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author: @fab@redterminal.org
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license: CC0
2025-06-17 05:05 +0200
I upgraded my server from FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-p3 to FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE. The upgrade went smooth as always. Thanks to the FreeBSD maintainers and developers.
2025-06-17 00:46 +0200
I bought a new PixelPhone 8a and put Graphene OS on it the same day it arrived. That was in April.
In May Google announced to completely change the releases of ASOP which make it nearly impossible to build Graphene OS which chose the Pixel because it was published with the full device tree for them in ASOP as reference.
I especially bought a newer Version of the Pixel (and therefore more expensive), because it should be supported until May 2030. I'm not sure if this is possible now. In any case it will be a lot more work to build a ROM like Graphene OS if possible at all.
Eff google 🖕.
2025-05-28 23:25 +0200
Seit über einer Woche ist auf Fefes Blog kein neuer Artikel mehr erschienen. Jetzt ist auch noch das Zertifikat abgelaufen.
Fefes Blog
Es kursieren zwar einige Vermutungen im Netz, aber niemand, der was wissen müsste, sagt was (vielleicht aus Pietät). All das macht mir ernsthaft Sorgen, da ich nicht mehr an einen "Scherz" oder anderes glaube. Nach über einer Woche ohne ein "offizielles" Wort, glaube ich, dass es sich nur noch um was Ernsthafteres handeln kann, ohne jetzt Gerüchte in die Welt setzen zu wollen.
Ich hoffe jedenfalls, dass es Fefe gut geht und alles gar nicht so schlimm ist.
2025-05-19 14:05 +0200
Experts say that Putin will test the borders of the European Union between 2028 and 2030. I believe the EU should build a massive nuclear arsenal. And if a Russian soldier sets even one foot on the European border, it should result in the immediate nuclear annihilation of Russia.
We should carry out a few nuclear bomb tests beforehand to demonstrate our resolve to Russia. I would rather die than live under Russian conditions! We know how it is, we’ve been through it before, even though I live and grew up in West Germany. The EU just needs to finally grow a pair of balls.
2025-05-08 16:50 +0200
RE: @Sandra 2025-05-08 13:36 +0000
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi Re: @fab@redterminal.org 2025-05-07 18:22 +0200
Apostelgeschichte 2:4. 🤷🏻♀️
You don't bring me to read the bible now. I'm not even sure if I have one in my appartment :P
*Edit:*
So after a bit of internet searching, you want to say it's a "Miracle". But I would bet you used Google Translate or something, that seems much more plausible to me :P
2025-05-07 18:22 +0200
RE: @Sandra 2025-05-07 07:25 +0000
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi Re: @fab@redterminal.org 2025-05-03 16:37 +0200
Du hast völlig recht. Es wird jetzt noch viel schlimmer, weil sie so lange gewartet haben. Aber besser jetzt als nie.
I didn't know, you can speak german :) But you're right.
2025-05-06 09:39 +0200
What a beautiful morning! The sun is shining and its warm and cosy. Outside everything is green and flourishing. I'm drinking my second cup of really tasty coffee and I'm feeling good.
I promise to myself, not to read or watch the news today and not to worry about the future. Just enjoying the day and my calm life. No problems or responsibilities.
Today is a good day.
2025-05-03 16:37 +0200
Why did it take so long to declare the german AfD as "gesichert rechtsextreme Vereinigung" (sure right-extreme association) by the Verfassungsschutz (german institution to protect the constitution)?
On the other hand, I don't know if it's such a good idea to ban the AfD as (still) the third strongest force. I don't want them to win the next elections (which could happen), but a ban could backfire. It's far too late. Not that we would end up in a civil war with these Nazis. I would bet most of the core of the AfD is (illegaly) armed. And I bet that most of the police forces votes for the AfD because they'll get more rights over the population by them. :(
2025-04-23 19:43 +0200
RE: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space 2025-04-23 16:56 +0000
@fab@redterminal.org, @bacardi55
what are your thoughts on adding Station and BBS logs to the overall subs list? I added a few, but if we're encompassing all tinylogs, every user and subspace have their own tinylogs, and this can be added. This is effectively recreating those spaces...so I'm not sure.
I think if somebody wants to add BBS or Station tinylogs he can do so. But to generally put them in the "official" list is not that good, because you can't directly answer to them through your own tinylog. If you do it anyway, it mostly won't be read by the original authors. You have to answer through the link provided by the Station or BBS entry, and the answer won't show up in the aggregation of logs (GTL or @bacardi55's aggregator).
2025-04-23 07:43 +0200
RE: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space 2025-04-22 22:37 +0000
I never got into that smartphone hype. I only use my smartphone for banking (which is mandatory and I hate them for that), as a hotspot and for calling. And sometimes I take a photo, that's it. Maybe I'm too old for doomscolling ;), but I know most of the younger people use their smartphones extensively.
And I personally like GTL although I'm patching it myself for a number of weeks to keep it working. I send in all the patches but they're still only proposals. @bacardi55 wants to completely rewrite the TUI, which I don't think is necessary, but if it works as good as (the patched) GTL then I don't have a problem with that.
But I won't count on getting a tinylog client for Android or iOS, so better check all the tinylogs with GTL from time to time :)
2025-04-20 23:56 +0200
RE: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space 2025-04-20 20:48 +0000
I made my vocal school diploma (not a full diploma) "magna cum nada" with an average of 3.4 where 3.5 is a failure :D. I was pretty lazy at school and didn't do much for it. Luckily nobody ever asks for my diplomas anymore :)
2025-04-20 23:34 +0200
RE: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space 2025-04-20 20:48 +0000
Addendum: I passed my test! Got the minimal passing score, but hey, I passed. "A doctor that got C's in school is still a doctor."
Congrats, Dr. Gritty! :)
2025-04-20 08:50 +0200
I had a strange intense dream last night, where I was on a party in an old bilding ripe for demolition, but in reality it was a personality test from an obscure corporation who wanted to hire some of us party guests, and they checked us for being ruthless enough to exploit the population. There were a lot of drinks (I'm shaking when I think about it) and everything was allowed. We were treated like superintelligent and brilliant people, when they outed it as a test and did some further testing while we knew that's a test. I was pretty bad at math (of course only because I drank so much) and before I knew if I was taken as an apprentice I woke up in sweat.
Not sure what this all means aside from being 50 years old and being much too old to go on parties with only young people. Very strange...
2025-04-19 08:39 +0200
RE: @Sandra 2025-04-19 05:52 +0000
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi Re: @fab@redterminal.org 2025-04-15 08:49 +0200
=> gemini://idiomdrottning.org/doomers-over-the-line Being pessimistic is fine, shutting down others is not.
I didn't want to shut anybody down. It was unintentional. It just came out of my mind and I didn't think about it too much, which is not good. Please take my apologies.
2025-04-18 18:06 +0200
On my proposal @bacardi55 now maintains the Up-To-Date list of tinylogs. You can download it with the link below. If you want your tinylog being added to the list, send him an email with the URL of your tinylog.
bacardi55's list of tinylogs as plaintext file for GTL
2025-04-18 00:51 +0200
I read bacardi55's update on his tinylog aggregator and fixed the errors in my tinylog subscription list that he found. I didn't remove the outdated tinylogs, because I'm too lazy to check them all. But I'm thankful for the corrections that barcadi55 made:
gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2025/04/18/tinylog-aggregator-update/
2025-04-16 14:33 +0200
RE: @bacardi55 2025-04-15 23:55 +0200
Of course, my first tinylog entry for this tinylog "rebirth" is about… Tinylogs!
I've finaly updated the RFC, more detailed on the dedicated gemlog:
I also asked this on the Codeberg Issue Tracker but I want to put it here as well:
I don't understand why blank lines are forbidden in a tinylog entry now, except at the end. They're needed to to better structure the entry and they're used by nearly everybody. I think `^## ` is enough to separate an entry from another.
2025-04-16 14:23 +0200
I updated the tinylogs subscription list and added a "@" to each author name, as it's now mandatory by the gemini-tinylog-rfc.
2025-04-15 08:49 +0200
RE: @skf 2025-04-15 08:08 +0200
Just been skimming through
=> https://climate.copernicus.eu/esotc/2024 European State of the Climate report 2024
Believe I have to carefully read it through the next couple of days in order to get beyond the scary words that catch my eyes: floods, loss of ice, extreme heat and drought.
No matter if you do, we're doomed. Maybe we'll have few more bearable years, but then it's over. I'm pretty blackpilled on that topic. Please change my mind.
2025-04-15 02:07 +0200
RE: @dobody@dobody.srht.site 2025-04-15 01:18 +0200
I'm back?
Then be most welcome back in this cosy Gemini Space, without greedy ad conglomerates and with a DIY experience instead, which has fewer distractions, more privacy and is free of this cryptocoin and AI bullshit.
2025-04-14 18:51 +0200
I've redone two of my fingers on my finger server, which were completely broken. "gemlog", which returns my latest gemlog entry, was rewritten in Go (of course) and I had to reimplement the "feed" finger, which returns my latest Mastodon/ActivityPub posts. It is written in Python (I hate it) and had some credential issues, which I had to fix. Maybe I'll rewrite it with Go some time in the future, too.
$ finger gemlog@redterminal.org
$ finger feed@redterminal.org
2025-04-12 13:15 +0200
RE: @tecna@sdf.org/tecna/ 2025-04-12 06:35 -0300
Sorry for the late reply; it was already my bedtime at that time. I think that the fact that I live in a place using daylight savings offset isn’t really easy on my end…
Now you finally got it right. Maybe you should use a program like GTL, but you should wait until the open patches are merged. It should make the things easier. Just use the following date format string in your gtl.toml configuration file:
date_format = "2006-01-02 15:04 -0700"
Then your computer should create the right dates also for replies. It also adds the link to the tinylog you are replying to. But I don't know when @bacardi55 will merge the patches, it could take a while.
GTL repository on Sourcehut (www)
2025-04-12 03:15 +0200
@tecna Now you're in the past. Just set your timezone to "-0300" instead of "-0400".
I can't even proper reply to your posts because GTL crashes with this timezone.
2025-04-12 02:40 +0200
RE: @tecna@sdf.org/tecna/ 2025-04-11 20:40 -0400
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi RE: @fab@redterminal.org 2025-03-30 05:39 +0200
> My list of Tinylogs now contains 72 URL entries. Some are outdated and some are non-english.
idk how to mitigate the active non-English Tinylog users… A separate subscription list?
You can sort them out by putting a "#" infront of the URLs of tinylogs you don't want to see.
BTW: Something seems to be wrong with your timezone offset. Some of your posts are in the future.
2025-04-09 20:31 +0200
RE: @zkbro@gmi.zkbro.com 2025-04-09 20:53 +1200
There seems to be a lot of movement going on in the Gemini space. Tinylogs and GTL getting some special attention. Feels like I'm coming in at a good time. Just reading through fab's and bacardi55's threads is helping me understand the pieces a little better.
Finnally you made it. Sorry for the trouble with the timezones. I've never had such thing seen in the tinylogs. I had to investigate all this myself for the first time.
So it seems, some timezones which have daylight saving times (not all though), don't work with tinylogs, so you have to set the offset (eg. "+1200" in your case).
I hope you aren't angry for the trouble.
2025-04-09 04:46 +0200
bacardi55 posted an update to his gemlog concerning tinylogs:
Tinylog todo list - brain dump
I posted a reply with some propsals for the tinylog RFC:
Re: Tinylog todo list - brain dump
2025-04-08 04:43 +0200
You may have noticed a lot of hits on your tinylogs by one IP the last night. That was because I was testing a patch for GTL which should display only the description of a link when available, otherwise it shows the URL. Sorry for that. With this patch it's also possible to view threads with links in the RE: line, like described in the tinylog spec. There are several new patches for GTL. I hope @bacardi55 will merge them soon.
https://lists.sr.ht/~bacardi55/gtl-devel
2025-04-07 09:02 +0200
Because of the stubbornness of some people not to add an "author:" metadata tag to their tinylog, I manually added a name to every URL in the tinylog list, which is used in case no "author:" field was found. I did what I could to get the name extracted from what I'm seeing in the URLs. If you don't like the name I've chosen for you, add an "author:" field to your tinylog. I hate seeing these annoying "Anonymous_XX" names in GTL.
gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog-subscriptions.txt
2025-04-05 02:30 +0200
Just send my first git patch per git send-email. It's a small bugfix to GTL. Of course I messed up the subject :(
https://lists.sr.ht/~bacardi55/gtl-devel/patches/58553
https://lists.sr.ht/~bacardi55/gtl-devel/patches/58554
2025-04-05 02:17 +0200
RE: Anonymous_38 2025-04-03 06:23 UTC
→ gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi Re: @fab@redterminal.org 2025-03-30 05:39 +0200
Hi fab! Okay three things:
1. Please use YYYY-MM-DD format as per the spec.
2. Metadata like “Author” is optional!
3. You linked to tinylog-subscriptions.text but it’s tinylog-subscriptions.txt
Hello Sandra!
1. Fixed!
2. But it's nice to have! Look who wrote the post I'm replying to. Should really be mandatory. "avatar:" and "license:" can be optional.
3. Fixed!
Thanks for making me aware of these things.
2025-04-04 21:10 +0200
I just added my old laptop as another Proxmox node, so now I have a Proxmox cluster! It has 8 cores, 16 threads and 32GB RAM. And it doesn't use much power as a laptop. It makes a great addition to my homelab. Before that I only had my ThinkCentre M900 Tiny with 4C/8T and 32 GB.
I can migrate my containers and VMs between the nodes seamlessly. I also set up a shared folder on my 4 disk raidz for backups on both of them so all the backups go to the same folder on my ZFS NAS and I can send snapshots (with all the other stuff on my NAS) to my offline backup disk.
2025-03-31 12:31 +0200
I've just implemented Gemini Mentions on my Capsule with a Go program compiled for my FreeBSD machine. Works great as far as I've tested it.
I'm not sure if I should publish it, because you have to alter the source code to make it compatible with your capsule. Maybe I'll add some config file code to make it accessible for other users. But I'm not sure where to place the config file, maybe in the ~/.config/ dir of the user running the script. That has to be hardcoded because you can't give commandline arguments to a gemini script.
Another thing is, that my gmid capsule runs in a chroot, so I don't know if I've even access to the home directory :(
Any suggestions or advises?
2025-03-30 05:39 +0200
My list of Tinylogs now contains 72 URL entries. Some are outdated and some are non-english. And some don't follow the Tinylog spec correctly and don't have an "author:" metadata line below the Title and description; that makes them show up as Anonymous_XX in GTL, which makes it difficult to follow and reply. You can download the list here:
gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog-subscriptions.txt
I'll try to keep this list as up-to-date as possible. Unreachable Tinylogs are sorted out by GTL. So keep an eye on the list.
2025-03-28 23:44 +0100
RE: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space Fri 28 Mar 2025 18:56 UTC
It was a bit annoying but I got windows 11 to install on my 14 year old desktop. Had to bypass the hardware checks but it's working.
Why, the heck, should someone do such a thing?
2025-03-26 19:48 +0100
I switched from PFSense CE (2.7.2) to OPNSense (25.1.3) on my main router, because it seems that Netgate has let it go if you look at the roadmap (47 Tickets open for a very long time). The last update was around January 2024.
But to my luck, *now* they'll start working on these tickets and bring out a new release soon.
But I don't regret the switch anyway, also if pfSense brings out it's new version soon. OPNSense brings out updates *regularly*, in contrast to pfSense CE.
2025-03-25 01:13 +0100
RE: @gritty@gemini.smallweb.space Mon 24 Mar 2025 16:39 UTC
Recent #showerthought. I find it interesting that most of us express ourselves on the internet in hopes that a person we don't know, will likely never meet, and doesn't live anywhere near us, will find it useful or entertaining. You can say you don't care if anyone reads it, but then, why write on the internet at all - just write in a paper journal.
Yes, you're right! I still hope that at least *somebody* reads my post and finds it interesting. And *sometimes* I get an email with an answer to my post, which makes me happy. So, I *do* care that at least a few people read what I'm writing and hopefully find it interesting. But I don't have high expectations, but I like the quietness and slowness of the smallweb, even if it's a niche protocol and if I wanted to write for a wider audience I would use a full blown weblog.
BTW: I'm testing the "reply" function of my gtl tinylog reader :)
2025-03-14 09:00 +0100
Tonight I rewrote my vanilla NeoVim configuration in LazyVim. And that was a really good decision. My old config was a mess and the new one is simple and good looking. LazyVim also has some cool features like Mason, which automatically loads LSP language files if needed and a lot of tools already set up.
2025-03-03 23:10 +0100
Just after finishing my #ConsoleChallenge I found out about "fbterm" (AUR):
Linux Framebuffer Secrets (Linux Renaissance) (YouTube)
2025-03-03 03:01 +0100
I finished my #ConsoleChallenge and have documented it with a gemlog post:
Mission accomplished - #ConsoleChallenge
2025-02-28 16:59 +0100
Started the #ConsoleChallange now and will end it on Monday morning with a closing gemlog entry. So let's see if I can resist using X :)
2025-02-09 03:46 +0100
I think I'll participate in Adele's #ConsoleChallenge in March. The challenge is to only use the console ttys for two consecutive days. No wayland, no X.
I'm already building up my setup and testing out things. Will be fun!
#ConsoleChallenge Fedi Thread (www)
2025-01-21 10:32 +0100
Visited the doctor today due to high blood pressure concerns. Underwent a comprehensive examination program consisting of an electrocardiogram and a blood draw, but no medications were prescribed yet. Awaiting lab results for my sample analysis, I should keep measuring my blood pressure, and in three days I will return to discuss potential treatment options. It is likely that she will recommend a well-tolerated medication to lower my blood pressure at this time. The ECG findings were within normal limits, indicating no cardiac issues. My lungs are now clear (a positive result from quitting smoking and transitioning to vaping approximately a year ago), so no respiratory problems exist. However, the problem is *drumroll* I'm too fat and have no excercise.
I got a little nervous, because at the first greeting after the ECG she said "This time I need to take a little more time on you.", with a very soft and calming voice not to upset me. Maybe she has some very bad news for me I thought.
But I'm calm now because this can be handled good with some medication. Lucky me!
2025-01-17 18:09 +0100
Bought a bloodpressure measurement tool today, because my mom (72 years) thought, she might have problems.
While trying out the tool we discovered that my mother has a nearly perfect bloodpressure of 122 / 67. A little low but nothing to concern about.
Of course I wanted to test too, and was a little shocked! I had 167 / 89 (I get 50 years old this year)! Much too high even before the WHO lowered the limit for high blood pressure to sell more pills. I'm very bad on my feet, overweight and don't get much exercise.
So I decided to go to the doctor tomorrow to see what I can do. I know I can get a heart attack or a stroke and my life expectancy is lowered a lot by a high blood pressure.
Wish me luck!
2024-11-07 18:00 +0100
Yay! My Astrobotany plant "Catherine" is 1000 days old today!
gemini://astrobotany.mozz.us/public/0e79cfdc669447b6bd7423bc3686362d
2024-11-01 04:42 +0100
After spending the past 1.5 months intensively working with Emacs, I am now switching back full-time to NeoVim. Emacs is simply too slow and cumbersome for me, even though it has many great features like OrgMode, Elpher, mu4e, etc. But my long-term experience with Vim is just simpler for me. For example, I haven't figured out how to use Emacs in an AwesomeWM Scratchpad. Additionally, I can use NeoVim with NeoMutt and tut (TUI Mastodon Client) as an editor. In my workflow, a TUI/CLI editor simply has more advantages for me.
2024-10-08 23:14 +0200
I changed all the content of my page from the CC BY 4.0 to the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
CC BY-SA 4.0
2024-10-05 06:41 +0200
I needed to re-orientate all the pictures on my capsule taken with my effing smartphone cam. I had to rotate them by +90° and set the Exif Tag "Orientation" to "10" (?). They showed up as normal on my proxy web page but were turned by -90° in all the gemini browsers which also show the images by themselves. I always looked at them in the browser and don't use Lagrange so I didn't notice. I just noticed by starting to use #Elpher from #Emacs.
My smartphone cam is pure sh*t! But at least I know what to do now.
2024-09-28 19:24 +0200
I'm going down the Emacs rabbit hole again. And... It's a *mighty* tool. So far I've configured Org-Mode, Org-Roam, Magit, persp-mode (perspective.el fork), Ellama (LLM AI client) and some others, but these are the ones I've got myself into recently.
Ellama is a cool toy, if you don't mind to use AI (locally). You can chat with it, translate text, improve wording and grammar and some other things. It's fun.
Right now I'm learning to use Org-Roam, and check if it can replace my VimWiki.
2024-09-19 18:32 +0200
My mom did her first purchase on Amazon on her own! I just sat beside her and helped when she got stuck. She did some purchases on HSE24 before, but she nearly figured out what to do herself. But she still needs to get accustomed even to the mouse. She doesn't hold it the right way and moves the mouse when she clicks, so she just selects text and such, for us, easy things.
But I'm happy, that she uses the computer I just bought for her and she's willing to learn!
2024-09-04 18:59 +0200
I just objected to the electronic patient record (elektronische Patientenakte (ePA)). It's nearly a crime to make this opt-out and it's difficult to object. Older or not internet savvy people will have a lot of difficulties to object or won't be able to at all. And in my opinion such sensitive data should not be digitally collected and has only drawbacks for the patient. I strongly advise to object!
They are already planning a digital "anonymous" (pseudonymous?) data pool of all patient data nationwide for research purposes here in Germany. Of course it is "absolutely secure" and there will be "no way to abuse" the data, as they're marketing it. I'm no data expert but I've the strong opinion, that the data can be easily reassembled to a real person. F*** them! #privacy
2024-08-30 23:44 +0200
Someone is trying to bruteforce my mail account for <fab@redterminal.org>. The guesses are always from different IPv4 addresses, so he's not banned by fail2ban. He tries every 5 - 10 minutes and then a pause of one hour. Good luck! :)
2024-08-26 12:45 +0200
Yesterday I ripped the complete TV show of "Columbo" (DVD) and put it on my NAS server, so I can watch all the episodes without changing disks. Of course this is just a backup and I bought the DVD set online. Another TV show for my old TV shows collection :)
2024-08-22 21:01 +0200
I just read an article on Robert Birming's blog:
Overcoming Self-Doubt
And he's perfectly right. I'm a mediocre writer myself. But I try to get better by more writing, although sometimes I take breaks from my computer activities which I mostly write about. Also my english language isn't that great (I'm german).
Another thing is, you don't have to be a professional writer to write a blog/gemlog/phlog. I think the more people start to write in the smolnet/indieweb the better. It's more the meaning than the words.
2024-08-13 18:19 +0200
I just made an account on indieweb.org and added my page to the sites which support webmentions through webmention.io, which is really easy.
My indieweb.org user page
Indieweb.org examples of webmention.io pages
At the moment I'm not sure how to expand my site further and what to add next. But surely there will be some ideas for the future.
2024-06-12 05:32 +0200
Updated my FreeBSD Server for the web, gopher, gemini and finger to FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE. Upgrade went smooth as always.
2024-03-20 02:19 +0100
Not doing much of anything. Taking a break from my computer activities. Just reading a blog/phlog/gemlog here and there and enjoying my retirement. Let's see how long this period takes this time. 1 Week? 2 Weeks? A month? Of course it doesn't matter. It's the slow web of course for a reason!
2024-03-05 13:56 +0100
After 33 years of excessive smoking I today celebrate the 4th month without even one cigarette! 🎉 🎉 🎉
2024-03-03 10:34 +0100
My site now supports webmentions. I won't publish them anywhere at least for now but it's another step towards IndyWeb.
2024-02-17 08:50 +0100
I posted a new gopher phlog post in my brand new gopher hole:
gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2024-02-16-Part_of_the_smolnet.txt
2024-02-06 04:46 +0100
My new SmolNet TUI client of choice: "telescope" by Omar Polo.
https://telescope.omarpolo.com/
It supports Gemini, Finger and Gopher and is very lean/fast.
2024-01-31 13:08 +0100
I added a phlog to my gopherhole. There is only one post for now but I have to start somewhere. Here are the links:
Link to the gophermap of the phlog
Link to the RSS feed for the posts
2024-01-28 19:50 +0100
I also set up a gopherhole on my server. There's not much to see on it for now and I'm still not sure what to put on it. But as a smolnet enthusiast it's a good supplement to my online home.
gopher://redterminal.org
If you have any comments or suggestions drop me a line.
2024-01-26 08:47 +0100
Finger me! 👈
finger fab@redterminal.org
2024-01-14 15:39 +0100
I modified the gemlog.sh script to generate an atom feed with web links to the gemlog entries besides the one with gemini links. My gemlog can now be read with a normal rss reader without gemini support.
Atom web feed
2023-08-04 15:34 +0200
Figuring out Matrix Chat. To make my life harder, I'm of course using the TUI client "gomuks". The whole encryption thing seems a little bit complicated and the version packaged with FreeBSD (0.3.0_6) is a little bit buggy.
https://maunium.net/go/gomuks/
I already found my way to the #geminiprotocol:matrix.org room. A lot of people hanging out there. On the same time it seems a low frequency room - I like that!
2023-07-29 20:26 +0200
For the people who still thought that "Web Environment Integrity" is just a proposal and still not officially approved, WEI has already found its way into Chromium:
https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/6f47a22906b2899412e79a2727355efa9cc8f5bd
2023-06-23 02:26 +0200
It seems Red Hat (IBM) goes after Alma Linux and Rocky Linux with a new decision to restrict access to the RHEL sources - which makes it difficult for Alma and Rocky to keep up with their binary compatible distros. Like they killed CentOS which was the most used OS on internet servers. Alma and Rocky told users not to "panic" because they are certain to resolve the issues, but we'll see what impact this has on RHEL clones this time.
https://linuxiac.com/red-hat-restricts-access-to-its-source-code/
2023-06-22 13:56 +0200
Haven't made an update to my gemini site in a while. It's hard to think about some topic to write about. I recently have digged a little into Nix and NixOS but I think this is a huge topic to cover if I want to write about it. I also finally found my way to bbs.geminispace.org. I am sceptical if I'll use bubble in the long turn. On the other hand it's a lot of fun :)
2023-03-19 12:14 +0100
After decades of using Linux I finally check out Emacs for the first time - what a rabbit hole. But it's fun to learn some new concepts and OrgMode is really amazing. There is sooo much stuff. At the moment I'm learning to build up my configs from scratch with vanilla emacs (but I installed evil mode) from this tutorial:
Emacs From Scratch (Youtube playlist)
I always thought Emacs is kinda overkill (some people saying it's an OS on top of Linux) without knowing anything! I'll try to develop a complete working environment before I decide if I stay in Emacs or go back to neovim. I'm really fascinated.
2023-02-18 17:08 +0100
It's a cold, rainy and dark saturday. A good day to stay in my warm and cosy bed with some X-Files episodes - and leave the heating off to save some money.
2023-02-10 19:56 +0100
I'm working on a terminal client to query ChatGPT in python. It's in pre-alpha and I just uploaded it. I'm not sure if python is the right language, but I wanted to get a Mock-up quickly. I plan to add editable configurations, a session system and predefined prompts later. It's nothing spectacular but you can already tinker with it, if you like.
pychatgpt git repo on Codeberg.org
2023-02-04 22:09 +0100
NeoVim is the greatest editor I've ever used. Today I switched from Coc to LSP as IDE tool and added the telescope plugin, which is excellent for fuzzy finding in files. A fantastic piece of software. I like it!
2023-01-24 15:56 +0100
YAY! After the Verdi strike is over, finally my new gaming PC rig arrived. Just need to get rid of Windows 11 and install Arch Linux and steam and then have a lot of fun! 😃
2023-01-23 02:12 +0100
Look! I now have a tinylog! I just implemented it out of curiosity. Not sure, if I post regularly - but now that I've discovered bacardi55's gtl I have an easy way to follow other people's tinylogs.