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👋 B.A. in Theology. Gay religious liberal, anti-libertarian, anti-anarchist, anti-authoritarian, pro-meritocratic-representative-democracy. I believe in the concepts of responsibility and morality, freedom, free will, and religious pluralism, including freedom of religion (and "freedom from religion", which is literally the same thing). The mind is very clearly separate, but interconnected with, the physical body. I am heavily influenced by the philosophical line of Martin Buber, Abraham Heschel, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Just got an idea for a new project that I want to do that should be really cool. I'm excited to start working on it!
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Was just watching another show, and yet again they claim that Greece was the "birthplace of civilization". Um.... no, it wasn't. I hope younger generations nowadays know better, and know that the Mesopotamians, Sumerians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese, Arabs, Israelites, and Indus valley all existed *before* the "Greeks".
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You know, Windows Vista got a ton of crap, especially from me, but honestly, it wasn't *that* bad if you ran it on the proper hardware. The biggest blunder was manufacturers putting it on terrible hardware, or claiming computers would support/upgrade to Vista when that wasn't the case. Anyways, all of this is to say that I decided to bring out another old laptop that was handed down to me that ran Vista originally, and I put Vista back on it, and.... I actually kinda like Vista's visual design and some of its other things :D Granted, I am on Service Pack 2, so I imagine the original release was significantly worse.
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I have written an extremely simple nex client library in golang, and which supports OSs as old as Windows XP. I will also be turning it into a real client soon, but this will be a separate project that will support gemini, gopher, and nex, and will hopefully support older Operating Systems (like Windows XP). I am also planning on adding TLS 1.3 support to the gemini handling of the client. You can find the client library here: https://gitlab.com/clseibold/gonex
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There is this Missed Features Installer 5 (MF5) that has basically packaged a bunch of stuff for Windows XP or Vista (Net Frameworks, Redistributables, Powershell, DirectX, PowerToys, Windows XP Unofficial Service Pack 4, Virtual CD control panel, etc.) and provides an easy interface to install all of them with. It's really useful for getting things setup on an old windows xp machine. It's pretty cool. You can find the file for it here: http://i430vx.net/files/XP/MFI5.iso
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Found a cool video that lets you fix the windows update for older Windows systems (Vista and below). Going to be following along with this to get my old Windows XP machine updated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdIVMwV9MCk You can also download the updates manually at the Windows Update Catalog, but there's a lot of updates to do, lol: https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com
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Yeasterday I learned that the Windows Subsystem for Linux is not the first (or second) time Microsoft delved into Unix Microsoft had Xenix, their own version of Unix, but they also had a POSIX subsystem in Windows NT because Windows NT started off with the OS/2 2.0 codebase. It doesn't end here, because they also included many unix tools in their Windows Services For Unix (SFU) which later ended up bringing in the Interix (formerly OpenNT) system that they bought out from some other company, and was supported until Windows 7, deprecated in Windows 8, and replaced by the Windows Subsystem for Linux in Windows 10. SFU offered gcc, ksh, vi, awk & grep, and X11 client tools.
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I always found it wierd that client certs were sent in the clear in TLS 1.2, but according to what I seen on Stack Overflow, the fact that TLS 1.2 does this isn't actually so bad because clients still have to prove they own the cert by signing some data unique to the session. Does anyone else know more about this and can verify if this information is accurate?
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I've been working on a fun new project of bringing some smallnet protocols like Misfin, Gemini, nex, and Gopher to Windows XP, and I was able to successfully send a misfin mail to my server on Windows XP (using TLS 1.2)!!!! Unfortunately, I want my server to be TLS 1.3 only becasue misfin pretty much requires the use of client certs., so I will need to get 1.3 supported in the Windows XP client. I am using Golang 1.10 on Windows XP, which doesn't support TLS 1.3, so I might look into either backporting TLS 1.3 from Golang 1.12 to 1.10, or if that doesn't work, look into using the NSS library, which I believe has TLS 1.3 support.
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I've decided to start a new project for fun: Developing gopher and nex clients for Windows XP :D I am also looking into developing gemini and misfin clients for them as well, but we'll see about the TLS support stuff (I may be able to get some form of TLS 1.3, but I'm not holding my breath for that).
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I've written some computer history facts that I've personally found interesting on my nex site here: nex://auragem.letz.dev/ (You should now be able to use Lagrange's latest version to view Nex sites).
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AuraGem now has a nex server running: nex://auragem.letz.dev nex://auragem.letz.dev
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It'd be cool if someone could make a PR to add gemini support to VLC. Anybody here skilled enough to do that?
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I have released version 0.5 of my misfin server software. You can find more information here: gemini://auragem.letz.dev:1958/mailinglist/misfin/msg/12
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Misfin-Server Version 0.4 Release: Newsletters - they are mailinglists where only designated writers and admins can write to the mailinglist. This is done using the new send permission option for mailinglists. Send permission option for mailinglists - determines who can send to the mailinglist. Options include: subs, writers, open (anybody) Subs function option - determines whether subs are auto-accepted or not. Options include: accept-all, closed (all are auto-rejected), and prompt (not implemented yet). Lots more bug fixes Fairly big code refactoring https://gitlab.com/clseibold/misfin-server/-/releases/0.4 https://gitlab.com/clseibold/misfin-server/-/releases/0.4
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Published a new devlog on my misfin server and client projects: gemini://auragem.letz.dev/devlog/20231001.gmi
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I have created a mailinglist on my misfin server! You can try it out by sending a misfin gemmail to misfin@auragem.letz.dev with the subject "Subscribe". For clients that don't handle subjects fully (like the original reference implementation), you need to put a "# " in front, so it should be: "# Subscribe". You should instantly get a gemmail sent back to you saying you have subscribed. Once you've subscribed, all messages sent to the mailinglist will be forwarded to you (except for your own messages).
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I've just finished with major changes to my misfin mailserver software! I'm not going to put out an official gemlog about it yet though until I polish it up. I want to add support for 3 different setups: 1. Manual management setup - where the mailserver is mostly managed by one person or an admin. This is good for systems that don't take registrations and only host for a set number of people. 2. Pubnix setup - where the mailserver recognizes the system's users. It needs to be able to add new users without bringing the mailserver down, and gemboxes/gemmails should be put in user directories. 3. Gemini (or Web) Hoster setup - a Gemini server needs to be able to communicate with the mailserver.
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Working on some major changes for my misfin server software. Should be much better. It will support multiple mailboxes, and allow for configuration in different ways (via config file or flags) so that it can support different setups, like running it as a service, etc. I'm toying with another idea of it being paired with an internal gemini server on a different port from the standard so that there's a gemini interface to configure the mailserver and access its mailboxes, etc. Those who want to expose this as public-facing can do so by either port forwarding this interface, or proxying it through another gemini server. I haven't got all the details on how it will work yet, it's just an idea.
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I'm debating on whether I should keep my personal gemlog post on "My Darkest Period" up. It was something I needed to write, and it's a very personal story to me. In a way, I am glad that I wrote it, and it helped a lot to reflect on this time of my life, especially about a period that I had kept inside for quite a long time. It was somewhat freeing to get my feelings out. However, I still feel a bit anxious about people reading it. It does concern a real experience I've had on a real private Discord. I don't usually delete most of my writing, especially writing as personal and reflective as this. The type of writing I did in this post doesn't come often for me.
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I have created a misfin server and client, as well as a gemmail (and gembox) parser. Just spent a ton of time today working on misfinmail (my client program that's modelled after the original Multics mail commands - I really like their UI design). I will eventually make articles on my auragem devlog introducing them and copying the readme documentation over to Gemini, but I want to do a few other things first before that. You can find more info on misfinmail at my Bubble Post here: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/misfin/5718 Here are the two gitlab links: https://gitlab.com/clseibold/misfinmail https://gitlab.com/clseibold/misfin-server
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I have republished my article/essay on the history of Unix Shells, and have updated it to include more information on Multics: gemini://auragem.letz.dev/~clseibold/20230924_ShellHistory_Unix.gmi
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My new post: When Getting a Degree Makes You The Enemy gemini://auragem.letz.dev/~clseibold/20230924.gmi
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Recently got a fortune cookie that said this: "Truth will be your biggest ally this month."
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I wrote a new extremely personal post: gemini://hashnix.club/users/clseibold/20230923.gmi
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AuraGem Music's Public Radio now has multiple stations! There are 4 different stations: Diverse, Mainstream, Classical, and Non-mainstream. Diverse will play all of the genres at specific time slots. Mainstream will play mainstream genres, like Pop, Rock, Acoustic, Cinematic, and World. Classical will play Classical as well as Classical-adjacent genres like Jazz, Blues, and Calm Piano. Non-mainstream will play Electronic, Lofi, Ambient, and Rock. These classifications could change in the future. If you have any suggestions on where you think a particular genre should belong, I'm happy to hear! gemini://auragem.letz.dev/music/public_radio/
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Rosy Crow has an issue tracker on Bubble, in case people use that android client: gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Rosy-Crow-Issues
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I'm considering a workaround for mobile devices that have no way to stream audio via gemini. I might go the Gemini to HTTP proxy route, or just offering the public radio stream via HTTP.
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I have made an announcement post for the AuraGem Public Radio that has more information on Supported Clients as well as a new project that I intend to work on very soon: gemini://auragem.letz.dev/devlog/20230918.gmi
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AuraGem Public Radio Bugfix: Songs should be properly randomized now :D