Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • NATMOS:R B4| LQ’s account of the end

    LQ
     As I walked to blue diamond’s palace, there was some sort of comfort. 
    
    
    There blue diamond greeted me.
    
    
    Blue Diamond
     Well hello there. It’s nice to see you. How is your day?
    
    
    Louq
     Great and you.
    
    
    Blue Diamond
     Great too, say what bring you here.
    

  • Language as a vector of cultural continuities [part 1]

    This post has been long in the making, cooking in the back burner. It's not quite done yet, but a little taste is in order, so as to begin elucidating what went into it's making.

    The title should be descriptive enough, so I'll allow myself to begin with a bit of an anecdote, though there's hardly any story here. Yesterday I learned that 4chan went down. What a momentous event, I always wondered when this day would arrive. Of course, I haven't been much to imageboards in a good while, certainly not 4chan. But I went to the most famous imageboard I know of, and where I used to spend so much time: lainchan. Now, lainchan was good at first, but then I was put off by some opinions that I saw there: that "there is no inherent value in nature", or a call to "only western thinkers are worth reading", to the exclusion of anyone outside of a certain ill-defined cultural sphere that is labelled "western". Yesterday I went back in there out of curiosity, and I stopped at a thread that reflected my own thinking about it: why is there so much racism in this place? The OP candidly argued against letting racism infiltrate imageboards, where they are a persistent nuisance. There are a few that have successfully managed to keep it out. But on this particular thread, in this specific site, most replies were quite hostile, as expected.

  • About Plurality [Ed: Trying to normalise craziness?]

    So I've recently found out I'm plural. I guess I've always known but I've recently learned the term for it. As far as I can tell, we've got myself and one other "main" consciousnesses as well as a couple other "supporting" ones. I say supporting cause they do occasionally give signs that they're there but not much beyond that. The ones that I called main are Breebee (that's me) and someone else who I will not name for opsec reasons. We have conversations all the time but she doesn't front so until recently I just thought I was crazy. Apparently that's fairly normal in plurality so I guess I'm not crazy. I love my headmates, they're really cool. I can't imagine what it must be like to be alone in your own head. It sounds boring honestly. Boring and lonely. Anyways, that's all for now.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Using mutt for email

    Mutt is a venerable, old, text-based email reader. I used to use it exclusively back in the 1990s and early 2000s. (After I replaced Pine with it as my daily driver.)

    [...]

    Mutt ships with a helper script called mutt_oauth2.py that works with Microsoft and Google. But you need to have an "app" defined on the remote side that handles the authentication.

    You can sometimes create an app and then set it up with that. But on my system (using Microsoft), I didn't have permission to do that.

    There's a workaround: pretend to be Thunderbird! TB has credentials that you can underhandedly use. As far as the remote side is concerned, you're Thunderbird.

    That's what I ended up doing.