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👋 Hi there, Smokey here! I hope all is going well for you so far today. I am another person going through life trying to figure out my own place in it. I originally joined gemini to dip my toes into the smolnet, and have been happily participating for the better part of the year. Thank you for having me.
🗣 Followers 18 · Following 7 · Logs 71 · Docked 10 months ago
Ever since I saw the AI art debate on antenna a couple days ago it got some creative connective juices flowing. A couple months I wrote an article on the library of babel and the random generation of all possible combinations of words given infinite time. Well, replace a typewriter with an art brush and suddenly you get an infinite art gallery filled with all possible combination of art piece on every sized canvas generated by random distributions of colored pigments. Artist having an existential issue with AI are just now going through what authors already dealt with the library of babel. "join the club, kid." Uhg now I might make it a full article.
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I guess IIch.space is down for good at this point. I personally really liked the image sharing section with automatic dithering, was a cool idea. Hopefully a similar kind of public photo sharing capsule will emerge. Thank you @sk for your efforts, hope to see your stuff come back up in the future.
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Rain is pooring on the sunsetter that just barely shields me. Listening to the hazelwood trialouge, and I am smoking some good stuff. I am relaxed and life Is okay at the moment.
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Theres some new ASCII art over at my capsule home page and the contact-me page :-)
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Do you have pets?
Does anyone else get a wierd feeling when they stumble upon someones personal site where they share their whole resume/CV including real life addresses and phone numbers. I get that the internet was a lot different 20-30 years ago and people didn't worry much about spam bots or doxxing but in 2022 that just kinda seems very risky without much benefit. Then again, people old enough to remember a time when sharing RL info like that you're too old to give a shit about being doxxed
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I really like revisiting these graphs of gemini's statistics every couple months. From jan 2021 to jan 2022 gemini grew by 1500 capsules. From jan 2022 to now its already grown another 500 gemini://botond.online/en/stats/
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Something unbelievably surreal happened a few minutes ago. I was out on patio listening to music when I hear a distressed squeaking. Look over and my cat is playing with a shrew. Get in between cat and shrew and shrew first hid behind my foot looking out for the cat before climbing pant leg about a foot. After scare cat off akward waddle over beyond patio to grass and shake shrew off. It stays for a moment and looks at me. I get a sense of appreciation and friendliness. I then proceed to kneel down to shrew and lightly pet its back with my finger a few times. (take note to wash hands after) It accepts my gesture! I sit on steps and watch it a moment more before it goes. Tonight was wierd
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It would be cool to know how many people visit my site on a daily basis, but also I know im a person that gets too caught up with numbers and statistics to the point I would obsess over it or somehow view it like a 'score' in a game.
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Scribbles down "Own a Drive-in movie theatre" into potential independent buisness idea book
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Apparently a critical security vulnerability was recently discovered in firefox and TOR browser. Suprise suprise, the root cause is our old 'friend' javascript at it again.
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Every day my distain for the centralized web grows as does my Love the small-net. I think gemini's unprecidented growth in the past year or so is proof that its more than just a fad or a nieche ideological group project. On a side note, does anyone know what geminicon 2022 was? Apparently it was a convention for gemini users but I literally havent heard a single mention of it until now, after the fact. Was it a mastadon thing or what?
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Added some cool new stuff to the capsule. First, it now mirrors the comic series Gramfel to gemini //tilde.team/~smokey/pictures/Gramfel/ Second, I spent quite some time touching up and reformatting a 30 year old dinosaur of a text file I found on a usenet archive. It now has new lease on life as part of my Fractal Compendium project. tilde.team/~smokey/fractal_compendium/fractal-faq.gmi
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quick guide to setting up duckling proxy: gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-05-24-duckling-guide.gmi
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Are there any public ducking proxies or in depth guides to setting one up locally?
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I actually like the idea of my capsule actually being on Spartan. most spartan sites are simple little "hey, isn't this cool? anyways here's my actual site on gemini" It would be cool to be one of the first spartan-exclusive capsules. For what I need out of a capsule TLS is overkill
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My capsule has a new home! gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/ It underwent a decent sized re-structuring to simplify the directory tree and cut out the fat of unused files. A new "Personal Ramblings" section has been added. It houses some of my less-structured and more out-there ponderings about philosophical subjects, the nature of reality, and the limits of human truth. All that good hippy shit. All of the articles in there are a work in progress. A new "Unfinished Articles" section now houses some half-baked writings that were sitting on my hard drive for a very long time
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Heres a musician I really like whom you've never heard of and never will again. If youre an acoustic guitar enjoyer give them a shot. https://soundcloud.com/jarrad-wright-282731353
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Approximately half of my would be post on station are second-thought deleted. Ill write up something passionate, look it over, think "hey that might be mildly controversial or too political or too topically different for station, I want to keep things light-hearted and not social-media lite" ... goodbye post. Theres probably a healthy balance when it comes to self-censorship but Im definitely not meeting it. Anyone else like this?
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@acidus Hey I saw your post about the chilly update. With the concerns about moon phases cluttering the UI, I would like to suggest a 'full view' option equivalent to wttr.in's experemental 'data-rich output format' with a link to the full view at the bottom of the page. https://camo.githubusercontent.com/425e659037667b40e0e7f5d5c48b0acca3bcd302337c0428cdd2fa854281d18a/68747470733a2f2f777474722e696e2f66696c65732f6578616d706c652d777474722d76322e706e67
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the best way to back up your code is to inscribe its binary into a clay tablet, fire it, and seal it in a cave
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TIL apparently ASCII global map viewer is a thing. Cant believe this is possible in a terminal. Try it out with this command telnet mapscii.me
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I used to really like the idea of having entire discographies of my favorite artist on my mp3 player. A sad reality im not coming around to is that most artist have like 10% absolute banger tracks and 90% meh/unremarkable filler tracks. Theres only a handful of artist where I like ALLL of their songs. Its nice to have the complete collection sure, but its time to be realistic and start just going after the greatest hits albums.
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I wonder what the actual retention is for Gemini users over a 6 month period? I've been noticing a trend while browsing capsules that there's a LOT of them with a few entries spanning 1-3months then dead silence forevermore. What's the deal man? Even the youtubers that introduced me to gemini like DistroTube killed their capsule.
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Yo, IT people. Do me a favor. When you're discussing your job online bragging about how you do jack-shit for work yet get paid 6 figures to play on the internet all day, actually specify the title instead of the old "I do IT" schtick. Its like calling everyone who remotely works with rocks a stoner. Miner? Stoner. Construction worker? Stoner. Mason? Stoner! Details, people! Details. Also for any IT oldheads reading, is it still worth getting into? I imagine theres a ton of competition now that computers are so popular and learning to program is a free skill.
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A list of free fractal documentaries and related bonus stuff gemini://sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/fractal-documentaries.gmi
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An 'official' quick update on my capsule to let people know im still working on stuff //sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/2022-03-25-a-quick-post.gmi
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How do you easily acess emojis in desktop? I search for them online and copy/paste it in but surely theres a faster way
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You ever see a word so many times that it starts to feel wierd? So many sentences start with 'I' that sometimes I intentionally rework it to not include it but its so hard to avoid the most common words like 'I' 'the' 'you' 'and' because they are like the bubblegum and ductape which holds the sentence together
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while browsing gemini I found an old archived text originating from a long extinct usenet group based around fractals. gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/textfiles/internet/FAQ/fractal.faq Its kind of funny how text are timeless, in a way. I never would have known it was written in 1993 if the date had not been there. the MIT ftp servers mentioned are unsuprisingly dead. The author/maintainer is credited as "Ken Shirriff" (In retrospect its wierd how people used to use their real names unworried with privacy concerns) And doing a quick search I found the guys website. Its all about retro-computing and tech project so figured some of you guys would be interested https://www.righto.com/p/about-ken-shirriff.html