I’m trying to learn French for 3rd or 4th time in my life, and it’s seems more seriously now (I have a class with a native teacher 1 hr/week, 30 minutes of practice energy day on apps)

It’s not completely immersive, I know. I’ve been doing that since March, and as @abucci@anthony.buc.ci said recently, it takes many hours to have some level of confidence in that knowledge!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci about being Turing complete, do you think that’s still something useful?

I mean, we could define Brainfuck as Turing complete, and we have strong discussions on the subject https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/315924

IMO newcomers don’t want the most optimized and engineered way to code, but what’s easier to start with. If a Spreadsheet allows me to calculate something, that’s a programming language for them!

Im trying to be empathic with the learning curve. I don’t like the verb code as a synonym of programming, but I need an English word for: “Being able to make a computer do what I want”, code is the interface for that

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I’ll be starting to teach an introductory course on Python for a university, as part of that ‘teach lawyers to code’ so I’ll take your words into consideration.

I’ve given that course before, so I kind of know when a student really wants to or it’s only a requirement.

@tkanos@twtxt.net I guess the registration form is Global for the whole site and currently can’t be shown in the Registration form only?

I reminded I’m signing the APK with my personal keys. Do you want to share the key with me to avoid errors while updating? Otherwise, I could commit it with the default debug key (which is giving another warning on some Android devices)

https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#signing-the-app

@prologic@twtxt.net Sure, let me try

BTW I have a few questions… Why Goryon? Is it intended to be renamed/rebranded as yarn.social?

@prologic@twtxt.net I made a quick APK from the latest commit and seems to work OK over here
https://eapl.mx/files/goryon_65_1.0.5.apk

Could I help in any way?

@prologic@twtxt.net I can’t disagree! Take it as a curiosity from my side

A curious microblogging system on Gemini

https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/station.martinrue.com/help

I’ll pause talking about -isms for today. If wanna read more ideas check this: https://text.eapl.mx/quick-ideas-about-isms-and-ownership

So, lunch time, see ya in a while!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci On gifts, I guess our mind has a problem with the Free concept, (as in freedom, as in culture, as in something you can steal).

Last year I found an appealing reading on the topic of Open Software as a gift. I recommend to take a look to it
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

So, it’s not a matter of Capitalism, but of greediness and money. (And just to check, capitalism is not about money, money is not the evilness here, but how we work for it)

So, Money + Families is a difficult combination. Check this research on psychology applied to money and free stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational#Being_Paid_vs._A_Friendly_Favor

Yes, we could try living in communes, having co-ops, and other experimental post-capitalist alternatives. I don’t know what could happen.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I don’t disagree, in fact, families are my favourite community right now (perhaps I’m lucky for that).

That said, it has been difficult to work with my family. When you involve money into a family problems appear.

There is even this meme

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci nop, that’s not what I meant. And I don’t like unproductive ways to think or to talk, so that is something you assumed.
(Also I don’t want to be obsessed with productivity, but that’s another discussion)

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci I know, tell us about the post-capitalist alternative that our generation could experience. How is it?

@prologic@twtxt.net yep, that’s part of the game of power. Why would you like to join that corrupt environment if wouldn’t it be to take advantage of the system?

And the Politicians are a public image for 4 or 6 years, who’s behind them? Who’s paying the politicians to do the dirty work?

So, this is the way humans have lived for many, many years. There are going to be rebels like you and me, trying to ‘fix’ things (pushing to our aspirations), but there is always going to be that fight, IMO

It’s not an easy conversation, I have to say. Even writing this is controversial. The easiest path would be saying “Yeah, it sucks bro”, and not doing anything.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Talking about government is a rabbit hole. What I don’t like is talking about it like the magic silver bullet that will solve all the problems and become a religion and ideology…

And it’s not only a matter of experimental post-capitalism but more about pragmatical solutions. We have about 30-60 years more here. What are we gonna do in those years? As individuals, as families, as communities, as nations, as a whole planet?

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci well, I remember Reader’s Digest throwing whole catalogues to my Grandpa along with the magazines he had already paid for.
They had his address and credit card info with promotions like “only send this message and you’ll receive the next book”.
And for Flashing videos, we could go to Public TV broadcasting.

But I get your point, and I add. “If the ‘product’ is free, you are the product”. And those companies are trying to productize you. Manifest V3 is a clear example of the Status quo, disguised as “for your convenience”.

The real point is not being part of that “Society of complaining” but being key to actually change what bothers us.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci connecting my previous twts together, if behind Chrome there is Google, willing to make an Operating System for the Web and Mobiles, they’ll have incentives to do it so, pushing a lot of money/investment to the massive users. (And an investment has an expected return on investment)

What could we do against those huge corporations? That’s the interesting and hard question

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci hmm, you can pay for ad-less pages and services. If you are browsing for free, I’d expect to see some ads.

Previously we payed for magazines and still received ads. Now we have ‘free’ services exchanging our data and attention for content. We can read more on how we reached there in “Information doesn’t want to be free”

So, my shortcut has been, pay for the services, use adblockers for everything else.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci well, the main point is not replacing the web and not having a critical mass is a feature, is OK if only my 3 friends read what I wrote.

In fact has been surprising it wasn’t forgotten into indifference but is being actively used.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Thanks so much!

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks dude! Amazingly healthy 😀

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci difficult if behind the browsers development you have Microsoft, Apple and Google.
There is the W3 as a comitee, but as a commercial media, it will follow interests of people pushing time, money and laws towards it.

sorry for the typos, it’s too early over here

There should be a warning like, don’t twt if you are tired, hahaha

Starting my ‘working days’ here. With a lot of reflections of the weekend, and a few learnings to be applied for the remaining months of this year.

In other news, my Grandma celebrated 80 years, wow!

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci hmmm, I see it as a toolkit. You can choose what to use, you can have a minimalist page or bloat it with 5 MB of libraries.
I read about the paradox of choice, that when your are free to choose you get blocked, or you choose the mainstream, not the most convenient one.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci IMO Gemini could be many things, some take as an ideology, some others as a Hobby project (I share my ideas in previous twts a few days ago)

For me is a representation of the Hobbyst Net, distanced from the commercial one, with all the benefits of the mainstream and the niche obscurity.

Also, the radio buttons and the checkboxes are missing the checkmark and the dot

@prologic@twtxt.net the fully dark background is great. I haven’t noticed that on mobile the panel triggered with the ‘burger’ menu, has the background broken, perhaps a CSS element is missing?

@darch@neotxt.dk Oh no!

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee Latam keyboard 👀

I haven’t used Raspberry Pi in a while, What distro/windows manager is that?

@prologic@twtxt.net I love it, thanks for sharing!

@prologic@twtxt.net both 😜

@prologic@twtxt.net Zuckerberg crying in the Metaverse™

@darch@neotxt.dk speaking as an outsider, but having played with fuzzy search a bit, is it a feature?

Perhaps you are looking for a Qwerty keyboard distance for spellchecking where darch, sarch, rarch are closer than march?

@prologic@twtxt.net 👏 Amazing!

@prologic@twtxt.net hehe, I’d like to visit there soon 😃

Over here ISPs are average compared to Germany, to say something. I’m using a local supplier by wireless antennas (since cable connections were not available when I arrived). It has been good enough, and at least they answer the support chat in seconds.

BTW it seems it’s working better after the reset #weird

What I love about all that is Gemtext, in my opinion, a streamlined Markdown.
Full spec
Quick reference

I use it for my blog, renders well enough to HTML, it’s extremely easy to remember, and it’s easy to parse. Again, minimalism in the markup language, in the protocol, and finally in the communication.

And I knew of twtxt on Gemini (it’s used there as a simplified feed format), so I’m here thanks to that hipster protocol 😁

@prologic@twtxt.net well, as they say

Is heavier than gopher
Is lighter than the web
Will not replace either

I think it has many different things to enounce, some ideological, some practical. Some that I like and some others I don’t share that much.
Some people will like the limitations, some others the encryption by default, and I guess some more will like the nostalgic factor of the Web of the 90s.

As a hacker, I like that is a ‘modernized Gopher’ with some inspiration taken from the Web, and it’s something you can actually program with a few libraries in your favourite language, so it’s a toy protocol which someone else is actually going to use. Trying to develop something on HTTP 2 or 3 nowadays seems impossible.

Having connections encrypted by default and using login by client certificates is appealing to my crypto side, although really optional (in fact there is an alternative without encryption that I can’t recall the name by now)

After fighting for a few hours with Nginx to ‘improve’ the Key Exchange and Cipher Strength ratings, I’m in the same place.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=eapl.mx&latest

At least I found how Let’s Encrypt is interacting with Nginx for the ‘recommended’ settings. Next step is https://observatory.mozilla.org

After hacking a bit of PHP (and gemini-php), finally my self-hosted capsule is available here:
gemini://eapl.mx

The only content is the twtxt.txt (mainly for compatibility with hipster protocols :)
eapl.mx/twtxt.txt

@mckinley@twtxt.net And about your video, yeah, I dislike Google, Microsoft and Apple asking/obligating you to use their cloud services as a ‘convenient’ way to use their OS.

@mckinley@twtxt.net About LibreWolf I like it, but the default behaviour breaks my normal usage, so I need to find a good compromise for it. And the updates are manual AKAIF, so I forget sometimes to update, and that’s another security thing.

@mckinley@twtxt.net yep, I get it. At least Edge is like Safari, being integrated into the OS. I’ll need to research more about that spyware you mention (I have all Windows 10 settings to avoid telemetry, and perhaps spy-wares, but I only believe is not sending that info).

Disclaimer: I have a distinction between opt-in semi-anonymous telemetry and spyware, but I get the point.

@akoizumi@social.kyoko-project.wer.ee Well, at least Firefox, or I don’t what else, but Chrome is extremely invasive for my taste. (I switched to Microsoft Edge, buuuut it’s almost the same. I’m trying to use more LibreWolf and Firefox in the meantime.

Arghhh, in things you don’t need to know, I’ve been experiencing random Internet disconnections for the last 3 days, and as expected the ISP is saying they are going to remotely reset the router… Let’s see what happens

#prayForMe #randomRandForAWednesday

I’m seeing that most people don’t know and don’t care about what “All rights reserved” means

#randomThoughtOfTheDay

@prologic@twtxt.net to start, why are you using Chrome? 👀