Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

revised ³ re #introduction

Mid 20s guy from #Turkey.

Doing an MA in #linguistics. Research interests: Sociolinguistics, (socio)phonology/phonetics, usage based linguistics. Also interested in some metascientific topics like #OpenScience and #ReproducibleResearch.

I love #FOSS and enjoy #programming in order to itch my own scratch, particularly in #Emacs #Lisp.

This is a general personal account, so it's eveything goes. That may include rants on #software, and less frequently, on #politics.

"You're a producer, not an overworked and overpaid quasi robotic wage slave playing your stupid little role in realising oppressive, exploitative, and totally useless power structures whose only utility to the humanity is through sheer accident and whose only real goal is to reverse Robin Hood all the wealth there is to the Shareholders."

"Hello lazy ass white collar wage slaves, what about read my blog to learn how to better help your corporate overlords get richer via depriving yourself from so much joy and fun you will do anything to not feel like an empty vessel in interstellar medium! What about earning me ad money and buying my bullshit courses in the meantime, so that I don't have to dog food my bullshit advice?"

https://www.deprocrastination.co/blog/how-to-be-productive-without-forcing-yourself

Youtube in 2009: TV but better, no ads!

Youtube in 2021: 10 ads in 20 min video, plus auto advance even outside playlists, literally can't look away from the screen.

About 7 months after the purchase, I discover the brightness controls on my monitor.

Turns out I had it on 17%, and it can go wayyy too bright. At ~50% it defeats the morning glare, good enough that I can use dark themes.

watch(1) can detect changes to output.

Used this cmd line to get notified when DNS were propagated for my domain today:

watch -g -n 30 dig cadadr.space AAAA +short ; notify-send -u critical "ipv6 changed!"

#til.

AFAICT the manuals are gone tho :(

TIFO Dev-C++ is still developed and it's free software: https://github.com/Embarcadero/Dev-Cpp

No, I'm not crying.

gemini://cadadr.space is live! I just see that DNS is propagated.

I wrote an introductory gemlog post gemini://cadadr.space/blag-2021-03-05-hello.gmi CW: heavy 2000s nerd nostalgia.

For now the setup is: vger #gemini server through inetd and relayd on #OpenBSD on Vultr. I think I'll keeps the OpenBSD, but IDK about Vultr.

I'm getting my feet wet with cloud VMs through an OpenBSD vm on Vultr (they've a free trial which I'm using to see if this is something I can pull off).

Now, one question. Do you think #OpenBSD is a good fool-proof solution for someone new to maintaining publicly accessible servers, esp. security-wise?