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Gemini Links 07/08/2023: Thinkpad T60 With Hyperbola Linux, Guppy's Use of UDP



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • 🔤SpellBinding: UDMNORC Wordo: BEECH
      • Honour

        I've now read two blog posts about honour but neither really strikes me as a great idea and the problem – for me, at least – is that I suspect that the material doesn’t make for a great game in the first place. I’m putting this right here, in the first paragraph: I have no solution, either. I have some doubt and I wonder whether thinking about these imagined problems leads me to running a better game, that’s all.

      • Back

        My life is so different from how it was a year ago, yet it was so easy for me to forget all the good things that happened, all the progress I made.

        I am thankful of what I have now and will work to remind myself of it more often.

      • Here we go 'round the I-berry bush
      • A quiet, subdued light morning

        A couple glasses of tequila over ice, an amazing dinner, a glass of wine, a show called "Innocent" whose episode currently playing I *swear* I've seen before. But my wife - whose memory is far better than mine - insists we haven't.

      • 30 July 2023

        Today was a good day.

        The weather was nice so i put junior in the stroller and we took a really long walk through the fields and little meadows that scatter the countryside where i live. I also took the opportunity to grab my film camera again (after what-do-i-know years) and started to take a few pictures.

      • Dialling Back Duolingo

        I got my achievement - 1st in Diamond League. The rest can be done on my own time. This morning was my first morning in a while where it was entirely for fun, entirely at my own pace. Much better. I did fifteen minutes of practice. I finished the book I was reading (Natalie Simpson, "Thrum"). Made a very minor change to my forever project, and planned some work for this week. Had breakfast and a cup of coffee.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • "New" Thinkpad T60 and Hyperbola Linux

        I adopted an Thinkpad T60... really, i didn't plan on getting another machine! But there was this coworker who cleared his basement and found this T60 in absolutely pristine condition which only needed some cleaning and the removement of shoddily applied german keyboard stickers. And as my Thinkpad R60 is currently my playground for ReactOS and i needed a mobile system for work and thinking how shamefull it would be letting such a system go to the electronic wast heap... eh.. whatever, i got another system.

        So, the first question was which operating system will go on this machine, as ia am always on the lookout for ways to make my life a bit more complicated i opted for a distribution based on the linux-libre kernel. After failing to install Guix i went for Hyperbola and... really started to like it. Hyperbola is a descendant from Arch and is built by a group of brazilian free software fanatics (and i use this word in the most positive way possible), who want to build a system in the lightweight Arch way but with Debian style long term support stability. They are also planing on switching the kernel from Linux to an OpenBSD fork. So... its an interesting system. That they offer a combined 32/64 Bit installation image also contributed to my decission to try it out. Oh, and its SystemD free, didn't i mention this?

      • Feedback on Guppy and UDP

        What makes Guppy most interesting is it uses UDP instead of TCP.

        I think it's awesome that people are playing with protocols, and even more so, publishing their thoughts for the community. It's easy to poop on someone's work and I don't want to do that. I have a follow up gemlog to post with suggestions I would make to the Guppy spec without changing UDP principles. However in this post I want discuss the challenges I would have as a developer implementing Guppy due to its use of UDP, and those limitations.

      • Internet/Gemini

        • Return to the PDA (Palm OS, Gemini, Offline)

          I've always had a strong connection to Palm OS devices. I've been carrying around PDA's long before the 'smartphone' came along.

          [...]

          I'm on a quest to be more productive, spend more time doing what's essential like quality family time, I've had enough with all the push notifications and constant distractions that's indicative of the current state of the web.


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