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Re: I'm here and little lost.

I'm here and little lost.

setting up client certificates (and everything associated with it) seemed, and still does seem, like quantum physics to me

Same here. I think I've learned QCP (Quantum Certificate Physics) thrice, now. But the fact I so rarely need to understand it to the point of being able to traverse useful mechanics thereof means it's once again fading fast.

And I wouldn't be surprised to learn I've some kickass notes on it - including all important command-based "steps" - but, of course, what might be called "filesystem entropy" has already made such essentially non-existent - "essentially", because some combination of 'find' and 'grep' will likely come to the rescue someday, for example in the form of this fairly useful script I call "has":

find . -name '*'$2 -type f -exec grep "$1" {} \; -print

which takes a first argument of "what text to find" and an optional second that limits files grep'd to those with a specific ending in their name, e.g.:

> has certificate

> has certificate .txt

I no doubt re-invented the wheel, there, and of course could add half a million extra features to it... but you know....

I've always wanted to participate in this site, but I could never figure out how to do it.

There's the technical side of participating, i.e. certificates and such.

But then I've more than a few times felt less than certain of how to participate in "when/how to post/comment/react" kinds of ways. And that goes for Gemini space in general, which feels much more "nomadic" to me than I'd initially expected.

I stumbled in, not exactly knowing how I got in, but I'm happy I'm here.

Had John Lennon lived in these times, he quite possibly might have written a song called "Happiness Is A Warm Post".... ;-)