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Gemini Links 02/09/2023: Unhealthy Technology and No Longer Streaming



  • Gemini* and Gopher

    • Personal/Opinions

      • Trying to cope with the fear of death

        If a thing never ends, or changes it becomes un-special.

        Fully experience the special thing while you can. After it ends, keep the memories alive if you wish.

        Memories can be revived with similar experiences, but one cannot cross the same river twice.

        A person doesn't know what they've completely forgotten.

      • Mushrooms, Dragonflies, Sandbar Willow

        I'm glad to see that, since the yard has some pretty thick thatch build-up, and the landlord doesn't seem to be planning to aerate or anything. Maybe the mushrooms will help decompose some of that.

        We are under a flood warning today, since heavy rains north of here are causing the Tanana to overflow its banks in places.

    • Technology and Free Software

      • What's a healthy relationship to technology

        The question is there in the title and I don't really have an answer myself: what *is* a healthy relationship to new tech?

        These days I feel like I see every new development that comes out of the tech sector in terms of "okay, how is this going to be used for more extraction, more exploitation?" or "oh this seems fun...so what's the catch? how am I going to get screwed later?"

        Was it always like this and when I was young I just didn't notice or are things actually getting worse? Were there people who looked at the proliferation of radio a century and change ago and thought "ah, this is going to fuck us over"?

      • Internet/Gemini

        • I'm No Longer Streaming

          This blog post will be quite short.

          I just finished my last stream on Twitch tonight. I do not intend to stream after this point. There are quite a few reasons that I won't necessarily go into for why I prefer to not stream, but it will be nice having 1 less account to worry about.

          My last subscription (which was gifted to me, so I will wait until the sub runs out so I don't feel like I wasted someone else's $5) runs out on September 25th, so I will file for account deletion when that subscription expires. My Twitch account is not following any other Twitch accounts now and I set things up so no one can gift a sub to me for an account I am not following.

        • Creating an atom feed file to submit to antenna

          I recently considered submitting articles to antenna but since I am not using a gemlog format but just create random files. I thoght I needed to reformat my files but it is mentioned on the antenna site that you can use an atom feed file instead. I tried that and at first failed to understand what is actually accessed and after some fiddling I noticed that if the atom file is submitted, the information in the file is used and the actual article files are not even accessed by the tool.

        • Hello, world

          Haigh. I’ve been on Gemini for years but thís BBS seems ideal for a personal gemlog, so I hope to post more often and more coherently :)

          I have a few capsules and a different gemlog for Linux notes and technical stuff.

          I’m mainly interested in human rights, equality, minorities, indigenous rights, environment and wildlife.

        • RPoD ideas

          I am going to be experimenting with docker and containerized gophernicus. I also really like the idea of GeGoBi as a gemini server, putting this in docker shouldn't be difficult.

      • Programming

        • recutils exploration

          Tomasino [posted about recutils][1], I have been intrigued. In my [2022-06-06 phlog post][2], I stated I had an idea to generate my gophermaps via a recutils database. This wasn't such a new idea for me, back in 2017 this gopherhole was run on a "CMS" system I wrote in C that fed from a MySQL database. This was overkill, and of course, ended up being a pain in the ass.


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