Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Electronic music and city skylines

    Hopefully, I'm not the only one that thinks this; if I am though, it's not like I care.

    On the way into work this morning, it was cloudier than usual, and I was listening to a semi decent drum and bass mix from 1996-1998. Needless to say, it brought back a wave of memories and nostalgia. As a kid, we used to drive around town listening to various music (usually hip hop and NIN), smoking weed, and sometimes taking shots of shitty liquor with a 2 liter of whatever soda was available as a chaser. Kids are dumb, what can I say?

  • America's warped views on body image and shitty food

    None of these are _realistic_ by any means, and there are real consequences to being SPAMMED by superficial media (tv, magazines, ads, etc.) basically 24x7x365, since you were old enough to remember. That said, rants like this are YMMV (your mileage may vary) and _extremely_ subjective.

    Anyways, today I had a somewhat constructive conversation with my wife about my eating disorder, which I have refused to accept; typically, this conversation (what, you think it was the first? Oh summer child...) uses words like "toxic", (who is?!?!?! what is?!?!), "finally skinny enough", "anxiety", "kids are seeing this behavior", etc. Clearly, this can be extremely triggering for people that do suffer with a warped image of self. What's brutal though, is that _we're taught_ this behavior by our immediate family, friends, peers, media, etc. We are not born and preconditioned to have unrealistic views of ourselves, no. In fact, I learned/was introduced to many shitty topics from immediate family members, and today I'm going to call out my mom.

  • coltsfoot blooms

    coltsfoot blooms at my doorstep 
    tender leaves appear in trees overnight 
    the wind is suddenly gentle
    the clouds overhead made of cotton
    instead of concrete 
    for a moment a clear mind
    as I speak my truth
    to unhearing ears
    

• Technology and Free Software

  • Inkscape "Copy Text Style"

    Once I had a fediverse conversation with Sir Martin Owens on Mastodon about Inkscape, new features, text and style. I couldn't find the conversation, so I am replying to him using my Capsule. I know for sure my capsule will last longer than any other fediverse topic.

  • 80x24

    I use a terminal on every device I can put one on. That naturally includes all of my Linux devices, but I also use PowerShell and CygWin on Windows, as well as Termux on Android. Some of my computers don't have a GUI at all, so I live at the command line. And when I use a terminal, I use only two different sizes: fullscreen or 80x24. I'm writing this log in a terminal that is using 80x24.

    80x24 refers to the number of characters that can fit inside a terminal window. The first dimension is the number of columns: 80 characters can fit from the left edge to the right edge. Conversely, 24 lines of text can fit from the top to the bottom. The 80x24 paradigm was originally popularized by IBM in the 1960s and '70s, since IBM punch cards could fit 80 characters. The rise of the VT100 made it a de facto standard. While larger sizes became common in the 1980s, 80 remained a width target for text files and source code for many years. Some tools and standards still reference it even today.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • reticulum is a bit bumpy

      I have thatit.be running a gateway with LXMD, RNS, and NomadNet. I don’t know how many of these pieces are necessary, as my goal was to serve pages and have a backbone that I could use for connecting to IP traffic. I didn’t want it falling over dead whenever I accidentally closed NomadNet while debugging, so I’m running them individually. Technically I could get away with running NomadNet by itself and it would launch all of the pieces, but I can’t get it to announce properly. I know announcements are a thing that happen, and I see there is LXMF traffic, but none of the nodes I have connected are consistently seeing announcements from thatit.be. I’ve had to manually add it to node lists in order to browse it. This is weird because coppertop.lan – a system on my lan that acts as a local connection to thatit.be has no trouble announcing and showing up places like rworld.map. Despite nearly identical settings!

    • This is my first poll post on this BBS

      Especially for those who don't know Japanese. Do you want a subspace where you can post about Japan in English, separate from s/日本 ?