Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Swinging back

    Swinging back into more of a normal life. Yoga and Karate on Tuesday, had a sauna with friend on Wednesday. Thursday improv with the theater troupe, Friday Karate, and hopefully some synth jamming at night. Saturday, there is a dance party, Sunday I fiddle in the afternoon, and then some bhajan singing in the evening. It all feels more connected, more human. A shift, a drift in a calmer reality.

    I remember that everything I do can lead to my healing, or my dying. Breathing, eating, relaxing... Can I choose health?

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACFMOTU Wordo: POUTS

  • My cats

    As a first post here, let me tell you about my three black cats (all rescues).

    Pixie is non-vocal. She did a little beep the other day, which was the first thing she's said in over a year. But she's also the most placid, chill being on the planet. She has beautiful sleek fur and eyes that turn from gold to green depending on the light. She's less of a cat and more of some shapeshifting spirit who took a jaunt from the Otherworld and ended up in my house.

    Sage is Pixie's sister and the complete opposite in personality. She's a cranky puss, with wild, chewed fur and a constant look of derision on her oval face. Because she had gum disease she doesn't have many teeth left - just a single snaggletooth in her bottom front gum. She doesn't half scream for her food. Bellows. Poor Sagey isn't well though and will probably have to go on chemo soon (she, like the others, is only young). Despite her crankiness she can be a soft little pudding and likes to be snuggled up with you every once in a while. She's very cute.

• Technology and Free Software

  • My AI is bigger than yours

    It's fresh news that DeepSeek, a Chinese startup, released a reasoning LLM comparable in performances to the best offering from OpenAI while spending just $6 million to train it. All the math and all the technical details the company leveraged to build the model are in the related whitepaper you can find on ArXiv.

  • Analog Computer Progress Report

    I have two integrators, one inverter, and one adder, though I haven't had time to test the adder yet. There are a few potentiometers on the bottom which will be used for coefficients, at least until I am able to mount some larger and better-quality potentiometers.

  • Two Heads

    Corporations are not a single entity, so it could be that the cloud team sees potential where the AI department only finds the Great Satan. So, the cloud folks deploying it while at the same time the AI group decries it would not be impossible. Such dissonance may take some amount of fun internal politics to resolve depending on which team can make a better case, the mood of the CEO, whether mercury is in retrograde, and many other such rational and scientific considerations. Probably they are hosting it for that sweet, sweet short-term profit, and if it turns out the Dear Leader is against such foreign code (possibly on account of lobbying by certain sabre-rattling taxpayer-teating techbro corporations) then it may vanish, or if accepted the complaints will vanish readily enough behind the latest noise of the news cycle. We have always been friends with DeepSeek!

  • On netmasks

    though is not efficient, the above involving several forks and pipes and some poorly written regular expressions. "127.0.0.1" might be better replaced with a "^127" for a faster match against the beginning of the line, or one could generate a single regular expression that matches the desired addresses to avoid a grep grep grep grep grep chain as more subnets are added.

  • part 1

    Was digging around figuring out how to actually do the pgp method.

    [...]

    I guess when I get around to booting up a laptop with the flashdrive my private key is on, I'll make a part 2.

  • Posts

    happy new year (in lunar and gregorian calendar) gemspace! if you've given up on this capsule i do not blame you. i have been busy behind the scenes but i have not forgotten this capsule. as you probably might be aware [1], [2], my latest focus for this capsule is trying to get the uptime to be a little more stable. i have had mixed results looking back on it so far. eventually, i will compile notes on this whole adventure.

    in the meantime, i have a new tweak i am trying once again that i hope will be more trouble free (from my vantage point) so i can get back to focusing on writing content rather than worrying about the system environment matters (although they do).

  • BorgBackup for the laptop and the server

    A few days ago I mentioned the rsync-based backup script I use to copy data from the server to the laptop. My actual backup script is different, however.

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    What changed is that I use this setup to make backups of the server and I have a lot more services using SQLite running on the server. Making a backup for a database file while it is being written creates a corrupt copy of the database. So what needs to happen is that I stop the services in question before making a backup.

    Since making a backup takes so long, I'm going to split things up into multiple steps: First make a backup without the directories containing the SQLite files. Then stop each service in turn, make a backup of that particular directory I had skipped and start the service again.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • ZINE ABOUT SMALL WEB - 5 issue is out

      it’s from february and was supposed to come out in 3 days, but i decided it was unfair to leave people without reading material on the weekend, so i invite you to visit elpis, and have a nice weekend