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## How?
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Let's go back to the discussion of the postoctt: with Replit, taking as a basis a Repl found around that demonstrated how to host another type of service on Tor, I built my Repl which: at each new start, downloads locally everything needed to compile and deploy my static site (from my Git repos), prepare everything, and start an HTTP server and the Tor daemon, which acts as a proxy by exposing the HTTP server to the outside via the Tor network. Then endlessly, all through Git, download any updates to any of the parts and, when necessary, regenerate the site.
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I leave here the link to a GitLab snippet with my files, for anyone who wants to do the same service as me for their own website, perhaps built with my very low quality static site generator (at a code level, if I was disgusted on a conceptual or practical level I wouldn't be developing it slowly yet): [gitlab.com/-/snippets/2338457](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2338457){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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I leave here the link to a GitLab snippet with my files, for anyone who wants to do the same service as me for their own website, perhaps built with my very low quality static site generator (at a code level, if I was disgusted on a conceptual or practical level I wouldn't be developing it slowly yet): [gitlab.com/-/snippets/2338457](https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2338457).
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With free PaaS services like Replit, however, there's a little problem: there are limits on software execution times. In the case of this platform, everything goes into suspension if the project's web address does not receive pings for I didn't quite understand how many minutes. If it receives any later, it wakes up after the time necessary to redo the startup operations.
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It's a shame however that, apart from the fact that it would mean making anyone who wants to visit my site wait at least 30 seconds for the first connection to be established, it is the HTTPS address on the Replit domain that must be contacted, for obvious reasons not the Tor address. And having people connect via the HTTPS address defeats the purpose of having a Tor site (which I'll get to shortly, I swear).
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I don't think I need to explain the problems arising from passing data in unencrypted form via the Internet: information can not only be stolen (which for a public blog is not a big problem), but even modified and presented as if nothing had changed, with disarmingly easy, from any of the intermediate parts of the connection, for example the ISP of the client or the server.
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HTTPS for websites solves this problem.. Bad. We don't talk about it much, but the entire correct functioning of these protection systems depends on a complex global metaphysical infrastructure, which has more flaws than you might think.
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Searching on Whoogle, I found this PDF, which more or less gives a quick look at the problems HTTPS suffers from: [Weakest_Link_in_the_Chain.pdf](https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/archive/docs /Weakest_Link_in_the_Chain.pdf){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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Searching on Whoogle, I found this PDF, which more or less gives a quick look at the problems HTTPS suffers from: [Weakest_Link_in_the_Chain.pdf](https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/archive/docs /Weakest_Link_in_the_Chain.pdf).
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What is essentially important to say is that the entire current system, based on CAs, consists of trust in an upstream authority. Without going into details, so I refer you to the PDF, the system is fragile and can be broken, resulting, in rare special cases, in the same problems as non-encrypted connections; indeed, perhaps even worse, because the presence of HTTPS can lead us to trust always and in any case: modern web browsers have conditioned us to ask questions only when we see the open padlock or a warning triangle, not when we see the closed shiny green padlock.
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When you use Tor to connect to sites on Tor, the connection is not only routed between even more nodes on the network, but the data is encrypted with a public and private key system between the client and the Onion service server: the only the weak point in the chain is the server itself, which stores the private key, there are no other authorities to trust.
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The fact that Tor is financially supported at least in part by the US government however, without going into too much detail, perhaps carries some profound dangerous implications. This is why I want, more or less soon, to give a chance to services similar to Tor but different from it. Lokinet inspires me, to tell the truth, I think it will be the first alternative network I try.
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## [:HNotesRefsHTML:]
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## {{% i18n notes-refs %}}
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[^New aesthetic domain]: **Update 2022-06-29**: I changed the domain for aesthetic reasons to this new one! Additional (but still limited) info at [today's PicoBlog post](../PicoBlog.html#-2022-06-29-Minare-domini-Tor).
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How can a script, and therefore a site that integrates it, be malicious?
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Browsers today execute website scripts in a fairly sandboxed environment, of course, and as of today, for reasons that I won't explain now, even serious flaws emerge every month, if you keep the browser updated the security is in theory fine.
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Privacy, however... that really ends up bad.
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There was a demo made as a game that showed personally why you need to be afraid... too bad I can't find it anymore, I don't remember where I discovered it from, and therefore nothing :(. At the moment, for those who want to find out more , I can only link [Device Info](https://deviceinfo.me){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, which shows many of the data (but not all) that a website can extract from the devices of those who visit it also take a look at [Cover Your Tracks](https://coveryourtracks.eff.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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There was a demo made as a game that showed personally why you need to be afraid... too bad I can't find it anymore, I don't remember where I discovered it from, and therefore nothing :(. At the moment, for those who want to find out more , I can only link [Device Info](https://deviceinfo.me), which shows many of the data (but not all) that a website can extract from the devices of those who visit it. Maybe also take a look at [Cover Your Tracks](https://coveryourtracks.eff.org).
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The problem here, it must be specified, does not lie in web apps that can be defined as real applications, which use JS to function. Whether it is a calculator, a game, a word processor, a photo editing app, we are always talking about applications, no matter whether they are written in native language as native apps for a specific platform, or whether they are written in JavaScript as applications for Web browsers. All of these things require the client to execute the code, because these are very interactive apps, and that's okay. I myself often use apps that run in a browser window.
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There would then be a long discussion regarding the Web as an application development platform, for many reasons (even the flaws), positive and negative, but I will talk about it in the future.
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More and more frequently I see more and more sites, which should be simple documents, not working properly without JavaScript.
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We go from news sites where the article doesn't load, to blogs where the navigation menus no longer work, forums where message sections are not visible, forums that don't load at all, new search engines that absolutely don't work without JS ( and which present themselves as a private alternative to Google, it's a shame that Google works well even without running proprietary scripts and these don't!), and even social network sites that only show a blank screen if the JavaScript is not loaded.
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These services that I have listed can all be classified as documents and, apart from very particular cases, such as those sites that encrypt and decipher client-side data deliberately to ensure that the server cannot read them (see [PrivateBin](https://privatebin .info){[:MdTgtBlank:]} for a notepad, [Element](https://element.io){[:MdTgtBlank:]} for a messaging app), can and should work fine without scripting ( at least optionally).
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These services that I have listed can all be classified as documents and, apart from very particular cases, such as those sites that encrypt and decipher client-side data deliberately to ensure that the server cannot read them (see [PrivateBin](https://privatebin .info) for a notepad, [Element](https://element.io) for a messaging app), can work fine without scripting and should (at least optionally).
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I don't like speaking against free and open software written in their spare time by enthusiasts, who perhaps don't even earn money from it, but one thing that struck me negatively is that the plague of appization has also hit the Fediverse and its platforms.
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For those who are unaware of this new virtual universe, I will say in short that it is an idea and, in practice, software, based on common protocols, to guarantee universal compatibility and interoperability, so that those on platform A can also communicate with those who are on
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## It will all end in tragedy
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The situation, I fear, can only get worse. Although I am more than sure that my words and actions will not change the future at all, given that I believe in what I say and, incidentally, at the same time I also create content and services for the Web, I do what I can to create my things as I would like to see them everywhere.
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So for non-interactive sites, following the [progressive enhancement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement){[:MdTgtBlank:]} technique, I first make sure the basic stuff works without scripting , I use scripts as little as possible and, if I really have to, I do it for optional functions and features, and I try to keep the code (within my limits) compact and readable.
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So for non-interactive sites, following the [progressive enhancement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_enhancement) technique, I first make sure the basic stuff works without scripting, I use scripts the least possible and, if I really have to, I do it for optional functions and features, and I try to keep the code (within my limits) compact and readable.
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I personally appeal to you who are reading this.
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If you build websites, consider taking what I've said into account, I beg you.
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If, however, you only browse, perhaps try to start blocking JavaScript in your browser (Chromium integrates this as permission for sites, of which you can set the global setting to Blocked; on Firefox you must install [NoScript](https:/ /addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/noscript){[:MdTgtBlank:]}), so as to keep JS deactivated for sites you don't know, and have the possibility to activate it temporarily or permanently for domains that don't work or that you already know and trust. Not only will you browse more securely and privately, but with less slowdowns and loading!
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If, however, you only browse, perhaps try to start blocking JavaScript in your browser (Chromium integrates this as permission for sites, of which you can set the global setting to Blocked; on Firefox you must install [NoScript](https:/ /addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/noscript)), so as to keep JS deactivated for sites you don't know, and have the possibility to activate it temporarily or permanently for domains that don't work or that you already know and are aware of trust me. Not only will you browse more securely and privately, but with less slowdowns and loading!
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A few months ago I bought a small [monocrystalline solar panel](https://www.amazon.it/Lixada-Pannello-Monocristallino-Caricabatterie-Cellulare/dp/B071Z1LGFV){[:MdTgtBlank:]} online, similar in size to those of an A4 sheet, for the sum of around €20 (on Amazon.it the sellers are all thieves, on Aliexpress it would have cost a little less).
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A few months ago I bought a small [monocrystalline solar panel](https://www.amazon.it/Lixada-Pannello-Monocristallino-Caricabatterie-Cellulare/dp/B071Z1LGFV) online, with dimensions similar to those of an A4 sheet, for the figure of around €20 (on Amazon.it the sellers are all thieves, on Aliexpress it would have cost a little less).
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[](https://t.me/SpaccCraft/975){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
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[](https://t.me/SpaccCraft/975)
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## Electrical doubts
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On that occasion, the only one out for now, I only tried to recharge the battery of my smartphone (6000mAh).
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I did 3 different tests, the first two lasting about 15 minutes in the few hours before midday, when the sky was clear, with the panel held by me in my hand to make it better catch the sun perpendicularly (ideal for a monocrystalline).
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I first tried to charge the phone while it was on, stalled and with all the radios off (but not in Android's deep sleep state), but unfortunately there was no way, the phone consumed so much energy that it was unable to recharge, it could only discharge slowly. I don't remember very well, because I didn't think of recording the data, but it seems to me that, on the app I use to see the charging statistics ([AccA](https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA){[:MdTgtBlank: ]}), were only marked on the 300mA input.
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I first tried to charge the phone while it was on, stalled and with all the radios off (but not in Android's deep sleep state), but unfortunately there was no way, the phone consumed so much energy that it was unable to recharge, it could only discharge slowly. I don't remember very well, because I didn't think of recording the data, but it seems to me that, on the app I use to see the charging statistics ([AccA](https://github.com/MatteCarra/AccA)), only on the 300mA input.
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Trying the same formula immediately afterwards, but with the phone turned off, it seems to me that in 15 minutes it only charged 2% of the battery... it would practically take 12.5 hours to charge from 0 to 100% if this is the case.
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I did the last test around 2pm, when the sky had unfortunately darkened. I placed the panel on a surface and used the phone normally, listening to music and I think using online messaging apps. As I suspected, it didn't recharge, but at least it was almost without running out of charge, which is still good considering the weather conditions.
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We are finally at the end of all this ambaradan, with my tests on a Raspberry Pi 3B.
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The idea popped into my head after I unfortunately left the magical product unused for a while, not knowing what useful things to do with it. I mean, I bought it because it's definitely useful to have a little thing like this in emergencies, but if I can put it to good use in the meantime, that's even better.
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I thought, first of all, of configuring BOINC on Raspbian, a distributed computing software that can be used to contribute to scientific research projects, while earning a few cents a month (rip) in a kind of cryptocurrency, the [Gridcoin ](https://gridcoin.us){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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I thought, first of all, of configuring BOINC on Raspbian, a distributed computing software that can be used to contribute to scientific research projects, while earning a few cents a month (rip) in a kind of cryptocurrency, the [Gridcoin ](https://gridcoin.us).
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As I already said, the Raspino must be powered by the powerbank, the panel directly does not give it enough current. It seems to turn on, but in reality it seems to go into bootloop.
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Well, I won't beat around the bush too much: while (with the same powerbank, I think 4000mAh) for some low load applications, like [Pwnagotchi](https://pwnagotchi.ai/){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, the Pi can stay on for hours even with a backlit LCD screen connected... the CPU at 100%, which performs complex calculations, eats so much of that current that the battery flattens out in just 1 hour.
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Well, I won't beat around the bush too much: while (with the same powerbank, I think 4000mAh) for some low-load applications, like [Pwnagotchi](https://pwnagotchi.ai/), the Pi can stay on for hours even with a backlit LCD screen connected... the CPU at 100%, doing complex calculations, eats so much of that current that the battery flattens out in just 1 hour.
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[](https://mastodon.uno/@octo/108211397314015161){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
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[](https://mastodon.uno/@octo/108211397314015161)
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_Psssss.. if you want to see other photos of the panel (3) and in a slightly more decent quality, I put them on Pixelfed: [pixelfed.uno/p/octo/426839557817260168](https://pixelfed.uno/p/ octo/426839557817260168){[:MdTgtBlank:]}!_
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_Psssss.. if you want to see other photos of the panel (3) and in a slightly more decent quality, I put them on Pixelfed: [pixelfed.uno/p/octo/426839557817260168](https://pixelfed.uno/p/ octo/426839557817260168)!_
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## The reality of the facts
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Apart from this thing, which even if it doesn't make me money in practice would be useful as it is beneficial for scientific research, I have no practical uses in mind for the Rasperino Pi 3 Solare. Maybe a Pi Zero would be better: apparently, other people in the throes of madness (but better equipped), thought of using that to mine Bitcoin, with a small panel similar to mine ([YouTube/CbpfNU7oaws](https://invidious.snopyta .org/watch?v=CbpfNU7oaws){[:MdTgtBlank:]}).
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Apart from this thing, which even if it doesn't make me money in practice would be useful as it is beneficial for scientific research, I have no practical uses in mind for the Rasperino Pi 3 Solare. Maybe a Pi Zero would be better: apparently, other people in the throes of madness (but better equipped), thought of using that to mine Bitcoin, with a small panel similar to mine ([YouTube/CbpfNU7oaws](https://invidious.snopyta .org/watch?v=CbpfNU7oaws)).
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For now, I use the small panel sporadically to charge my power banks, which I discharge when I happen to use them around to charge my smartphone.
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If there's anything I learned from this story, it's that I should buy the damn USB multimeter.
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## A new idea
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As time passed I forgot about the issue a bit, until, a few weeks ago, I came across a video on Invidious ([YouTube/JXdLzinnqms](https://invidious.snopyta.org/JXdLzinnqms){[: MdTgtBlank:]}) showing a homemade modification to a smartphone.
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As time passed I forgot about the issue a bit, until, a few weeks ago, I came across a video on Invidious ([YouTube/JXdLzinnqms](https://invidious.snopyta.org/JXdLzinnqms)) which shows a homemade modification to a smartphone.
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The video shows, and the linked discussion on cover is thought out.
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I immediately had the desire to create something like this but, as I searched, I started to think that this type of cover is no longer produced by anyone... it was absolutely impossible to find one, not only at a good price, but at all. Neither online nor in physical stores.
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For almost 7 years I have had an Acer laptop, [Aspire V3-572G](https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/5389){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, undoubtedly now a bit old, without praise and with some infamy.
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For almost 7 years I have had an Acer laptop, [Aspire V3-572G](https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/5389), undoubtedly now a bit old, without praise and with some infamy.
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When it was purchased, it was essentially a mid-range notebook like any other, without any notable features. I mean, I used it quite a bit and it more or less always did what it was supposed to, until about 2 years ago I started demanding to use heavy games and development tools, at which point the new (desktop) PC was great. obligation.
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## The current state
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All in all, with GNU+Linux as the operating system, the [Intel mitigations](https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(again)_on_Intel_CPUs){[:MdTgtBlank:]} not installed (yes, I actually deleted the microcode, instead block its loading), and an SSD installed in place of the HDD years before, the machine is still more than good for many activities that today I carry out primarily with the desktop PC.
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The Intel [i5-5200U](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/85212/intel-core-i55200u-processor-3m-cache-up-to-2 -70-ghz/specifications.html){[:MdTgtBlank:]} itself still grinds well, and the 4GB of RAM isn't a huge deal if you have a light system stack and aren't keeping 50 programs open at once.
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All in all, with GNU+Linux as the operating system, the [Intel mitigations](https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(again)_on_Intel_CPUs) not installed (yes, I actually deleted the microcode, rather than blocking its loading), and a SSD installed in place of the HDD years before, the machine is still more than good for many activities that today I carry out primarily with the desktop PC.
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The Intel [i5-5200U](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/85212/intel-core-i55200u-processor-3m-cache-up-to-2 -70-ghz/specifications.html) itself still grinds well, and the 4GB of RAM isn't a huge issue if you have a light system stack and aren't keeping 50 programs open at once.
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## A little problem
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By doing so, you not only save a lot of money; electronic waste, the so-called e-waste, is reduced and therefore a minimum amount of good is done for the environment.
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_Note: Some of the photos in this article are available in JPEG, less compressed, on my Pixelfed profile: [pixelfed.uno/p/octo/451398427740616761](https://pixelfed.uno/p/octo/451398427740616761){[: MdTgtBlank:]}_
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_Note: Some of the photos in this article are available in JPEG, less compressed, on my Pixelfed profile: [pixelfed.uno/p/octo/451398427740616761](https://pixelfed.uno/p/octo/451398427740616761)_
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If already in the mid-90s the only real limit for a website was the **creativity** of the person who built it, today the **potential** of the Web platform are truly **infinite**; although, in a certain way, it doesn't seem that way at all if you only frequent the common Web.
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The sites of the "_non-personal_" Internet all have the same same and banal appearance.
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Many blogs or demo sites use recycled graphic templates. Modern social platforms (Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, and so on and so forth) limit customization to a photo, a banner, and a description. Stuff like [Misskey](https://misskey-hub.net/en){[:MdTgtBlank:]} already does more, but it absolutely doesn't get to the levels of **total customization**, with **granular precision **, which only a website - even a forum like those of days gone by, and not a private space - allows.
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Many blogs or demo sites use recycled graphic templates. Modern social platforms (Mastodon, Friendica, Pleroma, and so on and so forth) limit customization to a photo, a banner, and a description. Stuff like [Misskey](https://misskey-hub.net/en) already does more, but it absolutely doesn't reach the levels of **total customization**, with **granular precision**, that only a site The Web - even if it were a forum like those of the past, and not a private space - allows.
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### Great expressiveness
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Those not archived are simply messy and poorly preserved, as well as without guarantees for those who want to copy or reuse them; those, however, which for one reason or another are archived, it is as if they did not exist for the world, and it is easy for me to lose them too.
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Like a month ago I announced with my [**decretocto**](../PicoBlog.html#-2022-07-21-Decreto-fu-fatto-2) <!-- ({{< assetsRoot >}} /Files/Decreto-20-luglio-2022.pdf){[:MdTgtBlank:]} --> (_we didn't understand a thing, right?_), this is something that requires tedious work (_taking the old , evaluate their quality, copy the text, paste it into the new text files, layout it well, download photos and videos, optimize them well and upload them..._ nothing but the fun of creating, here it's an assembly line!), but ** it must be done**.
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Like a month ago I announced with my [**decretocto**](../PicoBlog.html#-2022-07-21-Decreto-fu-fatto-2) <!-- ({{< assetsRoot >}} /Files/Decreto-20-luglio-2022.pdf) --> (_you didn't understand a thing, right?_), this is something that requires tedious work (_taking the old one, evaluating its quality, copying the text, paste it into the new text files, layout it well, download photos and videos, optimize them well and upload them..._ nothing but the fun of creating, here it's an assembly line!), but **it has to be done**.
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With my free time I have already started doing it, and I will continue.
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Posts from my [old blog](https://noblogo.org/loli-documentatrice){[:MdTgtBlank:]} should also be archived here, again for organization and preservation - but those are easier.
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Posts from my [old blog](https://noblogo.org/loli-documentatrice) should also be archived here, again for organization and preservation - but those are easier.
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To conclude: it doesn't matter which ones, but in any case ***the contents are the meaning*** of the site. They are, however, only because they are freely available to anyone.
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What does this **really** mean? Anyone who has read [home](../index.html) should perhaps know this. I don't dare add anything else, in any case; you will have to wait for a next article, one in which I will pick up the topic where I leave it now.
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Title = "😭 More than an exam, I went to war."
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Dates = 2023-05-02
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<p>As <strong>the title</strong> suggests, this was the <strong>poetic thought</strong> dispensed by my mother today, after I returned home in the afternoon with a <strong>psyche</strong> > completely <strong>obliterated</strong>, unrecognizable.</p>
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<p>Until 30 minutes before, <em>good Maremma</em>, <strong>I just wanted</strong> to <strong>explode</strong>. Be careful, though: not for the exam itself (the last in a series of extra-curricular ones, precisely), very simple for me, which I don't care about except the certification!<sup id="fnref1">< a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn1">1</a></sup> Something else happened</strong>.</p>
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<h2>Let's go back</h2>
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<p>When I went through the first sessions <strong>two years ago</strong>, everything went <strong>very smoothly</strong>, almost in the name of <em><a href="https://www.urbandictionary .com/define.php?term=chill%20vibes" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">chilling</a></em>: those were still the times of anti-COVID restrictions, and those 2 exams that I faced at school they were in a <strong>classroom</strong> which was however <strong>not very crowded</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>This year</strong>, however, <strong>crap</strong>. I took the card without repeating anything, so my parents didn't waste money on that matter, but the <strong>experience</strong> was <strong>terrifying</strong>.<br>
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The <strong>class</strong> at these rounds was always <strong>packed</strong>, and this very thing ended up being a <strong>problem for my soul</strong>.<br>
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I don't think I deserve all this...</p>
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<h3>Sounds of trouble</h3>
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<p><strong>Last month</strong> I took 2 tests out of the 3 I was missing, and already <strong>nothing went</strong> smoothly at all:</p>
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<ol>
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<li><p>My professor (project contact) hadn't told me that I should have received a private link in the email address of the school domain to create an account on the online exam platform... Too bad that access I only have it at the post office on <a href="https://sitoctt.octt.eu.org/Posts/Archive/2022-05-07-Gli-Inspettiti-Vantaggi-della-Chiavetta-Linux.html" rel=" noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Puppy Linux thumb drive</a> and on the tablet, and I can't access anywhere else<sup id="fnref2"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn2" >2</a></sup>. Result: <strong>I had to rush</strong> home <strong>to get the tablet</strong> and go back to school... Luckily I live nearby.</p></li>
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<li><p>The <strong>testing platform totally broke</strong> when I finished one of the exams (not without difficulty, some questions were <em>[glitchate](<a href="https:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch#Computer" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch#Computer</a></em>glitch)_ !): as soon as I started the second one, the system said that I had run out of time, and closed the test I had just started in my face... The prof. he had to <strong>waste time</strong> calling support to explain the matter, and after quite a mess the exam was reset as not taken.</p></li>
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<p>Between both things, then, a good amount of <strong>time</strong> was lost. And if it hadn't been like this, <strong>maybe</strong> I would have managed to finish <strong>all the exams that day</strong>.</p>
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<h2>The present</h2>
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<p>Let's go back to today.<br>
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Once the hassle of waiting was over (not too problematic, thanks to the rectangle of plastic, glass, metal, with Internet connection, and pocket book, which I also always carry around), due to the fact that all the stations were occupied initially, <strong >start</strong>.<br>
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<em>...But I had never done it!</em></p>
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<p>My <strong>first few minutes</strong> go <strong>fine</strong>, <strong>until</strong> even a good selection (random, or did destiny choose them carefully?) of <strong>monkeys</strong>, who from the rows behind everything were babbling with those who (I imagine in confidence) had not yet finished, at an exaggerated volume and in contemporary.<br>
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Here, now, slowly, the <strong>blood</strong> starts to boil <strong>in my body, as if it were a coffee pot, because with that mess <strong>I can't read</strong> > half of a question <strong>without getting</strong> totally distracted. Even having earphones in my ears (but detached) didn't attenuate the noise enough. <strong>Finish the exam like that</strong>? <strong>Impossible</strong>.</p>
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<h3>I tried</h3>
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<p>Before it was too late, <strong>I tried</strong> to <strong>call the teacher</strong> — who, damn the <em>extreme</em>, was quite <strong>distracted </strong>, because another person at that moment had the same glitch as my previous time (and here I have to: what a shitty backend this platform has, throw it away and rewrite it from scratch, please!! !).<br>
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I wanted to <strong>kindly</strong> tell him to keep all those who had no right to speak in silence, and after a few minutes (to his credit, of his own accord, a moment before he heard me ) blathered something (unconvincing) to tell the audience to calm down. The audience <strong>did not calm down</strong>, and the prof. he was going crazy due to the general problems, unfortunately, so <strong>he could pay little attention</strong> to me.</p>
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<p>The <strong>last time</strong> there was <strong>less mess</strong>. Perhaps because there were fewer wrong individuals, perhaps because I was at the PC in the far corner of the room (which today was not turned on), perhaps because, given that there was an external commissioner, the rules could only be violated without making any noise. I don't know.</p>
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<p>I even decide to <strong>call my father</strong> on the phone, upon arriving here, to tell him to <strong>call</strong> the professor on the phone; maybe this time around <strong>he can understand</strong>. In fact, this time the call for silence was more convincing. Was it?</p>
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<h3>A disaster</h3>
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<p>But, by now, <strong>too late</strong> anyway: my tension has risen too much, <strong>I can't regain</strong> a minimum of <strong>concentration</strong>, forcing myself, after perhaps a good 21 months in which I was able to do without it, scratching myself to convert a minimal part of the mental load (which requires major mental energies to be managed, the same ones that I needed at that moment to complete my session) into skin burning (which, to a certain level, is managed by the brain in the background). What a drag.</p>
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<p>I've already done the <strong>damage</strong>, <em>alas and what the fuck</em>, and it seemed that everything was slowly calming down and concentration could return... but instead No. The <strong>call</strong> of the prof. However, it was <strong>too soft</strong> and <strong>did not stop the bad behavior of that part of the other students, it just put them on hold a bit.</p>
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<h3>The real solution</h3>
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<p><strong>Well</strong>, at this point I simply feel like <strong>throwing a fist</strong> on the desk and "screaming" (not that I know how to do it, but the fist just makes up for the this is useful; <em>I unconsciously learned from another professor of mine</em>) to <strong>be silent</strong>, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to accomplish anything, and... <strong>it worked< /strong>. <em>Oh?...</em><br>
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Yes, <strong>that's all</strong>. I can't say anything else about this moment, it immediately crystallized into goodness. From there, until I finished and was able to leave, not a fly flew again.</p>
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<p>At that point, unfortunately, I had <strong>accumulated</strong> the <strong>irritation</strong> anyway, and it took me <em>hours and hours and <strong>hours</strong> ></em> <strong>to dispose of it</strong>, between doing various random things and writing this article.<br>
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The only thing I can logically <strong>regret</strong> is not having made that bench resonate a few precious minutes before</strong> seriously reaching the limit, given that gentle methods didn't work. Unfortunately or fortunately, damn, it's not <strong>a reflex that arises in me</strong> too often; <strong>only when</strong> I am already <strong>over</strong> that limit, and perhaps I have <strong>already committed other avoidable</strong> damage.</p>
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<hr>
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<p>And yet, that doubt still remains: but <strong>what have I done</strong> that was so bad in the world <strong>to deserve</strong> these things? And let's understand...</p>
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<h2>[:HNotesRefsHTML:]</h2>
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<li id="fn1">
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<p>The <strong>certification</strong>... oh God, even this last one, <strong>not that I care</strong> personally: on my <strong>deathbed I don't</strong> strong> I will certainly be <strong>counting the cards</strong> that I could have but didn't want to get; mainly my parents convinced me, so whatever. (<em>If <strong>even this were to expire</strong> before it can be seriously useful for anything, <strong>I'll be seriously pissed off</strong>, but never mind...</em>) < a href="#fnref1">↩</a></p>
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<li id="fn2">
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<p><strong>It's Google's fault</strong> (GSuite, shit), the <strong>school network</strong> is not recognized as trustworthy and <strong>doesn't let me log in</strong>. That day I couldn't even log in from my smartphone by connecting to my home VPN, for some reason! <strong>I explained the general problem better</strong> in my <strong>article on the Puppy flash drive</strong>, however, so I'll refer you there for those who are interested. <a href="#fnref2">↩</a></p>
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@@ -47,29 +47,29 @@ Once you have chosen the stick, the **choice of distribution** Linux remains, pe
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Here, not only are the popular distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Pop!_OS, Manjaro, ...) too big to fit leaving room for a persistent partition, but they would be unusable due to the slowness of the stick.
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Fortunately, I had a path in mind that I could follow, because, in the past months, out of my curiosity, I had learned something about the world of lightweight Linux distros.
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It was a time when I had just become interested in **[Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}**, for its ideals of **lightness and minimalism**. I even used it on desktop for a few weeks.
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It was responsive and snappy, thanks also to the presence of [musl libc](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musl){[:MdTgtBlank:]} instead of the now bloated [GNU libc](https: //en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glibc){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, but the need to sometimes configure small things by hand, even after the initial installation, led me to move away from it. However, I thought it would be suitable for a system installed on small, slow storage, with few applications.
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I then installed it, including among the essential software (as well as video and audio server): [Window Maker](https://www.windowmaker.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]} (a lightweight window manager), [Firefox](https://firefox.com){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, and minor GUI applications, including: a terminal emulator, a file manager, and a text editor.
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It was a time when I had just become interested in **[Alpine Linux](https://alpinelinux.org)**, for its ideals of **lightness and minimalism**. I even used it on desktop for a few weeks.
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It was responsive and snappy, thanks also to the presence of [musl libc](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musl) instead of the now bloated [GNU libc](https://en.m.wikipedia .org/wiki/Glibc), but the need to sometimes configure small things by hand, even after the initial installation, led me to move away from it. However, I thought it would be suitable for a system installed on small, slow storage, with few applications.
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I then installed it, including among the essential software (as well as video and audio servers): [Window Maker](https://www.windowmaker.org) (a lightweight window manager), [Firefox](https:/ /firefox.com), and smaller GUI applications, including: a terminal emulator, a file manager, and a text editor.
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All in all, it worked well and quickly but, despite the few apps installed, the memory was overflowing. This would give me some problems later: for example, there was no space to put Minecraft and play [SpaccCraft](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/SpaccCraft){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, which which I wanted because it can be useful.
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All in all, it worked well and quickly but, despite the few apps installed, the memory was overflowing. This would give me some problems later: for example, there was no space to put Minecraft and play [SpaccCraft](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/SpaccCraft), which I wanted because it can be useful.
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This - together with the fact that later I thought that, perhaps, encrypting the pen drive would be necessary to protect my data against theft or loss of it, but my attempts to encrypt the already installed system failed - made me stop for a moment to reflect_.
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||||
Since I would have had to reinstall the system anyway, I took the opportunity to **change distribution**.
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Although in the past, when I tried a little something, it had given me some trouble as a persistent system, I decided to give **[Puppy Linux](https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io){[:MdTgtBlank:] a chance }** seriously.
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||||
Although in the past, when I tried a little something, it had given me some trouble as a persistent system, I decided to give **[Puppy Linux](https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io)** a serious chance.
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||||
The base image of the latest version of Puppy (at the time of writing, 9.5) weighs just 400 MB, but includes a fairly complete desktop system in itself, with dozens of preloaded applications for the most varied needs.
|
||||
How can it be so **compact but full of stuff** at the same time? Thanks to the use of [SquashFS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, a read-only compressed file system, which supports extremely efficient compression algorithms such as [ LZ4](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ4_(compression_algorithm)){[:MdTgtBlank:]} and [ZSTD](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstd) {[:MdTgtBlank:]}. In fact, if it were completely decompressed, the image would weigh around 2.5 GB. Even the choice to include **more minimal applications**, however, contributes a lot, if you consider that practically all Linux live CDs use SquashFS, yet those of more traditional distributions weigh several GB.
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||||
How can it be so **compact but full of stuff** at the same time? Thanks to the use of [SquashFS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SquashFS), a read-only compressed file system, which supports extremely efficient compression algorithms such as [LZ4](https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ4_(compression_algorithm)) and [ZSTD](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zstd). In fact, if it were completely decompressed, the image would weigh around 2.5 GB. Even the choice to include **more minimal applications**, however, contributes a lot, if you consider that practically all Linux live CDs use SquashFS, yet those of more traditional distributions weigh several GB.
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### To date
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**Puppy is the distribution that I still have** on the flash drive.
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||||
Except for a few minor problems (like: how the hell do I connect a Bluetooth keyboard??? and well, now I don't need it anymore_), it works very well and is fast in every way.
|
||||
Having set up the [LUKS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup){[:MdTgtBlank:]} encryption on the writable partition, now my data (personal files and browser sessions) are protected against possible accidents.
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The built-in window manager, [JWM](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWM){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, is also very clean and I quite like it - although I wish it had some features window alignment (it seems to have nothing, or am I wrong?).
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||||
Having set up the [LUKS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup) encryption on the writable partition, now my data (personal files and browser sessions) are protected against any accidents.
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The built-in window manager, [JWM](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JWM), is also very clean and I quite like it - although I wish it had some window alignment function (it doesn't seem to has anything, or am I wrong?).
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And now, finally, I have enough free space; and I also have Minecraft!
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_Background credits: [pixelartmaker.com/art/becdd8955dc57eb](http://pixelartmaker.com/art/becdd8955dc57eb){[:MdTgtBlank:]}_
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_Background credits: [pixelartmaker.com/art/becdd8955dc57eb](http://pixelartmaker.com/art/becdd8955dc57eb)_
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### Important benefits
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@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ The reasons, all important advantages, are as follows; some apply to live Linux
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- I have a **system that adapts** to my tastes, that I can carry in my pocket and use **on any PC**, without ever having to reconfigure anything (except, sometimes, the BIOS settings) .
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- The system in question, contrary to what I could find on the vast majority of PCs around (Windows), **respects my freedoms**, and does not end up my data in the hands of a monopolistic corporation which, in exchange , it would give me absolutely nothing: on any PC I use, even those that aren't mine, I remain consistent with my values.
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- The **secrecy** regarding what I do on the PC at that moment is much **more certain**, as is the security of my data: you are only right to be wary of any operating system installed on public PCs, there could be any spy tool installed (and, in fact, this is the case on some of the PCs at school: there is a remote desktop control program designed for schools, [LanSchool](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/LanSchool){[:MdTgtBlank:]}).
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- I have all my **essential data always with me**, whether they are simple documents or open sessions on different apps (like the always convenient [Element](https://element.io){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, for messaging and exchanging notes and small files between my devices).
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- Some **particular software**, such as Minecraft Java (which, apparently, may not work on some Windows PCs, because perhaps the GPU drivers do not work correctly, and Windows does not have the OpenGL emulation software from [Mesa] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)){[:MdTgtBlank:]} at the system level, as opposed to Linux), **should always work**!
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- The **secrecy** regarding what I do on the PC at that moment is much **more certain**, as is the security of my data: you are only right to be wary of any operating system installed on public PCs, there could be any spy tool installed (and, in fact, this is the case on some of the PCs at school: there is a remote desktop control program designed for schools, [LanSchool](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/ wiki/LanSchool)).
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- I have all my **essential data always with me**, whether they are simple documents or open sessions on different apps (like the always convenient [Element](https://element.io), for messaging and exchanging notes and small files between my devices).
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- Some **particular software**, such as Minecraft Java (which, apparently, may not work on some Windows PCs, because perhaps the GPU drivers do not work correctly, and Windows does not have the OpenGL emulation software from [Mesa] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics)) system level, as opposed to Linux), **should always work**!
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- I have an excuse to indirectly remind people that, even in 2022, **USB sticks are relevant**, even ultra-low-end ones.
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### Some insights
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@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ I can conclude by saying: **you too should adopt a persistent Linux stick**, if
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Here are the websites of some distributions that I _didn't_ mention in the text, but which I have tried in the past or think are worth checking out:
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- [SpaccCraftGo](https://github.com/Spacc-Inc/SpaccCraftGo-Images){[:MdTgtBlank:]} - Puppy Linux rebranded by [Spacc Inc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/ Spacc_Inc){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, with the inclusion of SpaccCraft in the system;
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- [Slitaz](https://slitaz.org/en){[:MdTgtBlank:]} - 50 MB live rolling release system;
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- [Porteus](http://porteus.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]} - Modularity-based live distro;
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- [antiX](https://antixlinux.com){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
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- [Slax](https://slax.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
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- [SpaccCraftGo](https://github.com/Spacc-Inc/SpaccCraftGo-Images) - Puppy Linux rebranded from [Spacc Inc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/Spacc_Inc), with the inclusion of SpaccCraft in the system;
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- [Slitaz](https://slitaz.org/en) - 50 MB live rolling release system;
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- [Porteus](http://porteus.org) - Live distro based on modularity;
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- [antiX](https://antixlinux.com)
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- [Slax](https://slax.org)
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### 🏷️ Notes/References
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[^ Update 2022-08-13]: **Update 2022-08-13**: I imported this article from my old blog (<https://noblogo.org/loli-documentatrice/gli-inexpected-vantaggi- of the-linux-key>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}), to preserve it better and to test some things. I took advantage of this to, in addition to improving the formatting, partially change the form of some sentences. The content remains practically the same.
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[^ Update 2022-08-13]: **Update 2022-08-13**: I imported this article from my old blog (<https://noblogo.org/loli-documentatrice/gli-inexpected-vantaggi- of the-linux-key>), to better preserve it and to test some things. I took advantage of this to, in addition to improving the formatting, partially change the form of some sentences. The content remains practically the same.
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ First of all, school started again the day before yesterday for me.
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It's still too early for it to steal my time in the afternoon, but in the morning the story is a bit what it is. Just as the mess when you start again is always the same, with the timetables being messed up and in general still having holidays on your mind.
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Due to these factors, I have a little less time in total to do little things.
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Let's add that, due to a curious need of mine, in the last few days I have had to start programming [yet another new instrument](https://gitlab.com/octospacc/links){[:MdTgtBlank:]}... I'm not starting to blather on about the thing itself, because this section is for everything except my development adventures, but the travails can be told: I started developing on Thursday, and only had a minimal working tool last night.
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Let's add that, due to a curious need of mine, in the last few days I have had to start programming [yet another new tool](https://gitlab.com/octospacc/links)... I won't start babbling about the thing itself, because this section is for everything except my development adventures, but the travails can be told: I started developing on Thursday, and I only had a minimal working tool last night.
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All this, because I wanted to exaggerate with the idea (as usual), and because every afternoon from Thursday to Sunday, until early evening, I was [at the fair](./PicoBlog.html#-2022-09-11 -La-fiera) and, returning home tired, the desire to plan was low.
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To this mix we add another distraction: after 5 years, a new chapter of the Splatoon saga has been released, and therefore there is little to do, you have to play. However, after a brief analysis, I am trying not to play with it too much, to try to sip it as much as possible so as not to consume it immediately.
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Dates = 2022-09-18
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The other day I was, let's say, reminded of the fact that I have a [Nintendo DSpacc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/DSpacc){[:MdTgtBlank:]} in my drawer.
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The other day I was, let's say, reminded of the fact that I have a [Nintendo DSpacc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/DSpacc) in my drawer.
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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ But not because there is only one screen left! It's because...
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The fact is that, also because I had to take a photo for the WikiSpacc article, I took it out the other day. When I see it I regret not using it, but unfortunately there is little that can be done.
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My crazy mind, however, today recalled an idea that, if I were capable of doing these things, maybe it would have even been good... but that's me.
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I thought: what if I soldered a DS flashcart in place of the slot?** I didn't think of this out of nowhere, I saw it some time ago in a modification of the DS made by a person who does these things well . In some videos from a year ago, like [this](https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/2wxKDzUO23c?t=156){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, you can see that this other form of DS has a soldered flashcart on the motherboard.
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I thought: what if I soldered a DS flashcart in place of the slot?** I didn't think of this out of nowhere, I saw it some time ago in a modification of the DS made by a person who does these things well . In some videos from a year ago, like [this](https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/2wxKDzUO23c?t=156), you can see that this other form of DS has a flashcart soldered onto the motherboard.
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I take the screwdriver and bits, and disassemble the console. All OK, I've done this at least 4 times counting just the DS Lite.
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But then, I arm myself with a welder... honestly they should take away my gun license, considering the damage I do.
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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Dates = 2022-09-23
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Since I discovered it a few days ago. I'm trying that epic software that is [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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Since I discovered it a few days ago. I'm trying that epic software that is [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com).
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I initially found it while looking for something to organize notes in a rich format, that I could use for school, and that was obviously free.
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It is a wiki software, practically in the same category as MediaWiki (the software on which Wikipedia is based), but it has very particular characteristics.
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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ First of all, it doesn't need a server, it's an app that works locally... but ho
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If I started using it for the sole limited purpose of school study, but then these days I ended up starting to use it a lot also to create my so-called personal and public knowledge base, on everything I can write to the I fly in a non-linear document format that is very well suited to small, quick interconnected notes... which means it's really interesting.
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I'm a bit sorry to say it, but it's possible that part of the time I would normally dedicate to the ctt site will be taken away from it, to be dedicated to the newly created OcttKB - which, in this regard, is here on <https://kb.octt .eu.org>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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||||
I'm a bit sorry to say it, but it's possible that part of the time I would normally dedicate to the ctt site will be taken away from it, to be dedicated to the newly created OcttKB - which, in this regard, is here on <https://kb.octt .eu.org>.
|
||||
As much as I like everything I have built in recent months, which in fact will continue to live - both as a place in which to express my design style, and as a place in which to publish elaborate and never fragmented content - I must say that I have found a tool which manages to channel some of my thoughts well, those that the CTTT site cannot manage.
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|
||||
I'm not going to explain too much about the technical side of the advantages or disadvantages of TiddlyWiki, because we're talking about a software that is easy to start using, and absolutely very complicated to master (it will take me time!).
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Well, this time I did even worse; to understand the proportions, it is good to b
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The card I mentioned has arrived, the software modification to improve it works, and I'm still exploring it all a bit. I will have time to talk about everything in a long article, which I am already writing (but I don't know how much longer it will take me).
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What is important to talk about now is a problem that arose... I don't even know exactly when, but I only noticed it now: the L back button was causing some problems.
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||||
I saw that pressing key combinations to access the flashcart system menus had no effect. Getting suspicious, I decide to download a homebrew to test the keys, Diagnose (which can be found from [GameBrew.org](https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Diagnose){[:MdTgtBlank:]} [[pag. archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20220818023822/https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Diagnose){[:MdTgtBlank:]}]), and I actually confirm that the L button does not respond to the inputs.
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||||
I saw that pressing key combinations to access the flashcart system menus had no effect. Getting suspicious, I decide to download a homebrew to test the keys, Diagnose (which can be found from [GameBrew.org](https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Diagnose) [[archived page](https:// web.archive.org/web/20220818023822/https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Diagnose)]), and I actually confirm that the L button does not respond to inputs.
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On Nlhlehde's chat they advise me to soak the button in alcohol to clean it, and then give it some exercise - or, if I wanted to repair it correctly, unsolder the button and put a new one on.
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At that moment I get bored of opening the console, but I see that two minutes of exercise magically makes the button work again. The operating state, in reality, lasts just a few minutes, and was questionable at the time: on average, 1 click out of 3 was recorded.
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@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ Aliases = [
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"/Categories/Blog.html",
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]
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+++
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{{< noticeAutomaticTranslation it >}}
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@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ Lastmod = 2023-10-17
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Rightly, coming here, whether or not you have read the general information on the site on [Home](./index.html), you will be wondering who I am.
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I am Oct. Yes, that's right, Octt from which sitoctt, my site, takes its name.
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_Octt_ is pronounced "òctt" - [like sitoctt, but without "sit"]({{< assetsRoot >}}/Media/sitoctt-pronunciation.flac){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
|
||||
I am the webmaster of this place. Or, perhaps, [webmistress](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/webmistress){[:MdTgtBlank:]} would be more correct, too bad that people who even know about the existence of this word count on fingers of a severed hand.
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_Octt_ is pronounced "òctt" - [like sitoctt, but without "sit"]({{< assetsRoot >}}/Media/sitoctt-pronunciation.flac).
|
||||
I am the webmaster of this place. Or, perhaps, [webmistress](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/webmistress) would be more correct, too bad that the number of people who even know about the existence of this word can be counted on the fingers of one severed hand.
|
||||
|
||||
Okay, I understood that there was a need for this site in the world <small>(but when ever??)</small>, I imagined the site, I started building the site, I put in place strategies to simplify my creation of the site <small>(eee, what big words, I wrote a little program in Python)</small>, and here is the result.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -25,9 +25,9 @@ Okay, I understood that there was a need for this site in the world <small>(but
|
||||
|
||||
Well, first of all I make this site. I write things, whether they are useless rivers of words in the human language, or little magic words that your computer interprets to display these pages in their most glorious form.
|
||||
|
||||
I am the Goddess and loli of [Spacc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/Spacc){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, and CEO of [Spacc Inc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/ wiki/Spacc_Inc){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, and sysadmin of the [Spacc BBS](https://bbs.spacc.eu.org). In this regard, destructive responsibilities rest on my shoulders... but I leave the links to follow to understand, I'm not talking about Spacc here.
|
||||
I am the Goddess and loli of [Spacc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/Spacc), as well as CEO of [Spacc Inc](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/Spacc_Inc), and sysadmin of [Spacc BBS](https://bbs.spacc.eu.org). In this regard, destructive responsibilities rest on my shoulders... but I leave the links to follow to understand, I'm not talking about Spacc here.
|
||||
|
||||
Then, as much as I try to spend as little time as possible on it, I have my server to administer when things break or something needs to be updated, otherwise who will take care of the whole thing? Between server software for different uses, including web ones, various bots for different platforms, [SpaccCraft](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/SpaccCraft){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, and some other stuff that I now I hate to remember, it's beastly stuff, even if at least today I don't have the difficulty of using too much makeshift hardware.
|
||||
Then, as much as I try to spend as little time as possible on it, I have my server to administer when things break or something needs to be updated, otherwise who will take care of the whole thing? Between server software for different uses, including web ones, various bots for different platforms, [SpaccCraft](https://wikispacc.miraheze.org/wiki/SpaccCraft), and some other stuff that I'm now bored of remembering, it's a beastly, even if at least today I don't have the difficulty of using too much makeshift hardware.
|
||||
|
||||
Unfortunately now I often don't find the right time to spend on the Fediverse, as I used to do there before writing and sharing stuff, on the various different nice free platforms.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -59,19 +59,19 @@ Oh, and I also still have to go to school... no, university they tell me now, I
|
||||
|
||||
You can find me on the Fediverse, at my favorite contacts that I leave below.
|
||||
|
||||
- <b style="Color:#FFA020;">Friendica</b>: [@octt@poliverso.org](https://poliverso.org/profile/octt){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- <b style="Color:#3088D4;">Mastodon</b>: [@octo@mastodon.uno](https://mastodon.uno/@octo){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- <b style="Color:#2D2D2D;">Matrix</b>: [@octt:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/@octt:matrix.org){[:MdTgtBlank: ]}
|
||||
- <b style="Color:#FFA020;">Friendica</b>: [@octt@poliverso.org](https://poliverso.org/profile/octt)
|
||||
- <b style="Color:#3088D4;">Mastodon</b>: [@octo@mastodon.uno](https://mastodon.uno/@octo)
|
||||
- <b style="Color:#2D2D2D;">Matrix</b>: [@octt:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/@octt:matrix.org)
|
||||
- There were also my ActivityPub instances here, but then [**incidents**] happened(../Posts/2023-01-28-Problemi-Hardware-Diventano-Mentali).
|
||||
|
||||
<!--
|
||||
- ~~<b style="Color:#60C000/*#7FE600*/;">Misskey</b>[:SelfhostLineBadge:]: [@octt@miss.octt.eu.org](https://miss .octt.eu.org/@octt){[:MdTgtBlank:]}~~
|
||||
- ~~<b style="Color:#DF8958;">GoToSocial</b>[:SelfhostLineBadge:]: [@octt@godo.octt.eu.org](https://godo.octt.eu.org /@octt){[:MdTgtBlank:]}~~
|
||||
- ~~<b style="Color:#60C000/*#7FE600*/;">Misskey</b>[:SelfhostLineBadge:]: [@octt@miss.octt.eu.org](https://miss .octt.eu.org/@octt)~~
|
||||
- ~~<b style="Color:#DF8958;">GoToSocial</b>[:SelfhostLineBadge:]: [@octt@godo.octt.eu.org](https://godo.octt.eu.org /@octt)~~
|
||||
-->
|
||||
|
||||
### Cryptography, proofs, and other profiles
|
||||
|
||||
I finally decided to set up a cryptographic profile compatible with <b style="Color:#56479E;">Keyoxide</b>, a very nice tool for creating decentralized online identity verifications. Here it is: <https://keyoxide.org/hkp/cfa2a09ce568f17e479d31ad42c0ed2ca5df2af0>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
|
||||
I finally decided to set up a cryptographic profile compatible with <b style="Color:#56479E;">Keyoxide</b>, a very nice tool for creating decentralized online identity verifications. Here it is: <https://keyoxide.org/hkp/cfa2a09ce568f17e479d31ad42c0ed2ca5df2af0>.
|
||||
|
||||
By visiting it, in addition to simply being able to access links to some of my other online profiles, it is possible to have cryptographic proof of the fact that any given account belongs to me, and not to any _sus impostor_.
|
||||
It is also possible to take my public PGP key, or use the convenient interface of the app (web or otherwise), to reliably encrypt secret messages to send to me.
|
||||
@@ -86,4 +86,4 @@ Here on the site, however, I have not yet had clear enough ideas, nor the necess
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
_I? Cutie. Absolutely indisputable._
|
||||
_You? Meh, maybe.. I think???_
|
||||
_You? Meh, maybe.. I think???_
|
||||
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Open my Coindrop page to see the cryptocurrencies I accept and their addresses:
|
||||
_Note: Coindrop requires (free) JavaScript code to run. It's a problem that needs to be solved somehow, in my opinion, but for now this is it._
|
||||
|
||||
_Note: ETH is listed for completeness, but the Ethereum network sucks and is unusable for fees; However, donations on the Binance network for that address are welcome._
|
||||
Should I accept other currencies in the future, for example I would be interested in trying [Nano](https://nano.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, which claims to have a low environmental impact.
|
||||
Should I accept other currencies in the future, for example I would be interested in trying [Nano](https://nano.org), which claims to have a low environmental impact.
|
||||
|
||||
If you really want, you can choose to install, on your machines, mining software for the cryptocurrency you would like to donate to me, setting the program to send payments to my address. By following this path, you don't even need a wallet for the currency in question, and you will simply use your electricity to get the money to donate to me.
|
||||
Bear in mind that I haven't been interested in mining for a while, so I don't know which programs to recommend, I would tell you to ask more experienced people. But please don't create a mining farm fueled by dead dinosaurs, oil, methane gas, I have no idea, just to donate to me (or, actually, don't do it in general, please)! The best would be to use a [Rasperino Solare](./Posts/2022-06-23-0000-Rasperino-Solare-ed-Altri-Esperimenti-Andati-a-Male.html), if you can.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -14,12 +14,12 @@ _Under construction..._
|
||||
|
||||
- <span><h3>Macross 82-99</h3></span>
|
||||
Mainly music from the future-funk genre, a subgenre of vaporwave with a more rhythmic and nicer tone. Each album has different sound themes, with references to Japanese pop culture of the 80s and 90s. More or less all of his songs manage to be very calm and relaxing.
|
||||
• [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/macross-82-99){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYIQZpv7Jv9GImzgknNZNPA){[:MdTgtBlank: ]}, [Bandcamp](https://macross82-99.bandcamp.com/music){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/macross-82-99 -01-meeting-point){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
• [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/macross-82-99), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYIQZpv7Jv9GImzgknNZNPA), [Bandcamp](https://macross82-99 .bandcamp.com/music), [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/macross-82-99-01-meeting-point)
|
||||
|
||||
- <span><h3>Moe Shop</h3></span>
|
||||
Mostly lively songs, with an anime atmosphere, so to speak. I think the album covers go very well with his music. Some of his pieces have less playful sounds and characteristics closer to more common types of electronic music, but I still manage to appreciate them a lot.
|
||||
• [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/moeshop){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [YouTube](https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/channel/UCcKTRoHPP2hPaom63QGaiBw){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [ Bandcamp](https://moeshop.bandcamp.com/music){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/Moe-Shop-Full-Discography){[: MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
• [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/moeshop), [YouTube](https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/channel/UCcKTRoHPP2hPaom63QGaiBw), [Bandcamp](https://moeshop.bandcamp.com/music ), [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/Moe-Shop-Full-Discography)
|
||||
|
||||
- <span><h3>Ujico / Snail's House</h3></span>
|
||||
I knew they were the same person, but I didn't know that "Ujico" and "Snail's House" were actually characters with different identities<sup>[[?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail's_House #History){[:MdTgtBlank:]}]</sup> regarding the musical composition. I was initially introduced to his music, at least some of it future-bass, made under the name Snail's House. There you can see his current style, whose kawaii electronic sounds I have always liked. Later, I discovered his previous albums, which in terms of expressiveness are oriented more towards the complex of the music itself, and not the small details. Two very different ways of creating a genre of music, with different settings, but both with the same magnificent personal tone.
|
||||
• [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/ujico){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxBY8mhJ7R2rMIcQ28H_Zw){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [ Bandcamp](https://0101.bandcamp.com/music){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/ujico-snails-house-full-discography){ [:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
I knew they were the same person, but I didn't know that "Ujico" and "Snail's House" were actually characters with different identities<sup>[[?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail's_House #History)]</sup> regarding the musical composition. I was initially introduced to his music, at least some of it future-bass, made under the name Snail's House. There you can see his current style, whose kawaii electronic sounds I have always liked. Later, I discovered his previous albums, which in terms of expressiveness are oriented more towards the complex of the music itself, and not the small details. Two very different ways of creating a genre of music, with different settings, but both with the same magnificent personal tone.
|
||||
• [SoundCloud](https://soundcloud.com/ujico), [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYxBY8mhJ7R2rMIcQ28H_Zw), [Bandcamp](https://0101.bandcamp.com/music ), [Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/ujico-snails-house-full-discography)
|
||||
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Aliases = [
|
||||
"/Collections/Internet/Collection-Internet-Sites.html",
|
||||
]
|
||||
Categories = [ "Internet" ]
|
||||
Lastmod = 2022-10-20
|
||||
Lastmod = 2024-08-28
|
||||
+++
|
||||
|
||||
{{< noticeAutomaticTranslation it >}}
|
||||
@@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ The country flags (emoji, perhaps not visible on older browsers) next to the nam
|
||||
|
||||
<div markdown="1" id="SitesList" class="NoImgCenter NoLinkLink ImgShiftedH Pixelated">
|
||||
|
||||
<marquee markdown="1">
|
||||
<!-- <marquee markdown="1">
|
||||
|
||||
[](#-Il-mio)
|
||||
[](#-s-a-1)
|
||||
[](#-s-a-2)
|
||||
@@ -26,7 +27,9 @@ The country flags (emoji, perhaps not visible on older browsers) next to the nam
|
||||
[](#-s-a-4)
|
||||
[](#-s-a-5)
|
||||
[](#-s-a-6)
|
||||
</marquee>
|
||||
|
||||
</marquee> -->
|
||||
|
||||
_These above are the sites in the list that have an 88x31 button. Do you also want the privilege of being at the top? So go ahead and draw this little picture, come on!_
|
||||
|
||||
## My..
|
||||
@@ -37,17 +40,17 @@ Below are the HTML codes that you can copy and paste.
|
||||
|
||||
Text link:
|
||||
✨sitoctt✨
|
||||
<pre class="CodeScroll"><code>
|
||||
```html
|
||||
<a
|
||||
href="https://sitoctt.octt.eu.org"
|
||||
target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow"
|
||||
>✨sitoctt✨</a>
|
||||
</code></pre>
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
Link with image _(Note: it would be better if you download the image and upload it back to your server, changing the URL in the code accordingly, rather than using my URL)_:
|
||||
|
||||
_The image is in PNG format and already compressed as much as possible.[^PNG Lossless Compression Commands]_
|
||||
<pre class="CodeScroll"><code>
|
||||
```html
|
||||
<a
|
||||
href="https://sitoctt.octt.eu.org"
|
||||
target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow"
|
||||
@@ -55,94 +58,100 @@ _The image is in PNG format and already compressed as much as possible.[^PNG Los
|
||||
style="image-rendering:pixelated; -ms-interpolation-mode:nearest-neighbor;"
|
||||
alt="✨sitoctt✨" title="✨sitoctt✨"
|
||||
src="https://octtspacc.gitlab.io/sitoctt-assets/Media/Buttons/Sites/sitoctt-1.png"
|
||||
></a>
|
||||
</code></pre>
|
||||
/></a>
|
||||
```
|
||||
|
||||
## Personal
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 Ledomsoft**
|
||||
Site resurrected from the author's archives from more than a decade ago, programmed as it was done back in the day. Nice colorful with GIFs and all, but moderate, not without restraint.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [ledomsoft.com](https://ledomsoft.com){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
- **🇮🇹 Arcisito**
|
||||
|
||||
As you can read from the site name and domain, it is the Arci (or also Aurora) site. She set it up today (2022-06-30), after she said she didn't know what to do with all the summer free time, and I said "be an Archsite".
|
||||
• Clearweb: [arci.me](https://arci.me) <!-- [auroraviola.eu.org](https://auroraviola.eu.org) -->
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧️ Gianmarco Gargiulo**
|
||||
|
||||
Site with a modern layout, but decidedly creative design, with an artistic side well expressed in the illustrations. The home page serves as a list of the content archive, and the different types are illustrated in the most appropriate format. Very Linux and free software focused, but the drawings and photos look great.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [gianmarco.gg](https://gianmarco.gg)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 Thushi's lair**
|
||||
Ultra-minimal site, no graphics (:'c), but nice (3) color scheme and nice content.
|
||||
• Onion web: [m4vojazxsxvaxfoeklmq6na546fd5hjyo3zrgeq45cixdfm6kodkhdid.onion](http://m4vojazxsxvaxfoeklmq6na546fd5hjyo3zrgeq45cixdfm6kodkhdid.onion){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇮🇹 Arcisito**
|
||||
As you can read from the site name and domain, it is the Arci (or also Aurora) site. She set it up today (2022-06-30), after she said she didn't know what to do with all the summer free time, and I said "be an Archsite".
|
||||
• Clearweb: [arci.me](https://arci.me){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]} <!-- [auroraviola.eu.org](https://auroraviola.eu.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw :]} -->
|
||||
• Onion web: [m4vojazxsxvaxfoeklmq6na546fd5hjyo3zrgeq45cixdfm6kodkhdid.onion](http://m4vojazxsxvaxfoeklmq6na546fd5hjyo3zrgeq45cixdfm6kodkhdid.onion)
|
||||
|
||||
- <b id="-s-a-1">🇬🇧 🇮🇹 astral town</b>
|
||||
|
||||
Colorful and welcoming site, well there's nothing else to say.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [astral.town](https://astral.town){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [astral.town](https://astral.town)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇮🇹 Ribby's Workshop**
|
||||
The theme of this site really gives me a workshop feel, so to speak. Few frills but it has its own style, and its division into categories was a partial inspiration for what I have on my site now.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [officinadiribby.altervista.org](https://officinadiribby.altervista.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [officinadiribby.altervista.org](https://officinadiribby.altervista.org)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 daedalOS**
|
||||
Modern web document viewers (browsers) are an excessive platform, where absurd things can be done. Like a real (free) **operating system**, created by _Dustin Brett_, for portfolio. **Madness**.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [dustinbrett.com](https://dustinbrett.com){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [dustinbrett.com](https://dustinbrett.com)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 Fra/Website**
|
||||
More than a site, a JavaScript demo with a list of links and stuff, but it's unique. I won't say anything else, better to see for yourself!
|
||||
• Clearweb: [francescomasala.me](https://francescomasala.me){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [francescomasala.me](https://francescomasala.me)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 🇮🇹 Tassoman's homepage**
|
||||
Just a main page and not much other stuff, but just the idea of the site is an experience.. **interesting**. The only site I've seen so far that uses a precise Apache configuration, with the exact purpose of slowing the site down to speeds of 14.4 kbps!
|
||||
• Clearweb: [tassoman.com](https://tassoman.com){.tassoman [:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [tassoman.com](https://tassoman.com){.tassoman}
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 Ledomsoft**
|
||||
Site resurrected from the author's archives from more than a decade ago, programmed as it was done back in the day. Nice colorful with GIFs and all, but moderate, not without restraint.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [ledomsoft.com](https://ledomsoft.com)
|
||||
|
||||
- <b id="-s-a-2">🇬🇧 Dante Scanline</b>
|
||||
|
||||
Site of an artist who seems to make stuff in the style of 90s-2000s PC games, like Quake but not only. The images of pixelated 3D environments are very beautiful.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [dantescanline.com](https://dantescanline.com){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [dantescanline.com](https://dantescanline.com)
|
||||
|
||||
- <b id="-s-a-3">🇬🇧 2Bit</b>
|
||||
|
||||
I believe it is the only non-textual website that can be navigated on Kindle (almost) exactly like on a PC. As the name itself says, everything on this web space is a tribute to the 2-bit era, and it achieves this with the contents, but it starts with the form: all the graphics (and there are a lot of them) are strictly in 4 colours!
|
||||
• Clearweb: [2bit.neocities.org](https://2bit.neocities.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [2bit.neocities.org](https://2bit.neocities.org)
|
||||
|
||||
- <b id="-s-a-4">🇬🇧 neonaut</b>
|
||||
|
||||
Personal site with colorful flat graphics, which however also seems to be a metasite about Neocities and a part of its culture, containing some information about that universe.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [neonaut.neocities.org](https://neonaut.neocities.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [neonaut.neocities.org](https://neonaut.neocities.org)
|
||||
|
||||
## Miscellaneous
|
||||
|
||||
- <b id="-s-a-5">🇬🇧 The Yesterweb</b>
|
||||
|
||||
Collective site that refers, conceptually and visually, to the Web of days gone by and its best sides, to which it promotes returning.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [yesterweb.org](https://yesterweb.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [yesterweb.org](https://yesterweb.org)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 XXIIVV**
|
||||
I don't really understand what this site is, what it is for, who manages it, and everything else. But it has nice graphics and I like it.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [xxiivv.com](https://xxiivv.com){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [xxiivv.com](https://xxiivv.com)
|
||||
|
||||
- <b id="-s-a-6">🇬🇧 OpenBooks</b>
|
||||
|
||||
Movement, and library of sites and resources, which promotes a modern rebirth of the personal Web. The site even has nice graphics.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [openbooks.neocities.org](https://openbooks.neocities.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [openbooks.neocities.org](https://openbooks.neocities.org)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 LOW-TECH MAGAZINE**
|
||||
This site periodically publishes articles about the world of low-scale technology, to explore how forgotten technologies of the past can prove not only useful today, but also more suitable than modern solutions for some situations.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [lowtechmagazine.com](https://lowtechmagazine.com){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [lowtechmagazine.com](https://lowtechmagazine.com)
|
||||
In addition to the main version, which appears like a very common blog, there is also a _more low-tech_ version. This, residing on a server powered by solar energy, aims to drastically reduce the energy consumption necessary to access the contents; and on a technical level, the optimizations implemented are decidedly interesting!
|
||||
• Clearweb: [solar.lowtechmagazine.com](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [solar.lowtechmagazine.com](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
|
||||
|
||||
## Culture
|
||||
|
||||
- **🏳️🌈 EverybodyWiki**
|
||||
A wiki open to anyone who wants to create articles on any topic, and without the stringent standards of more serious collaborative encyclopedias like Wikipedia: there are no standards of quality, nor of usefulness, as I understand it. Precisely because of the very smooth rules, I don't know how much it can be a reference point for anything, but it's an interesting concept. It is divided into subwikis for different languages, and also attempts to preserve articles marked for deletion from Wikipedia.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [🇬🇧 en.everybodywiki.com](https://en.everybodywiki.com/Everybodywiki:Welcome){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [🇬🇧 en.everybodywiki.com](https://en.everybodywiki.com/Everybodywiki:Welcome)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇬🇧 FEMICOM Museum**
|
||||
A virtual museum dedicated to illustrating those rare computer and videogame contents that make feminine, colorful and kawaii aesthetics and experiences their key point. Unfortunately, not all the pages are filled, but what little there is is nice!
|
||||
• Clearweb: [femicom.org](http://femicom.org){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [femicom.org](http://femicom.org)
|
||||
|
||||
- **🇷🇺 🇬🇧 Encyclopedia Game Boy Advance**
|
||||
It's a nice site that I found by chance, which collects various information on the Game Boy Advance from different points of view. It is well organized and has many photos to support the textual material. It is available in English, but the main Russian version has much more content.
|
||||
• Clearweb: [🇷🇺 gbasp.ru](https://gbasp.ru){[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}, [🇬🇧 en.gbasp.ru](https://en.gbasp.ru){[: MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Clearweb: [🇷🇺 gbasp.ru](https://gbasp.ru), [🇬🇧 en.gbasp.ru](https://en.gbasp.ru)
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -150,9 +159,9 @@ It's a nice site that I found by chance, which collects various information on t
|
||||
|
||||
<marquee><i>But, oh you people who are silly, damn, don't put important text in the infernal <marquee> tag, which can't be read and gives you a headache!</i></marquee>
|
||||
|
||||
## [:HNotesRefsHTML:]
|
||||
## {{% i18n notes-refs %}}
|
||||
|
||||
[^Lossless PNG Compression Commands]: The best way to reduce PNG images to the smallest possible size, without losing even a single pixel of quality, is to use these two commands together (keeping in mind to evaluate on a case-by-case basis, as images already very small can actually in certain cases be inflated by one or the other command):
|
||||
<code markdown="1">
|
||||
[pngcrush](https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush){[:MdTgtBlank:]} -brute -reduce IN.PNG OUT.PNG;
|
||||
[pngquant](https://pngquant.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]} -v --strip --speed=1 --quality=100-100 -o OUT.PNG IN.PNG</code>
|
||||
[pngcrush](https://pmt.sourceforge.io/pngcrush) -brute -reduce IN.PNG OUT.PNG;
|
||||
[pngquant](https://pngquant.org) -v --strip --speed=1 --quality=100-100 -o OUT.PNG IN.PNG</code>
|
||||
@@ -40,16 +40,16 @@ h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { color: #e090e0; }
|
||||
|
||||
The official implementation of the game is open source, which has led to the creation of many clones and modified versions that implement the most varied mechanics.
|
||||
|
||||
...**WIP**... If you want to find out more about the game, read on [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/2048_(videogame)){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
|
||||
...**WIP**... If you want to find out more about the game, read on [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/2048_(videogame)).
|
||||
|
||||
## Implementations
|
||||
|
||||
* **Official** (Gabriele Cirulli): [Web](https://play2048.co/){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, [Git](https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048){[ :MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* **Official** (Gabriele Cirulli): [Web](https://play2048.co/), [Git](https://github.com/gabrielecirulli/2048)
|
||||
|
||||
## Clones
|
||||
|
||||
* **2248**: [Web](https://2248game.com/){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* **2248**: [Web](https://2248game.com/)
|
||||
|
||||
## [:HNotesRefsHtml:]
|
||||
## {{% i18n notes-refs %}}
|
||||
|
||||
[^PageBg]: **Page Background**: [Source](https://yandex.com/games/app/176908){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
[^PageBg]: **Page Background**: [Source](https://yandex.com/games/app/176908)
|
||||
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ I believe Minecraft can be defined as **the** modern game (for better or worse)
|
||||
|
||||
At first it's making "houses" that are 4x4 holes under the ground, but later it becomes creating titanic installations, purely aesthetic or even totally functional - let's not forget that Minecraft, with its redstone, is Turing-complete. And in the end? Well, it will never come to an end...
|
||||
|
||||
...WIP. For other information that is not totally subjective, for now there is [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/Minecraft){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
|
||||
...WIP. For other information that is not totally subjective, for now there is [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/Minecraft).
|
||||
|
||||
## My story
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ I discovered Minecraft when I was maybe 7 years old, because another kid had it
|
||||
It was difficult to get the application, for reasons relating to my general use of Android at the time, but I finally managed to get it on my Galaxy Player, and then on my break-in tablet. At first I had the demo, needless to say it wasn't good because progress couldn't be saved upon exit, and so playing was pointless. Then, somehow that I don't even remember, I managed to find the APK of the full version.
|
||||
|
||||
From there, every hour of play was a new discovery, or a new self-imposed goal accomplished. I started building strange buildings that were difficult to navigate, with intricate passages, that if I wanted to do today I wouldn't even know where to start.
|
||||
Due to a whole series of events, I lost the worlds I had on the tablet (which were nothing special, in fact I don't even remember them well), but those of the Galaxy Player are still there today. Here are some photos of what was my major at the time: <https://pixelfed.uno/p/octo/299639948389257216>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
|
||||
Due to a whole series of events, I lost the worlds I had on the tablet (which were nothing special, in fact I don't even remember them well), but those of the Galaxy Player are still there today. Here are some photos of what was my major at the time: <https://pixelfed.uno/p/octo/299639948389257216>.
|
||||
|
||||
Shortly afterwards I learned, thanks to an application that I don't remember whether I discovered it by chance on Google Play or was recommended to me, of the existence of thematic maps created and shared by other players online. I lost some time on them, especially on the parkour ones: with the touch controls (and at the time no crouching!) they quickly became torture, but when you manage to make the difficult jumps and move forward it's always nice.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ Then there were other things in between, between MCPE becoming Bedrock Edition,
|
||||
|
||||
Now there are alternating months in which I open Minecraft almost every day, and others (definitely more frequent) in which I completely forget that it exists. Almost 3 years ago SpaccCraft was born - the third edition, if we want to be honest towards those other two worlds in which we exaggerated a little too much and did **literally** smash, but basically we have to since "SpaccCraft" it comes right from there - and now that too has declined. The server works, but it runs practically empty, no one plays and I can't complain too much about it, as first of all I don't find the time to do it.
|
||||
|
||||
Take a look at [the SpaccCraft site](https://spacccraft.altervista.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, there's a bit more concrete stuff to see, and a few ruminations about my whole life .
|
||||
Take a look at [the SpaccCraft website](https://spacccraft.altervista.org), there's a bit more concrete stuff to see, and a few ruminations about my whole life.
|
||||
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ This is all absurd if you consider what stuff we're talking about:
|
||||
|
||||
* A game belonging to a distant era in which the concept of "gamification" was alien to everyone, and free-to-play video games were truly free: **not** built specifically to create addiction or pressure on players, as in-app purchases didn't exist.
|
||||
|
||||
Personally, I also call the minefield "**minesweeper**", to joke about an incorrect pseudo-literal translation of the word "minesweeper" (literally but correctly "[minesweeper](https://it.wikipedia.org/Minesweeper) {[:MdTgtBlank:]}") in Italian. At certain moments, in an instant it becomes "**minasp<span style="border: 2px dotted yellow;">i</span>azzante**", when it puts you in front of strange crossroads or intricate bomb placement schemes.
|
||||
Personally, I also call the minefield "**minesweeper**", to joke about an incorrect pseudo-literal translation of the word "minesweeper" (literally but correctly "[minesweeper](https://it.wikipedia.org/Minesweeper) ") in Italian. At certain moments, in an instant it becomes "**minasp<span style="border: 2px dotted yellow;">i</span>azzante**", when it puts you in front of strange crossroads or intricate bomb placement schemes.
|
||||
|
||||
But, if these are all things that even a third party observer can notice, this apparently simple and office pastime hides much more. Minesweeper somehow manages to offer emotions that, again due to the objective circumstances, are difficult to communicate to the world.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -58,15 +58,15 @@ By accumulating that single or double daily batch over the weeks, months, and ye
|
||||
|
||||
Paraphrasing what [a PCGamesN author] writes (https://www.pcgamesn.com/minesweeper/get-free): **Minesweeper is one of the purest forms of digital escapism** that you can experience, because it is the practical demonstration of how a game, to be deeply immersive, does not have a vital need for a detailed _open world_, elaborate narrative, or characters to become attached to.
|
||||
|
||||
<p markdown="1" style="background: #fde; padding: 0.5em;">...Sorry, there's work in progress on this page, I'm setting mines around to troll the next people who come here to read and they will stumble upon a few words... if in the meantime you want to learn how to play read [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/Campo_minato_(videogioco)){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, go ahead... </p>
|
||||
<p markdown="1" style="background: #fde; padding: 0.5em;">...Sorry, there's work in progress on this page, I'm setting mines around to troll the next people who come here to read and they will stumble upon a few words... if in the meantime you want to learn how to play read [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/Campo_minato_(videogioco)), go ahead...</p>
|
||||
|
||||
## Curiosity
|
||||
|
||||
<div class="Minesweeper Locker"></div>
|
||||
|
||||
* In the 90s, **even at Microsoft** everyone was [obsessed with Minesweeper, especially Bill Gates](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/how-bill-gates-minesweeper-addiction-helped -lead-to-the-xbox){[:MdTgtBlank:]}. I would say that it is not difficult to see how...
|
||||
* In the 90s, **even at Microsoft** everyone was [obsessed with Minesweeper, especially Bill Gates](https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/how-bill-gates-minesweeper-addiction-helped -lead-to-the-xbox). I would say that it is not difficult to see how...
|
||||
|
||||
* In 1999, following complaints from a certain Sergio Chiodo (??), who argued that the concept of the minefield game was offensive to the victims of real anti-personnel mines in the world, the [International Campaign for the banning of Campo Minato](http://fc.retecivica.milano.it/rcmweb/fnm/princ.htm#italiano){[:MdTgtBlank:]}. Microsoft partially buckled under the pressure, and in Windows Me and 2000 replaced the bombs in the game with flowers, and renamed the game "Meadow of Flowers".[^Regional_Differences]
|
||||
* In 1999, following complaints from a certain Sergio Chiodo (??), who argued that the concept of the minefield game was offensive to the victims of real anti-personnel mines in the world, the [International Campaign for the banning of Campo Minato](http://fc.retecivica.milano.it/rcmweb/fnm/princ.htm#italiano). Microsoft partially buckled under the pressure, and in Windows Me and 2000 replaced the bombs in the game with flowers, and renamed the game "Meadow of Flowers".[^Regional_Differences]
|
||||
|
||||
* The campaign only caught on to a limited extent outside Italy (?), and only with Windows Vista did the concept of the meadow of flowers game become global. Microsoft has given the possibility to change the game included in the system between mine theme and flower theme, a setting which has a different default value based on the country.[^Windows_Vista_and_Windows_7]
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -75,24 +75,24 @@ Paraphrasing what [a PCGamesN author] writes (https://www.pcgamesn.com/minesweep
|
||||
<div class="ListNoInMargin" markdown="1">
|
||||
|
||||
* For **PC**, the **Microsoft original** isn't too bad. The **Windows** XP version works on the latest versions of the system, and even on **Wine**. Unfortunately, it scales a little poorly on high-resolution screens, as the squares are a fixed size and there is no zoom. It hasn't been included in Windows for years, perhaps for this reason, but it can be downloaded from the Web:
|
||||
* Global XP Version: [Minesweeper.exe](https://archive.org/download/Minesweeper_201811/Minesweeper.exe){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* Italian XP version: [Prato Fiorito.exe](https://archive.org/download/prato-fiorito/PRATO_FIORITO.exe){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* Global XP Version: [Minesweeper.exe](https://archive.org/download/Minesweeper_201811/Minesweeper.exe)
|
||||
* Italian XP version: [Prato Fiorito.exe](https://archive.org/download/prato-fiorito/PRATO_FIORITO.exe)
|
||||
|
||||
* On **Android**, and I dare say in general, the best implementation I've found is **Antimine**.
|
||||
* Download from F-Droid: [dev.lucanlm.antimine](https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.lucanlm.antimine){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* Source Code: [antimine-android](https://github.com/lucasnlm/antimine-android){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* Download from F-Droid: [dev.lucanlm.antimine](https://f-droid.org/packages/dev.lucanlm.antimine)
|
||||
* Source Code: [antimine-android](https://github.com/lucasnlm/antimine-android)
|
||||
|
||||
* To play from **Web browser**, well, on this page I'm putting together something that for my personal tastes is the best available. It works well on both desktop and mobile (although the time you have to hold down a dial to plant a flag is long there), and has minimal graphics.
|
||||
I'm working on making the game customizable, for the moment you can only play with what I've implemented as a minigame to unlock reading the [Curiosities](#-Curiosities) section (if you don't see anything, activate JavaScript!).
|
||||
**Note**: My implementation is based on [vue-minesweeper](https://github.com/antfu/vue-minesweeper){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, with some personal modifications for embedding. All my modified code is [in the sitoctt repository](https://gitlab.com/octtspacc/sitoctt/-/tree/main/Assets/vuesweeper-core){[:MdTgtBlank:]} (MIT license).
|
||||
**Note**: My implementation is based on [vue-minesweeper](https://github.com/antfu/vue-minesweeper), with some personal modifications for embedding. All my modified code is [in the sitoctt repository](https://gitlab.com/octtspacc/sitoctt/-/tree/main/Assets/vuesweeper-core) (MIT license).
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
|
||||
## Similar and Clones
|
||||
|
||||
* [Bullets](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/21561/21310){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, Playable minefield on paper.
|
||||
* [Bullets](https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/21561/21310), Minefield playable on paper.
|
||||
|
||||
* [Kaboom](https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, a "_cruel but honest_" Minesweeper:
|
||||
* [Kaboom](https://pwmarcz.pl/blog/kaboom), a "_cruel but honest_" Minesweeper:
|
||||
* The **placement of mines** is not **chosen** once and for all at the beginning, but **with each move**.
|
||||
* When you are in a situation of guessing (there are no adjacent cells proven to be safe), you have a 100% chance of surviving.
|
||||
* When you don't have to guess, and you do, the game chooses the worst possible outcome.
|
||||
@@ -101,14 +101,14 @@ I'm working on making the game customizable, for the moment you can only play wi
|
||||
|
||||
## Other Resources
|
||||
|
||||
* [Authoritative Minesweeper](https://minesweepergame.com){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* [Authoritative Minesweeper](https://minesweepergame.com)
|
||||
|
||||
* [Minesweeper is one of the purest gaming experiences](https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/11i6zqy/minesweeper_is_one_of_the_purest_gaming/){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
* [Minesweeper is one of the purest gaming experiences](https://old.reddit.com/r/patientgamers/comments/11i6zqy/minesweeper_is_one_of_the_purest_gaming/)
|
||||
|
||||
## [:HNotesRefsHtml:]
|
||||
## {{% i18n notes-refs %}}
|
||||
|
||||
[^Regional_Differences]: <https://tcrf.net/Minesweeper_(Windows,_1990)/en#Regional_Differences>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
[^Windows_Vista_and_Windows_7]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Minesweeper#Windows_Vista_and_Windows_7>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
[^PageBg]: **Page Background**: [Source](https://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/the-most-successful-game-ever-a-history-of-minesweeper-596504 ){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
[^Regional_Differences]: <https://tcrf.net/Minesweeper_(Windows,_1990)/en#Regional_Differences>
|
||||
[^Windows_Vista_and_Windows_7]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Minesweeper#Windows_Vista_and_Windows_7>
|
||||
[^PageBg]: **Page Background**: [Source](https://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/the-most-successful-game-ever-a-history-of-minesweeper-596504 )
|
||||
|
||||
<script src="/Assets/MinesweeperEmbed.js"></script>
|
||||
@@ -8,8 +8,16 @@ Lastmod = 2023-04-01
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
<!--
|
||||
A series of first-person games that, with a lively but not oppressive pace, mixes parkour platforming and close-quarters combat.
|
||||
I played the first entry in the saga very little, because it was the second entry, Mirror's Edge Catalyst, that introduced me to the series about 2 years ago. Catalyst leaves aside the highly saturated colors that were part of the initial identity, to offer more realistic and immersive graphics. Physics and several fine details also undergo major improvements compared to the original Mirror's Edge.
|
||||
In any case, we are talking about a game capable of giving a great sense of freedom and hope. It's peculiar how its little details manage to make you feel like you're actually in the game - for a non-VR title, that's a big win. The gameplay itself is key to this experience, but the lore is also very respectable.
|
||||
<video frameBorder="0" src="[:YouTube360:]2N1TJP1cxmo" style="Height:Calc(80vw / 16 * 9);"></video>
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/2N1TJP1cxmo" [:HTMLTgtBlank:]>YouTube/2N1TJP1cxmo</a>.</cite>
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<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/2N1TJP1cxmo">YouTube/2N1TJP1cxmo</a>.</cite>
|
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-->
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<video frameBorder="0" src="[:YouTube360:]2N1TJP1cxmo" style="Height:Calc(80vw / 16 * 9);"></video>
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||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/2N1TJP1cxmo">YouTube/2N1TJP1cxmo</a>.</cite>
|
||||
|
||||
The best way to describe **Mirror's Edge** is to say that it's a game in constant motion. Literally standing on the edge of the mirror, the edges of the enormous glass of which the buildings of La Città are made, one runs and jumps without any brakes.
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||||
|
||||
@@ -19,4 +27,4 @@ For a title that can be enjoyed with standard equipment, not in virtual reality,
|
||||
|
||||
The game cannot disappoint even those who, after a subjective analysis, might believe that such a formula could quickly become monotonous: _Mirror's Edge_ is not just platforming and parkour, but features hand-to-hand combat against human entities (practically the police who want to hinder runners). In the most suitable moments to break up the rhythm of the gameplay, you come across stakeouts that you have to deal with immediately, with dry and continuous moves: the less time you waste, and the sooner you continue on your path, the better.
|
||||
|
||||
It's a real shame that, with a very good probability, we will never see a third game be created for the saga, for reasons related to the trends of the video game market. Oh God, actually a third game already exists, _[Mirror's Edge Mobile](https://it.wikipedia.org/Mirror%27s_Edge_(2010_video_game)){[:MdTgtBlank:]}_: it was released in 2011 (well before by Catalyst) for iOS and Windows Phone, and if perhaps I could try it with Microsoft's Windows Phone emulator for Windows desktop, I would like to be able to play it on my Android smartphone, but for the moment this is not yet possible.
|
||||
It's a real shame that, with a very good probability, we will never see a third game be created for the saga, for reasons related to the trends of the video game market. Oh God, actually a third game already exists, _[Mirror's Edge Mobile](https://it.wikipedia.org/Mirror%27s_Edge_(2010_video_game))_: it was released in 2011 (well before Catalyst) for iOS and Windows Phone, and perhaps I could try it with Microsoft's Windows Phone emulator for Windows desktop, I would like to be able to play it on my Android smartphone, but for the moment this is not yet possible.
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@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ Lastmod = 2023-03-22
|
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|
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**Nonogram** (also known as **Picross**, **Crucipixel**, and about twenty other names) are puzzles that consist of filling a grid of squares in order to reveal an image, using the numbers at the sides of the sheet to find intersections between rows and columns.
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|
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WIP... If you want to discover other things or learn how to play, read on [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/Nonogram){[:MdTgtBlank:]}.
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WIP... If you want to discover other things or learn how to play, read on [Wikipedia](https://it.wikipedia.org/Nonogram).
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## [:HNotesRefsHtml:]
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## {{% i18n notes-refs %}}
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[^PageBg]: **Page Background**: [Source](https://stock.adobe.com/en/images/close-up-pen-on-a-sheet-with-a-solved-japanese -crossword-leisure-activities/323111281){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
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[^PageBg]: **Page Background**: [Source](https://stock.adobe.com/en/images/close-up-pen-on-a-sheet-with-a-solved-japanese -crossword-leisure-activities/323111281)
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@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ But, in short, the charisma of the protagonist character alone makes you want to
|
||||
### <span class="twa twa-🍃">🍃</span> Animal Crossing
|
||||
The premises were creative, but boring: you are a human being who, for some reason, goes on a journey to settle in a village where humanoid animals live with whom you can interact. In the meantime, you have to get into debt with a raccoon who sells you the new house at a very high price, and do what you can to repay, with times that can become infinite. Ah, if you want you can choose your clothing, furnish your house, place flowers in the garden... and?
|
||||
Animal Crossing is one of those games that simply needs to be tried to be understood: staying in that world manages to induce calm and joy for reasons that apparently go beyond logic.
|
||||
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Get: <https://go.octt.eu.org/$afa0200c237a>{[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Get: <https://go.octt.eu.org/$afa0200c237a>
|
||||
|
||||
### <span class="twa twa-🐙">🐙</span> Splatoon
|
||||
Third person shooter which to say is different from the others is an understatement. Splatoon breaks the genre's expectations of war realism, and features cute, dazzlingly colorful gameplay that never lets up. There are no humans shooting bullets with iron, but squids spilling ink.
|
||||
Playing in Mollusc Melee (this is the name of the 4-on-4 online battles) is fun, but the depth of the game and the inventiveness of the development team can be seen in story mode.
|
||||
• Splatoon 3: Get: <https://go.octt.eu.org/$8e62cec12c93>{[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Splatoon 3: Get: <https://go.octt.eu.org/$8e62cec12c93>
|
||||
|
||||
### <span class="twa twa-🧱">🧱</span> Tetris
|
||||
The game created specifically to make people fit together squares of particular shapes that fall from the sky.
|
||||
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ Puzzle game very particular in its simplicity where, as the game difficulty incr
|
||||
#### Tetris Effect
|
||||
Tetris effect adds ambient atmospheres to Tetris with many different themes. Visual and sound effects work to enhance each other, and allow for total immersion, even in a game that remains simply made of falling cubes. Hundreds of thousands of particles everywhere, shapes, colors, attractive music, this is its formula. It has some flaws, such as being particularly heavy for a Tetris and having controls that aren't terribly responsive, but that doesn't mean it should be thrown away. It remains to enjoy.
|
||||
<br/>[:YouTubeEmbedOpen169:]PFVL6t8IHE8[:YouTubeEmbedClose:]
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/PFVL6t8IHE8" [:HTMLTgtBlank:]>YouTube/PFVL6t8IHE8</a>.</cite>
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/PFVL6t8IHE8">YouTube/PFVL6t8IHE8</a>.</cite>
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- ## Multi-faceted games
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ If you really want to try something from this page, and you don't really know wh
|
||||
|
||||
### <span class="twa twa-🏎️">🏎️</span> SuperTuxKart
|
||||
A kart racing game with cute and original environments, and many mascots from the world of free software as characters. It has different game modes, from classic racing to missions with specific objectives, solo or multiplayer. In some ways it has more than Mario Kart!
|
||||
• Official Site: <https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page>{[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
• Official Website: <https://supertuxkart.net/Main_Page>
|
||||
|
||||
<!-- ## The rest
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -85,15 +85,15 @@ _Titles that have only one of these two characteristics may also be found in sec
|
||||
### <span class="twa twa-🧗♀️">🧗♀️</span> Light blue
|
||||
Celeste is a nice little platformer game, with original mechanics and a unique graphic style. But it's too difficult.
|
||||
I tried to play it many times, but at a certain point in the story the difficulty became too high for me. I should maybe try finishing it in guided mode, since the option is there. Until I've done it, though, I'm not going to look for videos of the ending and spoil stuff, since they say that the value of Celeste lies precisely in its meaning.
|
||||
• Get: <https://go.octt.eu.org/$ce7941cddd5e>{[:MdTgtBlankNofw:]}
|
||||
• Get: <https://go.octt.eu.org/$ce7941cddd5e>
|
||||
<br/>[:YouTubeEmbedOpen169:]_bM0uEAis14[:YouTubeEmbedClose:]
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/_bM0uEAis14" [:HTMLTgtBlank:]>YouTube/_bM0uEAis14</a>.</cite>
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/_bM0uEAis14">YouTube/_bM0uEAis14</a>.</cite>
|
||||
|
||||
### <span class="twa twa-✈️">✈️</span> Pilotwings
|
||||
#### Pilotwings Resort
|
||||
Pilotwings Resort continues the Pilotwings arcade flight simulation series in a different way. It ends up on a portable console, the 3DS, among other things a console that manages to grab you directly, with its stereoscopic 3D display. The game is set on Wuhu Island, the same place full of history, locations, and mysteries as Wii Sports Resort. The mission mode can in some cases be a real challenge if, like me, you have a mania for platinum... but the free flight mode is unquestionably relaxing and, perhaps, I would even say more immersive. In it, however, it is not that you do nothing: you have to find, a few at a time, all 120 information rings, passing through them to unlock them.
|
||||
<br/>[:YouTubeEmbedOpen169:]QJCb8qnHauo[:YouTubeEmbedClose:]
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/QJCb8qnHauo" [:HTMLTgtBlank:]>YouTube/QJCb8qnHauo</a>.</cite>
|
||||
<cite>From <a href="https://youtu.be/QJCb8qnHauo">YouTube/QJCb8qnHauo</a>.</cite>
|
||||
|
||||
## Still others
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Aliases = [
|
||||
Categories = [ "Technology" ]
|
||||
Lastmod = 2023-03-22
|
||||
#Style = @import "[staticoso:Site:RelativeRoot]Assets/Pages/Raccolta-del-Riso.css";
|
||||
#$ L/VoidLinuxOS = <strong>OS</strong>: <a href="https://voidlinux.org" [:HtmlTgtBlank:]>Void Linux</a>
|
||||
[Params]
|
||||
LVoidLinuxOS = '<strong>OS</strong>: <a href="https://voidlinux.org">Void Linux</a>'
|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
{{< noticeAutomaticTranslation it >}}
|
||||
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ Lastmod = 2023-03-22
|
||||
Rice Collection - or, to put it more correctly, collection of my ricing: interface customizations made to my operating systems.
|
||||
|
||||
In the Linux community, the terms "rice" and "ricing" are common to refer to a variety of DIY cosmetic customizations that hobbyists do for a variety of reasons.
|
||||
Just read a discussion like [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20220907203523/https://teddit.net/r/unixporn/comments/3iy3wd/stupid_question_what_is_ricing){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, though , to understand that the consensus on the origin of the term is not very solid. So, we don't care. 🙄
|
||||
It is enough to read a discussion like [this](https://web.archive.org/web/20220907203523/https://teddit.net/r/unixporn/comments/3iy3wd/stupid_question_what_is_ricing), however, to understand that the consensus on The origin of the term is not very solid. So, we don't care. 🙄
|
||||
|
||||
The practice of ricing is not limited to Linux, as it can be implemented on virtually any system. Me, however:
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -37,35 +38,37 @@ _Under construction..._
|
||||
<div markdown="1" class="BorderBoxContainer">
|
||||
|
||||
<details markdown="1" class="Box-Linux Box-Desktop Box-XFCE" open><summary>
|
||||
|
||||
#### W5 October 2022 </summary>
|
||||
-> #Linux #Desktop #XFCE
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- [:L/VoidLinuxOS:]
|
||||
- {{< htmlparam LVoidLinuxOS >}}
|
||||
- **Desktop**: `xfce4`
|
||||
- **Panel**: `xfce4-panel`
|
||||
- **Taskbar**: `xfce4-docklike-plugin`
|
||||
- **Global Menu**: AppMenu Plugin (`appmenu-gtk-module appmenu-gtk3-module appmenu-registrar vala-panel-appmenu vala-panel-appmenu-data xfce4-panel-appmenu`)
|
||||
- **GTK Theme**: [BlueSky-Light](https://github.com/i-mint/bluesky){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- **GTK Theme**: [BlueSky-Light](https://github.com/i-mint/bluesky)
|
||||
- **xfwm theme**: BlueSky-Light
|
||||
- **Icons**: [Colloid](https://github.com/vinceliuice/Colloid-icon-theme){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- **Icons**: [Colloid](https://github.com/vinceliuice/Colloid-icon-theme)
|
||||
</details>
|
||||
|
||||
<details markdown="1" class="Box-Linux Box-Desktop Box-XFCE"><summary>
|
||||
|
||||
#### W2 October 2022 </summary>
|
||||
-> #Linux #Desktop #XFCE
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
- **OS**: [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- **OS**: [Void Linux](https://voidlinux.org)
|
||||
- **Desktop**: `xfce4`
|
||||
- **Panel**: `xfce4-panel`
|
||||
- **Dock**: `plank`
|
||||
- **Global Menu**: AppMenu Plugin (`appmenu-gtk-module appmenu-gtk3-module appmenu-registrar vala-panel-appmenu vala-panel-appmenu-data xfce4-panel-appmenu`)
|
||||
- **GTK theme**: [Fluent-compact](https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-gtk-theme){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- **GTK theme**: [Fluent-compact](https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-gtk-theme)
|
||||
- **xfwm theme**: Fluent-Dark
|
||||
- **Icons**: [Fluent](https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-icon-theme){[:MdTgtBlank:]}
|
||||
- **Icons**: [Fluent](https://github.com/vinceliuice/Fluent-icon-theme)
|
||||
</details>
|
||||
|
||||
</div>
|
||||
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ Aliases = [
|
||||
"/Categories/index.html",
|
||||
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|
||||
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|
||||
|
||||
{{< noticeAutomaticTranslation it >}}
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ While working in the terminal, perhaps developing programs, I often accidentally
|
||||
This happens to me because I work like this: I edit something in the window of my favorite text editor, then I go to the terminal window, and I press `[Up Arrow]` (which recalls the last command executed) and `[Enter] ` to run it.
|
||||
|
||||
What I've noticed is that sometimes, in my haste, I happen to press `[Up Arrow]` one too many times, which recalls the penultimate command executed, or the one even before it.
|
||||
Since I practically do these sequences of actions almost automatically, without reading to make sure that the selected command is actually what I want before pressing `[Enter]` (because that's all I expect), it happens several times that I execute a command which I shouldn't: often, it's the command to make a commit [Git](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git){[:MdTgtBlank:]} of my changes to the workbook, and immediately upload them in the cloud.
|
||||
Since I practically do these sequences of actions almost automatically, without reading to make sure that the selected command is actually what I want before pressing `[Enter]` (because that's all I expect), it happens several times that I execute a command which I shouldn't: often, it's the command to make a commit [Git](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git) of my changes to the workbook, and immediately upload them to the cloud.
|
||||
|
||||
Now, this is not good, because it means that in the Git history I will have certain "wrong" places: with descriptions with duplicate text, and the code in an unsuitable, non-working state, because I was in the middle of testing some changes.
|
||||
Having such a messy Git history definitely affects its quality, because it's more difficult to find a specific past point in the code in the future, which nullifies one of Git's useful features - and in general it's something I don't like, it annoys me , see dirty history.
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -13,15 +13,15 @@ Aliases = [
|
||||
Storage memories, whatever their category, degrade with wear.
|
||||
Nothing can be done to avoid having to change them, sooner or later, after so many years. However, it is possible to keep an eye on their health status, in order to identify any problems.
|
||||
|
||||
When it comes to HDD or SSD disks, the [SMART](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.){[:MdTgtBlank:]} protocol comes in handy but, if, like me, you use computers in an unconventional way, then checking classic discs is not enough.
|
||||
When it comes to HDD or SSD disks, the [SMART] protocol (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.) comes to the rescue but, if, like me, you use computers in an unconventional way, then checking out classic records isn't enough.
|
||||
|
||||
## Linux goes further
|
||||
|
||||
Something quite secret, which not many people know (so it seemed to me, at least), is that on Linux it is possible to access the statistics of partitions with some filesystems.
|
||||
This, obviously, regardless of whether you are using a pen drive, an SD card, a hard disk, a floppy disk, or even an even less usual memory.
|
||||
|
||||
[Ext4](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4){[:MdTgtBlank:]} provides several curious data - and its previous versions, Ext3 and Ext2, should do the same, but I haven't checked.
|
||||
[F2FS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS){[:MdTgtBlank:]} I also saw, directly from my Android smartphone, exposes some interesting information.. which I won't address in detail, because they are all very dark and I don't know what they mean; and if I don't know what they mean, I'm not curious about them. It happens.
|
||||
[Ext4](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4) provides some curious data - and so should its previous versions, Ext3 and Ext2, but I haven't checked.
|
||||
[F2FS](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2FS) I also saw, directly from my Android smartphone, exposes some interesting information... which I won't address in detail, because it's all very obscure and I don't know what they mean; and if I don't know what they mean, I'm not curious about them. It happens.
|
||||
As for other file systems, I haven't seen them at all. As homework, therefore, I give you to see if stuff like FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, or why not, BTRFS, exposes nice information, on Linux. And how?
|
||||
|
||||
## Get the data
|
||||
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Well, OK, this information is interesting, but: when is it actually needed?
|
||||
|
||||
If the storage memory in use - which, if we have decided to resort to these measures instead of using SMART, is probably a microSD or a flash drive - starts to show signs of failure, perhaps slowing down over time, or corrupting data... It would be advisable at least check that everything is OK.
|
||||
|
||||
If the data isn't scary, but seems in order... then it's time to first do a complete formatting (including recreating the partition table from scratch), something made simple by programs like [GParted](https:// gparted.org){[:MdTgtBlank:]}, and then you see how the story continues.
|
||||
If the data isn't scary, but seems in order... then it's time to first do a complete formatting (including recreating the partition table from scratch), something made simple by programs like [GParted](https:// gparted.org), and then you see how the story continues.
|
||||
|
||||
In any case, just to be careful, it would be a good idea to always carry out routine checks, so as to be able to predict problems before something serious happens.
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ But why do I have to extract the books, and not use the publishers' applications
|
||||
<meta>
|
||||
|
||||
**I don't like proprietary software and DRM**
|
||||
: In general, whenever possible I always try to do without proprietary software, preferring free tools to do the things I need to do. Proprietary software itself, however, is not necessarily always 100% bad, because sometimes it still gives you freedom 0<sup>[[↗️](https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_libero# Le_%C2%ABquattro_libert%C3%A0%C2%BB){[:MdTgtBlank:]}]</sup>, i.e. the possibility of always using the software for any purpose. Well, DRMs take away this too, they are the absolute inexcusable evil and, if already everything that I use for my purposes does not have DRMs (because it has never had them, or because they have been removed, by me or other people), it would be It's nice to resolve this issue also for school books, which I use only because the curriculum requires it.
|
||||
: In general, whenever possible I always try to do without proprietary software, preferring free tools to do the things I need to do. Proprietary software itself, however, is not necessarily always 100% bad, because sometimes it still gives you freedom 0<sup>[[↗️](https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_libero# Le_%C2%ABquattro_libert%C3%A0%C2%BB)]</sup>, i.e. the possibility of always using the software for any purpose. Well, DRMs take away this too, they are the absolute inexcusable evil and, if already everything that I use for my purposes does not have DRMs (because it has never had them, or because they have been removed, by me or other people), it would be It's nice to resolve this issue also for school books, which I use only because the curriculum requires it.
|
||||
|
||||
<meta>
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@ Aliases = [
|
||||
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|
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|
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Reference in New Issue
Block a user