Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • You, Like All The Doors I’ve Ever Opened And Closed

    I left you alone on the bed and watched you. You Mirrored me like I had, looking up and wondering If tonight was the ultimatum. The mind is loud when It looks inside at its reflection, like the echoes of all The fences you’ve ever drawn your hands across, ear Tipped down like a cup to gather those hollow sounds And keep them for yourself. Like a cup with the last Drop down your parched throat, my hand holding it,

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ASGIMOC Wordo: DEPTH

  • Hungry [psydruid: Another Microsofter in disguise]

    So, another week or two's gone by since my last post. Work's alright, happy to be making some money. Started re-reading Olia Lialina's essays and thinking about the Windows Phone again. I do that when I’m feeling a certain way; nostalgic maybe? or perhaps just sad. I never thought I’d miss the Metro design language, but here we are.

• Technology and Free Software

  • ... it Hurds again...

    Well, its now a couple of months since i messed with Hurd, my frustration has somewhat cooled off, and i found myself with a little more time available, so i decided to grab my old Thinkpad, download the 2023 netinstall iso from the Debian page and give it another try. This time, the installation was a walk in the park... everything just did run smoothly and after about 1,5 hours i had a working system.

  • 09 August 2024

    Sometimes, once in a while i reenter the "normal" surface web besides the few pages i visit normally to just get a feeling for what i am missing. Yesterday, after now living "abstinent" for a longer time i peeked into reddit again... oh boy. Perhaps i am getting old, but the simply mind numbing idiocy going on even in big subreddits (just to give an example: r/de) is just unbelievable. There hast to be just ONE OPINION and if you don't subscribe to this idea or think you may just have a slightly different take on this idea you are a Nazi, a fascist, a horrible person, stupid and absolutely lost. After losing as much braincells as if i had spend the time gulping hard liquor i closed my browser, reintroduced my reddit block into my firewall and headed back for the much calmer waters of the smol net...

  • Working in Sourcehut

    I'm doing some work for my partner's business. Nothing much, just writing a few scripts and maintaining a website. Currently, the website is hosted on GitHub and published through Netlify using Wordpress web hooks to trigger rebuilds on submission of new content.

    Today, I spent my lunch break writing a quick script for sorting out some data for her business and decided that I wanted to create a whole Sourcehut project for it. I set up a repository, a ticketing system, and a project overview so that I can start moving over some other things I'm managing for it. I even started writing a small Wordpress plugin to call Sourcehut Builds to submit a manifest on page change so that I can remove my dependency on GitHub/Netlify.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Title: Using Firefox remote debugging feature

      Firefox has an interesting features for developers, its ability to connect a Firefox developers tools to a remote Firefox instance. This can really interesting in the case of a remote kiosk display for instance.

      The remote debugging does not provide a display of the remote, but it gives you access to the developer tools for tabs opened on the remote.

    • Using Firefox remote debugging feature

      Now, you need to make a SSH tunnel to that remote host where Firefox is running in order to connect to the port. Depending on your use case, a local NAT could be done to expose the port to a network interface or VPN interface, but pay attention to security as this would allow anyone on the network to control the Firefox instance.