Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Seventiesification

    I'm sensing a theme.

  • Pictures from the Aurora Nov 11, 2025

  • I have nothing to offer Thee

    Dreams have come back to me quite a lot with multiple instance of lucidity. It feels really good.

    I draw, write, play music, practice tattooing, it seems like I'm stepping into a new season of my life. It all feel very positive. Even my poop are good again!

    Last week, I worked with a friend of mine, did a family constellation. A technique by which you revisit your ancestors and you give back what you don't need anymore.

  • My Favourite Pedal is Being Discontinued

    A couple of months ago I wrote a loose review on a guitar pedal I'd acquired, the EHX Superego. As I'd been exploring using my guitar to make very un-guitar-like sounds for the first time, that pedal had been a revelation. The point of the guitar is the decay, that's where its music is, and being able to freeze sounds and make long or even infinite drones was fascinating, letting me feel my way beyond my preconceptions of what a guitar should sound like.

    Turns out the pedal is now discontinued. The Superego+ (with more parameters, and some built-in effects) is still in circulation, so I assume that's what EHX wants to nudge people towards. And since that pedal is only $30 USD more expensive than its non-plus counterpart, I get it. But I love the just-enough feature set of the Superego, its glissando function allowing a long or instant transition between notes, and being able to dial out the dry signal allows for some really interesting synthy sounds. The effects loop opens up a world of possibilities as well.

  • weaponized autism

    I have done a *lot* of things over the past weekend... none of which I actually needed to do.

    I'm currently writing a blog post about it where I go into details, but to summarize: in spite of me avoiding my actual responsibilities, I am actually very proud of myself.

  • Unfiltered: I am leaving you to go copy verb charts

    Random interest that nobody has heard of: the topics of invention.

    Imagine a very plausible scenario: you are compelled to give a speech before a large audience on a subject of current interest. Let's say the subject is *distraction*. You have one hour to come up with something meaningful and entertaining to say. You are not allowed to use notes. That would be crude.

    The process by which you come up with something to say is the process of invention. You may be naturally good at it. You may naturally suck at it. You may have read many books about distraction. You may not have. Whatever you've got, you've got. What would this process look like for you? I might go for a walk or a run and let the subject roll around in my brain. I might jot down whatever ideas strike me. I might read about the subject or around the subject. But you only have one hour! You gotta make it quick.

• Technology and Free Software

  • [Older] My Little Review for the RG35XXSP Retro Handheld Console

    This handheld retro-console was released in 2024 and therefore there are a plethora of reviews and videos about it, and you may already know everything about it. For the ones who hear about it for the first time, I can briefly say this console captured the attention cause it resembles very much the glorious Gameboy Advanced SP, with its peculiar clam-shell form factor.

  • My Little Review For The RG35XXSP Retro Handheld Console — A Second Though

    The experience with MustardOS, better known as MuOS, went beyond my expectations, reverting almost completely my opinion about this retro-console!

    While the issues with the controls (including the annoying click-y sounds) are still there, the whole experience has improved dramatically: from the dozens of skins available; the emulation practically perfect; and the hidden options not available on the stock software. Now the console is pushed up to its limits and the feeling is to have on your hands a total different and capable hardware!

    For instance I was able to emulate smoothly some Dreamcast games, and while I recognize the resolution and the controls don't fit Dreamcast games, I am still astonishing about the quality of the emulation!

  • Re: 3 reasons why KDE > Xfce

    Sure, I'll bite. I don't really have a horse in this race since I mainly use niri[1] as my window manager / Wayland compositor, but I do like both projects for what they're trying to do. A little healthy competition never hurt anyone 0:3

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    KDE's has **much** better Wayland support than Xfce, at least as far as I can tell. Xfce's Wayland is still very much a work-in-progress, and according to their own documentation, they're still heavily focusing on stability and performance over feature parity with X11:

  • FreeBSD Dual-Stack Jails on Hetzner Cloud

    Hetzner Cloud networking has a few quirks that complicate otherwise standard FreeBSD setups:

    - IPv4 arrives as a /32 with a pseudo on-link next-hop at 172.31.1.1.
    - You typically get exactly one routed IPv6 /64 per server.
    - There’s no shared L2 domain; your VM doesn’t ARP/NDP for other tenants.
    - NIC offload features can misbehave with VNET + bridges on FreeBSD.

    This guide shows a reproducible dual-stack configuration for a FreeBSD 14 host with VNET jails managed by Bastille. The pattern:

    - IPv4: RFC1918 on the jail bridge; NAT to host’s public IPv4.
    - IPv6: Split the single routed /64 into two /65s: one for the host, one routed to the jails (no ULA, no NAT66).
    - PF for IPv4 NAT and port forwards; pure routing for IPv6.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Cryptography of the Internet - Part Base

      This article is probably going to be a bit long. I do think it is necessary to understand the evolution of cryptography.

      People have always balanced between no-distrust and distrust. I am using these words because I believe distrust to be the neutral, in this binary form.

      In ancient times, there was these awesome people that carry messages between gathering/settlements of people. These awesome people were called "messengers". Naturally, this was a great advancement in civilizations: one could connect with people outside their settlement, by sending messages through these messengers... What an awesome thing!

      I imagine that haters started to try to infiltrate these networks of messengers, in order to control and know what the target of their hate was up to. Indeed, these haters still exist in our modern society. Nowadays, and probably back then too, these haters are people which mostly have a great leverage on hierarchical human-controlling structures.

    • hello, new world

      Hey. I'm going to start posting random gemlogs on here, just to give myself a different perspective on how to do "journal entries" like I already do on my main site: [...]

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      oh and yeah, I'm going to be using Markdown formatting like *this* and **this** in my gemlogs. I swear that Lagrange had some sort of plugin system, but it doesn't (rip), but I think it would be really cool to edit Lagrange to render Markdown styling as it should look (with allowlists and denylists and etc. to make sure other pages don't break because of this lol).