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For sure is always a place, you haven't been on Gopher. If you are in hurry, and you must...
generate a new character...
or get a random character name...
or throw a 4d6 dice...
or read some detail about Undead Bat. Here you are:
gopher://gopher.smolderingwizard.com/1/rpg/player_and_gm_resources
I've been burning albums and a couple mixes on mindisc the last couple days and I've got a pretty good stack now. I was also able to fit all of the side A KONPEITO mixtapes onto a single mindisc :-).
For sure is always a place on Gopher, which just been born. Look at the shinny new BBC news text proxy:
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/cside/2022-04-24-further-work-on-bbc-news-gopher
After far too long, I spent the whole weekend hanging out with Esperanto speakers at the Brita Kongreso here in the UK (in Wales). It was awesome to be around old and new friends, using only Esperanto for the whole weekend. I forgot how much I love escaping the real world and living in Esperantujo. Really can't wait for IJK in summer, where instead of 60 people it'll be more like 200 . 🙏
For sure is always a place, you haven't been on Gopher. Game for today:
["ZORK I: The Great Underground Empire" 1980]
Interesting article about Web 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, and... 4.0!
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~zlg/0037_web-versions.txt
There are also interesting readings on Gemini. Found by @deerbard:
gemini://rawtext.club/~oxymoronist/main.gmi
I'm pleased to announce that after a swift and relatively easy board meeting, we've voted unanimously to reject Elon's bid to buy Station.
In my rolling one pic gallery you can now see a photo I've taken in 2006 that is a perfect example of what I miss in myphotographies today (I now use a compact digital camera for the convenience).
I checked nytpu's photos and found something that reminded me for a gazillionth of times how much I prefere analog photography. And I was never fully able to understand what are all the reasons. Grain for sure and specific colors but something about edges and sharpness too.
whole capsule about media literacy, didn't read through it yet but looks interesting.
For sure is always a place, you haven't been on Gopher. Hole for today:
For sure is always a place, you haven't been on Gopher. Hole for today:
I've created the next two cheat sheets:
The key concept of above files is to describe how I'm using different tools, for my own memory of keyboard shortcuts.
I try to prepare the base actions which I'm using in vim, to compare them in emacs. Some of the conclusions:
Today I'm doing more house cleaning, and I've automated my publish script for tinylog.gmi to include last entry for finger:
awk -v RS='' 'NR==2{print $0}' tinylog.gmi > finger
So awk split input into columns/fields, rows/records. I was aware this, but I never did it.
It was easy.
Очередная находка на просторах: Eater of Sheep
gemini://extratone.xyz/music.gmi
Seen on aioe.news.helpdesk newsgroup:
Some posting about spam on another newsgroup that comes from aioe.org servers…
First response:
Can you not just filter him rather than crying about it publicly. Are you some little crying baby that your mum couldn't teach you manners?
WTF is wrong with people unleashing their hate online for no reason… 🤦
Вернул в строй инстанцию AllTube Download — веб-фронтэнда для youtube-dl.
Today I tuned up my slrn config, and I was browsing the Usenet again. Slrn is great tool, but user must has knowledge of the key concepts. One of them is score file. I had been wondering why the default view isn't date ordered. After that I discovered, that you could change order by `ESC s`. I discovered also that you could change display format by `ESC d`. And after that I discovered that it is more handy to highlight authors or keywords in score file by `K`. It is need to put some tutorial about riding that horse. ;-)
For sure is always a place, you haven't been on Gopher. Hole for today:
And Slashdot proxy:
gopher://codevoid.de/1/slashdot
Everything that becomes popular turns to crap. So now I have to ditch DuckDuckGo and find an alternative. No, I'm not telling you what I'm moving to, lest they get enough users to dictate their terms to us. #rant
Computers were "good enough" 5 years ago, and we're still using them for the exact same purposes. So why do we have gigs of software updates every week, and why do our computers get slow and "out-of-date" every 2 years? Where's the extra value from all this added complexity, compared to 5 years ago? Is it purely aesthetic? I'd argue that we're regressing, not progressing. #computing #philosophy
Reading an old manual file for a Lisp Machine (dated June 8th, 1984) . Just stumbled upon `with-open-file` working exactly the way the the similar statement works in Python.
We're not making much progress, m'key?
Who dares implement Core War over Gemini? It would join Astrobotany in the game's department on Geminispace. ;-)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War
Photos from a recent trip to Hartebeespoort #photo #holiday
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Birds photographed on a recent trip: Half-collared Kingfisher, Black Swan (in captivity), Giant Kingfisher . #birding
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✅ - Nice article by @szczezuja
Seems that houston¹ (verify a capsule status) has made smolZINE 24² :)
Thanks @kelbot
After decades of Ubuntu use, I've replaced my desktop OS with antiX. It's a minimal Debian system without systemd. Boots to desktop in about 5 seconds and uses only 150Mb of RAM. It's a simple system that I can get my head around easily and administer without unlearning and relearning things all the time like I had to with Ubuntu. It feels fast and efficient, and looks good too. For similar reasons, on the server side, I'm moving from Ubuntu to OpenBSD where I can.
antiX Linux
How to water your plant "without" a Gemini client:
echo "gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us:1965/app/plant/water" | openssl s_client --connect "astrobotany.mozz.us:1965" -cert $CERTDIR/cert.pem -key $CERTDIR/key.pem -crlf -quiet -ign_eof
It's 40th generation of my plant on Astrobotany. I've looked at leader boards and their more than 100th generation plants. Probably the main aim of playing that game is gathering strength and convincing yourself to write automation script for your plant. I had been thinking about such thing like act of cheating, but now I'm thinking that it could be the only solution. So it's game for start being a developer.
gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/5d129edfe438478d8ec5a0e57c69a505/m1
It's a "long weekend" here in the UK due to the Easter holidays. I hope those with the benefit of the extra time off work have something/relaxing planned. I'll mostly be coding and settling back into life in the UK after a little time spent living in Spain – I'm still saying "¡la cuenta porfa!" in restaurants here!
I like Amfora a lot and it's the only gemini browser I use and I really hope it will always work. Forever and ever.
Watched Dune at last. I’m… really disappointed? “Desert power” *rolls eyes*… how anachronistic (for the world of Dune)! People sound mundane, present-day-ish, and largely uninvolved. Nothing has colour. There's little grandeur or sense of a rich cultural heritage — just this grey desaturated utilitarian military flavour to all but the spice-blue eyes. Of course the David Lynch movie had the opulence cranked up to eleven for House Atreidis and the Corrinos, but it did at least show off more of the Dune universe and made it quite clear that it was a very different age and world. Edric’s (the Guild navigator) visit to the Emperor with his news of Ix (the meaning of which would be lost to anyone unfamiliar with the book) certainly helped “weirdify” Dune as well. Oh, well. It can only get more interesting as the story picks up pace in future movies. Right?
Matto has interesting article about RCS (ancient version control system, from '80s) and keyword expansion in it. I hadn't been aware of such thing. And it's possible also in Git (with some work around).
Skyjake has written about TUI Lagrange. So we will have: iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux (GUI) and Linux (TUI) versions.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/skyjake/a954b6eeadb748509bb6bae77eb9399c
В плейлист PiRadio добавлены композиции из http://www.marksmart.net/randommusic/IMS/RecText.php
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Testing testing. First time posting from Lagrange in the terminal, running in text mode! https://skyjake.fi/@jk/108109462522530795
People that are still (or again) using usenet: How do you find interesting group to subscribe? There are so many and so much spam it seems impossible… The only one I'm following right now is the gemini one^^.
"Nearly all of modern computer engineers are working above so many layers that there’s no human way to understand what they are doing."
gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-05-firefox-ubuntu.gmi #computing #philosophy #ubuntu #snaps
The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04
https://kineto.tobykurien.com/x/rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-05-firefox-ubuntu.gmi
Back in the UK after living in the Canaries for the last 3 months. It's great to see people again after so long, but damn, I'm already missing that beautiful weather. It's so rough here that the plane aborted landing on the first attempt.
`slope` can be compiled now -- ~sloum wrote a nice compiler/linker - it resembles slightly the way the old DOS BASIC compiler worked - by embedding the source and the interpreter in a single executable file.
It might not be the most storage-efficient way, but giving someone a file/link to the file is much easiert than asking them to install all dependencies.
With zsh, when you are in a middle of typing a command and realize you need to type another one first, just use "ctrl+q", it will delete your command and let you type another one. After it is executed it will paste back your 1st command (before the ctrl+q) :)
This is so useful, for example if you realize the folder where you want to move a file is not created yet.
👍 zsh tips
Today is a day of housecleaning. I splited tinylog file into two, current and archive for 2021. I restarted my VPS (uptime about half year).
I'm bilingual now - vi and emacs. ;-) Splitting file by vi seems to be easier, it's VISUAL mode is handy.
I'm going to my first in-person Esperanto meetup in a couple of weeks since before the pandemic and I'm really pleased. It has been ages since I was around a bunch of other speakers, and there should be between 60-80 people! I'm even running a few games of "homlupo" (werewolf).
I painted Ursula K. Le Guin portrait and gemini is the first place I published it to. Rest of the world can wait. Check my Rolling One Pic Gallery.
Curious which OS folks are running.
[POLL Which is your daily OS of choice?] Linux | macOS | Windows | Mobile (Android/iOS) | Other
The best thing you can do when learning a new language is to wield it like a maniac everywhere you can. You quickly lose any desire to appear competent and it becomes a lot more fun. It's also amazing how often people will go out of their way to help you when they see you trying.
I found old log drafts. Nothing interesting though so deleted them. Still have some to check, I had some extra time during last Summer. But it's always just loose thoughts I had in mind back then.
Nice read about tinylogs (in RU and EN):
Микроблогинг в Gemini: tinylog и gtl / Microbloging in Gemini: tinylog and gtl
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/2022-04-03-MY008.gmi
Interested in what people do instead of using Usenet, I looked at Internet Archive Schoolar. I haven't found nothing more relevant than paper from 2013.
[iSpy: seeing what students really do online, Reynol Junco]
The answer for then is: social networking.
I sent first posts to Usenet from almost 30 years. While looking for available nntp (text only) servers I found out something new:
Now the roles have turned somewhat differently. You can unlock your `slrn`, and point it at: `news.eternal-september.org` or `news.aioe.org` now.
ad [Eternal September]:
You can always be surprised. It works.
$ sudo apt install sdate
$ sdate
Sun 10442 Sep 1993 09:46:08 AM CEST
;-)
Second try for Usenet. It was easy.
$ NNTPSERVER=nntp.aioe.org
$ export NNTPSERVER
$ slrn -f ~/.jnewsrc --create
My previous problem must be connected with SDF.org server or configuration.
I'm kind of having a Hannibal Smith moment right now: "I love it when a plan comes together"
Except - it never was a "plan". It started with a shocking (not anymore) discovery, that the system I'm on doesn't have the `bc` calculator.
After looking around and finding some, not so suitable, tools a normal person would just find the source package, compile bc and move on.
Well, not me, obviously - I decided to write an RPN calculator in bash... Then the way assemblylanguage routines should handle the stack made me rework the stack of my calc.
Then I wanted to see it... Then it wasn't a calculator anymore -- it turned into a set of command-line macros that allowed me basically write and run ASM programs in Bash ("in", as in mixing bash and assembly commands and sharing the screen and variables.
And now I am just translating the lines into Javascript to make it less 1970's-chic.
A MASM-like assembly interpreter (WiP)
A MASM-like assembly interpreter (WiP)
@bacardi55 Oh, I see! I was just unlucky then to check it at wrong moment :) Thx.
RE: @deerbard Fri 01 Apr 2022 12:35 CEST
Just learned my tinylog does not appear in Tinylog timeline generated by gtl anymore. Was it too boring or what could be the couse?
Your tinylog is still indexed by the aggregator! What can happen is if during the last check a capsule is down, it won't display any posts from it (there is no a memory, all posts are retrieve at refresh). So if any network issue happened right at the refresh time (could be on my server side too), then you are not in the latest page, but will be at the next refresh (every 15min). I can see your tinylog on the aggregator now for example.
Finished 30 days of intermittent fasting today. It's something I do on and off for periods of the year, aiming to give my body a rest from food intake much more than our normal diets allow. There are some really exciting health benefits associated with 16 hour daily intermittent fasting. If anyone is curious, I highly recommend the documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer.
Just learned my tinylog does not appear in Tinylog timeline generated by gtl anymore. Was it too boring or what could be the couse?
Quite often I want to write a log about some thought I have but knowing it would take more time than I want to spend on it I always put that away and forget about the thought. I think I should change my attitude and write even short chaotic thoughts. Still better than not writing at all. It's kind of a diary thing. Only public. Maybe that stops me. But in the other hand, I don't think I would be determind to write a private one without any chance for interaction and thought exchage. Here, in gemini space, the chance though small, still exists.
What do you think? How do you treat your logs? Do you write a private diary or other form of thought saving?
Station reached 600 users today... another cool milestone for our awesome little microcommunity here. Congrats everyone 🙌
@bacardi55 I tried tin, trn, slrn for Usenet without success (i can't browse older posts). But maybe I don't have enough time for configuration. If mutt is better solution, you could write some tutorial. There are no many about it on the web.
С понедельника осваиваюсь на новой галере. Переход из конторы на 200 человек в кровавенький энтерпрайз с тысячами сотрудников — то ещё приключение. Всё такое серёзное, аж зубы сводит. И индуся в техподдержке — это нечто. Я-то думал, у меня плохое произношение...
The haptics of styorofoam and Cotton balls (cosmetic) are to me as nails on chalkboard are to others and I literally fear touching them
RE: @szczezuja Tue 29 Mar 2022 21:48 CEST
Bacardi55 pointed out to me the Usenet. I was touched by the second illiteracy. I used Usenet in the '90s. And now I haven't even know how to go about it. Ancient knowledge, what are the NNTP server addresses now?!
→ https://sdf.org/?faq%3fUSENET%3f01 [news.sdf.org]
And it already seemed that I do not have a free server at hand.
I'm "browsing" usenet with my mail client neomutt :) I'm also using this server that is free and open:
nntp.aioe.org
Bacardi55 pointed out to me the Usenet. I was touched by the second illiteracy. I used Usenet in the '90s. And now I haven't even know how to go about it. Ancient knowledge, what are the NNTP server addresses now?!
And it already seemed that I do not have a free server at hand.
I finally wrote the long (decades) overdue Brainfuck interpreter.
The prototype in Python was rewritten in JavaScript and now it resides
I've discovered that many actors attempt to find a common syntax for markdown. You can find more info on
@szczezuja thx for these radio stations without commercials. I'll give'em a try sometime although I'm not used to talking radios. I mostly listen to soma.fm.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-03_android-beta1.gmi
The next phase begins in the Lagrange for Android prerelease builds. 🚀
Thanks for the Alpha feedback everyone! The work continues but now I’m happy to start calling this a “proper” Android app and not just a platform-agnostic mobile build.
Hey KONPEITO fans, do you know Drift Theory (music works of former Sloum's music collective).
Finding myself trying to pay more attention to how much energy I'm using and when I'm using it. Trying to shift my more energy-intensive activities toward the daytime, when my solar panels are providing most of my electricity. It's proving an interesting exercise. I think I might start carrying a USB stick with media I might want and using that instead of my local NAS in the evenings...
New thingy:
A little bit of research for English-speaking expats
I sent my first message on the gemini newsgroup today! First time for the past 15+ years!
As @bacardi55 mentioned, there several broken links here and there in Geminispace. I was also thinking about partitioning my Tinylog. But it isn't Gopher with their catalog of files. Gemini is similar to WWW, with content mixed with site structure. So in Gopher, we would link to content, rather than to site structure like in WWW and Gemini. So in Gopher I could rearrange site structure in a safe way for backlinks. In Gemini activities like organizing the archive yearly will break every backlink. So we should be so wise in the beginning to do proper structure for the whole site.
I stumble more and more on broken links in gemini even from aggregators like Antenna/Cosmos. Either stability has gone down lately in the gemini space or I'm just unlucky ^^.
Sometimes I post just random thoughts that come to my mind. Please don't read them as complaining. I's usually little observations or articulation of mood/feeling. Like the one about posting to the void. I actually felt good, it feels mysterious to send the words for nobody to read and exciting that in this endless emptyness still somebody can read it. It's like reaching alien worlds with letter in a bottle.
re: @szczezuja Mon 21 Mar 2022 21:32 CET
I wish there was such a tool for Polish as well even though it's our native :D
Writing here in English is also some language practice. I don't use English in everyday cases, so it got rusty. I haven't thought about looking for something like this, but I saw Rfmpie's article about his publishing process. There is a special webpage for grammar check. I will try it.
gopher://rawtext.club:70/0/~rfmpie/phlog/2022-03-20-gopher-rig.org
Today I saw a back link to my Gemini capsule from Gophersphere. It somehow natural, but we don't have a proper instrumentation to detect that. ;-)
As @bacardi55 said, there is comp.infosystems.gemini group is announced.
Google haven't indexed it yet, so big-net isn't aware it. ;-)
Discovering usenet after so many years (15?) :)
There is now a specific gemini place there too:
comp.infosystems.gemini
Sending messages for anyone and nobody. Why do some of us do it?
Too rare are the occasions when I think clearly and logically.
I was using sshfs for flounder.online, but there isn't possible to use public key authentication for flounder.online. So I migrated to sftp. Below my publish script for flouner.online.
#!/bin/bash
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo " publish.sh filename"
exit 1
fi
# Set password; @see https://www.passwordstore.org
export LFTP_PASSWORD=`pass flounder.online`
DIR="$(dirname "$1")"
FILE="$(basename "$1")"
lftp --env-password sftp://set_your_login@flounder.online -p 2024 -e "cd $DIR; lcd $DIR; put $FILE; bye"
# Clear password
export LFTP_PASSWORD=""
@gnuserland Check it out: 🙂
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-03_android-alpha7.gmi
This is also a preview of Lagrange v1.12, with Roboto as the default font, paragraph justification option, bottom URL/tab bars, new "Oceanic" color theme, and improvements for the other themes.
I did notice an occasional problem with the lookup results popup remaining open even after unfocusing the URL bar. Let me know if you find a reliable way to reproduce that.
I haven't thought in that way earlier. The all emacs's power user trend is about a best way to manage windows in text mode. It's like [heaven of tmux] but on the next level. Mechanisms of managing inside, and between windows are more adavnced.
Oh em gee, look at the prettiness coming to my "problematic" first computer love! Back in the day (mid-80s++) I wouldn't have believed it possible. Most games used had bad colour clash or character-cell-based movement or used only four colours in the "active" area... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StWFw1pi0HQ
Q: Would you like to see companies embrace gender(-)neutral German?
A: Not until there actually is such a thing as gender-neutral German. In my maybe not so humble opinion, the current incarnation with the "gender star/colon/underscore" is no better than the generic masculine. While it frequently works out in the singular (apart from the "*" confusing the normies), plurals like "Ärzt*innen" or "Professor*innen" really just inject an asterisk into the feminine form: "Ärzt" doesn't mean anything, and "Professor" isn't the intended masculine plural form either. Using the asterisk as in set theory or like a DOS-/UNIX-style wildcard won't help with that either; the wildcard doesn't work like that. And the nerd and pedant in me is bothered by that. I think the slash thing or mentioning both was better even if it took up more space ("Ärzte/Ärztinnen", "Ärztinnen und Ärzte").
It's great that after so many years I still love the feeling of sitting down and wiring in for a long evening spent progressing an idea. This kind of creative outlet has been addictively valuable to me since the day I first started coding, and I'm very thankful I can still find it. ☺️
Poll – I'm curious what kind of geography Station covers now with so many more users.
[POLL Where are Station's users?] Africa | Asia | Europe | America (N/S) | Australia
Last night I watched "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda." It's a documentary about a Japanese composer who, at the time, was battling throat cancer. It was a nice, calm, meandering film. I enjoyed it.
Just 2 posts until Station reaches 2000. Nice little milestone!
@bacardi55 yes I'm on RTC, though I'm like a child in a fog, I'm using just little functionality that I've been shown how to use. I mainly post to my capsule. As for tools I know how to check for RTC members there's a chat called gab and for a longer form writing there's shlog.
@bacardi55:
I've read ew0k post also.
[Celebrating Offpunk and Hugging Solderpunk!]
Offpunk looks very interesting. However I don't need a offline browser at the moment. It's nice that it's combining all aspects in one, and it's merging Gophersphere and Geminispace.
Recently I've read also good words about Elpher. But it isn't offline browser like Offpunk.
RE: @bacardi55 Mon 14 Mar 2022 10:44 CET
In theory, using offpunk should be the same as centralizing gemini/web pages I want to read in wallabag (which I already do)…
But I don't know why I feel I need to try offpunk for some nerdy reasons :).
I think I'm going to try offpunk sometime this week… :)
https://tildegit.org/ploum/AV-98-offline
I installed and configured grocy for managing food stock, meal planning and shopping list shared with my gf.
I'm very impressed by the tool so far :)
Goal is to plan better to limit waste even more :)
RE: @szczezuja Sun 13 Mar 2022 22:31 CET
Thanks a lot for sharing those info :]
@bacardi55:
Because it's close to my exploration of Gopher in 90's I can say something:
Is usenet still used? Anyone has good documentation if that's the case?
Or are BBS more still used? If so, which is the more active between usenet and BBS?
Where my minidisc homies at?
We waited a long time. Luckily, the update [script] worked.
$ ./update_gtl
Last available = /bacardi55/gtl/releases/download/v0.7.0/gtl_0.7.0_linux_amd64
Last installed = 0.6.0
Installing a new version from https://github.com//bacardi55/gtl/releases/download/v0.7.0/gtl_0.7.0_linux_amd64
[...]
gtl_0.7.0_linux_amd64 100%[==========================>] 5.11M 10.8MB/s in 0.5s
I've release GTL v0.7.0 :)
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/03/13/gtl-v0.7.0/
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.7.0
RE: @szczezuja Sat 12 Mar 2022 22:28 CET
"nb" looks very interesting. Someday, I would like to get into org mode. It seems to be an even more general solution (although it would require a transition from vi to emacs).
I thought about it a few times, but I can not make my mind to move away from vim after all those years…
I've been on holidays for a while. It's caused several posts on Gemini and Gopher.
@bacardi55: "nb" looks very interesting. Someday, I would like to get into org mode. It seems to be an even more general solution (although it would require a transition from vi to emacs).
There are not many ideologies today, it seems, that encourage consuming less in order to reclaim more of one's free time for oneself. Yet I think this is a necessary plank in our transition to a greener future. I feel this could be helped along by encouraging simple, maximally inclusive communal activities. Much of our consumption today seems directed toward compensating for a loss of non-consumption-oriented community.
I say this as one living in a relatively affluent Western country, granted.
Last night I referred to my own post on Station from about a month ago (linked below) to make another tempeh-and-rice concoction. Had to use honey because we were out of maple syrup. Still turned out alright. I think some ginger would've made it even better, though
gemini://station.martinrue.com/lykso/82c7fc62e52a45d48331bf006ae4c370
Did I really miss how awesome "nb" is? 🤯
Listening to Konpeito music over and over again :)
Sometimes all you need is a little momentum. It doesn't matter how you start – the only goal sans momentum is to get going. Do anything. Get into motion. Once you're moving everything else is much more prone to lining up. This has been a note to self.
Kelkfoje oni bezonas nur iom da movokvanto. Ne gravas kiel, nur ke via celo estu moviĝi. Ion ajn faru. Simple ekmoviĝu. Poste ĉiuj la aliaj aferoj emos malkovriĝi. Tiu ĉi estas noto por la estonta mi.
tilde.cafe now has a spartan server! And my spa client is working out pretty well for a minimal client... I am looking forward to using spartan as my playground for a tinylogging server/service...
Better late than never. Finally, I created Git repositories for my Gemini and Gopher files.
I had a Raspberry Pi 4 I wasn't using, so last night I flashed LibreELEC to an SD card and set it up to connect to my backup box over Wireguard. Now I don't have to spin up my gaming box to watch things! Haven't plugged it into a Kill-a-watt yet, but I suspect the Pi is using 1/4 to 1/10 of the electricity my gaming box does. Also, no fan noise.
I wish I could use Gopher on Commodore 64 in 90’s. I had c64, but I hadn’t net then.
https://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/onrequest/geos/geoGopher/index.html
I watched some retro channel about Commodore 64 where it was said that the engineers planned to implement availability of custom OS in Commodore 64. This was a big difference compare to ZX Spectrum. There was only one OS there. Commodore 64 had GEOS. I didn't understand what the GEOS was. I had floppy drive connected to my C64, but I hadn't hard drive. I didn't had idea what the alternative OS for. I had some vague understanding that GEOS is similar to Windows 3.11 but for me then it was useless.
So GEOS had possibility to connect to the Internet, to have network utilities, to implement Gopher client. What was the 90's could look like for me if I had the network? It's funny that it's so abstract for me that I can't imagine that. In the beginning of 90's I hadn't clear idea what the computer is for. So how to imagine connecting it to the Internet?! Poland was backward, and in the beginning of the transformation from the former Soviet's block, with technology embargo.
But the idea of Gopher client for Commodore 64 is inspiring me. There are several YT videos with 8-bit computer connected to the Internet. That barrel CRT monitors, with characteristic colors and fonts. Slowness unheard of today, where every character is as if it was stuffed out in torment from the net cable. Limited screen width that cannot fit most of today's information on one line.
It must be beautiful, and like in the dreams.
http://i.bnet.com/blogs/commodore-64-1982-ad-crop.png
It must been like on this advertisment. The beige colors of the 80's, with happy family sitting near their home personal computer.
For me the natural way of learning about the computer was watching of the similar photos. They could be low-res and small, but they were so attractive. It didn't matter if what I saw on them was in fact there.
The magic of the computers in the 90's.
Listening to Konpeito music over and over again.
I started thinking about how, when you close your eyes, your eyes nonetheless remain active and awake behind your eyelids, and somehow that's freaky, and now I'm afraid I'll never sleep again
spa, my Spartan browser framework is up and running.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-03-05.spa.gmi
It is my first practical piece of HorseWare, built to Whinam principles (immutable log, indices). It also introduces 4-character `sigils`, durable mnemonic devices to represent URLs.
What's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone have exciting / unusual plans?
I'm hanging out here on the island of Lanzarote and mostly just coding. Simple pleasures :)
I'm wondering. Any preppers in gemini space?
Since January, I became team lead, which mean that 50% of my time should be now focused on helping and coaching other people in the team…
I know how to do my job, but coaching others is though… I should try to find some good materials to learn this skill…
Also, now I have many more topics to manage, I need to be better at taking and organizing notes more efficiently…
This work week is crazy, I haven't been this tired for a long time…
Recent discoveries:
What a cunt. Anyone who buys a Tesla is an ignorant asshole, best case, or just a plain old asshole.
Nice summary of the different microblogging option in gemini:
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20220227-microblogging.gmi
Today I've set up tmux inside tmux. So I need two command prefixes Ctrl-A and Ctrl-B. I'm waiting for the third tmux. ;-)
This is some excuse to write here, I realized that I abandoned Mastodon besides #gemini and #gopher tags, where I'm posting a time to time. So I have shortage of social interactions. So I'm a bit like lone ranger. ;-)
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
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
That's a great post, my thoughts aver /very/ similar to the ones in this post.
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
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^^.
Cont. of my note at Thu 06 Jan 2022 10:31:56 AM CET. So, Russia invade Ukraine with their troops, and on one of the phlogs I can read that "more fault" is with everything else than Russia. I'm shocked again.
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2022-02-23-ukr-tmp.txt
In the same time balance of many lifes has been inerrupted in Ukrain, country next to mine. Trying to focus on daily life problems but it's not that easy. Panic is counter productive but doing anything seems pointless. The only question that feels relevant is: What should we do? And I don't know the answer. How big is this storm and where will it end?
It's useful to think about my past. The longer I live, the more mistakes I did, the more I can learn from studying them. I almost abandoned this process of going back in memory cause I was overly sentimental in my youth and it seemed counterproductive at the time. Extremes are rarely healthy.I'm happy I'm regaining some balance here.
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!
My Spartan client is finally getting close to working, kind of. The client itself is trivial, but the URL sigil bookmark/cache system that gives every URL seen a 4-letter shortcut has been an interesting animal to code. Also, trying out the Whinam datastructure of using an immutable log with an index as a generic datastore is hard work in an entirely uncharted territory. Anyway, moving slower than anticipated, with much procrastination and uncertainty about my actions.
@bacardi55 thx a lot! Getting better already!
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. 😜
@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!
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.
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.
Wordo is now on full auto. A cron-driven script selects a new random word from the dictionary of ~6000 word and sets up a new game at 08:00 UTC.
gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/wordo/dev/cgi?
Who dare reads all zines from 90's? ;-)
https://rap.mirror.cyberbits.eu/textfiles.com/magazines/
"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
For my personal purpose, there are some new Polish capsules on Gemini:
I've added search (more like filtering) capabilities to GTL :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/commit/1343c80595cd5e2253ab4b46189e77156cf8236b
Upcoming version moving on nicely :]
Недолго длилась ностальгическая волна с работой в IceWM - тайлинг и консольные программы несравнимо удобней, всё-таки, особенно на ноуте. Вернулся на sway :)
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 :)
Damn, the re convention is a little cumbersome! Am I even doing it right?
Acme editor... I keep trying to eliminate the mouse, but find that I really can't - even when I use vim (poorly) I wind up switching to another terminal or something that is more easily mouse-driven. And copy-paste with the middle button (linux) is a godsend.
So I wonder if I would just love Acme, paradoxically. I have some intimate experience with Project Oberon which has a similar ad-hoc button-making capabilty, and that's _fabulous_. Sadly I don't like Oberon much as a language, perhaps unfairly, but even the idea of, for the rest of my life, typing capitalized POINTER TO seems dumb.
I don't know why the idea of placing contact information into a well-known place scares the crap out of me! It's not like I am hiding my email, but the idea of a spider harvesing all the emails in gemini space so easily just sits wrong. It's not that hard to get - just look for email addresses at index.gmi, or just scan all tildes for usernames (which correspond to the emails there). So I don't know what I am scared of.
I am also pathologically afraid and annoyed that gemini content is being proxied to the main web. I don't want them reading our shit! Well, at least they can't play SpellBinding...
@adele I actually like that aspect of gemini space that it makes you use another browser. I use Amfora and I really enjoy the experience. I never used terminal too much before as I'm not a programmer, now I use it on daily basis and I open it in cool-retro-term app which makes it extra fun :)
Давно замечаю за представителями манагерского сословия (преимущественно, но не исключительно, московскими) склонность к абсолютно идиотским англицизмам. «Я поняла твой консёрн» сукасука... Напоминает попытку элитизироваться, по аналогии с тем, как русская аристократия вещала на французском, а японская - на китайском. В случае околоайтишной планктонины выглядит неимоверно жалко.
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
In coming days I will celebrate my first year in Geminispace. That part of net seems to be bigger than year ago. As @bacardi55 has written, I'm also using more Antenna/Cosmos than my Commitium. But I don't know if it's good thing? It was about controlling what to read by myself, not by the third parties. We should remember also what is the importance of blogrolls.
The second thought is that my Commitium is not so loud, at it had been in last months. It seems that many old feeds are quiet for long time. The Geminispace is changing before our eyes.
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
Got bogged down in URL normalization. I should've just written the code to do it from the start instead of wasting a couple of days looking for a library and trying to adapt it, then realizing it has a gaping hole (and is designed by an ignoramus). Remember the Forth way:
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 :).
@bacardi55: You go!
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.
I've got some new replies for my question about 90's net. The most of them are on the local SDF.org board, but one is on Gophersphere.
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/xiled/phlog/2022/20220124_intarnets
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/xiled/phlog/2022/20220125_intarnets_2of2
It's interesting because I had also Commodore 64, and Pentium 75MHz computers. But computers in Poland were shifted by about one decade. So I wasn't able to surf net on my C64 in 90's, as do so Xiled in 80's (sic!). Possibility of surfing the net on C64, for me is mind blowing. Probably everything what had been possible in net on C64, I did not earlier than on my Pentium 75MHz!
When I am thinking about this I also recall first MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) which was also introduced on C64. People who even didn't see 8 bit computers, never will believe in this.
https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs/
https://paleotronic.com/2018/07/01/a-1980s-quantum-link-to-a-modern-day-mutiny/
https://archive.org/details/ClubCaribe1994Documentary
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 👋
These 3D printed computer terminals are simply gorgeous! #3dprint #retro #terminal
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
https://uri.cat/projects/modern-retro-terminal/
So I have a prototype that loads and renders a page, and databases the links. But I hit a snag: a brower can just send the links to the server as they are written in gemtext, but since I am databasing the links, I need to normalize them. This is not hard, but is nasty business full of corner cases.
Cool! I have several modules working:
All I need is to tie them together. I could probably string it together in the shell, or monolithic for now. Links can be navigated as numbers from the current page, 4-char codes via the mapper, or typed in as full urls. Suckless-style configuration can work - just change the colors and recomple, which is instant with a 20K executable...Sticking to spartan for now to avoid dealing with TLS... Will have a working browser with a link database tomorrow (I hope).
Good morning!
New pic in One Picture Gallery
Е шен люй ча (野生绿茶) - ♥
Кажется, у меня новый фаворит среди зелёных чаёв.
Finally got to work on my old idea of a modular browser. Starting with a URL mapper. It maps URLS to 4-character codes, allowing up to 1 million URLs to be 'shortened'. This code will be presented in my CLI browser (before each link), and the user can go to any link encountered by typing in 4 characters. Not just a link on this page -- any link ever seen! This works as a URL shortener, a way to navigate links, a history cache, and a 'bookmark' system of sorts.
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 (:
Опубликовал резюме, налетели коршунами. Где-то треть - работорговцы (аутстаффинг и подобное), остальные в целом адекватные, даже одно собеседование назначил и думаю ещё о двух. К сожалению, не прокатил в одну американскую контору — маловато опыта в качестве именно девопса (к сожалению, 15 лет стажа линуксового админства тут не аргумент). А письма продолжают приходить и приходить. Благо, телефон на беззвуке...
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!
Заметка на будущее: написать пост про Икигаи.
I wrote a spartan 'client' toy in C. It's a start.
https://tildegit.org/stack/spb
Мой мир никогда не станет прежним. Обнаружена удобная и работающая программа на... Rust! А то у меня уж сложилось впечатление, что оный язык используется только для мастурбации на блокчейн и пожирания ресурсов компьютера. Итак, работающий и простой Gopher-клиент:
В gmisub-аггрегатор добавлены несколько капсул
И подборка по-прежнему доступна в виде архива с epub за последний месяц:
Я тут подумал... Никто не хочет поадминить инстацию Pleroma?
I am not sure how I feel about Pleroma, or the Fediverse in general... It looks quite noisy, but I really haven't been a part of it enough to have an opinion. I know I don't like most things about twitter or facebook. Elixir is interesting to me, but again I know nothing about it...
I just found mozz's Spartan protocol! And his reference client. And it turns out there is a bunch of stuff there. I really love the simplicity. tilde.team has a spartan server! And it supports cgi (although I cannot figure out how to get data off the url past the ?... But it's a start.
Anyone using it? How do you browse?
I've been thinking about tinylogs, feeds and federation...
Some ideas on how something like it could be used to simultaneously fill all social networking needs, from chat to email to bulletin boards to gemlogs and magazines -- in the (fictional?) land of intelligent horses:
New tinylog:
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/tinylog.gmi
Ah, done with the chores: checking tomorrow's SpellBinding and Wordo games. Always best to do it early before my brain gets fuzzy. I really should automate it more for wordo. I would like to be able to set up a whole month's worth of games in an hour or two, and let it rip. SpellBinding is almost there, but I still have to mess with the dictionary a lot, and then update all the pre-made games...
I should've done this ages ago. What a great way to say something quickly! It was also a pleasure to find bacardi55 aggregator. I really like the gtl TUI tool, but sady it's in go, and I dare not install anything on my current machine...
Wait, it works at a tilde! And it is cool.
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! 🍻
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 🤔
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/
First day after another attack of paralyzing back pain. Yesterday I spent whole day planning how to improve my working place. Thankfuly after yesterdays heavy painkillers I don't need more today. Taking breaks as I should. Now I „only” have to finally start remebering about it ALWAYS.
Обновил список используемого/рекомендуемого ПО. Желающие могут ознакомиться.
Bombadillo разочаровывает. Казалось бы, универсальный браузер для gopher и gemini с идеальным для меня поведением. Но. Есть него косяк - но всегда при запросе подставляет порт в url, даже если оный порт - дефолтный. Казалось бы, всё в порядке, но есть ряд кривых gemini-серверов, котрые на это реагируют неадекватно и выдают ошибку not found. Issue про написание костыля для такого поведения в гите bombadillo висит уже 11 месяцев, а без него часть гемисферы недоступна.
@bacardi55: I was thinking that is curated list of tinylogs, and you are the maintainer. ;-) So maybe it is why, there are no new feeds. People don't know how to join?
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. Yet 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
Окончательно застрял в gopherspace. Ощущения из подросткового периода, когда Сеть надо было"серфить", а не питаться блюдом грузинской кухни Жричодали от корпорастов. Дух исследования и малых сообществ, неожиданные находки (порою настоящие бриллианты) и тонны, моря и горы _оригинальной_, сука, информации! Жизнь не просто _есть_ за пределами большого WWW, она только там и осталась, по сути. Gemini и Gopher (ну и smolnet пока трепыхается).
Продолжаю замену софта на более простой (пожалуй, скоро будет статья с очередным актуальным списком повседневных программ). Уже упоминал, что Bombadillo заменил Амфору, теперь ещё два переключения: dino → profanity и HexChat → Weechat.
Браузер бы поменять, да по работе постоянно нужен говновеб (Gitlab, ELK, Teams, Confluence...), так что у Qutebrowser пока нет конкурентов.
Unassuming elegance of a well-written Ansible playbook.
Исследуя gopherspace, а если точнее, изучая содержимое bitreich.org, наткнулся на прелюбопытный генератор статических сайтов, выдающий разом html, gemtext и gophermap. Пощупаю немного за всякое, и, скорее всего, внедрю — этой капсуле давно нужна нормальная автоматизация. Кстати, автор программы — широко известный в узких кругах Solene.
git clone git://bitreich.org/cl-yag/
Пересел с Amfora на Bombadillo — выглядит проще и шустрее, умеет gopher и finger, да и конфиг/закладки хранит проще и понятнее.
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 :)
@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?
gemini://station.martinrue.com/discrust/tinylog
@lykso I don't even know what twtxt is :) I just send my tinylogs into the void like always.
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? 😆
@lykso@lyk.so: We shall defend our Tinylogs, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight by the GTL, we shall fight by make our Tinylogs active, we shall carry the torch of education in the whole Geminispace; we shall never surrender.
;-)
Закончил перевод "Принципов малых технологий"
Как водится, пока переводил, понял намного больше, чем, когда читал. И пришёл выводу, что Малые Технологии — намного более близкий мне принцип, нежели Тривиальные. Социализм против анархизма, по сути. Так что отныне исповедую Малые Технологии ☭
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.
Закрыл регистрацию на XMPP-сервере phreedom.club (как показали недавние события, я не могу предоставить по нему нормальный уровень сервиса) и на peertube - v.phreedom.club (для полноценной инстанции всё равно не хватает мощностей, а урезанную зачем людям пихать). Из списка сервисов их также удалил. Закрывать сами сервисы не буду (но, вероятнее всего, уберу веб-интерфейс жаббера), ныне активные пользователи могут не бояться.
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 :).
As I had written, I'm playing with ASCII maps, graphs and so on. Today I found nice example:
UUCP/USENET Logical Map - June 1, 1981 / mods by S. McGeady 11/19/81
Seems I'm joining @ew0k's reading challenge by coincidence. I decided to reintroduce reading to my life by making a hard rule of time during the day set for reading. I won't count pages though, just reading few pages a day but every day is my goal.
Git repos from gitea.phreedom.club partially accessible via gemini:
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 ^^
По просьбе подписчика восстановил утраченный перевод статьи "Заново открываем Small web".
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!
It's funny that it seems that [twtxt] made more noise than [tinylog]. Twtxt was added to [Antenna] 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.
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).
Вчера Федерация доказала свою полезность. У хостера были проблемы на сети в одном из ЦОДов, в результате чего виртуалка с Phreedom.club отвалилась на несколько часов, что никоим образом не помешало общению и взаимодействию людей, хоть и доставило временные неудобства - я продолжал держать народ в курсе событий с резервного аккаунта на другой инстанции, для срочной связи использовались резервные же жаббер и почта... Короче говоря: "Интернетчики всех стран! Децентрализуйтесь!"
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Немного мыслей и ссылок про SmolNet
Today is not a great day so far
I seriously hate the hoops one has to jump through to create a working EFI boot CD image...
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
Today I learned on Mastodon that probably there will be no more konpeito mixtapes. Listening to old ones today.
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…
It's OK. Some times, when you're dealing with a crazy-maker, it's OK to just burn that bridge and never look back.
An important observation. I became slothful.
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
I'm looking at skyjake's Capsule and I must say it. Is he has the most impact on the Geminispace? Lagrange for every OS, include iOS and Android. Some time ago GmGitView, and now Cosmos.
Lagrange is also the best Gophersphere browser for mobile, and its include Finger protocol. I suspect that many people can't access small-net without him.
[Ruarí] has written about `sftp`, and this reminded me about my last adventure with `scp` on `sdf.org`. In short term - `scp` doesn't work for me there. I was in trouble, but I've read about `tar`. I'm not so novice in Linux, but I what to do with it about transferring files to remote machine?!
tar cf - sourcedir/ | ssh login@remotehost " tar xf - -C /remotedir/ "
Voilà. It works for me.
I've asked question on my Mastodon's accounts:
Hey #Gopher users, how you were using the Internet in the 1991-1995? I had been asking this question before, but this time I am with it specially on #Gophersphere!
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/szczezuja/novice/2021-11-13-How-you-were-using-the-Internet.txt
https://mastodon.online/@szczezuja/107605562986447761
I got several responses. I think that only three of them was about Gopher. But nobody could reclaim from memories what was read on Gopher then. I have some hypothesis that Gopher was less popular in Europe, than it is thought now. And it had less non-academic/official stuff, so there aren't any clear memories about that. But maybe I am wrong. It is said that there was official MTV Gopher hole then.
A new thing in Geminispace - Cosmos.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_cosmos-reply-feeds.gmi
And my Cosmos Reply Feeds:
gemini://skyjake.fi:1969/url?gemini%3A%2F%2Fszczezuja.space%2F
gemini://skyjake.fi:1969/url?gemini%3A%2F%2Fszczezuja.flounder.online%2F
I've been using:
gemini://geminispace.info/backlinks?szczezuja.flounder.online
gemini://geminispace.info/backlinks?szczezuja.space
Which I've been tracing by my script:
@Toby Thx! Mindblowing! I'm talking about the Kiwix and whole Wikipedia being „only” 87Gb.
Nothing to add, best smolnet wishes :)
Same to you @Szczezuja!
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.
Any Gemini user don't think about a way of publishing new gmi files. Gopher user must think about it. So I had must also learn to compose gophermap, a special file which handle content on Gopher hole. It isn't any rocket science. But, Gemini users should be happy that they don't need to do so. It's a very delicate structure, which could be destroyed by accidental letter pressed during writing. So it's good idea to check everything after editing. So I have been checking, and I figured out that there was some mistaken character. The second thing is to remember about files permissions. So we could have directories, files and gophermaps - but there could be wrong chmod, so Gopher hole isn't accessible. I had also problem with them. After that there is some syntax for gophermap, there are also some constants for static structure, for directories, for files and so on. There are much energy put into the thing, which isn't core thing. In such way Gemini is more convenient. Despite that separating content form site structure could be interesting idea.
With help of Ruarí's script I moved my Gemlog's articles to Gophersphere. I was thinking about it before, but I hadn't had such useful tool on the hand. The main idea is to move serie called "Gopher novice" and question about the Internet 1991-1995. I'm interested in Gopher answers so the question should be ask there.
My gopher hole is set up with success!
Started thinking seriously about hosting my own cloud today. I'm too entrenched in the MS world and I dislike having all my data and in my calendar just sit with MS. I like their apps (MS ToDo is really good), but it's not a sustainable relationship.
I've already got a domain name in mind and an HDD. I just need to wait for RPi 4s to come back in stock. Or could I get away with it on an RPi 3B?
This week. The goal is to simplify my writing.
I've spent today for making gopher hole at sdf.org. It's hard thing, despite I registered a new account very quickly. I can't change shell before I will validate account. I initialize gopher hole, but I can't put files to it.
I would put there my Gopher articles. I'm expecting that I would get more answers for my questions of everyday use of Gopher in 90's there.
gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/szczezuja/
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:
It could be useful.
gemini://ruario.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-01-04_Formatting_Gemtext_for_Gopher.gmi
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.
@Szczezuja Pixelfed seems to be even less useful than Instagram for me. Sure you can post there and it looks pretty cool but then it's hard to notice any comments so communication almost doesn't exist. Asfor my taking photos, yeah, I still almost don't, waiting for any event in my static life :) But my Telegram group funtions pretty well for just few users. Arkadiusz from Masto joined recently and is active as well.
I really like Gemini, but inline links have been very hard to let go of for me.
Today, I'm thinking about Earth Vessels and resiliency labs. I'm thinking about where to my family and I can live sustainable, creative, productive, and healthy lives.
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.
There is a new search engine for Gemini. TLGS is more kind for my articles. ;-)
gemini://geminispace.info/search?gopher
gemini://tlgs.one/search?gopher
As @deerbard recalled. I wish I will take more photos in 2022. And I will settle down with some gallery in Geminispace. Or maybe it should be Pixelfed? I didn't make any decision yet.
Interesting link from @guigui3000@pollux.casa - 2700 new nodes and 14 projects in Fediverse in 2021!
https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2021
During everyday browsing of small-net, I was a bit shocked about one entry. It was first time in small-net, to read something what I totally disagree. I live in Poland, where there were changed a lot since 90's. Before that we were stuck in soviet part of the world, and after we managed to join that normal/democratic part. For me to write about NATO, as something what destabilizing east border of Europe and Ukraine is insane. Especially that days, when it's possible that Russia invade Ukraine again. Writing in that way for Poles is something more, that again somebody want to put Poland in some grey area, between normal part of the world, and that post-soviet one. What is more, people outside probably often think, that countries like Poland should be put farer more in geopolitical zone of Russia influence, because it`s just the way it is. I think that that way of thinking is thorny point for every country in that part of the world.
gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2022-01-04-gone.txt
Last days there are much buzz about web0 manifesto. It's nice, because it's a bit about acting like small-net, in that big one. But I didn't get the details, there are no any detailed description there?
Remember to check the news about The Low Bandwidth Guild.
I don't know if the Fediverse is the future, but it is certainly *a future,* and I see myself wanting to make more of a contribution to the Fediverse than anywhere else. Take a look here: https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2021
So many ongoing projects and all of them going in different directions, pulling and stretching the fediverse in so many new ways of interacting, sharing, and creating.
New picture in my rolling one pic art gallery is a part of this year calendar June illustration.
What happened to konpeito.media? Only today I thought there's probably Winter music waiting there for me but I couldn't connect.
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? 🤔
Had a rough morning but a better afternoon and evening. I wonder if rather than do the same variety of tasks everyday, I might try reducing the number of tasks I do but increasing the amount of time I spend on them. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Re: @guigui3000@pollux.casa Mon 03 Jan 2022 20:40 CET
1. You can have more than one SSH key. Just give it a different name than id_rsa*
2. As they are all by default located in your ~/.ssh directory you can simply backup them as any other file on the system.
3. Restoring them is easy too -- just copy them back into ~/.ssh.
4. Guestbook for the capsule would require a CGI script, but it's doable.
Doing the whole r/linuxupskillchallenge thing. Figuring out the whole SSH keys thing. Can you have more than one? How do you back them up and more importantly how do you restore them?
I'm also thinking about adding a guestbook to my capsule. Do you remember guestbooks on websites?
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
1- Grateful for the opportunity to read this evening
2- The difference between a store-bought and a market-bought potato is like night and day. I'm grateful for the farmer's work and for his affordable and delicious potatoes.
3- Thankful for the meaningful conversations I've witnessed and took part in today on the Fediverse. Lots of lovely souls looking to make the world a better place
smolZINE Issue 17 is out now. Happy new year! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-17.gmi
It's good to remember this links. I often forget about it.
https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini
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!
Honestly, there's a separate circle in hell for people who defined keyboard shortcuts in `nano`
https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html
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.
Bit late to wish Merry Christmas but I wish you Happy New Year :) I wish you all peace of mind in these chaotic times.
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!
Продолжаю готовиться к отчётному концерту (я ж у мамы барабанщик-ученик). Вчера впервые репетировал со всеми музыкантами (до того пытал только гитариста). Сегодня ещё одна сессия, эксклюзивно с гитаристом и вокалистом. Концерт через неделю, будет, как минимум, нескучно...
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*
@Toby Sounds great! I need social media but I always struggle to use them only for what I need. This week for example was not too good regarging this problem. I use a blocker that blocks websites of my choice in time intervals of my choice but I can always turn it down somehow. I need to remind myself that I don't want to do that by changing password to it from time to time. If I forget about it, it easily goes bad really quick. This is all so funny when I think about my constant struggle to trick my own brain to do things that it will like in the end but doesn't want to do at the moment. :D
@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.
@Toby I think you've got a date error in your tinylog. Btw I also discovered gemini about a year ago and love to spend time here since there. Only for me I travel all the time. Here, Mastodon, Discord (unfortunately) and sometimes many other places in internet, then I'm back to gemini again and so on. Here I feel better usually and the pace lets me think but sometimes I need some more direct and quick connection.
Will tinylog survive or was it just a short lasting turbulence in internet space-time?
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!
Np @samhunter, thx for watering mine frequently! I just go through most dry plants whenever I login and check if I know some username, if not, I water random one.
Regaining momentum after a longish break from online activities (the meaningful ones at least) is hard.
At the moment I'm just trying to water my plant on astrobotany (ngl it would wilt without @deerbard's help, thanks, buddy!) and keep the software I wrote and made public running and patched.
Writing anything new? No, not yet.
Hazy mood.
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.
No power to write. No time to think. Anxiety lurks all the time. Hope it will change sooner than later.
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.
@szczezuja: That's why I ask. I can't water two plants no matter if I waterde mine or not already. I used to water plants of those who I knew from elsewhere, like you but since I use Amfora I can't search by name so I just check plants in worst health and water one of them. Yours is never there :) Sometimes I scroll quite a lot but you must water your plant pretty regularly.
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 :]
Just found my Astrobotany plant nearly dead. Means gemini gardeners changed behaviour. Btw @szczezuja did you once say you water more than one plant of others at once? I can only water one and then I need to wait before I can do it again. Never checked how long I need to wait.
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.
Приковылял в офис, невыспавишсь люто. По такому случаю упорол энергетик — странные ощущения — тело проснулось, мозг же пребувает в полусонном состоянии. Вот что делает с человеком внезапное иссякание запасов чая...
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.
Almost finished with calendars. Waiting for orders till this Sunday and I close this thing once again. Once again just for few friends and one person from internet who decided to buy. I don't know why I put so much effort into it. It's just something I love to do regardless of me being payed for it or not. Every year I doubt I'll do it next year and every year I do it again. I'm proud of the two calendars I made this year. Looking good.
Long-tailed widowbird and red-collared widowbird #birding #photo
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Товарищ Пинг опубликовал пост, очень хорошо совпадащий с моими ощущениями последних дней.
Happy Friday! What's everyone up to this weekend?
Inktober was fun and once again I reminded myself how much I like free doodling in my sketchbook. Every year I fail to make a habit out of it. Not sure why it is so. Maybe I should plan it more instead of just expecting it to happen.
This time I uploaded to my one pic gallery a WIP of one of my illustrations for this years calendar.
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...
Hello League of Legends deamon, my old friend. You didn't whisper into my ear for a long time. What doing of mine summoned you now? I don't want you here.
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
У Conotox родился новый трек. Мне нравится :)
Перенёс большинство репозиториев на собственный Gogs: https://git.phreedom.club, для пущего контроля и снижения нагрузки на сервисы товарища Попугая (которому большое спасибо).
Обнаружил крайне интересный проект - Solar Protocol. Суть: сеть мелких серверов, живущих от солнечной панели и аккумулятора, хостящих весь контент. Сервер, на который направляет клиента, выбирается в зависимости от того, куда солнце даёт больше энергии в данный момент и расстояния до клиента.
Re: @Reaton
Inspiring. Reminded me I want less social media daily.
Re: @Szczezuja
I was watching Chopin Competition with my daughter and I had the same thoughts! Cameras where everywhere! Watching artists from every possible angle. I almost expexted to see another one from pianist's perspective and then another one from within his guts! I didn't need so many of them, I felt like I, the watcher, am a source of a distraction to the artist. It would be totally fine to have a camera or twowatching them from a distance, I could still see better on my monitor than people in the audience! This is one of these many situations where an illusion of progress occurs.
New ink drawing in my rolling one pic gallery
Dzień dobry!
morning was so beautiful it made me write (in Polish).
@Toby
Checked first seconds of the video and stopped. First - it's not true, 99% of what I see on social media is art, not beautiful people and their lives. It's his problem he follows people who upload such content. Second - his video is made in a manner that is a part of the problem. It's made in a way so it's distractive, loud and quickly changing, I get really tired by watching videos like this.
@szczezuja
I might but first I already don't have enough time for the Telegram thing (plus I also upload on Mastodon) and I'm obliged to use as little space on RTC as I can. I could upload one picture in low quality though, as I already tried with my drawings. So yeah, time factor mostly...
This is an amazingly well produced, must-watch video about the influence of technology in our lives. #socialmedia #echochambers #isolation #chaos #surveillance
Mrwhosetheboss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZvee3-PEzo
Принял решение вернуться в ряды вегетерианцев. Первое время оставлю эпизодическое потребление рыбы, чтоб не шокировать организм, но диету уже пересмотрел.
@szczezuja and every other person interested in photography: If you use Telegram, maybe you'd like to join my little black and white photography challenge from time to time? It's all about making these ten minutes somewhere during few days after somebody proposes a topic, finding an interesting take and posting it to the group. You can find it by handle BlackWhite_Photography and it's called BW Photo Collective. It's a bit quiet these days but it's not dead for sure and a lot of fun with new topics is still ahead of us.
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 updated info about my calendars. Caaalendars, caaalendars, anyone? :D (Is it a first advertisment in gemini? Oh on I just spoiled this pure world hahaha)
I love Sundays. The internet is so quiet compared to during the week. It actually feels a little meditative.
Пользуясь началом отпуска и однодневным отъездом семейства, отдыхаю. Выкатил дневниковый пост в глоге, посмотрел пучок научпопа, и даже начал восстанавливать по крупицам один старый-престарый проектик. Авось, чего и выйдет.
Ах да, и сервер перевёл с Molly Brown обратно на Jetforce — у Молли CGI как-то странно работает, ломается гостевая.
Nicholas from Nicksphere does a great job at providing a clear preview of his logs content. Just look at it. Read time and a summary!
You're right, Szczezuja. And I thought of it after I wrote my log :) Fall's come and we all have less time. Normal modern life thing.
Tiny logs space seem to got more quiet recently. Not that much happening here anymore it seems. Maybe it's just temporary? Or maybe it's whole gemini already passed it's pick of interest from people? My astrobotany plant is not being watered that quickly anymore even if it stays dry for a day or two.
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^^.
Just started a "rolling one pic gallery" in my ART log. Let's see if I remember to change it from time to time :)
Lace stopped working for me just today. Any other lace users still there?
edit: It actually works but take an awful load of time. Just checked and it loaded after 9 minutes :D
Re: @bacardi55 Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:24 CEST
If it doesn't work, what I found is I have to use pen and paper, no computer tool worked in a long run. I use bullet journal for a year now, no other tool worked for so long.
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 🤔
Busy time comes yet again. Calendars making. I never found a way to monetize this outside of few friends and family members circle but I have so much passion for it I just can't avoid doing it. Exciting times!
bombadillo is the best terminal gemini (and gopher, finger, maybe telnet?) client IMO. It has many things amfora/astronaut/av98 doesn't have, just that I wish it could have custom colors.
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.
So true: There's still no beating "git push heroku" for deployment. #devops
Changelog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTV437JsiXg
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!
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.
Посмотрел сериал "Кликбейт" и в восторге. По качеству сюжета это близко к первому сезону "Настоящего Детектива" — развязку не осилил предсказать до самого конца.
Making drugs for children sweet is an act of malevolence. Change my mind.
Re: @ﾘ Reaton Tue 21 Sep 2021 23:33 CEST
Nice! Glad to hear and it's such a nice feeling I actually helped you find it. I was pretty sure our little tinylog world is way too small for it to be something new to anybody here but I turned out to be wrong :)
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."
Caught up on the Dresden Files series writte by Jim Butcher. Highly recommended if you've got some time and you're looking for a book. Started Steven King's On Writing. Also excellent.
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
Уже пару лет не пишу стихов, но нашёл и выложил в Gemini архив того, что написал за предыдущие годы — вдруг кому понравится (и вдруг мне снова приспичит писать)...
Today is gemini day. I finally added links to my capsule.
places I like in gemini (still lacks all capsules links)
Autumn mixtapes are out on Konpeito! :)
Re: @lykso Fri 17 Sep 2021 20:14 UTC
Just a strange thing to do IMO to give such name. It's aiming low.
If you like exploring bandcamp, there's this Firefox plugin maybe you didn't know about called Volume Control for Bandcamp Player. Yes, it adds that missing functionality to bandcamp. I have no idea why it's not there by default.
p.s. @sloum if you're reading here, thx for this Martina Topley Bird album you wrote about in your gemlog. Perfect mood.
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.
@Szczezuja
My loose, late night foughts on why I use gemini that I posted in responce to your log
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/
🙌
Did you ever think about why is Discord named this way? Is it me or is the meaning of it rather negative?
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
Re: @lykso@lyk.so Sun 12 Sep 2021 17:53 UTC
Just noticed your log, thanks a bunch! Will try to share more often here.
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
I'm so mad at myself, I just completely deleted at least 3GB of older works of mine instead of backing them up. And I am not even fully sure what they all were. Was there something important among them? Was there any commissioned work etc? So stressing.
I am the clueless grandma type user in the beautiful world of gemini. Beware, I'm coming to ask questions you won't even understand.
Re: @deerbard@rawtext.club 2021-09-07 12:12 CEST
I like it. Thanks for sharing your art here!
Новый интересный проект от Drew:
visurf is a work-in-progress frontend for Netsurf:
- vi-inspired keybindings
- Minimal, lightweight interface
- Wayland only
Re: @cyberwolf@byzoni.org 2021-09-10 13:03 MSK
Товарищ, а художественную литературу не приемлешь? Или в список добавил только техническое?
(толже чтоль завести списочек...)
Привёл tinylog в соответствие со стандартом:
Выкатил подборку годных ссылок. Дополнения принимаются в гостевой и на почте
Eleventh creature sketch done, good. At least this part of the projects progress look promising.
Good read about limited resources feature by @szczezuja
Развивающиеся пространства порождают интересные вещи. Сим имею предложить вашему вниманию
Antenna: пассивный агрегатор контента.
Суть в следующем: в противовес привычным агрегаторам, теребящим RSS/Atom или gmisub, Antenna, дабы не создавать лишней нагрузки и не засирать сеть запросами к мёртвым ресурсам(равно как и базу списками мертвецов), проверяет изменения только от заведомо живых лент — чтоб триггернуть проверку, владелец ресурса должен дёрнуть специальный запрос на агрегаторе.
В условиях нынешнего Gemini эта модель пока работает прекрасно.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
You can consider me the last person who wouldn't like to try something new, but `fish` is an eleven-foot pole case for me (that's a pole I keep for touching things I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole).
I tried to use it, years ago, and I am still slightly appaled.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
Fish seems like a terrible shell
how so? I agree that it isn't posix compliant and can't directly type in shell scripts, but I really can't survive without fish. The auto suggestions and auto complete is really smart and colorful. It even tells me if a command is not found before I hit enter. Those things can probably be achieved with plugins from oh my zsh/bash but requires less (or no) set up. I also think that the completion, configuration and environment variables are easier.
The default bash AFAIK only lists out the possible completions when you hit tab twice, but in fish you hit tab once and it lists out the possible completions AND allows you to tab through to select one. Fish's built-in commands (and 3rd party ones if they support it) also allows you to see the description of each completions which is an amazing way of learning a tool without having to dig through the docs.
For example, when I type `git a` and hit tab, it lists 3 entries of command completion and shows you what the command does next to each of them:
~ $ git a<tab> add (Add file contents to the index) archive (Create an archive of files from a named tree) apply (Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree)
Just to add to Solene's post, you don't need to type ctrl e to confirm a suggestion, the right arrow key would work and is easier to type IMO.
Today is not a good mood day :[
Thank you, @samhunter! For both trying it out and the compliment)
Re: @deerbard Sep 7 12:12:02 PM CEST 2021
I could download it. Quite cool, the creature...
First test ever putting an image to gemini space. It's the first (January) creature for my 2022 calendar. Can you confirm it's downloadable?
small and compressed but it's here
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.
Congratulations @Reaton!
I received another email responding to deerlog (my gemlog) entry. Feels good. I am in a good place. I am so happy I started this. This is the most genuine social interaction I got from internet since... ever? Maybe. Good morning everyone!
RE: @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.
listening to it now, great album
Welcome back @Reaton, good luck with the school!
I find Windows font rendering as gross as anybody else does, but if your article about cool typography on the Web is completely unreadable on a default Windows install and a 1080p display, maybe you should rethink your message
August projects report is late but is published in my capsule. I write it just for myself so it's only in Polish but I publish it cause I need it to be a bit more official. Just for me meaning the only purpose is that it helps me but everyone can read it and write me about it, kick my lazy ass or just ask about something. I like that pressure.
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!
Cannot connect to nightfall.city. I get 'connection refused'.
thinking about how many static web site generators are out there and yet the only one I actually want to use is a 25-line shell script I wrote ten years ago
Enjoying my fresh new gemini experience with Amfora. So far I'm very glad I decided to migrate to this browser. The only con is that I cannot search for words as in web browsers (I could in Kristall) but I can finally open sound files and what's most important subscribe to capsules and actually see the feed!
Сменил gemini-сервер. Теперь живём на Molly Brown - очень понравился конфиг и то, что написано на Go.
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.
Re: @deerbard Sun 29 Aug 2021 13:35 CEST
I should stop trying to use backquoted preformatted text in my tinylog, I already found a workaround for GTL, but apparently the issue hits harder in "lace"...
Can you imagine the existential fear of a person who knows everything? (just a thought, luckily I am as ignorant as it gets, with lots still to learn).
@samhunter there's an empty re: to me in your tinylog, does it mean a meaningful silence upon my igno
rance? :D
EDIT: it's only empty in lace, thx, I found my way to the config! :)
And solved. Time to copy paste all the subscriptions... (boring part).
Re: @deerbard Sun Aug 29 01:07:10 PM CEST 2021
~/.config/amfora/config.toml [auth.certs] # Client certificates # Set domain name equal to path to client cert # "example.com" = 'mycert.crt' 'astrobotany.mozz.us' = '/home/samhunter/.config/certs/cert.pem'
Hah, found the „help” :) Only certs issue to solve.
Trying to understand Amfora, still can't find any complete instruction on how to use it. I figured how to open and switch tabs but don't know how to delete them. Still have to check if I can migrate my cert from Kristall.
Запущена гостевая книга
It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
Re: @deerbard Wed 25 Aug 2021 17:49 CEST
No, it's *years* since I played chess last time. I kind of lost interest, I guess having to "think ahead" at work all the time doesn't help. And -- I should actually begin with that -- I never was a good player.
I'm tending to my garden today. I don't have an actual garden where I can grow flowers and vegetables and herbs and stuff. One day.
For now, I'm tending to my creative garden by learning how to repair things around the apartment, like the broken convection fan in my oven, or getting the old bike back into working condition.
It's been a couple of month's since my last update. Gotta get back into the rhythm here.
re: @samhunter Tue 24 Aug 2021 12:42 CEST
We lose the context from living in light polluted world. Few minutes of staring at stairy night sky can give it back. Happens so rarely to me...
p.s. I enjoyed your chess variants ideas. Do you play chess on lichess maybe btw?
First time since... two years, maybe even more, I get fully immersed into the book. Happened yesterday and the day before too. I have almost zero time for reading throughout the year. I will finish the first book in this year just this week. This is a somewhat painfull confession but it's just the result of conscious decisions.
I wish emailing was as easy for nontechy folk as creating txt file on your device and sending it to the other person's device. No providers in between, just my inbox on my computer and your inbox on yours.
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
Re: @hexdsl Tue 24 Aug 2021 19:17 BST
teeline -- as in 'shorthand system'?
misread an old 6th edition card as being 2-mana "discard 2, draw 4" and was completely shocked. then I read the card again
Context: Not so important, are you?
# ## you are #### here #### | ##### v , #####--.--o--o---°------(()---(/)---O-----O----------------------------------- ##### '
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
I guess it's time to stop calling chess a 'strategy game'. It's tactics. You win a battle in chess, not a war. And I guess all the generals that declared any war in the last century a win -- played chess. If chess was a war game the playing should continue after the 'king is defeated' (checkmate). The whites won? Great. Now the whites help blacks rebuild their society. How is the chessboard divided now? Is is still 32 fields for each side? Can a kingless bunch of rooks, lead by a bishop, still try to assasinate the white king?🤔
I can see some variations of the game:
- "German chess" - the losing side divides their side of the board in two, has a small checkers minigame;
- "Polish chess" - after the opening a third side appears on the board and works together with blacks or whites. The losing side never accepts the 'checkmate', at once a king reappears in the different part of the chessboard...;
- "Russian chess" - for every rook killed two new appear, no piece is allowed to retreat;
- "Japanese chess" - there's no particular strategy, all pieces move at once, sacrificing a rook isn't actually optional;
- ... and so on, and so on...
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...
/ \ /
k --- a b --- f
/ \ / \
me --- l i
\ / \ /
j --- c d --- e
\ /
g --- h
⚠️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.
Learning to keep tabs on my projects in 'swim' (think "Trello on the commandline"):
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!
Консольное приложение для работы с tinylog:
Подписываться и читать удобно. При минимальной настройке можно и писать. Этот пост отправлен с его помощью (в ролях также bash, vim и git :-) )
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!
Re: @bacardi55 Sat 21 Aug 2021 16:16 CEST
you can always check gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io
That's what I do :)
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
I might have patched the problem 'lace' has with incorrectly formatted dates (or at least I found a good place to do so).
People 'sent' almost 500 messages via gab in the course of the last two weeks. Seeing how much 'life' everybody gets in spite of if -- maybe it's not 'social network' that ruins your lives, but the notifications? ;) [I doubt anyone expects an instant reply in 'gab'...]
Slope has the 'file-append-to', I added a few lines of code to have 'file-read-from' -- for symmetry. To do - 'file-prepend-to' and probably 'file-prepend-at-tag' or something like that for tinylog type files (where all the new content goes between the header and the latest entry)
Refactored much of my dotfiles this week, especially my nvim configuration. There were so much untouched configuration that didn't actually work and I didn't even know xD
github.com/hedyhli/dotfiles (also on sr.ht)
I've started to focus a bit on maintainability and ease of settings up new machines, I wrote some setup scripts and I plan to organize them all and have a `dot` script that can run them on request (instead of having to type out the full path every time). I also plan to make the setup scripts be able to be run more than once, that is even after setting up the first time I can still run them again and again to keep stuff in sync. I've recently used my dotfiles to set up two linux desktops and it was relatively easy to get everything working.
Back to nvim, I've switched to a lua autopairs plugin so that I can get more customization and control in its behaviour (real reason was to fix some really annoying behaviour, see commit log for more info). I'll probably replace lightline (vim) with galaxyline (lua based) next week.
Still trying to get <CR> automatically hide the popup menu :/ and I need to optimize the startup speed a bit more. Once I've done that I'll be able to resume working on my projects :D
@samhuner damn, no I didn't get it. Maybe because I didn't even check the youtube link (and still not checking it now, no time :P) p.s. still one tinylog entry giving error in lace „invalid date ‘Tue 17 Aug 06:22:23 CEST PM CEST’”
@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.
A: What are you doing on Friday?
B: I want to buy glasses in the afternoon...
A: And then?...
B: And then... We will see.
(I show myself out)
Watching "A Very Secret Service" on Netflix. The French humour at its best. A bit like Louis de Funès movies. Minus the outright slapstick scenes. "Who won WW2?" "...France?"
tinylog.slo:
[x] Added prompt to the 'editor'
[x] Will skip the header to the first entry (= first line starting with "##")
I had a rather lengthy exchange about the rather inadequate support for Unicode characters on Linux console. What works perfectly in a 'text' terminal emulator gets mangled and partially replaced with white squares on the console. Even in FB mode, with the proper encoding and font loaded -- there's still lots of _actually not so weird shit_ that just can't be displayed properly. Okay, meanwhile, Russian or Polish people are not fucked anyymore when trying to read or write on the console. But I pity you if you're trying to write math formulas. I guess only 2² gets displayed properly, all the rest is simply a square.
"I hope it will get better..." said my interlocutor. I'm thinking and thinking and I just cannot see it. Everybody drifted into the world of graphical interfaces, plus the text console does what it was intended to do -- gives you access to the system on a very close, very basic level. Will we ever see emojis in kernel messages? Well, I hope not, because they won't be properly displayed...
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
Ever noticed how you grow when something you need isn't available? I guess lack of something is a good impulse to kick our butts out off the consumption circle. And every temporary need creates a permanent value.
@deerbard: I don't think I overdo it. I just don't keep using 'you' or their nicknames. Besides: you do realise it's a tongue-in-cheek remark? ;)
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 :)
@samhuner Actually I find it awkward if somebody says my (or other person's name) often in the conversation. It always sounds like some learned technique, not a natural way of talking and it automatically adds tention/stiffness to the conversation on my side when I notice it.
Woke up to a new time/data functions specification ;-) Format of the timestamp changed slightly, hopefully it doesn't break anything...
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.
Aside from being one sexy mofo (ngl - can't breathe from laughing) I managed to enable multiline entries in tinylog.slo. It's not a bad day, overall...
- Always learning ✅
- Relaxed body language ✅
- Mindful during discussions ✅
- Don't check the phone 24/7 ✅
- Don't try to be perfect ✅
- Say their name often ✅
Also: _me_ :rofl:
Being "thrown into deep water" at the very beginning of a new job has its advantages. I'm in a training, level 'advanced', for a system I didn't know at all a few months ago, and I do not feel too dumb for it. The feeling of being an impostor is actually a good thing. Keeps you on your toes. If I only had so much fun learning back then, at school ;)
Changed the date format in tinylog.slo. Let's see how it works. Thanks @deerbard for pointing it out (I didn't know I'm under surveillance now ;-) )...
Пересмотрел своё отношение к финансам. Позакрывал все кредитки, меняю подход к инвестированию. Никаких больше спекуляций (всё равно не умею) - буду делать себе раннюю пенсию.
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.
In case someone needs to fold text after 60th column ;-) ->
(for-each (lambda (line) (display line)(newline)) (regex-find ".\{60}[^ ]* *|.*$" Long))
<- Yes. That's pretty much all. 'Long' is a variable holding the long text line you want to fold...
„Language has made us more than a group of pack hunting monkeys. It's made us a group of pack hunting monkeys with a dream” - Terence McKenna
Gemini client in six-ish lines of code? nice :) #slope
So, it happened. I didn't expect the first slope script I _might_ use regularly would be a tinylog updater. The gab client (gaby) is already at a quite advanced development stage (minus a necessary rewrite to replace my /etc/passwd hack with a much more standard and efficient fileglob), but wrapping a oneliner I already had in some file updating logic wasn't particularly complex. So here we are. An update from inside a slope script...
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!
Re: @szczezuja Mon 16 Aug 2021 21:18 CEST
Yeah my humor also lives in daily little putting things into absurd and showing their abstract nature. The not telling jokes part interested me too. I now think it's because internet posts took this part from out social life. You want jokes? Just scroll down some meme feed. As for the rest of the aspects, I don't think there's any negative aspect about having some parts of life established and ritualized. In fact it gives us more time to explore the new unknowns. You can be open your whole life while having more and more stuff put (temporarily but this can be forever if no need to touch it) in the comfort zone.
I realized my fourth generation Astrobotany plant might be the one I was waiting for to keep it forever. Well, forever. Big words. But I'm not harvesting it as the first plant there. It might stay, I feel. I like you „rare fractal yellow seed-bearing moss named One Cross Each”. I wonder if anyone got the reference for my plants' names by the way.
After years of avoiding?/neglecting?/not finding use for? Scheme I took a deep dive into a "locally developed" Scheme's dialect - 'slope'. It's really refreshing to take a different approach to solving problems. I am actually amazed how deep has the basic syntax of the language embossed itself in my mind. I must admit -- every time I start a new project in Python -- I have a moment of hesitation -- "how exactly am I going to make it run?". Nothing like that with Scheme. For example - I've noticed slope has a for-each expression, and (I tested it at some point) it works exactly as your intuition tells you, but doing a "loop" using recursion felt so natural. Why is it so? And why am I "at home" with Scheme, but somehow cannot stand Lisp? Questions ;)
Slope is a 'for fun' project. You didn't believe the world needs another language? Another interpreted language? Another interpreted language with lots of parens? Good. That would be a weird assumption. Sloum writes it for fun, because he can. And, kind of as a side effect -- a working, slick and fast tool was created. I did some timing, comparing a standard program running here (written in Python) with my less-than-masterfully crafted bootleg version of it.
$ time ./gab.slo -c test >/dev/null >>> real 0m0.012s|user 0m0.001s|sys 0m0.011s $ time gab -c test > /dev/null >>> real 0m0.066s|user 0m0.054s|sys 0m0.010s
Not bad for a 'toy' language, huh?
@bacardi55 samhunter's tinylog is not included in gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/
It's gemini://rawtext.club/~samhunter/tinylog.gmi
Finally pretty damn sure that the barely-remembered old bell the intro The Beauty and the Beast rang in me is Le carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns. One of my earliest musical experiences, but long buried except for a sense of glassy sounds radiating into darkness…
Tonight's Gemini updates:
Some leftover pixel art from my Amiga days collected in one image.
Untitled German poem in German
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 talked with a stranger. Why do people hesitate so much? Postpone stuff indefinitely. Don't call, don't text. Don't outline that story or essay, don't fill the gaps. Don't learn that song, don't lookup that information. When did everybody become so apathetic?
I read Amer's blog post about mental aging.
gemini://amer.pollux.casa/blog/mental-aging.gmi
Quite some time ago I noticed I mentally aged in one aspect not mentioned by Amer. I lost a lot of my sense of humor. Since this discovery I made a conscious effort to make it better and with good results I think but... I still don't know any jokes anymore. And nobody I know tell jokes. I live in a joke desert. For long years. I don't mean situational, improvised funny things, but these little stories you tell same way every time. Is that also true in your bubbles?
I feel so incapable of doing/tackling/starting/accomplishing anything I could cry, except I can't seem to do that either anymore
Открыл для себя шикарного фотографа — Екатерину Кирьянову
Time to walk the walk - today's snapshot of the zeitgeist on the server -- who would expect that?
- 5 yummy! :P
- 1 disgusting :$
- 1 A pizza is a pizza :D
A bit less of a surprise here, though -- we're definitely the vi(m) crew here...
4 vim
2 vi
1 sam
1 ed
1 chalk
1 acme
Harvested my first astrobotany plant. Farewell, Abigail! Hello, Abigail. Now growing at 1.2x speed.
missing the glory days of populated flickr group
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.
I kind of love-hate the simplicity of Plan9 editors. From one point of view they're strictly following the tenets of Unix - "one job, but well done". An editor isn't a mail client, web browser, file manager... They're not syntax highlighter either... They're heavily depending on mouse. Or mouse chordings, combined with keyboad operations. They probably work great with mouse held in right hand (what I, as a lefty, don't do).
Still prefer the "impure" versions:
A great set of patches bringing acme into XXI century. A must have in my opinion.
[1]It looks great and I would love to use it, but for some reasons it refuses to react to my mouse-clicks.
Started a new project:
A personal assistant for the RTC shell
I must admit, some pieces of code I (re-)write make me proud, even if it's basically just snipping on the existing code.
diff --git a/files/update.cpp b/files/update.cpp
index 773dbc6..6fdfd4b 100644
--- a/files/update.cpp
+++ b/files/update.cpp
@@ -37,23 +37,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
current_mission.ships[i].x += dx[i];
// Check if there is a change of status
for (int i = 0; i < current_mission.nfleet; i++) {
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_LEG1 &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_LEG1]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_MISSION;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_MISSION &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_MISSION]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_LEG2;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_LEG2 &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_LEG2]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_DONE;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_DONE) {
current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
+ } else if ( (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[current_mission.ships[i].status]) {
+ current_mission.ships[i].status++;
+ current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
}
}
Whenever I correct a mistake and reupload a .gmi file to my capsule, do my sunscribers get a new notification? I hope not. And if yes, should I correct files in some other way?
Не расстаюсь с новой игрушкой. Очень доволен приобретением:
MNT Reform2: распаковка и первые впечатления
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
So in Amfora you can use certs I understand, now how about copying them to another devices. You'd have to update amfora's config file on every device separately every time you add a new domain to it on one device. Am I missing something? How would you tackle this so it's most covinient to use amfora in more than one device? Is it possible to migrate amfora certs to Ariane (Android client)?
Added -t (user template) to poll. Now everyone can create their own polls/questionnaires.
Finally took the time to work on my website:
https://hedy.tilde.cafe (also on gemini)
still using hugo as the SSG, kiln didn't have as much features that I need from hugo, and bashblog just isn't good enough, feels simple but really not organised and stuff.
Re-wrote CSS based on a few inspirations:
I intend it to be not too barebones, and definetly not brutalist design, should look somewhat modern, but should have some accessibility features and simplicity to it. I've set the margin-left for blockquotes to 0 to make it look better in small screens, and kept the nav bar and footer simple. I've checked that it looks ok in reader mode and terminal browsers.
Many people who have minimalist-styled css websites have font-family be brwser default, but (not sure if it's just me) but if browser default is used all the apostrophes take such a huge space and makes it look very awkward. So I've set the font-family to a sans-serif stack (with sans-serif as the last fallback).
I've also gotten syntax highlighting to work in code blocks with different theme for light mode and dark mode. I'm not sure if screen readers will have a good time parsing code blocks and making sure they're formatted right, but I keep on improve it as I write more posts.
Special thanks to seirdy's post on website best practices
gemini://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.gmi
The post is a bit opinionated but I've tried to keep with those best-practices where I can tolerate. The css source is minified and dumped into <style> tags, so no extra requests via <link>. No favicon at the moment, since I'm still figuring out what favicon I should use. No fancy animations or over-the-top colors. My link-hover styles might be a bit extra, but it looks really good when the underline is gone and highlight is up on mouse over.
There is absolutely no javascript or scripting, it's fully static, except maybe a few CGI scripts that I rarely use?
I've also mirrored all of my gemlog posts on hedy.smol.pub to hedy.tilde.cafe.
I'll write new gemlog posts from ~cafe now :D If you've subscribed to my smol.pub gemlog, I'd love it if you could change the feed url to:
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/feed.xml
Thanks!!
I'll probably move my tinylog/journal to there as well, in the future.
Still figuring out what I should do with my flounder site when I'm mostly done with my site (apart from content, content, content). The fact that I can just make a simple edit online is the one thing that keeps me using flounder, but it has plenty of limitations: css, gopher, more file types, CGI, ssh/rsync deploy, etc.
I also plan to have it on tor but doing that would be after I've done everything I've said above.
In regards to comments, I'll probably go with the "email to public mailing list route" plus webmentions. webmentions is one of the things that I'll definetly want to have. For gemini comments, I may setup the CGI gemini likes/comments systems in the future, but I don't really feel like that's the best solution...
If you have any feedback or suggestions, I'm happy to hear about it! Just trying to find the best middleground between absolute brutalist/minimalist and simplistic-but-modern aesthetics here.
Freshly created linkulator files of a new user caused a false positive, because linkulator change detection used simple mtime check. It's fixed now. Because the script has to read the last line of the linkulator.data file the timing slightly increased (~260-270ish now).
Changed the checking method for all 'folder based' services: recent.py dives (one level so far) into them and returns mtime of the newest file (was the folder itself before).
That was quick, approximately 30 minutes from a vague idea to implementation. And it's simple - just a text file with an obvious markup, extendable and completely under control of the user (as it should be on RTC).
$ poll -l editor What editors do you use? geek4hire Programmer, looking for project os What's your primary operating system? sodapop Pepsi or Coke?
So far only a couple of polls, and not-yet-decentralised (I'm working on it), but already usable. Due to the methodology behind it (files in users' HOMEs) not really a democracy tool (voting is far from anonymous), but I hope it'll find some use here. Or not...
What editors do you use? (mark the ones you use frequently, you can add others, just keep the file clean) [x] vi [x] vim [ ] emacs [ ] nano [ ] joe [x] ed [x] sam [x] acme
A weirdo as myself cannot just do the stuff in awk(1) and move on...
Both oneliners:
+ filter out the "comment lines" beginning with "##"
+ create an entry for every first word of remaining lines in an associative array/hash
+ output a list of unique usernames
tmp $ time awk '!/^##/{a[$1]++}END{for(u in a){print u}}' online.log | sort > online.a
real 0m0.013s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.003s
tmp $ time { unset -v 'q'; declare -A q; while read -r a b ; do [[ "$a" =~ ^##$ ]] || q[$a]="x" ; done < online.log; printf "%s\n" ${!q[@]} ;} | sort > online.s
real 0m0.152s
user 0m0.105s
sys 0m0.045s
tmp $ diff online.a online.s
tme $
Fun ;)
<EOL>
My tinylog lace feed got quiet. My gemreader refuses to work. Backlinks seems to work sometimes and sometimes not. Feels like losing this tiny little connection to other smolnet users. I'm looking forward to any good news about this.
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.)
«Выпуск товаров разрешён, таможенные платежи уплачены». Моя прелесссть едет ко мне...
Прислали счёт за растаможку MNT Reform и работу таможенного брокера (у меня аллергия на бюрократию — проще заплатить профессионалу). Суммарно почти 20К рублей из-за зверской пошлины. Включил ждуна и очень надеюсь, что всё будет хорошо и быстро.
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
Вчера в 10 утра по дороге на тренировку обнаружил, наверное, с десяток автономных единиц алконавтов — каждый с початой полторашкой пивасика. Интересно, как покажет себя сгеодняшний день ВДВ...
Meh, can't make mps work anyway.
Learned about tmux just recently. I'n not a programmer, I wish I had more reasons to use it :D Let's see. Oh! So you can play youtube videos in terminal using something called mps-youtube? Perfect! One question if smebody knows - can Youtube track me if I use it like this?
@szczezuja if backlings are buggy, communication over gemlog replies is not as good idea as it looked like. For me also gemreader doesn't work, I don't get feed from I don't know how many capsules. That means I'm back to manually checking every capsule that I saved whenever I feel like ckecking it. It may takes months before I see an interesting post or a reply to me, or I can miss it completely. Now this is a slow internet indeed :D
Вдохновившись примером Drew и bacardi55, решил опробовать формат tinylog. Здесь будут короткие заметки в стиле Mastodon/Twitter. Многобуквенное продолжит периодически появляться в основном глоге.
"A practical philosophy of health, wealth and happiness"
Happiness
@szczezuja I tried backlinks with the only backlink to my capsule I know, your reply to my art manifesto and it worked. Does it work for you again?
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).
I forgot about Cosmic Voyage. Have no time to catch up with it but I'll leave the tab opened. For some reason gemreader doesn't want to give me feed from it.
I licenced my page under CC BY-SA 4.0. Don't know why would anyone want to use any of my writing but it was better to be done now then change all the files in future.
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?
This week was not productive artistically but I'm very happy my capsule is up and alive finally. Anyways, 4th generation plant is now born out of Shoe Follower (last plant) in my Astrobotany Garden. It's name is One Cross Each.
you can water it if you're around :)
Forgot to clarify. You can now follow all my logs by just subscribing to
No need to subscribing too all: general, art and relogs if you want to get them all in your feed anyway. Sorry for the changes, I'm still figuring out how to manage this all.
I recently discovered the Coc plugin for vim, which brings VSCode-like smarts to vim. I can finally use #vim full-time instead of #VSCode, which has become bloated and slow over time. Coc has a marketplace with a large breadth of language support. In a like-for-like comparison, vim uses 500Mb less RAM (including language server) than VSCode for Python or Java editing (with intellisense), and is much faster. I also managed to set up vim for editing and uploading #Arduino and #esp32 code by integrating with PlatformIO.
Conqueror of Completion
https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
Listening to Francisco Tárrega's music played on guitar by Giulio Tampalini. I feel in good place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQz5tGEKwE
Thx to @samhunter my tinylog migrated to my timezone (CEST) :)
@szczezuja thx a lot for checking my log and all your thoughts. I will reply surely, thinking maybe I can do it as Re:log although I now see if I have separate logs, you'd have to subscribe to all of them just to see all my entries so the system I chose is not that perfect... Anyways, what's the problem with link to manifesto in my index? From my side it works just fine and I doublechecked it's correct so I'm confused.
My capsule has changed it's look. Is it for good? gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/index.gmi
Feedback is problematic here, not sure how could anyone respond if he/she wanted to. You can surely write me an email or write at xmpp if you feel like it, both are in my „about” page.
My ART log has a first entry now, that is „My Little Art Manifesto” :) Is it finished and stable? I don't know but I decided to let it exist in a space now. gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/index.gmi
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
@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'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/
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?
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 :]
Morning! Listening to KONPEITO Summer 2021 mix tape. It's perfect for work. Only my mind can't focus again. Let's do it. 3..2..1..
A fairly compelling argument for publishing documents as PDF files rather than as HTML pages. #goodread
lab6 Issue 0 (PDF)
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
Started working on formulation of my little art manifesto with as much emphasis on „my” and „little” as on „art” itself. My very subjective feeling of things, nothing more. I feel like I need it.
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 feel like watching something I didn't watch for half of my life. Nothing will happen cause I've got not time but I wonder if it would stand a test of time. Just an evening thought.
I 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 :).
@bacardi55 laced with the strict option does that. By default the resulting file is stored in the lace config directory but the script can be modified to store it in another location. I setup laced to run as a cron job and edited the program to save the resulting file in my gem document folder of my server. So I read tiny blogs using Amfora. gemini://frrobert.net/lace.gmi Lace and laced are at https://gitlab.com/frrobert2/lace
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?
My capsule is finally up. It is simple but it exists and I'm happy for that.
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/
My comfort zone is being out of my comfort zone so I don't feel bad about not being good at what I do.
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.
Mental note. When too relaxed I tend to lose control over procrastination. This is not the first time I noticed that and forgot.
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 ^^.
Back from the forest, I don't need all that flashy internet again. For how long? For not too long, too much goodnes hidden in it and then I quickly get used to it and need to block the excessive compulsive use.
There's a new intrusive thought in my mind tempting me to regard all this surveillance capitalist glitz and clutter as OKAY. they just want to KNOW you and SELL you things. you're less LONELY that way. and they give you all these TOYS to keep you happy and coming back in excchange for knowng more about what a cool person you are. ... I may need saving urgently
Really cool online browser multi-player games to play with colleagues during lunch break:
https://shellshock.io
https://blocktanks.io
https://smashkarts.io
https://sidearms.io
https://krunker.io
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.
I use lace, don't even track if it was updated. I use it in terminal emulator. I have no highlights, no icons, no fancy stuff, just text. It's my choice but I'm signalling, even with one conversation between two people it's getting really busy, and some logs are not really tiny btw ;) If a need for conversations withing gemini space is inevitable, I'd say maybe there should be a new way for easy communication discovered. Tinylog is not like microblog, where you can send direct messages unvisible to others. I'm not sure how to solve this. Creating new .gmi file for every conversation and asking interested people to subscribe would be too troublesome.
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.
Opening tinylog file in vim on my computer gives me empty document, I can only edit it from RTC. Same editor, same file (copied and pasted). Strange.
Following just few people's tinylogs is already bit too much to follow. I saw your mention @szczezuja although mentions here don't do anything special, no notifications etc, so it was almost lost in all the logs that are just part of your dialog with @bacardi55. I think maybe we shouldn't use tinylog for chats? As for gopher, I didn't explore it yet, don't know if I'm interested. Gemini is enough for now I think.
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 :).
Today I'm getting very nostalgic and thinking about places I visited in my life. I want to revisit them, I want to visit more places. I can't afford and it's too long like this already.
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^^.
How come I still don't have a capsule working. This needs to change.
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…
I merged the dev branch of lace into the main branch today.
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 ^^.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io Great minds think alike. I used to have a bash script to add to my Tinylog but about a week ago I switch to Vim. It is either my Vim addiction or my bad spelling that caused me to switch.
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)
I'm going offline for a week or so. Can you make my plant on Astrobotany survive? :) You can find it by my name: deerbard, or it's name: high priest's whistle. See you! Have a nice week!
@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
I created a simple script to convert my timestamps to the new purposed format. Your mileage may vary https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2136804
@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
Somebody fertilized my Astrobotany plant but I didn't get any notification about who did this. Whoever you are, thank you! Although I know it's a small chance you're reading here.
Have a good day everyone :)
@bacardi55 I guess I'm stuck for now as I don't want to change my email addresses again. Maybe I'll just wait until payed protonmail is an option for me. But also it's not obvious to me if there are any privacy focused email providers like protonmail that would also allow imap/smtp. I know tutanota doesn't.
ugh I keep thinking whether I should switch to kiln instead. but atm as far as I know it doesn't support fetching a file from assets/ (say, style.css) minify it, then get the content so it can be dumped in the <style></style>. I guess I still just use hugo then. It looks heavy (heavier than kiln for sure) but it feels fast and light for some reason.
@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.
I'd love to use mutt for my personal email but I use protonmail. One day in dostant future I have enough time to lern how to make my own email on my own server. Or not because I learn it's too much of trouble. What are the other options?
@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
Any thoughts on what kind of favicon I should use?
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" :)
@szczezuja I live in tmux before that screen. I use I3 for graphical mode. I usually buy refurbished machines off lease so GNOME is too heavy for me. Also Gnome has a tendency to be like the Borg and assimilate everything on your machine.
Incoming release of gtl v0.4.2, with various fixes thanks to @reaton@geminids.ga :)
New feature:
It's getting somewhere :)
Do I have an addiction to Vim if I have configured Lace and Vim so I can read and write microblogs without ever leaving Vim?
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55 I installed gtl last night, very nice. I really like the tui interface. I glad someone else is working on a client than just a bumbly old priest stumbling his way through bash.
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!^^
The power is back on and frrobert.net is back up and running
@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 ^^.
@szczezuja I just sent a bug fix to the gitlab repo for an issue I was having. You can see if it makes a difference with your issue
@szczezuja Sorry you are having issues I am using Ubuntu 20.04 so we should be ok there. Are you using the Dev branch https://gitlab.com/frrobert2/lace/-/tree/dev that is the latest? Also are you using lace or laced?
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.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io and @adele@pollux.casa I just realized my previous post didn't make sense. what I meant to say to say. Should the Author: header be author: frrobert@frrobert.net and not author: @frrobert@frrobert.net and limit @frrobert to replies? I think that would make search and filering easier.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io and @adele@pollux.casa I know I brought this up before but should we be using @frrobert@frrobert.net as our author value or just frrobert@frrobert.net. Now with lace for search and filtering I let less handle both. Here is my question how do you search for mentions of yourself without getting your posts as results without doing some very strange searches or filter?
@szczezuja Sorry, I didn't see your post till today. The changes I made from the original include the use of PIPESTATUS, pipefail, timeout, wc, grep, and xargs. I think everything except grep is part of standard bash. Lace has always neeed awk and sed. Do you have grep installed?
Drabble? Microfiction? Stream-o-Conch? Something of the sort. Julie, the warden, and I (or me) -- gemini://anjune.lol/w/juliewardeni.gmi
@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
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io I just merged Hex's list, yours, and mine. Out of the three I think you are just missing two. The updated list is at gemini://frrobert.net/microblogdirectory.gmi
@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!
I want to create a directory of Microblogs/Tiny Logs. If you want to be included in the directory please submit your Timy Log and add the word public at gemini://frrobert.net
@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.
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io Glad to see you are up and running. I know the feeling, my power has gone out twice since I started self hosting Gemini.
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 ^^
@adele@pollux.casa Thanks for the feedback
@frrobert@frrobert.net Cool, your new version of lace works fine !
I like wind. according to my brain (very reliable source indeed), wind is caused by the same process that form mountains and cause earthquakes/tsunamis/etc. (lol that was random and unsurprising but i'm pretty sure true)
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)
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io All fixed typo on my part.
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 ?
@szczezuja mine is %a, %-d %b %Y, %T %Z and I get UTC in result. Should be CEST. And in Lace I see all the logs with CEST time. Not that it's very important, I just wonder why this happens.
Me dummy. Ofc it is UTC, I am using Vim on RTC server, so it's time zone set on the server probably. Thx guys :) @szczezuja @bacardi55 Btw I tried using it on my computer and copy pasting the result but the output of !date was invalid for Lace so I'll probably stick with the way I was doing it.
@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^^
Can I make Vim use my timezone for !time command?
Nostalgia feeling while listening to the soundtrack from something I watched 15 years ago. Posting here is more appropriate then social media. Sending this feelings into the void not to be discovered is so similar to exploring the long forgotten past somehow.
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
Have you watched Final Space yet? It's a fantastic little show.
@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 ;-)
Thanks for the Gemini capsule, Adële!
My capsule!
wsl 2 is pretty interesting. I like that it is now able to be installed without having to join windows insiders. tried out both ubuntu 20 and alpine on there, will be finishing some configs and setup tomorrow
Thanks for testing and the report :)
Launching guillaume.pollux.casa capsule !
This week's Trendy Thoughts are out
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 » :).
This was a low energy week. My capsule is still just a seed of the one. Hopefully next week will be better. Btw what change does it mean to put your handle in your tinylog? I assume it's just informative for anyone who'll check it in your capsule? @szczezuja But nobody gets notified so mentioning someone who didn't subscribe to your tinylog in lace won't make sense.
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 ^^
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!
TIL: there's Android ransomware that works not by encrypting your files, but rather by showing a system modal window that cannot be dismissed by the user until the ransom is paid. Latest variants use machine learning: "TinyML model is useful for making sure [the ransom note] would appear less contrived and more believable" #android #malware #ransomware
Mobile randsomware
"Over a month ago, I came to the realization that my smartphone was having several negative impacts on my mental health... In a desperate attempt to regain some control, I ditched the smartphone."
gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2021-05-23-digital-declutter.gmi
Digital de-clutter
https://tobykurien.com/digital-declutter/
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.
This week's issue of Trendy Thoughts is out.
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 🤔
@adele I was able to take some time today and add your suggestions about the author and avatar. Since people use @name for the reply shouldn't the author be just name rather than @name?
Opening Astrobotany in Kristall recently results with „The host you tried to visit does not look trustworty anymore. The certificate changed since your last visit.” Then it gives Fingerprint and aks to revoke trust in settings menu if I still trust the host. Well do I? Anyway it's troublesome to do every single time.
@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
@adele as I said before I like your idea of the header. You don't need to convince me. I just wanted to know if people liked the idea before trying to update lace. I am not a programmer. I am a parish priest that does Gemini for a hobby, so my time and programming knowledge is limited. Drew from Trendy talk is the actual creator of lace, I just forked it and made changes. Please feel free to do the same. In terms of filtering and searching, lace by default uses less, so I just use less to do filtering and searching. Again if you would rather have that part of lace feel free to add it.
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
@adele to filter in lace and lacedreader enter a & sign the system will add a / so you should see a &/ at this point if you want to filter on @adele you would enter @adele so the line should look like &/@adele hit enter The reader will only show lines with @adele
@adele currently lace pulls the user name from the subs file and the avatar is pulled from the favicon. The format you are purposing makes sense if there is interest in using that format. Currently lace has to go to each gemini site twice to get the microblog and to get the avatar. Your format would require lace to go to each site only once. So what does everyone else thing? You asked about filtering but before we discuss that check and see if the serach in in lace and lacedreader meets your needs. If you want to find @adele enter /@adele and hit enter and the program will seach for @adele
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…
2nd generation plant seeded :)
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…
Thx @szczezuja, you're right, I forgot I'm using emulator for cool looks. Maybe I even prefere it not displaying any additional stuff, just text. I tried normal terminal and I could see favicons of @przemek and @adele but it couldn't load yours for some reason.
I forgot about tinylogs for too long^^
That's weird, I don't see any favicons in Lace. Also, thx for links, Szczezuja, will check!
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
If your terminal freezes after some time when you're logged to linux server with ssh, you can try this solution, it helped me: https://serverfault.com/questions/590061/ssh-freezes-when-idle-for-a-time. I just learned about it from cmccabe from RawTextClub.
Dzień dobry Przemek, Szczezuja. Thx for news and articles. Any tinylogs you recommend? For now I read you both and friendo.monster, the great creator of lace (behold!)
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.
After my desktop came back up after the outage pulseaudio did not work anymore. After trying a few things, I remembered a podcast about pipewire. I purged pulseaudio and installed pipewire and everything is working. Kudos to pipewire for the save.
Haha I've got it! Repaired. Now I should look around for interesting tinylogs to fill my lace feed.
It's not lenght. If you're reading this in lace: Is one of my logs appearing on top of the list without date for you as well?
One of my logs (one about changing link to cosmic.voyage in my feed) looks like broken in lace but is perfectly ok in my capsule. I don't know why yet. Btw cosmic.voyage feed still not working either. Writing a long log on purpose to see if this is the issue here.
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.
Gemini server and http proxy are back up after power outage
Thx to
There will be a https version of my capsule as well. But I'm not going to put all the content there. What is going is yet to be decided. Tinylog is not.
Well, all good, except not my timezone. To be continued.
date automation test / learning vim begins?
I changed feed ulr from gemini://cosmic.voyage/log to just gemini://cosmic.voyage/. Will it now work? I'll see. Also writing tinylog is too much od a trouble. I might need to learn about some automation.
I have joined the Fediverse my instance is at https://social.frrobert.com/channel/frrobert
@Toby there is there is an additional program call khard that is a contact list that works with pim utils. It was developed by someone else but it works fine with vdirsyncer. I have been using all the programs for several years and I second your endorsement of them.
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).
Gemreader doesn't read cosmic.voyage entries and Konpeito capsule. I wonder if there's a solution to this.
And here's a gorgeous screenshot of khal in action, if you're still on the fence about #cli PIM tools. #commandline #pimutils #khal
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Instead of installing and configuring a heavy GUI app for my calendar and todos, I've discovered the command-line based pimutils. Once vdirsyncer is configured, I can use khal and todoman. Very simple, powerful, portable, and lightweight. #opensource #commandline
pimutils
This week's Trendy Thoughts are out
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?
I added a strict option to lace and laced. It is called by lace strict or laced strict. It does not add the blue or red since that is not part of the Gemini standard. Here is my question currently the ago line and the user line just show as noncolored text when the strict option is used. Here is the question do you want those 2 lines as just plain text, 3rd level headers, or line items? Thanks
https://odysee.com/@NaomiBrockwell:4/signals-brilliant-ad-campaign:5
I prefer to watch LBRY videos via YouTube-dl/mpv. While I personally don't care about LBC as a viewer, what is the best way for me to watch LBRY to benefit the creator of the video?
I updated laced with an error checking in the case of the new file is empty
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.
Last night cheese ravoli with vension and portabella mushroom ragu sauce, tonight portablla mushroom and venison pizza. both nights include a side of lightly breaded morels.
I just posted this week's Trendy Thoughts
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!
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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!
@Hex a Gemini Log post just for you
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 ←
Starship got the boot tonight. It is way too slow when using a sshfs network drive with git repositories on it. So I am looking for ideas to make my plain prompt a little nicer
@Hex I have always used either Debian or Debian based distros since I started running Linux full time in 2006. I'll post something on Tuesday or email you.
@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.
I updated lace. I added laced which can be used with cron to download microblogs. I added lacedreader which should be used to read the downloaded blogs
I just pushed a testing branch of the font project to GitHub that should run with Python 3
@Hex I only made it through 30 seconds of the song you posted
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?
My thoughts after listening to this week's Trendy Talk
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.
Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed!. Have a blessed Pascha.
Whatever happened to May Day baskets? They have seem to disappeared.
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
I forked bashpodder and created an option to skip downloading of old podcasts
It is an oldie but a goodie. A very simple script to download podcast from rss feeds
added pager to my gemini client, it basically just calls `less` with -FSEX and if it fails, it will just print the content normally
Book recommendation: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Talk about discovering the right book at the right time! After ditching my smartphone, I needed answers: why was it bad? what do I do with my time? This book answers that and more.
Digital Minimalism
https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
The Gemini Server is backup and running
Am I the only one that finds it frustrating that Gemini does not support markdown syntax for links?
Congratulations to Trendy Talk for winning the Papyrus Aardvark award. 🏆 🤣
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
@Friendo Lace running on Android has started. I was able to tweek it to get it run on Termux on Amazon Fire. Still not working on my phone.
I let out some of my frustrations in a ranty response to a Github feature request for my app. I love that a user was invested enough in my app to write a long and frustrated feature request.
Quote:
I sense your frustration in that the app is close to what you want and how you use it, but not quite there. Unfortunately the bad news is that I will probably stop supporting this app this year, despite this app being a labour of love and one I'm proud of. The above-mentioned sandbox leaks, combined with browser fingerprinting, supercookies, FLoC, and other hostile abuses of Web technology, have made me come to the conclusion that the Web is a lost cause for private browsing. Yes, WebApps offers only limited protection, and that protection will probably decrease every year. Something like Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi) is probably the way forward for privacy minded geeks, and I for one am moving as much of my content creation/consumption there as possible.
Another factor is that Android is also increasingly hostile to the developer (you need at least 16Gb RAM to compile a 3Mb APK, every year devs are forced onto new APIs, Gradle builds break often, Google now wants your developer signing key, the tooling I had used is now deprecated, etc, etc, etc). Couple that with the spyware preloaded onto phones and the increasing difficulty of getting control over your device (e.g. my phone kills VLC after 30 mins and there's nothing I can do about it), and I'm ready to ditch Android and go back to good 'ol desktop computing (https://tobykurien.com/post-1618319359/).
WebApps Feature Request: Tabs
https://github.com/tobykurien/WebApps/issues/249#issuecomment-821967876
@HexDSL Do you microblog links =>url Then description and then you can go the the link in the client.
Is aphantasia destiny?
I've started generating my website from my Gemini pod automatically. Happy with this. Gemini first!
I have not used my Facebook account in years and I was hacked today. So I deleted my account today
found several cool more things on gemini:
paste.gemigrep.com - paste and archive text and gemini urls
gmisub - I normally just use Spacewalk or gemreader for feeds in gemini, but this is cool too
Amazing post on SCGI in gemini
discovery.geminiprotocol.com - more cool stuff on gemini
review.treeblue.space - similar to above
Giving up the smartphone (currently in airplane mode in the drawer) for a dumb phone. I want my attention span back. I want control over my computer. I want to eschew mobile computing for good old fashioned desktop computing.
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A fork of Lace, a script to interleave tiny Gemini logs.
I am wondering who also has a Gemini based microblog. I have only been able to find a few.
TIL: trackers/spyware can bypass even third-party blocking and same-origin-policy by using CNAME cloaking. There's almost no hope of having privacy on the web, other than to resort to other protocols like Gemini.
Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloaking-based-tracking/
gelim - my new wip line mode Gemini client in go (sr.ht)
(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
Photos from a recent #hike near Hartebeespoort dam
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I was recently treated to a visit from an African Grey Hornbill. Right on my doorstep!
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wow! did mozz just add support for spartan:// to his HTTP-gemini portal? dang this is amazing, no need to use my terminal with `| less` anymore :P
Gemini Proxy (also spartan now)
read the specs[*] for spartan a bit more carefully today... the way it specifies how inputs are requested is quite interesting. AND guess what... there's inline inputs! (AFAIK) spartan uses text/gemini for its document format, and adds a new input syntax "=:" to replace gemini's 10 INPUT status code. here's an example .gmi served over spartan:// with input:
# normal heading
try out here
there's a guestbook and also an "echo service" where anything you input will be echoed back to you
problem is, atm, the server.py file[*] doesn't handle inputs (at least not from looking at the code and trying it out), and I would really love to see how spartan://mozz.us do the echo and the guestbook thing, but I don't think it's open sourced
gemini://spartan.mozz.us/spartan_server.py
anyways I think this feels more like a gemlog post, will link to it here when I'm done writing it
Knowledge and resources are really scattered. I was looking into gemini, gopher, irc bots, etc to be specific. One day, when I have the money, time, and energy, I will buy a domain, get a host and sit down and organized all of these things into a single public wiki/notebook...
I saw mozz's post[*] on his shiny new protocol a few days ago, but only decided to have a look today. looking at the client/server .py files I was like "wow! this seems really lightweight", also, this was the perfect opportunity to install a curl-like program for gemini:// so I decided to use makeworld's gemget[*] and downloaded the two scripts for spartan://.
gemget - CLI downloaded for gemini (like curl/wget) - by makeworld (github)
My first stop on the spartanspace is spartan://mozz.us, I also had a play with its cool input "system", then immediately went on to trying out the server. So far everything feels just like gemini, except that this protocol is newer, lighter, and I guess easier to implement. Can't wait to get more into it and create my own server/clients for it!
I wrote about out-of-body experiences. Might not be what you think. Might be a letdown or skary or both. gemini://anjune.lol/cpbc/myobes.gmi
registered on Astrobotany[*] a week ago, and been only using it with amfora[*] on tilde.cafe[*], but today I tried out a gemini from the iPad - Elaho! (will link to it once I find its github repo, forgot atm).
Astrobotany - community garden over gemini://
tilde.cafe, a "newly" launched, debian tilde
so far browsing the geminispace from Elaho is a super cool and relaxing experience, it seems to be based off firebox. But from what I can see, Elaho doesn't allow you to import certificates, so I created one, logged into Astrobotany and added my current certificate to my account.
all this "gemini apps" and auth with client certs and so cool! can't wait to make my own game or app over gemini
A week or two ago I started taking a serious look at gopher, reading through every single post on gopher.zone
gopher.zone - Gopher guides - "Highway to the gopher zone"
Plasma 5: Making Kickoff’s “Computer” more useful, gemini://anjune.lol/mkc/kickoff.gmi
Reworked yesterdays Commodore TED/264 retrospective a tad, as I am wont to do…
Today I decided to go back, and put my journal and gemlog there until I find a good host for all my online stuff... The one thing that still impresses me is the ability to set custom domains for my flounder site! AFAIK not a single one of any other Gemini hosting providers allow you to do that :/
Another amazing thing is that I can directly edit from the web! (Although if Editting via Gemini inputs are supported that would be cool) Editting from the web means that I can update my journal/gemlog from any device, which is ideal especially for my journal
When I came back, I noticed that WebDAV was replaced with SFTP access! Gosh that's amazing, which means I can script automated updates (if I need any) and 'deploy' to my flounder site immediately :D
The first time I heard about it was from my mastodon timeline, but didn't give it a serious look until today! I was surprised that so many of the things in there look so familiar to me... Like most of the times I'm like "oh, it's this guy", and "oh I know you!"
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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I have updated the Gemini Mission Log with the majority of my old content from my website
Analysis of how Google's FLoC can hurt users.
"FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves"
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
Learned some C with ncurses. 1985, here I come! <3
Yoiks, was operating with about 20% of my mind on the Trine stream and finding it enormously funny that nothing made any sense…
Not super proud of this, but when it's a choice between tossing out an old tablet because of a broken USB charging port, or an ugly fix to save it, I'll do the ugly fix.
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The site now has the Bible in English and Koine Greek
...people photosynthesise with purple skin to save scant food, die at 35 (another side-effect of wiping out cancer, who'd have thought!), and have knowledge, memories, desirable behaviour and skills imparted by viruses -- yet it doesn't feel half bad, because it also means there's no need for locks, police, fear of walking alone in the dark; everything just seems to be running itself without having guns pointed at it; life's... not easy, but informal
It plays on all the senses without ever feeling indulgently hedonist or 'purple'. It'll manage to gross you out *adoringly*. Huge genetically engineered antarctic miners (polar bears) who you'd expect to be an oppressed underclass are a rugged wealthy separate culture that'll take the mickey out of us squishy mind-controlled normies; the eradication of cancer let tumours replicate the host body so well as to produce immortal deformed-looking copies...
Been finding it hard to booklog; it's still what I'd love to have written but so dense with ideas to process and integrate into an internal coherent model -- melancholically playful, whimsical when it should be creeping you out; a dystopia you (sometimes) half want to live in...
This article explains why a few kilobytes of macOS updates ends up as gigabytes of downloads and 45 minutes of updating.
Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
Have merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME into one, since developers barely know when to use which as it is. Nothing's fallen over dead yet, not even Akonadi…
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.
Another Irwin Weil lecture. This time, it is on Crime and Punishment
The Gemini site now delivers random quotes from the Church Fathers or if you are a fan of bad jokes that is also an option.
The Agate server is shutdown and the Molly Brown server has been moved to port 1965.
Here is a link to an interesting lecture about Dostoevsky and his writings by Irwin Weil
Scripts are now running on the Molly Brown server using port 7070
I added The King James Bible with Apocrypha the to the Gemini site.
I added The Prologue from Ochrid to the Gemini site today.
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.
Molly-Brown is running on port 7070 and delivering static pages. I am still working on getting the cgi scripts to work. Apgate is still running on port 1965
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.
Roman is now on pest control. He caught a mouse in the snow tonight.
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...
There’re no scripts. There aren’t any scripts.
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/
Some thoughts on the #Gemini protocol:
1. Gemini is to the web what reading a book is to watching TV. The former is focussed, simple, requires some effort, and may be more rewarding. The latter may be more compelling but also full of distractions and advertisements.
2. Gemini is just text and links, which HTML can easily do, but by removing features (like CSS, JavaScript, and inline media), Gemini guarantees that your experience will be simple, fast, and user-respecting. No complicated issues like browser fingerprinting, popups, tracking, XSS, etc.
3. Gemini might be a good fit for disseminating information in low-bandwidth long-range mesh networks like Meshtastic, which might become part of our apolcalyptic/dystopian future.
4. Gemini is a good format for scraping web content or generating content for displaying on devices like DIY smart mirrors, Raspberry Pi tablet screens, Smart watches, etc.
Curious? Try this link below which uses a web proxy to display some random feeds from Gemini sites.
Capcom Gemini Aggregator
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/
"These all use some form of local radio signal. Some, such as Briar, may use short-range Bluetooth and Wifi, while others use radios such as LoRa that can reach several miles with low power. ... Every item on this list uses full end-to-end encryption" #offline #messenger #lora #meshnetwork
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities
Awesome talk about the ideas and possibilities behind the Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. #beakerbrowser #decentralizedweb #dweb
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers (2018)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8
first ever gemlog! it's just a hello world (published on flounder)
happy new year
I decided to hate discord
"On the Internet, your rate of learning is limited not by access to information, but by your ability to ignore distractions"
The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/
Bumper harvest of cherry tomatoes from my #aquaponics
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Facebook really wants your data! The long term solution is decentalized/federated, like Matrix.
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
You may be in a quandry about deleting WhatsApp, because EVERYONE is on it. How quickly we forget that this was true of Mixit and BBM. We've moved before, we can move again, the businesses will follow. #deletewhatsapp #deletefacebook
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
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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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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Flowers in the yard
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Beautiful Joburg sunset
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To be or not to be :-)
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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:
Holiday reading for the geeky: NODE zine contains articles about interesting open source, decentralized, censorship-resistant and cutting-edge technologies.
NODE zine
My #aquaponics runneth over! That's cherry tomatoes hanging off the side, bearing plenty of fruit.
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First micro-blog post on my own site, which will hopefully be syndicated to social media via #IndieWeb tech!
Agregated tinylogs:
