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Gemini Links 29/08/2023: Keeping Infrastructure Free



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • 🔤SpellBinding: UCEMNRB Wordo: CINCH
      • No God But Us

        The song referenced in Siiky's post is lovely. If you have IPFS, you could get it from the URL at the end of this post. The organ music at the start made me think of JS Bach on LSD.

        [...]

        The closest thing to god is the singularity at the beginning of the universe. At the big bang, it blew up into a quintillion quintillion quintillion itty bitty pieces traveling away from one another with explosive force. And those itty bitty pieces eventually formed stars and planets and life and conscious life (people). Ain't no one here but us chickens, as the saying goes. Thou art god/goddess. And I believe in you.

      • Energy rationing

        Energy is rationed. Everyone gets the same amount. You can’t sell it (it’s cap without trade) but you can work together in collectives and coops to pool your allotment. The rations are separate for fossil-derived energy and renewable energy, with an awareness that renewable doesn’t mean infinite since there’s a bandwidth issue. The fossil rations rapidly decrease.

      • Labskaus

        Labskaus is a traditional german workers meal mostly found at the coastal regions, its a hefty meal that will keep one going doing hard physical labour.

    • Politics and World Events

      • What is a state?

        I’m in an email conversation with a fellow geminaut; we’re disagreeing about whether or not a state can help us keep the fossils in the ground. We both agree that states currently are actively complicit in drilling and burning, but the disagreement is over the fact that I think we need to regulate and that a state can help us there, and he’s saying no to that.

        Maybe I’ll edit some of my thoughts from that convo into an essay on here once it has settled a bit. Doing that prematurely would get in the way of me actively trying to listen & learn from the guy. Carving my canonical ex cathedra position into granite is not a good start to a dialogue.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • Keep infrastructure free

        It seems to me that they are arguing that the megacorps should sober up and sponsor the people who put in a lot of time, effort, and care into these libraries.

        That’s great, and that can and does happen sometimes, and that’s appreciated, but I’d rather see the change go in the other direction. UBI, free money, food, shelter. Artificial scarcity didn’t make sense during the good years and makes even less sense now that the world is on fire.

        We should be moving away from a world run by Facebook, Apple, Google etc, not towards a world where they financially control the means of production. Please don’t misinterpret this as me trying to snatch the livelihood away from any one contributor to FOSS, be it a five star repo or a one line fix.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • This week — Blog Customization 2: Electric Boogaloo & Week 10's Revenge

          TL;DR: I had a long weekend, so I coded some accessibility and performance improvements for this blog. I also decided to start a Gemini mirror. I finally settled on a Pixelfed instance, and joined several online things.

          I have good news: first, I finally got an external learning institution to collaborate with our organization for my training program. YAY! What's left for me to do is wait for management to release the important documents, then I can discuss the details of the program with the trainers from the institution.

          Second, I got a long weekend, because apparently my home country is co-hosting this year's FIBA Basketball World Cup which opened last Friday, so the government declared a work and school suspension on that day. Thus, our family took the opportunity to celebrate my Mom's birthday, which happened this week, and we went to a buffet place.


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