Gemini* and Gopher

• Technology and Free Software

  • Marathon wait, iOS edition

    I’m still waiting another month+ for 26.2 (I usually only get a chance to upgrade my main machine over Christmas break), but this’ll be a nice reason to update the phone OS as well (iPadOS gets proper multitasking and macOS gets 24-bit color in Terminal.app).

  • KeePassRX

    I know this blog has been quiet lately. But I think the posts will pick up in volume a bit, even if they're not exactly LONG posts.

    I wanted to take a moment to announce a new project I'm working on.

  • Pluribus (after just two episodes)

    I feel like the big difference between the Pluribus hivemind vs either of the two most obvious comparisons—Meta’s social networks and LLM’s like ChatGPT—is that those two are corporate-owned. Pluribus is “imposed” in a lot of the ways they are but not all: if the “psychic glue” description ends up being true that’s a lot more grassrootsy, a lot more like “just a really, really good language”, like the Tower of Babel undone and human communion healed and perfected. And unlike the fantastic Body Snatcher’s trilogy or misguided and un-thought-through “upload” transhumanist fiction, the “that’s fun for my copy, but how about me?” template doesn’t apply either. It’s less getting “scanned and copied” and more “joining up”.