Gemini Links 16/05/2024: Microsoft Masks Layoffs With Return-to-office (RTO) Mandates, Cash Issues
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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a tear in the sky
she looks at her reflection and finds a pair of purple eyes sprouting from her shoulders. they look back at her demanding answers and attention. she imagines how she was pinned so effortlessly to the mattress: a butterfly on a mount with its thorax pierced. she thinks of her own thorax being pierced, divided into shards through sharp implements she can only feel, not see. her skin feels hot and demanding, and through her own senseless craving she opens her chest wall. unfolding her circulatory system, she waits, trembling with each pulse, red to purple to blue and back again. two bodies loom over her, watching and waiting to split the spoils that remain. they call her names: a senseless little slut, needy, unworthy of attention. she stares back, and hears her name. she feels bracketed by one's arms as the other rends her flesh for sport. she can no longer see anything but a purple tear in the sky, trembling with her own pulse. she can no longer hear anything but her own name and her own resperiation. they see her kicking, gasping, flopping like a fish fighting for its last breath. she feels still, at peace, adrift on a punt, staring at the tear in the sky. she eats cherries whole and dreams of a warm breeze in her hair. they continue feasting on her, tasting the warmth of bitter almond and sweet summer air. they begin to see what she sees: two, then three tears in the sky, ripening and intersecting into a larger whole.
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Technology and Free Software
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Pebcak Resurrection 👼
I am still alive, even though I have been a very hard time at my $JOB, and I was almost close to resign from it. After 3 people resigning, although one eventually came back, the situation has slightly improved. As a matter of fact I am completely left alone and isolated like a renegade… 👹 But is much better than the last four months!?!
The truth is this situation plus my pebcakness really forced me to take a hiatus… 😔
Luckily I recovered my focus and I've started working again on my Speedata Publisher project, I also published a new gemlog recently, I really hope to keep the pace and dedicate more time to my capsule. 🙏
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Weatherstation Update
It has been a little while since I last wrote about my weather station–almost a whole year in fact. I wrote about how I would go about communicating between my raspberry pi and my micro controller. I decided I would use CAN bus to do all the communicating. It turns out though that CAN is really difficult and designed to work well when you have multiple devices communicating over the same wire. Think long distance i2c. Since I’m just doing peer to peer, CAN ends up being a bit over complicated for my use case.
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StepManiaX and Pump It Up
In my college days I spent a lot of time playing Pump It Up (PIU), eventually buying a cabinet of my own. My interest waned as I began to work full-time and had less free time, and even though I held onto my cabinet, I played quite infrequently. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, I started to play again as a form of exercise, but I never took it as seriously as I did in the mind-2010s.
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OK1ZXS-6
There is one more thing, that I do in the APRS-IS network: a weather station.
My WX object is located in the square JN79OA in the south Bohemia and reports every fifteen minutes via TCP-IP temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction and gust. The call sign is OK1ZXS-6[1].
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KeePassXC Debian package situation
On 23rd of April 2023 Julian Andres Klode, Debian maintainer of keepassxc package have removed all networking and IPC features, including support for YubiKeys, from that package, following a very slow-flowing bugreport thread that complained that additional features may increase attack surface. Additionally, keepassxc-full package was created, that retained all these features.
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Got CGISESH working. Simple demo.
Click on the link; the cgi will keep track of how many times you visit (refresh to see the counter go up). If my cgisesh server is running, of course.
This simple cgi uses cgisesh to keep session information for each user (visit count in this simple example). cgisesh is a minimal in-memory key-value server designed to provide per-user session data for Gemini CGI scripts.
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Internet/Gemini
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ABORT MISSION
this experiment cannot continue anymore, for a variety of reasons. the internet has always been one of the few things keeping me sane, for better of for worse, and this is wholly unnacceptable.
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in all honesty there's a lot of writing I would like to retract. I honestly fail to recognize myself at all in just about anything I've made. it's like I become a completely different person every two days. it's seriously fucking terrifying. granted my gemlog generally consists of fairly low quality stream-of-consciousness nonsense thought up precisely while not exactly in rational or giving-a-shit states of mind, but still, you would think I would manage at least SOME form of consistency. NO-PE.
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Programming
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Hardening newlines
Sometimes I just want all newlines in a region to become hardened, for example when writing code or poetry.
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