Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • A completely different vision for the centre of Cambridge

  • More Summer Updates

    This last week — today is 2025-06-19 — weather has been very warm (for Fairbanks) with temps reaching 85 ℉ at the hottest part of the day. The weather has been mostly sunny except for short thunderstorms in the evenings, which started a forest fire about 25 miles east of Fairbanks. I heard that one was put out quickly.

    As far as the local flora, the vetch is still out but the flowers are rapidly deteriorating. I think the dandelion is all or mostly gone, but it has been replaced by a similar looking false dandelion — I think it is called sow thistle. I've also seen wild rose, and white yarrow is out here and there.

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• Technology and Free Software

  • App-Based Gambling and Socal Media Continues To Be Great

    Certain things are an ill, but we accept them. Sometimes it's because they've been a part of society basically forever and it seems impossible not not (drinking, though the prohibition had something to say), and sometimes it's a more gradual acceptance (marijuana legalization). Cynically, I'd also argue that governments only legalize such things when the benefits, such as sin taxes, outweigh the negatives.

  • Using aliases for complex and daily terminal commands

    Using the terminal is made easier with aliases.

    I know most of you know how to use aliases but they are awesome and deserve a post on my blog.

    An alias is a short, easy to remember word or phrase, which substitutes a long and/or a complex Unix command.

  • Hardware failures & RSS

    Turns out that my homeserver _is_ in fact suffocating (at least a little) by being placed in my closet all the time. That, and the unfortunate fact that back when I purchased the hardware, I opted for an 14th-gen Intel CPU gave me some trouble.

    As anybody by now probably knows, Intel needed to release multiple microcode patches as bug-fixes that in the end are supposed to keep bespoke CPUs from frying themselves under load. Unfortunately, I cannot say that my homeserver is idling _all_ the time, neither that it was idling all the time before those patches got released. This resulted in it starting to freeze up from time to time. The problem is that computers are indeed complex systems... and freezing systemd can have way too many causes. Even better, how is anyone that doesn't have a KVM supposed to access, say, the kernel console output of a frozen system? It was hard to debug.