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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 33 · Following 27 · Logs 106 · Docked 2 years ago
Today I learned that yeast is actually a kind of fungi, I had always assumed it was a kind of bacteria. The more you know!
💬 0 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 7 months ago
So, continuing the "things fellow capsuleers sometimes do which slightly grind my gears" saga, is spamming every. single. page with some variant of "this page is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 copyright". I can get down with authors clearly laying out how they want their intellectual work used by others. But why would you copy and paste this to every single page instead of just one blanket sweep statement at the bottom of your capsules homepage and specifying otherwise for particular pages you dont want published under that liscence. Its a pointless and IMO somewhat narcissistic use of ~50 bytes of data per page which can be better spent elsewhere. Just to remind people "hey I own this, dont infringe bitch"
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 7 months ago
Just looked at the price of BTC for first time in a month, last I saw it was hanging around 29k. Its at 22k now. Theres something really unnatural about how harshly its fallen, the chart is almost a perfect slope instead of the random fluxuation you expect out of markets. Me thinks that the FED and Friends have gone from trying to silently and slowly assasinating crypto from afar to straight up murdering crypto in broad daylight
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 7 months ago
Kinda annoying when I like someones glog enough to try and contact them only to be expected to jump through hoops including the info not being on their capsule only through their website which you have to guess exist, No email you must only use alternative com protocols and pgp encryption both of which I don't know how to properly use. At some point it just kills all motivation. My philosophy is that you should make it as easy as possible for people of all techical skill levels to communicate with you with whatever means they know and are familiar with.
💬 7 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 7 months ago
A new kitten I've never seen before just strolled on in through the cat door and now acts like they live here. 🙄 That brings the count up to 7
💬 3 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 7 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.
💬 2 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 7 months ago
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.
💬 0 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 7 months ago
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.
💬 1 Reply · 1 Thumb · 7 months ago
Theres some new ASCII art over at my capsule home page and the contact-me page :-)
💬 3 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 7 months ago
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
💬 4 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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/
💬 2 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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
💬 4 Replies · 11 Thumbs · 8 months ago
It would be cool to know how many people visit my site on a daily basis, but also I know im a person that gets too caught up with numbers and statistics to the point I would obsess over it or somehow view it like a 'score' in a game.
💬 5 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 8 months ago
Scribbles down "Own a Drive-in movie theatre" into potential independent buisness idea book
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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.
💬 6 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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?
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 8 months ago
quick guide to setting up duckling proxy: gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-05-24-duckling-guide.gmi
💬 8 Replies · 1 Thumb · 8 months ago
Are there any public ducking proxies or in depth guides to setting one up locally?
💬 4 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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
💬 4 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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?
💬 3 Replies · 1 Thumb · 8 months ago
@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
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 8 months ago
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
💬 2 Replies · 1 Thumb · 9 months ago
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
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 9 months ago
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.
💬 2 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 9 months ago
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.
💬 8 Replies · 1 Thumb · 9 months ago
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.