Gemini Links 07/06/2024: Botany Automation and OpenBSD From a Linux User's Viewpoint
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding: EFGLVTO Wordo: IRISH
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Frames Of Reference- Chapter 21
In 2015, right after I got married, we all sat around the balcony we had rented for the occasion- it was one with a view of the downtown skyline, one of those extremely prestigious hotels with the room service and the music piping down from little artificial vines in the corners. It wasn’t necessary- Lamar had said we could tie the knot at the chapel down the street from his place if we wanted to for considerably less- but my mother insisted upon it, sent me a couple thousand dollars weeks in advance so I could order a cake and catering and everything would be ready by the time she got in.
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Melancholic-romantic
Today I’m feeling sad. The date went well enough, but she turned me down for a second. I gave it a shot and was ready to give it a chance, but she wasn’t ready; what can I do, yeah?
Eh, there’s no big tragedy, really. I’m just sick of being single. Maybe that’s my problem; maybe I need to get used to being by myself or something.
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Technology and Free Software
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Botany Automation
Since I'm new to this whole shared server thing I keep discovering new things.
One of the new things is Botany, a small game where you have to water a plant. It's also possible to visit and water someone else his plant.
I've seen gemlogs with a link to water the plant so obviously I wanted this too so my visitors can help keeping my plant alive.
Finding documentation on how to do this was pretty hard and I don't have enough developer experience (or time) to go over the entire code in the Github repo. I started tinkering and found several JSON files in the .botany folder in my home folder.
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OpenBSD from a Linux user perspective
âš I would like to notice that this article is not a serious and objective review of BSD systems, but just something written for fun and meant purely for entertainment.
I’ve heard about BSDs many times but never actually understood how they differ from a normal Linux distribution. And BSDs are important piece of technology, especially OpenBSD project. I think most of Linux users know what OpenSSH is, the ones who value simplicity probably is aware of doas existence. And I am personally very found of OpenSMTPD, which I use to selfhost my mail server. All of those applications are developed by The OpenBSD Project.
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Aelspire’s capsule
This is not objective review of OpenBSD but fun post about adventure with OpenBSD from long time Linux user perspective.
Comments welcome! Especially from OpenBSD users. Do you agree? Disagree? Maybe I forgot to check something cool?
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the paranoid times
0x0.st (the null pointer) [1] is a simple and straight-to-the-point file hosting service. Its wonderful author has shared the complete source code and even encourages people to host their instance. This is what we'll do in this post.
The service is written in Python [2] using Flask [3] and we will use Nginx [4] and Gunicorn [5] as our reverse proxy server and application server respectively. Everything will be run from a virtual environment [6], as it should be.
Let's dive right in!
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Why do software developers hate me?
I could enumerate countless examples. But the latest is that Chrome on my Android phone started *sometimes* showing some screen other than the last tab displayed when I closed Chrome - which I do from time to time because I can't stand having gobs of app instances showing when I hit the 'square' symbol in the bottom right corner.
Sure, that new (to me) screen contains a mini picture of that last tab, which is even labeled something like "this was the last tab you were viewing".
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Internet/Gemini
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Summer Fresh
Testing out Smol.pub to write quick blurbs for notes, thoughts, and small blog posts. It uses gemtext which might me kind of nice since it's very simple. I can load images easily but I don't think I can embed videos which is fine. I'll still focus my main website and blog binarydigit.cafe for bigger posts.
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