Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: CEIMZSO Wordo: DENIM

  • Penelope season one ending

    Penelope, more reacting to the reactions and reviewing the reviewers, so there’s gonna be ending talk here, talking about the last couple of minutes of the season:

    I can’t believe people are saying that “It looks like she already knew and that’s why she left”. She looks obviously surprised! Her jaw drops, she blinks a bunch of times in a row. It’s a natural, real-looking take as something like that sinks in. What world of over-ham takes are these so-called reviewers living in!?

    Now, the idea that “this is why she left”, well, I can see why people are looking for a reason for her leaving. That’s the one part of this insane interpretation that does make some sense except it doesn’t because all of those other flashbacks, and her conversations with the other characters have hinted that there’s something else. She wouldn’t‘ve needed a fake name, for example.

  • iNto tHe dEEp

  • Multitudinous Agreeable Futures

    Today is day nine. I shall pour myself some Houjicha - another reminder of Japan. I mentioned Japan the other day not only because Christopher is there but because to me it is a vague concept. Yes, it is a concrete land-mass, but the reality of actually being there is just an abstraction. This points back towards my resolve to not make plans that are, as it were, etched upon the surface of my skull, or upon the surface of anyone's skull, for that matter. Leaving future ideas abstract creates multitudinous agreeable future *senderos*.

    The idea is coupled closely with my rejection of *expectations*. To have absolute goals is to create narrow roadways into the future. If deviated from, the results is a sort of emotional devastation. This devastation can be so powerful that it becomes a stasis of disillusionment throughout a gelatinous chunk of time. Time ultimately spent mourning something that never existed in the first place except in one's mind: said expectations. This is a condition I seek to avoid. I also encourage anyone reading this to also seek to avoid it, which means not placing one's goals in the terms of the exceedingly specific. Keep the future vague. Don't let the haze clear completely until arrival.

  • Now, understand, Commander, that torpedo did not self-destruct. You heard it hit the hull. And I... was never here.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Setting Up a Misfin Mail Server with Docker to Send/Receive Misfin Mail

    Being new to Geminispace is awesome! There's so many cool things I've been completely in the dark about that I've been discovering since finding it. My latest discovery has been Misfin thanks to a few gemposts I've read that have linked their Misfin addresses at the bottom. This piqued my curiosity enough to look into what it was.

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    The first thing I needed to get this show on the road was, of course, a Misfin mail server. This was a fairly short search for me, as when musing this in the back of my head while scrolling through the popular gemlog aggregator Antenna[3], one of the posts I saw was from a developer posting patch notes for the latest release of, you guessed it, their Misfin server! Perfect!