Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • still finding my own way - 2025-10-07

    the Ruark R610 helpfully takes a usb stick and plays flac - shuffle works at the directory not drive level. i want freedom from the tyranny of deciding what to play next; i would like a better shuffle feature.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Seek Seek Revolution

    That unix shell scripts read linewise is part of the trick. How the file is edited is also important; some programs use a rename(2) to move the update in place, which creates a new inode (possibly one with a different security context, which might be bad). This atomicity is usually highly desirable, but not here. Also the -i flag to sed is not portable as it was copied in various ways from perl(1) by various folks at various times. Thus the scripts shown below may need porting to other operating systems that pass for unix these days.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Gradient Backgrounds

      Browsing Geminispace with Alhena just got more interesting! Version 5.4.0 adds gradient backgrounds. Just like color emojis, animated gifs and favicons, this feature is optional. Also included are a few small bugs fixes and some nice improvements to the HTML to Gemtext converter.