IRC: #techbytes @ FreeNode: Sunday, February 21, 2021

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>> I'm going to use the icon in the top menu and a new page for Gemini in

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>> the site.

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> Ok, but if it is going to be redistributed externally then I should

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> ensure that it has all the metadata first. See the attached. The

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> terminal icon is in the public domain. Amphora is a remix of CCSA.

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>> As for desktop icon, I have an iconless desktop. It can lead

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>> to accidents having anything other than wallpapers on the desktop. :-)

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> I avoid icons on the desktop, too, but have a very crowded, nested XFCE4

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> panel. The dots are there so that I can have multiple icons with

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> different numbers of dots. So if I have terminals 1-6 open, for

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> example, the icons shown when I hit alt-tab will each show a different

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> number of dots. For me the only other option would be to use even more

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> different icons.

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Did you ever consider using xbindkety? I work across (or regardless of) DEs and it's easy to memorise as you make your own shortcuts, inc. for mouse actions. In 2004 I experimented a lot with wayv (mouse gestures), but they don't save time compared to keyboard, so I abandoned that.

> http://techrights.org/wp-rss2.php

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> Probably, the links to the PHP script for the Feed,

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Feb 21 07:15

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> ought to be replaced with the cached page:

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> http://techrights.org/feed/

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> Or at least it looks that way.

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One risk associated with CMS changes (except the security patches; those can be applied more easily) is breaking of redirections and URLs long used by people. Back in the old days there were several different URLs for Atom and RSS 1.2/2. I'm sure that with "GUTENBERG" and other fake innovation they already break some fine stuff, which I am reluctant to explore.

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I spent a lot of time the other week trying to figure out why wordpress, after I had set it up, would not let me compose anything. I thought it was a server problem. Turned out "GUTENBERG" is JS mess and without JS turned out it acts all weird and funny. I heard their UI person resigned over the "GUTENBERG" decision, which they still bragged about 2 days ago: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/147897

-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.tuxmachines.org | Reflecting on Gutenberg’s 100th Release | Tux Machines

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Re: Disk usage on the RPi

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> $ df -h /

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> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

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> /dev/root 12G 7.8G 3.6G 69% /

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> $ du -sh ~/gemini

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> 624M /home/gemini/gemini

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> $ date -u

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> Sat 20 Feb 17:52:14 UTC 2021

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That's actually far better than I thought. I wonder, what would happen if we hard/soft-linked the bulletins and IRC logs across different users' account (if possible) instead of copying them across. There's duplication.

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Re: Apropos: Recycling / Reusing / Reducing

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> Any further word from Eric Lundgren about moving to FOSS?

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> https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/04/29/0824237

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | Microsoft's Full Response to the Lundgren Counterfeiting Conviction - SoylentNews

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> https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/19/005253

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-TechBytesBot/#techbytes-soylentnews.org | ‘E-Waste’ Recycling Innovator Faces Prison for Trying to Extend Life Span of PCs - SoylentNews

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> IIRC he was in contact with you a while back.

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He and his friend told me he was eager to move on after what Microsoft had done to him. I don't want to push him to send court docs.

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>>>> This is what I did last night. I still try to get usage estimate.

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>>>>

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>>>> BTW, I was thinking... it ought not be hard to make category pages

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>>>> linking to the articles, which are already in Gemini anyway.

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>>> It depends. Is there a list of the categories which could be scraped?

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>> I do not know if I can get just a long list of articles for each

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>> categories. There might be a wordpress extension for that (although I

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>> prefer not to install ANY new software) or we could craft some sql query

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>> to return such lists. But only if we decide that a long list of articles

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>> (thousands in the case of "Microsoft" or "Europe") is worth it. The very

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>> long lists would likely not be suitable for gemini as a medium.

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> Only short lists of say well under 50 would be appropriate, IMO.

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> Otherwise there is just too much reading and scrolling involved.

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> In a day or two, the porting of old articles will be complete.

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> Stéphane Bortzmeyer might be interested in getting the starting URL for

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> the whole thing to run his indexer again. TR is already high up on the

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> list of largest Gemini capsules. By the time 2006 is finally added, it

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> will rank much higher.

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Do we know the impact of being listed and ranked there? Bragging rights is one thing, practical benefit is another :-) (like blowing the horn about Microsoft repo)