Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: BIMOSWT Wordo: ABODE

  • weekend away, still hooked

  • softness all over

    the softness of the morning light
    greying fur on an old dog's face
    I am softness all over
    for once
    serenity
    nothing has changed
    yet everything feels transformed 
    I am softness all over 
    that doesn't need to change
    bump into sharp corners
    bruise
    heal
    

  • open wound

    Writing is all I can do these days. I want to write all the time. If it's not on this computer it's in my notebooks.

    It keeps me sane. It gets the stuff out of my brain.

    A nice next step in my process is that I realize:

    I am attracted to people who don't love me. I want to make them love me. I do everything for them to love me.

  • Take Alhena To Nightfall City

    It's been a minute since I posted about Alhena. It now supports nex:// if you're keen to wander the streets of Nightfall City.

    I can't remember offhand all the additions and fixes since my last shameless plug. I think the inline player supports a few new media types including flac and wav.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Sunday 20th of April 2025

    Techo-authoritarianism is scary. AI is threatening to slurp up all data ever made and the US in particular looks OK with it. AI defenses seem all the more important, what can be done? Agents will be taught to bypass simple restrictions such as user-agent sniffing, IP range blocking, and rate limiting. To close off the internet to non-robots is almost impossible, and contrarian to founding principles of the open web. We have enough walled gardens with traditional social media. Honeypots will be bypassed too. It seems inexorable, and this means that even writing this is a silly idea. It elicits a helplessness.

  • Tuesday 27th of May 2025

    A quick update on my how to prevent AI consumption. Proof of Work will cause web pages to be too costly to scrape, I wish I had this idea but not me

  • Internet/Gemini

    • No Online June

      I will be turning off my website and gemini capsule for all of June! (My email address will work, but I won't be responding to any emails in June)

      I considered this last Friday night, but am committing to it now. I want to be offline for June in general. My "final straw" to convince me of this was Manuel Moreale's post "Experimental June" (linked below).