Gemini Links 21/08/2024: Against Self-Sufficiency, Haiku OS, and Benben v0.6.0 Plans
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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The cherry on top of this shit cake
PK: [...] I get into these arguments all the time about these huge wind power stations going up all over open land, and many environmentalists have this unquestioning acceptance of this. They just think, oh it’s wind, it’s a renewable technology, that’s progress, we like that, anyone who doesn’t is a friend of fossil fuel or the nuclear industry. And they’ll be out there arguing for the mass destruction of open landscapes in the name of getting “clean energy” for a purpose they haven’t identified yet. And you get all these spurious arguments, all these people saying, “but these things are beautiful, they’re so elegant! You have to learn to love them. My heart leaps up every time I see a five-hundred-foot wind turbine on a mountain!” And that’s mainstream environmentalism today, and if you’re against that you’re a reactionary and a romantic. And it’s astonishing to see how quickly this has happened, and how unquestioningly – and how the progressive narrative that environmentalism used to challenge has been dragged in to the argument to support this case.
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Against Self-Sufficiency: the Gift
What we truly need in this war against civilization, this war for our lives, is not to break off relationships but to create more abundant relationships. We do not need communities with pretensions of self-sufficiency, living off the product of their own labor, hacking their means of subsistence out of the womb of an inert and passive earth with the sweat of their own brow. We need communities that ridicule the very ideas of labor and property by reviving reciprocity, cultivating the gift, and opening our eyes to the worldview that these practices create.
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It's been a week.
For those who don't know me, we live in a rural part of New England and we raise chicken. As in, we used to raise chickens, but due to a horrible incursion from a fox, we only have one chicken where seven used to be.
Of course, who always finds the dead bodies and/or piles of feathers where a bird met her demise? This guy. One cannot simply unsee this stuff.
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curtain peeks, zine pastings, and drumming a second wind
My apartment is black. Pitch black. I keep it that way 24/7. I look outside when I see the clock strike 8 PM. Just out the side of the blackout curtain. Confirming nightfall.
Once dark. Totally dark. I go outside on my balcony, and I smoke cigarettes there for a bit. Then inside. Out again later.
Sometimes critters in the distance, sometimes raccoons/beavers lunging their way through the underground storm drain deal just adjacent to my balcony. I, too, a creature of nocturnal pleasure.
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On History
I wrote the top part of this post and then got sidetracked writing the entire bottom part, but I didn't want to throw out all of it out so I just left it in despite it being essentially unrelated XD. It can be safely ignored.
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Politics and World Events
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Infantilization
The more I think about the terminology, the more disgusted I feel by it's influence on today's society.
By treating it's population like children, it creates a ripple effect on the minds of people who lack autonomy and critical thinking.
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Technology and Free Software
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Haiku OS
I've never used a BeOS computer but it seems that anyone who did fell in love with it, rather like the Amiga before it. The Haiku project is keeping the OS available for future users. I feel like I should try and boot this in a virtual machine and try and see what all the fuss is about.
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Internet/Gemini
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An offline Bulletin Board System (BBS) using NNCP
OK, plugd has done it! The Offline Bulletin Board System system works by sending out QWK files and accepting back REP files.
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The "prod6 problem" problem 😬
A few months back I posted a write up of a problem on a web site I used to work on. I just noticed that it was the most fetched gemlog post I ever made. WTF?
Poking in the log, it's requested every few seconds from a Vodafone IP in Italy. I couldn't see any way to block an IP in the Agate docs. I shut it down for a few minutes. That stopped it for a bit, but it came back, so I renamed the file. Let's see if some error responses make it go away. Probably not.
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Software Releases/Announcements
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Benben v0.6.0 Plans
Well, the release of Benben v0.5.0 seems to have gone really well. No tickets yet, and I only found one post-release bug (and it was so minor that I didn't feel it warranted a v0.5.1). So woo hoo! 🎉🎉🎉 Here's hoping the luck lasts while I work on v0.6.0 ^_^ Speaking of which, I wanted to go over some of the points in the now-updated v0.6.0 milestone that's in the wiki:
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