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Addison

"My butter is labeled "Real®" because capitalism is going great"

2024-01-03 "Addison: a good one. [Rimshot...]"

2024-01-03 "You'll be able to afford it, but on the rare occasions it's available, and subject to spending half a day waiting on a..."

"Excited to take my ham radio Technician License exam on Friday"

2023-12-06 "sadly, morse code is no longer required for the technician license..."

2023-12-05 "I am sometimes tempted to get the license, but am too paranoid to voluntarily provide any information to the state. I'..."

Switching to Iceraven

2023-08-31 "I generally use two browsers: A high-security, ad- and tracking- blocking browser for browsing the useless internet..."

"I'm struggling to understand what op-amps do."

2023-08-17 "An op-amp is just a serious signal amplifier (correct me if I am wrong, but something like 1:100000 straight through...)..."

"At some point down the road retrocomputing will include using Python 2"

2023-07-18 "There is only one way to stop getting old..."

2023-07-18 "Not a fan of Python; as a language snob, I can't think of any interesting contribution Python brought, except for an..."

admin

"⚠️ BBS email notifications have not been going out over the weekend. The issue has now been fixed and you should be..."

2024-05-12 "Someday I'm going to read documentation..."

2024-05-12 "I didn't know there was such a thing!"

Trolls at the gate

2023-10-24 "May I ask what sort of trolling is happening? If it's possible to describe without accomplishing the troller's goal, of..."

2023-10-24 "This is a bit of sad news."

Housekeeping

2023-08-22 "Given the unique non-PC rambling writing style there is no way for him to stay anonymous"

2023-08-20 "I've been cursed and requested to stop posting by users who obviously misunderstood the nature of free speech the..."

allknowingfrog

Ahoy!

2024-05-15 "Welcome aboard! You are in the right place."

AnoikisNomads

commandline weather

2023-10-10 "Here is how to get it right on gemini: [gemini link] For a different location, append `?Moscow` or whatever place you..."

antranigv

"Gemini n00b Q Say someone is new to Gemini, what would you suggest them to do? what to read? where to write? should..."

2023-08-09 "Maybe use a place like flounder, midnight pub, or station to get started with a gemlog. If you are up to it, a tilde..."

2023-08-09 "[gemini link]"

2023-08-08 "[gemini link]"

"This is just a test. I was invited here by /u/norayr :)"

2023-06-28 "Welcome!"

ascii-art

How Can We Get More ASCII Art in Geminispace?

2024-05-31 "I am all for art, but let's keep it a little separate when possible. A gallery is great, but random chunks of odd..."

A script to generate Chafa galleries for gmi

2024-04-20 "What is a chafa?"

"Request. I am making a dice game but can't find any ASCII dice that I like. has anyone come across just the 6 square..."

2024-01-25 "Rounded corners. I may like this better, but it's a matter of taste. [preformatted]"

2024-01-25 "Oh, and the first two are just line art characters. [https link]"

2024-01-25 "I used to think so, but I think these are just Braille characters; sixels are a different ANSI mode? Have to look into..."

2024-01-25 "Another possibility is the braille characters: [preformatted]"

2024-01-25 "[preformatted]"

2024-01-25 "I don't know what's wrong with my brain - I kept reading dominoes! But it works for dice!"

2024-01-25 "[preformatted]"

2024-01-25 "I guess they are not very legible. Make them out of sixels?"

2024-01-25 "What about unicode glyphs like these: [preformatted]"

[amiga] dancer

2024-01-23 "Lord Nikon is amazing! I wish I could copy/paste some of the art as characters... Is there a way to translate the art..."

Maze of MURDERS

2024-01-05 "Navigation... In Lagrange, pressing the ALT key with a number does a virtual click on the first 10 links... If you..."

What tools do you use?

2023-12-24 "@Remy, I did not mean to be an asshole (happens naturally). I am somewhat frustrated by the lack of simple software."

2023-12-22 "@Remy: patate is interesting, but to build it I need to download something callled sheepy - another compiler for some..."

Astrobotany

"I find it interesting that people wrote bots to harvest their plants for the next generation. I was refreshing the..."

2024-05-04 "Heh. Sort of defeats the purpose of this gardening hobby. I wonder if you can get ChatGPT to write the harvesting bot..."

Bazmatazable

My Wife Hates Linux

2023-10-07 "@clseibold: absolutely. Linux has succumbed to the same race to the same shiny trap, and is ballooning at an amazing..."

2023-10-07 "Much as I despise Jobs as a person, he definitely latched onto what must be a bug in the human brain. As Stallman..."

2023-10-06 "I can relate. My SO likes Apple products in spite of my frequent rants (and even shared hatred of Jobs). She is a..."

betabube

"Also bluetooth mices just suck in a dual boot setup. Connected to Windows, back on Linux, I've to connect again. And..."

2023-08-29 "That sounds like a bad joke..."

"I just hate developers coming up with a name like: nouveau. I had to check 3 times if I've written that right. Srsly,..."

2023-08-29 "@alexlehm - I was being sarcastic. Somewhat sarcastic."

"Also bluetooth mices just suck in a dual boot setup. Connected to Windows, back on Linux, I've to connect again. And..."

2023-08-29 "I hate Bluetooth. I don't want a microwave transmitter inside my skull. I don't want to constantly charge a dozen..."

"I just hate developers coming up with a name like: nouveau. I had to check 3 times if I've written that right. Srsly,..."

2023-08-29 "If only everyone agreed to use English, we could stick with ASCII..."

"Someone on reddit shared his emacs config, I don't know how I should feel about as it has more than 5k lines. He must..."

2023-08-21 "In the end I use maybe a dozen keybindings in Emacs and about the same in vim... I know there are better ways to do..."

2023-08-21 "Someone said that Emacs is an OS that could use a good editor. But with built in Lisp, you can customize it to do any..."

"Looks like gemlog.blue has tons of spam accounts according to its directory listing: [gemini link]"

2023-08-14 "Huh. That is fascinating! Hundreds of gemlogs populated with weird shit."

biodiversity

"I am starting to monitoring mosquitoes in our garden. As I am very interested in insects, this is worth a try...."

2024-05-24 "Upstate NY mosquitos are fierce! Also, the horseflies will take a chunk of your face off and leave you bleeding."

bjnaved

How to deal with procrastination

2023-12-16 "It is a viable strategy which eventually pays off: one day you will die and it won't matter if you didn't do the..."

"hello world"

2023-07-12 "Welcome!"

Books

"does anybody here collect comic books? I've been collecting and reading comic books/graphic novels for the past year..."

2024-02-07 "I love comics and graphic novels, but have a really hard time reading them, so my love is more theoretical. There is..."

"Hiya guys, I've been trying to read Piers Ploughman (unmodernized) but the archaic language is very tiring and it's..."

2023-12-03 "It sounds like you may need to take notes as you go, perhaps an index card per character where you can track..."

2023-11-26 "Is it essential that you read it? Personally when something is just not enjoyable or I find myself distracted often, I..."

Bubble

Geolocation

2024-05-09 "Oh, I forgot we already have a 'description'b in the profile page. where is it shown though.."

2024-05-09 "I can see how it may be helpful, e.g. to see when to expect a reply. Maybe it does make sense to provide a 'finger'..."

"@skyjake any chance of adding a feature to allow adding posts to a favorites/read later/bookmark type list?"

2024-02-14 "@drh3xx: I, too, tried to use a remote bookmark solution, but these bookmarks are very different from normal ones - you..."

2024-02-14 "Agreed. I'd love to bookmark within BBS as I access it with 4 different devices."

Editing Long Text

2023-12-27 "@gritty: pulling data back would work too. I actually was thinking of breaking the text up and using the built-in..."

BBS updated to Bubble v6.12

2023-10-26 "Someone is spamming with a script..."

"Auto-paragraph-break feature? I've been editing a lot lately, and automatically breaking paragraphs for editing may be..."

2023-08-28 "A 'break into segments' button would do the trick... Thanks for considering it."

"A nitpicky suggestion: When viewing comments, the final (generated) line that shows the date and 'days ago' runs right..."

2023-08-11 "Ah, that makes sense. Another idea: instead of thinking of timestamping commends, just insert time markers... For..."

"Editing quirk: if a post contains more than one 'line' (shift-cr is used to start a new line), it is no longer possible..."

2023-06-12 "@michaelnodmeyer: while I appreciate the attempt to keep the user aware of potential privacy loss, it seems really..."

2023-06-12 "michaelnordmeyer: even if pasting into the same application? That is really nuts."

2023-06-12 "That's what I was thinking, although pasting the clipboard also works. I don't know why I didn't think of that!"

2023-06-12 "Do you really dislike 'Paste Selected Text' as a possible solution?"

"Notifications sort order... Any reason it's not newest first? I feel I must be missing something here."

2023-06-08 "Actually, I like the way this page is formatted, separating 'Actions' from 'n Comments'. In other places the actions..."

2023-06-07 "I also often click on 'new post in s/SpellBinding' thinking it's 'new posts in s/SpellBinding'... As a thought, maybe..."

2023-06-07 "Main page shows number of notifications followed by 'all posts' in random sorting order. I kept thinking that these are..."

Bubble-Issues

[#98] Attachment URL included in caption text on edit

2023-08-13 "Yes. It's no biggie once you realize it, but I wound up with 4 copies prepended before I noticed!"

chirale

"Hello."

2024-05-09 "Voglio parlare italiano... After I learn lo spagnolo!"

2024-05-09 "Italiano?"

Christianity

Fasting?

2024-03-14 "More so for the boyfriend... I can't imagine drinking every day, but I know a ton of people who start with a lunch..."

2024-03-14 "A friend of mine and her boyfriend had given up alcohol for Lent, except for the weekends, when they get shitfaced. I..."

Cosmos

"Small Cosmos fix: paths in entry URLs are now cleaned up so that there are no relative references (`.` or `..`). This..."

2023-08-30 "A quick thought: instead of worrying about duplicate paths, check for _duplicate content_ by hashing it. Since you..."

cquenelle

"I was thinking about ways to sign a gemtext message with a key and I remember a post a while back talking about posting..."

2023-10-07 "My gem-fu is not good either, but what would that prove? By looking at a gemini site you have a TOFU guarantee that..."

dani

"I wonder how many people cook and eat on the kitchen, vs how many people cook on the kitchen and then eat on the living..."

2024-01-09 "In my experience, if you have a party, most of the guests wind up in the kitchen, or near the kitchen when it fills up...."

daruma

hello from daruma

2024-06-08 "[preformatted] [preformatted] That's better!"

decant

Image over wire, rich content for gemini, see the picture!

2024-06-01 "Math is a good use for that, as well as various illustrations. I am against abusing images to express 'rich text', the..."

2024-05-31 "I have to ask why? Why take a format specifically designed not to do something, and come up with a very convoluted way..."

"I had this dream the other night where, in the next world war, trillions of microplastic beads infused with dioxin are..."

2024-05-09 "Note to self: when naming places, avoid the name "Palestine""

2024-05-09 "Yeah, you and Elon."

2024-05-09 "I think that kind of happened, but with things that kill you slower than dioxin... And countless factories and..."

"I assembled a wrist watch. I try not to touch my cell phone as much as I could, the none stop bombardment of..."

2024-05-01 "I was obsessed with mechanical clocks in 2nd grade, and received (and promptly dismantled) many broken clocks... Are..."

Degoogled_Phones

KaiOS

2023-12-27 "You should probably never trust any android or apple device. Superficial degoogling is not likely to free the device..."

dimkr

"I apologize for the mess in Antenna. I submitted a post by Mastodon's founder (about the big Threads debate) and it..."

2023-12-16 "I always thought Antenna should hash the text and deduplicate. It is trivial to do that. FNV1a is a line of code, 5..."

discoveries

Animations in gemini

2023-07-11 "This is a horrible thing to do, both to the server and the client! And yet I have to admit it is kind of fun."

Small Things Manifesto

2023-06-01 "I use suckless.org wares more and more. Small is beautiful."

discuss

Eindeutigkeit

2023-12-22 "I feel like an idiot, but I still have no idea what I am supposed to do! Reminds me of those IQ test puzzles - the..."

2023-12-21 "I still have no idea what the rules are. Could we have a comprehensive example game?"

Re: refuge for harmful ideas

2023-12-21 "Groan."

2023-08-29 "The problem is that IRL you talk to a limited number of people at a time, and saying things takes very little time..."

2023-08-28 "@aRubes, I think I understand. However there is an argument to be made that if you suffer from PTSD and are easily..."

2023-08-28 "BBS has a great feature: 'mute thread'. It's a good way to keep yourself out of a discussion that triggers you. Muting..."

2023-08-27 "Again, declaring that only fascists infringe on others' freedoms is dangerous. Not to defend fascists, but left..."

2023-08-27 "Well, I think fascism has been mentioned a number of times. Having been called a fascist whenever I dissent from the..."

2023-08-27 "While it's easy to see awfulness of the far right, some of the most insidiously racist, segregationist and oppressive..."

"[gemini link] - Learning to play Just some thoughts about living a playful life"

2023-06-17 "-Thank you - I think you nailed it. Our society is so focused on makeing everyone an efficient cog in the machine..."

doriancodes

"[gemini link] hd.206262.xyz profile Created new profile"

2024-05-01 "...and?"

drh3xx

2024-05-28 "As someone with all the skills needed, and having spent most of my life trying to do different incarnations of..."

education

"Ideas on how to teach children, e.g. 10 or 14 year olds, about computers, hardware and software. A project instead of..."

2024-06-10 "First, make sure they are interested in that. Maybe they just want to play Minecraft because school is overloading..."

Electronics

Toy laptop but better.

2024-04-20 "May I suggest Kapla blocks instead (as a parent of 4)? Or make a Lego computer together. Four-year olds can emulate a..."

2024-04-20 "Last year I bought a ThinkPad for US50.00, and it is by far my favorite machine, for serious development and travel. I..."

"Dot matrix printers: Does anyone else use a dot matrix printer under Linux (maybe Debian). Would like to buy a used one..."

2024-03-18 "@norayr: You sure can! You may have to flush the stream. I made an Emacs script to dump selected text right out!"

2024-03-18 "If you care about text only, any printer with a parallel port should work fine."

2024-03-12 "I loved dot matrix printers: I could print a few lines of code I was working on, or some list of whatever, tear off 1/4..."

2024-03-12 "you may need to buy a USB-parallel port. I think that's what I did."

2024-03-11 "Hey. I have an oki microline, but the last time i used it ubuntu was in single digits... I had it working and it was..."

HF Antenna in the Attic

2024-02-05 "Hi @raek! Is directionality of the antenna an issue?"

es

Computadoras Mexicanas

2024-06-11 "Los máquinas LISP son especialmente interesantes."

Mala Pronunciación

2024-05-12 "Tienes razón, en el modo conversación tienes que elegir un botón para inglés o español... Yo nunca uso el modo..."

2024-05-12 "He estado experementado. Google sabe que estoy en EE UU y definitivamente prefiere el inglés. Es mejor cuando uso un..."

2024-05-12 "Eso es mucho más esperanzador! Creo qué estaba en modo conversación. Pero una vez que divina un idioma, se queda..."

"Buenas! Me incorporo a este espacio, es una chulada"

2023-12-29 "Mi español es espantoso..."

2023-12-28 "Bienvenido!"

farkle

"@gritty If you are considering further UI improvements, maybe separate the Roll and Stand actions a bit more...."

2024-05-29 "I've complained about this before... My suggestion is to put the hold link above the dice and roll below. Makes these..."

Farkle is too hard

2024-05-17 "Firstly, farkle is farkle, and its rules are what they are. Having said that, I agree that there is little to do if..."

Some UI improvement ideas

2024-05-13 "Much better now that the dice are not constantly moving around!"

2024-05-13 "Dittos. Cumbersome, and you would have to read and click an awful lot..."

Another corner condition bug

2024-05-12 "Well, if you implement my idea of accepting values, you can take multiple inputs in any order! If you keep renumbering..."

Some UI improvement ideas

2024-05-12 "@skyjake exactly, if I want to keep a one and a triple-5, I would enter '1555'. Instead of figuring out the position."

2024-05-12 "@satch: you can hold as many times as you want if you enter the numbers directly into the URL, like ../app?34."

Tried it, love it

2024-05-11 "I completely misunderstood the rules -- I thought you are trying to build one of the combinations with the dice you..."

2024-05-10 "So only 1s and 5s are scoring? Or can I pick 3 of anything? How the heck can one get a straight in more than one roll?"

2024-05-10 "I am not totally clear on strategy, or th filling part...."

farming

Sprouted radishes

2023-06-15 "I've been sprouting all kinds of seeds and just eating the sprouts! It's amazing how a couple of tablespoons of seeds..."

fidy

Posting for the first time...

2024-06-03 "Maybe tell us about the issues you're having that require fiddling with backups and recovery? I hardly ever bother..."

2024-06-02 "Welcome!"

FORTH

Metaprogramming and nForth

2023-09-22 "Sorry, I don't mean to be a pedantic ass. This is sort of a set of implementation notes, thinking outloud."

Loading files in nForth: implementation

2023-09-15 "@karel, that is fine if it works for you, and I could've had the assembler append other forth files (it alread appends '..."

"Forth keeps intriguing me. I've written the snake game in forth. The principle of continuously building on more simple..."

2023-09-12 "@AnoikisNomads: that is true. I truly enjoy writing forths to test different implementation ideas, and then I get..."

2023-09-12 "forth itself is an ecosystem of command line programs. You define new commands as needed"

Modern Forth utilities

2023-08-27 "And, Lichen seems to use gemtext as its file format!"

"I just came across Charles Childer's new experiments with RetroForth. I lost track of RetroForth years ago, and it's..."

2023-08-12 "So, after the initial glee, I am kind of disappointed... The VM is dogsh*t slow. A dead loop of 1 million takes almost..."

How do you run the Forth you write?

2023-08-12 "I've written many forths and forth-like language systems, but rarely go past the act of creating a working system. Then..."

Francophones

"Bonjour @Nono et toute la compagnie !"

2024-03-23 "@Nono: merci, mais non, c'est minime."

2024-03-18 "J'ai eu de mauvaises notes en francais, mais bienvenue!"

FreeBSD

Help: How to switch between wifi and wired networks.

2023-10-13 "@jeang3nie, I will have a look, although my primary goal is to be able to easily switch between wired, several in-home..."

2023-10-13 "To answer my own question: yet again, vermaden has a solution, a shell script that solves all problems. [https link] At..."

Automount problems (ext4 unmounting fails)

2023-10-10 "For some reason it has not been failing anymore! I've been very careful to unmount, and every time I check with fsck..."

Polluted my new FreeBSD install!

2023-10-06 "@jeang3nie, I didn't realize there was a package of Lagrange... For some reason it stuck in my head that there was a..."

"Switched to FreeBSD! With a little elbow grease, got it working on my ThinkPad T470, with dwm, and vgmi gemini client (..."

2023-10-06 "OK, amfora seems reasonable. Thanks for your suggestions."

The Lagrange port in FreeBSD is two years old

2023-10-05 "@jeang3nie, has your contribution been committed in ports?"

"I was hoping that someone would start a FreeBSD subspace here. I just installed 13.2 onto real hardware for the first..."

2023-06-15 "I know next to nothing about wayland, but having written an (incomplete) set of XCB bindings in Common Lisp, I didn't..."

2023-06-15 "@jeang3nie: Oh, I did not realize that Sway is a tiler... I actually like the compiled dwm although in practice mods..."

2023-06-15 "@jeang3nie: tmux is pretty configurable as keystrokes go... You seem to be a good candidate for dwm (or at least I3)...."

2023-06-15 "Gnome is complete shit - I've been using Xubuntu forever, but recently I got rid of XFCE for dwm, and now I am kind of..."

2023-06-15 "I would do it except I know nothing about it! I always look at FreeBSD posts with envy, as I find Linux more and more..."

Gemini

"tilde.team user ~sumpygump hosts a service called "Exploration Surprise". Each day the page features three capsules..."

2024-06-06 "The perils of centlalization"

Heads-up with GMID 2.0

2024-06-05 "No offense intended. There is certainly a place for a server that cannot run code outside its process boundary. Most..."

2024-06-05 "Guess I won't be using it."

engineering for slow internet

2024-06-04 "@xavi Yes, of course! Congrats on making a useful tool and thank you for making it available (and not using some insane..."

2024-06-04 "Xcl is the convention for naming Common Lisp implementations -- sbcl, ccl, cmucl... Looks cool, although I prefer to..."

2024-06-04 "Oddly, businesses considered 'marginal' in current capitalist regime are the only remaining free market businesses...."

2024-06-03 "@decant, re "has science gone too far?" Science has nothing to do with this. Greed, politics, and stupidity."

Why do people not like gemini anymore?

2024-06-02 "I am always confused by the 'complexity' of using Gemini. Is it really that hard to install Lagrange? Is it harder to..."

2024-06-02 "What? Someone doesn't like Gemini? No soy nuevo en Gemini, pero soy nuevo en español."

🚀 Going full Gemini

2024-05-26 "@norayr: With GPL if you are running a business, you are taking on a liability and will have to constantly explain to..."

2024-05-25 "Well, education is good, but the network effect is a real thing, and then there is the convenience. If I leave BBS, I..."

2024-05-23 "Apologies for suggesting sensorship here, I am now certain it was my error."

2024-05-23 "I don't see it there... Maybe I somehow failed to send it..."

2024-05-22 "Hm... I think my comment was censored, as I don't see it. I surely hope not, as it would absolutely point out the..."

2024-05-22 "@lufte That is true. Social interaction tends to be centralized here and elsewhere, including meat space... The dreaded..."

2024-05-22 "@Lufte, do you think Gemini is more centralized than any if the federated communities?"

2024-05-22 "Shit. it's even worse than I thought!"

2024-05-22 "Just out of idle curiosity: what is it that annoyed you about those places"

2024-05-22 "I'm on my third year and have no regrets. Actually, fourth year."

privacy for hosting gemini site?

2024-04-21 "It depends on how you define privacy. If you are running a server of any kind on the internet you have exposures of all..."

A Question About the Use of Irregular UTF-8 Expressions as the Solution to Emphasis in Gemtext

2024-04-19 "Yeah, using available weird characters in a font is often "invented". If you want your text not searchable or otherwise..."

Anchors

2024-04-18 "but...windows... My condolences."

2024-04-17 "A sane client should currently ingnore the anchor part of the URI... Lagrange seems to. If anyone implements it in..."

2024-04-17 "There are many things that could make Gemini much better at minimum or no cost, but it is what it is. My pet peeve is..."

"Can the metadata in a Gemini response be completely arbitrary? Like can I include custom parameters other than the lang..."

2024-03-29 "I recommend reading a recent post [gemini link] and all the other texts therer."

"CGI: I am interested in CGI tutorials for Gemini applications. I have basic knowledge but need some best practice..."

2024-03-28 "The main differences between Gemini and http cgis are: you output a gemini response; html is not used for output;..."

2024-03-27 "If you hit that script with a client certificate attached, you will see the certificate info as well! That is how you..."

2024-03-27 "Sorry, the correct URL for the env.sh script is: [gemini link]"

2024-03-27 "First, get an account with CGI privileges. There is not much to CGI: your script is invoked with a few environment..."

"hello everybody i got a question to ask. what are some cool places to look at on the gemini protocol? i like gemini..."

2024-02-14 "An aggregator is a goo start. [gemini link]"

"How does everyone sync client certificates across devices? Any cool custom solutions? I'm considering using Dropbox..."

2023-10-12 "The only place I care about authenticating into is here, BBS, and you can tie different certificates to your account."

2023-08-31 "I think you have some good points, but consider editing down your post! I gave up halfway (have to run) and will try..."

"Lately I have been working on a few semantic web projects, and while exploring gemini, I started thinking if there is a..."

2023-08-19 "The web without SW is kind of like a database without a schema, with this vague understanding that 'the user will..."

2023-08-19 "@459, it seems to be still eluding you. One man's mental masturbation is another man's mental wacking off."

2023-08-18 "@a459, sorry to be a pedantic ass, but I think you meant 'eluded'. As for SW, ignoring the standards and such, to me it'..."

2023-08-18 "I've wasted a bit of my life exploring semantic web ideas. I've tried to build 'the brain'-like organizers and..."

Creating your own Capsule

2023-08-09 "Which Digital Ocean service is $6.00? I looked through their price list and could not find it! Oh, I see the 1GB..."

✍ Gemtext enhancements...

2023-06-26 "As a wise man said, smile and everyone will smile with you; fart -- and you'll be smiling alone."

2023-06-26 "@freezr I like your ideas, although chances are no one will bother at this stage. There are so many ways to make a..."

2023-06-25 "Fart on, brother!"

2023-06-23 "Can't wait to see what you could possibly mean by that."

[ POLL ] Astronaut vs Capsuler vs Captain vs Pilot

2023-06-15 "I want to be called Guvnah"

2023-06-11 "tilde.cafe has been great; ctrl-c.club is also."

How does one verify someone's identity is what they claim to be?

2023-06-10 "Client certificates and TOFU are pretty much pointless as far as security or authentication goes (although makes it a..."

Geminispace

"Ive been out of the loop for a couple of months. Anyone know what happened to StationBBS?"

2024-06-04 "It looks exactly like BBS! Right down to the ugly thumbs-up emojis. Confused me for a minute there."

The Revolution Will Not Be In Proportional Width Font

2024-06-04 "@norayr: I've dealt with this issue on a few occasions. The solution is trivial to implement: maintain the target X..."

2024-06-03 "@dimkr Yes for highly specialized tasks, a more complicated solution is worth it. But for the last week I've been..."

2024-06-02 "@MrSVCD: I could only think of 3... what are the 5?"

2024-06-01 "Unicode and UTF8 are pretty good bolt-on global solutions. However you never need to use 4 billion distinct glyphs. And..."

2024-06-01 "@norayr: yes, the oberon interface is pretty amazing. I found out the hard way that I hate Oberon the language,..."

2024-05-31 "Some random thoughts Going past ASCII does make everything an order of magnitude more complicated. Sorting order. Is a..."

2024-05-30 "I think all terminals handle Unicode."

2024-05-30 "I remember when the Mac came out. It was so tempting, but simultaneously, as a coder, I felt tight handcuffs regarding..."

"Things appear to be very slow here in terms of new posts... is anyone keeping track of overall Gemini activity?"

2024-05-23 "@skyjake, understood re graphs. Do you make the data available? Anyway, thank you for the nice graph."

2024-05-22 "@skyjake: Thanks, that is very interesting. Do you post this data regularly somewhere?"

New forum

2024-05-11 "It seem like you are approaching it bass ackwards. Registration is not a goal, but perhaps a necessary formality, but..."

2024-05-11 "On a more constructive note, you haee an opportunity to do it right. Analysis: you have an identity (your internal..."

2024-05-11 "I got to the page requesting Titan stuff. I'm no novice, but I've never had to do that before, have no clue how, and..."

2024-05-10 "Can't register! I clicked on "click here to register", and waited and the page is not loading. Why register anyway --..."

Image size

2024-03-24 "Oh, keep in mind that there is no way to determine file size in Gemini other than downloading the entire file. I would..."

2024-03-24 "Can't speak for everyone, but many of us are minimalists and still care about kilobytes... BBS here has a 100KB limit..."

"It's sad that Gemini is so small, but i think a slow growth is better than the boom that happened when DistroTube a nd..."

2023-12-10 "The current obsession with growth is misguided, a consequence of debt-driven expansionist economics. There is nothing..."

Google's Gemini AI

2023-12-08 "Great. Now in addition to the douche brothers' exchange* we get a douchebag ai. On the positive side, we will no longer..."

"Would Gemini survive an attack by the mainstream commercial users out there? I keep wondering...i mean its wonderful..."

2023-09-17 "As clseibold pointed out, there are two separate issues: commerialization and masses-of-asses. The first one requires..."

2023-09-11 "Ok this time it worked. I could've sworn I tried adding a certificate the last time too. Perhaps, if there is no..."

2023-09-11 "Clicked on link provided. Clicked on sandbox, shows link back to main list and two questions. No option to ask a..."

2023-09-11 "How do you ask a question? I feel stupid but I could not figure it out."

"[gemini link] makeworld: Bye, Gemini Thank you makeworld for your contributions to Geminispace! One benefit of having..."

2023-08-06 "Sad to see you go! For me it was the opposite - gemini made the internet bearable and I rarely go past hackernews on..."

Mirrored Content on Gemini

2023-07-18 "@gyaradong, some of us never go on the bigweb..."

On Geminispace society

2023-07-11 "No one should use profanity directed at other participants of a conversation, or attempt to silence them due to a..."

The Nightfall Express (nex://)

2023-07-07 "Cool... Will anyone use it though? Is it any different than serving Spartan text files, for instance?"

gritty

What a BBS Is (by winter)

2024-02-14 "Gees, I should have read it to the end... But in my experience as a barely-teen in the 80s in NYC, the only pedos I met..."

2024-02-14 "Yeah. I remember the magical feeling, after dialing and getting a busy signal a few times, the modem would make that..."

"[gopher link] Metabolism in architecture I find @solderpunk 's style of writing engrossing, even if I'm not super..."

2024-01-10 "That sent me down the rabbithole... Check out some photos: [https link] The units are tiny and have everything one..."

"New Smolzine [gemini link]"

2023-10-11 "or just type `=>[gemini link]`, on its own line, of course."

2023-10-11 "[gemini link]"

Dictionary

2023-09-04 "@gritty, a quick suggestion. Make the 'another search' link take you right to the input field. That will save you a..."

2023-09-04 "A word of warning: I spent close to a year editing the spellbinding dictionary, and that's without definitions. That'..."

2023-09-04 "Hmm. It's missing a lot of today's words. What is the source dictionary?"

2023-09-04 "That is great! Perhaps I will add a link to look up a word from Spellbinding! It may not be an exact match, though...."

"Oh look, more hate from the web. The funny thing is that this negative press still brings new people. How many times..."

2023-08-09 "It's not worth worrying about it! It's not like any of us are going to leave because some guy, even some guy who wrote..."

Deep Space Network (DSN) Antenna

2023-07-26 "Wonder no more - the main site does it too. So resolving aliases is not something Antenna does... To do so would..."

2023-07-26 "There seems to be a bug! I just submitted today's entry, and it picked up older entries yet again, doubling up. I..."

2023-07-26 "So I have a gemlog that does not separate between tech and non-tech posts... I don't see how I can submit only non-tech..."

2023-07-25 "Thank you! I love Antenna, but I think that decentralizing is good, and Antenna was becoming too central to (at least)..."

ham-radio

I sent a photo of my cat 630 miles over the air

2024-05-16 "Wheels are still round, in spite of what AI may suggest."

2024-05-14 "Interesting. Too bad the link refers you to facebook, and telegram (which I am not sure about) Lora with 10km range on..."

Passed my General license exam yesterday

2024-05-07 "Congrats! I think about it sometimes but the very last thing I want to do is voluntarily submit personal information..."

heathendom

"Hey everyone, I have created a Substack where I will post about various heathenry-related topics! [https link]"

2024-02-13 "Sorry about my a-hole comment. Genuinly hoping it works out for you."

2024-02-12 "I've never used substack. Looks like some kind of information-collecting VC-funded West-coast tech-bro gatekeeping..."

"Wassail! I have created this space for those of us on Gemini who are also interested in Germanic paganism and related..."

2024-02-05 "@softwarepagan: if it's not too personal, what kind of heathenry are you practicing or interested in? What about it..."

hellfire103

"Just got off the phone with Apple Support. We've finally managed to fix a problem with my phone that's been annoying me..."

2024-06-06 "Apple ][ was my first love. Came with Woz's schematics. Than Jobs took over and screwed everyone. His ghost is still..."

2024-06-05 "And they did it without forcing you to buy a new device? That's newsworthy!"

"It's my birthday!"

2024-04-18 "ChatGPT says: Hellfire's birthday bash, Drinking with the monster thrash, Darkness in their glass."

"Just passed my driving test!!!"

2024-03-26 "It's OK to run over old people if they are running for President"

"Isn't it annoying when you lose something, so you search the entire house for it and instead find every lost object and..."

2024-01-29 "I just found my 7-foot roll-up projection screen in a pile of wood planks in the basement. Previously promised to give..."

"So I'm at my gran's right now and the main fuse has blown. While we wait for Northern Powergrid to arrive, my dad's..."

2023-12-28 "Hardly unusual in older homes and apartments in the US. Not really an electrocution risk by itself, if the insulation..."

homelab

"Does anyone know how to get old stuff trashed by enterprises? Is it a good way to get cheaper stuff?"

2023-06-19 "I've been buying used HP desktops for years on Amazon. The last couple I7 machines with decent RAM and drives I got..."

ibannieto

"Dejé de fumar el 2 de Enero. Entonces empecé a caminar 10k pasos. Luego empecé a ir a nadar comenzando con 1000m. No..."

2024-03-18 "Use zapatos cómodos"

Interactive-Fiction

"Does anyone out there like playing old text based adventure games? I grew up playing Zork with my parents and I've..."

2024-05-08 "Years ago, when my daughter expressed intetest un zork, I set her up to play on my Apple 2. She only lasted a couple..."

2024-02-17 "loved photopia. see post below"

Help me with my next "real" interactive fiction

2023-12-24 "It's hard to get rolling. Have you tried free-association type of excercises? Anything goes, just write it down..."

Inform manuals and compiler

2023-08-27 "To install on Ubuntu, get the deb file and 'dpkg -i ...'. However, you will get an error that libgoocanvas-2.0-9 is..."

jsreed5

"It appears my capsule [gemini link] went down at some point yesterday evening, and I only discovered it this morning...."

2024-05-12 "The joys of self-hosting."

"How did you choose your username?"

2024-02-16 "Early on I embraced and constructed Forth-like stack-based systems, and it became the way of life for me, long before..."

klemperer

Terrestrial version of Pino?

2023-12-28 "I spent some time in a big RV early this century. Campgrounds are not cheap, unless you are boondocking in which case..."

L1

One

2024-03-16 "Welcome to this little pond. May your journey be enjoyable."

Lagrange

"I've had an issue with Lagrange, whenever I open the app, it automatically closes. The workaround is to put in airplane..."

2024-06-09 "I haven't had that problem after switching to a newer Android phone..."

Android Beta 28

2024-06-07 "Much appreciated. I use the phone >90% lately for Gemini, when I am not coding."

Emoji support in Lagrange

2024-05-30 "To be fair, emojis work pretty well in menus and flair here, but yeah, I really don't like them mixed into text. Maybe..."

2024-05-29 "@skyjake, re "I wouldn't go so far as to say they violate the spirit of Gemini"...If bold text was rejected as..."

2024-05-29 "To each her or his own, but I think emojis are in bad taste. I also feel that they violate the spirit of Gemini, add..."

Random stupidity

2024-05-06 "Things have gotten WAY too complicated."

"I found a case where the current rendering style does make the page not easily readable. It has to do with preformated..."

2024-05-03 "What I miss dearly is the ability to split the window. Even opening two windows side by side is not possible! To look..."

"Updated mobile builds are available: Android Beta 27 and TestFlight 1.17 (9) These fix a couple of issues with text..."

2024-04-20 "I do appreciate the word selection, when it works as expected, it's great"

2024-04-20 "Yes, keeping the pivot word selected is counterintuitive..."

2024-04-20 "It seems that selection is word based, however the logic between words is iffy. When the start marker is at the..."

2024-04-20 "thank you -- selecting text was a weird whack-a-mole game you could not win! I hope this fixes it. And it does!"

New emojis in Noto Emoji fontpack?

2024-01-27 "Sorry if I am OT"

2024-01-27 "I should clarify that only the first glyph renders as a Unicode glyph, and it has nothing to do with Lagrange -- I am..."

2024-01-26 "Only the first of the three glyphs mentioned (bullseyes) renders on my XFCE terminal, with any of the fonts I have in a..."

"Making progress updating the mobile ports to v1.17. A lot of the work is related to supporting submenus, since they..."

2023-10-14 "Is that a new feature? How to enable?"

[SOLVED] Where does Lagrange on linux find the PDF viewer?

2023-10-10 "Youve stumbled into a pit of hell. Google xdg-mime to get started."

"[gemini link] Lagrange v1.17 This release adds a host of small features, some of which I've been planning on doing for..."

2023-10-09 "Any thoughts on when it will percolate to FreeBSD? Latest there is 1.16.5 as of Oct.9,2023"

[FEATURE REQUEST] Search function directly into the URL bar

2023-10-04 "You could always put quotes around queries that look like URLs..."

"[gemini link] gemini.lehmann.cx/media.gmi Support for webp animated images possible? I have tried various image formats..."

2023-08-05 "Some of us object to the visual noise, although it could be an option I suppose."

"Remote Bookmarks I was trying to export my current bookmarks and put them onto a server to use as remote bookmarks...."

2023-07-17 "@skyjake: hierarchy is kind of important; otherwise you can't do round-turns to the remote bookmark store without..."

2023-07-16 "It would be great if Lagrange would: Import bookmarks with hierarchy; Allow attaching a certificate to remote bookmark..."

2023-07-15 "I was hoping my bookmark hierarchy would be preserved but when I updated my remote bookmark file, the bookmarks came in..."

2023-07-15 "Thank you! LIST ALL was exactly the menu I could not find!"

Lagrange-Issues

[#81] Canceling input reverts to wrong page

2024-05-26 "What I am trying to figure out now, is why this does not happen in Farkle? Hitting 'cancel' just leaves the page it..."

2024-05-25 "DicePoker has serious problems, and I refer to it only as a toy to demonstrate the Lagrange issue. I appreciate you..."

2024-05-24 "Why it is a bug You render a page with an input link. Clicking on such a link does not change what is displayed, and..."

2024-05-24 "Linux Version 1.17.6 is behaving identically!"

Language_Acquisition

"Yiddish and Shelta (the Cant) — anyone know where it would be possible to start with these languages? I speak a bit of..."

2024-05-10 "@requiem: Oh, it's complete shit in the free version, because you get distracting commercials in-between excercises,..."

2024-05-10 "@requiem: I am on Day 85 of Spanish on DuoLingo. At first I was not impressed, but learned to appreciate it as I..."

2024-05-10 "When I was little, my grandmother spoke yiddish to her friends, especially when she didn't want me to understand. She..."

Ulster Irish

2024-05-10 "Is that different from plain old Irish?"

"Yiddish and Shelta (the Cant) — anyone know where it would be possible to start with these languages? I speak a bit of..."

2024-05-10 "Duolingo features Yiddish as one of its many languages."

Trying Rocket Languages, FluentU and LingoPie

2024-05-09 "Maybe I'm not there yet... I've been watching a lot of Spanish shows on Netflix with subtitles, and seem to gain..."

2024-05-09 "A major problem with Rocket Spanish is that the woman leading the lessons is not a native speaker (the guy is, but he..."

Despues 60 dias de estudio...

2024-04-19 "@ibannieto, gracias. Si, no soy experto, pero creo que los tiempos verbales son más sutiles y expresivos que ingles!"

2024-04-17 "Me gustaría vivir en la Ciudad de México..."

2024-04-17 "@leoperbo, vives en un país de habla español?"

2024-04-17 "@leoperbo, eres muy generoso! Muchas gracias. Mi lengua original es ruso, hace mucho tiempo. Pero soy un hacker y..."

2024-04-17 "@lufte Si, normalmente usé mi teléfono por escribir en español. Esta vez, mi computadora con un teclado real. Soy..."

"Does anyone else feel icky when it comes to language exchanges? I'm selfish and just wanted to find Koreans who wanted..."

2024-03-22 "Ah, yes. But if it's zero-sum, one account gains only when the other pays. That is, if you want to teach yourself a..."

2024-03-19 "@lykso: Really? I haven't thought it through, but it seems doable. The basic unit is time, say in 10-minute..."

Video Games in Target Language

2024-03-19 "Years ago I picked up a bit of Dutch because of the only copy of pirated Windows I could get my hands on, in Dutch. It..."

"Does anyone else feel icky when it comes to language exchanges? I'm selfish and just wanted to find Koreans who wanted..."

2024-03-19 "In the ideal world I can see dedicating some free time to help fellow humans... But I am surprised there is no barter..."

I am now a fan of Duolingo

2024-03-10 "@gritty, the game aspect is definitely a driver, but it keeps me going. They are very clever with points allocation,..."

2024-03-10 "I think you are right. I tried it but it did not do speaking exercises, and nagged about ad blocker, and ran their own..."

My Cat Is Learning Crowish

2024-02-21 "Yes, she is an odd duck. She is also terrified of being outside. I took her out to the backyard once and she crawled..."

2024-02-20 "@satch: cats are wonderful, but don't forget when you get your cat after college, you'll have your cat friend for..."

Duolingo app is bad

2024-02-19 "@CitySlicker: duolingo is a lot better than it was a few years back, but I would not call it great. There are a lot of..."

leoperbo

Showing my script "gemlogssh" in action with an old-school video

2024-05-11 "For extra credit, maybe someone can figure out how to alpha-composite the edges of the screen image, or at least a non-..."

"[EN] My Gemini capsule is currently unavailable due to energy issues in my area. [ES] Mi cápsula de Gemini está..."

2024-05-10 "Chido! Gracias."

2024-05-10 "Detesto cuando se va la luz. Nunca estoy preparado."

Showing my script "gemlogssh" in action with an old-school video

2024-05-08 "Forgive me for quoting myself yet again: [gemini link] ...So-called "professionals" want you to think amateur implies "..."

2024-05-08 "Very nice. My first visit to Mastodon - maybe it's not so bad..."

No outline on any tui for Gemini

2024-05-04 "I havent tried lagrange in text mode, but I imagine its outline view should work... Which is your favorite tui client?"

Corazón en rebanadas

2024-05-03 "Paginas muy interesantes, especialemente "Crisis", pero demasiado avanzado para mi... Algo a esperar cuando mejore mi..."

Superbowl 2024

2024-02-12 "Growing up in NYC, Super Bowl weekend was a great time to go to (non-sports) bars to meet frustrated women!"

How do you install your Internet browsers?

2024-01-21 "A bit weird, but first thing I do on a new machine is grab a LibreWolf binary and drop it somewhere in my own .bin dir..."

@highlight

2023-12-28 "Yeah, I try to gently guide my family away from these rat-traps, but they just think I am a paranoid weirdo. "I have..."

2023-12-28 "Who uses Facebook?"

Levior

"is it feasible to get rid of rust dependency? it makes building levior hard on my pinebook/gentoo, and there is no..."

2024-05-27 "Why can't people just write god-damned C code? Only half joking :)"

"levior (web-to-gemini proxy) can now aggregate multiple web feeds (Atom or RSS) into a single gemini tinylog. Example:..."

2024-02-22 "Levior... Sounds like a Viagra alternative! Side effects include skin rash, diarrhea and death... :)"

lgbt

Transitioning on the job

2023-07-26 "I really hope it works out for you. It's easier to start a new life at a new job, that way people don't have to adjust..."

Linux

Recommended email client

2024-05-29 "mutt. And toss HTML crap into the garbage -- it is always crap."

Void Linux! So far so good!

2024-05-22 "@Drakx: not just void. Anything that uses snap, or AppImage for instance. Try doing a 'mount' and count the lines...."

2024-05-21 "@Drakx: I don't think the unix philosophy ever included mounting applications as filesystems..."

quallcom snapdragon x elite mainlining

2024-05-15 "I've spent most of my life bitching about the Intel architecture, but now I actually kind of like coding in x86-64..."

2024-05-15 "Some impressive specs. Almost tempted to get off the Intel train..."

Alpine Linux it is...

2024-01-25 "Yeah, Alpine was clearly the wrong choice -- I was just hoping I could get away with something very small and my..."

Alpine: No tor-browser? No librewolf?

2024-01-24 "oops..."

2024-01-23 "jeang3nie: I sure did install the glibc version! Void has been problem-free. It's amusing to note that while most of..."

2024-01-23 "@jeang3nie: I didn't try that hard, just dropped the appimage, then tried to install libc6 compatibility package, then..."

Alpine Linux it is...

2024-01-22 "Hah, I am writing this from Void linux :)"

2024-01-22 "Crap. I can see this is going to be death by papercuts. I think I will try Void Linux next, with glibc"

2024-01-22 "@zetamacs: those were definitely up on my list; Alpine seemed like the best instant gratification distro - small,..."

Ubuntu Pro: WTF?

2024-01-21 "@gamma, when you say bloat do you mean just extra software taking up disk space (not a dealbreaker) or running..."

2024-01-20 "@gamma: thanks. I am also curious about Manjaro - although it's a rolling distro, the strength of the Arch community..."

2024-01-20 "@gamma, @ibaniento: paradoxically, I just tried FreeBSD for a couple of months. While I loved the minimalism, I gave..."

2024-01-20 "Things I don't appreciate: ps showing 100 processes when nothing but a single terminal running; mount showing pages of..."

2024-01-20 "@flipperzero: at this point I think I want something minimal and safe. All I do is code stuff in pure C, forth, lisp,..."

2024-01-19 "@lufte, I don't think so. I originally just used Ubuntu, then really hated gnome, so xubuntu seemed reasonable. I don't..."

2024-01-19 "shite. I should have paid more attention. I seem to be unable to keep up with things going to shit,"

Wanted: a step up from dwm...

2024-01-11 "No wayland..."

"Linux Foundation now spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux. The Linux Foundation has released their 2023 Annual..."

2023-12-28 "Most modern 'charitable organizations' are a tax avoidance scam."

Address Randomization Tribulations

2023-09-03 "I was completery right. Tried with gdb (yuck), after `set disable-randomization off`, to turn randomization on,..."

binary file reported as 'no such file or directory' upon execution

2023-09-02 "I won't be able till tomorrow."

2023-09-01 "[preformatted]"

2023-09-01 "Geez... You'd think a mature distro bigger than a gigabyte would report basic errors sensibly. Like "missing 32-bit..."

2023-09-01 "OK, that is possible. It's a 32-bit binary... I remember something about Linux dropping 32bit support, requires..."

2023-09-01 "Executable. Invoked every way, full path, etc. strace shows path!"

XDG, default apps, mess...

2023-08-29 "I do like ranger, thanks @gemalya - I forgot about it... But LOL: I had to dig a bit to find that it uses the shell's $..."

"I used to love distro-hopping, but for the last couple of years I've been so satisfied with Arch that I haven't been..."

2023-08-03 "I seem to be stuck with XUbuntu (ubuntu with XFCE instead of Gnome). Lately I go right into DWM. Occasionally I get..."

Lisp

Loving PicoLisp

2024-04-04 "My comment was a little tongue-in-cheek..."

this web page is written in lisp

2023-12-09 "i was kidding. no idea about quality"

2023-12-08 "A corollary to Greenspun's law: a web page with JS contains most of a buggy lisp interpreter"

What is your favorite Lisp dialect?

2023-08-14 "Having pumped Common Lisp, I have to say that I am fond of PicoLisp, and come back to it every few years to screw..."

2023-07-24 "Having spent over a decade as a Lisper, Common Lisp is _the way_! I wanted to like Scheme, as a minimalist. However..."

mechanical-keyboards

"Is lateral key stability a thing? I feel like some keyboards have less “wiggly” keycaps. Because my hand position roams..."

2023-10-13 "I realized I was doing what's now referred to as 'stimming' by rocking the keys sideways while thinking..."

"OK, I think I am a mech-kbd-nerd. But my partner calls me 'a violent coder' - bottoming out a brown Das keyboard (I..."

2023-06-15 "@gritty: you can most likely bring your own keyboard! I used to bring my own chair to contract gigs, and on one..."

mediocregopher

Fumble Around Discussion

2024-05-01 "I love finding new places with such things. However does this offer anything over posting a link here in s/discoveries?..."

re: Are You a Terminal Emulator Hipster?

2023-09-15 "I became a suckless hipster this year and use st. Dead simple and fast and tiny, just the way I like it. Likewise,..."

miragearchitect

Do What The Fuck You Want Public License

2023-10-24 "Personally I appreciate the clear intent of this 'license', but I've been advised by IP lawyers that public domain does..."

misfin

Some (stupid?) questions about misfin

2024-06-10 "I am now stack@hashnix.club"

"misfin update: it's now possible from the frontend to block misfin accounts by address or certificate fingerprint...."

2024-05-12 "I've never used misfin, but wouldn't it make sense, upon receiving a message with an unknown certificate, to treat it..."

mobile-linux

Throwing in the towel on mobile Linux

2023-06-16 "Flip phone is in my future."

Movies

Do Geminiauts like musical movies?

2024-01-03 "No!"

mozz

"Testing ASCII Art [preformatted]"

2023-07-06 "What happened to the pinky finger? Looks like it got embedded into the cat! Poor kitty!"

mrrobinhood5

Play

2024-06-03 "I do wish I had played more with the kids when they were little. These days I have to make do playing with code..."

"I've been retired for 10 years and live on the 10th floor of an apartment building right next to a riverfront. My..."

2024-05-09 "Thank you. My mother-in-law is 96, and lives in a world which sometimes vaguely overlaps reality, and I find myself..."

murdock

"Another Saturday in a tiny coffee house. The art of steaming milk still eludes me, much respect to the baristas that..."

2023-08-06 "When making a latte, don't dump the milk/foam on top. Slam the jug a couple of times onto the counter to kill the big..."

2023-08-06 "OK, here are a few more ideas... If you are using a cheap home machine, remove the metal tube that slips over the wand...."

"K left me at the coffee trailer alone, it's now cool jazz time! unlocked recordings is an amazing resource for music...."

2023-08-05 "Funny note: while looking around the archive.com unlockedrecordings section, started playing "sound in the eighth..."

2023-08-05 "Do you mean unlockedrecordings.com website or the section at the Archive?"

"Another Saturday in a tiny coffee house. The art of steaming milk still eludes me, much respect to the baristas that..."

2023-08-05 "Also, before starting, blow the water out of the wand into a cup, or you'll be sorry!"

2023-08-05 "Oh, and keep in mind that if you are doing it right, the volume will slowly increase, so you will need to keep dropping..."

2023-08-05 "Hold the jug at an an angle, and dip the wand very close to the edge, slowly. If it's too deep, it will gurgle and..."

music

"Just exploring going back to cassette tapes as a useful medium. Never thought I'd be doing that having been at the tail..."

2024-05-17 "An observation: shipping a cassette tape to a friend within the US with any hope of reasonable delivery costs about the..."

"[gemini link] konpeito.media Is it too early to be nostalgic about KONPEITO? When I first got acquainted with Gemini..."

2023-06-15 "I absolutely loved Konpeito, and coded SpellBinding while listening to all of it! It is timeless, in Gemini-time. I..."

naf

Life in a Degrowthed Country

2023-08-27 "Thank you for your post. It is very interesting, coming from someone who is on the ground. Controlled, or better yet,..."

NetBSD

"What is the difference between NetBSD and other BSD flavors?"

2023-10-11 "Thank you for your input. I switched to FreeBSD and am pretty happy."

2023-10-01 "Is there a simple way to default all text to vim? This is turning into a nightmare. Setting text/plain to vim.desktop..."

2023-08-28 "@gemalaya: thanks, void has always been at the top of the list for me... Currently struggling to figure out why PCManFM..."

2023-08-28 "Thank you. I've been on a lifelong quest to simplify my environment, and Linux is getting pretty fat. While I use..."

nex

"I finally got around to spinning up a [nex link] server. It's a fun protocol! [nex link] [https link] (http proxy)..."

2023-12-16 "It sounds really good, actually. WYSIWYG all the way"

norayr

openid for gemini

2024-04-30 "@Morgan, am I missing something, or does your idea require that I must trust servers to create and not fake hashes?"

2024-04-26 "Given what Gemini is, if someone were to jack my identity and post as Stack, it would be mildly annoying. I don't see..."

2024-04-25 "But then again, is it _really_ that important?"

2024-04-25 "what is the purpose of this?"

"showerkraut"

2023-07-28 "Sean Connery ordering a hot dog?"

november

"Waiting patiently for all the Free Speech Warriors to decry Sourcehut's DDOS attack with the same vitriol they had..."

2024-01-12 "I haven't kept up with DOS since MS-DOS 3.3. Amazing that it's still a thing!"

"I slammed my fingers in a drawer earlier and couldn't type for an hour 😵 I can't believe I was CENSORED by reality!"

2024-01-05 "You must've been about to write something really controversial!"

NSFW

It may be better to have this space muted by default.

2024-01-29 "Also, this forum has been really tame so far!"

2024-01-29 "I find the whole 'taboo' around sex issue distasteful. Killing people in horrible ways is not a problem, but..."

olav

"So, this is my small corner here. I will probably not post anything significant. -- Olav"

2023-12-11 "Welcome to your corner!"

OpenBSD

living with arcticfox browser on OpenBSD

2023-12-13 "I am using librewolf, plenty fast on an aging I5. Stock pkg."

Pac-Man

"I remember hearing the 'waka-waka' sounds in my head for hours -- after days of cutting classes and hanging around..."

2023-11-09 "Indeed, before Times Square became a weird cross of Disneyworld and Wall Street"

pascal

chromatika

2024-05-12 "Can you tell us exactly what it is and does? I am a little confused. Does it take any imagen and 'Kodachrome' it?"

2024-05-12 "I once spent a year calibrating a Hell drum scanner..."

"I finally discovered Single Window mode for Lazarus and I like it quite a bit more."

2024-05-10 "I am actually horrified by the 'one-file-at-a-time' editors that won't even split the window. Arduino is perhaps..."

2024-05-10 "Yikes! All the joys of an ancient language that is not Lisp, an ancient IDE that is not Emacs or Vim, and all with the..."

is pascal a memory safe language?

2024-03-27 "It's the operating systems you have to look out for. They eat memory, and you have to keep buying more."

2024-03-25 "It always amuses me, in a dark way, that the US Govt. is constantly bitching about memory safe languages, while wasting..."

2024-03-25 "The article sounds a bit basic and not particularly convincing. By that logic, BASIC would actually be even safer (with..."

Photography

Aaah...

2024-05-04 "My first shot was lined up and it was terrible. Rotating the cup created a needed tension and maximized the texture...."

Before Coffee, 2024

2024-05-01 "no, a big mutt..."

Manhattan 2024

2024-04-30 "@decant, thanks! Unfortunately I am on rhe west coast as of this morning. Manhattan is a wonderland of odd shadows...."

2023-12-28 "I remember being puzzled by the 'token field'... I don't think I ever figured it out."

2023-12-28 "Make sure your image is less than 100KB!"

Mass coast

2023-08-22 "Rockport"

Sand (2017)

2023-08-13 "Motorola phone. Moto X 1st gen. EXIF shows F2.3, 1/5000"

Boring Slug

2023-08-12 "It's actually just a leaf!"

"What are good photo applications for use with dwm? That is, ones that don't open tons of windows all over the place, or..."

2023-08-07 "darktable seems to work fine; I managed to crop a bunch of photos. GIMP seems to be OK too, with fixed toolbox and..."

PixelArt

"I got inspired by a Deus Ex poster. I think the essence is still there even on a canvas of 64x64. /u/Bazmatazable/image/..."

2023-12-16 "It has the feel of the Soviet worker propanda posters."

Hardly a Sunset

2023-12-14 "That is cool! Looks a bit like a small nuclear explosion!"

pollux

"My Internet DSL connection is down and I have to use a surf-stick, with super-slow speed, until a service technican..."

2024-05-26 "@freezr, thank you for the notes"

2024-05-25 "what's a surf stick?"

privacy

"Is anyone using Gemini over Tor?"

2024-05-25 "@pollux -- no direspect intended, but you care about privacy and use WIndows? I'd assumed the two were mutually..."

Privacy rights of children

2024-04-06 "Probably true. You want to "teach" children and I want to learn from them."

2024-04-04 "I don't know why our society is obsessed with the idea that "teaching" is a requirement. Children are entirely capable..."

Encrypted Communication Illegal in Australia...

2024-02-03 "Looking at the language, it looks like they are concerned with things they cannot easily get access to, and devices..."

2024-02-02 "Not if they can have access to the data from Google... I think there are backdoors in everything, and what they are..."

The cookie policy is bullshit, counterproductive and harms privacy!

2024-01-30 "@norayr: Indeed, cookies are now a distraction. Fingerprinting provides foolproof tracking of browsers through..."

Encrypted Communication Illegal in Australia...

2024-01-29 "@nikhotmsk: yeah, there is always a way to break the law and not get caught, but that is not the point. A society is..."

The cookie policy is bullshit, counterproductive and harms privacy!

2024-01-29 "I just had to set up a completely unsecured chrome browser in order to pay my internet provider that had 42 web bugs..."

Encrypted Communication Illegal in Australia...

2024-01-29 "I don't have time to check right now, but I believe that the law makes it very much illegal to use encryption for the..."

2024-01-29 "I am sure it's cleverly phrased to avoid interfering with banking and such, and focus on illegal activity. The bank..."

Push notification spying

2024-01-21 "I think it is reasonable to assume that several primary parties are collecting your data at all times, and secondary..."

Privacy rights of children

2023-08-31 "Being a latchkey kid, I am often amused by the sea change that happened during my lifetime. For a while there were all..."

2023-08-18 "Didn't do it with my kids, and they are still around. When I was growing up you needed to find a pay phone and have..."

programming

Converting Unix timestamp to date/time

2023-09-11 "I am passing the buck to the user, of course. A variable will keep the timezone adjustment offset, and whoever cares..."

2023-09-11 "Interesting. It seems like my way is a lot easier. Since the only weird year between 1970 and 2037 is 2000, and it..."

2023-09-10 "@jeang3nie: thanks, but I can't open the link -- it takes me to a login screen."

writing own software

2023-08-28 "Android is kindo of like early windows, but worse. There is no command line, so if you want a tool that diffs files,..."

2023-08-27 "I've written a few simple 'apps' for Android. You can install from a file, after setting permissions. I used Java and..."

Programming Fonts

2023-08-15 "@michaelnordmeyer: thanks! Hack seems like a clear winner there!"

2023-08-14 "DejaVu Sans Mono... I tried a bunch of 'programmer's' fonts, but it became old to tweak fonts. I seem to set up a new..."

Queen_City_Nerd

"Tikkun Leil It's been a long time since I've missed the all nice learn-a-thon/dairy party in the hours before Shavous."

2024-06-11 "What's a dairy party? Do you get together with friends and milk goats?"

"Anyone else trying out making a gingerbug to make carbonated drinks at home? I'm used to making kvas here but not my..."

2024-05-25 "Yes, you need to seal the stuff in an almost full bottle or growler, in a safe area that can tolerate an explosion. I..."

2024-05-19 "Hah, learned something today!"

2024-05-19 "Keep us posted! BTW, if it's not a secret, is your Queen City Cincinnati or Charlotte?"

2024-05-19 "Please tell us the recipe! I've made lots of kombucha and water kefir years ago but had to give up (and move) because..."

Recipes

My Chili Recipe (Glutton Free)

2024-06-03 "A glutton-free chili. This I have to see!"

requiem

Vigilia.cc revamp

2024-06-06 "I like it and will definitely come back to read more. Great layout - extremely readable and I like the spare use of..."

ResetReboot

"I've been a bit lately getting into music, mostly live playing. I've been gathering some hardware synths, I have a..."

2024-05-22 "Now you just have to learn how to play these things, and you'll be rich and famous :)"

Low-tech solar panels (by Low Tech Magazine)

2023-08-16 "@jsreed5: oh, I forgot [https link] 1877-2009... I guess 2009 was a bad year for machinists."

2023-08-16 "@jsreed5: [https link] [https link] [https link]"

2023-08-15 "Every now and then I binge-read old magazines. 1930s-1960s there were a lot of DIY articles - people would actually..."

The ethics in technology

2023-07-27 "@mozz, with all due respect, corporations are specifically created to be anthropomorphized! And they can be, and..."

2023-07-25 "I would stop short of say, making missile guidance systems, as that would make me feel bad. Even if it meant being..."

2023-07-25 "Personally I am sick of faux activism used shamelessly for career advancement and social media promotion. The hubris of..."

2023-07-24 "I appreciate the sentiment, but in practice most people do what the management wants. The handful of independents..."

retrocomputing

When is retro computing?

2024-04-11 "@istvan, that sounds like a whole other level of incompetence. I could see it if it was compiled COBOL with no source,..."

2024-04-05 "Is the keyboard vintage tech? The mouse is pushing 60..."

2024-03-29 "I think the retro factor is how uncomfortable it is to perform everyday tasks. An extra bonus for impossible!"

"do you like square cursors or pipe like cursors? should the cursor blink?"

2024-01-03 "I am happy with a few blinks on motion, then, a steady block"

90's Kids Trackball

2023-09-03 "Clickbait. I thought it was something that would help me with my crotch irritation during these hot summer months, but..."

retrogaming

"I have just uploaded a new port of the Octo CHIP-8 emulator by John Earnest to small ESP32 devices with touchscreens...."

2024-02-15 "1802 was my first assembly-language machine... It was slow, but pretty amazing. 16 16-bit registers, and any of them..."

What are your favorite PS2 titles?

2023-07-05 "I modded my PS2 -- first with a chip that did not work, then by removing the door sensor and buying a swappable boot..."

"What is considered retro? I feel like this might be a personal definition in some cases. I've got a 3ds that's been..."

2023-06-29 "@kelbot @sugar and others: would you give some examples of modern games that do not involve tediously completing '..."

2023-06-29 "@sugar: you are probably right. I suppose I walked by my kids playing this or that, and it always seemed just so..."

2023-06-21 "I think Wolfenstein or maybe Doom marks _a_ line between retro and modern. All games are pretty much the same after..."

2023-06-21 "For me it's actual arcade games and games and systems of that period ending in maybe 1990. I suppose if you grow up..."

Ruby_Witch

Currently Reading

2023-08-13 "@Ruby_Witch, did you manage to snag a paper copy of 50 years of text games? It seems to be sold out, and it's the kind..."

2023-08-12 "Thank you! I assume you've watched 'Get Lamp', the documentary..."

Living Small

2023-08-01 "Cool. I'd made a choice to not 'extract value' from my life by having a job. A friend tried to explain to me the..."

Sci-Fi

"Has anyone read Neil Stephenson's book Anathem? It's gotta be one of my favorites."

2024-03-14 "Funny, that book ended my obsession with Stephenson. I got incredibly bored with the characters and could not finish..."

2023-06-15 "I had a hard time with Anathem - I think it was just too much for me. I think Stephenson hit bullseye with..."

shitposts

great now we just need to make 11-12 more protocols and we'll have a full set

2023-09-03 "I don't know much about astrology, but the snake one is iffy. I was born under the sign of the Uterus, personally."

2023-09-03 "sp: PISCES"

skyjake

BBS Turns One: A Retrospective

2024-05-14 "It is certainly the biggest and the most sophisticated piece of Gemini software I've seen, and it's amazingly robust!..."

2024-05-13 "Feels longer than a year for me..."

"Much like last year, this January and early February are turning out to be annoying, health-wise. The whole family is..."

2024-02-07 "School is a major reason viruses are still around!"

"I've been caffeine-free for a week now, having successfully (and rather painlessly) eased myself off of coffee. I..."

2023-09-23 "That is great. Just a reminder that decaf is still a lot of caffeine, usually 1/3 or so of regular coffee! And green..."

2023-09-11 "I've gotten off coffee on numerous occasions, most recently due to COVID in 2020 (I was sick for about a month). I've..."

"I'm trying to get more into a multi-window workflow with my personal use of Lagrange. Since the app was initially..."

2023-06-15 "Give it a try inside dwm! I have it working but it's a bit odd -- most likely due to my weird setup here (12-year-old..."

SmallWeb

post-web zine vol 1.1

2024-05-30 "Is it on IPFS? Kind of digital maximalism as I see it"

2024-05-29 "Actually, very put off by the URL. Why is this minimal retro-publication not served as a file? Why is there a..."

2024-05-29 "I love that 1977 computer-zine look! But a little scared of that URL."

Looking for an alternative, smolweb inspired, web browser... 🙏

2024-05-28 "@gemalaya You are unique. That is bad."

2024-05-28 "@gemalaya I don't think they require JS or at least they didn't! With JS off, BTW, you are probably unique within a..."

2024-05-28 "@gemalaya would you try amiunique.org? I am curious as to how unique your requests really are..."

2024-05-27 "@blah_blah_blah, the worst part of that is that the very important sites such as banks require me to turn off most of..."

2024-05-26 "The only thing I personally miss in gemtext is boldface and tables, and I am constantly wrangling with the fixed-font..."

2024-05-25 "There are many different things to worry about on the web. Obviously executing malicious code, having cookies..."

2024-05-25 "The web is a wasp nest, and going there with anything less than Torbrowser or at least Librewolf with PrivacyBadger,..."

Smokey

"Power station came in today, finally get a chance to test out the 200w panels. I need to get an extension cord for..."

2023-10-14 "Yeah, I didn't feel like spending a couple of hundred dollars on a battery for a $75 computer. If you decide to go..."

2023-10-14 "Getting inside thinkpads is really easy - it's just a few screws (and they stay in the case so you don't lose them). To..."

2023-10-14 "I got (with much trepidation, because a lot of cheap batteries are recycled garbage) a small, 3-cell battery from..."

2023-10-14 "My current main machine is a t470 I got for $75, with an i5 and 16GB and a new Samsung 980 Pro SSD and secondary..."

2023-10-13 "Do check that your wifi switches to low power on idle (or turn it off if not using) -- that can add a few watts. Same..."

"I finally bit the bullet and invested in some solar power for my off-grid home. The portable 200w panel just arrived...."

2023-10-12 "I am hardly an authority (about a week after switching to FreeBSD). But for what its worth - I've been a mostly..."

2023-10-11 "[https link] FreeBSD on Pi Zero"

smolgaming

gemini CYOA rpgs

2023-08-28 "I think you will like this: [gemini link] Please join me at the Interactive-Fiction subspace... [gemini link]"

softwarepagan

"I've recently been thinking about getting back on Tumblr. There just isn't a good FOSS/Fediverse alternative. The..."

2024-03-15 "Yeah, I miss the old net too. However, consider that you don't really need to be on the shitweb. There are other ways..."

SpaceRangers

Leaderboard available

2024-06-13 "How did I miss this? большое спасибо!"

Spartan

"[spartan link] Gritty's Spartan Server (it's rather Spartan right now) I fired up a Spartan server, because, whynot?"

2024-01-05 "yeah, i tried to mock up a session id via a randomky generated url, and it got complicatd fast... But there are few..."

2024-01-04 "I think Spartan is pretty much what Gemini should've been, as the 'security' features are pretty much pointless and I..."

SpellBinding

"LOVEGLOVE"

2024-06-07 "I remember when teledildonics was hyped almost as much as AI today! The world was going to be so very different!"

"POOPWIFE"

2024-05-22 "that goes nicely with: FISHWIFE which is just a derogatory term and OLDWIFE which is actually kind of fish!"

Count of solved words now displayed

2024-03-19 "Implemented."

2024-03-19 "I was planning to do that next! Just wanted to make sure the counter worked correctly first."

"Should we message the mod in game for missing words, post here, or just keep shtum? Related to today's game: RAGLAN"

2024-03-10 "I check both BBS and in-game messages. In-game messages may be better, as I look at the message log when I log into..."

"SKYNET"

2024-03-09 "it came up before..."

What strategies do you employ for remembering words/finding answers?

2024-03-02 "My personal strategy was to write a gemini version of this game, and edit several dictionaries together word by word,..."

BLOWLAMP

2024-02-29 "Although a blowtorch, in my mind, is a big rig with gas tanks, while a blowlamp implies a handheld device"

Word count

2024-02-25 "Will implement in late march, I'm on the road..."

BLOWLAMP

2024-02-25 "agreed"

"DAYSTAR"

2024-02-24 "Added, thanks"

"LOWBALL"

2024-02-24 "Added! thank you."

"DOODY obviously"

2024-02-22 "Heh, not in the dictionary. But I think I will make an exception!"

"HAVERA seems to appear in Portuguese and Hebrew, but in English I'm finding it only as a surname"

2024-02-19 "Weird... I think it was supposed to be HAVERAH, which is obscure enough to not be in my dictionary. Removed. I must'..."

"TITFLUFF"

2024-02-18 "TITLUFT for Germans"

"looks like LUSAKA is a place name vs. a common American English word"

2024-02-18 "Thank you! Lusaka removed."

Am I nuts, or does TIT appear too often?

2024-02-15 "And the too-obvious 'COCKTIP'"

2024-02-15 "Again! and we have 'TITCOCK', obviously a verb"

2024-02-14 "Again!"

"HAHA - a type of wall in landscaping"

2024-02-11 "Thank you for the suggestion, but 'haha' is not in Merriam-Webster dictionary, which is my main reference. I do make..."

"feedback: if player gets all possible answers, congratulations are in order (vs. "another...")"

2024-02-10 "But yes, I'll see what I can do."

2024-02-10 "True; I haven't done it as it's not that likely, and not _the_ goal in my mind (the dictionary is somewhat arbitrary) ...."

"Today we have nonword TITFIX for @Steve_Dracula's TITROT the other day. Also the obvious pangram ANTIFOX..."

2024-02-03 "TITFAX"

"TITROT"

2024-01-19 "Also, virtIO"

"JICAMA, MOJO"

2024-01-19 "Thank you! Added to dictionary; also MOJITO as long as I was there..."

"Another dismal puzzle! Maybe I should enforce a minimum word count, to make sure puzzles aren't ridiculously small......"

2024-01-13 "@skyjake: I will check next time I work on the puzzle..."

"EFFULGENCE and FECULENCE, love it. Always fun to discover cool new words. 🙂"

2024-01-12 "EFFULGENCE had me stumped for sure."

"non-words: CRYPT PYRRHIC"

2023-12-27 "PYRRHIC, btw, is not 'Pyrrhic', a capitalized word meaning something attained at a ridiculous cost. When lowercased,..."

2023-12-27 "@corscada: Thank you; dictionary updated (though today's game will not be altered). By the way, when you see 'non-words'..."

"@stack I did not take you for a censoring kind of person, but today I am missing the word PENIS :)"

2023-12-20 "Holy shit! You are right. I've been adding all kinds of awful words to the dictionary; it figures I'd miss the..."

"@stack, do you play your own games?"

2023-12-14 "It really wouldn't be any fun. For the first couple of months I manually generated games, and checked all the answers (..."

"Nonwords:BAGZILLA, or even BANGZILLA. Also, ANALIZE."

2023-12-14 "GAZINGA"

"@stack, do you play your own games?"

2023-12-14 "Since the game is fully autonomous I sometimes will play as woz over a cup of coffee, no cheating. I try to log into..."

"Too bad NETIZEN was missed. very appropriate for the space."

2023-11-02 "Thanks @gritty. Added NETIZEN, and NETIQUETTE."

"No ANALGAZING?"

2023-10-26 "I thought you wrote ANALGAZING..."

"add? midsize midsized dizzied"

2023-10-24 "@gritty: I always get them eventually when I log into tilde.cafe. Sometimes I am unable to react fast, but messages..."

2023-10-24 "Done. Thank you!"

"should Vesuvius be removed due to being a proper name?"

2023-10-22 "Absolutely. It's been removed."

"I'm surprised I got today's pangram"

2023-10-17 "Good job... It's a bit obscure I suppose."

"An easy one today, it seems. Let's see how many full scores we'll have. 🎯"

2023-10-09 "Although MW does not consider it a word, I think DICKING should be included. I was told more than once to quit dicking..."

"zebu. I knew the last word was something obscure."

2023-09-23 "It's always a deer of some sort."

"Added the following suggested words: HOKUM SCABIES (and SCABIETIC). Thank you. I don't know why today's puzzle seems..."

2023-09-15 "No, the puzzle remains static. Next day's puzzle will be selected from the updated dictionary. So any notes of..."

"Non-word of the day: BALLABLE"

2023-08-31 "Balling is kind of like 'shagging'"

"uber?"

2023-08-25 "I will generally not include words unless they are in Merriam-Webster's dictionary... With very few exceptions."

2023-08-25 "Nah, uber is a prefix..."

"missing (not really) holes: MOONHOLE, HAMHOLE, HOMOHOLE"

2023-08-25 "neonhole"

"non-word: COCKFAT (thanks to Z+sil); OCTOCOCK (complement to OCTOPUS?)"

2023-08-08 "Also, CATCOCK and BATCOCK. BACKTOCOCK?"

"DIYIFY (I know it is part abbreviation but that spelling has something, doesn't it?)"

2023-07-27 "What in the world does it stand for?"

"@stack What is the top ten sort order based on when multiple people have the same word count? Sorted by actual score?"

2023-06-26 "@skyjake - I meant to say that the script sorts players by number of words, then takes the head 10."

2023-06-25 "Currently top list is processed by a bash script which sorts the players by name then takes the top 10. I noticed it's..."

"Broad categories of words to eliminate... I am always struggling with the tradeoff of balancing the dictionary: too..."

2023-06-25 "I added PAWL the other day - thanks!"

2023-06-25 "&totroptof: thanks, I think I understand what you mean. Most of the time I add words that are missing; it is very rare..."

2023-06-25 "If you come across a word that should be included, please let me know (using the .whatever in-game message or email or..."

"I was thinking about how many unique games can be had in spellbinding. I've been out of comp sci theory for quite a..."

2023-06-20 "@mbays: you are totally right, I completely missed the local permutations..."

"Apologies if I'm being dense, but what does the MISSED bit (in the game display, above the score) mean?"

2023-06-19 "Occasionally you will see some words marked as 'Error': these are words that should not be in the game but slipped in...."

2023-06-19 "No apologies needed - missed words are words that should've been included in the game but were not. If you find a word..."

"I was thinking about how many unique games can be had in spellbinding. I've been out of comp sci theory for quite a..."

2023-06-17 "And if you don't care about real words, the number of possible unique permutations is 7 * 26 * 25 * 24 * 23 * 22 * 21 *..."

2023-06-17 "I also get rid of games with ridiculously high and low scores. I think currently limiting to between 60 and 140 or so...."

2023-06-17 "There are currently 12,217 pangrams in the dictionary. Each pangram is good for 7 possible games. So, 85,519, I..."

"Should baal be removed? Merriam Webster doesn't have it capitalized but has a note saying it is often capitalized. I..."

2023-06-17 "When lowercased it is a pretty generic term for any of the gods of the infidels..."

"I feel like the word log is a day behind on the actual words?"

2023-06-15 "@gritty: it should be 1 day only, although given the mess of bash scripts who knows what slipped through. I had to..."

2023-06-14 "@skyjake: thanks, there were two GLUGs in the dictionary..."

2023-06-14 "Wordlog entries with today's date contain solutions for _yesterday''s_ puzzle! Otherwise they would not come up as..."

"Another feature request: A tally of the words on the word log. I count them in order to see how close I, or we, got to..."

2023-06-11 "heh. Here is a joke appropriate for the occasion: [https link]"

"Broken link to submit a Spellbinding answer? The URL is: [gemini link] Removing one of the "cgi" from the end seems to..."

2023-06-10 "Yes, the first link is to .../cgi? This sends a blank to the cgi, which shuffles the board and displays the game...."

2023-06-09 "Could you clarify where you found this URL? It is clearly messed up, but I can't find any pages with a URL like that...."

"Another feature request: A tally of the words on the word log. I count them in order to see how close I, or we, got to..."

2023-06-09 "Done. Tomorrow's autopost should contain a word count."

"anyone else having issues? I can't seem to enter any words, but I see people on the leader board. I dropped the cert..."

2023-06-09 "Fixed. Let me know here if there are any further problems."

"Should TOLUOL be in the dictionary? noun, Chemistry. 1) toluene. 2) the commercial form of toluene. Isn't a "..."

2023-06-09 "Yah, a bit too technical and yes, one is likely to hear it as a marketing name... Will remove, thanks."

"Feature request: Add a link to the latest Wordlog entry from the game page. Currently it requires three clicks to..."

2023-06-08 "Done."

"Not sure if we're allowed to include Wordo content but I just missed todays by the first letter. So close :'("

2023-05-20 "INDABA should definitely not be there!"

2023-05-20 "I could start an s/Wordo I suppose."

"i am so bad at this game haha i usually get to a point with 12 or 13 words where i stall completely and cannot imagine..."

2023-05-20 "Advice: take a break and try again later - I often get stuck."

"feature requests: point leaders, top missed words, link words to definitions, ideally to a Gemini dictionary or Merriam..."

2023-05-20 "Word-count leaderboard was added as a compromize -- I don't think I want to make it super-competitive and it seems that..."

"[gemini link] SpellBinding 2023-05-17 Pretty nice one. Never heard of a KOKAKO, though. A New Zealand bird? Can't..."

2023-05-17 "There are so many birds... I always have a tough time deciding which to include. KOKAKO is just such a great word,..."

"thanks for making this! I've been wanting to chat about spellbinding... basically the daily words and stuff is missed...."

2023-05-17 "Thanks for playing! It's been a joy to code and run the game, although it turned out to be a lot more dictionary work..."

SpellBinding talk here

2023-05-16 "@skyjake - thanks for the cleaner link - I always forget. And thank you for this amazing forum. It's always nice to..."

stack

The Wall CGI - source published

2024-06-10 "More seriously, failure here is not a problem: If unescaping fails, we return and the page shows no data; No writing is..."

2024-06-10 "I'll leave the error checking as an excercise for the reader!"

"cgisesh - a tiny cgi session manager for games TLDR: I am making a minimal in-memory "session database server" for..."

2024-06-05 "Caching implemented. Most-recent 16 users are now in the cache, with an instant response. Not only the cache..."

Mental Gymnastics: Hacking Up Simple Gemini Games

2024-05-25 "[gemini link]"

2024-05-25 "@corscada: Check out the current version - the leaderboard updates at the end of each game. I wound up creating a..."

Dice Poker -- a new Gemini dice game (alpha)

2024-05-19 "I added some more visual cues to highlight newly-rolled dice and adjusted positioning. It seems to make more intuitive..."

"What Gemini search engine do you use?"

2024-05-19 "@meidam I am using a different phone and computer than when I discovered Gemini. I don't have any bookmarks other than..."

Dice Poker -- a new Gemini dice game (alpha)

2024-05-19 "I think what caused most confusion is that rolls continually place new dice in the exact same positions. I made a small..."

2024-05-18 "The link and the input box state 'select and roll', (I think). I'll try to make it clearer."

2024-05-18 "@skyjake, I tried to get rid of unnecessary steps... The dice you hold move back and the rest are rolled... I had an..."

2024-05-18 "You can use the cgisesh server with anything that can connect to a socket."

2024-05-18 "As a proof of concept for the underlying game state db, it is a pretty amazing accomplishment. The db is a 30KB..."

2024-05-18 "Yeah, it's not a game for geniuses... but it's pretty streamlined and once I put in a leaderboard, may be a fun way to..."

Got CGISESH working. Simple demo.

2024-05-17 "@gritty: back up... I started 'server' from an ssh command line and it was killed when my session disconnected. It's..."

2024-05-17 "@gritty, the server is not up at the moment. The hash is just from the CGI..."

"cgisesh - a tiny cgi session manager for games TLDR: I am making a minimal in-memory "session database server" for..."

2024-05-16 "@gritty: I am aiming for something completely minimal, no persistence, and very few in-memory records with MRU search..."

Enshitification

2024-05-14 "No, that was someone who just looks like me... Never been there."

2024-05-14 "I guess I haven't been paying much attention to that drama..."

2024-05-14 "And yes, sadly there are people here just waiting for someone to question anything left-leaning, and pounce viciously...."

2024-05-14 "@Minko, pls clarify: is 3xblah running zeronet? I am still missing something here."

2024-05-14 "@Minko: totally agree with your conclusion, but still don't understand why you interpret that post as an excuse for..."

2024-05-14 "@Minko: is that sarcasm? That's not what I got from @blah_blah_blah's post..."

"What Gemini search engine do you use?"

2024-05-13 "Medusae... I've tried for years to get them to add SpellBinding, my gemlog, and a bunch of other things, but nothing..."

2024-05-13 "hmm."

Enshitification

2024-05-12 "And really, everyone has the option of just ignoring someone's posts instead of getting all up in arms and insisting..."

2024-05-12 "@eddos I didn't at all mean that I was silenced -- only that the entire US politics topic could be easily muted if..."

2024-05-11 "@eddos: I found out that people here found me talking about american politics objectionable, and even moved my post to..."

Solía pensar que CABRÓN significa 'amigo'...

2024-05-09 "@mrrobinhood5 Oh, ahora veo. ¡Tramposo!"

Computadoras Antiguas

2024-05-06 "@lufte, una historia completamente verdadera y parte de la historia que nadie conoce. Los nombres están cambiados (..."

"rawtext.club -- is the site down or is it me?"

2024-05-04 "A few days now. The server is pingable but no gemini or http."

Computadoras Antiguas

2024-05-03 "@leoperbo Estoy muy familiarizado con PS2... Mira este artículo: [gemini link]"

"He estado viajando y no tengo mucho tiempo para Gemini. He estado estudiando español por 45 dias y me encanta Duolingo."

2024-04-04 "@satch: Puedes practicar aqui"

2024-04-04 "@lufte: gracias, aun no domino... puedo escribir lentamente."

2024-04-03 "Mi mamá está en la costa oeste, y las padres de mi esposa viven en Nueva York... Voy y vengo mucho."

My Barefoot Running Days Are Over

2024-03-22 "@wasolili So happy I am not the only one! One minor thing to watch out for: the toebox is very large, so make sure..."

2024-03-18 "@wasolili: when I say barefoot, I mean shoeless, but _with socks on_! At least my footie is way to gentle for the..."

2024-03-13 "@Half_Elf_Monk: it just happened: we don't wear shoes in the house, and there is the treadmill, so I got onto it one..."

The Problem With Ads in Apps

2024-02-19 "@Morgan, my concern is not about google stealing from my credit card. It's about privacy. Right now google knows all..."

2024-02-19 "@norayr: very interesting... Being 1/4 Armenian myself, I feel personally offended. They even have ads about saving..."

2024-02-18 "@Jentu, thank you. Reminds me of the British English records I used to learn conversational English as a teen... I..."

2024-02-18 "The worst part: I pretty much gave up and decided to pay them to stop the ads, but they only take Google Pay! I've..."

2024-02-17 "@Jentu, I think the app is mediocre. It is a little laggy, and stopped speaking for several minutes for no reason (..."

2024-02-17 "Google is no doubt so interspersed with everything on android that there is little hope to hide much... However, when I..."

Breaking Another Addiction

2024-02-06 "Sadly I am detecting a time-based addict-like behavior. When I hit the 30-minute goal, I can hear myself thinking "..."

Flossing Teeth Considered Harmful?

2024-02-03 "@norayr -- yes, great for getting junk out. I used to make toothpicks out of matches in the old country."

Pissing into a jar, installing Linux

2024-01-25 "Let's call it a success. If you missed my previous posts, I dehydrated myself for several years prior, have no kidney..."

2024-01-25 "@coderwx, I wouldn't say kombucha 'worked', and maybe the opposite, only that I drank a lot of it, and then wound up at..."

2024-01-24 "Speaking of acids, I did abuse Vitamin C over the years. Thinking (incorrectly) that it was benign, I would take 5 and..."

2024-01-24 "There are all kinds of acids! The most common stones are formed by oxalic acid. Citric acid counteracts it prior to..."

2024-01-23 "@coderwx: the stone was small, but maybe really sharp! Of course I may have a very narrow ureter! Wasn't there a '..."

2024-01-23 "The ER doctor misspoke and told me I have a 5cm stone! I nearly passed out again!"

2024-01-23 "@codewrx: the stone I passed was only 3mm, but ripped me a new one!"

2024-01-23 "@codewrx: my stone came out of nowhere, and within an hour I was in the ER passing out from the worst pain I ever..."

2024-01-23 "I think the best you can do is drink a lot of water. A big glass or two in the morning - with vinegar or lemon juice,..."

2024-01-23 "I think there are 7 different kinds of kidney stones, calcium/oxalate being about 70% likely, and hopefully this test..."

Escape from github

2024-01-22 "@zetanacs: Yes, I am planning to use sourcehut as I like everything I hear about it. I don't mind paying for something..."

A Terrible Restless Night...

2024-01-22 "Thank you for all the good ideas. I should get some CBD/THC drops - that really worked the last time I had sleep..."

Escape from github

2024-01-21 "Thank you! I installed FreeOTP (just worked) and enabled 2FA; will continue procrastinating. I've been avoiding 2FA..."

2024-01-21 "@Morgan: I was a bit dramatic, although what Google does with my data ('sharing' with advertisers to solicit bids on..."

2024-01-21 "@gamma: how does one get TOTP? And yeah, banks are ridiculous. I routinely have to use a special unsecured browser..."

Yikes! Louis Rossman butchers a Mac on YouTube...

2024-01-11 "@Ruby_Witch: yeah, he is mostly philosphizing and ranting, and doesn't really have the depth to pull it off. I hate to..."

2024-01-11 "With all due respect, editorial input into influencers' monetized 'content' is -- shall we say, ABOVE MY PAYGRADE!..."

"When you are a nail, everything feels like a hammer..."

2024-01-09 "@zetamacs: on the contrary, I appreciate it. I can see how it may look as a desperate post, but I was just playing..."

2024-01-09 "Well, more of a general observation."

CBDCs are coming, and I am not ready!

2024-01-09 "At least the VOLUME of participating has not been decreasing in your case! :)"

Ouch! Tooth hurty! Extraction tomorrow!

2024-01-06 "I am still amazed. No swelling, no pain at all throughout the entire process, and the socket is closed 24 hours after...."

2024-01-05 "And it's done. Took all of 5 minutes to remove a molar; wallet $500+ lighter. What a difference a top surgeon in the..."

Electric cars: reprise

2023-12-27 "@karel: true, driving is usually faster in many (most?) places. But I've lived in NYC most of my life, where driving is..."

2023-12-27 "I failed to mention that insurance rates appear to be much (even several times?) higher for electric cars, according to..."

Toilets: Good, Bad, and Exploding

2023-12-27 "I promise to write some more about the things I found..."

2023-12-26 "@Addison: it is by no means a luxurious mansion. From the 70s it was a facility for low IQ adults, and it was trashed...."

"Running With and Without A Big Dog Today I ran 5K straight. It took me about a half hour -- no records broken. I..."

2023-12-22 "@oldernow - shit, that was fast! Don't you have anything better to do than read hot-off-the-press BBS posts?"

Abandoning FreeBSD; back to Linux

2023-12-15 "I think my mistake was committing my ThinkPad to FreeBSD, an impedance mismatch. A stationary desktop with an ethernet..."

Brainfogged...

2023-12-11 "@gemalaya, thank you. It is ****ing delicious!"

2023-12-11 "@gemalaya, do you mean ground turmeric? How much do you take?"

Getting Sick of Linux

2023-10-04 "@jeang3nie: you know, I am actually sold on FreeBSD. I am backing up stuff, and as soon as I can free my Samsung 980..."

2023-10-04 "@marissa: having thought about this one, I think you may be wrong: Linux is not a microkernel and the kernel really..."

2023-10-03 "I actually installed FreeBSD in qemu, and it was pretty painless (dealing with qemu took more effort than FreeBSD!)...."

Do Dogs Face North When Pooping?

2023-09-14 "East, north, and east again. I think my dog is suspecting something is up."

2023-09-12 "East again"

nForth - trouble in paradise

2023-09-04 "Well, I changed over to 32-bit link pointers, and it works now with address randomization."

2023-09-04 "That is correct."

"Spent the day hacking on nForth -- with the goal of running it in a CGI environment. Since the core is around 4K, it..."

2023-09-01 "I am heavily whumping on it, so it is changing a lot, but if you want to take a peek, [https link] Ignore the github..."

2023-09-01 "nforth, something I threw together on my own a year ago. it's a little sketchy right now."

50 Years of Text Games @Ruby_Witch suggested this book, and I could not resist.

2023-08-16 "On my workhorse with a decent monitor, I can actually enjoy it with [preformatted] That inverts the image colors......"

"Is the Fediverse worth it? Every so often I read some article about some protocol or stumble across some server, but..."

2023-07-29 "Copying antipattern is a big pattern in open-source. Linux UIs are constantly cloning the look/feel of Windows and..."

2023-07-25 "@simul8 -- I think you hit the nail on the head!"

2023-07-25 "I'd love to visit nutjob-free spaces, be they left- or right-wing, but that is probably not likely... As I've cut..."

"Kitchen Sponges - what's up? I always wash dishes with a sponge, and they used to last more than a couple of days. Now..."

2023-07-01 "I am experimenting with a piece of paper towel inside an abrasive plastic mesh (the kind garlic and onions come bagged..."

2023-06-30 "@gritty: possibly, but then you have a rapidly decomposing plastic sponge that is shedding nanoparticles onto your..."

"Gah. Wasted yet another day with laundry, new mattress delivered and unpacked, and agonizing over maybe getting a new..."

2023-06-29 "I've heard something like 8 years, but it may be a myth propagated by mattress purveyors. They also say you need to..."

"[gemini link] gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2023-06-26.tailf.gmi"

2023-06-27 "@totroptof - thanks, I forgot that journald can display logs, I always think of it as a way of making logs. Yeah, it..."

"Has anyone seen a linux logfile viewer that tails a file, showing the age of each log entry with a color? That is, new..."

2023-06-26 "I think I am going to give it a whack. I looked at the sources of Linux and BSD's tail utilities just in case there is..."

StanStani

"Anyone else pondering what it would be like to leave Reddit behind for Bubble?"

2023-06-14 "What's Reddit? But seriously, haven't been there in years except for an occasional search that lands there for a..."

Stories-from-the-Interwebs

Object-orientation and other dumb ideas

2024-06-08 "I was obsessed with Self for many years, and eventually got to play with it. Sadly Sun hired Ungar and pretty much..."

2024-06-07 "There was a low point in my life when I started studying for a Java certification test, because it really looked like I..."

2024-06-05 "There are some sensible ideas, but it definitely turned into a stupid fad. Most data we have to deal with don't map..."

sugar

"Robot vacuums that do not store a persistent map of your home are some of the most chaotic creatures. And I have three..."

2023-06-30 "An AVR will work fine. No linux or networking on vacuums, please. Let's not be stupid yet again."

taichara

"I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm trying to learn"

2024-01-20 "oh, that should be easy. Pick a topic you like, read posts, and if you feel like it, comment or post something new."

2024-01-20 "what are we doing?"

tenno-seremel

Super trademark

2024-05-22 "McDonald's trademarked "Loving it""

East meets West

2024-03-15 "It's been one of my family's favorites. Michail Hurley ==>[https link]"

2024-03-15 "As the lake champlain fishing song goes: [preformatted]"

Say no to donuts

2024-02-14 "Give me a plain croissant please, I hate the sweet stuff. But profiteroles, if you must"

ThatBlockyPenguin

My Journey Begins

2024-03-18 "Only Java and a shitload of libraries...:)"

TheHumanCondition

Nimble nationality will define state capacity

2024-02-02 "Failure to assimilate and normalize differences results in terribleness. It is fine to appreciate and honor our..."

totroptof

2023-06-18 "BTW, there are a number of tilde servers that may be used to keep your gemini stuff _and_ keep (or forward) your..."

2023-06-18 "Welcome! There are no rules, but there is an understanding that one should not be an asshole... It's hard to define,..."

US-politics

Why Trump will NOT be found guilty

2024-05-31 "I don't know. Of all the ways to prosecute this man, they chose one guaranteed to create an uproar and a sure reversal..."

2024-05-31 "@skyjake apologies. Profanity is not a good way to express opinions, at least in written form"

2024-05-31 "Preaching to the choir with me, don't get me started with the Fed..."

2024-05-30 "Well yeah, although I am leaning more towards a financial angle of raiding the treasury... Thank god for BRICS. I have..."

2024-05-30 "@Minko Yeah, but if you listen to it in context, it's just words that are pretty much meaningless, just talking..."

2024-05-30 "Heh, I misjudged this one. I should've opted for a more conservative 'whatever the verdict, it will not matter'. Given..."

2024-05-30 "Generally, the explanation for complicated things is stupidity and chance. And controlling people requires..."

2024-05-28 "I don't know about the new world order. The playbook hasn't changed in a few hundred years: squeeze the masses gently,..."

Red state vs. Blue state?

2024-03-20 "Fuck national defense. That same money could be used to eliminate world hunger, and provide free education and..."

"What are some lesser-known, lesser-discussed political positions you either support or oppose? For example, I don't..."

2024-03-13 "Eliminate corporate personhood. That would immideately make big businesses impossible, leveling all fields and making..."

Biden vs. Trump: we lose either way

2024-02-24 "This post was about the possible outcomes of US presidential election, especially regarding the US foreign policy (as..."

2024-02-24 "@norayr: I don think anyone disagrees with you!"

2024-02-23 "@satch yes! That's what they do. Walk away from negotiations and start over. Look a decades of this with Iran...."

2024-02-22 "@norayr: I dont claim to understand the details of the 44-day War, but I don't think the West was that successful..."

2024-02-22 "@norayr - I am sure things look different from where you are! But if you think about it, right now Russia does not..."

2024-02-22 "All recent Russian wars are provoked by the US trying to expand NATO to Russian border countries. Trump is not much of..."

Red state vs. Blue state?

2024-02-14 "I've lived in small places and biggest cities... Self-reliance is nice, but it sure is great to wake up, go downstairs..."

Special Counsel: Biden is too senile to punish

2024-02-14 "Removing Biden seems unlikely, even if he starts spouting complete nonsense. It's comical to watch the Establishment..."

"What are some lesser-known, lesser-discussed political positions you either support or oppose? For example, I don't..."

2024-02-01 "Generally, the issue of funding of the government and arbitrary projects it chooses to distribute money to. Funding..."

Biden vs. Trump: we lose either way

2024-01-30 "@nikhotmsk: If you care, google it yourself. You are a random person on the internet. Do you think I care about you..."

2024-01-30 "I think that high officials are scared of fully prosecuting Trump and winding up with half the population picking up..."

2024-01-30 "@akkartik: Did you miss Biden sniffing women's hair, and handling someone's wife on camera early on in the term? But..."

2024-01-30 "Has there ever been someone I could truly vote for? I don't think so, in my lifetime. I was too young for Carter... I..."

2024-01-30 "@akkatik: I stand by my opinion that Biden has not improved anything - in fact things are now much, much worse. The..."

2024-01-30 "Both parties are paralyzed, terrified that naming someone else will give away the election. However, in a recent..."

Usenet

The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated

2024-01-28 "Around Y2K the newsgroups had a lot of binaries, music and movies. It was often the only place to find obscure titles...."

uyasga

Snowflakes and Socks

2023-10-26 "I just get a few dozen identical socks, and don't think about it for a few years."

vim

Quitting VIM

2023-11-03 "you can also reboot, I suppose"

Vim as an IDE

2023-09-23 "Hmm. What the heck does it substitute?"

"Kakoune - weird bindings I'm kind of trying to use kakoune, because I kind of like the idea of selecting then acting...."

2023-09-13 "@karel, I will try helix next. I have no problems with deviating from historical conventions. Although at this point I..."

2023-09-13 "I was trying to edit some .asm code in kakoune, and after a while noticed that inserting a tab in the middle of an..."

2023-09-13 "@karel: I am trying helix too. It seems to have even less support/tutorials/information than kakoune, so I haven't..."

Off by 1 character

2023-09-06 "I got into a bit of trouble with a script some months ago, off by a character in a loop..."

2023-09-05 "What I just said makes sense _at the end of a buffer or a line_, where the cursor is on fake space created by line-..."

2023-09-05 "Yes, I think it's historical. The real problem is that, a terminal cursor is ON a character while insertion happens..."

2023-09-05 "@mbays, I use jk combo mapped to ESC... But I'll try it your way tomorrow."

2023-09-05 "@gemalaya, there is no space. The cursor points at the end of line, or buffer, past the last character! If you switch..."

Which config/plugins do you use for writing Gemtext?

2023-08-14 "I don't use any plugins. There is so little syntax that it rarely matters."

"I want to have completion for my custom C language headers, but I cannot see how to add it. I use CoC and it does help..."

2023-08-08 "@jeang3nie: do you know if original vim's new Lua support is compatible with NeoVim's Lua? I've been avoiding NeoVim..."

TIPS

2023-07-25 "From: 👻 simul8 My favorites are: gq - autoformat/wrap lines di( or di{ or di< or di[ - deletes everything between..."

2023-07-16 "Insert Date [preformatted]"

"Configuration tricks, tips, etc."

2023-07-05 "@Addison: I am in the habit of swapping CapsLock and Ctrl, from my Emacs days. jk is a pretty good compromise,..."

2023-07-04 "J-K combination for <ESC> I use it on all installations: it is much faster to jk than move my pinky off the typing..."

What is the best way to write a plugin in Lua and C?

2023-07-02 "[https link] I know its neovim, but at least something..."

TIPS

2023-07-01 "Revert/reload file ``` ":edit!" or just ":e!" [preformatted]"

xavi

Getting shouted

2024-06-12 "These books should be mandatory in school! All those times I felt terrible, not understanding why conversations turned..."

2024-06-10 "[https link] Really, really read "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense", and look for her other books. They offer..."

2024-06-10 "Hey, that does not sound good. Have you tried to, in a very non-confrontational way, let her know that it hurts your..."

Yretek

"Hi all. Once I moved to another distro I can't seem to ssh to my server. I'm considering tearing down the old server (..."

2024-01-10 "Yikes! Did you forget to copy your .ssh directory before blowing it away?"

"Switching distros... let's hope I can export and import the id, else... it's a sad goobye (get the little violin ready)"

2024-01-10 "Yay!"

2024-01-10 "One hour is a little tight, I suppose. I imagine it would be a little stressful. A 7 day window is more useful for..."

2024-01-10 "You can set a password on bbs allowing you to connect a different certificate. It's good for long enough to get a..."

"Let's build something together. That would give us some sense of community. Let's open a space where people can meet..."

2023-12-16 "Modern tech makes it hard to do anything small... But let's explore this idea."

zetamacs

""A community can only ever be as good as its worst member." I've seen a quote of this kind applied to companies, but..."

2024-01-23 "And its corollary: "A community can only ever be as bad as its best member." Huh."

"@admin I wanted to open a dialogue about flairs. Do you think it would be inappropriate for a user to have a flair that..."

2024-01-10 "I can already see that there are possible problems. In OP's case such a badge can add to the context of the message,..."

2024-01-10 "That is a great idea!"

սյունեցի

"I’m amazed how easily I got used to this staying-home-twenty-four-seven schedule and it’s my comfort zone now. Whenever..."

2023-09-15 "I had an office job once. The worst three months of my life."