Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: YDKRSWA Wordo: CHEAP

  • Looking Forward to Things

    It's important to make plans for events to look forward to things. I realize that having a "purpose" is vital. I work from home, and everyday is the same-ish. And as a brain that is always looking for inspiration and something to do, I need to plan events, even small things on the weekend. I'm really looking forward to visiting my family in NY in a couple of weeks, and then Combo Breaker (FGC event) in May! Then after that we'll plan some stuff for summer, and then I have a convention in the Fall. 💖

• Technology and Free Software

  • Why we will never have the year of the linux desktop!

    I watched a video that made me thing about FOSS software and why we will probably never have a mainstream linux desktop.

  • remember the "sharing economy"?

    Remember when Uber and Airbnb dropped and the press got breathless over the "sharing economy" - a brave new world where we'd all be making money off things we owned, like our car or house?

    Asking for a friend. No reason.

  • Changes

    I wonder if I shouldn't have said anything about Ubuntu in recent entries. I found out that they are going to be ditching the GNU coreutils, and instead going with ones written in Rust[1]. I'm not a developer and I don't understand all the details, particularly Rust, but I'm not really jumping for joy at this news. As many others have said, If it ain't broke don't fix it.

    I saw a video that talking about Ubuntu's move, and the possible motivation behind it. A lot of commenters stated there are political motives, and others argued back and forth, so I gave up reading. I am aware of things going on in the FOSS community, but only on a superficial level. I would rather remain ignorant of it all, if for nothing but my own sanity.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Something about the bot defence is working

      `alex-bots` is a setup I desribed in 2025-02-19 Bots again, cursed. Basically a request to one of my Oddmuse wikis containing the parameter `rcidonly` is an expensive endpoint: "all changes for this single page" or "a feed for this single page". This is something a human would rarely access and yet it somehow the URLs landed in some dataset for AI training, I suspect. So what I do is I’m redirecting any request containing “rcidonly” in the query string to `/nobots`, warning humans not to click on these links.