Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Primal

    Despite sounding (to me) irregular, the note events are actually much more regular than your stereotypical pop song that typically varies such things as the rhythm, pitches, harmony, ABBA structures, etc. The small but not too small prime numbers throw the rhythm off enough so that the longer beats (to me) are heard as a melody of sorts. A computer program might "hear" something totally different depending on how it pulls the sonic (or MIDI) events apart.

  • Hack the Planet

    Okay so we have "hacking" and then we have "hacking as done by Hollywood" and thus one might imagine "hacking as done by Bollywood". So. Much. Dancing. Hacking (or what passes for it) sometimes appears in computer games, though this can be a difficult fit as the frictonless spherical gamer of uniform density may lack the necessary domain specific knowledge and also the (in part due to the education system maybe not teaching) creativity to really test or learn a system. Gamers can figure things out (possibly on account of playing games, and maybe not so much the corporate widget factory) but that still leaves the domain specific knowledge for particular hacks, like what is this stack thing and why would I care? Hence games usually reaching for a mini-game, a puzzle or some sort of graph traversal with complications to learn and manage.

  • Today, everything is fine...

    I walk into the pub, it was some time since my last visit, but i recognize some faces and see that there are some newcomers. I head directly for the bar, order an whisky and after downing the glass and gesticulating to the barkeeper for another one i tell everyone around: "You know.... life is always a fluid thing. Tomorrow everything may go to shit, tomorrow we may die... but TODAY everything is fine. Let's enjoy the now and don't worry - at least for a moment - for the distant future that is tomorrow....

  • Klingnauer Stausee

    We walked around the lake, me, my wife, my stepmother and her partner. It was late 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic was ongoing. I remember having masks on the train and only taking them off as we were walking around the lake.

• Technology and Free Software

  • enshittification speedrun

    Maybe I'm just paying more attention now, but it feels like the pace of tech enshittification is speeding up recently.

    For example: Google started (admitting to) device fingerprinting in February 2025. Meta announced it's getting rid of its fact-checkers in favor of "community notes," despite the fact that they don't exactly work in the first place: Twitter apparently does axe those on some posts. Amazon recently announced it will start recording your Alexa conversations to its cloud, even if you told your device not to do that, so that it can train its AI - something Twitter already changed its terms of service to do.

  • hyprland window groups

    tl; dr: I was trying to find a way to do stacks but found tabs instead. There’s a dispatcher that will toggle the current window into or out of a group of tabbed windows.

    When I was using Zellij, I really liked the stacked view. It was a sort of master layout where the main content is on one side, and an alternate thing is on the other side, and then everything else becomes a shaded window above or below the alternate content, vertically stacked. I was hoping to be able to find that for Hyprland, the compositor or window manager I use on my Asahi Linux box.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Long time, no see

      I can't believe that it's almost three years since I last updated my phlog. Though I've been following other peoples gopherholes and gemini capsules all the time, I just didn't find the time to sit down and write new posts.

      Since my last post, a lot has happened. The biggest change, I guess, is that I have a new job. Commuting by train to Oslo didn't work anymore, with delays, crowded or even cancelled trains every day. Now I have to drive 30mins in the opposite direction, but without traffic jams. The batteries of our old e-Golf were no longer capable of driving the 45km - at least in winter time. So I switched cars as well and settled for a VW Caddy. With transporting solved, I now work as a Senior Development Engineer at Jotron, an electronics company producing (among other tings) radios for ATC (Air Traffic Control), so I'm finally back to doing more low-level stuff in C++ and Rust. My new collegues are super nice, and I enjoy doing what I do. It also motivated me to continue reading for my HAM license, I'm still waiting for a course in August and hope to get my license this year.

    • Long time, no see

      Since 2010, I've been a member of the Nordic Coleoptera Group. Their homepage is a catalogue of beetles in Scandinavia, including tons of photos and litterature. The old page grew and was no longer maintainable. I've rewritten everything from scratch, and the new page went live last spring. There are still some bits and pieces missing and the development backlog is growing as well. Nice to be able to contribute to this project.

    • A new takeoff!

      I am an old acquaintance of the Gemini Protocol, from back when its popularity was waning.

      I used to maintain the Laika.LK capsule. It wasn't even relevant in the geminispace, but I learned a lot while trying to deploy it on my own VPS.

    • Evry day im journalin

      I've been trying to ease my labor on writing new entries on this logbook.

      As soon as I achieve it, I'll make the code public.

      Fingers crossed!

    • Automated gemlog pages

      At last, I finished my CGI script to automatically create pages for each gemlog.

      The rationale behind it is keeping a single text file with all gemlogs, which I call logbook. The gemlog is requested on the URL, by its date, in the form /cgi-bin/logbook/YYYY-MM-DD. The script checks if exists a gemlog written on that date and fetches its content.

      I am sharing the code at GitHub, under GPLv3. Feel free to hack it and share the results!