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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 26, 2024
> GNOME bluefish
> Space colonization would be an difficult, expensive, and resource-intensive proposition. For some, though, it is of paramount importance; it's easy to find examples of folks claiming that almost any sacrifice is worthwhile if we can "get off this rock" or "become a multi-planetary species." Environmental protections? They just pointlessly impede Progress. What if a dinosaur-killer asteroid shows up? What about the fact that solar changes will make Earth uninhabitable in many millions of years? Don't those outweigh the lives of a few birds or sea turtles?
> Today my oldest daughter made me a grandfather. It was the best day.
> Major victory of the day was setting up MPD and using qjoypad to map the X and A gamepad buttons on this device to the pause and print buttons, and in init.el mapping those to toggle pause/play of current song and next song respectively.
> So, in my emacs config, I have major modes I use often setup to display as UTF-8 superscript such as ᴱᴸᴾᴴᴱᴿ for the best gopher/gemini client. I wrote a shell script that adds an offset to text on stdin to output circle letters, fraktur, etc. but it is hit or miss if lowercase lines up (in other words, it often outputs giberish). Unicode superscript letters are an even worse case because they are spread amongst muliple sections - not together and convienient.
> I use output redirection and piping quite a bit when I'm using my computer. Oftentimes I just `cat` and redirect the output instead of using `cp` or `dd`. I don't remember when I'd have done `grep [foo-query] [bar-file]`, I always do `cat [bar-file] | grep [foo-query]`. I might end up writing more, but I don't have to remember as much syntax.
> NOTE: Profectus is a new graphical browser for Gemini, Nex, and Scroll.
Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.
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