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Been watching Invasion on Apple. pretty engrossing show. There are some areas of the plot that I don't agree with but overall I like it.
Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
Here is something I am working on: a solar powered UPS for routers (for my friends). Uses original router power adapter as 'pass-thru' while falling back to LiFePO4 battery during loadshedding. #solar #diy #ups
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If you live in the UK and want to get into Esperanto, this free weekend event in October will be great. You can even play Homlupo (Werewolf) with me in the international language. Aimed at every level, even possible to ask for help for hotel costs if you need it. More info: https://esperanto.org.uk/studa-semajnfino
words I learned from yesterday's spellbinding:
ABACA ABBE ABELE CABALA CABBALA CABBALAH HEBE LABLAB LEACHABLE
I've never heard of hebe, which is apparently a derogatory name against Jews.
cabala and cabbala are variants of each other meaning
abbe is French and has an accent on the e, making me wonder if this should even be in spellbinding.
My capsule Setup HOWTO is finally finished v1 and is linked on the official Gemini FAQ (section 2.5.4)
Here's an old gemlog I came across today on discogem. I, too, went with a dumb phone for a while but it was years back. I wish I could do it again without my partner being really upset with me, mostly because we have a family and need that connection.
gemini://caolan.uk/desk/2021-02-04_re_the_dumbphone_experience.gmi
I wrote some thoughts on the idea of "getting into motion": https://martinrue.com/get-into-motion
Even though my brain thinks in Esperanto at this point, I occasionally realise I don’t have a word for something. I was chatting to a friend this morning and I needed to say treadmill. To my delight, turns out it’s “kurtapiŝo”, or running carpet.
If having a coffee in the morning isn't working for you, take 2 weeks of leave and then check your email.
I recently spent a few days in Venice (in the cool neighbourhoods). Here's what I got up to. Spoiler: it's mostly me being lost and tortured by mosquitoes. https://youtu.be/_caD0XnBNfI
Wordle 791 6/6*
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22,700 steps today. might be a personal record. treadmill, volleyball, racquetball.
Undiscovered areas in art. There are as many as undiscovered places on Earth maybe. Our neverending mission is to rediscover them for ourselves without this sense of being less important, less true.
I tried to capture some difficult thoughts: https://martinrue.com/nothing-matters
Interesting capsule of the week from #discogem
where I live we have mass transit but also a lot of people have cars because mass transit isn't everywhere. I have an electric car but I know trains are best for moving folks.
well, today I have an occasion for an hour long rail trip, avoiding traffic and congestion of the roads that run alongside the rail line. it's nice to just sit instead of being alert and aware in the driver's seat.
although I left my book at home...
I wanted to find out what the minimum hardware for running a reasonably good Large Language Model at home would be, so I bought a refurbished ThinkCentre M715q with AMD Radeon 5 PRO 2400GE CPU. It's a 2018-era machine costing only around $200. With no upgrades, I was able to run llama.cpp in CPU-only mode on the smallest Llama 2 7b model (q2_K) generating 5.2 tokens/sec! Very impressive! I can also run Vicuna 13b (q4_1) at over 2 tokens/sec after upgrading the RAM to 16Gb. All this while consuming around 40W of power. One trick I had to employ is to use "LLAMA_AVX2=1 make" to compile, as it doesn't detect AVX2 by default. Anwyay, I love this ThinkCentre machine, it is amazing bang-for-buck and will be my main dev machine for the forseeable future. #llm #thinkcenter #llamacpp
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Hello from my offline time. It might give me finally a proper focus and get me back to gemini.
I wonder if 2FA / totp could theoretically be used on Gemini for logins...
I updated my gemroll list with new resources on gemini and added a HOWTO for creating your own capsule
kids toys have to be some of the biggest wastes of unrecyclable plastic. they break in a month or two and go straight to the landfill. how is something made of such thick plastic so fragile?
Venice is such a unique city.
🚙 No cars.
🏍️ No motorbikes.
🚲 No bicycles.
Everything is a boat.
🛥️ Bus? Vaporetti.
🚤 Taxi? Also a boat.
🚣 Moving house? Do it on a boat.
⛴️ Dump truck? It's a boat.
🚓 Have cool boats!
It's rather nice not seeing a single car.
I have an idea for a game for Gemini, I just need time to write it...
Okay, I'm off to live with with 220 Esperanto speakers from 52 different countries for a week. Give me another language where I can do that – where everyone experiences the language equally and fairly – and I'll give up Esperanto¹ :)
¹ This is a lie as I have way too many t-shirts.
Productivity hack: there's no hack. It's hard. Confront it. Take responsibility. Make time. Get started any way you can. Stick with it, even while it feels uncomfortable (creative resistance). Don't expect it to always feel good/happy. Stay focused. Don't quit.
"Brian, do you have an unpopular opinion?"
"Besides cooking salmon in a dishwasher?"
It's quality content only on the GoTime podcast!
I’m in Venice and it’s hot. Charming. But hot. Carrying my life in a backpack probably isn’t helping though.
poking around on Gopher again. Started digging through the random archives that is Quux and found a fun Usenet archive about movies. Dated from 1982, they were speculating on whether Spock dies in Star Trek II
🎥 I made a new video! It’s about making time for your projects and goals, and contains a little preview of what I’ve been working on recently. https://youtu.be/EwE3RkJOFV4
I was reading about the gas stove ban in the US and was thinking "what if a law maker says all new homes had to have bidets in order to reduce paper waste"
Perfect topic for an online troll.
I wonder if anyone has submitted someone else's gemlog to antenna.
We have non-technical Antenna now. It's called /Deep Space Network/.
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20230722-DSN-antenna.gmi
Thanks to @szczezuja for pointing out that I forgot the link to my version of #Antenna, DSN Antenna, on my gemlog. I'll fix that in a bit. If you haven't seen, I made a version of Antenna for non-tech related gemlogs. Currently the best way to contribute is to have separate tech and non-tech gemlogs.
Deep Space Network (DSN) Antenna
I had a shower thought and now it's a blog post: https://martinrue.com/doing-your-best
What do we want?
Now!
When do we want it?
Race conditions!
I like this story over on cosmic voyage (gopher)
Today is the "Internacia Tago de Esperanto" (Esperanto Day). The "Unua Libro" (first book), which introduced the language and its grammar, was published 136 years ago today.
For anyone curious about why I like Esperanto so much, I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsHxQcZbQU
wordle keeps adding more and more self-advertising BS. instead of a small "hey play our other games, there's now a 1/3 screen banner that tells me I can download their app.
If they start charging I'm out. if they add a ton of ads, I'm out. I'm just waiting for the day it's less about the game and more clicks.
Shoutout to @eph for the amount of exrta glyphs I've installed in Lagrange so far due to your language pursuits :)
Productivity hacks.
1: Never waste 20 minutes doing something by hand that you can fail to automate in 8 hours.
2: Never waste 20 minutes solving a known problem when you can spend 2 weeks finding the general version of it, failing to abstract it, and burdening everyone else.
I had been curious for a long while since I had came across information that /ScummVM/ is supporting /The Neverhood/. So I've checked this today. It's a kind of magic. You are able to run the game from the mounted ISO image, without any configuration madness known from /Wine/, or even without extracting files from installer archives.
So you aren't bother about the original /Windows 95/ game requirement. You will be able to run the game on every device supported by /ScummVM/...
I dislike buying new shoes. there's a million options and I rarely like any. and they're expensive.
Sad to hear Mitnick has passed. A hero of curiosity and intellectual pursuit that defined an era. FREE KEVIN.
A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 2.
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If you want to hear my ICMP joke, ping me.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD.
Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD who?
I'll tell you at a random point in the future.
I had a bunch of HTTP 301 jokes but I've not been able to find them for a long time.
There's a funny story about RFC1918, but it's a bit of an insider joke.
The hardest kind of joke to tell is an NTP joke – it's all about timing.
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Okay, FIN. I couldn't come up with a good DNS joke though, so whois going to give us one?
A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 1. If you get all of them, you're officially old. And awesome.
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I have a joke about TCP.
Oh yeah, what is it?
Want to hear it?
Yes.
Okay I'll tell it.
I'll hear it.
I've now begun telling it.
I've begun listening.
Three UDP packets walk into a bar.
First: I'll have a whisky
Third: Vodka for me.
Second: Just water.
Bartender: What you lads having?
If you don't get that last UDP joke, nobody cares.
My best joke is about token ring, but I can't tell you that one as it's not my turn.
The next time you forget a word for something, say “Ah, what’s the word for that in English again?” People will assume you’re bilingual instead of stupid.
Couldn't find anything to watch so we put on White House Down from 2013. What a laughably terrible movie. watched the whole thing because it was at least action packed...and just really really Hollywood.
A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says “You’re in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?”
The horse replies “I don’t think I am”, and immediately vanishes from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes’s philosophical first principle, commonly known as “I think, therefore I am”, but to explain that part first would be putting Descartes before the horse.
Got my home charger installed this week for my new electric car. I have less"range anxiety" now and don't have to pay at overpriced charging stations. I love that it's a quiet and smooth ride.
Crazy weekend. had our daughter's birthday at our home, with lots of people. spent the entire next day doing basically nothing. nice change of pace but I like my old routine.
played racquetball tonight with two others. won one, lost the others. drenched in sweat. felt great.
It's nice to have all #oldComputerChallenge in one place on Gopher and Gemini.
gopher://occ.deadnet.se:70/1/users
I was on a small holiday for the last few days. There was sunny and hot, but not humid. The first half of July was very pleasant this year. Especially in the green areas while slow walk in the morning, or with the sun setting down. Trees are still green and didn't suffer from the heat too much. The late sun is shining in oranges and reds. It isn't necessary to go abroad to get a positive vibe.
And in such beautiful conditions, I was able to spend those days almost offline. It wasn't a big deal. Summer is the best time for that.
There isn't much rush in the smolnet. But it's worth to mention that the #oldComputerChallenge is running. So I've tuned up my eyes for that, there are many articles in the Gophersphere, the Geminispace, and the Fediverse. I am always looking forward to that event and of course for the ROOPHLOCH. It's a good way to find interesting authors.
And there is a shit-storm about Threads and Mastodon federation. There is an interesting article /How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)/ by Ploum. I am feeling the same and those thoughts are close to my heart because I was a huge advocate of Jabber in that time. There were several big XMPP/Jabber servers and most of my friends in my XMPP/Jabber roster then. All that is gone. Google Talk finally was the Trojan horse rather than a good choice for XMPP/Jabber adopters.
I've caught up on all matters in my text environment. There wasn't any new e-mail. There was an interesting article on Usenet (/Retro and Smol Tools for the Text Tinker Train/ by Syber Shock on alt.bbs). There was a pull request for codeberg.org/szczezuja/gemini_PL. Day like every day.
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I've changed my Tinylog for the longer entries.
1100 folk on Station as of today! I’m pleased people are still finding Station useful in an ever growing Gemini world. Very happy to keep the lights on while people still find value in this community. 👏
I had a dream in Esperanto last night. It still feels surreal when that happens. Ege mojose ankoraŭ, tamen.
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