Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • How to measure ⅚ cup of oil, part IV

    My, it's amazing how a topic I wrote about twenty years ago [1] has been popular over the past few [2] years [3]. I just received an email from Jason Arencibia about an even easier method of measuring out ⅚ cup of oil: [...]

  • 🔤SpellBinding — CEIUQRK Wordo: CRUST

  • terms

    ...as I see them

    I read all of this - https://indieweb.org/small_web

    and decided I would define, for myself, what each thing "is".

    So I'll begin:

    Small Web/Smol Web: roughly a bare bones but not more site on the WWW. Proper DOCTYPE heading, HTML (CSS debatable), no video/music embeds. Not even GeoCities level of media. Quick, unobtrusive.

    Small/Smol net: the people of the Smol Web. Or, small netWORKS of folks who read/comment amongst small Web products. Email, forums, BBS. et al - Just networks that are small.

• Politics and World Events

  • an omen

    today, the Australian government voted in a bill that will massively hurt disabled people, which disabled people have been arguing against, and they rushed it through.

    being a disabled person myself, i decided i was going to ask my oracle dice (a divination tool, like tarrot cards) about it, how it will effect me etc. I get up to go get them and discover on the floor one of the dice had managed to escape being put away last night. the actions die. and the face it had rolled was sacrifice.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • retrocomputing on mastodon, monkeys and rabbits, loop da loop

      My RSS feed, Feedbin, is slow these days, too. 40+ Mastodon accounts, mostly oldbytes.space and FOSStodon, of mostly retrocomputing-oriented content, falls silent as the projects and postings have settled down greatly in the past year. New servers? A likely case. I would have to investigate. And so I shall go through and see who stays, who goes. And then add some along the way.