Gemini Links 22/07/2024: Spacewalk Dies and Old Computer Challenge in the Rear View
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Making More Salads
I have gotten back into making and eating more salads and drinking less alcohol. My motivation was getting fitted for a tux 2 months ago for a wedding in middle of this October... After eating a lot of prepared processed foods and drinking quite a few cans of busch light a day, I can guarantee those measurements have gotten a little snug. My solution, at least for a bit, is to eat more whole foods and mostly stop drinking wheat beers!
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🔤SpellBinding: UILNOSD Wordo: ZITTY
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Technology and Free Software
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Fourth day of the Old Computer Challenge 2024
Curious if the old laptop can be used for Lisp development, I installed CCL, Quicklisp, and SLIME on the Acer Aspire One, my laptop for the Old Computer Challenge.
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Fifth day of the Old Computer Challenge 2024
Yesterday I wrote about installing CCL, and compiling and running my static site builder [1].
Today I started developing on the OCC laptop. I want to build a paste-server and file-dropper, only with HTML, without Javascript, just old fashioned web forms.
Currently Bepasty runs in our home network, and use it a lot, but as Bepasty requires Javascript I want an alternative that can be used with browsers like eww, lynx, and links.
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occ final day
Is this the last day already?
I might have missed a day or two into this challenge.
Well this year I used only my portable terminal; a mech keyboard with my epaper tablet.
I used Termux and laGrange, of course termux is almost a full fledge OS so I had access to all the linux tools I am used to.
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Old Computer Challenge 2024, Recap
So, how did it go, being without mobile Internet for a whole week? Quite well, as it turned out.
In a certain way, I guess you could say I was playing OCC on easy mode, in that no actual old computers were involved. The only challenge was behavioural. Could I voluntarily curtail my use of mobile Internet for a whole week, while access was literally right there in my pocket the whole time? Turns out the answer was, for the most part, yes. And it wasn't even that difficult, although a certain amount of vigilance was involved, as I absentmindedly reached for my phone multiple times a day (intending to check my email, check for Mastodon updates, look up some random factoid on the web, read the news, etc, etc).
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like minds
I don't know if electronic computation is even worth preserving very far down a long descent, but the project looks like it could be fun to play around with (for those with time...), also now that it has moved to DuskOS, I think it could be useful as a tool to hack together different pieces of salvaged tech even more freely (failing that, easily) than Linux.
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old (handheld) computer challenge (OCC) day 7
It is the last day of the old (handheld) computer challenge. M0ar of yesterday today. M0ar bhajis loops, databases, journaling, PIM. Not much online stuff. I attempted some last night but became frustruated. There is only so much thumb typing that I can do on the N900. The external keyboard option was more work than what it was worth, so it was left to the thumbs.
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old (handheld) computer challenge (OCC) epiphlogue
I just woke up from a nice long nap that I think my body needed. Unfortunately, it is 8PM and I am drinking hawt coffee, so I will prolly be up for awhile.
The old (handheld) computer challenge (OCC) v4 has ended. I felt m0ar disconnected this year due to my choice of device(s). I (hastily) chose 2 handheld devices that could potentially go the distance. The pa1mOne Tungsten E2 from 2005 and the Nokie N900 fro 2009.
I think that v4 was much m0ar of a challenge for me that v3. With OCC v3 [1], I used a Sun Microsystems Ultra 10 from 1998 and an ASU eeePC 701 from 2007. Both had full-sized user interfaces (screen, keyboard, and mouse) and were easy to use when the initial setup wi worked out.
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getting started with linux: log 02
It wasn't obvious I needed to force a hard shutdown on the laptop (by holding the power button) before I could load the BIOS menu. For my particular laptop (specs below) I had to tap the F2 button on startup to load the menu.
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Emacs Fun - Lisp
Emacs can work as a great interpreter for Lisp, specifically "Emacs Lisp", its own variant. And you can make Emacs even better by programming extensions to it yourself, using, yep, Lisp!
And yes, I am teaching myself Lisp. It works! It is fun. It looks *cool*. What a way to program!
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Internet/Gemini
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Spacewalk
I remove Spacewalk from the list of places to find new capsules and pages, as it’s gone.
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I remove Spacewalk from the list of places to find new capsules and pages, as it’s gone.
I have Gemini clients on a bunch of different computing devices and I don’t have an easy way to sync bookmarks to them. However, I can remember the URL for this page and start making bookmarks from the links on this page. The links above are the ones I use most often to find new capsules and new pages.
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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[1], 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[2] to Blogspot[3] 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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Programming
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Janet for Mortals
Oh; it’s just right there. Not a lot of time to build suspense, really. It kind of spoiled itself.
Alright, well, yes, we’re going to talk about macros. We’re going to talk about macros *as if you have never heard of them*, even though you probably have, because remember that in this book you’re only supposed to know JavaScript and JavaScript doesn’t have any.
And actually, we should probably talk about that. JavaScript doesn’t have macros. Most popular languages don’t have macros as a matter of fact. And you’ve made it this far in life using those languages, and you’re doing just fine. Do you really *need* macros?
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