Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 31, 2023

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• Technology and Free Software

  • Why I use the command line

    In short, I use the command line because it's fun, it's logical, expressive, and because it lets me avoid planned obsolescence and arbitrary restrictions. Read on for the details:

    I use the command line to resist software and hardware planned obsolescence. It's almost the opposite of an iOS app. I own (this is embarassing) 3 iPads, my parents' from 2011, my own from 2017, and one from school from 2021. The 2011 can't run much of anything. The 2017 worked fine but Apple ended support. They won't let me update the system and won't let me download any apps from the app store because the system isn't up to date, a catch-22. On the other hand, the command line still works on these. It won't disappear one day. It won't be made obsolete. I can still run my command line software on these.

  • Status and Photos

    The past few weeks have been defined by mental work for me. I want to make substantive improvements in myself, for my own sake, that of my family, and for the world I live in.

    I received a copy of an OS called Navigatrix a few days ago. This Ubuntu-based Linux distro is designed for use on boats, and it contains lots of software to interface with radios, GPS, satellite phones, and other low-bandwidth technologies. It also has features for reading offline wiki data using Kiwix. Though I don't live on a boat, I'm excited to look through it more--and it might actually inspire me to get back into radio.

  • For the love of script-ure

    I must admit appreciating someone making the effort to concoct an article title telling me in advance the article itself isn't worth reading. But that doesn't mean we can't have some fun with this tribute to "Let's Find Cause and Effect In Notions Too Big To Compare"!

  • Internet/Gemini

    • remy

      I published a chat program called radio on my tinylog at gemini://gmi.noulin.net/tinylog/log.gmi

      It uses UDP so it is not straightforward to run if you are behind NAT.

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