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👋 Hi there, Smokey here! I hope all is going well for you so far today. I am another person going through life trying to figure out my own place in it. I originally joined gemini to dip my toes into the smolnet, and have been happily participating for the better part of the year. Thank you for having me.
🗣 Followers 27 · Following 26 · Logs 93 · Docked 1 year ago
It would be cool to know how many people visit my site on a daily basis, but also I know im a person that gets too caught up with numbers and statistics to the point I would obsess over it or somehow view it like a 'score' in a game.
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Scribbles down "Own a Drive-in movie theatre" into potential independent buisness idea book
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Apparently a critical security vulnerability was recently discovered in firefox and TOR browser. Suprise suprise, the root cause is our old 'friend' javascript at it again.
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Every day my distain for the centralized web grows as does my Love the small-net. I think gemini's unprecidented growth in the past year or so is proof that its more than just a fad or a nieche ideological group project. On a side note, does anyone know what geminicon 2022 was? Apparently it was a convention for gemini users but I literally havent heard a single mention of it until now, after the fact. Was it a mastadon thing or what?
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Added some cool new stuff to the capsule. First, it now mirrors the comic series Gramfel to gemini //tilde.team/~smokey/pictures/Gramfel/ Second, I spent quite some time touching up and reformatting a 30 year old dinosaur of a text file I found on a usenet archive. It now has new lease on life as part of my Fractal Compendium project. tilde.team/~smokey/fractal_compendium/fractal-faq.gmi
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quick guide to setting up duckling proxy: gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-05-24-duckling-guide.gmi
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Are there any public ducking proxies or in depth guides to setting one up locally?
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I actually like the idea of my capsule actually being on Spartan. most spartan sites are simple little "hey, isn't this cool? anyways here's my actual site on gemini" It would be cool to be one of the first spartan-exclusive capsules. For what I need out of a capsule TLS is overkill
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My capsule has a new home! gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/ It underwent a decent sized re-structuring to simplify the directory tree and cut out the fat of unused files. A new "Personal Ramblings" section has been added. It houses some of my less-structured and more out-there ponderings about philosophical subjects, the nature of reality, and the limits of human truth. All that good hippy shit. All of the articles in there are a work in progress. A new "Unfinished Articles" section now houses some half-baked writings that were sitting on my hard drive for a very long time
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Heres a musician I really like whom you've never heard of and never will again. If youre an acoustic guitar enjoyer give them a shot. https://soundcloud.com/jarrad-wright-282731353
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Approximately half of my would be post on station are second-thought deleted. Ill write up something passionate, look it over, think "hey that might be mildly controversial or too political or too topically different for station, I want to keep things light-hearted and not social-media lite" ... goodbye post. Theres probably a healthy balance when it comes to self-censorship but Im definitely not meeting it. Anyone else like this?
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@acidus Hey I saw your post about the chilly update. With the concerns about moon phases cluttering the UI, I would like to suggest a 'full view' option equivalent to wttr.in's experemental 'data-rich output format' with a link to the full view at the bottom of the page. https://camo.githubusercontent.com/425e659037667b40e0e7f5d5c48b0acca3bcd302337c0428cdd2fa854281d18a/68747470733a2f2f777474722e696e2f66696c65732f6578616d706c652d777474722d76322e706e67
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the best way to back up your code is to inscribe its binary into a clay tablet, fire it, and seal it in a cave
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TIL apparently ASCII global map viewer is a thing. Cant believe this is possible in a terminal. Try it out with this command telnet mapscii.me
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I used to really like the idea of having entire discographies of my favorite artist on my mp3 player. A sad reality im not coming around to is that most artist have like 10% absolute banger tracks and 90% meh/unremarkable filler tracks. Theres only a handful of artist where I like ALLL of their songs. Its nice to have the complete collection sure, but its time to be realistic and start just going after the greatest hits albums.
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I wonder what the actual retention is for Gemini users over a 6 month period? I've been noticing a trend while browsing capsules that there's a LOT of them with a few entries spanning 1-3months then dead silence forevermore. What's the deal man? Even the youtubers that introduced me to gemini like DistroTube killed their capsule.
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Yo, IT people. Do me a favor. When you're discussing your job online bragging about how you do jack-shit for work yet get paid 6 figures to play on the internet all day, actually specify the title instead of the old "I do IT" schtick. Its like calling everyone who remotely works with rocks a stoner. Miner? Stoner. Construction worker? Stoner. Mason? Stoner! Details, people! Details. Also for any IT oldheads reading, is it still worth getting into? I imagine theres a ton of competition now that computers are so popular and learning to program is a free skill.
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A list of free fractal documentaries and related bonus stuff gemini://sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/fractal-documentaries.gmi
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An 'official' quick update on my capsule to let people know im still working on stuff //sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/2022-03-25-a-quick-post.gmi
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How do you easily acess emojis in desktop? I search for them online and copy/paste it in but surely theres a faster way
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You ever see a word so many times that it starts to feel wierd? So many sentences start with 'I' that sometimes I intentionally rework it to not include it but its so hard to avoid the most common words like 'I' 'the' 'you' 'and' because they are like the bubblegum and ductape which holds the sentence together
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while browsing gemini I found an old archived text originating from a long extinct usenet group based around fractals. gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/textfiles/internet/FAQ/fractal.faq Its kind of funny how text are timeless, in a way. I never would have known it was written in 1993 if the date had not been there. the MIT ftp servers mentioned are unsuprisingly dead. The author/maintainer is credited as "Ken Shirriff" (In retrospect its wierd how people used to use their real names unworried with privacy concerns) And doing a quick search I found the guys website. Its all about retro-computing and tech project so figured some of you guys would be interested https://www.righto.com/p/about-ken-shirriff.html
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Lagrange users, what is your favorite font pack to use?
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Just discovered the tv show Dexter this week even though its been out since 2007, crazy how good shows can just slip under your radar for a decade only to just stumble on them by chance
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Been playing around with YACY more lately since the DDG fiasco last week. True P2P decentralized search engine. Its far from perfect but a nice change of pace from what we consider a typical "search engine". Similar to Marginalia's engine it doesnt care about SEO and instead is indexes in an entirely different way . You as a user actually host a peer instance on your own hardware and can add new pages to the search engine through your own peers web-crawler. Each user can influence the search engines top results by manually marking sites that are relevant to the search query. Again its not perfect but a pretty good example of what a true decentralized engine looks like. Im happy to have it as an option.
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What is the purpose of our universe?
Roger Penrose and the three worlds theory: https://astudentforever.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/roger-penroses-three-worlds-and-three-deep-mysteries-theory/ give it a read if you have some time
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Trailer Park Boys is one of my favorite shows of all time, humor is on point for me. Im going on yet ANOTHER binge today. If you have Netflix go check them out, its worth a try.
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Is there a security reason people will write their email as some variation of example AT emailservice.com instead of example@emailservice.com? Is this just a preference or is it something like protection against email botcrawlers?
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The article I wrote yesterday is back up finally: gemini://sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/privacy-advice.gmi