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· 16 Tammuz 5783 (Wednesday 5 July 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Wednesday. And I haven’t done one of these in a little while.

First, welcome to all the new people checking out the fediverse by way of Mastodon and of course Lemmy and KBin, along with all the other projects that make up the fediverse. I know a lot of you are coming from Twitter once again, and while I think you and the communities you’ve built deserve way more than death by a thousand fuck-ups, I think you will be able to make a home here.

Second, I’m glad the Fourth is over. The fireworks have been going on here since over the weekend, and really, people who insist on setting them off for days seriously annoy me at this point. I mean hell, we’ve had absolute shit air quality here and you want to fucking add to it because muh freeeeeedom!? To say nothing of all the damn noise. Also you probably spent two-weeks’ salary on them and in less than 5 seconds you’ll be complaining about how expensive gas or groceries are.

Maybe some baseball later on today, and also, it’s hot out there Mr. Bigglesworth. Air quality seems to have calmed down though so there’s that.

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· 7 Tammuz 5783 (Monday 26 June 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

I have no idea what today has in store for any of us, but with the right amount of snark and memes and puppy pictures, we’ll have Monday conquered. Oh and hilarious audio. Don’t forget that.

I still can’t get over how much more enjoyable a lot of the image content is since it’s got alt text. I don’t think I’ll ever get to a point where I’ll take that for granted. In fact, I think that’s one of the things I’m looking forward to the least with Meta’s Project 92. It’s going to bring over a whole bunch of users who won’t be adding alt text to their images, to say nothing of the moderation disaster I suspect it’ll be given Meta’s record. This is part of why instances/servers who decide to pre-emptively block P92 when it does federate will get zero pushback from me. I don’t think Meta deserves any benefit of the doubt.

I think it’s supposed to rain again today, so we’ll see about getting some time outside. My sleep schedule is still fucked, but I’m going to try to stay up a little later today. I made it until 5PM yesterday. Hopefully I can sleep more than six hours tonight because I didn’t sleep that well last night, which was why I woke up around 1AM this morning.

No sportsball update in this post, I still have to check scores, but maybe one later with those updates.

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· 23 Sivan 5783 (Monday 12 June 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, somehow we’ve wandered into Monday and we’re all gonna need to work together to get to the other side of it in one piece.

First, my sleep schedule is absolutely fucked, and I’m trying to get it back on track, mostly because work and the rest of society expect me to be up during the day and sleeping during the night, and just not conforming really isn’t an option.

Second, shoutout to everyone who is dealing with the Reddit migration. I’m pretty sure the Lemmy and Kbin server admins are absolutely swomped, as are the developers of said software, and if you’re trying to make the switch, show them a little flexibility and patience. Nobody was expecting Reddit to implode like this or so quickly.

In sportsball news, my Vegas Golden Knights are 3 to 1 in the finals, and next game is tomorrow night. I can’t wait to watch it.

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· 17 Sivan 5783 (Tuesday 6 June 2023) · 2 minutes to read

I haven’t done one of these in a little while, so, morning fedizens, we’re doing Tuesday.

I’m catching up on WWDC stuff, which I swore I wasn’t going to pay attention to but honestly I’m cautiously excited about Apple’s coming new augmented reality headset.

Specifically, I’m excited that one of these things will likely have some sort of working relationship with VoiceOver, which means blind people can participate to at least some extent in augmented reality. Next, all I can think of is that I will be able to have SeeingAI in a headset, which means I would get to use all its cool features. It’s not sight exactly, but for me, this kind of crystalizes the idea of being able to use technology to provide some sort of sense of what has always been a very visual world which, quite frankly, I’m sick to death of hacking in order to get things done or live my life.

And yes, I’m very much aware of all of the pitfalls and problems surrounding all this stuff. I’m also aware that this could become just as much of a disappointment as self-driving cars have been.

In sportsball news, woot woot woot! My Vegas Golden Knights won game two last night, thus banishing the Florida Kittens back to their basket with no milk!

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· 9 Sivan 5783 (Monday 29 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

It’s in the mid 80’sF here, so we’re staying inside with the air conditioner. I still have to call Digital Ocean about the Fail2ban issue, but I’ll get that done later this evening. Oh and we’re keeping up with the baseball game. Otherwise, not much, although we are rereading the Quinn Colson books, and I have a question.

Most of the characters in this series are on the low end of the income spectrum. And yet, they all somehow manage to have cowboy boots. Which are expensive. So, I’d like to know how they managed to end up with them.

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· 1 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 21 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing sunday. I hope all of you are having a good one.

I slept last night, but not very well, so I’m tired today. On the other hand, it’s supposed to get to 75F today, so that’ll be nice.

We have lots of sportsball today. My Braves play in a little over an hour, the Rays start ten minutes later, and my Vegas Golden Knights start at 1500. We haven’t decided yet if we’re just going to keep the book going, or listen to one or more games.

Speaking of books, John and I have been rereading some of the Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport books. Those have established spots on our rereads list, and we’ve been enjoying randomly picking a book and rereading that.

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· 28 Iyyar 5783 (Friday 19 May 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’ve made it to Friday, and we’re a good chunk of the way through it on top of that.

Not much has gone right today. I’ll have to find a way to get in touch with a human at Audible because somehow my Audible account is no longer merged with my Amazon account, and when I attempt to re-merge, I can’t complete the second step. So as a result, Audible thinks I’m not a member, although I can see my library if I log into Audible with my username instead of my email address.

I found out all this when I was attempting to pre-order the new Stone Barrington book that’s due to arrive on 6 June, and the new book from John Grisham which will be a sequel to The Firm coming out on 17 October. So hopefully I’ll get this sorted.

I’m definitely going to make time for a drink later on this evening since today’s been such a not good one.

In sportsball news, my Vegas Golden Knights play game one of t he conference finals tonight, the Florida Panthers won last night’s game in quadrupal overtime with a score of 3 to 2, and both the Tampa Bay Rays and Atlanta Braves play baseball tonight.

Oh, and the weather’s great again so we have the windows open.

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· 27 Iyyar 5783 (Thursday 18 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

What’s good fedizens, we’re doing Thursday, which is one day closer to Friday.

I got a late start again today. I really need to quit doing that, mostly because I feel guilty for sleeping in so damn late. I’ll make sure to set an alarm for tomorrow. Or maybe I should work on less guilt over it. I’m not sure.

John and I ended up ordering lunch from Wendy’s today, and will probably at least cook the chicken that’s in the fridge later on.

We’re keeping up with the baseball scores, but because I have stuff to do, we’ve just left the book on.

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· 25 Iyyar 5783 (Tuesday 16 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Good afternoon fedisons, we’re doing Tuesday.

Before I go any further, by "fedisons", I mean all my people using Mastodon and any other ActivityPub powered software, plus the O-status and ActivityStream folks, and let’s not forget everyone using #indieweb building blocks like webmention and micropub.

Anyway …

John and I both had soup for lunch, and we have pleasantly full tummies. We got a very late start this morning. Neither of us got up until after 9, and I didn’t get on the computer to do any work related stuff until after noon. I’m not quite sure I’ve had enough coffee, but it’s approaching 1400 hours and I don’t need to sit here all day and drink coffee.

I haven’t decided if I’m going to really try to make my move goal or not today. I don’t really feel like it. The weather is great though, and we have all the windows open. We’ll probably keep them open for a couple more days since it’s supposed to be clear.

Conference finals for the NHL end on Thursday night, and John and I are both looking forward to that. Go Knights!

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