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Pete the Gopher Keeper

@GopherPete@techhub.social

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Retired and living the (tech) life here in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, UK! I run a web server, but my pride and joy is my gopher server which gets fed fresh files practically every day. It's the past, kids, but more importantly, the future! Also interest in bread making, coffee, beer, wire fox terriers, MeshCore, paganism (pantheism rules)

31 Followers

32 Following

18 Posts

Joined November 13, 2025

WWW:

https://petergarner.net

Gopher:

gopher://petergarner.net

RSS feed:

https://petergarner.net/feed.rss

Dog:

Wire Fox Terrier

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 2mo ago

Boosted by @Tutanota@mastodon.social

Replying to

@Tutanota@mastodon.social I must say that i'm really impressed with Tuta - I set up a Revolutionary account at the weekend and linked a domain to it. I'd say it was a straightforward, "calm" experience. 👍

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 7mo ago

Following on from the part couple of days of Rediscovering Perl, I was honestly surprised how much I'd forgotten after being retired for 3 years! 30+ years of getting paid to do #Perl every day, then .. nothing. Now I suddenly needed to hit the ground running again and found it challenging. The best bit though is that I saved nearly all the code I'd written and was able to instantly refer to working code :0080: I'm also really impressed that I can run all this stuff on small, portable devices - how times have changed!

techhub.social

TechHub

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@ambiguous_yelp @olivenolje @kde @Stem I agree. I believe one solution is to start/continue to design hardware that's generic enough to do the job. Think dune buggies which are bare-bones but can move around quickly. Bolt on accessories as needed. Perhaps bring the #Permacomputing crowd in? Framework Computer style?

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 6mo ago

UK: "Protect the children at ALL COSTS!"

ME ASKING FOR GUIDANCE: "Thank you for reaching out to the Professional Online Safety Helpline.

We greatly value your query and appreciate your patience during this time. We are currently operating at reduced capacity, which may result in longer response times than usual.

Please rest assured that your concern is important to us, and we will respond as soon as we can.

If you are contacting us with a serious safeguarding concern, please escalate this locally via your local authority"

It sucks! And what would my local authority know?!

#ageverification #LOL

techhub.social

TechHub

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@GossiTheDog >For what it’s worth - entry was to telcos and financial services with interests aligned to China Oh, that'll be the UK as well now, since Starmer's fallen into bed with Mr Xi. 😩

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@hans@mastodon.crazynewworld.net Well that didnt take long! Looks like Apple finally realised what customers really want :0080:

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 6mo ago

'Morning tooters! Still battling with miserable weather thanks to British "Summer" Time, but I did find an interesting article on a solar power breakthrough: https://petergarner.net/notes.php?thisnote=20260401-Solar+Power+Breakthrough+in+Yorkshire.html

#solarpower #solarpanels #GreenLiving

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Pete

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@kudra@aus.social I heartily approve of your node mounting devices! No chance of any signal attenuation I suspect 😁

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@tootapp@mastodon.social keeping the clock on screen is a great idea - it's really easy (for me) to lose track of time when I'm in "just one more game" mode!

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@mdhughes@appdot.net I'd definitely include Companion (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26584495) - now watching this for the second time!

imdb.com

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@olivenolje @frameworkcomputer @pine64 @pine64eu I stumbled across it via a random posting, but they have a web site https://permacomputing.net/ and a mailing list. Worth a look I think.

permacomputing.net

permacomputing

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 7mo ago

@paninid @dianea Further thoughts .. I don't honestly know where to start with the "this bothers me immensely" scenario - that's an understatement obviously. As a boomer, I was brought up to believe that The Establishment, Queen and Country etc was honourable; yes, even MPs - otherwise how would they attain their privileged positions? But as you grow older, and more importantly, mass, near-instant communications arrived, The Establishment couldn't hide behind the facade of respectability, and we culminate in the Epstein Cesspit. I'm sure there are others too... As someone who's grown cynical over the years, you have to realise that my beliefs - nearly everything I was brought up to believe in - have been turned upside down, and there must be many, many others that feel the same. We're not victims in the same way that the real victims are, but the feeling of not knowing who to turn to, who to *trust* is deeply unsettling and bewildering. And just when you think it can't get worse, another turd surfaces 🤬

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@meljoann@topspicy.social what an interesting web site! I've spent a lot of today checking out the various feeds and can safely say that there goes yet another chunk of my "spare" time 😁 Really interesting and eclectic stuff!

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the UK Government's Exercise Turnstone report? If we're going to get CO2-shortage induced food shortages it'd be helpful to know what we're up against!

#shortages #turnstone #ukgoverment

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TechHub

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 6mo ago

I've found a site that shws a list of Linux distributions that don't include #systemd

https://without-systemd.org/wiki/index_php/Linux_distributions_without_systemd/

techhub.social

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@legoktm I'm really surprised that no-one has referenced Colossus - The Forbin Project. Made in 1970 it seems remarkably forward-thinking. Come to think of it, a lot of Sci-Fi from that era is becoming reality... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177

imdb.com

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@SocraticEthics@mastodon.online Excellent! Can you get Tony Blair there as well? He needs to answer a lot of questions 😡

Pete the Gopher Keeper @GopherPete@techhub.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@DaveWhittle@mastodon.social that'll be the UN that Trump wants to shut down in favour of his Board of Peace?