Gemini* and Gopher

• Politics and World Events

  • Israel

    There are no words. I carry the boycott in my heart even if the governments of the West stand complicit in the genocide.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Pointless auditing 😵

    A while ago at work I fixed some things and released to prod. As usual, this involved tickets, code reviews, pull requests, test evidence, change request approvals, post implementation checks, and I've probably missed a few things off that list. It's a bit tedious but normal. Time passed and I now remember very little about it, but there's lots of audit trail.

    Today at 4:20pm I was asked to supply some evidence for an audit of the change request, and could I do so by 4:30, please. I was puzzled. The audit ticket is in the same ticketing system, so the change number automagically links to the ticket, which in turn links to the other information. What more do you need?

  • Pinephone Pro

    I got #X11 running on the #PinephonePro under #FreeBSD ! Shown here running my favourite #icewm window manager. Super exciting! Now to get the touch screen working 😬

  • Recent Read and Linux is too Easy, Redux

    I found an old book written by Isaac Asimov while perusing the stacks at my local library, it is "Buy Jupiter" [0], a collection of his older short stories. It is different from most, however, in that the author follows each story with some auto-biographical notes on what he was doing at the time and how the story came to be published. It's a great look into Asimov's mid-life and career, and I found these notes very interesting.

    ~ A recent republic bbs comment about how Linux had become too easy reminded me of the very first gopher post I wrote back in 2009 titled "Linux is Boring, or Saved by the Slack" [1], followed up in 2020 by some similar sentiment [2] when sparcipx mentioned wanting to ditch linux (sadly, his phlog post is no longer online for me to reference). There were more replies on the latter by ratfactor [3], logout [4], and 1436.ninja [5].

  • A tipsy girl's thoughts about roguelikes/lites

    Let me preface this by saying that — like the title says — I'm not in the most sober of states while writing this, but the thoughts running through my head are plenty and I can't keep them all to myself, can I? So excuse any grammatical errors I might unknowingly make while writing this

    Games are fun, REALLY fun, I mean most of you reading this must've played at least *A* game before in your life and it was definitely fun, wasn't it? Recently I've been starting to play more indie games, and more specifically, 𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓾𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓴𝓮𝓼 (and roguelites as well, but it doesn't sound as catchy). Now I've been a big fun of roguelikes for as long as I can remember, pretty sure my first PROPER roguelike was Enter the Gungeon, fun game, I need to play it again sometimes, but as time went on I had an itch, an insatiable itch which I couldn't get rid of, yet I knew exactly what I needed. More roguelikes

  • Analog: Comparator Part II (publ. 2025-04-17)

    I've had some trouble implementing my comparator using just op amps and the DG212B analog switches. In my tests, something strange is happening where the analog switches lock up after about a minute or so of use, i.e., they stop responding to the signals from the op amps. It is not quite the same thing as latching up, since voltage supply is not removed. However, if I cycle my +/- 15V power supply, then the problem does go away, at least for another minute or so. I think it is something related to capacitance, as I can sometimes unlock the analog switches by touching on the board with my finger. I wondered if maybe there was a loose connection somewhere but after further investigation I don't think so. I'm planning to build a simpler version of the circuit and do some more testing.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Tinylog aggregator update

      This entry started as en email to @fab@redterminal.org (for the second part of this entry) but I thought it was a good idea to actually publish it here, so here we are :).

      Today (well, technically it is now yesterday), I updated the tinylog aggregator, both the codebase of GTL (the tool used to generate the aggregator page) and the subscription list.

      Regarding the codebase of GTL, I didn’t change anything related to the spec yet, except the way the date format. But that isn’t a change in the codebase per say, because that display format was a configuration, so I updated the config, not the code.

      What changed with GTL code is its robustness to ensure links were aggregated correctly. What I found was that firing go routine to retrieve all entries in a loop was causing issues apparently. I simply added a timer to wait 200 milliseconds between each requests. Doing so made GTL timeline calculation a bit slower, it is true, but made it a lot more robust. So at least for the aggregator I’m going to keep it like that. Maybe I’ll make that parameter configurable so people with stronger computers and/or network may want to reduce that waiting time? I don’t know, but at least the aggregator page has been stable the full afternoon without tinylog entries disappearing and reappearing during each update.

    • Freezr "P.E.B.C.A.K." ⌨️

      Indeed… I am finally here again! 💪 I am going to dedicate more time to this capsule even though my spare time has shrunk to almost nothing, but I still love the idea to have Gemini to succeed so I won't give up just for the laziness!