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My new year's resolution is to make my next post in Geminispace on December 31, 2025. Not because I don't like spamming Station, but because I'm committed to focusing 100% on my Gemini-related projects. I'd rather announce something than chat. Have a happy 2025.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42533685 https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2024/12/3.html Yet again big tech is found exfiltrating your data (this time supposedly with homomorphic encryption, a method end users cannot verify, and does not guarantee other methods of data exfiltration are not taking place, now or in the future; the HN comments are an important read). Smart phones are, in the first instance, an intelligence test: are you stupid enough to allow an Orwellian telescreen into your life? Then it becomes a political test: are you willing to tolerate your society succuming to totalitarian surveillance by corporations and authoritarian governments? If not, then what?
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https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2024-11-27-emacs-aritrary-code-execution-and-how-to-avoid-it.html Emacs is like a bloated browser, but whereas you can turn off JS in Firefox, you can't really turn off lisp macros in Emacs since that's basically what Emacs is. Without the macros there is no Emacs. I just learned that my intuition about Emacs security has been proven true: looking at a /simple/ lisp macro in Emacs could trigger a malicious attack. Emacs is vulnerable going back at least to June 2018. This is why the minimalism and simplicity movement in software has to attack all stacks. We need small secure building blocks that can be sandboxed. Not bloated monoliths ... just to edit text.
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Oh my god this is a great post. gemini://ploum.net/2024-12-23-julius-en.gmi My feeling? In a highly testable environment, like computer programming where it is immediately apparent if the result is correct or not, having a Julius around can be educational, because correcting errors is learning.
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On the front page of Hacker News: artemis.jamesg.blog Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts. All you need is an email address to sign up. They'll be storing your username, email, preferences, feeds subscribed to, and content in the feeds to which you've subscribed. They'll be logging your IP address. Isn't it bizarre that bookmarks have been such a colossal, featureless failure? The web has failed on the most fundamental things. And this is the result.
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I like computers because I don't like people. People are disappointing, close-minded, and herd-like. The main thing people want is for you to like them, and especially to /be/ like them. And if you're not, you're the bad guy. 90% of the "thinking" of the average person consists in signalling to their tribe. If you don't belong to any tribe, then you're not part of 90% of the conversation. Don't worry, they'll label you. Now you're part of the conversation, as the bad guy. I'd rather be alone and talk to computers than talk to people. I can build with computers. People are a waste of time, except in aggregate, as a search space. I don't want to belong.
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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 - Mike Benz Near the end of this presentation Mike Benz describes the connections between the oil lobby and the emerging censorship regime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJhQpvlkLA
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Let's all agree to fix our software so that it does not require the CR in the CRLF end-of-line mark. In other words, let's accept inputs that using only a bare NL as the end-of-line. Once all the software has been fixed, then we can all stop sending CRs. https://fossil-scm.org/home/ext/stop-requiring-crlf.md This topic is relevant to the Gemini protocol specification. Under requests: The client connects to the server and sends a request which consists of an absolute URI followed by a CR (character 13) and LF (character 10). gemini://geminiprotocol.net/docs/protocol-specification.gmi
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gemini://the-brannons.com/social-justice-gone-wild/ Here's the backstory. I got permabanned for hate speech in r/politics on reddit. LOL Agree or disagree with what he says, OP is blind so you have to just smile and pat him on the head patronizingly. Because you respect disabled people. Actually some interesting tidbits here, if you don't mind that the guy's blind: gemini://the-brannons.com/posts/ Did I mention he's blind? I love blind people. I've added 'sighted' to my Twitter bio, just to prove to everyone how much of an ally I am. Now blind people can't say sh-t to me. If you don't have 'sighted' in your Twitter bio, you're a bad person.
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What happened to Station? n months ago, @martin had to revamp the presentation just to keep a sensible number of posts on the front page. Now posts last for days. Just a slow week? A related question, are there any new communities or services popping up in Geminispace? I gotta say, from a personal perspective, this whole Gemini thing has been one hell of a rabbit hole. Sometimes I get the feeling I'm the only one digging. But that's okay. More fun for me.
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I'm trying to paste some text into clagrange, but it ain't happening. So I'll keep this short. chawan is a new text-based www browser that has the right stuff. I can see it replacing w3m for general purpose terminal web usage. Unlike browish and carbonyl, chawan has its own rendering engine. It also works over gemini. https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
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It's a crucial moment worth remembering: I've got an essay to post and no place to post it, except on platforms that (a) require a proctology examination (aka normie social media) or (b) don't work over Tor (aka almost everything else including Reddit and the chans), or (c) have censorship policies that make it impossible to participate in good faith. Question, is there a place to post longform content in Geminispace that doesn't require a login via HTTP, and is not @skyjake's BBS? Is there a pastebin in Geminispace? Thanks.
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Local AI changes the game. Was offline for 3 months. Didn't miss a thing. Came back. Like a mental cleanse. Not getting sucked into anything. AI better than search for programming augment. Doesn't suck you into BS. Perfect for autists, hermits, and prisoners. Going back to my 14 hour days. See you in 3 months. P.S. If you're curious, look up 'mistral AI llamafile'. You will not regret. --posted from my clagrange