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author: haze
Today I learned. Sending money overseas to my US broker is faster with crypto than the local currency.
This takes 2~3 days: fiat in account-> bank -> internation wire trsnasfer -> broker -> fund clearing
While this takes less then a day: fiat in account -> crypto exchange -> USDT/USDC/ETH -> broker (no fund clearing step)
Wow the speed of banks amazes me
Need advice from people also go to gym. How do I know I exercised too much?
I started exercising almost daily at my local gym ~1.5mo ago; to loose some weight. I was an amature biker before this. Mostly commute and for fun. Now I do 45min stationary bike at gym exclusively. Just so I can be consistant. Wattage have gone up (average over exerccise period) from 145 to 185. While loosing 3.7KG.
Sometimes my legs are sore and I skip that day. That got me thinking. How do I know if I'm pushing myself too hard?
(I choose 45min dayily because that half I usually do on weekends, outdoors)
Wow. Just met some other guy who also knows (not using tho) Gemini in a hackathon. I'm superised and excited.
TLGS now have experimental Spartan support! I don't know if I should have put the the Spartan code inside the same application. Worst case I'll make a proxy I guess. (No, it can't crawl Spartan yet)
spartan://tlgs.one/
I just found a local bank's website is pointed to by an alterantive domain. And that domain is also owned by the bank. Firthermore, when accessing through that domain, the website activelly tries to redirect you to the non-encrypted HTTP side.
This can't be good. And they are in my blacklist permanently
Nice to see someone on the Web has the same idea as people on Gmeini has :) But there's like 4 versions of the same website. I really like how Gemini doesn't allow author-made styling so it's not a burden.
https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
Maybe someone knows here. How excatly do I make a x64 CPU go from kernel mode to user mode? I've tried my best going through OSDev wiki and searchs. All resources only point to 32bit methods. No 64bit ones.
Dear OpenBSD users. Is it just me or Lagrange is much less smooth compared to Linux/Windows? I tried to debug myself but the frametime seems quite Ok. IDK, Lagrange it way beyond my skill level. I just know C and some SDL.
Somehow I still got COVID amid hiding in my home :(
The muscle sore is horrible
Dear C++. It has been a nice living here. But it's about time to part. You gave me a consistant and robust set of tools to work with. I exactly know what's under the hood. And I can trust the underlying implementaion is as good as it can. But I can't believe in 2022 I still have to write my own replace and trim function.
Maybe Rust is my next step.
Now I have the urge to build a Linux capable RISC-V compurter from 74 series IC. Pipelined, MMU support, can boot normal distro... Oh my
What's a good solution for Gemini certifcates? Currently we do TOFU but they do go expire and owners not updating. And there's no public revcoation list to avoid stolen certs.
Maybe the community should start a CA? But that gets us back to square 1.
I guess the stake is not that high on Gemini.
@martin Ohh!! Seems station has a outdated cert!
I'm still wondering what's the next steps for Gemini search engines. Current ones have relrady employed all the low computation-cost algorothms. But the result is still subpar at best.
The next step up could be some NLP model like BERT or ranking algorithms like HummingBird. But those are *much* more computationally expensive and more prone to human biases. What can we do...
The gopher RFC must the most delightful RFC I ever read. Besideds the April Fools RFCs.
Quote: ... software following a simple
protocol for burrowing through a TCP/IP internet.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1436
Is it just me that want a real IBM mainframe in my homelab? Yeah they are super proprietary. But... they are the decendents of what started the entire field of CS and IT.
[POLL Anyone's capsule is multilingual? Speaking more then Gemini] Gemini only | Gemini + HTTP | Gemini + Gopher | All 3 | Other ptotocol
After half of year on Gemini. I find it's really good for certain things
1. Low bandwidth (on train/bus, etc..)
2. Reading without distraction
3. FIrewalls doesn't speak this protocol
4. Low resource use.
Lagrage use less CPU under active use vs Firefox in background!
I'm getting a new laptop.. My current one is just not up to the task anymore.. And I'm seriously considerint switching from Arch Linux to OpenBSD for security. Should I? Any reason for/against it? Mostly I code on my laptop. And brows the internet.
Just want to rant about how insecure banks and credit cards are. None of them supports U2F. One I uses even limits passwords to 12 characters. Credit cards also have huge attack vector. There's no crypto to actually sign the tracsaction. The physical card is almost irrelevant. The only thing needed in a card number and CVC. Most banks uses SMS 2FA. But that's not that secure either.
I have to not think about it.
Hi all. Anyone reads news on Gemini?
I'm the maintainer of gemini://tlgs.one/ . I'm thinking if I should enable indexing news proxies. Currently it's disabled because GUS also disables them. I think I have optimized the search engine enough to handle it. But I don't want to waste resources if no one uses them.
I need some life advise..
I'm, and I think most Station users are, one of those geeks who gets excited over new innovation. And maintains library for fun. Espically most of my close firends are met through GitHub and OSS communities. This makes dating much more difficult. It's very difficult to not be seen as a weirdo when the 'what's your hobby' quesion comes up eventually. Not to menthing learning I can spend the entire weekend patching and discussing specs - well, that's fun for me.
Too many dates have fail right after that point.. what can I do
Have been trying to develop PinePhone applications for months... I think the real problem is that I don't have a "need" for a libre phone app. As well as the stack is not there yet.
Most open applications are geared towards development. But we dev on a keyboard. Apps that I do use on a phone are all tied to a commerical service. YouTube, telegram, calandar, etc.. It's not something I can just put on github and it'll work.
I'm out of idea.
Seems the Gemini Mailing List is down :(
I was trying to see waht's new. Then sudenly saw a 404.That sounds bad.. Most spec and core discussions happen on there. This can't be a good thing for the Geminispace