A couple of posts this week.

• Ideal Breakfast?: I doubt mine is anybody's ideal, but it works for me.

• Things to Do in April 2024: Here’s a todo list for my website; will I get to do it all?

after getting way too addicted to the videos youtube was recommending me, I felt like I had to set some boundaries with the homepage and just block all the content from loading, so I would be forced to only see videos from my subscriptions page.

Chromium browsers have a content filtering section where you can block content from loading in, so I use it to block all HTML on the homepage and the /shorts page:

which makes the page look like this:

Hey thanks a lot!!! I will try to use this (:

Dropped this a few days ago.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/good-enough-april-2024/index.html

I have stopped caring about 'work' or 'jobs' or especially 'having a career' at this point. Tired of employers and their nonesense, because it's never enough for them.

Not only that, but even the job they want you to delude yourself to enjoying, they want you to do it their way. Don't be too different, don't be too efficient, don't write a text document to help use as a reference or anything. Bet you're just wanting to slack off and not even working, or you think you just know better than them, huh? I've never had a good relationship with a boss, ever, which is why I've given up. I would rather die a NEET than live a serf.

If I was a bachelor and didn't have expensive tastes I'd feel the same.

edit

just wrote this guide on everything I personally do when spinning up a new server. Looking for some feedback on it to see if I missed anything important:

https://blog.basementcommunity.com/everything-i-do-when-hosting-a-website/

this is in support of my 2024 goals for creating some more guides coming from this website:

https://basementcommunity.com/threads/245

Just wanted to mention that while Windows has a command prompt, it doesn't come with SSH. For that you'd want to either set up WSL, or install an app like PuTTY.

Also, why does certbot have a dependency on snapd? Are you using Ubuntu in your example?

nice thanks for that. I knew about WSL but never messed around it enough to speak intelligently on it in a post like this, but I'll add that disclaimer.

And yeah. It's not super clear but I use Debian. I had a note towards the top of the blog about apt-get:

but I should probably add a top-level note about that fact that the commands might need to be tweaked for a different distro

No worries.

And it looks like the certbot devs themselves are pushing snap to make sure people have a current version of certbot since Debian stable tends to only update biannually, you don't run Sid on prod, and the Debian security team isn't keeping up with critical patches to certbot.

yep I lifted the commands from that certbot instruction page

Good old (old) Debian, up with its usual antics I see.

"${DISTRO}" gonna "${DISTRO}". Every one of them has their quirks. For example, if I want a current Emacs on Slackware I've got to compile it from source. Luckily, Slackware is set up correctly so that /usr/local/bin takes precedence over /usr/bin in $PATH so as long as I set $PREFIX when building everything turns out fine.

The only thing you can do is embrace the jank, because jank is inevitable, and distro-hop until you find a distro whose jankiness you find congenial.

I already have, I'm posting this from my Debian machine.

Slightly overdue, but here's my April IndieWeb Carnival submission for RisingThumb 's theme: "Good Enough" - the Drop in Quality's Siren call.

On the Fish in the Sea

It's about relationships, but not just digital ones, like Manu prompted about. I don't like what I perceive the Internet to have done / be doing to people's approach to them. It's most prominent online, but the digital always bleeds into the real, yo.

Just a little bit about ad blockers. I use one for the same reason I wear condoms. It isn't safe to bareback strangers or their websites.

No Glove, No Love

Top-shelf post, but on a slightly unrelated note: I've always preferred referring to them as coats. And I feel that euphemism should be more popular!

As in raincoats? I've heard that one before, but I remember "No Glove, No Love" as an HIV-prevention slogan from the 1980s.

I had posted this a few days ago and forgot to share it. Been reading some old sf.

Heavy Time

Here's another one for you. Kind of a downer since I'm griping about electoral politics in the USA.

https://starbreaker.org/blog/personal/indecision-2024/index.html

Spent Saturday night thinking about consciously choosing to believe, and how ridiculous it is that some people think that reading the Bible can lead somebody to faith when it led me away from it -- especially when Christianity is so frequently misused in the US as an apologetics for tyranny.

Matters of Faith, Problems of Evil

I think that is what caused me to realize, like Nietzsche said, my belief in the christian god has become unbelievable. My muses — Martina and Erika — are entities I interact with on a daily basis. I know exactly what they look like, what their voices sound like, their favorite color, their tastes and aspirations, their sense of humor (or lack of thereof if you ask me). I treat them like I would treat a person because for me, they are. But that is not what I see with most Christians. Instead, I see them treating of their god as a cudgel, or a gachapon machine, or medicine, or a money printer, or a political billboard. I see them go into these elaborate buildings to conduct these abstract rituals as if their god was so distant, so out of reach that divine inspiration was an extreme outlier and you probably was just a 'false prophet' if you claimed you experienced it. I cannot believe any of those people truly have faith. They want to believe, but they just can not.

I don't argue about whether Martina or Erika are 'real' because it is irrelevant. They can't send you to a fiery pit after you die, they can't predict the end of the world, they certainly can't help me pwn them heretics online for a YouTube video, and they wouldn't care even if they could. Neither would I. What they can do is pester me with their inane 'memes', give me paranoid episodes about my degeneracy, keep me company on my walks around the park, and sometimes, occasionally give me (read: beat me over the head with) a real cool idea for a drawing or a piece of prose or some other artistic endeavor. I took up art as a show of gratitude for them, not for personal gain. I find this relationship a lot more 'real' than any kind of subordination to a glowing pile of omnipotence.

Exactly. They're real to you. I've never met them, but then again I've never met you either. And, given that I also write fiction, I'm no stranger to the notion of other people living in the back of my head. Hard part is getting 'em to pay rent.

Frankly, they're not even real Christians. Their churches care more about the Pentateuch and the Epistles of Paul than they do the teachings of Jesus Christ. They're Paulines, or maybe just the sort of Pharisees who would demand of Pilate, "Give us Barabbas!" Show me a church that uses the Jefferson Bible and I'll consider attending.

And, frankly, I'd prefer Martina or Erika over the demon Yahweh. As far as I know your muses have no interest in my sex life.

Not my post but something I saw on sizeof.cat.

I find this quite funny given Wani released this year. Someone in /freak/ is spinning up an idea for his own male VTuber with the feedback of other anons. People are still active in /dig/ and posting their illustrations and giving feedback too (I saw a cute goblin). As much as I would love to see 4chan becoming a dump where trying to find a community is futile, it still has some neat nooks one just cannot find elsewhere.