I think what excites me about things like #gemini is that it's simple enough I can wrap my head around it and a nice community around it. Gemini will probably never "take over the world", and I question if that's even desirable. It's just fun to play with and I like seeing what people can do with it.

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Dec 03, 2020, 03:30

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Dec 03, 2020, 03:30

Dec 03, 2020, 03:30

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I would very much like a #gemini CGI spec

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Dec 01, 2020, 23:34

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Dec 01, 2020, 23:34

Dec 01, 2020, 23:34

Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

#Firefox83 is borked. It has a substantial memory leak and bad screen tearing problems.

**Captain Red Beard** · Nov 28, 2020, 20:48

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**neurohound** @glitchyhare@mastodon.art · Nov 28, 2020, 20:48

Nov 28, 2020, 20:48

neurohound @glitchyhare@mastodon.art

Someone I know wants to try out Mastodon, but he doesn't know English. Is there:

A) A way to look for users speaking a particular language?

B) A Polish instance that's well moderated (no bigotry allowed on there)?

Please boost, even if you don't know 😓

#mastodon #help

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 27, 2020, 19:42

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 27, 2020, 19:42

Nov 27, 2020, 19:42

Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

@sir after you shutdown your mastodon instance are you planning on leaving the fedi all together? If so, are you going to use something else instead? If not where are you moving?

**Captain Red Beard** · Nov 27, 2020, 14:14

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**Robert Kingett** @weirdwriter@mastodon.social · Nov 27, 2020, 14:14

Nov 27, 2020, 14:14

Robert Kingett @weirdwriter@mastodon.social

My new reply to republicans

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**Captain Red Beard** · Nov 27, 2020, 12:47

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**‮innuB** @bunni@raru.re · Nov 27, 2020, 12:47

Nov 27, 2020, 12:47

‮innuB @bunni@raru.re

anyone knows about a libre scripting tool for android? That would be neat (like ankulua but FLOSS)

**Captain Red Beard** · Nov 27, 2020, 09:34

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**dqn** @dqn@fedi.absturztau.be · Nov 27, 2020, 09:34

Nov 27, 2020, 09:34

dqn @dqn@fedi.absturztau.be

#animeirl

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**Captain Red Beard** · Nov 26, 2020, 14:25

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**Drew DeVault** @sir@cmpwn.com · Nov 26, 2020, 14:25

Nov 26, 2020, 14:25

Drew DeVault @sir@cmpwn.com

So apparently I'm banned from github.com/golang/go

I reviewed my comments to find out what might have caused it and my best guess is it's either because (A) I said that it's lazy to force git forge maintainers to add go-specific code rather than develop language-independent standards, or (B) I pointed out that git hosting is decentralized and adding "sourcehut support" by hardcoding git.sr.ht is incorrect, and applies to other hosts like gitlab, gitea, github enterprise, cgit, etc.

Notably among my participation in that repository is donating CPU time on my $1,000 RISC-V board to help with the RISC-V port.

In conclusion, 🖕. If you want to participate in golang/go be sure not to point out that any of their engineers are working on solutions which are wrong when the right solution is much harder.

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 23:58

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 23:58

Nov 25, 2020, 23:58

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There are also a few FOSS projects written in Go I'd like to contribute to 😅

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**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 23:39

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 23:39

Nov 25, 2020, 23:39

Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

Maybe I should learn #go again. I'm gonna be on the job market again soon and the likelihood of me finding a Rust job are slim 😅. Go is not my favorite but from what I've seen a lot of the pain points have been cleared up from 5 years ago. It's used a lot in the kinds of things I'd like to work on. And I'd probably like it as much or better than Python and definitely more than JS or Java.

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 21:06

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 21:06

Nov 25, 2020, 21:06

Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

I feel like the biggest "problem" that flatpak and snap are trying to solve is that web browsers have to be updated constantly.

**Captain Red Beard** · Nov 25, 2020, 18:40

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**khm** @khm@mastodon.sdf.org · Nov 25, 2020, 18:40

Nov 25, 2020, 18:40

khm @khm@mastodon.sdf.org

Amazon's webshit is falling over, and they couldn't post an update to their status page because pushing updates to their status page relies on the webshit that's falling over.

Again.

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 18:01

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 25, 2020, 18:01

Nov 25, 2020, 18:01

Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

Part of me wants to learn the modern Android stack so I can work on Android apps I want. The other part of me cringes at the thought.

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 24, 2020, 13:26

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 24, 2020, 13:26

Nov 24, 2020, 13:26

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I think I might switch my website from Zola to hugo for better #gemini support. But I'm not sure that'll do what I want either.

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 23, 2020, 21:58

**Captain Red Beard** @zethra@fosstodon.org · Nov 23, 2020, 21:58

Nov 23, 2020, 21:58

Captain Red Beard @zethra@fosstodon.org

I discovered today that #android has a really nice thing to read webpages. Now to make it work with #gemini 🤔 ... Probably going to have to point it as a web-gemini proxy.