Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Give Me Liberty...OR...Give Me Convienence? ^¥^

• Technology and Free Software

  • Bakfu and OCI Containers

    I'm giving myself a week to focus on something that I've been trying to do for a while[1], come up with a generic package management library. This of course brings me to the first thought: don't. Actually someone else[2] said it better and with a lot more detail why this is a terrible idea. There are many other blog posts and warnings out there.

  • Misfin and Mailinglists

    My misfin server was down for a bit due to the low usage of misfin in general, and the lack of GUI misfin clients, but now that Lagrange has support for sending misfin messages, it might catch on a bit more, which is why I've now started my misfin server back up.

  • Beepy

    Yesterday I got a new toy. It is a Beepy! This is a handheld device with a Blackberry Q20 keyboard, screen and battery. The brains involve a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. While these are typically with a Sharp memory LCD, this is a colour Beepy. I bought it via a Discord channel thingy which felt dodgy but enough people seemed to have evidence of receiving something. Unfortunately the SQMFI original is on a waiting list.

    The device was bought mostly for SDF interfacing on the move. I am fed up with the mobile touch keyboard and Termux. For this purpose, the device seems great. The colour Beepy has a backlight which really helps.

    Set up was painful. I did receive a micro SD card set up but I tend to not trust these. There are instructions which make set up reasonably simple. It is mostly a case of installing some drivers and a few steps. Unfortunately I kept disabling the screen through updates. I am now very familiar with setting this up! There is an update which disables the screen and I don't know which. Annoying!

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Another posts about some hacky software

      So because of the stuff that I was and still am doing at work right now I came in contact with CUDA programming and how computing stuff can be sped up using that.

      And while I was just learning about that programming model, I had to generate some vanity keys for new hosts that I added to my wireguard network.