● 06.04.23

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● Gemini Links 04/06/2023: Rosy Crow 1.1.3 and NearlyFreeSpeech.NET

Posted in News Roundup at 5:43 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal

• I was out weeding just after 8 this morning. Already in the mid 20s, crazy warm for this time of year. A quick breakfast, then back at it: mowing, filling the feeders, etc.

• Several more hours of running around, and then the rest of the day has been relaxing. Music practice, working on some future gemlog entries, watching Jays-Mets and the NHL finals.

• On Saturday I went up to my parents’ for a family get together with my dad’s sister, my mom’s sister, and my mom’s aunt. I don’t much care for my mom’s side of the family and while I tried coming at them with an open mind and heart, it being a number of years since I’d last seen them, they proved to repeat the same negative traits that has pushed me away from them. My dad and his sister agreed so we ended up spending a lot of time together, hiding from my mom’s half. One of the things I did to stay busy away from the family was prepping an old metal horse trough to be turned into a raised planter box. I had to drill a few holes in the bottom for drainage and load it, as well as a bucket of composted horse manure, into the back of my car. I unloaded it all as soon as I got home that night.

Technical

Internet/Gemini

• Version 1.1.3 includes the following changes: * Implemented long-pressing on links to either copy or share their URLs * Widened pre-formatted blocks so that they fit the width of the rest of the page’s content * Fixed an issue where some capsules will always return an Invalid URL

• I also upgraded several dependencies to their most recent versions.

• I was reading Harvey Cox’s The Secular City the other day (secular in the sense of “contemporary”, “of the current era” rather than as in any sense of soulless and dry) and it struck me that what he writes about “city” is often even more true for “internet”. Obviously the internet didn’t exist in 1956 when the original lectures were developed but sometimes going back is just what you need to do to go forward. One section, “Anonymity”, in particular, was useful for me to read.

• The gist is that people who grew up very rurally (as I did) can have a hard time adapting to the city life, and internet life. He describes two kinds of relationships: one where you know someone thoroughly and another where someone is just a faceless nameless replacable radar blip.

• I apologize in advance: this is going to read like an ad.

• I don’t want your money, and I don’t care where you spend your money; but some things do cost money; and then there are choices to be made, and some choices are better than others; and it would be useful to know which.

• I have an idea which. So, I will share.

• For web hosting, domain name management and email forwarding, NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (NFSN) is excellent.

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