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  • I guess this is

    ↬universeodon.com/users/djembro/statuses/116732338991496801

    I then can try to use a dedicated post which I will delete later.

    A delta chat invite
    A DeltaChat invite QR code

    And here is the the (probably) same link the code represents:

    https://i.delta.chat/#2393749AF3EABE546215E9A81D623A5BF14651E1&v=3&i=b5CdMA0NO7AyTw98iUnu3xJc&s=mn5Azx6ie1IXOeq44lE24ilH&a=x7w26uqio%40stove.legends.house&n=magical.cat

    Here is a link tag with same URL.

    I tried anything I could.

    I simply testing all this by starting own relay according to a manual.

    I had to made this as more or less “public” thing because of the limitations of wordpress plugins I use for fediverse.

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  • Found a fun game about Marshrutka driver

    Here are the quote from author description of the Cow on Road game:

    My wife is Georgian and I have lived in Tbilisi for five years. We decided the driving experience here deserved its own video game, so we built one.

    You drive a marshrutka down an old Tbilisi street and dodge what the road gives you: Priuses drifting between lanes, Wolt couriers, potholes that rattle the whole bus, street dogs that run out to chase cars, pedestrians who cross wherever they want, and cows. Of course cows. There is honking and authentic Georgian yelling from the car windows.

    It is free, browser-based, no signup needed to play.

    There is a monthly leaderboard and the top driver wins a free course bundle from EasyGeorgian, the Georgian learning platform my wife and I run.

    Would love feedback, especially on what Tbilisi road hazard we forgot.

    Cow on road game illustration
    Cow on road game illustration

    Regarding feedback, it has been asked on Reddit here.

    I played this game a bit and enjoyed it a lot. It represents in a simple and a fun way the difficulties of work of marshrutka driver on the Tbilisi steets.

    Speaking of Marshrutka, this is a phenomenon of its own. They are usually (old?) Mercedes minibus with seats on each side, a narrow space in the middle and a overhead grab bar above each row of seats. They used often by passengers who ready to suffer by having a tough ride standing and holding by the overhead bar with one hand and pressing a seat with a leg or other hand to not fall.

    Random photo of famous Tbilisi marshrutka. It is yellow minibus on photo and the door is opened to take a passenger.
    Random photo of famous Tbilisi marshrutka. It is yellow minibus on photo and the door is opened to take a passenger.

    To me they become a social mirror of energetic, intense, zero-regulation freedom vibe of years when Bendukidze & other reformers from Saakashvili team made their unique reforms and projects. One of key aspects of this period was hyper-expressiveness of anything and vibe that anything possible. Including having a ride being stuck standing between plenty of random people busy their lives in a hurry. Meanwhile driver do few things at once, like drive, speaks by phone, screams at other drivers on the street, takes cash payments from passengers, gives them the change, and all this immersed often into loud music or radio air.

    Now marshrutkas are used primary as a way of inter-city transport, and it is a bit civilized a bit, but jokes are still here about Tbilisi Marshrutkas and their unique atmosphere.

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  • A thing I miss from my childhood

    In this post I will not use any illustration. Because I am writing about absence of something today that was one of nice thing that was part of some masterpieces games of 1990s. Some games like C&C had real video cinematics in them as cutscenes. With real actors playing there as characters and surrounding people and so on.

    Today I miss this kind of cinematic cutscenes in games.

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  • Technical question

    Technical question

    First I would say something not related to post contents. This time I decided to not use an AI generation or search for a stock photo, but draw a simple sketch as an illustration.

    Road sign of question on are bollard with an electronic label endlessly scrolling text TECH.
    Drawing shows a road sign of question on a bollard with an electronic label endlessly scrolling text TECH. Font of text is too big so label looks too narrow for the shown text. There is some road with a curb in front of it and a grass growing around and behind the bollard.

    After experiencing what happens if you setup the Chatmail relay on same domain where I have the normal email, I wondering about something like what Yunohost does, when there is some fancy admin UI to configure all this, add and remove accounts there without command line or with dedicated commands set like “accounts add username” but with latest Chatmail and matrix server with shared accounts space?

    I understand that these protocols are completely different, I just want to be sure I can share addresses like

    magical_cat@stove.legends.house // for chatmail & DeltaChat but not "default email" like site registrations or e-commerce websites/shops.
magical_cat:stove.legends.house // for Matrix & Element
@magical_cat@stove.legends.house // for ActivityPub direct messages

    with option to share these identifiers and links here at blog.

    Ideally it would be nice also have something like

    @magical_cat@cinema.legends.house //for videos shared on activity pub from PeerTube

    You can say that easiest way to have that is to use the yunohost and install these apps on separate subdomains but I want to either reuse domain where possible, or use the latest codebase of these programs. And I want to set it up in following way:

    1. For such account it should have some kind of profile data synhronized across apps and managed at single place, ideally some backend page.
    2. If I would specify some email address like magical_cat@legends.house for such account, software should send the notifcations there, let it be password reset or notification about direct message/comment.
    3. Ideally it should work like shared accounts provider for all these apps, keeping accounts info including email, username (and optionally password? But this is not mandatory thing) in sync across apps.

    You would say I should just use Yunohost, but I want to get it working such way using the latest software versions of e. g. chatmail relay and matrix, and ideally – briar relay.

    To be honest this all looks like mutually exclusive requirements of using latest versions and shared accounts list, and the expectation it would work on shared domain is something that is beyond capabilities of today tech. May be I would be able to use chatmail and one other messeging protocol on same domain but only because it would use email ports. If chatmail and matrix relay will have to live on different domains, I would have to be creative in these subdomains to keep it fun, like mailbox for chatmail, stove for matrix relay, closet for briar relay and cinema for PeerTube and so on, but keeping this blog on root domain of legends.house and managed WordPress service of Hostinger.

    Who else had setup like that with or without Yunohost on same VPS, with or without container manager?

    PS: special feedback I like to hear about idea to use a sketch drawn by hand in few minutes as the illustration for blog post, and this illustration as example of such tactic.

    PS: I am not making a choice between DeltaChat & Matrix, not because I want avoid some holywar between these protocols, but because I want to try to use both where appropriate. I not have too much of contacts, so may be it is about getting experience of setting it up, mostly.

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  • Djembro, RO, supports πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡ͺ

    @magical_cat

    Nice! Is that area close to your home?

    June 5, 2026, 04:24 0 boosts 0 favorites

    Yes this is area I can see looking from my windows (and they are most of that wall, so view almost not blocked). Being at 3 floor is enough to see quite far, up to tops of few nearby hills.

    Grass colors are so bright this Spring and first week of Summer, this week. Probably because of not too hot weather so far.

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  • Sometimes sky is so beautiful

    Here are few photos of the morning sky I took yesterday.

    These are photos made almost in same minute just with different angles. Sunlight plays completely different games on each photo.

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  • Djembro, RO, supports πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡¬πŸ‡ͺ

    @magical_cat

    Indeed. You’ve probably heard that all of taijiquan is to be found in the bear. I remember one particular day when I had an aha! moment with the bear. I had already been practicing it for several years, but had not made a particular connection. It was an epiphany, and I only wanted to keep doing the bear for the rest of the hour.

    Congratulations on continuing your practice! Happy exploration!

    May 31, 2026, 17:24 0 boosts 1 favorites

    This time for me it was not about the Bear. it was about the Deer this time. I found that “aha!” moment in moving weight from back leg to front, and then in Monkey and in Tiger of animal frolics, and finally – in Deer.

    My discovery was that as soon as I start to hurry, instead of living practice with attention it deserves, I end up the “front” leg being heavy even before I “moved onto it”.

    And then these moments come, when I recognized things from deep dive videos about how important to place heel first of empty leg before going forward, and that gentle transition when you place heel first and connecting all three points of “foot tripod” as you move weight to the leg which was empty before, without losing connection of back leg… This is important part of the flow, when weight leak from one leg to another like water from full jug to an empty one.

    Speaking of Bear, now I recall a thought, that I probably told to you once that Bear has all 5 principles described by Ben Lo (that video is great, I even do form multiple times often just to put proper attention on these principles, one at a time).

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  • It is important to start it over

    It is important to start it over

    Yesterday I got an internal nudge to rego through the great lessons series by Rocky Mountain Taichi teachers Lee and Beth.

    Yes, I practicing this for a while already, but life happens sometimes in a way you have to skip a day. Or two.

    And after a difficult week on the work, during which I had to skip whole days in a row, I decided – why not review all these 13 lessons and start from scratch?

    And know what? It was a useful thing to review all that! I found that I made Animal Frolics lately with some extra spoon of hurry that took away all the joy. And missed few important details in process.

    Speaking of the details, now I recognize in these basics some bits I thought they are specific to round form and the deep dive lessons. But no, if you do Animal Frolics with proper attention, you have these bits too, even if some see them as beginners-only stuff and so on. In reality, there are no “beginner-only thngs” and basics span though all of taichi / taijiquan.

    PS: The illustration taken from here.

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  • Googlification of FixBit app completed

    This post is sort of an outsider commentary to news I seen at Mastodon. The news story described how Google decision to replace original FixBit app with pile of AI garbage and UX catastrophe caused storm of 1-star reviews. I will think about the side effects of this story, some of which span beyond the gadgets and tech.

    Google awful testing flow exposed

    Or possible total lack of proper testing. This sounds like at least one these happening inside Google:

    1. The focus groups for new app testing has been stuffed with AI loyalists, like it happens with the candidates allowed to run in Russian elections.
    2. The real results of testing on the focus groups has been thrown into the recycle bin and different results have been shown to shareholders when managers were seeking approval of these terrible changes in the app. It can be called total break of feedback channels between the top bosses & shareholders, living now in own parallel reality never intersecting everyday life of proposed audience of Google Health app.

    Another myth about rich people exposed

    This is an observation my beautiful wife made when I told about all these news. Simply speaking, all these tales about rich people eating only healthy food and spending days in various healthy activities between few calls and meeting or a two – all these myths are busted now. Rich people do not use all these smartwatches, do not follow all these healthly lifestyle guides, and so on. Instead, rich people, like Soviet nomenklatura, enjoy all sorts of tasty (and unhealthy, haha) food, don’t spend hours in gym, don’t run daily, and so on. And of course, they don’t use these fitness activity tracking devices. Otherwise they would say at last minute something like “Hey, Sundar, your plan to remake this app is a total fuck and its outcome would be an unusable piece of fucked shit!”. Or at least they would found other words to express doubt that such plan will bring some profit growth.

    People hate AI

    People do not want AI features. People do not ask for more AI into their apps and devices. All possible use cases like image generation and disinformation factoring automation already are here. It would require a lot of creativity to find a new way to use AI that would not cause hate from people and a strong marketing research to find such people who really need this way to use AI.

    But billonaires and corporations behave like they have a common secret investor who never comes to their meetings with employees and shareholders but who have the most effective leverage on them. These corporations are likely sustained by a shadow investor’s infinite funding, contingent on the aggressive promotion of AI. This continues despite the fact that these technologies are currently in the red and unlikely to reach profitability in the short term.

    I have a theory that this hidden investor is the same investor who stuffed money into Epstein pockets, bloating his importance, and this investor likely is either Kremlin or CCP.

    And what could be done with all that?

    If we ever need gadgets, they should be created not by some corporations whose leadership lives in their own reality detached from everyday lives of common people. Such gadgets should be created using the most open electronics available, let it be PineCone. It should use not the most fastest chips but those which are closest to “I can print it in garage” model.

    Yes, some research on making 3D-printable microelectronics such as CPU, memory, and Systems-on-chip seems to necessary to make all this feasible. And the whole idea is to make a dedicated cooperative for a gadget or its series, where people who will use this gadget not only source of demand for mere existence of gadget but the single source of requirements for related features both for hardware and software.

    All this will be viable only when it would be enough to gather 3-5 friends together for a device project and establish into a garage full production cycle from CPU lithography or FPGA-like programming to 3D-printing of the case and buttons or touchscreens.

    I don’t know how exactly it is possible to avoid need for “clear-room” in micro-electronics creation process, or how to create some special metamaterials which would reprogram itself into combination of logical gates, like some materials pie, where each programmable cell exposes own programmability inputs on top side, and the contacts for CPU socket still would be at bottom, or some other arragement like that. But key point here is that both production of such “programmable pie” and its programming should be doable without need to use clear-room, “in garage setting”. This, again, surely will require a lot of not so easy research.

    As soon as a dedicated cooperative of people who will use the gadget will be the device creators, there is a hope for really usable devices and for avoiding enshitification, or as I call this in the headline, Googlification.

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  • 26 May is Georgia ( ბაαƒ₯αƒαƒ αƒ—αƒ•αƒ”αƒšαƒ ) independence day

    Today, 26 May is Georgia country ( ბაαƒ₯αƒαƒ αƒ—αƒ•αƒ”αƒšαƒ – Saqart`velo ) independence day. I don’t feel too much festive about current developments in country, but hope it all will pass and country, people and language will prevail again like it happened already for over thousand years at least (I counting since times when Shota Rustaveli lived, near 1200 CE as I know).

    ბაαƒ₯αƒαƒ αƒ—αƒ•αƒ”αƒšαƒαƒ‘ გაუმარჯობ!

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