Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Hierarchy of Humankind

    Whether you like it or not some people are better than others, the reason they're "better" may be argued, but it'd be naive to think that differences doesn't matter at all.

    There's an interesting description by Anthony Wong, a Hong Kong actor, regarding discrimination. The original is in Cantonese, but in English the idea is that, "discrimination" is a pretty new term that's more and more widely used in society, and prehaps overused. If someone calls another person a bad person simply by looking at their skin colour or language they speak, that's an act of discrimination, but if someone got treated poorly because say, they commit actions that affects the general public, that's people looking down on them because they don't respect their culture.

    There are some things I disagree about this statement, but he's mostly right.

    If there is no seperation between anyone and anything, there truly is no point to try to be a better person. You can absolutely argue the fact that the way people express hierarchy is terrible, but to say that hierarchies should be abolished is the exact same as saying we should all pretend that being collectively terrible is a good idea.

  • Am I nothing before I chose?

    And there’s a thought I want to express: The real division is not on the declarative christian-atheist line. It’s weather you seek truth, wrestle with God, use dialog to accelerate this process or you seek quick victory, are not interested in truth and are a puppet of your ego. Both declared sides have members of these two kinds.

    Secong thought: Although the „you’re quite nothing” immidiate responce was more than just rude attack from an „I’ve got nothing to lose” young man. It was pointing at something. Maybe just a missed initial title of the video/debate (They changed it shortly after video was uploaded from „1 Christian vs 20 Atheists (ft. Jordan Peterson)” to „Jordan Peterson vs 20 Atheists”) but maybe something more? Some inability to decide and declare? I mean on Peterson’s side.

  • Sumartin, Dubrovnik

    When we left our hotel in Postira, the receptionist asked where we were going next. “Dubrovnik,” we said. “Oh, you will love it,” she said. “And,” she added, “the price for walking on the old city walls is insane but it’s still worth it.” She was right. It costs 40€ per person, but it’s the kind of thing you just do once in a lifetime, as a tourist.

    We started in Postira on the island of Brač, right across Split, but we had decided to take a different ferry and drove all the way to Sumartin and took the ferry to Makarska, then drove to Dubrovnik. Once at the hotel at Lapad Bay we put on our jogging shoes and jogged to the old town, paid the price and walked around the old town. After that, the sun started sinking and we did a quick tour on foot and jogged back.

  • Last day in Croatia

    We went for a bath and a walk and then that was it. Bye-bye Croatia.

    The most dangerous thing we had encountered surely was Donat water, available in supermarkets everywhere, with 1000 mg of magnesium per litre. Liquefies bowels! 😵‍💫

  • xenomorph in fluff

    xenomorph-shaped cloud moving at an unnatural speed on a night sky not darkening pink and peach fluff contrasted by the ominous shape

  • 🔤SpellBinding — ALOQRSU Wordo: REACH

• Politics and World Events

  • A Horse in the Rain

    America celebrated Memorial Day yesterday. To mark the occasion, my wife and I made a big dinner for some of our friends. We ran a few errands beforehand, and on the way home from those errands, it began to rain.

    The last few weeks have seen several days of rain in this part of country. While it has kept temperatures relatively cool, I find myself longing for the sun, and I get tired having to change out of wet clothing every time I come home. So when the first few drops fell on our car windshield, I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

• Science

  • how to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit

    My global friends: I get it. The Americans will not stop referring to temperatures in Fahrenheit even though there is a perfectly comprehensible temperature scale RIGHT THERE.

    Fear not! No longer do you have to perform complex equations in your head or brute force memorize incomprehensible numbers. For lo, I have devised a foolproof way to convert easily from Celsius to Fahrenheit. You need memorize only a single rule:

    Temperatures in Fahrenheit = percent Hot.

• Technology and Free Software

  • On Kiyummi Games

    Just a quick shout out to an indie game developer: [...]

  • 27 May 2025

    Last friday i finished my little project at work and i really like what became of it: The goal was to build a system in which our salespeople could view, insert and modify their customers, take orders and view their old orders. It should also work offline and sync automagically with our ERP system.

    Well, normally i have a solid dislike for the modern Web, Javascripy and Webapps, but with this project and the "target demographic" it was the only possible way to go. I settled for a combination of CouchDB, PouchDB and AlpineJS as the framework for the application. I really started to like AlpineJS during the project: It is small, it is simple and one can indeed still understand WHAT it does and HOW it does what it does. CouchDB and PouchDB are making the synchronisation of data between the clients and the server really easy and enabling this "offline first" of this website: You open it in your browser and no matter the internet connection you can simply work with the local copy of the db(-s).

  • Tengen vs NES

    So the Nintendo vs Tengen lawsuit, where Tengen a.k.a. Atari had been making their own games which Nintendo wanted to stop.

    Nintendo won because Atari had copied their lockout chip to be able to run and they raised the case base on copyright and patents. But patents are for inventions, not circuit diseases like the lock-out chip. If I make a virus and then someone makes an anti-virus I shouldn’t then be able to win a patent battle against them for how their anti-virus infringed on my patent! The lock-out-chip is only malware.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • blog 0

      heyya! nothing special for this, just wanted to say that i'll now be crossposting my blogs from corvidae.digital to here! i'll start doing this the next time i make a blog, and from then on i'll post each blog both there and here! my https website is ...

    • media exhaustion

      Every day I contemplate deleting all my social media. Some days I get very close. Twice, I have actually done it. The longest I have gone without Instagram, or TikTok, or any of the other apps was 2 weeks. Despite the deletion being owed to semesterly exams, they were a wonderful 2 weeks. I felt like I had more time in the day. And in reality, I did: I gained the 5 or so hours spent doom-scrolling, to use as I now pleased. For the first time in years, I felt like I had control over my time. I studied more, and I read more.

      But I was also lonely in those 2 weeks. I couldn't help but wonder what trends, what memes, what hashtags I could be missing out on. I obsessed over the Reels my friends must have been sending me all that time, or the story replies to when I posted about going digitally silent throughout exams. I missed the connection. I was dependent on parasociality.