Gemini Links 21/01/2025: Media Provocations and Nazis Not Tolerated
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding: ACDKLOP Wordo: CONES
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Re: Fighting the screen
While being a functional addict (addict that can still function in society) is an interesting category, the most important part for me is if you are or are not addicted and why (finding the „why” causes you to win the fight, while not finding causes to lose). I’m turning from 3 to 2 whenever I’m properly oriented towards higher goals. If I turn away from them, I go to 3 instantly. If I forget them, I go to 4.
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Politics and World Events
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How to stay resilient and effective for the next four years
It is tempting to look at every single news story and get outraged but keep in mind that this is precisely their point. It is a psychological operation orchestrated by the corporate media giants and the MAGA regime to wear you out and scatter your energies.
Your outrage is not going to change a thing unless you carefully direct it to impactful actions. Most people simply do not have time, resources, money, connection, influence, and/or energy to do this work alone.
Concrete, impactful actions, that are not always visible, are superior to mere performative protests and street theaters that may earn 15 minutes of fame but would quickly be forgotten.
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Nazis Are NOT Welcome Here
Nazis have never, are never, and will never, be welcome on this blog.
Anyone who is not a Nazi will have no trouble saying that they do not associate with Nazis. Those who can't, are Nazis. Many Nazis lie anyways, but this is the bare minimum someone can do.
So let me be clear. I will NEVER align with Nazis. I will NEVER tolerate them in ANY capacity. I will NOT accept a political party that does. Nazis do NOT deserve legal rights. Nazis are NOT welcome here, or anywhere.
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Technology and Free Software
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Separating dark mode and night shift on a Mac
On iOS, it's possible to use a custom schedule to turn on the night shift (slightly tinted yellow-orange) mode separately from a custom schedule for dark mode. For some reason, this isn't possible on a Mac. Without resorting to 3rd-party apps, you can only either:
1. Turn off night shift, then use automatic dark mode based on sunrise/sunset, or
2. Schedule night shift, and have dark mode follow its schedule.
Unfortunately, I turn on night shift all the time (a warmer screen environment, or so I tell myself -- it's mostly placebo) but prefer to only turn on dark mode after sunset, and so option 2 is out.
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The quirks of aging laptops
This laptop isn't old. It was made in 2020. Peter Guo, who lives in Shanghai and writes to gopher from sdf, wants one in 2025, and laments though made in Shenzhen, it is not shipped to China.
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PSA: Arch Linux ARM zsh 5.9.5 leading to Oh My Zsh hang on initialization
I just upgraded my home server today and randomly found I couldn't SSH into it. Also the BMC console though allows me to type into it, it accepts my password but doesn't show me the prompt. I was fearing that my system was compromised somehow. Through pure guessing, I found that the issue was somewhere in zsh. Switching to bash allowed me to login. From there a series of debugging steps led me to the actual issue.
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Sabotage
The OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual a short 20 page read. There's a cleaned up version on Wikisource.
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