Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • HanzBrix: So autism isn't what we think it is!

  • Sunshine and spring weather make me happy

  • Sunshine and spring weather make me happy

    I am sitting on the couch in my partner's apartment in Poland, about to get ready for work.

    We have a balcony and a large window overlooking a portion of the city, and I am loving the light coming from there right now.

    I went for a run this morning. Only maybe 20 minutes, nothing too difficult. I haven't been running for a couple of months, so I didn't want to go from being a couch potato to doing more than I can handle. It felt really good, and I hope I will be able to keep up and go more and more often. I have a charity run in early May, after all, so I kind of have to go back to training at some point...

  • 🔤SpellBinding — WEGILNC Wordo: KENAF

  • Preschool math

    Last night daughter creamed me at Go Fish by the campfire after dinner. We play with a poker deck after I pull out the Jacks (only one man in the deck) and cards denominated 6-9. That makes it easier for her to scan, and keeps the game length fun.

    I took 6 pairs, she took 12. "Do you have any red aces?" Aargh! I didn't pull any punches, she's just a shark!

    We gave a Boy Scout troop from Ohio a historic tour of the big cave after our card game. They were sore from the very muddy wild cave they'd been in all morning, but a few still wanted to explore some of the dusty big cave's crawly bits. Daughter ran in those holes when it was time for them to come out, and announced, "Boys, time to come out of there!"

• Politics and World Events

  • Eat The Rich

    In the corporate world, one hears phrases like "overcome the odds", "get ahead", "stand out", and "beat the competition". I despise these slogans.

    I don't want to "get ahead" when it means others are left behind.

    I don't want to "stand out" when it means others are passed over.

    I don't want to "beat the competition" when it may mean the competition has no income.

    We're not talking about a friendly soccer match here. We're talking about people's livelihoods. What good does my success do if it means somebody else has no money for food, turns to crime for a living, or has to live in their parents' basement? I think it's in human nature to want to cooperate with others, but the labor market forces us to compete as adversaries.

• Technology and Free Software

  • 2025-03-09

    SDF phloggers are no strangers to using old computers as their daily drivers. Before I started seriously phlogging, I thought that my HP elitebook from 2011 was quite old to be a primary computer. But there are many fellow SDFers here that use even older hardware as their primary computer. And of course I think that is absolutely amazing. Utilizing computers to their fullest life reduces e-waste.

    I recently received an old laptop from my sister and I decided to see just how useable it was for me. The laptop itself was actually a gift from me to my sister back in December 2009. It is a Lenovo Ideapad Y550. It's honestly been so long that I can't remember much of the computing market landscape back then but at the time it cost $550 USD. So it wasn't exactly a low end laptop but obviously, it's no thinkpad.

  • I moved my complete email server from MailCow to "mox"

    "mox" is a complete email suite in one little binary written in Go. The FreeBSD binary I'm using (v0.0.14-go1.24.1 freebsd/amd64) is around 36 MB in size, which is amazing! But there are also builds for Linux, OpenBSD, Windows, Darwin (Apple) and many more. Look here for supported features and how to setup and operate.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Two Year Anniversary of the 'Space Elevator' Orbit

      On this date, the Space Elevator orbit has now been up for two years! An orbit is a webring, but for Gemini. (A few months earlier I had launched another more obscure orbit, so that's why the Retrograde backend service is slightly older.)

    • they have IRC somehow

      also. "freenet" I guess can mean two things now.

      There's the original freenet that I've known of for a long time and been avoiding because it is written in java. Then in the last decade, dude did a complete rewrite in rust and wanted to keep the name "freenet" for it, so the original program called freenet is now called hyphanet, and the new rust thing is "freenet".

      anyway.

      someone installed the java version onto my server, so I've been playing with it for the last couple hours.

      I didn't really have a good idea of what I'd need to do to start fiddling with freenet, so I checked all of the open ports that belonged to the only java process. one of then, 8888, looked like it was probably a good place to check for an HTTP interface.