#thoughts

Just found out Vivaldi Radio exists. https://radio.vivaldi.net What an interesting idea, genuinely didn't see this coming from a browser company. Trying it. I love how this company keeps evolving, and honestly their whole product line right along with it. @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net #Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #VivaldiRadio #Radio #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

https://widdershins.verja.net/shoegazedream-pop-my-new-fascination/ #music #thoughts #shoegaze

Don't click on that news story, if you don't feel like it. You have choices. Go listen to a bird conversation, look at clouds, hear the wind in the leaves before they fall. Remember you are connected to it all. This place, this earth, this solar system, and two trillion galaxies. The news story will still be there later. #Thoughts #Today

Bought myself a 1987 Toyota Corolla for my birthday once, 950 dollars, and spent months restoring it properly. Rented it a garage, repainted it, drove it every chance I got. It ended up being the car in our wedding photos. Five years now it has been rotting in a damp garage in Ukraine, because of the war, and there is nothing I can do about that from here. All I have in my hands is a keychain my father gave me. Memory and pain hit at the exact same moment, understanding that the life I had is never coming back. #Ukraine #War #Toyota #Corolla #Memory #Blog #Thoughts

Ai killed the video star Ai killed the video star In my mind and on my phone, we can't go back we've gone too far Oh-a-aho oh Oh-a-aho oh #ai #AIgenerated #future #Thoughts

"Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.” ~ Eckhart Tolle #quotes #dailylife #wellbeing #Thoughts #thinking #happiness #EckhartTolle

I don’t want to live to the age 100. I hate shuffleboard and the smell of Depends makes me gag. #age #old #thoughts #geriatrics

I want to live in a country that takes pride in leaving nobody behind, where the strong feel good about themselves, not because they have more than others, but because they are able to carry those less fortunate. #thoughts #dream

=> interesting quotes / from Dr. Roy Baumeister #quotes #ideas #psychology #society #mind #thoughts

Apple has a "What the heck is Mastodon?" guide sitting in the App Store. Servers, the three timelines, alt text, content warnings. They compare it to email. Thousands of independent servers, you pick one, you can talk to everyone on the others, and you can move house later without losing your contacts. I have explained this to people maybe two dozen times and never once that cleanly. I usually lose them around the word "instance", which is a word nobody outside this place has ever needed. Anyway. Nice to see it written down properly by someone with reach, even if the apps list has clearly been refreshed more often than the text. Reading it from my own instance, which is the whole point. https://apps.apple.com/ch/story/id1668483560 #Mastodon #Fediverse #Decentralisation #ActivityPub #SelfHosting #Blog #Thoughts

Good read on what is coming in PHP 8.6, out November 19. Partial function application is the one I keep rereading. str_replace(' ', '-', ?) gives you a closure with the rest prefilled, and it finally makes the pipe operator from 8.5 pleasant to use. Plus a Duration class, a built-in clamp, and session cookies defaulting to httponly and SameSite Lax, which should have been the default a decade ago. I did not pick this language 19 years ago. It picked me somehow. First thing that ran on the AppServ (does someone still remember it? 🥲 ), and everything after that followed from an accident. People have been burying it that entire time. It keeps getting quietly better instead. https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-86 #PHP #PHP86 #WebDev #Programming #Backend #Blog #Thoughts

It's so hard when you have depression and a migraine with a severe prodrome and anhedonia at the same time. There was one day when I didn't think about death, but it seems that was a very short episode. Before that, I found out that the insurance company won't pay my family if I decide to end my life, because they won't let me get life insurance due to my diagnoses already being in the database, and they specifically account for cases like this. So I won't be able to pull off that trick. That upset me. #MentalHealth #Health #Life #Depression #Migraine #Thoughts #Blog #Fediverse #Anhedonia

Full disclosure on the cost of that free upgrade. The reboot to pick it up hung at the hypervisor level and took the instance with it. Almost 15 hours of downtime, 41.91% uptime for the day, and nothing I could do from inside the box because there was no inside to get to. Worth it. But this is the part of "simple restart" that the is mentioned in email. Also a decent argument for the thing I keep saying: the box is disposable, the data is not. #SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Downtime #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

Email from @OVHcloud@mastodon.social this morning: the bandwidth on my VPS went from 400 Mbit to 1 Gbit. Same plan, same price, nothing for me to do. This is the box running dol.social. The one I benchmarked last month, on the grounds that its memory and disk beat the newer 2027 model and the network gap did not matter enough to move. The network gap is now gone too. Correction while I am here: I said 500 Mbit in that thread. It was 400. The conclusion holds, my number did not. #SelfHosting #VPS #OVH #Mastodon #Homelab #Fediverse #Blog #Thoughts

I'm like 50 years late to this realization because I have avoided horror media for most of my life (I mostly still avoid #horror, but I used to, too). A lot of horror is weirdly (to me) idealistic. If spurned dead lovers, innocent death row executions, tortured children, genocided indigenous communities, aggrieved ecosystems, etc. really could wreak havoc from beyond the grave, cops would never invoke qualified immunity, molesting clergy would choose different occupations, colonizers would become accountants, and abusive parents would throw themselves off cliffs instead of beating their children. There would be a constant force of vigilante justice from the spirit world. It would be capricious, inconsistent, and vicious, but it would have intense effects on our world. I guess some horror is at least partly a lament about the injustice of our world and a wish for a better one, bizarre and violent as the fickle justice there would be. (I find myself pretty interested in literary and film analysis of horror though I have the handicap of not wanting to watch or read the media referred to) #tv #movies #literature #thoughts #noob

Knowing that books are cut up, scanned, and then thrown away or even burned is a cruel realization for me It is a deeply cruel act It is evidence of a world that has lost its moral compass— a world that no longer knows what is right or wrong 1/3 #mastodon #fediverse #YouWinAgainSi #freedom #reading #writing #thoughts #books #education #AI

Drew the whole OSI stack because I got tired of googling which layer TLS sits on. Many years in. Still counting on my fingers. In practice I touch three of them. Physical, when someone unplugged the thing. Network, when it is DNS. Application, when it is also DNS. Presentation I had to look up. Twice. The first result was a mnemonic about pizza so I closed the tab out of spite. Layer 5 is in there too. Doing something. Allegedly. #OSIModel #Networking #DevOps #SysAdmin #ItsAlwaysDNS #Blog #Thoughts

Random frustration #thoughts

In the last two days I saw a newspaper article with a photo of Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute. And today I was reading some news with the typical "The police said via X".

Is this the new normal ? Nazi-salute photos in the press ? Newspaper articles that will only have things like :

• "Politician A said so on X"
• "Meanwhile politician B replied on X"
• "The government announced on X"
• "As the video on X shows"

(This also shows that press is on X daily, which I do not consider to be a very good thing)

Elon Musk appears to radicalize even more, but several mainstream press appears to normalize Twitter further.

Is there no way out ? An emergency exit other than go live in the woods ?

Первый уровень печати: Смотришь на клавиатуру во время печати. Ошибаешься раскладками потому что не видишь, что печатаешь. Второй уровень печати: Смотришь на текстовое поле во время печати. Моментально замечаешь если забыл переключить раскладку. Третий уровень печати: Смотришь в другое окно или не на монитор и думаешь о другом во время печати. Опять ошибаешься раскладками 😩 #log #thoughts #fun #keyboard #typing

🇫🇷 Une pensée de Franz Kafka pour ce soir : "Peut-être n'y a-t-il qu'un seul péché capital : l'impatience. C'est l'impatience qui nous a chassés du paradis; c'est l'impatience qui nous empêche d'y rentrer". Bonne soirée. 👋 🇬🇧 A thought by Franz Kafka tonight : "Perhaps there is only one deadly sin: impatience. It was impatience that chased us out of Eden; it is impatience that prevents us from returning there." Have a nice evening. 👋 #bloomscrolling #fleuritonfil #pensées #thoughts