Gemini Articles of Interest
A Gemini client* is needed for the following links.
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The Gemini Mention amusing coincidence
Nota: I started this entry as a short fun fact about a coincidence, and ended writing a long post responding to Martin and Sean, I'm sorry, but it seems I can't be concise…
On Sunday, while publishing my review for 2022 from my new laptop, I had to reinstall a few things for the deployment of my capsule and blog to work. I was using an old version on kiln[1] (static capsule generator) on my previous laptop, so after installing the latest one, I had some issues to fix. I took the "opportunity" to clean a bit my capsu
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Let's go back to IRC
Modern IMs are bloated, annoying, spyware, time wasters, often proprietary, slow to load, awful to use on bad connections, actively try to sabotage your attention. It's time we should actively reconsider on how we, as a society, communicate via our devices, and the costs imposed on upon us by the services we use, or get used by.
Why does a messaging program need typing notifications? Read receipts? Auto-playing videos? GIF avatars? Reactions? This is by no means a "hurr durr I'm living in a log cabin in the mountains, all that is new is stupid" commentary, it's just that we use a messaging program, to message. Not to waste another hour, mindlessly clicking through mentions, watching videos, and other specifically engineered "features" to make you spend as much time as possible on their program.
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sbc woe woe - 2023-01-03
i ended 2022 perplexed, disturbed, flame extinguished - and worse than all of that my RPi4-4gb died in the dark in a storm and now resides in a plastic box with three other sbcs.
i think a loose emmc card did for the RPi4 - card unreadable, RPi4 un-bootable.
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LOS20 and Nextcloud
On that cheery note, I've upgraded all of my android sets to LineageOS version 20, based on Android 13. This seems to be the first android release that is reasonably up to date with the current mainline Linux kernel (6.x.x).
I've seen a flourish of activity on the xda-developer forums from hobbyists who are releasing LOS20 builds for really old outdated handsets. I'm secretly patting myself on the back for keeping these old mobiles, and I don't know why LOS18 and LOS19 weren't so popular, but LOS20 really seems to be getting ported onto everything and anything!
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Command line tools I'd like to use but can't
miller[1] is a command line tool and scripting language that can be used to manipulate, transform and summarise structured data from CSV, JSON and other formats. Miller is fast and can handle pretty large datasets by streaming data rather than loading it all into RAM. I'd always hoped to use it for quickly exploring a new dataset, or for extracting data subsets for SEOSAW[2] data requests. What has held me back is that I know how to do basically everything that miller can do in an interactive R session. Maybe if I was in a role that only required data munging, rather than munging plus statistical analysis I would use miller more.
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Long Rambling about Artist Reaction to AI
Ok, this is going to be an long rambling post. But I feel it has to be done. I see too much artist talking like they know how AI works. They talk about how AI is "stealing" their work, creating what looks like art but without any life in it. I DO agree that the current way we use AI will become a problem down the road. But better understanding of how AI works, why AI works and the ideology behind the field will make communication between the two communities much easier.
First of all. I am no where near SOTA. I was in the field doing neuromorphic stuff for a while then some FPGA accelerators. Heavily on the computation side. But in the process learned enough I feel I'm at least ok with explaining to undergrads. And I hope I don't make mistakes. If there is, let me know.
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It still surprises me what some find difficult to do
And he goes on to implement a scheme that adds complexity to the configuration of the server, plus the issues with scheduling a program to scan the logfiles for Gemini requests. I've done the logfile scanning for “Project: Wolowizard [4]” and “Project: Lumbergh [5]” and it was not any easy thing to set up. Okay, in my case, it was checking the logs in real time to see if messages got logged as part of testing, but that aside, checking the logs for requests might not be straightforward. In this case, it soulds like he has easy access to the log files—but that is not always the case. There have been plenty of systems I've come across where normal users just don't have access to the logs (and I find it annoying, but that's a rant for another time). Then there's scheduling a script to run at a regular schedule. In the past, this would be `cron` and the bizarre syntax it uses, but I'm not sure what the new hipster Linux `systemd` way is these days (which itself is a whole bag of worms).
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Retrocomputing, a little
I've been doing a little bit of retrocomputing over the holidays. I'm writing this post in Netscape 3.01, running on MacOS 8.1. In an emulator, not on vintage hardware.
Besides the problems you'd expect it to have with the modern web (JavaScript and CSS), it also doesn't handle modern TLS, so I'm having to run it through a TLS-terminating proxy on the ThinkPad that's running the emulator.
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Tea Tea Deluxe 1.2.4 -- Bugfixes
Holy cow, I can't believe I haven't posted anything since before Christmas.
Anyway, I found a couple of bugs in my OpenTTD mod, namely that the custom goods carriages cost £0 a piece, and both tea leaves and tea boxes were weightless.
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Program Picker With Zenity
Zenity is a small utility program for building simple graphical widgets and menus. I've never had use for it before, but a few days ago I ran into a situation that it just so happened to be perfect for.
I have a program of which I currently have several different versions compiled. Stable, release candidate, latest, etc. Since I start pretty much everything through gmrun (look that up: it's the best part of searching in the Gnome 3 menu, but without the bloat of Gnome 3) I didn't want to have to remember which versions I currently have. Wouldn't it just be better to run a command and pick from the currently available builds?
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Faster Index Joins
The most common (and most costly) operation of the marginalia search engine's index is something like given a set of documents containing one keyword, find each documents containing another keyword.
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Rogue
rogue, or at least the oldest version I could find at the time on the Internet, did not compile on modern systems.