Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Cashmere

    I demonstrated to K how much my cat dislikes Molecule 05: Piney Cashmere.

  • My One Page Dungeon Contest submission

    It all started with agroschim proposing a game on the Grenzland Discord: A pulp cover gets posted and we propose the title and elevator pitch for the module we’d write for it.

  • Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray

    I finished reading the novel `Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray` by Anita Heiss earlier today. I enjoyed the novel and would like to share a few thoughts while it is fresh in my mind.

    It is a work of historical fiction, a genre I haven't read often read. The story is set around the middle of the nineteenth century in Wiradjuri country (New South Wales, Australia). The foundation of the story is the relationship between a young Wiradjuri woman, Wagadhaany, and an English woman, Louisa. I found the most interesting aspect of the work to be it's nuanced depiction of this central relationship. The two woman clearly respect each other but the relationship remains unequal and somewhat awkward throughout. Perhaps the inescapable consequence of the power imbalance between them, Wagadhaany is in effect a slave and Louisa her master.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Running pkgsrc in a FreeBSD jail

    On IRC, anthk advised me to take a look at pkgsrc to install some software on the old Power Mac G4. Also anthk was so kind to point me to a compiler for this system, that might support pkgsrc.

    I think that when I foobar this Power Mac, it will be problematic to recover it, I think I don't have any installation media. I don't have any recent experience with pkgsrc and I decided that it would be best to first do some practicing with pkgsrc.