Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding: AEFGOLI Wordo: SWARF

  • Muleboy, scene 5

    We're trying, mule and me. It's bleepingly cold, bones freezing. I'm wrapped in Old-Grump's blanket, 'cause my tatterns aren't enough. The blankets aint enough either. I'm not afraid because St Konan leads me. And if I doubt it I can open the book and read it. If I was given the Book of books and the knowledge to read it, how...? Oh God, you love me: help your kid.

    I've just kissed the mule. It's scared. It can't read the Book of books, it can't trust St Konan as I trust him. But it trusts me. The snow is swirling around, howling. YOU CANT SCARE ME!!!

  • PLAIN TEXT DUNGEONS

    These are just some simple rules for a fantasy dungeon-crawling TTRPG for you and your friends. Copy and paste, print-out, make a zine - do what you want. Plain text forever!

    To play you will need a Guide (sometimes called a game master) and a few chums, as well as some normal dice, something to write with and on, and a few hours to spare.

• Technology and Free Software

  • PF Rule Ordering

    Firewall rule ordering matters; by default Packet Filter uses the last matching rule. For inbound packets on tap0 (where the virts on 100.64.0.0/10 live) there are above three relevant rules, the "block all", and then the two "pass in" rules. The reason the "port != 53" is necessary is that without that restriction the last matching rule wins, and thus the previous DNS rule would be ignored. The "port != 53" is however awkward (what happens if you need to match more ports?) and these rules might be better written as...

  • Enh, I tried…

    I’m experimenting with “sitting down with the project for a few hours and if I really can’t crack it, I’ll cross it off the list”. Accepting failure as a possible outcome. That sounds sad and desperate but it’s just been such a relief. It’s a safety valve. It’s a reverse reward. If I don’t do it, I get rewarded by not having to do it.

    When I first started doing GTD, one thing I tried to get good at right away was noping out. The whole “I’ve really wanted to do this for a long time but now that I see everything I want to do, this one thing doesn’t seem worth it comparatively or I don’t even know how to begin doing it, so let’s just not”.

    This new “try, then maybe fail” is a new thing, a kind of middle ground between noping out right away vs buckling down and throwing all my effort and resources and desperation at something.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Geminispace is almost certainly being fed into LLMs

      Or: “Did you ever have the feelin’ you was bein’ watched?” Or: “Did you ever have the feeling you was being watched?”

      Ever since LLM scraping has become a thing done by lots of companies for lots of companies, I’ve wondered if and when they’d start scraping Geminispace.

      On one hand, there’s not a whole lot of stuff written in Geminispace.

      On the other hand, writing a Gemini client is easy.

    • Capsule cleanup

      I’ve noticed a flaw in my character: I’m often burping critique as a knee-jerk reaction and complain about something. Funny thing is that I usually feel bad after the fact but will do the same on the next occasion nonetheless. This is opposite to what I want to be: recently I’m exploring the solarpunk genre and philosophy and found out this optimism magnetic and that I don’t want to spread negativity through my capsule.

  • Software Releases/Announcements

    • Gabbro 0.1.1 Release

      That's clearly wrong as if we have a capsule with "my-capsule.net" hostname that's served by gabbo, with internal link like "./some-page.gmi". This would lead the server to believe we're trying to access a url with proxy.