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Gemini Links 18/08/2023: Calm Day in Geminispace



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • The Garage, Take 3

        Did that second dump run, getting rid of scrap wood, broken toys, our first artificial Christmas tree (seriously, why were we holding on these?), and even though the garage was clean, we still saw new pellets a couple of nights ago.

        I feel like I'm being driven crazy by a small lagomorph.

        Yesterday morning I went down to Home Depot and picked up a live trap (as well as a couple of mouse traps, in case I'm dead wrong about what I'm dealing with). Set it in a corner of the garage with carrots, cucumber, and apple.

      • Indirect Communication

        One might suspect that the work here isn't exactly the "bustle" expected by some.

      • digital traveler

        It's amazing to meet you. What's your story? How did you find this place? To be honest, I love visiting little digital nooks like this, it's an addiction of sorts. The potential connections to be made, the new relationships to form, and the otherwise unfathomable paths to be crossed is too tantalizing to ignore.

      • ... and i blew myself out
        i dont believe in higher powers or some cosmic plan that we all follow whether we want it or not. but if there are any divinities looking down on me, they have a very crude sense of humor.

        this week on monday two friends from my school days were in town and we met up in the evening on the beach at a nearby lake. we simmered in humid 30 degrees celsius and decided to play some volleyball. long story short, after about 15 minutes of sweat, sand and a small wound on my knee, i jumped to catch the ball as it flew over the net and landed in an unfortunate way. a stinging pain shot up my back and i remained unable to sit upright for a while. i was completely unable to get back up by myself. rarely have i ever felt this helpless.

        my friends picked me up. fortunately i agreed to letting them stay overnight at my place, so i jumped into their car and tried to come up with a battle plan to combat the pain. i pumped myself full of painkillers and went to sleep thereafter, but the pain was just as bad the morning after. i found it nigh impossible to stand straight on my own feet. every step demanded 10 times the focus and energy to move myself forward. i woke my friends up and asked if they could drive me to my gp.

      • Christina's 5 questions

        Went to parish (county) council meetings in a state where I lived. Met Trump once. He didn't know my name. He said "Get that crazy lady out of here" about me. It took a long time to get me out of there.

        I'm working up nerve and skills to meet my state rep and senator about restoring passenger train service. Hopefully they'll know me by the end of the year.

    • Photography

    • Music

      • "I wish this is on Spotify"

        It is to no suprise that nowadays people prefer being spoon fed and gate kept over having everything in their own control. Needing a platform for specifically a type of consoomerism is like letting one company dictate the way people consoom media, unless you actually search for the content you want instead of letting the algorithm feed you, which I rarely see being the case. There are times where the algorithm does good at recommending geniunely unique stuff, but most of the time it's either done by manual searching or manual hopping, unless if one of your social media is friends with the respective and they happily share what you saw on there, if you have an account (which to be fair many do).

    • Technology and Free Software

      • Suika Scanlations is once again active.

        It's been almost 10 years since we have made a release. At that time it was just me and a friend who translated working on a single series. We had two other planned series that we were also working on. He unfortunately no longer had the time to translate so we stopped our work. A year ago I began learning Japanese myself and thought it would be fun to use scanlating as a method of study and reading immersion. A friend of mine had some series' he wished to see translated so I'll be doing my best to do just that.

      • Site Reliability Engineering - Part 1: SRE and Organizational Culture

        The universe of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is like an intricate tapestry woven with diverse technology, culture, and personal grit threads. Site Reliability Engineering is one of the most demanding jobs. With all the facets, it is impossible to get bored. There is always a new challenge to master, and there is always a new technology to tinker with. It's not just technical; it's also about communication, collaboration and teamwork. I am currently employed as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer and will attempt to share what SRE is about in this blog series.

      • Site Reliability Engineering - Part 2: Operational Balance in SRE

        This is the second part of my Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) series. I am currently employed as a Principal Site Reliability Engineer and will attempt to share what SRE is about in this blog series.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Re: Alone In Space

          And welcome to the club, so to say. I cannot speak for all the others here, but for me at least, Gemini came without an entry to the man pages. I've read about it in the ''surface web'' (it was Drew DeVault's blog I think) and decided that I'd like to participate. So I set up an Agate server alongside the lighttpd serving my website from my home and added some of the content from there. A Gemini-mirror of my website, basically. Every now and then when I stumble upon something interesting on Antenna, and feel in the mood to fire up the kludgy conglomerate of linux machines that I call my server and my laptop, I'll write a couple lines in reply. Just like these. Feels a little bit like threads a web forum, just a little bit different.

        • re: Alone in space

          Why don't you join us here at BBS? It's very easy to post quick notes, interact on specific topics, or create surveys...

      • Programming

        • after 2 months of programming

          I love watching programming content, read articles and blog posts about programming, after 2 months of programming voluntarily, here are some of my criticisms (and praises) of myself, and some other tangent...


* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.



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