain of thinking about being anywhere else).
Today is not a great day so far
The TLGS (Totally Legit Gemini Search) search engine seems to work really well for the few searches I've done on it yesterday and today :)
Thanks a lot to the author @Martin!
I see more posts about twtxt in the gemini community. Feels like it might attract more than tinylog for some reason… I'm now thinking: should I switch to twtxt? Have both? Should GTL handle Twtxt format? At this point I don't know 🤷.
I'll try to write a post about my thoughts tonight if I find the motivation
Wrote my first gemlog entry of the year. I'm happy because it has been some time since I manage to motivate myself to write! One step after the other we can then think about a possible second one :]
Stopping work now… I started ±12h ago… This has been a long day…
Stumble across @Ploum article about going offline in 2022. I must say it made me think a lot. Not that I want to do the same thing, but I've been trying to remove some of the "burden" of being online last year too. Using an e-ink tablet to read web content via wallabag is quite helpful as it limits me in what I can do, but I haven't been the best at following my rules.
Also, I find it very interesting that people that experienced the early web are more and more trying to either disconnect or find alternative closer to back then (myself included). I believe it does speak a lot about what the web has became…
Small Cosmos tweak: publications like smolZINE are always sorted to the top of their day and can only be the root of a thread. @kelbot
As zines are not regular log posts they may link to many things and if one or more of the links happen to be feed posts, it’s not appropriate for the zine to become a thread reply to one of them.
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-18.gmi
The #Smashwords website is nothing like a modern website, and I love it! I mean, you can download this #ebook I am currently really enjoying (Casual Computing) for free, DRM free, without creating an account, without popups in your face, right now, just by following the link. No user hostility, you can read the ebooks on any device you want, and you get to support independent authors.
Casual Computing: Light Reading for Users of Open Source, About Open Source
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/686135
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_cosmos.gmi
Occasionally people reply or refer to others' posts in Geminispace, but these threads of discussion are not really visible anywhere. I wanted to make something to help with this, so I wrote a new aggregator that tracks links between posts.
I keep wanting to use fzf as a general interface, but there are all these seemingly-slight issues that keep that from being viable. Was building a Spartan browser in shell script using fzf as an interface just now, but the lack of line wrapping and the lack of support for entering arbitrary text makes it a non-starter. :/
Did you know you can download all of Wikipedia onto your hard drive and use it offline? It's only 87Gb and will fit on a microSD card. Useful for distraction-free productivity for home-schooling, work-from-home, etc. Also useful for those with little or no connectivity or during internet take-downs. With the Kiwix software, it's searchable and you can also host it onto a local network with one click. Other useful downloads: Gutenberg books, Khan Academy, TED videos, StackExchange, Arch Linux wiki, WikiHow, and tons more. Might as well put your uncapped (or night-time) internet to good use. #offline #kiwix
Kiwix content
https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
"Digital Vegan" is a deep dive into the problems with our current technology (Big Tech and social media). It's "a call to disengagement and more careful, slower, deliberate and thoughtful relations with technology". #book #recommendation
Andy Farnell
Enjoying this interactive gemsite:
Re: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space 2022-01-06 10:25 CET
Yeah, it's really, *really* vague. I'm guessing it's similar to or synonymous with the "indie web" at best, and nothing more than an inflated way to say "we don't like cryptocurrencies" at worst.
I really like Gemini, but inline links have been very hard to let go of for me.
I've been pretty quiet on here since before Xmas. I've been traveling again. I really should sort out a mobile client. Hope everyone's 2022 has started well! 💪
¡Feliz día de Reyes! I didn't get anything. Probably a Brexit thing.
A free e-book on advice from a philosopher billionaire: "Almanack of Naval Ravikant". I don't agree with all of it, but there's a lot here to contemplate and dig into. #book #recommendation #philosophy #happiness #wealth
Eric Jorgenson
Dropped a butter knife on my laptop screen. Managed to make a small cut in the polarization film, so now I've got a white line in the middle of my screen. I wonder if it's possible to order the film only, or if I'm going to have to order a whole new screen? 🤔
Nostr is: "The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all." and "a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working" #nostr #twitter #decentralized
Nostr
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
smolZINE Issue 17 is out now. Happy new year! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-17.gmi
Here's the fontpack I'm using in Lagrange, in case anyone else fancies a modernist, Futura-like font for their Gemini browsing: gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/Jost.fontpack
Just upgraded to Lagrange 1.9.2 from 1.7.0. Enjoying the new fontpack feature!
Now using fzf to interactively search my inventory files. Updated my "bins" system page and wrote a quick gemlog entry about it. Pretty simple stuff, but maybe you'll find it interesting.
gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/008-searching-the-bins.gmi
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-12_android-alpha.gmi
A new frontier for Lagrange! The first ALPHA build of Lagrange for Android is available for trying out, if you have a 32-bit ARM device.
It is pretty certain to crash on you somewhere along the way. Hopefully the next build with a newer SDL is more stable.
I updated the Gemini server certificates on skyjake.fi and git.skyjake.fi.
skyjake.fi kept its public key, so your client may automatically trust it. The expiration date is much further in the future.
git.skyjake.fi now uses the same certificate, via SAN. I'm also redirecting from git.skyjake.fi:1965 (served by Agate) to git.skyjake.fi:1968 (served by GmGitView).
Station just reached 1500 (1501 now) posts! I'm loving the active, niche, friendly community we have here. Every time I visit there's something that catches my attention, and that's great to see considering the tiny corner of the internet we occupy. Here's to the next 1500!
The latest incarnation of my #raspberrypi DIY audio player. Still a bit clunky, but it's now pocketable, and can run 15+ hours on a full charge. The software is now perfect 👌
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A critique of Web3. It's a long read, but gives a good explanation of what the Web3 (NFT, DAO) fuss is all about, and then promptly rips it apart with some considered arguments. #longread #web3 #nft #dao
The Third Web
https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
smolZINE Issue 16 has been released. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-16.gmi
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon! Today it's Esperanto day! If anyone's curious why I rate the language, and how I got into it: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18/
As is the trend these days, @ForGoodZA have updated their site to be far more user-hostile: cookie popup, 7+Mb of javascript, and tons of 3rd party requests without which the site won't work. All just so I can pick a cause and donate some money. *Sigh*
@deerbard thank you for the heads-up about the date format! I was confused about why my posts weren't showing up. I still need to track down where the issue is. I've gone full "digital minimalism" (see posts on my capsule) so I've completely dropped all social media (including Mastodon), and only browse Station, tinylogs, and Antenna mostly, since the volume of posts is low enough. If there's a website I want to read frequently, I write a scraper to bring it to gemini or add a feed to my comitium.
Whew, my first 100% score in SpellBinding. 😅
77 of 77 points
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? (2007)
learning vi/vim is an activity that will take a long time (weeks to months), and that the first experience is not pleasant
viemu.com
http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
Testing the new Lagrange for iOS native text input!
My custom input widgets weren’t really cutting it on mobile. There’s a vast number of little things that iOS does to make text entry smooth and effortless, so anything I could implement myself would be but a pale imitation.
It remains to be seen what can be done on other mobile platforms. The custom widget has to stick around as a fallback, but I’ll likely keep it as bare-bones as possible.
When I forgot my meds I can see that my life is really just moving toward growing (or, well, equal... not much left to grow) isolation and suicide
It's a grey, rainy day here in Manchester, UK. I'm staying in drinking Club-Mate and writing code all day, and I couldn't be happier.
JavaScript is 26 years old today. Crazy. Feels more like NaN years to me.
I discovered the #Gemini protocol about a year ago, and it's still a thing! I spend way more time reading posts here than on Web. Check out this quickstart page if you're curious.
Gemini quickstart!
This is neat! Random 4k wallpaper generator... no two images are exactly the same: https://tanck.nl/wallpaper
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-11_lagrange-1.9.gmi
The Lagrange November release is out! It'll be interesting to see if the automatic updates actually work. 😅
I built a little turn-based game for some training I'm delivering. Goal: write a bot that finds and destroys its opponent. Here, bot 2 guesses the movement pattern of bot 1 and lays a mine in its path. This one should be fun to run! 🙌
Quick demo: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1463473663576088579/pu/pl/638JNY7n9HKh23_H.m3u8?tag=12&container=fmp4&descending=true
Drinking Club-Mate and coding at 01:45. Today-me is screwing tomorrow-me so hard right now.
I liked this post by rlamacraft:
gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk/replies/reframingThePhilosophyOfGemini.gmi
Have to disagree with Drew here. Gemini is decidedly not a read-only distribution protocol. (As evidenced by what we're doing right here.) There is a little more nuance to it: I would call it a balance of 80/20 in favor of reading. Writing is possible, and even secure thanks to client certificates, but not as convenient as reading.
So this means, if in doubt, focus on the read direction, but completely ignoring the write direction unnecessarily excludes a lot of cool potential.
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
I have way more interesting conversations with people who have the ability to say "I don't know".
Made a cheddar cheese sauce and added a bunch of lemon juice to it just now. Tasty AF.
This week I'm delivering training to a bunch of folks getting into JavaScript from different languages/environments. Teaching is really rewarding... I really like doing it.
I've been away from gemini and mastodon lately, it does feel good sometimes to avoid too much online interaction :)
On other notes, I have played with the pinephone lately with sxmo UI, and it is neat AF :]
Another cool text adventure from ew0k in Issue 14 of smolZINE. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-14.gmi
My capsule's finally back in action. Moved from Vultur to openbsd.amsterdam and am running vger.
The old SSL cert did not come along for the ride. The new cert's fingerprint is:
b599fdfccd8605785ad6f8ae5147dc9d32b78a4bf9f1a42e6dc9f78bd0e7c62b
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
Not getting your StackOverflow questions answered? Got questions sitting around collecting nothing but internet dust? Simply make a second account and post a blatantly incorrect answer. Watch as hundreds of thousands of programmers from around the world descend on your question with their knowledge.
TIL: the oldest lightbulb (Centennial Light Bulb) has been almost continuously on since 1901. It's now 120 years old. It has been in Fire Station 6, Livermore, California since 1976 where it still burns.
Long-tailed widowbird and red-collared widowbird #birding #photo
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Happy Friday! What's everyone up to this weekend?
Just released, smolZINE Issue 13. Spelunking section is a must read! :)
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_lagrange-1.8.gmi
Lagrange v1.8 is released just in time for Halloween. Spooky! 👻
@mntn The Noto fonts have both Egyptian and Anatolian hieroglyphs...
I've been doing a lot of my gemini reading offline lately on my PDA and ereader. By chaining some cli tools together I get a document of the posts from my feed to read at my leisure throughout the day. It's pretty nice. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2021-10-21-offlinegeminiscript.gmi
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
TGIF! The weekend can not come fast enough!
Happy Friday everyone :)
smolZINE Issue 12 is out! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-12.gmi
"You're Not Addicted to Your Phone. You're Just Distracted."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwFZC8sepU
Been working on smolZINE today and have some fun community contributions. I'm excited about this one.
Welcome @velartrill. You're Station's 300 member!
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_mark-it-down.gmi
I'm curious if folks here have thoughts regarding Markdown in Geminispace?
Obviously we don't want sites doing browser-specific content, but on the other hand, the Gemini protocol is media-type-agnostic. It's the community that has to decide which content types are appropriate, and while Gemtext has many great qualities, it's also a bit of straightjacket.
Kirk is about to go back into space. T-10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do
I love VimWiki + Goyo vim plugins. Makes the writing experience so sweet.
Maybe I should take the time to write about my vimwiki + taskwarrior usage 🤔
OVH is down right now… So DNS servers too and so my services are not available anymore.
This raise the question of DNS management for me. This is the only (I think) service I'm not selfhosting at this point^^.
Question: What's your favourite TED talk and why?
Mine is "The art of misdirection" by Apollo Robbins: https://www.ted.com/talks/apollo_robbins_the_art_of_misdirection
Why? Because it's awesome (you can only watch it once).
I've been playing a lot lately with taskwarrior, vimwiki and gtd.
I need to keep that habit for at least a month and then revisit!
RE: @szczezuja Wed 06 Oct 2021 20:33 CEST
RE: @deerbard Wed 06 Oct 2021 12:10 CEST
Yes, gemini might be quiet at some time, but I think it's part of its goodness. This is a slow web, which means indeed quiet time, but for me it is a good thing. I believe it's part of making it not addictive like all the creepy sites on the web that just want you to stay on their platform longer :)
@szczezuja: Weren't you looking for a tools like this one?
https://git.sr.ht/~kornellapacz/gmnigit
I love Sundays. The internet is so quiet compared to during the week. It actually feels a little meditative.
Ok, finally joining in the station fun. Hi everybody.
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?
RE: @deerbard Sun 03 Oct 2021 18:39 CEST
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
Time was one of the thing that made me move away from lace…
RE: @deerbard Fri 01 Oct 2021 10:23 CEST
💬 @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.
Thanks for the advice! I tried a lot using just pen and paper… But I don't always have my notebook with me. And I don't like the very small one that fit in a pocket…
I do use a lot pen and paper, specially to take notes during call/meeting because it simulate more my brain and memory than typing, but for follow up and task lists, it is scatter in too many pages…
Maybe there is a format to use with paper to be better, but I don't know any^^.
RE: @bacardi55 Wed 29 Sep 2021 10:03 CEST
I wish I was better at maintaining a nice todolist up to date. I've seen so many tools and method (gtd, …), but I always fail behind and stop updating it at some point.
I wonder if other people like me found a miracle solution 🤔
Well, I decided to give taskwarrior and gtd a new try… Let's see 🤔
I just automate the sh*t out of the most boring task I have at work ("activity tracking") with a small golang code. I'm very happy about myself right now :D
"The Single Most Productive Thing You Can Do" #sleep #productivity
Grace B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PP90uBF_cU
I wish I was better at maintaining a nice todolist up to date. I've seen so many tools and method (gtd, …), but I always fail behind and stop updating it at some point.
I wonder if other people like me found a miracle solution 🤔
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.
Lagrange v1.7.0 about to go live...
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/images/v1.7_folders-and-popup.jpg
Just need to run some dependency upgrades on my little build farm.
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.
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
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Thu 23 Sep 2021 09:08 CEST
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:
I don't think any apology is required here. Everybody has their priorities and an offline life (well, we don't really have "offline" life anymore, but that's another question^^).
I've been very quiet online lately too, and sometimes it is helpful to take breaks :)
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.
Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all have a productive week. Going to be a busy one over here, but I'd prefer it no other way :)
"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
I think the world would be a slightly better place if more people were quicker to think "this software has gotten too bloated" and slower to think "this computer has gotten too old."
The Mandelbrot set is so interesting. If you've not heard of it before, check out this awesome, beautiful visualisation of it.
Bonus: watch it for a minute or so and then look at an object in your room. The effects are so fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk
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
Re: @deerbard@tinytext.club 2021-09-16 15:28 CEST
Yeah, it's a bit negative, but I think it makes sense in the context of it being focused on gamers. Gaming often involves fierce competition and trash-talk, which one might term "discord." That's my head-canon, anyway.
Finally sat down and threw together a script for easily looking up and inserting emoji anywhere I like in a way that conforms to my preferences.
gemini://lyk.so/systems/emoji-input/
🙌
Writing a gemlog post entirely on my phone. It's still a bit crude, but at least nothing has crashed so far.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-09_hello-from-ios.gmi
Just figured out why msmtp wasn't working under Debian. Its AppArmor profile is too restrictive for how I'm using it. Leaving a note here for my future self and anyone else with the same problem. Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62838673/awk-permission-denied-when-run-through-msmtp
The solution:
sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp
Station just received its 1000th post!
Nice work everyone. It's awesome to see this micro community on Station growing and continuing to be full of interesting people and discussions 🙌
Created a page describing my e-mail system. I use mblaze, msmtp, and mbsync.
gemini://lyk.so/systems/e-mail/
dysphoria sucks balls
Re: @deerbard@rawtext.club 2021-09-07 12:12 CEST
I like it. Thanks for sharing your art here!
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.
Today is not a good mood day :[
What's everyone up to this week?
I'm finishing off a little client work before putting some time into my own project work, which I've neglected far too much lately. Making time to work on my own things is really important – it's an essential part of keeping programming fun for me.
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Mon 06 Sep 2021 18:00 CEST
I am officially accepted into the school I wanted to go to!
Congratz!!
Never tried creating a tinylog entry as a multiple response, but I like how it works with gtl (without doing anything special about it):
screenshot of an entry with double response.
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Fri 03 Sep 2021 22:17 CEST
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)
When are the results expected? 🤞
I saw this on the "other web" and had to share here:
A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says "You're in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?" The horse replies "I don't think I am," and then disappears from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes' famous philosophy of "I think, therefore I am", but to explain that part before the rest of the joke would be putting Descartes before the horse.
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
I bookmarked this post some time ago and found myself reading it again today. 'To survive a collapse, never mind build the utopia, systems need to be running now. That means scaled sourcing of materials, creation, and deployment.' This resonates with me. I also think there is value in documenting what can be reclaimed from where, along with what those components may be used for. Making useful what would otherwise be waste is, in my opinion, one of the most solarpunk endeavors possible.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/shufei/phlog/20200712-Comp-Solarpunk.gmi
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!
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
Hello from a Raspi 400.
Running GUI apps in a console takes me back to the 90s, to the good (bad) old days of MS-DOS. It's cool that it's still a thing that's possible to do, 30 years later!
Lagrange could use a few tweaks for this environment, though:
- no way to change the screen resolution except via editing prefs.cfg
- mouse cursor is not always redrawn when it's moved (SDL bug?); keyboard navigation for the whole UI would be nice
- can't switch VTs as SDL catches all the keys (maybe unfixable?)
- needs some sort of file picker UI since drag-and-drop is unavailable
Does anyone else ever have mixed feelings about 3D printing? Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing isn't just a ploy to sell more plastic.
It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
Curb has a special place in my heart (and the next one is coming in October!), but no sitcom will ever beat Seinfeld for me.
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
misread an old 6th edition card as being 2-mana "discard 2, draw 4" and was completely shocked. then I read the card again
Two years today since I made a Polish robot speak Esperanto, and it still does: https://parol.martinrue.com
If you want to hear it, here's an example taken right out of the English-Hungarian phrasebook:
My hovercraft is full of eels: https://parol.martinrue.com/?teksto=Mia kusenveturilo estas plena je angiloj
skyjake.fi is up and running again.
Turns out the problem was not as dire as I feared. There was a loose power cable blocking the CPU fan from turning, which was causing the CPU to overheat. The cable must've been near the fan already since it's been rattling, but the hard knock pushed it in fully.
Hopefully nothing got damaged while it was running at max temp for a few hours without a fan...
⚠️My server skyjake.fi suffered a hardware malfunction (fan) and I had to shut it down for now. This means my capsule and the Mastodon instance will be offline for a while, until
I relocate the services or fix the broken fan.
Lagrange continues to be available via Codeberg and GitHub in the meantime.
Unpopular? opinion: get rid of the feature to minimize windows. I mostly only ever do it by mistake and haven't needed it in forever. If they ever give me the launch codes to macOS, it's *gone*, I tell you!
A cool thing I managed to do this week was to install OpenBSD on an external drive and run it on real hardware. Quite a bit nicer experience than running inside a choppy VM.
This was my first time running a real BSD on my PC. I found and fixed a few bugs for Lagrange v1.6.4 with this setup.
The only problem was that—of course—my RTX 2080 and 5K monitor were not detected correctly, so I was stuck on a squished 1280x1024. It was striking how quickly your eye's adapt to the aspect ratio... When looking at normal 1:1 text afterwards, everything looked extremely narrow and stretched in the opposite direction.
Station users now have a tinylog feeds!!!
gemini://station.martinrue.com/martin/751648cb014140bdbca260d9ef9e8ecb
Thanks @martin for the great work and expending tinylogs idea!
On other notes, I hope everyone is enjoying there week end :]
RE: samhunter Sat 21 Aug 2021 14:04 CEST
💬 @bacardi55 Sat Aug 21 13:39:00 CEST 2021
Having said that - golang libraries it uses are a bit too big to have the repo cloned in my RTC $HOME. Then - I am a bit of a troglodyte, I am actually quite happy with dumping the content of your Gemini page to stdout and scrolling it with help of my terminals scrollback function.
I'll probably install it locally on my machines at home though. It's pretty neat and the keybindings are reasonable ;)
Thanks for testing :) You can also download a binary to avoid building the app :).
Or when not on the right devices, you can always check gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io to avoid installing anything other than a gemini browser.
I finally got some time to do some Station work!
Check "Recent Updates" to see all changes, but the main one is that all Stationeers now have a Tinylog feed. Thanks for the idea @skyjake and @bacardi55.
This means users on Station can be "followed" outside of Station, via tools like GTL, like so: https://i.imgur.com/5TktXsz.png
Hope everyone's having a great weekend 🙌
RE: samhunter Sat 21 Aug 2021 13:10 CEST
I might have patched the problem 'lace' has with incorrectly formatted dates (or at least I found a good place to do so).
→ lace My modified lace (WIP)
I don't know if you follow my tinylogs but you could try gtl :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl
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
@frrobert@frrobert.net Does lace works with entries containing empty lines?
Trying to understand if lace is compatible with this:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/15
Any lace user that knows can respond :)
Top-down design is far less enjoyable that bottoms up design. This is not a current status, yet.
RE: @szczezuja Wed 18 Aug 2021 20:53 CEST
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 8:
Thanks for testing and your feedbacks!
* `R` with above option is worked fine, but I don't know if it's full format of response? I don't have date of original tinypost in stub;
Could you show the given stub?
It should something like:
## <Now date>
RE: <user> <log entry date>
<quoted entry>
Do you see something different?
* `Alt+Enter` isn't working for me, strange.
Weird, you mean nothing happen? Do you have a left or right "alt" key? (I noticed it works only with left one).
I'm thinking to move it to a simple letter like the other, that might fix your issue 🤔
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
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Thu 19 Aug 2021 12:03 CEST
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!
It is the small/slow web so nothing disappeared too fast or changed to much :D
Good luck with school though :)
What do you geminauts think of saltpack? I've been meaning to try it for some time, but it doesn't seem to have any traction anywhere.
Just finished the 2021-04-05 episode of Trendy Talk and then immediately found this post, which I thought dovetailed nicely with some of Chris Were's arguments: gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210716-re-why-distributed-systems-dont-work.gmi
Structural change does need to happen to address a lot of the problems facing us, but in the meantime there's still value in doing whatever little bit one can immediately do as well.
I've just release gtl v0.6.0. I think it is by far the biggest release so far (except the original first v0.1.0).
I'm quite happy about gtl state and I think I'm close to what I want for a semi final version (v1.0.0).
Read the changelog / docs as it has different changes than the alpha version!
RE: @deerbard Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:48 CEST
@bacardi55 samhunter's tinylog is not included in gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/
It's gemini://rawtext.club/~samhunter/tinylog.gmi
Thanks, I've added it!
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
what a wild day: a dunkey video is on the front page of hacker news
RE: @szczezuja Sat 14 Aug 2021 11:36 CEST
@bacardi55: You are also absent for two weeks. Vacations time! ;-)
I took a week off but also took some time away from the laptop outside of work too :)
Was quite refreshing :)
Now I need to push gtl v0.6.0 tonight and many other things I planed during my time off that I didn't do.
I'm not at all "worried" or annoyed at myself for not doing any of the thing I planned (coding wise), It was quite a nice brain break.
Even my reading were "easy book" only and nothing that made me think too much :)
TBH, being back since this morning is freaking tough
I feel so incapable of doing/tackling/starting/accomplishing anything I could cry, except I can't seem to do that either anymore
missing the glory days of populated flickr group
This whole "intuitive, impulsive" cooking thing is working really well so far. Procrastinated on a task today by making a fresh pasta dinner for the house with three different pestos and some oven roasted brussel sprouts while listening to an episode of Trendy Talk. Not bad as far as procrastination goes. Certainly beats endlessly scrolling social media!
New quickie thing about successfully faking a wallpaper when using Kwin without Plasma.
gemini://anjune.lol/mkc/kwin-standalone.gmi
I've officially reached the comically funny stage of how often TypeScript saves my ass. It feels like having a super smart colleague that *really* likes verbose ways of explaining how I'm acting like a psychopath in any given moment.
When I was younger, I thought that being an early adopter for every shiny new tech toy would empower me and give me an edge. I tried to make up for a lack of experience with being among the first to every new trend. Now those shiny new toys just look like shackles to me, and the "progress" of consumer-oriented tech just looks like a hamster wheel. It's a strange feeling, being in tech while also hating so much about it.
I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute...
Air fryer chicken katsu with pickled plum onigiri tonight. Very simple and easy to make. First time using the air fryer. Really happy with how crunchy the breading turned out. Housemates also liked the tonkatsu sauce I made.
Epoxy just failed. Should've tested longer before celebrating. Next attempt: solder, paperclips, and wire cutters.
Just successfully repaired a broken scissor switch on my Thinkpad using a male pin header, a hobby knife, and some epoxy. One of the pegs on the scissor switch had broken off, and the metal from a male pin header was exactly the right size and shape to replace the whole section. In the past I would have replaced the whole keyboard. Feels like I've just leveled up! :D
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.
A quick gemlog post about why there are some rough edges with text input in v1.6. @gnuserland
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-08_complexity-of-input.gmi
(I think my Gemlog Booster is working as intended; it's super convenient to make posts via Lagrange.)
I have a bad habit of killing my own momentum when what I perceive to be the "correct" path conflicts with what I *want* to do. I perceive learning the "mother sauces" to be "correct," as I've already begun that task and knowing those seems to be considered "foundational," but what I *want* to do now is play with lentils and curries. So now I find myself doing neither. :p
"A practical philosophy of health, wealth and happiness"
Happiness
Sometimes, I have the crazy idea that tinylogs with a bit more work and a nice cgi script could be a decentralized station… 🤔
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.
Just threw together a cheddar cheese sauce to put on some dried pasta I'd made. Would not have known how to do this a month ago. success-baby.jpeg
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
RE: @szczezuja Mon 26 Jul 2021 18:28 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. […]
So I suggest dialog likei below:[…]
When after pressing gtl could try to run `xclip`, but everybody who don't have `xclip` would also easy copy text from textarea and press .
I added an option called `tui_show_stub` that will display the response stub in a modal before opening the $EDITOR, so that should fix your flow :)
I also added a shortcut "Alt+Enter" to open the selected entry in a modal, with buttons to do the action available via shortcuts. That should help your flow too.
I'm using some light color scheme for terminal I `gtl` looks like bellow.
Seems of a mix of a terminal issue and a cview (tui library) issue. I've raised other bugs in cview git repository lately so unsure if I can fix these in the short term 🤔
I'm thinking about releasing an alpha2 version…
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).
Lagrange v1.6 release party! 🎉
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-07_lagrange-1.6.gmi
Already found a bug... Copy-pasting in the text editor seems to paste too much text. 😄
RE: @szczezuja Thu 22 Jul 2021 22:00 CEST
Thanks for trying the gtl v0.6.0-alpha!
* suggestion - on the subscription pane you are using <Down arrow>/<Up arrow> for navigation, and for the timeline pane you are using <J key>/<K key> - it could be <Left arrow>/<Right arrow>, and it could work without changing pane by tab key. Two navigation keys schemas are confusing. <Right arrow> is using now for scrolling - I don't know if it's required.
* highlighted entry is hard to read in some gemtext colors combination - look for this post for example;
Could you show me a screenshot of the rendering? I'm not sure what you mean.
* suggestion - <T key> could be working always, also on posts without response pattern. It could be handy, because it will help with tmux native copy&paste functionality (C-A-[ and C-A-] keys in tmux);
T is supposed to open the original message the response is about, but I could add another shortcut to open the selected post in a modal (with button below to show the other shortcuts like "O" or "R"). I'll add something like this for the beta.
* <R key> isn't working for me because I don't have X installed on my terminal (I have xclip installed). Fot tmux users it will be better to show response pattern in dialog like described above;
Hm, indeed, I don't think that feature can work without X. See response above for opening current entry in modal.
* <O key> isn't working for me - I have installed xdb-utils, but there isn't any response after pressing it;
Again, without X I'm not sure how much this can work. It uses xdg-open behind the scene on linux, so if using in a terminal "xdg-open http://…" works, it should work from gtl. Also, can you try "O" on an entry containing multiple links? Do you see the modal with the links choice?
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
The adage that travel broadens the mind and can make you a more open-minded, tolerant person, IME is very true. For that reason, I especially like the etomology behind the Icelandic word "heimskur", which means "stupid", or ~"one who hasn't left home".
RE: @deerbard Thu 22 Jul 2021 08:14 UTC
@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 :)
I subscribed only to this page:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/index.gmi
I've released an alpha version of gtl 0.6.0.
Yes, it is an alpha because so many changes that I'd love some tests… And because I think a potential feature can still be squeezed in (hence not the beta).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.6.0-alpha
I'm always using the latest commit so the added feature have been tested so it shouldn't all that buggy… Probably :)
I'm quite happy about it as this is a big release with many new things :).
RE: @deerbard Wed 21 Jul 2021 20:13 UTC
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?
Yes, I use comitium as a feed reader and I can see your latest post, see here:
gemini://feeds.gmi.bacardi55.io/
New UI experiment:
Long-form text entry via movable chunks.
I don't suppose there's a way to render a line starting with ``` in preformatted mode, is there?
New feature request created for cview^^
That's now 2 bug (1 fixed) and 2 feature requests (one fixed) that I raised just for v0.6.0…
I may start contributing at some point instead of just asking for stuff… 🤔?
That being said, it prevents a very small feature so it is definitely not blocking the next release.
RE: @bacardi55 Wed 21 Jul 2021 11:06 CEST
New scripts down and deployed :). Unfortunately URLs to gemlog/blog posts have changed, but at least I managed to keep the same URLs for atom feeds and gemini feed… :)
I think today I want to spend a bit of time changing how I manage my capsule. It is messy right now because everything is done in hugo for my web blog.
I still want a clear distinction between the 2 while still being linked (ie not displaying gemlog entries on the blog, just a gemini link) so I'm not entirely sure how this will work.
But I will rebase my capsule with a gemini site generator (most probably kiln) and then try to see how I can fit that in hugo to just display gemlog entries… 🤔
RE: @szczezuja Mon 19 Jul 2021 20:46 CEST
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.
That is why Emacs is an OS missing a good text editor :]
A fairly compelling argument for publishing documents as PDF files rather than as HTML pages. #goodread
lab6 Issue 0 (PDF)
iI've begun with the UI experiments. First point of inquiry: how best to present forms with simple, single-line inputs? Two approaches immediately came to mind:
gemini://alpha.lyk.so/
gemini://beta.lyk.so/
I'm interested in hearing opinions about the two approaches.
Next up will be experiments in long-form composition from within Gemini.
Today I advance well on the next version of gtl :]
Both the feature request and the bug fix works now thanks to @tslocum (cview developer)!
But I found another bug :D
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/72
This one is not a blocker though, but will make one of the new feature a bit more ugly than expected… But that's fine :).
I'm done for the day, having my brother home, but I'll continue tomorrow :]
Station just reached 200 docked! 👏
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.
Our induction plate "died" this week so today we opened it and investigate with a multimeter… Couldn't find the issue though, but looking inside was quite fun^^.
For those who wants to see what's inside, it looks like this:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/57d965310786
Just saw that both my bug and my feature request opened on cview repo have been fixed :]
Cview developer is really reactive!
I have lots of time plan to work on gtl first half of next week so we'll see if I can finish the first version based on those fixes!
Happy weekend everyone. Anybody doing anything interesting? I'm in a local 10-day quarantine – plenty of time to get back into a personal project!
After my first bug report, I opened my first feature request for cview :]
Next release is getting bigger but also "more blocked" too.
The cview bug has been fixed but not released in a stable tag yet. I may decide next week to move to a specific commit instead if no tag is released soon enough for next week beta release of the v0.6.0
So I decided to took a stab at creating a gemini version of tinylogs, so I added a "gemini" mode to gtl to generate a valid gemini output as an alternative to the TUI and CLI mode…
Was easier and faster than expected, so just to test I put it in a capsule with a cronjob every 15min:
gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/index.gmi
And it respect the tinylog format, so you could just follow it as a starting point (will become the default url in gtl when subscription file is empty).
@hedy shared with me an almost compatible tinylog on spartan which makes me wonder how much I want to add support for tinylogs on gopher/spartan 🤔…
That or creating a small proxy… Or not I don't know :D
We'll see that after the next release that still needs lot of work^^.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/39
I'm thinking that the next version of gtl might contains so many changes that maybe I'll release an beta version first… 🤔
I think I may be done with the new parser (that doesn't change much expect I'm using more regexp <3).
I've implemented a more flexible one that works with tinylog entries containing double new lines like Hedy's as discussed on the RFC issue.
I finally got a negative PCR reading yesterday, which means I can fly home. Enjoying one more day in the wonderful city of Barcelona and heading back tomorrow. Good job, body!
A few weeks ago I bought a Kobo ebook reader, thinking that I would use it to write some custom apps for an e-ink display. Instead, I've been rediscovering the joy of reading books on a non-LCD/OLED screen. The combination of a purpose-built, distraction-free device and a paper-like display is really working for me. (Amazon-free is also a major bonus.)
Currently reading scifi. I really liked Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary", and now I'm continuing with the Expanse series. I read Expanse book 1 a few years ago but for reason didn't continue to book 2 although I quite liked the first one.
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.
RE: @frrobert 2021-07-13 15:59 UTC
lace with the strict option does that
Interesting :). I was thinking about doing something like this but with a more text/gemini friendly output so that gemini browser can actually parse it (almost as a big tinylog)!
I think I'll poc that quickly after I release the next gtl version to see how it can look like :).
Crazy lunch thoughts: Using gtl CLI to create a capsule listing all referenced tinylog entries…
I guess a simple cgi script using gtl and then parsing it into text/gemini format… Or maybe even just a "--mode gmi" option to just generate gmi file instead of a cli/tui ui…
That would allow people:
Default is obviously that it can become a centralized service… But with tools like lace/gtl/cockpit that shouldn't be an issue as data are still un-centralized.
Was that really a crazy thoughts or an actual idea to make tinylogs more known/used… I actually don't know 🤔
Next version of gtl will have TUI improvements but also a new version of the parser that will be a bit more flexible compare to the RFC.
For example, I like this RFC issue regarding number of new lines that is very strict right now (comes from lace):
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/15
This release will still take a while though… That means for now some tinylog like Hedy's are not yet readable in gtc.
But that will change most probably by end of next week :]
I'm also wondering if that version might be a good fit for v1.0.0 🤔
I blogged about how I create audiobooks from epubs and the like, using text-to-speech.
Creating audiobooks
https://tobykurien.com/creating-audiobooks/
gtl is not compatible with hedy's tinylog because she uses many line break.
I'm wondering if next version should also contains a new version of the parser that will fit the recommended from hedy on the RFC about allowing paragraph breaks within a tinylog entry.
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/69
My cview issue has been fixed! Now I need to wait for 1.5.7 to be released… :)
But I'm continuing developing new feature that will need this so they are almost ready when the new cview version comes out!
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:
Always fun to read post around a tool I'm making, thanks @szczezuja
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-07-11-Bash-script-for-updating-gtl.gmi
Just opened my first issue on cview tracker:
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/69
When this get resolve, the v0.6.0 could start again with multiple new things coming… :)
Seems I found an issue in cview (the library i used for gtl TUI) that prevents me from implementing a nice feature …
So I need to take the time to create a very small piece of code to show how to reproduce (and make sure the error exist outside my code) to open a ticket.
I'm a bit lazy right now so this might happen later this week. But in the meantime a big part of the improve timeline is blocked :/
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).
Apparently an bad formatted entry in @deerbard tinylog makes gtl crash.
Because it is critical issue, I'm doing a quick release. That wasn't planned because I actually started working on some timeline improvement but that's life :).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.2
Thanks git branch and git stash :)
I'm devastated! But it does look interesting.
Re: @deerbard 2021-07-10 08:19 UTC
"I'm worst at what I do best, and for this gift I feel blessed," right?
Shoved my larger plastic bins into a space I made for them in my closet. Updated my "bins" system page accordingly. Not everything is catalogued and binned yet, but I'm feeling the sort of strong resistance to the task that indicates burnout. Soon I will become entirely incapable of making myself catalogue and bin anything (you can't even pay me to do something I've burned out on; I quite literally *cannot* make myself do it), so I'm going to try to tie up the loose ends so I can call it "done" before I totally lock up.
gmid keeps locking up for some reason. Once a day it seems to stop responding until I restart it. vger was quite reliable. Anyone know any tricks for getting client certificates via CGI in vger?
GF will not be there for the weekend so I might spend some time on the timeline rework…
I have many ideas and I am both excited and scared of the amount of rework needed ^^.
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
Does anyone know how to view 'rlog://' links like the one on this page? I've never seen this protocol before. gemini://xj-ix.luxe/wiki/nomad/
I'm following 8 station users now via gtl, the proxy seems to work fine :]
I'm even wondering if a similar proxy for mastodon user would be hard?
But that would be more for pure testing because I don't want to mix mastodon posts within gemini tinylogs
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)
If I'm being honest, I started this POC by procrastinating on starting the new timeline UI…
I find it ironic that I procrastinated writing code by… writing code… :D
RE: @myself: 2021-07-06 19:54 CEST
A couple of hours and <200 SLOC and I have users station feed pages in gtl :]
I've put a screenshot and the link to source code for curious people here:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106536091944798603
Started as a quick POC, but I basically built a "station to tinylog" parser… Meaning that I can transform a user feed page on station into a tinylog page. If I put this as a cgi script on a capsule, I could then use gtl to follow station user too…
That's nice!
I quite like Gemini, but it's very difficult to communicate to anyone in my life why I like it. It's like here's a certain level of fed-up you've got to reach, and you've also got to be fairly technical, for this sort of thing to appeal. But wow, I really like Gemini. I'd be quite happy if I never had to use the web again, frankly.
Switched from vger to gmid today in order to start playing with client authentication. Here's a little toy I just wrote: gemini://lyk.so/cgi/bin/whoami
Source code is here: gemini://lyk.so/cgi/src/whoami.c
I've released gtl v0.5.1 that mainly add a few TUI UX improvements.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.1
Next step is the big timeline rework^^.
RE: @myself: 2021-07-06 00:19 CEST
I love regexp <3 :)
I think I finally found a way to display responses ("Re:") "nicely" in gtl:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/8f8b98d1cde1
I have a few small ideas for gtl v0.5.1 (some already in main), but I have a big rework in mind for the TUI timeline panel for v0.6.0 that, once started, should take a big amount of time but should greatly improve the user experience…
It finally happened. I got it! Symptoms have been pretty bad until now, but today I feel a little better. Hoping that 2 weeks from now I'll be able to test negative so I can fly home.
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
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: ﾘ @reaton@geminids.ga Fri 02 Jul 2021 17:03 CEST
Today, for the first time, I tried meditation. Seems cool.
That's interesting, because I've been thinking of trying for a long time. I have not done any research yet on how to start though.
Maybe @reaton will tell us more about his start :]
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.
Today was my first day in the office since last July and my 2nd since March 2020 and covid. While I really enjoyed seeing and chatting with colleagues, it reminded me how much better I am at home to work. Better setup, better seat and a loooooot more silence and peace… But it was nice to enjoy the day and diner with the colleagues ^^.
I've been working 50% remotely for years before too, and I don't think I'll ever be able to work 100% in an office again.
RE: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space Thu 01 Jul 2021 22:18 CEST
I've written it earlier, that "highlights" don't work for me. You have responded to @deerbard about it, so I again request for some help in understanding that. :-)
All you need is in your configuration file is a "highlights" line with the different texts you want to highlight separated by a coma. Let's say for example you want to highlight all entries that contains "@szczezuja" or "szczezuja.space". To do so, you need in your configuration:
highlights = "@szczezuja, szczezuja.space"
If you want to highlight only entries with @szczezuja (start with this one to test):
highlights = "@szczezuja"
Then in gtl, you can press "h" to filter entries that only contains highlights (in this case, only filter entries that contains "@szczezuja").
If you are on a specific author tinylog (let's say you click on mine), then pressing "h" will filter entries for my feed that contains the highlights text ("@szczezuja" in this case, so this message will stay).
If you are in highlights mode, selecting other feeds or clicking on "all subscriptions" will keep that filter until you press "h" again (the title of the main panel say either "timeline" or "highlights" to show the difference).
I hope it is clearer, otherwise we might need to find a way to "real time" chat about it, might be easier :).
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
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RE @deerbard Thu 01 Jul 2021 07:36 UTC
I fully agree, tinylog shouldn't be used for chat.
As well, I don't know if you use lace or gtl (or other) for reading tinylogs, but you have the ability to filter only highlights in gtl to help you look at direct notification only :).
But I'm going to move away from direct chat as well as I agree it shouldn't be the main purpose.
Today is my first day in the office since summer 2020 (I went 1 day last July)…
I'm definitely not back full time there, and I think I'll never be.
For now I'm thinking 1 day per week or once every 2 weeks.
I have such a better setup at home (and silence too)
1st of July, very nice.
one month closer to 2022
RE: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space Sat 26 Jun 2021 19:50 CEST
Thanks for the feedback :). I've created issues on github for some of the items, I think feature requests / bugs are better there than in a tinylog^^.
I've set $EDITOR variable (in Debian-like OS the default editor is set by "update-alternatives --config editor" rather than $EDITOR?);
On debian based, having 'EDITOR="vim"' in your .{bash,zsh,…}rc works too.
new feature suggestion - ability to populate/update "subs" file from "Known-tinylogs.md";
Not sure about this one yet, so I created an issue for me to think about:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/26
I've got some panic error because of bad value in "post_edit_script", despite "allow_edit = false" after C-N in gtl - strange;
Weird, I don't manage to reproduce…
I have no idea of best usage of "post_edit_script" in my workflow;
Are you editing your tinylog directly on your server (via ssh(fs) for example)? If that's the case, you don't need it. But for myself for example, I work on a local file that is scp to my server as a post edit script.
Dialog about "post_edit_script" should be rethought.
I've removed the dialog if no post script is added. If there is, I want gtl to ask me if I want to run or not (maybe I'm not done writing yet and wanted to read something again).
when one sub is choose, and we press "r" all subs are refreshed (we must wait);
Why I don't like refreshing a single feed.
Dialog after "r" should be also rethought. It's bad idea to hide timeline during reading feeds - why user can't look at the last post, and must look at the empty page;
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/2
UX for current gtl mode - "all subscription" or "single subscription" should be rethought (it's unclear what is our current mode, especially after "r");
Now the title of the selected feed is displayed in the title to make it clearer.
@szczezuja: (not using the RE format because I'm answering to 2 of your entries :P)
I really enjoy todo.txt, I've heard a lot about org mode but for todo.txt is enough. When I wanted something more complex, I used taskwarrior that is also awesome (but way more complete/complex).
Regarding the proposed alternative for the "RE:" format, I have doubts that I'll try to formulate on the issue tracker later today or this week.
I really like the antenna idea, I need to think about how to integrate that in my deployment workflow.
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/about.gmi
But also I do have in mind to completely change the way I manage my capsule so it might take longer to integrate with it. We'll see 🤔.
I may work on gtl tonight so that will be for another time though :).
I've been avoiding the fediverse (I'm not on other Social Media) for a few days now and that's awesome :]
The only one I look from time to time is station on gemini^^.
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
RE @lykso@lyk.so Mon 28 Jun 2021 20:39 UTC
I've responded on station too, but feel free to add things here:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/23
RE @szczezuja Sat 26 Jun 2021 19:50 CEST
Thanks for the feedbacks, I'm not sure I understood all of your points but I have some ideas for improvements later this week, thanks!
@bacardi55 I can't seem to select text in gtl. Makes it a bit difficult to follow links in tinylogs.
"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 bought a couple old, second-hand, e-ink Kindles years ago. Specifically ones with firmware predating the agreement with Audible that resulted in Amazon removing the text-to-speech function. I got a lot of use out of that function back when I had to drive a lot for work. Now I'm finding them useful again for low-distraction reading. I've begun closing tabs by turning them into ebooks. Somehow reading on this sort of purpose-specific device *feels* faster. There are fewer background processes in my brain considering what else I should be doing than there are when I'm at a computer. And I can make the device read to me from where I left off when I need to do more physical work.
People usually listen others to respond (something about themselves) instead of just listening to understand and be useful…
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Sun 27 Jun 2021 06:31 CEST
I'm curious if you did something special for displaying responses in pollux.casa / cockpit?
This is a tough Monday after a nice week end away from home and screens^^.
I hate Mondays anyway…
Just modified my tinylog-post script to mirror my posts to station.martinerue.com. Does not mirror tinylog replies, to avoid cluttering up Station. This will save me from having to decide which things to post to my tinylog and which things to post to Station. Let me know if this becomes obnoxious, please!
gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/scripts/tinylog-post.sh
Bins system working well so far. Was just reminded that I'd left something out when I returned to my computer and saw the relevant grep output still visible in my terminal. Maybe I'd derive some benefit from keeping a list somewhere of possibly-left-out items, populated by a special "inventory-grep" command. 🤔
Two new humans and their two cats will be joining us in less than a week now. Still quite a bit to do to prepare for their arrival. 😬
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…
Fun little game: how many languages can you idenitfy. Be honest. I got 27. https://baltoslav.eu/adhadaj/index.php?mova=en
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
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@reaton@geminids.ga Glad you like it :)
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 :-(
Apparently I released gtl v0.5.0 in which you can edit and publish your tinylog:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.0
Wrote a script to post to my tinylog and added it to my gemsite: gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/
A new tinylog in the gemini world by @lykso@lyk.so, welcome :)
Hello world! I chose the same avatar Lagrange uses for my domain for the sake of continuity.
"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
I've made a change in houston to show a warning when a capsule use TLS with ed25519 algorithm as many gemini clients don't support them. This was based on some discussion on IRC.
gemini://houston.gmi.bacardi55.io/
Also, I really enjoy editing my tinylog entries, in vim, with just one shortcut in gtl, made the whole tinylog experience even more easy.
I need to rework my capsule though, it was based on the blog engine (hugo), some config and an ugly shell script… I want to clean this but I have no motivation for this yet^^.
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
It's all in main branch now.
A few thing still missing for v0.5.0 (which should be one of the last very active branch as I'm finally getting to where I want for gtl) but should be available before end of week.
Seems that editing tinylog and post edit synchronization works fine and was less difficult than expected :)
This tinylog entry has been created via gtl… But gtl will "only" open your $EDITOR and not recreate an editor within gtl. I think it's even better as I can use my beloved vim and the autocomplete, spellcheck and all the other awesome feature of vim!
vim > *
Also, gtl published this post (via a configurable script (in my case a simple 1 line with scp)) after the edition :).
Still a lot of todo so it won't be ready soon but I like where this is going ^^.
gtl v0.4.8 released. Read the release note and readme.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.8
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?
https://pics.bacardi55.io/01cc7e27364e
I just discovered by accident that Konsole previews colours (RGB triplets and named colours). That's great!
Will today ever end? I'm not sure anymore 🤔
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.
I just realized that gtl was not compatible with the (better) possibility to use UTC offset (eg: +0200 for CEST) instead of the less precise (see wikipedia page) timezone abbreviation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations
It is now fixed in the main branch. That mean that when I'll publish v0.4.8, I'll be soon after changing the way I set date in my tinylog, and people using gtl will need to move to v0.4.8 to follow the new posts in the new date format.
Using abbreviation is still part of the RFC, but as abbreviation are not precise, I'll move the date format of my tinylog to this one.
Lace is already compatible with this format (just tested) thanks to the very flexible nature of the bash date command :).
I've updated the RFC with latest comments and ideas.
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
gtl v0.4.7 released! I'm off for the night :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.7
I also noticed some gemtext formatting issue, I've fixed them.
Going to publish a v0.4.7 soon and stop for the night.
for subscription status I propose some simpler ASCII notation like
I've made it a configuration. By default, it will use ASCII characters. But if in gtl.toml there is `tui_status_emoji = true` then emoji will be used. That's because I admit I like these status emojis :).
In main branch!
@szczezuja: Thanks again for tests, my comments on them:
feature "h" - I realized that I don't know how it works. I have empty output after pressing "h";
So h only display message with highlights. To define what should be highlighted for you, you need to configure it in the gtl.toml. See README for this: `highlights = "@szczezuja, anytext"`.
Also, it doesn't remove filter. So if you were filtering a particular tinylog (via left menu), then "h" will only display with highlights from that author. You can still use menu on the left to display all (and it will keep the highlight filter).
there are some issue with "r": program is not responding for a while
r refresh the timeline, so nothing can be done in the meantime. That's normal for me, but I agree it should maybe display a "loading" type of message. But it is so fast here (±1s) that I didn't bother. I'm creating a issue to think about that soon.
feature with "s" - working, but: there no description about it in help dialog,
Fixed in main branch, thanks!
there are some weird states when for example we do "s" for hiding, and after it "TAB"
Fixed in main branch, thanks!
for subscription status I propose some simpler ASCII notation like
I was thinking about it yesterday… Might be better, but I found emoji was more graphical but maybe it's too much of a pain. Do you have issues with users avatar on these systems?
after pressing "?" the title, time of last refresh isn't updated
I don't understand this one…? "?" only display/hide the help, so no refresh is done (so title shouldn't change). Even filtering a specific tinylog or using "h" will not refresh the timeline. Tinylogs are not like social media feeds where refresh is needed a lot, so I let the user specifically hit "r" for getting lastest tinylogs versions. All other shortcuts won't refresh the feeds.
you can look at "toot tui" interface for inspiration, there is some interesting "links dialog", which navigate through all active parts of highlighted message;
For me, a highlights toggle and the timeline like now is enough. I don't need to "select" specific entries, I'm just reading/browsing the timeline and can go up/down with arrows or j/k. Maybe that will change someday if I see more value (or if a PR is done^^).
I want to make gtl compatible with MacOS but don't have one right now to test :°).
(I would be ok to people sending patch for it too :)).
I do not have plan for windows, I haven't used a windows machine for anything other than gaming in the last 15 years and back then TUI app wasn't making sens on it. Don't know if that changed though.
gtl v0.4.6 released :]
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.6
@szczezuja: Have you seen this:
https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/git.gmi/
Seems to be a git frontend for gemini. I haven't tested it though so can't tell how well it works (or not)
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thanks for the tests too!
I removed the footer because it was wasted space and don't want to add it back to put the help message, but I have another idea to simplify first usage, I'll work on it later :).
I've also added some gemtext formatting for links and quotes (in main branch):
https://pics.bacardi55.io/db43275b4157
@szczezuja: To be honest, I don't know if any other formatting makes sens, but I'm happy to hear ideas (not just what should be formatted, but how too :))
I've added 8 other date format to gtl… I now have 18 custom date formats… That makes me sad…
@szczezuja: You're in luck, as I was coding on gtl when I read your report n°4 :).
maybe you should do some experiment in hiding subscription tab
I added the shortcut "s" to toggle the subscription sidebar (in main branch for now).
pressing "q" in help dialog is quitting a whole app
Yes, I didn't thought that was an issue, but I've changed that in main branch so if you are on the help, q just quit the help.
icon of skull on nonexistent feed is on my terminal
Weird… I've changed it to something simpler, should work now… I'm not a big expert on emoji to be honest, that was more a test than anything^^.
new feature suggestion: do some gemtext syntax enhancements
That's planed for some things like links, quote and maybe list, but I don't want to do to much on this either.
Thanks again for the tests/feedback, I'll release a new version later today with the other fixes I've just done.
I've decided to unsubscribe from the gemini mailing list. Way too much noise and drama not worth what is shared on it.
I'd rather follow geminauts on the fediverse, station, irc or directly on user capsule (if possible via gemini feed and/or tinylogs :)).
Just refreshed my manga collection, I now have more than 1300… That's quite the collection :).
That + all my non manga books starts taking a lot of space ^^.
I do have an annual reading "goal" of ±24 books/year and since 2019 I'm referencing all I read and when. I read 21 in 2019, 23 in 2020. Since Jan 2021, I read 11 and am in the middle of the 12th one… Sometimes, I really want to share those reading online on my gemlog but I feel it is more info about myself than I want to give online (even on the smolnet)… But maybe that'll change someday :).
I released gtl v0.4.4 :)
Well… I'm also releasing v0.4.5 because v0.4.4 had a regretion… (v0.4.4 has been deleted)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.5
Working on some fixes and small improvements for gtl to tag a v0.4.4…
If I'm quick enough, I might start poking around the idea around wallabag-ing gemini articles 🤔
@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
I have 2 other gemini related tool to create in mind at the moment:
1. A very simple (bash?) script that push gemini pages to my wallabag (via an http proxy because wallabag does not support gemini links). Could be linked to Lagrange/Amfora bookmarks to fully automate it. That should be easy enough relying on wallabag-cli client already installed 🤔
2. Linked to gtl, I'm wondering how hard it would be to create a proxy to transform some pages into a tinylog format. For example an RSS feed, a microblog page not in tinylog format or even the idea from @skyjake if @martin (station developer) doesn't want to do it… I've never coded a proxy like this, could be fun :).
@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
@skyjake posted an idea to add to station:
Add a page that shows a particular user's logs in the tinylog format. Then we could use tools like gtl to follow fellow capsuleers.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/skyjake/170760396835460590d3a182f7e36978
I'm very obviously a huge fan of this idea :]
An idea for Station @martin
Add a page that shows a particular user's logs in the tinylog format. Then we could use tools like gtl to follow fellow capsuleers.
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been way too busy. Hope everyone's well. Awesome to see Station now has 170 capsuleers!
Fun fact on gtl. The sidebar on the left (that shows the subscription) is refreshed when the timeline is refreshed (for the status emoji).
The refresh sends requests to capsule always in the same order. It uses goroutine to be non blocking for sending these requests in parallel.
But the order displayed on the sidebar depends on the response time from the capsule. It's not a "fastest to slowest" list because the sending order has a huge impact on it.
But seeing the order change on the left makes the nerd in my tickles :P.
I don't know if other users are annoyed by this but I prefer it like this. I could change it if that's really an unpopular opinion^^
@adele@pollux.casa: \o/ I'm looking forward to the day where I can have only a few date format in gtl :D
I've removed the seconds in date format of tinylog
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.
@szczezuja: Thanks a lot for the feedback :)
Improvement: active tab border
Done in master for now.
Improvement: last line, about time of refresh could be moved to header of subscription tab
Agreed, I moved it to the timeline title: "Timeline - Refreshed at 01:54 CEST". In master for now.
Improvement: shortcuts could be moved to help dialog
That's something I had in mind since there are too many at the top now. So it's underway but it needs a bit of rework so I'll park that for tomorrow. I have multiple ideas for how to display the help box though:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/14
Improvement: last line should be status line
I've hidden the last line for now that the refresh time is not there anymore. I'll re-add it for a kind of "last log line" later.
Improvement: timeline tab should have some navigation
This one would need a lot of rework because that's what I wanted at first, but because the way I used cview at first I choose otherwise. I might rethink this when I add ability to respond to an entry, but I don't think there is a point before, you can already scroll down with the arrow keys or j/k like in vim.
I'll release the improvements of tonight and the remaining one (help) in v0.4.4 probably tomorrow.
tinylogs are fun
d e p r e s s e d
@deerbard Either change email provider to one that allow imap/smtp connection (selfhosted or not). Or if you are a big fan of protonmail, the paid service allow you to use protonbridge to use (neo)mutt or anything else.
@guillaume@pollux.casa: I've been wondering the same thing… But because my avatar is important to me and has been the same for the last 11 years (with personal reasons behind it). But nothing look a bit like it in the emoji world. My avatar is styled dragon head (you have to see it), but dragoon related emoji are really bad :D
Well… v0.4.2 introduced a regression, so v0.4.3 is on its way… This is why I should write tests…
@szczezuja: Why not testing full tiling WM? It's just so great to control everything from your keyboard :]
@frrobert@frrobert.net: Thanks a lot for the comments :) I'd say that the simplicity and complexity of lace is quite impressive too :)
@szczezuja: Thanks too for the very kind (but a bit exaggerated :)) words 🙏
You can try v0.4.2 that should be even "nicer" :)
Incoming release of gtl v0.4.2, with various fixes thanks to @reaton@geminids.ga :)
New feature:
It's getting somewhere :)
New Lagrange iOS TestFlight build!
I'm quite happy with how the new swipe navigation is turning out. Trying to browse a larger set of feed entries was quite cumbersome, but now you can just swipe back to return to the Feeds list (i.e., it re-opens the sidebar). Some more details in the gemlog post.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-06_testflight.gmi
The Identities sidebar is destined to be moved to Settings, with some kind of new UI for selecting the active identity.
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thanks a lot for testing gtl and reporting issues, it helps a lot (:
It also mean that I have a few fixes to implement tonight or tomorrow :).
Glad to see you back and running :]
o/ everyone, this is gonna be a long day!^^
@szczezuja: About 1/ I think if the time before deletion is long enough, it should an issue. Are you really going back to your favorite from months ago? For me mastodon and social media in general is not a place where I store things. If I like a link, I either put it in wallabag or bookmark it so I never look back for favorite older than a few days.
2/ The "long archive" thing for me is my blog (and my gemlog as they are different). That's where I write long term stuff. Even if I link a toot in an article, I should put enough context around that if the toot isn't there anymore, the article still makes sens.
Anyway, I've not done it yet, it has to go through my laziness first :p.
Just released gtl v0.4.1 with the first attempt at the TUI, I'm quite happy about it even though there are still known bugs that I need to work on ^^.
TUI of gtl almost finished, but it's wayyyy to late already… I'll finish it tomorrow because I'm very close. It will look a lot like the GIF from yesterday with an extra cool feature.
v0.4.0 will have TUI and is due early this week #teasing ^^
Welcome to my to-watch list, 50 Shades. It is time we met
Saw a post[^1] about deleting old tweets and toots. This is making me think, both for mastodon and tinylog, both format are supposed to be ephemeral, so I may decide to follow this too, both on mastodon and here… 🤔
[^1]:
https://kevq.uk/why-i-delete-old-content/
@frrobert oh ok sorry. For me though, the author metatag is the way the author wants to be mentioned. So with the "@" to indicate mention but I see your point…
I'll add an issue on the git repo to think about it more, feel free to join :]
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/7
@szczezuja
Yesterday it was third month anniversary of my tinylog.
↑ This post made me curious about my own gemlog, and apparently today is the 4st months anniversary of my 1st post on my gemlog. :]
It is a luxury that not everybody can have so I know I'm lucky. It is also harder now than before when I used to be a dev or tech lead. My job is still technical but not focus on development anymore but I still manage to do everything I need on my linux laptop :).
@frrobert: I believe @author is better because the @capsule.tld is optional in the proposed RFC. So it means if an author don't put it, it will be "just" frrobert or adele. That could be fine for specific nickname like mine, but for more common name that could used in sentences it might highlight things when not wanted. But I can open open an issue on the rfc issue tracker to discuss more about this (more people are joining the convo there).
That being said, in gtl, I have a configuration file in which you can setup highlights strings (eg: `highlights = "frrobert, robert, anystring"`). So user can select what he wants to see highlighted.
Drabble? Microfiction? Stream-o-Conch? Something of the sort. Julie, the warden, and I (or me) -- gemini://anjune.lol/w/juliewardeni.gmi
@reaton@geminids.ga / @szczezuja: I've been using Linux since 2005 on my personal desktop/laptop and tiling WM since 2007… And I impose that I work on linux at work, that's part of my must have… I'm the only one in my team but I couldn't work without it (both ethical and habits/productivity). Only at my first job between 2008/2010 I had a windows machine, but I was using VirtualBox to have a linux installed and ran it in full screen with i3wm :p.
gtl TUI seems to work nicely (gif):
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106400420956773485
I'm not sure if I should implement such a menu on subscription list:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/9b6ccd4a9eee
Thanks @frrobert! I've added the missing one. I've not put one on purpose because it has been dead for many many days for me so I'm thinking the author stops his capsule… I may be wrong though^^
gemini://capsule.sakrajda.eu/tinytinylog.gmi
@frrobert: Good idea, I also started a list on the RFC git repo:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main/Known-tinylogs.md
I was thinking to transform it in a gemini format (the 3 .md file in the repo) too :).
Happy to merge both lists!
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thank you :)
This is where I'm stopping tonight:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106394956318786808
Almost the same as cli (colors a bit different) but most importantly highlights in content to make it more visible than just the message in bold :).
Needs the menu to work and an auto refresh feature and should be a MVP (even though I do have many other ideas for next steps)
@szczezuja: I've tagged v0.3.1 that includes a "cli_limit" option to avoid manually set "--limit" (if you do, it will override your config).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.3.1
https://pics.bacardi55.io/c5764f9a7b74
↑ This may or may not be what gtl first version of the TUI will look like… I'm not sure anymore :]
@frrobert: Thanks :) Sometimes it is just painful but in the long run I'd say it's worth it.
@szczezuja: That's why I just use "while true; do clear && ~/bin/gtl --mode cli --limit 11 && sleep 1800; done;" and leave it in a tmux :P. But I'll add a way to add the limit option directly int the config file to avoid typing it.
There are days like today that reaaaally makes me want to through all my selfhosting away and move my services to a cloud instance…
Of course, other will see that message only after the storm (and technical issues) has ended (are resolved) so it's ironic to write it here like this…
Thanks @frrobert :)
I've just noticed that the RFC has made it to geddit and I did not put it there myself ^^
@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)
Seems there is no issue with @deerbard tinylog and gtl in the end, just on the 1st entry of @frrobert ^^
@frrobert: Seems that there isn't 2 line break (= 1 empty line) between your metatags (licence) and your first entry (##) which isn't "normally" compatible with lace format I believe (even though it still works). Could you add a line break so I don't have to handle this weird use case in gtl? (Otherwise I'll do some ugly code to manage it)
I've reverted back the avatar/licence changes in the RFP :).
Now let's investigate why some entries from @frrobert or @deerbard are not displayed in gtl :].
I still use lace from time to time to check if I'm not ignoring valid lace entries by being too strict in gtl.
I must admit that I'm quite happy about the speed of gtl as lace is becoming a bit too slow because of the 11 tinylogs I follow… :]
But I'm still seeing some entries in lace that I do not in gtl (mainly on @deerbard tinylog). I'll investigate that during the week end.
Seems @deerbard tinylog date format don't always work with gtl for some reason, I'll check that.
@deerbard / @szczezuja: I use "\%F \%H:\%M \%Z" and it display CEST. But this is as well how my laptop is configured.
For example, the commande "date" returns "jeu. 10 juin 2021 10:50:18 CEST" for me. What is the return of "date" @deerbard ?
@reaton@geminids.ga Welcome \o/
I've added add and rm command to gtl to manage tinylog subscription without editing the subscription file :)
A few other todos and I'll tag the v0.3.0 (most probably later this week).
Found this: gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/microblog.gmi - everybody has its own format so far^^
I've changed my mind for gtl, there will be a v0.3.0 version before the TUI to add the add/remove commands around subscriptions and a few fixes in the TODO.
TUI should come after (but who knows at this point :D)
Installed the iPadOS 15 developer beta 1 on my iPad. Apart from a few glitches it seems to work pretty nicely.
I'm typing this message from Lagrange on the iPad with an external keyboard. Was surprised to see that all the keyboard shortcuts just work! Thanks to SDL for that. 👏
Oops, after switching to (iPadOS) split view mode with Safari on the side the input widget lost the ability to insert new characters. Gotta debug a bit to see what's up with that. The TestFlight build is getting a bit old so I'll need to update it anyway.
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:
I've release gtl v0.2.0 with the color improvements (and other small fixes)
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/pulls/2/files
I'm wondering if we should only explicit an "author" metatag (author can decide to start with an emoji or not - or end with it for that matter) and then say any other "optional metatag"…
That would simplify the format even more I believe.
I've started working on improving the CLI rendering for gtl:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/89056f727801
@adele@pollux.casa: \o/
BTW, thanks for the comment on the tinylog format. I'm still unhappy with my own answser regarding the date format to be honest but don't have a better idea right now^^.
I should also clean it a bit and maybe share it via the fediverse to get more feedback.
Now, my tinylog use my time zone instead of UTC !
I'm going to improve gtl cli (colors and display reorganisation) before starting on the TUI. I won't do something big for the cli but something cleaner like lace output for v0.2.0. v0.3.0 will be focusing on TUI :). At least that's the plan now until it changes yet again :D
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
@adele@pollux.casa: Shouldn't your "author:" be "@adele@adele.work" as this is where your tinylog is?
@adele@pollux.casa / @szczezuja: I'm not happy about it so far, but I've pushed what I have at this point here:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
It needs improvements, so feel free to comment / PR on the repo :).
I've started working on a draft RFC that I'll push on a git repo soon. Not sure if I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow though (but I'll push what I have so far).
The main thing I'm unsure at this stage is: should we impose one (or a few) date format or let it as free as defined now (just works with "date -d" which is a very open format…)
Testing new format for "author" header in tinylog
@adele: I'll start a draft tonight and upload it on a share git repo. I don't have a codeberg account, but I can create one if it's easier than git{lab,hub}. (I don't open my own gitea instance so it wouldn't be useful there :p).
@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 ?
I'm wondering if we shouldn't try to write a "v2" of the "RFC" for tinylogs with the optional tags like author/avatar/… and other small improvements… 🤔
I think I'm going to add some level of colors to gtl cli before doing the TUI piece this week :]
Also, regarding tinylogs follow, I was thinking capsule owner should simply either have an "author: @author@capsuledomain.com" or an additional "permalink: gemini://link" entry between title and first entry. I like the @author@capsuledomain.com because it makes it easy to see who is the author and how to reach out to his capsule…
@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 ;-)
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
Thanks for testing and the report :)
It's the weekend! Who's up to anything interesting?
@szczezuja: I've pushed gtl here: https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl
Look at the releases for linux binaries. Easiest is to create the ~/.config/gtl/gtl.toml file in advance with the path to your sub file. Default configuration is displayed on readme.
It is my first time publishing a go app with binaries, and in a draft version… Hopefully it will work though :p
Let me know if that's not the case, but I may be mostly afk tomorrow.
I've cleaned a bit gtl code and option and documented the readme better. Now I need to look at how to automate building multi-architecture binaries so I don't have to do it manually :].
@szczezuja: I've been quite lazy this week and didn't work much on gtl. I'll clean it a bit and release the cli version this weekend with binaries before starting to work on the TUI part. It's always good to have early feedbacks and I'm a believer of the « Release early, release often » :).
fifty degrees in the shade / under the post-bloom cherry tree / The evacuation of the nation / to SLACKSTATION for a fee
@adele: It is some work to setup indeed, but there are cool things to automate it nowadays and good docs, but yes it is not the simplest.
Working at home with 3 screens is helpful if you want to see a bit of Roland-Garros (and soon European cup and Olympics game) :D
I would like to install my own mailbox but managing spam, trusting and messing with non standard big email provider is really boring. @szczezuja
@szczezuja: The code is on my own gitea instance, not yet on github/gitlab. I could share it for the adventurous people but it is neither finished nor bug free :).
Do you have golang (≥1.15) installed to compile or would you prefer pre-built binaries?
Enjoying (?) a trip to the summer cabin!
Pros: Lakeside grilling in the pleasant warm evening.
Cons: 2-yo son projectile vomiting on the sofa.
At least the dog is still mostly behaving.
while true; do clear && ~/bin/gtl --cli --limit 10 && sleep 3600; done;
That's how I follow tinylogs for now (yeah 1h is quite enough :))
@adele: Oh, I didn't know that, sorry :/. I've been selfhosting my emails for ±15 years so I'm not too much aware of these offers (even though I do talk about protonmail to non tech people still interested in privacy).
BTW, nice intro to fight against the centralized web (aka minitel 2.0 for us French^^), curious to read the rest later ^^
I start a new series of gemlog posts :
You deserve a space for free speech - part 1
Responses:
@adele: You could potentially use the protonmail bridge. I've never used it as I don't use proton, but heard that it works…
https://protonmail.com/bridge/install#1
@szczezuja: You could use cargo to install it if you're not against having rust installed. Otherwise, it seems there is a binary available. The tool itself seems quite nice indeed :]
An "away from keyboard/screens night" (well mostly) reading, quite enjoyable :). I wasn't motivated to code or write tonight, and I don't think we should force ourselves, specially with side project!
"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/
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
Yesterday I cleaned a bit the CLI part of my tinylog app. I haven't worked on the TUI side of things yet, but the CLI part seems to work very well. So since this morning, I've switch from lace to it to read other people tinylogs. What I really enjoy is that it is so fast: https://pics.bacardi55.io/b8666cf1ec56 :]
Next step is the TUI, finally, and probably with rivo/tview… Main issue is that I'm still unsure of the design I want :D.
@adele: I've gone this road some years back (almost 10) where I didn't have X started by default and thus staying in tty and just using startx when needed. For me the bloated web was an issue. Even with lynx, w3m or elinks (my fav cli browser). Maybe when gemini http proxy will be better, I could change that back (:
For email, I've been using neomutt for some time, but aerc from drewdevault seems nice too. Alpine was a thing too a long time ago^^.
Today, it has been particularly though to keep some motivation for work ^^".
I finally updated my now page: https://martinrue.com/now. Anyone else have one? Drop me links.
I'm spending the next month or so in Barcelona, hanging out with a bunch of friends I've met over the years. Our common language is Esperanto, and so today I've been hanging out at bars and coffee shops speaking only in Esperanto. This isn't the first time (last summer I did the same), but it's still such an awesome and surreal feeling to be able to do this.
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
Response of the day:
@adele: I think that's why the "author: @author" thing is great. You could have just your nick, your fediverse or blog link too if you'd like and thus that would help people decide for themselves.
@szczezuja: Regarding your tinylog gemlog entry, I think the author thing above and/or a possible "Contact: {https/gemini/email} link" could also work. So you could always either ping the right people or find them.
This doesn't solve the issue of "If I don't follow user X, then I might miss some post for me". But I think that is the same "issue" with gemlog entries that are responses to other, that could be easily solved by reaching out to someone telling her/him (via the "Contact" link in header) that you responded to him with the link to your response…
Spent most of my day away from screens (well… Even though I coded until almost 4am, it was before sleeping so "yesterday" ^^). Was quite nice to enjoy the great weather today :). I also read most of one of my current book that I really enjoy so far called "l'odyssée des gènes" (translation in english "the genes odyssey").
I love reading, but I decided not to talk to much online about my readings as I feel it give way too much about someone. But I'd be fine discussing it directly with people though.
Lagrange v1.5 has been released. 🚀
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-05_lagrange-1.5.gmi
Ok, results of the night: https://pics.bacardi55.io/26b024c66fe8
I know have basically what lace does in CLI, but with:
Big next step is the TUI. That will be fun, I've never done any real TUI app (even though I love to use them). So no experience in TUI + just a few days of golang experience… This will be fun :-)
But this part will probably be next week.
PS: I like using tinylog for more than a few sentences too when it's not worth a full post. I should do it more.
PPS: sorry @szczezuja for yet another "marketing-y" entry :P
I also apologize for all the gemini servers I'm hammering during my tests ^^"
Ok, all date format I found on diverse tinylogs are managed (+ other standards). But I really think that this should be simplified. Gemini is based on simplicity and for people not familiar with the "date" linux command, it is not simple enough. IMO.
The fact that lace is so permissive with date format will make it more difficult in another language because of the flexibility of the date shell command compared to what programming language let you do 🤔
@szczezuja: I'm interested to know if the couple comitium/backlinks works, let me know please :]
@szczezuja said on his tinylog
There is some teaser on author's tinylog. First tinylog marketing on Geminispace, ever. :-)
Ahahah, I didn't thought about being marketing-y but he might be right :D. It also made me think about how much corrupted our brains are…
Well that's a new one: made dinner plans for tomorrow 1400km away from where I am now
Hoping to release Lagrange v1.5 this weekend! Check out the ~final release notes: https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/raw/commit/341e2b56d3fa04ea0a7c9ecf6bd059289a02754c/res/about/version.gmi
My tinylog client is moving on nicely. Far from something to publish but less far from a workable MVP^^.
@adele I agree, the simplest and cleanest is @szczezuja idea of having these data in between title and entries in a formatted way
My tinylog TUI app is moving very slowly but surely :-]. Always great to learn new things even though it means going a lot slower than with tech I'm more familiar with, but it is quite fun too :). I'm planning to support the author/avatar thing from @szczezuja even though I won't use myself an avatar as no emoji are closed to what I'd like :p. But I like the idea as it remove a request to get a favicon.txt
Sometimes, it feels like there are more gemini servers than users…
I may or may not have started to code a tinylog TUI app yesterday night and that might explain my level of fatigue this morning…
Also, I'm wondering, are you @all editing your tinilog file by hand or did you create a simple script to automate it? :)
Awesome to see more activity via lace today :) The "@" notification is the line between a micro log and a social media, but I don't think it is a viable option (at best, we could have notification for people that we sub to only. Otherwise it will imply a lot more complex setup with cgi scripts). So in the end, I think I can live without…
I forgot about tinylogs for too long^^
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
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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Current status: just tried to brush a forward slash off my screen. Been a long week.
Started this week a bit differently. I decided to head to London and do nothing but work on my own stuff, gym, spa, and socialise. It was wonderful. Back to the grind now, though.
If anyone wants to test multiline text input on iOS, there's a new TestFlight build available: 1.4 (7).
The iOS keyboard is so fiddly that I've set the sw keyboard "return" key to insert a line break by default instead of sending the request. This may still change if I figure out how to modify the keyboard.
Other updates include an improved Settings view and of course split view (for iPad).
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
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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Station now preserves newlines in posts and lets you use formatting lines (via ```) and quotes (via >).
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Enjoy!
Working beside an open window while it rains outside. Smells amazing.
Oh dear, I've had 3x my normal amount of coffee today. This will definitely not help with reaching my sleep goal tonight, but on the other hand, I'll probably end up redesigning some view transitions in Lagrange for iPhone.
The weekend is almost here! Anyone got anything interesting/unusual planned?
Augh, I was baffled why the Station notifications page wouldn't open (just redirected me to "/"), but turns out I had accidentally selected another cert for the notifications URL. Lagrange's UI wasn't communicating this in any way... Have to invest some time into making it clear which certs are used on the current domain. PS. This multi-line text editor is quite luxurious. 😊
After two full days of battling with some code, I finally made a breakthrough. This is a *good* feeling.
Testing Multi-Line Input I'm working on an improved text editor for Lagrange v1.5. It expands as you write text, and newlines can be inserted, too. Let's see if these newlines are preserved. Testing 1 2 3 Another line and a third one.
New logo – converted from ASCII with a script I wrote. Sometimes I DO STUFF!
On a scale of Monday to Friday, I’ll rate today as “pure concentrated Monday”. Productivity: 0.
Happy Monday everyone!
Rather than asking how my day's going, just ask me how many browser tabs I have open. That'll tell you everything.
Laying in a bath hot enough to potentially disolve me while listening to loud music is my meditation.
It has been a long week, but some Seneca is helping me relax today. I'm currently reading De Tranquillitate Animi (On the Tranquility of the Mind), and looking forward to De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) next. What are your favourite philosophy reads?
Hello weekend! Anyone doing anything interesting? I have a bit of work to do, and then I'm going to carry on with a project to write some fiction in Esperanto for the INK-Konkurso: https://www.akademio-literatura.org/ink
Need to search Station? Well now you can. You'll find the search feature on the homepage. Check Recent Updates for details. Happy searching!
@Fr.Rob Just seen your *Thoughts on Trendy Talk* post. Loved it. Thanks
Lagrange v1.4.0 is going out now
I wonder if Station notifications could be listed as a gmisub page (maybe at a separate URL), so clients could subscribe to see them? At least Lagrange supports client certs when checking feeds.
Instead of sleep (which I really need to do very soon) I've spent this evening updating Station so you can now add a link on your profile page. Get sharing all your cool capsule (or fat web) links :) Goodnight Station!
Writing documentation is challenging after sleeping only 5 hours. 🥱
New Station update! Notifications are now shown on the homepage too, and Station now has diagnostics (check bottom of homepage).
Just want to say thanks to everyone who signed up to Station since the launch a few days ago. We have a neat little community here on Gemini now (94 people so far), and that's pretty awesome!
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 ←
@martin Great job creating this site! The new split modes in Lagrange v1.4 will be very useful for navigating here. 😉
I spent entirely too much time trying to set up a nice profile image.
Here in the UK it's a holiday today, but that ain't stopping me – today I'm drinking Mate and writing code, and I'd rather be doing nothing else. Surely you're all doing something far more interesting, right?
I just pushed an update to Station so that mentions (using an @ symbol before a user's name) now works. If you're mentioned, you'll see a notification on your profile page letting you know.
It's really awesome seeing people joining Station and posting stuff. Makes the late nights over the last few weeks totally worth it.
Hello! After a few weeks of tinkering, Station is finally live. If you like the idea of a text-based mini social network for gemini, create an account and hang out. ✌️
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
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/
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/
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
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
Is aphantasia destiny?
I've started generating my website from my Gemini pod automatically. Happy with this. Gemini first!
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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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)
(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
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
I was recently treated to a visit from an African Grey Hornbill. Right on my doorstep!
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Photos from a recent #hike near Hartebeespoort dam
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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!"
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…
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.
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”…
There is no Do, there is only Trine! With Uncle Hamish and Olivia and me in like a couple mins -- https://twitch.tv/hamishtpb
“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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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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...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…
Beautiful weather and my second run in shorts today - apologies to anyone blinded by the winter whiteness of my legs.
'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
First run of the year in shorts! ☀️
I published my thoughts on the favicon.txt rfc. Not sure if that was a good idea though^^
HexDSL is the best in the world at fixing Linux problems and also at sex.
Links should now work in lace. Let's see.
I should not start factorio… I should not start factorio… ^^
No more dead links; + some a first few old texts posted to the Gemini thang.
Ahah… Just realized that I published a new blog article by mistake when I deployed the updated version of the gemini homepage… Good thing the article was ready to be published… Anyway… #fail
My first tinylog entrie… Very simple and useless at the same time :). I'm using CET time, it works with the date command so I hope this will work for everyone, otherwise I'll convert to UTC.
I was on the farm again yesterday, picking salad leaves and laying drainage channels. Weather was beautiful. After, I recorded a MiniDisc 'mixtape' from my record collection. Pretty good day, really.
I'm quickly learning that the secret to vintage hi-fi is to clean everything with servisol super 10 before you start.
Watched Space Sweepers with pals. Was good. Better than I expected. Editing was a bit hyperactive but otherwise fun space adventure.
Been playing so much Nerts and making new Nerts friends. Fun times.
Hopefully just updated my MicroGem formatting to work with Chris Were's lace script.
…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.
The prettiest wildflower is the forget-me-not. I don't see why there's any discussion on 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...
Stayed up far too late playing boardgames and Nerts with pals. Shunted my sleep pattern around by six hours. Nice.
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.
Doing my kanji homework.
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
This is just a test of the emergency broadcast system. Have some emoji 🐣🐀🐇
Left 4 Dead 2 Expert Realism is *so much fun*. It's been so long I'd forgotten quite how much fun it is.
Mmm, pancakes for lunch.
I'm, like, really into minidiscs right 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
Volunteered on an organic farm today. We planted hedges. It was nice to spend time outside with other humans.
Been enjoying smashing communities together for the purposes of Nerts. It's always fun to see friends from different places interacting. Alchemy!
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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There’re no cookies. There aren’t any cookies.
There’s no access log. There isn’t an access log.
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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
I'm getting definite oil shell vibes from zig - practical improvements without throwing all our existing work out of the window. Last night I started a little outliner program to practice on using ncurses and sqlite and the C integration has been great.
Playing with the zig programming language today. LOVE the lazy compilation while learning. If I don't use it, it doesn't have to compile!
Played lots of Nerts. Nerts is Nerts.
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
Lords of Waterdeep on Tabletop Simulator on Toasty's stream tonight - was a lot of fun. Nice to hook some new people on that game.
Watching The Expanse with Matt. It's good to finally have someone to share it with. It's such an amazing show and no one I know is watching it.
I'm rewatching The Last Man on Earth. It's weird how much this show's grown on me over time. Hated the first couple of seasons first time through, now I rather like it.
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
Played Carcassonne with Toasty & kru. Had a lot of fun.
Watched Return of the Jedi (un-fucked edition) with friends last night. Including one person who's watching through the SW films for the first time. Was fun to see it through their eyes. Then we played Nerts!
I have not agreed to Hex's standard. My script is called 'tiny'.
Well, it works at least. Look forward to tiny thoughts.
Ok, so is what is essentially microblogging on Gemini a good idea? I don't know, let's find out.
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/
"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
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/
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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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
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
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
I took quite a long (forced, unavoidable) break to focus on my studies. Thankfully I've updated by tinylog-gen script so it can merge my 2021 and 2022 files now. Speaking of which, happy new year :)
I generally don't care about it though -- I mean it's just another revolution around the sun plus about 3/4th of a day, right? Also more or less beginning from a rather arbitrary point in the orbit anyway.
It's amazing coming back to my inbox reading mailing list archives to read what I'd missed. By the way, I'm surprised I still remember all my shortcuts and keybinds I've set up in nvim, tmux etc.
Most likely for another day to start working on my projects again, sadly. Bye!
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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Raspberry Pi portable PC
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To be or not to be :-)
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Beautiful Joburg sunset
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Flowers in the yard
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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
First micro-blog post on my own site, which will hopefully be syndicated to social media via #IndieWeb tech!
Agregated tinylogs: szczezuja, Guillaume, 💀 @razzlom@gemini.quietplace.xyz, 🤘 @toby@tobykurien.com, Antonio, Tolstoevsky, Stack, hexdsl, Deerbard, frrobert, 📒 @hedy, monolalia, martin, ChrisWere, Drew, Sakurina, @paulsnar, skyjake, 🤔 @bacardi55, Drek, ✪ @lykso@lyk.so, 🐘 @adele@pollux.casa, Sakrajda, Caolan, Reaton, samhunter, kelbot
