Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Shinja

    I was back at University of California Santa Cruz and at an astronomy lecture hall (that doesn't exist in the waking world) in the Porter meadow. The instructor adjourned the class early so students could find three items that were pertinent to the lecture, but we had a time limit to find them all.

  • Notes on an overheard conversation while pulling into the driveway

    “You know, it's not a song unless you can sing the lyrics to it.”

    “There are lyrics!”

    “Oh yes? Then sing them!”

    “Okay, granted—I can barely hear them, but they're there!”

• Politics and World Events

  • you will never be a woman

    The crux of the "you will never be a woman" attack is its assertion of an immutable biological basis of gender.

• Science

  • Starting Chess

    For a while now I've wanted to get into gaming. I've never been a big gamer, my peak probably being around the time Modern Warfare 2 came out and I was in highschool. I am terrible at games, my reflexes are just not up to the task of quickly reacting to what's going on. Because I sucked so much I just stopped playing and instead started watching on both Twitch and YouTube.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Happy Hacking SUNday July 28, 2024

    It's been a while. After around 2 miles to, from, and on the beach and a second cup of coffee ... off we went.

    New Pelican SMOLweb site is taking shape. Personal for the moment. Intentionally private. Got it working on the Mac Air11 and the mintbox. SourceHut for git.

  • Automation Is Not A Panacea

    There are a few common rejoinders to arguments for degrowth. I'd like to look at a pair in more detail - "automation will allow consumption to continue indefinitely" and "you aren't against consumption, you're against capitalism." These are closely related and both relate to the concept of "Fully Automated Luxury Communism" - the idea that with sufficient automation, the benefits of the techno-consumer world can be made available to everyone.

    [...]

    A semi-common argument from self-identified ethical capitalists is that supply-side labor in the developing world actually improves outcomes, and ultimately will result in a level playing field between the developed and developing worlds - in other words, "sweatshops are good." While I understand their argument, it ignores the fact that the consumer model only works with the availability of cheap labor and materials, and therefore doesn't have an incentive to improve developing-world quality of life over time. "Right now they're wholly dependent on Western money, but eventually everything will miraculously even out as those places develop" is a big promise that has not historically shown any sign of holding true - and it is not obvious how the system would even continue to function.

  • The case of the well-known location being denied when it doesn't exist

    That's odd, I thought. I don't have that directory in any of my virtual domains, so why is it denied by the server configuration? And thus I fell into a rather odd rabit hole of Apache configuration oddities.

    I created the directory. I can see it when I go to https://boston.conman.org/.well-known/. But when I go to http://boston.conman.org/.well-known/ I would get a “403 Forbidden” error, and the above error message logged. The only difference between the two links—one is HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) (that works) and the other is HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) (that fails). But if I go to http://boston.conman.org/ (HTTP—thus insecure), it would redirect to https://boston.conman.org/ (HTTPS—secure). In fact, every link to boston.conman.org via HTTP redirects, except for those starting with /.well-known/.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Languid

      It's been almost a couple of weeks since my last gemlog post. I haven't lost interest in my Gemini capsule, far from it, but there have been two factors contributing to the lack of output. One is the usual: Work takes up a lot of time and is very tiring.