👽 fripster
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I am wondering: What low-tech solution can we come up with to take out drones that fly above our houses? When the time comes, I would like to be prepared. I'll start: I think you could have a slingshot and use that to hurl handfulls of bearing balls at a drone. Would that work? Be creative! Come up with your own idea!
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Wrote a new Phlog: gopher://fripster.ydns.eu:70/0/phlog/2026-04-30
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How on earth is it possible that there’s no real uproar in USA? Do the people just accept, or maybe even condone, what’s going on? What am I missing here? I would expect there would be like a civil war right now…??
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What will we do when mere ISP access to the internet will be "made safe" with a digital ID, making that you can and will be followed anywhere and everywhere? Will we just comply, or will new networks (AX.25 anyone?) emerge for the privacy minded people? I am wondering what y'all think about this.
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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....
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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....
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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 ;-)
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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.
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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..
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 9 months ago
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...
💬 4 Replies · 6 Thumbs · 10 months ago
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!
💬 3 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 10 months ago
Got Waydroid running on my Librem5 today… Then installed Whatsapp (yeah yeah, I know this is blasphemy) and it works!!
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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!
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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…
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new Phlog up on my gopher site: gopher://fripster.ydns.eu:70/0/phlog/2024-11-24
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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?
💬 8 Replies · 5 Thumbs · 2 years ago
Reddit is down… How can I get my fix of dumb internet comsumption now? 😀
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Finally travelling for work again... I missed it. Will fly to Finland tomorrow. Wish me luck!
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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/)
💬 1 Reply · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
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
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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!
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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
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Hapy New Year everyone in GeminiSpace! Hope for a good year on the smol web...
💬 1 Reply · 3 Thumbs · 2 years ago
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....
💬 0 Replies · 0 Thumbs · 2 years ago
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!
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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
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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...
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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...
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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"
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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!