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It's good night when the house is quiet, I have a Weihenstephaner Weissbier, and Frank Sinatra is playing on the cd player. So quiet and nice....
Whoa... a good Saturday. Cleaning up the place, bringing away the used bottles, getting rid of my old freezer and tv, and doing some 3D printing. Tonight have a beer and a game of pool with a mate. Nice day....
Just made a 4bit R2R DAC with resistors and an Arduino, and programmed a sine wave, and listened to it (and watched it on the scope of course). I guess I'm a nerd ;-)
With the whole "we want to look into your encrypted chat" coming our way, I keep thinking about an IOS/Android app that runs on the same phone as WhatsApp/Signal and pre-encrypts your chats, then uses the WhatsApp/Signal app to send your message to your friend with whom you are talking. Then on the other side the same app decrypts etc. You only have to have a shared secret with one of your friends and then the government can decrypt the WhatsApp/Signal thing all they want. They will never see the real messages. Only Metadata will be known: who talks to whom, when and at what frequency. What do y'all think of this? You could use QR/Camera for secret transfer.
Oooh! Station broke… major disaster /s Nah… Martin will fix it I suppose. I am currently on vacation in France. Oh how I love this country..
Hi all. I just landed a new job! Very happy with it. I will start on the first of September, and until that time I will have some time off. Very nice feeling...
I got myself a refurbed Iphone 13 today, and tranferred over all data. But Elaho (iOS Gemini client) does not work anymore! Does anyone know of a good alternative? I really like to read Gemini stuff on my telephone... help!
Got Waydroid running on my Librem5 today… Then installed Whatsapp (yeah yeah, I know this is blasphemy) and it works!!
We did a Children's Christmas in church this afternoon and my wife told the story to the small kids. They were all hovering around her and really 'glued to the story'. It was awesome!
Just put an extra router behind my ISP’s router, and set up the home network (except gopher server) behind the second one. Two wholly different brands of routers. With all the regular port scanning attacks going on and the probability of my gopher server getting compromised at a certain moment, there will be two firewalls to defeat before you get to the good stuff.. was relatively easy to setup. Gives me more peace of mind…
new Phlog up on my gopher site: gopher://fripster.ydns.eu:70/0/phlog/2024-11-24
Preparing a bit for what is to come in Europe with this orange baboon at the helm in the USA now. Got plenty water, water filters, plenty fuel and a heater, petrol lamp, lots of canned and dry foods, power (105Ah battery), dc-dc converter for the appliances, solar panel and blankets. Feeling a little bit better prepared. What is your approach?
Reddit is down… How can I get my fix of dumb internet comsumption now? 😀
Finally travelling for work again... I missed it. Will fly to Finland tomorrow. Wish me luck!
Is NM03 okay? I used to always read his/her phlogs... but suddenly these dried up. Does anyone know? (gopher://gopher.club:70/1/users/nm03/)
I had a new fiber connection set up today... boy what a hassle. Read more here: gopher://fripster.ydns.eu:70/0/phlog/2024-04-17
Sunday.... Sleeping a bit longer than normal. Making good coffee with some extra attention to detail. Surf the SmallWeb with no time pressure at all... Bliss!
Recently found /dev/shm in Debian Linux. I love it so much that there is a RamDisk by default. What else will they think of? Been a Debian user for 11 years now.. Still lovin' it
Hapy New Year everyone in GeminiSpace! Hope for a good year on the smol web...
I just read an excellent piece on Wired Magazine on the three hacker boys behind the once notorious Mirai botnet. It's thrilling to read, and gives me flashbacks of some kind to Clifford Stoll's The Cuckoo's egg....
My wife bought spanish slippers for me to wear around the house....Sooo comfy! Finally I am warm when sitting at the table browsing gemini and gopher... yay!
I love watching video's about old computer stuff. Today I watched a video about an IBM laserprinter that was HUUUUGE. It's called the IBM3800 and threading paper through it needed a trainining video... go figure. If you want to see it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdwStGvI0zU
I am rediscovering planning our projects with Taskjuggler... and I love it. Made a front end (in Lazarus / fpc) for our people to make editing of the Taskjuggler files simpler. It seems to work well. What a planning power at your fingertips once you get past the entry barrier...
Today was a good day... People understood me, and I understood them. It was a good day... The weather was fine as well. So nice and warm still for the beginning of October. Sometimes I really crave for days like these...
Just had a bout of belly flu (as we say in the Netherlands) and have just recovered. Not fun. I just remembered that my Dad used to say "Healthy people want many things, but sick people only want one thing, that is to be healthy"
Went swimming today at the local pool. Great experience, very clean pool, and people who actually listen to the pool supervisor. That's a nice change. French people listen to the supervisors a lot better then my fellow dutch citizens... We are sometimes a wild bunch!
I need your opinion guys/gals/whatever! I have been programming all my life in Turbo Pascal/Delphi/Lazarus/FPC and it has always served me well. I really like the Delphi/Lazarus RAD method of GUI building. I am not a professional programmer, but I am in industrial automation so I have been known to make some programs here and there (and they work well, over long time periods). But I feel old and behind the times. What new language would be good for me? Rust has a lot of followers, but it's hard to do GUIs... And there are so many choices... What do you think would be a good one for me? I need GUI, but also access to IO ports (like RasPI). Surprise me!
I just came to the simple insight that I just do not watch TV anymore. It is just so boring and the constant ads are so annoying. My TV use has been in decline for some years now, and it sure looks that I am not watching TV at all anymore nowadays. And you know... I do not miss it at all. I get all news that I need, and my interests have always been on the tech side of things, so the Internet is much more the place for me.... And with a well set-up PiHole, and Gemini and Gopher I can avoid most of the bloat. Also by choosing the right sites and not being on the "Socials". I like it here a lot better.... ;-)
Got myself a new (to me) oscilloscope today! Happy.... It's a Handykit 202e, 20MHz dual trace unit from 1989. For 30 euros... In super condition still. All functions work. Very nice. When my former scope (Philips PM3200X) broke I was not happy. Now I have a proper 'scope again....
Watching Halt and Catch Fire... Nice series! But I was a bit disappointed about the first episode. They take an (E)prom from an IBM PC (BIOS (E)prom), give it address lines with a computer and then read it out *BY HAND* using Leds... It looks good for the screen, but it is so bonkers not to let the computer read out the data... Further I am enjoying it...