gemini://lagrangepoint.xyz

Welcome to Lagrange Point.

Here's the sites that make up Lagrange Point:

I consider the Gemini site to be the main site,

and Nex and Spartan get their content directly

from it. Then I occassionally put content

on the website. Finally, content sometimes appears

on the gopher site. If I could figure out how to

mirror content on all sites, I would!

Thanks, and have a great time here!

For chatting over IRC, visit the following:

Port 6667, no ssl.

Channel #main.

Also works over Yggdrasil!

Contact:

mdsj at disroot dot org

Logs

I really should create a new server that runs

ZFS and has a bigger boot partition. I think

what I will do is make a server alongside this

one, and then transfer ALL the content from that

server to the new one.

The new server will of course continue to run NixOS,

and have ZFS as the main filesystem. In addition,

I want continual snapshots taken of the /home dataset,

and perhaps of /root too. And I want those snapshots sent

to me on a certain day. Like perhaps once a month on a

Sunday.

In addition to the services running below,

I now also run the following:

Nex

Spartan

Currently on this site I host the following:

IPFS

I2PD(Untested)

Yggdrasil

IRC(lagrangepoint.xyz, port 6667)

Gemini(You're viewing it)

Web(Wordpress)

Gopher

Feel free to visit any of them!

I really do like Gemini, but one thing I do dislike about it is about how if you run both Gopher

and Gemini, it's hard to do the formatting for both at the same time. So I may drop all of Gemini's

formatting for keeping it super simple like Gopher.

So I run a http site on Tor, and also I use Yggdrasil, I would love to run a Tor version of this

site, but on NixOS that's kinda a pain with everything you have to figure out lol, but maybe

it isn't as bad I think. Also I'd like to run IRC over Yggdrasil, cuz Yggdrasil is a neat service.

I'd also like to experiment with i2p and IPFS, these are all neat services to look into, as long

as you avoid the nasty stuff and want to mainly use it for privacy and security.

Hope everyone is doing well!

Now I have no more decision and option paralysis, it's just going to be my Gemini site and my website.

That's going to be the extent of it all. I'm feeling better about it already!

Hi all,

I think that I have decision and option paralysis. That is to say, I can’t seem to stick with just one thing.

I have too many things to keep track of, to update, to read, to write, to play etc.

So I’ve decided to cut back on some things – I also the following servers besides just this one.

A new protocol, called Nex. I created a service for that. It runs great, but I have to create content for that.

Then I also have a Gopher service, and a Gemini service and finally, a Spartan service.

I have all these things that need content, or so I feel that they do.

In reality most people will probably only visit this site and the content on my Gemini site as well.

The other protocols, while valuable, aren’t as popular today.

I would love for them to be more popular, however. Regardless, I want to make content for others, and I can’t if I have to deal with so many methods of doing so.

Ideally I would just want one way of doing so.

In effect I will however, because the content that goes on my Gemini site will also go on my WordPress, and in the future, a Writefreely site.

Perhaps I will host those other services on another website or home self-host them, who knows. For now, I’m bringing them down.

Took down the Spartan server for now, put up a Nex server instead.

So, probably going to swap out wordpress for hugo or something similar.

I don't have anything against wordpress, other than there seem to be

new vulnerabilities popping up for it all the time.

I also need to add SSL to my site, but hetzner makes this seem so complicated.

I wanted to get a free SSL cert, but I don't really know if that's an option...

maybe I should switch hosting providers, but I don't know of any others except

Linode and DigitalOcean... I admit to still being a newb when it comes to web dev lol.

So I tried Vanilla OS, it's pretty cool. It won't be

replacing NixOS tho! I love the concept of OSTree and

OSTree adjucent systems, but ultimately you can't do

as much as with them, even with the adddition of adding

nixpkgs to the container environment ala Vanilla OS,

but it is getting closer to being more versatile.

Also, I'd like to replace my Wordpess site with Ghost

or some sort of static site. I mean, there's nothing

wrong per se with Wordpress, but I feel like it doesn't

have a lot of flexibility itself. It ends up looking

similar to every other Wordpress site out there, and

there's tons of Wordpress sites that turn people off of

them.

As far as Gemini goes, I still love Gemini a lot, altho

I dislike the TLS requirements, even tho I know that it's

needed to prove identity and for security reasons I suppose.

I really don't know what I want to do with my site if we're

being honest, I just DO know that I need to write more. Like,

a lot more, and read as well. There's no other option than

to take up the pen as much as possible, even when I don't

feel like it.

Anyways, that's all for now!

Hmm, basically I need to figure out how to keep my logs

in sync across all my servers. That is to say, the servers

running Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Wordpress. I really

wish Wordpress had a way to submit to the site via the

command-line. There's probably a plugin for that, but

I have no idea if that plugin would work with NixOS unless

it required a lot of fiddling around, lol. For now I'll

just work on making sure everything is in sync for

Gemini, Gopher and Spartan.

I keep trying to update every single day, but it's

very difficult for me. Needless to say, I am currently

using Emacs a lot again. In fact I am typing this in

Emacs right now. Emacs+NixOS or Guix makes everything

so easy it's unbelievable, really.

I want to really switch to Guix in the future, mostly

because I feel that Guix has everything I want in an

OS, and I admire their mission. It's just, since they

use the Linux Libre kernel, I can't use my wireless

internet with it and I only have access to the wireless

connection right now because of my home circumstances.

Not much to report today! Just trying to keep things

going!

Edited to add:

Gonna start doing BSD/Linux distro reviews. For new

AND old distros, and from then, howtos and config

files.

You can find it at:

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rundown of services on this site

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