Gemini Links 05/05/2024: Infobesity and Profectus Beta 1.0
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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More ideas for my capsule
I picked up "Confessions of an English Opium Eater" off a cafe bookshelf some time ago and read a first few pages. Then I got the idea that I'll read the whole thing in a terminal and downloaded a copy from Project Gutenberg. Why not host the entire thing on my capsule for a few months; I think it's a funny thing to take up some of my server space and some of the geminispace snapshots.
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🔤SpellBinding: GILNTYV Wordo: BRUIN
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Timeless Nature
I live about 40 miles away from the nearest major city; most of the city's bigger suburbs are still about 15 miles away from my house. Because of this, and because I work from home full-time, I rarely have a chance to go on walks around the city. I used to walk with my friends quite frequently in my university days, and I miss it.
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basking in puce
amid a bit of uncertainty in my life i have been holding on to certain experiences tight as a way to savor them for longer than i'd be able to. perhaps i'd be better served by the ephemerality of some of these experiences, but i am entranced by the way they catch the light: they glimmer and fracture beams as a collection of prisms. i film these experiences in a way that feels timeless, or, more correctly, "out of time." and perhaps it's intentional, but these are exactly the experiences i chase, craving them both for novelty and timelessness as a kind of transcendence. maybe i can't reproduce them, but i can try reproduce the feeling as a way to relish those memories - to make them out of time, out of place, and perhaps even positively anachronistic.
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Exploring Meshtastic
The basic premise is that you can send short, end-to-end encrypted text messages over the LoRa protocol using commodity hardware that costs as little as $20 USD. Meshtastic radios form a mesh network such that messages can be relayed through other nodes beyond the range of a single radio. You connect your radio to your phone over Bluetooth and use an app to send and receive messages.
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Welcome to the abandoned land
They call me saint, but it is only a surface, a mirage that hide the decaying flesh, the bones protruding and tensioning the flesh into a macabre mask.
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post iii
My friend asked me what my "type" was the other day, and when I went over all of the people I've dated, I couldn't find a single thing they all had in common, other than not going well of course. But maybe that's just bitterness. I wondered how it was possible to find so many people with so little in common; after a certain point it seems unlikely, surely all of us have at least some commonality. Maybe I've subconciously been crossing off types of humans as I date them. That's a fucked up thing to write.
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Politics and World Events
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Separating the (wo)man from the politician
It was after visiting an uncle when this question came to me. He is a militant of the extreme right, an admirer (adherent?) of Action Française. He's practicing what we call revisionism,the fact to rewrite the history, especially about the dark side of the French History like the Vichy Regime. With this aspects of him, he could be seen as a kind of monster. But he's also a father and a grand father. He's a bland, lambda individual, with nothing wrong in his life. If you don"t speak about politics or about the life in his town, he's someone like you and me. I could say he's someone engaging and friendly. OK, he's a hunter too and that's a problem for a vegan like me but I will not create a fight about that (...He has got a gun). But if you spend several days with him, there will be a moment with a racist or xenophobic remark. I know what it is, my own mother does that sometimes....But with him, it's more than a simple remark, it's a profound ideology, with the continuation of a racist movement that has its roots in 19th century France and to which our Minister of the Interior was close. For me, it's hard to separate the man from that.
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Technology and Free Software
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a discord server
Someone told me to write something about a discord server and the people in it.
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Infobesity
This word is a neologism that describes the situation of having too much information to manage. Many smartphone users suffer from this disease, which has appeared with various inventions in our "modern" world. But it's not just a matter of the device, it's a matter of human behaviour. I can give a testimony like many people in the world.
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Orbit - Destroy An Orbiting Enemy Spaceship (1973)
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Internet/Gemini
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Midnight Pub
I changed my mind on the whole "internet bad" thing, by the way. I have read The Gutenberg Parenthesis[4]. I have been convinced. Age of print was also bad, and good. Internet age is (going to be) bad, and good. Linear text bound in books isn't eveything; let's not be snobbish about oral formats and casual forms of writing. Mostly print represents a culture of centralized authority and expertise, with everything bad and good about that. The internet age is an opportunity to get away from some of that, but, unfortunately, also an opportunity for fascists to overthrow everything and set themselves up.
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Profectus Beta 1.0
It's been a few days less than a month since I released the first alpha of this project, and about 5 days more than a month since I started this project. Profectus has come quite a long way since then. The very first version lacked tabs, themes, spartan support, smooth scrolling, animated images, and had buggy DPI Scaling issues. All of these features have now been added since the first release, and the DPI scaling issues should be mostly fixed. I am very happy with what I've accomplished within a month.
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Hey everyone, this is amazing.
I got a domain name for 1 dollar and you're telling me there's no limit to how big a website I can put in it? Up to what I can store, of course. It's only on a little raspberry pi and there are exactly 100 Megabytes still free on it.
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My first website
During my test and tries with a new CSS on the French website, I had souvenirs of the first try to build a web site. It was in 1999, I think and I don't remember where it was hosted. But I wrote it without many help, not using tools like Dreamweaver or something like that. It was made with some HTML pages, anchors and links and something ugly for the background. It was also with frames, you know that way to divide a website in several parts with a menu on the left, a banner on top and the page in the center. It was a time when CSS was only an idea in the head of someone in the W3C. Now, it seems ugly but it was fun to do.
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Programming
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Homepage updater script
I made a script to copy the five most recent entries from gemlog/index.gmi to index.gmi (the home page), so that I don't have to add new ones to two indices and take old ones off by hand.
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