Merge branch 'gemlog'

* gemlog:
  text/gemini: New post: Re: "The Death of the Grown-Up" by Diana West
  text/gemini: New post: Round, not purple
  text/gemini: New post: kaction.cc is back

config/emacs/config.el

@@ -455,40 +455,43 @@ This function assumes that root of the project contains either \"shell.nix\" or
 
 (declare-function elfeed-search-selected "elfeed-search")
 
-;; List of RSS feeds is somewhat personal, I don't want to keep it in
-;; public git.
-(let ((config-file "~/data/active/config/elfeed.el"))
-  (if (file-exists-p config-file)
-      (let ((elfeed-feeds-value
-              (with-temp-buffer
-                (insert-file-contents-literally config-file)
-                (read (current-buffer)))))
-        (use-package elfeed :ensure t
-          :config
-          (evil-define-key 'normal elfeed-show-mode-map
-            (kbd "q") #'elfeed-kill-buffer)
+(use-package elfeed :ensure t
+  :config
+  (evil-define-key 'normal elfeed-show-mode-map
+    (kbd "q") #'elfeed-kill-buffer)
 
-          (setopt elfeed-feeds elfeed-feeds-value)
-          (defun @elfeed-youtube-dl ()
-            (interactive)
-            (let* ((entry (elfeed-search-selected :single))
-                   (default-directory "~/scratch/videos/")
-                   (name "*yt-dl*")
-                   (args (list "yt-dlp" (elfeed-entry-link entry)))
-                   (buffer (generate-new-buffer-name name)))
-              (apply #'start-process name buffer args)
-              (display-buffer buffer)))
-          :hook
-          (elfeed-search-mode . turn-off-evil-mode)
-          :bind
-          (:map elfeed-search-mode-map
-                ("j" . next-line)
-                ("k" . previous-line)
-                ("/" . elfeed-search-live-filter)
-                ("d" . @elfeed-youtube-dl)
-                )
-          :custom
-          (elfeed-db-directory "~/data/active/state/elfeed")))))
+  (setopt elfeed-feeds
+          ;; List of RSS feeds is somewhat personal, I don't want to keep it in
+          ;; public git.
+
+          (eval-when-compile
+            (let ((config-file "~/data/active/config/elfeed.el"))
+              (when (file-exists-p config-file)
+                (with-temp-buffer
+                  (insert-file-contents-literally config-file)
+                  (read (current-buffer)))))))
+
+  (defun @elfeed-youtube-dl ()
+    (interactive)
+    (let* ((entry (elfeed-search-selected :single))
+           (default-directory "~/scratch/videos/")
+           (name "*yt-dl*")
+           (args (list "yt-dlp" (elfeed-entry-link entry)))
+           (buffer (generate-new-buffer-name name)))
+      (apply #'start-process name buffer args)
+      (display-buffer buffer)))
+  :hook
+  (elfeed-search-mode . turn-off-evil-mode)
+  :bind
+  (:map elfeed-search-mode-map
+        ("j" . next-line)
+        ("k" . previous-line)
+        ("/" . elfeed-search-live-filter)
+        ("d" . @elfeed-youtube-dl)
+        )
+  :custom
+  (elfeed-db-directory "~/data/active/state/elfeed")
+  (elfeed-search-filter "@6-months-ago +unread -bulk"))
 
 ; Simple HTML renderer, used by `elfeed'.
 (use-package shr

text/gemini/src/2023-12-20.1.gmi

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# kaction.cc is back
+
+About year ago I missed expiration date of my domain, and it was bought by
+somebody else. Month ago I noticed that domain is free again, so I bought it
+back for just $12/year and instead of just delegating email to Migadu, decided
+to setup some toys on VPS.
+=> https://migadu.com
+
+I chose AWS Lightsail because it seemed cheaper that EC2, but that left me with
+no choice but to use FreeBSD image, since all GNU/Linux distributions available
+on Lightsail are systemd-based.
+
+So far, I configured these services:
+
+### hledger-web
+
+This is quality of life improvement for doing plain text accounting.
+
+With this service I am able to record transactions on the mobile phone
+immediately instead of processing paper receipts in the evening/on the weekend.
+Also, not all transactions produce paper receipts.
+
+=> https://hledger.org/web.html hledger-web manual
+=> https://f-droid.org/packages/net.ktnx.mobileledger Android client (link to F-Droid)
+
+### xandikos
+
+Xandicos is standalone CalDAV server, which works faster than one included into
+NextCloud instance hosted by disroot.org project. Using "vdirsyncer" on the
+laptop and "DAVx⁵" on the phone, I can keep synchronized view of my calendars
+and todo lists on both devices, which is really handy for generating and adding
+".ics" programmatically.
+=> https://vdirsyncer.pimutils.org/en/stable/
+=> https://f-droid.org/packages/at.bitfire.davdroid/
+
+Whoever designed text/calendar format clearly was totally alien to Unix
+culture, so editing calendars from command line is quite painful. Well, my
+attitude is simple -- if it is hard to use from $EDITOR, it sucks.
+
+Thanks to "icalendar" python library, I can write scripts that bridge my
+workflows and this stupid .ics format, yet whenever I do it, I feel like I am
+solving a problem that should not have existed.
+=> https://pypi.org/project/icalendar/
+
+And yet, this miscreation managed to become a standard that is actually used
+and recognized: you can share .ics with normies, and that will work on their
+devices out-of-box. That is major advantage over other solutions.
+
+### gmid
+
+Now, I self-host my capsule in addition to "tilde.pink". Also, I serve proxied
+version of the capsule over https with Kineto.
+=> https://www.kaction.cc
+=> gemini://kaction.cc
+=> https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/kineto/

text/gemini/src/2024-01-15.1.gmi

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+# Round, not purple
+
+Recently, I got an email response to my previous post that contained advice "get
+as offline as possible". Somehow this simple and probably obvious idea made me
+think, and I came to the conclusion that I have been holding many things
+completely wrong.
+=> ./2023-11-07.1.gmi Weight of the world
+
+Since the day I parted with Debian, I have been lamenting about being forced to
+use so-called "modern" tools, that required graphical web-browser and running
+untrusted JavaScript to poorly solve problems I already had solved with my
+command line setup. GitHub instead of cgit, ssh, mailing lists and debbugs;
+Discourse instead of mailing lists; Matrix, Discord instead of IRC and mailing
+lists. You see, mailing lists can do almost everything.
+
+No doubt, graphical web-browsers and JavaScript suck, but until this moment I
+failed to pinpoint the most significant problem with these "modern" tools --
+they don't support offline work. They don't support asynchronous work.
+
+Back then at Debian, almost everything -- bug reports, design discussions --
+was done via email. I had a nice workflow when I would download email at
+morning and work my way through my inbox with little to no need to access
+anything else. I would draft responses, save interesting stuff into separate
+folder and, crucially, only send these drafts next morning.
+
+Don't get me wrong, "debian-devel" is no paradise and people can be
+infuriating, but this process gave me time to cool down and edit (or sometimes
+just discard) my response. Don't type angry, you know.
+
+Not the case with GitHub and Discourse. When something happens, like somebody
+reviews your pull request or mentions you in some thread, you get an
+notification. After you click on it, it is marked as viewed and gets lost in
+the list of old notifications. GitHub does some rudimentary support for
+unread-read-done states, but it is pathetic compared to flexibility of proper
+email management system like mmh.
+=> http://marmaro.de/prog/mmh
+
+What is even more important, you don't have option to save the notification and
+its context (e.g full story of the issue) offline to think about it and act
+upon. Instead, you are pressured into acting upon the notification instantly,
+probably context-switching between the terminal and the browser, while being
+exposed to all distractions.
+
+Probably GitHub has financial incentives to be like that, but also it follows
+the trend. People are used to these incessant interruptions, conditioned by the
+social media. That is how they expect things to be. Annoying, but familiar. And
+I guess that would be the reasoning for non-profit Free Software projects that
+happen to care about user adoption. You don't want to be a weirdo like
+SourceHut, right?
+=> https://git.sr.ht
+
+So what this realization means for me (and hopefully, it will be useful for
+somebody else), is that I was fighting for the wrong goals. I was trying to
+maximize amount of stuff that I can do from /dev/tty, in reality I should have
+minimized amount of time with "ifconfig up".

text/gemini/src/2024-01-28.1.gmi

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+# Re: "The Death of the Grown-Up" by Diana West
+
+I picked this book quite some time ago at one of many bookcrossings in my area,
+and it has been dusting on my shelf until recently I decided to challenge
+myself and regain my ability to read.
+=> ./2023-11-07.1.gmi
+
+First several chapters of the book trace path of the American society from
+restictive social norms through the sexual revolution to the era of "fuck" word
+in the prime time, "sex sells" marketing principle and drunk undergrads on the
+spring break.
+
+Unless you believe this is a problem in itself, that would be quite boring
+reading. Actually, I saw these first chapters as mockery of my own believes.
+Dumbed down, concern of these chapters is "Power shifted from adults to
+adiolescents", my concern is "Power shifted from programmers to C-illiterates".
+And they both beg for a question "What is the problem, exactly?".
+
+In the next chapters of her book, Diana West answers this question well. There
+is a flip side of all these advancements. Now we are restrained by the concepts
+of "political correctness" and "multiculturalism". Now you can say "fuck", but
+you can't say "a primitive culture". It is blasphemy to even consider than one
+subset of the population is better than another at something, no matter the
+supporting data.
+
+We traded one set of dogmas, restrictions and taboos for another, and that
+wasn't a good trade. The author, clearly a Republican and what seems to be
+affinity for Christianity, seems to believe that it was an inevitable outcome.
+I want to believe that we could have a win without any sacrifices.
+
+In any case, I recommend this book.