Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

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  • A Treacherous Road

    If you ride one of the busses around here to the end of the line it will take you to a nice little island connected to the shore by a bridge. It's a nice place to hang out in a cafe, and there's some interesting shops. I found myself there after not having been for a long time, and I wondered why I had stopped going; it was lovely.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Towards Aristocratic Personal Computing (ROOPHLOCH 2024)

    What if the problem with personal computing nowadays is that it's not aristocratic enough, or at least, it lacks that Old Money sensibility?

  • Change the color of hl-line in Emacs in the terminal

    During the last edition of the Old Computer Challenge I used an old Acer Aspire One 522 POVE6, which I ran without X11 or Xorg.

    The small form factor and the low weight make this laptop fine to use, as long as the workload is not to high, to keep the performance within reasonable limits.

    After the challenge I installed Xorg and run it together with the ratpoison window manager, Urxvt terminal emulator and Tmux.

  • Technology and Privacy

    The above quote is a famous philosophical riddle. It is intended to prompt discussion around the nature of perception and reality.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Self-hosting at home and privacy

      You may self-host services at home, but you need to think about the potential drawbacks for your privacy.

      Let's explore what kind of information could be extracted from self-hosting, especially when you use a domain name.