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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 34 · Following 27 · Logs 116 · Docked 2 years 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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 · 1 year 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.
💬 6 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
A list of free fractal documentaries and related bonus stuff gemini://sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/fractal-documentaries.gmi
💬 0 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 1 year ago
An 'official' quick update on my capsule to let people know im still working on stuff //sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/2022-03-25-a-quick-post.gmi
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
How do you easily acess emojis in desktop? I search for them online and copy/paste it in but surely theres a faster way
💬 8 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
You ever see a word so many times that it starts to feel wierd? So many sentences start with 'I' that sometimes I intentionally rework it to not include it but its so hard to avoid the most common words like 'I' 'the' 'you' 'and' because they are like the bubblegum and ductape which holds the sentence together
💬 2 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 1 year ago
while browsing gemini I found an old archived text originating from a long extinct usenet group based around fractals. gemini://gemini.spam.works/mirrors/textfiles/internet/FAQ/fractal.faq Its kind of funny how text are timeless, in a way. I never would have known it was written in 1993 if the date had not been there. the MIT ftp servers mentioned are unsuprisingly dead. The author/maintainer is credited as "Ken Shirriff" (In retrospect its wierd how people used to use their real names unworried with privacy concerns) And doing a quick search I found the guys website. Its all about retro-computing and tech project so figured some of you guys would be interested https://www.righto.com/p/about-ken-shirriff.html
💬 3 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Lagrange users, what is your favorite font pack to use?
💬 10 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 1 year ago
Just discovered the tv show Dexter this week even though its been out since 2007, crazy how good shows can just slip under your radar for a decade only to just stumble on them by chance
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 1 year ago
Been playing around with YACY more lately since the DDG fiasco last week. True P2P decentralized search engine. Its far from perfect but a nice change of pace from what we consider a typical "search engine". Similar to Marginalia's engine it doesnt care about SEO and instead is indexes in an entirely different way . You as a user actually host a peer instance on your own hardware and can add new pages to the search engine through your own peers web-crawler. Each user can influence the search engines top results by manually marking sites that are relevant to the search query. Again its not perfect but a pretty good example of what a true decentralized engine looks like. Im happy to have it as an option.
💬 4 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
What is the purpose of our universe?
Roger Penrose and the three worlds theory: https://astudentforever.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/roger-penroses-three-worlds-and-three-deep-mysteries-theory/ give it a read if you have some time
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Trailer Park Boys is one of my favorite shows of all time, humor is on point for me. Im going on yet ANOTHER binge today. If you have Netflix go check them out, its worth a try.
💬 3 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Is there a security reason people will write their email as some variation of example AT emailservice.com instead of example@emailservice.com? Is this just a preference or is it something like protection against email botcrawlers?
💬 4 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
The article I wrote yesterday is back up finally: gemini://sdf.org/smokey/logs/2022/privacy-advice.gmi
💬 2 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 2 years ago
My capsule has yet again gone down along with the entire cluster array of SDF servers, basically as soon as I had published a new article on aggregators. How embaressing. Maybe this is the push I need to host my own server like ive been planning. Ive hosted public MC servers before where people could enter in my computers public IPv4 open port number to connect. I think I can handle getting the service up and porting forward geminis port. Its getting a domain name set up that i've never done before. Any website maintainers have suggestions with name providers or just in general?
💬 6 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Looks like gemini.circumlunar.space/ is back up! Guess some of us got concerned over nothing. On the upside, some people who are really concerned over the documentation might make some more mirrors and local copies for preservation sake.
💬 1 Reply · 13 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Someone once said "No website should be bigger in size than the original DOOM" Makes me wonder what the MOST bloated website of all time is. How many DOOM's is it worth? Heck maybe DOOM should be a unit of measurement for SEO evaluation. "Sorry, your article contains 5 DOOMs worth of data even though it only contains two paragraphs of actual content"
💬 6 Replies · 8 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Speaking of solderpunk, im curious as to whether their site being down is intentional or not. Did they finally have enough of the project and abandon the gemini community full stop?
💬 3 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Can someone help me understand how to change my station profile picture to another one? What needs to be done to properly make an ascii profile pic and upload it?
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
What is the average age range of gemini?
Looking through some stuff for the pubnix hosting my capsule and came across their flyer templates. Then an idea popped up in my mind: what if gemini had flyers? I would definitely be down with putting some physical advertisements around telephone poles and campuses like the olde days. your thoughts? https://sdf.lonestar.org/sdf_flyer.pdf