Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Fri morn tasks

  • 🔤SpellBinding — AILSYVU Wordo: COMIC

  • What Traditions Already Do

    I sometimes see advice given for those getting into esotericism or spirituality: "take the best and leave the rest", leaving it to the individual as their own independent authority, as if traditions with their teachings and practices as a unit are more baggage than they're worth. But, like…"take the best and leave the rest" is what traditions already do, and which they do better than any individual does. That's exactly why they pass things on from one generation to the next, cultivate things that work well, and let things that don't fall by the wayside. The benefit to traditions doing this is that it's an undertaking that spans multiple lifetimes across generations with community feedback and review, as opposed to just the immediate ideas (and often whims) of an individual on their own without assessment by objective others.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Adapting Ploum's sites to gwit

    Let's test that assertion with real stuff. We'll use Ploum's Web and Gemini sites (available at ploum.net) since their content is free/libre and Ploum created a simple script to generate both sites from the same source files, which already sit in a Git repo. This may be a little more involved than creating a pure gwit site from scratch (for that, better read Matograine's tutorial), but it's an interesting exercise nonetheless. Do keep in mind that there are no working gwit clients yet to test the results!

  • In Support of Richard Stallman

    I know I've not much of a voice but I want the people who read my posts to know what position I'm on the Stallman case. I'm sure I'll get a lot of pushback but I want to take a stance for Richard Stallman and all the great work he's done to free/libre software.

    A few days ago an anonymous "Stallman report" apeared on the internet. This is what I want to talk about.

    Maybe Stallman is an odd and strange character, socially awkward and has *a lot* of views and ideas that I also don't share. The simplest thing would be for him to simply remain silent on the topic of "sex". But the self-proclaimed and anonymous accusers bring nothing new in their "Report" except to regurgitate well-known statements that have been out for a long time. It's just another campaign to remove Stallman (and others from the board who probably don't share the views of the accusers) with malicious intent from the FSF and GNU Project boards.

    The malicious intention behind this smear campaign, in my opinion, is the desire to distort free software and the movement around it according to their own conceptions. I can imagine what kind of distortions that would be, but I take a strong stance against it.