Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — ADGIONJ Wordo: BIBLE

  • 🖼️ xkcd — Beam Dump #3168

• Politics and World Events

  • Tax the rich

    Having the tax revenue to fight climate change would be great. Although, now that I think about it: If all these rich folks left the Canton that would be great, too. It seems like a small price to pay in order to exile unwilling millionaires who are maybe using their money to influence elections anyway. This sounds like an excellent idea. At least now we know how much they are contributing and how much we'd be losing. And it's not much.

    I didn't look at the numbers for the smaller cantons. Some of them really cater to the rich. But then again, if the tax rate is low, perhaps getting rid of the rich is no big deal, either. Rents would come down as all the lawyers and bankers would start leaving, too. Phew!

• Technology and Free Software

  • Emacs Font Fun

    I actually love fonts! (Which might surprise you who read from Gemini where all fonts is client side, but it's * I love good fonts so much that I think fonts should be a reader decision, not a server decision.) When my desktop went headless after having to move to a way smaller apartment and my Emacs had to live in SSH only, I was sad because I had set up all kinds of weird fonts in Emacs and functions to switch the entire Emacs over along with “only switch this particular buffer over” variants. E.g.

  • Programming

    • GUI x TUI x CLI

      Many people start out in Linux using mainly graphical interfaces, but after a while they discover that the command line is not just an alternative - it is a powerful tool. In my case, my day to day life goes through the terminal: code compilation, version control, folder navigation, file inspection, automation with scripts, process management, quick text editing, disk cleaning, API testing with, database tools, as well as container management.

      Using the command line takes practice - at first it is more difficult than navigating graphical interfaces with the mouse and requires study. But over time, many things become absurdly faster to do in the terminal. And there's another huge advantage: when you need to set up a remote server, access a Raspberry Pi via SSH, or work within a minimal image like Alpine, CLI tools are practically universal. Mastering this environment makes you much more prepared.