Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

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  • sucker Punch!

    I think The Merrywell is gone now but I've had this copycat recipe kicking around for a while, the Web blog it was posted to is decaying so I'm going to share it here in Gopherspace in the hopes it lives on.

    to make Sucker Punch you mix one shot of a citrus flavored vodka, half a shot of elderflower liquer, three shots of a sour green apple juice and a splash of lemon juice. put it in a shaker with some fresh mint and ice and shake it up then dump it into your punch bowl and top it up with a nice Champagne.

  • Projections

    It was for at least three years that I could no longer project myself into other people's minds.

    When I finally escaped from that cell, strangers out on the street mistook me for a feral animal. I wasn't confused about what I was, what I'd become.

    Before he took over my life, I would assume different identities. I loved being other people. (This was before he broke the part of me that could control people from a distance.)

  • Familiar end of year feeling

    Hey barkeep, could I please have some mint tee? I feel bone-tired, as common for me in December. Must be a combination of the weather and the final rush for the end of year celebrations. It always makes me a bit melodramatic. Expressing what I feel always makes me feel better. Can I?

  • [music] 2024-12-21

    yeah so i had a busy morning!

    the first five were not my jam, tho i did not think any were bad. the dub techno tracks on Stonecirclesampler's album held my interest more than the ambient but not enough for me to say i liked it.

    i enjoyed Wretched Member, it has an ominous lo-fi atmosphere, a pleasant spookiness.

    Helena Hauff's Multiply Your Absurdities was okay for me too, Punks In The Gym is now sitting on my Blood Rave playlist.

  • I’m still the weird neighbor

    I was out shoveling this morning. And this afternoon. More than a foot of snow had accumulated from yesterday to this morning. I was shoveling and thinking about the things I have to do today, and thinking about the time it took to shovel, and how much time I’d have to get everything done, and it occurred to me that I was almost nervous or worried about being able to get everything done. That’s pretty silly, I had many hours to do quite a few small tasks that wouldn’t take too long, in addition to needing to do work.

    As the tiny bit of concern popped up in my mind and I wondered if there would be a better way to pass the time rather than shoveling, which made me think I hadn’t been shoveling long enough for it to work. That is, I hadn’t been doing it long enough to be resigned to the task in front of me. It occurred to me I wasn’t being present.

  • thanksgiving was almost carnivore

    Lamb, turkey, and ham were the biggest items on my plate. The lamb was certainly carnivore, and the turkey, but the ham was store-bought and contained a few grams of sugar. I used some pork panko flakes, imitation vanilla, and eggs to make a biscuit. I thickened some of the lamb stock (I don’t know what to call it, I had pressure cooked the lamb and then reduced the liquid left from that into a stock) with beef gelatin and added a little salt. By itself, the biscuits were good, but it tasted weird to put the lamb gravy on it.

• Technology and Free Software

  • We need to talk about this web dying business

    I've read a couple of entries and a Station post on this, and here is the latest gemlog.

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    I have noticed a trend in our community, how we talk, the beliefs we hold and how strongly we hold them.

    It has led me to believe that we have a large chunk, if not a majority, of people here that are on the spectrum.

  • Presentation of Pi-hole

    This blog post is about the project Pi-hole, a libre software suite to monitor and filter DNS requests over a local network.

  • Presentation of Pi-hole

    Most of Pi-hole configuration happens on a clear web interface (which is available with a star trek skin by the way), but there is also a command line utility and a telnet API if you need to automate some tasks.

  • Incentives that have caused the centralization of the Internet

    * Returns to scale for running servers. Amazon/Microsoft/Facebook/Google/etc. are all much, much more efficient at running servers than smaller entities are.

    * Nobody’s figured out how to make it easy for nontechnical or even semitechnical people to share their thoughts with only a select few chosen people without a central service handling authorization and permissions. As intrusive as Facebook can be, sharing photos there is a lot less public than putting them on a website that anyone or anything can access.

    * Kamal might be great for ONCE, but whoever administers the thing still needs to know how to back up MySQL data and possibly restore it, as well as deal with unattended-upgrades.

  • Programming

    • Advent of Code 2024, Day 8

      In part 2, I lost time because I didn’t include the antinodes on the antennas themselves at first.