Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🖼️ xkcd — Subduction Retrieval #3218

• Technology and Free Software

  • Phone anxiety

    I left home without my cellphone today.

    I was only going to the gym. It's a fifteen minute drive -- well within walking distance if my car ever let me down. The route is through a town centre, full of houses and businesses; there are always people on the streets. In the unlikely event that I suffered some terrible mishap, I wouldn't have been far from help.

    I didn't have a mobile phone until I was forty years old. I told myself that I didn't need one, and would never have one: they were the Devil's work. That resolution lasted until I found myself changing a wheel by the side of the highway, with traffic thundering past only feet away. What happened to all the breakdown telephones we used to have on highways? They don't need to be maintained any more, because everybody has a cellphone.

  • A Calm System Check (with a hint of panic)

    
    
    [sava@server] in ~ $ echo "Hello, $(whoami)"
    
    
    [sava@server] in ~ $ echo "Today is $(date)"
    
    
    [sava@server] in ~ $ echo "Where am I?"
    
    
    [sava@server] in ~ $ hostname
    

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Looking for Someone to Take Over Antenna

      There are some huge changes going on in my life (for the better; don't worry). I feel since many months back that I'm neglecting Antenna already, and it's time to hand the relay baton to someone else. I'll keep it up until June 30th or until someone else has taken it over on another domain; whichever comes first.

      Of course I'll help anyone who wants to try to get it going! The git forge I used (notabug.org) is defunct now. Anyone who wants the source code will have to ask me and I'll send it over as soon as I can.