Self-hosting is cool until your hosting provider's whole facility goes offline. :/ This is extremely rare for my provider, but a good reminder that I need a better failover process. At a minimum it should be easy for me to redirect the public facing bits to a resilient status page […]

Setting up postfix and dovecot. Feeling pretty retro.

Looking at CGI specs and perl scripting so I can figure out how to do something interesting with in gemini space. This stuff pre-dates my programming experience even though I'm pretty unc at this point. The Boulder company (XOR) where I learned software in 2004-2004 was in the middle of a […]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/116634580946673669 People casually sharing fascinating things about the world. It's alive and well on fedi. 🕷️

Hard to imagine a more fitting celebration of #worldturtleday .

RE: https://toot.community/@geos/116623201835354419 What a truly great guy. ♥️ Hope he spends the next year on a community TV roadshow.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@tksst/116613277857934440 This guy, but for AI psychosis.

@nick 👋 Hi from Cleveland. Lots of good stuff on your blog. BeOS! Sailfish! Also, your profile and header images are great.

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/116586846917385038 I need more exploration of the fedi/bluegrass intersection. 🎵 ♥️

There must be a good story out there about someone who gamed their BigCorp employer's AI burn requirements so well that they got a fat promotion, and now they're in charge of a bunch of half-witted AI activity at their company, and live in fear that someone will find out they were just goofing.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@restaurant_names_bot/116555384280547616 Sometimes the random restaurant names bot gets dark.

Whose externalized costs are we absorbing today?

Have a super freaking awesome day and stuff https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r0XvvKhXCZI

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285 Love to see it. ♥️

RE: https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/116538093110763307 Happy Birthday, DA 🎂

💻 I'm feeling behind on a bunch of projects right now, so I'm staying logged out of Masto (mostly). Turns out it's really helpful not having "scroll some stuff" as an easy in-between-things activity. Who knew?

Bloodbath of layoffs at Oracle today, as the company leaps into the AI sea with both feet. So many concurrent layoffs that they've depersonalized their normal process significantly, with some 25+ year veterans being notified by email. Fucking shameful.

🛠️ 💻 In the spirit of repairability and keeping good equipment alive, I've gathered up a few retired Thinkpads from local surplus auctions. I'm upgrading the RAM and drives and will be making them available in the next few weeks. These will be cozy little Solarpunk machines, older equipment […]

December 9 #freesoftwareadvent Recoll: Full-text search for your local files #recoll is a local file indexing and search powertool. It provides plenty of options for configuration (e.g., includes, excludes, filters, update and rebuild index) and a nice snappy interface. My local file […]

December 8 #freesoftwareadvent #libreoffice: Yes you can replace Microsoft Office. When I was planning for my switch to Linux, I started using LibreOffice alongside Microsoft Office on my Windows PC. I found it was a perfectly reasonable substitute for both docs (Word -> Writer) and […]

December 5 #freesoftwareadvent Gogs: source code management like github, but you host it I pulled my projects off Github a couple of years ago and migrated them to a self-hosted Gogs. Installation on my ubuntu server was dead simple (no docker required). The web interface is intuitive if […]

December 3 #freesoftwareadvent Papyrus: A Systems Engineering / MBSE tool for modeling in SysML, UML, etc. Basically a java-based FOSS replacement for Sparx Enterprise Architect. It's part of the Eclipse ecosystem. I decided to give Papyrus a shot this year for a small work project and it has […]

December 2 #freesoftwareadvent = RawTherapee Before giving Adobe the boot, I used Lightroom for photo color correction and cleanup. I now use RawTherapee and it works great for me. I'm no power editor and my use cases are pretty simple (mostly: fix exposure, even out highlights and shadows […]

First exhibit in the Royal Signals museum: a model of a 6-bit clacks. The one at Blandford was part of an Admiralty chain between Plymouth and Whitehall, operating in the first half of the C19th and superseded by the electric telegraph. There was also a branch to Portsmouth. #gnuterrypratchett