Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — ACELTXY Wordo: CHINA

  • How do you process the news?

    A long time ago I discontinued all my daily newspapers and just kept the weekly left-leaning cooperatively-owned Wochenzeitung. Once a month it comes with the German edition of Le Monde Diplomatique.

  • I Aim to Misbehave

    The title is a quote from the prematurely-canceled TV series Firefly. I'll admit, I've never seen the series. It's not available with audio descriptions anywhere, so perhaps I never will. But the quote is a banger, and it is all too appropriate for our current sociopolitical situation. We, meaning lefty or anti-Trump types, need to adopt it as our slogan, our raison d'etre, our lifestyle. Aim to misbehave. Be un-fucking-governable.

    Texas Democratic Representative Al Green showed us what to do last night, when he was booted from the chamber during Trump's speech. All of the remaining Democrats should have followed his example. Maybe give it a few minutes, and then let someone else raise enough ruckus to get booted. Keep on doing that, person by person. They could have dragged the address out interminably, making it effectively impossible for the autocratic scumbag to deliver his address.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Computering and organizing

    Last weekend it was 20c / 68f here in Tokyo, and I saw a few people in t-shirts and someone in shorts. It then snowed on Monday and Tuesday night.

    In my last entry I said that I wasn't tinkering with computers anymore, but I had to the other day, when my MacBook Air was out of order. While it was down, I moved over to an old DELL laptop I got last year.

    I have not had good luck with *BSD on laptops, so I installed Ubuntu, which I find to be really quite nice. I found out that the RAM can be upgraded too, so I bumped it up to 16Gb. I was amazed at how easy it was to do - and that it was even possible to begin with - but I guess that's just me coming from the Mac world. It wasn't always like that over there, but I'm not going to wander down memory lane this time.

  • Programming

    • Setting up a Soft-Serve git server

      I've recently gotten interested in hosting my own private repositories in my home lab. I could easily just ssh into the server and create a bare .git repository to use for my remotes, but I want to make things easier for me to access. I've thought about using something like forgejo or a self hosted source hut, but that's way too complicated. I instead found soft-serve which is an ssh server that manages git repositories for you. It has a nice TUI and is pretty simple to setup and I want to go over some of the things I went through to get it working to my likings.

      I use docker so I can manage my services from the web with portainer. So, using soft-serve's docker recommendations, I was able to use a simple docker-compose stack to manage the server. Realistically I think I only need to reveal port 23231. I haven't yet found a use for 23232, 23233, or 9418.