Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • armor

• Technology and Free Software

  • dc(1) annoyances

    First up, there's the scale factor thing, and fixing it may not be portable, iirc the dc(1) on Mac OS X had some trouble with the following ksh function.

  • what are you searching for?

    This is the question I have been asking myself for the past nine months. When the TikTok ban was about to go into effect (temporarily), I scrolled through my thousands of saved videos and wondered what exactly I had imagined I would do with them. Very few were useful: a dozen album and book recommendations, recipes and poems. Most were 15-second clips of connections, a familiar buoy in the digital Atlantic. And so I asked myself,

  • My headphones, they save my life

    I’ve said before that switching headphones gives five percent of the benefits (attention, awareness, mindfulness) that going fully phoneless would give for one percent of the effort which is a 400% savings that I’ve applied in my own life and I more often than not (but not always) had headphones with a podcast, an audio book, or music. (I.e. it’s 95% as bad as phones, 99% as satisfying and unboring.)

  • Tartarus: Where bots go to die

    Tartarus is a CGI script that generates a webpage. Within the page is a set of randomly generated links. Clicking on a link will send you to a new URL, which just happens to be pointing to the same script. Each load gives you new random links that lead no where but more random links.