Gemini Links 06/03/2024: Gopher File Names and Some New Language Benchmarks
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Maturity
One thing I really remember standing out to me a lot as a teenager, and of course, even moreso as a child, was the overwhelming awareness of my age relative to everybody else's. When I was 10, in I don't know, middle school or something, I'd look up to high schoolers with a certain awe. They were like, an entirely different class of person. Similarly, when I was in high school, I had a certain reverence for people in university. Even today, I find I look at people not attending school and working a full-time job as being on a fundamentally higher rank in life than me
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a (supposedly) cute letter
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Technology and Free Software
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Internet/Gemini
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New here, a few questions
Firstly, I've noticed this place is also accessible from Gemini, but I'm quite new to using that and (with Kristall as my browser) haven't quite figured out if I can log in and post from there, or if I have to do it from the web instead. If possible I would like to, as I find Gemini to be quite cozy and I'm so incredibly sick of Firefox.
Secondly, I was curious if anybody had any other suggestions for somebody interested in exploring niche websites and alternative protocols in general. I've got some nice links bookmarked to explore in Gopher and Gemini, but what else interesting is out there? I know of i2p and ipfs and intend to check them out sometime (though I must admit the Tor side of things has me a bit hesitant) too. There's also Telnet BBSes (https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/), but I've yet to find a client on Linux that doesn't mess up the formatting. Putty came close but any ASCII art seemed to end up horrible misaligned.
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Gopher File Names
I really like the way entries are listed in d1337's chronological index[1]. Specifically, I love that they've put a category or tag of sorts in brackets before the actual title. Here's an example entry from that index, as it is displayed in lynx and in VF-1 respectively: [...]
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Programming
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Some New Language Benchmarks
I have a small set of benchmarks (adapted from some I found online) that I use to track changes in how programming languages perform between releases. They aren't meant to be some super scientific set of benchmarks, but really just something I can use to gauge how a language is changing over time, and to help make decisions on what to use.
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Scripts to automate my day
In this post I'm going over all the automations I've set up on my home server to notify me of a couple of things that are important to me.
The server itself is just a simple Pine 64 SBC that lives in the basement, hardly drawing any power.
Personally I've turned off automatic notifications on my phone for pretty much anything (Pull over Push messaging is a big life improvement). However I do like to get notifications about some things that are important to me, for which I've set up automated reporting.
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.