Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • NaNoGenMo seems … kind of silly to do these days

    For the past few days just as I'm falling alseep, I think, yes, I could make a post about that, only to completely forget about the next day. I finally remembered what I wanted to post about—NaNoGenMo (National Novel Generation Month) [1]. Or rather, how I completely forgot about it this year (and kept forgetting to write about it—sheesh).

  • “If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive”.

    “If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive”.

    — Paulo Coelho.

  • Summertime Walk-Poems

    swimming through evening shade
    air lightens from light to pleasing dark
    humidity dissolving, becoming refreshing
    last hurrah of today's sunlight
    obscured through long sky and rising smoke
    
    
    pastel skies fade into a flaming horizon
    a canopy crowned by the dregs of day
    trees stand tall—a moment—then exhale
    twinkles of fireflies and starlight waiting
    reminding us what we have never lost
    

  • 3rd issue is out!

    Finally, the third issue is out, get comfortable and enjoy reading.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACGIKRM Wordo: LIGHT

• Technology and Free Software

  • GrapheneOS and Google Pixel 8a first impressions

    For those who don't know what GrapheneOS is - it's basically a hardened Android. Without annoying Google services, very minimalistic, and having some security features that stock Android is missing. More about it later.

    But why even bother about such stuff? Well, I've been working as a software dev for a while, and I've seen some shit. Nobody cares about your personal data at best, but usually, it is just collected in enormous amounts and gets sold. I fundamentally disagree with this approach. The technical ignorance of an ordinary user does not give the right to abuse them. When a person has paid for a thing, they must own it and have control over it. Business does everything to remove this control, in order to save money. Understandable, but unethical. Luckily, there is a big community that respects privacy and provides a lot of alternatives

  • Transpiling & Bundling with Emit

    The emit module supports to important functions, `transpile` and `bundle`. Both will render your TypeScript as JavaScript in a browser friendly manner. The `transpile` function turns a single TypeScript file into an equivalent JavaScript file. Bundle can do that with a TypeScript and all the files it imports so you have a self contained JavaScript file with everything you need.

  • Raspberry Pi 4 & 400 Power Supply Issues

    I have a Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 400. The former builds my personal website and my [Antenna](https://rsdoiel.github.io/antenna). I use the latter as a casual portable development box.

    Over the last year or two I noticed I would get voltage warnings popping up. Typical this was prevalent when I was compiling Go, Pandoc or Deno. The power supply I was using was the Official Raspberry Pi 4 power supply that came with the Raspberry Pi Desktop Kit and Raspberry Pi 400 Computer Kit. At first I thought the power supplies were going bad or had become damaged. I tried replacing the power supply with one of the extras I had picked up (power supplies can and do fail). Still had problems with low voltage.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • First Post, 03/12/24, 15:11pm

      No need for introductions, that's what a home page is for!

      I did some more 3D modelling today over my lunch break at work.

      A project I'll probably reference frequently as/when I make posts on here is one I've been chipping away at for... 4 years now? Not sure. Anyway. It's called "Balleborough" ('ba-luh-BRUH': prop'er inglish pronunseeashun). The vibe is supposed to be a sort of... corporatocracy set in a colossal capital city, Balleborough City. Think 17-18th century Venice perched on the top of a 2km-high mesa. The world is in the midst of a Renaissance spurred on by airship travel, and Balleborough - the smallest of the continent of Avaloft's 9 counties - has become the richest due to the booming skywhaling industry and pioneering of their "kinectric grid". This consists of a series of rotating shafts criss-crossed beneath the city, driven by huge turbines that run on burning marsh gas (the same gas which lifts the airships) and provide rotational power to the residents.

    • Community Wiki

      Looking at my logs, I'm adding `TurnitinBot` to my `robots.tx` and I'm adding `DocSpider` to my web server ban rules because the user agent string doesn't contain a URL.

      I also found an IP number from 147.124.205.0/24 quickly looking at all sorts of URLs, with changing user agents and no bot identification, so that entire network gets banned at the firewall.