My wife says my Pandemic beard is too long. I say the Pandemic is too long.

#CovidIsNotOver #Covid19 #LongCovid #WearAMask

@lightweight Without sacrifice our principles and values are just words.

@lightweight Most of the time doing the right thing feels good, but if I wasn't willing to give something up in order to defend what I believe in, then I can't really be said to hold that principle.

It's like courage. Courage is about being scared and doing it anyway. Without fear there is no courage.

If giving up the use of harmful technology/services hasn't cost someone, they haven't been tested yet.

When it costs something to stand firm and you do it anyway, only then do you have values.

We walked Alonso home through the forest just before sunset.

I love this part of the forest. It's one of the reasons we moved here. The old mill stream gives a sense of history to the place, and the waterfall drowns out all sounds of modern life. Even in the countryside there are always sounds of cars and tractors, but here is peace.

We said goodbye to Alonso and watched him trot up to his house.

X and meta are generic terms. When you use them to refer to Twitter and Facebook you evade my filters.

I'm starting to unfollow and mute accounts that do this, which unfortunately includes some of my mutuals.

If you are posting a headline that refers to Facebook as "Meta" please at least put the word Facebook in the post so I don't have to see it.

You're not paid by Musk or Zuckerberg, so please don't do their rebranding work for them.

#X #Meta #Facebook #Twitter

@slothrop I sometimes peek though, depending on who posted it 😉

Wishing everyone the best for 2025!

This will be a tough year for many. We're going to have our rights and values challenged like never before. At times it might feel hopeless, but there's always one thing you can do: be yourself. Live your values as best you can.

At every level of society, whatever you do, do it as well as you can. That is enough and it's all anyone has a right to expect of you.

Ask for help when you need it. Help others when you can. We'll get through this. Together.

@onepict @DoomsdaysCW Yeah - that's pretty much my approach. I try to get a sense of what the essentials are behind a dish rather than getting too hung up on 10g of this and 350g of that. I'm a cook, not a chemist 😉

It is totally OK to deadname corporations. In fact, it is to be encouraged. Why help with their rebranding?

X is the name of the windowing system I use. Metta was the woman who first showed me Linux. Threads are what I use to run concurrent processing.

Don't let them colonise our namespaces.

@slothrop It looks amazing. I think I need to try this.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dlakelan @librecast @onepict Ghost: There is additional latency with IP multicast depending on the number of hops (routers), as the MLD join has to propagate. There are also delays on parting a group. MLD is not designed to be a low latency protocol and performs very poorly when there are lots of joins and parts.

IP multicast is very broken and there are no forms of IP multicast remaining that even meet Librecast's definition of "multicast" 😉 eg. SSM is *not* multicast.

He seems very cold and sad and in dire need of sausages.

Will accept pats, but very wary and a bit jumpy.

We're not doing anything interesting, both occupied with these clacky keyboard things and have not produced any sausages.

Dog has curled up on the mat now and shows no signs of wanting to leave.

We went out to chop wood. Dog followed. Independent fellow. Likes to be near us, but always has his eye on the horizon. Nosed around the sheds, and eventually went off in the direction of the forest.

We packed up and went inside. I guess he'll be back if he wants something.

The little dog is quite smart. 🐕

He found our house, knew it was the right one, stood outside and barked to get our attention.

Definitely smarter than quite a lot of the delivery drivers we've had. 🚚

Thinking of adding "Either knock, or bark like a dog" to the delivery instructions in future.

He jumped into my lap yesterday to see what I was doing at the computer. I tried to explain about multicast but he seemed more interested in multisausage.

Our little visitor is back again today.

Last week a rather glamorous French lady knocked at the door. I thought for a moment I was on a 60's movie set. The only giveaway was her modern car, in the back of which was a familiar little white dog. This time wearing a snazzy little coat.

I explained he wasn't ours but that he turns up quite often. She said he must be abandoned, and asked if we'd like to keep him. My wife and I discussed it, but, rather reluctantly declined...

Firstly, we're pretty sure he has an owner, as he's been taken to the vet at least twice and yet has reappeared. Dogs don't usually escape from the pound.

Secondly, the dog isn't really interested in us. We love dogs, but this one just is not quite present. Always looking at the horizon and following his nose to the next adventure. We made a bet that day we'd see him again.

And here he is. I am going to have to buy more sausage for my pizza as he has scoffed the lot.

He always flinches the first time I try to pat him. Not sure if he's been hit, or fears I'm going to grab him and take him to the vet.

After he realises I just want to pat him, he's fine and quite likes the attention. At least until he finds something more interesting and wanders off.

As he has no collar and we have no idea what his name is, we've started calling him Alonso, as in "allons-y Alonso".

Doctor Who fans will understand 😉