Gemini Links 06/03/2024: Back to PDAs and Thoughts About 'Small Web'
-
Gemini* and Gopher
-
Personal/Opinions
-
🔤SpellBinding: ACKLOWS Wordo: BIKES
-
a post
Its six o clock in the morning. Sun is rising, buds on the magnolia tree are opening up, nature is bursting. Time for me to leave the pub and start the season. I drink one more coffee and then im gone from the pub for a while. I learned lots of interesting things here, still loads of stuff i do not understand. Maybe one day i try to set up a similar pub somwhere.
-
To become, or not to become
I shared it with someone who asked afterwards if I'm an "overthinker". I think that is the wrong question. Due to the cooperative principle, I can assume that what they wanted to ask is if I "tend to overthink", or if I "overthink often". That may sound like pedantry at first (not gonna disclaim it), but I happen to believe that language shapes thought. So there's one small big implication from that way of asking the question: if I am "an overthinker", I cannot be "not an overthinker" -- they're mutually exclusive, so at all times I must be overthinking.
-
Academiology VI: Humility
There's many stories I could tell, and I'll flush some of them out here. There's themes. Important themes to today's topic.
I was a pretty high achiever in high school. Not because I was inherently good at it; all things considered; I was actually pretty bad at it. I just did it a lot. I made it my thing. It was the only thing I really knew.
Earlier in high school, I had this one class with a very strange teacher. I'm not going to call her "lazy," because being a teacher in public schools is not an easy job, but I will say if she was being deliberate in the way she approached teaching, she held her cards very close to her chest.
-
-
Technology and Free Software
-
What's the oldest piece of technology you still use regularly?
I got really interested in vintage tech lately, and I'd love to know what kind of older stuff people still use, and how they use it and why. You can interpret 'tech' as strictly or as broadly as you choose, I'm not necessarily talking only about computing but any kind of technology that most people would consider obsolete.
-
The Beepy PDA Experiment Part Deux Sad Trombone Boogaloo
Between the time I wrote everything below and now my Beepy has died. So the what follows are my thoughts about using it and how it was working out...while it was still working. Unfortunately it is now a paperweight :(. We'll see what SQFMI has to say *IF* I can actually get ahold of anybody without a garbage proprietary social media account. This whole fiasco has me back to considering buying yet another old Palm PDA with a keyboard.
-
Stance on Copyright—short version
Yes, “how will artists get paid” is a question that we (the ones who wanna abolish copyright) haven’t fully answered. We’ve got a lot of partial answers and half-solutions, and arguably there are a lot of starving artists even in a world with copyright, yours truly included, but we don’t have the full on whole solution here.
-
This page contains QOI images
I'm working on adding support for QOI images in Lagrange out of boredom. QOI is a very simple lossless image compression format that is comparable to PNG and very fast to compress. This page constains a few QOI images encoded by different encoders to test my integration into the Lagrange browser. I'll upstream once I'm done.
-
ChatGPT wrote a wild story again! [Ed: Word spewed out without comprehension are not a story but a sea of words]
Of course I had to make The Re-Education Hour into a trilogy! This time, however, I used ChatGPT 3.5 to generate it, to see if there are noticeable differences in performance. Yes, ChatGPT 4.0 Turbo generates stories better, but even 3.5 does write quite a decent story.
-
Book excerpts
I recently spent some time deleting lots of old photos off my phone to free up space on its microSD card. This turned out to be futile on multiple points. For one thing, a solid 75% of all photos I have taken with it are of my cat, and obviously I don't delete *those*. For another, the thing's slow but steady slide into complete unusability due to interminable delays in every single action which each glances coyly at said microSD card apparently has nothing to do with it being near full and everything to do with a semi-recent update to Android doing something stupid with FUSE which users can't undo, so close to a big waste of time all 'round. I stipulate "close to" because while clearing things out I had the pleasure of re-reading a bunch of book passages which I had bothered to photograph while reading those books over the past year or two, and that made it worthwhile. At the time I took the photos my inner Luddite was probably grumbling that I should have been using a highlighter to physically mark the pages, but in retrospect, if I'd done that, I never would have revisited all those passages again in a single sitting years later, so maybe this is actually the better way. Anyway, I am reproducing them here for, hopefully, your reading pleasure:
-
Internet/Gemini
-
Some thoughts about the small web
tl;dr: It is perfectly OK that people sometimes have conflicting objectives when pursuing alternative tech
-
-
-
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.