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So it was easy. I've bought a printed rule book and a map from "Gondor: The Siege Minas Tirith" board game in secondhand bookshop for about 1 Euro. And then I printed two counters sheets from BGG on color laser printer. Then just stick the chips on a piece of paper and cut it out. And you can play the game the way games were back then.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2778/gondor-siege-minas-tirith
Cool! I just discovered that someone's used my Esperanto speech synthesiser (https://parol.martinrue.com) to play the role of an Esperanto robot in an audio book. It's always a delight when people use stuff you've built. 👏
After decades of using Linux I finally check out Emacs for the first time - what a rabbit hole. But it's fun to learn some new concepts and OrgMode is really amazing. There is sooo much stuff. At the moment I'm learning to build up my configs from scratch with vanilla emacs (but I installed evil mode) from this tutorial:
Emacs From Scratch (Youtube playlist)
I always thought Emacs is kinda overkill (some people saying it's an OS on top of Linux) without knowing anything! I'll try to develop a complete working environment before I decide if I stay in Emacs or go back to neovim. I'm really fascinated.
There should be a word for that awesome moment when you have a coding problem like "I know what I need to achieve, but I'm not sure about these three things in my way..." and some deep part of your brain pipes up and is like "you seem like a nice guy, I'm going to help you out."
TIL: words such as "i18n", "a16z", "K8s" and "a11y" are officially called numeronyms. Or n8s, if you like.
The four stages of developer grief:
1. Not sure how to solve this one so I'll just wing it.
2. Oh wait, if I do this, oh yeah, and that... nice.
3. I should make this into an open source lib for others.
4. One day I'll find time to solve that problem!
"The Creature That Ate Sheboygan" board game, from the 80's.
Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
It's interesting to read. There is a big anniversary, despite the fact that it is not a round number in the technical sense. ;-)
Took a stroll down a charming little street in London last night only to find the house that Agatha Christie used to live in. What a delightful evening.
I've been playing with org mode fo a while. And today I used it for taking notes during my job. It's handy. The export function gave a clean output in plaintext and html. Nice.
Good read, but I would argue that it was worth adding an obvious 11th: therapy. 10 Web Development Trends in 2023: https://www.robinwieruch.de/web-development-trends/
I realized that I really don't have enough time to use all aspects of a small network. People often complain that the small net is empty, and if there was more content on it, they might be interested in it for longer. And I don't have enough time to keep track of everything in Gophersphere, Geminispace. Added to this is my desire to be active via text e-mail, on Usenet, at the Finger level. And after all, the text network is also entertainment, abandoned many months ago MUD game.
It's not a complaint, it's actually a kind of praise for the small net. I, on the other hand, will fight to be more active.
Had fun hanging out with some Esperanto friends in Oxford today. Even after 5 years of this thing, I still find wonder in the fact my brain can encode any thought I have into a language invented by a crazy Polish eye doctor in the 1880s.
Continuation of the previous entry about configuring GPG. As always it was a problem between a computer screen and a chair. So GPG signing, encryption and decryption is working for me now. Because it was caused by my lack of knowledge, and bad default configuration files on SDF, I wrote a short checklist. Maybe it will be helpful for someone else.
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/szczezuja/phlog/2023-02-24-SDF-Neomutt-and-GPG-checklist.txt
I’ll be speaking about ChatGPT in Esperanto. Should be fun! https://twitter.com/Stela_Bee/status/1629496293025280001/photo/1
Today I'm going to fill a coffee shop with background murmurs in Esperanto with some local speakers & learners. Our little group is growing, which is great to see. Topics will likely range from the insanity of natural language grammar to how speaking Esperanto has ruined any expectation of progress in other languages for us all :)
I've been testing and configuring Gnus for e-mail client.
I started from
https://github.com/kensanata/ggg
there aren't too much examples for Gnus.
It was surprising that Gnus should work out of the box based on system variables, because on SDF.org it wasn't so easy. There was a need to improve config file.
Gnus seems to be more polished than neomutt in sense of TUI. But it has also small oddities - for eg. default expiration of e-mails after read.
But the final thing which annoyed me is GPG decryption fault with my config. I don't know if it's a problem with Gnus config, or a problem with GPG config. GPG command is handling encryption and decryption without that errors.
It's a cold, rainy and dark saturday. A good day to stay in my warm and cosy bed with some X-Files episodes - and leave the heating off to save some money.
Finally updated my /now/ page. If you're curious check here:
switched back to my Pixel 4. I had switched services and they offered a "free" pixel 6 so I jumped on it thinking I could just put a custom ROM on it. wrong. I stupidly forgot about carrier locking. how could I? so, I used my 6 for a while but didn't use google play only fdroid but it didn't feel right. the phone is bigger, riddled with tracking, and is heavier. so I got home today and swapped the SIM. my only problem is that the charging port doesn't work so well and I don't have google maps but other than that, I feel better.
reading stuff on gemini can sometimes be depressing. While I agree with a lot of views here, reading post after post about the evils of the internet, big corporations, and humans in general, I long for lighter posts in nicer topics. I can't say it's all like that but I see a lot of it...my capsule included. time to start posting some sunshine.
In my Spanish class I just volunteered a very confident answer to the confusion of everyone else. Turned out I said it in Esperanto. This happens annoyingly often. 😂
Changed picture in my one pic rolling gallery. To be found here:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/index.gmi
I'am looking every day at the DiscoGem. I had been doing the same on the Gopher, and I felt familiar with that idea when DiscoGem launched on the Gemini. It's easy way to explore very large amounts of date. It isn't a big effort to look at a small sample every day.
As I said after launching of DiscoGem, it could have some measures and indicators to show the best and the worst samples. So I wrote a simple script as a proof of concept. As it can be seen below, the biggest and the smallest samples (only index pages) and the most useless days when almost all links are inaccessible.
https://github.com/szczja/scripts/blob/main/tott_discogem.sh
$ ./tott_discogem.sh DiscoGem top of the tops The biggest index pages day: 72184 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-05/ 11185 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2022-12-18/ 9754 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-09/ The smallest index pages day: 1540 chars 0 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-11/ 1639 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-28/ 1723 chars 0 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2022-12-25/ The most useless day: 3009 chars 3 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-10/ 4498 chars 2 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-27/ 4053 chars 2 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-02/
Successful launch this morning! 🚀
https://social.martinrue.com/@martin/109846199596112358
In my predictions for 2023, I never expected to see the term "AI jailbreaking", but let me tell you, I'm fully onboard. Long live DAN.
I'm working on a terminal client to query ChatGPT in python. It's in pre-alpha and I just uploaded it. I'm not sure if python is the right language, but I wanted to get a Mock-up quickly. I plan to add editable configurations, a session system and predefined prompts later. It's nothing spectacular but you can already tinker with it, if you like.
pychatgpt git repo on Codeberg.org
I got invited to speak + do a Q&A with a bunch of people from Indonesia who read a novella I wrote in Esperanto. I love how unexpected life can be sometimes.
Always difficult determining if you're about to over-engineer something.
I've just heard someone be introduced as "an individual who defies summary". Two things. 1: That's going right into my personal phrase book for a few wise people I know. 2: Goals.
NeoVim is the greatest editor I've ever used. Today I switched from Coc to LSP as IDE tool and added the telescope plugin, which is excellent for fuzzy finding in files. A fantastic piece of software. I like it!
If Buddha emerges today I bet he doesn't us social media. Not even tinylogs.
I feel I could finally write a glog today but there's too much other stuff to do.
I spotted this link on Fediverse and I was curious if it will be ok in a text web browser. So I've been browsing this in w3m on Sunday morning. Everything is ok, and the ASCII arts are beautifully displayed in my text environment.
https://www.adelfaure.net/ascii/
I was busy through past week. Today I catch up things in small net. I've sent an e-mail about Gopher, in response to a gemlog article. I've improved my mastodondigest script with ZERO WIDTH SPACE suggested by Alex. I've dug up in my memory Kelbot capsule with his TUI/tmux configuration asked about in Fediverse.
I could do probably a lot more today, but I don't have to much energy. Weather is sunless in the last days. I'm waiting for the spring time.
still haven't tried dvorak. I did, however, code a bit today. I'm a hobby programmer, and don't have much time for it, nor have been interested, but I was today and it felt good. working on a console version of farkle in python. nothing crazy, just entertaining. getting the hang of vim...starting to be a bit natural.
Nothing sets you up for a good night's sleep like 58,603 deletions in your commit.
YAY! After the Verdi strike is over, finally my new gaming PC rig arrived. Just need to get rid of Windows 11 and install Arch Linux and steam and then have a lot of fun! 😃
I hope everyone's week has started well. Mine certainly hasn't. I was just accused of plagiarism. Their word, not mine.
Look! I now have a tinylog! I just implemented it out of curiosity. Not sure, if I post regularly - but now that I've discovered bacardi55's gtl I have an easy way to follow other people's tinylogs.
My tmux text information desk with GTL for Tinylogs, self-made: fingerclub.sh, astrobotanyring.sh and mastodondigest.sh scripts for gathering information from Finger, Astrobotany and Mastodon.
I've tune up my mastodondigest.sh this weekend. It's presenting information as Gemtex now and extract links at the bottom of every toot.
And so it begins. After a few months of eating whatever I like, I’m starting another 3 month period of Time Restricted Feeding. Each year I aim to have at least two 2-3 month stints of strict, daily (17-18h) intermittent fasting. It gives my body a rest from the constant energy input that we’re not really meant to get like we do in the modern world. Not to mention some of the other huge benefits (hey autophagy). Looking forward to enjoying hunger and appreciating food again. 👊
I'm thinking about trying the dvorak keyboard layout. I think this will be difficult to not abandon it in favor of qwerty, which I'm pretty fast at.
A starry night. A reminder of the shortness of things. We’re all destined for the place we’ve already been for 13.7 billion years. Make it count.
So It's done.
https://github.com/szczja/scripts/blob/main/mastodondigest.sh
Mastodon digest script in Bash, which reads followed accounts list and presents last toot in chronological order.
Pros:
Cons:
Today I was playing with Mastodon API and curl. It's very easy to set up token to access API. And it's easy to go through account and followed information.
But API wasn't helpful to me with pagination of the response to put it into a quick bash script. There is a bigger effort needed to do so.
I'd like to write bash script putting the last toot of every my followed account. I will make a second try in the future.
But I discovered also that in the web preferences of Mastodon account, there is a special tab to check inactive followed accounts. I didn't know about it.
@szczezuja MapSCII is so cool! Thx :)
💡 Idea
Mobile coffee stand. Cups have your name on them. Obvious branding of cup signals: I bought this coffee as I'm open to chatting to a stranger – you already have my name, feel free to talk to me.
Sell it at train + bus stations, subways, places where people spend time waiting and want some human interaction over HTTP requests.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a terrible one, but it would at least make a fun experiment.
My first MAN/LON train of the year and I've drawn the "due to a points failure" card. Proceed directly to cancellation. Do not collect £200.
The train system in the UK is shockingly bad. Burn it to the ground and start over.
But in all seriousness, please don't set fire to it. It's so hopeless it'd just make me sad about the tragic waste of fire.
The results of my recent side side project: cadet – a Go library for creating minimal HTTP-RPC servers.
https://github.com/martinrue/cadet
There have been a few games now on #spellbinding where folks have gotten all the words. I find thst impressive.
I really need to work on that /now/ page. Also, I really like Amfora - it's a really clean TUI Gemini browser
Sometime last week I asked @skyjake and @bacardi55 on #mastodon if either of them would consider a mobile version of a tinylog aggregator. My reasoning is that while I enjoy the TUI version that @bacardi55 made, most of my time is spent on mobile, and if there were a stitched-together timeline of tinylogs in a clean looking app, it would be much easier to read. I think tinylogs would be more accessible this way as well. To my surprise, both of them responsed fairly quickly. Skyjake said he liked the idea but that it might be feature-creep, but would think about it. Alternatively, Bacardi55 pointed out that #gtl can output into gemtext, so if I just setup a cron job to output my subscriptions every say, 6 hours, I could just use #Lagrange on Android to view them. Liking this idea, I set it up in no time. However, when I subscribed to Bacardi55's tinylog list, I found a lot of them were dead. So what I did was go through the logs one by one and then add the ones that worked and the ones that I liked. Next, I went over to a gemini search engine and started looking for some interesting tinylogs. The result is now what's on my aggregated tinylog page, linked off my main page.
This was almost enough for a reglular gemlog post...
Note that this command writes to the terminal, so you'll have to redirect to a file, like this:
gtl --mode gemini --limit 50 > /path/to/capsule/tinylog-aggregate.gmi
this will use your default settings in ~/.config/gtl/config.toml and subs
PSA: The OST from the movie The Social Network is a perfect coding playlist. 👍
Since about 2015, smartphones have been getting increasingly user-hostile and locked down. It started with Google Play Services, a permanently running auto-installed, auto-updated service that has full access and control of your device. One a new Samsung Galaxy phone, I found 262 packages pre-installed, which were mainly from Google, Samsung, Facebook, Microsoft, and the cell provider. I tried disabling some of them, and at some point the phone locked with the message: "Your phone is locked because the Device Service was uninstalled without authorisation". Ok, so I enabled all the apps again, but that didn't unlock it. Tried a full factory reset and reboot, and now the phone says: "Phone Locked. This phone can't be used without authorisation." Just, wow! We are no longer allowed to uninstall the surveillance and bloatware on our phones. #smartphones #bloatware #surveillance
Agregated tinylogs: