Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 24, 2023

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• Technology and Free Software

  • g1 my little pony winamp / qmmp skin

    these days i've been working on my music collection; downloading and organizing, ressurecting my ipod (and complaining it's not compatible with gtkpod), and of course getting qmmp, because the skins make me happy.

    i've been using a very uncharacteristic skin, all pastel pink, but it's cute and makes me happy which is always the point of customization. looks quite nice against my dark blue siphonophore wallpaper too.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Back in the Saddle

      It's been heads down. Work on COBOL for the Gnu Compiler Collection (GCC), or `gcobol`, has been going on for almost two years. That has consumed all the energy of the COBOL team. There is a gcobol section on COBOLworx.com and a current development version of the compiler is available for Ubuntu 20.04 (and the equivalent Debian version). It generally works, passes allmost all of the interesting "NIST-85" tests, and is worth a try.

      We're turning back to GnuCOBOL since the Project recently released 3.2 with significant improvements. The binary installers for GnuCOBOL 3.2 are up on COBOLworx.com. Work on the adaptations to the debugger (`cbl-gdb`) has begun but it will be a while. So it won't be updated for a bit.

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      We recently Released binaries for OpenLDAP Releases 2.5.15 and 2.6.5. Mostly bug fixes with a few weird "crashers".

    • Ben: Episode 55

      1. 00:00:00 Introduction 2. 00:02:30 Future of the Gemcast 3. 00:26:08 Poezio vs. Profanity 4. 00:38:29 Element X and Matrix

    • The Hidden Nexus - A Social Place In Gemspace

      About 17 days ago I fixed a bug in the server hosting software I use for my Gemini servers. The moment I did that, I started working on a new CGI based Gemini capsule. I kind of hyperfixated on it lol.

      It's a place where any registered user can make posts, like, repost, reply, follow other users, etc. All posts can have image embeddings too. It uses some interesting methods to create interactive form pages, as well as very comprehensive user experience settings (with more to come).

      All of this is done entirely within Gemini, taking its protocol to its limits for some specific things.

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