Gemini Links 21/07/2024: New Garden and New Gemini Arrivals
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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š¤SpellBinding: DEFHISW Wordo: GOOFY
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new garden!
i finally planted a few oleander plants and some lambada. i'm hoping they take root, but i still have my receipt in case i need to exchange them for new ones. as of right now, i'm solely focus on plants, not a lawn, but i won't lie, the dirt in the yard looks jarring compared to the plants. it's been so long since i've had to garden, and i need to take my mind off things somehow. i can only do so much housework.
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å®ćÆ and å®ć«
I couldn't fall asleep the other day because my brain kept wandering and wondering. One of these was the expressions å®ćÆ and å®ć«.
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Velouria blogs again!
When I moved to Finland in the summer of 2017 and very quickly become obsessed with cycling, I enjoyed reading quite a number of regularly, or at least relatively regularly, updated blogs on the subject. I wasn't aware at the time, but I came in on kind of the tail end of a bicycle blogging boom that started years earlier. It didn't take all that long before many of the blogs I was reading disappeared or faded away. The "Retrogrouch" blog, for example, has not been updated since October 2021. The final post gave no indication that the author was thinking of quitting - on the contrary, it was celebrating the recent milestone of hitting 3 million visits. There are a number of comments on that post from 2022 from concerned readers asking if everything is okay. They are all unanswered. I also used to really enjoy "Pondero", which at the end of 2018 migrated from Wordpress to Blogspot and then (without actually saying as much) early in 2019 migrated from Blogspot to Instagram, thereby fundamentally changing what it was. Pictures are still posted there often to this day, but for one thing it's a tremendous pain in the ass to view them without an account, and for another much worse thing, it's now just pretty photos of bikes in nature with zero meaningful communication about what he is thinking or feeling when riding them there, or the bikes themselves are their accessories, which are the things I actually enjoyed. The spirit of the old blog is lost.
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Perfectionism
I have always enjoyed creating things, but there are some things that inhibit my desire to create. I suppose it's a subtle form of perfectionism. I had never noticed my perfectionism before, until recently. I always look for the best way to do any given things, and that influences how I do things.
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Ninth Sunday After Pentecost (G)
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Science
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Block universe vs simulation hypothesis
I love talking about the block universe and the simulation hypothesis but itās pretty unlikely that both are true at the same time, since good simulation design practice is to include some stochastic elements. Thatās not a 100% given but itās both likely and possible even in a sim ran inside a deterministic universe to include some variable parameters. Yeah yeah, if weāre in a stochastic sim in a deterministic block universe our outcome is still gonna be fixed since both the inputs and outputs from our liāl sim are static. So this is a meaningless semantic distinction and not really a comfort. Carry on sublimating!
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Technology and Free Software
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Help! Weāre stuck in the best of all possible worlds!
Yāall know how I go on and on about how evolution doesnāt have a goal in mind so when we say āwe were designed to do such-and-suchā, thatās kinda misleading. Weāre always on the very edge of evolution, of trying to find a best fit between all kinds of tensions and forces pulling us hither and thither.
So in that āemerged edgeā sense, weāre actually perfectly evolved to just stare into our phones all day and die rotting on the vine. Hither, thither, letās just sit here and whither. That is where the biological, societal, economical, and UX design forces have stranded us.
On top of that, thereās a pretty big risk weāre in a block universe where all past and all future is already settled and our every future decision is made for us. So much for the tensions and forces pulling us; I guess everybody knows the dice are loaded, everybody knows that the fight was fixed.
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getting started with linux: log 01
I am inspired by the current #OldComputerChallenge happening, and with an old laptop floating around, I'm keen to finally give Linux a crack. So, here we go. I know next to nothing about Linux so this could be a complete failure. If not, then this could be a useful guide for someone else diving in for the first time.
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What was hard about the OddĀµ architecture?
If you know Go, I think you'll find the architecture of Oddmu to be very traditional: There is a list of actions it knows how to handle when it serves a site on the web and a list of commands it understands when called from the shell. Everything involving HTML or the RSS feed uses a Go template.
There were two things that were tricky, in hindsight. I didn't know enough Go to know how best to do it and so it took me a long time to figure them out.
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digital blips, their platforms, and the intent behind them
I sometimes still read Read.write.as. I also check bearblog.dev/discover, as an old friend turned me onto Bearblog some time back, though I do not post on my account. Most blogs I see/read these days are what someone has on their own server, and I see via RSS. Other hubs, like The Midnight, are cool as well, because it has a role-playing element to it - and a nice atmosphere of a dark, off-Main Street, bespeckled neon trim bar, that almost props at the corner of the Smol Web, it makes for a spot I *want* to come visit, say hi, and make observations and comments about the dim (and grim) realities of "out there" on the bigger Web.
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Put that in your CLI and smoke it
Itās certainly true that historically, CLIs have lead themselves much much more readily to reproducing and automating tedious tasks, and that those automations can be shared. Thatās the main point, and Iām right there joining the choir: [...]
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Internet/Gemini
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I finally sorted out my self-hosting stuff
My previous setup included running nirn.quest services on a $30/month SeedHost.eu dedicated server, and my hyperreal.coffee services in a virtual machine in my homelab. For the latter, I had Linode managing the DNS for my hyperreal.coffee domain, and the domain itself pointed to a $5/month Linode VPS, which used Tailscale to forward HTTP and port 1965 traffic to the virtual machine in my homelab.
I originally got the $30/month SeedHost.eu dedicated server with 8T of storage to use as a seedbox for Sci Hub torrents. I later decided to get a dedicated app hosting package for $173/month, which included 72T of storage and a 10Gbps network throughput speed. I figured this was better for torrenting Sci Hub. I then repurposed the $30/month dedicated server and started running nirn.quest services on it.
With this previous setup, I would be spending $30 + $173 + $5 = $208/month.
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Hybrid Shadows, Chapter 3 started on Gemini
It has been forever and day since I've posted updates to my Hybrid Shadows story, my sci-fi story about a girl who, unlike all her peers, does not have any tech in her body - the lone "non-hybrid" in a world of hybrids, or cyborgs! She struggles on a colony planet to be accepted, but at the same time, the planet impedes much of the technology the colonists brought with them. This makes those who are "low technology", or full non-hybrids, much more important.
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hello
Hi there. Thanks for reading. What a pleasant nook of the web. I really like the simplicity. I am here to learn, and to log my learning. I am not restricting myself to any particular topic, so we shall see. I have some things in mind however. Feel free to email me to say hello or offer feedback on anything I'm writing about. Thanks to the hosts for this public space.
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Programming
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Chapter Two: Compilation and Imagination
Alright, we got the basics out of the way. Now we can get to the good stuff.
In this chapter weāre going to talk about compile-time programming and images. JavaScript has no analog for images, nor does it have any sort of ācompilationā step, but Iām sure youāre familiar with the concept. Er, the concept of compilation, that is. I hope youāre not already familiar with images, because I want to be the first to tell you about them.
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