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Frustrated: Amazon seems to have become my go-to seller of Christmas gifts this year. Books still on site, but electronics and toys for the kids almost exclusively online. What's about you?
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Are there any rules on here? Can I send hyperlinks, or will all the links sent here just become regular text without a = at the start?
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against my old rule, signed up for a dating app, we'll see how it goes
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I'm looking at wordgrinder, again, as a possble quick way to start writing without any fuss. What bothered me most in the past, is that it took about two seconds for the menu to display after hitting the escape key. It was annoying, and the files it ...
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Long time no see... winter mood makes me come back to smolweb :)
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Today I met a bunch of 8-9 year olds from a local school here in Bangkok who've been learning Esperanto for 2 hours/week. Their teacher brought them all along to a little gathering to celebrate Esperanto (today is Zamenhof day). They were all so swee ...
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The "sustainability-aware" part of me is getting increasingly frustrated at the state of Android. Not only the lack of support for "old" devices, but how unnecessarily difficult it is to build anything for old versions. Then, here's the thing: every ...
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The more I read about Linux consoles, the more I think, did I miss out? Just discovered finger, late to the party, for others, it gets you info on everyone else logged into a machine. That we used to cohabitate on a "mainframe", share resources and ...
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Gemini has inspired me to try and live a life in the console. I have gathered apps that may be of use, now it is just to implement. Potentially I could run all of it in termux on my phone and Fedora toolbx. So I can finally bridge the gap and have a ...
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Reading "Solenoid" by Mircea Cartarescu
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what’s your philosophy of life?
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Currently moving all my gear to somewhere else. My Gemini server will go back online next week.
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added gopher (and initial gopher full-text search) support for gelim, my line-mode smolnet client! the interface is essentially a fancy "fetch-url | less" REPL. it's meant to be an opinionated client for personal use but at times I still miss full-b ...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2LFS5gPV-Y for the metalheads, a underestimated band.
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Today' AoC was fun. I love a good brute force. That's the 13th consecutive live coding session I've done, and I'm enjoying the extra challenge of recording them. Trying to narrate what you're doing while coding it definitely doesn't make it any eas ...
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Huh, we're having a power outage here affecting skyjake.fi and the BBS. These don't happen very often and hopefully it'll be short... Expect the aforementioned server IP addresses to change when power resumes.
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New article - "Publishing the unpublished" - available here: gemini://envs.net/~carbonwriter/publishing-unpublished.gmi
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open question: is the "standard" to only use "ANSI color codes" inside "preformatted text"? it seems to be the norm, but... Anyone has input? thanks!
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somehow i didn’t know how much sugar happens to be in bagels. no wonder they taste so good. why is it so hard to find a reasonably nutritious breakfast in this country? what’s wrong with us?
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maybe I should work on the rust based Gemini client I've left abandoned for however long
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I've returned to development on my smolnet client gelim recently, and today I've added client certificate support and better ergonomics for config files! https://github.com/hedyhli/gelim/releases/tag/v0.12.0
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oh wow i got access to this thing again
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I'm in Waldenburg, Saxony in Germany. Has anyone heard of it? There's a natural cabinet here, founded in 1840. it is one of the oldest natural cabinets in Germany with a significant collection of naturalists, including minerals, fossils, ethnologica ...
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Created my first gemini capsule. Nice. over at gemini://envs.net/~carbonwriter/
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10 days of live coding my Advent of Code attempts. Pretty happy with that. Videos here, if that's anyone's bag: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLcWlBThjQPxwVRg05x9314FTCx5e9c_O
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Today's puzzle turned out easier than usual! Crostic Nines ⑨ • 2024-12-10 ✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅✅⭐ 🙋 17 💁 0 ⏱️ 49m 🏆 570pts gemini://gem.bahai.fyi/crostic/
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Super new to Gemini, trying to find my way around. I really like the styling and it seems to be a great protocol for readers. Seeing just text actually keeps me a bit calmer than if I am bombarded by images and ads everywhere.
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The outrage machine whirs on: suspect of CEO shooting apprehended. A hero to all, people calling for outright revolution, but now? Well... there's a Twitter account and a Goodreads. Anarchist works, leftism, a couple more conservative views. Wait, it ...
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Kind of forgot I have an account here.
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insomnia is such a beautiful desease. makes you paranoid af... i hve been sittening in my computer room now, gave the cat sone food, listening to music, cuddling the cat.. suddenly a strange noise... me just WTF? took my axe and sneaked outside, read ...
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Hi everyone! first words here :) And a, perhaps silly, question: am I the only one who gets confused by the comments to a publication going "last first"? It gets me every time 😃 Anyhow, nice to have this space. I'm quite new to all things Gemini, enj ...
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So @awsomesawce is Station's 1,600th user. 👏
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I officially have a publisher for the Atari Jaguar version of Operation: Followthrough: Songbird Productions! We’re aiming for a mid 2025 release!
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I spent several hours, today, setting up a phlog on SDF.org. I can't say why it was important for me. It's like when I thought,"Hey let's try Emacs." My biggest mistake was not researching it enough. I thought using the MKGOPHER on the site would wou ...
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I don't drink often. But when I do, everytime I think to myself - I should drink more often. Yet later on, I just don't have the driver. Yes, I'm drinking now and I believe in the ballmer peak.
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How do I make a post on station that contains a new line or a new paragraph? My usual \n and/or \r didn't work. I'm running amfora. Is there some kind of &CRLF wizardry?
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been burying dead trees and branches all day to build a hügelkultur. helping nature heal and rebuild soil. next week i have over 150 tree seedlings coming. build back the forest!
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I find myself sounding like the movie stereotype, old man who says "why can't it just be the way they used to?" I don't feel I'm wrong though, the movies were wrong, it's not an old fool saying that. Too many things are what seems to be deliberatel ...
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my last poll had the sort of turnout i expected. i've been thinking about studying computer science recently. i am currently working in design and, well, it's turning out it's not really for me. i hope i'm smart enough for IT
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Hello all. I've been lurking for a while, and I felt it was time to join --since from time to time, I felt like responding to some posts.
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Dig it! I just bought a bunch of groceries for me and the people I love with affirm.com for the second time in the last 3 months. Credit cards are maxed, the rent is too damned high, and I spend a chunk of money every month servicing debt. Yeah I' ...
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The End of Organized Humanity - Noam Chomsky In this presentation, Chomsky notes especially the role of the oil lobby in creating conditions for the destruction of humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY9PZvK6CZs Joe Rogan Experience #2237 - Mi ...
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So uh, politics, eh? A certain insurance CEO, perhaps? A vindication of public class consciousness, even? Oh boy, what leftist euphoria.
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I should start a blog about all the books that I read.
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I am exhausted. After a full day of work I now have a birthday party, d&d session and early flight tomorrow. On the plus side, if I survive I will be in Warsaw in a few hours!
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A wife says to her husband, a computer scientist: “Could you please go to the market and buy a carton of milk and if they have eggs please buy 6” So the husband goes to the supermarket and comes back with 6 cartons of milk When she sees that the wife ...
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Reading "Cult of the Dead Cow", by Joseph Menn
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Happy F̶r̶i̶d̶a̶y̶ Advent of Code Day 6. Today was a fun one, and contains even *more animals* telling me (wrong) answers. 📼 https://youtu.be/RYzjertT64M
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