Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 01, 2023

A Gemini client^* is needed for the following links.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Why I dont like ads

    **I recommend anyone to use an adblocker[1] whenever they can.** Despite them being annoying, they're also good for your privacy.

  • Games Showcase: Slay The Spire

    Rogue is, of course, the game that spawned a genre—the Roguelikes, and, more recently, Roguelites.

    I say “of course”, but to be proper long form content this post should really define its terms. I don’t want to go into great depth on what a Roguelike is because it’s been done many times, so I’ll just pull out a few key defining characteristics for you.

  • All Apologies

    Today I finished my Quality Manager course that was presented online. It was a great experience, made some friends and learned some cool things that I would hopefully be able to use in a future job when I get one, fuck knows when that will be. Anyways.

    Been super busy this month, and can't really say exactly what I was spending my time on, the month just flew by without me really getting a grip on time. I guess the move and covid kept me busy? Hopefully I will be more productive in July, things seem to be settling.

    On my to-do list is definitely to format this Manjaro laptop and install Debian 12 via their netinstall image. Absolutely a beautiful piece of software. You install the iso, you log into your user account, install the software you need, and everything works after a reboot, just beautiful.

  • Notfox.com

    In 2012, I started a website called tiltish, intending to create a platform for individuals to rate / score news articles (how they "tilt" on the political spectrum), and discuss their contents. I thought it might be an interesting way to identify media bias. It was a great opportunity to wrap my head around ajax and a lot of other web programming concepts, and it fed the interest I had at the time in general news media.

    Through the development and beta-testing cycles of that project, I very quickly came to realize something: all of the news media outlets were biased, and in the same ways. In fact, they functioned as a collective would, and not as individual outlets should.

  • Friday link roundup: June 30, 2023

    This was recommended in a writing Discord I’m in. One way to keep yourself from going back and editing constantly is to just *not see* what you’ve written before. Webdings, Wingdings, or really any other “obscured glyphs” font would work for this, but this one also doubles as a neat way to represent redacted text.

  • Using anacron to run periodic tasks

    When you need to regularly run a program on your workstation that isn't powered 24/7 or even not every day, you can't rely on cronjob for that task.

    Fortunately, there is a good old tool for this job (first release June 2000), it's called anacron and it will track when was the last time each configured tasks have been running.

    I'll use OpenBSD as an example for the setup, but it's easily adaptable to any other Unix-like system.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Tables in Gemtext, the non-hacky way

      There is a lot to unpack in @freezr's recent post about 4 years of Gemini. However something that I felt compelled to write about was their suggestion to add table syntax to gemtext.

    • Concrete suggestions for Gemini

      Here's a short-form list of things I think would help Gemini as a technological ecosystem and as a community.

    • Discord, Youtube, Reddit, and Twitter Are All Attempting Self-Destruction

      It's a rough time for social media. Four giants are currently doing their best to anger their user-base and undermine the purpose of their platforms.

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