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How do you Read it Later?: https://taonaw.com/2026/10/26/how-do-you-read-it.html
Turns out Micro.blog has quietly been archiving a copy of every link I’ve ever posted, like a squirrel with a library card. I was sorting through my stuff, and now I wonder: how do others handle the potential link rot?
I broke my 5 night streak of "No Mastodon". Couldn't get to Night 6...
I detailed it on the pawb.fun instance. Tl;dr it did prove being on socials was never good to my brain. I lose sanity and other terrible mind stuff happens to me when I stay here and more so when people actually engage with my stuff...
Anyone who's on Mastodon, or Fediverse isn't at fault. I have a fault in my brain that, in actuality, I don't wanna fix. Being solitary has always been where I felt free, energized, and less sad and feelin' less like shit
So I'll be off now. But I'll leave y'all a nice music from the game I've been bingin' for the meantime I was out. Maybe this time I'll get to Night 7 and beyond, maybe even beyond than that. a 404 Error haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHAmb73qOY
#zenlesszonezero #gaming #linuxgaming #mastodon #fediverse #bear #bears
Guess I'll do the album thing, too 🙂
Really hard to pick only nine, and when I started out deliberately listening to music, my taste was... wildly different (or, more precisely, non-existent).
So I limited (heh) myself to the stuff that is still in line with my current taste, and glossed over 2 Unlimited and DJ Bobo and a lot of other Eurodance acts 🫣
Since around 1997 it's been mostly crossover, hard rock, indie rock, and finally metal in all its forms.
our final play session was really something, we ended up solving a fairly sophisticated puzzle while split into three groups, with pretty good radio discipline and remote signaling and all the rest.
still some PTT issues and a few "over"s that didn't end the message, but a far cry from our early play sessions where we had comms conflicts and did a lot of disorganized wandering around!
a lot of funny moments where stuff that seems obvious to me (because of exposure in scouting) was not something my friends were thinking about until the problem dawned on them or somesuch. and real orienteering and collaboration skills were developed in the process!
Hilarious that Dan Tehan, shadow energy minister and the first semi-autonomous robot with a broad Aussie accent, is demanding the resignation of energy minister Chris Bowen. Why? Because of the massive cost blowout of Snowy Hydro 2, a scheme which Dan's government started and then controlled for five years until they lost government. It's gone from an estimate of $2bn to around 25bn. Labor's 2023 review found most of the design had not even been done ("Design immaturity"), not to mention too few geological core samples had been taken along the tunnel paths, resulting in the tunnel borer Florence the Machine being stuck in a sinkhole for 11 months. It's equally hilarious that Angus Taylor, energy minister in 2017 and responsible for the stuffups, is also calling for Chris Bowen's resignation. #auspol #snowyhydro
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/24/energy-snowy-hydro-2-power-project-costing-explainer
I was going to quote another toot as an example; but it decided against doing that…
For the folks that are on instances that have large (>1000) character limits: Please know that you don’t have to max out your limit. If you must, post a large toot, please break it up into multiple toots, if those multiple toots go into double digits, please consider getting a blog, and post you stuff their and in a single toot post a link with a summary.
It's not like any of the individual measures I've been applying (network segmentation, rootless containers, readonly filesystems, compartmentalizing secrets/keys...) acts as a silver bullet, but seeing the clusterfuck that we are living these days on the Internet... I'm happy of having been a bit paranoid with the security of my systems (to the extend of my abilities).
I still have to update a lot of stuff all the time, but at least I have some extra margin to react (in comparison to the common case).
Damn, that third movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4! I just love how he finishes it with this unconventional, somber fade-away in four, with just the timpani, glockenspiel, and a figure from part of the reed section, after what you *thought* would be the full-orchestra climax. Did he hear this stuff in his dreams?
He got in trouble with Stalin for this one. Written in 1934-36, it wasn't performed until the '50s.
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#AllStarTrek @startrek
#StarTrekTOS (8ET) The Devil in the Dark s01e25 March 9, 1967
#StarTrekTNG (9ET) Parallels s07e11 November 29, 1993
#StarTrekDS9 (10ET) In the Hands of the Prophets s01e20 June 20, 1993
#StarTrekVOY (11ET) Demon s04e24 May 6, 1998
#StarTrekENT (12am) Bounty s02e25 May 14, 2003
No poster today. In the field, and don't have access to all my stuff.
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Android/Kotlin official resources are in this weird state that there are a LOT of them, they look good and they contain some pretty specific examples, but they all kind of suck? Like they lack any real structure, repeat the same stuff in various articles, but leave out a lot of necessary information
And now I can't find the spreadsheet in which I catalogued them. So I'm doing that again, and this time I'm entering them in #Readerware along with all my books. I need to find an online index of what stories are in which issue, as for now the data are limited to stuff like "F&SF, Nov 1972". Anyone got any pointers? 2/2
Late lunch, brats on the grill, football on TV, oak in the glass….
#lupulinBrewing Oak-aged Imperial Sweet Stout 2023
Massive oakiness with a smooth mouthfeel. Notes of smoke and molasses. Sweet with a lasting oaky boozy tingle.
p.s. that’s white oak from my backyard, not the stuff for good beer…
After my heroic feats of #BiblioArchaeology as previously documented on this channel I have moved on to #MagazineArchaeology. Some time ago I was in a second hand bookshop which had two boxes of uncatalogued sci-fi magazines. They were trying to sell them for 20p a volume. I offered considerably less to take the lot. When I got home I catalogued and shelved them all. At some point I moved them to boxes because I wanted the shelf space for other stuff. 1/n
Here's a conceptual programming question for you:
If I have a static site generator, can I make it federated..? :anime_huh:
I mean, I think you can set up an RSS feed so that the feed is updated when the site is updated.
Could that be federated? Tied to a federated platform to handle the dynamic aspects, maybe..?
I ask, because when people were asking about better "web comic" platforms, some of the stuff they asked for were my reason for making "LunaGen" for my landing site for serial episode content.
Could it be federated? Does that even make sense? Would I lose the benefits of a static website? 🤔 :raccoon_cool:
87-year-old customer says she's not eaten all day because she's so stressed trying to #print.
In a 90-minute phone call – and with English not her first language – she followed diligently step-by-step as I guided her to restart the iPad, try the iPhone instead, restart the #printer, restart the router, rejoin the printer to Wi-Fi, factory reset the printer, check for printer firmware updates, and factory reset the router. All to no avail.
Now I'm off to find her a new printer, and she's promised she'll have dinner.
Dear tech bros: we don't want AI, we don't want smart everything, we don't want a new version every year. We want stuff that works.
I used to be a FreeBSD enthusiast, but then I set up Alpine Linux and now I’m really enjoying it. ❤️
This setup only uses around 760 MB of RAM, with elinks, cmus, newsboat, top, and fastfetch all running on the screen. It’s so lightweight, and I’m noticing really good battery life too. I feel right at home with this setup.
One of my favourite things is browsing old blogs with elinks. There’s just something nice about opening a terminal and reading the web without all the extra stuff getting in the way. Simple, fast, and does what I need.
I love it. I think I’ve found my new home with #AlpineLinux. 🐧💻
#Alpine #Linux #UnixPorn #Unix #FreeBSD #elinks #cmus #newsboat #top #fastfetch #BatteryLife
#ScribesAndMakers 10/25: What's something you accomplished this past week?
I'm currently writing a Halloweeny Doctor Who story for a close friend. I actually posted about it yesterday, and I'm thrilled with the way things are turning out. I've missed working on Doctor Who-related stuff. :11111:
Further on the f... up yesterday.
Assessing Microsoft's current app strategy "pest or cholera" may be a tad brutal, but I maintain that it IS accurate!
Microsoft have caught us right in the middle of two distinct design failures:
Anyways... Let's support each others - and the companies around us - in getting off that shit. Will it be perfect? Certainly not, but at least it'll be a fresh start :)
#Google changed its privacy policy on 16 October
old line: no personalised ads from your Drive, Gmail or Photos. new wording is fuzzier.
if Personal Intelligence is connected to AI search, your data can shape the ads you see. it may be on without you noticing.
check: Data & privacy > Personalization settings > Connected Content Apps.
encrypt your private stuff before it goes into a cloud. encrypted = unreadable to Google 🔐
@stefano I thought, silently, of many things when I moved from the Cafe.
A single-user instance was amongst my thoughts. It's a possibility, however I can't imagine it becoming a priority.
I'm more interested in spending my "IT" time on stuff that's directly related, or adjacent, to FreeBSD.
Good morning everyone 🌻 Windy old night and the storm is still blowing, but the power has stayed on so far 🤞 An extra hour in bed this morning due to the clocks going back was helpful as I was awake off an on all night and wanted to be able to get up early to help Grant with the parrots in case there was no power. Luckily that wasn't required so I managed to slip back to sleep for a while.
I'm sitting with them now and they are clearly unsettled, but all cosy at least. Toby is covered over the front of his cage since he has been screaming at me constantly since I came in and I find that just blocking him off from seeing me while leaving the rest open calms him right down 🤷🏻♀️ I can hear him happily munching away. I'll uncover him again when I leave the room, but I would like some coffee in my own warm living room first 😂
We didn't end up playing BG3 yesterday as Grant said he just wanted to watch stuff instead. I played some Fields of Mistria on my Steam Deck for a few hours instead. I'm really enjoying it. It's like Stardew Valley meets Zelda or something 😊
Plans for today are more crochet work and watching things if the power stays on.
Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗
Watching a YouTube video of funny Google Street View scenes with #Lincoln (10), and I mentioned the LARPers in Pittsburgh
Lincoln: what's LARPing?
Me: Live Action Role Playing. It's people playing D&D in the real world, but with costumes and weapons and stuff
Lincoln: is that like furries?
Me: well, furries do gather in Pittsburgh...
🔮 Happy #SelfPromoSaturday to all our friends!
🤺 Your quest is to appease the all-powerful Queen Daddy.
🙏 Only offerings of hype, promos, & links can appease her!
🎲 Let's see your #TTRPG, #Queer, #Punk, & weird stuff!
💞 Remember to repost each other and be supportive!
Where does #elilo installs the efi file when in the #slackware 14.2 installer? 'Cos my #Thinkpad T480's EFI FAT32-formatted partition at the start of the nvme disk remains empty.
BIOS is set to boot EFI only with legacy tolerance (secureboot is off).
Some stuff appears in /boot/efi but that's an ext4 partition...
15.0 did work fine yesterday.
In absentia.
Mrs Miasma and myself drove down to the county clerk's office and handed our signed and dated absentee ballots to the guy behind the desk.
It would have been more convenient to just deposit them into a ballot drop-box but we don't have those anymore.
In a state where a medium sized database could track the names and addresses of every eligible voter (590,784 people in total), we're afraid of ballot-box stuffing.
We're a deeply stupid people.
RE: https://mas.to/@everyMagicCard/117497235599728433
One of several games I would so like to get into, largely because of the art, but don't have the money, time, or (probably) mental energy for.
I think it's also the nature of the game — too vast and ungainly to get your arms around. If there were a more limited pool of cards that were immediately accessible and learnable, then maybe.
In the meantime, enjoying this feed. Beautiful stuff to look at.
My current project at work is on hiatus as the client is looking for more funding. I've spent the last week looking at possible job prospects. Things don't look good.
None of my contacts have any projects that I could help with. LinkedIn is even more awful than before, if that's even possible. The market is being completely swallowed by AI mania. Posts about how to use AI effectively are interspersed with posts about how people can't find a job. Every job offer is in some way related to AI. An AI startup in stealth mode, experience with Claude Code required, or (my favorite) a project that comes down to "take this AI output and make it look good".
I guess it's time to install opencode on my machine and learn some new stuff. I'm still skeptical, but being ignorant about this is no longer an option for me it seems.
Strangeland is real bad, but in a way that is very enjoyable. Dee Snider's scenery chewing pseudointellectual monologues are so much fun and Robert Englund shows that nobody can chew more scenery than he can. Also, the 90s tech culture stuff is cringe in the best way like explaining what "IM" means.
Today, I've done a little work on my shell script that uses RegExs on my chapter files to find possible editing issues.
I'm pretty happy with the results from today's change. Though I'm not completely sure the new RegEx works across multiple paragraphs. Even without that definitely working, it finds a bunch of new stuff to check on The Novel.
#JBTechPost #RegularExpressions #AmWriting #AmEditing
Trophikos 1.2.0 has been released on the App Store! We’ve got iPhone Duo support! We’ve got a new “Want to make” list! We’ve got richer logging details! We’ve got bug fixes! It’s a whole lot of new and improved stuff!