Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • What some would call the Outskirts of Vinohrady

  • Married! Was I Scammed?

    So that happened! I met a Mediterranean woman on July 7th this year and we really clicked. She fits into my life like a puzzle piece I didn't even know was missing. The kids love her and when they met her they didn't want to let her leave. Suddenly we realised that she had de facto moved in, and we decided that she should cancel the contract for her flat and move in.

    And we decided to get married. A citizenship thing, y'know: I wanted to be a Mediterranean too! She has a Finnish citizenship already and qualifies for a Swedish one by virtue of having lived here for a couple of years. The Nordics is a very union.

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Pull #3136

• Politics and World Events

  • Patch the market bugs!

    I really oppose market capitalism and it’s up to its defenders to patch the bugs, for example by acquiescing to environmental regulation (like an ETS) and labor laws. And I’ve proposed banning the network effect and ending copyright.

    Of course, there are those who want to replace market capitalism entirely and I’m among them. But whenever I criticize the infamous “Unknown Ideal”, out from the woodwork crawl the self-appointed defenders of capitalism and lovers of privately owned MoP and labor exploitation. To them I say “Patch the bugs, patch the bugs!” It is a duty that comes with the mantle they draped themselves in.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Mobile

    MNP doesn't like me posting from a mobile browser. Strange. Desktop works fine. Peculiar.

  • Show the page unblurred

    Here's a bookmarklet to remove the blur filter everywhere.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Staying Connected at 35,000 Feet: The Quiet Joy of Free In-Flight Internet

      the plane doors closed, you were offline—cut off from messages, news, and updates. Some airlines offered internet, but the prices were steep and the service unreliable. Many travelers remember paying the equivalent of a good dinner just for an hour of slow browsing. For most, it was easier to accept the silence and wait until landing. That era, though, is fading. Today, most long-haul flights provide at least a basic connection, and in many cases it is free.

      The speed is nothing extraordinary. A steady 100 kilobits per second is a far cry from home Wi-Fi, but the magic lies in the fact that it works everywhere, high above oceans and deserts. With this connection, one can check emails, send messages, or load simple news articles. It’s not about streaming movies or syncing cloud drives. It’s about being connected enough to stay in touch and keep up with the essentials. Compared to the old days of being completely offline, this small but steady link feels like a gift.

    • Feeds

      I am once again thinking of the feed as a generic single-file export format (RSS or Atom, it doesn't matter to me). Does that make sense? Or would it make more sense to just zip HTML and images? The only benefit of using a feed is that the format is standardised, I guess.

      Feeds as an export format only if the feed items contain images as attachments or as data URIs 😨 I guess? I mean, feeds are good enough to feed the text of pages into a search engine like Xobaque, but if the feed is supposed to act as real export format, the other assets are also important.