author: justyb
I'm sorry, I believe I asked for much LESS intersting times. Less, not expeditiously increasing in interest.
In the vien of weird polls, I present…
[POLL If your IRL job was a hard drive how fast would your RPMs be?] 5400 - We get there when we get there! | 7200 - I don't NEED coffee! This job needs ME to have coffee. | 10000 - This isn't work, this is a lifestyle. | 15000 - My life is a candle and my only lament is that there are but only two sides to be lit. | SSD/NVMe - Do what you love and you'll never work a day.
[POLL How cooked do you like your bacon?] As little as possible | Bendy but brown | Light crisp | Charcoal | I don't eat bacon
Gave Fedora 40 a try. Was quite good, but ultimately I've come back to PopOS.
Just watched the first episode of X-Men 97. I know, just getting around to it. Just wow. It's really good.
Does anyone here use Yesterweb? (gemini://cities.yesterweb.org/) I was thinking of posting some of my more lengthy thoughts somewhere and that came up on my radar. Any good?
I espeically like the idea of being able to use Titan to upload to the capsule directly.
Wow it got cold pretty quick!
Just got done watching Pokémon Concierge on Netflix. Was really good show that's heart warming and charming at the same time. Absolutely what I need right about now.
Added error handling to my Rust Gemini browser and proper TLS Identity handling, no more hard-coding things. Next step is to break out the building a request from the actual TCP connection. Ideally, I'd like to support Spartan, Titan, and Gopher. So I'll need the ability to make requests be a changeable thing.
Hello Station! This is me, posting from my first Gemini client written in Rust. It's not very good as for the 10 status code, I have to hard code what I want to send at the moment. Ultimate goal is to eventually have a client that can do basic browsing on Station.
I've found it interesting that sometime I worry about losing the good life that I have worked hard to build only to follow that thought up with, but I will lose everything one day there's not a stopping that.
Interestingly, the material difference between the two seems to be whether I will have to live through that loss or not. And it turns that worry into an inqury as to the degree of selfishness all this stems from.
IDK, just putting something out here. The more I have lived the more I understand the degree of that which I don't understand. It's a lot apparently and I'm solid to the position that humanity has just been flying by the seat of their pants for quite some time.
[POLL I'm upgrading from an AMD Ryzen 1600. My next CPU should be] Ryzen 7 5800x, great budget friendly update | Ryzen 9 5900x, it's only $150 more | Ryzen 7 7800x3d, yeah the mobo will cost you but make the swap to AM5 | Other, leave comment
Woooo!! New issue of SmolZINE! gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/smolzine-issue-40.gmi Many thanks to @kelbot, I always look forward for these issues. I'm especially a fan of Stinky Pinky. I've got a pretty good idea what this one is!
For dinner I had Raisin Bran cereal. I literally had zero motivation to cook tonight, so I went for a comfort food.
Big storm moved through the area today and one of the doors got blown in. Broke the latch of the door and the door itself looks like it'll need to be replaced.
However, that's about the extent of the damage unlike my neighbor who lost quite a bit of his roof's shingles.
My made-up wisdom:
Complicated things are complicated, and if there exists a desire to uncomplicate those things, that endeavor is complicated.
I went to a park the other day. The park has a new tennis complex in the location where the county agricultural center used to be.
I remember as a kid my grandfather would take us kids there to show livestock. After we were done, we'd get a foil wrapped ham and biscuit from one of the vendors that would usually show up.
I remember this one time my cousin got his biscuit and my cousin had ran off into the stands. After awhile, we all finally found him. Sitting on the top row of seats. He said, "Hey granddaddy, you said we could watch a bit before we left." And so we all did. (Rest of story in replies)
Moment of analogy. Gasoline is dangerous. For obvious reasons, one must be careful with it. Not just toss it all over the place or chuck matches at it.
And yet millions of people fuel their transport with it every day with little fanfare.
I feel there is a bit of an analogy, at least given some events today, to organized religion. That's all. Sorry to intrude. For what it's worth, I successfully made my first whole grain loaf of bread today. A bittersweet event after reading about some of the news today.
What I learned about the future of Reddit from the AMA
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My biscuit recipe:
230g of White Lilly Self-Rising flour.
50g of Crisco Butter Flavor shortening.
Use biscuit cutter to cut shortening into flour
Chill flour in freezer five minutes
160g (yes grams) of whole buttermilk
Stir mixture "just enough"
Roll into ¾ to 1 inch thick sheet, cut with biscuit cutter (never turn the cutter, up and down motions ONLY)
Melt some unsalted butter in a bowl, add a drop of buttermilk to melted butter, brush on the tops of the biscuits.
Bake at 450°F or 220°C for about 10 minutes ± 5 minutes
This is my quick recipe when I'm in a rush.
Personal opinion, but perhaps a widely held one. Charley horses are very unpleasant and I would rather them not be a thing.
I say this having been woken up this morning by one. Was quite rude to have been woken up so early today.
I volunteered to wait staff for a VFW dinner last night. I am certain that I have overdone myself with the carrying dishes. I was hoping to sleep in a bit late to make up, but clearly my muscles had other intentions.
Side note in all of this: I more than likely need a bit of regular exercise before I go off and do these kinds of strenuous activies.
Begin rant/ Dorsey's new Blueksy just came to Android. Insert the usual:
Those that forget the past, something, something, use more social media.
Bluesky has decided to use their own decentralization protocol because (https://xkcd.com/927/) Yes you already know which xkcd that one is.
I hear ideas on why Gemtext needs to have *Insert markdown idea here* (humor of using italic markdown not lost here) and the thing is, if there ever is some "update" to Gemtext it ought to be something "we†" all agree upon. Because if not, well that's Jack Dorsey and you don't want to be **that** guy.
† we being a broad term I won't define better here
Does anyone know if SmolZine is going? I keep checking back every so often but I haven't seen anything as of late. I always liked StinkyPInky.
gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/smolzine/
Over on this post gemini://thrig.me/blog/2023/03/04/xkcd-colon-slash-slash.gmi I found on Antenna I see this about the xkcd scheme such as xkcd://356.
Of course there is no standards body hashing out these details, it's just me making up stuff as I go along
That's all any of this is, stuff we make up as we go along.
Saw this post gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2023-02_side-if.gmi today. It's great to see people still interested in new IF. I've been an Inform 7 kind of person for some years now.
The thing @skyjake is pitching is pretty interesting. I'm still a fan of the Zork style (type all your input in) but I get the vast improvement with the point and click.
Case in point, the difference between old Day of the Tentacle (with it's mostly Manic Mansion UI) versus the Remastered version with the UI Skyjake is thinking about.
The difference in the actual end product isn't much different, but the newer UI prevents the "correct verb" fustration that the early version had.
So count me as interested.
People of Earth, I am successfully posting to Station from Lagrange on iOS.
Also outside of the oddity of someone who uses Linux using an iPhone, transferring my Lagrange data was easy stuff except for getting the zip file from my Linux machine to my iOS device.
Mostly because I forgot that email was a thing for like twenty minutes. But importing my stuff from my Linux box Lagrange into iOS Lagrange, very easy 👌👍
So apparently the sociopath in me has decided to try a bit of writing a Gemini client in Rust, which yes I know there's plenty already.
I think the point is less to make an actual client in Rust and more to learn sockets in Rust, and also to get a bit better at Rust in general.
Interestingly, there's not much to do to get a VERY basic Gemini client running. I'm currently using just the url and native-tls crates and in about 50 lines have a basic spit gemtext out onto the CLI.
But I think having done this, I've really come to apprciate the sometimes terse nature Rust tends to enforce about coding.
Using the lastest Lagrange but finding that inline images are shown with a blue/green tint. Like the red channel is missing. https://imgur.com/a/C88QE7N
The user interface is fine and downloading the actual image produces a normal image, but the inline preview just has an odd tint to it.
Something I've noticed about Lagrange is when I have "split view" going, if I click on something in the left pane that prompts, the prompt shows up in the right pane.
Wasn't sure if that's a configurable thing or if I've messed up or something I should note as a bug? Has anyone else had this issue? This is on v1.13.7.
I've been working on building a shed on my land for working on all my digital circuits. Was at the installing insulation phase when the winter air hit the US. Now that it has moved on it was time to head back out to the shed and complete the insulation.
I thought for sure that ice, water, something would have found it's way through something. I am happy to report that I'm apparently much better at framing and putting up outer walls than I originally gave myself credit for. (Or that I have beginner's luck)
I have found that an increase of cynicism leads to a decrease of trust. Not that, that finding is based on a rigorous study or anything, just simply something I have observed over the years.
It seems, to me, that general cynicism (people one is likely to never have a personal relationship with) somehow bleeds over into specific trust (people one is likely to have a personal relationship with).
Now of course what prompted this, I just spent a weekend with friends whom I've not talked to in some time. And it got me thinking about family visits I've had recently that's had similar results.
Or I am really good at selecting a particular type of person to surround myself with.
Just noticed that Geddit (gemini://geddit.glv.one/) has an expired certificate. I tried looking for a ... contact.txt (I think that's the correct one) file but didn't find anything.
A friend of mine has been working on building a shed to "office" in with the whole WFH stuff. Last weekend he asked if I could help with digging a trench for a fiber optic run.
Digging a two foot down and seventy-five feet long trench is some intense work. The nice thing is there was five of us there, so took us a good afternoon. But dang, I highly recommend just renting a trencher for anyone else attempting anything similar.
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.
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"?
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.
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.
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!
I completely agree with this message. gemini://space.matthewphillips.info/posts/spartan-gemtext/
Mmmm.. Fresh shipment of breadboards today. I've got a few 74HC573s intended for them. ☺
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.
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/
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.
Is anyone else having issues with gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space ??
It seems down at the moment.
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
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.
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.
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.