Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • JOURNEY TO THE SUN

    So my long advance-booked screening of Lawrence of Arabia finally came around on Sunday. In a fit of optimism after finding it was screening roughly close to when I'd finish reading T. E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom at my usual glacial pace, and that the Sun Theatre screening it in 70mm film was right next to a railway station, I booked in the assumption that train services would be running normally. In any case there were different lines I could take in without needing the encounter the unthinkable horror of attempting to drive in city traffic. But of course, as with the last time I attempted public transport, they exceeded my own capacity for doubt and had closures that weekend affecting pretty much every line through the city.

    So, next in fear after driving myself, I resigned to catching two "rail replacement" buses (choo-choo-buses, as I call them to myself) to cover the closures on both the lines I was planning to use. At least by driving half-way there I could take a service that ran by train within one stop of where I planned to change trains for the line running to the Sun at Yarraville, so that bus trip was only between two stops. Many hours of research on the three official websites for the different public transport services: V/Line, Metro, and PTV who half-heartedly cover both. None were correct.

    Since I'd decided against catching a choo-choo-bus running to the local railway station, I couldn't use a paper ticket and had to buy a Mickey Mouse card (AKA Myki), since they pointlessly expire after four years so my old one was surely dead and burried (along with whatever credit I had left on it). Unlike last time when I was referred on to a snack food vendor who'se accent I couldn't penetrate at all, now I read you could buy a Myki card at a ticket office at staffed railway stations. However only with $24 credit pre-loaded. But I pleasently found that this last detail was wrong, when you buy at the ticket office they can load just as much as you need, taking the $30 effective fare down to $13.50 ($6 card + $7.50 maximum travel).

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  • Creativity

    Trying to spend some time figuring out why nobody listens to my music and/or comments on it. One of the major things is that I simply forget to advertise it, but I don't advertise it for the reasons I've discovered/thought about I think. Stuck in an endless ouroboros really.

  • a first post of no remark or regard really

    stayed up all night. skin crawling like it's trying to tear apartwise. i smoked some really mid fentanyl just to feel like something else for a few hours. was lied to about the quality. again. waste of 40 bucks. damn shame. it barely worked. tastes like burnt refuse. just numb enough to keep typing without losing it completely. how nice it is to be able to zone in.

    built fragments. stitched little pieces of code into sites, apps, tools. small ghosts. they talk to other ghosts. i think they help.

    watched old universe documentaries while my love lay beside me. he’s sick. i'm sick too. we both have something. an sti. smelly. i think he's lying about how it happened. maybe who. maybe when. but i still love him. too much maybe. not enough to stop. enough to stay. we’re going to the hospital today.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Use Gotify with NUT Server

    It's time to mix them together and get notified by Gotify whenever something happens with the UPS. This tutorial applies if you followed the tutorials linked above. If you have another NUT setup make sure to adapt to it.

    Sending Gotify notifications from NUT server is a very simple process. All you have to do is to edit /bin/upssched-cmd.

  • Toby's tinylog

    Whoa, too many vulnerabilities are surfacing in sudo lately! I stopped using sudo (and doas, just to be safe) on my servers and desktops a while back. I usually can't uninstall it, as it is a needed dependency, so I just disable it by removing the SETUID bit: `chmod -s /usr/bin/sudo`, and then use su. #sudo #linux #bsd #security #vulnerability