Gemini Links 09/03/2024: Qubes OS in Practice, Microsofter Wants to Leave Geminispace
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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videogames
If you are an elder millenial like myself then you grew up with the curse of the terrible videogame movie adaptation. Nowadays we have videogame adaptations galore. Yes it's true the quality can vary but real money and is being pored into these adaptations and wider audiences have generally enjoyed them. I mean heck Halo actually got a 2nd season so someone likes them.
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🔤SpellBinding: ACUNRTK Wordo: DOWR
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Technology and Free Software
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Script NAT on Qubes OS
As a daily Qubes OS user, I often feel the need to expose a port of a given qube to my local network. However, the process is quite painful because it requires doing the NAT rules on each layer...
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FLENG Libraries & "Community"
I've almost ported all the mods I made to KLIC to FLENG and upstreamed them. It was quite painless, by which I mean done in library code without needing to touch the compiler (unlike KLIC). The FFI supports stub generation which is handy, and there's a separate repo to more easily contribute things like bindings. This aligns with my view that before writing a new Blub library, check that there aren't already standard UNIX functions to do the same thing.
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7DRL (Pre and During and) Post Mortem
The problem with a 7DRL is that there is not much time (seven days to write a game being what the previous acronym indicates). The line between "generic library code" and "this code fits a specific game like a glove" can get pretty fine, though to be official you would need, well, officials. Maybe the contestants could be locked in a room with a laptop and food like they did for the traditional Chinese exams (minus the laptop). Maybe we'll call that "hard" mode.
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Internet/Gemini
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But Wait, AuraGem is Still Up?
Recently I expressed my intentions of leaving Geminispace
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I Used to Think CSS Was Good
I still do, for the most part.
I learned CSS for the first time back when Dreamweaver created horrible messes of HTML and everyone used the font tag everywhere. It was awesome. Now I could write semantic HTML and then define styles for it separately. Is this an example text? Add the class="example" attribute and then decide how it should be styled. If I want to change it I change one rule and all content belonging to the example class will immediately follow the same rules.
In the last few years I've noticed how this has changed in three ways which I think are detrimental to the whole idea.
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first post!
so... this is the beginning, isn't it? the beginning of what, i don't really know! it depends on if i end up using this more than just for a few days or so, lol! i guess i'll start this journal with what i had in mind when i made it, eh?
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