Gemini Links 10/07/2024: Recalling St.GIGA, smol.pub Tricks
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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*thunder for background noise*
first off, i'd like to say that i think i nabbed the job for the interview i did yesterday, so i'm kind of thrilled to get back to working. it's been almost two years without one and, while i'm not financially suffering, it's been driving me up the wall without a job.
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🔤SpellBinding: ADHIRWT Wordo: ABODE
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Music Spotlight: The Frontier Brothers — Space Punk Starlet
At my university we had music shows in the cafe below our student union a few times a semester. It was the highlight of my freshman year, going to shows, discovering new music, and just hanging out with friends.
I found some interesting bands, have a few demo CDs and a few albums from bands! One of which is the subject of this post!
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As the day slowly materializes
My garsh, these quiet mornings alone are precious.
Not a whole lot to read in the usual places, though. Did the world disappear and these thoughts are just its last few lingering wisps?
I'm having a more difficult time than usual finding value in words. So many sentence starts en route to ESC-dd's. An occasional u, 'cuz u never know. Will any of this make it to pixel print?
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Technology and Free Software
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Internet/Gemini
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I'm here, I'm glad you're there (they were St.GIGA)
Maybe roughly two months ago now I learned about a 90s-through-early-00s Japanese satellite radio company called "St.GIGA". I no longer even remember how or from where, exactly. One of those serendipitous internet rabbit hole discoveries.
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Despite attracting a dedicated cult following, St.GIGA seemed to struggle with constant financial problems, as I mentioned. They briefly teamed up with Nintendo and broadcast SNES games over the air, a kind of higher-tech replication of the Kansas City Standard data broadcasts for cassette-based home computers in the 80s, but that didn't seem to save them at all, and by 2006 they were gone. Thankfully, the miracle of internet piracy means there are hours of old recordings (of admittedly variable quality) up at archive.org for the folks of today to peruse. I have dipped my toe into these archives casually so far and found some really good stuff (amongst stuff I'm not that into). I think a deeper dive could be well worth while if you're at all into ambient/environmental music. There's some stuff on YouTube, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it is just people uploading the the archive.org recordings and slapping some imagery over it.
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And now for something completely unrelated. RE: Music addiction
I understand perfectly well that many people prefer having music in their ears instead of being exposed to the unstimulating, sometimes harsh sound environments of cities. Personally, I have never had the habit of listening to music that way. I did have a walkman, but can't recall bringing it with me outdoors. Instead, inspired by Cage, I would listen to the sounds of the environment as if it was music. If you walk, there is already a metrical grid to project any sound events onto. The rhythms and timbres can be quite fascinating.
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Programming
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I wrote a Python script to upload articles to smol.pub
I was bored, so I wrote a Python script to upload your articles to smol.pub, just like the "smolpub.sh" bash script.
It's still a work in progress, but so far, it works for posting new articles and updating existing ones. In fact, I posted this announcement using that script.
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TIL explicit subshell as function bodies in Bash
tl;dr: In bash you can use parenthesis for the function body instead of the usual braces and it will make that function run explicitly in a subshell.
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