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Welcome back to the desk, USB fan. It was a long winter, but your services are once again required.
I know that titan isn't an official spec but I think it'll help me post gemlogs and better formatted tinylogs from my phone, so I'm taking the trade off. heck I guess tinylogs aren't official either but that's ingrained now too. I'm a 98% phone user of Gemini so this will definitely help me
I've slowed down. I'm observing (mentioned by @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space here) discussion at:
gemini://station.martinrue.com/at_work/c6275820116d492e964f6100de46b4bb
and thinking about the activity of /bbs.geminispace.org/ and no activity on /comp.infosystems.gemini/.
I'm wondering why people have abandoned only one real distributed system for discussion. So we had boards in BBS' era, then its superior version as NNTP, and then we've gone of course and started to think that we could use for that: WWW (aka. web forums), ActivityPub (despite messages length constraint, threading lack and so on), and now Gemini (aka gemini forum).
We don't have today's software for NTTP for sure. But in the small net while we are fond of using /neomutt/, we should accept for eg. /slrn/ as well.
Some folks are in a tizzy over on #station regarding @morgan's suggestion on #bubble about user verifications on Gemini. I'm on the fence about jumping in but it's interesting to see such a strong feeling here in geminispace, to the point of using expletives. On the one hand I see @skyjake's point about impersonations but on the other it is more centralization and tracking across sites. I see both sides, but it definitely is going away from the original essence of Gemini. I think our Benevolent Dictator For Life, @solderpunk could jump in and clear things up before other people start making decisions around here.
The phrase "can't swing a dead cat without hitting xxx" has always struck me as odd
East Coast of the U.S. is getting a preview of the future if we don't switch off fossil fuels.
creating per-site certificate entries for Amfora is frustratingly manual when I'm so used to automated in-app options.
split my tooth in half playing racquetball last night. No blood and not a lot of pain so I didn't qualify for emergency dental work. appointment today in a little bit. I got too close to the person I was playing in order to throw them off, but ended up taking the back swing to the mouth. spat out the tooth and promptly ended the game.
When I feel like I need to escape my current reality for a bit, switching language really helps hit that spot. Anyone else experience that? 📚
with the creation of Bubble, I'm wondering about two things: 1) when Station will cease to get at least one post per day and 2) when the community will press forward without @solderpunk on Gemini spec expansions. Browser writers have a lot of sway on what new and unofficial spec enhancements make it into common use, and with all the specification talk on Bubble these days, I feel like it's inevitable. prediction: an unofficial specification group is formed.
Feeling great after a perfect weekend of enjoying the beautiful weather with the best company, lots of cycling, sticking to the gym routine and many hours with the compiler. Hope you all had a similarly refreshing weekend. 🙌
The last day was about /geminispace.org/ domain name. So it's nice that Skyjake tries to listen to every voice on the Geminispace. The result of that is the new domain name /bbs.geinispace.org/. The /Bubble/ user subspaces are acting like a BBS board or like a 90's forum. It's convenient to set up an article from any Gemini address and build a response thread below the original content.
For me, the better layout (without emojis etc.) of that is on /Geddit/, which as I've read is switching to an Onion address. I must look closer at the Onion workflow. There are many Gopher and Gemini resources, which I've never seen.
gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/thread?16191
gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/1137
I don't understand fighting in ice hockey
I wish Ted Lasso had to work with a truly difficult person that wasn't won over with Midwest charm.
Finished Ted Lasso. one of the best shows I've ever seen. Glad they stuck to the original 3 season plan. Bravo.
Now for a spinoff since they need to ride that gravy train.
I dislike open wifi hotspots to that block vpn.
I'm curious: among the cycle crowd, do you guys have a word for the pain of having a bicycle seat shoved up your ass for the first time after a long break? Asking for a friend.... 's ass, obvs.
@textmonger and @circadian are my two favorite gemlogs these days. it's like a frequent /daily gemlog review digest.
good points about the Bubble project by szczezuja
Interesting read of the day
I'm getting used to this vlogging thing! https://youtu.be/TDuXWAIS4cY
So I finally got around to hacking together a script that allows me to post right to my tinylog via a Gemini input. This will hopefully allow me to update this tinylog much more often from my phone.
An inspiring talk by Kartik, like a TED talk for programmers.
Using computers more freely and safely
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6fjjaq8JCI
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Anyone here ride a Onewheel or an EUC? I'm very tempted to buy one, but would love to hear others' experiences.
Didn't realize how much I was attached to my watch before I lost it. Today when I was riding my bicycle again to the place where I lost it, I was tempted to check my empty hand two or three times. I made it 15 min before alarm went on. Searched the place once again and didn't find it. Then it started to beep... right by me, in a short grass, so easy to find, so visible.
I've been working much in the last weeks so I hadn't much time for a small-net browsing. But I'm alive!
In about 6 hours, I'll be giving a talk about my journey to learn Esperanto through building things. The talk will not be in English though, of course. Details here, if anyone's interested: https://eventaservo.org/e/3c6a62
TGIF... long week. What's everyone upto this weekend?
Just in case you need a reminder of how bad the web is (it's a joke, but not far from some real web UX), try and fill this form in as quickly as you can! 🤣 https://userinyerface.com
Yup, I'm still alive. Life doesn't let me sit down and log into my capsule as much as I'd like. In the meantime I still engage the geminiverse via Lagrange on mobile on a daily basis.
Random thought of the day: people in the geminiverse like to compare Gemini and Gopher to the old days of the web... but I definitely remember porn and illegal software all over the place but I've yet to see that here. I've seen people use the free gemini capsule hosting as file servers when I was poking around there, and maybe some sexy ascii art, but nothing like the mid-90s or what the web has become today. Let me just say that I'm NOT looking for these things, but merely had a thought that poked into my head as I read about people comparing gemini to the old web.
Reached feature parity with my Python prototype on my foodbot in Go today. Might be breaking things up into too many modules. The project structure feels a bit off to me, anyway. Here's today's bit, building on my nutrition module.
https://codeberg.org/lykso/recipes
Really happy to keep finding the energy for this project. Here's episode 3 of the podcast, this one with my good friend Rico.
Mi tre ĝojas, ke mi daŭre trovas la tempon por kreskigi la podkastan projekton. Jen la tria epizodo, en kiu aperas ĉies plej ŝatata italo de Reading, Rico.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2xp2ZPix04wKLRAL9UQzDe?si=7261fcc3ebf44e0d
Se vi bezonas RSS, jen: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
It's been a while since my last /now update, so here's what I'm doing now: https://martinrue.com/now
Hello fellow capsuleers! I have a new Gemini project that may interest you:
💬 Bubble
It is a Gemini-based bulletin board system that combines elements from Station, Reddit, WordPress, and Git-adjacent issue trackers like on Gitea and GitHub.
It has some cool features like email notifications and a draft composer for making longer posts. Here's the announcement:
gemini://geminispace.org/u/skyjake/1
Just released my efforts toward making something I can use from the USDA datasets.
The resulting SQLite3 database
Decided to add a Markdown renderer to LML in order to write the README for a new project in it while still playing nice with Codeberg.
Just finished recording my next podcast episode. I'm mega busy with creative stuff lately and it feels ace. 👌
This one took a while, but my second vlog is out! https://youtu.be/-QsHxQcZbQU
This DIY handheld computer build blows me away with how well it's done. I think this is my dream portable computer. Pity they don't sell anything like this, so I'm gonna try DIY'ing my own. #handheld #portable #computer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cdsdrqA-50
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I hacked together a prototype of the previously-mentioned handheld portable computer, using a Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 inch LCD touchscreen. So far it is really nice to use! I like how I can use a full desktop OS while walking around. The keyboard and trackpad allow me to use a regular OS without having to worry about touch affordances, mouse-overs, and right-clicking. There is scope to make this much more compact if using a 3d-printed enclosure. #diy #raspberrypi #handheld #portable #computer
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Finally booked all my travel to this year's IJK (https://ijk2023.tejo.org) and I can't wait. I will also be spending some time in Venice again after far too long. ☀️
Editing my second vlog and realising how easy people who are good at this make it look.
Just landed back into Manchester with such a tailwind that we bounced off the runway and had a second go. That was fun!
I love the Esperanto community. Simply because I'm here in Barcelona, 12 of us are getting together for dinner this evening. It's been said before, but if you want to make friends, learn Esperanto. 😌
I've made a quick look into the small net. Everything is on its place. I read several articles, I felt calmness of Bongusta.
It's great to hear @Deerbard transmission on Tinylog.
But the most time I've spent on the open air. Last days had beautiful sunny weather. Despite it was 20C the sun was hot in places covered by trees or other natural obstacles. So I was walking through woods and fields. The only artificial thing around me was an Boeing E-8 on the sky (which I identified on Flightradar24). The plane was flying around my area several times, marking contrail witch characteristic relapses which are made probably during their standard scanning works.
I was wondering also how Flightradar24 would like in the text version. I recall MapSCII, it would be great thing!
MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer
My DIY battery-powered wireless driveway visitor detector, take 3! A much harder problem than I anticipated. Attempt 1 was using a cheap and low power PIR sensor. Too many false alerts. Attempt 2 was a radar presence detector. Doesn't work outdoors, way too many false alerts. This one uses a commercial outdoor PIR sensor, which seems to work quite well so far. On the down side, it uses quite a bit of power (20mA continuous), so I've had to add a lithium battery with solar charger. Nice thing about a LiFePO4 battery is that I don't need a fancy solar charge controller, I just use a buck converter set to about 14V. The grey box houses a microcontroller with a LoRa transmitter, mounted on an aluminium bracket that I can hang on my driveway pre-cast wall, so that the PIR sensor looks across the driveway. I put the battery and charger into an ice cream container and placed a roof tile over it to protect against rain and sun. The receiver side is an ESP32 connected to a LoRa receiver and buzzer that plays a ding-dong chime and also sends an MQTT message for futher automation. #diy #lora #pir #motion #sensor
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After 9 months of head-down hard work, I'm finally taking a little break. The Fernweh is strong.
Ever wondered what's the phase of the moon?
So with the little influx of folks coming into Station these past few weeks, I'm curious how this looks now:
[POLL How long have you been using Gemini?] A few weeks | A few months | 1 year | 2 years | Old guard
So, what's everyone doing this weekend?
I'm not from IT industry, @szczezuja
Why gemini is not boring, gemlog from @szczezuja
An interesting log about search engines
What a great weekend. Heading home after spending the last 3 days in the world of Esperanto with 80 other crazy people from all over the world. The escape from normality (and English) is such a nice change. Really looking forward to much more of this in the summer!
happy belated new year, 2023 can you believe it? oh look, it's already April!
I should *definitely* update my gemlog soon
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