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I didn’t believe the YouTuber bros when they said it smelled bad. I even found a real recipe and everything. Surstrommig is as smelly as they say it is and I am fool for not listening. Recipe would’ve been great with sardines or smoked trout.

Ricardo Carlino 6d ago

The #Meshtastic content on TikTok is trying too hard to be edgy.

Ricardo Carlino Jan 16

For-profit university offers scholarship to #runescape skill cape recipients. https://usv.edu/max-achievement-scholarship

Max Achievement Scholarship | University of Silicon Valley

Earn recognition for mastery, persistence, and systems thinking — even in digital worlds. The Max Achievement Scholarship rewards extraordinary gaming achievements that demonstrate the same discipline and creativity that drive innovation at USV.

Ricardo Carlino Jan 16

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Gareth Halfacree Jan 16

All of that is, as always, available on the #GeminiProtocol for your text-only pleasure.

gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/

(Gemini does actually support images, but I'm keeping things simple over there. Would be interested to hear opinions on whether I should start including at least one image per article, actually...)

Ricardo Carlino Jan 14

Tijn Aug 27

Always wanted to explore the Small Web in beautiful 1-bit? Now you can!

Meet Hopper, a down-to-earth Gopher & Gemini browser for #Playdate.

Available today: https://tkers.itch.io/hopper

Hopper by tkers

Browse like it’s 1991

itch.io

Ricardo Carlino Jan 14

Hacker News Jan 14

Why IRC is better than Real Life

https://everything2.com/node/e2node/Why%20IRC%20is%20better%20than%20Real%20Life

#HackerNews #IRC #RealLife #OnlineCommunities #DigitalCommunication #VirtualInteraction

Why IRC is better than Real Life

You can IRC with bad breath, or in coke-bottle glasses, or with a huge pimple and still be a sex goddess. Virtual chocolate doesn't cost anything, and it...

Everything2

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Ricardo Carlino Jan 13

Let’s take Gemini more seriously because it already has adoption and it works and it’s not perfect but it sure as fuck isn’t substack.

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Ricardo Carlino Jan 13

You can disable JavaScript, or disable images or whatever hoops you want to jump through (increasingly hidden with every FireFox release that goes by) but that’s not going to actually work long term. The web is too extensible and feature hungry to support text based content. It’s better to just use the web for the usual cool shit like WASM and WebRTC or whatever and admit that no one can help themselves and no amount of awareness is going to make the cookie consent banners go away.

Ricardo Carlino Jan 13

People shit on Gemini because “The web can support text documents”. They say this as if they are actually proposing a real solution. It’s true that the web _can_ support lightweight content (IE5 on Windows 3.1- I was there man), but the problem is that it _won’t_ because it consistently chooses not to. If you’ve ever tried to actually perform this experiment of running the web in text mode you will quickly realize how futile it truly is. (1/???)

Ricardo Carlino Jan 11

I was able to run some historic Forth systems on my Pocket8086. #forth #retrocomputing