Gemini Links 10/03/2024: Fedora 38 in Review, How CSS Became Potentially Evil
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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🔤SpellBinding — AGHIPWS Wordo: ERODE
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Akira Toriyama
As a child, I didn't understand why cartoon characters had a kind of amnesia between episodes. What happened in one was forgotten or ignored in the next, creating isolated stories.
Long before I heard about narrative arcs, transmedia and other terms that generate fictional universes, I thought there was a great potential being wasted there.
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Rows of Rhombuses
I had another dream concerning JenĂÄŤek last night. It was one of the final dreams before rising from the bed and into my daily routine (I laughingly call it a daily routine). Much of the dream has faded, but several scenes remain vivid. We went to a shop, ostensibly in Praha, to buy a window covering for JenĂÄŤek's house. House, I say? He has a house. Well, why not? Why wouldn't JenĂÄŤek have a house? He was rising on a crescendo into the realm of the *well-off* last time I interacted with him (not counting the bizarre messages from a few months back) and that was 16 years ago, más o menos.
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Technology and Free Software
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Re: Why do we even blog?
However, I try to convince everybody I can to get some words out there even if they are not that good (like my own) or even if english is not your native language (mine is german). And I think they/I shouldn't think too much about implicitly being judged. I don't want to care too much. Well, I *do* care what people write to me as a response but I mainly appreciate all feedback.
I try not to weigh ever single word I write, because if I did I would never get anything out. Of course it *can* be a "struggle" to get something meaningful out, but I mostly struggle about the topics I want to write about.
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Fedora 38 (finally)
My Blackbird stopped to run X yesterday. The problem was the full disk. It was easy to solve but when I was cleaning unnecessary files I also have decided to finally do the update (I was running the Fedora 36 ppc64le till yesteday!).
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Old tech
The author of the phlog [1] asked about the oldest piece of technology people actually use. Well, I don't know what is my old obsolete thing. Well, probably one of my bikes. My current Moulton is from 1963. My Velamos bike includes even older parts for sure but don't use it often.
I think that some kitchen ad home tools we regularly use at home are from 1960-1970 but I don't remember and don't know (of course, I'm not that terribly old).
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Internet/Gemini
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second post!
here goes my second journal entry... today was alright! went to work and came home. found out next week i only work saturday and sunday so that's shit. i'll have to look into getting a new job soon. it sucks cus looking for new work is so annoying and hard, but whatever honestly, lmao. i'll figure something out. dan said if he gets hired as a house cleaner, he'll try to land me a position, which i appreciate :)
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my wireless usb mouse isn't working anymore, i think the whole thing is just cooked. it lasted a long time, like a few years i think, i'm proud of it :) i think i have a spare somewhere, i'll need to find it. if i don't, i'll buy a new one later
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Programming
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Re: I used to think CSS was good
JavaScript mangles semantics in a way that CSS does not. Dynamic content (such as animated elements) and even some amount of user interaction is well handled by CSS to the extent that it more affords designers making pages such that that stuff can be turned off, ignored, overridden. That’s much more difficult with JavaScript and the virtual DOM. A simple wget -qO- |sed 's;";\n;g' |grep mp3$ is not as easily done with a JavaScript-laden page. CSS doesn’t (as often) get in the way of access the page’s content in a broader, more accessible way. [...] The web is getting ruined by mandatory darkmode, tracking and popups. Popups have been a scourge on the web since time immemorial but for a while we were able to successfully block them. With CSS that’s way harder.
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Sort Fail
So about midways through writing some code, I wanted to display a high scores list sorted in an unusual way, by the absolute value, so that a score of -42 would appear next to that of 42. All very silly. What was not silly was that qsort(3) failed at this task: no idea why, no time to debug what had gone sideways. Probably some tricky thing in the *compar callback function (or not very tricky, if you've been working too much so therefore your error rate is high).
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