Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACDWNOH Wordo: PINKS

  • What happened next, you numpty? 🩺

    After two CT scans and more cameras down the back of my nose to look at my throat, and discussion of a possible transfer to a bigger hospital, the conclusion was to open me up to drain some areas of infection. They didn't expect to find the glass, and they only seemed concerned about the infections. I had surgery in the small hours of the morning, and I now have to spend two days in intensive care before they scan me again. The nurse who changed my neck dressing said "Oh my god, it looks like you've been stabbed!" She took a photo for me. I have twelve tubes sticking out of my neck, and it looks like a still from a horror film (if someone in a film were stabbed with a bunch of plastic straws).

• Technology and Free Software

  • My Year of Discontinued Pedals

    Last month I found out the EHX Superego was being discontinued. When I'm at the office, I've been listening to music on my old iPod nano. It's got a reasonable amount of space, but isn't the infinite playlist my colleagues seem to enjoy (Spotify, YouTube music, etc). I have a lot of albums on there I really like. But I've been listening to a lot of Slow Clinic, an ambient/drone artist, and the one who really got me interested in guitar-based ambient music.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • WMRD - Murder Hornet Radio

      I wanted to set up a streaming station featuring songs from my band but my cloud server doesn't have the storage or memory. Solution? I set up a reverse proxy between a Pi 5 running on my home network and the server. Next, I coded streaming endpoints in my HTTP and Gemini programs to pipe music from the Pi to the listener. It works great - knock on wood.

      The songs are encoded in opus which gives the best bang for the buck. The Gemini stream plays in Alhena and Alhena configured external players like vlc, ffplay and mpv. Oddly, I can't get it to work in Lagrange but I think that's specific to the MacOS version. There's an HTTP stream for anyone with a web browser.