Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • The scream

    I saw Munch’s “Skrik” in the Munch Museum in Oslo in 2021-10.

  • The sigh

    Compared to a scream, a sigh is the sign of resignation: the pain is bearable, so you can control your voice, but it sticks to you, so you don’t warn anyone else.

  • Don’t let them win

  • Cozy clutter

    Paderborn, winter evening, home alone. I am eating a kebab and watching videos at my desk. The room is empty: bed, folding chair, desk, coat rack. But my desk is crowded: plate, computer, piles of paper. If I only look there, it radiates a simulated homeliness, like a snow globe.

  • Men losing grip

    These films feel alike: family men, losing the respect of their families, becoming alienated, without understanding why.

  • When should you raise the dead?

    I read a lot about people new to escaping the mainstream web. They write in a few, well-known, scattered bastions that merchandize the web revival, about everything. Their liberations and frustrations. Discovered improvements to their health since avoiding social media. How they struggle to connect with people in spaces so isolated from one other. Like a pendulum, swinging between two temperate zones, they find imperfections in these hostels.

    I've read. A lot. There's so much to learn, and the clock is exponentially speeding up... ssslllooowwwiiinnnggg dddooowwwnnn; counting down the days 'till rapture. I have so much to say, but only to myself, because I could never articulate something worth more than what others communicate to me. The sensation of chalk etched into concrete. If you listen - respectfully - to the whispers of years-old conversations in pubs like these, you can unearth knowledge. Places to visit. Things to try. What this corner of the web is.

  • You're Relaxing Wrong

    We have all been there. We come home from a long day, kick off our shoes, collapse on the couch and just want to relax. Turning on NetPrime Max, selecting our favorite show and before we know it, it is time for bed and you feel no better than when you first walked through the door. How can something as simple as relaxing be so hard?

• Science

  • Stargazing 2024-11-09: Arie

    The skies cleared up yesterday afternoon (2024-11-09) and in the evening the boys and I were able to go outside for stargazing and playtime. We got outside around 7:15pm AKST. I brought the sketching materials and binoculars and set them on my fold-out table, as usual.

    Two stars in between Pegasus and Perseus were in a convenient viewing position, toward the south-east. Honestly, I had forgotten which constellation it was, and only identified it as Aries later after I got back inside.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Playing films over HDMI

  • Paper as storage medium

    See pencil and paper for what they are: a sophisticated, portable technology to store data quickly and durably, without the need of electricity.

  • One kilobyte

    I try to keep my articles here 999 bytes or less.

    Why not lines? Because I could cheat by avoiding line breaks.

    Why not words? Because they are hard to define and count, e.g. with hyphenated words or spaced dashes.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • still here

      I read all your fine posts from different angles: https://smol.pub/, RSS, and now Gemini. I've made a lot of headway in my journey into Linux so a post on that to come.

      Welcome Lierre! I hope you enjoy your foray into writing publicly.

      My internetting is a scattered mess at the moment. Maybe even a little unhealthy. It's always been this way.