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Gemini Links 05/06/2023: New Ship in Cosmic Voyage, Stack Overflow Moderator Strike



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal

      • but when the world needed him most, he vanished

        hi, so im an asshole. ive replied to a few of the emails that have dripped through in the past two and a half years of inactivity, but not all of them. there were a surprising number. i guess people were reading my dumb blog after all lol. im sorry to anyone whose email wasnt replied to. im an asshole.

      • living in the batman pod and eating the batman bugs

        as ive described, im gonna be including some of my letterboxd reviews where they appear to fit into the theme of this blog, and this is definitely one such post. it deals with the legacy of trumpism (and centrist reactions to that legacy) in the biden era, an era this blog has wholly failed to describe due to my absence, and, in the end, sort of sets the stakes for the discussions that this blog will end up covering in the next few years.

      • First post on smol.pub!

        Just what is says on the tin, it's my first time posting on here! If I'm honest it's pretty much my first time that I can really recall ever writing in this kind of format, so I'm new to it all.

        I don't know who, if anyone, will be reading this, but if you're reading right now then hello! My name is Claire, or Mr. Pinkvampyr if you prefer, I'm not sure what I'll be writing here but it'll probably mostly just be about my life, the things I'm into, maybe a little bit about activism, and since I've started learning to code, some updates on that as well!

      • 🔤SpellBinding: YIJLOVA Wordo: HIKED
      • Anticipating Stockholm Marathon, Kitchen stuff, Recording of TKey talk, Media computer, TKey Hackathon, Lund Linux Conference.

        Evening, electrons!

        When I start writing this my short working week is over. Tomorrow, Friday, is a day off, remember? Productive day today, but nothing really fancy going on. Still mostly splitting up repos. Things are slowly moving into place. But of course other things turn up and has to be prioritized.

        Been coughing and feeling a little under the weather but it's cleared up now. This, however, meant I missed the last longsword practice for the semester! There will probably be some sparring in a park during the summer, but I tend to be in my cottage a lot, so it's kind of hard to go 120 km by bus just to fence a little... But then again. Yeah, very much a luxary problem. I can always do solo drills on the lawn...

    • Technical

      • Text wrapping a mail or new message

        It's surprisingly hard to get this right. I feel like I need this in order to use `ed` as the editor for `tin`, my current news client.

      • Aggregators Tilt East

        UI design is hard; fairness is hard. Fair UI design? No chance.

        I was doing my usual afternoon walk today and thinking about traffic lights and their influence on walking patterns.

        Specifically: I think I have identified that there is a bias in my route.

      • Short Post: The Stack Overflow Moderator Strike

        Stack Overflow's volunteer mod team is on strike from moderation activity as a result of Stack Overflow's failure to allow robust moderation of machine-generated submissions.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • New ship in Cosmic Voyage - Lantashi Dance

          One of my favorite Gemini capsules, filled with different sci-fi stories (from different authors), is Cosmic Voyage! I've decided to try my hand at writing some fiction in this shared universe, and asked to join :) I've always loved reading other people's fiction. You get to *inside* them, and share in their imaginations. It's really cool.

          Writing for the universe is interesting. You get a login to a Linux server. The instructions are on the site on how to join up. I'm still working on figuring everything out on there, but I was able to create a ship, and submit a log.

        • emotional allocation

          I put more into my e-mails and online exchanges (usually IRC, and also M.P) these days when I am not fish-frying my emotions to grease and grime via logging every day. No need for me to desensitize my writing chops or my emotional form(s) of expression. Straight forward exchanges and sincere comraderie. There's where it's at! :)

        • Odyssey

          I am tired of WordPress blog which I used on and off for 7 years or so. Never liked the interface. But some good photography blogs kept me there.

          I am tired of my Tumblr (it is not blogging) that I have been using on and of for 7 years or so. What kept me there ? So easy to share my photos and some other photographers . It is a dump.

      • Programming

        • Declaratively manage your Qubes OS

          As a recent Qubes OS user, but also a NixOS user, I want to be able to reproduce my system configuration instead of fiddling with files everywhere by hand and being clueless about what I changed since the installation time.

          Fortunately, Qubes OS is managed internally with Salt Stack (it's similar to Ansible if you didn't know about Salt), so we can leverage salt to modify dom0 or Qubes templates/VMs.


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