Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Platoon (1986)

    I don’t have anything to say about this film (or really anything else). I think about it a lot, though (and many other things). It makes me think of Blood Meridian, which I restarted the other night, and then from there, Heart of Darkness. Another path between Platoon and Conrad’s story is through Apocalypse Now.

  • Like an audience apologizing for theatrics

    The last I saw of it, it still hung in that particular corner of the workshop , with no mark from my master.

  • Growing your talents

    I have been thinking how certain behaviours of mankind are almost intrinsic to their nature. It's fascinating to observe how these behaviours manifest themselves in different cultures and societies. Just like the bird that builds its nest, and the ant that carries food back to its colony, humans also have a natural tendency to grow and develop certain talents. We like to sing, and dance, and paint, and explore the unknown. These behaviours originally helped us grow in a social environment, and it did not matter if you excelled or not, as long as you were willing to learn and grow.

    Nowadays, we often see that people attach purpose to their hobbies. Some people can no longer act simply because they can and want, as they expect themselves and other to do something with some intent. For example, in games, we often see people who expect other to be the best, they want to see other be faster, stronger, and more skilled. We make competitions for the best of the best, such as the Olympics. We expect entertainers to have daily content to show what they do to their audience. It seems as if it is unnatural for someone to paint a random picture without needing to be something better, without expectations of performance.

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• Politics and Law

  • Copyright, but Punk

    I am not a lawyer. But I do have to live in their shitty world, so I get to have opinions anyway.

    For a long time I used the MIT license for all my open-source projects. Really I just used it for everything, because I shoved everything onto github and github encourages you to set a license, and not knowing the difference I would just pick MIT because it was small and easy to read.

    Eventually I came to understand that the MIT license is next to pointless. The first half only really prevents someone from re-distributing your software with a different license. But people do it anyway, and none of us are going to do anything about it. The second half of the license is a release of liability, and everyone knows that releases of liability are for babies.

• Science/Games

  • Toddler math games

    Now that I'm more than a month into doing preschool math tutoring for my first daughter, it's time to record our toddler math games, which we started before her second birthday and continued through her third.

    Evy remembers childhood math as pleasant, a site of care from mentors, self-efficacy, and pleasure. For me, reading was like that but math just made me feel stupid. Evy wants daughter to have the oppor- tunity to love math like she did.

    I didn't keep a notebook until I started preschool math, so these notes are incomplete, and ages and dates lost, like tears in rain.

• Technology and Free Software

  • The Graphene Saga: part 3

    The spring has come, and guess who's back. Guess **what** is back almost a year since the last time. I had to have a lot of patience to wait until this moment, and it's not even the biggest thing to come yet. Right now, as far as I'm concerned, IMEI editing in Google Pixels from 6 to 9 Pro is a fully solved thing. Of course, you have to have it rooted but I don't deal with carrier-locked devices in general, there are other people who are more interested in that. Regardless, there now is a totally irrefutable proof that GrapheneOS developers were absolutely wrong in their statements about IMEI editing in Pixels and in general. I don't know why they said that in the first place, either because of their own stupidity or due to the fear of being threatened a legal action, but the proof is out there now, and in my case, it even is shaped into a fully autonomous FOSS tool that runs on any rooted Pixels themselves starting from the model 6 and above.

  • Protocol extensions in SpaceBeans

    These extensions add optional parameters to successful Gemini responses, that according to the RFC 2045 are backwards compatible and should be ignored by clients that don't know what to do with them.

  • Internet/Gemini

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