Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • defenceless

    validation
    recognition
    seemingly likeminded individuals 
    in a shared space
    joy bubbling underneath
    let it stay hidden
    don't reveal a thing
    confess to nothing
    my mother said never change
    never lose that sensitive side
    but to be vulnerable
    defenceless
    against not even malice, hostility
    but indifference 
    the cruel confirmation
    I am indeed
    invisible
    

  • Walking along the Limmat

    My lower back hurts and I think it’s better to take long walks than to sit at the computer as I usually do. So the plan for today is to read the newspaper on the balcony, surrounded by plants; then eat the best baklava in town (Damaskus) – well, nearby. And then I walked back home. About 8km in 2h, that went well. And I took some pictures.

• Technology and Free Software

  • AI and brain atrophy

    I've been using the AI quite a bit recently, ever since I started giving it a try. And I must say... it's awful. At first it was fun, I could bounce an idea off with the thing and it was useful, the AI itself did little, it was just a medium where I could express my own thoughts freely and develop them almost on my own. The AI acted as a sort of mirror for my brain. But as time passed, I realized it's more of a crutch, something that keeps me from actually using my brain.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • I don't understand doomscrollers

      I've been seeing a lot of articles lately about people who describe themselves as addicted to social media. They want to "detox" and even fail at that. I just don't understand this "doomscrolling" at all. Maybe someone can explain it to me sometime.

      I’ve had a Mastodon/ActivityPub account for over a year now, but I only use it sporadically. I can’t really get into it. Most of it is just short messages and pointless chatter. I’ve already muted the worst posters, but I just don't understand how someone could spend the whole day with it. But maybe I'm using it wrong.

  • Programming

    • Arguments Parsing

      No arguments, in some tools, means to read from standard input. Perl here copies from such tools as sed(1) and awk(1) and makes it easy to operate on standard input or the given file(s).