Pet peeve: Podcasts with dramatic shifts in volume between segments.

I'm looking at you, S1E102 of Live Like the World is Dying.

I have a lot of aspirations for 2024, but they all largely have to do with building things.

Learning how to make and repair instead of buy and replace feels like such an important set of skills at this stage in my (and the planet's) life.

When you ask a business for some form of compensation because they screwed up, how do you like to phrase it?

I'm realizing I hold back on doing this, usually simply settling for them doing what they were supposed to in the first place, because I don't have a script that works for me. I don't want to be a dick, but there are times when a business misses the mark enough that I want some form of making-it-right, and I don't quite know how to phrase that.

I've got a bunch of hardware upgrades for my home server waiting to be installed, and I'm wondering if this is a good opportunity to switch from #YunoHost to a more hands-on system, like Proxmox + Docker.

Advantages: More flexibility in what I can host, not having to wait for apps to be packaged, ostensibly more control

Disadvantages: I haven't the slightest fucking clue how to set up or admin a server like that and don't even know where to start 😬

Can't say I'm eager to spend hours monkeying with configuration and trying to wrap my mind around networking, but I also would love to have more control over my server...

#SelfHosting

Today I pitched a name for a Jinteki agenda in the upcoming #Netrunner set that I think is rad as fuck.

If it makes it in, I'll let you know.

I just learned @Bonfire has topics on their roadmap, even if it's not for their 1.0 release.

This is a killer feature for me and I wish more social platforms had it. The fact that it's on their roadmap, along with circles for audience management, makes me very excited to check them out (once 1.0 is out and available for YunoHost).

It never fails to amuse me when someone comes to a board games community with a post touting the passion-project game they've painstakingly designed over five years or whatever, they want to know how to get it published, and they get asked how playtesting has gone—

"What's playtesting?"

I've been working on building my own #Hugo static website for over a year. (Granted, it's the year I became a parent, and I've had a lot going on.) I want the satisfaction of a site I built by hand and understand intimately, but I'm also feeling the squeeze: I would like to have a website now, thank you—and I'm starting to reach the part of the project where I need to actually learn if I want to develop productively, instead of halfassedly copy-pasting things together and crossing my fingers.

Maybe this is my sign to turn to a simple off-the-shelf theme so I can get started and let the pressure off.

#indieweb

Thanks to technological issues today, a meeting I tried to have this morning with someone who was already frustrated with me and my office is now scheduled for next week.

I am ~70% confident I can handle that meeting in a way that helps them feel heard and on the same page, but I'm definitely nervous about it regardless.

I'm on the lookout for gentle instrumental #music I can put on for my daughter at bedtime. Piano, violin/viola/cello, acoustic guitar, flute—I'm open to all sorts, I'm just looking for a slower tempo and a relatively subdued soundscape.

Any recommendations?

It's November 4 and it's 61°F here in the Willamette Valley.

This is so not okay.

I went to see a local community theatre's staging of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder recently, which puts me in a terrible dilemma.

On the one hand, I would really love to write a review and put my critical thoughts into words. Art criticism is a hobby I don't often get to indulge.

On the other hand, damn near nobody who would read it here would have any context at all, unless they were familiar with the script.

This might just remain one I chat with my wife about. 😆

I got an #AeroPress this weekend and made my first cup this morning, using James Hoffmann's recipe, and… yum.

Dang, I can make #coffee this tasty at home now?

Home Assistant now supports wake words, which means it's possible to build a totally open-source, local-only smart assistant.

Home Assistant is such a rad project, and I'm so glad it exists. Time to get scheming about building some devices.

#homeassistant #homeautomation #SmartHome

Year of the Voice - Chapter 4: Wake words

Activate your voice assistant using wake words and learn how to make your own

^{Home Assistant}

Call me a grump, but generally speaking, I'd prefer the online vendors I buy from to send me exactly what I ordered with no extra trinkets.

Business card? Fine, I'll recycle it.

Sticker? I'd rather you didn't.

Magnet? Tiny branded rubber duck? Get the fuck out of here. You're just creating waste.

The artist behind Webcomic Name, the cute abstract comic where almost every strip ends with "oh no", is in a protracted legal battle for ownership of their own intellectual property against notorious board game publishing assholes Golden Bell Studios.

They're raising funds to support their case.

I've been eyeing new #fediverse projects lately: specifically, @Bonfire and @Firefish.

I'm excited to see the possibility space grow, though I'll admit I'm having a hard time fully grokking both of these apps and meaningfully comparing them.

@Sean Tilley, you're my go-to when it comes to understanding different Fedi apps, and I know you're on Firefish right now. Would you be able to shed some light on what distinguishes Firefish from where Bonfire is headed? Extra points if you can compare to Friendica, because that's what I'm currently driving.

Today's amateur sysadmin challenge: my server accesses an external hard drive elsewhere on the network that is shared via NFS.

Presently, when I try to use rsync to sync a directory from the server to the external hard drive, I get a series of permission errors.

I'm gonna have to figure out what the appropriate permissions are to permit this behavior, but I'm not quite sure where to start. (Is it permissions set on the NFS server?)

my favorite part of working with health insurance is when they decide you should be able to complete therapy in X sessions, and if you don't, you don't deserve to be compensated for your services anymore

fantastic system we've got here, just phenomenal

For better or worse, DC and I are still locked together in this unhappy marriage, perhaps for all time.

But you aren’t.

If I understand the law correctly (and be advised that copyright law is a mess; purposely vague and murky, and no two lawyers – not even those specializing in copyright and trademark law – agree on anything), you have the rights to make your Fables movies, and cartoons, and publish your Fables books, and manufacture your Fables toys, and do anything you want with your property, because it’s your property.

Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain

Here, below, is the press release I sent out today to explain what I did and why.

^{Bill Willingham (These Foolish Games)}

Having just seen someone register a new account on mastodon.social and spend a half hour harassing a single specific person... jeeeesus, some people.

(I reported the user to mastodon.social moderation already, so hopefully they move swiftly.)

Unity has absolutely no incentive to accurately report installations to developers. They have no incentive to transparently distinguish between fraud and legitimate installations. On the contrary, they have a perverse incentive to do the exact opposite.

Why the fuck would anyone trust Unity's numbers?

An old-fashioned is my go-to drink for determining if a bar is worth shit.

It's an incredibly simple drink, and if you can't be bothered to actually do it right, then why should I trust you to make anything else?

I'm trying to wire up my new BL-Touch, and apparently, BL-Touch manufacturers don't care a single whit for wiring consistency. The order of my wires appears to be entirely unlike any other BL-Touch anyone else has ever written about.

At this point, I'm barely doing more than pulling them out and reconnecting them at random, in hopes one configuration will work. 😩

#3Dprinting

"if we don't heap shame and disproportionate punishments on our children, how will they ever learn that actions have consequences???"

I am so. sick. of this thinking. 😡