Gemini Links 26/03/2024: Microsofters Still Trying to 'Extend' Gemini Protocol
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Technology and Free Software
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A Note Object
A major scale might run A B C# D E F# G# which is fine for humans but maybe not so good for computers. Computers rather favor numbers. Another way to look at this scale is as pitch numbers, or set in a particular octave,
A Major Scale in various notations A B C# D E F# G# A 69 71 73 74 76 78 80 81
here with some MIDI pitch numbers more favorable to computers. Yet another way to look at this scale is as a set of intervals. By subtracting the previous pitch from each successive pitch one might come up with the interval list of 2 2 1 2 2 2 1 (the standard pattern,† according to some). Still another way to represent this scale is as a sum of the prior intervals, or 0 2 4 5 7 9 11.
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Habits of Bad Domain Registrars
I have a small-but-growing collection of domains. Some are used for public projects like this capsule, some find purpose for internal personal projects, some are used primarily for email addresses, and several more just sit idle waiting for a use.
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a mailcap before donning my nightcap
In the wee hours of the morning, approximately three hours before I usually wake up, I’m finding it hard to remember little details like the mailcap is responsible for holding the mime types and corresponding commands that can be used to deal with those types.
I sat staring at a new muttrc file trying to remember what to put in it so that either w3m or pandoc would get invoked to convert ugly HTML messages into more palatable text.
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zellij looks promising
Now that I’m happy with my tmux configuration, someone has pointed me to zellij. It’s similar to tmux in a lot of ways. The main difference that I noticed is it uses all the key bindings I like right out of the box. That’s pretty cool. It’s also really in your face with regard to what all the key bindings are. That’s cool for now while I learn, but I’m going to want to get rid of those and free up the screen real estate pretty soon.
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An unexpected plus is the Stacked mode. I didn’t think I’d like it, but I like being able to have two panes that are visible, but have the right side of the screen be a stack of panes that I can shuffle through at will, with just the title bars of the non-visible pains being visible. Alt plus right bracket or alt plus left bracket will cycle layouts. I hit it by accident a few times on my way to switching desks, which I have bound to Super left bracket and Super right bracket.
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Internet/Gemini
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online forever, forever online
my history of being online is a history of constant self-discovery and self-destruction. deconstruction would be more accurate, i suppose. i've pulled myself apart and put myself together in ways that wouldn't have been possible without the internet. this is both good and bad, and some other third thing. there are no clean dichotomies in my life. i don't think those exist at all.
i sometimes wonder who i would be right now had i never received that hand-me-down thinkpad in 2002. if i didn't join myspace far too young in 2005. facebook in '08, twitter in '09. if i had an easier time growing up offline. i may not have survived this long without the internet, to be honest. although sometimes i wonder how i managed to do it the way i did. maybe i just got lucky and the internet had nothing to do with it either way. who can ever know these things.
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The Case for a 4th-Level Heading [Ed: Microsofter doing EEE on Gemini Protocol]
Headings have long been settled in Geminispace, so why are we re-assessing them? I believe that headings need to be re-assessed because the choice of limiting the levels to just three seems arbitrary and is counter to heading usage in the real world.
If we are to create a usable markup language, we must adhere to a power-to-weight ratio that takes into account what is common or expected within real usage, but that which also doesn't cause too much weight. The current restriction of three levels does not cover most common heading usage outside of Geminispace, and sometimes people within Geminispace resort to bad practices as workarounds.
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Don't Forget to Share
A couple of weeks ago on cohost, I came across this post by @MOKKA, and it's kind of been tumbling through the back of my head ever since. It's based around the two general feedback mechanisms you find in social media - share and like - and the frustration @MOKKA feels when people like a post when it's clearly meant to be shared.
I'm active on social media, but try to avoid any thoughts of these features. First, they're a dopamine hit, and eventually, you're writing in a very particular way - designed to be shareable, to be uncontroversial (or, worse, the opposite). Once you're down the rabbit hole of expecting a certain number of likes, or shares, you've already begun poisoning your mind and rewiring how you engage with other people online. And yet I'm aware that if you're in your mid 30s or younger, you have been conditioned for probably your entire online life to think this way. Facebook is now twenty years old.
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