Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • An Airport Joke

    What's the difference between a pub and an airport?

    I only expect to hear people announcing departures at an airport.

  • ghost in the shell

    I don't feel the grossness of my life at the moment, but I do have waves of ick and meh about it. I also still have random hallucination popping here and there. It's amusing, I'm glad I have enough experiences to dismiss such side effect.

• Politics and World Events

  • Abandoning Israel — A Growing Trend

    Over the past three years, many Israelis have obtained foreign passports, packed up their belongings, their families, and their suitcases, and simply left Israel for good. Official figures speak of around 286,000 Israelis who have left the country, among them professionals and people with academic degrees: doctors, lawyers, high-tech workers, business owners who shut down their businesses and moved them abroad, pharmacists, teachers, kindergarten teachers, caregivers, social workers, bankers, independent creators, designers, artists, musicians, students who will continue their studies at academic institutions abroad, and many other capable people.

    In short, over the past three years, at least around 286,000 Israelis with academic or post-secondary education, financial means, and professional careers — educated, capable people and exemplary citizens — have chosen, together with their families, to abandon the State of Israel and emigrate abroad.

    They are no longer interested in placing their hopes in one election or another, or in Netanyahu's long-awaited "total victory." They have had enough, and rightly so: enough of the Bibist poison machine, of religious coercion, of Jewish fascism and the trampling of the rule of law, of incitement between right and left, between religious and ultra-Orthodox Jews and secular Jews, between Mizrahim and Ashkenazim. They have had enough of the extortion by the ultra-Orthodox parties, religious coercion, intolerance, and the atmosphere of destroying democratic values and human rights whose stench can be felt everywhere and in every corner of the country.

• Technology and Free Software

  • The "modern" Machine Stops

    Recently I started to read The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster, on my BlackBerry Bold 9900 :)

    How and why is a separate topic. I'll just say that it was an interesting weekend project to bring life back into an old phone that is obsolete by any measure, and with some help from Rob, I was able to install some apps and one of them was Mobipocket Reader.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • It's 1am.

      This is my first post here. I'm not sure how to treat smol.pub. Do you make entries that are for an audience or just kinda write personal entries? It matters to me I guess because it controls what I post?

    • Let's Try This Again... Sigh - Fixing Network Problems

      Ok, whelp, AuraGem has been offline for many months. Previously, I talked about the wifi usb dongle constantly disconnecting every day. I thought I fixed it 5 months ago, but apparently not. I was dealing with other stuff in my life, and didn't want to deal with the nonsense that is this terrible wifi dongle (RTL8814au), which has all sorts of problems with usb power saving creating unstable connections, and USB3 causing interference in the wifi signal apparently.

      Anyways, I also had a Jellyfin server that I wanted to use, but couldn't because I would have to constantly unplug and plug back in this USB dongle every single day. So I just gave up. 5 months later, and I got fed up with not having access to my server, so I decided to figure it out.

      Before I do though, I need to re-register my free domains from noip. I got AuraGem reregistered, but the AuraSearch domain is not registered yet (someone had claimed it perhaps to protect it from scalpers, idk).

    • Thoughts While Listening to Kahan's Willing and Able

      I've just spent all night trying to finish up fixing my AuraGem server, and now I'm sitting here, at 5 AM, listening to Noah Kahan's Willing and Able trying to keep myself from revisiting old dark thoughts. But maybe these thoughts are worth revisiting instead of avoiding them like I usually do. It's been a while since I've posted a personal log. I tend to keep my gemlog more technical, and my personal thoughts primarily seep through the layers of the study and more technical writing that I do.

      It turns out leaving college and navigating one's way through the world is hard and scary. College provided a sort of familiarity and structure that the outside world does not have. I'm 28 years old and I still feel lost in the world, stuck in a place I hate, with no friends, and too scared to escape the comforts of my house except in certain important exceptions.

  • Games

    • I LOVE DOOM

      I finally beat DOOM 1 and started playing DOOM 2. I'm loving destroying hordes from hell :D

• Programming

  • Hello World in .Net with Gtk GUI [Ed: Mixing Microsoft vendor lockin with GTK]

    If everything was executed correctly, a window displaying your program should appear on the screen!