Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: YCIRTUB Wordo: BOZOS

  • 🖼️ xkcd: Tensegrity #3190

  • 2025 Review

    Winter and Spring of psychedelic exploration, to the limits of sanity. Re-discovering lsd, magic mushroom and mdma. Mixing, re-mixing, multi-days of deep healing. Releasing previous relation, falling in love again.

    Montreal travel, grandmother's passing. Connecting with the family and discovering ancestral trauma.

• Politics and World Events

  • Responsibility

    For all the US citizens who are angry and disappointed about how they world is treating them only because they happen to be citizens of a country ruled by wanna-be dictators, all I have to offer is my impression of how the world treated Germans for decades after the second World War. The Germans would say: "I didn't know!" Or: "What was I going to do?" Or: "I desperately needed to keep my job." Or: "I didn't do it!" And people elsewhere hated them all the same. Yes, it was probably unfair to some. But what has haunted me ever since is this: How much resistance is required for you to be cleared of the stain of collective guilt? Not on the individual level, but on the collective level. Yes, some of my ancestors were Nazis, most likely. Or cowards. Or beneficiaries. It's the small fragments and rumours that remain. A great grandfather got wounded in Italy and deserted, walked all the way back to Lübeck and got nursed back to health in the cellar of his Grand Hotel. The neighbours felt that the Nazi got what he deserved. One grandfather apparently cheered the Anschluss on the Heldenplatz in Vienna. Does cheering for the wrong party make you as guilty as the concentration camp guard? No. Are all descendants absolved of their ancestor's sins? Also no. The responsibility remains. To keep the memory alive. To hear the accusations and to acknowledge what happened. To right the wrongs. To give back what was taken. Some have always been part of the resistance. Some might be waking up to it just now. Some might say, like in that meme, with a smirk, "first time around?" Some will never understand and they need to be outvoted or outgunned. Collective responsibility is hard because most of us were taught that the children must not suffer for the sins of their ancestors. But at the same time, we live in a society, benefit from it, suffer from it, and share responsibility for it. Even if we don't like it.

    (For future readers some historical context: The Trump administration has kidnapped Maduro from Venezuela much like the Bush administration kidnapped Noriega from Panama and now the Trump administration is once again threatening to take Greenland from Denmark.)

• Technology and Free Software

  • Aiden Chostner's Pico2DVI Is a Do-It-Yourself Graphics Card Powered by Raspberry Pi's RP2350

    Maker Aiden Chostner has designed a PCI Express graphics card that you can build yourself — though expectations as to its performance must be tempered by the understanding that it's powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller board, albeit one that's been heavily overclocked.

    "Recently, I began exploring circuit design, and I liked the idea of creating my own custom graphics card because it sounded like a fun project," Chostner explains. "After some back and forth of choosing requirements for the GPU, I settled on using a Raspberry Pi Pico [2 W] as the main processor. It already had a graphics library made for it, which would make adding HDMI support simple. I saw PicoDVI by Luke Wren, but I wanted to add more RAM and some extra capabilities."

  • Lil Adi's Tinylog

    Actually maybe playing with Nokia 2780 would make sense? I could write gemini browser, misfin client, and some proxy client for signal...

  • Happy New Year

    Have a great one!

  • TV Detox 5

    Now this is all a process with many interlinked events, from emotional, sexual and financial healing, to purging my house, so I cannot blame all the changes in my life on watching less tv. But the shift in my tv consumption seems to have unraveled a domino effect in my life. It was the linchpin of many other processes.

    I am less hungry ever since I stopped watching tv, one or two meal a day is fine. When I practiced intermittent fasting, I noticed that I needed less sleep. Last night I've slept only 6 hours and I feel really good this morning.