Gemini Links 22/06/2024: FreeBSD vs XFCE and Gemini Bookmarks Syncing Solution
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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š¤SpellBinding: AEIMSTZ Wordo: LAVER
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Cold tea!
I usually drink lapsang or genmaicha hot but I have a green tea that I only drink cold. Itās green tea + mint + licorice. I put the tea in cold water and put in the fridge for as close to exactly four hours as I can manage (I usually use alarms and stuff to help me do that). As in, I brew it cold, I donāt brew it hot to later cool it.
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An interesting dream about sex
I had an interesting dream last night that i think has taught me a lot about myself.
In this dream i experimented sexually with a lot of my friends, in many different ways. not all were something i enjoyed but i did find in my dream some i do enjoy.
It taught me a lot about what kinds of sexual experience i enjoy, and also that i honestly find it a very causal thing, and if my friends irl were down for it i'd have a play around with them. which is interesting considering i am very solidly asexual.
I think its kind of important too, to be causal about sex. Because society has made it out to be a very meaningfully connected thing you only do with people you Loveā¢. however the queer community for the longest time treated it very casually, and i think that allows people to explore and find what they enjoy and not be judged. it allows for better sex education.
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have I mentioned summer sucks
Yes yes I know it is literally the first day of summer, and I don't care. It's been a sweltering hell, and I'm miserable, and the cats are miserable, and work is going to be miserable this weekend, and the entire goddamn world is ...
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quiet and burned out
Boy, I am *really* feeling burned out right now. I know that the academic year was hard but I feel just disproportionately wiped. I still have one last big obligation before I can relax, though, and that's leading a two day camp for showing kids making games and more with code.
Once I've got that done I can actually chill for two and a half months until the next academic year starts. My biggest fear, I think, is that I'm going to let it pass by in a tired haze rather than seizing the opportunity and filling my days with activity.
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Mind to Machine I
āPlease donāt move.ā
When the doctor injected the nano-bot into his brain, Joonho flinched as if dodging a flying pigeon.
Joonho took a cab and stared at the 12-inch screen on the back of the front seat. Stuffy air filled the car. There was no sound, but he could hear murmurs being transmitted from the device. āTHE WORLD ... CHANGED.ā The ad wasn't lying about that. From holding robots to becoming robots, humans were spiraling into a new era.
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No country for young man
Hi bartender, 1 yerba mate, please... That's the safe and cheap thing that I only know.
Every time I encounter a problem in college, I already start to get these thoughts about what am I even doing in life and who the heck I am to the society.
IDK, I went to college probably just to stabilize my social label, and pretend to be a good slave. College is the reason why my parents still pay for me. Otherwise, I would have to find a job.
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under-value
What are you supposed to do when you're being wildly undervalued in a system that has mechanized employment? When your place on the bell curve has shifted past center, you know a lot of stuff but you're a little older now and no one will call you back?
I work for a major utility, our parent "owners" are a global multinational player. I'm a contractor, and I draw plans for the Planners. It's a union company where it there's not much point in applying for anything that's a union position as internal union members have 1st priority over any qualified external candidate. This has resulted in petulant, childish adults who get paid twice my salary but a stunted professional development.
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Technology and Free Software
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Emacs and Astrobotany (publ. 2024-06-21)
I gave Astrobotany a try this last week. It is kind of fun, but I quickly realized I didn't want to manually water my plant each day. Emacs to the rescue!
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Mundane life update
Presbyopia is making itself known to me. Iām beginning to notice that my ādefault phone screen viewing distanceā is too close to read clearly, especially in the dark. It was probably too close anyway ā so I probably have plenty of time before I need to get bifocals ā but at thia moment, typing on a phone in the dark is a powerful memento mori.
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Lately, Iāve taken to stuffing all of my thoughts about politics, society, climate change, anarchism, etc. into a (digital) notebook. This seems to be doing me some good. Itās nice to get these things out of my head quickly without so much ruminating, and I donāt need to put them anywhere public. TBD whether the putative magic of connected digital notes will lead to any new insights into this set of topics, but that would only be a secondary benefit anyway.
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Pebcak compositor ā FreeBSD vs XFCE
Since the recent upgrade to FreeBSD 14 I have been afflicted by a nasty issue that prevented XFCE to be properly loaded after the login. š©
It is just recently that I decided to dig more into this issue and to find a solution, but eventually I found it! šŖ
In many years using XFCE with different class of GPUs (and operative systems) this is the first time I hit this problem, as a matter of fact I would ever thought the culprit was nonetheless the compositor! š¤
I could solve this issue because I was helped by ToZ from the XFCE official forum, he was really dedicated to me ā thank you very much ToZ! š
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GTD in a connected world
GTD asks us to ācaptureā, which means to write down stuff or use audio recordings or whatever.
Sometimes it feels like writing down āEmail Alice and Bob about how such-and-suchā would take longer time than just writing & sending that actual email, if you have a good comfy modern email app, especially if youāre capturing with some level of detail what the email is about.
In the modern era, thatās not just true for email; there are plenty of other things we do that work similarly.
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DevTerm and the Fifty-Year Computer
Recently I revisited a post by Ploum that discussed a computer designed to last fifty years.^ I first read it when it was posted in 2021, and even back then it influenced the way I think about sustainable computing, but I found myself reflecting on it even more these days.
Last year I received a ClockworkPi DevTerm, a PC kit with a retro aesthetic similar to the Kyocera/Tandy TRS-80 Model 100. It uses on a Raspberry Pi CM4 and is capable of running a full desktop. A few months ago I removed the DE, and now I use entirely through the command line. Further, I keep it offline with radios off by default, only syncing data on demand.
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Internet/Gemini
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A Hacky Gemini Bookmarks Syncing Solution
For me, one of the nagging little issues in gemini is syncing bookmarks between devices. For a while I've resorted to occasionally updating a static .gmi file via ssh, and then using Lagrange's "import all links on page" functionality. But ssh is a pain on mobile, so wouldn't it be great to have a more convenient way to keep everything synced? Bonus points if I can learn a bunch of stuff while doing it the hard way ;)
Well, thanks to a few posts and videos from SkyJake, Gritty, and Tomasino, and a crash course in basic Python, I now have a bookmarks page on my capsule that's generated on-the-fly by a script!
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