=> 2025-01-08 📄 Happy New Year and All That!
=> 2024-11-03 A Mental Checklist on Computing
AKA What I really need a computer for. Lately I have been toying with the idea of moving off MacOS more permanently and leaving the Apple ecosystem behind. I mean, yeah, they did just present the…
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=> 2024-10-18 Is the Church of England Still a "national Church"?
There were two items that crossed my figurative desk today, one in the news, and one in the Anglican church building we rent for Mass occasionally since one of the local churches shut. The late…
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=> 2024-10-16 An Esp32-based Doorbel Using Lora (1) - Setup
Introduction. Ever since I started out with poking around with ESP32's trying to do something with LoRa [^FN] has been on my list. And because my doorbell kept breaking CONSTANTLY, I thought that I…
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=> 2024-10-13 Some Thoughts on Resilience and the Church
In which Father rants about electric cars and microphones. Frequent visitors to this humble cybernetic abode are in a privileged position, because they get to be the ONLY readers of my previous homily.…
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=> 2024-09-21 A Tourist in My Own City (2)
One of the highlights -- for me anyway -- of the recent visit back home was our trip to the National Gallery. Reverend Madam just wanted to whizz through some of the Church-related stuff, but I…
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=> 2024-09-11 A Tourist in My Own City (1)
After about a year of slogging away at it we finally managed to escape back to the Old Country for a holiday. And, for a change, it felt like an actual holiday, because Reverend Madam had the…
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=> 2024-09-06 Gemini Reverse-proxying with Openbsd and relayd(8) (part 2)
The previous part to this post outlined how you can use OpenBSD's built-in relayd daemon to set up a Gemini TCP reverse proxy. This is useful when, say, you are self-hosting things, and do not wish…
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=> 2024-08-23 How I Got Signal (and Likely Any Other Incompatible App) Working on Openbsd (kinda)
The Problem Considered. So I really missed Signal messenger on OpenBSD, and all my attempts to use the command-line based clients failed. Signal's "official" app doesn't run because Electron; and in all…
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=> 2024-08-21 The Point of Priesthood
I am not going to go into very very deep theological and scriptural reasoning, but I find having to remind myself of some foundational and core ideas about what I am supposed to be and supposed to…
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=> 2024-08-19 Clerical Correctives
Married Clergy Woes and Benefits. I don't know whether visitors to this capsule read my homilies or not, and I never truly am capable of gauging the quality of my sermons. Last Sunday [^FN] was one of…
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=> 2024-08-16 Gemini Reverse-proxying with Openbsd and relayd(8) (pt. 1)
I have recently discovered that among many cool things in the network stack OpenBSD has a thing called relayd(8), which allows one to... well, you guessed it, relay network connections. It is…
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=> 2024-08-15 Ongoing Goings On, August Edition
Settling. One of the wonderful things about moving here is the quiet. It is incredibly quiet and calm up here, and I think we are slowly recovering from the frankly, quite difficult last few years,…
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=> 2024-07-28 Ongoing Goings On, July Edition
Moving House. THE HOUSE we lived in had a lot of subsidance damage. It turned out that, from one corner of the house to the other, the trees in the little dene we lived next to caused 200mm's of…
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=> 2024-07-20 Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 7
Yeah, I did skip day 6. Same as day 5. I couldn't even get to the laptop, but I did have to do a bit of work on the Macbook. I came to that point where I just needed the typographic prowess of the…
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=> 2024-07-18 Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 5
This will be short: I have nothing to report; I didn't even have time to power on the machine today. I did assemble my othe machine in the new study tho; that's nice... Btw I will have to figure out…
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=> 2024-07-17 Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 4
Annoying power management issues. E-mail things. Yesterday's switch from Firefox to Ungoogled Chromium yielded an unexpected result: progressive web apps! ProtonMail gave me an option to install…
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=> 2024-07-16 Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 3
Today's an actual work-day. Well, it would have been, if the Bairn didn't have to stay at home with YET ANOTHER ear infection. (It's a whole saga). But I did have to start makign some adjustments.…
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=> 2024-07-15 Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 2
I've had such a silly day with moving, The Bairn being at home, and Reverend Madam writing an essay all day, that I didn't even switch the computer on today. In fact I'm only writing this over SSH…
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=> 2024-07-14 Old Computer Challenge 2024 - Day 1
So I decided I'd give the #OldComputerChallenge [^FN]. Not gonna lie, day 1 was truly a challenge. Setup. Fortunately the OCC rules aren't that very strict, and for a first time I am going to keep it…
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=> 2024-07-08 Planned Downtime Notice
We are moving house so this week between 10 and 13 July 2024 vigilia and sister capsules will be down. Fortunately the setup is pretty easy to move around so it won't be a hard thing - literally just…
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=> 2024-07-06 Some Long Overdue Gardening
The Gray Weather Outside. We had the silliest weather, sortof since May. For weeks and weeks on end it seemed that our weather has taken on a new pattern entirely: where it would be inconveniently…
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=> 2024-06-08 Openbsd and Wifi on That Macbook Air I Have
Yeah, so, I have been trying to install OpenBSD on my old Macbook Air as I already wrote aboout, [^FN] and it needs a WiFi card replacement. Something something Broadcom binary blobs something FOSS…
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=> 2024-06-01 Ongoing Goings-on, June Edition
The Capsule. I've been busy doing a rewrite of the underlying engine because the codebase was getting a bit difficult to manage and while writing it I also learnt to write cleaner Python. (Kinda). So…
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=> 2024-05-19 The Level of Tech Insanity in 2024
I dug out my old Acer 5920 Laptop lately and I wanted to try OpenBSD on it. It yielded varied success - I could install the system after some help but it kept crashing; namely radeondrm decided not…
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=> 2024-05-15 An Idea for Upcycling My Old Laptop
The laptop considered. I managed to start my first laptop again. Iy was the first laptop I bought with my own money, and it served me really well. It's an Acer 5920g [^FN] and I can't believe that it…
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Today (13 May) marks the first apparition at Fatima, and yesterday afternoon, in the finest weather, the Missionaries of Charity held a wonderful May Procession in the streets of our city. So many…
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=> 2024-05-11 Creative Faithfulness
The Pope addressed INSECT [^FN] thuswise:. > In this light, dear friends, I would like to point to three guidelines for theology: creative fidelity to tradition, a cross-disciplinary approach and…
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=> 2024-05-10 Friday Fasting and Abstinence
Quæritur:. Hello father, can I ask if fasting from meat on Friday is obligatory? I think I’ve asked that before but I was saying a blessing over some meat and felt convicted especially because I’m…
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=> 2024-05-01 My Humble Attempts to Heed the “gemini Needs More Content” Call
The Issue. There seems to a unanimous[^FN] cry for more content on Gemini. But not personal journals, but you know, other content. I have been thinking about this a bit, and really, the varied types of…
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=> 2024-04-28 Extraction Hoods and Ecclesiastical “stercus” Poasting
Because real life is now comedy. A chatlog. Ioannes. * Oh BTW replaced the extraction hood. * The pipes had a gasket of fat sealing it.... 👀. rqm. * Extraction hoods are what Extraction Monks wear. * The Friars…
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=> 2024-04-26 Some Reflections on St Mark's Day
I have some rants to share, most of these were things that annoyed me as I was preparing for Mass this morning. 1) The Jerusalem Bible. I cannot wait for the new Lectionary to come out this Advent. I…
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=> 2024-04-23 Media in Geminispace
The following is more a post in which I work out some of my own thoughts, and keep a reference for any future ideas; but I thought my musings might merit to be put before a wider audience:. I have been…
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=> 2024-04-22 So Many Questions About LIDL
Some questions on a sleepy Monday morning that I have after going to Lidl:. 1) What might be a reasonable excuse to present to Reverend Madam if I want to buy a £119.99 plasma cutter? You know... for…
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=> 2024-04-20 Halina Rice Live
It has been a LONG time since I have been to any concerts, I think, not counting children’s classical music things I went to with Reverend Madam and the Bairn, the last gig I saw was about 5 years…
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=> 2024-04-16 Ongoing Goings-on
So there haven't been any new homilies on the capsule…. ... because quite simply I didn't write any since Easter. On Easter Day, we had St John Chrysostom's Paschal Homily, which is a blast, and we…
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=> 2024-04-07 Ask, and Ye Shall Receive
Remember how I said that I want a fight?. Well... Ask and ye shall receive. I have a fight date: the 24th of August. It will be a small charity boxing show, organised by some friends of our boxing…
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=> 2024-04-06 How Vigilia Rose from the Dead - Pt 2
I was ready to burn it all and give up on everything that was sacred. I was sinking deeper and deeper into the pits of ProxMox. I was ready to abandon gmid. Then I realised that ProxMox did not spark…
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=> 2024-04-04 How Vigilia Rose from the Dead - Pt. 1
Captain’s log, the foreday of the Nones of April, the 24th of the moon, in the Year of Our Lord MMXIV. Guix is still updating on the new Debian server, and I have some time to write up what has…
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=> 2024-03-30 The Take-away from Good Friday
- That is the number of people who in France attended the Maundy Thursday Mass in one of the Catholic Churches last night. A friend of mine was visiting and sent me the most heartening texts.…
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These last few months have been rather self-reflective. As I am now past the point of being private about it, I can share that for the last year, my mental health has not been great. In fact on…
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=> 2024-03-26 It's Way Too Late Again...
But I am still up, polishing up this little capsule. I have been really busy with it lately. I swapped out the server for gmid [1] because it has CGI support, while also being fairly fast and…
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Ideas for this capsule. So now that this gemlog is running, I want to be able to extend the server's capabilities beyond serving static files. In the very least I want a little template system so I…
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=> 2024-02-21 How You Got Here
The technical background of this pod. 21 February 2024. TL;DR: You got here through Cloudflare pointing to a VPS, which runs an nginx reverse proxy that points to a ZeroTier VPN tunnel exposing…
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