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Gemini Links 10/09/2023: E-mail Addresses and Docker Progress



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • a large metal tube through the throat

        Listen here, Shorty, we've been through a lot together here. This one is going to be a little different. Tie your Penguin leash to the bicycle stand by the door and come inside. We need to talk. Keep your shoes on, and don't mind the dirt. My vacuum subscription ran out.

        Don't think I don't see it too. My eyeballs might be scratched, leaking blue on occasion, but I recognize the despair etched 2 inches deep into the walls of every street corner. So what if we lost the war sometime in the 2000s. Did you really think we stood a chance then? Still, we've kept fighting. I smell it in whatever is left of your hair. Doubt.

    • Politics and World Events

      • Atheism: coming out

        A number of things changed in my life. I changed job. I moved to a different place. I gave up the bad habit of being angry about unimportant things. I have been growing quite a lot, while being a little surprised that one can still grow when hitting the 40's.

        Among other things I went from (mildly enthusiastic) Christian to plain Atheist, through a process of deconstruction of what I was thought in my childhood. In case you're curious I was never particularly fervent. I just gave voice to what I already kn

    • Technology and Free Software

      • How common is it for people to not know their own email address?

        I'm still receiving all sorts of email from other Sean Conners to my `sean.conner@gmail.com` address [1], and I'm seriously wondering *how?*

      • docker progress

        I have been experimenting with docker, slowly, as time allows. I setup a Mac Mini (momt - Mac of Miniature Torment) up on the shelf where TCoD (ThinkCentre of Death) and RPoJ (Raspberry Pi of Judgement) live. Its sole reason for existance is to be my screw around machine.

        I have made my own docker image (a work in progress) based on the Alpine Linux image that everyone uses. I have gophernicus, par, and recutils compiling via RUN commands in my dockerfile. Really that's all I need for the cgi-scripts I have live. My issue now is the log file.

      • thrig.me bphflog: vi to/find character

        Some #forth folks did not know the f F t T commands in vi(1), so on the odds that other vi users likewise do not know them, what follows is a short primer on these commands. Hopefully your version of vi hasn't mangled these commands too much; I'm using a somewhat modified version of the vi(1) that ships with OpenBSD.


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