Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

@apt Cool! It'd be nice if it actually worked, but at least 'macres' seems usable, and it does come with usable voice samples.

@alderwick @Kooda

Ooh, fun. Hope to see some cool mechanical keyboard stuffs.

@harblinger *grabs right arm, shifts weight to ball of foot, resets*

@apt How can it die? We don't even have a FOSS alternative yet!

Mini-project B from this week: Grande: a gemini client for Android (open source fork of a different client). Don't fall in love with it yet: I'll probably make lots of disruptive changes. Read about and download ... on gemini.

gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/grande/
#gemini #android

@clarity @neauoire very neat! Following to see how this goes. I'm much involved in using verovio to make SVGs (and midi) from musicXML, but it might be nice to see how a smaller project approaches this task.

tty = fopen_for_read(CURRENT_TTY);

Ah, thanks busybox. Just open the tty as a file :)

Does anybody have a clue how less (and more) work internally? Do I need to read ALL of stdin before I can get controlled by the user?

Today I learned how to use `brltty` to make a "headless" microcomputer talk.

The important step is that you remove lightdm (and any other gui packages which might run as the login shell).

Works okay, except it only reads out the line the cursor is on, so it's still important to pipe commands through `flite -voice awb`

Have been experimenting this last week with serving different bible translations over gemini. All scripts in gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/cgi-bin/

esv.sh - great formatting, but rate limited by upstream
net.sh - no paragraph or section breaks, but haven't been rate-limited yet
oeb.sh - reasonable formatting, missing most bible books, self-hosted
lsv.py - minimal formatting, no section breaks, self-hosted

@RazorsKiss
I was running a personal funkwhale and friendica server on the same (at home) box (self-hosting = cheaper disk space).
funkwhale's ansible installer worked great in ubuntu. I was using nginx as my reverse proxy. No conflict with friendica, for which I used mariadb as db server.

@kelbot
gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/ -- I'd like to post monthly, but don't always.
The ones I follow, with the dates last updated gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/radar.gmi

@bunni
Install bbcodes one. (It's a listing error)
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.menny.android.anysoftkeyboard/
Or https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/releases/tag/1.10-r3

@bunni @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology @jeder
I guess they know about it already
https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg/105803151140680640

@bunni
Wow, a bug with @fdroidorg@mastodon.technology ??v

#anysoftkeyboard doesn't appear on F-droid

Their link is broken: https://anysoftkeyboard.github.io/download/

@jeder

@bunni
Though I'll be real: looking forward to when florisboard adds support for this.

@bunni
Anysoftkeyboard has had swipe-typing for quite some time now. See "Enable gesture-typing [BETA]" in the Gestures setting page.

gemini://gemini.zachdecook.com/capsule/2021-02-20-font-creation.gmi

Chronicle of my amateur font-making experience. (1300 words).