Does #microsoft even know how calendars work? If I press the left arrow on their time-filing system, I go to _next_ week. WHY?

STOP USING APPIMAGE! Thanks.

Well, that's one way to run out of disk space! #docker & #containerd are spamming me with this bug https://github.com/containerd/cgroups/issues/378 And although it's "fixed", it's not released yet, so I have to keep manually clearing out my syslogs 😫

Oh, my site is not on the Australia Banlist. Phew.

An antivaxxer that had strayed from the herd tried to give me a flyer. Told them no thanks, that I like my 5G reception. They didn't think that was funny. I thought it was a pretty good one, to be honest.

Some sort of antivaxxers group hug going on at Wellington district court

I don't log in to #instagram often, but this one sent to me was pretty hilarious. #ai ruins #human #interaction 😆 https://www.instagram.com/p/DPeshTAgdNm/

Two packages in the Grenada depot. 1 taken on board by the courier 1 left in the depot Like... what?! Come on #nzpost, it's not like the packages are big or anything!

Dear #mozilla, After showing your true intentions, and jump on the #ai bandwagon for... reasons? It takes real guts to ensure a fresh installation of #firefox will open a special tab with a request to "Donate to Mozilla"

87 ppm of #CO2... that sounds a bit unrealistic

Dear #mozilla, After showing your true intentions, and jump on the #ai bandwagon for... reasons? It takes real guts to ensure a fresh installation of #firefox will open a special tab with a request to "Donate to Mozilla"

Today I learned that I managed to say "um" or "uh" or a variation of it, 179 times in 20 minutes...

Livy is helping with putting things in the #christmas #tree... #cats are terrible decorators

A #sticker I got from @SheHacksPurple has been stickered onto my new laptop 😁

A #secretsantaaonz package in the mail! 🎉 Now to keep it away from the cat for 9 days...

I went to @kiwipycon last weekend. And although official imagery isn't out yet, I wanted to share my thoughts/summaries/etc. https://firesphere.dev/articles/kiwi-pycon-2025?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon #kiwipycon

At least the cat came home. Other than that, this week ain't off to a good start

In the meantime, some of the ways you can help: • Take a look at the arcalibre project and see if there's anything you'd be interested in helping to make more reproducible. https://codeberg.org/rereading/arcalibre • If you have thoughts on BDFL-free governance structures, please feel free to […]

Shit, our cat seems to have jumped out the window, and is once again missing. This is so stressing 😿

How to speed up your linux boot times: Remove invalid mount-by-UUID lines from fstab. That'll speed your boot times up by about 5 minutes 🤦

Does anyone know of a slightly half-decent #network #topology Mapping bit of #foss that I can use to make a drawing of my home network?

Can't sleep due to the pain in my knees 😖

It has come to my attention that Calibre has started adding AI shit into its functionality. GOD FUCKING DAMMIT CAN I MAYBE HAVE JUST ONE PROGRAM THAT DOESN"T TRY TO DO AI BULLSHIT? Just one? Maybe? Anyway, if you want to have an AI-free calibre, you'll need to not upgrade past version 8.10. 😡

Dear "Just pipe this script to bash" application installer developers, Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it. You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep […]

Okay, so... spammers now at least apologise? >>> We sincerely apologize if you find this email an intrusion of your privacy or a source of inconvenience to you. <<<

I feel your pain, #coffee machine...

Alright, after scouring the internet for a way to properly install #openmediavault onto a #RaspberryPi, and have a repeatable set-up using #pyinfra https://firesphere.dev/articles/making-space?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

Apparently, #openmediavault is the best/simplest "NAS" like RPi system. But I don't like it one bit! What other options are there?

Package for #secretsantaaonz shipped. With a very shady looking tracking code 🤣 I hope they'll like it. And I'm still a bit sour I lacked the time and resources to actually _build_ a gift.

Okay, that apparently was a real earthquake...

Ow come on. Now the Raspberry Pi Imager, the only imaging tool I actually sorta enjoyed using... Is only as AppImage for deb/rpm systems? Only ARM64 gets a .deb package. Ow, and there are full Windows exe builds and such. But Debian. The underlying OS that Raspberry Pi OS is built upon, doesn't […]

What in the fresh hell is this cover image???!!! https://www.gingertechblog.com/self-host-the-outline-note-app-with-docker-a-powerful-collaborative-note-setup/

Thanks, I hate it.

Who in #canada 🇨🇦 do I know, that keeps my website open in #opera on an #ipad? You seem to visit https://firesphere.dev/articles/on-the-surface-its-buster?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon a lot. I know it's one of my most popular articles to date, but still, multiple times a day seems a tad […]

Ehm, no #meetup, you definitely do not need to know my relationship status. Or what field I work in.

Will 12th time be a charm? I don't understand why I can't get this wired-up Pi isn't getting network properly

Dear "Just pipe this script to bash" application installer developers, Do provide detailed installation instructions as well. It's not that I can't read/inspect your bash script, it's that I hate doing it. You force me to inspect your bash script, because I use my own methods at home to keep […]

WTF? I tried to make a Pull Request via #github, by fork-and-edit in the browser. This would've been a PR to The #wizard of #oz markdowns of letrss , because there was some duplication. Fucking #copilot jumped in and rewrote the entire chapter 20 of the Wizard of Oz, before I could finish, and […]

@enocc Am I correct that there was no new chapter on letrrs yesterday? Also, it seems that the Sunday letrss was i bit jumbled up? No rush, it's December, just wondering.

Right, fresh installation of @kde #neon on my laptop, after I was severely unhappy with my original installation set-up.

Lovely... Installation craps out halfway partitioning

Oh, a TP-Link Deco 3-piece WiFi set for sale for only $200! Oh, it needs fucking cloud connection to set up. Guess I'll look further.

Attention all personnel. Whamageddon is in force. I repeat, Whamageddon is in force. May god have mercy on our souls.

announcing Advent of Zines 2025: where Wizard Zines is doing a giveaway of 1 zine for the first 15 days in December! this is part of the "Buy One Give One" program we've had since I started Wizard Zines in 2018, where we give away 1 PDF zine for every copy […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

Rome for some #peanut #butter from my friends at #fixandfogg

Ok, I got the #yubikey unlock for #luks working. Problem is, it still needs my password initially for #grub, which means it's kinda pointless, as grub needs the entire root disk unencrypted to get to /boot 😞

"- AI-Driven Mesh - Unites your home under one name and password while delivering the best connections as you move room to room" Excuse me, mx. #wifi Marketing Person. That's just Wifi #Mesh. There is nothing #ai about it.

With a new laptop, and thus a new name for it. I figured I'd write about my naming scheme of computers (as it is at the moment, that is). #mythical creatures, #car manufacturers, #clouds and #raspberry https://firesphere.dev/articles/whats-in-a-name?mtm_capmaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

@enocc Is my website RSS failing for @powRSS ? I don't see new articles appearing, for some reason