Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • El Hijo Del Santo & Villano IV vs. El Hijo Del Solitario & Angel Blanco Jr. (Todo X El Todo - 2/25/2012)

    In general, I can talk about how shocked I am at some omissions from the people who replied. I sure saw a chunk of Will Ospreay, but I did not see a bunch of El Hijo del Santo. I did not see Dandy vs. Satanico, the choice AAA matches that I at least expected somebody to say as a solid answer. Furthermore, I thought I'd see the famed When Worlds Collide tag, the famed Torneo Ciberneticos from CMLL in the 90s, down to even a few of the old puroresu classics. Sure, I got a few Funk matches, but it is disappointing to me that nobody even mentioned a thought of many of the King's Road classics. It's certainly not judgment, but it certainly is observation.

  • Lost

    I am lost.
    Lost as a soul can be;
    who once knew its place
    was to wander endlessly.
    
    
    I once thought
    home lay in the arms of another.
    But now I see this
    has wrenched my heart asunder.
    
    
    I lay broken
    and dying; my body is dust.
    I am nothing:
    unworthy of the halls of the just.
    

  • 🔤SpellBinding: UEFISTB Wordo: TURVS

  • Visiting Churches and other things

    I’m not sure what I’ll write about here. I got a broken tooth removed last week. And earlier this week we visited some hot springs and an old monastery. Both things very cool. Hot springs and monastery, I mean. Not the tooth.

    My dental health has been a disaster since I can remember. Countless cavities, and that time one of my wisdom teeth decided to grow sideways instead of up, causing a cyst that required oral surgery (requiring the surgeon to remove some jaw bone and extract a couple extra pieces…) . And the time the other one only got out halfway, having to be extracted. Fun times.

    I guess this is in great part my own fault. Or my parents’, perhaps. I drank a lot of coca-cola as a kid, and they didn’t properly enforce a “brush your teeth” routine. I only started brushing my teeth properly regularly as a teenager, and I suspect much damage was already done. Also, I don’t think the copious amounts of cofee, and the smoking, help, either.

• Politics and World Events

  • So what is it like being autistic?

    I originally wrote this blurb, it got very dark, very negative, very quick. So I figured I'd give it a retry.

    The diagnosis was recent and I have been mulling it over, it never actually occured to me that I might be autistic, which as I have found out, is very normal for autistic people.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Leap

    In EVE Online there is a "early game goal" with the usual rewards for completion. However, the goal is to mine (and another goal to reprocess) some amount of Kernite, an ore that is generally only found in lowsec or more dangerous systems. What to do to complete this goal? One answer is to buy the Kernite off the market, as there is demand in highsec for ore from lowsec. Another solution is to notice that during a particular Career Agent mission (a sort of tutorial series) one must mine some amount of Kernite, which spawns in a high security system. That mission goal only requires a subset of the Kernite available, so someone who has thought about the system might mine out all that Kernite, which happens to be just enough for the early game goal. (The site will despawn when you complete the mission, so you have to mine it out before that.) But there is more! Someone who has really thought about the system may know that asteroid belts respawn at downtime, and thus may wonder whether the mission belt follows the same mechanic as regular asteroid belts, and whether this allows an "infinite"—at least until the game developers change things, or you wander off to do other things—Kernite mine that respawns daily, provided you never complete the career agent mission and thus despawn the Kernite belt. The EVE asteroid belts are more like asparagus, where you 10 lop the tops off 20 wait and 30 GOTO 10.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Replaced Firefox with LibreWolf

      Sometime ago, Mozilla reinvented itself as a ad-company. The users are no longer their customers, that role moved to the advertisement market.

      [...]

      We live and work in a digitized world, all formal interactions have moved into the digital realm.

      You need an app to park your car, and a web browser to make a dentist appointment. Formal letters, like about your taxes, can be found in the online personal inbox that the government created for you.

      Contracts, like your energy contract and insurances are all created online, without any personal interaction.

      Most of these interactions require more capabilities from the web browser than eww, lynx and links offer. In those cases I fall back to Firefox.

  • Interview

    • Tradd Moore on Off Panel

      It is such a joy to listen to a creative person getting to the heart of what they do, talking with enthusiasm and wisdom about making good choices. I've never read anything by Tradd Moore, but I'll definitely check out his work after this.

      David Harper is also a great interviewer. He really responds to the guests and lets the conversation develop naturally. He's also not afraid to include his own views and experiences in it, which I like as an interview style.

  • Programming

    • Devlog 12

      I refactored the frontend API client and fixed the token refresh flow in both the front- and back-end. It's almost certainly not production-ready, but at least now I can keep using the app for testing without authentication failing, which is nice.