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Could Lagrange show the cert details when a cert is untrusted? Like maybe a details button that shows the CN and the SAN names before accepting the connection. I am occasionally hitting sites that have the wrong address and it would be helpful to see the supposed valid addresses when deciding if to accept the connection
💬 alexlehm · 1 comment · 10 hours ago
Stumbled upon this article, "Gemini is solutionism at its worst" [https link] "Gemini is solutionism at its worst" "Bottom line is, if you agree that the modern web has become an awful place, let’s work on changing that for everyone, instead of abandoning it like a bunch of billionaires trying to escape to a different place, before this one collapses." I think that's where i disagree the most. The "modern web" won't be reformed, not a chance, it will stay the same, or get worse. So what's...
💬 gemalaya · 5 comments · 4 likes · 18 hours ago
When your Forth is smaller than 4K... — I had a funny realization today. Normally you work with a sizable toolchain, and are working on some code that is tiny in comparison. But when your tool is 4K, it is kind of disposable - you can attach it to every piece of source without making a dent... I started out with trying to figure out how to boot nForth - it starts up, then loads a forth file to expand itself. But it turns out that it is easier to append the forth file to the binary - it saves...
💬 View post · 3 likes · 2023-09-07 · 2 days ago
Gemalaya's AppImage (starting with v0.4) now automatically downloads new updates, you only need to download the AppImage once. [https link] [https link] [https link] [https link]
💬 gemalaya · 2023-09-05 · 3 days ago
Seeking Co-op recommendations — Your recommendations for a game will be appreciated ! requirements: can run on windows free, or ROM same computer and same keyboard co-op. Genres: Adventure/ Puzzle/ Collaborative. We are playing [https link] Bubble Symphony at the moment. [Skel-Monsta] Caption: Skel-Monsta
💬 aRubes · 2 comments · 2023-09-05 · 3 days ago
Off by 1 character — I hate that vim is always off by a character. Let me clarify. When you exit the insert mode, the cursor backs up to the last character entered. So if you insert some text, then delete to the end of the line, vim will eat your last-inserted character unless you move over one. Annoying, right? Or, say you repeatedly enter insert mode then exit back to command line. That is a no-op, right? Wrong: your cursor will move left one character. That seems kind of idiotic. Does...
💬 stack · 12 comments · 1 like · 2023-09-04 · 4 days ago
nForth update pushed — Just pushed an overhauled nForth source (and binary) to: [https link] In the last couple of days I got back up to speed in 386 assembly, learned an awful lot about the (lack of adequate) Linux support for i386 executables, and got nForth to work in the treacherous Address Space Randomization environment. It now works with as little as 8K of heap, and runs as a CGI with minimal resources. Now I can get back to whumpage.
💬 View post · 2 likes · 2023-09-04 · 4 days ago
In the Himalayas, Pakistan, communities and their elders are practicing an ancient tradition of making “glacier babies”; turning water back to ice, using only natural methods. — Fascinating: a process of selecting types of ice to use to “grow” more ice from water. It can take 12 years to make a foundation and another 12 for it to cross a significant threshold to be considered independent (as best as I can understand). They’ve even gotten funding from the U.N. for this, although only in the...
💬 IO · 3 comments · 2023-09-04 · 4 days ago
How to discuss a lengthy article from http land on gemspace? — I came across a fascinating (to me, anyway) article and wanted to share it here on gemspace for discussion. The only options I could think of were: 1. Just link to http (boo!) 2. Link to Newswaffle, if it works for this article and that’s allowed here. 3. Copy and paste the article The only one that seems right to me (it it works) is Newswaffle but I’m interested in opinions (esp. moderator / admin ones). Thoughts?
💬 IO · 3 comments · 2023-09-04 · 4 days ago
Dictionary — I made a dictionary for Gemini. I was thinking this could be useful to link to within Spellbinding. Let me know if you spot errors or something breaks.
💬 11 comments · 4 likes · 2023-09-04 · 5 days ago
Gemalaya version 0.3.9: - support for input snippets: store and reuse snippets of text when writing input responses - text search mode [https link] [https link]
💬 gemalaya · 2023-09-04 · 5 days ago
nForth - trouble in paradise — Just as I was beginning to enjoy low-level assembly coding after a long break, and looking forward to whumpin' on some home-made forth, the bastards got me! My mom tried to tell me to be normal, and do things the way other people do them, but no! I had to be this weirdo who just gets more and more restless doing things the 'normal' way. And so, 32-bit code is apparently over, just when I was really embracing the i386, with its limited registers. But I love being...
💬 3 comments · 2023-09-03 · 5 days ago
great now we just need to make 11-12 more protocols and we'll have a full set — vote for which zodiac sign should become a protocol next
💬 angryboyd · 9 comments · 2023-09-03 · 6 days ago · 🗳️
I haven't watched so many ads like in the last 24 hours. Youtube decided that it no longer works with an adblocker. The amount of ads they show is insane. Every 5 mins you've to watch an ad, every time you start a video you've to watch an ad. It is just ridiculous!
💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-09-02 · 6 days ago
Address Randomization Tribulations — So, I have a tiny 32-bit application (a Forth) taking up about 4K, written in fasm. Pure minimalism, including an iffy elf header that fasm creates, with a fixed load address. More on that later. It's been unstable, and I tracked the instability down to the initial memory allocation. Right at the start I add my desired memory size to the code base (the top label in asm code), and invoke `brk` system call. This worked as long as I allocated a largish...
💬 stack · 1 comment · 2023-09-02 · 6 days ago
CGI from nforth — [gemini link] Again, human error. CGI will not work if the script returns anything but 0!
💬 View post · 1 like · 2023-09-02 · 6 days ago
Is Astrobotany down at the mo? I just get a timeout.
💬 drh3xx · 1 comment · 2023-09-02 · 6 days ago
CGI from assembly — OK, my last failure was due to stupidity. It works fine. [gemini link] A simple 182-byte executable CGI. I am probably the only person in the world writing CGI scripts in assembly, this decade.
💬 2 comments · 12 likes · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
Hello, world — Haigh. I’ve been on Gemini for years but thís BBS seems ideal for a personal gemlog, so I hope to post more often and more coherently :) I have a few capsules and a different gemlog for Linux notes and technical stuff. I’m mainly interested in human rights, equality, minorities, indigenous rights, environment and wildlife. I’m especially interested in if/how my choices as a consumer affect any of the above. I like the idea of promoting “activism by doing nothing”, which I’ll...
💬 View post · 8 likes · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
Nothing is simple when computers are involved. — After trying to get nforth to work as a CGI and failing, took it a step back and wrote a simple assembly program that outputs '20 text/gemini' followed by cr and lf, and a hello world line.. Again, works on the command line but not as a cgi... Incomplete header. Which implies that at least it executes, because it's a FASM file with a handmade ELF header, 32-bit version1. I suppose I should check how many bytes were sent in my kernel 'write'...
💬 View post · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
Which search service do you recommend in Gemini space? — I’m currently using [gemini link] as my default in Lagrange. At the moment - and this could just be the nature of the contents of Gemini space currently - I get a lot of results for a library flooding my results. The results contain the terms I searched for, but that domain won’t have what I want. What are the alternatives and is there much difference anyway? Please let me know your preference.
💬 IO · 11 comments · 1 like · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
binary file reported as 'no such file or directory' upon execution — This has to be the weirdest behavior ever. A small utility that works fine on my main machine was copied over to my Thinkpad, running identical XUbuntu. Fails on ThinkPad only I can ls it, permissions are fine, even HD and objdump look reasonable. When I try to invoke it from command line, bash reports that it does not exist. strace shows execve with correct path, craps with ENOENT (no such file or directory) It's like it...
💬 stack · 12 comments · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
Natural Stupidity — The language used in AI papers always caputers my attention. In all those papers, the models and architectures, are always *state of the art*. There is never a primitive model. They are always the best, the brightest, the most creative, even if they just recycle old ideas and combine basic simple thoughts. This air of self importance resulted in the creation of a zoo of complicated acrynoms that even their models can't comprehend. IMO, this zoo of acrynoms is needed to...
💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
I'm Back!! — Hello! I'm back! For those who don't know, I'm Christian. I used to be called "krixano" and I was the one who ran AuraGem (formerly Ponix) before I was unable to continue paying the domain name. That was about 2 years ago. Since then, I have graduated with a B.A. in Theology and a minor in Computer Science I write articles on Theology and other topics on my new capsule now. This bbs capsule is really cool and well done! I'...
💬 clseibold · 2 comments · 6 likes · 2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
Spent the day hacking on nForth -- with the goal of running it in a CGI environment. Since the core is around 4K, it should load fast and keep the server load to a minimum. Most of the day was a slog figuring out what I was doing a year ago. Got it to load silently and parse argv for the file to load...
💬 4 comments · 1 like · 2023-09-01 · 8 days ago
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