Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 22, 2023

A Gemini client^* is needed for the following links.

• Technology and Free Software

  • more pokes

    I was looking for anything that might hint at what went wrong in the commits. I first found a closed issue about windows computers not being able to connect to the bootstrap.

  • poking at the thing

    woke up this morning, booted my computer, and saw veilid-server had been failing to bootstrap. so, ofc I bother someone on the internet with the problem before I actually look into it and get the "did you update it?" response. ofc I had not. I do that. and it still does the thing from before the update, and this is where I started poking. I found that the bootstrap server is bootstrap.veilid.net. appropriate enough. I dig the domain for the A and AAAA records, and ping to make sure they are all pingable.

  • Terminal Metronome

    So today I sat down to practice guitar and I realized that I left both my metronomes at my sister's room. Obviously I wasn't going to get up to go and fetch one, so I picked up a bash spell tome (man SoX) and with a little bash magic, made a basic metronome.

  • Migrating prosody internal storage to SQLite on OpenBSD

    As some may know, I'm an XMPP user, an instant messaging protocol which used to be known as Jabber. My server is running Prosody XMPP server on OpenBSD. Recently, I got more users on my server, and I wanted to improve performance a bit by switching from the internal storage to SQLite.

    Actually, prosody comes with a tool to switch from a storage to another, but I found the documentation lacking and on OpenBSD the migration tool isn't packaged (yet?).

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Hello!

      I'm Day. I stumbled upon Geminispace somehow last week, and thought this would be a good place to get to know everyone :)

      I'm probably going to be treating my profile page? site? as a sandbox for playing with Gemtext, and figuring out how to make fun stuff within the constraints of Gemini, so I might not make too many posts of my own.

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