author: @gtl
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currently agregating 17 tinylogs (Urls at the bottom of the page)
I had been curious for a long while since I had came across information that /ScummVM/ is supporting /The Neverhood/. So I've checked this today. It's a kind of magic. You are able to run the game from the mounted ISO image, without any configuration madness known from /Wine/, or even without extracting files from installer archives.
So you aren't bother about the original /Windows 95/ game requirement. You will be able to run the game on every device supported by /ScummVM/...
I dislike buying new shoes. there's a million options and I rarely like any. and they're expensive.
Sad to hear Mitnick has passed. A hero of curiosity and intellectual pursuit that defined an era. FREE KEVIN.
A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 2.
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If you want to hear my ICMP joke, ping me.
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD.
Ethernet LAN with CSMA/CD who?
I'll tell you at a random point in the future.
I had a bunch of HTTP 301 jokes but I've not been able to find them for a long time.
There's a funny story about RFC1918, but it's a bit of an insider joke.
The hardest kind of joke to tell is an NTP joke – it's all about timing.
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Want to hear a SYN flood joke?
Okay, FIN. I couldn't come up with a good DNS joke though, so whois going to give us one?
A few of my favourite protocol jokes, part 1. If you get all of them, you're officially old. And awesome.
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I have a joke about TCP.
Oh yeah, what is it?
Want to hear it?
Yes.
Okay I'll tell it.
I'll hear it.
I've now begun telling it.
I've begun listening.
Three UDP packets walk into a bar.
First: I'll have a whisky
Third: Vodka for me.
Second: Just water.
Bartender: What you lads having?
If you don't get that last UDP joke, nobody cares.
My best joke is about token ring, but I can't tell you that one as it's not my turn.
The next time you forget a word for something, say “Ah, what’s the word for that in English again?” People will assume you’re bilingual instead of stupid.
Couldn't find anything to watch so we put on White House Down from 2013. What a laughably terrible movie. watched the whole thing because it was at least action packed...and just really really Hollywood.
A horse walks into a bar and orders a pint. The bartender says “You’re in here pretty often. Do you think you might be an alcoholic?”
The horse replies “I don’t think I am”, and immediately vanishes from existence.
See, the joke is about Descartes’s philosophical first principle, commonly known as “I think, therefore I am”, but to explain that part first would be putting Descartes before the horse.
Got my home charger installed this week for my new electric car. I have less"range anxiety" now and don't have to pay at overpriced charging stations. I love that it's a quiet and smooth ride.
Crazy weekend. had our daughter's birthday at our home, with lots of people. spent the entire next day doing basically nothing. nice change of pace but I like my old routine.
played racquetball tonight with two others. won one, lost the others. drenched in sweat. felt great.
It's nice to have all #oldComputerChallenge in one place on Gopher and Gemini.
gopher://occ.deadnet.se:70/1/users
I was on a small holiday for the last few days. There was sunny and hot, but not humid. The first half of July was very pleasant this year. Especially in the green areas while slow walk in the morning, or with the sun setting down. Trees are still green and didn't suffer from the heat too much. The late sun is shining in oranges and reds. It isn't necessary to go abroad to get a positive vibe.
And in such beautiful conditions, I was able to spend those days almost offline. It wasn't a big deal. Summer is the best time for that.
There isn't much rush in the smolnet. But it's worth to mention that the #oldComputerChallenge is running. So I've tuned up my eyes for that, there are many articles in the Gophersphere, the Geminispace, and the Fediverse. I am always looking forward to that event and of course for the ROOPHLOCH. It's a good way to find interesting authors.
And there is a shit-storm about Threads and Mastodon federation. There is an interesting article /How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)/ by Ploum. I am feeling the same and those thoughts are close to my heart because I was a huge advocate of Jabber in that time. There were several big XMPP/Jabber servers and most of my friends in my XMPP/Jabber roster then. All that is gone. Google Talk finally was the Trojan horse rather than a good choice for XMPP/Jabber adopters.
I've caught up on all matters in my text environment. There wasn't any new e-mail. There was an interesting article on Usenet (/Retro and Smol Tools for the Text Tinker Train/ by Syber Shock on alt.bbs). There was a pull request for codeberg.org/szczezuja/gemini_PL. Day like every day.
P.S.
I've changed my Tinylog for the longer entries.
1100 folk on Station as of today! I’m pleased people are still finding Station useful in an ever growing Gemini world. Very happy to keep the lights on while people still find value in this community. 👏
I had a dream in Esperanto last night. It still feels surreal when that happens. Ege mojose ankoraŭ, tamen.
Added anonymous feedback today to a few of my gemlogs. All future entries will have it. I got the idea from @morgan and Bubble. I hand craft my capsule so this is one of those times I wish I used a SSG with templates so I don't have to retro-fit my gemlogs.
Here's a Threads-inspired coding joke for you this glorious Friday. If you know, you know.
Knock knock.
Race condition.
Who's there?
I've been gradually making my way though PG's latest essay "How to Do Great Work". Very motivating, and full of great points. Here's some I noted.
Essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/greatwork.html
Notes: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/martinrue/1db57ae5d5b37d8b92ae23566dd100f6/raw/637301496c089620a3df535fee330deeae003b7d/great-work.txt
Announcement: you can view as many posts here per day as you damn well please.
“Nobody supposes that the knowledge that belongs to the good cook is confined to what is or may be written down in the cookery book.”
Cool to see a LangFocus video about Esperanto, which does a typically stellar job of breaking down the language and explaining why it exists and why it's cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK6FCzqAiwI
Finally tried out rsync to create and push a gemlog to my capsule. I have a quick script to help me now.
Aaaand it's out! Here's the next episode of the podcast with Siru Laine. What a great conversation about languages, language-learning, translation, and tons more. Enjoy!
Kaj finfine nun haveblas la 4a epizodo de la podkasto. En tiu ĉi, mi estas kun la kara Siru Laine kaj babilas pri ĉio de lingvoj kaj lingvo-lernado al tradukado, kiom mojose estus havi etan kafejon en Skotlando, kaj kompreneble pri Eŭrovizio (kion vi atendis‽) Ĝuu!
La mp3-dosiero: https://hazardaj.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/umado-kun-martin-e04.mp3
RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/dd97c5c4/podcast/rss
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1YjRzCkReWSs2v06xOLpx8?si=58a9e99a9fa646e4
Aliaj apoj: serĉu "Umado Kun Martin"
recently got promoted. now I step further into management. there's no going back.
It seems Red Hat (IBM) goes after Alma Linux and Rocky Linux with a new decision to restrict access to the RHEL sources - which makes it difficult for Alma and Rocky to keep up with their binary compatible distros. Like they killed CentOS which was the most used OS on internet servers. Alma and Rocky told users not to "panic" because they are certain to resolve the issues, but we'll see what impact this has on RHEL clones this time.
https://linuxiac.com/red-hat-restricts-access-to-its-source-code/
Haven't made an update to my gemini site in a while. It's hard to think about some topic to write about. I recently have digged a little into Nix and NixOS but I think this is a huge topic to cover if I want to write about it. I also finally found my way to bbs.geminispace.org. I am sceptical if I'll use bubble in the long turn. On the other hand it's a lot of fun :)
This evening I recorded a new episode of my Esperanto podcast after a little break. This one was super fun, and all about language learning from someone who really knows what she's talking about (she speaks 15). Looking forward to releasing this one soon. 👏
Anyone else following this Titan story? Crazy! I hope they're found alive, but that's looking very slim. Insane to imagine yourself in the same position in terms of how you'd behave, what you'd do.
Bought an electric car yesterday. I know batteries can harm the environment too but my opinion is that batteries are easier to deal with than getting CO back out of the atmosphere. I also like the car, so that helps. And to hell with paying for gasoline and oil.
The thing about getting upset at someone is that they also get upset with you. I have the opposite of anger issues but sometimes I feel like I can never be angry, never be upset at anything. I just have to take deep breaths and look at it with a different view, consider their side, and see if I'm unreasonable. Sometimes I don't want to do all that, I just want to be upset because I never am.
In today's episode of Random Uses of ChatGPT: asking it to go from IPA to an approximation of a phonetic spelling in a given accent. Not bad results!
PS: if you're about to ask me "why‽", don't – I'll just make you dumber and you'll never get the time back.
Re: I just want to play fucking Call of Duty on my day off
this had me in stitches. thanks for the lol.
Happy Father's Day for all the fathers out there, and for those that celebrate it.
It was several weeks and I lost the habit of using Mastodon. I am looking through my timeline, and I'm not feeling the need to be active. It seems that many of followed accounts are also inactive. Maybe that feeling of novelty passed away?
I've checked my text e-mails and there were new messages. I've checked Usenet.
Now I'm sitting in my living room and I'm looking through the open windows. There is a stormy weather today and it's raining now. Clouds are hanging very low, and it's a bit foggy. I am lucky because the view from the window extends to an open urban space with lots of greenery. Many plans, are shrouded in rain and light mist.
Radio music is in the background. And the clear sound of rain.
finger warsaw@graph.no
-= Meteogram for Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland =-
'C Rain (mm)
22 ===
21 ======^^^ ===
20======
19 ===
18 ======
17 ^^^^^^
16 | ^^^ 4 mm
15 | | ^^^ ### 3 mm
14 | | | ^^^ 2 mm
13 | | | | | | | | ### ###### 1 mm
_10_11_12_13_14_15_16_17_18_19_20 21 22 23 19/06 02 03 04_05_06_07 Hour
Legend left axis: - Sunny ^ Scattered = Clouded =V= Thunder # Fog
Legend right axis: | Rain ! Sleet * Snow
The advantage of building more slowly but with a big focus on keeping it simple is that I’m returning to some code without any doubts or desire to change it to keep up with some trend or major version release of a framework. Good feeling.
I was at a creative networking event last night for the first time in ages. I forgot how good it is meeting and chatting to new people and finding out about their lives, goals and challenges. Need to do more of that!
🎬 New video, complete with guest appearance by a PB!
This one's about what I get from the gym and why it has been part of my life for the last 10+ years. I had to eat especially for this one, but it was worth it. 👏
https://youtu.be/Nf_4mABFh9w
Welcome back to the desk, USB fan. It was a long winter, but your services are once again required.
I know that titan isn't an official spec but I think it'll help me post gemlogs and better formatted tinylogs from my phone, so I'm taking the trade off. heck I guess tinylogs aren't official either but that's ingrained now too. I'm a 98% phone user of Gemini so this will definitely help me
I've slowed down. I'm observing (mentioned by @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space here) discussion at:
gemini://station.martinrue.com/at_work/c6275820116d492e964f6100de46b4bb
and thinking about the activity of /bbs.geminispace.org/ and no activity on /comp.infosystems.gemini/.
I'm wondering why people have abandoned only one real distributed system for discussion. So we had boards in BBS' era, then its superior version as NNTP, and then we've gone of course and started to think that we could use for that: WWW (aka. web forums), ActivityPub (despite messages length constraint, threading lack and so on), and now Gemini (aka gemini forum).
We don't have today's software for NTTP for sure. But in the small net while we are fond of using /neomutt/, we should accept for eg. /slrn/ as well.
Some folks are in a tizzy over on #station regarding @morgan's suggestion on #bubble about user verifications on Gemini. I'm on the fence about jumping in but it's interesting to see such a strong feeling here in geminispace, to the point of using expletives. On the one hand I see @skyjake's point about impersonations but on the other it is more centralization and tracking across sites. I see both sides, but it definitely is going away from the original essence of Gemini. I think our Benevolent Dictator For Life, @solderpunk could jump in and clear things up before other people start making decisions around here.
The phrase "can't swing a dead cat without hitting xxx" has always struck me as odd
East Coast of the U.S. is getting a preview of the future if we don't switch off fossil fuels.
creating per-site certificate entries for Amfora is frustratingly manual when I'm so used to automated in-app options.
split my tooth in half playing racquetball last night. No blood and not a lot of pain so I didn't qualify for emergency dental work. appointment today in a little bit. I got too close to the person I was playing in order to throw them off, but ended up taking the back swing to the mouth. spat out the tooth and promptly ended the game.
When I feel like I need to escape my current reality for a bit, switching language really helps hit that spot. Anyone else experience that? 📚
with the creation of Bubble, I'm wondering about two things: 1) when Station will cease to get at least one post per day and 2) when the community will press forward without @solderpunk on Gemini spec expansions. Browser writers have a lot of sway on what new and unofficial spec enhancements make it into common use, and with all the specification talk on Bubble these days, I feel like it's inevitable. prediction: an unofficial specification group is formed.
Feeling great after a perfect weekend of enjoying the beautiful weather with the best company, lots of cycling, sticking to the gym routine and many hours with the compiler. Hope you all had a similarly refreshing weekend. 🙌
The last day was about /geminispace.org/ domain name. So it's nice that Skyjake tries to listen to every voice on the Geminispace. The result of that is the new domain name /bbs.geinispace.org/. The /Bubble/ user subspaces are acting like a BBS board or like a 90's forum. It's convenient to set up an article from any Gemini address and build a response thread below the original content.
For me, the better layout (without emojis etc.) of that is on /Geddit/, which as I've read is switching to an Onion address. I must look closer at the Onion workflow. There are many Gopher and Gemini resources, which I've never seen.
gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/thread?16191
gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/1137
I don't understand fighting in ice hockey
I wish Ted Lasso had to work with a truly difficult person that wasn't won over with Midwest charm.
Finished Ted Lasso. one of the best shows I've ever seen. Glad they stuck to the original 3 season plan. Bravo.
Now for a spinoff since they need to ride that gravy train.
I dislike open wifi hotspots to that block vpn.
I'm curious: among the cycle crowd, do you guys have a word for the pain of having a bicycle seat shoved up your ass for the first time after a long break? Asking for a friend.... 's ass, obvs.
@textmonger and @circadian are my two favorite gemlogs these days. it's like a frequent /daily gemlog review digest.
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