Gemini Links 26/04/2024: uConsole and EXWM and stdu 1.0.0
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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A Garden, Not a Rock
Space colonization would be an difficult, expensive, and resource-intensive proposition. For some, though, it is of paramount importance; it's easy to find examples of folks claiming that almost any sacrifice is worthwhile if we can "get off this rock" or "become a multi-planetary species." Environmental protections? They just pointlessly impede Progress. What if a dinosaur-killer asteroid shows up? What about the fact that solar changes will make Earth uninhabitable in many millions of years? Don't those outweigh the lives of a few birds or sea turtles?
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Granddaughter
Today my oldest daughter made me a grandfather. It was the best day.
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Technology and Free Software
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Further on the uConsole and EXWM
Major victory of the day was setting up MPD and using qjoypad to map the X and A gamepad buttons on this device to the pause and print buttons, and in init.el mapping those to toggle pause/play of current song and next song respectively.
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UTF-8 Character Sets
So, in my emacs config, I have major modes I use often setup to display as UTF-8 superscript such as ᴱᴸᴾᴴᴱᴿ for the best gopher/gemini client. I wrote a shell script that adds an offset to text on stdin to output circle letters, fraktur, etc. but it is hit or miss if lowercase lines up (in other words, it often outputs giberish). Unicode superscript letters are an even worse case because they are spread amongst muliple sections - not together and convienient.
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stdu 1.0.0 release
I use output redirection and piping quite a bit when I'm using my computer. Oftentimes I just `cat` and redirect the output instead of using `cp` or `dd`. I don't remember when I'd have done `grep [foo-query] [bar-file]`, I always do `cat [bar-file] | grep [foo-query]`. I might end up writing more, but I don't have to remember as much syntax.
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Internet/Gemini
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Profectus Alpha 0.8: Smooth Scrolling and Animations
NOTE: Profectus is a new graphical browser for Gemini, Nex, and Scroll.
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.