Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — GILZSTO Wordo: GOADS

• Politics and World Events

  • They’ve already got too much discipline

    The SD brownshirts here in Sweden seem to think hard discipline is the cure for gang criminals. That’s the opposite of what they need. The gang world is already one of fear and obedience.

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    Don’t get me wrong here. I’m not judging SD’s leader for his wedding guests. I’d be in a fragile glass house if we were judged by our connections to friends and fam. One of my partners is literally Dracula, but everyone knows I’m my own person.

    The point isn’t exactly the hypocrisy either—I’ve made my own fair share of mistakes—although that’s closer to the main point which is that their brutal policy proposals are based on a dehumanized view of the people they think they’re dealing with while in reality these perps are actually real people, as is evidenced by how they can also be wedding guests, which is why I brought that connection up.

  • Workers vs Owners is still a key conflict in 2024

    Due to bugs in our political systems, more money means more power; the labor exploitation market failure is one of the primary ways the evil corporations gain money exponentially, so that’s something I want us to fix. If money wasn’t power to this degree, I wouldn’t‘ve had as strong of a hangup on this.

    Exploiting other externalities like enviroment and network—i.e. plundering the Earth—is an even more primary way for them to gain money and thus as all y’all know, fighting those things is an even hangup of mine! That’s like my main focus! (If by "fighting" you mean writing in my gemlog and never leaving bed…)

    People have sometimes wondered why I’m so hung up on labor rights, i.e. supporting workers vs owners, instead of joining them in misogyny, homophobia, or xenophobia, i.e. why is fighting the owner class so important to me when I could be joining them in fighting women, gays, or immigrants?

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Link Updates

      Since I first launched my capsule, I've always used absolute URLs for both internal and external links. Every link from one document to another on my capsule included "gemini://jsreed5.org" as part of its URL. This was fine, as long as I had no plans to change any part of the domain in the future.

      Now, three and a half years later, I want to expand some of the services I run on the AWS EC2 instance that runs Rob's Gemini Capsule. I want to set up a reverse proxy and delegate subdomains to different services. In order to do that, I needed to change all my internal links from absolute to relative--instead of a home link pointing to "gemini://jsreed5.org/index.gmi", it would now point to "/index.gmi". I spent Sunday and Monday converting all those links.