Gemini Articles of Interest
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The Haiku Operating system is...pretty good
So I was in need of a Beos-FS formatted partition, and the easiest way to get that was to use the Haiku installer. Since I was running the installer already I thought I might as well install the OS and have a look around.
It's pretty good. I like it.
I'm running it on a Thinkpad X61. The install was very fast and it picked up the network right away, and a lot of things seem to work.
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MAGMA Monopolies
He told me about how the hypercapitalist monopolies are like a layer of magma destroying everything and transforming everything they touch into more magma.
Where magma stands for : Meta-Apple-Google-Microsoft-Amazon.
Don’t talk about GAFAM anymore, talk about MAGMA.
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Far vs Around Games
It occured to me the other day that while multiplayer games in the past were made to play/interact with people close to and around you, more and more games nowadays assume internet connectivity at all times and encourage you to play with strangers around the globe.
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Copyrighting Textfiles, The Legality Of Archives, and should I care?
I have been encountering alot of archives and mirrors lately. Mostly in the efforts of expanding the catalog of the CDG.But also just recently Ben Collver released an archive of the GameFAQs today. Mirroring web content and hosting archives of large text file databases is something that occurs quite often here in the gemini-space one way or another. Preserving information for future generations is a natural occurance for us internet dwellers. Buut theres a thorn in every internet archivst side. Copyright.
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Capsule Testing Pains
Like the rest of Geminispace, I run my capsule as a hobby project. I'm also not a developer by trade. As a result, the processes I use to design and update my capsule are rather ad-hoc and purpose-built. Perhaps most crucially, I don't have a test capsule to develop on--I build everything on the live server.
That has come back to bite me a few times. When I originally developed the chess service, one script contained a bug that prevented invitations from appearing on the home page. I didn't catch the bug for almost a month, and in that time, no-one played any chess matches. Similar issues plagued the weather forecast CGI in its early days, when flaky connections and CSV parsing errors caused the script to fail more than half of the time.
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Vim Has Spoiled Me
I started using vim about two years ago. Powering through the steep learning curve was something I knew I had to persevere through as I started my journey into the world of Linux and minimal computing.
Over time I became much more comfortable using vim and it's now my go-to editor. I write all my content for this capsule and my other blogs in vim and I've only now started to realize the dramatic increase in efficiency versus common word processors.
Over the last few days I've had to spend a lot more time in LibreOffice Writer and it felt so clunky compared to vim. I'm not a programmer, so I'm almost exclusively using vim to write prose. And I'll be honest, in the beginning I would give up half way through typing something up because I was spending most of my time looking up a command for something I needed to do. However, over time, muscle-memory kicked in and I started to remember the commands and tricks I used most. The best part is that I'm not even close to realizing the benefits of all the tools available to me.
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Using Arion to use NixOS modules in containers
NixOS is cool, but it's super cool because it has modules for many services, so you don't have to learn how to manage them (except if you want them in production), and you don't need to update them like a container image.
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"I Just Play Here"
As I mentioned in my last post I've been pretty hooked on OpenTTD lately (that's also why I haven't been as active posting).
I decided to try a multiplayer game and looked in the listing for one that had active players and wasn't password protected. I picked one of them at random and joined.
There was one other player there and we've chatted a bit. Apparently it's just been them for a very long time, with others popping in and leaving immediately from time to time. It's been fun sharing a world with someone.
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