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Gemini Links 13/07/2023: Old Computer Challenge and Back to USENET



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • 🔤SpellBinding: ACNYSWR Wordo: IMPRO
      • wobbles

        I spent the morning dealing with a VERY upset child. You see, I found wobble town about the same time I discovered all the wonderful, fun little things that exist over here around smol.pub. That is to say, probably later than a lot of people, but long enough back that my wobble has reached a seeming zenith of evolution.

      • working in a small team

        I've been working in a very small team the past 2 years. We are a very isolated little subgroup in our subdepartment, 3 people in total. There is not much that intersects with the work of the others really, so it is usually just us as a fairly independent little capsule.

        There are many benefits to this that I can appreciate. It is definitely easier to get a hold of the group it its entirety, be it for physical meetings or online meetings. The communication traveled quicker and there were less people to consider and inform. Consensus was reached easier and quicker on many things. The small size permitted us to avoid anything super elaborate and time consuming to get everyone on the same page. Smaller teams can be cozier and closer with each other.

      • Falling from the fingertips

        So there's not really me and you. That's thought(s). The thought of an individual experiencing non-individual, the latter of which includes the notion of you all.

        And it's been futile for being utterly imaginary.

        Look at the poor little homunculus, poor little individual, appearing as most of a body but with absolutely nothing where there is allegedly a head.

      • Four Leaf Clovers

        Me and the boys spent about twenty minutes searching dor four leaf clovers the other day. They found several each. I found none. I’ve never found one, in fact.

      • Omnium Gatherum

        I've listened to a couple King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard albums but so far this one takes the cake. I've had it on for the past couple days which is the biggest sign that an album has really clicked with me.

    • Politics and World Events

      • Pretty danged lucky

        Any questions on whether "the news" is more about driving narratives to be believed than reporting what happened?

        Nice day. Beautiful low 70F temps, sunny on and off. Did some cleaning and putting away outdoors. Alphabetized some sheet music. Showered and dressed. Slowly moving in the direction of my wife performing with the municipal band in her hometown, tonight.

        Stepping out of the shower today I was suddenly remembering my first practicing switching hands on a bath towel being used at an angle behind the back.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • Old Computer Challenge: Life at 300MHz

        Note: yes, I shamelessly stole the title for this post from Artemis[1].

        We're a couple of days in and due to work and illness, I haven't nearly done as much as I initially hoped to do in this week. Yet, the core of the blue machine still hums along, happily but vociferously, waiting to be of service.

        Happy you're here to read along.

      • Rockchip NPUs and deploying scikit-learn models on them

        My first experience with my RK3588 board was mildly infuriating. I bought my Orange Pi 5Plus for it's quite capable NPU. However the low level matrix multiplication API segfaults every single time. After a long period of headbanging I decided to dump that approach for now and the barely working rknn-toolkit2 high level interface. Even that has it own set of ridiculous problems. I thought converting scikit-learn, the most basic and widely used ML library, would be a breeze. I was wrong. I ended up writing my own converter. With this experience I'll be able to tackle larger and more useful models in the future.

      • Heartbeat signal 2

        Hey, hello, this thing still on?

        It's a damn good thing I made a Makefile for this and all my scripts are still working.

        So, it's been a little while, almost a year apparently. I kept the server online for sometime after I effectively stopped updating my capsule until I did a switcharoo from Hetzner back to DigitalOcean.

      • web frameworks

        looking like we're gonna make websites as a way to contract in the local area and to rebuild company website.

      • WSL? Powershell? bare MinGW or Cygwin? Screw all, MobaXterm Personal

        Had to install 'tar' package to have GNU tar instead of BusyBox that MobaXterm includes. To have the tar exclude work correctly.

        Meantime, I have been experiencing frustration in relation to publishing html websites. The wysiwyg composers are no longer there, Seamonkey often has to be custom compiled. I swear if i continue using it i will at some point end up running it in steam-run on some NixOS someday.

      • Old Computer Challenge 2023 - Day Four

        The backlight of my twenty year old IBM ThinkPad R31 is not in the best of shape. Sometimes after boot it is a bit dim, but otherwise perfectly usable. And sometimes it is quite dark after boot, and I have to get really close to read the text on the screen.

        The first time the R31 boots after connecting the power brick, I have to set the date. Both the backup battery as the normal battery are very dead.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • hello again gemini

          last year i went through the trenches and around october i dropped so many things. i barely been around gemini since then — most of the time by accidentally clicking lagrange. i think at least three of my plants died at astrobotany. i barely skimmed antenna.

          and like. that's fine! the blogging (and by extension social media) mindset is all about The Update, but my capsule is a different beast. i put things in here when i feel like it, and it's not a mirror of my web presence. still i do feel kinda bad. i like it here. but yknow how it is with the brain. i dropped a bunch of stuff i liked because there was just so much overall.

        • USENET is ALIVE, long live NNTP !

          Hola! Happy Hacking to all hackers, DIY, Creators and tinkers out there.

          [...]

          This last week I been working on adding #inn2 to our arch GNU/Linux server, after reading a lot of source code, man pages and old and new documentation I have got up and running, and peering with other popular hacker BBS's and communities from around the world


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