Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • space for sadness

  • SpellBinding: New Server!

    I am grateful to tilde.team for hosting the game -- while it lasted.

    Hope to see you making words soon.

    p.s. This is mainly for Antenna. BBS users already know. I tried using ctrl-c.club via my gemlog, but ctrl-c.club Gemini server was down. What's happening?

• Technology and Free Software

  • HARDWARE UPGRADES SHOULD BE OBSOLETE

    Back from my holiday, I'm reading some tech news via NNTP on my usual ~30 year old PC. I didn't bother to keep up with it using the ~15yo EeePC, which I instead used to download old docos/films using the free (but patchy) hotel WiFi, emails, and to break my word about my next ROOPHLOCH post being optically transmitted.

    Windows 10 is about to go EOL next month and kill off a whole lot of vastly more powerful PCs than mine, which M$ don't want to run Win 11, by dropping 32bit support and adding completely silly hurdles like TPM 2.0 support and an old CPU blacklist. Linux developers are taking cues and talking about dropping 32 bit support soon too. FreeBSD plan to drop 32bit in their next major version.

    But think about this for a moment. What are we all sick of hearing about from the IT industry for the last decade? "The Cloud". "The Cloud" does the processing now, so the hard work of running complicated software shouldn't be on your PC in the first place. Difficult data processing tasks and AI modelling are done "in The Cloud", and absolutely everything you save, regardless of sensibility, is supposed to be stored "in The Cloud". Your 4096K HyperspatialHD+ video decoding and encoding for upload/download to/from "The Cloud" is all done on GPUs now, so even that doesn't relate to these minimum CPU etc. requirements.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • elpis.ws - The next issue will be released in a week

      Hello everyone again. Because I decided to take a short break at the end of summer, and then suddenly fell ill with coronavirus for 2 weeks, the issue is taking so long. But that’s not the only reason. The 11th issue will be completely written by a new editor, a woman for women about women, that was the strategy)) there will be no interviews, I was refused, two were planned, but later, in view of the conclusions, we abandoned this idea. The issue will be completely autobiographical, it will tell about the formation of the computer age through the eyes of women who took a direct part in the development of computer technology, industry, design, and the formation of the Internet (the modern Internet).

    • Gopher

      Just a quick post here. I have a mirror of my capsule over in gopher space setup. It can be accessed like any gopher site:

      gopher://remort.app gopher://remort.app

      I have a hand rolled gmi->gopher create that runs automatically so there may be some glitches but overall I'm pretty happy with the results.