Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • love

    love, a curious thing. it purrs in the beginning, nudging you, the voice of your demon. sometimes, it gets fed what it wants. other times, it lies awake, hungry.

    nevertheless, as time goes on, it morphs and evolves. it grows and matures. as the dust settles, it, too, settles into something. perhaps unto something. something dormant, waiting for the trigger. something smoldering.

  • [music] 2024-12-25

    not big on these first three, and i actively disliked Black Band Shirt, largely because the vocals rubbed me the wrong way.

    Gosplan's Virtue Terror fared a little better for me, it's decently catchy but i don't know that i would go out of my way to return to it.

    Soul Glo's Untitled was pretty damn good, i was not into the parts that skewed more screamo is all. overall tho it's a well-crafted & smart punk album.

• Politics and World Events

  • Rot Economy

    This essay is so good. You probably have seen it linked a few times on social media. I certainly have. And yet, perhaps you have not. If you have not, it’s a great read tying together our terrible computer experiences, us being exploited by big tech, enshittification and rot economy. The growth mindset that kills us all.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • New at gemspace

      Now I'm at gemspace ...

    • Self-hosted tinylogs --

      Calling anyone that still hosts their own tinylog on their capsule. When I first started Gemini, tinylogs were fairly common but they seem to have gone to the wayside with BBS and Station making them so easy to create on these platforms (which is great, no fault there), but as I'm updating my tinylog aggregator, my list is shrinking.

  • Programming

    • Advent of Code 2024, Day 6

      For part 2, I thought about sharing information about cyclic states across obstacle positions, but whether a state will end up in a cycle or not depends on the position of the obstacle, so it wouldn’t work.

      So I had to brute-force it, and the code was very slow. I read that others had the same problem. But I later read about two optimizations: use complex numbers for coordinates instead of pairs of integers, and only check states for repetition at turns instead of during straight walks. The resulting code was more than 100 times faster.