Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • SPFBO and Flight of the Scions

    When the first [[Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off]] came out, I was lucky to have an entry that almost made it to the next round. I always wanted [[Flight of the Scions]] to be the first entry, and because of scheduling and life, I wasn't able to enter until this year.

  • On Meanness

    The word "mean" is a fascinating one, with lots of different meanings (heh) available to it. This morning I'm thinking of these meanings: "without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base". However, there's also this one, similarly: "intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another".

  • week 42 - art and discipline

    boy oh boy. it's been a week. a lot of it was continued work on the shadowplay tarot - and i finished today! the ending there was a bit tougher, actually reaching the challenging part of the challenge, where there weren't that many good pictures left, and those that were good weren't useful for the card meanings i had yet to illustrate. but all's well that ends well,

• Politics and Religion

  • Isaiah 40:1-2: Comfort My People (publ. 2024-10-20)

• Technology and Free Software

  • kill -9

    The KILL signal is quite possibly the worst signal to send to a shell script, as this may result in a dangling tree of processes. Shell scripts often fork things, so there might be something like (as reported by pstree(1))

  • Freedom for me but not for thee

    I'm looking a bit from the side to what's happening in the wordpress world, for the simple reason that I used to work for an hosting provider where, at the time, the majority of websites ran on Wordpress. Because of this, I perfectly know that the consequences of Automattic's CEO, Matt Mullenweg are huge all around the world.

    To date, between 40 and 50% of all the interent websites are powered by Wordpress. An enourmous amount of hosting providers are heavily invested into the wordpress ecosystem due to customer demands. Some actively contributes to the Wordpress development, however, the majority are there for a free ride, given that Wordpress is freely available and released under the GPLv2.

  • Never used the netcat before

    I know that the netcat(1) is cool but I never needed to actually use it. Until today. I have had two Linux laptops without configured SSH/FTP or anything like that. I needed to transfer some date from one to another. Both were on a local WiFi network.

  • MNT Pocket Reform update

    I got my Pocket for my (another) bussines trip. Before the trip I tried to fix some stuff. The first was the keyboard layout. I had to reinstall my system in August (my fault: I run the Debian unstable and ignored the warning about bug related to kernel modules) and from that point the original "EurKey" layout. No big loss as the only important symbol was missing (the tilde). Anyway, I have fixed it by replacing the "us" by the "eur" in the $(HOME)/.config/sway/config.d/input file. Anyway, configuration of 2 layouts and usual way to configure keys for shifting them (xkb_options) haven't work for me for same reasons.

    I have added a bunch of thermal pads on the WiFi and power regulator (or what it is) chips. It improved the WiFi reception noticeably but not enough. It seems that in some point the copper slab (which is used for heat dissipation) became too hot to be able to cool the WiFi thing enough.

    There are two known solutions: to use a discrete WiFi card (it didn't arrived before the trip, of course) and to use a cooler CPU (most of the available CPU moduli don't have a WiFi chip anyway).

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Another round of updates

      This is more of a test post than anything else. I made a bunch of changes to my setup, in particular, I decided that a better way to write posts, than doing it by connecting to the Erlang cluster directly, was a good idea.

      So, I've added support for the titan protocol to my gemini server.

    • Solar-powered website

      This isn't the first solar powered website I've seen (that's Low-Tech magazine) but I always find it interesting to read about people putting them together. It would be really interesting to know if it possible to do this at larger scale if you accept the trade-off of availability.