Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Untruth

    Untruths may be apparently harmless, such as Santa mentioned previously, though opinion manifests: some may see Santa as harmless good fun, while others may point out negatives of the associated consumerist consumptive craze. Or maybe all the Santa spending is as necessary to this civilization as all those temples were to the Pagan Kingdom?

  • Why I no longer use shirt pockets

    During the years I spent in mandatory military service, I always kept a small notebook and a pen in the left pocket of my uniform shirt. Nowadays, I virtually never put anything in my shirt pockets, even though I still carry a notebook and a pen and frequently take notes. That is because now that I'm a civilian, I own and wear many different shirts. Some of them have breast pockets, some don't, and some have a pocket only on one side. Some of the pockets have flaps and/or buttons, some don't.

    When I wore a uniform I could always count on having a left breast pocket with a flap that can be buttoned, so whenever I wanted to fetch the notebook and/or pen I just had to reach into a fixed position, a gesture that was ingrained into my muscle memory. In civilian clothing, this is not so easy - there are many different arrangements of pockets. When I want to fetch my pen, I have to take a second to try and recall where the pen goes in this particular outfit, or else pat every single pocket (and a few positions where this outfit doesn't have any pockets but many others do) and try to feel which one contains a hard, pen-shaped lump.

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  • An ongoing storm

    A brief hospital stay, a hefty bill, a lot of overdue work – and now a nasty cold. The strong winds outside are clashing against the large and heavy iron door, making it swing back and forth and creating a deep creaking sound in the process.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Re:Re:Re: ... about SSH

    The questions brought up are good for just general security practices. We try and setup enough walls and guards and alarms to tell us when someone breaks in. Chances are that in the moment you'll never actually catch the bad actor and stop them in their tracks. So the goal should be that breaking one key doesn't mean breaking all keys. Reduce what they can access when they get in one door. Once you know someone broke in, change all your locks.

    Any good cracker is going to enter your world and hide. What we end up detecting is the destruction they cause on their way out. There have been memory attacks, though the OS should shelter an app's memory from other processes. But a good default way to think is to make life difficult to escalate those who get into your system, but once someone is in your house worrying about the locks is the least of your worries.

  • Giving up when it's the right thing to do

    In an attempt to better our security, a new mandate was implemented to force all development teams to dedicate time to resolving code scanning and dependency issues. It was a good idea, implemented a little poorly, but my team jumped on the task and has been resolving issues like crazy. We started with low hanging fruit so the last few were the real pain in the ass tasks.

  • RetroChallenge 2024 entry: Days ]|[

    Here are my RetroChallenge 2024 updates for days III - VIII

  • a call sign

    I go by ttt2600 online in places. Usually a different moniker, but ttt2600 here and there

    Recently, I have become fascinated with CB radio. HAM, NOAA, aviation bands, obscure AM/FM stations (e.g radio.garden), and am picking up CB'ing as a hobby. For s&g's

    I wondered what consistitued a "callsign" for a CB'er, and, in the United States, they are mostly "made up" but were issued through an entity that was "officiated" to do so by the FCC at one point. Up through the 70's, it seems.

  • Man cave, homeoffice side kick computers and summer EDC bag

    I got a little corner desk (80cm by 80cm) and two 4x1 row Kallax shelves to build a little computer corner for my old ppc macs and a gaming pc. I dropped the middle shelf on the Kallax so that my two towers fit nicely inside left and right of the desk: [...]

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gopher question

      I got an email with a question I didn't know how to answer, so I am posting it here to see if someone else can help:

      Hi Candide,

      Thank you for writting noob.txt regarding gopher hole setup, it has been very helpful. I managed to get that setup but i'm interested in writting cgi scripts but i am confused about where to place the cgi-bin folder. Could you give me some guidance on that? I am currently not an APRA member.