Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Happy New Year 2025

    I really wish 2025 brings good things to all of us.

    To begin with, *pharc* worked flawlessly as usual, even though sometimes I had to adjust something for the next iteration. For example, two years ago I had to update it to manage file permissions correctly. No other change to the code during 2024.

  • 🔤SpellBinding: BCEHIWT Wordo: BUNNY

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Three Thoughts on the Ex-Twitter

      Twitter, it seems, is in a lot of trouble. In an email leaked to the Wall Street Journal, Musk admits that, "our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even."

      Oof. I don't know if that's exactly true. Musk isn't quite known for his truth-telling - all the pronouncements of self-driving fleets of robotaxis and cyborg butlers have always had the ring of someone bullshitting for the media, who, in his defense, always uncritically printed what he said. But whether things are bad or catastrophically bad for Twitter doesn't really seem to matter. It had growth problems to begin with. Then it got Musk. Then it decidedly went downhill. Whether Twitter can ever be restored to a shadow of what it was in the 2010s is an open question, but another person would have to take the helm.

  • Software Releases/Announcements

    • Gabbro 0.1.2 Release

      To see all of them and be able to select the one you're interested in you'd have to write an index and put it into that directory. Even having it being generated is pretty annoying, right?