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2025-12-12 09:40 +0000
author: @siiky@siiky.srht.site
Lambda Days 2025's talks are out:
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2025-12-11 21:44 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
I made a new release of the GTL Tinylog Reader/Editor: v1.2.0-fork. This release upgrades the dependencies to tcell/v3 and the cview branch with upgrades to tcell/v3 too. Since the release of v1.2.0-fork tslocum merged it's WIP on the "tcellv3" branch of codeberg.org/tslocum/cview into master, but there aren't any changes which need a rebuild of GTL. tslocum will make a tag release of the new version soon, so I can use the regular tag release for my releases instead of (now) master.
The new tcell/v3 version fixes some problems with modal windows (you couldn't go back in button selection with SHIFT/TAB, now this works again), and I also fixed a bug with ALT/Enter when the sidebar is focussed.
So please use the new version and report bugs on the issue tracker, write an email or post on your tinylog. Thanks alot.
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2025-12-11 14:34 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
The Cherry KC 4500 Ergo keyboard arrived today. It seems to be a good keyboard. The key travel is good and the keys are easy to press. I still have to get used a little to my first ergonomic keyboard but I believe that won't take a long time. I think its a good keyboard, although the pound sign ("#") with the single quote under it and the "<", ">" and "|" keys are a little small (which I need often for programming). But all in all it's a good buy I think. Lets see how it turns out in the long run. But at first use I'm happy with it.
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2025-12-10 11:50 +0000
author: @siiky@siiky.srht.site
This is the weirdest and most unexpected category on Wikimedia Commons I've found (NSFW):
And this is a pretty decent visual explanation of zip the functional operation on arrays:
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2025-12-09 19:47 +0100
author: @zekromaster
«My son is totally fine»
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2025-12-09 12:26 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
BTW: did you look at Cherry KC 4500 Ergo? It's 50 Euro, has the "notebook style" Fn key squeezed between Left Ctrl and Alt, but other than that it looks normal.
That's a real coincidence: The Cherry KC 4500 Ergo was the keyboard I ordered the same day (Saturday), when the other keyboard arrived :). I got it for around ~44 EUR with free shipping. I also looked closely at the keyboard and it seems to have a normal keylayout. It should arrive on Thursday or Friday.
*EDIT*: I received the "Logitech" keyboard yesterday, not Saturday. Sorry.
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2025-12-08 21:16 +0000
author: @Sandra
Every thread I see about the NES and SNES aspect ratio has some folks insisting adamantly that they were made for 4:3 and sometimes they frame this in weird ways like saying the discussion is moot or otherwise trying to wrest control over the framing around this. But the facts just don’t support that. It’s a post-modern mishmash where some sprites and tiles were designed with 4:3 in mind and some undeniably were with 8:7 DAR (1:1 PAR). And some we will never know which. And often mixed into the same game. Either choice is a compromise.
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2025-12-08 21:02 +0100
author: 💡 @samhunter
To be honest I never looked closely at this particular model, but -- after seeing some pictures online I am aghast and perplexed (and sharing your dismay) :/-- what did they exactly achieve by going full gonzo on the layout? It's a big ass, 100% size keyboard -- not that cramming all the keys together saved much "desk estate"...
Not what I would expect from an otherwise solid brand.
BTW: did you look at Cherry KC 4500 Ergo? It's 50 Euro, has the "notebook style" Fn key squeezed between Left Ctrl and Alt, but other than that it looks normal.
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2025-12-08 19:54 +0000
author: @Sandra
Last couple of weeks my adblocking setup in Cromite hasn’t worked very well, with the consequence that I go to those ad-laden pages even less or not at all. The value proposition of “seeing the pages but with ads†is almost never worth it to me. Our ad-driven WWW is absurd. The argument against adblocking is not credible since the ads are so awful. I love your page a lot but I hate the ads more than a lot so goodbye page.
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2025-12-08 16:03 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
The "Logitech ERGO K860" arrived today and it's pure crap! The "Windows/ALT"" and "Windows/ALT gr" and some other keys are layed together and are only reachable through a big fat function key. It would have been easy to make this function key smaller (for functions like brightness control and loudness under the "F" keys) and make Windows key separate with the "ALT" and "ALT gr" key. It's impossible to press "Windows" and "ALT" together, which I often need for my AwesomeWM setup.
Goes back unused!
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2025-12-07 14:17 +0000
author: @Sandra
I wish all apartments had a place to ground away static electricity. I have a blanket that’s crackling. 😔
I’m not talking about any woo health effect claims but just the everyday discomfort and pain related to static electricity. Also when doing electronics work it’s an issue.
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2025-12-06 20:45 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
=> https://workaround.org/ispmail-trixie/upgrading/ Even Ispmail Workaround has no ide how to update Dovecot:
> Do not try to upgrade your existing server using apt-get dist-upgrade. There are too many changes especially with Dovecot.
>
🤦ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸
I don't know your special needs concerning a mailserver, but have you ever considered the "mox" Email Suite? It's one little self contained binary available for Linux, the *BSDs and even Darwin. I'm not sure but there maybe also a version for windows. It contains everything a mailserver needs, even an IMAPs server. It's easy to update. If a new update is available its simply stopping the mailserver, replacing the binary and restart. Have a look:
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2025-12-05 22:20 +0000
author: @Sandra
Do not try to upgrade your existing server using apt-get dist-upgrade. There are too many changes especially with Dovecot.
🤦ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸
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2025-12-05 19:19 +0000
author: @Sandra
I agree with the conclusion this guy seems to be making:
That some of the games were made with square pixels in mind and look weird in 4:3, and vice versa for some other games. While the only one I disagree with among his specific examples, Balloon Fight, does not make my case stronger that most of the games look better in square pixels, there are so many games he didn’t list that do. Including The Legend of Zelda. It’s so wild that even though I grew up with them all in 4:3, in screenshots, magazines, manuals, and every TV in the neighborhood, it looks weird now. I know for sure I noted the squat tiles as a kid in those very first games (Duck Tales, Super Mario Bros.), but I got used to them and only now after a life on square tile games on other systems (like Game Boy) they are back to looking super weird.
A lot of the dev setups (I know for sure the first Super Mario Bros.) did use square pixels but that wasn’t a version anyone ever saw. (It was made with graph paper even.)
This is just gonna be one of those things that is what it is. People being snobs and gatekeepy about it are in the wrong since it’s on undeniable fact that the design intent varies from game to game. Sometimes even from asset to asset within the same game (Super Metroid being a notorious example).
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2025-12-05 11:54 +0000
author: @Sandra
Regeringen tar nu nästa steg för att kunna återkalla gängkriminellas medborgarskap. Den som dömts för brott som allvarligt skadar Sveriges »vitala intressen« föreslås kunna förlora sitt svenska medborgarskap.
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Det framgår av en grundlagsproposition som regeringen fattat beslut om att lämna till riksdagen.
Segregationsarbetet fortsätter och alieneringen ska öka. Att aldrig nånsin kunna få bli svensk, det är drömmen för Tidöregeringens rasism. Kainsmärket för utanförskap ska aldrig gå att tvätta bort och existensen ska alltid vara på nåder. Att det här på nåt sätt är tänkt att minska utsattheten i samhället är inte evidensbaserat. Det kommer från ett viochdomtänk som är så grundläggande, så axiomt i högerpolitiken (inkl Andersson tyvärr) att det formar allt annat. Bind utgrupperna medan vi superrika förstör klimatet.
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2025-12-03 21:00 +0000
author: @Sandra
I’m happy about something that happened on the baduk board today. I’ve seen myself as more a patterns and shape and heuristics player than a deep reader but I had accidentally placed myself in a situation where the only winning move was to create a horrible shape with two empty triangles. I had a “cupcake†a.k.a. a mouth shape and I was just about to play that “net†corner when I realized that due to black’s surrounding stones I would get squeezed out but that a solid connection would work. For once. So I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can out-read my own pattern instincts.
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2025-12-03 20:56 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
Today I already upgraded my mail server and my Gemini/Gopher/Finger/SmolWeb server from FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE to FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE, which was released today.
I had some problems to get my finger server script running and completely replaced the entry in the inetd.conf from running the fingerserver, which was configured to run my own script, to just run my script directly, because the fingerserver didn't terminate the connection after someone fingered the server. Now with only my script running, this problem is gone and it works as expected. There seem to be some changes in the /usr/libexec/fingerd binary which prevented the termination of the connection after running the script. I hope I didn't open any security holes :). However, now it works as it should.
FreeBSD is simply great!
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2025-12-03 09:15 +0000
author: @Sandra
PBF has a GTD comic out:
I love it︎︎♥︎
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2025-12-03 04:35 +0000
author: 🌲 @taxuswc
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2025-12-02 19:32 +0200
author: 👠@remy
Great, things are out of control.
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2025-12-02 11:58 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
I've just ordered a "Logitech ERGO K860" wireless ergonomic keyboard. I've looked at the Microsoft Sculpt, but it's a bit pricey, with over 220 EUR and it was sold out. The Logitech goes by around 88 EUR. I'll try it out. If it's shit, I send it back. I've read the (only the bad) critiques but there seem to be not too many problems with this keyboard.
I have to say, it's very difficult to find a good keyboard at Amazon (or anything at all with all this enshittification). They always want to sell cheap NoName Keyboards with made up company names. And I always got keyboards with the wrong layout shown, although I specified "deutsch" (german) and "qwertz" in the search bar.
Eff Amazon!
I'll post about my experiences with this keyboard.
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2025-12-02 10:26 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org 2025-12-01 00:59 +0100
No worries, we're on the 'slow internet' ;) I see my tinylog more as a place of posting unsolicited opinions than a communication platform.
Thanks for your patience! :)
Well, as I'm already at it: you might look into 'tenless' (or 'semi-tenless' keyboards with detached number block) and split keyboards. Many people complain the angle between two halves isn't fitting their needs -- with a split keyboard the problem disappears completely. A potential drawback is either the cable connecting the two halves or (in some cases) having two Bluetooth devices paired... But I didn't see anyone really despising that part ;)
I'm not sure if I can get used to a split keyboard, I really have to test these out, before buying one. I don't mind a cable between the two parts but they seem so 'strange' to me. A 'tenless' keyboard on the other hand wouldn't be such a problem, although I always use their PAGEUP/PAGEDOWN keys, but I think I would get used to a 'tenless' very quickly.
If possible -- try to put your hands on a real, physical one at a brick-and-mortar store before buying.
Yes that would be best, but in the part of Germany I'm living in it's difficult to find a store which sells computer parts. They're all victims of the Amazon Monster. So I think I have to buy there too, being careful not to buy some of the crap they want to put down my throat.
I'm partial to Microsoft keyboards (a definitely personal preference -- I am on my second (in 10 years) Sculpt, and I had Ergonomic before. That's pretty much the only M$ product I used voluntarily since 2000s.
Evoluent Goldtouch looks 'legit', and -- based on their left-handed vertical mouse's quality -- I'm sure it's solid. There's of course the Kinesis, but you'll pay through your nose to get one... But then -- it's an investment everyone has to consideer for themselves -- I'm a cheap bastard ;)
I'll definitely take your advice into consideration. I don't mind if the keyboard is a microsoft product (I already buy at Amazon, which I'm also not proud of). And I believe I can send them back if I really can't deal with it. And I'm at a point at which I don't mind to pay some more money. But the keyboard definitely has to be convenient.
Logitech is another brand with good keyboards, but their ergonomic keyboards are not my thing -- I have no idea what doesn't match my expectations, but something feels off when I try to type on them.
Wireless or 'optionally wireless' with a detachable USB cable -- I shunned them for years ("what I'm going to do when my keyboard stops working?"), but in reality it takes months to drain the two AAA batteries -- and I'm typing for a living (and fun, after work...)
I think I have a wireless keyboard somewhere laying around, but it was a cheap buy to use with my headless Raspberry Pis in case of emergency. It also has a touchpad, which I thought was good idea back then (it wasn't). But I think I still use the same AAA batteries that came with this keyboard or changed them once. It came with a 2.4 GHz dongle, so I'm not sure if one could eavesdrop the communication.
Concerning bluetooth, I've managed to this day not to use any bluetooth devices, so I don't have any experiences with these. I think my desktop doesn't even support it, so I have to buy a dongle, but that would be the least problem. I'm just a little concerned about the range the keyboard can get away from the dongle, because I have to put it at the back of my desktop. But it would be cool to sit in my chair, leaning back and conveniently typing from my lap :).
There are also many mechanical designs as well -- I was raised on IBM and Wang "concrete slab" keyboards, but somehow I'm not missing the "click-clack" or the long travel on every tap.
I think I'll try out some keyboards and until I'll find one that fits my needs I'll send them back.
Thanks for your advice! I'm really grateful for them.
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2025-12-02 08:51 +0100
author: 💡 @samhunter
No worries, we're on the 'slow internet' ;) I see my tinylog more as a place of posting unsolicited opinions than a communication platform.
Well, as I'm already at it: you might look into 'tenless' (or 'semi-tenless' keyboards with detached number block) and split keyboards. Many people complain the angle between two halves isn't fitting their needs -- with a split keyboard the problem disappears completely. A potential drawback is either the cable connecting the two halves or (in some cases) having two Bluetooth devices paired... But I didn't see anyone really despising that part ;)
If possible -- try to put your hands on a real, physical one at a brick-and-mortar store before buying.
I'm partial to Microsoft keyboards (a definitely personal preference -- I am on my second (in 10 years) Sculpt, and I had Ergonomic before. That's pretty much the only M$ product I used voluntarily since 2000s.
Evoluent Goldtouch looks 'legit', and -- based on their left-handed vertical mouse's quality -- I'm sure it's solid. There's of course the Kinesis, but you'll pay through your nose to get one... But then -- it's an investment everyone has to consideer for themselves -- I'm a cheap bastard ;)
Logitech is another brand with good keyboards, but their ergonomic keyboards are not my thing -- I have no idea what doesn't match my expectations, but something feels off when I try to type on them.
Wireless or 'optionally wireless' with a detachable USB cable -- I shunned them for years ("what I'm going to do when my keyboard stops working?"), but in reality it takes months to drain the two AAA batteries -- and I'm typing for a living (and fun, after work...)
There are also many mechanical designs as well -- I was raised on IBM and Wang "concrete slab" keyboards, but somehow I'm not missing the "click-clack" or the long travel on every tap.
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2025-12-01 23:06 +0000
author: @Sandra
Maybe retroarch itself can’t be scripted like this on Android (can it?) but maybe via something like Key Mapper?
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2025-12-01 22:49 +0000
author: @Sandra
You know those 16×16 px character top down Game Boy games like Link’s Awakening, Survivor Kids, Legend of the River King, Harvest Moon, James Bond 007, Final Fantasy, Cave Noire etc? Even Pokémon. It would be so fun to connect them all into one experience, maybe a button in Retroarch could swap between them quickly so while playing we could pretend that we’re exploring one big world. Like I go though one door as Link and hit the macro key to swap to Mario Golf and make-believe that Azalea playing the golf game is in the same world as Link. The swap (only games in this same style) would be random and it’d save where I left off and when that game got randomly picked again I’d pick right back up. So it’s like multiple characters in a bigger story.
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2025-12-01 14:11 +0000
author: @Sandra
I won’t by posting my Adent of Code attempts day-by-day here in this tinylog but I’ve made a completely separate tinylog for them over at:
No promises that I’ll make it through all twelve days. I’ll just start by doing day one and then we’ll see where we go from there.
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2025-12-01 00:59 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org 2025-09-04 21:21 +0200
A good, ergonomic keyboard, and a good, ergonomic mouse (for the times when I'm in `acme` and/or on Plan9) make a big difference.
There's essentially _no reason_ to waste your time and health on typing on cheap or overhyped ("mechanical", "gaming", "75%" and whatever the cat dragged home from TikTok or Youtube) keyboards.
@samhunter Sorry for the late answer, your Tinylog entry must have slipped through. I just found your entry while testing the search filter function of GTL :).
Yes, you're right. I should buy a reasonable, ergonomic keyboard. I've worked with computers for such a long time now and don't know much about keyboards, especially ergonomic ones. But the mechanical keyboard I'm using now is really a pain to work with, so it seems I have to invest a little more money and buy a good keyboard. I don't know about the prices and types of good, ergonomic keyboards, but I think it will pay out in the end. I have to search for some information, I don't want to buy something that is even worse than what I have now, I really have to use a lot of force to press the keys with this shitty cheap gaming keyboard.
And all this, although I set up my desktop/laptops to use the mouse as little as possible a long time ago. The keyboard of my Lenovo Thinkpad T460s is good to work with, the keyboard on my more 'powerful' laptop could be better (especially for what I've paid for it).
My hand is better now. It seems I've slept in a strange position, squishing the wrist of my hand, so it's not just the keyboard. This happens from time to time. I'll look into ergonomic keyboards anyway. Thanks for your post.
And again: Sorry for the late answer.
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2025-11-29 13:03 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
I just made another tag release of the GTL Tinylog reader. Besides some bugfixes there is the main improvement of usable bookmarks with "Open Links", "Open Thread", "Reply", "Delete" and "Open Tinylog" functionality. So you can bookmark entries and answer them later and such things.
The binaries for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD for amd64 and arm64 architectures can be downloaded here:
Hope to you have fun with this release. If you have any ideas for new features or if you have problems, I would like to hear of them.
Have fun!
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2025-11-29 11:24 +0000
author: @Sandra
The relationship between YAML and JSON makes me hate both less.
(Or I guess hate JSON less and love YAML more since YAML was already leaning positive after coming through a rocky patch of kinda hating it.)
Yeah, yeah, it’s always gonna baffle me how we threw away schema’d outlines of elements & attributes for an un-schema’d hodge-podge of sequences and maps. I like XML (not the angle-bracket notation for it) more than JSON and probably always will.
But YAML makes JSON better and vice versa. YAML adds comments and a more readable notation to JSON whereas JSON adds queries and other tooling to YAML.
yq is pretty awesome. There are two competing ones. I’ve mostly used this one that uses PyYAML and just shells out to jq.
There’s a made-in-golang alternative here that I haven’t looked into:
(Maybe “alternative†isn’t the right word in case it came first, I dunno, but I’ve been happy enough with the Python one.)
YAML has two drawbacks.
I can’t read it the way a computer reads it. When I see s-expressions I can predict at a glance without thinking about it how the Lisp reader is going to parse them. When I see YAML it’s an effort to try to “mentally lint†what I see. Like, if I am in a suspicious mood where I wonder “hmm, did the person mess up and use the wrong scalar type hereâ€, that’s gonna be a bad time. That’s gonna be a low-key subconscious stress because those errors don’t show up at a glance, they take effort to spot.
If I can let go and trust that what I see has been linted or machine converted, that’s when it’s eminently readable and I can really love it. I can’t write PDFs manually either.
That first drawback also leads to the second: while 99% of the time when I’m fine just writing basic tried-and-true stuff like the front matter for text documents where it’s just a couple of keys, for anything fancy or unusual linting and tooling and Emacs stuff is pretty vital. Maybe by now I’ve finally gotten to the point where I could write YAML with a typewriter or pen&paper and it’s correct, it took a while to get there and maybe I do have a li’l while left to go.
There’s actually a third drawback and it’s not because of the language but the community. They hate fun and removed things like boolean yes and no and on and off. Making it less expressive and human-like in order to mitigate the two aforementioned drawbacks but since it doesn’t completely do that and we still need to check with tools, that was pointless and joyless. I really regret that decision.
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2025-11-29 03:12 +0000
author: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space
I played my first game of padel (yes that's spelled correctly), and it was fun! if you've never heard of it, it's a cross between tennis, pickleball and a little racquetball. it's played with thick foamy paddles that have holes in them, and a padel ball - which is a slightly deflated tennis ball - on a pickleball sized court with a net and glass walls on the back and a bit of the sides of the court.
It's slower than racquetball but is still quite fun due to the difference in strategy. There might be a court near you!
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2025-11-28 13:11 +0000
author: @Sandra
I sometimes think it was a mistake to move Buy Nothing Day to deliberately coincide with Black Friday sales, it can unintentionally come across as privileged. It’s good that there’s a counterweight to Black Friday but I wish the main Buy Nothing Day had also still existed on its own day.
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2025-11-28 03:07 +0000
author: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space
the ride today was good. there's a local bike path that's well maintained and flat so I was able to test out using a single speed (not fixie) bike for longer distances. It was fun but also a little exhausting. As these professional-type bikers whizzed past me with their 20+ gear options, I found myself wishing for another gear, but ultimately I didn't need it, I just needed to pedal faster. I think of it as trying out bike purism. And after all, on flat roads, you end up only using a couple gears anyway.
All in all a good ride. I'm thinking about clipless pedals now to increase pedal efficiency since I only have one gear...
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2025-11-28 03:00 +0000
author: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space
Of course my simple bike project had to wait. Just when I thought I had everything, I didn't.
The local bike shops don't carry bar-end brake levers so I got them online. In the age of Amazon, I was surprisingly dismayed that my brakes would take over a week to arrive, but wait I did. in the meantime I'd decided to add crosstop brake levers for when I'm riding on the flat of the bull horns. these are in-line with the bar ends.
everything came yesterday and I stayed up late to install everything: brake lines, brake line housing with ferrules, crosstop and bar end brakes. and this morning I added bar tape. It looks really good for a cheap bike. I took a couple hour ride on it.
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2025-11-28 03:00 +0000
author: @Sandra
Happy Buy Nothing Day to those who celebrate.♥︎
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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/Sandra RE: @Sandra 2025-11-28 03:00 +0000
2025-11-27 10:11 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
Does anybody know, if @bacardi55 still reacts to Tinylog submissions to add to the 'official' Tinylog list? It seems he doesn't work on anything Gemini related anymore, although he posted a web blog entry two days ago.
I would inherit the offical list again, because I think he doesn't really maintain it anymore. I'll start with his list which is at the moment still reachable on his capsule. I'll also make a gemlog post about it and make the list available for download. In the meantime you maybe should send me an email with your tinylog address if you want it to be on the list if it still is not. I'll start with the recent list downloaded from bacardi55's site at Thu, 27 Nov 2025.
I'll keep an up-to-date version on my capsule again.
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2025-11-27 00:05 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
It *seems* the problem with preformatted text is now gone, at least in my tests. I made a new bugfix release, which can be downloaded here:
I hope for some people testing this release.
@fab I am alreadly limiting posts from each tinylog, but the difference is still 1 vs 30 (? not sure, I haven't counted) of them.
I'll do it for myself anyway and if anyone is interested, they can grab the link on my capsule, when published.
I discovered that GTL downloads all the Tinylog content anyway despite any limit in the TUI. It just limits the displayed entries. But if you don't limit the display of entries, GTL can get a little sluggish, so an entry of
  ```
  tui_max_entries = 100
  ```
should be fine. But I can't understand your problems that GTL takes too long to load. On my systems it takes from 1-3 seconds to download all active tinylogs. That's not too long, I think.
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2025-11-26 08:09 +0000
author: @Sandra
Brukar vara väldigt fri från slop eftersom jag inte använder normala SoMe men jag lyssnade på radionyheterna i morse och då fick jag en släng av sloppan eftersom dom bedömde att nåt AI-genererat Macron-meme var värt att prata om. Beskona mig!
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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/Sandra RE: @Sandra 2025-11-26 08:09 +0000
2025-11-26 00:32 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
Now I see the bug is still there. I thought I've fixed it. Sorry for that. It takes a while to get it right.
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2025-11-25 23:40 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
On the tinylog's subject: an aggregated log is much faster to load than `#n` individual logs. If there is interest, I can build one with all of the entries in the previous subs.txt file that @fab sent.
At first I have to say that I had a regression of an old bug which I created a HotFix for. So everybody should download the new Version as soon as possible. The use of '##' in a preformatted text block broke the whole display of entries in 'tui' and 'gemini' mode. This is now fixed.
To your problem:
You can limit the numbers of entries to load with the following option in your gtl.toml config file. It takes indeed much longer to load all the entries from all Tinylogs.
# That's enough to stay up-to-date if you look every 2 or 3 days tui_max_entries = 100   ```     To reply you have to set the following entries in your gtl.toml:     At first you need to set the $EDITOR environment variable to your editor in your bash config or whatever shell you're using, to open it for replying, for example VIM or Nano. Then you have to set the following options:   ``` # set this to enable editing allow_edit = true   ```   Then you have to set the path to your local tinylog.gmi file:   ``` tinylog_path = 'gemini/site/tinylog_path.gmi'   ```   You should also set your upload script, which you can run after closing the editor (must be executable) for automatic upload:   ``` post_edit_script = "~/bin/upload_tinylog.sh"   ```   You can then set your GTL to refresh the timeline after uploading   ``` post_edit_refresh = true   ```   You should also copy a preformatted answer text to your clipboard, so you can paste it into your editor. This needs the programs 'xclip' or 'xsel'. It's a complete entry with recent timestamp, reply line and the quoted text to answer in your clipboard.   ``` tui_copy_stub_clipboard = true tui_show_stub = true
Then you can choose the entry you want to reply to with <Shift-J>/<Shift-K> or use your mouse to select the entry, and then press <Shift-R> to reply. You can also get a help menu with the '?' key.
I think I have to update the documentation in the README.md files in the repository to make things clear. But I hope this helps.
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=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: ð¾ @fab@redterminal.org 2025-11-25 23:40 +0100
2025-11-25 16:09 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
@fab I just ran your gtl version and it's almost all okay, but the emoji in author's field are still broken for me, but only for bacardi's tinylogs; the one I generate myself is still ok.
Do you still use his aggregated tinylogs in your subscriptions config file? If yes, then disable it and download the subscriptions list from here:
and point your config file to the subs.txt file. I hope bacardi55 hasn't added his aggregator to the list, then you need to disable/delete the @gtl entry in the file. I *believe* it's a problem with bacardi55's aggregated feed, so if you fully disable it, the problems should be gone. I think all active tinylogs are in this subscription file. Just delete the one from "@gtl".
Another thing: I set up CI on my Codeberg repository for GTL, so it now creates directly usable binaries for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, each for the x86_64 (amd64) and the arm64 architectures on every new release tag.
So if you don't want or can't build Go binaries you can now simply download a ready made binary.
Happy bug hunting! :)
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2025-11-25 06:02 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
I also added support for relative links now in all modes (TUI, cli, gemini) in GTL, which are often used by @toby@tobykurien.com :). These work good in my tests but there may be bugs in the regular expressions I've missed.
So as always I'm thankful for any testing.
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2025-11-24 19:32 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
I fixed the display of preformatted text blocks in GTL (which was really difficult, and in the end the solution was easy). The new color option is:
  ```
  tui_color_preformatted = "00A000"
  ```
I also did the following changes:
- FIXED display of preformatted text blocks in TUI mode
- FIXED display of preformatted text blocks in gemini mode
- Added word wrapping in TUI mode
- Removed the @GTL header in gemini mode
- GTL now also recognizes 'http' links (not just 'https')
- Changed the the date to international format in automatic config generation
I would be pleased if some of you will test the new commits and report errors and problems. After some time of testing I'll tag a new release.
You can find the GTL fork repository here:
Testing is much appreciated!
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=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: ð¾ @fab@redterminal.org 2025-11-24 19:32 +0100
2025-11-23 21:00 +0000
author: @Sandra
A journalist interviews a farmer: “if you have two bungalows, are you willing to give one to the country?â€
The farmer, without hesitation, “sure! For communism!â€
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Journalist: “if you have two tractors, will you give one to the country?â€
Farmer: “of course! For the better development of our country!â€
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Journalist: “if you have two million bucks, will you give one million to the country?â€
Farmer: yes! For the livelihood of our comrades!â€
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Journalist: “if you have two cows, will you give one to the country?â€
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The farmer keeps silent and looking at the journalist, so the journalist has to ask again: “will you?â€
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The farmer answers firmly: “Noâ€.
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The journalist is confused: “you are so generous about money and houses and tractors, but why do you draw the line at cows?â€
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“Becauseâ€, says the farmer: “I do have two cowsâ€.
This is why it’s so much harder for folks to see the problems with cars. They have cars. Suddenly I’m judging them not just the nuclear bosses whom they’ll never meet let alone be. They’re not temporarily inconvenienced Montgomery Burns.
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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/Sandra RE: @Sandra 2025-11-23 21:00 +0000
2025-11-23 19:56 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
@fab: Let me know if you want an open issue after having seen these shots, but also tell me what I should write.
=> https://sharer.woodpeckersnest.space/FuzE5/YUYIgUtU53/raw.jpg Shot 1
=> https://sharer.woodpeckersnest.space/FuzE5/JoHaWAgI68/raw.jpg Shot 2
I looked at the screenshots. As far as I know you can disable the @gtl feed aggregator in the older versions in the 'subs' file in your configs. In the version I forked I disabled the automatic @gtl feed aggregator so you'll only see the normal Tinylog feeds you put in your 'subs' file yourself. So it should look *alright*. (despite the preformatted blocks yet). The @gtl aggregator doesn't seem to work right with GTL. Not sure what bacardi55 did there (and why).
The official feeds file is still maintained by bacardi55 (but I have doubts), where you can download a recent feeds file:
As you can see, posts from @wpn are fine, like for emotes, while posts from @gtl have a few visual issues.
All of this started happening several (a few?) months ago; in the beginning even @gtl was looking good.
I'm working on the fork at the moment. I'm currently working on the 'gemini' mode, so maybe you can use this soon for your capsule. In TUI mode I already added word wrapping and am working on the right display of preformatted blocks. Most of the work is already done by bacardi55 I sometimes only have to tweak some things. But to get the preformatted textblocks display right is a hassle. I screamed at my laptop multiple times. But I'm sure I'll get this right also. I just need some time. You don't need to to open an issue on Codeberg. But I would be happy if you would try the newer versions, but only if you want.
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=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: ð¾ @fab@redterminal.org 2025-11-23 19:56 +0100
2025-11-23 07:27 +0000
author: @Sandra
Skipping over question two, for the first I’d refer to social contract theory and for the latter I’d say it breaks the principle of “from each according to ability, to each according to needâ€. A principle that’s not universally accepted but without it (or without the similar but competing/​incompatible principle of “to each commensurate with their effortsâ€) we’ve built a society that rewards unbridled exploitation and a gold rush mentality of plundering the Earth and each other that’ll lead to us all becoming human locusts collapsing the entire thing.
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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/Sandra RE: @Sandra 2025-11-23 07:27 +0000
2025-11-23 01:32 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
I removed the @gtl header in GTL gemini mode, so it won't show up anymore. I'm not sure what your problem with GTL exactly is, you just told me that it doesn't work as you expect. Maybe you get a little more precise and I can help you. You could open an issue on the issue tracker with your exact problem:
I'm not sure how to fix your problem with your emoji glitches, but maybe somebody else has an idea about the problem. In my tests with the amfora browser I didn't have any problems with the emojis, so I can't really anticipate what your problem with emojis is. I saw it was broken in your answer to my last post but I'm not sure why, so I can't exactly tell if it's a problem with gtl or maybe your editor or maybe your character encoding. But normally gtl never includes the emoji in a reply line (maybe because of this problem) at least in the newer versions. But I would really be thankful if you provide more details ðŸ™.
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2025-11-22 05:21 +0000
author: 🥜 @patatas@gemini.patatas.ca
finished a couple things this week - a couple art pieces, and also the first issue of a fun little group zine project called the Little Library Magazine. It's only 8 half-letter size pages plus the cover, but it's a start, and the contributions were really sweet.
Learned how to do a pamphlet stitch, and dropped off some copies in a couple of Little Libraries in the neighbourhood. Who knows what'll come of it, but it's worth a try :)
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2025-11-21 17:44 +0100
author: 👾 @fab@redterminal.org
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: ð¾ @fab@redterminal.org 2025-11-16 23:44 +0100
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Hallo @fab. I'm not an avid GTL user as well, so I post something in my tinylog from time to time, then open the actual sofware whenever I have free time.
Agreed on sourcehut, I don't like it very much myself.
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My issues so far are pretty much a few glitches about how bacardi's tinylogs are displayed in GTL. I have a local aggregated tinylog, which is created by GTL software itself, but that doesn't show the same symptoms. I set everything up last year, so yeah, I'm not running any new stuff.
In the meantime I set up a fork of GTL on my Codeberg.org account, where I already applied the open patches. I decided to do so to accept Pull Requests and patches submitted with 'git send-email' and include these in a timely manner. I won't develop much on the project myself but I want others to include their PRs and submissions if they have interest in the project. I hope there are at least some.
You can find it here:
Maybe (hopefully) some people are interested in fixing bugs and make it ready for use as a CGI script. Maybe you'll be able to use it then. I won't recommend it to you yet - except for testing.
I'll also make a gemlog post about the fork to make it public. The more people know about it the better.
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2025-11-21 10:34 +0000
author: @Sandra
FRC is the same effect that they used in DennÅ Senshi Porygon 🤦ðŸ»â€â™€ï¸
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2025-11-21 10:31 +0000
author: @Sandra
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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/Sandra RE: @Sandra 2025-11-21 10:31 +0000
2025-11-20 21:00 +0000
author: @Sandra
The general concurrence of 2100 warming estimates across different groups suggests that the world is heading toward less warming than was expected 15 years ago, when most estimates were closer to 3.5C or 4C.
Let’s keep fighting, y’all! 2.9° ain’t nothing to mess around with.
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=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/Sandra RE: @Sandra 2025-11-20 21:00 +0000
2025-11-20 11:18 +0000
author: @Sandra
Have you ever had a “friend†who had a prank answering machine message so it sounded like they had actually answered the phone, but really it was just a fakeout?
That’s what so many of the anti-scraper “you-need-JavaScript†blurbs are like now.
You’re probably reading this page because you’ve attempted to access some part of my blog [blog name redacted]. Unfortunately you’re using a browser (or client library) that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious because it’s not sending a Sec-Fetch-Mode HTTP header while claiming to be Firefox or Chrome (both of which have been sending that header for a very long time), or another browser that similarly should be sending this header (such as versions of Safari and WebKit from early 2023 onward).
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Due to the ongoing problems with abusive high volume crawlers using forged User-Agent values (apparently in part to gather data for LLM training), this combination of browser User-Agent and lack of Sec-Fetch-Mode header is not accepted.
Okay I was reading with Capy Reader and ti took me until the second paragraph until I realized that what I was reading wasn’t the actual post that someone had linked to.
I don’t want to use Firefox and Chrome. And if y’all are blocking RSS fetchers or TUI browsers now and if that means I’d just rather just as not well read that web page, that’s actually fine by me. So far so good.
That’s the tradeoff y’all wanna be making, that you made a web page that people can’t actually read, I’m actually fine by that because I have empathy and can imagine how you somehow see something that horrible and extreme as the lesser evil compared to not doing it and therefore understand your decision. Already plenty of web pages I haven’t been able to read in the past few years like everything behind Cloudflare for example (which intermittently works and lets me through but usually doesn’t) so this is nothing new and I’ve already made peace with it.
(When I see posts by people who underestimate the false positive rate, that does unmake that peace a little; when I see people posting things like “Oh Cloudflare/​Anubis are so good at letting real people through†when they’re not. They do block real people. But when using these ableist blockers is an informed decisions of “okay I’m aware that I’m excluding so-and-so many thousands of real people but I believe I have to do it because not doing it equals no webpage at all anymore because it’s buckling under†or something in that vein, I can understand and I can make the informed decision on my own whether to go remote log in to a machine that has a more vanilla Firefox installation. I have the privilege to be able do that because [I don’t rely on screenreader tech], I just use accessibility apps (like the aforementioned Capy Reader) for the convenience and to get away from jitter and stress.)
My plea to y’all is then to just not waste my time with these lede-burying rants. Yes, please do include the explanation of why I got blocked (like in this case some header was missing) but start by making it clear that I was blocked. Since I was reading through Capy Reader my styling is client side so this (and Anubis’ turn-on-JS admonition text) looks just like a normal article until I’ve read enough of it to realize what’s going on.
You’re making text itself unreliable and punishing.
Going too far in the brevity direction isn’t good either if it’s impolite. I’ve seen messages like “Go and burn in hell†and no explanation of what made me deserve that (and after asking the person out-of-band finding out that it was their bot defense).
So here’s my suggestion: Start with the one-paragraph sentence: “Hi, you’ve accidentally triggered my bot defenses.†Followed by an apology and explanation and (optionally, if you do have the capacity/bandwith/spoons) how to troubleshoot it or report bugs.
In the late 00s my friends and I were dealing with a very brutal harassment campaign on our community site so we started banning IPs and I found out too late that we had wrecked our community with false positives. We had also banned the actually cool people.
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2025-11-20 10:42 +0000
author: @Sandra
Yeah, the climate scientists that everyone was saying were overestimating the problem more likely underestated the problem:
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2025-11-20 03:36 +0000
author: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space
I took my cheap fixie bike for a ride this past weekend. it was fun but the flat handlebar started hurting my hands and wrists after a while. of course, that started me down the road to modding my bike. I've never done mods or upgrades to a bike so this was all-new rabbit hole territory for me.
It's been fun learning to mod a bike. There's a local bike co-op that I've been visiting for cheap used parts, where I picked up some bullhorn handlebars. The parts of course don't all fit together so I had to buy some shims. The old brake levers don't fit either so I had to get bar end brakes. Weekend project: installing new handlebar, brakes and bar tape.
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2025-11-19 22:24 +0000
author: @Sandra
I feel that it reflects poorly on the interactive fiction community that one of the most recommended games is one where the main character get assaulted horribly. 😔
If people want to love it as a niche gem that’s one thing but don’t shove it in new player’s hands as like one of the first things, as a showcase of the medium. It’s like if the only movie was DennŠSenshi Porygon.
It’s not necessary because there are so many truly wonderful works of IF. And, Anchorhead can be a game that finds the audience that will love it (and all the hard work that went into it) instead of getting turned off all IF. It’s an award-winning work so obviously there are people who love it and I’m not trying to take that away. I’m just saying maybe it shouldn’t go in the starter kit.
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Agregated tinylogs:
llux.casa
mini://8by3.net/sbr/tinylog.gmi @sbr
station.martinrue.com/byzoni @byzoni