Gemini Links 31/05/2024: MNT Pocket Reform and Benben v0.5.0
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Hello again
I did the 10k. I think I signed up this year just to show I'm still alive and still going. I didn't train for this. It felt like I was going fast, but it was my worst time yet, besides the first.
Next year at this time, I will do the marathon. For now that doesn't mean anything except to runa little bit more often.
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Under the weather
Feeling a bit sick today. Thinking about skipping out of work early and getting looked at. I thought maybe it was just a seasonal thing, like I get sinus issues a couple times a year usually.
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Typhoon #1
Looking on windy.com, Typhoon #1 is still down by Taiwan, but Tokyo is getting a lashing. The wind is howling outside and the rain is coming down in sheets. It's also terribly muggy.
The weather report says it's going to be sunny tomorrow. I'll believe it when I see it.
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A nice, sunny day
So the weather was right: today was a nice, hot and sunny day with puffy clouds floating lazily across the sky. Typhoon #1 is still making its way here though, and it'll be just south-west of Tokyo on the 31st, which means rain. And high winds again.
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Being social is hard when everything you do is evil
I occasionally reference that I have pretty bad scruples OCD. When I'm not careful it means that I'll end up getting stuck in long periods of being convinced that I'm the most evil person in existence, an absolute monster who should be put down like a rabid animal.
The way I mostly handle the scruples obsessions is to live by a lot of restrictive moral rules. Sometimes my strong need for deeply interrogating the ethics of my own actions is good: I think it's a good thing that I'm vegan and have been extremely careful of what kinds of jobs I've taken even when it means I've been very poor. At least I wasn't doing formal methods work for the military, y'know?
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Science
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Soldering
I'm terrible at soldering. And, I ruined two soldering iron tips on my small project this week.
I did collect some useful information while researching. But, I don't have a complete set of advice that works.
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Technology and Free Software
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Roses are red...and orange, and blue, and
We went to the "international rose test garden" today that's downtown and then on a long walk through the giant forest to see the big stand of redwoods.
I may be, as people say, a Professional Computer Toucher but I never feel as at home as when I'm in the woods.
I don't feel like these are contradictory. Computation---at its best---is an extension of mind and body, a way to extend our ability to think and communicate and observe the world around us.
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Linux II: The (not)Linuxing of the Dell
So, I spent most of my day trying to deal with my Dell Inspiron E6430. Turns out, the GPU driver---nvidia-legacy 390---isn't available for Fedora anymore. In fact, it's not available for Debian 12, either. Instead, I'd have to put Debian Bullseye on the poor thing and pin the kernel and driver, or find some sort of alternative driver that'll work with latest somehow. Bleh...
I mostly wanted to throw Trinity onto it to see if I could live in there for the most part. I may still be able to, but it's going to take some time and effort that I don't exactly have access to at the moment. Mostly to install Debian Bullseye and start updating from there.
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Low-powered Computing [Thoughtstream]
I'm writing this not long after my previous entry[0], mostly because the more I sat here at my desk, the more my mind dwelled on it.
The experience and disappointment with my Dell Latitude's GPU no longer being supported actually made me start wanting to go back to the terminal apps I was using on Linux, and do things with low-powered computers instead of the more modern systems that most develop for these days[^0].
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MNT Pocket Reform
I think this is my last "new" computer for a long time. It arrived two days ago and now is (mostly) ready for use. The machine is new (from the batch of the first 18 machines shipped to customers) and still are some software details what need to be polished - suspend does not work in default setup (she suspend script refuses to work with the installed CPU and I didn't dare to try suspend it directly, yet; the NVME migration script does strange things).
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Desk changes
I have decided to re-organise my desk.For a few years (~5) I had one shared keyboard for "all" my machines but two LCDs - one for most of systems and one just for the SGI O2 (the O2 works best with the special SGI 1600SW screen - a special 17" 1600x1024 device with a non-standard connector).
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... and shoot them into the Sun
This, alas, while perhaps being a psychologically satisfactory outcome to those held in low regard by the one who wants to depose of the others into (or near enough to) the Sun, the task of getting stuff to the Sun is non-trivial. Now, I am not a rocket scientist, nor have I ever played Kerbal Space Program, but the gist of the problem is the Earth falls (and, luckily for us, so far) continues to miss the Sun at some velocity, roughly 7,170 rods/microfortnight. That's fast! The velocity covers something like 200 cricket fields set end-to-end per second, though why there are cricket fields set out end-to-end in space is left as an exercise to the reader.
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Benben v0.5.0 Now in Soft Feature Freeze, Release Date Set
WOO! Benben v0.5.0 is now basically "finished", minus testing bug fixes. I've placed it into a soft feature freeze, with a hard feature freeze scheduled for 17 June 2024, and a tentative release date scheduled for 29 July 2024. The soft freeze is just in case I forgot to add something I really wanted, or deem something so easy that it's trivial to add. So basically, it's all testing from here on out. I've given myself extra time just because there's SO MUCH to test in this release.
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The Revolution Will Not Be In Proportional Width Font
In the above link you will find what I believe to be a completely counterproductive and silly approach to thinking about terminals and ASCII.
1. List a set of problems in an unserious way. 2. Propose a vague solution (paraphrase: "something other than a terminal").
This approach to text will lead to the following behavior: Not taking the terminal seriously, and not solving problems for the terminal. Or, waiting for the fancy new solution to arrive. (It will never arrive.) Need I remind anyone that the Gemini protocol was designed with the terminal in mind?
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Programming
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Git Super - a tiny script for the stacked diff workflow
Huya, I discovered today that the git workflow I've been using for years have a name. Some folks on the internet call this: The stacked diff workflow
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