Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • worm third day

    Very good sleep, very weird but fun dreams.

    Less emotional today, even trying to bring back triggering memories, I seem more calm. The energy is good right now, I want to try some Hape to see if that creates waves of lows and highs.

    Energy is high, but life is boring without her. We had quite the adventure for a while, filled with passion, fear, discomfort and a wide range of the emotional spectrum. Now I'm working and training and healing. It's a good foundation, but where is the adventure? I kind of want to keep it boring for a bit longer though, healing and stabilizing some of my energy.

• Politics and World Events

  • Higher taxes!

    Tax progressively, with richer people paying higher rates. Don't use value added tax (VAT) or head taxes because these don't scale up. Ignore the people who say that the rich are going to leave. Ignore the people who say that this is socialism, communism or whatever. Ignore the people who say that this is unfair to those who worked hard to build their wealth. It's all bullshit.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Martijn Braam's PiCam Tweaks a Raspberry Pi 4 and HQ Camera Module for Broadcast Video

    Developer and maker Martijn Braam is looking to turn a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module into a high-quality broadcast camera tailored for live streaming — by simply outputting the video straight to HDMI.

    "I'm certainly not the first person making a camera from a Raspberry Pi," Braam admits of the project. "Over the years I've seen several projects coming across my feeds that make various types of camera from the [Raspberry] Pi since the first Camera Module was introduced. Generally these were first simple 3D-printed enclosures for the Raspberry Pi without any display and just the camera module in front making a very simple digital point and shoot camera. There's a few more advanced projects like CinePi that does high quality video recording with a [Raspberry] Pi, mostly focused on recording raw video. What I haven't seen is something that does an end-to-end solution for using a Raspberry Pi as a broadcast/studio/streaming camera."