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Weird Car Ads — I just saw an insanely stupid Volvo ad, which seems to imply that its 'advanced sensing technology' identifies when a woman becomes pregnant. I don't know what kind of ***theads create car ads these days, and I thought that after that unfortunate Jaguar ad fiasco they would learn something, but apparently no. I wish they would stick with cars and stay out of our business of being gay or making babies.
My Grandma's Story — My grandmother was maybe five years old. She sat on the side of a dirt road, waiting to die, with her brother next to her. They sat there for hours waiting for the Ukrainians to come back. They were walking along a dirt road near their house when the horsemen with rifles came galloping down the road. They surrounded the kids and told them to sit. "Sit down and don't move, little Yids. We have to kill a few big Yids, and then we will come back and kill you". They galloped...
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Dec 13 · 4 days ago
Put a pumpkin in it!
💬 1 comment · Dec 05 · 12 days ago
Deleting my comments — @bababooey: One thing we do not appreciate here is censorship. You keep framing questions as "how do we sell Gemini to others for a mass adoption'. Ignoring responses that do not suit your narrative is one thing, but deleting them is not a good practice. I will therefore reiterate: we do not want to prove to others that they should leave twitter and come pollute our lives here. You can go elsewhere for that. Your thread no longer reflects the reality, but is now 'fake...
💬 1 comment · 5 likes · Nov 28 · 3 weeks ago
Ensemble one more time please. — [gemini link] Please give it another try. I completely restructured it to be simpler and more robust. Thank you for your help. I should be able to bring this game online full-time very soon.
💬 13 comments · Oct 20 · 8 weeks ago
Ensemble game - beta is up — There is a lot of untested code here, please bear with me. [gemini link] Let me know how it works out for you.
💬 7 comments · 2 likes · Oct 13 · 2 months ago
Ensemble - a new puzzle game for Gemini — I am considering putting together a new-old puzzle for Geminauts based on the game Set. I have two options: =============== Inlined image version requires Lagrange with a couple of settings tweaked: Preferences/Network/Max URL size: 32767 Preferences/Content/Open images in Data URLs: on Once these are set, click on the mockup link below and let me know if you can see it and what you think... [gemini link] Also please let me know if you think it's too...
💬 11 comments · 2 likes · Oct 12 · 2 months ago
Drove across the US again... — I think it's my ninth time. Kind of lost track of how many times I've done it now. It's pretty easy now, and I kind of look forward to the solitude and the simplicity of the goal: reach the destination alive... I did it in two and a half days, with three sleep breaks (between two and six hours of sleep) right in the back of my minivan, on a pretty comfortable roll-up mattress. The rest stop are great, especially in the midwest, almost indistinguishable from RV...
💬 View post · 1 like · Sep 20 · 3 months ago
Old coins — I've been trying to figure out why I tend to hoard old coins. Not that old - 70's and 80's quarters mostly (although I do have an envelope full of pre-1965 silver coins too). There is a pile next to the monitor. I move them around and 'stim', I suppose, twiddling them between my fingers. Long before 'stimming' was a thing, I was doing it with British pound coins, but I haven't had any in years, so it's quarters for now. I think some part of me believes that someday I may come across...
💬 3 comments · 1 like · Jul 20 · 5 months ago
Drove across the US — This time, at a leisurely pace, two sleep stops (4 hours and 5 hours) and made it in 2 1/2 days. Google auto still really sucks. I ran through 2GB in a few hours streaming podcasts, and had to stop. Screw the cloud. Radios without a tuning knob really suck.
💬 5 comments · Jun 19 · 6 months ago
— tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/wall/cgi
The Wall CGI - source published — I added the C sources for my Wall CGI. It is an example of a minimal CGI - compiles to 14KB, minimal execution footprint, and the data is limited to 64KB max (old messages will be truncated). My Wall (link above) has been running for about a year alongside SpellBinding. Scribble a message if you feel like it.
💬 4 comments · Jun 10 · 6 months ago
Dice Poker -- no daily limit — [gemini link] Please play this game -- as many times as you like! I need to see how it does with a bunch of people playing.
💬 View post · May 24 · 7 months ago
@ReMARStered: Welcome! If you want to waste some more time, try [gemini link] [gemini link] [gemini link]
💬 1 comment · 1 like · May 22 · 7 months ago
Mental Gymnastics: Hacking Up Simple Gemini Games — Surprize! 'Simple' things turn out to be much more complicated than they should be. This is my second go around: first time was spellbinding, which I implemented it as a specialized CGI program with a bunch of adjacent programs and scripts. While that worked, it required keeping track of a lot of details, scripts and cron jobs, and is so specialized that it's entirely useless for anything else. So this time around I was going to be smart. I...
💬 4 comments · May 20 · 7 months ago
Dice Poker -- a new Gemini dice game (alpha) — [gemini link] A 5-dice poker game, inspired by @gritty. During each of 10 rounds you can hold any of the dice to build the best hand, and roll the remaining dice. You specify which dice to hold by their values, not their position! It's a little rough, and uses cgisesh (which is WIP) to keep state, so apologies if it breaks... But give it a shot!
💬 15 comments · 2 likes · May 18 · 7 months ago
— tilde.cafe/~stack/cgisesh/live/cgitest
Got CGISESH working. Simple demo. — Click on the link; the cgi will keep track of how many times you visit (refresh to see the counter go up). If my cgisesh server is running, of course. This simple cgi uses cgisesh to keep session information for each user (visit count in this simple example). cgisesh is a minimal in-memory key-value server designed to provide per-user session data for Gemini CGI...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · May 17 · 7 months ago
cgisesh - a tiny cgi session manager for games TLDR: I am making a minimal in-memory "session database server" for keeping track of user data, ideal for games. Any thoughts? Every time I try to make a quick-and dirty CGI game or sketch out a simple application, I get really frustrated. Gemini conviniently provides user certificates which can be used to track sessions, but things get complicated very fast. I am making a minimal subsystem for keeping track of user-associated data, ideal for...
💬 4 comments · 2 likes · May 15 · 7 months ago
What Gemini search engine do you use?
💬 11 comments · May 13 · 7 months ago
Enshitification — How does it happen? How does a community of generally well-mannered people become a zoo full of vandals that requires hardcore policing, with automatic weapons? You could blame criminals and build higher walls and get bigger guns. But I think it is exactly the cause of enshitification. People inherently want to be a part of their community. We are social animals. And if we are rejected and have no hope, we apply whatever skills we have to express our frustration at damaging...
💬 24 comments · 3 likes · May 11 · 7 months ago
Solía pensar que CABRÓN significa 'amigo'... — Ahora entiendo por qué a nadie le agrado.
💬 5 comments · 1 like · May 07 · 7 months ago
rawtext.club -- is the site down or is it me?
💬 6 comments · May 03 · 7 months ago
Computadoras Antiguas — ¡Hola amigos! Estaba pensando en los viejos tiempos de la computación. Sé muy poco sobre las computadoras de los paises hispanohablantes! Sé que Commodore era popular en España, pero no estoy seguro. Respecto a América Latina -- nada... ¿Cuáles eran las computadores más populares que recuerdan? ¿Qué revistas solían leer sobre computadoras? ¿Tienen alguna memoria sobre computadoras que solían usar? ¡Me encantaria escuchar sus historias! Según aprendo español mi interes...
💬 9 comments · 1 like · May 02 · 8 months ago
He estado viajando y no tengo mucho tiempo para Gemini. He estado estudiando español por 45 dias y me encanta Duolingo.
💬 6 comments · 1 like · Apr 01 · 9 months ago
My Barefoot Running Days Are Over — I've been running a few kilometers a day barefoot, on a treadmill. I really liked it. But over the last couple of months, my feet started hurting. After consulting with Dr. Internet, I diagnosed the pain as early stages of Plantar Fasciatis. I also found weird bumps on the outside edge of my feet, presumably bone spurs in the making. Yikes. My wise partner made me by a pair of Hokas. They look a little like small boats, but are amazingly comfortable and...
💬 11 comments · Mar 12 · 9 months ago
@norayr, I am sorry if I offended you. As part Armenian born in Georgia during the Soviet days I appreciate your position more than an average american, and do not underestimate Russia. I wish my president would stop provoking them to get reelected, as innocent people pay for that with their lives.
💬 8 comments · Feb 22 · 10 months ago
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