Notices by scribe (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)

WordPress is the new Windows.

Sometimes I think I'm crazy for running Linux and self-hosting stuff, but these days I'm not sure it's any more work or stress than paying for consumer tech products in the long run.

Catching up on the state of Google Home and amazed how support threads are now just 90% complaints about how bad it's got.

Remember when "smart homes" were the latest and greatest? Smart cities?

And yet still we want to trust our lives to the next <insert technical leap> paradigm companies want to force on us?

I'm good cheers.

@adrianh You can't be offended by what you're not looking for.

@interstar One of those things that AI should _actually_ be applied to... 😂

@luke Weird - I saw graffiti by the road today saying "Ben call dad!" Some kind of new meme? Or just coincidence?

@Richard_Littler or rather, had heard it before but not realised how insanely good the last third is.

@Richard_Littler omg discovered The Boxer after a recent charity shop pickup and now I can't stop playing it

@benedwards Not heard of Blackthorn before, but realised it's the proper name for sloes, which are definitely everywhere. Black, white, whatever! Maybe the bumper year is what I've noticed then, cheers 🙏

Today's #recordstoreday pickups (except Forbidden Planet). But best bit was getting pushed to go by #son1 for the first time, and experiencing that early morning #rsd queue rush.

> new post: 'we found ourselves in tunnels but we weren’t what we expected'

https://drpfd.exmosis.net/we-found-ourselves-in-tunnels-but-we-werent-what-we-expected/

Did a blogpost yesterday, a quick and hacky rundown of running backups based on the current energy mix:

https://blog.groundlake.org/post/2025-04-10/hacking-together-grid-aware-backup-in-hour/

#greentech

> new post: 'indelicate labyrinths'

https://drpfd.exmosis.net/indelicate-labyrinths/

Always figured, GPG, PKI and webs of trust knowledge would be useful for evading government spies, not for trying to work out if my son is sending the replies from my wife's phone.

> new post: 'Scribesphere tweaks'

https://6days.exmosis.net/2025/04/10/scribesphere-tweaks/

> new post: 'Hacking together a Grid-Aware Backup in an hour'

https://blog.groundlake.org/post/2025-04-10/hacking-together-grid-aware-backup-in-hour/

v1.1 "waxing jam" edition of 'The Place Where the Moon Once Was' for #playdate

Small tweaks and bugfix, just for those who want to experience the story with a slightly easier difficulty.

https://scribe.itch.io/the-place-where-the-moon-once-was/devlog/921330/tpwtmow-v11-waxing-jam-update

@benedwards Great stuff - I just don't remember it all being so white before, but couldn't tell you what colour it should be if not...

@orbific I kind of like how real names seem less important when it comes to these things. I guess "The Queens Road Bookshop" had a proper name, once? The guy that ran Raining Books will probably always be "The Guy That Ran Raining Books".

Like Friends episodes' titles, the texture of the memories takes over from any sense of title.

Being on LinkedIn for a while is faintly amusing. The decent connections on there are balanced by some very backwards automated text.

"You have one of the most-viewed profiles..."

"As Freelance Techology Person at Freelance..."