Gregory Chamberlain @chambln@mastodon.social
22. Vegan for the animals. Advocate of free software and free culture. I play music a lot, take photos and write words sometimes. Debian is my rock.
Joined Feb 2020
Is there a consensus on what to call a #gemini site/pod/capsule/station/port/log/space/home/whatever? We Gemini users are an indecisive bunch.
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Why So Many People Lack Critical Thinking Skills
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Regular reminder that "it's better on the app" means "we want to install spyware on your phone"
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From my "#GNU and #Linux naming controversy":
https://alirezahayati.com/gnu-linux-controversy/
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Inspired by @chambln post I wrote pp in #awk https://github.com/TeddyDD/pp.awk
AWK is great tool that is installed virtually everywhere.
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I think it's time to finally explain what all the #Linux system directories *really* mean:
/usr = Undeniably Severe Repercussions
/opt = Obviously Perishable Trash
/var = Viscerally Annoying Rambling
/bin = Barely Interesting Notes
/run = Rather Underwhelming Nuggets
/sys = Strange Yet Special
/etc = Exclusively True Ciphers
/dev = Delightfully Excellent Vistas
You are welcome.
This 5 line #awk program prints #gemini documents with syntax highlighting and numbered links.
https://git.sr.ht/~chambln/gmi/tree/ba42a734/item/contrib/gemtext.awk
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I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.
Still don't have my own Gemini capsule though :(
I should fix that.
I wrote a tiny Gemini browser in POSIX shell. It uses programs like
less(1) and fzf(1) for interactivity. There are still a few issues and
features to be implemented, but it is basically usable. I mean, I use it.
Probably just me though.
Can we all just agree that copyright law is stupid and should be abolished? Or, at least, reformed beyond recognition.
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How to use git.sr.ht's send-email feature https://spacepub.space/videos/watch/ad258d23-0ac6-488c-83fc-2bacf578de3a
As a long time no-panel #bspwm user, I thought it was about time I tried Lemonbar ... and film the whole thing to demonstrate my incompetence with these things. Now you know why I never bothered.
https://youtu.be/gno-PDG9ElY
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Thank you so much for joining us for #LibrePlanet 2021. There’s plenty more to discover on day two, so check out tomorrow’s talks and https://libreplanet.org/2021/program/, and we’ll see you in the morning!
You know there's something wrong with the state of software when the first recommendation on my curated list of programs is to use pen and paper instead.
https://cosine.blue/recommended.html
So far I've discussed sensible password managers and web browsers. All free/libre. All good stuff (except maybe Firefox which everyone hates now).
22. Vegan for the animals. Advocate of free software and free culture. I play music a lot, take photos and write words sometimes. Debian is my rock.
Joined Feb 2020
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