Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: BEFZMUL Wordo: FATT

  • Weight of history 💀

    I'm in Wales. The smallest city¹ in the UK is St. Davids, and it wasn't far, so I went to see its cathedral, which dates back to the year 589. That's a lot of years.

    One weird thing is that the cathedral isn't flat. The floor slopes, *and* there are steps, so the altar (east end) is considerably higher than the west end (where the plebs can sit).

  • the family tree tarot spread

    (i'll be using the ritual tarot and relying heavily on the images, followed by my own numerological system of meanings.)

    1. blessing from my mother's bloodline - justice.

    oh, i feel that's not something i've tapped into. i've had plenty of examples from my mother's family of fighting for what's duly yours, not "letting" anyone screw you over etc. i'm a little bit too non-confrontational for that, and generally i don't have enough energy to push through that resistance. but if i ever truly need to - i know how to do it and i still have people to advise me on that if i need support.

    2. challenge from my mother's bloodline - devil.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Simplifying vigrey.com - Changing Git, Gopher, and Finger

    This is for 2 reasons. The first reason is because I would prefer not to use nginx anymore (I might make a replacement for my needs or I may just decide that I'm fine without a proxy). The second reason is because I'd prefer to not have to rely on the git-http-backend cgi script. At the moment, I don't understand fastcgi or its parameters or cgi in general. As such, I'd prefer not to use it.

  • OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files

    If you use commercial VPN, you may have noticed they all provide WireGuard configurations in the wg-quick format, this is not suitable for an easy use in OpenBSD.

    As I currently work a lot for a VPN provider, I often have to play with configurations and I really needed a script to ease my work.

    I made a shell script that turns a wg-quick configuration into a hostname.if compatible file, for a full integration into OpenBSD. This is practical if you always want to connect to a given VPN server, not for temporary connections.

  • OpenBSD scripts to convert wg-quick VPN files

  • Enterprise Cloaking Device

    trek(6) or equivalent versions were reputed to have burned through large amounts of paper. Someone asked how much paper Rogue (1980) would have used if played on a teleprinter, which brought up the awkward fact that rogue was programmed for an interactive display… probably you could arrange something to reprint the entire window after every move, and maybe skip the bolt animations? Because the display in rogue(6) includes a spray of terminal escape codes unsuitable for a line printer. Not impossible to translate to a line printer, but probably you would instead want to write "a game in the style of rogue" but design it for the features of a line printer (poor interactivity, lots of scrollback).

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Smol Earth in five cold points

      Still ridin' this thought train, sorry! Last post on this topic for several months, I'd wager.

      The impetus comes, once again, from adiabatic's scrawlspace, where on 2024-04-24 they wrote "something of an exploration on how the smol.earth crowd is at least onto something, even though (it seems) I’m diving in deep into one aspect of a ten- or twenty-point desiderata list and ignoring all the rest". I'm responding mostly here to the subtle jibe that, yeah, Smol Earth *is* kind of a pile of loosely related points without much in the way of really explicit connections or underlying principles or priorities or anything. I mean, sometimes a project just has to be that way (I guess?), but it can't hurt to really knuckle down and try for a kind of minimum description length summary, right?