Zach "earboxer" DeCook @zachdecook@librem.one

@akkartik Solarized color scheme is a subset of the xterm 256 color pallette. I'm a big solarized dark fan (except maybe the green)

@oppen I like the idea... mostly because existing gemini clients don't keep track of scroll position in their bookmarks. Funny to see this pop up before any submissions to booksin.space.

Also, does "gpubVersion: 1.0.0" open the door too much to future extensibility? (Maybe inline notes using .patch files?)

@devinprater@dragonscave.space like "program X doesn't work well with orca"?

Haven't used thunderbird in a while... have kind of given up hope for it.

@devinprater@dragonscave.space
Make a list of issues somewhere that you think are important (and may be getting overlooked by developers). I'd be happy to take a peek at some of them, and see if I might fix any of them.

@passthejoe Using and developing *free* software, I hope you mean 😉.
If everyone becomes a developer, but they're still slaves to proprietary SW, the free software movement has failed.

@jameschip what's the difference between

blue > char > x y

And

blue > x y > char

@juliobiason Is there a federated stackoverflow yet?
I mean, it's nice and all that they license the content under creative commons, but still would be good to have an option for self-hosted new communities of answers.

@lgehr step 5 was notably the most difficult, as there were a number of things I tried, but they didn't work (regarding creating and importing packages). Don't take these instructions as indicative of standard practice among go developers, I have no clue what other devs do to change go stdlib. So, this is what worked for me.

@lgehr
1. Motivation: had recently experimented with using a emoji clock in shell prompt
2. aerc documentation pointed to go's time.Time.Format
3. go's documentation pointed to a file called src/time/format.go
4. `sudo find / -path '*time/format.go'`
5. copied file, bind-mounted copy over original
6. Made code change (as seen in github PR #45394), compiled aerc to test

There was a post on gemini lately about how we shouldn't use ⓒⓔⓡⓣⓐⓘⓝ sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 in our writing because #a11y. My hot take is that as long as the characters being used aren't used improperly (accents/foreign characters), we should just fix our TTS software to pronounce things as the author intended.

@kelbot one of the difficult things about the command line interface is that it doesn't help much if you forget the name of a command. Maybe I need to keep a printed cheatsheet for the 5000+ commands in my path. Distro maintainers take this advice.

Pros:
* #caldav and #carddav built into the system
* The measuring app is pretty neat.
Cons:
* RFC 6186 config not supported in mail app? (apple wrote this spec?!)
* Can't download apps without an apple ID
* Apple news is enabled by default
* Can't sideload apps without an apple ID (I considered #altstore)
* Can't use GPS without agreeing to give location to apple.
* Couldn't jailbreak due to previous owner leaving auto-updates on.
* safari JS toggle is all-or-nothing

@reto https://github.com/golang/go/pull/45394/files

@jameschip @npisanti
“Nobody”...

I configured #aerc to use emojis for the clock time stamp. In related news: does anybody know how I can go about contributing my code change upstream to #golang’s stdlib?

Was thinking about how so much content on gemini is mirrored or converted from other sites (I'm guilty of this too). Isn't this why the protocol allowed for proxy requests? Maybe it's a client-capability problem. Anyway, started working on a proxy from #spartan to #gemini.

I want to learn awk so I can do cool efficient text pipeliney things (like start printing on match, stop printing on another match, or run such and such command on a subset of the stream), but everytime I look at a tutorial for it, I think "these aren't practical" or "this makes no sense".

@liebach
JS-free version of the article