I gave up on The Last Girl Scout 📚. It started out OK, but it quickly became too “cute” for me with “Sugar” here and “Honey” there every time the two transwomen (which is important to mention in the context of the book) talk to each other. I’m not that kind of person and not that kind of a reader.
Had a couple of things to go over this morning, but the CrowdStrike ordeal kicked me to work in high gear. The memes on social media are awesome though! Should collect them in one post when I get the chance.
While I’m thinking about my blog: soon, a new category in the navigation bar - 🎮 games.
I’ve been using Backloggd for a while, and I understand how to use it better to record progress and mirror my posts here with images. #videogames #gaming #games #blogging #reviews
I love @jthingelstad’s blog gardening idea and I think I’m going to utilize it soon. I have posts going back about five years now (this and my older blog), and this will be a good way to get them all in here and clean them up. Good stuff.
Blog Gardening thingelstad.com
Reader: www.thingelstad.com
This is a good idea! If you don't mind, I'm going to copy it with slight modifications.
@rlk before Google was a verb as well as a company, we had several other search engines from Alta Vista to Yahoo. If they were still around and Google wasn't alone in making the rules main street would still be what it was before. Google changed how we search, so we need to learn to search again...
@moonmehta you mean, now?
Personal blogs, as in actual personal blogs written by real individuals, exist. I find them all the time. I just don’t use Google to look for them, is all.
WTF happened to blogs | Michal's corner mpmisko.github.io
Reader: mpmisko.github.io
@aeryn I'm getting there. I do enjoy learning new things so this helps :)
@cliffordbeshers not sure how I missed that huge typo - meant to say, "are you a New Jersian?" But well guess I got my answer.
Wish I found out about this station sooner.
@cliffordbeshers are you a New I was introduced to it not too long ago. My only "issue" is that sometimes it's to much of a "wtf is that??" Kind of weird song and all my concentration gets sucked away 😂
Any radio station that has this sort of image featuring its programming is going to have me listen to it.
In this case, WFMU, a nutty station from NJ, because of course.
I’m trying to figure out who made this image for them. If you have an idea, let me know.
@manton I’ve had the same frustration with nyt for a while. I have a cheap subscription from my days as a teacher so I keep it, but I don’t read it and I don’t have the app installed.
So far, for “general” news AP has been alright mostly. Good-ish global coverage. For more in depth stuff, I’ve been surprised by the WSJ. I have the app installed and I love their “10 points.” They are the closest I found to NYT but without the opinions shoved into anything. Wired is more tech related, but they have interesting “additional content” stuff as well.
@petebrown I see, that makes sense
And still more doors of Hudson, from when I was around yesterday without my camera. I took these with my phone. 📷
Our vacation in Hudson is coming to an end. It went by faster than I imagined, and I slept more than I thought I was capable of - more than 7 hours a night so far. Back to noisy NYC tomorrow.
More doors of Hudson 📷
Two more targets of opportunity with the iPhone. Hudson, NY 📷
One of the things that immediately captured my eye were some of the houses and their doors, specifically. Here are some pictures from my first round with my camera. 📷
Nat and I are in Hudson, NY, for our traditional 4th NYC escape. The town is quiet. Very quiet. Not many people around in the street. We are told they don’t really celebrate the 4th here as much as they celebrate Flag Day. Even better. More to (probably) come.
I couldn’t sleep last night, and now I’m about 20% in. I can see this book is going to be tough. Trauma that ties into military service, LGBTQ issues, and a postapocalyptic world with some supernatural elements. Glad I picked it up. The Last Girl Scout by Natalie Ironside 📚#books #scifi
@natharari.bsky.social VNC is solid, but it requires some setting up which I don't have the time for right now. Once I figure out the different issues and work them out it will be best - it's also a pretty much "built in" solution both for Macs and Linux.
@amerpie I know and tried most of these! no handwriting for you? It's very different
@jbaty kev@fosstodon.org popey@mastodon.social I use macOS, Windows and Linux every day. My setup is not for everyone: I have a dual boot desktop (Windows / Linux) and a docking station for my Mac.
Mac is for work and blogging and photos. Work requires Microsoft 365, Photos require Photoshop, blogging is on Microblog and Emacs and these guys all work good on Mac (Emacs is the only thing that require a little bit tweaking on the Mac but then it works fine).
Windows is mostly games, sometimes testing for work. I do that also because it's my "not safe" machine, which is not on a VPN, and I don't put anything sensitive (work or personal) on it. That way all these game stores and this AAA games and their launches can run crazy. I can wipe the Windows machine and not worry about anything, pretty much.
Linux is private (to me, Apple and privacy is a nice gimmick, nothing more), and some fun with AI imaging and infosec when I practice these old skills. It's also a good place to go for free somewhere when I want to test something out. It's best for syncing files, accessing my Synology and RP, etc.
@jedda oooof this sucks. I'm sorry to hear about it. Is there any chance to get reimbursed for a hotspot, for events such as this?
@val ooohhh! I love the growth in the water, especially next to the dry grass on the bank.
@rom It's a Firefox fork, but they really tweaked things there - LibreWolf, if you haven't tried, is my voute
@tthing nice! I built mine from scratch about a decade ago, and since then upgraded mostly parts. At this point nothing but the case survived (I also upgraded my motherboard at some point). Gaming mostly here too :)
@numericcitizen I'm hardly original on that one, for sure. When I created my wiki there were so many tech notes to keep on setting it up it became a bit of a meta inside the wiki itself, so I created also a "captain's log". It has a nice touch, but it's the same function as my blog, and my blog more convenient.
@cliffordbeshers I envy the low humidity right now... 🥵
@fozstark Hey Foz, I found your blog on Micro.blog's Discover. I don't know what you (might) right about, but there are some folks here who's going through the same thing in verity of levels and express it. May I recommend Brandon? He's on my blogroll. Hope this works out for you, feel free to ask anything, and welcome aboard! :D
@Miraz hope it helps. Over here in NYC we don't have this issue, but we have plenty of others
@numericcitizen sorry didn't realized I had typos.
I used to follow him back in the Google Plus days, he was big then and I enjoyed his stuff. He doesn't seem to have a specific website anymore (he writes in different places) and a bit harder to follow. Didn't know he's active on mastodon, so thanks for this discovery :)