● 07.17.23

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● Gemini Links 17/07/2023: Art and Home Lab

Posted in News Roundup at 7:46 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

• I dunno, the title came to me while shaving, and I got a real kick out of it. Love how the word ‘harder’ adds a touch of bad dad humor to it. Love how there’s a degree of recursion to the situation given it likely takes a pair to fully get it.

Politics and World Events

• The only way to save the environment is to drastically cut consumption, and that’s not going to happen — neither conservatives nor liberals are willing to stop consuming. Driving electric cars (literally moving the exhaust pipes to poor neighborhoods) does not count.

• Capitalism is an emergent property of human greed, not an actual force unto itself putting most humans at its mercy.

Technology and Free Software

• A homelab refers to servers and networking equipment one hosts in their home. One can use a homelab for a number of different purposes, including (but not limited to!) hosting a Dropbox/Google Drive alternative, putting a personal website on the internet, hosting a video game server (ie Minecraft) or even running your own video streaming platform.

• Homelabs not only expose you to concepts such as server maintenance, *nix operating systems and networking, but also give you control over your data and privacy, while saving you money on online subscriptions.

Internet/Gemini

• i think it’s a mistake to only rely on nostalgia, i think it keeps us from moving forward. don’t take any of this too seriously btw, i’m young and have a poor memory. my main nostalgia is for oekaky and petsite forums anyway. i can’t say i miss orkut but the feedless socialization was kinda nice. the days of farmville-likes and stuff. but i digress.

• there’s no going back. not only because nostalgia is fake yadda yadda but because we have tasted from the fruit of knowledge, so to speak, for better and for worse. we have new and different (and by some measures better) tools, hardware and software, and we have new and different habits. we’ve had what, over a decade of blogging and microblogging and timelines, that cat’s long out of the bag.

• It’s a fair point! If Gemini was a forum, most of the threads would have just one post.

• I’ve appreciated your posts pulling together and commenting on recent posts from across Geminispace. Thank you! It makes the whole quite a bit more interactive … even if usually what we end up with is “threads” of two posts.

• I’m not sure if this is something to be improved, or working as intended. I already wrote that I’d appreciate a convenient way to say “thanks” as I read someone’s Gemlog; and that I’d use “s/discuss” on Bubble to more conveniently reply to posts. Of course I can also post replies here. But I think there is something about long form content plus a slight barrier to posting that means I’ll only reply if I have something substantial to say.

• Part of getting used to Gemini has been learning to do things more slowly. I’m now reading mostly via my “yesterday” meta-aggregator, so I don’t usually read posts the day they’re posted but the next day. Even that feels like maybe too fast, on further reflection.

• as much as i love the text-first culture of gemini, i’m a visual artist and there’s absolutely no reason not to put my work in my personal space. while i work on this page, check out my galleries over at the web ^_^

Programming

• At some point down the road retrocomputing will include using Python 2

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