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      While this looked interesting on a first glance, it is only useful between users on the same server.

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        you mean such as on a tilde?

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          Such as, yes. I guess I just — being the only one on my tilde — wanted to see this work between tildes.

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      i think 2k23 was the year of groff for me.

      i started getting interested in writing mandoc after reading https://text.causal.agency/

      and from there i got into groff and all its preprocessors.

      i made a tabletop roleplaying game in groff (it’s about vampires and baseball):

      https://dozens.itch.io/vumpire

      and experimented with drawing in pic and gremlin:

      https://git.tilde.town/dozens/groffduck

      and have recently started looking at grap for plotting graphs.

      i still think markdown + pandoc is all you need for making pdfs 90% of the time. and honestly https://typst.app/ is much more modern and ergonomic. but i have a soft spot for groff for being tiny and vintage and still highly useful. i write groff table macros in my markdown and gemtext now fairly often to make a quick table.

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      curl, outside of the actual utility, everything that goes on from the community aspect (videos, writing, …)
      MNT on the hardware side, small team trying to build computers for us.
      autoconf because I don’t want to spend ages on ancient hardware getting to the point where I can attempt to build the shiny build tool.

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        big year for curl. i feel like daniel spent a lot of time educating and evangelizing this year.

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      this looks nice!

      came here to mention bollux1, and am glad to see they mention it under Inspired By. i like bollux because it looks nice, it supports gemini and gopher, it prints links to stdout, so you have a breadcrumb trail / history upon exit (which i guess you could even redirect to a history.txt) and it uses less(1) as its pager so it feels very familiar and natural.

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        I like it too, wish the name was different though. astro seems to be based around coreutils? (doesn’t play well on macOS, just various tools the script invokes complaining, such as dd)

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          dd is the only way to read a single character using posix sh, which seems to be what theyre targeting. no idea what dd macos uses.

          you could edit it to have a /bin/bash shebang and use read -n1 instead of dd there. not sure what else you’d need to tweak.

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      Are they not leaking their writing style by blogging about it? 🤔

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        I know! I just don’t get it haha

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      I don’t often click video links, but I am glad I did this one. What a trip. I watched the whole 30 minutes and don’t regret it.

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      I would just as soon get rid of them honestly. I don’t use them or browse by tags or pay them much attention really. The only purpose they serve to me is to make me hunt and peck for something relevant to what I’m posting.

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        no objection, but I find them useful for going back to find things when I can vaguely recall the topic and not the title.

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        I don’t think you actually have to give a tag, do you?

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          You do.

          1 error prohibited this story from being saved
          There were the problems with the following fields:
          Must have at least one non-media (PDF, video) tag.
          If no tags apply to your content, it probably doesn’t belong here.

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      I have one of these on order, and can’t wait for it to get here!

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        Really happy for you. I really want the CPU upgrade with 16GB RAM for the Reform so when I can afford it, I’ll probably spend my money on that first.

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      TIL douglas crockford worked on the NES port of Maniac Mansion. wild!

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      i know there are some smol computer lovers around here 👀

      that reform looks gorgeous

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        Thanks for posting it here <3 <3 <3 PS: I’m the author, AMA

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          I’m exactly like you and looking for exactly the same kind of device : very good (ortho) keyboard, small screen (e-ink for better visibility in the sun and battery).

          I’ve written about my quest here : https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

          Unfortunately, I’m really angry against Astrohaus for the Freewrite. Their software are a shame, force using a proprietary cloud and are full of bugs. My Freewrite, despite its weight, have no more battery than my laptop. The traveler has a very very bad keyboard to the point of making it unusable for me (I had to send it back because some keys were always quadrupled. Now, the space is only working if I press it really violently). See gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2021-10-07.gmi

          Placing all my hope on the MNT Pocket even if I would need to adapt my layout to the keyboard. Hoping to see an eink version soon to use with only a terminal. Neovim, Neomutt and Offpunk are all I need 95% of the time ;-)

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      yes! hi

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          of course it was only this morning that I realized this was a link post and not a question ^^”

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            There seems to be a bit of that going around lol

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      awesome! love this

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      I have started a tilde podcast!

      Ask me anything

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        I have a question! How are you so cool ? :P

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          Here are some things you can do if you want to be super cool like me:

          • take a multivitamin every day
          • cook for the people you love
          • learn to skate backwards
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            damn I only do one out of three, I gotta up my numbers

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      I’m legit so excited about this! I cannot WAIT to log-in to any gitea instance using my tildegit credentials ^_^

      This might mean I don’t have to like, uh, install cgit on my server ^_^

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        I can relate. I’ve been quite excited lately by codeforge mirroring; codeberg, tildegit, etc. But all that does is bring us back to the web 1.0 days of websites that were thin veneers for large lists of ftp mirrors. Federation would augment that read-only interface with writes, the ability to contribute back.

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          100%, it would bring gitea/gogs/etc. on-par with github, and honestly i’d quit using it /at all/ for anything but forks.

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        I wonder how integrated it will be.. The idea of opening and closing issues, commenting on pull requests, etc from mastodon is really interesting to me.

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          oh shit i didn’t even think about that.

          of course, other activitypub things aren’t all super-integrated with say, mastodon, which is too bad imo. or maybe i’m just kinda dumb about it….

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      Is site down?

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        Looks like maybe it is!

        The original site is still up if you have a gemini browser:

        gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/low-budget-p2p-content-distribution-with-git.gmi

        And here’s another web proxy:

        https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/low-budget-p2p-content-distribution-with-git.gmi

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      nice shout out! and nice idea too

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      I like this.

      It makes me very curious about what the minimal wiki setup might be for this. Something with a talk page.

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        I bodged together a Dokuwiki for it in about half an hour from an empty install I’ve had sitting on my server for ages by adding a plugin which adds a talk page to everything. Not that I actually have a game to actually play though!

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      this is a fun way to play around with systems thinking:

      https://ncase.me/loopy/v1.1/

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        Bookmarked thanks :)