Gemini Links 24/08/2024: Photos and Summer Recap at WPN
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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July 2024 Tanana Photos (publ. 2024-08-23)
Here are a few more photos that were sitting in a memory card. I marked the file names for July 13th, for simplicity, but they are from several days in July.
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Assorted August 2024 Photos (publ. 2024-08-23)
Here are some more old photos pulled from the memory card. These were shot with the AW130. I enjoyed a few cranberries from these bushes: [...]
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Pellicci's East London
Pellicci's does the best English breakfast in East London. It also does pretty good bread pudding as well which you can takeaway. The cafe is decorated in almost an Art Nouveau style and it's very small and it's very popular with tourists so you either have to queue or be in the neighbourhood at unusual times. A personal favourite.
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2024-08-23, but like a couple minutes later: A thought on Apple’s 15–30% cut
Whenever I hear Apple nerds talking about Apple’s App Store fees — generally to complain about how they’re too high and apply to too many things — I think of what the world must look like from Apple’s perspective, and then think of this voice line: [...]
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Technology and Free Software
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disproportionate tech, over-valued co's, and avoiding the ecosystem trap (soon a void)
Tech companies. This post will be about that. Click away if you like, but also, thank you for clicking to begin with :) They (tech co's/monopolies) are less than they were. But may appear more than they are (to some).
Take the Google/Reddit deal, for example: $50 mil. Big money. Google having exclusive rights over showing results with links to Reddit (other search engines can show them, too - w/o a link description) is a thing that Google would have paid double/triple for under a decade ago. I am sure it was proposed, Reddit likely told them to take a walk. Reddit needs money more these days, though. As do all tech co's. Facebook (RIP "Horizon Worlds" (or whatever), and RIP turning any/all services under the Meta umbrella into a fun-sounding monopoly (Metaverse)). Amazon skirts having a small profit come quarters end by paying their employees less. Apple is attempting a Hail Mary with Vision Pro, a quiet failure (for now, it will be silently shelved and (eventually) removed from their offerings, making the product an "official" failure). All of these things can be explored and discussed at-length, but the point is:
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Summer Recap at WPN
I'm always a bit busy when it comes to `pandora` (the VPS running WPN: `woodpeckersnest.space/eu`). I like experimenting new things, fixing/improving existing things.. I cannot stay still 😊
After migrating the homepage to `homarr` - which took really no time for the initial setup, but a lot of work afterward to fix layouts for mobile devices and non-full-hd screens for desktop PCs - I started messing up with a brand new toy: gemini!!
Not even a week since I installed `molly-brown`, the actual gemini server, to today, I can count lots of improvements..
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Internet/Gemini
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BBS Over NNCP
I use NNCP regularly for file transfers and remote execution, but one thing I almost never use it for is mail. I feel I simply don't know enough about various mailing systems to set up anything, though I can definitely see the utility of it.
A few days ago I saw a post on Alex Schroeder's capsule about an offline BBS powered by NNCP.^ The board, appropriately called "Offline", is run by plugd of The Lambda Lab gopherhole. plugd has written a Lua BBS backend called QwikBoard that sends users QWK files to read and accepts REP files as posts.
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PUT an entry on the ol' blog
I finally got the PUT method [1] working for mod_blog [2]. The code on the receiving end [3] is fine, but the script on the sending side [4] is messy, but it works well enough for me to use.
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This command on my development server was used to create an entry with multiple images. As you can see, it puts out the URL (Uniform Resource Locator)s that are created as the script runs. And this entry is a test to see if works on my actual server. It should.
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Programming
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Sigh
And yes, programming and deployments can always get this messy.
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Murphy's Law as applied to bugs: it is easier to find bugs in production than in development
Well, that [1] could have gone better.
One bug due to inattention and a difference between development and production, and one “how the XXXX did this ever work in the first place?” bug later, things should be working fine.
I am not going to say “I hope” this time.
The first bug prevented a proper HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) status code from being generated, so Apache nicely generated a “500 Interner Server Error” for me. Once I identified what was going on, it was a simple one line fix [2], and an additional call to assert() [3] to help isolate such errors in the future.
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* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.