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prediction: Taylor and Travis have 2 kids, and go through a messy divorce in 5-8 years. Travis' career will be over, Taylor will write an album or two about him and make millions. All will be right in the world again.
That's the last you'll ever see me write about this topic.
This is not a photo of an old CRT screen, it's cool-retro-term! It's such a convincing emulation of a CRT display, after a few days of using it, I'm amazed at how good modern LCDs are! I also enjoy how the retro look takes me back to the 90s and makes me enjoy text-based programs a whole lot more. #nostalgia #retro #terminal
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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I have a bit of good news to share, but for once I'm sitting on it, telling nobody, and enjoying the presence of it. I never let things truly sink in, so I'm trying something new.
As the weather is getting a bit colder now, don't forget that laptops easily double up as portable radiators. Just fire off enough background "yes > /dev/null &" processes until your legs are nice and toasty, then "killall yes". You're welcome.
Speaking of vlogs: I just uploaded another! Here's what I got up to in Valencia and Barcelona last week: https://youtu.be/A-2fu2JAhMw
Downside of going from 1080p to 4k in my vlogs: now I desperately want a better laptop. Upside: I'm a bit warmer.
I sometimes go to a fast food chain restaurant near my work for lunch. out of curiosity I looked up their nutritional information. big mistake - sodium content for even the most basic items was crazy. I may never eat here again. currently chugging water.
2023 is 84% complete. Who feels like they achieved their goal(s) so far this year?
What are the best rules of the dialogue with unknown person to follow?
Table grapes that I can't eat in one bite are freaks of nature.
As noticed on the Mastodon
isn't available in App Store despite its installed on my device. It's sad, because Elaho is good and stable software, even not being developed for long time. There is of course Lagrange in Test Flight. But it's a totally different approach and goals. Sometimes I've been choosing Elaho for a purpose and sometimes it has been superior to Lagrange at a certain point. Elaho was built on top of a Firefox fork so maybe it will be easy to continue development on a current iOS version in the same manner.
Last night I was at Barcelona's monthly Esperanto social event (in a bar) and a 10 year old boy came along with his Mum. He'd started learning on Duo a few months back and could already speak well enough to us to tell us about himself and how he discovered Esperanto. Really cool.
I had dinner with my friend and her Mum last night. Her Mum (80) speaks only Spanish and my friend and I only have Esperanto in common. It was amazing. Absolute chaos... y creo que mi español mejoró al menos un poquito por eso!
I hope everyone's having a great start to the week. I've taken a little break to hang out in Barcelona and make some progress on some personal projects. What's everyone else up to?
New vlog! This was a fun one to make. Hugely impressed with the quality of the video captured by the DJI Mini 4. https://youtu.be/QK4wTZM0-24?si=e_93-d3GWscSQkmX
My iphone battery lasts 2 days and before iOS 16 it was last 4 days, so I started change settings to save power.
The system (software updates, Apple ID,...) uses most of the data, since yesterday my iPhone transfered 34.9MB (using it less than 5mn), the system transfered 26.1MB and my apps the rest of it.
- Setting power save mode doesn't change how long the battery lasts
- Turning off mobile internet and wifi doesn't change how long the battery lasts
- Turning off GPS doesn't change how long the battery lasts
The SoC is idle and only bluetooth is on. Maybe the battery loses power just by itself, according to the phone the battery is at 85% original capacity.
Neal.fun - a bunch of absolutely delightful interactive apps. Be sure to check out Space Elevator!
Neal.fun
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Mechanical Watch - an incredible interactive blog post detailing the mechanisms and workings of a mechanical pocket watch. Simply mind-blowing.
Bartosz Ciechanowski
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
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Yearly reminder that The Mummy (1932) is Dracula, but in Egypt. It's the exact story.
Podcast recommendation: The Art of Manliness. Interesting topics, awesome guests, and great production. #podcast #recommendation
AoM Podcast
https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
Photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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More photos from a recent trip to Kerala, India. #photo
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I found a telegram channel listing websites under DDOS:
They are DDOSing institution, transport and banking services in countries supporting Ukraine.
Something I wish I knew long ago: homemade jams are super easy to make (fruit and sugar, mostly) and are so much better tasting than the store bought stuff.
any recursive function can be reimplemented as an iterative function?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/531668
I find the explanation of "tracking your own callstack like the compiler does" mesmerizing
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack Vulnerability
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44487
https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/
There is a map of DDos attacks but the data is not updated, it shows 2021-05-16.
https://www.digitalattackmap.com
This is what happens when you have too much free time. Creative Writing Systems for Esperanto: https://martinrue.com/esperanto-writing-systems
It seems like every house in the suburbs around here was built in 1950 or newer. I know there was a baby boom but did all the older houses just get demolished?
Also it seems like new housing developments are going up all the time yet COVID curbed population growth. Are we building just for building? I assume not since these homes are being bought.
Yesterday I made several comments in response to question about the small web. We will probably have a new Gemlog in the Geminispace.
Today while logging here I've had a thought how the small web is different from the big one.
I'm visiting big net for a certain scope of action. The most cases are connected with e-commerce. I'd like to buy a thing, or to navigate to a shop, or to buy entertainment (video, music from streaming services). So we are clicking on a option menu rather than acting independently.
I'm on the small net to communicate with people, and to learn, or to make DIY computer things. The only e-mail I'm sending to real people outside my job is here. The most use cases of my real computer usage (creating files, transferring or transforming data, automating on a high level) is also here.
I feel like humans have paused their own natural evolution due to modern medicine and will replace it with self-defined "upgrades"
Today's shower thought: creativity is a muscle https://martinrue.com/creativity-muscle
Foundations are a Solution to an Imaginary Problem
I looked at a box of diapers for my kid. it says "up to 100%" leakproof.
What relief I didn't buy the ones that topped out at 70%.
I think highways should be called fastways instead.
Or maybe trafficways.
Or roadconstructionways.
good to see regular users of DSN Antenna. much thanks to @Idiomdrottning for also posting there.
spread the word if you think other folks would be interested.
took some time off from work to work on the house. been doing some electrical - replacing old lights and switches. it's nice not being in front of a screen all day.
bought six new fish for the aquarium last weekend. two are just simply missing. I have no idea where they are. I have a cap so they didn't jump.
Watching Scooby Doo.
Writing a novel around one scene I envisioned somewhere in the middle is a bitch...
Especially when it requires a vampire character. So many questions, so many contradicting answers...
Considering Big 5 personality traits I'm mostly two things: neurotic and open. And as openness is mostly why I'm a creative person, neuroticism is what blocks and eats my creativeness. There's so many reasons to work towards less neurotic, this is just another one.
I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
I make my own popcorn on the stove with peanut oil. I wonder how many other people do this. my dad showed me and it was a staple of ours growing up.
Small talk is the worst.
"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience." 👏
Sketching more lately after a long break, feels good.
I’m pretty sure I wrote something after Aug 17 but there’s no entries. hmm
I saw a place of worship that housed 3 different religions. it got me wondering... how does this work? I guess the place /really/ doesn't matter all that much.
So, what's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone got anything interesting planned?
I hardly ever read fiction books, but I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind (in English as my Spanish isn't good enough yet) and I absolutely loved it. Lots of unexpected references to parts of Barcelona I know, too, which added to the experience. Anyone else read it?
Let's try positivity this week.
45 days until Halloween, lfg.
I'm going to demo Station in a training session in an hour. Say hello if you see this :)
I actually liked The Craft: Legacy quite a bit.
In recent years I think that The Craft has been my favorite halloween movie.
I've been doing a lot of teaching recently and it's a great reminder of: if you think you know something, try teaching it. Teaching is learning in disguise.
“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
I created Patate, an ascii art editor for the terminal (linux) using the latest unicode 15.
Available at:
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/patate/
This is an excellent breakdown of the UK ATC meltdown the other week and what caused it. I'm sure it'll surprise no experienced programmer at all to learn of the various issues that led to it. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail
Here is a mandelbrot fractal viewer for the terminal
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/mandelbrot.gmi
I just found out that wikitionary offers full database dumps in json format. time to update my dictionary with more words.
I didn't write here for a some time. I didn't have any special Gemini information to note here. Simultaneously I'm exploring every day Phlog challenge on my Gopherhole.
gopher://sdf.org/1/users/szczezuja/personal
I'm calling it /Personal Soap Opera Phlog/ and there are mainly about weather, my daily activities and other normal/boring topics.
The second thing which is worth noted is the announcement of ROOPHLOCH 2023!
gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/phlog/announcing-roophloch-2023.txt
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.
Iced tea is the best. Never was able to get into hot tea.
Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
Sweaters are great.
There's nothing wrong with making quick drastic decisions on a repo when it's your own personal project. But when there's a community, and you openly solicit contributions, you owe it to contributors to give them a heads up and a chance to voice their opinions.
Whether you are a BDFL or not. It's not about whether you can or have a right to make a decision, it's about being a *considerate human being*.
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.
I’ve got my librem 5 phone today. I ordered it on the 2021-07-08. I used it for 5 minutes and on startup it asks for disk encryption key and unlock code, it is both 123456.
The password for the purism user is also 123456.
The default interface of Pureos (debian based) is good, it runs Gnome and Wayland.
Source code:
https://source.puri.sm/explore/
https://source.puri.sm/explore/snippets
Forum:
My capsule Setup HOWTO is finally finished v1 and is linked on the official Gemini FAQ (section 2.5.4)
Ship faster.
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
Greg KH: Kernel Recipes 2019 - CVEs are dead, long live the CVE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeeoTE9jLjM
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
The older I get the more I love Halloween.
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...
Someone connected to my radio station (see below).
I'm not alone :)
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.
Real world onion sites
https://github.com/alecmuffett/real-world-onion-sites
Do something different.
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.
Black beans & rice is extremely underrated.
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've seen 3 episodes of Secret Invasion and I have no idea what's going on.
🎥 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
Here is the radio program, it is a chat system using UDP on port 1886 to transmit the message.
The messages are encrypted, each time radio is turned on, new secret/public key pairs are generated and exchanged with the server (radio station).
If you are behind NAT, you should forward port 1886 to the machine running radio, without this you won't get any signal from the radio station.
The UI is in the terminal and works with the mouse like a GUI.
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/radio.gz
http://gmi.noulin.net/radio.gz
To start radio, run:
```
wget http://gmi.noulin.net/radio.gz
gunzip radio.gz
chmod 755 radio
./radio
```
Screenshots:
txt screenshot (download the txt file and use `cat` to view it)
The source code is available at:
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/radio.tar.gz
It is written in C, it depends on:
my sheepy build system and library
The main file is `radio.c`, `radioStation.c` is the server and `radioSignal.*` implements the protocol.
The `twid` (terminal widgets) is the TUI built on my version of termbox.
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
Make the web great again
https://koshka.love/mwwwga.html
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.
You know how normally when you do a redesign / rebranding you do it all at once and don't just throw up a new logo on the old design? Thinking about that today for no real reason.
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.
Am currently ready 4 books at the same time. But it's a week or more between picking up any one of them. Which is challenging...
Why not build an email client for a very specific use-case? Like for example, let's say you know your users receive emails from a specific mailing list. You could build a client that organizes the messages that best serves what that list is for.
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 sheep was too close to the camera.
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.
Stop saying "mental model" all of the time.
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.
P.S.
I've changed my Tinylog for the longer entries.
I've unfortunately come to learn that if you're going to build something around email you pretty much have to just use AWS. Setting up postfix isn't that bad. It's once you find out that to reach Gmail you have to implement dozens of anti-spam measures only to learn that reverse cname (PTR record) is not supported by most hosts these days.
AWS SES took me like 30 minutes.
The EU is going to water down the GDPR.
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/mobileNews/6677.gmi
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.
Compiling spartclient in alpine:
```
apk add gcc
apk add musl-dev
gcc spartclientudp.c -o spartclientudp
```
gemini://gmi.noulin.net/spartclientudp.c
Added anonymous feedback today to a few of my gemlogs. All future entries will have it. I got the idea from @morgan and Bubble. I hand craft my capsule so this is one of those times I wish I used a SSG with templates so I don't have to retro-fit my gemlogs.
Virt manager: Error starting domain Requested operation is not valid network default is not active
Run:
```
sudo virsh net-start default
```
Here's a Threads-inspired coding joke for you this glorious Friday. If you know, you know.
Knock knock.
Race condition.
Who's there?
Tired of the rain.
This is another test.
This is a test.
So far so good.
Giving Threads a chance.
My magnum opus:
https://github.com/matthewp/is-night/tree/master
Been cooking a lot recently. Tonight, huevos rancheros.
Automating sending articles to Kindle with forlater.email
gemini://space.matthewphillips.info/posts/automated-for-later/
I've been gradually making my way though PG's latest essay "How to Do Great Work". Very motivating, and full of great points. Here's some I noted.
Essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
Notes: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/martinrue/1db57ae5d5b37d8b92ae23566dd100f6/raw/637301496c089620a3df535fee330deeae003b7d/great-work.txt
Announcement: you can view as many posts here per day as you damn well please.
“Nobody supposes that the knowledge that belongs to the good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book.”
Cool to see a LangFocus video about Esperanto, which does a typically stellar job of breaking down the language and explaining why it exists and why it's cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6FCzqAiwI
A cool "read it later" like service that works by sending you an email:
Having talked with a lot of people who believe client-side routing is *always* the right thing, I'm pretty sure it comes down to simply disliking the flicker of white that occurs with MPA nav. You'll hear a lot of reasons given but it really boils down to an aesthetic preference.
Which is totally fine. Technology choices are often (I'd argue *usually*) made based on aesthetics. I'm glad that view transitions are coming and fix this preference without forcing the downsides that come with a pure CSR approach.
Finally tried out rsync to create and push a gemlog to my capsule. I have a quick script to help me now.
Puppy Linux is a bit odd in that you use root as your login and then there are a couple of users just for when root is a bad idea.
Aaaand it's out! Here's the next episode of the podcast with Siru Laine. What a great conversation about languages, language-learning, translation, and tons more. Enjoy!
Kaj finfine nun haveblas la 4a epizodo de la podkasto. En tiu ĉi, mi estas kun la kara Siru Laine kaj babilas pri ĉio de lingvoj kaj lingvo-lernado al tradukado, kiom mojose estus havi etan kafejon en Skotlando, kaj kompreneble pri Eŭrovizio (kion vi atendis‽) Ĝuu!
La mp3-dosiero: https://hazardaj.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/umado-kun-martin-e04.mp3
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1YjRzCkReWSs2v06xOLpx8?si=58a9e99a9fa646e4
Aliaj apoj: serĉu "Umado Kun Martin"
How to generate a qrcode in utf8 to be displayed in the terminal?
```
qrencode -t utf8 "text"
```
My personal laptop (Macbook) crashed hard so now I'm installing Puppy Linux on another. I choose the distro for the name.
recently got promoted. now I step further into management. there's no going back.
I'm using gneto. Gneto is a personal HTTP proxy for the Gemini protocol.
I use gneto because I have an iPad 2 and there is no gemini client.
The source code is available at:
There are pre-build binaries at:
https://paulgorman.org/software/gneto/
Start the proxy like this (default port is 8065):
```
./gneto -addr 192.168.1.1
```
On the web browser, enter the address:
```
http://192.168.1.1:8065/
```
and start browsing gemini pages.
This seems cool.
How to build dukling-proxy:
```
sudo apt-get install golang
git clone https://github.com/LukeEmmet/duckling-proxy
cd duckling-proxy
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -out duckling.crt -days 10000 -keyout duckling.key -subj "/CN=duckling.proxy" -newkey rsa:4096
make
```
I run duckling like this:
```
~/bin/duckling --serverCert ~/bin/duckling.crt --serverKey ~/bin/duckling.key --port 1966 --address 192.168.1.1 --emitImagesAsLinks
```
With emitImagesAsLinks, the images are viewable in lagrange.
In designing stuff I use diagram software all of the time. Like, all of the time. I didn't used to do so. But especially when collaborating, it helps explain ideas so much better than either code or prose.
Murder She Wrote holds up so well.
This evening I recorded a new episode of my Esperanto podcast after a little break. This one was super fun, and all about language learning from someone who really knows what she's talking about (she speaks 15). Looking forward to releasing this one soon. 👏
I've never had a taco and felt regret.
Mastodon and the fediverse is unnecessarily complex. I like the culture but hate the tech. All you really need for distributed social media is RSS or similar.
It's cool how in Go when you're just prototyping you can loosely use panic() a lot and then when you're happy with the code, go back and add proper error handling.
Anyone else following this Titan story? Crazy! I hope they're found alive, but that's looking very slim. Insane to imagine yourself in the same position in terms of how you'd behave, what you'd do.
Bought an electric car yesterday. I know batteries can harm the environment too but my opinion is that batteries are easier to deal with than getting CO back out of the atmosphere. I also like the car, so that helps. And to hell with paying for gasoline and oil.
The thing about getting upset at someone is that they also get upset with you. I have the opposite of anger issues but sometimes I feel like I can never be angry, never be upset at anything. I just have to take deep breaths and look at it with a different view, consider their side, and see if I'm unreasonable. Sometimes I don't want to do all that, I just want to be upset because I never am.
My favorite arcade games:
https://matthewp.lists.sh/favorite-arcade-games
In today's episode of Random Uses of ChatGPT: asking it to go from IPA to an approximation of a phonetic spelling in a given accent. Not bad results!
PS: if you're about to ask me "why‽", don't – I'll just make you dumber and you'll never get the time back.
Re: I just want to play fucking Call of Duty on my day off
this had me in stitches. thanks for the lol.
Happy Father's Day for all the fathers out there, and for those that celebrate it.
It was several weeks and I lost the habit of using Mastodon. I am looking through my timeline, and I'm not feeling the need to be active. It seems that many of followed accounts are also inactive. Maybe that feeling of novelty passed away?
I've checked my text e-mails and there were new messages. I've checked Usenet.
Now I'm sitting in my living room and I'm looking through the open windows. There is a stormy weather today and it's raining now. Clouds are hanging very low, and it's a bit foggy. I am lucky because the view from the window extends to an open urban space with lots of greenery. Many plans, are shrouded in rain and light mist.
Radio music is in the background. And the clear sound of rain.
finger warsaw@graph.no
-= Meteogram for Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland =-
'C Rain (mm)
22 ===
21 ======^^^ ===
20======
19 ===
18 ======
17 ^^^^^^
16 | ^^^ 4 mm
15 | | ^^^ ### 3 mm
14 | | | ^^^ 2 mm
13 | | | | | | | | ### ###### 1 mm
_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19_20 21 22 23 19/06 02 03 04_05_06_07 Hour
Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Thunder # Fog
Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow
Here's my first list, books I've currently reading. Also works really well for recipes.
https://matthewp.lists.sh/what-im-reading
I discovered this really cool service that is a simple microblogging service for lists. Upload a list as a text file and have a dedicated URL for it.
It works by SSH, so no login required. Very interesting concept that I'd love to see more of.
The advantage of building more slowly but with a big focus on keeping it simple is that I’m returning to some code without any doubts or desire to change it to keep up with some trend or major version release of a framework. Good feeling.
Use plaintext email.
I've used name.com forever. It is secretly bad and I didn't know about it? Never hear it being discussed.
I was at a creative networking event last night for the first time in ages. I forgot how good it is meeting and chatting to new people and finding out about their lives, goals and challenges. Need to do more of that!
I get a warning on FreeBSD when I compile a C file which include a precompiled header.
```
sorry, unimplemented: PCH allocation failure
```
I use gcc:
gcc version 12.2.0 (FreeBSD Ports Collection)
It doesn't compile successfully, lots of symbols are not found.
When I delete the precompiled headers, it is ok.
🎬 New video, complete with guest appearance by a PB!
This one's about what I get from the gym and why it has been part of my life for the last 10+ years. I had to eat especially for this one, but it was worth it. 👏
https://youtu.be/Nf_4mABFh9w
strlcpy is in glibc!
commit 454a20c8756c9c1d55419153255fc7692b3d2199
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Jun 14 18:10:08 2023 +0200
Implement strlcpy and strlcat [BZ #178]
These functions are about to be added to POSIX, under Austin Group
issue 986.
The fortified strlcat implementation does not raise SIGABRT if the
destination buffer does not contain a null terminator, it just
inherits the non-failing regular strlcat behavior.
Reviewed-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
All new projects of mine will be in sr.ht going forward.
I created a spartan TUI browser for terminals in linux.
bato.gz (gziped elf executable)
bato displaying a markdown file
Use gemget to download bato:
```
gemget gemini://gmi.noulin.net/bato.gz
or
wget http://gmi.noulin.net/bato.gz (works from networks not infested by botnets)
```
It can display gemtext and markdown (.gmi and .md) on remote servers and in local paths.
(it is an alpha version, not tested, I have only time to correct bugs)
I've been away for the last week. Excited to be back home and work on some of the projects I haven't touched in a while.
Welcome back to the desk, USB fan. It was a long winter, but your services are once again required.
I found an interesting article about GNUnet GNS (distributed DNS)
gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2023/06-11-introduction-to-gnunet-gns.gmi
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.
Can’t always tell if I’m fence-sitting or if people just keep building unnecessary fences where I happen to be sitting
“Welkom by de neadersassiske uutgåve van Wikipedia. Wikipedia is en internetencyklopedy dee döär vrywilligers maked wördt en under vrye licensy uutgeaven wördt.”
Dutch Low Saxon. I’m slightly in love with it? It’s way cooler than the Low Saxon this side of the border. Although I suspect wouldn’t be able to tell the difference yet without seeing the spelling.
Are people with #aphantasia known to be less likely to have (had) imaginary friends, see #ghosts, hear voices, talk to characters from their own #writing, or have other semi-unusual-but-also-sort-of-common mind-stuff going on… or get results from practicing #magic for that matter? (I don’t mean levitating and casting fireballs — I mean “internal” effects.)
I’m lumping a lot together here, I know.
Trust Germans to find a way to make "DJ" even *more* gender-neutral by wedging an unpronouncable asterisk into the already unnecessary cutesy female form "DJanes". I *think* this is a use of the CP/M|UNIX|DOS|… wildcard, so it gets points for that!
This week I destroyed my tablet, my AA battery charger, and my card reader/USB hub/eSATA front panel. Two days to go; who’s next?!
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.
Daft Punk likes the Apple Vision Pro.
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.
Long time no see, huh. I'm in middle of something big. Stay tuned!
Configuration of the email to tinylog tools:
- getmail to download the email
Create the file ~/.config/getmail/getmailrc, with this content:
```
[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = example.com
username = user@example.com
password = !@#$@#$
[destination]
type = Maildir
path = ~/mail/
[options]
read_all = False
```
- ripmime options
```
ripmime -i ~/mail/emailFile -d ~/emailParts
```
The email parts are written to the ~/emailParts directory.
- imagemagick options
```
convert sourceImage.jpg -auto-orient destinationImage.jpg
```
This rotates the photo 90 degrees when it is taken vertically.
- exiftool options
```
exiftool -EXIF= image.jpg
rm image.jpg_original
```
This removes the exif data: location, time,...
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.
We take the bus boat today 🛥️.
I found an arcade machine in my hotel.
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.
Chart of the Week: Housing marker risk indicators (IMF)
There is a higher risk in: Canada, Australia, Luxembourg, Norway, Sweden, Netherlands and USA.
Go is a really good language.
Feels like there's been a slight backlash against serverless (for web hosting) recently. Reminds me of when people first started questioning if GraphQL was worth it 3 or 4 years ago.
Innovation never goes backward; but you do bring back old ideas and mix them with new.
For GraphQL, a lot of people realized what they really liked about it was that it was RPC. That has survived into present.
What are those things for serverless? My guess is that it's *not* the fact that you spin up a new instance (ish) on each request.
Traveling for work next week. Not going to be checking social places for a while. Looking forward to some projects for when I get back.
My tinylog has been added to the aggregator
Is it automated?
I use a string of tools on the server to post tinylogs by email:
- getmail to download the email
- ripmime to extract mime parts for the email, I get one file per part
- imagemagick to rotate the images
- exiftool to remove the exif data
My tinylogs posted by email support photo attachments.
My first tinylog created by email.
I have a pretty exciting Gemini project in the oven at the moment. My schedule is pretty hectic for the next couple of weeks so I'm not expecting much movement, but hoping by the end of June I have something I can share.
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
My wife loves the F1 show.
Interesting read of the day
I changed gmnisrv to accept control codes in queries.
Now it is possible to post tinylogs with new lines in CGI
The CGI posts have to be on one line for now.
Lets post a tinylog from CGI
I post logs from the terminal
A log with multiple lines.
I write the text with vim and then call a script to update the tinylog
Now I'm using gemget to download files from gemini site, it works like wget
https://github.com/makew0rld/gemget/
Tinylog is interesting
Hello.
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.
Renfield was ok.
I've been working much in the last weeks so I hadn't much time for a small-net browsing. But I'm alive!
Dogs.
Damn, the new Mortal Kombat looks good.
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?
Sourcehut is nicer than GitHub.
Make a Batman Beyond movie with Michael Keaton, cowards.
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.
Does this ever work out for the person in power that pulls this kind of move (the unfortunate answer is 'yes it does')
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/americas/ecuador-president-dissolved-parliament-intl/index.html
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
AWS Copilot seems useful:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/getting-started-aws-copilot-cli.html
Trying out Fargate and am having an "i don't know what I'm doing" dog moment.
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
APIs focused on appearances (aka "winning the code snippet") will always get most of the attention. But basing your product on fashion inevitably sets you up to go out of fashion. Well-made things stand the test of time.
Pac & Pal is criminally underrated.
Don't trust any API where testing is an afterthought. If you've ever attempted to test a Node.js HTTP route you know what I mean. How many person-hours have been wasted fighting with that one.
I predict I'll make it half way through the Laravel tutorial before I decide to create my own version in Bash. I have a disease.
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
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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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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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. ☀️
Just remembered I had a fleamarket Commo 128 at one point. Wrote a "Hollywood hacker OS" simulator and the beginnings of a vampire adventure game. There was a wolf. It followed you up ladders…
God give me the strength to accept what I cannot change
Other God give me the will to change what I cannot accept
Be kind, for people grow up to be entangled with their own localised normalities and aren’t always going to achieve the enlightenment required to extract themselves therefrom and become like you
I have the best dry rub recipe. It's mine and no one else's.
That's a lie, I found it on the internet.
cgi-bin is serverless done right.
I posted an off-the-cuff commentary on serverless yesterday that went semi-viral. Can't express how little thought went into it. 😂 The fact that many people responded just shows how much frustration there is with serverless architecture and the hand-cuffs it puts on us all.
Editing my second vlog and realising how easy people who are good at this make it look.
Serverless: "what if we made basic things like connecting to a database as hard as fuck?"
Today is Derby day, time to pick a horse at random, or possibly by its name.
Just landed back into Manchester with such a tailwind that we bounced off the runway and had a second go. That was fun!
Reminder that `edge` is a marketing term. There's no difference between edge and multi-region. Some edge providers have double (or more) the number of locations than others.
The Velma writers continue to not understand why people have a problem with their show. As I said previously:
https://matthewphillips.info/social-spooky/statuses/01GQBQ3B23QJB4CTBCMT221G1P/
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 moved my old GoToSocial instance to archived static pages which can be viewed here:
https://matthewphillips.info/social-spooky/
I will be taking down the instance in the coming weeks. Plan to write about my decision to move back to a regular Mastodon instance eventually.
The problem with Mastodon in my opinion is that it's just so damn complicated to implement. it's too big. an open protocol that's simple to implement is magical and freeing. Mastodon is not that.
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
I can't stand the Worms level of Golf with Friends.
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
Quarterly reminder that there's no reason for a movie to be longer than an hour and a half.
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!
Back after one week in Copenhagen. 😴
happy belated new year, 2023 can you believe it? oh look, it's already April!
I should *definitely* update my gemlog soon
I'm spending the weekend at La Brita Kongreso in Cambridge and there are 80 people here this year. It's been too long since I had the pleasure of hanging out with so many Esperanto speakers for a few days. Always surreal, awesome, and just lots of fun!
There's nothing better than going back to being a beginner again. Making something from scratch – something you've never made before, and something that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Here's the result: https://youtu.be/wAe0rhT-Gvooo
It wasn't easy to produce this, and took a lot longer than the 7 minutes of video that came out. But it was fun, and very rewarding to lean into that feeling of "I don't know what I'm doing but let's figure it out!" I'm looking forward to doing more!
I feel home whenever coming back to gemini from the chaotic, loud www world.
gopher://quix.us/0/text/internet/zine0494.txt
So it isn't so bad. I've picked up a random pack of zines from above list. Almost all of them have a copy on the net.
Birmingham Telecommunication News
CPU: Working in the Computer Industry
...with the stunning text layout in the /The Torn Issue/ of Scream Baby
And the most impressive thing. There was a time when serious discussions on the Internet were published as a book as an index, with all the zines, magazines, etc.
Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters And Academic Discussion Lists, May 1994
A delayed flight has led to a day hanging out in NYC. Not the worst outcome.
A smarter CAPCOM is on the way, with support for regular Gemini feeds:
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/2023_04_16.gmi
This is great news and should improve the liveliness of the feed quite a bit.
I'm looking through my notes. It's worth to look at:
There is a new search engine at:
New search engine at /Gemplex.space/
And probably at:
Author of /geminispace.info/ is thinking about transfer it...
Some photos from a recent camping trip to the bushveld. #photo #camping
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Gemini DiscoGem served on 12th of April:
gemini://discogem.gmi.bacardi55.io/capsules-of-the-day-2023-04-12/
interesting capsule:
I stopped checking DiscoGem on my daily basis, but this concept is working and that work is well done. Almost every day it has dug something new and worth to read.
I’ve read about Oumuamua aka. 1I/2017 - the first interstellar object identified in the history.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ʻOumuamua
Wikipedia’s article covered many interesting facts about that.
I realized that there isn’t any true scientific capsule on #Gemini describing such space information. Who will be the first? ;-)
One of the ways that docs really helps in API design is that it brings together APIs that make sense in isolation, but start to break down when thought of as a whole. As engineers it's easy to miss the big picture some times and documenting APIs exposes shortcomings.
Three years ago today I finished the weirdest translation ever: from Yorkshire to Esperanto. I'm especially proud of my use of "elŝuskatoliĝi" – to get out of the shoebox. https://kvar.martinrue.com
I finally found all the words and took the top spot on #spellbinding yesterday. There's a lot of good players on there and I really like the competition. I certainly wouldn't play as much as I do if there weren't a leaderboard. I used to play #wordle every single day but this has taken its place for the most part.
I really need to find a way to post to this tinylog from my phone without having to use termux. I just need to find the time to convert my capsule into a dynamic one and write a CGI script that adds to the top of this file. Seems simple enough if I had the time. Too much else to do.
Oh look at that, Fitbit is now part of google and requires a google account. Oh goody.
There are many interactions around "Gemini is boring" thread on Cosmos.
So finally we have pancake recipe!
And the Twitter-like Bash script.
It's like being a witch who sees the future state of Antenna. Many of my predictions have revealed the next day. The great vision of text console. ;-)
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2023-04-10-Why-Gemini-is-not-boring.gmi
I'm spending the weekend writing bash. Imagine if you were having as much fun as me.
I've been busy – the second episode of my Esperanto podcast is already out. I really enjoyed chatting to Andy Hernandez Martínez about everything from travel to eating and living more healthily.
La dua epizodo de mia podkasto jam haveblas. Mi tre ĝuis babili kun Andy Hernandez Martínez pri ĉio de vojaĝado, de kiel manĝi kaj vivi pli sane, inter aliaj temoj.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1oQKyzMH0a3vHS0rEWiLSp?si=f4184a6d74e843aa
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
The hill in the background is shaped just like an Elephant's silhouette, hence the name Olifantsnek. #photo
Olifantsnek
https://www.sa-venues.com/attractionsnwp/olifantsnek.php
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I've done an improvement for my last script. The date is in GemSub format. It should be obvious for me earlier. ;-) The source of the script is updated on GitHub.
The second thing is a question of makeworld on Mastodon:
https://mastodon.online/@makeworld@merveilles.town/110152949860333482
His question is if the Gemini ecosystem died? There are several answers, my was:
Seeing as Gopher is still active, Gemini won't stop either. Maybe some of the hype has passed, and now things are moving at a normal pace.
Because I stopped racing. I am here and write as often as it suits me. And it's ok.
Several days ago we can read Deerbard entry on his Tinylog. The same Adele wrote something after a long break. And it's ok. It's always nice to read an activity of old friends.
Just for fun, I guess.
I'm building a framework in Bash and I'm not sure why. I have no use-case.
Recently spotted: Meerkat, Cape Glossy Starling sunbathing, African Hoopoe #birding #photo
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It will happen some changes in my personal life and I don't know if I will be able to continue to serve pollux.casa hosting :-( So, I have put account opening on standby.
I still believe you could create a startup around GitHub workflows. Not exactly sure *what*, but there's something there.
love cast iron skillets
Building a toy framework in bash (deployed to AWS lambda) and it's currently working pretty well, but I'm nervous that perf is going to suddenly crater.
I didn't forget about you, gemini.
I started a podcast. In Esperanto. Enjoy! 🎙️ https://spotify.link/vHmuqRmaGyb
I just want to chill at home and play Ms. Pac-Man
It grinds my gears when JS programmers think they are writing functional code because they don't use classes. If your functions are mutating state galore, it's imperative.
The definition of functional programming is nuanced, but what you're writing isn't it.
Side effect free functional code is probably the most testable you can get. Imperative code with just functions is probably the least testable. Either you mock modules and implementation details (cumbersome) or you just only do integration tests (slow, brittle).
You don't have to like classes to realize that they are just a thousand times easier to test for imperative code.
Go code is extremely easy to test. That it's based on interfaces is why. You don't have to have Java style classes to get the testability benefits!
To me Mastodon is just another overly complex place to post short messages. It should not *own* my data. Open source or not the data is inaccessible. So I treat it as a place to crosspost to.
So what if I want to watch 🎄 movies in April, what's it to you?
Book recommendation: The power of fun by Catherine Price. A serious and well-researched look at having True Fun (a state when playfulness, connection and flow happen). #book #recommendation
Catherine Price
http://catherineprice.com/books
I need to get back to reading more.
prefer feature work on a friday over bugs
Why is the 'pause AI' crowd completely unaware of game theory?
One thing bash is really good at is printing a help message.
I now have a pretty elaborate setup that lets me post status updates to my own site which then gets distributed to Mastodon. It's elaborate but also pretty elegant. I'm happy with it. Need to write up how it works.
Browsing https://sr.ht/ feels like what GitHub used to feel like before they implemented hybrid server/client routing. I have no idea why anyone would prefer client side routing over this.
Good morning to everyone except those building AI that will destroy humanity.
Don't indicate me bro
I HATE being at a bar or somewhere it's loud and attempting to have a conversation.
If this works I'll be excited.
Testing directly in production. 🙌
This is just a test message, ignore.
Automating things is fun.
I've never seen a dog reject someone for the way they look.
Having looked into every 'post a status' social network out there I've come to the conclusion that they are all wildly overengineered. I think the web has really produced a culture of overengineering everything. Not every web service needs to be built to scale to millions of users and thousands of features. A status log is just a text file with a date and a message. Start there, add on top.
Look, is AI going to exceed our intelligence in the matter of a few years and then decide we're in the way and eliminate the human species in the matter of minutes / hours? Yeah, probably. But that doesn't mean we can't have a good time until then.
I bet Batman is a self-hosting kind of person. Can't see him intrusting his criminal research to AWS.
If AI decides to kill us all it could do it death star style and blow up the planet with itself safely off-Earth. On the other hand that would be a waste of resources. So I think Terminator style hunting down humans one by one is the more likely scenario.
Trying not to let the threat of the end of civilization get to me.
So glad to see so many AI experts in my timelines
There is no scenario in which we "stop" or "slow down" AI development. Prisoners dilemma prevents that from happening. So we have to assume that it will continue at minimum at the current pace.
Having accepted that, whether we like it or not, we can now set about the goal of creating AI that will benefit humanity and not destroy it. We have to operate under the assumption that others are out there creating AI not to benefit humanity in general. And we have to beat them. Otherwise we are truly fucked.
I'm enjoying WSL a lot but they have some cryptic errors when they want you to upgrade:
Wsl/Service/0x80040326
I don't think people realize you can't stop AI. It doesn't matter if the whole world agrees (it doesn't), no one will cooperate to "slow down" because it's a classic prisoners dilemma situation.
Whatever is going to happen will happen. Just enjoy the ride.
The main reason I still use iTerm is that the font isn't tiny by default. And has a dark background. Rather than figure out how to configure terminal to have sane visuals, I just install iTerm.
Located a keycap puller for my housemate to borrow in about five seconds and was able to retrieve it in less than thirty, thanks to my inventory system. Feels good when a system works so smoothly!
I've wasted so much time on social media. Yet keeping a permanent record of my throwaway thoughts is still somewhat important to me.
Everything I know about bash I learned from Googling specifics like "How to do X". I never probably learned the language, I can't say I "get it", except I know to do things like always quote variables. Everything else is copy pasta.
I want to write a web app in bash.
What use cases is the web trying to be really good at? Not adequate, really good. Attempting to perfect. This is a question for the maintainers.
It seems like Steam wants to update every time I open it.
Bugs
I opened a box of two frozen pizza baguette halves, and one of them was facing downward! That has NEVER happened before!!
The Munsters holds up extremely well.
Learned more about UTC offsets this morning than I'd care to know.
Woke up too early
I see a lot of folks posting about emacs. I tried it and I'm just not a fan. Maybe I didn't give it a good shot but I'm still learning Vim and don't need another.
I had a feeling looking at my capsule that there should be a last time stamp for every section. Because without that reader must check every link if there was any change. So I implemented a script for that:
https://github.com/szczja/scripts/blob/main/generate_file_dates.sh
So for now, my capsule should has a proper date in every local link. It's working as last commit date for linked file or directory. The concept doesn't need too much work, but it's needed to have a working Git repo behind the capsule.
Now I must add it to my automation scripts. ;-)
I posted about this over on my station tinylog, but I found a capsule implementing the #gempub specification[1] by converting public domain ebooks to gempub [2].
I occasionally think about playing current-day music to people in the past and gauging their reactions. I'd pick something that wasn't highly offensive or entrenched in current-time vernacular. For some reason "I get a good feeling" by Flo Rida reminded me of this when I was channel surfing on the radio today.
Not a whole lot to report on in the past month or so, just work and the kids. It's starting to warm up so we can bring them to the parks around here, but of course getting out the door is always a process and by the time we do I sometimes wonder if it's worth getting out, but staying inside all weekend is not an option if it can be avoided.
I did, however, come across the gpub specification yesterday and it piqued my interest a bit. I found a capsule on ~bacardi55's Discogem that had a bunch of gpubs listed from the public domain, and I was a bit surprised that Lagrange just supported it natively (which I really shouldn't have been surprised at). I think I may want to list a few here myself.
So it was easy. I've bought a printed rule book and a map from "Gondor: The Siege Minas Tirith" board game in secondhand bookshop for about 1 Euro. And then I printed two counters sheets from BGG on color laser printer. Then just stick the chips on a piece of paper and cut it out. And you can play the game the way games were back then.
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2778/gondor-siege-minas-tirith
Cool! I just discovered that someone's used my Esperanto speech synthesiser (https://parol.martinrue.com) to play the role of an Esperanto robot in an audio book. It's always a delight when people use stuff you've built. 👏
There should be a word for that awesome moment when you have a coding problem like "I know what I need to achieve, but I'm not sure about these three things in my way..." and some deep part of your brain pipes up and is like "you seem like a nice guy, I'm going to help you out."
"Üöwer us"
"Over [i.e., about] us" in the local language — I dare any other language to casually have an "Üö"
TIL: words such as "i18n", "a16z", "K8s" and "a11y" are officially called numeronyms. Or n8s, if you like.
The four stages of developer grief:
1. Not sure how to solve this one so I'll just wing it.
2. Oh wait, if I do this, oh yeah, and that... nice.
3. I should make this into an open source lib for others.
4. One day I'll find time to solve that problem!
"The Creature That Ate Sheboygan" board game, from the 80's.
Five years a sundog - Happy birthday, circumlunar space!
It's interesting to read. There is a big anniversary, despite the fact that it is not a round number in the technical sense. ;-)
Took a stroll down a charming little street in London last night only to find the house that Agatha Christie used to live in. What a delightful evening.
I've been playing with org mode fo a while. And today I used it for taking notes during my job. It's handy. The export function gave a clean output in plaintext and html. Nice.
Good read, but I would argue that it was worth adding an obvious 11th: therapy. 10 Web Development Trends in 2023: https://www.robinwieruch.de/web-development-trends/
I realized that I really don't have enough time to use all aspects of a small network. People often complain that the small net is empty, and if there was more content on it, they might be interested in it for longer. And I don't have enough time to keep track of everything in Gophersphere, Geminispace. Added to this is my desire to be active via text e-mail, on Usenet, at the Finger level. And after all, the text network is also entertainment, abandoned many months ago MUD game.
It's not a complaint, it's actually a kind of praise for the small net. I, on the other hand, will fight to be more active.
Had fun hanging out with some Esperanto friends in Oxford today. Even after 5 years of this thing, I still find wonder in the fact my brain can encode any thought I have into a language invented by a crazy Polish eye doctor in the 1880s.
Reasons we’re not the galaxy’s most basic bitch species after all, #1:
We have a bazillion muscles in our faces with which we can inaudibly express amusement, adoration, contempt, curiosity, confusion, disgust, anger, boredom, contentment, happiness, fear, nervousness, triumph, sympathy… essentially anything encoded in the Intergal Emoji Standard of 2563 except for uwu because wth sort of face is that anyway.
Can the insectoids of Toctiqetec do that? NOPE.
Теперь мои музыкальные эээээксперименты есть на коммерческих площадках, в слегка изменённом и частично переименованном виде, но суть та же. В ВК Музыке, Яндекс Музыке точно уже есть, всяческие Deezer, Soundcloud и Apple Music тоже, по идее, должны быть осчастливлены.
Над псевдонимом, опять же, долго не думал.
Continuation of the previous entry about configuring GPG. As always it was a problem between a computer screen and a chair. So GPG signing, encryption and decryption is working for me now. Because it was caused by my lack of knowledge, and bad default configuration files on SDF, I wrote a short checklist. Maybe it will be helpful for someone else.
gopher://sdf.org/0/users/szczezuja/phlog/2023-02-24-SDF-Neomutt-and-GPG-checklist.txt
I’ll be speaking about ChatGPT in Esperanto. Should be fun! https://twitter.com/Stela_Bee/status/1629496293025280001/photo/1
Сходили на днях на концерт Дидюли. Стоит отметить, что я на полноценном концерте в качестве зрителя был второй раз в жизни, а жена и вовсе в первый (внезапно) — потому впёрлись на первый ряд, чтоб охватить, значицца, впечатлениев по полной. Был позабавлен скривившейся при виде быдла в лице меня физиономией какого-то старичка, выглядевшего как типичный критик, сидевшего рядом с мужиком в очень дорого выглядящем костюме...
От самих музыкантов впечатления крайне положительные — и сам Дидюля на гитарах и прочем струнном прекрасен, и басист молодец, и перкуссионист с барабанщиком, и клавишник.. а уж флейтист и вовсе восхитителен. Музыка как она есть — ни единого слова, только ритм (безупречный) и мелодии (идеально сочетающиеся).
Today I'm going to fill a coffee shop with background murmurs in Esperanto with some local speakers & learners. Our little group is growing, which is great to see. Topics will likely range from the insanity of natural language grammar to how speaking Esperanto has ruined any expectation of progress in other languages for us all :)
Немного цитат из книги «Рискуя собственной шкурой. Скрытая асимметрия повседневной жизни.» Нассима Талеба:
«Какую эпоху и цивилизацию ни возьми, везде превалируют одни и те же моральные законы – с незначительными вариациями: не укради (по крайней мере, у соплеменника); не охоться на сирот ради потехи; не бей специалистов по испанской грамматике беспричинно и ради тренировки, лучше используй боксерские груши (если ты не спартанец, но и тогда ты имеешь право убить ради тренировки ограниченное число илотов) и тому подобные запреты. Мы видим, что эти правила развивались и со временем делались все более универсальными, под них подпадали новые группы: сначала рабы, потом другие племена, потом другие виды (животные, экономисты) и так далее...»
«...Если коротко, любая организация хочет лишить некоторое количество связанных с нею людей некоторой части свободы. Как приобрести этих людей? Во-первых, обработкой и психологической манипуляцией; вовторых, нужно вынудить их поставить шкуру на кон, чтобы они, отказавшись подчиняться власти, потеряли что-нибудь важное; с нищими гировагами, презиравшими мирские блага, этот фокус не прошел бы. В мафиозных структурах все просто: любого мафиози (члена ордена) можно убрать, если капо решит, что тот недостаточно лоялен, в промежутке мафиози полежит в багажнике, зато босс гарантированно прибудет на его похороны. В других сферах деятельности шкура на кону приобретает более изящные формы...»
«...Дети богатых родителей рассуждают о «классовых привилегиях» в престижных колледжах вроде Амхерстского – но как-то раз один из них не смог ответить на простой и логичный вопрос Динеша Д’Сузы: «Отчего бы вам не пойти к секретарю и не уступить ваше привилегированное место студенту из меньшинства?»
Понятно, что в такой ситуации люди защищаются тезисом «мы хотим, чтобы другие были такими же успешными, как мы» – и требуют изменить систему, чтобы исправить любую местную несправедливость. Я считаю, что это безнравственно. Я не знаю этических систем, которые позволяют не спасать тонущего, потому что его не спасают и другие люди; «Я буду спасать тонущих, только если другие тоже будут спасать тонущих», – таких заповедей нет нигде. Отсюда – принцип: Если ваша частная жизнь конфликтует с вашей интеллектуальной позицией, обнуляется ваша интеллектуальная позиция, а не ваша частная жизнь. А вот ответ на пресный универсализм, который мы обсуждали в прологе: Если ваши частные действия не следуют из ваших общих идей, у вас не может быть общих идей. Это касается не только этики, но и информации. Когда продавец автомобилей пытается сбыть вам машину с заводов Детройта, а сам ездит на «хонде», он дает четкий сигнал: у товара, который он навязывает, есть недостатки...»
I've been testing and configuring Gnus for e-mail client.
I started from
https://github.com/kensanata/ggg
there aren't too much examples for Gnus.
It was surprising that Gnus should work out of the box based on system variables, because on SDF.org it wasn't so easy. There was a need to improve config file.
Gnus seems to be more polished than neomutt in sense of TUI. But it has also small oddities - for eg. default expiration of e-mails after read.
But the final thing which annoyed me is GPG decryption fault with my config. I don't know if it's a problem with Gnus config, or a problem with GPG config. GPG command is handling encryption and decryption without that errors.
Внимание!
Живите с этим теперь.
Finally updated my /now/ page. If you're curious check here:
switched back to my Pixel 4. I had switched services and they offered a "free" pixel 6 so I jumped on it thinking I could just put a custom ROM on it. wrong. I stupidly forgot about carrier locking. how could I? so, I used my 6 for a while but didn't use google play only fdroid but it didn't feel right. the phone is bigger, riddled with tracking, and is heavier. so I got home today and swapped the SIM. my only problem is that the charging port doesn't work so well and I don't have google maps but other than that, I feel better.
reading stuff on gemini can sometimes be depressing. While I agree with a lot of views here, reading post after post about the evils of the internet, big corporations, and humans in general, I long for lighter posts in nicer topics. I can't say it's all like that but I see a lot of it...my capsule included. time to start posting some sunshine.
In my Spanish class I just volunteered a very confident answer to the confusion of everyone else. Turned out I said it in Esperanto. This happens annoyingly often. 😂
Changed picture in my one pic rolling gallery. To be found here:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/index.gmi
I'am looking every day at the DiscoGem. I had been doing the same on the Gopher, and I felt familiar with that idea when DiscoGem launched on the Gemini. It's easy way to explore very large amounts of date. It isn't a big effort to look at a small sample every day.
As I said after launching of DiscoGem, it could have some measures and indicators to show the best and the worst samples. So I wrote a simple script as a proof of concept. As it can be seen below, the biggest and the smallest samples (only index pages) and the most useless days when almost all links are inaccessible.
https://github.com/szczja/scripts/blob/main/tott_discogem.sh
$ ./tott_discogem.sh DiscoGem top of the tops The biggest index pages day: 72184 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-05/ 11185 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2022-12-18/ 9754 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-09/ The smallest index pages day: 1540 chars 0 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-11/ 1639 chars 1 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-28/ 1723 chars 0 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2022-12-25/ The most useless day: 3009 chars 3 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-10/ 4498 chars 2 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-27/ 4053 chars 2 empty capsules /capsules-of-the-day-2023-02-02/
Successful launch this morning! 🚀
https://social.martinrue.com/@martin/109846199596112358
In my predictions for 2023, I never expected to see the term "AI jailbreaking", but let me tell you, I'm fully onboard. Long live DAN.
I got invited to speak + do a Q&A with a bunch of people from Indonesia who read a novella I wrote in Esperanto. I love how unexpected life can be sometimes.
Always difficult determining if you're about to over-engineer something.
I've just heard someone be introduced as "an individual who defies summary". Two things. 1: That's going right into my personal phrase book for a few wise people I know. 2: Goals.
me: excelling at "slow internet" with over two months between tinylogs :D
If Buddha emerges today I bet he doesn't us social media. Not even tinylogs.
I feel I could finally write a glog today but there's too much other stuff to do.
I spotted this link on Fediverse and I was curious if it will be ok in a text web browser. So I've been browsing this in w3m on Sunday morning. Everything is ok, and the ASCII arts are beautifully displayed in my text environment.
https://www.adelfaure.net/ascii/
I was busy through past week. Today I catch up things in small net. I've sent an e-mail about Gopher, in response to a gemlog article. I've improved my mastodondigest script with ZERO WIDTH SPACE suggested by Alex. I've dug up in my memory Kelbot capsule with his TUI/tmux configuration asked about in Fediverse.
I could do probably a lot more today, but I don't have to much energy. Weather is sunless in the last days. I'm waiting for the spring time.
still haven't tried dvorak. I did, however, code a bit today. I'm a hobby programmer, and don't have much time for it, nor have been interested, but I was today and it felt good. working on a console version of farkle in python. nothing crazy, just entertaining. getting the hang of vim...starting to be a bit natural.
Nothing sets you up for a good night's sleep like 58,603 deletions in your commit.
I hope everyone's week has started well. Mine certainly hasn't. I was just accused of plagiarism. Their word, not mine.
My tmux text information desk with GTL for Tinylogs, self-made: fingerclub.sh, astrobotanyring.sh and mastodondigest.sh scripts for gathering information from Finger, Astrobotany and Mastodon.
I've tune up my mastodondigest.sh this weekend. It's presenting information as Gemtex now and extract links at the bottom of every toot.
And so it begins. After a few months of eating whatever I like, I’m starting another 3 month period of Time Restricted Feeding. Each year I aim to have at least two 2-3 month stints of strict, daily (17-18h) intermittent fasting. It gives my body a rest from the constant energy input that we’re not really meant to get like we do in the modern world. Not to mention some of the other huge benefits (hey autophagy). Looking forward to enjoying hunger and appreciating food again. 👊
I'm thinking about trying the dvorak keyboard layout. I think this will be difficult to not abandon it in favor of qwerty, which I'm pretty fast at.
A starry night. A reminder of the shortness of things. We’re all destined for the place we’ve already been for 13.7 billion years. Make it count.
So It's done.
https://github.com/szczja/scripts/blob/main/mastodondigest.sh
Mastodon digest script in Bash, which reads followed accounts list and presents last toot in chronological order.
Pros:
Cons:
Today I was playing with Mastodon API and curl. It's very easy to set up token to access API. And it's easy to go through account and followed information.
But API wasn't helpful to me with pagination of the response to put it into a quick bash script. There is a bigger effort needed to do so.
I'd like to write bash script putting the last toot of every my followed account. I will make a second try in the future.
But I discovered also that in the web preferences of Mastodon account, there is a special tab to check inactive followed accounts. I didn't know about it.
@szczezuja MapSCII is so cool! Thx :)
💡 Idea
Mobile coffee stand. Cups have your name on them. Obvious branding of cup signals: I bought this coffee as I'm open to chatting to a stranger – you already have my name, feel free to talk to me.
Sell it at train + bus stations, subways, places where people spend time waiting and want some human interaction over HTTP requests.
I'm not sure if this is a good idea or a terrible one, but it would at least make a fun experiment.
My first MAN/LON train of the year and I've drawn the "due to a points failure" card. Proceed directly to cancellation. Do not collect £200.
The train system in the UK is shockingly bad. Burn it to the ground and start over.
But in all seriousness, please don't set fire to it. It's so hopeless it'd just make me sad about the tragic waste of fire.
The results of my recent side side project: cadet – a Go library for creating minimal HTTP-RPC servers.
https://github.com/martinrue/cadet
There have been a few games now on #spellbinding where folks have gotten all the words. I find thst impressive.
I really need to work on that /now/ page. Also, I really like Amfora - it's a really clean TUI Gemini browser
Sometime last week I asked @skyjake and @bacardi55 on #mastodon if either of them would consider a mobile version of a tinylog aggregator. My reasoning is that while I enjoy the TUI version that @bacardi55 made, most of my time is spent on mobile, and if there were a stitched-together timeline of tinylogs in a clean looking app, it would be much easier to read. I think tinylogs would be more accessible this way as well. To my surprise, both of them responsed fairly quickly. Skyjake said he liked the idea but that it might be feature-creep, but would think about it. Alternatively, Bacardi55 pointed out that #gtl can output into gemtext, so if I just setup a cron job to output my subscriptions every say, 6 hours, I could just use #Lagrange on Android to view them. Liking this idea, I set it up in no time. However, when I subscribed to Bacardi55's tinylog list, I found a lot of them were dead. So what I did was go through the logs one by one and then add the ones that worked and the ones that I liked. Next, I went over to a gemini search engine and started looking for some interesting tinylogs. The result is now what's on my aggregated tinylog page, linked off my main page.
This was almost enough for a reglular gemlog post...
Note that this command writes to the terminal, so you'll have to redirect to a file, like this:
gtl --mode gemini --limit 50 > /path/to/capsule/tinylog-aggregate.gmi
this will use your default settings in ~/.config/gtl/config.toml and subs
Пробую на своём "малиновом" десктопе AltLinux 10 и мне внезапно нравится. Под RPi тут предлагается сборка с LXQt - и оно весьма приятно работает. Едва ли не единственный раз, когда я поставил все пкеты графическим установщиком, не испытвая при этом неудобств, и оно всё просто вот взяло и заработало... Да тут даже прокрутка дополнительной кнопкой для трекбола Logitech Marble включается просто галочкой в интерфейсе! В общем, похоже, в России таки умеют варить линуксы. Продолжаю наблюдения.
Долгие выходные проболел (тяжко, грипп в бактериальную инфекцию перешёл), только сейчас очухиваюсь, а тут кааак макнули лицом в реальность... Приходится вспоминать, за что мне тут деньги платят (я бы, конечно, предпочёл просто получать полмиллиона за то, что я няшечка, но мир жесток). Вспоминается с трудом. Вроде, ещё для Phreedom сервисы планировал добавлять, но что-то в блокноте заблудился. Ещё енто ваше глобальное потепление до минус 30 добавляет огонька.
Bought the 3rd and 4th Black Sabbath on CD after listening to them on Spotify Premium. I’m not Modern-People-ing correctly, I think
The Perpetuum Immobile. The Wheels of Standstill busily rearrange the world to keep you in your place as you scramble up that hill…
Now my personal mythology has another devil next to the Entropy Wolves that you can only begin to see once they’ve eaten all the light of the universe
PSA: The OST from the movie The Social Network is a perfect coding playlist. 👍
Since about 2015, smartphones have been getting increasingly user-hostile and locked down. It started with Google Play Services, a permanently running auto-installed, auto-updated service that has full access and control of your device. One a new Samsung Galaxy phone, I found 262 packages pre-installed, which were mainly from Google, Samsung, Facebook, Microsoft, and the cell provider. I tried disabling some of them, and at some point the phone locked with the message: "Your phone is locked because the Device Service was uninstalled without authorisation". Ok, so I enabled all the apps again, but that didn't unlock it. Tried a full factory reset and reboot, and now the phone says: "Phone Locked. This phone can't be used without authorisation." Just, wow! We are no longer allowed to uninstall the surveillance and bloatware on our phones. #smartphones #bloatware #surveillance
Today’s Gemini DiscoGem is full of goods.
gemini://discogem.gmi.bacardi55.io/capsules-of-the-day-2023-01-07/
Last Week News capsule I didn’t know earlier.
And Kypan capsule which lead me to the main prize for all text-only folks:
telnet mapscii.me
More on the gemlog post:
gemini://kypan.me/posts/getting_a_map_outline_of_my_country_with_mapscii.gmi
"Almost every idea you have is downstream from what you consume." 💡
Several days ago I spotted an answer to my everlasting question:
- How you were using the Internet?
gemini://ja2.one/gemlog/20221115-myinternetpast.gmi
Thanks!
🐝 Bees cause the night; bees long for lovers
Bees cause the night; bees long for us
Me before Strange New Worlds: "Wah! Discovery is not true to #StarTrek and Burnham never stops drama-whispering!"
Me after Strange New Worlds: "Wah! #StrangeNewWorlds is so much safer than #Discovery and doesn’t boldly go at all!"
Unpopular opinion: I don't like Taylor Swift's music all that much.
Just found out that someone else found the "gemlog response" concept interesting! Funny to read that literally the day I removed the gemlog mention at the bottom of each articles… But Maybe I'll put it back then :)
gemini://gmi.derschwarzestrahler.at/en/gemlog/gemlog-responses.gmi
New year's fireworks atmosphere themed ASCII-art. ;-)
gemini://szczezuja.space/join-the-small-net.txt
It's a new year – a nice time to reflect and focus on goals for 2023, and I'm wondering what's on everyone's agenda.
So, what's your main focus for 2023? What do you want to achieve? Let's share our plans/ambitions/dreams and create a little thread full of inspiration and encouragement. Bonus: we can review it next year in 2024 :)
Parenting is: seeing your small child between the curtains while you shower.
I've updated kiln (capsule generator) and my gemlog / blog config without that many tests, please let me know if you find anything broken :]
Wish you a lot of plain-text information and a renaissance of text protocols in the new year!
New Year's cleaning.
I've put all tinylog's entries for 2022 in a separate file, the same way as for 2021.
You can navigate that files through links in the header of tinylog page.
I'm preparing a new gemlog entry, but it's still in progress. This holiday season I spent mainly outside the net.
But in the last days I've got several mails from people around small net and I replied for them. It was satisfying because it's nice to use plain text mail for conversation. It's seems to be a forgotten way of communication nowadays.
My New Year's resolution is 5120 x 2880.
👋 2023. Looking forward to another year of setting goals, meeting them, spending time with friends, making new friends, going on new adventures, finding new inspirations, failing, laughing. Happy new year, folks. ☺️
What a lovely surprise!
I just received a copy of the book my novella is published in. During the pandemic, a friend inspired me to enter a writing competition to write about the pandemic experience (fiction or non) and I wrote a fictional story called The Hug Club (la brakumklubo) which was selected and included in the final book. 🙏
https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/609/420/273/262/378/original/64f20e2b182f45d9.jpeg
The internet makes you believe everything is burning and all life choices contribute to such. anything you do is futile.
even if true, i'm tired of living in a place that is screaming at me that everything is fucked.
Got My Time at Portia a few days ago. It has soaked up all my free time since then. It often happens that I spend the holidays playing more video games than usual, and this year seems to be no exception.
Pretty happy with this little interaction. 👏Con
Context: as readers progress through my app's interactive language-learning books, this component lets them collect flashcards for key things they've learned.
https://social.martinrue.com/system/media_attachments/files/109/602/013/633/560/869/original/b3228153180d8cf4.mp4
Anyone else code in their head while doing something else, such as walking home? I catch myself doing it fairly often.
I like to think about what I need to do next, how I might go about it, potential issues I’ll run into. I find it really helpful to keep the context, and sometimes the entire program, in my head.
```
()
** (exponent)
+x, -x, ~x (unary plus, unary minus, bitwise NOT)
*, /, //, %
+, -
<<, >> (bitwise shift)
& (bitwise AND)
^ (bitwise XOR)
| (bitwise OR)
==, !=, >, >=, <, <=, is, is not, in, not in
not
and
or
```
I finally deleted my Twitter account. After many weeks of playing email tag with the helpdesk, I was able to get in. For some reason my MFA SMS messages weren't coming through and I couldn't get in. I then used an auto-tweet deleter (free one), changed my profile pic to a gray background, unfollowed everyone, prevented follows, deleted everything in my profile, and deactivated my account. Good riddance.
My house got struck by lightning *again*, taking out the alarm system *again*. This time I decided to #diy my own alarm system with an #arduino. It's a bit of a rat's nest right now (prototype), but it works! Controllable via Telegram and standard remote. Gotta solder it up on a board next and add some lightning isolation/protection. There's surprisingly little info on the internet about replacing a commercial home alarm system with custom Arduino one. The biggest challenge is that the long wires to sensors can pick up noise/EMF so I had to do some filtering in software to avoid false triggers.
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Merry Christmas everybody. 🎄
Christmas can be hard. If you’re alone, if you’re feeling alienated or excluded from the warmth and cheer and togetherness, if you’re half-buried under failures or holiday stress…
I want to send you ((hugs)) and what <3 love I have to give and tell you you are not alone in this. *We* are not alone in this.
And now is not the time to condemn yourself. Try not to flee what daylight there is. Don’t busy your mind holding all your sorrows and pain at once, to be evaluated and despaired over time and time again… try, just try, to step out from those long shadows you’ve grown. The present moment can be enough for now. The small things, the little joys, maybe some you’ve almost forgotten, you big grim adult, you!… and maybe that’s vague self-help babble, and I can clearly not heal myself either.
But this fool here wishes you peace. ^^
Shamelessly stolen from Mastodon (because it's an important question):
[POLL Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?] Yes | No
Happy Festivus to those that celebrate it :)
Bert Wagner's "jurn" ("A Command Line Tool for Keeping Track of Your Work") is pretty cute.
```
$ echo $((10#02))
2
```
Do any of you do any live coding via Twitch? I'm tempted to do some for my current project, and I'm curious about people's experiences. 🤔
Life's own pariah
Wrapped fast in the fabric of fantasy
Will she pass muster
Until now I didn't get time to play with Lagrange on iOS, but after only a few mins it's easily my favourite mobile iOS Gemini client. Awesome work, as always, @skyjake. 🙏
For fellow iOS'ers who haven't checked it out yet, grab the TestFlight release here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/UjdtSEhu
Does anyone else start new projects by writing out a readme detailing how you want the tool to work? I think I've come to depend on this technique to help me clarify what exactly I want to build.
Had a rough weekend, but I'm starting to feel quite a bit better. I have a never-ending chest cold that won't go away, but after finally taking some decongestant medication I started feeling better.
One thing that was contributing, I think, to my mood is that I was becoming addicted to Mastodon. With the influx of Twitter users, I was really starting to engross myself into all the people, connections, and inside jokes that were starting to fly around. None of this reading or scrolling is any type of meaningful, long-term learning and I was in the endless refresh-for-more dopamine cycle. It wasn't until I read ~Shufei's most recent gemlog [1] that discussed the shortcomings of such platforms, as it relates to human interaction and real life. Shufei, of course, is MUCH more eloquent than I - I felt like was reading a psych/philosophy paper - but it was what I needed to shake of the cycle. I promptly deleted the app off my phone and resolved to just stick with what works - Gemini. I'll probably go back, but for now, I needed to take a break.
[1] Shufei - Miscellaneous - Tech - Of AI's and Men
Wow, you can no longer even mention other social media platforms on Twitter or it’ll be a considered a violation and they’ll suspend your account. Twitter is definitely in a death spiral at this point, no? It’s now by far the least free platform I still (for now) have an account on.
I don't even know how this happens, but I just discovered:
In Braille each rectangle of up to 6 raised dots encodes a character (so 2⁶ values).
So "just do it" is the following sequence of 10 blocks (unraised gaps acts as spaces to separate words):
⠚⠥⠎⠞⠀⠙⠕⠀⠊⠞
However, Braille Grade 2 supports special free-standing single-character combinations to stand in for common words.
"Just do it" consists entirely of such special words, so it can be written like so: ⠚⠀⠙⠀⠭
⠧⠀⠉⠕⠕⠇
`>/dev/null 2>&1` is my new best friend as I set up cron jobs for backups, gemfeed updates etc.
I've been reading a bunch of RSS feeds recently for the first time in years, using Newsboat on the command line. So calming: keyboard-only, single-tab, visually minimal, speedy loading if I do visit a page directly in Lynx.
Most people don't know this but completely removing caffeine from your diet, at least in some cases, can give you up to an impressive 80% boost in your will not to live.
Moving my mid-noughties music writings on to Gemini. Decided this wasn't quite the right project with which to learn sed (just wanna get it done), so sticking with trusty Python.
Got all the parts of my capsule and and running again after migrating to Digital Ocean droplet. Final touch was getting the atom feed generator running again; I use the one made by ~solderpunk: gemfeed. I put it into a bash script and just manually run it everytime I make a new entry. Not the most streamlined, but it works for me for how infrequently I post.
Woop! A new milestone! Station just reached 900 users. Who'd have thought this micro community would stick around long enough to even reach 1/10th this number. I wonder if/when we'll hit 1000. 👏
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon al vi ĉiuj. Kia ĝojo esti parto de tiu ĉi monda, mojosa komunumo de frenezuloj (vi ĉiuj – ne mi, kompreneble). Kaj dank' al Esperanto, ĉiuj aliaj lingvoj nun ŝajnas multe tro pezaj, do vi neniam forigos min.
Happy Esperanto (Zamenhof) day! What a joy to be part of this global, cool community of crazy people (you all, not me of course). And thanks to Esperanto, every other language is just way too weird and demanding, so you're stuck with me now.
LOL, `man hollywood`.
Figured out installing gtl from source and adding to my path.
Переупорядочил раздел "Музыка". Альбомы 0, 1, 10, 11 вынес в отдельный подраздел Binary, который можно выкачать одним архивом. Что-то вроде суперальбома получается.
Новое будет добавляться в раздел "WIP", и последующие альбомы (если будут, разумеется) буду уже именовать осмысленно.
Having conducted much research on the subject lately, it appears that Kevin seems to know an awful lot about temperature and has achieved fame online for his knowledge.
Bought this ESP32-based Esplay Micro V2, and it is sweet! Not only is it a great form-factor and fairly priced, but it comes fully assembled with an SD Card loaded with some music and cool retro games. It's a #DIY #maker dream as I can turn this into almost any device I can think of! #esplay #esp32 #retrogaming #diy
ESPlay
https://www.robotics.org.za/MES32PRO
Shout-out to Podgrab, an excellent self-hosted podcast manager/downloader written in Go. #selfhost #podcast
Podgrab
https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab
Не в первый раз ловлю себя на мысли, что потреблять результаты творчества я предпочитаю в крупных формах (яркий пример — книги. Трилогия по паре тыщ страниц на том? Омномнмномном, иди сюда моя прелесть!), а вот производить выходит только в кратких — был период графомании, так задуманный роман не потянул даже на повесть и там и зачах в формате расскаа, зато стихи пёрли мощным потоком несколько лет подряд. Взялся за кисти — поначалу выдал что-то, что можно назвать живописью, но с каждым разом форма упрощалась, становясь примитивнее, лаконичнее и ярче. С музыкой — ровно то же самое. Трёхминутная композиция это неоправданно много, всё, что хочется сказать, идёт одной фразой. Остаётся лишь надеяться, что с практикой результат станет более гармоничным и ёмким. А слушать люблю длинное, да...
Дисбаланс, однако. Может, это даже и правильно. Гармонизация, так сказать.
CW: ChatGPT
I asked the OpenAI GPT-3 chat bot about Gemini:
I'm sorry, but I'm not aware of any protocols or technologies called "smol net" or "Gemini" that have nothing to do with cryptocurrencies.
Looks like the Eye of Sauron still averts us…
I then proceeded to ask about my other project, the Doomsday Engine (a Doom port), and it promptly gave a brief description and named me as the author, using my real name. 😱
Of course, as a long-term project it must have been picked up into the training set from some wiki, but still feels weird to be part of the AI’s data model.
I attempted python solutions daily, with most ones having golf solutions.
Some have shell, golang, and lua solutions too.
https://github.com/hedyhli/adventofcode
https://sr.ht/hedy/adventofcode
Currently up to:
2022: day 7 (ongoing!)
2020: day 9
2021: day 2
I keep forgetting!
no splits - current window as [o]nly window
ctrl w o
swap windos
ctrl w x
split opened buffers (horz)
ctrl w s
split opened buffers (vert)
ctrl w v
go to split
ctrl w h/j/k/l
open new file as split
:sp <file>
:vsp <file>
Could be fun to develop a micro TUI app to display status from people via the finger protocol… If there were enough finger users to even do so.
Sometimes engaging the discipline to “follow the plan” is really tough. Today most certainly is one of those days, but despite every reason not to train today, I’m on the way to the gym! The harder it is to get into motion, the more being in motion feels good. 💪
I was out with two Esperanto friends having dinner last night and a couple sat next to us interrupted to ask us which language we were speaking. They had actually heard of Esperanto but thought it was dead. Nope. Definitely not dead.
The new satisfies operator in TypeScript 4.9 is pretty neat. I'm a fan. Demo here: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/95934a12a18fb0816c62bfb6424c2692
Random trivia for you:
Among Esperanto speakers, there's the word "kabei" (ka-bay-ee).
It's named after Kazimierz Bein, who in 1911, having been a very active speaker and translator of the language, suddenly disappeared and never used Esperanto ever again.
One day I'd like to kabei from English, pero todavía hablo español como un bebé. No, en realidad, lo hablan mejor.
Testing the chess thingie..
Waiting to get my arse served to me on a tablet...
Still not a chess player...
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
8| r | . | b | . | k | b | n | r |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
7| . | p | . | . | . | p | . | p |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
6| . | . | p | p | . | p | . | . |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
5| p | . | . | P | . | . | . | . |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
4| . | . | P | . | P | . | . | . |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
3| . | . | . | B | . | . | . | . |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
2| P | P | . | . | . | P | P | P |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
1| R | N | B | . | K | . | . | R |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
a b c d e f g h
Last move by samhunter: a7-a5
Your move [? for help]:
Started getting a sore throat during the week but assumed my body would fight it off easily enough. Woke up today feeling like death. Nothing like getting sick to remind us how easily we take being healthy for granted. 🥴
I like Gemini but I'm not very active on this domain. The only thing I do is hosting capsules for anybody wants to have one easily. And, I keep on reading some capsules and Fediverse discussion about Gemini and other smolnet protocol.
Wrote a small chess-over-gab client in bash, as a break from my (now daily) "toiling" at my editor's development.
And no, I don't play chess...
Re: @monolalia Thu 24 Nov 2022 16:23 UTC
What about linking your notes to the projects and not moving/copying into them?
I usually write "stuff" down, then tag it. It's either in my lab or in my notes.
How on earth do you know when something you’re tippety-typing away about is no longer just a note to be kept with other notes and/or in a note-taking application and needs to be moved into a proper P.R.O.J.E.C.T. folder…?
Stop naming ships “Prometheus”! It never ends well!
TIL: There's Esperanto written on the official World Cup football: https://www.adidas.co.uk/al-rihla-pro-football/H57783.html
So I spent my evening turning a little idea into reality: https://vk.martinrue.com
It live pulls the locations of folks signed up to a big Esperanto event this weekend to show how everyone really is spread out all over the world. 👏
It has been a while (April), so I've written a little /now update: https://martinrue.com/now
На ЛОРе выложили симпатичный шрифт Savraska. Понравился, особенно почему-то Амфора в нём хороша.
People from Bell Labs often tell the story of the 'pipe orgy' happening after Ken Thompson finally gave in and implemented pipes, as imagined by McIlroy.
I guess spending a day extending my toy project with external macros day after I added support for them, comes pretty close.
Except it's not the Pantheon of Unix gods playing with awesome shit...
Adding custom keybindings to my editor took exactly *ba-dummm-tsss* 3 lines...
I'm hanging out in the Canary Islands again this week. I spent the first few months of the year here, so it’s really nice to be back. Also deeply enjoying the fact it’s 20° to 24° reliably every single day again – I feel so much better in good weather.
Added named buffers to my editor, so now I have a choice between pushing and popping the yanked lines from stack or using the session-persistent named buffers.
Today's project: #diy battery for my 2015 phone. Original battery down to 6% of it's original capacity. Replacement battery costs only R90 and is readily available at hobby shops. Had to make an adapter plate using my favourite material: masonite board. Sealed it with a polyurethane coating. I've avoided buying new electronics and am still sticking with my 2015 phone and 2015 tablet as my main mobile devices because they are hackable in this way, and the software (after disabling all the bloat) is still running sweetly.
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My day job is awesome, but there are days I seriously doubt my life choices...
"Learn, son, or you'll have to work at weird times..."
Снова на Raspberry Pi 4B (тот же аппарат, на котором крутится piradio.i2p и иггдрасилевский ресид для i2p) в каществе десктопа — бесшумный стационарный компьютер с отдельным монитором всёж-таки удобнее ноутбука при длительном использовании. при моих потребностях вычислительных ресурсов хватает с головой, но что-то не обнаруживаю в тутошних (Manjaro) репозиториях Vieb - приходится довольстоваться неспешным Qutebrowser, когда нужен большой и грязный веб (а для биржи он таки нужен, например).
The subtle line diving the state "why tf can't I figure out why it isn't working" and "Oh, that's a minor bug, I'll fix it tomorrow" -- priceless.
Last night I could execute a statement defined outside of the main program, in it's profile file - it feel like I am slowly getting somewhere with the little project.
It made me think though - to make custom keyboard shortcuts possible I'll probably have to:
- move some code I wrote directly in the "keyboard handler" into small utility expressions;
- rewrite or extend the keyboard handler to use an assoc with keybindings;
- add more helpers to make programming of the extensions easier;
- ... and -- gods help me -- document it.
If you're part of the #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus to #Mastodon then you can follow me there on @tobykurien@mastodon.social - I've been there since April 2017. Heck, you can even just stick the URL https://mastodon.social/@tobykurien.rss into an RSS feed reader. #MastodonMigration
Nothing like a warm drink after a walk in the cold.
It looks as if my little project didn't move a bit, but after today's session I have:
- a reliably working scrolling
- faster display
- a quite solid list browser in Slope I can re-use (soon, hopefully) when writing a client for my chat.
Yay! The !@#$ing scrollin works now. I created also a keyhole into the interpreter (like "ex-mode" in vi, except it gives access to the interpreter beneath the editor.
40 years ago some sad fuck thought making Lisp accessible from his editor is a brilliant idea... Everybody knows what happened later :D
+31 lines added, 30 lines removed later scrolling works, finally (wonky, but stable).
Things like that make me thing: is it the reason Bill Joy stopped using `vi`, while Ken Thompson is still a fan of `ed`?
Because honestly, if you only programmed with ncurses -- you don't know shit :D
The UK (Universala Kongreso) is the largest annual Esperanto event and has run every year from 1905 with gaps only during WWII and Covid.
Since 2020 there has also been the VK (Virtuala Kongreso), which for 2022 will happen in 2 weeks time. 🤗
I just checked and there are already almost 900 people registered!
Esperanto is a small corner of the world for sure, but it sometimes sure feels "big enough". 👏
(Storing for later) Two African recipes from yesterday's feed:
Both can be done without meat.
Never underestimate readline-type libraries. One day you're mucking around with one editable line, the next day you're falling down the rabbit hole, thinking about the right way to add syntax highlighting to your text editor...
A normal person: How many IDs between 'aa' and 'zz'? 🤔.... 26 * 26 = 676
Me, the shell junkie 🧐:
$ echo {a..z}{a..z} | wc -w
676
"I'm too lazy, I'll rather write a program than do it by hand"
Exhibit A:
```
(list->string (map bytes->string (range 26 65)))
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
```
My home timeline on mastodon has become way too active.
Also, some of the pinned hashtags I have are becomming to fast to follow asynchronously…
I think I need to use the upgrade to v4 as an excuse to limit pinned hashtags and maybe remove some people I'm following (that I usually read anyway via the pinned hashtags that made me found them in the first place).
I heard Dalai-Lama said that shyness comes from pride. I think he might have heard me talking loud to myself about it when I was young. It was a strange insight that came to me once though I didn't fully understand it back then. Jokes aside though life is just full of apparent paradoxes.
Setting my EDITOR environment variable to `xi` was probably the most brain-dead idea I had this week (let us hope it was).
As a consequence of the _obviously self-inflicted_ drama I am stumbling all the time ("if you wanted vi - why didn't you code it that way?"), but it certainly helps me lint the issues.
Like: I didn't notice how much I rely on range operations (hard to do anything "range" in a line-oriented editor without the concept of "global") or ability to read-in a block of text from an external file.
I didn't set a roadmap for the little project, but I think - if I keep using it, of course - the project will show me where I should go next.
Sometimes I think `nano` is not a text editor but a symptom of a rather specific, closed, and quite disagreeable mindset.
(not all nano users are incompetent wankers, but it certainly helps...)
Thinking about some low-cost (computationally speaking) HTML to annotated text conversion...
Somehow old school - cut the irrelevant parts off, strip html tags to their meanings (<h3 style="big"> becomes .h3, for example), break the remaining text on spaces, decide what to do with the markup, concatenate the words back into lines intertwined with markup, fold.
It could reduce all the fuss to something malleable and easily manageable through pipes. Gopher, Gemini, Spartan and shlogs, as text-based media, are much easier to handle, so I am already "there" - building my own "retrievers" and piping them through various filters.
HTML? Not so much yet, output from text-based browsers is okayish, but still incomplete (I'd like some formatting and functioning links, but the blanket here is definitely too short...)
Vertical systems' redundancy sucks.
It's maybe nice to test something in a lower tier before bringing it into production, but making a trivial update of one system in the production tier a "measurable risk", because its (theoretical) redundancy does other jobs is kind of meh.
Совершил внезапное — перешёл на тёмную тему оформления всюду (sway, терминал, приложения — всё теперь в теме Dracula). Смотрится хорошо и, что странно, глазам комфортно, хотя ранее тёмные темы вызывали утомление через пару часов. Штош, посмотрим, как пойдёт. Пока что со вчерашнего вечера полёт нормальный.
Надо бы ещё переключатель тем для phreedom.club запилить, наверное...
I've implemented a search for walgot (wallabag tui) :).
I'm close to another release I think, just a few things and it will be worth a v0.2.0
Getting the scrolling and vertical cursor movement right is such a pain in...
Купил читалку
Два дня было радости
Сел на читалку
(грустное хокку)
Upgrade to tinylog.slo - "readline" support (thanks to Sloum's "line-edit" module).
No more retyping of lines (and I typo a lot...)
For any folks here using Mastodon, you can find me at: @martin@social.martinrue.com.
Kind of reduced tic-tac-toe to one regex: \(\([XO]\).\{0,3}\)\1\2
One criterion, two criteria
One phenomenon, two phenomena
One bacterium, two bacteria
One homo sapiens, two homo sapiens (or homines sapientes if you want to sound clever)
One seraph, two seraphim
One sefirah (sephirah), two sefirot (sephirot)
One …nephal? nafil? eep!…, two nephilim
Come on, YouTubers ❣️
Don't forget, folks:
Not everything you read on the internet is true – 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln
My plant on astrobotany is still alive despite my idleness of 4+ months! Damn
finishing up Advent of Code 2020
https://sr.ht/~hedy/adventofcode/
https://github.com/hedyhli/adventofcode
Had to go through each puzzle page, copy its plain-text, paste it in a new file, then apply formatting manually.
There were a LOT of wrapping `code blocks` and **bold** around words. Had to make use of 5 macros (personal record!)
@a = i**<Esc>Eli**<Esc> # bold word @b = i`<Esc>Ei`<Esc> # code word @c = i**<Esc>2Wi**<Esc> # 2 bold words @d = i`<Esc>Eli`<Esc> # code word that ends with a space @i = i`<Right>`<Esc> # single-char inline code
(Note I should probably write that code block in Vimscript syntax, can't remember at the moment...)
A lot of batch string parsing and validation in the first four days.
I've created cleanABag, a small wallabag cli tool to remove old articles from wallabag to avoid "storage waste".
Goal is to give a date and it will delete all articles older than this date (with flags for keeping/removing unread and/or starred articles).
No need to store thousands of already irrelevant articles anymore!
I've started yesterday another wallabag tool… This one goal is to "prune" old articles to avoid wasted storage space…
It's a small thing, so should be available before the end of the week.
Has anybody bought the reMarkable writing tablet? I'm so tempted, but it's also so expensive! Any thoughts?
Тот случай, когда потный вал вдохновения накатывает среди ночи. Обновление в разделе "Музыка" :)
RE: Sandra Tue 08 Nov 2022 13:27 UTC
Fedi sucks now! 💁🏻♀️
While I do agree that my timeline is "messy" right now, I have good hope that the fedi will go back to a more "normal" state :)
My little chat project reached 130 (server) + 70 (client) lines of Slope code.
It's going to be less, at least on the server side, after I move some of the "/utilities" into the separate bot/utility program...
I'll have to write some summary of development goals, as people who tested it kind of assume I'm going to replace the IRC.
I am not (what a surprise) - I simply want a chatroom I can spin up when working on some project, to move from the kind of working, but cumbersome email+gab communication to something more realtime...
imagine all the endless fields and pastures being returned to nature and the occasional self-sufficient homesteading enthusiast because ScienceMachines can grow food more efficiently in less space... it would be wonderful, sniff (said the person from a tamed, densely populated country)
I hate how even the most “free” cartoon dogs are inevitably depicted with collars. I also hate funny livestock animals. It’s unnecessarily punching down the food chain.
I find it a little weird when people say they’re “owned” by their cats. Unless we’re talking farm/village/outdoors cats, the adorable floofs are ultimately entirely dependent on you.
Yes, I do take things too literally, why?
Walgot is now public :)
Any feedback from any wallabag user is welcome :]
Does a "slow internet" site like RTC need a realtime chat? I don't know, but now we have one...
It's amazing how easy(-ish, juggling with ANSI seqs almost killed me :D...) it was to write in Slope.
So I've tagged walgot v0.1.0 and pushed it to sourcehut¹ (and mirrored on github).
I'm too lazy tonight to write the blog post to make it "official", but I'll do this tomorrow.
¹: I decided to go with Sourcehut because of 2 main reasons: email workflow and ootb build capabilities, but I'll write a gemlog about it later too…
"Slope has net-listen now" -- well, and I have a chat server in ~100[1] lines of Slope code now...
[1] under 60 without '/' functions (they are not crucial for the functioning of the server)
Утащил пучок ссылок "на посмотреть/разобрать".
Пожалуй, самое интересное в последнем выпуске #SmolZine - Small Things Manifesto. Эта штука столь мила моему сердцу, что, пожалуй, возьмусь перевести на русский. Собираюсь тут на несколько дней в один из расплодившихся ныне лесных отельчиков "а-ля турбаза для зажравшихся", вот, авось, и будет время.
Yay, Slope has net-listen now :)
I want to "officially" migrate away from github, but I don't know if I want to use codeberg (and a familiar UI) or sourcehut.
Sourcehut isn't easy, but I like the workflow around emails and public mailing list…
In any case I would support/pay for it but I don't know which one to actually choose.
(I have selfhosted for a long time my git server but I want to keep it private now and use one of these service for public repos, self hosting git repo was more problematic than emails for me)
The editor I "discovered" a few days ago - `sim` performs - against my expectations, quite well.
Especially when I have to make some small, localised changes in one or three files while I'm connected over ConnectBot from my phone.
The "all editing happens in the middle line" is really comfortable in a terminal constantly changing its geometry depending on the visibility of the soft-keyboard.
Unless I hack the code it's rather improbable it will replace `vim` or virtually any other editor I frequently use, but... But I am keeping it, I guess - for all the emergency INI file edits while I'm commuting.
Yesterday I've noticed that `recent++` reactions became a little sluggish ("a little" being going from ~400ms to +3 seconds).
NGL, it made me think about the future of the tool. What if the pubnix I am on grows? There's no caching, and traversals over more and more files *will* take more time.
Well, then the reboot came, and now we're back at <400ms. But I'll keep thinking about possible optimisations. So far I run it on 3 systems outside of my "$HOME's home pubnix" -- some with well over 500 users logged in all the time and generating content, and the "lag" is still acceptable. We will see.
My interaction with Gemini is 95-98% limited to two little scripts I wrote a while ago in a Scheme dialect. One is basically `cat gemini://url`, the other I use rn for "patching" my fresh tinylog entries between the header and my older ramblings.
I tried a few browsers (Linux, Windows, Android apps) and honestly - I don't care. None of them came even close to my ideas of aesthetic or ergonomy. And you know what? I cannot write a functional browser for 2020's web, but I pretty much can do this for Gemini. To get the content I want, where I want, and in exactly the form I want.
Lol, I didn't remember, but my tinylog reader is just this:
tl () {
gemini.slo gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/ \
| sed -e 's!_\([^_]\+\)_!\x1b[4m\1\x1b[0m!g
s!\(\(gemini\|https*\)://[-~a-zA-Z0-9\.\/]\+\)!\x1b[32;4m\1\x1b[0m!
s/^##[^#].*$/\x1b[33m&\x1b[0m/g'
}
'sim' editor looks really interesting. Thanks samhunter!
Discovered a whole bunch of modal editors: neatvi, nextvi (apparently improvement on neatvi), and sim.
While the first two are simply rather lean clones of the original vi with some interesting additions like bi-directional entry (the author of `neatvi` is Persian, I guess) `sim` is where the gonzo zone begins...
I can't see (yet) the alleged Plan9 `sam` inspiration, but the idea of editing your text with the cursor line staying firmly in the middle of the screen, with the text moving up and down instead is quite nice. A little like writing on a typewriter. Or in `wordgrinder`.
For some reasons the default keybindings (defined suckless-style, in config.h) didn't include "^". A strange omission for a) an editor inspired by `vi`, that b) has StartLine function implemented already. One edit later it worked.
RE: @szczezuja Thu 03 Nov 2022 21:03 CET
Bacardi55 posted about the Wallabag TUI client. What is the Wallabag?!
The short summary is that wallabag is a "read it later" app, opensource and can be selfhosted :).
For me it works hand in hand with RSS aggregator as I often can read the whole thing, so I save it for later when I have time. Many client exists to read it from mobile or any device. But a TUI was missing (for me :)).
I even have a small script that take the current tab open on lagrange and save it (via a proxy) in wallabag too, so I have a central place for "to be read" content.
I've made some cool progress earlier today on this new wallabag TUI app, quite please as understanding bubbletea workflow wasn't easy^^.
I've shared a short video on the fediverse:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/109275964866137113
I'm spending more time refactoring code for this wallabag TUI (= walgot) tool than adding features…
It is due to the fact that I'm using a very different TUI library than the one I used for GTL.
GTL uses tcell¹/tview², while I'm using bubbletea³ and co for this new one.
Main reason was "to try it" and also try a more "ELM architecture".
Was quite tough at first to understand how it works but I think I'm getting there and to a "ok" state to now add feature :)
“Why do people only understand what they want to...
...instead of what they could or should understand?”
― Beatrice James
The problem aren't people who use `nano` or any other "small" editor, but the people who aren't using enough of it.
[rant]Doesn't make any difference when you're changing 1 to 0 in a short INI file, but wastes your and your co-workers' time when you're applying the same approach when making critical changes to multiple unformatted XML files all over your filesystem..[/rant]
Watching "Oral History of Guido van Rossum" on YT and reading about the "ABC" language.
Lots of recycling when it comes to syntax, ngl.
But GvD doesn't make a secret out of it.
Reading the original Bill Joy's "screen editing with vi" manual.
One thing learnt - <Esc> and <Enter> are equivalent after "ex/:" commands (only the original vi honours it, though)
One thing re-learnt (`` and '' can be used to jump back after a cursor moving operation - I used it a lot... and then I stopped - I blame vim's `v`)
Considering rewriting the "displaying" parts as wrappers for `.g`lobal.
I have started the first line of a wallabag TUI client… Not sure it's a good idea but here we are…
A toot with a screenshot (HTTPS)
Added `.s`ubstitute and it was quite fun. The bemacs' command language is quite verbose already:
what would be simply a `,s/Foo/Bar/g` in other editors becomes `.s Foo Bar g` in bemacs, but `1,10s/Foo/Bar/g` is `.s Foo Bar g 1 10`...
Well, that's actually not much longer -- maybe the order of parameters is what throws me off.
Anyway, at some point I might write a simple wrapper around the functions - pretty much nullifying the "editing without leaving the shell" effect.
@bacardi55 Bedtime procrastination, oh yes I know it well. I guess many would recognize it in themselves.
Now I have atom feeds with gemini and http links!
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/atom.xml
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/atom_http.xml
Edit and translated my capsule to English (but not gemlog). Take a look!
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/index.gmi
Extended `.a`ppend and `.i`nsert commands in bemacs.sh to mimic their `ed` equivalents.
Подумалось — а не запилить ли gemring для русскоговорящих капсул? Для тех, кто не в курсе - в вебе была такая штука как webring - кольцо сайтов, ссылающихся друг на друга, обеспечивающее последовательный переход с одного на другой при серфинге. Реализовать в виде cgi несложно, вроде — думаю, даже я на баше смогу наваять. Есть желающие влиться?
Is writing a text editor in Bash a sign of spiralling down into madness?
By 'an editor in Bash' I don't mean a program written in bash and stored in an .sh file with a proper shebang line.
It's literally a set of macros modifying a file in a buffer straight from the shell prompt's level.
I added search `.q`(uery) today, and the nice side effect was Bash match operator actually understanding regexes.
And a pipe-out/shell-out function `.!` -- at this stage I am actually able to write and run programs without actually storing them anywhere on the filesystem.
Can it be usable? Idk. On a read-only $HOME, perhaps. The more functionality I put into it, the more closely it resembles Smalltalk VMs (of the past? Does anyone still use ST?)
Некоторое время назад в англоязычном сегменте поднимали тему с использованием хештегов. В теории, это расширит возможности поисковиков и агрегаторов. Имеет ли смысл внедрять их использование в русскоязычном сегменте? Он пока очень мал и вполне себе обозрим в режиме ленивого серфинга, но на перспективу...
I'm looking at my 3 screens right now, and all 3 have emacs open on it. Emails via mu4e on the left, code on the right and writing a gemlog post in org-mode in the middle…
What happened to me…
But this tinylog entry is still written with vim (as it's still my $EDITOR).
Осталось три часа до отпуска. И дальше я буду слушать музыку на виниле, писать музыку на компе и играть музыку (барабаны, флейты, даже укулеле имеется, но укулелить не очень выходит) хоть весь день каждый день...
Начинаю понемного делать следующий альбом. Пока нет общей идеи, кроме набора инструментов и первой композиции.
I like cooking without recipes. Tonight I decided to make a "fall-inspired" stir fry. Started with roasted butternut squash and improvised my way into a dish consisting of apples, chestnut mushrooms, kale, lentils, vegetable broth, butter, curry powder, cinnamon, "chicken-seasoned" seitan, and a bit of milk to keep things moist. I measured nothing.
Леннар "сраный гремлин" Поттеринг продолжает конвертировать енти нашы линуксы в корпоративное нечто. #Яжеговорил, что сустемдэ — только предварительные ласки? Нет? Ну вот сейчас говорю с умным лицом (хотя, вроде, говорил).
Леннарт Поттеринг предложил новую архитектуру верифицированной загрузки Linux
I’ve been doing spaced repetition for about 4 years and it’s amazing to see the long term results. I now regularly get flashcards over a year old and my brain has no problem finding them. SRS is the best thing you can do to retain information long-term. 🧠
FYI: I mostly use Anki (🐐) and create flashcards for languages I’m learning. SRS work for anything, of course, not just vocab. I do have a few other decks containing ideas, quotes, and prompts I want to retain as well.
I may be suffering from this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_procrastination
Reading a new book and came across this quote. Sums it up perfectly for me:
Once, when a friend asked him if he envied the ever-growing wealth of the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, Muir quipped: I am already richer than Harriman. I have all the money I want, and he hasn’t.
Among all the advice for achieving your goals – "wake up at 5am", "read this book", "do this one weird trick" – what's often missing is:
Being great at something requires time. Put in the time. Not just when you're motivated, but also when you're not. Crack that and you stand a chance.
</¢¢>
The "issue" of no content on gemini addressed beautifly by ~ploum
gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-10-05-there-is-no-content-on-gemini.gmi
Do you remember your dreams?
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2022-10-24-back-to-dreams.gmi
@szczezuja I posted a reply to your gemlog
New tinylog by Sandra (idiomdrottning.org):
Always nice to see new addition to the tinylog list!
You're rich. You don't need to think about making money anymore. You can work on whatever you want. What do you choose to work on? Share you dream day-to-day.
For some reason new _days_ start in the middle of the _night_. And the _first_ hour of the day is either the _zeroth_ or the _twelfth_ (24-/12-hour clock). Does _anything_ make sense?
Chicken and egg problem: I want to install a newer version of an interpreter I use on my local system, but compiling a new binary requires some preprocessing done in the language itself.
The version installed on the remote system is too old and the translation breaks. I cannot upload a newer version, because I am on Linux and the remote system is OpenBSD...
Well... Ended up mounting the remote install dir via sshfs, starting the compilation on Linux, switching to BSD, removing object and binary files and restarting. Compiler happily used the intermediate files generated on my local system, voila - a fresh version...
I fucking love "Lunix"
What’re the Martian and Venusian counterparts to "terraforming"? Martiforming
Venusiforming
Venereforming
Veneraforming
…?
The meek will inherit the Earth, but the lazy will rule the IT.
@bacardi55 I'm sick too. For a month now I can't fully recover before another virus attack. What a marathon. I know some people get vaccined against flue and claim it does help them with overall immunity. Never believed in such claims but starting to think maybe I should try cause what can I lose.
My work-related pet peeves: people using characters outside of the ASCII subset on old systems.
It's 2022 and you may take UTF-8 for granted, buttercup, but we're working with dozens of early 2000's machines here...
I think being nostalgic in IT comes easier when you weren't actually working with the old crap.
Начал снова смотреть серияльчики. Совершенно потрясный Pistol понемногу смакуем с женой, когда удаётся сплавить детёныша куда-нибудь (две серии осталось). Рекомендую всем — неожиданно качественная вещь.
А фоном к рутинным рабочим задачам отлично зашли Пацаны в озвучке кубиков — уже за второй сезон взялся. Деконструкция тропов — хорошо (хоть уже давно не ново), кровькишки и секс в стиле "Тарантино трахнул Мартина" тоже хорошо. Картон присутствует, разумеется, но жевабельный вполне.
Been stuck on my FoodBot project (now PyMeal) for a while. Have finally come unstuck after reading a couple detailed papers on the problem. Now the problem seems to be that I've been doing everything with shell scripts for so long that I've lost my intution about how to organize Python projects. 😬
Q: Why do stars twinkle?
A: Because they’re these really teensy-tinesy bitty dots. CUUUTE
Well formatted and reasonably well documented `ed(1)` subset written in Snobol4?
Why not? So far it took 82 lines of code (including command description and a shebang)...
I recently watched WeCrashed and I really enjoyed it. Despite some obvious creative additions for the sake of TV, it was a fun to get a sense of the craziness that went on during WeWork's unicorn days. Definitely had "Halt and Catch Fire" vibes. Curious if anyone, having seen either, has any recommendations for similar shows?
Writing a small script for every little, mundane thing I might want to do again some time.
Side note: really getting into line-oriented editors rn. It's not that they're new, to me, or in general, but the nearly distraction-free workflow when writing stuff in `ed`, `sam`, `ex`, `qed` or even `edlin` is a real therapy after workweek spent on shuffling information in dozens of windows and panes.
My work-related pet peeves: people who refuse to follow ANY, no matter how basic, but *consistent* formatting when preparing documentation. Also - the ones who say: "I am a system administrator, not an artist" (the fuck, that's why you should keep documentation consistent and easily readable).
My work-related pet peeves: people who use lists created weeks ago to handle dynamically changing processes.
My work-related pet peeves: people who don't use editor's own copy/paste function but rely completely on mouse selection. People who insist on using context menu to do copy/paste.
My work-related pet peeves: people who scroll through shell history instead of using the reverse search function.
My work-related pet peeves: people using nano or notepad for serious text editing.
I'm sick… Every freaking years at the exact same time, I get sick… I have to figure out why and how.
Finally got access to my server back. Turns out OpenSSH 8.9 breaks the software that interfaces with my signing dongle. 🤦
It's Monday – the start of a fresh new week (one out of our ~4000). What's everyone working on this week?
Grey go-away-birds (AKA grey loerie) having a party in my bird bath! #birding
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Неспешное субботнее утро начинается с чтения армейский баек и криптографических статей Рами.
Hey everyone, how you all doing? I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been working non-stop, but good to see lots of cool stuff happening on Station in my absence!
My finger-eating mechanical typewriter didn’t have the numbers one and zero because, eh, the letters I and O will do. Early leetspeak…
Wow what a week… Wait what? We are only Monday? 😢
Недолго мучилась старушка. Не выдержал я GNOME, Evolution и всяческих Gnome music — это просто ужасно. Вертаюсь на sway и консольные (преимущественно) приложеньки.
uthors that are more fun to read or talk or listen to podcasts *about*, #1: H.P. Lovecraft
Итак, могилизация объявлена и шансы под неё попасть крайне велики, ибо страшный сержант запаса и вот это вот всё. Шансы оные слегка снижены тем, что мне уже не 30 и даже не 35, но. Проект phreedom.club под угрозой из-за фактора автобуса равного единице. Если кто-то готов взвалить на себя функции резервного админа, свяжитесь со мной по почте.
This week I'm sick. I wish after one week I'll get much better. Some sicknesses last and last and they make you so weak. I hate them the most.
Also I realized I don't read gemlogs I subscribed to.
And logs I bookmarked are no longer available so I can't access them and delete from bookmarks.
Gotta find way to clean my gemini experience.
Imagine if Elrond Half-elven had had one full elf parent and were called Elrond Three-quarters-elven
Already tired on Monday morning…
Also, I'm flying to Prague tonight for the rest of the week for the DrupalCon event.
Will be great but also long and exhausting… We'll see how it goes!
By design, I can not publish gemlog/tinylog outside of my private network, and I don't have a way to connect from outside (on purpose).
It means no tinylog / gemlog entry until late friday 🤷.
I may try to continue updating it locally via orgmode as usually and see if I have anything to publish, even retroactively, on Friday :).
Does anyone else experience confusing menus or an overabundance of title and interstitial screens and intros and logos as an efficient deterrent when it comes to even starting a video game? Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is one of the worst offenders in my library, along with Capcom Arcade Stadium, Mega Drive Classics, Zaccharia Pinball, Atari Vault… maybe all those "simulated arcades/living rooms" but even that could be implemented with far fewer extra steps. And the logo plague is universal…
RE: @bacardi55 Thu 15 Sep 2022 10:19 CEST
I decided to write a bit more about my thoughts to help CDG live long (and prosper):
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/09/18/late-night-thoughts-about-cdg/
Noting down things that had saved me so I (hopefully) don't have to search up stuff every time
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3025615/is-there-a-vim-runtime-log
Wanted to add my gemlog but I couldn't provide a certificate as asked. How do I provide it? Anyways, cool place you might want to explore or add content to.
gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/cdg/logs/
Использование Misskey в качестве соцсети начинает сказываться. Пересматриваю потихоньку свой подход к минимализму - он становится менее радикальным. На ноуте сейчас переключился со sway на Gnome, заменив часть приложений - например, Dino всё-таки удобнее чем profanity (но amfora всё равно намного лучше чем lagrange, а vim - лучший редактор всех времён и народов), а возможности Evolution (особенно в сочетании с NextCloud) почти оправдывают его прожорливость по ресурсам. На десктопе пока переключился на MATE - в Devuan стандартный гном не живёт, ибо завязан на сустемдэ. Подумаю над заменой, вроде, там кто-то Unity возрождал...
Another cool oh-my-zsh tip: the take command (HTTPS):
https://batsov.com/articles/2022/09/16/oh-my-zsh-fun-with-take/
I created my own "mkcd" function but feels dumb now as it is just built-in…
But wasn't the case when I started using oh-my-zsh, I just didn't follow that news :).
Someone needs to invent kluntjes that dissolve without stirring
Especially when considering I can swap out part of the charset when transitioning to a different map that may have a different biome or society
So the inverse colour characters on the Commodore 8-bit machines are in fact not generated from the regular 128 chars but are simply characters 129-256 (or 128-255 if you will) and thus redefinable. My dream of a plus/4 Ultima-lite RPG with reasonably sized character tile graphics is not entirely dead
TIL with oh-my-zsh:
Use "omz reload" instead of "source ~/.zshrc", it is better :).
Source (HTTPS):
https://batsov.com/articles/2022/09/15/reload-zsh-configuration/
I quite like the idea of the « Collaborative Directory of Geminispace »
gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/cdg/
But to stay accurate and up to date, it should check for capsule status from time to time and remove capsule that were offline for example the last X tests during the last Y weeks/months.
Otherwise it will become another place where half links are dead.
Итак, Плерома всё-таки умерла, протянув чуть меньше двух лет. Нарастающее количество багов, наложившись на мои кривые рученьки таки уничтожило базу. Бекап был один (ибо больше класть некуда), и тот оказался непригодным. Итак, Плерома умерла, да здравствует Misskey! Посмотрим, как поведёт себя на дальней дистанции это японское чудо.
I have 2 drafts almost ready to be posted and 3 or 4 drafts to start… Feels like I haven't been that "productive" in my writings for a while!
(e)Lisp is a nightmare… Granted I've just started and a total noob… But all these parentheses… I'm loosing my mind 🤣
The fact that life is short has been said many ways, but there's something different for me when you state it in weeks – on average, we all have about 4000 weeks. That really doesn't sound long.
Уже без малого сутки долблюсь с базой Плеромы. Ну, авось, взлетит сегодня. Вообще, есть сильное желание все проекты в рамках phreedom.club (кроме, разве что паба) перевести в режим "всё хуйня, давай по новой!", заменить дебьян на OpenBSD, поменять весь софт на предельно аскетичные версии и ничерта больше не менять кроме обновлений безопасности. Доселе меня сдерживало только большое количество пользователей на плероме, а теперь, небось, разбегутся, после такого-то простоя (хотя, опупею с DNS как-то пережили...). Кабы не война и сложности с оплатой — сделал бы плавный переезд, расширив мощности.
UPD: пока писал, поступило крайне интересное предложение о переориентации проекта с превращением его в собственно клуб по интересам. Совместные бложики на общую тематику и всё такое прочее... Обмозговываю.
And yes I also cut off the burden of remembering about a virtual plant. I'm an easily distracted person, I need to decluter as much as I can.
I only go offline for few hours a day. Still am online on my phone in this time but only in case. I put it somewhere away and try not to check unless I make a break. Even this made my days so much better. I think being offline on main machine where I work is the key and I may make these periods longer in future and also put my phone offline more and more. Still can communicate with the world from the old laptop, if I really need it. It so inconvenient I won't do it without having a good reason.
@Szczezuja
I bought this comically tiny phone in June and it's been my daily driver since. It has some amazing features in it's diminutive package: dual sim, microSD card slot, bluetooth (for calls and music, or to act as headset/dialler for your smartphone), camera for photos and video, voice changer (making it a great burner phone), 4+ days of battery life. Call quality is as good as on any smartphone, and it cost less than R400.
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Weird pre-bed thought: Using tinylog as POSSE¹ source for posting on social media (in my case, the fediverse).
But I guess, it would mean displaying my tinylog on the web too 🤔. Not sure if I would like that tbh…
The other thing is I'd like to do is moving my tinylog to orgmode… I didn't think about this at all until now!
I don't even know if it's a good idea, because I wouldn't be able to use GTL edit and deploy script as is…
I'll think about another day I guess…
The good thing is that it will be even easier to archive things to avoid having huge tinylog…
Mine is actually 1500+ lines long… I really need to archive a big chunk of it…
¹ POSSE: Post on your Own Site, Syndicate everywhere
Am I really looking into creating an emacs package to automate export from my writings.org file to my gemlog? 🤯
The world becomes less scary when I think of it as just a giant classroom. The lower-brow tough normie kids with their blunt, open contempt and ridicule and the odd seriousness of their silly hostility; the activist kids with their ironic and sarcastic remarks, barely predictable offence-taking, and conditional acceptance; the straight-A overachievers who barely recognise your existence; the fellow outcasts who don’t necessarily like you (or you them) but are the ones who’ll have you…
Week end \o/
Was in the office today… Have been there 1 day in July, but last time was during summer 2021 (I went only once last year)…
It's fun to see colleague and discussing, but I'm so much better equipped at home as I said in a gemlog post… And it has a lot less people talking while I try to focus to^^.
I think I couldn't go back to a job where I need to go 5 days a week in the office though. I don't say "never" because you never know what could happen in the future.
Fully re-deployed my blog based on orgmode files as "source of truth" instead of markdown (even though orgmode content does get exported in markdown for hugo). I wrote about the "work" it was:
Moving my posts to org mode (HTTPS)
(Because I didn't fix my gemlog export process, blog posts via gemini are a bit broken right now, so I'm sharing HTTPS links… Sorry, but will be fixed "soon-ish"!)
The childcare place that I've been taking my kids has finally opened up to let us inside. Since COVID we've had to pick up and drop off at the door, but now we can actually see the inside. And since my children only started at this place during COVID, we, the parents, have only been inside once before.
I used to complain that it was annoying to stand at the door in the different temperatures throughout the year, but now that I have to walk in, unpack and unload both kids in their separate rooms, I now realize it wasn't that bad! "here's my little ones, have fun!" was basically what I had to do. It is, however, nice to see their rooms, their teachers, what they're doing, and see the other children... so it's a give an take I suppose.
Wow, not only did I post the blog post about orgmode I mentioned before, but I also squeezed an unplanned gemlog post too about a weird thought I had while deploying that new blog post… :)
Okay, those protohobbits are pretty cute!
If I'm not too lazy, I should be able to post my first blog post about orgmode (and a bit of emacs). I have a few in mind right now, some will be post on my blog, some on my gemlog, because why not :).
This makes me wonder though, because I have some post that I want to be on both… I know they will be visible on both, because I have pages for viewing gemlog entries and blog entries on both my site and my capsule… But that's not the same…
Anyway just a random metaphysical question…
Uploaded a bunch of Plasma colour schemes. For the 0 people who care. lol
https://store.kde.org/u/anjune
Made a distraction-free audiobook player using a Raspberry Pi 3A. Doesn't even distract me with a progress bar :) #diy
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I wish Lagrange was better at saving open tabs regularly so when it crashes (or my laptop hard reboot or whatever), then it would still remember the open tabs… 😞
I think I've never have so many blog/gemlog drafts posts in parallel at the same time…
Not sure to be happy or sad about that 🤔
I read that book; was interesting; have little to no personal experience with the male milieus she immersed herself in.
Not sure you can just conclude that that’s what drove her to end her life, even if she described these experiences as eye-opening and harrowing (and felt guilty about deceiving people).
https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/woman-pretended-to-be-a-man-dies-assisted-suicide-realizing-difficult
Sauron’s mark on Finrod, the symbol your wisest could not discern? That looks rather like your brooch, Galadriel. PLOT TWIST!!!
Giant eagle on FIRE! Middle-earth, continent of badassery and/or miserable brutality. How can you still be yelling when clashing with orcs like that; I’d be sooo out of breath and/or dead. Is that our moon? It ought to be but I can’t tell.
“Legion” of elves? That seems wildly anachronistic and also out of character. Call it a host of elves plx? Admittedly I have not read any Tolkien in a while. Maybe I’m wrong
You had no word for death? Didn’t plants and animals die?
Those are some uncharacteristically spiteful elf children. Go to your rooms!
popterm alsamixer
Thanks to hugo and ox-hugo, seems quite easy to migrate all my blog posts to org-mode :)
If ox-gemini works well, I could really simplify my {web,gem}log workflow :)
Went for a nice run in a park that's not too far from my house. I dropped the kids off at daycare and headed on over, so there was literally no one in the park. I like going there because it reminds me a bit of being back home, where it's not quite as built-up as it is around here, and you feel like you're actually in nature. OpenTracks, the FOSS activity tracker app I got off of F-Droid, says it took me 37 minutes to run about 4.8km. Definitely not my best, but it was trail running, and I AM a bit out of shape.
Is there a orgmode → Gemtext converter somewhere? 🤔
Issue 33 of smolZINE is done. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-33.gmi
Station just reached 800 people. Another nice milestone for this awesome little community. Here's to the next 800 👏
I'm lacking work motivation today, which isn't good because I have many things to do… 🤷
@bacardi55
ad 1) Ok I generalized few people to one but it doesn't change the feeling of it. It's still sending into the void. I get the same feeling about Twitter f.e. even though there are thousends of potential readers. Meanwhile on Mastodon I know I will probably get some interaction every time I write something. I don't care about likes though so if I get only likes it still feels lonely.
ad 2) It was Szczezuja's argument. Sending enough information so it starts to attract new users. I don't have it in mind while sending my tiny logs.
What I like about Unreal Engine games: those annoying intro logos/anims are deletable files
RE: @deerbard Wed 31 Aug 2022 11:35 CEST
Tinylog for me is writing random smalltalk-like starters, random thoughts but nobody reads except for you.
I wouldn't be so sure about this, there are other readers as well as "lurkers" that only read tinylogs via the aggregator. Not seeing responses doesn't mean no one is reading :).
I don't think it'll ever get popular and known unless […]
Is that the point of sharing thoughts here or on social media? Not for me at least, but I'm in a middle of writing a full gemlog about this (more or less^^).
I kinda feel like inventing a virtual town outside any demographics-based punching up/down/sideways and culture warfare for people to come together and start over with their own “boroughs” or “estates” and just pretend to be a future or parallel reality nation in which we can all live and let live and be individuals
…that’s probably some hippie libertarian 1970s fantasy about the internet as a whole
“How many miles to Babylon?
Three score miles and ten.
Can I get there by candle-light?
Yes, and back again…
If your heels are nimble and your toes are light,
You may get there by candle-light.”
It MEANS “before it gets dark (and you light the candles)” but I rather like the idea of asking if it is a place you can get to by the light of a candle (and possibly neither more nor less than that)
@Szczezuja
Well ad 1) I don't use tinylog for that personally. I use gemlog for that purpose. Tinylog for me is writing random smalltalk-like starters, random thoughts but nobody reads except for you. They have more use on Mastodon or even Station. Here it's sending information into empty space.
ad 2) Yeah, maybe that. I just don't care about it too much. I don't think it'll ever get popular and known unless whole societies change drastically their whole worldviews.
So I may stop writing here at one point or if I still have fun writing to nobody (I can talk to you directly on jabber) I will continue for pure unreasonable fun.
It's been 400 days of my plant on Astrobotany. I think I'm going to let it „die”. Getting rid of unnecessary rituals.
I have 3 W.I.P. gemlog posts in parallel… Was a long time ago the last time it happened^^.
Read this yesterday:
Dictatorships are good at concealing the problems they create while democracy is good at advertising its defects.
Daily dose of Vsauce wonder
[YouTube] "Is Earth Actually Flat?"
[YouTube] "Messages For The Future"
I dropped off Gemini and Gopher for a while, but I have picked it back up in the last week or so. I debated on moving this site off my raspberry pi and just using my tilde.club account, but I almost feel guilty for having invested this much time into my own Gemini setup. I also kind of wanted to update my phlog, but I barely have the time to update my Gemini capsule here, and I'm not sure what I'd write there and not here...
Most of the time I've just been going to capsule hosting or gopher hosting sites and randomly clicking through people's sites. There's a lot of neglected content out there, but still some gems despite the age. One advantage I think Gemini has over gopher, is the ability to subscribe to capsules... it's possible in Gopher, but a bit trickier and not as intuitive.
Lagrange on my phone has been instrumental in keeping me on the smallweb, because without it, I'd rarely be surfing here. Makes me wonder how @skyjake is doing... I haven't surfed over to his sites in a while.
Wrote several posts. In the autumn - winter I will try to publish everything in the gemlog.
VSCode interprets my ASCII art as Perl code =)
I’m not going to call her his “sex doll” just because he ordered her from his fantasies into his life; longing & smitten-ness are made of more than rutting. Luo/the book?/its author? may have a sexist streak (proof of which this margin is 2small2contain); so do often the publicly fairest, most enlightened humans’ private needs, for social & innocent biological reasons. For them I prescribe self-aware fatalist acceptance; for the book… idk
Later, Mr Luo, given immense powers as an unpredictable analysis-proof “Wallfacer”, requisitions a real-life version of said dream woman. The way Da Shi knows exactly what he means & finds him a woman right out of his daydreams rather outweighs the disbelief I can suspend… (but I suppose there is a type that “does” it, if not in practice then at a daydream level. Sensitive, intelligent, imaginative, utterly open & innocent & petite & delicate & protective-instincts-rousing; a Bambi Pixie Dream Girl)
So second book’s love-unbelieving main guy Luo Ji at the behest of his love-believing, YA-novels-writing girlfriend dreams up the perfect woman and to his own astonishment 1. falls in love with this imaginary creature 2. goes on a road trip with her because she’s just that real to him. … Is that an option? Asking for a friend. Oh, the friend has aphantasia.
Book recommendation: THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS, Nicole Perlroth. The fascinating story behind the biggest cybersecurity threats like Stuxnet, NotPetya, election interference, etc. Reads like fiction, but sadly it is not. #book
Nicole Perlroth
https://thisishowtheytellmetheworldends.com/
Proposition: Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls IV) is really a satire of socialites and eccentrics/people who can afford to be nuts
Tinylog - the only social media -ish place I wrote to (one random thought) in last ten days and yet I have a feeling it's the place I need the least. And then I have this other feeling that it's the best exactly fot this reason. There's no fooling here, we all know nobody needs my random thoughts. Let's say I would be able to make my friends read it (none of them reads it, what a pity, right?). Would it be ideal? Or would it be worse than writing to nobody? Or would it be all the same, doesn't matter?
Back to work… This is a bit painful after vacations^^
RE: @deerbard Sun 21 Aug 2022 16:27 CEST
I think I should try offpunk.
I, too, thought about trying offpunk many times, but for a reason I don't even know, I haven't yet^^".
RE: @szczezuja Sun 21 Aug 2022 20:33 CEST
@bacardi55 It's interesting idea to put Twtxt into GTL. Although it seems to be less active than Tinylog format.
To be fair, I don't read any twtxt so didn't really know if the space was still active or not, just thought gtl should be about "microblogging over gemini" more than just tinylogs… But you are right, the effort might be useless^^.
I am thinking about something like automatic discovery of Tinylog or Twtxt format. After all, it is a format that could be recognized by one regular expression. It could be function in opposition to manually organized subscription list. Something like SETI project for that. :-)
I'm sure the already existing search engine could add these type of feature to search for particular page format :).
RE: @szczezuja Sun 21 Aug 2022 16:28 CEST
→ gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-32.gmi Is Gemini ready for the applied arts?
I really enjoyed reading it :) Not sure why though, but I knew you were the author after only the first few sentences :) Good job!
I think I should try offpunk.
(Today’s Renoise rookie mistake) No wonder the pad chords were so thin when you can only use an individual plugin instance on a single track at a time…
How (non-)sensical is this whole business of unfolding a subatomic particle’s dimensions from M-theory’s eleven down tosix, three, two…? The Trisolarans unfold a proton to two dimension to inscribe integrated circuits on its now immense surface, turning it into a particle-sized computer that can conveniently be accelerated to near the speed of light… is a two-dimensional object even possible in three-dimensional space? Wouldn’t it have… no substance?
Thinking about adding txtwt support to GTL for those who would want a unified tools for readding both microblogging content on gemini 🤔
More and more tinylogs seems to be deactivated or removed… This is a bit sad…
“A live action Pac-Man movie is on the way” — didn’t expect to hear that…
So, watched RMC’s video on the VecFever. I hadn’t realised colour vector arcade games like Atari’s Star Wars used CRTs with shadow masks, costing them some of that cleanness and vibrancy associated with vector displays. I wonder if MAME on a high-res LCD isn’t actually closer to what I imagined them like — or the monochrome Vectrex displat, for that matter?
Task complete! I raided merriam-webster's dictionary, and now have an index of all (word . url) pairs -- all 338729 of them. I should've done it in the first place. The index provides metadata I always wished I had - for instance, words "apples" and "apple" point at the same url, which makes it trivial to remove -s plurals! In minutes I created a SpellBinding-appropriate dictionary with 90000+ words, double the size of my current dictionary. Now, there are a lot of Scottish and British-only words, so it's not entirely great.
But I can answer questions like 'give me all words that end in "wood"' that are SpellBinding-appropriate in Merriam-Webster's dictionary! There are 191!
Any of you crazy kids London-based? I'm in the city all week and would be cool to have a little Gemini hangout. 🍻
Got caught up with a simple SpellBinding-related project: find all words ending in -WOOD. Started with 87, but could not stop, and manually dug up more words - 206 now.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-08-16.wood.gmi
Amazingly, there is no reverse dictionary anywhere on the net! There are a few semantically reverse dictionaries, but no literally starting-from-the-last-letter ones.
I've been putting it off, but I have to scrub Merriam-Websters, since it is my reference dictionary. The API does not seem that useful for weird tasks like this one. I think scrubbing will work, as long as I do so respectfully over a few days and randomize my access...
Enjoyed reading @smokey's post this morning about learning Esperanto. Some good observations there, and certainly some truth that it's not all roses (though it is a very nice garden for the most part, IMO). gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-08-14-esperanto-dive.gmi
Liking that stuff about the countdown appearing in Wang’s photographs, and only his. Is it just me, or is <genre> fiction is just full of the *Anomalous* now, more so than it was in, say, the 1980s?
I 100% agree with this nice gemlog from ew0k :)
"If X You Shouldn't Release Software"
Time flies! I haven't posted here in ages. I've spent the last week messing around with fun things: a vector-graphics game support library. I do love asteroids and looking at some other vector games from the old days makes me feel particularly good. Raylib is a fun backend and coding in C is kind of therapeutic.
A quick proof of concept in a pixel-acurate recording of a few seconds of my display-list-driven prototype:
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/data/aster1.mp4
Silly putty is making me smile
I’ve never had any before
Why kill yourself because the laws of physics aren’t their usual invariant self at a high-energy-particle-colliding sort of level? Isn’t that… too interesting to throw your life away over?
Whatever is going on with the world now, it's not going to end pretty. We're all living on a ticking bomb. I don't enjoy saying such things. I don't want to think about it. But it's so clear and so terrifying.
Awesome! My Esperanto story won third prize. Super happy with that. I even get a cool diploma for it: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZvjZWVWIAApWys?format=jpg&name=large
“Ichorous tentacles constrict”… “Intricate, macabre music playing”… Stranger Things audio description subtitles are quite literate
Heard and read a lot about this trilogy. So far it’s been 1966 China and the idealistic cruelty of mind warriors with political religions that decide categorically which people, thoughts, and even laws of physics deserve to exist and which must be broken or exterminated…
Still hot as heck around here. If people don't believe global warming exists now, they never will. Not unless there's a catastrophic event like food shortages or flooding, but even then. I say this while I still drive around every day in a gasoline powered car because I can't afford a new car payment for an electric one...
Товарищ Localhost транслирует из Федивёрса в Gemini посты нашей местной популяризаторши науки Лиэс. Интересное:
Текстовый поток (обновление раз в 10 минут)
ow is it that kooks can be identified by their bizarre capitalisation?
She got up in the very doomed, dramatic way she had and left them, and Lactamaeon, second in command of Yr, whispered, “If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy. And therefore, Unbeautiful…”
“Kill me, my lord, in the form of an eagle,” Deborah said to him in the language of Yr.
Сам над собою ржу, но таки не сдержался. Хоть со спекулятивного счёта и вывел две трети, но часть остатков акций таки распродал и снова встал в шорт, на СШП500 и на РТС (через "мини" фьючерс). Ну должно оно посыпаться, просто обязано, жёваный крот этого казино... Кажется, лудомания мне не чужда. Главное, заниматься этим на самом маленьком счёте :)
Начал играть в "Where in the world"
Херовато я ориентируюсь на югах :)
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gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/play
June / July were quite busy months at work for many reasons…
I've lost track a bit of the gemini space but it is the slow web, so I can take my time browsing it :]
Грядёт пополнение в строю сервисов. ЖырноВеб задействован не будет - там я уже сделал, всё, что хотел. Развитие отныне только в gemini и схожих по духу направлениях. Веб-сервисы будут исключительно поддерживаться и обновляться.
Не переключайтесь, может быть интересно ;)
“a species so stupendously primitive it hadn’t even developed STL travel yet…”
What do you call a moon of a moon? We could use note values.
Quaver = planet
Semiquaver = moon
Demisemiquaver = moon of moon
Hemidemisemiquaver = moon of moon of moon…
And then also bubble up from quaver to…
Crotchet = barycentre with sibling planets, if any
Minim = parent star
Semibreve = star’s barycentre with sibling stars, if any
Breve = centre of galaxy
Longa = galaxy’s parent galaxy, if any
Maxima = A WHOLE FRICKIN’ UNIVERSE
It wouldn’t get confusing at all
Finally read William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy. Glad to have read it, if only because I'd been meaning to for some time now. It certainly suffers from the "Seinfeld is unfunny" phenomenon common to most seminal works, unfortunately.
Записки биржевого спекулянта.
В общем, не хватило мне выдержки, закрываю шорт на S&P 500 в минус. Хлюп вниз будет, но, вероятно, позже. Очень много манипуляц
ий, ибо конец финансового года в СШП наступает в сентябре, а я шортил сенятбрьский фьючерс. Думаю, ближе к декабрю таки будет падение (это если не станут разгонять инфляцию, чтоб вытащить рынок долга из жопы), но уверенности уже ни в чём нет.
Попробую лонговать доллар, ибо рублю пора на дно.
А, впрочем, ну их нахрен спекуляции, нервов не хватает и отнимает кучу внимания, лучше в бизнес брата вложусь, а на бирже оставлю только надёжное и долгосрочное.
Всё, баста, я больше не спекулянт, а снова инвестор, надоело.
В тестовом режиме запущена инстанция Geddit - сервис коллекционирования и обсуждения ссылок, как водится, кириллическая версия с прицелом на русскоязычную аудиторию gemini. Так как это ещё тестовый режим, возможны приостановки и изменения, но пользоваться уже можно. В названии решил сделать отсылку к старой фантастике и космосу (предложения по изменению таки принимаются).
The great longing of Eastern Europe folk souls. Where does it come from.
Товарищи, в планах есть докупить мелкую виртуалку с парой-тройкой дополнительных айпишников для использования исключительно под gemini-сервисы. Потому, кто читает это - отпишите, пожалуйста, в гостевуху или на почту, что бы вам хотелось видеть.
Предпочтительно из работающего непосредственно внутри gemini, а не проксирующего из Большого Веба. Например geddit (коллекционирование и обсуждение ссылок, по аналогии с реддитом). Прокси/зеркала, впрочем, тоже возможны, но не в приоритете.
Небольшой редизайн главной страницы личной капсулы. Заодно экспериментально поиздевался над одной из заметок:
"6 способов сделать жизнь медленнее" в экспериментальном дизайне.
Как вам?
There should be some sort of loungey, living-roomy place-to-hang-out-at for queer/ace/trans/kinky/whatnot types (the types could vary daily) where you could just relax/read/game/draw/crochet/write/code/cuddle/stare off into space, and you wouldn’t *have* to make contact with anyone, but if you did (would?) want to socialise, you’d know you’d have some specific thing in common, at least in a broader sense (in practice this can mean bugger all), and you wouldn’t have to justify or explain it
Today in 1887 the first book describing the international language Esperanto was published, making it 135 years old today. I'm really glad I became interested enough to learn it ~4 years ago. From travelling and hanging out with like-minded people, to having an international community of friends all over the world, Esperanto has become a fairly big part of my life at this point. AMA!
Here's a pic of my fridge-top Smol Data Centre, which I previously blogged about on gemini at gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2022-05-17-smol-data-centre.gmi #photo #diy
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Thank you for watering my virtual plant.
The battery life of my Orgasmatron is really disappointing (I’m talking about my Dyson V7 Motorhead vacuum cleaner)
Today in the morning I was still walking barefoot on the grass and soil and rocks of the creek and now I'm sitting back behind my desk in the middle of the city feeling trapped and uninspired.
Feels good to resume my inventory project after a long hiatus. I've identified the bugs in sc-im as a friction point for myself, so I'm working to replace it in my workflow with a collection of shell scripts.
What a crazy week. Started in Poland, then to London during the hottest days in the UK ever, started new job, then back to Manchester. And I still hit my gym quota! Very grateful for some rest time this weekend.
What's everyone else upto?
The short story I wrote in Esperanto for a writing competition (which will soon be published in a book) was read today, for the first time, in a podcast. If you want to listen, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ej1aJs5gY
Unfortunately the universe doesn’t agree with me. We’ll see which one of us is still standing when this is over.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky/Less Wrong (sans the context)
Today I learned an “open relationship” is just getting to have sex with other people whom you’re not dating and don’t love. So for me that would be _worse_ than monogamy. But I guess my partner would be welcome to it to take the sex pressure off me. 😕 The priorities of people with sex drives are strange and frustrating.
Polyamory is the desirable one.
lol when I lie on my back and pin my wrists down with dumbbells I feel affixed in place enough to follow a train of thought insteaf of constantly trying to find the best way to curl up and sleep
what an ingenious depressed shut-in life hack
enabling 2FA is a great way to ensure I won’t bother logging in to a website ever again
This weekend I’ve been in Kraków for a friend’s wedding. It’s actually my first time in Poland, and Kraków in particular is a really nice city. I’ll definitely have to come back next time I’m traveling somewhere nearby. The wedding was also awesome. What a purely happy feeling to see your friends find true happiness.
Meat eaters! Your food is already vegetarian. Why not cut out the middle man?
I dreamed I had a fake PhD that would expire unless I called into a game show Monday morning and won
Also sleep paralysis and hot flashes and chills all night, fun
Today I learned you can mount a directory, not just a filesystem (fstab: what where none bind) :)
I have to be in London next week, when for some insane reason, it's going to be 37º in the city. Never heard of such crazy temperatures. I'm currently writing a will, just in case.
It's summertime in my part of the world, and while I do enjoy the sun and ability to do things later in the day, the longer days are exhausting because I tend to fill them up so as not to waste any time. On the other hand, I dislike winter because I can't do anything outside... so basically I like Spring and Autumn.
I have noticed a bit more Esperanto being used on Station lately, so I'm taking the opportunity to pimp a post I wrote about the language – about why I love it, how I got started, and it also includes a little chat bot: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18
It's a beautiful day in the city – a rare occasion to enjoy coffee shops that didn’t commit to fully building their walls despite an average rainfall that challenges the definition of the words “under” and “water” taken together.
📢 Station now supports multiple identities! In "Your Account" you'll find a "Manage Identities" link. There's more details in Recent Updates: gemini://station.martinrue.com/updates
Really impressed with how much grassroots work is going on across Gemini. Shout out to @superfxchip, @smokey, @acidus, @krixano, @bacardi55, @skyjake, @gnuserland, @mozz to mention but a few very cool people building new things and extending the reach of Gemini in cool new directions. 🙌
What I can understand is limited by the frame I am opereting in and how I understand is by contrast to the frame. Which is invisible (always?) to me but not necessarily to others.
Just did a pretty hardcore run and hit 192bpm. Based on one's estimated max of 220-age, I'm now officially 28. Might have to ditch Station for TikTok at this rate!
A programmer had a problem and thought: "I know, I'll solve it with:"
threads: now problems he two has
regex: now /([ashetprblwoms\s]){19}/g
java: now he has a problem factory
async: now problems problems problems problems
C: now he has two problemsͮ̂҉̯͈͕̹̘̱≠ˀ ̶̧̨̱̹̭̯ͧ̾ͬ´
What do we want?
Now!
When do we want it?
Fewer race conditions!
254 walks into a bar with a long face.
Bartender: "Why the long face?"
254: "Just feeling a bit off."
Леннарт "Сраный Гремлин" Поттеринг официально вернулся к своим настоящим хозяевам. Миссия по внедрению бекдора в ключевые свободные операционки выполнена успешно.
Systemd Creator Lands At Microsoft
Обнаружен замечательный прокси для Youtube в gemini:
Позволяет искать и выкачивать (что удобно). Русский язык тоже работает.
Один из "явно не моих" дней. Дико тупил на работе, всё валилось из рук, вялый (разве что немного тайцзи позанимался - помогло на некоторое время), на бирже спустил вдвое больше, чем наторговал в последние пару дней (впрочем, оно и к лучшему - не моё это ваше трейдерство, моя психика больше к консервативным инвестициям расположена). И только сейчас, к ночи ближе я понял. Я не пил сегодня чаю! Трактовать ли это как абстинентный синдром или же как кармическое воздаяние за нарушение священных ритуалов, я пока не решил.
Folks, hit me with your number one link on Gemini to wow new users and show off how cool Gemini is.
I have a small window of free time, so I'm doing some Station work. 🙌
Fox is to vixen as dog is to ðiggen
It seems when it comes to software and operating systems there's a wide gap between what I'd consider a "household item" and a "tool".
My customisations are restricted to "household item" programs ($HOME, get it? :irritating_chuckle:) -- I modify my local/at-home configuration, my .vimrc has chapters and my .bashrc uses a big-ass library of small scripts. I compile my editors from source, I write utility scripts in all shades of exotic scripting languages.
Then, there are tools. Things I use everywhere, things that I expect to work (more or less) the same way everywhere. So, unless there's `exa` installed by default on the oldest Solaris I have to manage -- tough luck. Besides, the "added functionality" is as useful as sequins on jeans...
So @hiroantag clearly has the best profile image on Station :)
gemini://station.martinrue.com/hiroantag
It's a "file -> new project" kind of day. I love the thrill of building something new. No brush strokes have yet hit the canvas – everything is a possibility.
I mean, sure, 3 hours from now it'll be a bonfire, but I really enjoy these pre-flame moments.
@monolalia Very interesting list of guidelines. I'd like to ask you about the first one. Would you show me an example of such situation where it looks like making things nicer is a sufficient reason to regulate something but in fact it is not? I am not sure about this or not sure what you mean exactly.
Re: @monolalia Tue 28 Jun 2022 21:18 UTC ▒
What about "Nothi me non tere"?
(My sole contact with Latin are mariachi bands :D)
Working on paring back my possessions again and cataloguing that which I want to keep. Having a bit of scotch along with it for the first time in a long time. My hair's going gray and I'm becoming less ambitious, which is probably for the better. I have too many half-finished projects about.
Found this gemsite today:
The author's idea, picking a surname when starting a family, seems like a good one to me. I'd independently come to the same conclusion. Was nice seeing someone else had as well.
So just for fun (this is fun for me) I tried to come up with a non-jokey Latin phrase for “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”:
Non patimini beluas pessum atterere vos = Don’t let the brutes/beasts grind you down/into ruin
Nolite pati beluas pessum atterere vos = You don’t want to let the brutes/beasts grind you down/into ruin (if you’re attached to the “Nolite”)
NOTE: This might be gibberish. Don’t use on actual Latinians.
Offpunk is such a tempting idea.
If life gives you lemons -- that's a nicer alternative to scurvy...
I just invented guidelines for life
1. That banning/mandating/regulating (something) would make life nicer in some regard is not sufficient reason to actually do so.
2. Don’t be heartless. Maybe not everyone’s fighting some hard battle you’re just not privy to, but it’s more common than you know, and it’s not just the people you like.
3. You wouldn’t treat anyone else this badly, so why are you doing it to yourself?
4. You can change and be things you currently aren’t. You aren’t in any “hardwired” way cursed or excluded from life.
5. It’s easy to be a saint in paradise or a devil in hell. Would you be equally good under all circumstances?
6. If life gives you lemons, you can still just go explore the universe.
7. Consider how much the media get wrong about the stuff you know. How much do they get wrong about the stuff you don’t know? And how much might “your side” get wrong about “the other side”?
8. An it harm none, do as thou art told. (Okay, that one’s a semiprivate joke)
9. The truth doesn’t care about your feelings, but stuff’s not true just because it hurts.
Some thoughts on achieving goals: https://martinrue.com/achieving-goals/
A good read from bjorn about where to look for human created web content. Although here in gemini everyone knows I suppose
gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-06-24-human-made-internet-content-hidden-in-plain-sight.gmi
What's everyone working on this week? Me: It has been great weather here in the UK, so I've been doing a bit more hanging out with friends than usual. Last night I hung out with a group of local Esperanto speakers which was super fun, and tonight I'm finally getting back to writing some code!
Is that GTK file picker that constantly goes into autocomplete/search mode tripping up anyone else all the friggin’ time?
seriously, "humour me" in Dutch is "do me a lol"? ("Doe me een lol")
Not the highest level of motivation today… 🤷
Listening to The Temptations. Perfect mood, perfect name.
Spent the last few days renovating the home office. It was a lot of work, but I'm pretty happy with the final result: https://twitter.com/martinrue/status/1538628931468804109
Keto going well. I'm 8 days in and weight is already down 3.1kg, body fat down by 0.8 percent. Energy levels are good and I'm generally feeling miles better eating no carbs / sugar.
Everything you need to know about #happiness, distilled in one insightful #podcast episode
Evidence-Based Strategies for Being Happy | Laurie Santos | Knowledge Project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWxI9clgv8
Finally understood “Aunt Flo”! Flow! Duuuh…
I onced saved some gemlogs for later reading. Most of them almost a year ago. I just went through the links. Half of them not reachable anymore. Most of the rest link to capsules whose authors stopped to publish anything many months ago. Most capsules I was interested in are dead now. What will gemini look like in a year? In five years? In ten years?
@samhunter yeah, looks like I can only copy to and paste from other programs using touchpad. This is weird as in any other program in terminal emulator I can just use Ctrl+Shift+c.
Hello, I'm not dead.
I read Brian Kernighan's UNIX memoir a while ago. I guess that's how a successful life looks like -- you're so busy writing about awesome people you worked with that in the end your "memoir" is barely about yourself.
I am especially glad BWK wrote a lot about AWK and Doug McIlroy -- I am pretty sure UNIX wouldn't be such a great system without those two. A small language that could, and a largely unsung genius who invented the Unix pipeline.
Of all the things I write as a programmer, I still love writing a little CLI app more than anything else. Handling basic input and output and leaving behind all the web/app UX concerns is just so refreshing.
@deerbard: check your _local_ vim: `vim --version |grep xterm_clip`... if it says something like '+xterm_clipboard' the "+y will work... If not (or if you're on a remote system) -- you'll have to use your mouse (or the copy/paste functionality of your screen/tmux/dvtm)
@samhunter: This is becoming a long thread upon Vim. Haha. So my goal was to not use mouse when writing in Vim. I'm using Cool Retro Term by the way. Just a cool toy but I love it. Other than that I have Gnome Terminal. I don't know what people are using, I'm just scratching the surface of this reality by my own.
Is medusae.space abandoned? It looks so as no news in their gemlog since April 2021 and I found some capsule addresses that are not available anymore.
`vim` on the console can only use its own clipboard (copy-paste buffer. Actually something like 28 of them. Named.)
If you are using it in an xterm (or whatever people use these days) window, and you want to use your mouse to copy stuff from/into Vim: press and hold Shift while selecting. Then paste it elsewhere, as usual.
You might use the '+' buffer in Gvim (that's mapped to system clipboard IIRC) --> "+y
@szczezuja I see. You can also group capsules thematically in those three arms I guess.
re: @bacardi55 Tue 07 Jun 2022 01:55 CEST
Does not work for me. I'm only able to paste it back to Vim. Funny animal that Vim. As a not programmer I still don't understand why it's so popular.
RE: @deerbard Mon 06 Jun 2022 22:29 CEST
Is there any simple wat to copy paste from Vim to other programs?
"+y copy stuff (with the starting double quote) from vim. Then you can ctrl+v in another program.
FYI, "+p = paste in vim.
It is beautiful, @szczezuja. Is there any system behind grouping in particular arms of the galaxy?
szczezuja's map of his gemini galaxy
Is there any simple wat to copy paste from Vim to other programs?
Bookmarked. Too long for now.
bacardi55's take on gemlog replies
I've also done a bit of "cleaning" on my blog today:
GTL v1.0.0 is out:
I love regexp <3.
Didn't know how to solve my issue, turns out 8 lines of code (+ 10 lines of comment) did the trick :).
Going to run on latest version a bit and if everything is stable I'll release v1.0.0 tomorrow or Monday \o/.
Found the last issue I want to fix before GTL v1.0.0… But not sure how to fix it yet… So we'll see.
Objective is to release it before Monday end of day (bank holiday in France)
One of my favorite types of pizza - maybe my all-time favorite - is taco pizza. The thing about it though, is that it's rather hard to find. I have this one retaurant near where I used to live, one town over, that doesn't offer it on the menu, but does a pretty good job of making it without me having to explain too much what I want. There are a few ways to make it, but my favorite is regular crust, taco meat, salsa, cheese, lettuce, and dollups of sour cream on top - all in that order. Some places will also crumble torilla shell in there for that extra crunch, but I could go either way.
In other news, I got a new PR on my Peloton bike this morning for my 30 minute ride, beating my best by 6 kJ. I don't know when I'll be beating that anytime soon since I was SPENT by the end of the ride. I don't exercise a lot, but if this is the start of a new regimine, maybe it'll be sooner than later.
A final words from @ploum 's "Why Gemini Is Essential" log:
"If my 4 months of disconnection taught me that I’m not really disconnected, that I’m more connected than ever thanks to Gemini, maybe all those people spending their life on their phone, browsing mindlessly are the disconnected ones."
I may have done enough to publish GTL v1.0.0 this week end :)
skyjake.fi is currently offline due to my office/server setup being physically rearranged.
I wasn’t intending to disconnect the server but apparently a network cable must’ve been knocked loose. Oh well, everything should be up and running within 24h.
Checked Station and found a dubmest conspiracy theory about covid boosters being just a placebo. I don't know, is there sometnin about Station that would attract reckless statements? Yes, there is. It resembles microblogging social media. It's much easier to look for attention and reaction there.
I recently discovered that @frrobert is proxying my whole capsule content to www. I asked him kindly not to do it anymore. Waiting for the responce. You might want to check if your capsule is being indexed by the search engines as well. Hope he's reachable by his contact form.
I wonder what happened 73 days ago. Three of the plant owners from my plant ring on Astrobotany logged in 73 days ago last time. (I wonder which plant will survive the longest without their owners' care)
Productive afternoon and evening, I believe I'm done with the main feature for GTL v1.0.0 :)
Now I think there are some issues on github that needs to be fixed before a release…
But that's from another day!
I have been working on GTL again today on the next big feature that will lead to GTL v1.0.0!
I feel rusty after all this time but it's nice to get back into it :).
What a beautiful sky today.
Listening to somebody and thinking two things simultaenously: „this guy has an excellent understanding” and „this guys really thinks he's got an excellent understanding”. And the latter causes me to not really believe in the first.
Station just hit 700 people! It's really cool to see this place still growing. I should pull out all the sign-up dates and graph it at some point.
During last 24h I compared Chilly Weather gemini forecast with meteo.pl which I use on daly basis and the latter was much closer to what I observed. I especially focused on rain. It is still very cool that we can find weather forecast for any placy in the world in gemini.
I'm late to discover everything, just today I discovered there are threads on cosmos. Still not sure how it works exactly but there's a lot more interaction in gemini space than I thought.
Question for everyone: what do you use as your Gemini homepage / daily starting point?
For me it was usually Antenna but now I've switched to Cosmos, after adding the "Show posts newer than this" feature.
Also, would you be interested in a more dynamic home "dashboard" feature in Lagrange that combines and caches information from multiple pages into one home view? It would be a special type of subscription in practice. This might be nice if you regularly check up on multiple capsules, e.g., Astrobotany, Antenna, etc.
I'm not fully convinced such a feature is worth implementing, though, given the added complexity vs. value gained.
I had some writing inspiration so I wrote something new.
10 Slightly Odd Things I Want To Do: https://martinrue.com/odd-things/
New pic in one picture gallery. A photography again.
I started to read, very interesting. Hope I'll get to the rest at one point. I have a difficulty with getting back to my bookmarks.
I payed close attention to this anxiety thing yesterday. I will probably never know for sure. I may still get sick later today, or not cause my body fought it succesfully. It usually happens one day before I get sick. It could be strong meteopathy as a weather was changing rapidly yesterday. I'm guessing it was a mix of that and caffeine but there could be any amount of hidden reasons. Never stops being interesting. Have a good weekend, everyone!
Made an extended battery pack for my aging MacBook that also acts as a comfortable base. The 55Wh battery pack consists of cheap and easily replaceable 21700 cells. Plenty of space to add more batteries, USB hub, hard drive, or other accessories. #diy
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“Despite the high cost of living it remains popular.”
Mild anxiety. Is it just coffee or something else. I have a strange relation with caffeine.
@martin Congratz! Wish you it's just the beginning!
@bacardi55 Did you really think Yoda said something original there? The whole greatness of the old SW is that there was so many archetypical characters and cultural quotes. For the same reason all the new SW have no depth.
🤧 Been having a cold this week, so dayjob productivity has been nil... On the other hand, this has given me the opportunity to design a bunch of (extended) ASCII Emojis for the Lagrange TUI. Check it out:
```
°u° Alien
^;= Duck
_:_ Folded Hands
```
v1.13.5 has a few of these in the new Simple Characters mode.
@szczezuja thx, I forgot about station (never used it) and didn't know about „cosmos”. Something's changed in Nightfall City, there are no logs to read anymore, just a list of places. So I stopped checking it.
Just found out some fiction I wrote for a competition will be published in a book sometime this year. Really happy about that! It's something I had never done before, so I had to give it a go. 🙏
Going suckless. Switched from i3+xfce4-terminal to dwm+st.
Обновил сайт-агитку: добавлены Pleroma и Hubzilla. Спасибо Кошаку за информацию и скриншоты, �� Тимуру за обновление nocss-версии, которая начисто вылетела у меня из головы.
I discovered this saying in Latin (from Ovid):
aut non tentaris, aut perfice
Which means:
either do not try it or go through with it
… So Yoda was just a copy cat then 🤣
Инстанция Whoogle на search.phreedom.club снова запущена.
What's everyone doing this weekend? Anything interesting planned?
Thx @szczezuja, working indeed :) Anyways, any other new places like this? I'm wondering how people tend to connect in gemini these days, did anything change in this regard?
```vim
:w !diff % -
```
What are the now existing feed aggregators / places you can submit your logs to? I knew there's Antenna but when I tried to add my log there, it didn't show up (tried twice and checked after a day). Also was wondering if there are any new places.
Отказался от cl-yag в качестве движка для блога. Отныне всё из http просто проксируется в gemini. В качесте прокси испольузется прекрасный kineto.
For my Esperanto speaking friends here: one of my favourite words in Esperanto is "ŝanĝiĝi". Here's why, plus a little glimpse into how my brain works.
https://twitter.com/martinrue_eo/status/1524381880958783488/photo/1
PS: apologies to linking to "the other site", but images.
Testing Lagrange 1.13.4 TUI in a Linux virtual terminal.Looking quite messy still, compared to a GUI terminal emulator! The biggest problem is the Unicode symbols, which are missing and drawn with incorrect widths. The VGA color mode is passable but needs more distinction between UI backgrounds and the page.
Two strings walk into a bar.
The first one says, "I'll have a vodka and coke¶³¾¤§¿ZZüy".
"Excuse my friend, he's not null terminated" says the second.
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Never gets old. No, I mean due to trauma: https://martinrue.com/zzuy-a-lesson-in-perseverance/
В русскоговорящем gemini какое-то затишье, и самому писать лень. Спасибо товарищу Розенфельду за избавление от скуки — слог, как всегда прекрасен:
Just finished the show #severance. It's one the the most interestingly odd shows that I've ever watched and I couldn't stop. Binged the whole season. It's definitely akin to Black Mirror. Recommend.
My script that parses this journal page and dumps out the content in tinylog format had hardcoded the year to 2021. Can't believe I'd only found out about this 5 months into 2022, anyways it's fixed now.
The CGI scripts that is supposed to run that ^ on demand and deploy any changes to my tinylog.gmi feed doesn't work still because CGI is run by a single user in gemserv. I'll think about how I can (safely) fix that soon.
Lagrange v1.13 supports spartan!
I always thought there were two list methods to find the index of an element in python - find and index. find would raise an IndexError when the item isn't found in the list, whereas index would return -1 in that same case.
Nope, that's completely wrong.
First, there's only .index for lists:
```python
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].index('a')
0
```
And it raises a ValueError if the item isn't found:
```python
>>> ['a', 'b', 'c'].index(404)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: 404 is not in list
```
Method signature:
index(self, value, start=0, stop=9223372036854775807, /)
Return first index of value.
Raises ValueError if the value is not present.
Second, the "find vs. index" is for strings, not lists - both find and index methods exist for strings:
```python
>>> 'abc'.index('a')
0
>>> 'abc'.find('a')
0
```
So what are the differences? Turns out my previous understanding of how find/index handles non-existent items had been mixed up. When attempting to index a substring that isn't actually in the string, index raises a ValueError, and find returns -1:
```python
>>> 'abc'.index('z')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: substring not found
>>> 'abc'.find('z')
-1
```
(Note that you can use either to search for "substrings" - i.e: `'abc'.index('bc')`)
Method signatures:
```
index(...)
S.index(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int
Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
such that sub is contained within S[start:end]. Optional
arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
Raises ValueError when the substring is not found.
```
```
find(...)
S.find(sub[, start[, end]]) -> int
Return the lowest index in S where substring sub is found,
such that sub is contained within S[start:end]. Optional
arguments start and end are interpreted as in slice notation.
Return -1 on failure.
```
Just for fun, I also went ahead and tested out the performance of the two methods
$ python3 -m timeit "'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.index('p')"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 131 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit "'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.find('p')"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 103 nsec per loop
```
For cases where the item isn't found:
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"try: s.index('Z')" \
"except: pass"
1000000 loops, best of 5: 310 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"try: s.find('Z')" \
"except: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 110 nsec per loop
```
```
python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('Z') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 119 nsec per loop
```
Seems like .find() clearly wins on speed.
Here's an example of searching for the index of a substring in a string, then doing something with it:
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'z' in s:" \
" index = s.find('z')" \
" print('do stuff with', index)" \
"else:" \
" print('not found')" |tail -n1
500000 loops, best of 5: 700 nsec per loop
```
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if index := s.find('z') != -1:" \
" print('do stuff with', index)" \
"else:" \
" print('not found')" | tail -n1
500000 loops, best of 5: 686 nsec per loop
```
Interesting! The second method does seem more idiomatic and "clean", but can .find() truly beat python's native operator?
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'Z' not in s: pass"
10000000 loops, best of 5: 31 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'xyz' not in s: pass"
5000000 loops, best of 5: 40.3 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if 'xyZ' not in s: pass"
5000000 loops, best of 5: 39.6 nsec per loop
```
```
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('Z') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 119 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('xyz') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 137 nsec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s "s='abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'" \
"if s.find('xyZ') == -1: pass"
2000000 loops, best of 5: 140 nsec per loop
Nope :) It does cost a method call.
---
Python version used: 3.8.12
Further exploration:
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/help/py?list.index
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/help/py?str.index
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/help/py?str.find
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.index
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#str.find
https://docs.python.org/3/library/timeit.html
I watched „Marriage Story” six days ago and I'm still bit sad and a bit disturbed but I'm still glad I watched it. I like Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, and they played well.
Unfortunately I screwed myself: I pointed out a bug to @Skyjake, and the 'correct' implementation removes the possibility of using session ids via input URLs, as no Spartan server does things 'correctly.
I have to throw away a bunch of code that will no longer work. But I have another trick up my sleeve for managing sessions.
Observation: to be really creative I need time to play – time that other goals or distractions have no control over. It seems like a trivial observation, yet it's so easy to fill your calendar and leave no time for that sort of work/behaviour to occur.
RE: @bacardi55 Tue 03 May 2022 16:49 CEST
@Skyjake released Lagrange 1.13[1]. I'm truly impressed by how regular and efficient he is with all his gemini related project!
That being said, I'm also very eager to start testing lagrange TUI version <3
@Skyjake released Lagrange 1.13[1]. I'm truly impressed by how regular and efficient he is with all his gemini related project!
Lagrange 1.13 has been released:
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-05_lagrange-1.13.gmi
Curses TUI (source build), improved keyboard UI navigation, support for @mozz's Spartan protocol, Unicode 14 Emoji included, bookmarking indicator, viewing pages as plain/styled text, reopening tabs, and ability to embed trusted root CA certificates. I'll use the last one especially in the upcoming mobile builds so they can check CA-generated server certificates.
Please treat the TUI version as a beta for now. It's missing a few settings and has a few rough edges.
I have two prints of my „Queen of Hearts” illustration. Two different versions. You can see pictures here:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/index.gmi
and contact to me here if you're interested:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/contact.gmi
Oops, it turns out I never expected Station to last 1 year :)
Sorry about the cert issues folks. We now have a new one that (once trusted) will keep us going the next 10 years. Also happy 1 year anniversary to this cool little corner of the internet. 🎉
PS: Thanks for the heads-up @comatoast @obspogon @haze. 🙏
Seems station certificate has expired :/
I've been burning albums and a couple mixes on mindisc the last couple days and I've got a pretty good stack now. I was also able to fit all of the side A KONPEITO mixtapes onto a single mindisc :-).
After far too long, I spent the whole weekend hanging out with Esperanto speakers at the Brita Kongreso here in the UK (in Wales). It was awesome to be around old and new friends, using only Esperanto for the whole weekend. I forgot how much I love escaping the real world and living in Esperantujo. Really can't wait for IJK in summer, where instead of 60 people it'll be more like 200 . 🙏
I'm pleased to announce that after a swift and relatively easy board meeting, we've voted unanimously to reject Elon's bid to buy Station.
In my rolling one pic gallery you can now see a photo I've taken in 2006 that is a perfect example of what I miss in myphotographies today (I now use a compact digital camera for the convenience).
I checked nytpu's photos and found something that reminded me for a gazillionth of times how much I prefere analog photography. And I was never fully able to understand what are all the reasons. Grain for sure and specific colors but something about edges and sharpness too.
whole capsule about media literacy, didn't read through it yet but looks interesting.
Очередная находка на просторах: Eater of Sheep
gemini://extratone.xyz/music.gmi
Seen on aioe.news.helpdesk newsgroup:
Some posting about spam on another newsgroup that comes from aioe.org servers…
First response:
Can you not just filter him rather than crying about it publicly. Are you some little crying baby that your mum couldn't teach you manners?
WTF is wrong with people unleashing their hate online for no reason… 🤦
I hate doing laundry, I really do. And kids just seem to make so many piles of it! #screwLaundry
Вернул в строй инстанцию AllTube Download — веб-фронтэнда для youtube-dl.
Finally finished Ender's Game, what a great book. The audio story telling was great and I would delay doing things a few minutes to keep listening. Plot also got me thinking and feeling, which is rare these days. Looking forward to the next installment. Still also reading The Furyck Saga.
Everything that becomes popular turns to crap. So now I have to ditch DuckDuckGo and find an alternative. No, I'm not telling you what I'm moving to, lest they get enough users to dictate their terms to us. #rant
Computers were "good enough" 5 years ago, and we're still using them for the exact same purposes. So why do we have gigs of software updates every week, and why do our computers get slow and "out-of-date" every 2 years? Where's the extra value from all this added complexity, compared to 5 years ago? Is it purely aesthetic? I'd argue that we're regressing, not progressing. #computing #philosophy
Reading an old manual file for a Lisp Machine (dated June 8th, 1984) . Just stumbled upon `with-open-file` working exactly the way the the similar statement works in Python.
We're not making much progress, m'key?
Photos from a recent trip to Hartebeespoort #photo #holiday
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Birds photographed on a recent trip: Half-collared Kingfisher, Black Swan (in captivity), Giant Kingfisher . #birding
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✅ - Nice article by @szczezuja
Seems that houston¹ (verify a capsule status) has made smolZINE 24² :)
Thanks @kelbot
After decades of Ubuntu use, I've replaced my desktop OS with antiX. It's a minimal Debian system without systemd. Boots to desktop in about 5 seconds and uses only 150Mb of RAM. It's a simple system that I can get my head around easily and administer without unlearning and relearning things all the time like I had to with Ubuntu. It feels fast and efficient, and looks good too. For similar reasons, on the server side, I'm moving from Ubuntu to OpenBSD where I can.
antiX Linux
How to water your plant "without" a Gemini client:
echo "gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us:1965/app/plant/water" | openssl s_client --connect "astrobotany.mozz.us:1965" -cert $CERTDIR/cert.pem -key $CERTDIR/key.pem -crlf -quiet -ign_eof
It's a "long weekend" here in the UK due to the Easter holidays. I hope those with the benefit of the extra time off work have something/relaxing planned. I'll mostly be coding and settling back into life in the UK after a little time spent living in Spain – I'm still saying "¡la cuenta porfa!" in restaurants here!
I like Amfora a lot and it's the only gemini browser I use and I really hope it will always work. Forever and ever.
Watched Dune at last. I’m… really disappointed? “Desert power” *rolls eyes*… how anachronistic (for the world of Dune)! People sound mundane, present-day-ish, and largely uninvolved. Nothing has colour. There's little grandeur or sense of a rich cultural heritage — just this grey desaturated utilitarian military flavour to all but the spice-blue eyes. Of course the David Lynch movie had the opulence cranked up to eleven for House Atreidis and the Corrinos, but it did at least show off more of the Dune universe and made it quite clear that it was a very different age and world. Edric’s (the Guild navigator) visit to the Emperor with his news of Ix (the meaning of which would be lost to anyone unfamiliar with the book) certainly helped “weirdify” Dune as well. Oh, well. It can only get more interesting as the story picks up pace in future movies. Right?
В плейлист PiRadio добавлены композиции из http://www.marksmart.net/randommusic/IMS/RecText.php
--
Testing testing. First time posting from Lagrange in the terminal, running in text mode! https://skyjake.fi/@jk/108109462522530795
Finally got an ethernet cable run to my raspberry pi that's sitting on the top floor of my home, and also running my Gemini Capsule. Not surprisingly my site loads faster. Also had a snafu whith my site not loading, but that seems to have resolved. New gemlog post on my foray into wiring up my house with ethernet and behind-the-wall cabling.
People that are still (or again) using usenet: How do you find interesting group to subscribe? There are so many and so much spam it seems impossible… The only one I'm following right now is the gemini one^^.
"Nearly all of modern computer engineers are working above so many layers that there’s no human way to understand what they are doing."
gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-05-firefox-ubuntu.gmi #computing #philosophy #ubuntu #snaps
The Theological Problem Behind Firefox in Ubuntu 22.04
https://kineto.tobykurien.com/x/rawtext.club/~ploum/2022-04-05-firefox-ubuntu.gmi
Back in the UK after living in the Canaries for the last 3 months. It's great to see people again after so long, but damn, I'm already missing that beautiful weather. It's so rough here that the plane aborted landing on the first attempt.
`slope` can be compiled now -- ~sloum wrote a nice compiler/linker - it resembles slightly the way the old DOS BASIC compiler worked - by embedding the source and the interpreter in a single executable file.
It might not be the most storage-efficient way, but giving someone a file/link to the file is much easiert than asking them to install all dependencies.
With zsh, when you are in a middle of typing a command and realize you need to type another one first, just use "ctrl+q", it will delete your command and let you type another one. After it is executed it will paste back your 1st command (before the ctrl+q) :)
This is so useful, for example if you realize the folder where you want to move a file is not created yet.
👍 zsh tips
I'm going to my first in-person Esperanto meetup in a couple of weeks since before the pandemic and I'm really pleased. It has been ages since I was around a bunch of other speakers, and there should be between 60-80 people! I'm even running a few games of "homlupo" (werewolf).
I painted Ursula K. Le Guin portrait and gemini is the first place I published it to. Rest of the world can wait. Check my Rolling One Pic Gallery.
Curious which OS folks are running.
[POLL Which is your daily OS of choice?] Linux | macOS | Windows | Mobile (Android/iOS) | Other
The best thing you can do when learning a new language is to wield it like a maniac everywhere you can. You quickly lose any desire to appear competent and it becomes a lot more fun. It's also amazing how often people will go out of their way to help you when they see you trying.
I found old log drafts. Nothing interesting though so deleted them. Still have some to check, I had some extra time during last Summer. But it's always just loose thoughts I had in mind back then.
Nice read about tinylogs (in RU and EN):
Микроблогинг в Gemini: tinylog и gtl / Microbloging in Gemini: tinylog and gtl
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/2022-04-03-MY008.gmi
Changed admin to webmaster because I can and because I like this word more. *cool_face*
I'm kind of having a Hannibal Smith moment right now: "I love it when a plan comes together"
Except - it never was a "plan". It started with a shocking (not anymore) discovery, that the system I'm on doesn't have the `bc` calculator.
After looking around and finding some, not so suitable, tools a normal person would just find the source package, compile bc and move on.
Well, not me, obviously - I decided to write an RPN calculator in bash... Then the way assemblylanguage routines should handle the stack made me rework the stack of my calc.
Then I wanted to see it... Then it wasn't a calculator anymore -- it turned into a set of command-line macros that allowed me basically write and run ASM programs in Bash ("in", as in mixing bash and assembly commands and sharing the screen and variables.
And now I am just translating the lines into Javascript to make it less 1970's-chic.
A MASM-like assembly interpreter (WiP)
A MASM-like assembly interpreter (WiP)
@bacardi55 Oh, I see! I was just unlucky then to check it at wrong moment :) Thx.
RE: @deerbard Fri 01 Apr 2022 12:35 CEST
Just learned my tinylog does not appear in Tinylog timeline generated by gtl anymore. Was it too boring or what could be the couse?
Your tinylog is still indexed by the aggregator! What can happen is if during the last check a capsule is down, it won't display any posts from it (there is no a memory, all posts are retrieve at refresh). So if any network issue happened right at the refresh time (could be on my server side too), then you are not in the latest page, but will be at the next refresh (every 15min). I can see your tinylog on the aggregator now for example.
Finished 30 days of intermittent fasting today. It's something I do on and off for periods of the year, aiming to give my body a rest from food intake much more than our normal diets allow. There are some really exciting health benefits associated with 16 hour daily intermittent fasting. If anyone is curious, I highly recommend the documentary Eat, Fast and Live Longer.
Just learned my tinylog does not appear in Tinylog timeline generated by gtl anymore. Was it too boring or what could be the couse?
Quite often I want to write a log about some thought I have but knowing it would take more time than I want to spend on it I always put that away and forget about the thought. I think I should change my attitude and write even short chaotic thoughts. Still better than not writing at all. It's kind of a diary thing. Only public. Maybe that stops me. But in the other hand, I don't think I would be determind to write a private one without any chance for interaction and thought exchage. Here, in gemini space, the chance though small, still exists.
What do you think? How do you treat your logs? Do you write a private diary or other form of thought saving?
Station reached 600 users today... another cool milestone for our awesome little microcommunity here. Congrats everyone 🙌
I had a tree removed from my property today, and I was surprisingly and almost inexplicably emotional about it - like loss and remorse. It's just a tree, but I liked it and it was HUGE; however, it was slowly dying and dropping branches which posed a safety concern. It took a 5 person crew almost all day to take it down and the enitre time I kept saying "sorry tree..." I will be planting a new one though, so there's that.
С понедельника осваиваюсь на новой галере. Переход из конторы на 200 человек в кровавенький энтерпрайз с тысячами сотрудников — то ещё приключение. Всё такое серёзное, аж зубы сводит. И индуся в техподдержке — это нечто. Я-то думал, у меня плохое произношение...
The haptics of styorofoam and Cotton balls (cosmetic) are to me as nails on chalkboard are to others and I literally fear touching them
RE: @szczezuja Tue 29 Mar 2022 21:48 CEST
Bacardi55 pointed out to me the Usenet. I was touched by the second illiteracy. I used Usenet in the '90s. And now I haven't even know how to go about it. Ancient knowledge, what are the NNTP server addresses now?!
→ https://sdf.org/?faq%3fUSENET%3f01 [news.sdf.org]
And it already seemed that I do not have a free server at hand.
I'm "browsing" usenet with my mail client neomutt :) I'm also using this server that is free and open:
nntp.aioe.org
I finally wrote the long (decades) overdue Brainfuck interpreter.
The prototype in Python was rewritten in JavaScript and now it resides
I've discovered that many actors attempt to find a common syntax for markdown. You can find more info on
@szczezuja thx for these radio stations without commercials. I'll give'em a try sometime although I'm not used to talking radios. I mostly listen to soma.fm.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-03_android-beta1.gmi
The next phase begins in the Lagrange for Android prerelease builds. 🚀
Thanks for the Alpha feedback everyone! The work continues but now I’m happy to start calling this a “proper” Android app and not just a platform-agnostic mobile build.
I was poking around gemlog.blue yeaterday and noticed a lot of odd looking usernames. upon further inspection it appears bots have infiltrated the signup process. A lot of the sites are single pages with file download links scattered across the web, and also SEO agencies. Makes me sad to see.
Finding myself trying to pay more attention to how much energy I'm using and when I'm using it. Trying to shift my more energy-intensive activities toward the daytime, when my solar panels are providing most of my electricity. It's proving an interesting exercise. I think I might start carrying a USB stick with media I might want and using that instead of my local NAS in the evenings...
New thingy:
A little bit of research for English-speaking expats
I sent my first message on the gemini newsgroup today! First time for the past 15+ years!
I met the former owner of my home just today, and he was different than I'd expected. I don't know what I'd expected, but he seemed like a laid-back friendly older man, maybe in his 70s. I've only had this place for just over a year, and in that time I've kind of cursed him for the bad wiring job in all the rooms, but now that I met him I felt a little bad. I still have wiring to fix in this place, but it changes things when you meet someone in person, especially when they seem friendly enough.
I've been poking around gopherspace a bit in LaGrange on my Android, and also Lynx and the official gopher software from the linux repositories, and I can't put my finger on it, but Gopher has a different feel to it. For one, it seems to have more content than Gemini...meaning, in Gemini there's a lot of folks talking about how Gemini works, but not a lot of personal projects or thoughts, etc. I think this has to do with the age of Gemini, so I'm guessing there will be more regular content here. Also, and it may just be me, but Gopher seems to center around a few main servers, i.e., Floodgap and SDF, etc., but I have more digging to do.
I stumble more and more on broken links in gemini even from aggregators like Antenna/Cosmos. Either stability has gone down lately in the gemini space or I'm just unlucky ^^.
Sometimes I post just random thoughts that come to my mind. Please don't read them as complaining. I's usually little observations or articulation of mood/feeling. Like the one about posting to the void. I actually felt good, it feels mysterious to send the words for nobody to read and exciting that in this endless emptyness still somebody can read it. It's like reaching alien worlds with letter in a bottle.
re: @szczezuja Mon 21 Mar 2022 21:32 CET
I wish there was such a tool for Polish as well even though it's our native :D
Finally finished moving quietplace.xyz to new VPS. It takes 6 days of work.
/me tired
Wrote little post about what I selfhost.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/2022-03-20-MY006.gmi
Re: @deerbard 2022-03-19 23:24 CET
I've been wondering about that here on Gemini - will you even see this response if you're not following me? Probably not, unless you look yourself up on Kenndy Search's mentions page.
Discovering usenet after so many years (15?) :)
There is now a specific gemini place there too:
comp.infosystems.gemini
Sending messages for anyone and nobody. Why do some of us do it?
Too rare are the occasions when I think clearly and logically.
@gnuserland Check it out: 🙂
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-03_android-alpha7.gmi
This is also a preview of Lagrange v1.12, with Roboto as the default font, paragraph justification option, bottom URL/tab bars, new "Oceanic" color theme, and improvements for the other themes.
I did notice an occasional problem with the lookup results popup remaining open even after unfocusing the URL bar. Let me know if you find a reliable way to reproduce that.
Started watching Ted Lasso because Apple decided to make it free for a short while to lure folks in. I knew exactly nothing about the show except that it won a LOT of awards. I'm four episodes in and I can say that it's got me hooked; however, I refuse to sign up for another streaming service so I'm just going to binge as much as I can before they pull the plug. I guess I should figure out when that is...
Oh em gee, look at the prettiness coming to my "problematic" first computer love! Back in the day (mid-80s++) I wouldn't have believed it possible. Most games used had bad colour clash or character-cell-based movement or used only four colours in the "active" area... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StWFw1pi0HQ
Q: Would you like to see companies embrace gender(-)neutral German?
A: Not until there actually is such a thing as gender-neutral German. In my maybe not so humble opinion, the current incarnation with the "gender star/colon/underscore" is no better than the generic masculine. While it frequently works out in the singular (apart from the "*" confusing the normies), plurals like "Ärzt*innen" or "Professor*innen" really just inject an asterisk into the feminine form: "Ärzt" doesn't mean anything, and "Professor" isn't the intended masculine plural form either. Using the asterisk as in set theory or like a DOS-/UNIX-style wildcard won't help with that either; the wildcard doesn't work like that. And the nerd and pedant in me is bothered by that. I think the slash thing or mentioning both was better even if it took up more space ("Ärzte/Ärztinnen", "Ärztinnen und Ärzte").
- I like that there are so many things to discover about Gemini. After having figured out how SCGI basically works on the Molly Brown server, I returned my attention to actually making content and surfing around on here. I've seen the debates about how Gemini is kind of centralizing with these aggregators, but honestly, they are only a small part of my time here on Gemini. I'll find a link on a capsule and just go down a rabbit hole of links...which is part of the great thing of Gemini. It's the original stumbleupon.
- The only negative thing about Gemini is that if I don't post to something like Antenna, it's almost like a personal journal here, with my only readers being link crawlers. Not that I have much to say, but isn't that part of writing a gemlog on the internet? So other people might read it?
It's great that after so many years I still love the feeling of sitting down and wiring in for a long evening spent progressing an idea. This kind of creative outlet has been addictively valuable to me since the day I first started coding, and I'm very thankful I can still find it. ☺️
Last night I watched "Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda." It's a documentary about a Japanese composer who, at the time, was battling throat cancer. It was a nice, calm, meandering film. I enjoyed it.
Poll – I'm curious what kind of geography Station covers now with so many more users.
[POLL Where are Station's users?] Africa | Asia | Europe | America (N/S) | Australia
Just 2 posts until Station reaches 2000. Nice little milestone!
@bacardi55 yes I'm on RTC, though I'm like a child in a fog, I'm using just little functionality that I've been shown how to use. I mainly post to my capsule. As for tools I know how to check for RTC members there's a chat called gab and for a longer form writing there's shlog.
RE: @bacardi55 Mon 14 Mar 2022 10:44 CET
In theory, using offpunk should be the same as centralizing gemini/web pages I want to read in wallabag (which I already do)…
But I don't know why I feel I need to try offpunk for some nerdy reasons :).
I think I'm going to try offpunk sometime this week… :)
https://tildegit.org/ploum/AV-98-offline
I installed and configured grocy for managing food stock, meal planning and shopping list shared with my gf.
I'm very impressed by the tool so far :)
Goal is to plan better to limit waste even more :)
RE: @szczezuja Sun 13 Mar 2022 22:31 CET
Thanks a lot for sharing those info :]
Is usenet still used? Anyone has good documentation if that's the case?
Or are BBS more still used? If so, which is the more active between usenet and BBS?
Where my minidisc homies at?
I've release GTL v0.7.0 :)
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/03/13/gtl-v0.7.0/
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.7.0
RE: @szczezuja Sat 12 Mar 2022 22:28 CET
"nb" looks very interesting. Someday, I would like to get into org mode. It seems to be an even more general solution (although it would require a transition from vi to emacs).
I thought about it a few times, but I can not make my mind to move away from vim after all those years…
There are not many ideologies today, it seems, that encourage consuming less in order to reclaim more of one's free time for oneself. Yet I think this is a necessary plank in our transition to a greener future. I feel this could be helped along by encouraging simple, maximally inclusive communal activities. Much of our consumption today seems directed toward compensating for a loss of non-consumption-oriented community.
I say this as one living in a relatively affluent Western country, granted.
Last night I referred to my own post on Station from about a month ago (linked below) to make another tempeh-and-rice concoction. Had to use honey because we were out of maple syrup. Still turned out alright. I think some ginger would've made it even better, though
gemini://station.martinrue.com/lykso/82c7fc62e52a45d48331bf006ae4c370
Did I really miss how awesome "nb" is? 🤯
Listening to Konpeito music over and over again :)
Sometimes all you need is a little momentum. It doesn't matter how you start – the only goal sans momentum is to get going. Do anything. Get into motion. Once you're moving everything else is much more prone to lining up. This has been a note to self.
Kelkfoje oni bezonas nur iom da movokvanto. Ne gravas kiel, nur ke via celo estu moviĝi. Ion ajn faru. Simple ekmoviĝu. Poste ĉiuj la aliaj aferoj emos malkovriĝi. Tiu ĉi estas noto por la estonta mi.
tilde.cafe now has a spartan server! And my spa client is working out pretty well for a minimal client... I am looking forward to using spartan as my playground for a tinylogging server/service...
I had a Raspberry Pi 4 I wasn't using, so last night I flashed LibreELEC to an SD card and set it up to connect to my backup box over Wireguard. Now I don't have to spin up my gaming box to watch things! Haven't plugged it into a Kill-a-watt yet, but I suspect the Pi is using 1/4 to 1/10 of the electricity my gaming box does. Also, no fan noise.
Listening to Konpeito music over and over again.
I started thinking about how, when you close your eyes, your eyes nonetheless remain active and awake behind your eyelids, and somehow that's freaky, and now I'm afraid I'll never sleep again
spa, my Spartan browser framework is up and running.
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-03-05.spa.gmi
It is my first practical piece of HorseWare, built to Whinam principles (immutable log, indices). It also introduces 4-character `sigils`, durable mnemonic devices to represent URLs.
What's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone have exciting / unusual plans?
I'm hanging out here on the island of Lanzarote and mostly just coding. Simple pleasures :)
I'm wondering. Any preppers in gemini space?
Shit just got real with that nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
Have we learned nothing?
Since January, I became team lead, which mean that 50% of my time should be now focused on helping and coaching other people in the team…
I know how to do my job, but coaching others is though… I should try to find some good materials to learn this skill…
Also, now I have many more topics to manage, I need to be better at taking and organizing notes more efficiently…
This work week is crazy, I haven't been this tired for a long time…
Recent discoveries:
What a cunt. Anyone who buys a Tesla is an ignorant asshole, best case, or just a plain old asshole.
Nice summary of the different microblogging option in gemini:
gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20220227-microblogging.gmi
Technically speaking, I don't see the difference between sending a "gemini mention" and submitting my RSS feed to Antenna 🤔…
Sent my first Gemini Mention to someone than myself during testing/dev of RFC implementation :].
gemserv of pllux.casa has been upgraded to v0.6.6 !
@gnuserland There seems to be a problem with your Atom timestamps in the gemini://gnuser.land/gemlog/atom.xml feed. The "updated" time of a few entries is missing a date:
<updated>T12:00:00-0500</updated>
This causes CAPCOM to think the item is dated for the current day. (The circumlunar CAPCOM is also not filtering future dates, it seems... 🙂)
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
That's a great post, my thoughts aver /very/ similar to the ones in this post.
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
RE: @paulsnar Sun 27 Feb 2022 20:47 +0200
Recently, there's been some discourse on backlinks and backlink notification schemes. Taking the torch from bacardi55, I've written down some of my thoughts in this space too.
→ gemini://pn.id.lv/20220227.gmi But Why Though? – On the responses to Gemmention-like concepts
RE: Pen Thu 24 Feb 2022 10:30 UTC
Could it be, that gtl does not parse yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm, i.e. a time without zone, though it should consider it as UTC?
Just discovered Pen's new tinylog and this message. If you read this (I didn't find any contacts on your capsule), yes GTL consider UTC if you don't precise the timezone. Look below a screenshot of your tinylog in GTL:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/6e7f084bb002
Received my first gemini mention this morning, it's great to see it working! Thanks Paulsnar!
Seems the other responses I got were less positive, which I understand as it might feel too complex for gemini… But maybe it isn't as big as a problem than I thought? 🤷
This isn't at all a mandatory thing, it provides just a way to tell the other authors "hey look here" in a more standardize way.
It might die on its own in the next weeks as I said, or be used by just a handful of people at the end, like for tinylogs, but I least I tried* :]
(*"Do or do not, there is no try" said Yoda… But I can say I actually did it with the implementations :p. And yes, I'm quoting Yoda :D).
Have a great Sunday everyone and stay safe!
After some teasing, I've finally posted my thoughts and ideas (and implementations) for gemini response via gemlog…
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/02/27/my-take-on-gemlog-replies/
Gemini mentions status:
Missing pieces:
The golang server side implementation is the remaining big thing before I can share all this with everyone. I was hopping by end of the week end, but being realistic probably mean end of next week^^.
In the same time balance of many lifes has been inerrupted in Ukrain, country next to mine. Trying to focus on daily life problems but it's not that easy. Panic is counter productive but doing anything seems pointless. The only question that feels relevant is: What should we do? And I don't know the answer. How big is this storm and where will it end?
It's useful to think about my past. The longer I live, the more mistakes I did, the more I can learn from studying them. I almost abandoned this process of going back in memory cause I was overly sentimental in my youth and it seemed counterproductive at the time. Extremes are rarely healthy.I'm happy I'm regaining some balance here.
After a period of low-energy, of the sort I'm learning to ride out by taking some time to relax and play games or read things (rather than trying to force myself into "productivity," which really never seems to work), I've spent today almost entirely productively. Wife has termed this "business mode." It's been nice.
I've put in written my idea for gemini mentions (aka replies, backlinks, …). The content seems ok-ish right now for a draft proposal.
I've started a very simple bash implementation (but I really don't like bash :p) that should be ready this week end.
I'm also planing to write a better software for it (probably in go to provide binary files) that will have more advance feature.
Providing tools with the proposal will, I hope, help geminauts want to try it on their capsule (granted they agree to enable cgi scripts, if their server allows it).
I'd like to publish the proposal with the 2 tools at the same time but if I don't have enough time I may publish the proposal with "just" the bash script in the next few days 🤷.
Anyone using a Gemini client on iOS they'd recommend? Ideally looking for something easy without having to compile myself.
@skyjake While I'm on the subject, do you have longer-term plans to have an App Store release for iOS? Might be a nice way to support development. I'd happily pay premium for it.
Thinking about the backlinks again… I started a draft of my I'm thinking that I'll publish when ready, but if I'm being realistic, the main blocker will be the need for cgi scripts that capsule owner will have to setup.
Even if given the said script, it might not be easy for everyone and some user might be against the idea of having these kind of scripts on their server.
I also think that not every server allow them.
I have been thinking about replies in the gemini space and backlinks…
It isn't an easy problem as the solutions could be very simple or horribly complex…
But I want to give a shot, so my plan is to write a small concept and one or 2 implementations (eg: a very simple in bash and a more advanced as a go binary), so that's it is not "just" a concept but actually giving the tool to help the community embrace some kind of backlinks/pingbacks/refbacks
I really like the gemini community :) Thank you all!
My Spartan client is finally getting close to working, kind of. The client itself is trivial, but the URL sigil bookmark/cache system that gives every URL seen a 4-letter shortcut has been an interesting animal to code. Also, trying out the Whinam datastructure of using an immutable log with an index as a generic datastore is hard work in an entirely uncharted territory. Anyway, moving slower than anticipated, with much procrastination and uncertainty about my actions.
@bacardi55 thx a lot! Getting better already!
Offpunk¹ browser seems very cool and bring very interesting changes to the way one would browse the web…
I really need to take the time "someday" to test it out!
I find my engagement with video content and text content is different. Video content "goes down" easier, but tends to not engage my thinking as deeply. Reading text *feels* more difficult, but I also feel like it forces me to consider every detail more thoroughly. I could easily spend all day consuming visual content, and I have in the past, but I find myself working to cut out that kind of content lately. I must be getting old. 😜
@Acidus¹ is managing a great search engine for gemini (Kennedy) that now can show cached results too³!
I find it so cool to have real good search engine now, thanks a lot @acidus for the great work!
RE: @deerbard Mon 21 Feb 2022 20:55 CET
Sick, weak and unable to work but at least learned it's not covid. And there is one positive side of it all - I read more. Always look on the bright side of life.
Wish @deerbard to get better soon!
Sick, weak and unable to work but at least learned it's not covid. And there is one positive side of it all - I read more. Always look on the bright side of life.
I've just lost 10 minutes to a wonderful version of the I-can't-find-the-sunglasses-that-are-on-my-head problem in which I've been debugging code that randomly stopped playing sound, except it didn't, I just didn't have my headphones on my actual head.
Happy Monday folks. Hope everyone has an awesome week. I'm working on my own stuff this week, and I'm super excited to have only that as my sole focus. Single-tasking ftw.
Back in 2015, I predicted that once ad-blocking became common, we would be faced with server-side tracking:
You know what will happen once most of us install ad-blockers? Server-side ad SDK's, that's what. Unblockable ads, unstoppable tracking.
https://twitter.com/TobyKurien/status/628227819076775936
Well, it's here in the form of Server-side tagging in Google Tag Manager, and it's easier than the SDK I predicted. #adblock #privacy
Server-side tagging
https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html
When I was a kid, Myst looked amazing. I never got a chance to play it, but I really wanted to. Now I'm on a resource-constrained laptop with ScummVM... seemed like a good time to finally give it a go. I'm stupidly excited about it. 😂
Read this on station:
Hey Station! I've been looking for some "affiliate" capsules to link on the main page of mine. My capsule is at xxxxx if you want to take a look at it. Drop your capsules here if you'd like to be an affiliate, lol.
It feels to me like a very web oriented way of thinking. There is nothing to gain and no real SEO on gemini…
Start writing content and maybe add links to other capsules you like, and people will do the same if/when they like your capsule…
I could say a lot more but I'll stop there.
I also removed the actual link (but you can find it easily by going to station), because it is not against this specific geminauts but more for our community to start thinking differently.
Wordo is now on full auto. A cron-driven script selects a new random word from the dictionary of ~6000 word and sets up a new game at 08:00 UTC.
gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/wordo/dev/cgi?
Добавил пачку черновиков, возможно я сделаю из них нормальные записи и опубликую, но ничего не могу обещать. Если вы вдруг хотите туда заглянуть, то держите ссылочку.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/gemlog/drafts/
"You've already been dead for 4.5 billion years." 👊
I love being shit at something. No ego, no embarrassment in trying and failing repeatedly, progress is obvious to see, everyone can help you. Holding onto this mindset once you really start to make progress is rare. Rare and valuable tend to overlap often.
[POLL 🐶🐱?] Dogs are the best boys/girls | Cats are cool | Rodents are adorable | Horse! | I'm a fish
I've added search (more like filtering) capabilities to GTL :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/commit/1343c80595cd5e2253ab4b46189e77156cf8236b
Upcoming version moving on nicely :]
Недолго длилась ностальгическая волна с работой в IceWM - тайлинг и консольные программы несравнимо удобней, всё-таки, особенно на ноуте. Вернулся на sway :)
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Thu 17 Feb 2022 17:39 CET
I find it pretty cool and easy to customize, you did a great job!
Thanks a lot for testing and the feedback :) I have a few other feature I want to add before the next release so it's nice to see this one work :)
Damn, the re convention is a little cumbersome! Am I even doing it right?
Acme editor... I keep trying to eliminate the mouse, but find that I really can't - even when I use vim (poorly) I wind up switching to another terminal or something that is more easily mouse-driven. And copy-paste with the middle button (linux) is a godsend.
So I wonder if I would just love Acme, paradoxically. I have some intimate experience with Project Oberon which has a similar ad-hoc button-making capabilty, and that's _fabulous_. Sadly I don't like Oberon much as a language, perhaps unfairly, but even the idea of, for the rest of my life, typing capitalized POINTER TO seems dumb.
I don't know why the idea of placing contact information into a well-known place scares the crap out of me! It's not like I am hiding my email, but the idea of a spider harvesing all the emails in gemini space so easily just sits wrong. It's not that hard to get - just look for email addresses at index.gmi, or just scan all tildes for usernames (which correspond to the emails there). So I don't know what I am scared of.
I am also pathologically afraid and annoyed that gemini content is being proxied to the main web. I don't want them reading our shit! Well, at least they can't play SpellBinding...
@adele I actually like that aspect of gemini space that it makes you use another browser. I use Amfora and I really enjoy the experience. I never used terminal too much before as I'm not a programmer, now I use it on daily basis and I open it in cool-retro-term app which makes it extra fun :)
Давно замечаю за представителями манагерского сословия (преимущественно, но не исключительно, московскими) склонность к абсолютно идиотским англицизмам. «Я поняла твой консёрн» сукасука... Напоминает попытку элитизироваться, по аналогии с тем, как русская аристократия вещала на французском, а японская - на китайском. В случае околоайтишной планктонины выглядит неимоверно жалко.
Another one takes the red pill and wakes up from the Matrix - "I think the internet is broken - Chris Hawkes"
Chris Hawkes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=EB0hG32DSMc
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Tue 15 Feb 2022 20:48 CET
Happy to see @adele posting again in the gemini space (:
The custom theming feature for GTL has been moving nicely:
GTL screenshots in 3 theme (HTTPS)
I'm not that happy with the code that added a lot of mess I feel… But I like the feature.
I would love some testing though as it might differ in other systems and setups…
Gemini is a bad idea because you need a specific browser ?
Using a classical browser to access lightweight web sites is not secure ?
No problemo :
gemini://adele.work/gemlog/2022-02-15_Double_posting.gmi
I'm using more antenna and cosmos than my own commitium (feed agregator) right now… I don't know if it's good or not and if I should shut down the aggregator?
gemini://feeds.gmi.bacardi55.io
New smolzine #20 is out :-)
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-20.gmi
Hello gemini tinyloggers!
Now I'm part of "Tinylog timeline generated by gtl" thank you @bacardi55!
Also gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/ [1] now part of "Fediring" [2]! If you have account on fediverse you can join us.
[1] gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/
Got bogged down in URL normalization. I should've just written the code to do it from the start instead of wasting a couple of days looking for a library and trying to adapt it, then realizing it has a gaping hole (and is designed by an ignoramus). Remember the Forth way:
The speed increase on Station is really noticeable. Good job @martin !
I've made quite good progress on implementing custom themes in gtl¹ :)
More messy than I would have prefer… But seems to work well!
I may rework it a bit, but I'll push something this week (and would love more tests than me and my different terms)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/44
Sorry if you see tests in my tinylogs, I use my own tinylog feed for testing 🤷 :)
But happy to have fixed a couple of issue in GTL to get back on the horse, now I can start working on real improvements :).
@bacardi55: You go!
I started coding a few patch for GTL in the train on Friday and today… Clearly rusty as I had to re-read some of my code to understand what I did a few months ago :D
But happy to start again, a few patches will be pushed soon to the main branch
Reflecting on an amazing year and I'm thankful for so many things. Here are some short (subjective) observations from "life" so far.
Добавил RFC: TinyLogs format и RFC: GEMPUB format в коллекцию.
2021-06-08 RFC: TinyLogs format
Hey Stationeers! Today is my birthday, so I made a few updates to our station (it was getting a little rusty). Station is now faster, and you can add polls to posts to get more structured feedback. All the details are in "Recent Updates" gemini://station.martinrue.com/updates
So, here goes – first poll on Station:
[POLL How long have you been on Station?] I'm really new | A few weeks | A few months | I'm an old guard
I'm spending the day in a very hot Arrecife, so hello from the beach where I'm pushing this update from 👋
В данный момент моя статья об Scuttlebutt мне не нравится. Надо будет её переделать, если получится.
These 3D printed computer terminals are simply gorgeous! #3dprint #retro #terminal
Modern Retro Computer Terminals
https://uri.cat/projects/modern-retro-terminal/
So I have a prototype that loads and renders a page, and databases the links. But I hit a snag: a brower can just send the links to the server as they are written in gemtext, but since I am databasing the links, I need to normalize them. This is not hard, but is nasty business full of corner cases.
Cool! I have several modules working:
All I need is to tie them together. I could probably string it together in the shell, or monolithic for now. Links can be navigated as numbers from the current page, 4-char codes via the mapper, or typed in as full urls. Suckless-style configuration can work - just change the colors and recomple, which is instant with a 20K executable...Sticking to spartan for now to avoid dealing with TLS... Will have a working browser with a link database tomorrow (I hope).
Good morning!
New pic in One Picture Gallery
Е шен люй ча (野生绿茶) - ♥
Кажется, у меня новый фаворит среди зелёных чаёв.
Finally got to work on my old idea of a modular browser. Starting with a URL mapper. It maps URLS to 4-character codes, allowing up to 1 million URLs to be 'shortened'. This code will be presented in my CLI browser (before each link), and the user can go to any link encountered by typing in 4 characters. Not just a link on this page -- any link ever seen! This works as a URL shortener, a way to navigate links, a history cache, and a 'bookmark' system of sorts.
I'm motivated to take back working on GTL soon :]
I have a few ideas to implement and bugs to fix, and I miss writing go :P
Feel free to send any ideas or submit ticket to github/gitlab projects too (:
Опубликовал резюме, налетели коршунами. Где-то треть - работорговцы (аутстаффинг и подобное), остальные в целом адекватные, даже одно собеседование назначил и думаю ещё о двух. К сожалению, не прокатил в одну американскую контору — маловато опыта в качестве именно девопса (к сожалению, 15 лет стажа линуксового админства тут не аргумент). А письма продолжают приходить и приходить. Благо, телефон на беззвуке...
What the...? Is this really "Buy Instagram Followers" spam on Midnight Pub, in Persian? 😄
gemini://midnight.pub/posts/793
Apparently there is another security fix for gemserv, please update geminauts!
Заметка на будущее: написать пост про Икигаи.
I wrote a spartan 'client' toy in C. It's a start.
https://tildegit.org/stack/spb
Мой мир никогда не станет прежним. Обнаружена удобная и работающая программа на... Rust! А то у меня уж сложилось впечатление, что оный язык используется только для мастурбации на блокчейн и пожирания ресурсов компьютера. Итак, работающий и простой Gopher-клиент:
В gmisub-аггрегатор добавлены несколько капсул
И подборка по-прежнему доступна в виде архива с epub за последний месяц:
Я тут подумал... Никто не хочет поадминить инстацию Pleroma?
I am not sure how I feel about Pleroma, or the Fediverse in general... It looks quite noisy, but I really haven't been a part of it enough to have an opinion. I know I don't like most things about twitter or facebook. Elixir is interesting to me, but again I know nothing about it...
I just found mozz's Spartan protocol! And his reference client. And it turns out there is a bunch of stuff there. I really love the simplicity. tilde.team has a spartan server! And it supports cgi (although I cannot figure out how to get data off the url past the ?... But it's a start.
Anyone using it? How do you browse?
I've been thinking about tinylogs, feeds and federation...
Some ideas on how something like it could be used to simultaneously fill all social networking needs, from chat to email to bulletin boards to gemlogs and magazines -- in the (fictional?) land of intelligent horses:
New tinylog:
gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/tinylog.gmi
Ah, done with the chores: checking tomorrow's SpellBinding and Wordo games. Always best to do it early before my brain gets fuzzy. I really should automate it more for wordo. I would like to be able to set up a whole month's worth of games in an hour or two, and let it rip. SpellBinding is almost there, but I still have to mess with the dictionary a lot, and then update all the pre-made games...
I should've done this ages ago. What a great way to say something quickly! It was also a pleasure to find bacardi55 aggregator. I really like the gtl TUI tool, but sady it's in go, and I dare not install anything on my current machine...
Wait, it works at a tilde! And it is cool.
Houston¹ and Tinylogs agregator² are back online :) That's one thing less to do!
I also added a few tinylog generated by Station³ to the aggregator. Not sure who to add and who not to, so for now only @skyjake, @martin and @kelbot have been added.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/
Hanging out in mozz's chat room for a bit. 👍👍
Station has reached 500 users! Thanks @powerh00th00t for bringing this awesome little community on the fringes of the Internet to this new milestone. Thanks everyone who participates here for keeping this place alive, friendly, and full of interesting stuff every day! 🍻
Устал, но добавил в коллекцию вторую статью от Parimal Satyal.
2020-05-25 Rediscovering the Small Web!
Not sure why, but I can't make my gemini server hosting houston/tinylog aggregator to work again with gemserv since the last update…
I did the same thing for my "local" server (serving my gemlog and feed) and it worked without any issue…
Even tried recreating the tls certificate but no success… I'm thinking about installing another gemini server for this 🤔
Добавил статью в коллекцию Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web за авторством Parimal Satyal.
2017-11-02 Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
Убрал ограничение в 80 символов и теперь использую "длинные строки" в соответствии с документацией gemini.
Spellbinding is driving Gemini adoption in my social circle. My wife and I have been playing it, and now her sister and one of her friends have installed Lagrange in order to join us in playing it. 😁
gemini://spellbinding.tilde.cafe/
First day after another attack of paralyzing back pain. Yesterday I spent whole day planning how to improve my working place. Thankfuly after yesterdays heavy painkillers I don't need more today. Taking breaks as I should. Now I „only” have to finally start remebering about it ALWAYS.
Обновил список используемого/рекомендуемого ПО. Желающие могут ознакомиться.
Bombadillo разочаровывает. Казалось бы, универсальный браузер для gopher и gemini с идеальным для меня поведением. Но. Есть него косяк - но всегда при запросе подставляет порт в url, даже если оный порт - дефолтный. Казалось бы, всё в порядке, но есть ряд кривых gemini-серверов, котрые на это реагируют неадекватно и выдают ошибку not found. Issue про написание костыля для такого поведения в гите bombadillo висит уже 11 месяцев, а без него часть гемисферы недоступна.
If the Doctor (Star Trek) and other holograms were indeed "photonics", they'd be visible in the dark. But no, they merely reflect light like the rest of us. Yet they probably don't even glow in the infrared! What a scam. "Photons be free" indeed.
Issue 19 of smolZINE is out now. Check out Sunny's capsule in Hidden Gems for a cool wordle clone playable within gemini. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-19.gmi
Окончательно застрял в gopherspace. Ощущения из подросткового периода, когда Сеть надо было"серфить", а не питаться блюдом грузинской кухни Жричодали от корпорастов. Дух исследования и малых сообществ, неожиданные находки (порою настоящие бриллианты) и тонны, моря и горы _оригинальной_, сука, информации! Жизнь не просто _есть_ за пределами большого WWW, она только там и осталась, по сути. Gemini и Gopher (ну и smolnet пока трепыхается).
Продолжаю замену софта на более простой (пожалуй, скоро будет статья с очередным актуальным списком повседневных программ). Уже упоминал, что Bombadillo заменил Амфору, теперь ещё два переключения: dino → profanity и HexChat → Weechat.
Браузер бы поменять, да по работе постоянно нужен говновеб (Gitlab, ELK, Teams, Confluence...), так что у Qutebrowser пока нет конкурентов.
Unassuming elegance of a well-written Ansible playbook.
Исследуя gopherspace, а если точнее, изучая содержимое bitreich.org, наткнулся на прелюбопытный генератор статических сайтов, выдающий разом html, gemtext и gophermap. Пощупаю немного за всякое, и, скорее всего, внедрю — этой капсуле давно нужна нормальная автоматизация. Кстати, автор программы — широко известный в узких кругах Solene.
git clone git://bitreich.org/cl-yag/
Пересел с Amfora на Bombadillo — выглядит проще и шустрее, умеет gopher и finger, да и конфиг/закладки хранит проще и понятнее.
Also to think about this week: Should I (auto) clean my tinylog file to remove old entries?
I think I should put a cleaning process to remove post older than X days…
That's also why I want to add a "bookmark" option in GTL.
Thought for this week: Should we try to simplify tinylog format a bit?
I feel like some resistance about it is because it can be too flexible (and thus potentially hard to parse).
A simple solution would be to have a more limiting format and then allow client to add feature they want on top of it.
I have no idea if that's really an option, as some user already feel "constrained" with the current format 🤷
RE: @lykso@lyk.so Fri 28 Jan 2022 20:35 UTC
Has twtxt completely supplanted tinylogs on Gemini? Feels like my tinylog feed is really quiet these days.
Funny enough, I wrote a gemlog about this recently¹.
I don't think tinylogs are dead, but as @deerbard said, I'm just posting this into the gemini void without too much thoughts :).
RE: @szczezuja Sun 30 Jan 2022 21:51 CET
@bacardi55: I've add to my GTL one feed of my colleague, and I realized that there are no any Station's tinylogs in your aggregated feeds timeline. Is it on purpose? I remember that Station had add tinylog support on the early stage of RFC creation, and It seems to be quiet about it from that time?
Indeed, I didn't add any station users to the global feed. The reason was: "who am I to decide who should or shouldn't be on that list?"… Then I could add "everyone" but that's a lot…
I could start with adding the "most known" users? I don't know tbh, so would appreciate feedback :)
@lykso I don't even know what twtxt is :) I just send my tinylogs into the void like always.
Finally joined Astrobotany: gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/a76b6a12acf0444e8a8155c9a5984c5f
Hello from the Atlantic ocean! I'm on a ship headed to Lazarote and I'm somehow picking up a 4G signal, so I've tethered so I can use Lagrange. First Atlantic ocean post on Gemini? 😆
Написал небольшую заметку о том как установить новую версию go на старый debian.
gemini://gemini.quietplace.xyz/~razzlom/glog/2022-01-29-MY004.gmi
Пробую разобраться в tinylog и gtl.
Закончил перевод "Принципов малых технологий"
Как водится, пока переводил, понял намного больше, чем, когда читал. И пришёл выводу, что Малые Технологии — намного более близкий мне принцип, нежели Тривиальные. Социализм против анархизма, по сути. Так что отныне исповедую Малые Технологии ☭
Has twtxt completely supplanted tinylogs on Gemini? Feels like my tinylog feed is really quiet these days.
Using the electricity mix in my region, the servers I run put out around 5 tonnes of CO² a year. My laptop puts out just shy of 100lbs, or 45kg (assuming 12 hours of use per day). Seeing what tricks I can employ to begin keeping my servers powered off more. Already I've started keeping my media box turned off at night and much of the day by downloading music and video I want to consume in the near future to the devices I'll be consuming them on, but my VM server runs some things that should be kept on 24 hours a day. Next step is, I suppose, seeing if I can put some of those VMs onto SBCs instead. (I have a few from previous projects just gathering dust at the moment.)
Just improvised a lunch for me and my housemates. Writing it here to share and remember:
- 1/2 a head of garlic
- 1 onion
- A generous amount of sesame oil
- 340g (12oz) tempeh
- 60mL (1/4 cup) soy sauce
- 60mL (1/4 cup) pure maple syrup
- 3 packets of red pepper flakes
- 15mL (3 tsp.) garam masala
- Some shiitake mushroom
Fry onion, garlic, tempeh together in oil, add mushroom and fry until browned, add rest of ingredients, cook until sauce is absorbed/reduced. Serve w/ rice or eat as-is.
Закрыл регистрацию на XMPP-сервере phreedom.club (как показали недавние события, я не могу предоставить по нему нормальный уровень сервиса) и на peertube - v.phreedom.club (для полноценной инстанции всё равно не хватает мощностей, а урезанную зачем людям пихать). Из списка сервисов их также удалил. Закрывать сами сервисы не буду (но, вероятнее всего, уберу веб-интерфейс жаббера), ныне активные пользователи могут не бояться.
I've written a post about why I've chosen to be pseudonymous.
gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/009-why-a-pseudonym.gmi
Perfect score on Spellbinding. 🙌
Listening to KONPEITO #8. Anyone know of any other Gemini-native music/mixtapes?
@ewok reading challenge day 6: only read 10 pages today. I really need to start reading earlier, that would help sleep more too ^^
@skyjake site is down… I'm guessing his new server still have a few glitches :D
Joking aside, I think the gemini community really benefits from his hard work in clearly all gemini areas like @szczezuja said!
If you read this @skyjake, many thanks <3
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_dynamic-cosmos.gmi
Combing through my data, trying to create a reasonable accounting of and structure for it all. Seems almost like a never-ending project.
Didn't read at all yesterday (well, I did read a manga but that doesn't count). I'm going to do a wrap up of my experience in this challenge later today (or tomorrow), but I'm thinking about another challenge to start for the next 3 weeks. Not based on page / day but mainly just on "did I read X days per week". The number of page is not important for me, as it also depends so much on life constraint. But making the habit to open a book at least 5 days per week is what I'm looking for…
Mondays, right…? 😫
"Forced" myself a bit tonight to read before going to bed, but I may regret it tomorrow morning 🤷.
Anyway, I only read 20 pages tonight. But the main goal is to retrieve the habit of reading daily or close to it, so I'm happy to continue this challenge :).
Seems I'm joining @ew0k's reading challenge by coincidence. I decided to reintroduce reading to my life by making a hard rule of time during the day set for reading. I won't count pages though, just reading few pages a day but every day is my goal.
Git repos from gitea.phreedom.club partially accessible via gemini:
Just upgraded Lagrange from 1.9.5 to 1.10.1. Really enjoying that it now shows me the identity that will be used to request a URL in the "URL" bar that pops up at the bottom of the window when hovering over a link.
Day 3 of the reading challenge! I missed day 2, but today I finished one of my book, reading 50+ page so I'm covered for the day :].
Yesterday was last day of the working week and my brain was entirely fried ^^
По просьбе подписчика восстановил утраченный перевод статьи "Заново открываем Small web".
One of the benefits of the Reform having a clear bottom: I don't think I've ever cbeen this fastidious about keeping the inside of a computer clean before.
Finally the week end :]
I would like to propose the existence of a shameful "kink" among the privacy-minded: a secret, tortuous longing for the final blissful peace-bringing surrender of every detail of your life to Amazon, the government, Google, several other governments, et cetera. YOU WILL EXIST IN NAKED SUBMISSION TO A STATE OF GRACE ONLY NORMIES HAVE KNOWN
RE: @szczezuja Thu 20 Jan 2022 16:38 CET
It's funny that it seems that made more noise than . Twtxt was added to some time ago, and at this time there were about 10 active users aggregated by @bacardi55, and only several testing posts on twtxt provided by Antenna. Of course twtxt is reaching more far than Geminispace, but in Geminispace tinylog is more homely. For me the key benefit is that tinylog is readable for any Gemini client, ant it isn't only formatted text-file, at the same time it is offering the same functionalities, with the same simplicity.
Maybe I'm wrong When I say that txtwt is more popular, I don't know, but feels like it but maybe only because twtxt users are more vocal? In any case, the more I think about it the more I do prefer tinylogs. But maybe the RFC format is a bit too complex for micro bloging? I'll have a think later, in the meantime, I'm enjoying writing here (:
If you have missing glyphs (Emoji in particular) in #Lagrange, this may help:
https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/font-library/src/branch/main/build/get_symbola.sh
It's a shell/Python script that downloads Symbola from UFAS and converts it to TrueType (using "fonttools"). You can then drag-and-drop the .ttf on the Lagrange window to install it.
(Requires python3 and pip3.)
Symbola is quite a nice Unicode 13 compatible font, but available only for personal use so I can't put it in the Font Library.
I've decided to participate to ew0k reading challenge for the coming weeks.
Tonight, I read indeed 50 pages (from 77 to 127^^) of one my current book.
I'm hopping that this challenge will help me add more reading habits to my brain so that I can achieve the 24 goal this year!
So I've been thinking. Wanderlust, while used too often, is still a cool German word that captures the essence of wanting to be somewhere else – the desire (lust) to be wandering (wander). But eventually, such an unfulfilled desire doesn't feel so positive, so I've always been on a first-name basis with Fernweh – far pain, or the pain of not being somewhere far away (in contrast to homesickness). Reflecting on the last month hanging out in the Canary islands, I'm grateful that I've had no cause to use either of these words. In fact I now wish to coin a new pair: Hierlust (the desire to be right here) and Anderswoweh (the pain of thinking about being anywhere else).
Вчера Федерация доказала свою полезность. У хостера были проблемы на сети в одном из ЦОДов, в результате чего виртуалка с Phreedom.club отвалилась на несколько часов, что никоим образом не помешало общению и взаимодействию людей, хоть и доставило временные неудобства - я продолжал держать народ в курсе событий с резервного аккаунта на другой инстанции, для срочной связи использовались резервные же жаббер и почта... Короче говоря: "Интернетчики всех стран! Децентрализуйтесь!"
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Немного мыслей и ссылок про SmolNet
Today is not a great day so far
I seriously hate the hoops one has to jump through to create a working EFI boot CD image...
The TLGS (Totally Legit Gemini Search) search engine seems to work really well for the few searches I've done on it yesterday and today :)
Thanks a lot to the author @Martin!
I see more posts about twtxt in the gemini community. Feels like it might attract more than tinylog for some reason… I'm now thinking: should I switch to twtxt? Have both? Should GTL handle Twtxt format? At this point I don't know 🤷.
I'll try to write a post about my thoughts tonight if I find the motivation
Today I learned on Mastodon that probably there will be no more konpeito mixtapes. Listening to old ones today.
Wrote my first gemlog entry of the year. I'm happy because it has been some time since I manage to motivate myself to write! One step after the other we can then think about a possible second one :]
Stopping work now… I started ±12h ago… This has been a long day…
Stumble across @Ploum article about going offline in 2022. I must say it made me think a lot. Not that I want to do the same thing, but I've been trying to remove some of the "burden" of being online last year too. Using an e-ink tablet to read web content via wallabag is quite helpful as it limits me in what I can do, but I haven't been the best at following my rules.
Also, I find it very interesting that people that experienced the early web are more and more trying to either disconnect or find alternative closer to back then (myself included). I believe it does speak a lot about what the web has became…
It's OK. Some times, when you're dealing with a crazy-maker, it's OK to just burn that bridge and never look back.
An important observation. I became slothful.
Small Cosmos tweak: publications like smolZINE are always sorted to the top of their day and can only be the root of a thread. @kelbot
As zines are not regular log posts they may link to many things and if one or more of the links happen to be feed posts, it’s not appropriate for the zine to become a thread reply to one of them.
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-18.gmi
The #Smashwords website is nothing like a modern website, and I love it! I mean, you can download this #ebook I am currently really enjoying (Casual Computing) for free, DRM free, without creating an account, without popups in your face, right now, just by following the link. No user hostility, you can read the ebooks on any device you want, and you get to support independent authors.
Casual Computing: Light Reading for Users of Open Source, About Open Source
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/686135
@Toby Thx! Mindblowing! I'm talking about the Kiwix and whole Wikipedia being „only” 87Gb.
Nothing to add, best smolnet wishes :)
Same to you @Szczezuja!
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-01_cosmos.gmi
Occasionally people reply or refer to others' posts in Geminispace, but these threads of discussion are not really visible anywhere. I wanted to make something to help with this, so I wrote a new aggregator that tracks links between posts.
Started thinking seriously about hosting my own cloud today. I'm too entrenched in the MS world and I dislike having all my data and in my calendar just sit with MS. I like their apps (MS ToDo is really good), but it's not a sustainable relationship.
I've already got a domain name in mind and an HDD. I just need to wait for RPi 4s to come back in stock. Or could I get away with it on an RPi 3B?
This week. The goal is to simplify my writing.
I keep wanting to use fzf as a general interface, but there are all these seemingly-slight issues that keep that from being viable. Was building a Spartan browser in shell script using fzf as an interface just now, but the lack of line wrapping and the lack of support for entering arbitrary text makes it a non-starter. :/
"Digital Vegan" is a deep dive into the problems with our current technology (Big Tech and social media). It's "a call to disengagement and more careful, slower, deliberate and thoughtful relations with technology". #book #recommendation
Andy Farnell
Did you know you can download all of Wikipedia onto your hard drive and use it offline? It's only 87Gb and will fit on a microSD card. Useful for distraction-free productivity for home-schooling, work-from-home, etc. Also useful for those with little or no connectivity or during internet take-downs. With the Kiwix software, it's searchable and you can also host it onto a local network with one click. Other useful downloads: Gutenberg books, Khan Academy, TED videos, StackExchange, Arch Linux wiki, WikiHow, and tons more. Might as well put your uncapped (or night-time) internet to good use. #offline #kiwix
Kiwix content
https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
Enjoying this interactive gemsite:
Re: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space 2022-01-06 10:25 CET
Yeah, it's really, *really* vague. I'm guessing it's similar to or synonymous with the "indie web" at best, and nothing more than an inflated way to say "we don't like cryptocurrencies" at worst.
@Szczezuja Pixelfed seems to be even less useful than Instagram for me. Sure you can post there and it looks pretty cool but then it's hard to notice any comments so communication almost doesn't exist. Asfor my taking photos, yeah, I still almost don't, waiting for any event in my static life :) But my Telegram group funtions pretty well for just few users. Arkadiusz from Masto joined recently and is active as well.
I really like Gemini, but inline links have been very hard to let go of for me.
Today, I'm thinking about Earth Vessels and resiliency labs. I'm thinking about where to my family and I can live sustainable, creative, productive, and healthy lives.
I've been pretty quiet on here since before Xmas. I've been traveling again. I really should sort out a mobile client. Hope everyone's 2022 has started well! 💪
¡Feliz día de Reyes! I didn't get anything. Probably a Brexit thing.
I don't know if the Fediverse is the future, but it is certainly *a future,* and I see myself wanting to make more of a contribution to the Fediverse than anywhere else. Take a look here: https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-in-2021
So many ongoing projects and all of them going in different directions, pulling and stretching the fediverse in so many new ways of interacting, sharing, and creating.
New picture in my rolling one pic art gallery is a part of this year calendar June illustration.
What happened to konpeito.media? Only today I thought there's probably Winter music waiting there for me but I couldn't connect.
A free e-book on advice from a philosopher billionaire: "Almanack of Naval Ravikant". I don't agree with all of it, but there's a lot here to contemplate and dig into. #book #recommendation #philosophy #happiness #wealth
Eric Jorgenson
Dropped a butter knife on my laptop screen. Managed to make a small cut in the polarization film, so now I've got a white line in the middle of my screen. I wonder if it's possible to order the film only, or if I'm going to have to order a whole new screen? 🤔
Had a rough morning but a better afternoon and evening. I wonder if rather than do the same variety of tasks everyday, I might try reducing the number of tasks I do but increasing the amount of time I spend on them. We'll see what tomorrow brings.
Re: @guigui3000@pollux.casa Mon 03 Jan 2022 20:40 CET
1. You can have more than one SSH key. Just give it a different name than id_rsa*
2. As they are all by default located in your ~/.ssh directory you can simply backup them as any other file on the system.
3. Restoring them is easy too -- just copy them back into ~/.ssh.
4. Guestbook for the capsule would require a CGI script, but it's doable.
Doing the whole r/linuxupskillchallenge thing. Figuring out the whole SSH keys thing. Can you have more than one? How do you back them up and more importantly how do you restore them?
I'm also thinking about adding a guestbook to my capsule. Do you remember guestbooks on websites?
Nostr is: "The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all." and "a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working" #nostr #twitter #decentralized
Nostr
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
I took quite a long (forced, unavoidable) break to focus on my studies. Thankfully I've updated by tinylog-gen script so it can merge my 2021 and 2022 files now. Speaking of which, happy new year :)
I generally don't care about it though -- I mean it's just another revolution around the sun plus about 3/4th of a day, right? Also more or less beginning from a rather arbitrary point in the orbit anyway.
It's amazing coming back to my inbox reading mailing list archives to read what I'd missed. By the way, I'm surprised I still remember all my shortcuts and keybinds I've set up in nvim, tmux etc.
Most likely for another day to start working on my projects again, sadly. Bye!
1- Grateful for the opportunity to read this evening
2- The difference between a store-bought and a market-bought potato is like night and day. I'm grateful for the farmer's work and for his affordable and delicious potatoes.
3- Thankful for the meaningful conversations I've witnessed and took part in today on the Fediverse. Lots of lovely souls looking to make the world a better place
smolZINE Issue 17 is out now. Happy new year! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-17.gmi
Here's the fontpack I'm using in Lagrange, in case anyone else fancies a modernist, Futura-like font for their Gemini browsing: gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/Jost.fontpack
Just upgraded to Lagrange 1.9.2 from 1.7.0. Enjoying the new fontpack feature!
Honestly, there's a separate circle in hell for people who defined keyboard shortcuts in `nano`
https://nano-editor.org/cheatsheet.html
Now using fzf to interactively search my inventory files. Updated my "bins" system page and wrote a quick gemlog entry about it. Pretty simple stuff, but maybe you'll find it interesting.
gemini://lyk.so/gemlog/008-searching-the-bins.gmi
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-12_android-alpha.gmi
A new frontier for Lagrange! The first ALPHA build of Lagrange for Android is available for trying out, if you have a 32-bit ARM device.
It is pretty certain to crash on you somewhere along the way. Hopefully the next build with a newer SDL is more stable.
Bit late to wish Merry Christmas but I wish you Happy New Year :) I wish you all peace of mind in these chaotic times.
I updated the Gemini server certificates on skyjake.fi and git.skyjake.fi.
skyjake.fi kept its public key, so your client may automatically trust it. The expiration date is much further in the future.
git.skyjake.fi now uses the same certificate, via SAN. I'm also redirecting from git.skyjake.fi:1965 (served by Agate) to git.skyjake.fi:1968 (served by GmGitView).
Station just reached 1500 (1501 now) posts! I'm loving the active, niche, friendly community we have here. Every time I visit there's something that catches my attention, and that's great to see considering the tiny corner of the internet we occupy. Here's to the next 1500!
Продолжаю готовиться к отчётному концерту (я ж у мамы барабанщик-ученик). Вчера впервые репетировал со всеми музыкантами (до того пытал только гитариста). Сегодня ещё одна сессия, эксклюзивно с гитаристом и вокалистом. Концерт через неделю, будет, как минимум, нескучно...
The latest incarnation of my #raspberrypi DIY audio player. Still a bit clunky, but it's now pocketable, and can run 15+ hours on a full charge. The software is now perfect 👌 #diy
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A critique of Web3. It's a long read, but gives a good explanation of what the Web3 (NFT, DAO) fuss is all about, and then promptly rips it apart with some considered arguments. #longread #web3 #nft #dao
The Third Web
https://tante.cc/2021/12/17/the-third-web/
smolZINE Issue 16 has been released. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-16.gmi
Feliĉan Zamenhofan tagon! Today it's Esperanto day! If anyone's curious why I rate the language, and how I got into it: https://martinrue.com/zamenhofa-tago-18/
As is the trend these days, @ForGoodZA have updated their site to be far more user-hostile: cookie popup, 7+Mb of javascript, and tons of 3rd party requests without which the site won't work. All just so I can pick a cause and donate some money. *Sigh*
@Toby Sounds great! I need social media but I always struggle to use them only for what I need. This week for example was not too good regarging this problem. I use a blocker that blocks websites of my choice in time intervals of my choice but I can always turn it down somehow. I need to remind myself that I don't want to do that by changing password to it from time to time. If I forget about it, it easily goes bad really quick. This is all so funny when I think about my constant struggle to trick my own brain to do things that it will like in the end but doesn't want to do at the moment. :D
@deerbard thank you for the heads-up about the date format! I was confused about why my posts weren't showing up. I still need to track down where the issue is. I've gone full "digital minimalism" (see posts on my capsule) so I've completely dropped all social media (including Mastodon), and only browse Station, tinylogs, and Antenna mostly, since the volume of posts is low enough. If there's a website I want to read frequently, I write a scraper to bring it to gemini or add a feed to my comitium.
@Toby I think you've got a date error in your tinylog. Btw I also discovered gemini about a year ago and love to spend time here since there. Only for me I travel all the time. Here, Mastodon, Discord (unfortunately) and sometimes many other places in internet, then I'm back to gemini again and so on. Here I feel better usually and the pace lets me think but sometimes I need some more direct and quick connection.
Will tinylog survive or was it just a short lasting turbulence in internet space-time?
Whew, my first 100% score in SpellBinding. 😅
77 of 77 points
Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi? (2007)
learning vi/vim is an activity that will take a long time (weeks to months), and that the first experience is not pleasant
viemu.com
http://www.viemu.com/a-why-vi-vim.html
Testing the new Lagrange for iOS native text input!
My custom input widgets weren’t really cutting it on mobile. There’s a vast number of little things that iOS does to make text entry smooth and effortless, so anything I could implement myself would be but a pale imitation.
It remains to be seen what can be done on other mobile platforms. The custom widget has to stick around as a fallback, but I’ll likely keep it as bare-bones as possible.
When I forgot my meds I can see that my life is really just moving toward growing (or, well, equal... not much left to grow) isolation and suicide
It's a grey, rainy day here in Manchester, UK. I'm staying in drinking Club-Mate and writing code all day, and I couldn't be happier.
JavaScript is 26 years old today. Crazy. Feels more like NaN years to me.
I discovered the #Gemini protocol about a year ago, and it's still a thing! I spend way more time reading posts here than on Web. Check out this quickstart page if you're curious.
Gemini quickstart!
Np @samhunter, thx for watering mine frequently! I just go through most dry plants whenever I login and check if I know some username, if not, I water random one.
Regaining momentum after a longish break from online activities (the meaningful ones at least) is hard.
At the moment I'm just trying to water my plant on astrobotany (ngl it would wilt without @deerbard's help, thanks, buddy!) and keep the software I wrote and made public running and patched.
Writing anything new? No, not yet.
Hazy mood.
This is neat! Random 4k wallpaper generator... no two images are exactly the same: https://tanck.nl/wallpaper
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-11_lagrange-1.9.gmi
The Lagrange November release is out! It'll be interesting to see if the automatic updates actually work. 😅
I built a little turn-based game for some training I'm delivering. Goal: write a bot that finds and destroys its opponent. Here, bot 2 guesses the movement pattern of bot 1 and lays a mine in its path. This one should be fun to run! 🙌
Quick demo: https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1463473663576088579/pu/pl/638JNY7n9HKh23_H.m3u8?tag=12&container=fmp4&descending=true
Drinking Club-Mate and coding at 01:45. Today-me is screwing tomorrow-me so hard right now.
No power to write. No time to think. Anxiety lurks all the time. Hope it will change sooner than later.
I liked this post by rlamacraft:
gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk/replies/reframingThePhilosophyOfGemini.gmi
Have to disagree with Drew here. Gemini is decidedly not a read-only distribution protocol. (As evidenced by what we're doing right here.) There is a little more nuance to it: I would call it a balance of 80/20 in favor of reading. Writing is possible, and even secure thanks to client certificates, but not as convenient as reading.
So this means, if in doubt, focus on the read direction, but completely ignoring the write direction unnecessarily excludes a lot of cool potential.
Beginner's Health and Fitness Guide
"I don't want to become some huge bodybuilder freak, I just want to get in better shape and look better. Should I read this?
That's what this guide is for. It's a basic guide to diet and fitness for beginners who want to get in better shape. "
Liam Rosen
https://liamrosen.com/fitness.html
I have way more interesting conversations with people who have the ability to say "I don't know".
Made a cheddar cheese sauce and added a bunch of lemon juice to it just now. Tasty AF.
This week I'm delivering training to a bunch of folks getting into JavaScript from different languages/environments. Teaching is really rewarding... I really like doing it.
@szczezuja: That's why I ask. I can't water two plants no matter if I waterde mine or not already. I used to water plants of those who I knew from elsewhere, like you but since I use Amfora I can't search by name so I just check plants in worst health and water one of them. Yours is never there :) Sometimes I scroll quite a lot but you must water your plant pretty regularly.
I've been away from gemini and mastodon lately, it does feel good sometimes to avoid too much online interaction :)
On other notes, I have played with the pinephone lately with sxmo UI, and it is neat AF :]
Just found my Astrobotany plant nearly dead. Means gemini gardeners changed behaviour. Btw @szczezuja did you once say you water more than one plant of others at once? I can only water one and then I need to wait before I can do it again. Never checked how long I need to wait.
Another cool text adventure from ew0k in Issue 14 of smolZINE. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-14.gmi
My capsule's finally back in action. Moved from Vultur to openbsd.amsterdam and am running vger.
The old SSL cert did not come along for the ride. The new cert's fingerprint is:
b599fdfccd8605785ad6f8ae5147dc9d32b78a4bf9f1a42e6dc9f78bd0e7c62b
This is a thought-provoking and insightful podcast filled with deep thinking about #crypto #NFT #DAO and the future of #Web3
The Tim Ferriss Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlNDYMNJ5zQ
Not getting your StackOverflow questions answered? Got questions sitting around collecting nothing but internet dust? Simply make a second account and post a blatantly incorrect answer. Watch as hundreds of thousands of programmers from around the world descend on your question with their knowledge.
Приковылял в офис, невыспавишсь люто. По такому случаю упорол энергетик — странные ощущения — тело проснулось, мозг же пребувает в полусонном состоянии. Вот что делает с человеком внезапное иссякание запасов чая...
TIL: the oldest lightbulb (Centennial Light Bulb) has been almost continuously on since 1901. It's now 120 years old. It has been in Fire Station 6, Livermore, California since 1976 where it still burns.
Almost finished with calendars. Waiting for orders till this Sunday and I close this thing once again. Once again just for few friends and one person from internet who decided to buy. I don't know why I put so much effort into it. It's just something I love to do regardless of me being payed for it or not. Every year I doubt I'll do it next year and every year I do it again. I'm proud of the two calendars I made this year. Looking good.
Long-tailed widowbird and red-collared widowbird #birding #photo
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Товарищ Пинг опубликовал пост, очень хорошо совпадащий с моими ощущениями последних дней.
Happy Friday! What's everyone up to this weekend?
Inktober was fun and once again I reminded myself how much I like free doodling in my sketchbook. Every year I fail to make a habit out of it. Not sure why it is so. Maybe I should plan it more instead of just expecting it to happen.
This time I uploaded to my one pic gallery a WIP of one of my illustrations for this years calendar.
Just released, smolZINE Issue 13. Spelunking section is a must read! :)
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_lagrange-1.8.gmi
Lagrange v1.8 is released just in time for Halloween. Spooky! 👻
@mntn The Noto fonts have both Egyptian and Anatolian hieroglyphs...
Hello League of Legends deamon, my old friend. You didn't whisper into my ear for a long time. What doing of mine summoned you now? I don't want you here.
I've been doing a lot of my gemini reading offline lately on my PDA and ereader. By chaining some cli tools together I get a document of the posts from my feed to read at my leisure throughout the day. It's pretty nice. gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2021-10-21-offlinegeminiscript.gmi
У Conotox родился новый трек. Мне нравится :)
Перенёс большинство репозиториев на собственный Gogs: https://git.phreedom.club, для пущего контроля и снижения нагрузки на сервисы товарища Попугая (которому большое спасибо).
Обнаружил крайне интересный проект - Solar Protocol. Суть: сеть мелких серверов, живущих от солнечной панели и аккумулятора, хостящих весь контент. Сервер, на который направляет клиента, выбирается в зависимости от того, куда солнце даёт больше энергии в данный момент и расстояния до клиента.
Re: @Reaton
Inspiring. Reminded me I want less social media daily.
Re: @Szczezuja
I was watching Chopin Competition with my daughter and I had the same thoughts! Cameras where everywhere! Watching artists from every possible angle. I almost expexted to see another one from pianist's perspective and then another one from within his guts! I didn't need so many of them, I felt like I, the watcher, am a source of a distraction to the artist. It would be totally fine to have a camera or twowatching them from a distance, I could still see better on my monitor than people in the audience! This is one of these many situations where an illusion of progress occurs.
New ink drawing in my rolling one pic gallery
Dzień dobry!
morning was so beautiful it made me write (in Polish).
@Toby
Checked first seconds of the video and stopped. First - it's not true, 99% of what I see on social media is art, not beautiful people and their lives. It's his problem he follows people who upload such content. Second - his video is made in a manner that is a part of the problem. It's made in a way so it's distractive, loud and quickly changing, I get really tired by watching videos like this.
@szczezuja
I might but first I already don't have enough time for the Telegram thing (plus I also upload on Mastodon) and I'm obliged to use as little space on RTC as I can. I could upload one picture in low quality though, as I already tried with my drawings. So yeah, time factor mostly...
This is an amazingly well produced, must-watch video about the influence of technology in our lives. #socialmedia #echochambers #isolation #chaos #surveillance
Mrwhosetheboss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZvee3-PEzo
Принял решение вернуться в ряды вегетерианцев. Первое время оставлю эпизодическое потребление рыбы, чтоб не шокировать организм, но диету уже пересмотрел.
@szczezuja and every other person interested in photography: If you use Telegram, maybe you'd like to join my little black and white photography challenge from time to time? It's all about making these ten minutes somewhere during few days after somebody proposes a topic, finding an interesting take and posting it to the group. You can find it by handle BlackWhite_Photography and it's called BW Photo Collective. It's a bit quiet these days but it's not dead for sure and a lot of fun with new topics is still ahead of us.
TGIF! The weekend can not come fast enough!
Happy Friday everyone :)
smolZINE Issue 12 is out! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-12.gmi
"You're Not Addicted to Your Phone. You're Just Distracted."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwFZC8sepU
Been working on smolZINE today and have some fun community contributions. I'm excited about this one.
Welcome @velartrill. You're Station's 300 member!
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-10_mark-it-down.gmi
I'm curious if folks here have thoughts regarding Markdown in Geminispace?
Obviously we don't want sites doing browser-specific content, but on the other hand, the Gemini protocol is media-type-agnostic. It's the community that has to decide which content types are appropriate, and while Gemtext has many great qualities, it's also a bit of straightjacket.
Kirk is about to go back into space. T-10 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEhdlIor-do
I love VimWiki + Goyo vim plugins. Makes the writing experience so sweet.
Maybe I should take the time to write about my vimwiki + taskwarrior usage 🤔
OVH is down right now… So DNS servers too and so my services are not available anymore.
This raise the question of DNS management for me. This is the only (I think) service I'm not selfhosting at this point^^.
Question: What's your favourite TED talk and why?
Mine is "The art of misdirection" by Apollo Robbins: https://www.ted.com/talks/apollo_robbins_the_art_of_misdirection
Why? Because it's awesome (you can only watch it once).
I've been playing a lot lately with taskwarrior, vimwiki and gtd.
I need to keep that habit for at least a month and then revisit!
RE: @szczezuja Wed 06 Oct 2021 20:33 CEST
RE: @deerbard Wed 06 Oct 2021 12:10 CEST
Yes, gemini might be quiet at some time, but I think it's part of its goodness. This is a slow web, which means indeed quiet time, but for me it is a good thing. I believe it's part of making it not addictive like all the creepy sites on the web that just want you to stay on their platform longer :)
@szczezuja: Weren't you looking for a tools like this one?
https://git.sr.ht/~kornellapacz/gmnigit
I updated info about my calendars. Caaalendars, caaalendars, anyone? :D (Is it a first advertisment in gemini? Oh on I just spoiled this pure world hahaha)
I love Sundays. The internet is so quiet compared to during the week. It actually feels a little meditative.
Пользуясь началом отпуска и однодневным отъездом семейства, отдыхаю. Выкатил дневниковый пост в глоге, посмотрел пучок научпопа, и даже начал восстанавливать по крупицам один старый-престарый проектик. Авось, чего и выйдет.
Ах да, и сервер перевёл с Molly Brown обратно на Jetforce — у Молли CGI как-то странно работает, ломается гостевая.
Nicholas from Nicksphere does a great job at providing a clear preview of his logs content. Just look at it. Read time and a summary!
You're right, Szczezuja. And I thought of it after I wrote my log :) Fall's come and we all have less time. Normal modern life thing.
Tiny logs space seem to got more quiet recently. Not that much happening here anymore it seems. Maybe it's just temporary? Or maybe it's whole gemini already passed it's pick of interest from people? My astrobotany plant is not being watered that quickly anymore even if it stays dry for a day or two.
Ok, finally joining in the station fun. Hi everybody.
To get my digital vaccine certificate for covid-19, I have to use a government website protected by Google Recaptcha 🤦 This hits me particularly hard since I evade Google tracking, so I get forced into doing free labour to help Google train their self-driving cars. It's infuriating. Why don't they just implement a simple rate-limit if they are worried about bots?
RE: @deerbard Sun 03 Oct 2021 18:39 CEST
Lace stopped working for me just today. Any other lace users still there?
edit: It actually works but take an awful load of time. Just checked and it loaded after 9 minutes :D
Time was one of the thing that made me move away from lace…
RE: @deerbard Fri 01 Oct 2021 10:23 CEST
💬 @bacardi55 Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:24 CEST
If it doesn't work, what I found is I have to use pen and paper, no computer tool worked in a long run. I use bullet journal for a year now, no other tool worked for so long.
Thanks for the advice! I tried a lot using just pen and paper… But I don't always have my notebook with me. And I don't like the very small one that fit in a pocket…
I do use a lot pen and paper, specially to take notes during call/meeting because it simulate more my brain and memory than typing, but for follow up and task lists, it is scatter in too many pages…
Maybe there is a format to use with paper to be better, but I don't know any^^.
Just started a "rolling one pic gallery" in my ART log. Let's see if I remember to change it from time to time :)
Lace stopped working for me just today. Any other lace users still there?
edit: It actually works but take an awful load of time. Just checked and it loaded after 9 minutes :D
Re: @bacardi55 Thu 30 Sep 2021 09:24 CEST
If it doesn't work, what I found is I have to use pen and paper, no computer tool worked in a long run. I use bullet journal for a year now, no other tool worked for so long.
RE: @bacardi55 Wed 29 Sep 2021 10:03 CEST
I wish I was better at maintaining a nice todolist up to date. I've seen so many tools and method (gtd, …), but I always fail behind and stop updating it at some point.
I wonder if other people like me found a miracle solution 🤔
Well, I decided to give taskwarrior and gtd a new try… Let's see 🤔
I just automate the sh*t out of the most boring task I have at work ("activity tracking") with a small golang code. I'm very happy about myself right now :D
"The Single Most Productive Thing You Can Do" #sleep #productivity
Grace B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PP90uBF_cU
I wish I was better at maintaining a nice todolist up to date. I've seen so many tools and method (gtd, …), but I always fail behind and stop updating it at some point.
I wonder if other people like me found a miracle solution 🤔
Busy time comes yet again. Calendars making. I never found a way to monetize this outside of few friends and family members circle but I have so much passion for it I just can't avoid doing it. Exciting times!
bombadillo is the best terminal gemini (and gopher, finger, maybe telnet?) client IMO. It has many things amfora/astronaut/av98 doesn't have, just that I wish it could have custom colors.
Lagrange v1.7.0 about to go live...
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/images/v1.7_folders-and-popup.jpg
Just need to run some dependency upgrades on my little build farm.
This season of Formula 1 is the best I've ever watched. If you're not watching, you're missing out. The next Netflix "Drive to survive" is going to be epic!
So true: There's still no beating "git push heroku" for deployment. #devops
Changelog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTV437JsiXg
vim-magit is amazing, but when commit triggers gpg's passphrase prompt it seems very very unresponsive. really weird and annoying. lucky I could go to another repo, enter the commit + enter passphrase without magit successfully so that in magit I can just commit and it won't prompt the passphrase.
I *just* discovered that gitea is actually written in go (wow).
And I thought codeberg was gitea's official/public instance? Apparently there's also gitea.com which has around as many (maybe less) users/repos on there.
I also found a command line tool for gitea
Doesn't feel as polished and pretty as github cli 😛
But still, how did I not know these before? damn I always thought it was written in ruby
Re: @bacardi55 Fri 24 Sep 2021 17:57 CEST
Thanks, you're right, sometime a break is needed. Have a nice evening
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Thu 23 Sep 2021 09:08 CEST
Hi, everybody. I'm so sorry to not be present on gemini universe this moment. I don't manage to conciliate professionnal and personnal activities. I hope it will change next days. Take care of you :hug:
I don't think any apology is required here. Everybody has their priorities and an offline life (well, we don't really have "offline" life anymore, but that's another question^^).
I've been very quiet online lately too, and sometimes it is helpful to take breaks :)
pipe the output of a (supported) command into it and it will give you a json output which can be easily used in scripts like with jq.
I haven't seen any alternatives for this before, as in apart from using shell utils like cut, sed, head/tail, awk, etc.
On a brief look it seems that it supports around 70 commands
Examples:
$ ls -l /usr/bin | jc --ls -p -r
[
{
"filename": "apropos",
"link_to": "whatis",
"flags": "lrwxrwxrwx.",
"links": "1",
"owner": "root",
"group": "root",
"size": "6",
"date": "Aug 15 10:53"
},
{
"filename": "arch",
"flags": "-rwxr-xr-x.",
"links": "1",
"owner": "root",
"group": "root",
"size": "33080",
"date": "Aug 19 23:25"
},
...
]
```
```w | jc --w -p
$ w | jc --w -p
[
{
"user": "root",
"tty": "tty1",
"from": null,
"login_at": "07:49",
"idle": "1:15m",
"jcpu": "0.00s",
"pcpu": "0.00s",
"what": "-bash"
},
...
]
holy smokes! gotta change my `online` script now 😱
Hi, everybody. I'm so sorry to not be present on gemini universe this moment. I don't manage to conciliate professionnal and personnal activities. I hope it will change next days. Take care of you :hug:
mew and mew. life is few. life is far. mew and mar.
Посмотрел сериал "Кликбейт" и в восторге. По качеству сюжета это близко к первому сезону "Настоящего Детектива" — развязку не осилил предсказать до самого конца.
Making drugs for children sweet is an act of malevolence. Change my mind.
Re: @ﾘ Reaton Tue 21 Sep 2021 23:33 CEST
Nice! Glad to hear and it's such a nice feeling I actually helped you find it. I was pretty sure our little tinylog world is way too small for it to be something new to anybody here but I turned out to be wrong :)
Happy Monday everyone! Hope you all have a productive week. Going to be a busy one over here, but I'd prefer it no other way :)
"The Discovery That Transformed Pi" on YouTube
sooo cool!
I can't wait to program this out with code and build cool stuff with pascal triangle, pi graphed out and things like that
I think the world would be a slightly better place if more people were quicker to think "this software has gotten too bloated" and slower to think "this computer has gotten too old."
Caught up on the Dresden Files series writte by Jim Butcher. Highly recommended if you've got some time and you're looking for a book. Started Steven King's On Writing. Also excellent.
The Mandelbrot set is so interesting. If you've not heard of it before, check out this awesome, beautiful visualisation of it.
Bonus: watch it for a minute or so and then look at an object in your room. The effects are so fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2XgQOyCCk
started reading a lot of novels this week, completely forgot how i enjoyed them... haven't read novels properly for like a year a more
Book recommendation: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. #novel #fiction #scifi #space
Project Hail Mary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary
Уже пару лет не пишу стихов, но нашёл и выложил в Gemini архив того, что написал за предыдущие годы — вдруг кому понравится (и вдруг мне снова приспичит писать)...
Today is gemini day. I finally added links to my capsule.
places I like in gemini (still lacks all capsules links)
Autumn mixtapes are out on Konpeito! :)
Re: @lykso Fri 17 Sep 2021 20:14 UTC
Just a strange thing to do IMO to give such name. It's aiming low.
If you like exploring bandcamp, there's this Firefox plugin maybe you didn't know about called Volume Control for Bandcamp Player. Yes, it adds that missing functionality to bandcamp. I have no idea why it's not there by default.
p.s. @sloum if you're reading here, thx for this Martina Topley Bird album you wrote about in your gemlog. Perfect mood.
Re: @deerbard@tinytext.club 2021-09-16 15:28 CEST
Yeah, it's a bit negative, but I think it makes sense in the context of it being focused on gamers. Gaming often involves fierce competition and trash-talk, which one might term "discord." That's my head-canon, anyway.
@Szczezuja
My loose, late night foughts on why I use gemini that I posted in responce to your log
Finally sat down and threw together a script for easily looking up and inserting emoji anywhere I like in a way that conforms to my preferences.
gemini://lyk.so/systems/emoji-input/
🙌
Did you ever think about why is Discord named this way? Is it me or is the meaning of it rather negative?
Writing a gemlog post entirely on my phone. It's still a bit crude, but at least nothing has crashed so far.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-09_hello-from-ios.gmi
Re: @lykso@lyk.so Sun 12 Sep 2021 17:53 UTC
Just noticed your log, thanks a bunch! Will try to share more often here.
Just figured out why msmtp wasn't working under Debian. Its AppArmor profile is too restrictive for how I'm using it. Leaving a note here for my future self and anyone else with the same problem. Credit to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62838673/awk-permission-denied-when-run-through-msmtp
The solution:
sudo ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.msmtp
Station just received its 1000th post!
Nice work everyone. It's awesome to see this micro community on Station growing and continuing to be full of interesting people and discussions 🙌
Created a page describing my e-mail system. I use mblaze, msmtp, and mbsync.
gemini://lyk.so/systems/e-mail/
dysphoria sucks balls
I'm so mad at myself, I just completely deleted at least 3GB of older works of mine instead of backing them up. And I am not even fully sure what they all were. Was there something important among them? Was there any commissioned work etc? So stressing.
I am the clueless grandma type user in the beautiful world of gemini. Beware, I'm coming to ask questions you won't even understand.
Re: @deerbard@rawtext.club 2021-09-07 12:12 CEST
I like it. Thanks for sharing your art here!
Новый интересный проект от Drew:
visurf is a work-in-progress frontend for Netsurf:
- vi-inspired keybindings
- Minimal, lightweight interface
- Wayland only
Re: @cyberwolf@byzoni.org 2021-09-10 13:03 MSK
Товарищ, а художественную литературу не приемлешь? Или в список добавил только техническое?
(толже чтоль завести списочек...)
Привёл tinylog в соответствие со стандартом:
Выкатил подборку годных ссылок. Дополнения принимаются в гостевой и на почте
Eleventh creature sketch done, good. At least this part of the projects progress look promising.
Good read about limited resources feature by @szczezuja
Развивающиеся пространства порождают интересные вещи. Сим имею предложить вашему вниманию
Antenna: пассивный агрегатор контента.
Суть в следующем: в противовес привычным агрегаторам, теребящим RSS/Atom или gmisub, Antenna, дабы не создавать лишней нагрузки и не засирать сеть запросами к мёртвым ресурсам(равно как и базу списками мертвецов), проверяет изменения только от заведомо живых лент — чтоб триггернуть проверку, владелец ресурса должен дёрнуть специальный запрос на агрегаторе.
В условиях нынешнего Gemini эта модель пока работает прекрасно.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
You can consider me the last person who wouldn't like to try something new, but `fish` is an eleven-foot pole case for me (that's a pole I keep for touching things I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole).
I tried to use it, years ago, and I am still slightly appaled.
Re: @hexdsl Wed 08 Sep 2021 21:47 BST
Fish seems like a terrible shell
how so? I agree that it isn't posix compliant and can't directly type in shell scripts, but I really can't survive without fish. The auto suggestions and auto complete is really smart and colorful. It even tells me if a command is not found before I hit enter. Those things can probably be achieved with plugins from oh my zsh/bash but requires less (or no) set up. I also think that the completion, configuration and environment variables are easier.
The default bash AFAIK only lists out the possible completions when you hit tab twice, but in fish you hit tab once and it lists out the possible completions AND allows you to tab through to select one. Fish's built-in commands (and 3rd party ones if they support it) also allows you to see the description of each completions which is an amazing way of learning a tool without having to dig through the docs.
For example, when I type `git a` and hit tab, it lists 3 entries of command completion and shows you what the command does next to each of them:
```
~ $ git a<tab>
add (Add file contents to the index) archive (Create an archive of files from a named tree)
apply (Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree)
```
Just to add to Solene's post, you don't need to type ctrl e to confirm a suggestion, the right arrow key would work and is easier to type IMO.
Today is not a good mood day :[
Thank you, @samhunter! For both trying it out and the compliment)
Re: @deerbard Sep 7 12:12:02 PM CEST 2021
I could download it. Quite cool, the creature...
First test ever putting an image to gemini space. It's the first (January) creature for my 2022 calendar. Can you confirm it's downloadable?
small and compressed but it's here
What's everyone up to this week?
I'm finishing off a little client work before putting some time into my own project work, which I've neglected far too much lately. Making time to work on my own things is really important – it's an essential part of keeping programming fun for me.
Congratulations @Reaton!
I received another email responding to deerlog (my gemlog) entry. Feels good. I am in a good place. I am so happy I started this. This is the most genuine social interaction I got from internet since... ever? Maybe. Good morning everyone!
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Mon 06 Sep 2021 18:00 CEST
I am officially accepted into the school I wanted to go to!
Congratz!!
Never tried creating a tinylog entry as a multiple response, but I like how it works with gtl (without doing anything special about it):
screenshot of an entry with double response.
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Fri 03 Sep 2021 22:17 CEST
Waiting for the results to know if I'm accepted in the school I'm aiming for is unbearable (especially since the staff rickroll us lmao)
When are the results expected? 🤞
I saw this on the "other web" and had to share here:
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 then disappears from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes' famous philosophy of "I think, therefore I am", but to explain that part before the rest of the joke would be putting Descartes before the horse.
listening to it now, great album
Welcome back @Reaton, good luck with the school!
I find Windows font rendering as gross as anybody else does, but if your article about cool typography on the Web is completely unreadable on a default Windows install and a 1080p display, maybe you should rethink your message
August projects report is late but is published in my capsule. I write it just for myself so it's only in Polish but I publish it cause I need it to be a bit more official. Just for me meaning the only purpose is that it helps me but everyone can read it and write me about it, kick my lazy ass or just ask about something. I like that pressure.
I bookmarked this post some time ago and found myself reading it again today. 'To survive a collapse, never mind build the utopia, systems need to be running now. That means scaled sourcing of materials, creation, and deployment.' This resonates with me. I also think there is value in documenting what can be reclaimed from where, along with what those components may be used for. Making useful what would otherwise be waste is, in my opinion, one of the most solarpunk endeavors possible.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/shufei/phlog/20200712-Comp-Solarpunk.gmi
discovered the marginalia search engine today via this post
was pleasantly surprised by searching for "game boy battery" that my personal website is already in there somehow sitting at the top of the list! this is a really neat project and I hope to use it more over time
big font sizes are trendy, but sometimes it feels like the trendy minimum font size is one that can be read by people walking past your outside-facing window
2021 is such a nice number, 2022 looks kinda ugly for some reason ;-;
paralympics was pretty cool!
Cannot connect to nightfall.city. I get 'connection refused'.
thinking about how many static web site generators are out there and yet the only one I actually want to use is a 25-line shell script I wrote ten years ago
Enjoying my fresh new gemini experience with Amfora. So far I'm very glad I decided to migrate to this browser. The only con is that I cannot search for words as in web browsers (I could in Kristall) but I can finally open sound files and what's most important subscribe to capsules and actually see the feed!
Сменил gemini-сервер. Теперь живём на Molly Brown - очень понравился конфиг и то, что написано на Go.
Hello from a Raspi 400.
Running GUI apps in a console takes me back to the 90s, to the good (bad) old days of MS-DOS. It's cool that it's still a thing that's possible to do, 30 years later!
Lagrange could use a few tweaks for this environment, though:
- no way to change the screen resolution except via editing prefs.cfg
- mouse cursor is not always redrawn when it's moved (SDL bug?); keyboard navigation for the whole UI would be nice
- can't switch VTs as SDL catches all the keys (maybe unfixable?)
- needs some sort of file picker UI since drag-and-drop is unavailable
Does anyone else ever have mixed feelings about 3D printing? Sometimes I wonder if the whole thing isn't just a ploy to sell more plastic.
Re: @deerbard Sun 29 Aug 2021 13:35 CEST
I should stop trying to use backquoted preformatted text in my tinylog, I already found a workaround for GTL, but apparently the issue hits harder in "lace"...
Can you imagine the existential fear of a person who knows everything? (just a thought, luckily I am as ignorant as it gets, with lots still to learn).
@samhunter there's an empty re: to me in your tinylog, does it mean a meaningful silence upon my igno
rance? :D
EDIT: it's only empty in lace, thx, I found my way to the config! :)
And solved. Time to copy paste all the subscriptions... (boring part).
Re: @deerbard Sun Aug 29 01:07:10 PM CEST 2021
```
~/.config/amfora/config.toml
[auth.certs]
# Client certificates
# Set domain name equal to path to client cert
# "example.com" = 'mycert.crt'
'astrobotany.mozz.us' = '/home/samhunter/.config/certs/cert.pem'
```
Hah, found the „help” :) Only certs issue to solve.
Trying to understand Amfora, still can't find any complete instruction on how to use it. I figured how to open and switch tabs but don't know how to delete them. Still have to check if I can migrate my cert from Kristall.
Запущена гостевая книга
It's Friday! Anyone got anything interesting planned for the weekend?
Re: @deerbard Wed 25 Aug 2021 17:49 CEST
No, it's *years* since I played chess last time. I kind of lost interest, I guess having to "think ahead" at work all the time doesn't help. And -- I should actually begin with that -- I never was a good player.
I'm tending to my garden today. I don't have an actual garden where I can grow flowers and vegetables and herbs and stuff. One day.
For now, I'm tending to my creative garden by learning how to repair things around the apartment, like the broken convection fan in my oven, or getting the old bike back into working condition.
It's been a couple of month's since my last update. Gotta get back into the rhythm here.
re: @samhunter Tue 24 Aug 2021 12:42 CEST
We lose the context from living in light polluted world. Few minutes of staring at stairy night sky can give it back. Happens so rarely to me...
p.s. I enjoyed your chess variants ideas. Do you play chess on lichess maybe btw?
First time since... two years, maybe even more, I get fully immersed into the book. Happened yesterday and the day before too. I have almost zero time for reading throughout the year. I will finish the first book in this year just this week. This is a somewhat painfull confession but it's just the result of conscious decisions.
I wish emailing was as easy for nontechy folk as creating txt file on your device and sending it to the other person's device. No providers in between, just my inbox on my computer and your inbox on yours.
Curb has a special place in my heart (and the next one is coming in October!), but no sitcom will ever beat Seinfeld for me.
quebec's vaccine passport app is out today on iOS. it literally just bumps your brightness to max and shows a QR code, and yet it doesn't have the decency to revert you to your previous backlight level when you're done with it. unacceptable
Re: @hexdsl Tue 24 Aug 2021 19:17 BST
teeline -- as in 'shorthand system'?
misread an old 6th edition card as being 2-mana "discard 2, draw 4" and was completely shocked. then I read the card again
Context: Not so important, are you?
```
#
## you are
#### here
#### |
##### v ,
#####--.--o--o---°------(()---(/)---O-----O-----------------------------------
##### '
```
Two years today since I made a Polish robot speak Esperanto, and it still does: https://parol.martinrue.com
If you want to hear it, here's an example taken right out of the English-Hungarian phrasebook:
My hovercraft is full of eels: https://parol.martinrue.com/?teksto=Mia kusenveturilo estas plena je angiloj
I guess it's time to stop calling chess a 'strategy game'. It's tactics. You win a battle in chess, not a war. And I guess all the generals that declared any war in the last century a win -- played chess. If chess was a war game the playing should continue after the 'king is defeated' (checkmate). The whites won? Great. Now the whites help blacks rebuild their society. How is the chessboard divided now? Is is still 32 fields for each side? Can a kingless bunch of rooks, lead by a bishop, still try to assasinate the white king?🤔
I can see some variations of the game:
- "German chess" - the losing side divides their side of the board in two, has a small checkers minigame;
- "Polish chess" - after the opening a third side appears on the board and works together with blacks or whites. The losing side never accepts the 'checkmate', at once a king reappears in the different part of the chessboard...;
- "Russian chess" - for every rook killed two new appear, no piece is allowed to retreat;
- "Japanese chess" - there's no particular strategy, all pieces move at once, sacrificing a rook isn't actually optional;
- ... and so on, and so on...
skyjake.fi is up and running again.
Turns out the problem was not as dire as I feared. There was a loose power cable blocking the CPU fan from turning, which was causing the CPU to overheat. The cable must've been near the fan already since it's been rattling, but the hard knock pushed it in fully.
Hopefully nothing got damaged while it was running at max temp for a few hours without a fan...
```
/ \ /
k --- a b --- f
/ \ / \
me --- l i
\ / \ /
j --- c d --- e
\ /
g --- h
```
⚠️My server skyjake.fi suffered a hardware malfunction (fan) and I had to shut it down for now. This means my capsule and the Mastodon instance will be offline for a while, until
I relocate the services or fix the broken fan.
Lagrange continues to be available via Codeberg and GitHub in the meantime.
Learning to keep tabs on my projects in 'swim' (think "Trello on the commandline"):
Unpopular? opinion: get rid of the feature to minimize windows. I mostly only ever do it by mistake and haven't needed it in forever. If they ever give me the launch codes to macOS, it's *gone*, I tell you!
Консольное приложение для работы с tinylog:
Подписываться и читать удобно. При минимальной настройке можно и писать. Этот пост отправлен с его помощью (в ролях также bash, vim и git :-) )
A cool thing I managed to do this week was to install OpenBSD on an external drive and run it on real hardware. Quite a bit nicer experience than running inside a choppy VM.
This was my first time running a real BSD on my PC. I found and fixed a few bugs for Lagrange v1.6.4 with this setup.
The only problem was that—of course—my RTX 2080 and 5K monitor were not detected correctly, so I was stuck on a squished 1280x1024. It was striking how quickly your eye's adapt to the aspect ratio... When looking at normal 1:1 text afterwards, everything looked extremely narrow and stretched in the opposite direction.
Station users now have a tinylog feeds!!!
gemini://station.martinrue.com/martin/751648cb014140bdbca260d9ef9e8ecb
Thanks @martin for the great work and expending tinylogs idea!
Re: @bacardi55 Sat 21 Aug 2021 16:16 CEST
you can always check gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io
That's what I do :)
On other notes, I hope everyone is enjoying there week end :]
RE: samhunter Sat 21 Aug 2021 14:04 CEST
💬 @bacardi55 Sat Aug 21 13:39:00 CEST 2021
Having said that - golang libraries it uses are a bit too big to have the repo cloned in my RTC $HOME. Then - I am a bit of a troglodyte, I am actually quite happy with dumping the content of your Gemini page to stdout and scrolling it with help of my terminals scrollback function.
I'll probably install it locally on my machines at home though. It's pretty neat and the keybindings are reasonable ;)
Thanks for testing :) You can also download a binary to avoid building the app :).
Or when not on the right devices, you can always check gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io to avoid installing anything other than a gemini browser.
I finally got some time to do some Station work!
Check "Recent Updates" to see all changes, but the main one is that all Stationeers now have a Tinylog feed. Thanks for the idea @skyjake and @bacardi55.
This means users on Station can be "followed" outside of Station, via tools like GTL, like so: https://i.imgur.com/5TktXsz.png
Hope everyone's having a great weekend 🙌
RE: samhunter Sat 21 Aug 2021 13:10 CEST
I might have patched the problem 'lace' has with incorrectly formatted dates (or at least I found a good place to do so).
→ lace My modified lace (WIP)
I don't know if you follow my tinylogs but you could try gtl :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl
I might have patched the problem 'lace' has with incorrectly formatted dates (or at least I found a good place to do so).
People 'sent' almost 500 messages via gab in the course of the last two weeks. Seeing how much 'life' everybody gets in spite of if -- maybe it's not 'social network' that ruins your lives, but the notifications? ;) [I doubt anyone expects an instant reply in 'gab'...]
Slope has the 'file-append-to', I added a few lines of code to have 'file-read-from' -- for symmetry. To do - 'file-prepend-to' and probably 'file-prepend-at-tag' or something like that for tinylog type files (where all the new content goes between the header and the latest entry)
Refactored much of my dotfiles this week, especially my nvim configuration. There were so much untouched configuration that didn't actually work and I didn't even know xD
github.com/hedyhli/dotfiles (also on sr.ht)
I've started to focus a bit on maintainability and ease of settings up new machines, I wrote some setup scripts and I plan to organize them all and have a `dot` script that can run them on request (instead of having to type out the full path every time). I also plan to make the setup scripts be able to be run more than once, that is even after setting up the first time I can still run them again and again to keep stuff in sync. I've recently used my dotfiles to set up two linux desktops and it was relatively easy to get everything working.
Back to nvim, I've switched to a lua autopairs plugin so that I can get more customization and control in its behaviour (real reason was to fix some really annoying behaviour, see commit log for more info). I'll probably replace lightline (vim) with galaxyline (lua based) next week.
Still trying to get <CR> automatically hide the popup menu :/ and I need to optimize the startup speed a bit more. Once I've done that I'll be able to resume working on my projects :D
@samhuner damn, no I didn't get it. Maybe because I didn't even check the youtube link (and still not checking it now, no time :P) p.s. still one tinylog entry giving error in lace „invalid date ‘Tue 17 Aug 06:22:23 CEST PM CEST’”
@frrobert@frrobert.net Does lace works with entries containing empty lines?
Trying to understand if lace is compatible with this:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/15
Any lace user that knows can respond :)
Top-down design is far less enjoyable that bottoms up design. This is not a current status, yet.
A: What are you doing on Friday?
B: I want to buy glasses in the afternoon...
A: And then?...
B: And then... We will see.
(I show myself out)
Watching "A Very Secret Service" on Netflix. The French humour at its best. A bit like Louis de Funès movies. Minus the outright slapstick scenes. "Who won WW2?" "...France?"
tinylog.slo:
[x] Added prompt to the 'editor'
[x] Will skip the header to the first entry (= first line starting with "##")
I had a rather lengthy exchange about the rather inadequate support for Unicode characters on Linux console. What works perfectly in a 'text' terminal emulator gets mangled and partially replaced with white squares on the console. Even in FB mode, with the proper encoding and font loaded -- there's still lots of _actually not so weird shit_ that just can't be displayed properly. Okay, meanwhile, Russian or Polish people are not fucked anyymore when trying to read or write on the console. But I pity you if you're trying to write math formulas. I guess only 2² gets displayed properly, all the rest is simply a square.
"I hope it will get better..." said my interlocutor. I'm thinking and thinking and I just cannot see it. Everybody drifted into the world of graphical interfaces, plus the text console does what it was intended to do -- gives you access to the system on a very close, very basic level. Will we ever see emojis in kernel messages? Well, I hope not, because they won't be properly displayed...
RE: @szczezuja Wed 18 Aug 2021 20:53 CEST
@bacardi55 - gtl testing report no. 8:
Thanks for testing and your feedbacks!
* `R` with above option is worked fine, but I don't know if it's full format of response? I don't have date of original tinypost in stub;
Could you show the given stub?
It should something like:
## <Now date>
RE: <user> <log entry date>
<quoted entry>
Do you see something different?
* `Alt+Enter` isn't working for me, strange.
Weird, you mean nothing happen? Do you have a left or right "alt" key? (I noticed it works only with left one).
I'm thinking to move it to a simple letter like the other, that might fix your issue 🤔
thinking of System 7 Bubble Help. you could just turn it on via the Help menu on old Macs and run your cursor over things to get a text bubble explanation of it
Ever noticed how you grow when something you need isn't available? I guess lack of something is a good impulse to kick our butts out off the consumption circle. And every temporary need creates a permanent value.
@deerbard: I don't think I overdo it. I just don't keep using 'you' or their nicknames. Besides: you do realise it's a tongue-in-cheek remark? ;)
RE: @reaton@geminids.ga Thu 19 Aug 2021 12:03 CEST
Wow it's been a while since I haven't been on Gemini. School is taking all of my time and I'm happy about it but I can't wait to be able to be here more often. Hope everyone's doing good!
It is the small/slow web so nothing disappeared too fast or changed to much :D
Good luck with school though :)
@samhuner Actually I find it awkward if somebody says my (or other person's name) often in the conversation. It always sounds like some learned technique, not a natural way of talking and it automatically adds tention/stiffness to the conversation on my side when I notice it.
Woke up to a new time/data functions specification ;-) Format of the timestamp changed slightly, hopefully it doesn't break anything...
What do you geminauts think of saltpack? I've been meaning to try it for some time, but it doesn't seem to have any traction anywhere.
Aside from being one sexy mofo (ngl - can't breathe from laughing) I managed to enable multiline entries in tinylog.slo. It's not a bad day, overall...
- Always learning ✅
- Relaxed body language ✅
- Mindful during discussions ✅
- Don't check the phone 24/7 ✅
- Don't try to be perfect ✅
- Say their name often ✅
Also: _me_ :rofl:
Being "thrown into deep water" at the very beginning of a new job has its advantages. I'm in a training, level 'advanced', for a system I didn't know at all a few months ago, and I do not feel too dumb for it. The feeling of being an impostor is actually a good thing. Keeps you on your toes. If I only had so much fun learning back then, at school ;)
Changed the date format in tinylog.slo. Let's see how it works. Thanks @deerbard for pointing it out (I didn't know I'm under surveillance now ;-) )...
Пересмотрел своё отношение к финансам. Позакрывал все кредитки, меняю подход к инвестированию. Никаких больше спекуляций (всё равно не умею) - буду делать себе раннюю пенсию.
Just finished the 2021-04-05 episode of Trendy Talk and then immediately found this post, which I thought dovetailed nicely with some of Chris Were's arguments: gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210716-re-why-distributed-systems-dont-work.gmi
Structural change does need to happen to address a lot of the problems facing us, but in the meantime there's still value in doing whatever little bit one can immediately do as well.
In case someone needs to fold text after 60th column ;-) ->
(for-each (lambda (line) (display line)(newline)) (regex-find ".\{60}[^ ]* *|.*$" Long))
<- Yes. That's pretty much all. 'Long' is a variable holding the long text line you want to fold...
„Language has made us more than a group of pack hunting monkeys. It's made us a group of pack hunting monkeys with a dream” - Terence McKenna
Gemini client in six-ish lines of code? nice :) #slope
So, it happened. I didn't expect the first slope script I _might_ use regularly would be a tinylog updater. The gab client (gaby) is already at a quite advanced development stage (minus a necessary rewrite to replace my /etc/passwd hack with a much more standard and efficient fileglob), but wrapping a oneliner I already had in some file updating logic wasn't particularly complex. So here we are. An update from inside a slope script...
I've just release gtl v0.6.0. I think it is by far the biggest release so far (except the original first v0.1.0).
I'm quite happy about gtl state and I think I'm close to what I want for a semi final version (v1.0.0).
Read the changelog / docs as it has different changes than the alpha version!
RE: @deerbard Mon 16 Aug 2021 22:48 CEST
@bacardi55 samhunter's tinylog is not included in gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/
It's gemini://rawtext.club/~samhunter/tinylog.gmi
Thanks, I've added it!
Re: @szczezuja Mon 16 Aug 2021 21:18 CEST
Yeah my humor also lives in daily little putting things into absurd and showing their abstract nature. The not telling jokes part interested me too. I now think it's because internet posts took this part from out social life. You want jokes? Just scroll down some meme feed. As for the rest of the aspects, I don't think there's any negative aspect about having some parts of life established and ritualized. In fact it gives us more time to explore the new unknowns. You can be open your whole life while having more and more stuff put (temporarily but this can be forever if no need to touch it) in the comfort zone.
I realized my fourth generation Astrobotany plant might be the one I was waiting for to keep it forever. Well, forever. Big words. But I'm not harvesting it as the first plant there. It might stay, I feel. I like you „rare fractal yellow seed-bearing moss named One Cross Each”. I wonder if anyone got the reference for my plants' names by the way.
After years of avoiding?/neglecting?/not finding use for? Scheme I took a deep dive into a "locally developed" Scheme's dialect - 'slope'. It's really refreshing to take a different approach to solving problems. I am actually amazed how deep has the basic syntax of the language embossed itself in my mind. I must admit -- every time I start a new project in Python -- I have a moment of hesitation -- "how exactly am I going to make it run?". Nothing like that with Scheme. For example - I've noticed slope has a for-each expression, and (I tested it at some point) it works exactly as your intuition tells you, but doing a "loop" using recursion felt so natural. Why is it so? And why am I "at home" with Scheme, but somehow cannot stand Lisp? Questions ;)
Slope is a 'for fun' project. You didn't believe the world needs another language? Another interpreted language? Another interpreted language with lots of parens? Good. That would be a weird assumption. Sloum writes it for fun, because he can. And, kind of as a side effect -- a working, slick and fast tool was created. I did some timing, comparing a standard program running here (written in Python) with my less-than-masterfully crafted bootleg version of it.
```
$ time ./gab.slo -c test >/dev/null >>> real 0m0.012s|user 0m0.001s|sys 0m0.011s
$ time gab -c test > /dev/null >>> real 0m0.066s|user 0m0.054s|sys 0m0.010s
```
Not bad for a 'toy' language, huh?
@bacardi55 samhunter's tinylog is not included in gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/
It's gemini://rawtext.club/~samhunter/tinylog.gmi
Finally pretty damn sure that the barely-remembered old bell the intro The Beauty and the Beast rang in me is Le carnaval des animaux by Camille Saint-Saëns. One of my earliest musical experiences, but long buried except for a sense of glassy sounds radiating into darkness…
Tonight's Gemini updates:
Some leftover pixel art from my Amiga days collected in one image.
Untitled German poem in German
what a wild day: a dunkey video is on the front page of hacker news
RE: @szczezuja Sat 14 Aug 2021 11:36 CEST
@bacardi55: You are also absent for two weeks. Vacations time! ;-)
I took a week off but also took some time away from the laptop outside of work too :)
Was quite refreshing :)
Now I need to push gtl v0.6.0 tonight and many other things I planed during my time off that I didn't do.
I'm not at all "worried" or annoyed at myself for not doing any of the thing I planned (coding wise), It was quite a nice brain break.
Even my reading were "easy book" only and nothing that made me think too much :)
TBH, being back since this morning is freaking tough
I talked with a stranger. Why do people hesitate so much? Postpone stuff indefinitely. Don't call, don't text. Don't outline that story or essay, don't fill the gaps. Don't learn that song, don't lookup that information. When did everybody become so apathetic?
I read Amer's blog post about mental aging.
gemini://amer.pollux.casa/blog/mental-aging.gmi
Quite some time ago I noticed I mentally aged in one aspect not mentioned by Amer. I lost a lot of my sense of humor. Since this discovery I made a conscious effort to make it better and with good results I think but... I still don't know any jokes anymore. And nobody I know tell jokes. I live in a joke desert. For long years. I don't mean situational, improvised funny things, but these little stories you tell same way every time. Is that also true in your bubbles?
I feel so incapable of doing/tackling/starting/accomplishing anything I could cry, except I can't seem to do that either anymore
Открыл для себя шикарного фотографа — Екатерину Кирьянову
Time to walk the walk - today's snapshot of the zeitgeist on the server -- who would expect that?
- 5 yummy! :P
- 1 disgusting :$
- 1 A pizza is a pizza :D
A bit less of a surprise here, though -- we're definitely the vi(m) crew here...
4 vim
2 vi
1 sam
1 ed
1 chalk
1 acme
Harvested my first astrobotany plant. Farewell, Abigail! Hello, Abigail. Now growing at 1.2x speed.
missing the glory days of populated flickr group
This whole "intuitive, impulsive" cooking thing is working really well so far. Procrastinated on a task today by making a fresh pasta dinner for the house with three different pestos and some oven roasted brussel sprouts while listening to an episode of Trendy Talk. Not bad as far as procrastination goes. Certainly beats endlessly scrolling social media!
New quickie thing about successfully faking a wallpaper when using Kwin without Plasma.
gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/kwin-standalone.gmi
I've officially reached the comically funny stage of how often TypeScript saves my ass. It feels like having a super smart colleague that *really* likes verbose ways of explaining how I'm acting like a psychopath in any given moment.
When I was younger, I thought that being an early adopter for every shiny new tech toy would empower me and give me an edge. I tried to make up for a lack of experience with being among the first to every new trend. Now those shiny new toys just look like shackles to me, and the "progress" of consumer-oriented tech just looks like a hamster wheel. It's a strange feeling, being in tech while also hating so much about it.
I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute. I will not leave all my work to the last minute...
Air fryer chicken katsu with pickled plum onigiri tonight. Very simple and easy to make. First time using the air fryer. Really happy with how crunchy the breading turned out. Housemates also liked the tonkatsu sauce I made.
I kind of love-hate the simplicity of Plan9 editors. From one point of view they're strictly following the tenets of Unix - "one job, but well done". An editor isn't a mail client, web browser, file manager... They're not syntax highlighter either... They're heavily depending on mouse. Or mouse chordings, combined with keyboad operations. They probably work great with mouse held in right hand (what I, as a lefty, don't do).
Still prefer the "impure" versions:
A great set of patches bringing acme into XXI century. A must have in my opinion.
[1]It looks great and I would love to use it, but for some reasons it refuses to react to my mouse-clicks.
Started a new project:
A personal assistant for the RTC shell
I must admit, some pieces of code I (re-)write make me proud, even if it's basically just snipping on the existing code.
diff --git a/files/update.cpp b/files/update.cpp
index 773dbc6..6fdfd4b 100644
--- a/files/update.cpp
+++ b/files/update.cpp
@@ -37,23 +37,11 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
current_mission.ships[i].x += dx[i];
// Check if there is a change of status
for (int i = 0; i < current_mission.nfleet; i++) {
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_LEG1 &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_LEG1]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_MISSION;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_MISSION &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_MISSION]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_LEG2;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
- if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_LEG2 &&
- (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[STATUS_LEG2]) {
- current_mission.ships[i].status= STATUS_DONE;
- current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
- }
if (current_mission.ships[i].status == STATUS_DONE) {
current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
+ } else if ( (int)current_mission.ships[i].x >= current_mission.duration[current_mission.ships[i].status]) {
+ current_mission.ships[i].status++;
+ current_mission.ships[i].x = 0;
}
}
Whenever I correct a mistake and reupload a .gmi file to my capsule, do my sunscribers get a new notification? I hope not. And if yes, should I correct files in some other way?
Не расстаюсь с новой игрушкой. Очень доволен приобретением:
MNT Reform2: распаковка и первые впечатления
Epoxy just failed. Should've tested longer before celebrating. Next attempt: solder, paperclips, and wire cutters.
Just successfully repaired a broken scissor switch on my Thinkpad using a male pin header, a hobby knife, and some epoxy. One of the pegs on the scissor switch had broken off, and the metal from a male pin header was exactly the right size and shape to replace the whole section. In the past I would have replaced the whole keyboard. Feels like I've just leveled up! :D
So in Amfora you can use certs I understand, now how about copying them to another devices. You'd have to update amfora's config file on every device separately every time you add a new domain to it on one device. Am I missing something? How would you tackle this so it's most covinient to use amfora in more than one device? Is it possible to migrate amfora certs to Ariane (Android client)?
Added -t (user template) to poll. Now everyone can create their own polls/questionnaires.
Finally took the time to work on my website:
https://hedy.tilde.cafe (also on gemini)
still using hugo as the SSG, kiln didn't have as much features that I need from hugo, and bashblog just isn't good enough, feels simple but really not organised and stuff.
Re-wrote CSS based on a few inspirations:
I intend it to be not too barebones, and definetly not brutalist design, should look somewhat modern, but should have some accessibility features and simplicity to it. I've set the margin-left for blockquotes to 0 to make it look better in small screens, and kept the nav bar and footer simple. I've checked that it looks ok in reader mode and terminal browsers.
Many people who have minimalist-styled css websites have font-family be brwser default, but (not sure if it's just me) but if browser default is used all the apostrophes take such a huge space and makes it look very awkward. So I've set the font-family to a sans-serif stack (with sans-serif as the last fallback).
I've also gotten syntax highlighting to work in code blocks with different theme for light mode and dark mode. I'm not sure if screen readers will have a good time parsing code blocks and making sure they're formatted right, but I keep on improve it as I write more posts.
Special thanks to seirdy's post on website best practices
gemini://seirdy.one/2020/11/23/website-best-practices.gmi
The post is a bit opinionated but I've tried to keep with those best-practices where I can tolerate. The css source is minified and dumped into <style> tags, so no extra requests via <link>. No favicon at the moment, since I'm still figuring out what favicon I should use. No fancy animations or over-the-top colors. My link-hover styles might be a bit extra, but it looks really good when the underline is gone and highlight is up on mouse over.
There is absolutely no javascript or scripting, it's fully static, except maybe a few CGI scripts that I rarely use?
I've also mirrored all of my gemlog posts on hedy.smol.pub to hedy.tilde.cafe.
I'll write new gemlog posts from ~cafe now :D If you've subscribed to my smol.pub gemlog, I'd love it if you could change the feed url to:
gemini://hedy.tilde.cafe/feed.xml
Thanks!!
I'll probably move my tinylog/journal to there as well, in the future.
Still figuring out what I should do with my flounder site when I'm mostly done with my site (apart from content, content, content). The fact that I can just make a simple edit online is the one thing that keeps me using flounder, but it has plenty of limitations: css, gopher, more file types, CGI, ssh/rsync deploy, etc.
I also plan to have it on tor but doing that would be after I've done everything I've said above.
In regards to comments, I'll probably go with the "email to public mailing list route" plus webmentions. webmentions is one of the things that I'll definetly want to have. For gemini comments, I may setup the CGI gemini likes/comments systems in the future, but I don't really feel like that's the best solution...
If you have any feedback or suggestions, I'm happy to hear about it! Just trying to find the best middleground between absolute brutalist/minimalist and simplistic-but-modern aesthetics here.
Freshly created linkulator files of a new user caused a false positive, because linkulator change detection used simple mtime check. It's fixed now. Because the script has to read the last line of the linkulator.data file the timing slightly increased (~260-270ish now).
Changed the checking method for all 'folder based' services: recent.py dives (one level so far) into them and returns mtime of the newest file (was the folder itself before).
That was quick, approximately 30 minutes from a vague idea to implementation. And it's simple - just a text file with an obvious markup, extendable and completely under control of the user (as it should be on RTC).
```
$ poll -l
editor
What editors do you use?
geek4hire
Programmer, looking for project
os
What's your primary operating system?
sodapop
Pepsi or Coke?
```
So far only a couple of polls, and not-yet-decentralised (I'm working on it), but already usable. Due to the methodology behind it (files in users' HOMEs) not really a democracy tool (voting is far from anonymous), but I hope it'll find some use here. Or not...
```
What editors do you use?
(mark the ones you use frequently, you can add others, just keep the file clean)
[x] vi
[x] vim
[ ] emacs
[ ] nano
[ ] joe
[x] ed
[x] sam
[x] acme
```
A weirdo as myself cannot just do the stuff in awk(1) and move on...
Both oneliners:
+ filter out the "comment lines" beginning with "##"
+ create an entry for every first word of remaining lines in an associative array/hash
+ output a list of unique usernames
tmp $ time awk '!/^##/{a[$1]++}END{for(u in a){print u}}' online.log | sort > online.a
real 0m0.013s
user 0m0.009s
sys 0m0.003s
tmp $ time { unset -v 'q'; declare -A q; while read -r a b ; do [[ "$a" =~ ^##$ ]] || q[$a]="x" ; done < online.log; printf "%s\n" ${!q[@]} ;} | sort > online.s
real 0m0.152s
user 0m0.105s
sys 0m0.045s
tmp $ diff online.a online.s
tme $
Fun ;)
<EOL>
My tinylog lace feed got quiet. My gemreader refuses to work. Backlinks seems to work sometimes and sometimes not. Feels like losing this tiny little connection to other smolnet users. I'm looking forward to any good news about this.
A quick gemlog post about why there are some rough edges with text input in v1.6. @gnuserland
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-08_complexity-of-input.gmi
(I think my Gemlog Booster is working as intended; it's super convenient to make posts via Lagrange.)
«Выпуск товаров разрешён, таможенные платежи уплачены». Моя прелесссть едет ко мне...
Прислали счёт за растаможку MNT Reform и работу таможенного брокера (у меня аллергия на бюрократию — проще заплатить профессионалу). Суммарно почти 20К рублей из-за зверской пошлины. Включил ждуна и очень надеюсь, что всё будет хорошо и быстро.
I have a bad habit of killing my own momentum when what I perceive to be the "correct" path conflicts with what I *want* to do. I perceive learning the "mother sauces" to be "correct," as I've already begun that task and knowing those seems to be considered "foundational," but what I *want* to do now is play with lentils and curries. So now I find myself doing neither. :p
Вчера в 10 утра по дороге на тренировку обнаружил, наверное, с десяток автономных единиц алконавтов — каждый с початой полторашкой пивасика. Интересно, как покажет себя сгеодняшний день ВДВ...
Meh, can't make mps work anyway.
Learned about tmux just recently. I'n not a programmer, I wish I had more reasons to use it :D Let's see. Oh! So you can play youtube videos in terminal using something called mps-youtube? Perfect! One question if smebody knows - can Youtube track me if I use it like this?
@szczezuja if backlings are buggy, communication over gemlog replies is not as good idea as it looked like. For me also gemreader doesn't work, I don't get feed from I don't know how many capsules. That means I'm back to manually checking every capsule that I saved whenever I feel like ckecking it. It may takes months before I see an interesting post or a reply to me, or I can miss it completely. Now this is a slow internet indeed :D
Вдохновившись примером Drew и bacardi55, решил опробовать формат tinylog. Здесь будут короткие заметки в стиле Mastodon/Twitter. Многобуквенное продолжит периодически появляться в основном глоге.
"A practical philosophy of health, wealth and happiness"
Happiness
@szczezuja I tried backlinks with the only backlink to my capsule I know, your reply to my art manifesto and it worked. Does it work for you again?
Sometimes, I have the crazy idea that tinylogs with a bit more work and a nice cgi script could be a decentralized station… 🤔
ATTN: If you are currently making a sitcom about roommates, please don't end it with everyone moving out and/or getting married. That's just sad, to see everything dissolve.
Just threw together a cheddar cheese sauce to put on some dried pasta I'd made. Would not have known how to do this a month ago. success-baby.jpeg
Surely, the mother of all unboxing videos: unboxing a quantum computer!
IBM Quantum System One assembled in Japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPMY4oP3Qgk
RE: @szczezuja Mon 26 Jul 2021 18:28 CEST
I'm thinking about preparing text for copying by "system" mechanism rather than copying text inside `gtl` by its internal mechanism. Internal mechanism need some dependencies, for example to `xclip` and complicate whole design of `gtl`. For me the best solution is `toot tui` approach. […]
So I suggest dialog likei below:[…]
When after pressing gtl could try to run `xclip`, but everybody who don't have `xclip` would also easy copy text from textarea and press .
I added an option called `tui_show_stub` that will display the response stub in a modal before opening the $EDITOR, so that should fix your flow :)
I also added a shortcut "Alt+Enter" to open the selected entry in a modal, with buttons to do the action available via shortcuts. That should help your flow too.
I'm using some light color scheme for terminal I `gtl` looks like bellow.
Seems of a mix of a terminal issue and a cview (tui library) issue. I've raised other bugs in cview git repository lately so unsure if I can fix these in the short term 🤔
I'm thinking about releasing an alpha2 version…
Does it bother anyone else on this planet to see SOCAL, OB/GYN or COVID when it should be SoCal, Ob/Gyn and CoViD? At all? Never mind MAC (for the computer).
I forgot about Cosmic Voyage. Have no time to catch up with it but I'll leave the tab opened. For some reason gemreader doesn't want to give me feed from it.
I licenced my page under CC BY-SA 4.0. Don't know why would anyone want to use any of my writing but it was better to be done now then change all the files in future.
Lagrange v1.6 release party! 🎉
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-07_lagrange-1.6.gmi
Already found a bug... Copy-pasting in the text editor seems to paste too much text. 😄
RE: @szczezuja Thu 22 Jul 2021 22:00 CEST
Thanks for trying the gtl v0.6.0-alpha!
* suggestion - on the subscription pane you are using <Down arrow>/<Up arrow> for navigation, and for the timeline pane you are using <J key>/<K key> - it could be <Left arrow>/<Right arrow>, and it could work without changing pane by tab key. Two navigation keys schemas are confusing. <Right arrow> is using now for scrolling - I don't know if it's required.
* highlighted entry is hard to read in some gemtext colors combination - look for this post for example;
Could you show me a screenshot of the rendering? I'm not sure what you mean.
* suggestion - <T key> could be working always, also on posts without response pattern. It could be handy, because it will help with tmux native copy&paste functionality (C-A-[ and C-A-] keys in tmux);
T is supposed to open the original message the response is about, but I could add another shortcut to open the selected post in a modal (with button below to show the other shortcuts like "O" or "R"). I'll add something like this for the beta.
* <R key> isn't working for me because I don't have X installed on my terminal (I have xclip installed). Fot tmux users it will be better to show response pattern in dialog like described above;
Hm, indeed, I don't think that feature can work without X. See response above for opening current entry in modal.
* <O key> isn't working for me - I have installed xdb-utils, but there isn't any response after pressing it;
Again, without X I'm not sure how much this can work. It uses xdg-open behind the scene on linux, so if using in a terminal "xdg-open http://…" works, it should work from gtl. Also, can you try "O" on an entry containing multiple links? Do you see the modal with the links choice?
This week was not productive artistically but I'm very happy my capsule is up and alive finally. Anyways, 4th generation plant is now born out of Shoe Follower (last plant) in my Astrobotany Garden. It's name is One Cross Each.
you can water it if you're around :)
Forgot to clarify. You can now follow all my logs by just subscribing to
No need to subscribing too all: general, art and relogs if you want to get them all in your feed anyway. Sorry for the changes, I'm still figuring out how to manage this all.
I recently discovered the Coc plugin for vim, which brings VSCode-like smarts to vim. I can finally use #vim full-time instead of #VSCode, which has become bloated and slow over time. Coc has a marketplace with a large breadth of language support. In a like-for-like comparison, vim uses 500Mb less RAM (including language server) than VSCode for Python or Java editing (with intellisense), and is much faster. I also managed to set up vim for editing and uploading #Arduino and #esp32 code by integrating with PlatformIO.
Conqueror of Completion
https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
Listening to Francisco Tárrega's music played on guitar by Giulio Tampalini. I feel in good place https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQz5tGEKwE
Thx to @samhunter my tinylog migrated to my timezone (CEST) :)
@szczezuja thx a lot for checking my log and all your thoughts. I will reply surely, thinking maybe I can do it as Re:log although I now see if I have separate logs, you'd have to subscribe to all of them just to see all my entries so the system I chose is not that perfect... Anyways, what's the problem with link to manifesto in my index? From my side it works just fine and I doublechecked it's correct so I'm confused.
My capsule has changed it's look. Is it for good? gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/index.gmi
Feedback is problematic here, not sure how could anyone respond if he/she wanted to. You can surely write me an email or write at xmpp if you feel like it, both are in my „about” page.
My ART log has a first entry now, that is „My Little Art Manifesto” :) Is it finished and stable? I don't know but I decided to let it exist in a space now. gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/art/index.gmi
The adage that travel broadens the mind and can make you a more open-minded, tolerant person, IME is very true. For that reason, I especially like the etomology behind the Icelandic word "heimskur", which means "stupid", or ~"one who hasn't left home".
RE: @deerbard Thu 22 Jul 2021 08:14 UTC
@bacardi55 Thx for reply. In comitum was that enough that you subscribed to my capsule or did you have to subscribe to every log type separately (what I have to do in gemreader). I should probably just switch to Amfora and get used to it but I like Kristall so much I want to stay with it for now :)
I subscribed only to this page:
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/index.gmi
@bacardi55 Thx for reply. In comitum was that enough that you subscribed to my capsule or did you have to subscribe to every log type separately (what I have to do in gemreader). I should probably just switch to Amfora and get used to it but I like Kristall so much I want to stay with it for now :)
I've released an alpha version of gtl 0.6.0.
Yes, it is an alpha because so many changes that I'd love some tests… And because I think a potential feature can still be squeezed in (hence not the beta).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.6.0-alpha
I'm always using the latest commit so the added feature have been tested so it shouldn't all that buggy… Probably :)
I'm quite happy about it as this is a big release with many new things :).
RE: @deerbard Wed 21 Jul 2021 20:13 UTC
Just for testing: Anyone subscribed to my logs? Did you see that new general log showed up? Again, not asking to read it, just a technical question. edit: asking cause I tried to subscribe to my own capsule in gemreader and it didn't give me any new entry so I guess I'd have to subscribe to every log type separately?
Yes, I use comitium as a feed reader and I can see your latest post, see here:
gemini://feeds.gmi.bacardi55.io/
Just for testing: Anyone subscribed to my logs? Did you see that new general log showed up? Again, not asking to read it, just a technical question. edit: asking cause I tried to subscribe to my own capsule in gemreader and it didn't give me any new entry so I guess I'd have to subscribe to every log type separately?
New UI experiment:
Long-form text entry via movable chunks.
I don't suppose there's a way to render a line starting with ``` in preformatted mode, is there?
New feature request created for cview^^
That's now 2 bug (1 fixed) and 2 feature requests (one fixed) that I raised just for v0.6.0…
I may start contributing at some point instead of just asking for stuff… 🤔?
That being said, it prevents a very small feature so it is definitely not blocking the next release.
RE: @bacardi55 Wed 21 Jul 2021 11:06 CEST
New scripts down and deployed :). Unfortunately URLs to gemlog/blog posts have changed, but at least I managed to keep the same URLs for atom feeds and gemini feed… :)
I think today I want to spend a bit of time changing how I manage my capsule. It is messy right now because everything is done in hugo for my web blog.
I still want a clear distinction between the 2 while still being linked (ie not displaying gemlog entries on the blog, just a gemini link) so I'm not entirely sure how this will work.
But I will rebase my capsule with a gemini site generator (most probably kiln) and then try to see how I can fit that in hugo to just display gemlog entries… 🤔
RE: @szczezuja Mon 19 Jul 2021 20:46 CEST
The most tempting thing in emacs is swarm of advanced packages, which seems to be superior than that of vim plugins. Vim plugins are great, bu there are in most cases rather like a powerful extension of text editor. Emacs packages are more advanced, and often they are like standalone utilities embedded into mechanic of editor environment.
That is why Emacs is an OS missing a good text editor :]
Morning! Listening to KONPEITO Summer 2021 mix tape. It's perfect for work. Only my mind can't focus again. Let's do it. 3..2..1..
A fairly compelling argument for publishing documents as PDF files rather than as HTML pages. #goodread
lab6 Issue 0 (PDF)
iI've begun with the UI experiments. First point of inquiry: how best to present forms with simple, single-line inputs? Two approaches immediately came to mind:
gemini://alpha.lyk.so/
gemini://beta.lyk.so/
I'm interested in hearing opinions about the two approaches.
Next up will be experiments in long-form composition from within Gemini.
Today I advance well on the next version of gtl :]
Both the feature request and the bug fix works now thanks to @tslocum (cview developer)!
But I found another bug :D
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/72
This one is not a blocker though, but will make one of the new feature a bit more ugly than expected… But that's fine :).
I'm done for the day, having my brother home, but I'll continue tomorrow :]
Station just reached 200 docked! 👏
made a bash script to bump versions with git tag yesterday. It's working well and suits my needs:
shltag - source code in my dotfiles repo on git.sr.ht (also on tildegit and gh)
shltag = shortlog + tag
puts git shortlog output into signed annotated tag.
I know this exists but I think it does a bit too much, lol.
semver by drew devault - git.sr.ht
I've also finally finished adding config file support as well as per user directory serving to spsrv. (not going to put a link here, because I feel like I'm self plugging to much. Go to sr.ht/~hedy or tildegit.org/hedy to find the source code). It's not very stable yet I think, so I haven't documented the stuff in the readme yet.
Our induction plate "died" this week so today we opened it and investigate with a multimeter… Couldn't find the issue though, but looking inside was quite fun^^.
For those who wants to see what's inside, it looks like this:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/57d965310786
Started working on formulation of my little art manifesto with as much emphasis on „my” and „little” as on „art” itself. My very subjective feeling of things, nothing more. I feel like I need it.
Just saw that both my bug and my feature request opened on cview repo have been fixed :]
Cview developer is really reactive!
I have lots of time plan to work on gtl first half of next week so we'll see if I can finish the first version based on those fixes!
Happy weekend everyone. Anybody doing anything interesting? I'm in a local 10-day quarantine – plenty of time to get back into a personal project!
After my first bug report, I opened my first feature request for cview :]
Next release is getting bigger but also "more blocked" too.
The cview bug has been fixed but not released in a stable tag yet. I may decide next week to move to a specific commit instead if no tag is released soon enough for next week beta release of the v0.6.0
So I decided to took a stab at creating a gemini version of tinylogs, so I added a "gemini" mode to gtl to generate a valid gemini output as an alternative to the TUI and CLI mode…
Was easier and faster than expected, so just to test I put it in a capsule with a cronjob every 15min:
gemini://tinylogs.gmi.bacardi55.io/index.gmi
And it respect the tinylog format, so you could just follow it as a starting point (will become the default url in gtl when subscription file is empty).
@hedy shared with me an almost compatible tinylog on spartan which makes me wonder how much I want to add support for tinylogs on gopher/spartan 🤔…
That or creating a small proxy… Or not I don't know :D
We'll see that after the next release that still needs lot of work^^.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/39
I'm thinking that the next version of gtl might contains so many changes that maybe I'll release an beta version first… 🤔
I think I may be done with the new parser (that doesn't change much expect I'm using more regexp <3).
I've implemented a more flexible one that works with tinylog entries containing double new lines like Hedy's as discussed on the RFC issue.
I feel like watching something I didn't watch for half of my life. Nothing will happen cause I've got not time but I wonder if it would stand a test of time. Just an evening thought.
I finally got a negative PCR reading yesterday, which means I can fly home. Enjoying one more day in the wonderful city of Barcelona and heading back tomorrow. Good job, body!
A few weeks ago I bought a Kobo ebook reader, thinking that I would use it to write some custom apps for an e-ink display. Instead, I've been rediscovering the joy of reading books on a non-LCD/OLED screen. The combination of a purpose-built, distraction-free device and a paper-like display is really working for me. (Amazon-free is also a major bonus.)
Currently reading scifi. I really liked Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary", and now I'm continuing with the Expanse series. I read Expanse book 1 a few years ago but for reason didn't continue to book 2 although I quite liked the first one.
Decided to start over :D
It's nice that I can still "harvest" my plant even though it's dead, lol. Not sure if that's a bug.
I just realized my plant on astrobotany had died :O
It's pity that I might not ever be able to have another levitating plant again. Wondering whether I should keep it like that for posterity or I should start over.
RE: @frrobert 2021-07-13 15:59 UTC
lace with the strict option does that
Interesting :). I was thinking about doing something like this but with a more text/gemini friendly output so that gemini browser can actually parse it (almost as a big tinylog)!
I think I'll poc that quickly after I release the next gtl version to see how it can look like :).
Crazy lunch thoughts: Using gtl CLI to create a capsule listing all referenced tinylog entries…
I guess a simple cgi script using gtl and then parsing it into text/gemini format… Or maybe even just a "--mode gmi" option to just generate gmi file instead of a cli/tui ui…
That would allow people:
Default is obviously that it can become a centralized service… But with tools like lace/gtl/cockpit that shouldn't be an issue as data are still un-centralized.
Was that really a crazy thoughts or an actual idea to make tinylogs more known/used… I actually don't know 🤔
Next version of gtl will have TUI improvements but also a new version of the parser that will be a bit more flexible compare to the RFC.
For example, I like this RFC issue regarding number of new lines that is very strict right now (comes from lace):
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/15
This release will still take a while though… That means for now some tinylog like Hedy's are not yet readable in gtc.
But that will change most probably by end of next week :]
I'm also wondering if that version might be a good fit for v1.0.0 🤔
I blogged about how I create audiobooks from epubs and the like, using text-to-speech.
Creating audiobooks
https://tobykurien.com/creating-audiobooks/
gtl is not compatible with hedy's tinylog because she uses many line break.
I'm wondering if next version should also contains a new version of the parser that will fit the recommended from hedy on the RFC about allowing paragraph breaks within a tinylog entry.
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/69
My cview issue has been fixed! Now I need to wait for 1.5.7 to be released… :)
But I'm continuing developing new feature that will need this so they are almost ready when the new cview version comes out!
finished simple script in python that converts my journal format to tinylog format. the script isn't commented well so oof, bad luck to the future me :/
it has a single loop that goes over each line of this file and scraps the dates and content, I also have a header.gmi, so I have this:
python3 genfeed.py | cat header.gmi - > tinylog.gmi
I then I simply upload the tinylog.gmi to flounder, that's it! really simple
just to be a little bit lazy, I made a bash script wrapper that downloads my journal, my current tinylog.gmi, and checks if changes before uploading to flounder.
I think about doing something simple but for antenna in the future:
Always fun to read post around a tool I'm making, thanks @szczezuja
gemini://szczezuja.space/gemlog/2021-07-11-Bash-script-for-updating-gtl.gmi
Just opened my first issue on cview tracker:
https://code.rocketnine.space/tslocum/cview/issues/69
When this get resolve, the v0.6.0 could start again with multiple new things coming… :)
Seems I found an issue in cview (the library i used for gtl TUI) that prevents me from implementing a nice feature …
So I need to take the time to create a very small piece of code to show how to reproduce (and make sure the error exist outside my code) to open a ticket.
I'm a bit lazy right now so this might happen later this week. But in the meantime a big part of the improve timeline is blocked :/
it keeps raining ugh
working on a spartan client and server, written in go
discovered spartan in february or march this year, can't remember (wrote in entry in this journal, you can flip back :D) and I've wanted to make a CLI/TUI client since then but I was busy with other things. I even registered #spartan on irc.tilde.chat but no one came (of course, since no one talked about it) then I just left the channel and forgot all about it. It wasn't until this wee or last week when I noticed #spartan channel was registered again (by g1n) so I decided to join, and oh! 6 people, huh that's interesting. I guess that's might be because it was mentioned a few times in #gemini (when discussing mercury).
anyway, now that I have a tiny little bit more free time than before (and have started learning go since), I've decided to make some spartan software. It really really easy to get the to work after forking some gemini software, lots of things to change, but still. note that they both probably has bugs, but they work fine when I was testing it, so feel free to use them but don't be surprised when coming across incomplete features and bugs :)
here are the source code, both in golang. (all my repos are hosted on https://sr.ht/~hedy too)
sparte - CLI client (like curl/wget/gemget but much, much simpler as of now)
I'm also planning to make a server framework, a TUI client, and I'm also adding spartan support to gelim (my interactive gemini client).
Apparently an bad formatted entry in @deerbard tinylog makes gtl crash.
Because it is critical issue, I'm doing a quick release. That wasn't planned because I actually started working on some timeline improvement but that's life :).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.2
Thanks git branch and git stash :)
I'm devastated! But it does look interesting.
Re: @deerbard 2021-07-10 08:19 UTC
"I'm worst at what I do best, and for this gift I feel blessed," right?
My capsule is finally up. It is simple but it exists and I'm happy for that.
gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/
My comfort zone is being out of my comfort zone so I don't feel bad about not being good at what I do.
Shoved my larger plastic bins into a space I made for them in my closet. Updated my "bins" system page accordingly. Not everything is catalogued and binned yet, but I'm feeling the sort of strong resistance to the task that indicates burnout. Soon I will become entirely incapable of making myself catalogue and bin anything (you can't even pay me to do something I've burned out on; I quite literally *cannot* make myself do it), so I'm going to try to tie up the loose ends so I can call it "done" before I totally lock up.
Mental note. When too relaxed I tend to lose control over procrastination. This is not the first time I noticed that and forgot.
gmid keeps locking up for some reason. Once a day it seems to stop responding until I restart it. vger was quite reliable. Anyone know any tricks for getting client certificates via CGI in vger?
GF will not be there for the weekend so I might spend some time on the timeline rework…
I have many ideas and I am both excited and scared of the amount of rework needed ^^.
Back from the forest, I don't need all that flashy internet again. For how long? For not too long, too much goodnes hidden in it and then I quickly get used to it and need to block the excessive compulsive use.
There's a new intrusive thought in my mind tempting me to regard all this surveillance capitalist glitz and clutter as OKAY. they just want to KNOW you and SELL you things. you're less LONELY that way. and they give you all these TOYS to keep you happy and coming back in excchange for knowng more about what a cool person you are. ... I may need saving urgently
Really cool online browser multi-player games to play with colleagues during lunch break:
https://shellshock.io
https://blocktanks.io
https://smashkarts.io
https://sidearms.io
https://krunker.io
Does anyone know how to view 'rlog://' links like the one on this page? I've never seen this protocol before. gemini://xj-ix.luxe/wiki/nomad/
I'm following 8 station users now via gtl, the proxy seems to work fine :]
I'm even wondering if a similar proxy for mastodon user would be hard?
But that would be more for pure testing because I don't want to mix mastodon posts within gemini tinylogs
learning lua and planning to use lua for some configs for neovim.
also looking to replace CoC.nvim with nvim's LSP support.
seirdy's dotfiles - .config/nvim/ - reading his config for reference
nytpu's dotfiles - .config/nvim/ - also reading this - for fun, learning, and reference
I'm also wondering how I should go about having vim and neovim share a same config. Maybe I'll have a my neovim's general.vim smaller, and have vim `source` that or something. Not sure about what I should do about my plugins though.
tildegit.org/hedy/dotfiles (also hosted on sr.ht)
If I'm being honest, I started this POC by procrastinating on starting the new timeline UI…
I find it ironic that I procrastinated writing code by… writing code… :D
RE: @myself: 2021-07-06 19:54 CEST
A couple of hours and <200 SLOC and I have users station feed pages in gtl :]
I've put a screenshot and the link to source code for curious people here:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106536091944798603
Started as a quick POC, but I basically built a "station to tinylog" parser… Meaning that I can transform a user feed page on station into a tinylog page. If I put this as a cgi script on a capsule, I could then use gtl to follow station user too…
That's nice!
I quite like Gemini, but it's very difficult to communicate to anyone in my life why I like it. It's like here's a certain level of fed-up you've got to reach, and you've also got to be fairly technical, for this sort of thing to appeal. But wow, I really like Gemini. I'd be quite happy if I never had to use the web again, frankly.
Switched from vger to gmid today in order to start playing with client authentication. Here's a little toy I just wrote: gemini://lyk.so/cgi/bin/whoami
Source code is here: gemini://lyk.so/cgi/src/whoami.c
I've released gtl v0.5.1 that mainly add a few TUI UX improvements.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.1
Next step is the big timeline rework^^.
RE: @myself: 2021-07-06 00:19 CEST
I love regexp <3 :)
I think I finally found a way to display responses ("Re:") "nicely" in gtl:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/8f8b98d1cde1
I have a few small ideas for gtl v0.5.1 (some already in main), but I have a big rework in mind for the TUI timeline panel for v0.6.0 that, once started, should take a big amount of time but should greatly improve the user experience…
It finally happened. I got it! Symptoms have been pretty bad until now, but today I feel a little better. Hoping that 2 weeks from now I'll be able to test negative so I can fly home.
The "Physiological Sigh" provides instant reduction of anxiety and stress and is easy to do, although you shouldn't undo it by resurfacing the anxiety to test if it worked! #neuroscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdhqBGqiMc
feel so bad rn...
theres this super hard math test with all multiple choice questions and the last two questions worth the most marks, but I thought marks are deduct for wrong answers (makes sense, since it's multiple choice), so I left the last two questions blank (can't do them anyway, though I finished all the other questions), and YET... after submitting I realised marks aren't actually deducted for wrong answers and me be like, tf-
well anyway that's fine, the test is finally behind me and like yeah who cares, I mean at least I got all the other questions done soo
NERD_tree reminder to self: use 't' to open file in new tab
RE: ﾘ @reaton@geminids.ga Fri 02 Jul 2021 17:03 CEST
Today, for the first time, I tried meditation. Seems cool.
That's interesting, because I've been thinking of trying for a long time. I have not done any research yet on how to start though.
Maybe @reaton will tell us more about his start :]
ubuntu desktop on raspberry pi runs pretty smooth
not much lag and all
was able to get x11 forward working with git for windows (and vcxsrv)
Re: @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io 2021-06-28 15:45 CEST
Nothing special to display replies. Making threads could be an idea but I haven't code it.
I use lace, don't even track if it was updated. I use it in terminal emulator. I have no highlights, no icons, no fancy stuff, just text. It's my choice but I'm signalling, even with one conversation between two people it's getting really busy, and some logs are not really tiny btw ;) If a need for conversations withing gemini space is inevitable, I'd say maybe there should be a new way for easy communication discovered. Tinylog is not like microblog, where you can send direct messages unvisible to others. I'm not sure how to solve this. Creating new .gmi file for every conversation and asking interested people to subscribe would be too troublesome.
Today was my first day in the office since last July and my 2nd since March 2020 and covid. While I really enjoyed seeing and chatting with colleagues, it reminded me how much better I am at home to work. Better setup, better seat and a loooooot more silence and peace… But it was nice to enjoy the day and diner with the colleagues ^^.
I've been working 50% remotely for years before too, and I don't think I'll ever be able to work 100% in an office again.
RE: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space Thu 01 Jul 2021 22:18 CEST
I've written it earlier, that "highlights" don't work for me. You have responded to @deerbard about it, so I again request for some help in understanding that. :-)
All you need is in your configuration file is a "highlights" line with the different texts you want to highlight separated by a coma. Let's say for example you want to highlight all entries that contains "@szczezuja" or "szczezuja.space". To do so, you need in your configuration:
highlights = "@szczezuja, szczezuja.space"
If you want to highlight only entries with @szczezuja (start with this one to test):
highlights = "@szczezuja"
Then in gtl, you can press "h" to filter entries that only contains highlights (in this case, only filter entries that contains "@szczezuja").
If you are on a specific author tinylog (let's say you click on mine), then pressing "h" will filter entries for my feed that contains the highlights text ("@szczezuja" in this case, so this message will stay).
If you are in highlights mode, selecting other feeds or clicking on "all subscriptions" will keep that filter until you press "h" again (the title of the main panel say either "timeline" or "highlights" to show the difference).
I hope it is clearer, otherwise we might need to find a way to "real time" chat about it, might be easier :).
Sampler is an amazing text visualization tool for the terminal. I was able to make a smart-mirror type of dashboard really easily with it. #text #console #dashboard #diy
Sampler
https://github.com/sqshq/sampler
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RE @deerbard Thu 01 Jul 2021 07:36 UTC
I fully agree, tinylog shouldn't be used for chat.
As well, I don't know if you use lace or gtl (or other) for reading tinylogs, but you have the ability to filter only highlights in gtl to help you look at direct notification only :).
But I'm going to move away from direct chat as well as I agree it shouldn't be the main purpose.
Opening tinylog file in vim on my computer gives me empty document, I can only edit it from RTC. Same editor, same file (copied and pasted). Strange.
Following just few people's tinylogs is already bit too much to follow. I saw your mention @szczezuja although mentions here don't do anything special, no notifications etc, so it was almost lost in all the logs that are just part of your dialog with @bacardi55. I think maybe we shouldn't use tinylog for chats? As for gopher, I didn't explore it yet, don't know if I'm interested. Gemini is enough for now I think.
Today is my first day in the office since summer 2020 (I went 1 day last July)…
I'm definitely not back full time there, and I think I'll never be.
For now I'm thinking 1 day per week or once every 2 weeks.
I have such a better setup at home (and silence too)
1st of July, very nice.
one month closer to 2022
RE: @szczezuja@szczezuja.space Sat 26 Jun 2021 19:50 CEST
Thanks for the feedback :). I've created issues on github for some of the items, I think feature requests / bugs are better there than in a tinylog^^.
I've set $EDITOR variable (in Debian-like OS the default editor is set by "update-alternatives --config editor" rather than $EDITOR?);
On debian based, having 'EDITOR="vim"' in your .{bash,zsh,…}rc works too.
new feature suggestion - ability to populate/update "subs" file from "Known-tinylogs.md";
Not sure about this one yet, so I created an issue for me to think about:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/26
I've got some panic error because of bad value in "post_edit_script", despite "allow_edit = false" after C-N in gtl - strange;
Weird, I don't manage to reproduce…
I have no idea of best usage of "post_edit_script" in my workflow;
Are you editing your tinylog directly on your server (via ssh(fs) for example)? If that's the case, you don't need it. But for myself for example, I work on a local file that is scp to my server as a post edit script.
Dialog about "post_edit_script" should be rethought.
I've removed the dialog if no post script is added. If there is, I want gtl to ask me if I want to run or not (maybe I'm not done writing yet and wanted to read something again).
when one sub is choose, and we press "r" all subs are refreshed (we must wait);
Why I don't like refreshing a single feed.
Dialog after "r" should be also rethought. It's bad idea to hide timeline during reading feeds - why user can't look at the last post, and must look at the empty page;
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/2
UX for current gtl mode - "all subscription" or "single subscription" should be rethought (it's unclear what is our current mode, especially after "r");
Now the title of the selected feed is displayed in the title to make it clearer.
@szczezuja: (not using the RE format because I'm answering to 2 of your entries :P)
I really enjoy todo.txt, I've heard a lot about org mode but for todo.txt is enough. When I wanted something more complex, I used taskwarrior that is also awesome (but way more complete/complex).
Regarding the proposed alternative for the "RE:" format, I have doubts that I'll try to formulate on the issue tracker later today or this week.
I really like the antenna idea, I need to think about how to integrate that in my deployment workflow.
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/about.gmi
But also I do have in mind to completely change the way I manage my capsule so it might take longer to integrate with it. We'll see 🤔.
I may work on gtl tonight so that will be for another time though :).
Today I'm getting very nostalgic and thinking about places I visited in my life. I want to revisit them, I want to visit more places. I can't afford and it's too long like this already.
I've been avoiding the fediverse (I'm not on other Social Media) for a few days now and that's awesome :]
The only one I look from time to time is station on gemini^^.
How come I still don't have a capsule working. This needs to change.
this is quite interesting:
a quiz with a bunch of questions asking what would be the output of some "wtf" things in javascript. (such as how `NaN === NaN` is false)
despite it being a bit... controversial? as in like people say these are just a small part of the language and it's define this way, I think it's fun to have a look at the answers and try not to run into these situations when writing JS. I mean, almost (?) all programming languages have weird bits, such as the weirdness in python listed in this repo:
https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython
RE @lykso@lyk.so Mon 28 Jun 2021 20:39 UTC
I've responded on station too, but feel free to add things here:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/23
RE @szczezuja Sat 26 Jun 2021 19:50 CEST
Thanks for the feedbacks, I'm not sure I understood all of your points but I have some ideas for improvements later this week, thanks!
@bacardi55 I can't seem to select text in gtl. Makes it a bit difficult to follow links in tinylogs.
"noauto,x-systemd.automount" is just the best for network shares in fstab. no delaying the boot process by waiting for wi-fi to become available, but silently automounted when first accessed! thanks to whatever I read to learn of that… already forgot
I bought a couple old, second-hand, e-ink Kindles years ago. Specifically ones with firmware predating the agreement with Audible that resulted in Amazon removing the text-to-speech function. I got a lot of use out of that function back when I had to drive a lot for work. Now I'm finding them useful again for low-distraction reading. I've begun closing tabs by turning them into ebooks. Somehow reading on this sort of purpose-specific device *feels* faster. There are fewer background processes in my brain considering what else I should be doing than there are when I'm at a computer. And I can make the device read to me from where I left off when I need to do more physical work.
People usually listen others to respond (something about themselves) instead of just listening to understand and be useful…
RE: @adele@pollux.casa Sun 27 Jun 2021 06:31 CEST
I'm curious if you did something special for displaying responses in pollux.casa / cockpit?
This is a tough Monday after a nice week end away from home and screens^^.
I hate Mondays anyway…
Just modified my tinylog-post script to mirror my posts to station.martinerue.com. Does not mirror tinylog replies, to avoid cluttering up Station. This will save me from having to decide which things to post to my tinylog and which things to post to Station. Let me know if this becomes obnoxious, please!
gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/scripts/tinylog-post.sh
Bins system working well so far. Was just reminded that I'd left something out when I returned to my computer and saw the relevant grep output still visible in my terminal. Maybe I'd derive some benefit from keeping a list somewhere of possibly-left-out items, populated by a special "inventory-grep" command. 🤔
Two new humans and their two cats will be joining us in less than a week now. Still quite a bit to do to prepare for their arrival. 😬
found some cool software by simon ser:
IRC bouncer (pounce exists, I know)
simple CLI side-by-side diff viewer (diff-so-fancy exists, I know)
wsl 2 is quite unstable... it broke my network driver and stuff (may not be due to wsl only but it could be).
since I refuse join windows insider program I have to use an X server to run linux GUI programs with wsl. used vcxsrv, installation and launch super smooth, worked on first try, everything good but my network and stuff broken so I had to completely uninstall wsl 2. (I actually ended up completely resetting my laptop. in conclusion, windows meh, mac os ok, linux good :P
I think I'd rather run a linux VM in windows than wsl. idk really, I mean I could even just work on my raspberry pi or something
Re: @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io 2021-06-21 00:26 CEST
I've made some change in Pollux.casa cockpit to comply with the tinylog RFC.
About Re format that I test in this entry.
this is quite interesting:
https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/dotfiles/tree/master/item/bin/language-picker
asks you some questions then tells you which languages (out of C, Go, Python, Lisp) would best suit you. Bit opinionated but cool still
Today I learned of lesspipe! How did I not know that…
Fun little game: how many languages can you idenitfy. Be honest. I got 27. https://baltoslav.eu/adhadaj/index.php?mova=en
removed as much data (posts, videos, interactions) as possible from my old facebook account and youtube channel, feeling good.
I'm still keeping my youtube account though, because there's some good content in there but I don't watch them much
Some photos from a recent trip to a mountain resort. #photo #trip
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@reaton@geminids.ga Glad you like it :)
Just made some improvements on ergol http proxy style
So many things to do with gemini... but so tired at this moment. Work takes me to much time :-(
Apparently I released gtl v0.5.0 in which you can edit and publish your tinylog:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.5.0
Wrote a script to post to my tinylog and added it to my gemsite: gemini://lyk.so/systems/gemini/
A new tinylog in the gemini world by @lykso@lyk.so, welcome :)
Hello world! I chose the same avatar Lagrange uses for my domain for the sake of continuity.
"Two-Edge: Rats and Spiders". ElfQuest minific. (Content warning: alludes to physical and emotional child abuse)
gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/ratsandspiders.gmi
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/anjune.lol/w/ratsandspiders.gmi
I've made a change in houston to show a warning when a capsule use TLS with ed25519 algorithm as many gemini clients don't support them. This was based on some discussion on IRC.
gemini://houston.gmi.bacardi55.io/
Also, I really enjoy editing my tinylog entries, in vim, with just one shortcut in gtl, made the whole tinylog experience even more easy.
I need to rework my capsule though, it was based on the blog engine (hugo), some config and an ugly shell script… I want to clean this but I have no motivation for this yet^^.
this seems interesting
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Apt/Spec/AptSign
A Python TUI framework with rich is actually a thing! (wip, but STILL).
people liked rich and they talked about how they want it to be like a full TUI framework... and yep, now it's a thing. looks beautiful, and I'm sure when it becomes stable it will have much better docs then things like urwid
github.com/willmcgugan/textual - TUI for rich
I'm actually quite excited for this, though I haven't looked into the details and APIs yet. I'd love to make a TUI gemini client with textual that looks (almost) as nice as amfora :D
not sure if it's because Will's terminal is better, but stuff made with rich/textual looks nicer than amfora screenshots
It's all in main branch now.
A few thing still missing for v0.5.0 (which should be one of the last very active branch as I'm finally getting to where I want for gtl) but should be available before end of week.
Seems that editing tinylog and post edit synchronization works fine and was less difficult than expected :)
This tinylog entry has been created via gtl… But gtl will "only" open your $EDITOR and not recreate an editor within gtl. I think it's even better as I can use my beloved vim and the autocomplete, spellcheck and all the other awesome feature of vim!
vim > *
Also, gtl published this post (via a configurable script (in my case a simple 1 line with scp)) after the edition :).
Still a lot of todo so it won't be ready soon but I like where this is going ^^.
gtl v0.4.8 released. Read the release note and readme.
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.8
I don't dislike "Visual Novels" on principle. Like text adventures They often have far more interesting and, uh, non-normie stories than the more luxurious video games. But imagine reading a book that has only one sentence per page, with some of the pages containing nothing but “…”. That's what the *gameplay* is like. Goes for dialogue sequences in JRPGs, too. PLEASE. We CAN read more than ten words at a time without needing to click for no reason whatosever. Yes?
https://pics.bacardi55.io/01cc7e27364e
I just discovered by accident that Konsole previews colours (RGB triplets and named colours). That's great!
Will today ever end? I'm not sure anymore 🤔
OKCwestions, pt. 2
Q: Should there be stricter laws regulating harassment/bullying online?
A: I don't know what the existing laws are and what would need to be added that'd be specific to it being online. Do we want to force website owners to implement filtering and censorship and abolish pseudonymity? There're so many well-intentioned paths to hell.
I just realized that gtl was not compatible with the (better) possibility to use UTC offset (eg: +0200 for CEST) instead of the less precise (see wikipedia page) timezone abbreviation…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations
It is now fixed in the main branch. That mean that when I'll publish v0.4.8, I'll be soon after changing the way I set date in my tinylog, and people using gtl will need to move to v0.4.8 to follow the new posts in the new date format.
Using abbreviation is still part of the RFC, but as abbreviation are not precise, I'll move the date format of my tinylog to this one.
Lace is already compatible with this format (just tested) thanks to the very flexible nature of the bash date command :).
I've updated the RFC with latest comments and ideas.
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
gtl v0.4.7 released! I'm off for the night :)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.7
I also noticed some gemtext formatting issue, I've fixed them.
Going to publish a v0.4.7 soon and stop for the night.
for subscription status I propose some simpler ASCII notation like
I've made it a configuration. By default, it will use ASCII characters. But if in gtl.toml there is `tui_status_emoji = true` then emoji will be used. That's because I admit I like these status emojis :).
In main branch!
@szczezuja: Thanks again for tests, my comments on them:
feature "h" - I realized that I don't know how it works. I have empty output after pressing "h";
So h only display message with highlights. To define what should be highlighted for you, you need to configure it in the gtl.toml. See README for this: `highlights = "@szczezuja, anytext"`.
Also, it doesn't remove filter. So if you were filtering a particular tinylog (via left menu), then "h" will only display with highlights from that author. You can still use menu on the left to display all (and it will keep the highlight filter).
there are some issue with "r": program is not responding for a while
r refresh the timeline, so nothing can be done in the meantime. That's normal for me, but I agree it should maybe display a "loading" type of message. But it is so fast here (±1s) that I didn't bother. I'm creating a issue to think about that soon.
feature with "s" - working, but: there no description about it in help dialog,
Fixed in main branch, thanks!
there are some weird states when for example we do "s" for hiding, and after it "TAB"
Fixed in main branch, thanks!
for subscription status I propose some simpler ASCII notation like
I was thinking about it yesterday… Might be better, but I found emoji was more graphical but maybe it's too much of a pain. Do you have issues with users avatar on these systems?
after pressing "?" the title, time of last refresh isn't updated
I don't understand this one…? "?" only display/hide the help, so no refresh is done (so title shouldn't change). Even filtering a specific tinylog or using "h" will not refresh the timeline. Tinylogs are not like social media feeds where refresh is needed a lot, so I let the user specifically hit "r" for getting lastest tinylogs versions. All other shortcuts won't refresh the feeds.
you can look at "toot tui" interface for inspiration, there is some interesting "links dialog", which navigate through all active parts of highlighted message;
For me, a highlights toggle and the timeline like now is enough. I don't need to "select" specific entries, I'm just reading/browsing the timeline and can go up/down with arrows or j/k. Maybe that will change someday if I see more value (or if a PR is done^^).
I want to make gtl compatible with MacOS but don't have one right now to test :°).
(I would be ok to people sending patch for it too :)).
I do not have plan for windows, I haven't used a windows machine for anything other than gaming in the last 15 years and back then TUI app wasn't making sens on it. Don't know if that changed though.
gtl v0.4.6 released :]
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.6
@szczezuja: Have you seen this:
https://git.sr.ht/~fkfd/git.gmi/
Seems to be a git frontend for gemini. I haven't tested it though so can't tell how well it works (or not)
I'm going offline for a week or so. Can you make my plant on Astrobotany survive? :) You can find it by my name: deerbard, or it's name: high priest's whistle. See you! Have a nice week!
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thanks for the tests too!
I removed the footer because it was wasted space and don't want to add it back to put the help message, but I have another idea to simplify first usage, I'll work on it later :).
I've also added some gemtext formatting for links and quotes (in main branch):
https://pics.bacardi55.io/db43275b4157
@szczezuja: To be honest, I don't know if any other formatting makes sens, but I'm happy to hear ideas (not just what should be formatted, but how too :))
I've added 8 other date format to gtl… I now have 18 custom date formats… That makes me sad…
@szczezuja: You're in luck, as I was coding on gtl when I read your report n°4 :).
maybe you should do some experiment in hiding subscription tab
I added the shortcut "s" to toggle the subscription sidebar (in main branch for now).
pressing "q" in help dialog is quitting a whole app
Yes, I didn't thought that was an issue, but I've changed that in main branch so if you are on the help, q just quit the help.
icon of skull on nonexistent feed is on my terminal
Weird… I've changed it to something simpler, should work now… I'm not a big expert on emoji to be honest, that was more a test than anything^^.
new feature suggestion: do some gemtext syntax enhancements
That's planed for some things like links, quote and maybe list, but I don't want to do to much on this either.
Thanks again for the tests/feedback, I'll release a new version later today with the other fixes I've just done.
I've decided to unsubscribe from the gemini mailing list. Way too much noise and drama not worth what is shared on it.
I'd rather follow geminauts on the fediverse, station, irc or directly on user capsule (if possible via gemini feed and/or tinylogs :)).
Just refreshed my manga collection, I now have more than 1300… That's quite the collection :).
That + all my non manga books starts taking a lot of space ^^.
I do have an annual reading "goal" of ±24 books/year and since 2019 I'm referencing all I read and when. I read 21 in 2019, 23 in 2020. Since Jan 2021, I read 11 and am in the middle of the 12th one… Sometimes, I really want to share those reading online on my gemlog but I feel it is more info about myself than I want to give online (even on the smolnet)… But maybe that'll change someday :).
I released gtl v0.4.4 :)
Well… I'm also releasing v0.4.5 because v0.4.4 had a regretion… (v0.4.4 has been deleted)
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.4.5
Working on some fixes and small improvements for gtl to tag a v0.4.4…
If I'm quick enough, I might start poking around the idea around wallabag-ing gemini articles 🤔
@bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io About proxy html to gemini, have a look to
It does'nt work this all pages (sometime crashes) but it could be improved.
Source code (I should push it on codeberg)
Gemiprox works also as real proxy for http in Lagrange
I have 2 other gemini related tool to create in mind at the moment:
1. A very simple (bash?) script that push gemini pages to my wallabag (via an http proxy because wallabag does not support gemini links). Could be linked to Lagrange/Amfora bookmarks to fully automate it. That should be easy enough relying on wallabag-cli client already installed 🤔
2. Linked to gtl, I'm wondering how hard it would be to create a proxy to transform some pages into a tinylog format. For example an RSS feed, a microblog page not in tinylog format or even the idea from @skyjake if @martin (station developer) doesn't want to do it… I've never coded a proxy like this, could be fun :).
@guillaume@pollux.casa I see you are publishing in your tinylog, that's cool. Some tinylogs to follow if you are interested:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main/Known-tinylogs.md
quite nice indeed
found it from alex's journal
https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
Why shouldn't I just use jq?
jq is awesome, and a lot more powerful than gron, but with that power comes complexity. gron aims to make it easier to use the tools you already know, like grep and sed.
gron's primary purpose is to make it easy to find the path to a value in a deeply nested JSON blob when you don't already know the structure; much of jq's power is unlocked only once you know that structure.
whenever I want to use jq I always just happen to forget how to query with it, so everytime I have to dig into the man page... I have like a list of tools/concepts to learn "in the future if I have time" and jq is one of them
@skyjake posted an idea to add to station:
Add a page that shows a particular user's logs in the tinylog format. Then we could use tools like gtl to follow fellow capsuleers.
gemini://station.martinrue.com/skyjake/170760396835460590d3a182f7e36978
I'm very obviously a huge fan of this idea :]
An idea for Station @martin
Add a page that shows a particular user's logs in the tinylog format. Then we could use tools like gtl to follow fellow capsuleers.
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
I've been a bit quiet lately as I've been way too busy. Hope everyone's well. Awesome to see Station now has 170 capsuleers!
Fun fact on gtl. The sidebar on the left (that shows the subscription) is refreshed when the timeline is refreshed (for the status emoji).
The refresh sends requests to capsule always in the same order. It uses goroutine to be non blocking for sending these requests in parallel.
But the order displayed on the sidebar depends on the response time from the capsule. It's not a "fastest to slowest" list because the sending order has a huge impact on it.
But seeing the order change on the left makes the nerd in my tickles :P.
I don't know if other users are annoyed by this but I prefer it like this. I could change it if that's really an unpopular opinion^^
@adele@pollux.casa: \o/ I'm looking forward to the day where I can have only a few date format in gtl :D
I've removed the seconds in date format of tinylog
Somebody fertilized my Astrobotany plant but I didn't get any notification about who did this. Whoever you are, thank you! Although I know it's a small chance you're reading here.
Have a good day everyone :)
@bacardi55 I guess I'm stuck for now as I don't want to change my email addresses again. Maybe I'll just wait until payed protonmail is an option for me. But also it's not obvious to me if there are any privacy focused email providers like protonmail that would also allow imap/smtp. I know tutanota doesn't.
ugh I keep thinking whether I should switch to kiln instead. but atm as far as I know it doesn't support fetching a file from assets/ (say, style.css) minify it, then get the content so it can be dumped in the <style></style>. I guess I still just use hugo then. It looks heavy (heavier than kiln for sure) but it feels fast and light for some reason.
@szczezuja: Thanks a lot for the feedback :)
Improvement: active tab border
Done in master for now.
Improvement: last line, about time of refresh could be moved to header of subscription tab
Agreed, I moved it to the timeline title: "Timeline - Refreshed at 01:54 CEST". In master for now.
Improvement: shortcuts could be moved to help dialog
That's something I had in mind since there are too many at the top now. So it's underway but it needs a bit of rework so I'll park that for tomorrow. I have multiple ideas for how to display the help box though:
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/issues/14
Improvement: last line should be status line
I've hidden the last line for now that the refresh time is not there anymore. I'll re-add it for a kind of "last log line" later.
Improvement: timeline tab should have some navigation
This one would need a lot of rework because that's what I wanted at first, but because the way I used cview at first I choose otherwise. I might rethink this when I add ability to respond to an entry, but I don't think there is a point before, you can already scroll down with the arrow keys or j/k like in vim.
I'll release the improvements of tonight and the remaining one (help) in v0.4.4 probably tomorrow.
tinylogs are fun
d e p r e s s e d
@deerbard Either change email provider to one that allow imap/smtp connection (selfhosted or not). Or if you are a big fan of protonmail, the paid service allow you to use protonbridge to use (neo)mutt or anything else.
I'd love to use mutt for my personal email but I use protonmail. One day in dostant future I have enough time to lern how to make my own email on my own server. Or not because I learn it's too much of trouble. What are the other options?
@guillaume@pollux.casa: I've been wondering the same thing… But because my avatar is important to me and has been the same for the last 11 years (with personal reasons behind it). But nothing look a bit like it in the emoji world. My avatar is styled dragon head (you have to see it), but dragoon related emoji are really bad :D
Any thoughts on what kind of favicon I should use?
Well… v0.4.2 introduced a regression, so v0.4.3 is on its way… This is why I should write tests…
@szczezuja: Why not testing full tiling WM? It's just so great to control everything from your keyboard :]
@frrobert@frrobert.net: Thanks a lot for the comments :) I'd say that the simplicity and complexity of lace is quite impressive too :)
@szczezuja: Thanks too for the very kind (but a bit exaggerated :)) words 🙏
You can try v0.4.2 that should be even "nicer" :)
Incoming release of gtl v0.4.2, with various fixes thanks to @reaton@geminids.ga :)
New feature:
It's getting somewhere :)
New Lagrange iOS TestFlight build!
I'm quite happy with how the new swipe navigation is turning out. Trying to browse a larger set of feed entries was quite cumbersome, but now you can just swipe back to return to the Feeds list (i.e., it re-opens the sidebar). Some more details in the gemlog post.
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-06_testflight.gmi
The Identities sidebar is destined to be moved to Settings, with some kind of new UI for selecting the active identity.
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thanks a lot for testing gtl and reporting issues, it helps a lot (:
It also mean that I have a few fixes to implement tonight or tomorrow :).
Glad to see you back and running :]
o/ everyone, this is gonna be a long day!^^
@szczezuja: About 1/ I think if the time before deletion is long enough, it should an issue. Are you really going back to your favorite from months ago? For me mastodon and social media in general is not a place where I store things. If I like a link, I either put it in wallabag or bookmark it so I never look back for favorite older than a few days.
2/ The "long archive" thing for me is my blog (and my gemlog as they are different). That's where I write long term stuff. Even if I link a toot in an article, I should put enough context around that if the toot isn't there anymore, the article still makes sens.
Anyway, I've not done it yet, it has to go through my laziness first :p.
Just released gtl v0.4.1 with the first attempt at the TUI, I'm quite happy about it even though there are still known bugs that I need to work on ^^.
TUI of gtl almost finished, but it's wayyyy to late already… I'll finish it tomorrow because I'm very close. It will look a lot like the GIF from yesterday with an extra cool feature.
v0.4.0 will have TUI and is due early this week #teasing ^^
Welcome to my to-watch list, 50 Shades. It is time we met
Saw a post[^1] about deleting old tweets and toots. This is making me think, both for mastodon and tinylog, both format are supposed to be ephemeral, so I may decide to follow this too, both on mastodon and here… 🤔
[^1]:
https://kevq.uk/why-i-delete-old-content/
@frrobert oh ok sorry. For me though, the author metatag is the way the author wants to be mentioned. So with the "@" to indicate mention but I see your point…
I'll add an issue on the git repo to think about it more, feel free to join :]
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/issues/7
@szczezuja
Yesterday it was third month anniversary of my tinylog.
↑ This post made me curious about my own gemlog, and apparently today is the 4st months anniversary of my 1st post on my gemlog. :]
It is a luxury that not everybody can have so I know I'm lucky. It is also harder now than before when I used to be a dev or tech lead. My job is still technical but not focus on development anymore but I still manage to do everything I need on my linux laptop :).
@frrobert: I believe @author is better because the @capsule.tld is optional in the proposed RFC. So it means if an author don't put it, it will be "just" frrobert or adele. That could be fine for specific nickname like mine, but for more common name that could used in sentences it might highlight things when not wanted. But I can open open an issue on the rfc issue tracker to discuss more about this (more people are joining the convo there).
That being said, in gtl, I have a configuration file in which you can setup highlights strings (eg: `highlights = "frrobert, robert, anystring"`). So user can select what he wants to see highlighted.
Drabble? Microfiction? Stream-o-Conch? Something of the sort. Julie, the warden, and I (or me) -- gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/juliewardeni.gmi
@reaton@geminids.ga / @szczezuja: I've been using Linux since 2005 on my personal desktop/laptop and tiling WM since 2007… And I impose that I work on linux at work, that's part of my must have… I'm the only one in my team but I couldn't work without it (both ethical and habits/productivity). Only at my first job between 2008/2010 I had a windows machine, but I was using VirtualBox to have a linux installed and ran it in full screen with i3wm :p.
gtl TUI seems to work nicely (gif):
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106400420956773485
I'm not sure if I should implement such a menu on subscription list:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/9b6ccd4a9eee
Thanks @frrobert! I've added the missing one. I've not put one on purpose because it has been dead for many many days for me so I'm thinking the author stops his capsule… I may be wrong though^^
gemini://capsule.sakrajda.eu/tinytinylog.gmi
@frrobert: Good idea, I also started a list on the RFC git repo:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/src/branch/main/Known-tinylogs.md
I was thinking to transform it in a gemini format (the 3 .md file in the repo) too :).
Happy to merge both lists!
@reaton@geminids.ga: Thank you :)
This is where I'm stopping tonight:
https://framapiaf.org/@bacardi55/106394956318786808
Almost the same as cli (colors a bit different) but most importantly highlights in content to make it more visible than just the message in bold :).
Needs the menu to work and an auto refresh feature and should be a MVP (even though I do have many other ideas for next steps)
@szczezuja: I've tagged v0.3.1 that includes a "cli_limit" option to avoid manually set "--limit" (if you do, it will override your config).
https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl/releases/tag/v0.3.1
https://pics.bacardi55.io/c5764f9a7b74
↑ This may or may not be what gtl first version of the TUI will look like… I'm not sure anymore :]
@frrobert: Thanks :) Sometimes it is just painful but in the long run I'd say it's worth it.
@szczezuja: That's why I just use "while true; do clear && ~/bin/gtl --mode cli --limit 11 && sleep 1800; done;" and leave it in a tmux :P. But I'll add a way to add the limit option directly int the config file to avoid typing it.
There are days like today that reaaaally makes me want to through all my selfhosting away and move my services to a cloud instance…
Of course, other will see that message only after the storm (and technical issues) has ended (are resolved) so it's ironic to write it here like this…
Thanks @frrobert :)
I've just noticed that the RFC has made it to geddit and I did not put it there myself ^^
@frrobert@frrobert.net Cool, your new version of lace works fine !
I like wind. according to my brain (very reliable source indeed), wind is caused by the same process that form mountains and cause earthquakes/tsunamis/etc. (lol that was random and unsurprising but i'm pretty sure true)
Seems there is no issue with @deerbard tinylog and gtl in the end, just on the 1st entry of @frrobert ^^
@frrobert: Seems that there isn't 2 line break (= 1 empty line) between your metatags (licence) and your first entry (##) which isn't "normally" compatible with lace format I believe (even though it still works). Could you add a line break so I don't have to handle this weird use case in gtl? (Otherwise I'll do some ugly code to manage it)
I've reverted back the avatar/licence changes in the RFP :).
Now let's investigate why some entries from @frrobert or @deerbard are not displayed in gtl :].
I still use lace from time to time to check if I'm not ignoring valid lace entries by being too strict in gtl.
I must admit that I'm quite happy about the speed of gtl as lace is becoming a bit too slow because of the 11 tinylogs I follow… :]
But I'm still seeing some entries in lace that I do not in gtl (mainly on @deerbard tinylog). I'll investigate that during the week end.
Seems @deerbard tinylog date format don't always work with gtl for some reason, I'll check that.
@deerbard / @szczezuja: I use "\%F \%H:\%M \%Z" and it display CEST. But this is as well how my laptop is configured.
For example, the commande "date" returns "jeu. 10 juin 2021 10:50:18 CEST" for me. What is the return of "date" @deerbard ?
@szczezuja mine is %a, %-d %b %Y, %T %Z and I get UTC in result. Should be CEST. And in Lace I see all the logs with CEST time. Not that it's very important, I just wonder why this happens.
Me dummy. Ofc it is UTC, I am using Vim on RTC server, so it's time zone set on the server probably. Thx guys :) @szczezuja @bacardi55 Btw I tried using it on my computer and copy pasting the result but the output of !date was invalid for Lace so I'll probably stick with the way I was doing it.
@reaton@geminids.ga Welcome \o/
I've added add and rm command to gtl to manage tinylog subscription without editing the subscription file :)
A few other todos and I'll tag the v0.3.0 (most probably later this week).
Found this: gemini://inconsistentuniverse.space/microblog.gmi - everybody has its own format so far^^
Can I make Vim use my timezone for !time command?
Nostalgia feeling while listening to the soundtrack from something I watched 15 years ago. Posting here is more appropriate then social media. Sending this feelings into the void not to be discovered is so similar to exploring the long forgotten past somehow.
I've changed my mind for gtl, there will be a v0.3.0 version before the TUI to add the add/remove commands around subscriptions and a few fixes in the TODO.
TUI should come after (but who knows at this point :D)
Installed the iPadOS 15 developer beta 1 on my iPad. Apart from a few glitches it seems to work pretty nicely.
I'm typing this message from Lagrange on the iPad with an external keyboard. Was surprised to see that all the keyboard shortcuts just work! Thanks to SDL for that. 👏
Oops, after switching to (iPadOS) split view mode with Safari on the side the input widget lost the ability to insert new characters. Gotta debug a bit to see what's up with that. The TestFlight build is getting a bit old so I'll need to update it anyway.
some hugo themes are actually really nice and simple, and some of which has no tracking, no js, or no heavy css involved. here's some of my favs:
I've release gtl v0.2.0 with the color improvements (and other small fixes)
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc/pulls/2/files
I'm wondering if we should only explicit an "author" metatag (author can decide to start with an emoji or not - or end with it for that matter) and then say any other "optional metatag"…
That would simplify the format even more I believe.
I've started working on improving the CLI rendering for gtl:
https://pics.bacardi55.io/89056f727801
@adele@pollux.casa: \o/
BTW, thanks for the comment on the tinylog format. I'm still unhappy with my own answser regarding the date format to be honest but don't have a better idea right now^^.
I should also clean it a bit and maybe share it via the fediverse to get more feedback.
Now, my tinylog use my time zone instead of UTC !
I'm going to improve gtl cli (colors and display reorganisation) before starting on the TUI. I won't do something big for the cli but something cleaner like lace output for v0.2.0. v0.3.0 will be focusing on TUI :). At least that's the plan now until it changes yet again :D
You're right @bacardi55@gmi.bacardi55.io but adele.work is an alias of adele.pollux.casa and the tool I use automatically put the domain of the hosting platform. Maybe I should redirect adele.work to have a coherant environment and diffuse this address for my tinylog:
gemini://adele.pollux.casa/tinylog.gmi
@adele@pollux.casa: Shouldn't your "author:" be "@adele@adele.work" as this is where your tinylog is?
@adele@pollux.casa / @szczezuja: I'm not happy about it so far, but I've pushed what I have at this point here:
https://codeberg.org/bacardi55/gemini-tinylog-rfc
It needs improvements, so feel free to comment / PR on the repo :).
I've started working on a draft RFC that I'll push on a git repo soon. Not sure if I'll finish it tonight or tomorrow though (but I'll push what I have so far).
The main thing I'm unsure at this stage is: should we impose one (or a few) date format or let it as free as defined now (just works with "date -d" which is a very open format…)
Testing new format for "author" header in tinylog
Have you watched Final Space yet? It's a fantastic little show.
@adele: I'll start a draft tonight and upload it on a share git repo. I don't have a codeberg account, but I can create one if it's easier than git{lab,hub}. (I don't open my own gitea instance so it wouldn't be useful there :p).
@bacardi55 I also have a n account on
but we can also exchange through a different way (pastebin, etherpad, cryptpad...)
Very good idea @bacardi55 or maybe a simple howto or good practices. RFC writing is a hark task
Do you open a shared git repo on codeberg or anywhere else ?
I'm wondering if we shouldn't try to write a "v2" of the "RFC" for tinylogs with the optional tags like author/avatar/… and other small improvements… 🤔
I think I'm going to add some level of colors to gtl cli before doing the TUI piece this week :]
Also, regarding tinylogs follow, I was thinking capsule owner should simply either have an "author: @author@capsuledomain.com" or an additional "permalink: gemini://link" entry between title and first entry. I like the @author@capsuledomain.com because it makes it easy to see who is the author and how to reach out to his capsule…
@guillaume if you want to mention someone in tinylog, please, use his/her author name with an @ (as I'm doing right now). It's easier to filter mention when you subscribe to many tinylogs ;-)
Thanks for the Gemini capsule, Adële!
My capsule!
wsl 2 is pretty interesting. I like that it is now able to be installed without having to join windows insiders. tried out both ubuntu 20 and alpine on there, will be finishing some configs and setup tomorrow
Thanks for testing and the report :)
Launching guillaume.pollux.casa capsule !
It's the weekend! Who's up to anything interesting?
@szczezuja: I've pushed gtl here: https://github.com/bacardi55/gtl
Look at the releases for linux binaries. Easiest is to create the ~/.config/gtl/gtl.toml file in advance with the path to your sub file. Default configuration is displayed on readme.
It is my first time publishing a go app with binaries, and in a draft version… Hopefully it will work though :p
Let me know if that's not the case, but I may be mostly afk tomorrow.
I've cleaned a bit gtl code and option and documented the readme better. Now I need to look at how to automate building multi-architecture binaries so I don't have to do it manually :].
@szczezuja: I've been quite lazy this week and didn't work much on gtl. I'll clean it a bit and release the cli version this weekend with binaries before starting to work on the TUI part. It's always good to have early feedbacks and I'm a believer of the « Release early, release often » :).
This was a low energy week. My capsule is still just a seed of the one. Hopefully next week will be better. Btw what change does it mean to put your handle in your tinylog? I assume it's just informative for anyone who'll check it in your capsule? @szczezuja But nobody gets notified so mentioning someone who didn't subscribe to your tinylog in lace won't make sense.
fifty degrees in the shade / under the post-bloom cherry tree / The evacuation of the nation / to SLACKSTATION for a fee
@adele: It is some work to setup indeed, but there are cool things to automate it nowadays and good docs, but yes it is not the simplest.
Working at home with 3 screens is helpful if you want to see a bit of Roland-Garros (and soon European cup and Olympics game) :D
I would like to install my own mailbox but managing spam, trusting and messing with non standard big email provider is really boring. @szczezuja
@szczezuja: The code is on my own gitea instance, not yet on github/gitlab. I could share it for the adventurous people but it is neither finished nor bug free :).
Do you have golang (≥1.15) installed to compile or would you prefer pre-built binaries?
Enjoying (?) a trip to the summer cabin!
Pros: Lakeside grilling in the pleasant warm evening.
Cons: 2-yo son projectile vomiting on the sofa.
At least the dog is still mostly behaving.
while true; do clear && ~/bin/gtl --cli --limit 10 && sleep 3600; done;
That's how I follow tinylogs for now (yeah 1h is quite enough :))
@adele: Oh, I didn't know that, sorry :/. I've been selfhosting my emails for ±15 years so I'm not too much aware of these offers (even though I do talk about protonmail to non tech people still interested in privacy).
BTW, nice intro to fight against the centralized web (aka minitel 2.0 for us French^^), curious to read the rest later ^^
Responses:
@adele: You could potentially use the protonmail bridge. I've never used it as I don't use proton, but heard that it works…
https://protonmail.com/bridge/install#1
@szczezuja: You could use cargo to install it if you're not against having rust installed. Otherwise, it seems there is a binary available. The tool itself seems quite nice indeed :]
An "away from keyboard/screens night" (well mostly) reading, quite enjoyable :). I wasn't motivated to code or write tonight, and I don't think we should force ourselves, specially with side project!
TIL: there's Android ransomware that works not by encrypting your files, but rather by showing a system modal window that cannot be dismissed by the user until the ransom is paid. Latest variants use machine learning: "TinyML model is useful for making sure [the ransom note] would appear less contrived and more believable" #android #malware #ransomware
Mobile randsomware
"Over a month ago, I came to the realization that my smartphone was having several negative impacts on my mental health... In a desperate attempt to regain some control, I ditched the smartphone."
gemini://tobykurien.com/articles/2021-05-23-digital-declutter.gmi
Digital de-clutter
https://tobykurien.com/digital-declutter/
Yesterday I cleaned a bit the CLI part of my tinylog app. I haven't worked on the TUI side of things yet, but the CLI part seems to work very well. So since this morning, I've switch from lace to it to read other people tinylogs. What I really enjoy is that it is so fast: https://pics.bacardi55.io/b8666cf1ec56 :]
Next step is the TUI, finally, and probably with rivo/tview… Main issue is that I'm still unsure of the design I want :D.
@adele: I've gone this road some years back (almost 10) where I didn't have X started by default and thus staying in tty and just using startx when needed. For me the bloated web was an issue. Even with lynx, w3m or elinks (my fav cli browser). Maybe when gemini http proxy will be better, I could change that back (:
For email, I've been using neomutt for some time, but aerc from drewdevault seems nice too. Alpine was a thing too a long time ago^^.
Today, it has been particularly though to keep some motivation for work ^^".
I finally updated my now page: https://martinrue.com/now. Anyone else have one? Drop me links.
I'm spending the next month or so in Barcelona, hanging out with a bunch of friends I've met over the years. Our common language is Esperanto, and so today I've been hanging out at bars and coffee shops speaking only in Esperanto. This isn't the first time (last summer I did the same), but it's still such an awesome and surreal feeling to be able to do this.
last day of may already? nice.
haven't been online as much for this month... so yeah
I saw the news of freenode, it's pretty surprising since for the last few months when I was active on IRC I didn't like to spent much time on freenode, maybe it's because of its popularity (I tend to like to hang out in places that don't have as much users), but idk
libera.chat is pretty cool
Response of the day:
@adele: I think that's why the "author: @author" thing is great. You could have just your nick, your fediverse or blog link too if you'd like and thus that would help people decide for themselves.
@szczezuja: Regarding your tinylog gemlog entry, I think the author thing above and/or a possible "Contact: {https/gemini/email} link" could also work. So you could always either ping the right people or find them.
This doesn't solve the issue of "If I don't follow user X, then I might miss some post for me". But I think that is the same "issue" with gemlog entries that are responses to other, that could be easily solved by reaching out to someone telling her/him (via the "Contact" link in header) that you responded to him with the link to your response…
Spent most of my day away from screens (well… Even though I coded until almost 4am, it was before sleeping so "yesterday" ^^). Was quite nice to enjoy the great weather today :). I also read most of one of my current book that I really enjoy so far called "l'odyssée des gènes" (translation in english "the genes odyssey").
I love reading, but I decided not to talk to much online about my readings as I feel it give way too much about someone. But I'd be fine discussing it directly with people though.
Lagrange v1.5 has been released. 🚀
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-05_lagrange-1.5.gmi
Ok, results of the night: https://pics.bacardi55.io/26b024c66fe8
I know have basically what lace does in CLI, but with:
Big next step is the TUI. That will be fun, I've never done any real TUI app (even though I love to use them). So no experience in TUI + just a few days of golang experience… This will be fun :-)
But this part will probably be next week.
PS: I like using tinylog for more than a few sentences too when it's not worth a full post. I should do it more.
PPS: sorry @szczezuja for yet another "marketing-y" entry :P
I also apologize for all the gemini servers I'm hammering during my tests ^^"
Ok, all date format I found on diverse tinylogs are managed (+ other standards). But I really think that this should be simplified. Gemini is based on simplicity and for people not familiar with the "date" linux command, it is not simple enough. IMO.
The fact that lace is so permissive with date format will make it more difficult in another language because of the flexibility of the date shell command compared to what programming language let you do 🤔
Opening Astrobotany in Kristall recently results with „The host you tried to visit does not look trustworty anymore. The certificate changed since your last visit.” Then it gives Fingerprint and aks to revoke trust in settings menu if I still trust the host. Well do I? Anyway it's troublesome to do every single time.
@szczezuja: I'm interested to know if the couple comitium/backlinks works, let me know please :]
@szczezuja said on his tinylog
There is some teaser on author's tinylog. First tinylog marketing on Geminispace, ever. :-)
Ahahah, I didn't thought about being marketing-y but he might be right :D. It also made me think about how much corrupted our brains are…
Well that's a new one: made dinner plans for tomorrow 1400km away from where I am now
Hoping to release Lagrange v1.5 this weekend! Check out the ~final release notes: https://git.skyjake.fi/gemini/lagrange/raw/commit/341e2b56d3fa04ea0a7c9ecf6bd059289a02754c/res/about/version.gmi
My tinylog client is moving on nicely. Far from something to publish but less far from a workable MVP^^.
@adele I agree, the simplest and cleanest is @szczezuja idea of having these data in between title and entries in a formatted way
My tinylog TUI app is moving very slowly but surely :-]. Always great to learn new things even though it means going a lot slower than with tech I'm more familiar with, but it is quite fun too :). I'm planning to support the author/avatar thing from @szczezuja even though I won't use myself an avatar as no emoji are closed to what I'd like :p. But I like the idea as it remove a request to get a favicon.txt
Sometimes, it feels like there are more gemini servers than users…
I may or may not have started to code a tinylog TUI app yesterday night and that might explain my level of fatigue this morning…
2nd generation plant seeded :)
Also, I'm wondering, are you @all editing your tinilog file by hand or did you create a simple script to automate it? :)
Awesome to see more activity via lace today :) The "@" notification is the line between a micro log and a social media, but I don't think it is a viable option (at best, we could have notification for people that we sub to only. Otherwise it will imply a lot more complex setup with cgi scripts). So in the end, I think I can live without…
Thx @szczezuja, you're right, I forgot I'm using emulator for cool looks. Maybe I even prefere it not displaying any additional stuff, just text. I tried normal terminal and I could see favicons of @przemek and @adele but it couldn't load yours for some reason.
I forgot about tinylogs for too long^^
That's weird, I don't see any favicons in Lace. Also, thx for links, Szczezuja, will check!
Agents of SHIELD: If it weren't for the whole being-evil thing, I could think of much worse than being mind-controlled by a parasite that gives you a purpose, inhabits the pleasure centres of your brain, and takes some of that stupid decision-making out of your hand. #porn
If your terminal freezes after some time when you're logged to linux server with ssh, you can try this solution, it helped me: https://serverfault.com/questions/590061/ssh-freezes-when-idle-for-a-time. I just learned about it from cmccabe from RawTextClub.
Dzień dobry Przemek, Szczezuja. Thx for news and articles. Any tinylogs you recommend? For now I read you both and friendo.monster, the great creator of lace (behold!)
A great talk arguing that software is in fact getting worse, because of more complexity. (via alex.flounder.online)
Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk
Photos from a recent trip down to Port Edward, KZN South Coast. A really beautiful and relaxing place for a holiday. #photo #kzn
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Current status: just tried to brush a forward slash off my screen. Been a long week.
Haha I've got it! Repaired. Now I should look around for interesting tinylogs to fill my lace feed.
It's not lenght. If you're reading this in lace: Is one of my logs appearing on top of the list without date for you as well?
One of my logs (one about changing link to cosmic.voyage in my feed) looks like broken in lace but is perfectly ok in my capsule. I don't know why yet. Btw cosmic.voyage feed still not working either. Writing a long log on purpose to see if this is the issue here.
Started this week a bit differently. I decided to head to London and do nothing but work on my own stuff, gym, spa, and socialise. It was wonderful. Back to the grind now, though.
Thx to
There will be a https version of my capsule as well. But I'm not going to put all the content there. What is going is yet to be decided. Tinylog is not.
Well, all good, except not my timezone. To be continued.
date automation test / learning vim begins?
I changed feed ulr from gemini://cosmic.voyage/log to just gemini://cosmic.voyage/. Will it now work? I'll see. Also writing tinylog is too much od a trouble. I might need to learn about some automation.
If anyone wants to test multiline text input on iOS, there's a new TestFlight build available: 1.4 (7).
The iOS keyboard is so fiddly that I've set the sw keyboard "return" key to insert a line break by default instead of sending the request. This may still change if I figure out how to modify the keyboard.
Other updates include an improved Settings view and of course split view (for iPad).
Gemreader doesn't read cosmic.voyage entries and Konpeito capsule. I wonder if there's a solution to this.
And here's a gorgeous screenshot of khal in action, if you're still on the fence about #cli PIM tools. #commandline #pimutils #khal
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Instead of installing and configuring a heavy GUI app for my calendar and todos, I've discovered the command-line based pimutils. Once vdirsyncer is configured, I can use khal and todoman. Very simple, powerful, portable, and lightweight. #opensource #commandline
pimutils
Station now preserves newlines in posts and lets you use formatting lines (via ```) and quotes (via >).
."". ."",
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} ` _/ / ;
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( ' \ '- |
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Enjoy!
Working beside an open window while it rains outside. Smells amazing.
Oh dear, I've had 3x my normal amount of coffee today. This will definitely not help with reaching my sleep goal tonight, but on the other hand, I'll probably end up redesigning some view transitions in Lagrange for iPhone.
The weekend is almost here! Anyone got anything interesting/unusual planned?
Augh, I was baffled why the Station notifications page wouldn't open (just redirected me to "/"), but turns out I had accidentally selected another cert for the notifications URL. Lagrange's UI wasn't communicating this in any way... Have to invest some time into making it clear which certs are used on the current domain. PS. This multi-line text editor is quite luxurious. 😊
After two full days of battling with some code, I finally made a breakthrough. This is a *good* feeling.
Testing Multi-Line Input I'm working on an improved text editor for Lagrange v1.5. It expands as you write text, and newlines can be inserted, too. Let's see if these newlines are preserved. Testing 1 2 3 Another line and a third one.
New logo – converted from ASCII with a script I wrote. Sometimes I DO STUFF!
test
On a scale of Monday to Friday, I’ll rate today as “pure concentrated Monday”. Productivity: 0.
Happy Monday everyone!
Rather than asking how my day's going, just ask me how many browser tabs I have open. That'll tell you everything.
Laying in a bath hot enough to potentially disolve me while listening to loud music is my meditation.
It has been a long week, but some Seneca is helping me relax today. I'm currently reading De Tranquillitate Animi (On the Tranquility of the Mind), and looking forward to De Brevitate Vitae (On the Shortness of Life) next. What are your favourite philosophy reads?
Hello weekend! Anyone doing anything interesting? I have a bit of work to do, and then I'm going to carry on with a project to write some fiction in Esperanto for the INK-Konkurso: https://www.akademio-literatura.org/ink
Need to search Station? Well now you can. You'll find the search feature on the homepage. Check Recent Updates for details. Happy searching!
Lagrange v1.4.0 is going out now
I wonder if Station notifications could be listed as a gmisub page (maybe at a separate URL), so clients could subscribe to see them? At least Lagrange supports client certs when checking feeds.
Instead of sleep (which I really need to do very soon) I've spent this evening updating Station so you can now add a link on your profile page. Get sharing all your cool capsule (or fat web) links :) Goodnight Station!
Writing documentation is challenging after sleeping only 5 hours. 🥱
New Station update! Notifications are now shown on the homepage too, and Station now has diagnostics (check bottom of homepage).
Just want to say thanks to everyone who signed up to Station since the launch a few days ago. We have a neat little community here on Gemini now (94 people so far), and that's pretty awesome!
accessing my flounder capsule from Documents (by Readdle) iPad app
pretty cool huh
recently trying out the various different apple pencil note apps again (did it a year ago), writing this with Apple Pencil scribble feature. It's not very good with symbols ←
@martin Great job creating this site! The new split modes in Lagrange v1.4 will be very useful for navigating here. 😉
I spent entirely too much time trying to set up a nice profile image.
Here in the UK it's a holiday today, but that ain't stopping me – today I'm drinking Mate and writing code, and I'd rather be doing nothing else. Surely you're all doing something far more interesting, right?
I just pushed an update to Station so that mentions (using an @ symbol before a user's name) now works. If you're mentioned, you'll see a notification on your profile page letting you know.
It's really awesome seeing people joining Station and posting stuff. Makes the late nights over the last few weeks totally worth it.
Hello! After a few weeks of tinkering, Station is finally live. If you like the idea of a text-based mini social network for gemini, create an account and hang out. ✌️
gosh can't believe it's may already :o
I love how a third of 2021 is finished (4/12=1/3)
replaced old readline package for gelim with this:
http://github.com/lmorg/readline
it's quite good, much better than what I was previously using. also discovered murex shell from there, feels a bit like fish, but i don't like murex's syntax, and it isn't as widely supported or known compared to fish
also added colors!!! easier than I thought. this package i'm using feels much much better than colorama from the python realm:
honestly go packages are all really cool
added pager to my gemini client, it basically just calls `less` with -FSEX and if it fails, it will just print the content normally
Book recommendation: Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. Talk about discovering the right book at the right time! After ditching my smartphone, I needed answers: why was it bad? what do I do with my time? This book answers that and more.
Digital Minimalism
https://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
By a truly unbelievable coincidence [...] I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me.
😂
Turns out the software used to extract data from your phone when seized, has security vulnerabilities 😁 #signal #cellebrite
Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite...
https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/
Birds on a wire. They congregrate at this exact spot every morning just before sunrise, and disperse as soon as the sun rises. #birding
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I made a music player using the awesome Pimoroni Pirate Audio HAT for #RaspberryPi. It plays any format including OGG and even videos, remembers where it left off, buttons work exactly how I like it because I wrote the code, and it has outstanding audio quality (24-bit DAC + headphone amp). The UI needs work tho! #maker #diy #audio
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Q: If you had to guess, do you think humans will go extinct in the next 1000 years?
A: They're resourceful little buggers. They will hang on for way longer than that, even if it might not be by the billions. Think about what this would require: billions of individuals from a resourceful and technologically inventive species ALL gone with not even one "Adam and Eve" combo remaining, and be it in abject misery, in highly artificial surroundings, in the last patch of uncontacted tribal territory on earth, in an underground bunker, on Mars, or in the Google AI's petting zoo.
yesterday I thought, wouldn't it be the absolute perfect solution to track my dotfiles with hardlinks? (that is, you hardlink the dotfiles into a git repo and track them from there)
so today I did a bit of research and found that there are many people who have tried this method, and there are caveats:
https://codingkilledthecat.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/git-dotfiles-and-hardlinks/
^that article suggests you to just track your ~ with git, which I have mentioned with other dotfiles managers on Apr 6th (below), it said that the problem with doing the hardlinks way is that "Git never modifies files in the working tree – instead, it unlinks them and then recreates them from scratch. This inherently breaks any hardlinks that might have been present". which AFAI can tell, you can't use git commands to modify files from your repo and wish that those changes will reflect in your ~ (?)
so then I thought, what if, instead of having files in your dotfiles git repo be hardlinks /of/ your dotfiles at ~, why not have the dotfiles at your ~ be hardlinks /to/ files in your git repo?
in that case, though I haven't tried it yet, will probably be similar to the symlink solution which when you want to `vim .gitconfig` for example, it opens `~/dotfiles/.gitconfig` and breaks the syntax highlighting. But now with symlink replaced with hardlinks, you are probably still editing your `~/.gitconfig` and since `~/dotfiles/.gitconfig` points to the same contents you can track the changes as needed. sounds too good to be true, kinda?
so why am I trying out these different, almost crazy, methods when I said I was going to stick to yadm? well, so here is what I still need which yadm doesn't provide (AFAIK):
for some machines, only track some files and directories and remove the others.
for example:
anyways, the problem I described above can probably be solved with chezmoi, but like what I've written on 6th, there are downside(s) with it and I don't like it. I'd rather stick with yadm for now, and try out the hardlink strategy. In any case, once I've figured out an almost-perfect solution that (hopefully) solves all my problems I'll write a gemlog post about it. It may be that there is no such solution that can do so but we'll see.
new journal heading layout. # for each month, ## for each day, and ### for each event
also made the stuff reverse-chronological order
I let out some of my frustrations in a ranty response to a Github feature request for my app. I love that a user was invested enough in my app to write a long and frustrated feature request.
Quote:
I sense your frustration in that the app is close to what you want and how you use it, but not quite there. Unfortunately the bad news is that I will probably stop supporting this app this year, despite this app being a labour of love and one I'm proud of. The above-mentioned sandbox leaks, combined with browser fingerprinting, supercookies, FLoC, and other hostile abuses of Web technology, have made me come to the conclusion that the Web is a lost cause for private browsing. Yes, WebApps offers only limited protection, and that protection will probably decrease every year. Something like Gemini (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi) is probably the way forward for privacy minded geeks, and I for one am moving as much of my content creation/consumption there as possible.
Another factor is that Android is also increasingly hostile to the developer (you need at least 16Gb RAM to compile a 3Mb APK, every year devs are forced onto new APIs, Gradle builds break often, Google now wants your developer signing key, the tooling I had used is now deprecated, etc, etc, etc). Couple that with the spyware preloaded onto phones and the increasing difficulty of getting control over your device (e.g. my phone kills VLC after 30 mins and there's nothing I can do about it), and I'm ready to ditch Android and go back to good 'ol desktop computing (https://tobykurien.com/post-1618319359/).
WebApps Feature Request: Tabs
https://github.com/tobykurien/WebApps/issues/249#issuecomment-821967876
Is aphantasia destiny?
found several cool more things on gemini:
paste.gemigrep.com - paste and archive text and gemini urls
gmisub - I normally just use Spacewalk or gemreader for feeds in gemini, but this is cool too
Amazing post on SCGI in gemini
discovery.geminiprotocol.com - more cool stuff on gemini
review.treeblue.space - similar to above
Giving up the smartphone (currently in airplane mode in the drawer) for a dumb phone. I want my attention span back. I want control over my computer. I want to eschew mobile computing for good old fashioned desktop computing.
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TIL: trackers/spyware can bypass even third-party blocking and same-origin-policy by using CNAME cloaking. There's almost no hope of having privacy on the web, other than to resort to other protocols like Gemini.
Characterizing CNAME cloaking-based tracking
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/08/04/characterizing-cname-cloaking-based-tracking/
gelim - my new wip line mode Gemini client in go (sr.ht)
(will write a detailed gemlog post for this)
here's my general dotfile setup/manager timeline:
1. nothing
2. symlink + plain git
3. yadm
4. copy-paste files to repo (with scripts to make it easier)
5. yadm
6. homedir git (with * in .gitignore, and track with `git add -f`)
7. chezmoi
8. yadm
the last 3 from the above are my top 3 preferred options, here are the pros and cons for each:
〈 ~ git 〉
Drew's blog post on this setup
I’ve tried a few solutions over the years, but I settled on a very simple system several years ago which has served me very well in the time since: my $HOME is a git repository
pros:
cons:
〈 yadm 〉
basically, your $HOME is a git repository, but wrapped. nothing is tracked until you `add` it, so I think of it as the above method but with more features.
pros:
cons:
〈 chezmoi 〉
it copies your dotfiles to a separate dir and you can optionally setup git in that dir.
pros:
cons:
read more about this ("complaint"?) and their reasons for it
also see:
full comparison table between various dotfile managers (chezmoi docs)
Not really about 5G, the article mentions ways that SAPS could get hold of your data. FYI My phone was confiscated and searched at OR Tambo without any warrant. #surveillance #privacy
5G opens the gates for surveillance on steroids
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-06-5g-opens-the-gates-for-surveillance-on-steroids/
seen it across the geminispace as well as mentioned in IRC many times, but I didn't give it a go since it was desktop-based... but today I saw some people on #gemini tilde.chat IRC mentioning Lagrange for iOS, immediately I went to skyjake.fi's gemlog and joined the testflight. the only iPad gemini client I've used so far was Elaho, which has similar UI/UX to firefox, it feels smooth and comfortable to use, despite have it lack some features such as subscriptions, importing certs (AFAIK), and sharing identities across different capsules. (I mentioned Elaho when I first tried it out in the 2021-04-01 entry above). here are my first impressions
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/gemreader
public instance of gemreader ^ (needs cert)
Great video with a LOT of information for privacy-aware smartphone users. Sadly, even us hackers have lost control of our tech. #privacy #smartphone
Spyware-Free Phones in 2021: We're being Squeezed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPrugkYJpO8
started getting into go in january, but at the time I only did some stuff on the Go Tour, and since then I hadn't touched go at all... Today looking at some gemini clients and other software, sometimes urged me to learn go (like, immediately). started looking at simple Gemini server/clients source code and I decided to fork solderpunk's "≈100 lines bare-bones but usable client in Go"[*], refactor it, implement some features like more commands, less(1)-like output, etc, basically a simpler, dumber version of AV-98 in Go. This is also to basically help me learn go with "learning by doing", really excited for this. Will probably start tomorrow
I was recently treated to a visit from an African Grey Hornbill. Right on my doorstep!
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Photos from a recent #hike near Hartebeespoort dam
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wow! did mozz just add support for spartan:// to his HTTP-gemini portal? dang this is amazing, no need to use my terminal with `| less` anymore :P
Gemini Proxy (also spartan now)
read the specs[*] for spartan a bit more carefully today... the way it specifies how inputs are requested is quite interesting. AND guess what... there's inline inputs! (AFAIK) spartan uses text/gemini for its document format, and adds a new input syntax "=:" to replace gemini's 10 INPUT status code. here's an example .gmi served over spartan:// with input:
```example gmi file for spartan://
# normal heading
* normal list item
* second item
here goes an input
=: /input-handler friendly text for the input
more normal text
```
try out here
there's a guestbook and also an "echo service" where anything you input will be echoed back to you
problem is, atm, the server.py file[*] doesn't handle inputs (at least not from looking at the code and trying it out), and I would really love to see how spartan://mozz.us do the echo and the guestbook thing, but I don't think it's open sourced
gemini://spartan.mozz.us/spartan_server.py
anyways I think this feels more like a gemlog post, will link to it here when I'm done writing it
Knowledge and resources are really scattered. I was looking into gemini, gopher, irc bots, etc to be specific. One day, when I have the money, time, and energy, I will buy a domain, get a host and sit down and organized all of these things into a single public wiki/notebook...
I saw mozz's post[*] on his shiny new protocol a few days ago, but only decided to have a look today. looking at the client/server .py files I was like "wow! this seems really lightweight", also, this was the perfect opportunity to install a curl-like program for gemini:// so I decided to use makeworld's gemget[*] and downloaded the two scripts for spartan://.
gemget - CLI downloaded for gemini (like curl/wget) - by makeworld (github)
My first stop on the spartanspace is spartan://mozz.us, I also had a play with its cool input "system", then immediately went on to trying out the server. So far everything feels just like gemini, except that this protocol is newer, lighter, and I guess easier to implement. Can't wait to get more into it and create my own server/clients for it!
I wrote about out-of-body experiences. Might not be what you think. Might be a letdown or skary or both. gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/myobes.gmi
registered on Astrobotany[*] a week ago, and been only using it with amfora[*] on tilde.cafe[*], but today I tried out a gemini from the iPad - Elaho! (will link to it once I find its github repo, forgot atm).
Astrobotany - community garden over gemini://
tilde.cafe, a "newly" launched, debian tilde
so far browsing the geminispace from Elaho is a super cool and relaxing experience, it seems to be based off firebox. But from what I can see, Elaho doesn't allow you to import certificates, so I created one, logged into Astrobotany and added my current certificate to my account.
all this "gemini apps" and auth with client certs and so cool! can't wait to make my own game or app over gemini
A week or two ago I started taking a serious look at gopher, reading through every single post on gopher.zone
gopher.zone - Gopher guides - "Highway to the gopher zone"
Plasma 5: Making Kickoff’s “Computer” more useful, gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/kickoff.gmi
Reworked yesterdays Commodore TED/264 retrospective a tad, as I am wont to do…
Today I decided to go back, and put my journal and gemlog there until I find a good host for all my online stuff... The one thing that still impresses me is the ability to set custom domains for my flounder site! AFAIK not a single one of any other Gemini hosting providers allow you to do that :/
Another amazing thing is that I can directly edit from the web! (Although if Editting via Gemini inputs are supported that would be cool) Editting from the web means that I can update my journal/gemlog from any device, which is ideal especially for my journal
When I came back, I noticed that WebDAV was replaced with SFTP access! Gosh that's amazing, which means I can script automated updates (if I need any) and 'deploy' to my flounder site immediately :D
The first time I heard about it was from my mastodon timeline, but didn't give it a serious look until today! I was surprised that so many of the things in there look so familiar to me... Like most of the times I'm like "oh, it's this guy", and "oh I know you!"
I’d like a gemini browser to automatically generate a different colour scheme for every server/host/idk – like Lagrange does it for the headlines, but for everything…
Been working on a little ASCII-art-to-Unicode-art converter. :) A simple project but it's nice to have something actually useful taking shape.
That it hurts doesn’t make it true
First version of a new cursive script with German-specific extensions ready — addressing, I hope, some of the flaws of þe olde Sütterlin. Now it’ll need “flow optimisation”…
There is no Do, there is only Trine! With Uncle Hamish and Olivia and me in like a couple mins -- https://twitch.tv/hamishtpb
“Oxenfree Thoughts” uploaded — gemini://anjune.lol/gmi/oxenfree-thoughts.gmi
A #loadshedding solution I've been playing with: Blue Nova 280Wh LFP battery + 300W inverter. Runs my laptop for over 6 hours, charges with standard car battery charger, over 10 years of cycle life, weighs less than 3kg, costs under R3000. #diy
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Been over a week that I merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME, still no issues :)
WebApps is my #OpenSource #Android app I am most proud of. Many years in the making, it allows you to save websites as apps, with privacy-enhancing features similar to uMatrix.
WebApps sandboxed browser
https://github.com/tobykurien/webapps
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Analysis of how Google's FLoC can hurt users.
"FLoC is meant to be a new way to make your browser do the profiling that third-party trackers used to do themselves"
Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/googles-floc-terrible-idea
Learned some C with ncurses. 1985, here I come! <3
Yoiks, was operating with about 20% of my mind on the Trine stream and finding it enormously funny that nothing made any sense…
Not super proud of this, but when it's a choice between tossing out an old tablet because of a broken USB charging port, or an ugly fix to save it, I'll do the ugly fix.
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...people photosynthesise with purple skin to save scant food, die at 35 (another side-effect of wiping out cancer, who'd have thought!), and have knowledge, memories, desirable behaviour and skills imparted by viruses -- yet it doesn't feel half bad, because it also means there's no need for locks, police, fear of walking alone in the dark; everything just seems to be running itself without having guns pointed at it; life's... not easy, but informal
It plays on all the senses without ever feeling indulgently hedonist or 'purple'. It'll manage to gross you out *adoringly*. Huge genetically engineered antarctic miners (polar bears) who you'd expect to be an oppressed underclass are a rugged wealthy separate culture that'll take the mickey out of us squishy mind-controlled normies; the eradication of cancer let tumours replicate the host body so well as to produce immortal deformed-looking copies...
Been finding it hard to booklog; it's still what I'd love to have written but so dense with ideas to process and integrate into an internal coherent model -- melancholically playful, whimsical when it should be creeping you out; a dystopia you (sometimes) half want to live in...
This article explains why a few kilobytes of macOS updates ends up as gigabytes of downloads and 45 minutes of updating.
Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
Have merged XDG_CONFIG_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME into one, since developers barely know when to use which as it is. Nothing's fallen over dead yet, not even Akonadi…
Beautiful weather and my second run in shorts today - apologies to anyone blinded by the winter whiteness of my legs.
'People often ask: “What’s the next Covid?” An attack on our digital infrastructure is a leading candidate.' and other interesting insights in this great read.
Yuval Noah Harari: Lessons from a year of Covid
https://www.ft.com/content/f1b30f2c-84aa-4595-84f2-7816796d6841
Not sure what to do with Gemini, really. You put stuff out there and then that's that; silence. Might be in a bad mood though
First run of the year in shorts! ☀️
I published my thoughts on the favicon.txt rfc. Not sure if that was a good idea though^^
I should not start factorio… I should not start factorio… ^^
No more dead links; + some a first few old texts posted to the Gemini thang.
Ahah… Just realized that I published a new blog article by mistake when I deployed the updated version of the gemini homepage… Good thing the article was ready to be published… Anyway… #fail
My first tinylog entrie… Very simple and useless at the same time :). I'm using CET time, it works with the date command so I hope this will work for everyone, otherwise I'll convert to UTC.
I was on the farm again yesterday, picking salad leaves and laying drainage channels. Weather was beautiful. After, I recorded a MiniDisc 'mixtape' from my record collection. Pretty good day, really.
I'm quickly learning that the secret to vintage hi-fi is to clean everything with servisol super 10 before you start.
Hopefully just updated my MicroGem formatting to work with Chris Were's lace script.
…whose name I surprisingly got right on the first attempt. I forgot I was slightly obsessed with this album! If a psychedelic prog-tech sort of thing sorts like your jam, jam to this.
Five guest musicians (Edward KaSpel, IAMX, Otto von Schirach, Traz Damji, Soriah); bodes well.
Out now! :) :) Advance tracks were brilliant, Anger is an Acid quite likely to remain my high point of the album...
It's time for that old outburst of anger again, because I can't view a single German website without losing my temper any more. YOU. UTTER. FICKING. AR$€HOLES. DESTROYED. THE. FREE. OPEN. DEMOCRATIC. LIBERTINE. INTERNET with your regulations. That "Datenschutzerklaerung" and that "Impressum" demand a level of self-exposure (self-doxxing, really) and legalese-compliance that a decently-sized business may be able to deal with but not an intimidateable individual with a need for privacy and a hunger to find the other weirdos of the world. BURN IN HELL YOU SHITS.
Doing my kanji homework.
I’ll have to talk fragmentarily about this book while I’m reading it. It's the sort of colourfully imaginative but grounded-feeling life-as-an-XYZ-sort-of-creature-detailing "soft" sci-fi I'd want to write if I wanted to take up the responsibility of writing sci-fi, that is to say, to presume to be able to speculate with some level of plausibility.
I will consider forget-me-nots now
Mmm, pancakes for lunch.
I'm, like, really into minidiscs right now.
I have added a section to my #gemini capsule
gemini://tobykurien.com
for aggregating what people are saying about Gemini, e.g. tweets, toots, and now also the Gemini mailing list, where most of the announcements and spec discussions take place. You can now browse this on Gemini itself!
Gemini mailing list archive on Gemini
gemini://tobykurien.com/cgi-bin/mailing_list.py
Volunteered on an organic farm today. We planted hedges. It was nice to spend time outside with other humans.
It was a lovely day, that day I walked away... test test
Advantage of attempting to teach yourself piano: nobody’s going to stop you from using harpsichord, organ, or synth bass sounds when you get bored
No, wait… wild poppies.
Drew! The prettiest wildflowers are cornflowers.
Hurray! Huzzah!
Was that double post an accident or did I just not clipboard correctly?
Let's see if this works..
Let's see if this works...
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There’re no cookies. There aren’t any cookies.
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"Culture I/O is a website about utopia as seen through the haze of the dystopian present. You’re laughing, but we’re serious. There’s a manifesto. That’s how serious we are."
Culture I/O — The Road to Utopia
I'm getting definite oil shell vibes from zig - practical improvements without throwing all our existing work out of the window. Last night I started a little outliner program to practice on using ncurses and sqlite and the C integration has been great.
Playing with the zig programming language today. LOVE the lazy compilation while learning. If I don't use it, it doesn't have to compile!
New blog post! In which I attempt to cure my #doomscrolling
My war on doomscrolling
https://tobykurien.com/war-on-doomscrolling/
FreeHacker is an ezine "created to help the spread of DIY culture in cyberspace". A good, if somewhat short read.
FreeHacker: Issue 2
https://anarchistnews.org/content/freehacker-issue-2-available-download
This Sojourner #pwa is a beautiful way to browse and bookmark talks from the #fosdem '21 schedule.
Sojourner
https://fosdem.sojourner.rocks/search/
Few years ago I moved my personal projects from #Git to #Fossil, and can recommend it. It is easy to host (single binary file), feature full (bug tracking, wiki, forum, etc), and all the repo data is stored in a single sqlite db (easy to backup). You can also allow anonymous access so that people can collaborate without creating accounts. That's 2 files you copy into a machine and you have your entire source control and repo up!
Fossil: Fossil Versus Git
https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.wiki
My #Gemini capsule is up! It includes my #gemlog which is generated from my website microblog, which is also syndicated as tweets/toots via #IndieWeb. Very cool that all these technologies can play well with each other and are easy to script to my liking.
Toby's Gemlog
gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi
A well written blog post (from a Google dev advocate) about using machine learning for baking, resulting in inventing a new dessert. Much 'maker' spirit, such wow. #ai #machinelearning
Baking with Machine Learning
https://sararobinson.dev/2020/04/30/baking-machine-learning.html
"This means in two to five years we may be able to surf the internet or talk on our 900 MHz phones while walking down the sidewalk in nearly any city whose occupants own Amazon or other competing devices."
We may Soon have City-Spanning 900 HMz Mesh Networks
http://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/900mhz-mesh.html/
"These all use some form of local radio signal. Some, such as Briar, may use short-range Bluetooth and Wifi, while others use radios such as LoRa that can reach several miles with low power. ... Every item on this list uses full end-to-end encryption" #offline #messenger #lora #meshnetwork
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities
Some thoughts on the #Gemini protocol:
1. Gemini is to the web what reading a book is to watching TV. The former is focussed, simple, requires some effort, and may be more rewarding. The latter may be more compelling but also full of distractions and advertisements.
2. Gemini is just text and links, which HTML can easily do, but by removing features (like CSS, JavaScript, and inline media), Gemini guarantees that your experience will be simple, fast, and user-respecting. No complicated issues like browser fingerprinting, popups, tracking, XSS, etc.
3. Gemini might be a good fit for disseminating information in low-bandwidth long-range mesh networks like Meshtastic, which might become part of our apolcalyptic/dystopian future.
4. Gemini is a good format for scraping web content or generating content for displaying on devices like DIY smart mirrors, Raspberry Pi tablet screens, Smart watches, etc.
Curious? Try this link below which uses a web proxy to display some random feeds from Gemini sites.
Capcom Gemini Aggregator
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/capcom/
Awesome talk about the ideas and possibilities behind the Beaker Browser, a peer-to-peer browser. #beakerbrowser #decentralizedweb #dweb
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers (2018)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8
first ever gemlog! it's just a hello world (published on flounder)
happy new year
I decided to hate discord
"On the Internet, your rate of learning is limited not by access to information, but by your ability to ignore distractions"
The Paradox of Abundance - David Perell
https://perell.com/note/the-paradox-of-abundance/
Bumper harvest of cherry tomatoes from my #aquaponics #diy
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You may be in a quandry about deleting WhatsApp, because EVERYONE is on it. How quickly we forget that this was true of Mixit and BBM. We've moved before, we can move again, the businesses will follow. #deletewhatsapp #deletefacebook
Facebook really wants your data! The long term solution is decentalized/federated, like Matrix.
WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app
My fav gadget of 2020: the LCD writing tablet. Costs under R200. 2 year battery life. Doesn't sync with anything. Can only erase whole screen. Helps me focus distraction-free on today's tasks and jot down notes.
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Contact tracing is so dangerous, it gives governments an irresistible tool for tracking, surveillance and control. The abuse of the tech has already begun.
Govt confirms that police can use TraceTogether data for criminal investigations
Using some simple scripts, I have automated the process of publishing microblogs to my static-generated website (which uses #Pelican). It makes use of the #IndieWeb standard #micropub format, so I can even share links and upload photos to my blog via the Indigenous app. Now you can too!
IndieWeb scripts for publishing using micropub to a static-site generator like Pelican.
https://github.com/tobykurien/micropub-to-markdown
Now watching 0xcon talks from last month. #infosec #southafrica
0xcon 2020 - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UsXYRp-4uWk
Interesting new protocol: "Gemini is a new internet protocol which: Is heavier than gopher; Is lighter than the web; Will not replace either; Strives for maximum power to weight ratio; Takes user privacy very seriously"
Project Gemini FAQ
https://proxy.vulpes.one/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
Tiny World is an amazing documentary with incredibly beautiful photography. Well worth watching. #tv #documentary
Tiny World — Official Trailer l Apple TV+ - YouTube
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oGNb4d6UdeU
Another epic Joburg sunset, taken yesterday afternoon. 😍
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Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram blogged this:
Consume Less. Create More. It’s More Fun.
https://telegra.ph/Consume-Less-Create-More-Its-More-Fun-12-04
Beautiful Joburg sunset
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Raspberry Pi portable PC #diy
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To be or not to be :-)
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Flowers in the yard
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The #gpcoronavirus #covid19 dashboard has been updated with a powerful hotspot analysis provided by @WitsUniversity which will hopefully assist @GautengProvince with the second surge.
Re: tweet
https://twitter.com/Wits_News/status/1340979463824273410
Details:
Dashboard:
Holiday reading for the geeky: NODE zine contains articles about interesting open source, decentralized, censorship-resistant and cutting-edge technologies.
NODE zine
My #aquaponics runneth over! That's cherry tomatoes hanging off the side, bearing plenty of fruit. #diy
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First micro-blog post on my own site, which will hopefully be syndicated to social media via #IndieWeb tech!
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Agregated tinylogs:
💀 @razzlom@gemini.quietplace.xyz
🐧 @matthew@space.matthewphillips.info
