Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — CEFIMNU Wordo: LOATH

• Politics and World Events

  • Broken souls in a fear-stricken country – the words of a mentally injured citizen on the background of the war with Iran

    A few days ago, one of the most difficult and frightening periods the State of Israel has known – a direct war with Iran – came to an end. Missiles were fired, planes took off, interception systems were operating at full force, and the whole country held its breath. But when the dust settles, when the news moves on to the next update, who is talking about the truly transparent casualties? Not those who appear in the number of dead or wounded, but we – the people who live with a wounded soul, with mental illness, with chronic trauma. The mentally ill, who even in "normal" days barely survive, we were left alone in the face of the storm.

    The war with Iran was another deep and terrible fault line in the collective Israeli psyche. But for me—and for many like me—it was an internal earthquake. Incessant fear, anxiety that takes over, panic attacks, flashbacks, seclusion at home, inability to sleep, eat, function. For us, every alarm is not just a physical danger – it is a match that rekindles the old pain, the wounds that never really healed.

  • Back to the Summer 2011 Protest Author: Doron Ezra

    In the summer of 2011, something happened in Israel that had not happened for a long time: hope. Daphne Leef, an anonymous young woman in the field of cinema, set up a tent on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv to protest the rising housing prices. Within a few days, that symbolic tent turned into a large-scale, social, multi-class, multi-age protest, the likes of which the country has not known in decades. But what has happened since then? Why did the protest subside, and what happened to an entire generation that shouted "social justice" and dissipated overseas?

• Technology and Free Software

  • 🔌 Installing and configuring NUT (Network UPS Tools) for your home lab

    Do you have an UPS ? And a home lab? Awesome. This post is about configuring all your servers, raspberry pi's and even your gaming PC to shutdown gracefully in the event of a power outage.

    The thing is that you can plug in the power cord for multiple devices in your UPS but, usually, an UPS comes with 1 data cable and, wait for it, a Windows application. With the USB data cable the UPS communicates with only one computer.

    To connect all your computers/servers to the UPS you are going to install Nut. Also known as Network UPS Tools.