Gemini* and Gopher

• Literature

  • The Last Messiah

    The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes.

  • Added to library: The Last Messiah by Peter Wessell Zapffe

    I've added a document to my library, just because I think it may be of interest to people on the Gemiverse, or perhaps not, but I thought it would be worthwhile to have it on hand. It's pretty easy to find on the Web of Lies, but finding it in a book form, even in a shadow library, is slightly harder. Anyway, it has essentially no formatting, and is perfectly valid as gemtext.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Discord and the kids

    I don’t use Discord for sex-friendly talk, nor do I talk about sex, identity and politics on Discord. But I don’t want to exclude people who want to talk about LGBTQIA+ things – perhaps they talk about it elsewhere on Discord? I don’t care. I want them all to be included without them having to prove their adulthood. And some topics are important for teenagers, too.

    In any case. I don’t like this “prove you’re an adult to participate in this conversation” move all over the place and I don’t like it in Discord.

    I’m trying to imagine the kind of people that might like this. Parents of kids who think their kids should not see the disturbing porn and images of violence available. And I agree with that! I avoid the immediate news about disasters and violence because the images used far exceed my limits. Then again, how does one learn about limits? How does one learn what “normal” means? I somehow feel that this techno-solution cannot replace the complicated dance of parenthood and education. So effectively the parents’ task has not become easier but now they live under the spell of solutionism where some people argue the problem is solved when in fact nothing is solved.

  • Paul Rickards Gives a Decorative Maclock a Serious Upgrade, Creates a Tiny Working Apple Macintosh

    Artist and vintage computing enthusiast Paul Rickards has turned a classic Apple Macintosh-themed digital clock into a fully-working tiny emulator, complete with network connectivity — by replacing its guts with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+.

    "A while back I bought two of those Maclocks with the intention of modding one into a tiny [Apple] Mac," Rickards explains. "After seeing the success of [Gary Parker] I decided to give it a go. To make a Mac, I'm using a [Raspberry] Pi Zero 2 W, a Waveshare 2.8" DPI LCD, and the MacintoshPi image which includes Basilisk II and SheepShaver already installed, and they work without X11 running, perfect for the thin-resourced [Raspberry] Pi Zero."

  • Internet/Gemini

    • launch email from offpunk

      Offpunk has a few new social features: reply and share. These want to call an external email program and pass a mailto: link at it. That’s a pretty good way to do it, but what if I want to call Mutt as my mail handler, with custom arguments, and I want it to open up in a new tmux split so I can see the thing I’m replying to or sharing?

      That’s not too hard, just need a .desktop file with a command in it, and to set that .desktop file as the handler for that url schema.