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Reading Usenet in the morning (as you do) I'm again suprised by the teen invasion of alt.gothic. They seem to use Usenet as a chat room. I have to rein in my impulse to shout "Get off my lawn!" every time I see their posts. Or at least give them friendly advice to use a real chat room. What do kids even use these days?
Their attempts at communication is a bit like watching a car crash in slow motion. I mean, things like: "I'm 13. I really need a boyfriend." No, you don't! Then a lot of "wsp bae" and the like, followed by phone numbers and other personal details. Their e-mail addresses checks out for someone in a K-12 in the US. Not good. Like I said, car crash.
Moved the last thing, a small IRC bot, from my old fileserver to the new one. I'm probably ready to turn off the old fileserver now. The "new" server is an HPE MicroServer. Gen 8 I think. Got it diskless for 500 SEK with 16 gig RAM. Nice price. The old thing is a Fujitsu Econel 100 that's been running for... much too long. I've changed the spinning rust in it a couple of times, of course.
My colo server seems to be complaining about bit errors in RAM. Dammit. Time to move to something else. Or at least change a RAM stick. I've been hearing noises from my friendly neighbourhood colo host about moving to a 1U and away from the tower box I have there as well, but I've been slow to do anything. Some options: 1) maybe get a second hand 1U, or, 2) a new 1U with an API, perhaps even the dual motherboard thing?
The latter should draw a lot less power and, of course, have a much less powerful CPU but I usually don't need much. It would be rather fun to run something small like that in a datacentre.
Strange logs this morning from my Gemini server. The server is listening to an IPv6 address and only an IPv6 address. Then I get (only part of the message):
"msg":"gemini: failed TLS handshake","reason":"tls: peer doesn't support any of the certificate's signature algorithms","remote":"10.0.2.100:38752"
10.0.2.100? What? What is an v4 address doing here in the first place?
The rest is not that surprising considering I'm using strict TLS 1.3 and ed25519. A lot of people with older TLS libraries will probably have trouble connecting.
testssl.sh gives some interesting results against gem.hack.org:
TLSv1.3 TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, 253 bit ECDH (X25519)
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Cipher order
TLSv1.3: TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256 TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
That's nice.
On the other hand, pinging the Antenna feed aggregator and telling it about my gemlog didn't do much. Either ew0k's scraper doesn't have IPv6 (at least warmedal.se doesn't have an AAAA) or it can't negotiate TLS with me. People seem to find the capsule anyway. At least something hits it once in a while, so perhaps I do have some readers of these logs. *wave*
gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/
I'm duly impressed by the Lagrange Gemini client, btw. Impressive work! I'm still mostly using Elpher in Emacs, of course, but Lagrange is looking extremely good.
https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
I found Station, a social media server with a bit of a BBS feel on Gemini:
gemini://station.martinrue.com/
Impressive! Elpher seems to be a bit confused about when I'm logged in, though, and it's not very good for inputting text. It just asks for input in the minibuffer with no option for multi-line input.
Last night, perhaps a bit inspired by Leslie Fish's old filksong "Black powder and alcohol" that was playing in the background I was browsing around for the rules about black powder guns in Sweden and where to buy them... It seems black powder weapons made before 1890 are license free! I didn't even know.
Anyway, there's a shooting club close to me that welcomes black powder enthusiasts. That would be interesting. Of course, given how much time I spend on doing longsword I would probably not have any time for another hobby.
The Simula Linux VR Desktop was new to me:
https://github.com/SimulaVR/Simula
It runs on some existing VR headsets but they are also in the process of building their own, including a standalone thing:
https://shop.simulavr.com/products/simula-one-standalone
Seems interesting. I have almost no experience of VR, neither as a user nor a developer, but it's interesting that they are at least thinking about how to make text a bit more usable in VR. I don't think many of the other vendors do that. It's mostly... games? So... Emacs in VR? Finally a large enough screen, finally enough rows?
Would that even be a thing, using your headset and a wireless keyboard as a laptop? It would at least be interesting to try it out.
Been a bit paralyzed by the thoughts of going on a business trip next week. Arranging travel, hotel, being anxious about food. Really don't enjoy this kind of thing.
mc, 2022-05-11