Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • weird tunes dotting the landscape

    radio.garden, I've sung its praises since finding it in 2018 or so

    a boatload of independent radio stations around the world. From the snow-covered ports of SW Alaska, to Africa, to the tucked away mountain stations in Bergen Norway - music of all types, all the time.

    Some, of course, are regular FM stations. right now I am listening to Froggy 96, Farmington (because I'm a jerk! (jk, I just haven't started exploring yet)).

    Megarock Radio in Fenton, MO., my hometown, is very nice. I also need to revisit SUIE college station (Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville). It's offline right now, but...

  • touch

    Touch has such a weird power. I've been listening to Touch by Daft Punk these last few days and it's been bringing back some memories. ~bartender, may I request a song?

  • familiars

    i lost a family member over the weekend, he passed young and he was the other disabled member of my family.

    the night i learnt of his death, i decided to do a reading of my dice about it. I picked my dice and rolled them, my cat was curious what i was doing and so he came over to watch

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AEGMUTO Wordo: SETUP

  • september 2 rise festival

    The gentle roar of the power generators, the dust floating around the trees, techno music beat filling the space, a few hippies, healers and yoginis dancing.

    I placed my hammock directly in front of the stage, a bit further into the forest. The bass kick resonating in my body, nauseating. Surrounded by Christmas light, attached to the tree, powered by the generator,, I was hidden in plain sight, alone.

    I had a hard time sleeping the few nights I stayed there. The dust, the discomfort, the feeling of being alone. Yet a part of me wanted to stay. I offered a few Thai Massage, and a yoga nidra journey.

    A wireless mic, I could walk in the crowd, while Lee was playing gongs and bowls on stage, creating a supporting sound journey to the meditation. Inviting people to move from relaxation, to deep insight and out of body experiences, out in the open.

  • ‘Femme’ (and ‘sapphic’)

    But there have been other factors as well. For example, the lesbian community has tended to feel like it's at least a bit more willing to challenge nonconsensual hierarchies apart from homophobia - not only gender, but also e.g. class and (to a more limited extent) race/ethnicity as well. That said, as someone who's been non-monosexual for as long as i can remember - whether as ‘bi’ or ‘pan’ - i'm also keenly aware of the historic and ongoing biphobia from both lesbians and gay men.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Wimps

    I've likely bloviated on the needless complexity of many UIs, especially GUIs. But it still astounds me how many devs are creating solutions looking for a problem.

    It should come as no shock to people who have been reading my goofy rants that when I use a GUI in GNU/Linux, I use DWM by Suckless. It's so simple and lightweight. It does almost everything I need it to do. The only things it lacks is a volume daemon (not really in WM territory, anyway) and a built-in status. It has an area for it, which is a plus.

    Anyway, recently I'd heard rumblings about this thing called Hyprland. I went and looked it up. It's yet another tiling window manager, but it's a fat one (relatively) that generally requires a lot of config tampering (granted vanilla DWM is pretty lame). But it has tons of add-ons/extensions, and even config files. Why do you need multiple config files for a window manager? You just have to divvy up the color palette from the animation config? Wait, you need animations?

  • Demonstrate uname Options

    Personally, I never made a habit of using the uname command on Linux.

    uname is a basic utility which is primarily used to print the kernel version. But, there are other options available.

    I typically use the -a option which prints everything.

    But, today, I sat down and tried every option to see what they all did. Note that uname with no supplied option implies -s.