## Le contenu plutôt que le contenant

# Chacun dessine sa carte du monde

Je suis de culture minimaliste et parcimonieuse. J’aime comprendre et aller dans les moindres détails. Je n’ai jamais été fasciné par le gigantisme, l’extravagance. Les grands spectacles attirent mon attention, mais je ne parviens pas à m’immerger dans ces shows riches en sons et lumières. Une surdose de saveurs détruit son appréciation. La course à la tour la plus haute du monde provoque en moi un ennui, un gaspillage.

## Keep evolving - strange loops

# Perfect text forever

One of the major flaws in the religious texts is the aspect that very old texts, describing an antique society, will keep their meaning intact over the centuries, confirming that a godly text is perfect and remains perfect forever. Special mention for Coran, because, it is meant to be the direct declaration of Allah, and provides a perfect textbook.

I have tried several times to self-host the official opensource project mastodon. I’m much more minimalist-minded, such as supporting project like Gemini, as I’m from unix-shells world. I prefer focusing on contents rather than on cosmetics, like the bloated web pages of today.

Gemini is a minimalist protocol, meant to avoid how bloated weird HTTP went. Minimalism permits fast loading, no diverting cosmetics, so small attack surface, removes pressure on server resources. I prefer to focus on contents, like in a book, still layout setup with markdown, but no weird unsafe javascript. TLS is mandatory. By design there are no places for long extensions options. Minimalism rule prevails. So no goal to extend…extend…extend.. and…wait…we’re back to bloated HTTP..oh nooo!

As a hamradio OM (HB9ERY), specially focused on SDR, embedded devices, electronics, unix, linux, communications security, I found the project Reticulum.

If, like me, you are those that find the Internet broken, bloated, heavyweight, cosmetic oriented instead of contents, insecure, surveillance issues like still unsolved metadata protection censor-weak, user-tracking, ads, unrequested contents.

Well, reticulum is a full network stack, designed from the start to solve all those critical issues. It does not require any infrastructure, but can dynamically take advantage of it. There is no authority, no user account, no gatekeeper to connect, deny, blacklist. Anyone that can physically interface, can join the network, anywhere.

I always have been driven by knowledge sharing (open source, open hardware, open science, sci hub) and minimalism. I specially enjoy embedded systems, microcontrollers, ne555 and opamps.

My computer world is fully in the unix world: keep it as simple as possible. Build small things that do it very good and provide interfaces, APIs.

I am a pure evangelist of command line interface, against all those complex ui. i am convinced that cli encourages us to formulate and structure our goals towards machine usage.