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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 0d90ebe..e888eca 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -7,101 +7,39 @@ #+HUGO_WEIGHT: auto #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [29/29] :@blog: +* 2024 [27/27] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :END: -** Dune: Part 1 -I'd like to call myself a Dune fan, but I am not. -I have finished my Dune adventure on /Heretics/ and only now am I planning to finish the saga[fn:witcher] -Though, I think this still puts me well above most people calling themselves fans now. - -/Dune: Part 1/ is the second movie based on the 1956 Frank Herbert's classic SciFi epic. -Well, it is not. -It is the third attempt to show the first half of the book. -There was the David Lynch verion (which I adore) and there was a TV Series. -There were also games, but only one of those have any resemblance to the plot of the book. -So yeah, Dune was considered impossible to transfer to any other medium. -Sadly, I have to agree. - -I think everybody (and their dogs) know what /Dune/ is about but: -/Dune/ is a story of distant future, where all powerful houses. -The technological progress was halted thousands of years ago, after a sentient AI raged a war against humanity. -Arrakis (aka Dune) as a sand planet, the only known source of /Spice/ - a narcotic allowing humans to traverse time, and therefore spaceflight. -Spaceships are operated by mutated humans, who after exposure to Spice can see into the future and steer the ships. -Now, the Emperor order the control of the planet to be shifted to House of A eides. -The previous stewards, House of Harknonen will not make it any easier. - -Ignoring the mutants, this sounds like a run-of-the-mill SF series. -But /Dune/ It is also story of social engineering spanning millennia, of false prophets, and a million crazy things. -The first book keeps it /almost/ sane, but there is a significant dictionary attached, and the first time reader will need to use it extensively. -Later the saga goes completely off the rails. - -Note, that /Frank Herbert/ wrote only the first few books. -After his death, his son - /Brian Herbet/ took over and wrote dozens of other ones. -The quality differs significantly, as I've been told. -I've read the /Houses/ trilogy, and it was quite nice. - -Now that we've got the introduction out of the way, let's go to the movie. -Let me start with saying that I adore it. -It's now what I'd want (as the young vloggers say "hear me out"), but at face value it's as close to perfect SF movies as they go. - -/Dune: Part 1/ is directed by Denis Vileneuve, who previously directed some of the greatest SF movies of this century - /Arrival/ and /Blade Runner 2049/. -Hi other movies are also amazing (I can't recommend /Enemy/ enough), so I was pretty stoked when it was announced that he will direct /Dune/. -I am no longer a movie buff[fn:critic], but he may very well be my favorite living director. - -Technically, I can not find any fault. -The story makes sense (I'll return to Lynch in a second), which by itself is an achievement. -The acting is superb, and works as a reminder that TV series are still not on the level of the greatest movies. -The special effects are astounding[fn:ornitopter]. -The music is, for the most part, at least great. -I hated the main theme with screaming lady. -Music is supposed to work with the movie, not to hide it with loud noises! -But that's the only thing I disliked. - -I loved the tempo of this movie, as I never enjoyed action-packed shoot fests of the /other franchise dominating cinema for decades/. -Everything is slow - the actors speak slowly, the scene have time to breath, the camera is moving on a low gear. -This adds an amazing dream-like feeling. -Sometimes I felt like I'm watching a /Tarkovsky/ movie and not a big budget Hollywood blockbuster. - -And this the greatest and worst thing here. -It's meditative. -You fill like in a trance. -You fully buy everything you see here. - -But the world of Dune is weird. -It is full of things that make you go "huh?". -It has mutants who traverse time, but it also got mutants who are computers. -There are reanimated corpses, living furniture, hollow planets, vision quests. -Denis omitted everything that was not essential to the plot, and what he left, he grounded in reality by omitting the /wtf/. -There are not even the crazy names! - -This is where /Lynch/ version shines. -It makes little sense, it is rushed - sure. -But it conveys how twisted the world is. - -And this is why I don't think that this movie is a /great/ adaptation of Dune. -It is a /great/ movie on its own. -It perfectly adapts the adaptable and pretends that there is nothing else. -It makes /Dune: Part 1/ the hit that it is, and it allowed us to get /Part 2/. -But since making this move appeal to mass audience is not my problem, I'd like to see the full picture. - -But that's just me. -As it stands, this is a groundbreaking movie which makes me want more. -Not only more of /Dune/ but more of serious, intelligent SciFi movies. -We had those and may get more! - -Highest recommendation from me. - -[fn:witcher] Right after finishing Witcher saga. -[fn:critic] not to brag, but I was a semiprofessional film critic during college years. -I had a press pass and all! -[fn:ornitpter] Ornititopthers look just like in the /Dune/ game! -This strangely works with how believable everything is. -All flying ships have this strange physics, which I have hard time explaining. -They are not like you X-Wings, but they fit the world. +** DONE New homepage and breaking RSS +CLOSED: [2024-04-18 Thu 21:19] +:PROPERTIES: +:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: new-homepage-and-breaking-rss +:EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER: :abstract Treat this as a pre-mortem. +:END: + +Recently, I have stumbled upon [[https://cyber.dabamos.de/index.html][The Cyber Vanguard]][fn:src], a very Web 1.0 inspired website. +I am much more of a Web 1.0 guy as I never fully got all that Web 2.0 /zeitgeist/. +The last revolution here[fn:web] was a step in similar direction, but the hell with that. +I am remodeling my index to be an index! + +And since we are on the subject, my near plans are: +- continue [[https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/history/][Unix and BSD history]] +- write about Xah Fly Keys (emacs) which I am using now +- write a tutorial on hosting a website in OpenBSD. I already have something like this here, but I don't like it very much. +- write about ox-hugo (which is how I author this site). +- continue writing reviews under the sexy name /brain rots/. + +But having site in constant renovation has one downside: I break RSS. +Since I move files around, and since Hugo treats the permalink as unique ID, after every move, RSS readers treat the item as new site. +I will be changing the ID to be the timestamp of post publish date (I write so rarely, that there is 0 chance of overlap), so I can move the files how much I want. +But this will change IDs of all existing pages, so your reader may treat everything here as new. +Sorry! +And btw, I have a [[https://ko-fi.com/mmspl][ko-fi]] now if you want to, you know, buy me a coffee. +[fn:src] via [[https://emacs.ch/@jlsksr@mastodon.online/111784575662713642][Julius Kasier on Mastodon]] +[fn:web] [[https://michal.sapka.me/blog/2024/webmaster/][Being a webmaster is freaking cool]] ** DONE OpenBSD 7.5 released diff --git a/content/blog/2024/new-homepage-and-breaking-rss.md b/content/blog/2024/new-homepage-and-breaking-rss.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d5fdb40 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/2024/new-homepage-and-breaking-rss.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ ++++ +title = "New homepage and breaking RSS" +author = ["Michał Sapka"] +date = 2024-04-18T21:19:00+02:00 +categories = ["blog"] +draft = false +weight = 2001 +abstract = "Treat this as a pre-mortem." ++++ + +Recently, I have stumbled upon [The Cyber Vanguard](https://cyber.dabamos.de/index.html)[^fn:1], a very Web 1.0 inspired website. +I am much more of a Web 1.0 guy as I never fully got all that Web 2.0 _zeitgeist_. +The last revolution here[^fn:2] was a step in similar direction, but the hell with that. +I am remodeling my index to be an index! + +And since we are on the subject, my near plans are: + +- continue [Unix and BSD history](https://michal.sapka.me/bsd/history/) +- write about Xah Fly Keys (emacs) which I am using now +- write a tutorial on hosting a website in OpenBSD. I already have something like this here, but I don't like it very much. +- write about ox-hugo (which is how I author this site). +- continue writing reviews under the sexy name _brain rots_. + +But having site in constant renovation has one downside: I break RSS. +Since I move files around, and since Hugo treats the permalink as unique ID, after every move, RSS readers treat the item as new site. +I will be changing the ID to be the timestamp of post publish date (I write so rarely, that there is 0 chance of overlap), so I can move the files how much I want. +But this will change IDs of all existing pages, so your reader may treat everything here as new. +Sorry! + +And btw, I have a [ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/mmspl) now if you want to, you know, buy me a coffee. + +[^fn:1]: via [Julius Kasier on Mastodon](https://emacs.ch/@jlsksr@mastodon.online/111784575662713642) +[^fn:2]: [Being a webmaster is freaking cool](https://michal.sapka.me/blog/2024/webmaster/) |