Gemini Links 23/06/2024: The Magician and the Hacker, tmux Tips
-
Gemini* and Gopher
-
Personal/Opinions
-
š¤SpellBinding: CIYLSTK Wordo: STEWS
-
Today is the Greatest
I just spent 2 days at a conference in my own city. Taking Lyfts downtown, talking with people, "networking", seeing presentations that compelled me to nod along with what they were saying.
But the entire time inside of me was screaming what is all for this for? Sure "Your career will thank you for this", "Think of all the networking and change you can enact".
-
On Farkle Tournament Scoring Systems
After the above proposal I have decided to write up a clear outline of some tournament structures and their differences.
-
grease, grime, smoke and swine
it's 6:41 AM. I started the day by guzzling 1/2 gallon of ice water with the AC set to 67 degrees, and then took a cool, wet rag and wiped my face down agressively to remove what feels like a pound of grease. I walk daily, 2+ miles, and lately that has been in 90 degree heat. Humid heat. It causes my eyebrows to become small strips of sweat catchment, that leak salty liquid into my eyes. I wear a hat, it does little. Over time, the lack of facial cleansing makes me feel gross all the time. The harsh scraping of my face with a coarse rag and cold water makes me feel like a new person altogether. Finally, solved that identity issue ;)
-
Tinylog
I've been traveling by train, and while bad cellular-Internet coverage, I've visited Antenna. Antena had been flooded by boring entries some time ago.
-
The Magician and the Hacker
When one begins to navigate through cyberpunk and related genres, it immediately becomes obvious that a programmer or a hacker often appears there as a magician-like figure. The name of William Gibsonās novel Neuromancer (1984), one of the foundational texts of cyberpunk, hints that hacking is akin to Ī¼Ī±Ī½ĻĪµĪ¹Ī±, divination. The 1999 movie The Matrix, full of Gnostic references, tells a story about hackers who, through digging into the depths of the net, find out that our world is a lie, an illusion, a computer simulation, and hack their way to freedom. In the tabletop RPG The World of Darkness, one of the powerful magical groups operating in the setting is called the Virtual Adepts. To quote from The Unofficial White Wolf Wiki[i], [...]
[...]
Importantly, the connection between programming (or hacking as its special case) and magic is not limited to metaphors. There are plenty of magicians who, just like the Virtual Adepts of The World of Darkness, seek to enact magic through technological means. I will not be able to focus on many such examples here, but I will briefly describe two of them.
-
-
Technology and Free Software
-
Terminal multiplexing with `tmux`
Tmux (Terminal Multiplexer) is a powerful, terminal-based tool that manages multiple terminal sessions within a single window.
[...]
Despite the fact that with `tmux::cleanup_default`, I don't leave a huge mess with trillions of Tmux sessions flying around all the time, at times, it can become challenging to find exactly the session I am currently interested in. After a busy workday, I often end up with around twenty sessions on my laptop. This is where fuzzy searching for session names comes in handy, as I often don't remember the exact session names.
-
Internet/Gemini
-
How does TLS use less CPU than plain TCP, part II
I noticed over the past couple of days that the CPU (Central Processing Unit) utilization were similar between the two services, but looking at the logs it seemed my gopher server [1] git hit with several bots. So last night just as the logs reset (a weekly job) I decided to restart the two services so as to match CPU utilization and requests.
-
-
-
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.