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Gemini Links 16/06/2023: Reddit Alternatives



  • Personal/Opinions

    • Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

      This was probably the first album I recognized as "perfect". In high school my friend gave me basically the entire RATM discography in a 4 CD multi-case and would listen to these on repeat at night. And I realized that their debut album was perfect. This is literally another album, like our first entry, where I could skip re-listening and just do a write up from memory. This album is melted into my brain.

    • 🔤SpellBinding: EHORSWY Wordo: ACHOO
    • The cat

      There's been a cat that pops in every night around my neck of the woods (or burbs I should say). Used to show up every once in awhile on the cameras, so we started putting out some food for him. Now he visits pretty consistently. It's a small thing, but the little wanderer gives me something to look forward to every morning. I glance at the night's events, blurry eyed having just awoken, to see if he showed.

    • How did Friday get here so quickly?

      Our house is scheduled to be taken over by younger boys tonight. The mom of the related one will be "adulting the room".

  • Science

  • Technology and Free Software

    • Planning PWS Hardware

      It has been a dream of mine to create my own personal weather station (PWS). I've been working on this project for over 6 years now. Due to school and scope creep: I have not been able to complete this project. This time will be different. I have a plan. This plan has been split up into two parts: hardware and software. In previous iterations, I have developed hardware and software at the same time without a clear plan, which I believe is part of the reason why it has taken me so long.

      With this semester is almost over, I have done a bit of planning so I can hit the ground running with this project. I want to have the hardware installed as soon as reasonably possible so that I can start work on the software remotely.

    • My Perfect Homelab — An Antithesis

      After reading about the new homelab subspace on BBS, it’s time to write a little about my ideas of the perfect homelab, which I wanted to do for a long time.

      [...]

      My devices don’t need to directly interact with each other, and for the few cases where they do, Bluetooth works fine. This also includes audio streaming. Obviously, I don’t transfer much data between them.

      I’ve had this situation for three years, but then needed to have a wired Internet connection for remote work during and after COVID-19 to improve latency. While my connection is now much better than before, my LTE Internet speed was okay for ordinary web browsing and the occassional download and cloud sync.

    • Word bricks

      Slowly awakening. Chilly. Wife slowly arising. So much of my morning involves avoiding having to listen to her go on and on on topics uninteresting to me - which, of course, is likely what you think of what I post.

    • Internet/Gemini

      • Huh? 🙃

        Someone's post on Gemini had been badly translated from HTML to gemtext. There were HTML tags displayed. So I sent email to alert the person. But I got an automated reply saying my email was rejected because... it contained HTML.

      • Reinventing search

        We don't work on Fridays. My wife went to have lunch with a friend and I have the balcony doors open. The kids from the school yard across the street are running and screaming like they always do. I'm sure there are some that are quiet and just stand or sit. They disappear. Maybe that's what they'd like to do. I don't remember school fondly.
        People feel like search is going down the drain. No wonder! People have been complaining for a while, now. When Reddit was good, people said it was better to search Google than to search Reddit. Then Google started to show search results in conversations including Reddit. Stack Exchange had terrible search, but using Google and just looking for Stack Exchange results was great. People started noticing. Sadly, all the relevant links I can find are on Reddit and people are currently on strike.

      • Reddit alternatives

        Where are the RPG alternatives to Reddit? Edit this page or leave a comment if you know. Also, feel free to copy, edit and repost. This information wants to be shared. 😄

        If there’s one thing I learned from Google+ disappearing, it’s that people need to be prepared for alternatives.

        The list here shows the raw URLs, too. The Lemmy instances on lemmy.ml and lemm.ee are not the same.

    • Programming

      • Why will likely never use AI programming tools



        If I didn't, I still wouldn't use it due to the ethical/copyright issues, but I don't even have to think that far: I just like writing code.

        Why would I give something I like to a robot?


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