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Gemini Links 15/06/2023: Social Post Angst and New GmCapsule Home Page



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • 🔤SpellBinding: AULNPTC Wordo: CHUMS
      • Please stop talking

        Anyone else here have to listen to someone go on and on about the least interesting things on a too regular basis?

        And so you have gobs and gobs of thought starts that go nowhere because they're always being ground out by the heel of another's incessant babbling.

        It's amazing to me people consider themselves so important as to have no idea how severely they're boring others to death.

    • Science

      • The Planet Doesn't Need Polar Bears

        Evolution kills entire species all the time (on a longer timescale). Humans kill them much faster. But the planet doesn't care. A mass extinction is just a footnote in history; something for future species to dig up traces from. Life will survive whatever we humans can do to our planet. Even a full scale nuclear war lacks the capacity to entirely sterilize this little blue sphere.

        Of course we feel sad about polar bears, tigers, elephants, and pretty much all coral reefs and fish dying. We have empathy. That's part of the human condition. So we cry out about "saving the planet".

      • Solaris

        Not the silly valley Sun Solaris, rather the Тарковский film Солярис (1972). It is no Fifth Element. Тарковский apparently viewed Western works as "shallow due to their focus on technological invention". Солярис is more like The Man from Earth (2007) where the ideas and the people are the important part. I use "people" here in the lojbanic sense of "prenu" which includes beings not necessarily human.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • Scripted rooms in D&D

        One D&D issue is when a module’s room description has something happening just as a party is about to enter a room.

      • Installing FreeBSD in 2023

        I have a bit of a history with FreeBSD. While my first major encounter with open source happened to be Linux, I ran FreeBSD as my daily driver from around 2007 to 2013. My first installation was in about 2005/2006 on a spare desktop system based around an Athlon K6 with 256Mb of ram, a system which had largely been pieced together from discards and literal garbage picking. It's crazy to think that I was compiling pretty much everything from source using ports on such a crap machine, but I learned a ton and fell in love with "real" Unix in a way that Linux just hadn't really managed to captivate me up to that point.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Anyone else pondering what it would be like to leave Reddit behind for Bubble?
        • degrowth and its discontents

          When I was barely a preteen, I was a frequent user of music-themed forums. They were not small by any means: they were full of regulars that you'd run into in most threads, and as IM services like MSN gained traction, one could even dare extend a friend request so that you could talk in real time on the weekends when school and work were out of the picture.

        • Social Post Angst

          If I write a post saying things are great—is that bad?

          I’ve never really done social media, but my understanding of how it works is this: people all post about the things in their life that are great, and everybody feels bad because their actual life is not as great as the ones they read about.

          For the most part I prefer to only post about positive things. I prefer to write “reviews” of only things that I like, and to talk about experiences that were positive.

          I would hate for anyone to feel bad as a result.

        • New GmCapsule Home Page

          Just a quick note: I've added a proper home page for GmCapsule.


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