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● Gemini Links 10/08/2023: TERM Tweaking, Blocking the Ad Block Blockers

Posted in News Roundup at 8:26 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

↺ Turn Tracking

If the slowest person moves 60 ft. per turn in a dungeon, then 360 ft. would take 6 turns, i.e. one hour.

Here’s what it ended up looking for today’s game, and some text to copy and paste into a document of yours.

Technology and Free Software

↺ TERM Tweaking for Fun and maybe not Profit

One may see advice to use some TERM environment setting or the other. This can be good or bad advice in that the custom TERM may fix or break something, or fix one thing and break another. Maybe the breakage (if any) may not be noticed because you do not miss some feature, or never hit some key.

Another method is to modify an existing or to create a custom terminal definition that has or lacks the features you want or do not want. This too has downsides: it takes time, the custom terminal definition may need to be present on all the systems you use, shared accounts may be complicated if two users disagree on the necessary terminal, vendors may improve their terminal defintions whose changes you now have to merge into yours, etc.

Internet/Gemini

↺ RE: Detailed Guppy v0.2 Feedback

This is a quick list of thoughts, while going through feedback again. I’m still fixing v0.2 and preparing a v0.3 that fixes some things, and (stubbornly) retains some things that probably look like bad decisions to many readers (maybe like the entire effort, and that is OK, too).

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This is intentional, becuse this simplifies clients. If the success packet can be empty, the client has to acknowledge it and wait for the first continuation packet before it can display anything.

When the success packet cannot be empty, the client sends the request and has something to show before another round-trip. I believe most users don’t read fast enough to read the first response chunk before the second is received, or navigate to a different page because this one is not interesting enough.

Maybe, the use of plain-text UDP would allow users to receive the beginning of the page faster compared to a TCP handshake (plus a TLS handshake), at the cost of slower transfer of the entire page, when the page is big.

↺ dreamspace

I’d seen a post on the fediverse about grub themes. Figured it might be fun to install one.

↺ Block the Ad Block Blockers

@wilbowma@types.pl said that you can add the following to uBlock Origin filters to block ad-blocking blocking:

“` youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

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