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Fri Aug 21 06:00:01 EDT 2020
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Slept from eleven to seven without waking.
Mostly sunny then becoming partly cloudy late in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 80s.
West winds 5 to 10 mph.
Thirty-minute walk in the morning.
Partly sunny and cool.
Went through the woods and around the pond at Beverly Park.
Heard a mourning dove and a blue day.
Saw couple interesting fungi in the butterfly garden — a rusty orange one and a bright lemon-yellow one, both flat and low to (on) the ground.
Work
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- 2:30 PM weekly Entrata call
Done.
- Follow up with Kathy about HV security camera gear
Done.
Cicadas singing.
Home
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The road crew is still working on 13 Mile.
One of the entrances to Huntley has been closed for a few days.
Critics say Gemini is pointless when people could just use a highly-restricted subset of HTML.
Having used Gemini for a few hours, I'm very much persuaded against that argument.
Doing Gemini on the protocol level draws a clear boundary around the community — the protocol makes the community.
It's hard to articulate, but it feels right.
On the other hand, I feel like it would be OK for a Gemini client to render .txt or .md files served over HTTPS.
https://github.com/buckket/twtxt
> twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.
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> So you want to get some thoughts out on the internet in a convenient and slick way while also following the gibberish of others? Instead of signing up at a closed and/or regulated microblogging platform, getting your status updates out with twtxt is as easy as putting them in a publicly accessible text file. The URL pointing to this file is your identity, your account. twtxt then tracks these text files, like a feedreader, and builds your unique timeline out of them, depending on which files you track. The format is simple, human readable, and integrates well with UNIX command line utilities.
I like it.
The URL as identity — hmmm.
gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/reimagining-the-internet.gmi
> Demifiend also makes the really important observation that even "alternative" systems like Mastodon or Pleroma
which are actively trying to be better than Twitter are blindly repeating bad deicisions made by the faulty projects
they seek to replace. This is, in fact, an endemic problem. One of my pet peeves is that open, decentralised,
federating platforms are copying the corporate silo tactic of having homepages that provide absolutely zero insight into
who makes up the community inside or what they are posting. Pixelfed does this, for example:
> https://pixelfed.sdf.org
> and tell me on what possible basis I am supposed to decide whether or not I want to join that instance over any other?
The small Internet.
https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98
A simple command-line (Python) Gemini browser.
It offers more functionality than Castor in some ways.
https://www.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/
https://www.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/micropubnix.html
> Hear the phrase "public access unix system" and you might very likely automatically think of the Super Dimension Fortress. And rightly so; SDF has been the big name in the game for literally decades. But they're not the only pubnix out there, and these days (late 201xs) more and more are popping up (just check out the tildeverse!). That's only a good thing. Giant centralised systems with thousands and thousands of users aren't any better in the pubnix sphere than they are in the rest of the net.
> For me, the most exciting new arrivals are the "micropubnixes": small, lightweight public access systems with no aspirations to be anything more. There's no strict definition of a micropubnix, but the quintessential example might be a Raspberry Pi or similar single board computer, connected to somebody's home router and providing just a few basic services (like gopher hosting!) to a dozen or so users. They're simple, spartan, unique and quirky. It's unixpunk, and I love it.
Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 2/2, meat 2/3, nuts 0/0.5
Brunch: cucumber, banana, coffee
Lunch: orange, wrap with egg and avocado
Dinner: Cheetos
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