Gemini Links 29/08/2024: OpenBSD as a 'Desktop' and Entering Umlauts With a US Keyboard Layout
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding: HSKNORI Wordo: ALOHA
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may I smoke in here? thank you
The smoke rising, I look up, eyebrows furrowed and fixating on what is in front of me. A cat staring (knowingly?) at the other edge of the bar. It wants pets, or it wants my soul. It can have either.
Puffing the smoke cloud away from my face, I gesture timidly on the bar, indicating it can come over to where I am poisoning the air, sipping coffee
The sun risen, the cigs bought, new patrons in the bar, to the left, to the right, I see pubbers detoxing and others waxing (lamenting) nostalgic. To the former, I too, spent a good deal of time at a bar, a physical bar, just after getting sober. I went to Chilis on Tuesdays/Thursdays, and would get a cheeseburger while barside, reading USA Today, trying to care about golf on TV. It was 2006, so they didn't mind my smoking back then, and I didn't (we didn't) have smartphones otherwise, so...
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Hum, hum, hum...
Looks like we've got some hummingbirds nesting in our tree now - there's a little one that likes to hover and peek into the windows on the second floor. I find it cute, but my cat, ever the bully, is going nuts that she can't go outside and catch it. She's the same way for the dragonflies and butterflies that have started popping up in the garden now. She just parks her little self by the window, glowering at the animals outside. If I could find her leash and a harness that fits her, I'd take her out for some walkies. But all the cat toys, massive cat trees and playtimes aren't enough to satisfy her bloodthirst.
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We bought a cabin
Hey! I bought a cabin. Well, it finalizes in a week or two. But it's just about ours!
It's 40 minutes to my north, in a mountain valley well away from any city lights. It's called a summer cabin here in Iceland, but the name is a misnomer. It's accessible year round and commonly used in winter. This one has 3 bedrooms, sleeps 6 comfortably, has a big deck, play house for a kiddo, sand pit, yard, garden, and all the comfortable utilities of home.
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Technology and Free Software
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msmtp and app armor
I tried to send an email from Emacs and it didn't work.
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OpenBSD as a daily
Trying to stay consistent with my "scratching itches that only exist because I like scratching myself" (that sounded weird) attitude, I just had to try out OpenBSD on my laptop.
So I went and got me a fresh SSD to make sure my existing Arch setup needn't be wiped.
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Internet/Gemini
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small web hosting
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The gemlog comment daemon
I've written a fastcgi application that can make your gemlog more interactive by enabling users visiting your site to add comments.
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Programming
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Easily Entering Umlauts With a US Keyboard Layout
As a software developer, a US keyboard layout is great for entering all the special characters you need while coding and for using certain applications like vim. But as a German speaker, I also frequently need to enter German characters that don't exist in English: the Umlauts äÄöÖüÜ and ß. I want to do this without giving up the US layout and without having to press complicated key combinations (no dead keys, no unintuitive combinations).
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