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● Gemini Links 29/05/2023: GNU/Linux Pains and More

Posted in News Roundup at 8:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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Politics

=> ↺ Protests Against “Irrevesible Damage”

• I do not regret going to that protest yesterday. Going there was very easy: I took the train to Tel-Aviv Savidor Central railway station. and found the place easily. I already know the place because I once lived and worked in Ramat Gan.

• We had a demonstration next to somewhere where the launce of the translation of the book “Irreversible Damage – The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by Abigail Shrier was to take place. So, I just went there with some transgenders and other activists to protest.

Technical

=> ↺ nreal air

• I guess I had them too close to my eyes as I couldn’t make out the bar at the bottom of the screen, but now the text is a little blurry around the left edge. It seems if I wear them too close they are more comfortable and clear but I have to give up the bottom edge. Or I can let them sit further down my nose, and see everything, but the edges are blurry.

• That being said, I can read text! The terminal looks really sexy. While checking out reviews I couldn’t find a single instance of anyone saying how good the terminal looks, so this was really important to me. I’ll try it later with my Switch and eventually my PinePhones.

=> ↺ Linux Pains

• Just when I start thinking that Linux is getting close to perfect, I get a dose of reality. But somehow I always think it will be different this time.

• I had to switch to another machine, largely because I didn’t feel like lugging my laptop to NYC yet again. I have an ancient laptop here, with an i7-3632QM, a decade-old yet totally adequate processor. I was planning to give it to my father-in-law, and loaded Zorin OS because it looks close enough to Windows. But then I didn’t, because he would just have his friend load pirated Windows on it and accumulate viruses, games, and porn and complain that it doesn’t work right all the time.

• [...]

• Notably, I almost gave up on Ubuntu and installed Arch, as it seems more aligned with my current brainus orientation — that is, I am spending more time dicking around than doing anything useful. I don’t even remember what it was that I was trying to do anyway. Oh, well, I think my vim config needs some tweaking.

=> ↺ RESP as a General Purpose Serialization Protocol

• For the past six thousand years I have been the maintainer of a medium-popularity driver for the Redis database.

=> ↺ Sbanken/DNB a.k.a. what to do when your bank no longer supports ApplePay

• I shall give you a little background as why I have written this post because I started thinking about it due to recent changes in the banking market here in Norway. However, if that is of no interest to you, skip straight to § “The workaround”.

=> ↺ Net news

• I’m still into net news! It’s the technology that powered Usenet.

Internet/Gemini

=> ↺ A couple comments

• It’s probably not the conclusion I think you were hinting at but I concluded quite some time ago I prefer taking my chances on pure text from what may or may not be legitimate others (by which I mean others more interested in communicating with me than gaming me) over gobs of techo happy horseshit in order to create some bulletproof protocol beneath mind-boggling visual fireworks.

• [...] Well, maybe I will check it out based on your testimony. It’s just so hard to tear myself away from the command line: I swear I feel a visceral plummeting of my IQ whenever I do so….

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