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futurebird, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

"The animal iconography of the site could shed light on the world view and religion of the people."

I get it. So often that's all they have to go on. But what if it's just decorations?

I wonder what people would make of the Bronx based on the decorations on our buildings that could stand the test of time? Let's choose some random things to survive...

How would you describe this culture?

(assume all writing is gone because of an AI info bomb making all text useless)

zyd, 2 months ago to random

I'm reading the wikipedia page for the Server Side Public License and my first reaction is.... its good? I'm surprised its not considered a free software license considering it forces the hand of the service provider to make available the entirety of the software in order to run a fully copy of said service. That seems like a huge win. And if someone, a company, wants to make it proprietary, well it sounds like they should pay up for an alternative license from the copyright holder. Either pay or make your software fully free software, what's not to like, it seems like an even better AGPL, thoughts?

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License

rml, 2 months ago to random

Under communism #elisp will be the mandatory first programming language for all aspiring programmers.

louis, 3 months ago to random

GNV - the Gopher Web search engine - just got an update.

https://gopher.emacs.ch

• Now includes Gemini
• Shows context snippet of the content where search query was found

The crawler is still working through more than 60'000 found links, this will require a few more hours to finish.

I've removed the Gopher image and binary proxy out of the following consideration:

• It's a potential attack vector to external Gopher servers

• GNV shall not replace functionality of Gopher, but encourage its use by using a proper client

• I want to focus on providing features increasing discovery of Gopher/Gemini content and how it is interconnected with each other (inspired discussion by @screwtape - aka "How to link Gopher phlogs with each other")

Those who follow me know that GNV is written in Common Lisp. A great learning exercise for me. It's incredibly suited for this task because I could modify the code for numerous edge cases while the crawler is running, without starting from scratch every time an exception is thrown.

Sure, when the project is finished and the problem is modeled out properly, one could say: that would be easy to write in lang X.Y.Z! Sure, but it's not the end product where Common Lisp shines, it's the journey.

With that, have a good night y'all.

zardoz03, 3 months ago to random

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