Gemini* and Gopher

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  • skwee-rell

    Today I was in the park with some friends and we were talking underneath a sycamore tree, about what, I do not remember. What I do remember was hearing something over head, feeling something brush the brim of my camo 7-Eleven meshback trucker hat, and then hearing a dull thud on the pavement where I was standing. I looked down and there was a squirrel lying spread-eagle on its belly on the ground right by my hiking boot. Poor little guy had fallen from the tree and was not moving much at all. He was still breathing some, but eventually twitched a couple times and then was gone, eyes open. I said a quiet pray to myself for the squirrel.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Zombie Threat

    Some players have been surprised in "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" that zombies can show up around their "safe" base that, in theory, had been cleared of all the local zombies.

    The reasons for fashionably late zombies involve the RNG and the reality bubble; say a zombie falls off a building into a rose bush and thus dies. That's the RNG. This could happen near the player's base, but just outside the reality bubble, and so time only advances when the player wanders through where that dead zombie is, so therefore it may take a long time for the zombie's time to advance enough for it to undie. Months, perhaps. Or, the zombie could be stuck inside a room or somewhere Brownian motion will take it a long time to get out into line of sight of the player, especially if the reality bubble only brushes past it as the player goes hither and yon.

  • Switched to NixOS: the path of the samurai begins

    I have upgraded the SSD in my ThinkPad, my main x86_64 personal machine. The new one has a whopping 4 TB of space. And this, as I thought, was the perfect time to try out something completely new as a daily driver OS. And by something completely new I meant something not derived from Debian, Arch or Alpine, and obviously not BSD or Haiku which don't match some of my requirements, and obviously not anything RPM-based, not Slackware, Guix or Gobolinux because all of them just suck. As you might have imagined, not so many based options were left, and I chose the one being praised the most by hackers alike: NixOS. Is it worth the hype? It's time to find out.

  • Local LLM for Coding with Ollama on macOS

    With all the AI buzz around coding assistants, and being a bit concerned about being dependent on third-party cloud providers here, I decided to explore the capabilities of local large language models (LLMs) using Ollama.

    Ollama is a powerful tool that brings local AI capabilities directly to your local hardware. By running AI models locally, you can enjoy the benefits of intelligent assistance without relying on cloud services. This document outlines my initial setup and experiences with Ollama, with a focus on coding tasks and agentic coding.