Notices by Josh (like the wine) (joshua@nozzi.social)

@joeo10 Thanks, Joe. How’ve you been? Seems like forever.

We lost Conrad tonight. He was a member of a family that showed up on our patio early this year. He, his mother, and his sister have considered our patio and back yard their home turf since. We’d JUST gotten a collar/tag on him earlier today or we’d never have known what happened. He was killed instantly by a car and brought home. I buried him under our oak as his mom and sis watched from the patio. We’re heartbroken for this sweet young boy.

Hug your kitties tonight.

We feel awful we had no room for them, but the two kittens have been semi-feral and it was a feat just to get Conrad to let us handle him at all. He and his mother were both neutered/spayed, vax’d, and chipped and we took responsibility for their welfare. They have an outdoor shelter with a heated pad for the cold. Fresh food and water every day. Medical care when needed (Conrad had a laceration months back that we had a vet treat).

We had just gotten a collar/tag/AirTag on him earlier today because he’d disappeared for 3 days straight last week (he’d clearly been fighting a cold) and returned very hungry.

I never imagined as I was putting it on him this morning that he’d had less than 12 hours of life left or that it’d be the last time I’d ever pet him and tell him what a pretty boy he was.

What I’m now stuck with is the memory of what I saw and smelled.

He sweet little face was ... The car had definitely rolled over his head.

I refused to let Nathan see him.

I buried him with a Churu, the magic treat for which he’d forgive us any trespass.

I went to the liquor store and didn’t realize I had blood on my white teeshirt. I broke down crying in the car.

What an awful night.

sudo eat hotdogs

DeWalt’s new router just dropped. No, not the kind of router a carpentry tool maker would make. This is, for some reason, a $2300 wireless router for the jobsite.

They’re out of their fucking minds!

I'm afraid the lowest offering from @mastohost isn't quite sufficient any more with the current level of network traffic even for a single-user instance. It freezes up on me multiple times a day. I just upgraded my plan (two levels up to the $20/mo plan) and it's smooth as butter.

@mastohost What I'd love to see is more flexibility in terms of compute versus storage resources. It's currently scale-everything-or-nothing and leaves no room for cost/performance tuning for power users.

@chrisbarnes @larand Can’t seem to follow you back.

@chrisbarnes @paulkruczynski @larand @mastohost There's definitely some stuff to do if you want to share the instance with others. Stuff I'm in the process of addressing for appdot.net. But I think a personal instance closed to everyone else is pretty much fine.

@chrisbarnes @paulkruczynski @larand @mastohost I’m no expert here but I think the risks are about the same as receiving an email from someone in the EU.

@chrisbarnes @paulkruczynski @larand @mastohost I really don’t know for certain. I refuse to worry about it for my personal website because I’m not an EU citizen, and I really don’t see anyone coming after a personal mastodon instance either.

@chrisbarnes @paulkruczynski @larand @mastohost I look at it this way: my personal instance can be moved easily. If the EU gets punchy over nothing, I’ll stop sending it my business.

@chrisbarnes @paulkruczynski @larand @mastohost I’ll go the extra kilometer for appdot.net but only so far.