Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • Is nowhere safe anymore?

    While the lambda lab is only really served over gopher/gemini, since 2019 I have kept a small web presence online as well. This was mostly because the emacs package repositories expect projects to have a web page, but I also found it nice to be able to run a small gitweb instance to make my code repositories accessible via http.

    No longer.

    I received an automated email yesterday from my hosting provider letting me know that I'd blown through 90% of my monthly bandwidth and that my server could be taken down if the limit was exceeded. Now, my VPS is a tiny tiny thing. For instance, it's limited to 128 Mb of RAM. However the bandwidth is relatively huge: 500GB per month. For a server which only serves a stub web site and a gopher+gemini hole it's ginormous. I've never seen my usage of this 500GB even register on the meter the hosting provider's website shows me.

  • A real lazy Saturday

    A real lazy Saturday... so far. Waking up around noon, I don't really want to see anyone today. There might be a show tonight, I am not sure I will make it. I don't even have coffee here. Maybe I'll do a bit of matcha.

    I have some work to do, but on a Saturday, it doesn't feel too much like work. A couple of client to take care of. Maybe tomorrow I'll do the garbage and then stop by a client to fix their computer...

  • NO TIME TO TYPE

    Well I've been busy getting nowhere for too long, and now I'm starting to get somewhere with a few of the things I've been trying to achieve, which only makes me busier trying to get further with them. Still plenty of things that needed to be done a long time ago which haven't been started. Still no extra financial reward from any of it. Oh no that's not true, I made $1000 from the AI bubble. Since hypocrites win in this world, and I keep losing, I figured I'd invest $2000 into some semiconductor companies a year or so ago and sure enough the value went up by almost 50%, so I sold almost $1000 worth of shares. Now to see if the bubble lasts long enough for that to happen again and I can earn back my full initial investment and still have shares in some major companies (indirectly via an ETF)... Actually when the bubble bursts and the price does crash I'm hoping to put a lot more money in as a long-term investment, since semiconductors aren't going out of fashion anytime soon, AI or not.

  • Small update

    This year is almost over, and I am excited about it.

    2025 had some bad surprises for me, and I have been very unhappy at times, especially around the middle of the year. However, looking back now, despite the negative stuff that happened, the year itself is going to end as a net positive: I feel like I have grown a lot, and had many good experiences.

    Yesterday I spent some time doing my end of year recap: I read my journal and notes, and prepared my note taking apps and journals for the next year. I keep telling myself that I would really like to journal more consistently, and then I never actually do it. This is a shame, as reading my old journal entries is really useful to appreciate how much I have grown, remember what I accomplished, and understand myself better. Journaling more consistently will be a goal for next year.

    Today I did laundry, did some shopping with my mother, put up my Christmas tree, wrapped most of the presents, and cooked two nice meals for myself. I feel quite tired now, but also happy with how my day went.

• Technology and Free Software

  • f3s: Kubernetes with FreeBSD - Part 8: Observability

    This is the 8th 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.

  • Is nowhere safe anymore?

    While the lambda lab is only really served over gopher/gemini, since 2019 I have kept a small web presence online as well. This was mostly because the emacs package repositories expect projects to have a web page, but I also found it nice to be able to run a small gitweb instance to make my code repositories accessible via http.

    No longer.

    I received an automated email yesterday from my hosting provider letting me know that I'd blown through 90% of my monthly bandwidth and that my server could be taken down if the limit was exceeded. Now, my VPS is a tiny tiny thing. For instance, it's limited to 128 Mb of RAM. However the bandwidth is relatively huge: 500GB per month. For a server which only serves a stub web site and a gopher+gemini hole it's ginormous. I've never seen my usage of this 500GB even register on the meter the hosting provider's website shows me.