Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • adulthood, spring cleaning, twenty-threes

    Hello there, it's been a while. April was an eventful month, and I have some thoughts to share - on mistakes, becoming an adult, and freedom.

    My worst habits lead me to some poor decisionmaking over the last couple years. Take an undisciplined escapist, give them endless algorithmic video feeds, plentiful cannabis, and some feelings to run from - it might be a while until they pull themselves out of that haze. It's certainly taken me a bit, but I've come to recognize that I've wasted quite a lot of my earliest twenties.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ASGINPD Wordo: AYINS

  • The redundant pages in paper calendars

    Usually my writing style on here is me laying down the law ex cathedra but every now and then I’m not so sure and I get into more of an aimless causerie like these musings on how my paper calendar is both too cluttered and too empty:

    On digital calendars you can often shift between day views, week views, month views etc and it’ll show relevant information.

  • Thalassa

    Never mind that I must mostly remain inside the structure that is affixed to the planet's so-called bedrock. It's preferable to suiting up and tethering oneself during an occasional outdoor repair. The building straddles a long ravine that, in my estimation, descends at least 12 kilometres. The organic forms (that I assume are more plant than animal or fungi) respire helices that are entirely shades of grey. They rush upwards, almost violently, dancing in the false atmosphere like brutish ballerinas before finally clinging to the walls or ceiling in repose as they dissipate. The "creatures" themselves also are entirely shades of grey. Upon entering this ecosystem, it's as if every cone cell has fallen dormant.

  • Bus trouble

    Sweden wrong-headedly uses a system where the polar opposite busses have the exact same number 🤦🏻‍♀️

    Since I have really bad eyesight what has happened to me many many times is that I go to a bus stop and there’s two bus stops really far from each other on separate sides of a really dangerous and busy road and there are huge numbers saying 360 but both of the bus stops have the same number and to see which one is Röda Kvarn vs which one is Tjottahejti I need to get really really close, sometimes inside the li’l stall and maybe that’s not even possible because people are sitting there and I need to stand like 3cm from the li’l text sheet inside. The LCD display thing that they have I often can’t see at all.

• Science

  • Being Sick Enough

    So I have covid. For the third (potentially 4th) time, it just happens when your mum works in childcare, for me this time (and similarly every time I've got relatively lucky) it's manifested as a mild annoyance, a sore throat, a bit of a headache, feeling a bit lethargic and just overall a bit meh. However, still letting me function, albeit at slightly lower capacity.

    The problem I have is that my dad also has it, and it has hit him relatively hard (as it has nearly every time he has had it) he's flooded with pain and sickness with it, this of course means that I am not sick enough to warrant any sympathy from him and my mum. This has happened every time covid has struck this house. I am simply not sick enough, and any time I let my guard down and show how sick I am/feel I get shot down and told to not be a hypochondriac.

• Technology and Free Software

  • gwit at esLibre 2024

    The 6th esLibre congress, which is to take place in València on the next 24th and 25th of May, will be including a talk about gwit. It's going to be a short, high-level presentation to introduce gwit to participants and hopefully spur some discussions after it.

  • End of “World of Ends“

    It comes across as “things will sort themselves out on unregulated TCP/IP”, and the entire 2.0 silo era kinda put a damper on my enthusiasm for that perspective, and then proof of work protocols added planet-burning on top of that.

    Also, we’re more and more seeing the downsides of free speech extremism, downsides that the article kinda downplays.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Looking Back on AuraGem's Development [Ed: Microsofter trying to EEE "Gemini" now (not unlike Google targeting the name)]

      AuraGem used to be called Ponix and it used to be mostly Gopher-first. It was originally intended to be another pubnix system, but that never took off. It was, however, one of the first 50 capsules created for Gemini. At that time I was fully on board with Gemini and excited about it. So I started a new server named Ponix.

      Unfortunately, I don't remember much from this time, hence the name "lost beginnings." What I do remember is that I had a Gopher server at this time, and that Gopher server had a Sefaria proxy and a YouTube proxy. Unfortunately, all of the code and information was lost when my Raspberry Pi's SDCard died. I don't remember what year this was, but it might have been earlier in 2021, I'm not sure. I did end up relaunching Ponix and re-writing much of the stuff that I had, this time in Gemini first.

    • Scroll-Server v0.1

      I have added the docs to Scroll-Server v0.1 to the Scroll Protocol website, along with a few updates and bug fixes.