Gemini* and Gopher

• Politics and World Events

  • unc’s first Halloween

    I thought about life, the universe, and everything for a bit and came to the conclusion that, unlike many previous years, I didn’t have any good reason to not hand out Halloween candy this year.

• Science

  • Switzerland and the climate

    Switzerland is slowly about to find out that you can't buy the climate with money.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Screen Gnat, Begone!

    The screen gnat is the mouse pointer, at best distracting as it's always there, in the way, at worst you click the trackpad by accident and then something happens in Brogue followed by "no, no, no, no, no!" as your character wanders somewhere to do something and probably die. Solution? In SDL applications one can remove mouse support and hide the cursor, and then your keyboard-controlled games (or whatever) are no longer infested by the screen gnat.

  • Migrating from Coolify to k3s

    It has not been a success. Coolify is a very capable PaaS, but my weird requirements have not been a good fit for it. Coolify wants to take over entire hosts. I do not have hardware for that. I specifically needed something that could run alongside existing software installations. So, I decided to hack Coolify a bit and modify its installation script and platform checks. Coolify only officially supports Ubuntu and some other distros. It tries to install Docker by itself. I run Gentoo, and already had Docker installed. So I had to bypass those checks. Everything had to be shoved into the /data/coolify directory. Upgrading was always a pain, and half the time required a bunch of messing around in order to get the system back in working order.

    The final straw was after failed upgrade, where Coolify refused to start up anymore. It seems that somehow I had lost the encryption keys that it uses to encrypt data at rest. With Coolify not working, I was left with a bunch of docker-compose.yml files lying around in the /data/coolify directory on three different computers. This has been the situation for the past two or three months. I

  • Internet/Gemini

    • About Internet and Privacy

      I really like DuckDuckGo, Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser. These are great tools that improve my online privacy.

      What makes me sad, is the fact that these are tools that should not be needed in the first place. Missing the old Web 1.0 days is not just about nostalgia or about being a retrogrouch (I am!), it's also about online privacy.