Gemini* and Gopher

• Technology and Free Software

  • FreeDOS again

    Perhaps now its the point where i finally left the sane part of the population, perhaps i am longing for a time long gone or perhaps i like to torture myself... i really don't know, but i have installed FreeDOS on my trusty old Thinkpad R60 and i really have grown to like it. Down below you will find a writeup of the first few days / weeks with this OS and my thoughts about it.

    You may ask WHY? Why waste time on an single tasking, non UNIX system that had its best time when memory was measured in KBs and disk space in MB? Well... its complicated. About two years ago (i think?) i helped an older coworker to set up his new (-ish) Thinkcentre to work with FreeDOS, and somehow this little OS stayed back in my mind since then. Perhaps my general disstasifaction with the computer world since then have lead me to longing for the primitive, for simpler times, who knows? As i am now over 40, perhaps its the midlife crisis... i really don't know, but somehting inside me urged me to try this out.

  • Adventure

    as not everyone is an Excel¹ jockey seeking to majorly maximize Mammon. For example a common way to play EVE Online runs towards accumulating ever increasing amounts of ISK (that is, Mammon) and the expectation—worse, demand—is that everyone is engaged in this pursuit. Have a billion ISK? Go for a trillion! There is never not enough!

    In other cultures the riches to rags story is celebrated; see for example the Buddha. Speaking of rags to riches, why is social mobility a.k.a. "the American dream" so low in America these days? Others have such concepts as "lagom" though I'll leave it to the Norse to explain that term better. "Timon of Athens" may also be relevant.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Bots again, cursed

      I’m on a trip and once again the bot fuckers are at it. Long term load average is 0.5; I have two cores so I can handle an average load of 2.0; but when I looked at my sites this morning load was at 110. Some idiot is training their AI again, is my guess.

      I switched off Emacs Wiki and Community Wiki for the time being. They'll be back when the AI bros are tired of downloading every link.