Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Villano III vs. Atlantis (CMLL - 03/17/2000)

    With a project like this, I think it's really right to start off in watching order. I want to start off with the stuff I already found good.

    Before Corwo had sent me this, this was the first match I started off with, as I know that this is what another friend of mine believes to be the greatest match ever.

    Quite frankly, both of these two people are not wrong to include this in the conversation. Not only is it a beautiful apuestas, but, at the very least, I do believe as of right now (within my admittedly limited exposure which I am oh-so-desperately trying to fix) that it is, at the very least, a top 3 apuestas ever. It's just one of those things that is so consistently gripping the entire time that it's just hard to ever dislike.

  • Afternoon disease

    I, like so many other Swedes, have “afternoon disease” where we mess up afternoon times all the time. All odd hours are the same as each other and all even hours are the same as each other. Because 2 is 14 which gets brainfritzed to 4 which is 16 which gets brainfritzed to 6 which is 18 which gets brainfritzed to 8 which is 20 and maybe in the late evening it’s not as bad which is why it’s called afternoon disease and not late-evening–disease.

    And yes, it is recursive this way. It’s not enough that 4 PM gets misread as 2 PM (because the four gets misread as 14 which is 2 PM) and as 6 PM (because the four is 16 which gets misread as 6 PM). That’s bad enough, that one time is the same as two completely different times two hours apart in the opposite directions. But it goes all the way. 2 can become 8 this way through multiple instances of brainfritzing. And it’s not a slow drift over a long conversation; the recursive brainfritzing can happen multiple times between two breaths. I see 2 and write down 8. Or any other even hour for any other even hour, and any other odd hour for any other odd hour. I’m sure a lot of Swedes can relate and are pumping their fists in celebratory commiseration right now while those who can’t are like “what the heck are you talking about, I’ve never done that mistake in my entire life” to which I say boo and hiss!

  • A Night At The P.O.W. Pub (Script)

    In the spotlight of the stage, stands alone table. On each side of the table are two chairs. The background consists of props that make it look like an old American bar, streamlined to reflect the era. But the sound and ambiance of the theater makes it sound as if the setting is on the corner of an inner-city bar during the mid-20th century, with the rain pouring down, old radio static in the air, and Ford Model T’s rolling down the road.

    A guest walks in from the left side, shaking the rain off of his clothes and decides to sit at a table. He loses himself in thought as the lights slowly dim, shading the background props in darkness. A waiter dressed in all white clothing walks onto the stage from the right side. On his jacket pocket is a peculiar pin shaped like an angel’s wings. The Waiter is rolling a Food Cart with very peculiar items on it; including a white tablecloth, a red rose in a small vase, a red ribbon wrapped around it, two inverted glasses, and an unlit candle. As the two converse, the Waiter places each item on the table.

• Science

  • An Ominous Pi Day Miracle! - Total Lunar Eclipse

    Pi Day in the United States (because of our strange date format of MM/DD/YYYY [medium-small-large] compared to pretty much the rest of the world [small-medium-large] or [large-medium-small]) is March 14th, as it is the 3rd month and the 14th day of that month, so 3/14 (ignoring the year). Math nerds tend to enjoy the day by eating some pie, while some folks like to argue about whether we should have Pi Day at all or whether we should accept Tau as our one true day of eating a pie. This post isn't about Pi vs Tau. Instead it's about the Lunar eclipse that will be happening soon!

• Technology and Free Software

  • Time calculation hacks

    Okay tip number one is going to be use a time calculation app instead of relying on hacks like this. This is only for when apps aren’t available and you have to rely on your own “skill” and “knowledge”.

    But sometimes that’s all you’ve got so here we go.

    This is also not for when you are programming a time library. (Where instead you should convert to seconds, subtract, then convert back.) This is for back-of-the-envelope human calculation.

    I am assuming both times are within 24 hours of each other. If not, we’re gonna need further hacks. That’s gonna have to wait to lesson two.

  • About terminal emulators

    The configuration of the selection has been removed from the GUI so it is changed with dconf.

    The list in word-char-exceptions are the characters included in words when double clicking text in the terminal.

    Before I was using xterm but it doesn't support nerd font in a good way.

    xfce4-terminal is ok in general but it displays small nerd font glyph as 1 width characters.

    When I was using st (suckless terminal), there were not many patches and it was clipping 2 width characters.

  • A MINI-GME PROJECT INTRODUCTION

    So, a few months ago, I asked in a Discord server with me and a few of my friends what their greatest matches ever were, in an attempt to group rank them, and to read some reviews. Of course, a bunch of us are lazy, so we never got past the first week of voting. This project idea got stuck in my mind again, and I decided to do a mini-project where I watched what my friends believe to be the greatest match ever. So I did what any (halfway) rational person does.

  • WSL woes, destructive update

    Okay, I'm a reckless idiot. Biennial note to self: I'm a GNU/Linux/BSD user, I never did admin tasks frequently enough to be able to recover well from errors. With great power comes great responsibility that I don't want.

    [...]

    On my 2016 GPD Win 1, this was easy. Turn on the WSL feature, restart, install Alpine distro from Microsoft Store without an account, because I don't make Big Tech accounts.

    On Evy's 2019 GPD MicroPC, I turned on the feature, restarted, and when I opened the Store and searched for Alpine, I was presented with a blank screen with no "get" button. The forums said to get an image from somewhere, but that limited me to Ubuntu and Debian, no Alpine. I installed Debian and it can't upgrade and install imagemagick because:

    sleep: cannot read realtime clock: Invalid argument dpkg: error processing package libc6:amd64 (--configure): installed libc6:amd64 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit ststus 1

    The forums said it was a known problem with Debian and Ubuntu in WSL. I wasted too much time, gave up, moved the picture over to the Pineboook Pro, and resized and sent it.

  • My favourite videogames

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Considering Getting Rid of My Misfin Server

      Since then, I have gotten 2 misfin messages outside of the week of a lot of testing of my server with 3 other people. I honestly don't think I'm going to get many more misfin messages. As such, I'm HEAVILY considering shutting down my misfin server in order to help minimize the amount of services I need to keep track of and secure.

      I like the concept of Misfin quite a lot and honestly wish it could have been around before email. Email is a bit complicated in general, but in modern times, there are some annoying gatekeepers like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo that decide that anything that isn't from them should definitely be considered spam by default, even though most of the spam I get come from their services. There are also a lot of email services that restrict your ability to use email clients that aren't their ad filled and javascript bloated web client. With all of that said though, email still currently works for me and is what everyone else is stuck having to use. In fact, it's likely going to be the easiest way to get a hold of me.

      There's a bit of irony of running a Gemini capsule that powers my website rather than running "web first", even though "everyone else is stuck using the web". I acknowledge that irony and don't really have a consistent standard for why I would keep my Gemini capsule (in fact, I'm likely to keep my gemini capsule over my web server in the long run). With that said, having fewer services connected to the internet is better for my security, so I'm unsure if keeping a misfin server is worth it for me when it's just a matter of keeping up with security while not having human to human interactions really ever using it.

    • Notes on migrating a long-running website from WP to Hugo [Ed: Junk/abundant bot traffic alone is a good reason to abandon site designs that let visitors trigger a database in ANY way (even search)]

      Over the past few weeks, I've been working on migrating the website of the _Open Bioinformatics Foundation_[1] (OBF) from being run based on a self-hosted _Wordpress_ blog to _Hugo_[2].

      [...]

      Since then, BOSC has happened each year, fully remote or hybrid during the heights of the COVID pandemic.

      Ever since going to the 2015 BOSC - which was held in Dublin - I've been engaged in various ways, from reviewing submissions over being on the BOSC organising committee to now being on the OBF board for some years.

      With that long a history, comes a website with a lot of historic content: Back when, the OBF ran a _MediaWiki_-based self-hosted website for organising its member projects, conference websites etc alongside its blog.

      But, the irony of being an organisation that is all-volunteer-run by academic folks in bioinformatics is that while there's a lot of technical expertise, there's very little volunteer-time at the end of the day given the realities of academic jobs these days.

      Which means, there's quite limited time for maintaining web applications.

      And so, a couple of years ago the Wiki was archived to be read-online (and by now also converted into static pages instead)[1] to preserve all the existing links.

    • responses

      I got an odd surprise when I opened the Cosmos aggregator yesterday and discovered that one of my posts had "22 responses":

      [...]

      Given the dates, I'm guessing these are not actually responses to my post, but rather posts that are in some way related to mine maybe?

      I find it very interesting how many discuss the concept/problem/method(s) of managing responses to other people's posts in Geminispace. These range from several entries on the Gemini Mention project specifically (a Gemini-capable version of Webmention) to opinions on the problems of commenting/communicating/making references more generally.

      As someone who is very much a writer and very little a programmer and whose take was requested by absolutely no one, here's my view:

      Personally, I don't want responses to gemlog posts to be easier than they are.

      I don't mind if other folks make it easier for themselves to receive or respond to responses. You do you. But as I noted in a post a few days back, analytics/comments and I have a fraught relationship: