Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • In The Case Of Spoilers

    So apparently telling people something about the content they are about to consume is a bad thing, I've known that people hated that for a very long time, but I never understood why.

    As in, I do not have a grasp on how anyone could possibly think that spoilers are a bad thing despite how obvious it is that many hate them, especially on things they like.

  • "that doesn't pay well" and other things my parents said that confuse me now

    I was attaching hardware cloth to the chicken run this morning, and I thought "this isn't half bad; I wouldn't mind a job that involved building wildlife or farm cages."

    And then I heard my parents' and teachers' voices in my head, in chorus: "oh, but that doesn't pay very well."

    ...And then I had to put the cordless drill down for a second, because Reader: Why was my parents' generation so utterly obsessed with whether a job "paid well"?

    My parents are Boomers. Neither of them has ever wanted for a job that paid a living wage. Sometimes the margin was slim, but they always made ends meet - and by "ends meet" I mean "had shelter, food, utilities, transportation, and medical care covered at the same time." They owned two houses outright before they turned 35. Today, they're multimillionaires, and if they split up, they'd each still be a multimillionaire. And my dad didn't even work full-time for years! (He worked part-time and spent the rest doing unpaid field research, which is where I learned things like how to detach a tick and where to find endangered orchids and turtle species.)

• Politics and World Events

  • Removing another restriction on Right To Manage

    In England there is a no-fault collective right for the owners of flats in a block to have the management of the block transferred to a company they control, called a Right To Manage company or RTMco. It is one of the more effective remedies to the problems of long leases on flats.

  • kol haam (voice of the people) gemini capsule

    The world is going crazy, I guess... and I decided to try and open a new capsule called "voice of the people" (KOL HA'AM in Hebrew), it will be a Hebrew/English capsule on Flounder.online gemini hosting and it's supposed to be a free and open newspaper for various opinions, both from Israel and the world, and you are invited to visit and read (lagrange browser has argos translator or google translator will help you read the articles and opinions)

    I invite anyone who is interested to send their article or any content they wish to send me to publish in it to the following email: ronblue777@proton.me

    You can use a pseudonym. We are interested in hearing your views and opinions, especially in times of adversity and war. We are interested in the voices of peace and hope!!! We are against war! We are against oppression! We are against fascism, racism, and hatred, especially against the oppression of free speech. We are against occupation and discrimination, we are against dictatorship and censorship!

  • News and Links Digest

    Iran bombs hospital

• Technology and Free Software

  • Announcement: Public Yggdrasil Node

    Yggdrasil is a project to develop a network routing scheme between devices that is fully decentralized and can scale up to Internet-sized mesh networks.^ Each node in the network generates a cryptographic key that is used as its identity, and other nodes can route to it based on its identity alone. The core of the project is the routing scheme, but its primary implementation is an IPv6 overlay network in which each device's address is derived from its public key.

    The fact that Yggdrasil uses an IPv6 overlay is extremely useful. It allows computers and smartphones to connect to each other over the existing Internet, but in a way that manages addresses and routes automatically. No central authority is needed to provision networks or assign IP numbers.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Six years of Gemini!

      Today is the sixth anniversary of the public announcement of Project Gemini!

    • Heterodox Technology links for 2025-06-20

      Heterodox Technology is a link log about alternatives to the Windows / Intel / ARM / Android / MacOS / HTTPS status quo.

    • Changes to AuraGem Search

      I'm currently in the process of moving my search engine database from Firebird to Postgresql. The entire search engine crawler data will also be rebuilt from scratch.

      The process is almost complete, I just need to move over the actual search querying sql code to postgresql's version of searching.