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👋 AS400 RPGLE/COBOL/C++ I do those things. But most likely not here. Here instead, perhaps to discover more Gemini and getting back to a Smolweb.
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I just wanted to take a moment to say that seasonal allergies... I'm not a big fan of them. In fact, I think we could just do away with them entirely and I'd be fine with that. That's all the time I'll take from you today, thanks for reading.
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If one could upload their entire mind into a computer system to make a computer brain: Would our flesh brain get jealous that the computer brain copy gets to live on long after it [the flesh brain] is gone? Would the flesh brain wave away the issue with some logic like, "It doesn't matter, I'll be gone" or "Well it's me anyway, so what does it matter"?
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Story time Once upon a time I went with some friends to one of those guided whitewater rafting things. While the raft was getting ready, I had the following conversation with the guide: me - Where do the brave sit? guide - In the front. m - Where do the idiots sit? g - In the front. m - Well what separates the brave and the idiots? g - Their willingness to accept their choice. I still think back to that conversation to this day.
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A friendly reminder that Internet Explorer support ends tomorrow. The 27-year old browser is finally laid to rest/put out of it's misery.
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Hooray! I figured out Stinky Pinky from smolZINE!! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-27.gmi It's little wins that matter the most these days!
💬 0 Replies · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I completely agree with this message. gemini://space.matthewphillips.info/posts/spartan-gemtext/
💬 1 Reply · 2 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Mmmm.. Fresh shipment of breadboards today. I've got a few 74HC573s intended for them. ☺
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Clear example of the difference between mindset of web browser devs and Geminispace devs. I don't want to encourage the use of Markdown instead of Gemtext, as that would make viewing content in other clients a worse experience. gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-05_lagrange-1.13.gmi Had this been the web, a browser dev would have been "Cool! Now we can crush everyone else!" @skyjake actually stopping to think about other clients' devs is something you just don't see on the web anymore.
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Inform7 is now Open Source! I don't if anyone is into Interactive Fiction, but I love Inform, been using it since Inform 6 in like 2005-something or another. If you ever wanted to write your own "Zork", Inform 7 is an amazing choice. http://inform7.com/
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Had our first really warm day today. Broke out the lawn mower. Started drifting in thought while cutting. Nothing really, just in and out of different things. But I hadn't been in a state of just roaming around in my head since the pandemic. What I did find out is that I really need to dust out the old noggin. Clearly I need to pick back up some old hobbies.
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Is anyone else having issues with gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space ?? It seems down at the moment.
💬 2 Replies · 4 Thumbs · 2 years ago
I recently read Stack's newest post and hit this spot in it. If Gemini ever becomes a valuable entity, it will be seized by one or more corporations. It will be googleized, twittered, and facebooked (ahem, metaversed I suppose) overnight. And I think the answer is, we will find somewhere new. I think the digital landscape offers us the change to carve out new places in an endless sea of interconnected computers. Your own life, or your band's, or even your species' might be owed to a restless few-drawn, by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands and new worlds. —We Are Wanderers - Carl Sagan
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I think I’m fortunate. I live somewhere in the middle of nowhere with fiber optic internet. I get to be connected to the world, while looking out my window at hills and trees. It’s an interesting feeling to be nowhere but have the entire world at fingertips.
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I recently saw this posted about adding emphsis with the limited markup that gemtext provides. gemini://gerikson.com/gemlog/gemini-sux/e-m-p-h-a-s-i-s.gmi 𝖧𝖮𝖶𝖤𝖵𝖤𝖱, there are math unicode that seems to be able to do roughly the same thing. 𝗟𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱. 𝘖𝘳 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤. It's not a perfect system, but I think it works well enough.
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We are not made great by having a single great thing. We are great because we have a great number of things. The world, and perhaps, the universe seems to prefer heterogeneity. 🍌 1,000s of clone bananas and a single virus takes them out. 🏭 One giant company and it is too big to fail. 🌲 A single kind of tree and a disease makes the land bare. But a diversity… a diversity survives, a diversity promotes more diversity. And a diversity of web 🌐♊ promotes more diversity of the web.