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<title>Explore the smol web with Marginalia</title>
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Sunday 17 November 2024
Explore the smol web with Marginalia
====================================
When visiting the World Wide Web, we prefer the human made personal
web sites, aka the smol web. These web sites were already hard to
find, but since the dominant search engines have dropped them from
their indexes and mainly focus on commercial shit, they have become
even harder to discover.
Marginalia is a search engine with a focus on the smol web. According
to its Git hub page [2], the overarching goal is to elevate the more
human, non-commercial sides of the Internet.
Marginalia is a one person project, which makes it even more awesome.
Searching with Marginalia
-------------------------
Marginalia is used like search engines in the past. Don't phrase a
question or input a sentence to search. Just enter one or more keywords,
as you expect those to appear in the web pages you are looking for.
Searching with Marginalia often results in a treasure trove full of
pages from the smol web. Searching with Marginalia has a much lower
chance of pulling up some AI-generated crap or being bombarded by SEO
non-sense.
The good thing is that Marginalia works with any browser. Of course it
works fine in graphical browsers like Firefox, it's also fine when
using TUI browsers like Links, lynx, and eww.
Exploring the smol web
----------------------
Marginalia is not only great to search for specific information,
it is also a great way to explore the smol web.
Just enter one or two keywords, and one by one visit the sites that
appear in the search results. For each site, look around, explore it a
bit. When the site looks promising, add it to you RSS feed reader.
Only together we can keep the smol web alive.
[1]: https://www.marginalia.nu/
[2]: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch
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<title>Paycheck</title>
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Saturday 16 November 2024
Paycheck
========
Today I read the short story "Paycheck", written in 1952 by
Philip K. Dick [1].
Although "Paycheck" is just a short story --or "novelette", as it
is called on Wikipedia-- is it turned into a Hollywood science
fiction action movie, also called "Paycheck" [2].
Several works by Philip K. Dick have of course been turned into a
Hollywood action movie. Some of these works I have read once or
several times, like "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [3],
first somewhere in the seventies, and a few times after that,
while some other works I haven't read (yet).
Paycheck and Adjustment Team
----------------------------
Another of his short stories that made it into a Hollywood movie
is "Adjustment Team" [4], the movie was called "The Adjustment
Bureau" [5].
In both cases, "Paycheck" and "Adjustment Team", I had seen the
movie several years before reading the story.
And in both cases:
* I was surprised how short the story was, considering a complete
movie was based on it.
* I was surprised how many elements of the movie adaptation were
already in the story.
* I enjoyed the story more than the movie.
Of course there are differences between the movies and the
stories they were adapted from.
"Paycheck" and "Adjustment Team" were written in the first half
of the fifties, while the movie "Paycheck" is from 2003 and the
movie "The Adjustment Bureau" from 2011. And of course Hollywood
wants love and stuff.
Collection
----------
"Paycheck" has been republished as part of a collection of
science fiction stories by Philip K. Dick, this collection is
also called "Paycheck" [6].
I am currently reading the collection, "Paycheck" is the first
story in it.
Although I have not yet finished reading it, I think I can give
it a recommendation. If you like short science fiction works,
consider reading this collection, you might enjoy it too!
Happy reading!
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(novelette)
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(film)
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustment_Team
[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adjustment_Bureau
[6]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paycheck_(collection)
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<title>From monkey to dragon</title>
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Sunday 10 November 2024
From monkey to dragon
=====================
In her surrealistic and often dream-state style, Patty Smith reminds
us in her book 'The Year of the Monkey' that the previous election of
Trump took place during the year of the monkey.
Reading her book in 2022, I thought that rather appropriate.
This time the election took place during the year of the dragon.
According to Wikipedia [1] the dragon character might have been
associated with scorpions.
I envision scorpions as ground-dwelling venomous creatures with a
small brain, and a preference for desolated landscapes.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_(zodiac)
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<title>New version of rcirc-sqlite</title>
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Friday 8 November 2024
New version of rcirc-sqlite
===========================
Version 1.0.4 of rcirc-sqlite is released today [1].
rcirc
-----
rcirc [2] is a default, simple IRC client in GNU Emacs.
It is part of Emacs, it works right out of the box.
When the logging is activated, rcirc logs to files.
rcirc-sqlite
------------
rcirc-sqlite is a minor-mode for Emacs that, when activated,
diverts the logs of rcirc to SQLite.
It also provides a small user interface to view stats and to
query the rcirc-logs in the SQLite database.
rcirc-sqlite is available as Emacs package, which is in
Elpa, the default GNU Emacs package repository.
As usual with Emacs packages, rcirc-sqlite comes with a
manual in the `info' format. A HTML version of the manual is
available at elpa.gnu.org [3].
The Elpa repository is updated every 24 hours. Therefor it
usually takes about a day for a new version of a package to
propagate through the Elpa processes and become available.
Minor upgrade
-------------
The query results are displayed in a tabular view.
By pointing to a row the user selects a log message.
The new upgrade to version 1.0.4 adds the option to hit the
key `b' (mnemonic: "browse") after selecting a message, to
open the URL in the selected message in the default browser.
Gemini, Gopher, and Web links
-----------------------------
Elpher [4] is a fully-featured Gopher and Gemini client for
GNU Emacs.
When Elpher is installed and configured, the option to
browse URL's in Emacs works for Gemini, Gopher, and Web
links.
Personally, I use eww for web links and Elpher for Gemini
and Gopher links.
[1]: https://codeberg.org/mattof/rcirc-sqlite
[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/rcirc.html
[3]: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/doc/rcirc-sqlite.html
[4]: https://github.com/emacsmirror/elpher
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Tuesday 5 November 2024
Street-parking? You need an app for that
========================================
Yesterday we visited an acquaintance in another city.
Parking on the streets in the area now requires a mobile app.
This is the only way you can pay for your parking.
The vendor-machine that sells the parking tickets was replaced a few
years ago. The new machine doesn't print out parking tickets, you have
to enter the license plate and pay your fee, with cash or a card.
Yesterday we discovered that these machines have been removed. A new
shield is affixed high on the lampposts in various locations in the
neighborhood, stating only an parking area code that you have to enter
in some app, and that failure to do so will lead to a parking fine.
Our acquaintance doesn't drive a car, and wasn't aware of the change.
The community website doesn't provide much more information, it lists
a number of companies who offer an mobile app.
So, it is no longer possible to pay for your parking ticket with cash
or with a card. The requirements for parking now are:
* a smartphone
* a mobile internet connection
* being a customer of one of those parties that provides a parking app
All in the name of progress, of course.
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