Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • fierce creatures

    the way we would run barefoot
    in the long grass
    not fearing any danger lurking
    would make our grandmother worry
    "don't go further that way"
    but we would
    and we were fierce creatures 
    and the forest was magic
    it would eat away at the debris
    left behind by someone long gone
    hide rust in greenery
    and we would eat wood sorrel and wild strawberries
    tell each other all our secrets
    forget to return 
    until the smoke from the sauna
    our grandfather built
    would call us home
    

  • Love as an Ethnographic Method

    For me, anthropology and love are one and the same.

    After much deliberation, I recently decided to press on with siting my MA project in South India. This isn't a practical decision. I live in Western Canada, where I have existing research interests. My father owns a house in Northwestern India, and already introduced me to local experts on that area's history. I intend to learn Tamil, but the Tamil population in Canada is centred on the other side of the country in Toronto, and the language services here are mostly for Punjabi or Nepali.

    So, why am I making it so hard for myself? The answer is that I love South India.

  • Using Nitride - Introduction

    Eventually, when I start publishing my sci-fi stories, they would go under “Electric”. I call them “reflected” sites because they are just filtered versions of the main Typewriter site with some slightly different branding. That way, if I wrote more romance, I could put them there and folks could go to the romance-only site or jump over to the main one to see that I have no single genre (much like I don't have a single genre for my writing).

    However, it's been years since I've updated those sites and they are beginning to creak underneath their age. Not to mention, I haven't included the last two books I published on them and that is humiliating for me.

    So, I decided to switch the sites over to [[MfGames.Nitride]] and document the process.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AHILSYV Wordo: ADMEN

• Technology and Free Software

  • Setting up Intel QSV on Arch Linux and Jellyfin

    In my last post, I upgraded my home server/NAS to be an Intel machine. This post I want to write down the process of getting hardware video encoding working - before I forgot.

    One of the applications I run on my system is Jellyfin. The open source media server. It's also IMO better then Plex, the (now) closed, requires subscription, and buggy media server. According to Jellyfin document, it supports hardware acceleration (video encoding and decoding) on many platforms. Including Intel.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Monitorix Gemini-Frontend v0.1

      It seems my crafts are taking tangible form, so I've stepped into the package maintainers party. I published brasciichart and GmMonitorix on the pypi.org.