Gemini* and Gopher

• Technology and Free Software

  • [EN] Make it easy to delete!

    I've constantly thought of deleting the whole list and start over. At the same time I have some links that 'might' be useful later.

    It's emotionally easy to add more and more, and it's tedious to decide what I should remove. I try to do a yearly cleanup of old data, and even acquaintances with whom I haven't spoken in over a year, although sometimes I don't have enough energy for that.

    Based on the reading, I think it's a good idea to fight the FOMO with an auto-delete. If it's it older than -let's say- 1 year, it'll be gone, unless you do something to 'refresh' your interest on it.

  • Adventures with Bevy

    Bevy is newer game engine written in Rust. It isn't like most other game engines like Unreal or Godot where you have a GUI and is more similar to Mono in that it is code only. There are some plugins that add GUIs but they aren't required and I haven't used them before. Bevy follows the ECS architecture and I love it. You create components that contain some kind of data, like health, and then you use these components to make entities, or most things you interact with in a game. Entities are just collections of components and nothing more. Finally, you have systems which are just functions that act on components. So you can have a 'check_dead' system that gets all entities that have the 'Health' component and checks the health of that entity.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Still more email for Sean Conner, and a disturbing warning from Gmail

      Ah, the start of the Christmas season! A time when a lot of people visit friends and family for the holidays. So it wasn't terribly surprising when I received an invitation for a family reunion. For the GXXX family out of Chigaco, from, as it turns out, my Uncle James PXXXXX­XX. The only thing is—I don't have any known family in Chicago, much less know anyone in the GXXX family, nor do I have an uncle names James PXXXXX­XX.

      [...]

      Gee, thanks Gmail. How long until you start outright rejecting email to or from anyone not using Microsoft Outlook, Yahoo or Gmail? Or am I just too cynical?

    • Jumping into Gemini

      I have followed the Gemini protocol for a while now, and have finally decided to create my own capsule. I enjoy the community of sites like bbs.geminispace.org. Everyone there seems to be thoughtful and there isn't much in the way of bad-faith arguing for the sake of argument which you see all over the web.

      As seems to be the tradition in inaugural post of these sorts, allow me to give a brief rundown of my setup. My capsule is currently hosted on a Raspberry Pi siting on my desk. I am running Agate and building my capsule with kiln. I may eventually migrate to a dynamic Gemini server, but I don't require anything more than hosting plain text and perhaps media so for the time being my current setup seems to suit me just fine.