Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🐩 Rapturous Love Apocalyptic Dog-Sitting Service

    Christian dog-owners! You know it’s the end times because you can read the signs so clearly laid out in Revelations. Until the Rapture your loving and loyal pet will surely bring you earthly comfort. But who will tend their soulless souls once Left Behind? You can’t take man’s best friend through those pearly gates, but you can rest easy knowing your sweet puppy is in the land of milk and honey and without a doubt will be loved and cared for by nice-enough non believers whose experience you can trust.

• Politics and World Events

  • The infinite tax

    I’ve mentioned a couple of times that a commensurate carbon tax would have to be infinite or larger than infinite (and that rationing is a better solution).

    Here’s the situation. I’ll use Sweden as the example just to get numbers but similar applies to all lands and realms.

    Our plan was to go from 21 Mt CO₂e in 2010, through 6.3 Mt CO₂e in 2030, down to zero, and then into net negative.

    I’m pretty scared that was not nearly ambitious enough for what the Earth needs to keep us in the habitable zone. Still the fash gov now wants to undo even that goal. But I need numbers for my example here so let’s stick with the 21 and 6.3 values.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Arch Linux WriterDeck

    This is just something I wanted to make after seeying VeronicaExplains's post about how she created her own writer deck[1] using Debian and an old laptop she had.

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    I really like her choice regarding tmux, vim, vimwiki and colors but I really don't think Debian is the best option for a writer deck as it installs some stuff you really don't need just for text and distraction free writing. With Arch, we'll install only: [...]

  • Papyrix reader

    I bought an e-reader not too long ago. It’s an Xteink4 (esp32 based device with an e-ink display). I flashed it with the open source Papyrix reader firmware. The software has a built-in web server for pushing media to it, but I find it cumbersome. Oddly, no one seems to have any convenient scripts for copying stuff onto it. It’s either run a clunky web server and click through a browser or pop out the SD card (watch out, it’s spring loaded…) and copy stuff to it like some kind of cave man.

  • Using aliases for complex and daily terminal commands

    Using the terminal is made easier with aliases.

    I know most of you know how to use aliases but they are awesome and deserve a post on my blog.

    An alias is a short, easy to remember word or phrase, which substitutes a long and/or a complex Unix command.

  • os editors and githost history

  • Smaller projects

    Sometimes I sit down at the computer and think, I'm gona compute some stuff. And then there's nothing. This project? Done. That project? Done. I can tinker with sysadmin stuff? Maybe, but the server move is done. Check out OpenBSD? Nah. And then there's that creeping feeling that maybe I sat down at the laptop because that's what I used to do to shut off and relax and now there's just nothing to do. Like an old person who repeats the movement of what they once loved, but now it's just emptiness inside. No spark. No creativity. And it doesn't feel like having achieved zen, either. It's just … bland.