GNU/Linux

• Gemini* and Gopher

  • Personal/Opinions

    • 6 🔤SpellBinding: ACKRYWT Wordo: ELAND

  • Technology and Free Software

    • A meta note

      Hey, so I'm back and trying to actually update my gemini capsule again. I could just have made my first post a note about that but that's a recipe for the never-updating-deathspiral. So, no, I'm back with actually a thing I wanted to share.

    • More computers

      I was going to buy a new computer, and I ended up buying a harpoon instead. Why was I going to buy another computer? I already have two. Part of it was vanity, this was going to become the perfect hackerstation! I also have a strange relationship with computers, a big part of my personality has been built around computers, and on the other hand I really don't end up doing much with them. There are many dichotomies about me, many yins and yangs, and one big split that tears me apart is the conflict between cyber and nature. Am I a netizen and a cyber-cowboy, or a back-to-the-roots hermit of the mountains, living in tune with nature? Yes, I am aware any such dicothomy is misguided, whatever, and anyway, all of this is built on nothing but pure vanity.

    • Internet/Gemini

      • Thoughts on tilde hosting

        I had considered running my own tilde, but like...

        1. It's a lot of work for one person. Having to manage /other/ users adds an order of complexity to the administration load. I think I'm fine hosting various web services and privacy front-ends.

        2. There are already plenty of great tildes out there. It would be better if I just contribute to those.

        I've been out-sourcing my RSS aggregation to (previously) envs.net and (now) vern.cc. envs.net offers TinyTinyRSS, and I find the UI/UX rather cumbersome and annoying. vern.cc offers FreshRSS and Miniflux

    • Programming

      • Chapter Seven: Modules and Packages

        You can specify a different module name with `(import ./helpers :as h)` — that will give you `h/shout` — or a different prefix altogether: `(import ./helpers :prefix "helpers--")` will give you `helpers--shout` instead.