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Gemini Links 11/09/2023: segfault.net, AuraGem Relaunch



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • Non-vegans

        Non-vegans, a.k.a. carnists, are an interesting bunch. What many vegans tend to forget is that many vegans themselves were non-vegans at some point. That’s just something that goes into the memory hole.

        For example, there is a vegan poster online (I'm not gonna link to her because I'm still holding out hope that she is fake and that she and her team are causing fake controversy for the clicks & cash) who became vegan at age 52 and quickly became blaming others, attacking others, and hating on others.

        [...]

        I don’t advertize myself as being vegan now since there are many vegans who wouldn’t consider me vegan since I have (very small amounts of) wool and leather. It’s not that I don’t know how bad wool and leather is, it’s plenty bad, it’s just that I think plastic is so much worse. Linen, cotton, kapok is great of course, but plastic, even many bioplastics (non-fossil origin but just as bad pollutantly) is bad. I eat plants, is what I say instead. Vegan on the plate but not on the wardrobe, I say. Not to dis vegans but to dodge the expectation from vegans since they scare me!

      • 🔤SpellBinding: DIPRTYU Wordo: GAPPY
      • 🎲 1x1: an e-zine of solo games

        1x1 (pronounced "one by one") is a one-off e-zine dedicated to solo gaming, playable without computers. I am particularly interested in games not commercially manufactured but I do enjoy some solo rules variants of commercial board games. And I have a love of games playable with standard items like a regular card deck, pen and paper, dice, and dominos. While I do also enjoy the occasional solo rules variants of commercial games, particularly fan-made ones, there are many other places to find that kind of thing online.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • segfault.net (no relation to SegFault my IRC bot)

        x86 hasn't really been something people target anymore for at least a few years now, but I've been using a netbook as my server for the last couple years. I've been wanting to run stable veilid toys for public use, but have only been able to run veilid-server on my desktop because of the 64-bitterness. First step is to get rust to target i686 from my x86_64 desktop.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • AuraGem Relaunch, New Domain, and New Cert

          Welcome to the AuraGem website! I am relaunching it with some updates, a new domain, and a new cert. AuraGem is now hosted at auragem.letz.dev.

          I had started this server over 2 years ago when it was originally called Ponix (at the url pon.ix.tc). I then rewrote some of the code into what is now AuraGem in around 2021-2022. However, AuraGem went offline again in 2022 due to my domain expiring. I did not have the financial means or the time to get a new domain.

          However, I have decided a few days ago to spend the time getting a new domain from FreeDNS and setting the server back up again. This time, I have a free domain and set the certificate's expiration to far in the future, so there shouldn't be any more shutting down of this capsule.

        • RE: Compendiums

          Solderpunk has recently announced his idea for a Smol Earth Compendium, and has created a capsule for it.

          [...]

          I think it is a great idea to have manually curated compendiums based on narrower topics than what's available on aggregators and directories, and I hope more compendiums like this prop up! I have added a link to Solderpunk's Compendium to AuraGem's Search page.


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