Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

@rutherford
In university, I got marked down on a quiz for writing ≥ instead of >= on a handwritten programming quiz. (Python doesn't support unicode equality operators). I wish I had known enough to tell my professor "my handwriting just has ligatures enabled!"

@Untersuchende
False claims like "solar only works when the sun is shining"?

It won't let me vote in my own poll, but I'm not sure how I would... Low energy consumption and 'not-always online' can be ideals.

@Untersuchende
Which would you prefer:
1. A nuclear powered future of increased and consistent energy consumption.
2. A solar powered future of decreased and intermittent energy consumption.

@sir
aerc: the world's sourcehuttiest email client.

@thor
Is gemini://drewdevault.com/ down for everyone, or just me?
@sir

@icedquinn
I believe the story was that he donated to support a proposition, and, it being a political donation, had to be tracked under campaign finance law. What I heard was that the (Obama) IRS leaked the donation records, and activists did what activists do.
@allison

Similar in principle to votes being tracked... the principles of liberty and transparency going against eachother... people get riled up more when money is involved.

And when you're writing an article, ALWAYS use relative links when referring to other wiki pages. That way the proxy-er can choose where the user goes.

So I just write a few articles, then set up a priority list of other servers I trust. If I don't like someone's article, then I just copy it and modify.

Users can either edit their hosts file, or change the proxy setting in their gemini client. They set it to the one whose editorial standards they agree with.

If you've ever seen that 'encyclosphere' project and agree that the centralized nature of wikipedia is an issue, but worry about immense cost-overheads with developing a website, consider: We make our own wiki articles on gemini://wiki.your.tld/Article.gmi
Then we each run a server which proxies requests made to gemini://wiki/Article.gmi -- programmed proxy requests to other servers.
Each article should start with its canonical URL, and end with the license of the article.

@sir
I would love to use it to organize an email list, but I'd first want the history to be private, and for the list owner to be able to add/remove addresses at will. (For some reason, I'm not cool with posting my friend's home addresses on the public internet... not that anyone would SWAT our parties, but in this day and age....)

@solderpunk@tilde.zone @chirrolafupa@merveilles.town @kensanata @oppen
But probably better would just be to split into two mailing lists.
One for spec discussion (which we could all unsubscribe from, since the spec is frozen), and one for announcements.

@solderpunk@tilde.zone
Does anyone have recommended client-side email filtering software? I'm thinking my email-reading life would be better if it automatically deleted every email from like two or three people. We could distribute block-lists...
@chirrolafupa@merveilles.town @kensanata @oppen

@sir
I had it when some minor update caused #fishShell to interminably hang (all because my home directory was network mounted).
My general tech advise to average people: Never update anything that already works.