Gemini Links 20/02/2024: Kids Cannot Write, Misfin-Server, and More
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Kitchen Renovation
We are renovating our kitchen. When we bought the house the kitchen was by far the thing in the worst shape. It had tile counters. Many of the tiles were broken, missing, chipped, stained, or cracked. The grout between them was a dark dark gray with age and lack of cleaning. The cupboards are nice: solid wood (not plywood or fiberboard) with cool decorative features in places and absolute simplicity in others. However, they were dirty, stained, the hinges didn't allow the doors to close well. The sink was old and cracked porcelain, yellow with age. Most of it had likely been there since at least the 70s, but likely the 60s.
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Why is working with contractors and people who do this kind of work always a flaky mess? If I take a job, we agree on a time, place, and cost and I am there on time doing the job for the agreed upon amount. I just don't get this business model.
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a little late, but i was climbing, ok?
I went to the el chorro climbing area in spain, lovely, great climbing, had loads of fun (and saw some great vultures, lizards and other wildlife), also went to granada and went in the cathedral, holy crap is it filled with gold, just gold, everywhere... modesty guys? Can kinda see what Martin Luther was talking about.
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Politics and World Events
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Nine: House
I'm staring at the backs of my hands, but not really, I'm staring into the space just before my hands begin, and having one of those moments. I could be doing something with this time, but my mind is an hourglass tipping back and forth, marking pointless time. I break from inaction to start the kettle. I sit down and I'm on Mastodon instead, and then I hear the water fully boiling, shit, so I turn it off and let it settle down a bit. When I remember it, it'll be too cold to use. We are buying a house again. I don't remember how to really make coffee, the smell is off from how it used to be. Yesterday, I wrote a check and took it to our realtor who lives in some sort of colonial remembrance, big, too big, and she said she's excited that we're excited. The bank emails me to say, great, thanks, congrats, and good luck
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Academiology IV: Land
Content warnings: genocide, discussion of ongoing conflicts between Indigenous people and the Canadian government
I've mentioned the Wetʼsuwetʼen people at least once before in my series on the university ecosystem. Before I get into our discussion on land I think I should elaborate on their story a bit.
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Science
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The kids can't write anymore
Every few months a newspaper makes an article about poor spelling performance in young students.
"15 years old writing as bad as 9 years old were writing 30 years ago" or similar stuff.
They throw a line or two at the study, then proceed to the standard political rant.
The right blames social media and public (aka leftist) schools not being strict enough, disregarding that private schools are having the same problem¹.
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This community is where they will write. They talk with their parents, their teachers, and other people in everyday life. They only write for friends and social media.
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Technology and Free Software
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Cloud Storage
I don't trust cloud storage. But let's face it, the term "cloud" is marketing-speak for "the internet but more expensive", so it's probably more accurate to say that I don't trust online storage.
I always make local backups of anything I store online, to include content hosted on the web or gopher. You just never know when a service you rely on might go offline or become inaccessible. Self-hosting is preferable, but online services can be convenient if you're careful, and I'm aware that not everyone has the technical know-how to self-host. So they are here to stay.
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One adventure per level is a bad framework
The one problem in common with several of WotC’s 5e adventure anthologies is that they have one adventure for each level.
There’s so much wrongness that just follow as consequences from that one decision.
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The Legacy Edition's Box's Random Labyrinth Generation
The only thing I've done recently with The Fantasy Trip was use the Random Labyrinth Generation dice drop table in the bottom of the Legacy Edition Box. I've got a post on my µBlog that talks about it.
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Internet/Gemini
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Misfin-Server
Misfin-server is a misfin server implementation written in golang that I have been working on for many months and am continuing to work on, which can easily be seen by the commits of the repo on Gitlab.
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Certificate change on Sunday 25 February 2024 on redterminal.org
There will be a certificate change to my capsule on Sunday, 25 February 2024 although the actual certificate is still valid for decades - So don't get scared when the warning message pops up in your Gemini browser. Please simply accept the new certificate, there is nothing nefarious going on.
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Programming
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changeling
A year has passed since I decided to learn how to program. I was tired of my profession and needed a change. Fortunately, I spent a lot of my free time over the years exploring hobbies such as setting up local servers, developing websites, using various Linux distributions, and the command line itself. But I never thought to make a career until then, and I was never very interested in programming. I didn't have the patience. But I had decided that this time would be different. And as often as I tend to say such a thing and not follow through, I did for once.
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Minitest
I started writing a little C program last weekend to show the amount of data piped to its STDIN, because I happened to want one and couldn't find any. I chose C instead of Rust (wdich I have used more recently) as I wanted to refresh my proficiency in C.
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