Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Climate Doom

    I follow @peterdutoit@mastodon.green on fedi. He posts climate news and his goal is "climate literacy" – ensuring that even if people can't stop what's coming they at least understand what's coming. And act accordingly.

  • Reader says... what? 📖

    I was looking at reviews for a book I might buy. You can't trust reviews, but they can still be helpful. Some reviewers started with a title that indicated what they thought, and fleshed out details in the body of the review. Nice. One person complained that the book needed an editor, but the review was full of grammatical errors. Where they trying to be funny?

  • Album release: Un coup de dés

    One day last year I tossed my twelve-faced die for a while and wrote down the numbers that came up. The series interpreted as pitch classes became the theme of Un coup de dés, a suite of fifteen variations. I conceived of various things to explore in the variations, mostly standard fare like inversion and retrograde, as well as drastic contrasts in tempo and two variations that map the theme to quarter tones by halving all intervals. I recorded the variations, mostly using eurorack modular and a four track portastudio.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Re:Re: ... about SSH

    It sounds to me like you're breaking the cardinal rule of passwords: NEVER USE THE SAME PASSWORD EVER!!!

    In all seriousness though, every key should have it's own password, and every client has its own set of keys. Most cases you won't know about a security breach until a key is used and at that point its just good policy to change all keys and all passwords on everything since you can't really know what it is the bad actors know.

    But this also speaks to conservatives actions reduce your attack vector. There is no reason to have a key on a given client if you never interact with the service from it. You would never have SCM keys on your the server you deploy to. There is no reason your webhost would need to commit code changes. Same goes for your other systems. Dont put keys on your cell phone if you have no justification to ever access your server from it.

  • OCC Wrap up

    A bit late on this one but recently got to a good place with the goals I set myself in the first post.

  • Clagrange

    TUI version of Lagrange

    I've been playing about with clagrange for a couple of days and it's been quite fun using all the keyboard shorcuts. It feels much quicker to use than the gui, zipping through the tabs is a breeze.

    The biggest downsidde with using it is the lack of media support, so I had to roll up my sleeves and finally learn about mimehooks.

  • events, hype, feeds and (sometimes) fun

    I rarely have a "missing" for Birdsite/Twitter. But sometimes things that occurred there (and tbh, there and there alone for a while) were addictive and excitable beyond belief.

    A red carpet event, a product release, a series finale - people would be on their laptops or phones and "Tweeting" (ffs, how long since I typed that word, lol) their views and ideas about said event. A social element remained (somewhat) in this era, 2009-2013, so everything was just a torrential feed of react/respond/laugh/create, etc.

  • More talk of SSH keys, a reply

    I did not know that my post on SSH keys would create such a long thread, but here we are.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • The end of .io domain

      That would make the most sense since it would break SO many huge websites such as Github pages (github.io) or gaming sites like itch.io.

      I'm going to drop the couple of .io domains that I have when they expire just in case thing suddently drop. I don't run anything important on them so I'm glad I can plan accordingly.