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When it comes to arbitrary, "realtime" composability, the Unix model of files, streams, and processes has yet to be topped. GUIs are vey rarely composable, and also hard to script. It makes me think maybe composability has to be one dimensional, and textual. This idea that a keyboard is fundamental to a computer but a different pointing device doesn't feels slightly off. I wonder if there is an elegant multi dimensional method of composability which simplifies down to simple compute models and...
💬 gyaradong · 2 comments · 4 hours ago
@oldernow 's post about a dream made me think about this. My wife and I live seperate lives -she works days and I work nights. We also have different interests that don't overlap. Despite this, I have this strong affection that draws me to her. I need to be near her, to constantly touch her, and I'm happy to listen to her all day, of what she's interested in. There's a tenderness there that I'll always cherrish. However, there's a part of me that also wishes to have found a like-minded...
Arcticfox browser & OpenBSD & Alderlake CPU — I have been using arcticfox for few years now, it gives me a good old software vibe. My old computer is an intel Skylake. The browser builds and runs ok abeit a bit slow. I think this is because, on OpenBSD building arcticfox with -O2 will produce crashing binary (-O1 is ok, even the README says to only use -O0). I recently got a new Alderlake based system, arcticfox builds ok with my .mozconfig. However when I try to run it, the binary crashs with...
He had a dream — ... he'd hoped for a modicum of attention to his latest post, thinking there ought to be at least one more like-minded individual out there who happened to read in places where he might write, who would recognize his style and leanings as though they were more than merely roughly their own... and soon enough both would spend weeks expressing back and forth to each other how relieved they were to have finally found each other, and thus could *finally* exchange text with another...
Maybe you should stop regretting how old you are and do something fun instead
hello — hello this is a test blablablabla este é um teste ahsuhdyurorororroro teste teste testando 1, 2, 3
This track by The Pet Shop Boys reminds me just how old I am 😁
Learning about how the earth has progressed on a geological timescale helps you appreciate the beauty of life and the planet we live on. It also gives a dark humor quality to how we've managed to toss things up so effectively within not even three centuries since industrialization. It took billions of years for life to grow and change and eventually even become multicellular. Buy a new phone every year, and you can become multicellular in a much faster timeline. Except, your achievement is...
💬 View post · 2 likes · Nov 13 · 1 day ago
wanted: secure email service recommendation — I'm looking for a secure email service. A few requirements are non-negotiable, which seem to rule out most of the most-often recommended ones. must work with any email client. I'm using mutt on my main pc and K-9 on my phone. Protonmail and Tutanota only work with their own mail clients. must allow my own domain. I have several domains and I want to use @mydomain.xyz mailadresses. This makes moving to other mail services in the (hopefully far)...
💬 5 comments · 1 like · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
I just finished the first book in the Murderbot series and I really liked it. it was recommended around here on Gemini somewhere. The first book was a quick read. Good story, decent bit of action, and interesting plot and character development. I haven't bought the second because I'm on the fence about the price tag. I might search around and buy direct instead of Kindle so the money goes hopefully more towards the author.
💬 gritty · 1 comment · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
The aesthetic choices behind Lagrange? — Hi! I'm really fascinated with Lagrange, and how it made me fall in love with reading pure text again... A big part of the merit goes to the Gemini protocol itself of course, but in my case I attribute it mainly to the way Lagrange deals with colors. So I tried looking for info on how it's done, but I only found a technical publication about ANSI escapes and such. Do you guys have links to a more color-theory / aesthetics oriented article about this...
💬 Nono · 9 comments · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
I managed to get a gemini capsule running on an old phone! it only starts listening on its port when I tell Agate where its content folder is, and goes down when I cancel that command. Not sure why. at least SSH works too, programming on a Blackberry keyboard is not easy. Still a fun way to use old phones.
💬 kodama · 1 comment · 4 likes · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
Oops. This was my attempt to see what the DSN is, but I didn't mean to actually post to it! Sorry!
💬 1 comment · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
Now with BBS running Bubble v7, you can submit posts to @gritty's DSN Antenna directly from Bubble. The idea here is to aggregate non-(computer-)tech posts in their own feed. The "Submit to Antenna" actions can be found under "More..." and at the bottom of your userspace feed.
💬 skyjake · 2 comments · 1 like · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
A wee bit ambivalent — Last night we were out for dinner with my sister, brother, and sister-in-law. It was okay in ways, but for the most part yet another case of experiential cost overwhelming experiential value. Even merely trying to describe it feels a waste of time given how well communication between separate instances of individuality tends to go. What "I" keep coming back to is that time is a waste of time, by which I really mean "seeing <ineffable> as though it were confined to a...
💬 View post · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
Bubble v7.0: Subspace Views, Grouped Posts, New Feed Options and User Actions — It has been four months since the previous Bubble feature update. This is plenty of time to observe how I and others have been using the system and think of potential improvements. This release makes substantial changes to show useful information that was previously unavailable, gives you more control over what is displayed on the front page, and applies a host of smaller tweaks to improve general usability. Viewing...
💬 skyjake · 1 comment · 4 likes · Nov 12 · 2 days ago · 📌 #release
Anyone into Todd Rundgren? He is often known for his early pop/songwriter albums... but man does he have some out there experimental stuff. Plus he tended to record all the instruments himself on many of his albums (pre-digital recording). Super innovative cool stuff. The album "A Wizard, a True Star" is a good start on the experimental stuff. Though I am also partial to "Hermit of Mink Hollow", which is much more traditional in some ways, but still strange and fun (with a few lower points).
💬 sloum · 1 comment · 1 like · Nov 12 · 2 days ago
Now you be me, now you don't — [preformatted]
💬 View post · Nov 11 · 3 days ago
Gemini Radio Ep. 56 [gemini link]
💬 benk · 1 comment · Nov 11 · 3 days ago
Reading a recent post on Medium from someone who claims to have a psychology degree reminds me just how toxic internet psychology talk is, especially on TikTok.
💬 View post · Nov 11 · 3 days ago
🌒 s/SpellBinding (+1 other post)
SLUTFIST?
💬 Steve_Dracula · 2 comments · Nov 11 · 3 days ago
Opinions on HHKB?
💬 gritty · 3 comments · Nov 11 · 3 days ago
Magic Gopher — This one was fun to make! I spent a lot of time playing with different variations of the glitter trail behind the wand, and landed on something very minimal. I generated the reference image using DALL-E with the following prompt: Illustration of a charming gopher dressed in a pink tutu, gracefully twirling on her toes. She holds a sparkling magic wand in her paw and waves it in the air. Admittedly it came out looking more like a chipmunk than a gopher, but that's alright since...
💬 mozz · 3 comments · 6 likes · Nov 10 · 4 days ago
I wrote a Lisp... — There are many 'make a lisp' projects resulting in a crippled scheme, using your favorite language. I wanted something that would be super-simple and reasonably performant, bootstrapped in pure assembly, like JonesForth. But there was nothing like that. So I wrote one. Let's call it SmithLisp. It seems as performant as Picolisp, which is pretty good. Unlike Picolisp it has real lexical scope, and real McCarthian Lisp semantics, currying and all. Right now it assembles to...
💬 View post · 3 likes · Nov 10 · 4 days ago
Added MESMERIZE... For some reason I had MESMERIZED, MESMERIZING, MESMERIC and even MESMERIZER, but not MESMERIZE! Thanks @gritty
💬 stack · 1 comment · 2 likes · Nov 10 · 4 days ago
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