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<title>The thing I still cannot explain</title>
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# The thing I still cannot explain
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:34:35 +0200
Last updated: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 02:34:35 +0200
This post is just a link to my gopher phlog post about my confession. And I still can't explain how I got out of this mess. I'm an agnostic but this maybe was a miracle.
=> gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2024-08-11-Solitude_-_My_Confession.txt Solitude - My Confession (gopher link)
This is an answer to an openmentions.com question.
=> https://openmentions.com/news/question-of-the-week/what-is-something-that-you-still-cannot-explain/ What is something that you still cannot explain?
All in all - Have fun!
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<title>Site Timeline</title>
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# Site Timeline
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:01:49 +0200
Last updated: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:01:49 +0200
Robert Birming came up with the idea to create a continuous blogging timeline:
=> https://birming.com/blogging-timeline/ Robert Birming - blogging timeline
Because I really like the idea of a blogging timeline, here's mine. I have to admit that I regard my site more as a gemini/gopher/finger server, which you can see through the page layout. Nevertheless I'm trying to make this site as accessible for the WWW and the IndyWeb as possible.
## 2021
In september'21 I installed my first gemlog server which was then named "foobucket.xyz" and run on a Debian system. I believe short after setting it up and posting my first post (which was just an "about" page), I found out about kineto, a gemini-to-web proxy which then made my gemini content available on the www (behind a nginx proxy). I use kineto (by Drew Devault) to this day, although the system changed a lot since.
I used nytpu's gemlog.sh shell script to create my gemlog index page and my feeds right from the start, although I heavily modified them to my needs over time.
I made 5 posts in 2021, so not very much.
## 2022
The most remarkable change in '22 is the switch to a smaller VPS and in the same turn changing from Debian 11 to FreeBSD 13.1 which nobody should have noticed because the transition went very smooth.
=> gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2022-10-04-A_rare_update.gmi 2022-10-04 - A rare update
I made 8 posts in '22 so a little more than in '21 mostly about Linux and computer stuff.
## 2023
I made my first tinylog entries in January '23, but I think nobody reads them :)
=> gemini://redterminal.org/tinylog.gmi fab's shorts (tinylog)
In August '23 the name of the site changed from "foobucket.xyz" to "redterminal.org" but I had a redirect in place for Gemini and the WWW to avoid broken links or at least give some time to update to the new domain until the old one expires in august 2024. This went more or less smoothly.
=> gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2023-08-16-foobucket.xyz_is_now_redterminal.org.gmi 2023-08-16 - foobucket.xyz is now redterminal.org
I posted 7 articles in 2023.
## 2024
In 2024 there were by far the most changes to the site. In January I added support for the finger protocol:
=> gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-01-26-Finger_protocol_support.gmi 2024-01-26 - Finger protocol support.
Shortly after that I set up a gopher hole on my server where I post longer form text documents more suitable for gopher:
=> gopher://redterminal.org/
Then I had a little server breakdown in February because I (stupidly) wanted to switch from the gmid gemini server by Omar Polo to gemserv by int80h, which ran very unstable so I had to revert back to gmid together with the certificates.
In March '24 I added Webmentions support for the pages that are reachable via https:
=> gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-03-07-My_Website_now_supports_Webmentions.gmi 2024-03-07 - My Website now supports Webmentions
In August '24 I updated my feeds script for web links to contain the content of the latest 10 Gemini posts in plain text:
=> gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-08-10-Updates_to_my_Atom_web_feed.gmi 2024-08-10 - Updates to my Atom web feed
In 2024 I made 18 posts (with this one) so far. This year is by far the most active on my site. (2024-08-11).
### This page will be updated regularly
I'll try to update this timeline page at least in a yearly period so all bigger (or smaller) changes will be logged and comprehensible.
All in all - have fun!
-fab-
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<title>Updates to my Atom web feed</title>
<id>https://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-08-10-Updates_to_my_Atom_web_feed.gmi</id>
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# Updates to my Atom web feed
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 02:53:42 +0200
Last updated: Sat, 10 Aug 2024 02:53:42 +0200
The article "My gemlog is now a recfile" by dozens inspired me to do some updates to my feed generation scripts.
=> gemini://tilde.town/~dozens/gemlog/23.gmi My gemlog is now a recfile (dozens)
I have two Atom xml files, one for web access and one for gemini access:
=> gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/atom.xml Atom feed with gemini links (e.g. for Antenna)
=> https://redterminal.org/gemlog/atom.web.xml Atom feed with https links for web access
The feed for gemini isn't changed - there is no summary or content in it.
The web feed however now contains the 10 most recent articles with full content as plain text which SHOULD be able to be read by a feed reader which can display plain text.
So now you can read my posts in your feed reader if you don't mind that it's gemtext in plain text and you cannot follow links. I'm still testing this functionality and if it works correctly. As far as I can see it works with newsboat and liferea.
=> https://newsboat.org/index.html Newsboat web page
=> https://lzone.de/liferea Liferea web page
If you have any problems with this feed or any suggestions or advice please contact me via email (fab@redterminal.org) or Mastodon/ActivityPub (@fab@pleroma.envs.net). I hope this is useful for one or two.
All in all - have fun!
-fab-
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<title>Post from the Rhinetower in Duesseldorf</title>
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# Post from the Rhinetower in Duesseldorf
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:51:25 +0200
Last updated: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 16:51:25 +0200
Hello from the Rhinetower in Düsseldorf/Germany and 165m above the ground.
I'm writing this on my ThinkPad T460s with my OnePlus Nord as a Hotspot.
This little excursion was initially planned for the ROOPHLOCH challenge, but it misses the point of the ONE rule namely being *outdoors*. But because this little journey was planned already I thought I could do a post besides the *real* ROOPHLOCH challenge in september (just a bit earlier), where I'll hopefully come up with something different and of course according to the rules.
## The trip
The trip was easy. I just took the city train to Düsseldorf and then switched to the street railway which was only 2 stops and then a little walk of around ten minutes (im kinda slow). Then I was already there.
## The experience
The check in was easy but you could only pay by card (I hate that). Then the elevator took me up 165 meters in around 40 seconds.
At first I wasn't sure if I could handle such a height easily without my knees getting shaky because of vertigo. But after getting accustomed I feel quite good. I'm sitting in the tower bar having some coffee and enjoying the view over Düsseldorf and the Rhine river. There is also a restaurant one level up but it's quite expensive so I took some food with me to eat on my way.
The view is amazing. To the north is the North Rhine Westphalian state parliament and the Rhine river winds itself through Düsseldorf to the horizon south to Cologne and north further through NRW. The bar goes round 360° so you can have a full round view.
They say on bright days you could also spot the Cologne cathedral but the weather isn't that great at the moment so I couldn't find it.
The water level of the Rhine river seems normal to me not too high or too low (because it doesn't rain).
## Pictures
Some Pictures with my shitty Smartphone Cam:
=> /images/Rheinturm-Landtag.jpg Northrhine Westphalian Parliament (873k jpg)
=> /images/Rheinturm-Rhein.jpg The Rhine River (393k jpg)
=> /images/Rheinturm-Duesseldorf1.jpg View over Düsseldorf (700k jpg)
=> /images/Rheinturm-Tisch.jpg My Place in the bar (403k jpg)
=> https://www.google.de/maps/place/Rheinturm/@51.2181368,6.760795,719m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x47b8ca0d87193887:0x8042d2dfd6a07bf9!8m2!3d51.2179423!4d6.7616801!16zL20vMDRucXBx?entry=ttu The Rhinetower on Google Maps (WARNING! goes to Google)
## What a day!
I really should make more excursions like this. I don't get out of my appartment very often and this little trip really makes me happy. I think I'll try to "touch some grass" more often now and maybe post about it. Maybe I even get a "Deutschland Ticket" and travel around the country for some time. There is so much to see and this adventure to the Rhine Tower is very inspiring (although it's not *that* far away from my home). Now I'll enjoy the view for some more time.
All in all - Have fun!
-fab-
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<title>Re: Antenna Abuse</title>
<id>https://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-07-15-Re_Antenna_Abuse.gmi</id>
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# Re: Antenna Abuse
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:38:25 +0200
Last updated: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:38:25 +0200
Antenna has been trolled recently:
=> gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2024-07-15-antenna-abuse.gmi Antenna Abuse (ew0k)
It's sad to see, that the trolls found their way to disrupt gemini services. This is why we can't have something good on the internet. Sooner or later those A-holes appear everywhere.
I hope this is just a temporal problem and won't destroy Antenna. I wish the best to ew0k to cope with this kind of incidents.
All in all - Have fun anyway!
-fab-
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<title>No LoRaWAN in the near future</title>
<id>https://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-06-22-No_LoRaWAN_in_the_near_future.gmi</id>
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# No LoRaWAN in the near future
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 10:05:12 +0200
Last updated: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 10:05:12 +0200
I planned to run a LoRaWAN gateway in a previous article:
=> /gemlog/2024-06-12-My_plans_with_LoRaWAN.gmi
I stopped following this plan for now and the near future. I wanted to send a Gemini page to my Gemini server but it seems to be not the right tool for this. The LoRaWAN gateway for outdoors, which I planned to buy, is also very expensive with the shipping and handling costs (around 320 EUROs).
When I did my research I found out, that it can/should only be used to send small amounts of data like sensor or GPS data. It's not meant for sending files. There are possibilities for that but it's clearly not intended for that. And I don't want to build up a complete LoRaWAN gateway completely with ChirpStack just to send file for ROOPHLOCH.
But I think I'll try to participate this time in the ROOPHLOCH challenge by sending from a special location with my Laptop and a smartphone hotspot. I hope that counts, although it's easy to do.
I don't want to completely bury my LoRaWAN plans, because it would be cool to have a gateway for the neighborhood. But for now I simply can't afford the LoRaWAN gateway I want. I have to prioritize my expenses a bit at the moment.
That's all for now. All in all - have fun!
-fab-
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<title>My plans with LoRaWAN</title>
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# My plans with LoRaWAN
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:36:33 +0200
Last updated: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 08:36:33 +0200
My last post was a while ago. That's typical to me. I work on my projects and then I take a long timeout of my tech activities.
Now I'm planning a new project which has been brewing in my brain for some time. It was a thought of how to participate with the ROOPHLOCH event for the first time. I want to send my ROOPHLOCH post over LoRaWAN.
## Sending messages with LoRaWAN
Lark made a post about his experiments with the Meshtastic Protocol which also uses LoRa.
=> gemini://lark.gay/posts/exploring-meshtastic.gmi Exploring Meshtastic
I didn't do much research on the Meshtastic Network, but my choice would be "The Things Network" where I read something about. There is only one node in the next big city of my location which is ~10km far away. And my location is not that ideal but I think I can get around 3-4 km.
=> https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/docs/lorawan/frequencies-by-country/ The Things Network (https)
My plan is to set up a complete node and send my ROOPHLOCH post from as far away from the station as possible. But the rest of the time I want to provide LoRaWAN access to the neighborhood. The local setup on my balcony would be an 8-channel node.
## Restrictions
But there seem to be some difficulties with LoRa/LoRaWAN in Germany. The bandwidth is between 350b/s and 11kb. That wouldn't be a problem for a short gemini post but unfortunately there seem to be further legal restrictions in Germany. As far as I understood you could only use 1% of the time sending messages. So that means I can only send one second every 100 seconds. That seems to be a BIG hurdle for my usecase.
But I'm not completely sure about that, so if you have any information about this situation *please* contact me and give advice. You can contact me with email fab@redterminal.org> or with fedi @fab@pleroma.envs.net.
Any help with this would be highly appreciated.
All in all - Have fun!
-fab-
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<title>I needed to adjust myself to fit in</title>
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# I needed to adjust myself to fit in
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:24:28 +0100
Last updated: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:24:28 +0100
I said I avoid talking about myself in my blog but this time I thought I have to (and I feel a little anxious about it).
When I did concern myself with the smolnet idea in 2021 beginning with the Gemini protocol, I was very intrigued by the technical aspects of minimalism and simple principles. The big web is a mess of BigTech conglomerates which try to squeeze every bit of information out of the user and an ongoing process of 'enshittification'. I like the idea of a small and slow web. The IndyWeb movement is very promising. Local small sites from the people for the people. So I built up a gemini capsule to begin with. I wanted to be part of the movement of taking back the web.
Unfortunately I'm not really a peoples person IRL and I don't know many people. In german we would say that I'm no "Mann von Welt". There are many things I don't know about (although I'm able to learn and form an opinion!) and I had to learn a lot about the whole smolnet culture. The first thing was that I was relatively conservative in my political views in the past.
But now I was thrown into a world which was full of tabletop roleplayers (which I never got into except some video games), communists, liberals, LGBTQ+ people, climate activists, anarchists, "wokeness" and a lot of ideas, which I've heard of but never took serious. It was not quite a culture clash but I had some stubborn prejudices to deal with myself. In fact I still have some opinions which may not be the most popular in this culture. But think I mostly got over it. Especially because I want to be a part of it.
And the reality is that this VERY diverse culture is the *main* culture of the smolnet and especially fedi. There are some conservative voices but they are a minority (which maybe isn't too bad to see all sides). I always felt it to be difficult to cope with so many very different individuals. For example I didn't like kids up until around 22. They are loud and rebellious. But I'm willing to learn and can hopefully get used to their behavior. And they are important because they grew up in this BigTech world and know their inherent problems from day one.
I had to get used to all these new forms of existence and ideas and it's an ongoing process. And I was born in the '70s so I'm maybe a little rusty but I *want* to change. And I hope that I'm welcome despite my past.
If you want to talk to me or discuss some aspects of this statement, you can always write an email or contact me via Mastodon/ActivityPub. I'm always happy for feedback.
All in all - Have fun!
-fab-
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<title>Re: Why do we even blog?</title>
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# Re: Why do we even blog?
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 02:15:01 +0100
Last updated: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 02:15:01 +0100
I really liked Alex' blog post "Why do we even blog?". I think it's very well thought through.
=> https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-03-07-why-blog
However, I try to convince everybody I can to get some words out there even if they are not that good (like my own) or even if english is not your native language (mine is german). And I think they/I shouldn't think too much about implicitly being judged. I don't want to care too much. Well, I *do* care what people write to me as a response but I mainly appreciate all feedback.
I try not to weigh ever single word I write, because if I did I would never get anything out. Of course it *can* be a "struggle" to get something meaningful out, but I mostly struggle about the topics I want to write about.
I'm not a professional writer or expert of anything, but why shouldn't I write about something that excites or interests me?
> To blog is to wrestle with that. I imagine an audience that is strangely interested in all the things I am interested in. I write for them, for me, for my future self that looks back, the heart full of regret. I struggle for virtue and I put it into words for you and me, the imagined reader and myself. As proof. “I struggled!” I struggle. I keep on struggling to discover what is right and to do what is right.
I believe I don't have nearly as much audience than you have, and I understand that you struggle with your outcome for your "imagined" readers and yourself. In fact, I edit my posts too and I let them be for some time and then I edit again. But I don't *want* to struggle. I try not to mince my words too much.
And I make mistakes - often. And I'm happy to correct them if I can get them.
And as you said, the world moves on no matter what. What was written in a blog will mostly be forgotten in a few moments after reading. I don't mind. I write anyway. So all the labour and effort for a short period of (mostly) entertainment.
> Perhaps I would have grown older differently without reading blogs and blogging. And this is why I cannot stop blogging. To blog in that half-shadow where perhaps our thoughts are read and perhaps they are not, where every text lights up and shines and drops and sinks onto that great pile where thousands of text are rotting, that is to participate in the galaxy brain that is our world. Some of us can vote and some of us can talk. Some of us can fight and some of us will weep. I try to blog.
That resonates with me - I have started to blog just about 3 years ago - and I bet not many people have read my posts. But they're there for other people to read, if they wish. And sometimes I get feedback - and it makes me happy even if it's seldom. And as other people fight their fights and do whatever they do as a hobby, I read about it and I blog, just like you - maybe not just as thoughtful.
I mainly talk about technical things I've achieved and things I have at least a little knowledge about. And even if I care about my imaginary audience I avoid talking about my life or myself. But maybe that's the things this audience is interested in? I don't know. But *if* I would talk about my life and myself I would care a lot more about this 'judgement' I think. Although I'm writing under a pseudonym I beware myself from talking about my personal life (It's mostly boring and I like it that way :)).
So please go on blogging and have fun while doing it!
All in all - Have fun!
-fab-
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<title>My Website now supports Webmentions</title>
<id>https://redterminal.org/gemlog/2024-03-07-My_Website_now_supports_Webmentions.gmi</id>
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# My Website now supports Webmentions
Author: -fab- fab@redterminal.org>
License: CC BY 4.0
Published on: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:56:59 +0100
Last updated: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 03:56:59 +0100
My website is just a proxy for my gemini content, because I thought it was the easiest way to bring my gemini content to the web. So *all* content on the website is available on the gemini site. In fact, I consider my site mainly as a gemini/gopher site. But bacardi55's article inspired me to do the same he did although he doesn't publish his webmentions and looks at them from a different angle. => https://bacardi55.io/2024/03/01/no-interactions-/-ugc-to-see-here/ No interactions / UGC to see here The webmentions won't show up *immediately* on the corresponding gemini site. I will put them in manually afterwards (if I like). For now the webmention first only appears in my feedreader. This way I don't need to put in any JavaScript into my pages which I *really* don't want. I had the idea to implement gemini comments too, but because of the lack of CGI support in the gmid gemini server from Omar Polo this is not possible at the moment. And moderating comments can be a hassle. That doesn't mean I don't like people interaction - quite the opposite is true! If you want to contact me you can still do that via email or through mastodon. Any comment is appreciated! So with webmentions my smolnet site is even more "IndyWeb" even if it's not that pretty as other pages - it will never be. It will always be my gemini/gopher site and never turn into a full blown website. Another thing is my gopher server. It's not reachable through the web (yet?) so you can't send me webmentions to them. All in all - Have fun! -fab- -- => /gemlog/ Back to index => / Homepage </content> </entry> </feed>