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👋 Hi there, Smokey here! I hope all is going well for you so far today. I am another person going through life trying to figure out my own place in it. I originally joined gemini to dip my toes into the smolnet, and have been happily participating for the better part of the year. Thank you for having me.
🗣 Followers 35 · Following 26 · Logs 116 · Docked 2 years ago
Spent all day learning about CGI and bash scripts to make this little thing. gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/cgi-bin/ddg-input.gmi
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
A limitation of the duckling proxy is actually trying to do web searches through a gemini client. So today I worked on a little bash script to input user queries and output those queries in a search engine url format. Might make a full gemini post about it but for now you can view the script source here: tilde.team/~smokey/cgi-bin/source-ddg-duckling-search.gmi tilde.team/~smokey/cgi-bin/source-multiple-choice-search.gmi The ultimate goal is to create a CGI service that processes a users query and redirects you to the corrisponding search engine url.
💬 8 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Last night a baby praying mantis hopped up on my smoking table out back. Took a little while to trust me but once it did it couldn't stop exploring my hands and arms lol. Sure was a cute little green thing. Eventually once the sun set I walked it out to some greenery on the side of the house and let it continue its wierd little praying mantis life.
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Calling out to the fellow video game players, have you partaken in the Steam Summer Sale yet and if so what have you gotten?
💬 7 Replies · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Happy I decided to challenge myself with a log a day. Easily the most productive week of my capsules life thusfar. Will be continuing to do so into this week!
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Why do you think there was a huge dip in URIs between april and now? gemini://botond.online/en/stats/uris.png
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New log, Its a long and personal one. gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/06-16-22-newblog.gmi
💬 3 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Seems drewdevault finally pulled the plug on their capsule. Sad to see it go
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very wierd idea: a tabletop map drawing game inspired by DELVE played with a special gemini protocol exploration webring. Space themed, drawing a space chart tile by tile. run across natual resources to build different parts of your capsule, encounter enemy fleets to fight and fend against, different space enviroments and alien structures, and notably a special "wormhole" structure which points you to use the webring to visit a real spaceship themed gemini capsule and you draw it.
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Apple bought my parents favorite weather service two years ago. First year they killed the android app, okay np just shortcut the website. Now, theyre killing the website, API, and IOS app in order to assimilate it into their own weather app. My parents have been using it for years and love the service so much because of the graphs and long range forcast. What apple is pulling is some monopolistic anti-competition bullshit and they just keep getting away with it. Thankfully there are still open weather APIs and the apps which run off them.
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Today I learned that yeast is actually a kind of fungi, I had always assumed it was a kind of bacteria. The more you know!
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So, continuing the "things fellow capsuleers sometimes do which slightly grind my gears" saga, is spamming every. single. page with some variant of "this page is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 copyright". I can get down with authors clearly laying out how they want their intellectual work used by others. But why would you copy and paste this to every single page instead of just one blanket sweep statement at the bottom of your capsules homepage and specifying otherwise for particular pages you dont want published under that liscence. Its a pointless and IMO somewhat narcissistic use of ~50 bytes of data per page which can be better spent elsewhere. Just to remind people "hey I own this, dont infringe bitch"
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Just looked at the price of BTC for first time in a month, last I saw it was hanging around 29k. Its at 22k now. Theres something really unnatural about how harshly its fallen, the chart is almost a perfect slope instead of the random fluxuation you expect out of markets. Me thinks that the FED and Friends have gone from trying to silently and slowly assasinating crypto from afar to straight up murdering crypto in broad daylight
💬 5 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Kinda annoying when I like someones glog enough to try and contact them only to be expected to jump through hoops including the info not being on their capsule only through their website which you have to guess exist, No email you must only use alternative com protocols and pgp encryption both of which I don't know how to properly use. At some point it just kills all motivation. My philosophy is that you should make it as easy as possible for people of all techical skill levels to communicate with you with whatever means they know and are familiar with.
💬 7 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
A new kitten I've never seen before just strolled on in through the cat door and now acts like they live here. 🙄 That brings the count up to 7
💬 3 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Ever since I saw the AI art debate on antenna a couple days ago it got some creative connective juices flowing. A couple months I wrote an article on the library of babel and the random generation of all possible combinations of words given infinite time. Well, replace a typewriter with an art brush and suddenly you get an infinite art gallery filled with all possible combination of art piece on every sized canvas generated by random distributions of colored pigments. Artist having an existential issue with AI are just now going through what authors already dealt with the library of babel. "join the club, kid." Uhg now I might make it a full article.
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I guess IIch.space is down for good at this point. I personally really liked the image sharing section with automatic dithering, was a cool idea. Hopefully a similar kind of public photo sharing capsule will emerge. Thank you @sk for your efforts, hope to see your stuff come back up in the future.
💬 0 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Rain is pooring on the sunsetter that just barely shields me. Listening to the hazelwood trialouge, and I am smoking some good stuff. I am relaxed and life Is okay at the moment.
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Theres some new ASCII art over at my capsule home page and the contact-me page :-)
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Do you have pets?
Does anyone else get a wierd feeling when they stumble upon someones personal site where they share their whole resume/CV including real life addresses and phone numbers. I get that the internet was a lot different 20-30 years ago and people didn't worry much about spam bots or doxxing but in 2022 that just kinda seems very risky without much benefit. Then again, people old enough to remember a time when sharing RL info like that you're too old to give a shit about being doxxed
💬 4 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I really like revisiting these graphs of gemini's statistics every couple months. From jan 2021 to jan 2022 gemini grew by 1500 capsules. From jan 2022 to now its already grown another 500 gemini://botond.online/en/stats/
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Something unbelievably surreal happened a few minutes ago. I was out on patio listening to music when I hear a distressed squeaking. Look over and my cat is playing with a shrew. Get in between cat and shrew and shrew first hid behind my foot looking out for the cat before climbing pant leg about a foot. After scare cat off akward waddle over beyond patio to grass and shake shrew off. It stays for a moment and looks at me. I get a sense of appreciation and friendliness. I then proceed to kneel down to shrew and lightly pet its back with my finger a few times. (take note to wash hands after) It accepts my gesture! I sit on steps and watch it a moment more before it goes. Tonight was wierd
💬 4 Replies · 11 Thumbs · 2 years ago
It would be cool to know how many people visit my site on a daily basis, but also I know im a person that gets too caught up with numbers and statistics to the point I would obsess over it or somehow view it like a 'score' in a game.
💬 5 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Scribbles down "Own a Drive-in movie theatre" into potential independent buisness idea book
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Apparently a critical security vulnerability was recently discovered in firefox and TOR browser. Suprise suprise, the root cause is our old 'friend' javascript at it again.
💬 6 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Every day my distain for the centralized web grows as does my Love the small-net. I think gemini's unprecidented growth in the past year or so is proof that its more than just a fad or a nieche ideological group project. On a side note, does anyone know what geminicon 2022 was? Apparently it was a convention for gemini users but I literally havent heard a single mention of it until now, after the fact. Was it a mastadon thing or what?
💬 4 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Added some cool new stuff to the capsule. First, it now mirrors the comic series Gramfel to gemini //tilde.team/~smokey/pictures/Gramfel/ Second, I spent quite some time touching up and reformatting a 30 year old dinosaur of a text file I found on a usenet archive. It now has new lease on life as part of my Fractal Compendium project. tilde.team/~smokey/fractal_compendium/fractal-faq.gmi
💬 0 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 years ago
quick guide to setting up duckling proxy: gemini://tilde.team/~smokey/logs/2022-05-24-duckling-guide.gmi
💬 8 Replies · 1 Thumb · 2 years ago
Are there any public ducking proxies or in depth guides to setting one up locally?