Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 13 December 2024

    After a somewhat stressfull week its now finally friday evening and i can let my mind calm down a bit. At work it was... interesting... a coworker (a travelling salesperson) had to be fired immediately ("fristlose Kuendigung" in german) because of (idiotic) fraud. What moron thinks you can pretend to sit in homeoffice and collect the full wage while simultaniously work for another company? While driving the company car nonetheless. Whatever, even if i think such behaviour is utterly stupid and i even don't like the guy, i never like it to be the person who bricks the devices and locks the person out of the systems. Whatever.

  • URBEX

    Visual chronicles of urban exploration in early 2000s New Jersey, and related adventures.

  • My Grandma's Story

    My grandmother was maybe five years old. She sat on the side of a dirt road with her brother next to her. They sat there for hours waiting for the Ukrainians to come back.

    They were walking along a dirt road near their house when the horsemen with rifles came galloping down the road. They surrounded the kids and told them to sit.

    "Sit down and don't move, little Yids. We have to kill a few big Yids, and then we will come back and kill you". They galloped away.

    And so they sat silently for hours. Eventually, the sun started to set, and her brother said, "maybe they are not coming back?"

    [...]

    And so my grandmother did not die that day, and I get to tell this story.

    It happened in a small town near Odessa. My great-grandparents ran from the beautiful Polish city of Lvov after Ukranians stormed it in 1918 and burned down the Jewish neighborhood.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Sandboxing on Linux - it needn't be complicated

    Imagine: you setup a fancy new service that is connected to the interwebs. How scary! What if that new butt that you have exposed to the www is - in fact - naked? Even worse, what if it is programmed in C and because of that, probably breakable in ways that you cannot imagine?

  • on jujutsu

    it looks like jujutsu (jj) has been gaining a lot of traction lately. some say that jj provides them with an interface that fits better with how they use git, that it's much more intuitive and easier to use. plus, the backward-compatibility makes it virtually painless to just give it a try.

    I've only briefly looked at jj (a few months ago). at the time I had a number of git repos, some of which aren't software-related projects and had high hopes that jj could provide something that makes it easier to work with git.

  • open for consulting

    this is a short post i meant to make long ago.

    while still developing code publicly,

    building a private infrastructure to host large projects,

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Internet tubes

      Rumor has it that the London tube system is falling down, or more precisely overheating. I say rumor as London is a long walk from the North American plate, and I do not remember much if anything about the temperature of the tube system, and anyways a few data points clustered in the 1980s may not be long enough to establish a trend, the faulty memory aside. Second (or Nth) hand information can suffer from the "Chinese whispers" problem, where a message is corrupted during relay, a problem perhaps compounded by what passes for AI these days, especially if half the AIers embiggen the text with AI, and the other half seeing that the text is too long have another AI unembiggen the prose. This will waste some amount of energy, and generate some amount of pollution.

    • Converting Org Links to Gemini Links in Any Buffer

      I like writing my gemlog posts directly in gemtext format, rather than writing them in Org format, and then converting to Gemini, like some people do. Gemtext has a pleasant, simple markup that is natural to write in, and that looks good in Gemini mode.

      Sometimes though, especially when writing up my "News and Links Digests", I copy and paste a lot of Org Links from my references collection, which is an Org document.

      One trick would be to convert the Org document over to gemini, using emacs-ox-gemini, and then copy the links out of there, or some slight variation of that. But I didn't like the extra steps involved in that approach.