Gemini Gemini Links 01/02/2024: Lessening the JavaScript and Radio 208 in the Cabin
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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of dragons and flames and other fannish things
This past weekend I (finally) resumed playing Fire Emblem Engage, two weeks and a year after the game came out. It's not Engage's fault I bailed so badly, not really -- it was the years of being disgruntled at Fire Emblem as a franchise, and being intensely infuriated by the fandom for Three Houses in particular (and the uptick of bizarre purity culture/policing in general), and everything /else/ in the last few years, and stress, and the universe, and ...
... Well, I got back to Engage and I'm hoping I can stick with it, because I have great affection for this pack of little weirdos so far and the game is fun. And it will eventually give me Chrom, if only as a dlc Emblem, and that's fine.
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Confidence and Lindy Hop
I just started taking a Lindy Hop class at the beginning of this month and it's been an insane amount of fun! I love how expressive the dance is and it's been a really great way to socialize with people in my new city!
I realized that as a novice in new activities or situations, I'm quite anxious and can lack some confidence. I apologize a lot for messing up, I freeze up, i'm afraid to ask people to dance only knowing two moves, it's intimidating. Especially when i'm dancing with a cute girl.
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Technology and Free Software
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FOI News — Less the JavaScript
I want to view the Friends of Israel news feed regularly, but I also block JavaScript, and going to https://www.foi.org/news only gives me a blank page and buckets full of JavaScript I don't want to load.
I started combing through the JavaScript, trying to see if I could make JSON requests directly or something like that, to pull the news entries. But the solution is much simpler, thankfully. It turns out that the actual news entries are available in daily digests, which are available in plain HTML.
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Radio 208 in the cabin
In December my wife and I took a sort of "zero frills mini-break" and spent a few nights in a small cabin on a garden allotment, offered for rent on AirBnB, in a small city in the part of Czechia known (rather aspirationally) as Bohemian Switzerland due to the surrounding mountains. This is the way we desperately cling to the appreciation for "mökkielämää" we acquired in Finland. The place had electricity, so we were definitely playing on easy mode, but at least the mains water supply was turned off for the winter. We had a great time, despite the lack of sauna.
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an idea (of a sort of decentralized vrchat type game)
If you've ever heard of vrchat, or something similar, you might know what i am thinking of, but my idea is much more... different... it also involves torrents, but more on that later.
I think it would be interesting to create a sort of decentralized, people host their own servers game like vrchat, the basic idea being hosted custom worlds, with people connecting and using custom avatars, etc...
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vis for vi and fun
I've been looking for a `vi` editor that my fingers would be happy with. I learned `vi` when I first encountered Unix in University (1980s). I was a transfer student so didn't get the "introduction to Unix and Emacs" lecture. Everyone used Emacs to edit programs but Emacs to me was not intuitive. I recall having a heck of a time figuring out how to exit the editor! I knew I needed to learn an editor and Unix fast to do my school work.
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The ClockworkPi Devterm R-01
It has finally arrived! Two days ago a FedEx courier dumped the devterm into the shed behind our house and my first steps into the world of Risc-V could begin.
The Devterm comes in kit form, so there is a bit assembly involved, a process that i highly enjoyed. The part quality is really nice, the construction is quiet thought out and the instructions are clear. If you have ever assembled a Revell plastic model kit you should have absolutely no problems with this.
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Internet/Gemini
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*taptaptap*
Well here I am, trying to branch out into several types of smallweb at once -- a wee little blog on the web /and/ geminispace which I've been slowly exploring over the last week-and-change (and this will be in gopher also, even!).
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.