Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: CUGHINF Wordo: MINIS

  • how others are attempting to solve my problems

    I encountered a problem, some others saw it first hand, initially they don't know the cause of the problem, but luckily it's something that the Internet has to offer.

    But wait a second, anything it says could be the answer! Which one is it? The Internet does mention multiple things, but how are they supposed to know what they actually are? Well well they have a solution...

  • Floors and ceilings

    Work on the garden room continues. Since my last post, the floot and ceiling have been completed, and I've ordered the lime for the walls. Let's take a look.

  • May 19, 2024 - Pentecost (R)

  • Leaving the City

    About a year ago, I moved with my family, away from San Antonio, Texas to the Ozark mountains. We had moved to Texas 4 years before when I was offered a job there. My wife wanted to move to a rural location, but I wanted to be in the suburbs near work. So we built a big house in the burbs. Three months after the house was built, everyone was sent home to work because of covid fear.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Creating code-based artworks and projects using Love2d

    This week I had an artwork (or as we say to each other as artists, a "piece") presented in a group exhibition. I built the work as a non-interactive work that continously runs in a generative fashion, in the simplest sense of that term.

  • Retro-Pebcak 🕹️

    For months I have been tempted to buy a Nintendo DS or a GBA, but it has been really frustrating following and losing all those auctions… Therefore I have been looking for some cool retro-alternative and through Friendica on the Fediverse I got to know a this hand-held retro console from Anbernic: [...]

  • The prod6 problem 😬

    I used to work on a web site that got quite a bit of traffic¹ so it was load balanced across a number of servers in a few different data centres. One particular box, prod6, would occasionally become completely unresponsive. It stopped serving pages and the load average and CPU usage rocketed. A bunch of monitoring tools would start firing alerts, someone would bounce the service or the whole box, and everything went back to normal.

  • Updated Noto Fontpacks

    The Noto Emoji fontpack now supports Unicode 15.1.

    There is no automatic update facility for fontpacks in Lagrange, but if you previously have installed, e.g., "Noto Sans set", you can download it again and an upgrade action is provided: [...]

  • Szczeżuja's tinylog

    There is a bit of loneliness in my heart because I'm almost absent in the small net lately. But I'm all right and I'm here. There are several activities which were ate all free time reserved for the small activities.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Using Discourse-Based Forums with Niche Browsers

      A more popular forum these days is discourse, which is everything classic web forums are not, including being mostly javascript and having the endless scroll anti-feature for pages and post threads.

      Discourse also has an annoying habit of complaining about older or niche browsers with an "unsupported" message, coupled with a bare forum view that lacks even basic features like search, login and posting. Basically, if it's not a recent version of Firefox, Chrome, or Safari, fuck you. Even the latest version of Pale Moon doesn't meet the standard, and this is not just a check of the client's user-agent - this message is generated by a bit of javascript that checks for certain browser features.

    • ashley's gemlog <3: demand

      hi kids, I never asked to be here. but I am. this has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. I'm not going to point any fingers -- no such thing as blame in a world free of will, but just sayin. it IS their fault. I never asked for any of this. but ecce ashley, and as such she's expected to fullfill all manner of silly demands.

      I am a rich white kid born in the global north, which means other people work so I can eat and shit. and shit. HOWEVER I am not quite rich enough to just nonchalantly do that right away, I have to play a funny little game called 'job' to prove myself worthy first. half a century ago that might have involved sitting in an office writing people pointless memos for 40 hours a week. nowadays it probably involves sitting on a gaming chair keeping divs off center and cramming annoying chatbots into people's wobsites, which probably run inside of a loonix container inside of a xen ubervisor that goes under and successfully runs a python program, 40 hours a week.

  • Programming

    • gemfeed2atom

      Previously shell and Perl were dabbled with for minimal conversion of gemfeed to Atom, with various assumptions and simplifications. This version of the same minimalism is in C: [...]