Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

What is this Gemini thing anyway, and why am I excited about it?

https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.html

gemini://drewdevault.com/2020/11/01/What-is-Gemini-anyway.gmi

Org-mode is amazing ​
https://secluded.site/books.html

If you love the Free Libre web-comic Pepper & Carott, know that @davidrevoy has just added hardcover and soft cover comic books in his shop ! (already 426 books sold ans counting !) https://www.davidrevoy.com/static9/shop
It's a great way to support an indie Free Libre artist while gift shopping ;).

This stuff never ceases to amaze me - Haruki Nakamara's mechanical paper animals: https://geecr.com/product/nakamura-paper-toys

Glow 1.0 is out, and it's a big update to your beloved console markdown reader!

👀 Find all markdown in a project
🌈 Integrated high-performance pager
🐿 Stash your docs in Mr. Charm Cloud to read anywhere
🗝 Stashed stuff is private and encrypted

Get it:
https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow

Watch the little trailer, it's... ❤️❤️❤️

I love this lidar scan of an archive room at the Centro de Henri Lenaerts in Navarra, Spain (an arts organization).

But it makes me heartsick for visiting archives in person :(

https://skfb.ly/6Vxnp

yesss thanks to this article from @aaronpk I managed to set up a little server that lets me put any service I want behind Mastodon's OAuth so that only people with a friend.camp login can see it. It works for web apps that don't know what OAuth is -- you are just kind of "gating" them so that any request to any URL for the app must be authorized first. A little like .htpasswd but for OAuth.

https://developer.okta.com/blog/2018/08/28/nginx-auth-request

I'll write this up in detail later but Aaron's post has everything you need.

Your experience of a place on the internet will be vastly improved if you unfollow and/or mute the most negative people who keep crossing your feed, and spend less time talking about all the things you hate.

Yes, any place. It feels nice. Try it.

Our quick scan on ethical digital tools:
https://www.agooodfoundation.org/in-search-of-ethical-technologies/

In English and soon in Spanish

#SurveillanceCapitalism
from a social design perspective

Thanks @aral for the inspiration!

“When we choose to store our data online, we're often ceding our claim to it. Companies can decide what type of data they will hold for us, and can willfully delete any data they object to. Unless we've kept a separate copy on our own machines or drives, this data will be lost to us forever. If any of our data is found to be particulalry objectionable or otherwise in violation of the terms of service, the companies can unilaterally delete our accounts, deny us our own data, and yet retain a copy for their own records, which they can then turn over to the authorities without our knowledge or consent.

Ultimately, the privacy of our data depends on the ownership of our data.

There is no property less protected, and yet no property more private.”

– Edward Snowden, Permanent Record

@rek

Apparently both amnesia games and penumbra have just been open sourced:

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs

https://github.com/FrictionalGames/PenumbraOverture

Announced gmni here:

https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/002747.html

Go slow and fix things

@neauoire as a general rule we never open anything in a new tab because it's a bad UX; you can always middle click if you want a new tab but you can't tell if a link is going to force one and there's no way to prevent it from happening if it would

https://aphyr.com/posts/353-rewriting-the-technical-interview

Hey @Framasoft

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-09-09-peertube-first-batch/

My favorite Carl Sagan quote is one where he's answering a child that just asked him a question:

“I don’t know the answer. Maybe no one knows. Maybe when you grow up, you’ll be the first to find out.”

If you’re trying to update VSCodium and getting a 429 Too Many Requests error from https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/raw/repos/debs/dists/vscodium/InRelease, here’s the workaround:

https://gitlab.com/paulcarroty/vscodium-deb-rpm-repo/-/issues/36#note_395793123