Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • lawsonia inermis

  • I got my first tattoo

    I've wanted this kind of tattoo since I was 15 so I finally went for it. I'm glad I did! I'm really happy about it.

    The experience was a bit painful (apparently this is a painful area). At first it was quite tolerable and okay, but when the last highlights were being added, it hurt *a lot!*

  • Vanishing Cultures

    Last year I went on a trip to Southeast Asia. I enjoyed the exotic countries a lot, especially the cultural differences to our western lifestyle. Tasting fruits you have never heard of, having meals you've never seen and smelling completely new odors. Watching the people living their lifes, the way they chat, the way they work and dress. Everything can be so different in far countries, so that even religion can become magically interesting out of pure curiosity.

    However, just because a country is far away doesn't mean that the experience will be vastly different from European, American or any western lifestyle we all are used to. I think countries in the future will become even less exotic.

    I want to show you what I mean by comparing two countries. But before we get there, let's quickly take a look at how I travel. After that you might be able to identify with my thoughts.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: CDINOYS Wordo: KNOWN

• Politics and World Events

  • F'n Finally

    This is not exactly a revelation. The guy who walked in on teens while they were changing, a guy who "joked" about wanting to date his attractive daughter - a guy who's in lots of pictures with Epstein, and Maxwell - you're telling me he's in the Epstein Files? Stop the presses.

    There was a now-deleted skeet on Bluesky this afternoon about, "the second-best news you were hoping for is playing out." And, I guess so? I'm a little shocked it took so long. Billionaires and dipshits have no shortage of ego, and this sort of falling-out was always a matter of when, not if.

    Tesla stock is down almost 15%. Musk's fortune is so tied to it that he basically cost himself $20bn today. Almost unfathomable. If I were that rich I'd f off and give a huge chunk to charities to make the world a better place. But of course that's all hypothetical. People like me never become billionaires in the first place.

  • 2025-06-05

    I read a great post from fellow SDFer, stug, about his experience buying an air pistol in the UK.

    gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20250505.txt

    It is always interesting to hear about how different countries have different laws about the same manufactured and engineered objects that are sold around the world.

    I figure I would write a quick post about the firearm topic in the USA. But first, I do have to present a very very big caveat. The US is made up of 50 states and thousands of municipalities. There are probably thousands of laws that govern firearm ownership and usage in my country and it would be impossible to enumerate every single difference. I am going to mostly focus on my home state of Texas which is considered a very gun-friendly state.

    It goes without saying that airguns are not considered firearms in my home state of Texas. For example, stug's Gamo P900 air pistol is listed on amazon.com right now for about $62 and it can be delivered to my door with amazon prime, free shipping and returns included.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Oddμ history

    On fedi, @reidrac@mastodon.gamedev.place mentioned that Oddμ doesn't keep a page history. The idea is that the wiki is only accessible to a small circle of trusted people and therefore we don't need a history to fight spam and vandalism.

  • Avoiding Roko's basilisk, part II

    “Comment on “AI Changes Everything” [2]”

    I failed using an agent a few months ago [3]. It was on an open source project of mine. Perhaps mitsuhiko would be happy to have a look at it. So I replied [4].

    And mitsuhiko was happy to look at it.

    Or rather, spend a few minutes telling his “coding agent” to look at the code and let it do its thing. So I took a look [5].

    Development was done on a Mac, which doesn't have the vm86() system call, so his agent, “Claude,” started writing an 8086 emulator. Or I should say, an 80386 emulator since that's the most common architecture these days. It also came up with a few tests and once it those tests were working, it stopped.

  • Programming

    • Small scripts in C

      Daniel Lemire wrote an article about generating scripts in C++ using an LLM.

      [...]

      I wonder if an LLM would be able to write this code since OpenAI and Google crawled on all the code in my libsheepy.