Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: DYMORTI Wordo: AYINS

  • Flood

    A bluegrass concert in Beattyville this weekend would have raised money for victims of last month's catastrophic floods. Flood relief concert was canceled. Venue flooded.

    Yesterday on the radio I heard there's floodwater in downtown Clay City. It's expected to rise for five more days. Angie Gable put on a playlist, left the radio station an hour early to try to get home.

    Naphina's kids splashed happily in the lake their yard became. Then it merged with the creek, a muddy torrent full of debris, potentially deadly. It poured into the basement of their ninety-year-old house. Now it's raining again.

  • Dull race, Verstappen wins

    Most races have something happen. The Japanese Grand Prix was not like that.

  • [Old] Miami and the value of highlights 🏈

    F1 is shown in the UK on Channel 4, but as highlights only. So after watching the race in Miami I thought it had been quite entertaining. Then I saw other people saying how dull it was and I realised that the highlights format can work in my favour.

  • Actually, it does make more sense that “Marine” is a blue color

    You may be familiar with a feature on your operating system that makes everything yellowy-orange in the evenings to reduce the amount of blue light that gets blasted at your eyeballs. The idea is that this is equivalent to wearing blue-light-blocking glasses, and will let you get sleepy at normal times instead of tricking your circadian rhythms into keeping you up because your body still thinks it’s daytime. Apple calls the feature “Night Shift”, while Windows calls the feature “Night Light”. On Android, I gather the feature is called “Night Light” (“Eye comfort shield” on Samsung devices). At any rate, the original program that started this kind of thing is called f.lux.

    At any rate, there are consequences to making everything more yellowish-orange. The most obvious thing is that you shouldn’t do color-sensitive work. The first prohibition that comes to mind is “don’t do anything in Photoshop unless you’re doing black-and-white pixel art or just cropping things”, but this also extends to other tasks like “don’t go clothes shopping”.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • A Cool Gemini Capsule (Literally)

      While traveling to Washington DC to attend today's Hands Off Protests against the semi-sentient spray tan that rules our country, I had the good fortune to also have time to go by the incredible National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. And I saw a Gemini Capsule that predated capsules like `conman.org` or `mozz.us`, or even @solderpunk own `zaibatsu.circumlunar.space` by over 50 years.

    • Could I be longer? (eh, not really)

      This bit stuck out:

      Perhaps Twitter, with its 240 character limit allows for a sort of cargo-cult quality, where a decently savvy person can play the role of creating good content, without actually having the broader personality to back it up. This might be a filtering thing, where a larger number of people can appear intelligent and interesting in short-form, while only a small portion of those can maintain that appearance in long-form, or it might be a quality of Twitter itself. Personally, I suspect the latter.

      I, on the other hand, suspect the former. You people know me by now. I’d have to actually try hard to make my posts longer.

      Granted, I tend to stick to topics where I don’t have to bridge a very large inferential distance, or I just assume that my audience is mostly on the same page as I am. This keeps posts much shorter — probably sometimes a tenth the length of what they could be.