Gemini Articles of Interest

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 28, 2023

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• Technology and Free Software

  • Manipulate PDF files easily with pdftk

    I often need to work with PDF, sometimes I need to extract a single page, or add a page, too often I need to rotate pages.

    Fortunately, there is a pretty awesome tool to do all of these tasks, it's called PDFtk.

  • Some explanations about OpenBSD memory usage

    I regularly see people reporting high memory usage on OpenBSD when looking at some monitoring program output.

    Those programs may be not reporting what you think. The memory usage can be accounted in different ways.

    Most of the time, the file system cache stored in-memory is added to memory usage, which lead to think about a high memory consumption.

  • Synapse Room Cleaner

    After running my Matrix Synapse server for several years, joining and leaving several large rooms, and playing around with bridges, my server accumulated quite a few orphaned, empty, and broken rooms. Software developer wisdom says: "Why spend 10 minutes doing something if you can automate in 10 hours?". Thus, I built a small web-based tool that lets you get and/or delete rooms from your Synapse server.

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Re: The Devil's Advocate

      Slondr just about summed up exactly how I feel about Gemini and how it should move forward.

      In short, this is working. Warts and all, it's working. Maybe there are some things to fix. Maybe we'll eventually fix them, and maybe we'll just continue. But I can't help but feel like Gemini is a roaring success by the only measure that really counts - there actually is a community here that is growing, vibrant and (mostly) healthy.

    • Fire Update

      There's been more smoke again for the last few days, but rain is in the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. The 12mm of rain we had last Tuesday was the most we'd had all year. Some parts of the Bush Creek fire got over 20mm, so that was good. On the other hand, a typical summer used to bring 3 or 4 really hard rainfalls, which doesn't seem to be happening any more.

      Solderpunk mentioned in his latest phlog post that he has started worrying about summer in advance.

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