mycology often feels to me like a type of queer love -- learning to know and understand and care for strange beings with needs both entirely different and similar to ones own

yelling at the wind while biking levels of frustration lol

was radicalized by @cblgh that there is no layer of the stack that is separate from “user experience” because if the code is difficult to change or maintain, the *users* are not going to enjoy the *experience* of the software becoming out of date or unmaintained over time and unresponsive to […]

is there any website/e-mail list listing any and all tech job postings from not siliconvalley/VC tech organizations? or something similar?

the bug oscillates between being a puzzle and a punishment depending on sunlight, caffeine, air temperature and a variety of other factors

as someone who has been trying to get help with middle-of-the-night-waking for 2.5 years, and has tried a shit ton of things with diligence, the continual, widely-varying and repetitive amount of things people continually recommend without being asked has been very informative about the human […]

at the gym, various machines and instruments, no clear directive exactly what you are supposed to be doing here, tens of people moving around doing various things, no explanation needed, if there is a common denominator it is a secret

is it gay to go to the gym during off-hours to make still life drawings of the equipment

something interesting about using ssh in order to download a file onto a different machine simply because there is a faster internet connection there. like nothing will get the file here faster, but I do not need it here, just somewhere, where am I?

sometimes feels like silicon valley has never read wittgenstein https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

for who it may concern: was trying to use filen for a while for encrypted cloud backups, but then it stopped syncing. switching to borgbase now for my laptop

is there a service anyone likes where you can easily buy phone numbers with monero? ideally can also use the number in your browser and not have to ensure your phone is secure this seems like the necessary workaround for all the surveillance services that bottom out to requiring a phone number

dreaming of permacomputing software that is so simply designed and bug-free that it quietly supports system administrators to not think about it, to sleep at night, to think about other things, like a healthy microbiome invisibly supporting digestion or support from the ancestors

wondering about "terminal-emulators" / "permacomputing-graphical-application-frameworks" thats can run tuis and terminal programs, but also can run programs that have fewer weird keyboard/mouse quirks than tuis and support images... like i sort of love tuis but they also seem deranged

gateway co-op remained unaffected by the aws outage

is anyone following any archiving projects of journalists and social media from gaza? like of Saleh al-Jafarawi <3

was in a music rut and tired of my music, and funny that simply asking a friend for music relieved it also cooking a recipe from a friend ask a friend is such a beautifully simple practice for shaking things up

i made a thing with some other people and im not entirely sure how to explain it but the website tries to do that https://gateway.commoninternet.net/

if you can say “tailscale funnel and cloudflare tunnel” five times fast, without thinking of the edward snowden “ssl added and removed here!” meme, then you don’t need gateway co-op https://gateway.commoninternet.net

anyone have a tui they like that closely mirrors the interface of simplenote?

https://canalswans.substack.com/p/canal-swans-35-living-internet > There are researchers, theorists and practicioners, but to some degree none of them really no one what’s happening on the internet, they just have a best guess.

would love to see a data visualization of the first time I heard each different word over my lifetime / the frequency with which that word appeared (metaphysically recorded, not via actual data)

funny how caffeine (or anything effecting mood) causes me to move around the kitchen in slightly different patterns

an obsession with superficial notions of efficiency is arguably one of the root problems in our society, but that aside there is a part of me that enjoys funny and quirky/efficient double uses of space and time (clothes drawer is base of standing desk, going running while the rice cooker is going)

wish signal added a feature where you could set a disappearing time for a particular message after sending it, feel like i would prefer that ux for most use cases

successfully renewing a tls certificate on a home server via tls-passthrough feels magic and enjoyable to me each time, even though its now worked reliably tens of times in a row over months

started using standing desk frequently on one leg in tree pose (not as an exercise, just feels nice)

phoneless meetings are a great and accessible security practice as well as a nice way to hang out anyway

this morning dreaming of a brutalist coffee shop to work at, big slabs of concrete to work at, nothing is cute, there is no music

annoyed that atproto depends on dns, and dns is such a clear vector of censorship that seems likely to continue to be used more frequently altho i guess browsers etc with alternative dns resolvers, or even dns-over-tor, is a pretty straightforward workaround, but i think not currently mainstream

working at my coworking space (the libary), taking calls in the call room (outside on the sidewalk)

there are so many modalities of medicine that it seems like one could spend a lifetime trying different things to treat a mysterious condition, which is both encouraging, discouraging, poignant and funny

a couple months ago, I wrote a guide on "How To Make Firefox More Efficient On An Old Computer Using AutoTabDiscard" and added it to the permacomputing wiki the guide is here: http://permacomputing.net/Guides/autotabdiscard/

yesterday knee gave out unexpectedly while on a train with bike and camping equipment, and could no longer walk. without generalizing, in this case trying to figure out to ask for help to get off the train and get home had an interesting puzzle-like quality

while it is annoying when the servers are not working, when they are working smoothly at some point, it is gratifying (one explanation of the problem of theodicy)

after some logistical difficulties last week, this morning I'm on a train, with my bicycle, connected to the internet, at 9:36 am, on the way to visit a friend, and for a moment logistics are going surprisingly well

If, like me, you love seeing all the good Rudy Fraser is doing and the joy bubbling from the launch of the BlackSky PDS and, as another non-Black person, want to support it, you can share or subscribe to contribute to the project here! https://opencollective.com/blacksky#category-CONTRIBUTE Do […]

when people say llm usually its a typo and they mean lm (aka lichen-markdown) when people say gemini, they usually mean the protocol, not the other thing

mostly i imagine being a queen/king would be a position i would turn down on ethical grounds, but i would sort of like if there was a live band that followed me around on some days playing appopriate music based on transitions and what was happening and as an alarm clock

another reason self-hosting sucks compared to community-hosting, is if there is some bug, you need to find it and fix it (as opposed to the group becoming aware and responding) (something something update broke ipv6 silently broke e-mail sending via smtp relay... not how I wanted to find out)

i hate to say it, but i kind of want a yunohost-like-interface, for distributed deployments, for non-technical-folks to manage a fleet of servers, backups between them, migrating apps between servers. possibly a yunohost-simple graphical interface, ansible roles in the backend

was relaxing to realize im only 3 years into the pitta period of life (30-60)

the meaning of the word vibes is useful, but the vibes of the word vibes are bad. there are other better words, imo

tfw the computer is frustrating (one of the sides of its personality)

say what you will about rainbow gatherings but interesting they have been going for fifty years with that form

great private and usable open source software exists right now. not as nice the latest corporate stuff, but still good. definitely better than the corporate stuff that existed 5-10 years ago. if somehow it were possible to accept a 5 year downgrade, and then only continue with progressive […]

just updated sunbeam.city to v4.4.2, appears to be working ty @squeakypancakes for your mysterious and magical fix

Online #permacomputing workshop announcement: On Wednesday 6 August, join me for the final "Permacomputing for #Wilderland" workshop on making smol websites! https://remote.wilderland.ie/events/permacomputing-august-small-websites.html "From considerations of […] [Original post on post.lurk.org]

when i asked the barista who i have a crush on the wifi password, they said "its taped to the wall" in such a beautiful way

mastodon probably also wants to see this https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f