Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: DFHUNSI Wordo: GAILY

  • How Can You Reach Your Audience Across Borders?

    Expanding your reach beyond borders is essential for any business aiming to grow in international markets. The strategies you adopt should resonate with audiences in different regions while addressing cultural nuances, preferences, and language barriers. Whether you’re a small business or a growing enterprise, reaching global audiences requires careful planning and a strong digital presence.

  • merry xmas

    i realise i don't post a lot. whatever. nonetheless, i'm gonna write a gemlog post on xmas.

    first off the bat, i'm not going to go into the whole jesus thing. jesus was cool and all, but pretty much everything we like about xmas came later and from other cultures.

  • Ice ice baby

    Last month the ice maker in our refrigerator broke. So I called the manufacturer and for a hefty price, they arranged for a local repair company to repair or replace the ice maker. About a week later, the technician showed up, failed to remove the broken unit, and decided that it needed replacing and would be back in a few days.

    The following week the technician showed up again, bitched that we failed to answer his messages. I explained that I set my phone to have a silent default ring tone due to spam, and a default text tone of silence, again due to spam (and man, the amount of text spam I recieved from politicians during election season was staggering! Damn you policitians and exempting yourselves from spam laws! Damn you all to hell!). The technician was nonplussed and said I should do something about that. We gave him Bunny's phone number as she doesn't have a silent default ring tone.

    The technician also realized he had the wrong model of ice maker. He said he would order yet another replacement and get back with us when he had the new ice maker. That was the week of Thanksgiving, so it wasn't too surprising that we didn't hear back that week.

  • Unto the Sons, "Roots" for Italians

    A few months ago, I stole a book from a local WeWork named "Unto the Sons" by Gay Talese. Written in the early 1990s, it was described in contemporary reviews as "Roots for Italians." This appealed to me a lot.

    I finally got to it a few days ago, and just finished last night. It was very engaging, and I related a lot to it, although I feel like it was probably written for my parents.

    Here are a few sections I liked: The first two are short, the third is long.

• Politics and World Events

  • Soviet Esotericism: A Quest for Personal Autonomy in a Totalitarian Society

    One of the most intriguing questions in the study of esotericism for me always was why esoteric interests are so omnipresent and persistent throughout history. In other words, what is it that attracts people to esoteric practices and ideas?

    It is in part due to this interest that I turned to the study of Soviet esotericism. For the most part of the seventy years of Soviet history, people pursuing esoteric interests were persecuted by communist authorities; they were arrested, could lose their jobs, or were sent to mental facilities for mandatory “therapy.” Yet people continued to secretly copy and share esoteric texts and gathered to discuss medieval alchemy, the story of Atlantis, or extraterrestrial civilizations, or engage in esoteric practices.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Qt5 filepicker freezing solution

    For a while, whenever any program would utilize Qt filepicker on my computer it would show window decoration and freeze. Thankfully, I recently found a solution for me that works over at arch linux forums.

  • Using zfs on a separate partition

    I have a machine with root on an ext4 partition and I want to use ZFS on a second partition.

  • Ballebrian Script, 04/12/24, 11:32am

    In-game, I have several assets which require text (wall posters in alleys, advertisements, newspapers... wait, I don't need to explain where text crops up in daily life, do I?). I didn't want to use English for this for a few reasons:

    * 1. The people in Balleborough don't speak English! Why would they, England doesn't exist in Avaloft!

  • Mikrotik is Awesome

    Little known fact, I was a network admin back in the college days. I was a part of the Campus Dorm-net Promotion Association (CDPA) in National Sun-Yet-Sen University, Taiwan. The group is defunct now. But I had my fair share of messing with Juniper, Zyxel, Aruba switches and an Arista router. We are not a full blown ISP, but a subnet of the school's network and provides internet access to students living in droms. While the school's IT provides routing service for all of Taiwan's southern academic institutions. Often times, I feel the gear we have is overkill for the job. We simply need to keep a watch on the ARP table, map flow back to ports and run STP to prevent loops. There's limited HA, no real need for BGP, and we built our own coarse gran QoS and firewall. Our routing is also very simple. 2G of WAN and a few hops to the school's core router.

  • How to Choose the Best Location for Your Hotspot Miner

    Finding the ideal spot for your hotspot miner is essential for maximizing its performance and earning potential. Whether you are setting up for Helium Crypto Miner operations or deploying other helium mining devices, the right location can significantly impact your results. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about selecting the best location for your hotspot miner.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Not a gemlog

      This is not a gemlog, blog, or whatever you might want to call those things. Simply because its contents don't meet and don't intend to mean its criteria.

  • Programming

    • Advent of code and getting out of one's way

      A colleague I learned a lot from told me about the advent of code challenge years ago. It's an advent calendar where you can find a coding challenge instead of a piece of chocolate everyday while waiting for Christmas.

      When he first mentioned the fun he had with it, I thought to myself: now is an opportunity to solve something while aiming for my highest possible coding standard. And also a chance to practice some C++ that is not bound to the old standard versions we had to use at work. And also a chance to create several small C++ projects to boot, because at work, I was only a user not a builder of the tool chain used orchestrate the code we wrote. Not mastering the build tool made me unconfident in my abilities, and I wanted to fix that through some private practice.