No Maintenance Intended

Once again, I’ve written a title that somehow manages to conjure something completely different to what I intended. Or is the imagery of an alien eating a human a thinly-veiled critique of our economic system? I’ll let you decide. Where was I going with this? I have a complicated relationship with stuff. Stuff, and more specifically, things....

One of the low-effort “engagement” tricks people used to do on Twitter would be to come up with word searches to define specific times of the year. They’d put controversial or risqué words in to drum up anger and discussion, and the “engagement” would flow! Well this year I’ve finally decided to make my own. This is based on topics near and dear...

Mozilla’s fall from grace has been so sad to see, especially for someone who used to respect them and their ideals. Now it’s just embarrassing, like witnessing your uncle stumbling drunk into a family dinner and immediately hitting on the wait staff a third his age: AI you can trust. Easily summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos across the...

It still seems like yesterday we were watching her debut, then we were saying goodbye. I’ve loved everyone in Hololive, but Fauna was up there with Ina, Watson, Reine, and Liz. I still can’t believe I won’t be able to catch a comfy stream again before work. Thanks so much Fauna, and all the best. Let Me Stay Here may be on repeat for a while. 💚...

When this blog started twenty years ago—sorry, I’m still processing that number—many of my early posts concerned setting up my ideal FreeBSD, NetBSD, and/or Linux desktop environment. I cobbled together what I needed and settled mostly on ROXFiler, urxvt, and Fluxbox, with a few other experiments. It was fun, and I learned more from tweaking my...