Henry

Frooty enjoying some tunes.

#Plushtodon

@annaleen@wandering.shop thank you for selling your #books DRM-Free.

That means I could easily buy Automatic Noodle from ebooks.com, download the epub to my 2012 laptop, and load it onto my 2011 ebook reader with a replaced battery, in minutes with zero problems¹.

Nothing unnecessarily thrown into landfill for being too old, using the devices and systems I want, without being locked in or tracked.

Now I'm looking forward to enjoying the story.

1: Yes, that is a painfully Mastodon sentence.

Me, using shampoo the first few days after a long overdue haircut.

Unbridled laughter is echoing from our bathroom.

Today Child A bought an old joke book for 1€ from the #library, and is reading it on the loo. Apparently sh-t's funny.

#parenting

At the playground my children made me a "Very sticky ice cream".

#parenting

It's not "2-Factor Authentication" if you're sending me an email with the code in it, which I then look at on the same computer where I'm trying to log in.

That's just sparkling #security theater.

Today's #1001albums is the Red Hot Chili Pepper's Californication. This was everywhere as a teenager; TV, radio and computer games. I owned the tab book and tried to learn a few of the songs to moderate success. In that sense I don't think I'll ever escape it.

After all the these years I still feel it is a very mixed bag; the title track plus Parallel Universe, Scar Tissue, Otherside and Road Trippin' are great. But a lot of the rest just feels like a manic mess. Perhaps that's fine, but it's so jarring to transition between these two worlds, back and forth, between tracks. Especially the switch 'Get On Top' after that very introspective run of three calmer songs. 'Porcelain' has also always felt like it got lost in the track listing, squashed between 'Easily' and 'Emit Remmus'.

Ahhh that's better...

#coffee

Good News! my favourite obscure #swedish small town #stoner #metal band¹, 10,000 Years, have just released a new single. And it's very good.
https://10000years.bandcamp.com/album/two-million-stones-single

¹ Don't tell me you don't have a favourite obscure Swedish small town stoner metal band? In which case you do now.

#StonerDoom #music

Modern #mobile phones are too big for normal sized hands, and the buttons are too small to accurately tap with giant fingers.

Narrator: What are you doing on a Saturday night?
Me: Perfectly normal things, like sorting my googly eye collection into new bags.

Not me, every time I set off a zpool scrub (with apologies to TLC): 🎵 Yes, I just want to scrub, A scrub is a kind of check that gets love from me, Countin' out the checksum of your best friend's drive, Trying to verify at me

#FreeBSD #ZFS #OpenZFS #90s #RuinASong

Me using the new #signal member labels correctly.

Our local supermarket has been remodelled, so now I can't find anything, and going there takes twice as long as before.

80(ish?) year old lady on the phone in one of the aisles: "Yeah, the one where they've changed everything. Yeah, exactly, where they've put the washing powder opposite the breakfast cereal. No. No. It doesn't make any sense. Pickles next to the toilet paper. Utter madness. I have no idea what's up or down anymore."

Same.

1976: MIT's COMSYS/MSGDMS messaging system allows sending of files via 'enclosures'
1986: the easiest and most reliable way to share a file with someone is an #email attachment
1996: The MIME attachment standard is officially released, making email the easiest and most reliable way to share a file with someone
2006: the only way to reliably share files with other people is as an email attachment.
2007-2026: Dropbox, Bluetooth, GDrive, WhatsApp, Signal, AirDrop, NFC...

2026: the only way to reliably share files with other people is as an email attachment.

After two hours of trying to flatten and rake out the molehills, our lawn has so many black patches that it looks like it lost a bar fight. It's probably a bit flatter, and there was intermittent help from the children, but I'm knackered.

I don't really care about the lawn being perfectly flat. It just needs to be flat and smooth enough that our robomower can cut the grass, and the children can play on it.

#gardening #parenting #DomesticBliss

Today's #WTF moment is brought to you by trying to figure out why 404 pages in my #homeLab coming via a reverse proxy were all mangled and weird. I've tried every combination of gzip on and off, headers, encoding on the #nginx proxy and backend.

Then I check the actual 404.html page. I have no idea how that happened.

#CaptainItsWednesday #websites

Every time I start my #Windows11 work laptop plugged into its USB-C doc it can't find the network. It briefly sees the WiFi, then realises it's got a wired connection, switches to that and then can't connect.

Unplugging and plugging it back in again solves the problem every time.

When will it finally be #YearOfTheWindowsDesktop?

Sigh. I was just reading a post on #FreeBSD secure levels, as I'm trying to understand them more, at https://vincentdelft.be/post/post_20251002, and in the last paragraph:
"Would you like me to also add a practical demo section (commands showing...."

And now I don't know if any of it is believable or not. The rest of the site and #blog doesn't look mass produced, and so I'd be inclined to think it's a real person writing about real experiences, but now I don't know.

A lot of people apparently have the ability to quickly spot AI #slop produced articles, but I can't seem to notice the tells. At least I found out in the end?

To be clear, the author hasn't done anything *wrong*, they don't claim it's not written/assisted by AI, so I don't think I can really complain? I guess I just feel a bit disappointed that I thought it would be human communication on a topic of mutual interest, but then it isn't.

We're out of coffee filters.

A week later I'm squeezing two more packets of filters into the cupboard where we already had a packet. 🙄

#DomesticBliss

@kickingvegas@sfba.social Great overview, thanks. The one grep command I use quite a lot, and is probably very similar to project-find-regexp, is vc-git-grep which mimics git grep and will search for text in your current git project, while respecting the contents of the gitignore file. That is really useful for something like Python projects where you want to search *.py file, but usually not those in the installed packages.