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Gemini Links 23/09/2024: Autumns, Hackney Carnival 2024, and ROOPHLOCH

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 23, 2024

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Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

finished a few books

finished a few books recently, which is good. hadn't been reading as much as i'd like to be.

week 38 - autumn arrives

happy equinox everyone! autumn has truly arrived, gracing us with its natural beauty. and... i'm so tired. the week overall was quite relaxing, mostly reading and getting back into some art, but the weekend was busy. we looked at an apartment (well, a tiny terraced house) and the owner was very nice and chatty and i'm very overwhelmed now. and then lots of walking around the area to check it out. so far (the last 2 years?) we haven't seen many flats we actually liked, so not getting to any further stage - invite for viewing, not getting considered as tenants - wasn't that big of a deal. obviously there could be many reasons why, but i can't help but feel people are simply prejudiced against eastern europeans. it seems it's almost impossible to get a decent place, nobody wants to risk it on you. and obviously we don't want to downgrade. if worse comes to worst we can always move back to poland...

Autumns

Some autumn are slow to start; this one has been more like shale shifting between increasingly common sandstone as one climbs the outcrop, early hints of autumn followed by returning episodes of summer. A summer that lingers may not be an Indian Summer; an Indian Summer is supposed to follow the first frost, and may have involved haze due to the prairies being fired to the East. Or perhaps the term evolves to now include any sort of late summer heat. Discussion of the evolution of language has been banned in the past, some would argue as "a dogmatic stand against the materialists" [Daniel Dennett. "From Bacteria to Bach and Back". 2017] or perhaps because the topic was (or was felt to be) too speculative.

amateur planes, humid days, quiet towns of the haphazard just-West

I am in Farmington (lol)

SE Missouri. Neglecting the SOUTH portion of the location when moving here. It's South. Surprising as I grew up one county North of here, which is very much so rural St Louis, but...so it is

I sit outside. Soda and cig nearby. Some sort of locus crickets in the trees beyond. Distant trucks trudging up Karsch Blvd. The only interruption of either, amateur pilots. Trying their luck at flying small planes from Farmington Airport. They swoop and experiment and try to keep a straight course - I watch hoping they don't come crashing down in some heap of fire for the nearbyers and onlookers to rattle about over Monday coffee.

~Why Wait? Choose Your Own Fate!

Writing and the Art of Lonliness

Hackney Carnival 2024

The carnival is back after COVID cancellations. It was a bit smaller and a bit more muted than before but still loads of great costumes and floats. I particularly liked the Yaram lion costumes.

The notion that needs are good and wants bad does not survive inspection

Lean Logic is an eye opening book. Here is a section on needs and wants from it's author David Fleming.

Technology and Free Software

ROOPHLOCH 2: Moose

Hello and welcome to ROOPHLOCH number 2. Today I am lying in a hammock in my backyard in the shade of a maple tree. I am thumb typing on my clockworkpi uconsole while ssh-ed into tilde.town, where my gemlog is hosted.

I have been enjoying the uconsole quite a bit. More than I expected to honestly. It has been great for reading and writing and doing some very light gaming. I didn't think I was going to be able to stand the keyboard, but thumbing on ot os just fine. It is in general a very fine piece of hardware.

Internet/Gemini

Gemlog Wannabe

I’m wondering about using Logseq as a Gemlog editor. I like to mess about on my phone when I’m watching films, and this seems like an ideal time to do a gemlog entry.

I don’t know if the bullet-points are gonna work, we’ll see.

No they do not. Messes up headings.

I have iSH, which is an iOS app that runs Alpine Linux. So I’ve installed emacs on that. But my phone typing isn’t that great, so I really rely on autocorrect. I looked into autocorrect for emacs, but it looks incredibly annoying to set up.

Anyway, I just like tinkering. Let’s see if this works.

Enable HTTP/2 on your Nextcloud server and crank up your PHP process count

This week I finally got around to clean up my home server and fix some long-standing issues. One of the things is that my Nextcloud takes absolutely forever to load. Even with every bit of performance tuning done. OpCache, APCu, Memcached, etc.. I know it's PHP and my server running Cortex A72 @ 2.0GHz sucks at single thread. So I assumed that's the reason. But oh man was I wrong.

I stole the configuration from the official Nextcloud documentation without much reading. With the Nginx + PHP-FPM setup, I was getting around 2.8 seconds load time on the home page (with cache disabled, it gets much worse in other pages),

* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.