Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • i add my little Library of my fav books

    i add my little Library of my fav books at this Gemini 🎩 network. why i make its, that about taste & idea, & push of my pasion. i ussualy collecting thousands book, before on my drive pc. after my pc die,without say goobye, i start again at first. well i success back collecting at archive org, & keep send too at Zlibrary book host.

  • The original trick-or-treating: Soul Cakes

    Growing up in the US, October was always a sort of surreal experience. In the name of "Halloween", a mysterious holiday ostensibly celebrating the idea of "mysteriousness", many people unleash what was apparently their suppressed fascination with scary movies, sexy costumes, and various tropes from "western esotericism"; interests which are usually more-or-less taboo are suddenly cool for ~1 month (I think the period has grown since I was younger, but most Americans seem to put their foot down at thinking about Halloween in September, perhaps in a kind of perceived equality with Thanksgiving and Christmas). Others protest against the taboo, but put up with it in the interest of pumpkins, corn mazes, annd free candy, but without really knowing why. Even those who abhor the obviously-commercialized hype around something that otherwise wouldn't be very special are usually happy to get some free candy.

  • Dispatches from emotional vulnerability

    Many years ago now I had a friend who told me she really liked receiving handwritten letters. In my best effort to be a good friend in a way that's intelligible to the people I care about, I sat down and wrote her a letter. It was incredibly uncomfortable. I've spent most of my life at this point writing on a keyboard; I hadn't needed to seriously write Words on Paper since I was in elementary school. I'm not even sure what I told her anymore; it was so long ago now. Something about how she was a good friend, presumably. She seemed to appreciate it at the time.

    More than anything, I (re)learned something about myself in the process: I have a much easier time writing about how I feel than talking about it. There's a a few reasons why I think that's the case. One of the less-discussed side effects of testosterone is the way it makes you feel *less*… Less in general. But obviously it's more complicated than that. Social life can't be reduced to chemistry. People like me—and I do believe there's others like me—might tell you there's something about this world that makes it really hard. Call it inauthenticity, alienation, escapism, or whatever; there seems to be something keeping us apart. At least, that's how I've always felt, and I got pretty good at playing the game.

  • 🔤SpellBinding — YGHINSC Wordo: JIVES

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACNOPTU Wordo: TWIRL

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Heart Mountain #3162

  • New York: Trees, Etc.

    As mentioned previously, we took a two week trip to New York to visit our friends who live in Goshen, which is a city in New York about two hours drive from New York City. Goshen is a beautiful place, with a small-town feel to it. Visiting Goshen and some nearby farms was enjoyable. We got to pick apples at an apple farm — pay per pound — which was a lot of fun, and we got to visit a maple farm as well.

• Politics and World Events

  • John 14: The Radical Claims of Yeshua

    I was meditating on John 14 over several days, and something that struck me was the numerous radical claims of Jesus (heb. Yeshua) in this chapter. Some scholars, including some of our dear Jewish friends, have taken the position that Jesus was a typical Jewish rabbi who was misunderstood or misrepresented by his disciples. But looking at the some of the claims of Jesus, that position is untenable. Either Jesus was making radical claims about himself, or his disciples were simply making it all up. If I told you that I wanted eggs and steak for breakfast, and you went around telling people that I was planning to bomb a subway, we can hardly chalk that up to a bit of confusion or exaggeration about what I said.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Deploying scikit-learn MLP on Tenstorrent hardware

    My llama.cpp fork for Tensotorrent hardware is going fairly well. But this weeked I want to rest a bit and do someting else. I really want some tiem to go and play WatchDogs2. But then I have a new idea. I programmed Rockchip NPUs to run MLPs from sckikit-learn. It should be just as easy to get them working on Tenstorrent via TTNN.

  • Use case of Obsidian Bases for job seeking

    A while ago, Obsidian, the note-taking app, released a new core plugin: Bases. It allows you to display automatically-generated lists of notes, à la Dataview, but with a GUI.

  • Maybe FIFO

    This post concerns using a FIFO on unix for notifications from a command line to to a service bot. The maybe part is that we have a reader (the bot) that will mostly be doing other things, and a writer that will make a best effort but will not block. The default for FIFOs is to block, a lot, which does not work here. If a message fails we do want alerts to stderr and possibly also to syslog, so that afterwards there are indications of what failed and when.

    File permissions (and those of any parent directories) should be restricted by default, or custom groups used to limit who can talk to what, the group advice coming with the caveat that certain daemons have a habit of dropping secondary groups by default. Restricted permissions will help prevent malicious or annoying users from playing around with the FIFO.

  • NocoDB — No Code DB

    So, I'm always looking for things that could be the modern POISE. I still haven't found one, but I have found something interesting: NocoDB, the No Code Database. It's open source.

  • Mythic Game Master Emulator, Second Edition

    This was very well organized and comprehensive. Reading it made clear how solo roleplaying worked with this system. Highly recommended.

  • POST Versalog Studies, Handbook for Electronics

    Recently I returned from a two week trip to New York, which was a combination family vacation and a trip to visit some of Emily's friends. There were many things on the schedule, but nevertheless I had a few hours each day to spare, where for various reasons I couldn't leave the house, or we weren't going anywhere. I took advantage of the opportunity to work through the POST Versalog Slide Rule Instructions, which from what I can gather was the standard slide rule text of the day. I worked through basically all the problems in the instructional chapters, and also I worked through the electronics applications chapter.

    I learned a lot about using the various scales, including the standard scales (C, D, CI, DI), the folded scales (CF, DF), the square root scales, the Log Log scales, and the trigonometry scales. At first, it was intimidating trying to remember the various ways you are supposed to use the standard and folded scales in various multiplication scenarios. However, as I practiced with it more, I realized that I don't need to memorize the exact steps. Rather, one starts by getting a basic idea of what the scales are (logarithmic, inverted, and folded). Then, one gets a feel for the basic ways of how the indexes and the cursor can be positioned for multiplication and division operations. For each calculation, you first perform a simple mental estimation, to give you a rough idea what answer would be plausible. E.g. if you have 2.3 x 5.9, you know your answer is going to be somewhere close to 2 x 6 = 12, or 1.2 on the scale. Then you just pick the scales that seem most convenient — e.g., the least amount of movement of the sliding ruler — and position the cursor and maybe index in a way that gives you a plausible answer.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gemini Age Survey

      let's try a small age survey for fun to see, how old the current user group of Gemini and this BBS is. So if you know someone who uses Gemini but isn't aware of this BBS, let that person know so they can take part!

    • The Uniques of My Fav Host Gemini & My Idea's

      I see the Hosts in Gemini are so Unique, After the Closing of Gemlog Blue, the Host "My Gemini Space" appeared which is almost identical, now I am comfortable using my 4 blog Hosts in Gemini, namely My Gemini Space, Flounder Online, Midnight Pub & Cities Yesterday Web, each of these web blog hosts has unique and interesting characteristic features.

      if in My Gemini Space we make the post really functioned to be read by visitors, l, with a one folder line format, meaning, your profile page and all your posts are only in one folder, unless you create a new folder. meaning there is no directory home for your folders, including the absence of a file upload feature in this host, what exists, you want to use one folder or create new folders, yes, they are still your folders, but there is still no single directory & file upload feature, which stores your folders.