Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd — Measure Twice, Cut Once #3149

  • 🔤SpellBinding — HILTNOM Wordo: JUMPY

  • No more parents

    It's been a while since I've been on Gemini (now it's impossible to search for, thanks googs!). Reading my last post it looks like it was about two years ago, and then a year before that. Here I am again, trying again.

  • I should be looking around instead of typing on my phone

    Luckily, phones today have voice recognition that isn’t awful. Even better, Textastic well automatically curl apostrophes even though that kind of thing generally doesn’t happen with voice recognition.

    In order to make this post a properly OFFLFIRSOCH-compliant post, I plan on pushing the change to my computer from outside my house and SSHing into my computer from my phone. But that comes in like an hour or two from now.

    I think the weird thing about today’s hike wasn’t the weather, or anything else about the hike itself, but me. For some reason I’m getting more distracted than usual. Usually when I go on a hike like this, in a place I know well, where I’m not with anybody else, I listen to podcasts. However, today I noticed that my mind was wandering so much that I wasn’t really paying attention to the podcast I was listening to, so I decided to stop playing podcasts and actually listen to music.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Slides Rules and Other Analog Computers

    I'm still trying to work out the issue with the tariffs on my THAT electronic analog computer, and am filing a duty dispute claim through UPS. The 300% fee was, apparently, a mistake by person or persons unknown, but they are still trying to hit me with an approximately $300 fee which I think is not correct. It seems that if your product is classified as a "copper product" then you get a 50% tariff fee, but if it is an "electronics" product, that is only 2.6%, and somehow my shipment got hit with both. I think maybe that is because a small bag of copper signal cables is included. But the signal cables are only worth, at most, around $30, so it wouldn't be fair to get a 50% tariff for the value of the entire computer.

    I do want to say that I am a fan of tariffs in general, and how Trump is using them. But of course I don't want to pay more of them then I have to pay, because of some bureaucratic mistakes. And I don't want to pay tariffs that I didn't know about when I placed the order, when I could have instead spent the money on some American-made product.

  • Meat space vs. meet space

    I’m just expanding a bit on an idea that I had in my last gemlog, but I’m starting to recognize that my tolerance for “different views and opinions”, in general, scales with proximity. In other words, I have a lot of patience for (e.g.) a neighbor or cousin who might occasionally vote Republican, but in a purely virtual space I don’t want to deal with centrists anymore — hell, I barely want to deal with the wrong kind of leftist sometimes.

  • f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD - Part 7: k3s and first pod deployments

    This is the seventh blog post about the f3s series for my self-hosting demands in a home lab. f3s? The "f" stands for FreeBSD, and the "3s" stands for k3s, the Kubernetes distribution I use on FreeBSD-based physical machines.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Why do they even bother with /robots.txt?

      It's still too early to see if limiting IP (Internet Protocol) connections to my webserver [1] is doing any good, but it's catching bots that are hammering a bit too hard. And the bots that are getting caught so far are all from the GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM ASN (Autonomous System Number) (34.174.0.0/17 for the record). Two dozen different IP addresses so far this day, with about half a dozen different forged user agents.