Gemini Links 26/02/2024: Mastodon Trouble, RSS, and Zombie-scrolling
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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loneliness in the presence of company
this is a rather depressing rant so if you dont want that in your life simply dont read and have a nice day!
for a second post here i wish it could have been a bit more positive but oh well, i need a place to rant and feel as if i cant anywhere else so lets get into it from the start-
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š¤SpellBinding: EHIKLRU Wordo: RIMED
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Feeling frugal
I've been having fun trying to think of ways to trim the grocery bill a little bit. I enjoy following some frugal blogs like A Working Pantry, Cheryl's Frugal Corner and The Bluebirds Are Nesting On the Farm. Those ladies post a couple of times a week on ways they try to save money at home. To them being frugal is far from a drudgery. It's a fun challenge to save money and make life at home beautiful and pleasant.
The first simple idea I had was to cut $50 per month out of our grocery bill by not buying Julian Pull-ups anymore. I gave potty training a try but disappointingly, had to give up for now. Because I spend so much time sitting and nursing Eric, I can't devote the time it would take to help Julian get potty-trained. Maybe in a few more months when Julian is closer to his 3rd birthday and Eric isn't spending as many hours nursing.
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an update on my game
i found recently a game making tool for point and click games which has renewed my motivation! having to build it all from scratch was killing my motivation a bit but now that i can focus more on the art side im more excited!
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The Case of Mistaken Identity Part 4
Holmes only had a moment to glance at her face, but it appeared to be softer and framed by auburn colored hair. Her eyes were a shade of blue-green. The cheekbones were high set, and made her face more angular. This, of course, comported with the overall impression of someone of above normal importance.
āSherlock Holmes, I presume?ā she extended her hand palm down with the fingers curled inwards in expectation that Holmes would either kiss her hand or shake it. She was going to be disappointed. Holmes did neither, and her hand protruded there in the air rather purposelessly.
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Recipes from re-education
In the AI-generated stories series, "The Re-Education Hour," the residents and staff of the Still Waters Learning Community enjoy the culinary creations of chef Kristen. When writing prompts (each prompt is only a couple of sentences) I never specified what Kristen serves, but consistently two dishes show up as the resident favorites. So here, I've used the same ChatGPT 4.0 Turbo to offer you the following recipes, straight from "Kristen's kitchen"!
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Politics and World Events
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Cuddling with the Dogs
The best part of my night is cuddling with the dogs and my boyfriend at bed time! š¶š¶š§š»āāļø
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Technology and Free Software
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Re: Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isnāt
Right. I love this part of Mastodon. I think itās the main reason Iām even on here. I donāt get a constant flow of things to discover.
The new Discover tab that Mastodon has introduced is especially toxic since itās the same on every instance (that has that enabled).
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Installing pgloader from source
I'm working on macOS at the moment but I don't use Home Brew so the instructions to install pgloader are problematic for me. Except I know pgloader is a Lisp program and once upon a time I had three different Lisps running on a previous Mac. So what follows is my modified instructions for bringing pgloader up on my current Mac Mini running macOS Sonoma 14.3 with Xcode already installed.
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Two missing features from HTML5, an enhanced form.enctype and a list input type
I wish the form element supported a `application/json` encoding type and there was such a thing as a `list-input` element.
I've been thinking about how we can get back to basic HTML documents and move away from JavaScript required to render richer web forms. When web forms arrived on scene in the early 1990s they included a few basic input types. Over the years a few have been added but by and large the data model has remained relatively flat. The exception being the select element with `multiple` attribute set. I believe we are being limited by the original choice of urlencoding web forms and then resort to JavaScript to address it's limitations.
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Slow-webbing myself, RSS, Zombie-scrolling
I've gotten more into the slow web, having discovered the Gemini protocol. I was on this path before, feeling so tired of zombiescrolling Reddit and Facebook all day. I would open Reddit, see mostly the same articles I read ten minutes ago, close it, reopen it, close it, reopen it. And I mean reopening it without realizing that you did. What a horrible existence.
To fix Facebook, I started using the Feeds feature which lists only your friend's posts in chronological order. Then when I got to a post I'd seen before, I closed it.
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To everyone who uses the laundromat changer without doing clothes...
Quarters are taken from the changer and used in the washers and dryers. Then they're taken out of the coinboxes and put back in the changer. Circle of life, you say. My laundromat customers are quick to point out how these...
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Pandora's Pizza Box
I manage a laundromat. One day I was checking out the bathroom and what do I see? An open pizza box on the ground. Lying in the box? Panties. No, gentlemen of taste, we have not struck gold. You are obviously asking now, "Were they pooped?"
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We're asking the wrong questions about AI
A few years ago, the companies building large language and stable diffusion models scraped a significant portion of the internet for training data, using other people's work to build a machine that effortlessly (when you ignore the externalities) creates new, derivative works.
Is this a problem? I think it depends on what you think it means for something to be a problem. As AI fans and apologists will point out, those people were freely offering their stuff to anyone with an internet connection. All they did was download publicly available information.
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Internet/Gemini
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Revert back to gmid because gemserv runs extremely unstable
I had to revert back to the gmid server because gemserv by int80h runs extremely unstable - Sorry for the inconvenience. And because of that I had to revert back the certificates too.
Was a really stupid idea to switch from gmid to gemserv - although I don't have CGI access now.
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A Text Oriented Web
The web is a busy place. There seems to be a gestalt resonant at the moment on the web that can be summarized by two phrases, "back to basics" and "simplification". It is not the first time I've seen this nor is it likely the last. This blog post describes a thought experiment about a simplification with minimal invention and focus on feature elimination. It's a way to think about the web status quo a little differently. My intention is to explore the implications of a more text centered web experience that could coexist as a subset of today's web.
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