https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/tasmyn-muir-on-gideon-the-ninth-the-locked-tomb-trilogy-spec-fic

the third locked tomb isn't coming out until 2022?! i'll never make it 😩 😩

she has at least five more books coming up besides Alecto, including a trilogy of undersea cyberpunk?! i must cling to life 😀 😀

knew i shouldn'tna overdone it with those tamsyn muir books

having withdrawl episodes

like forgotten midnight purchases of non-cis-dude scifi to take the edge off until the third locked tomb comes out... late next year? augh

arrived today: a pile* of becky chambers, to join some linda nagata, kate elliott, sue burke, elizabeth bear, ada hoffmann

* i get used dead trees when the ebooks have drm slime on em

today i want to press these through my brain like hot water through espresso

side note why am i the only one i know obsessing about this series? am i not friends with enough goth teens? is this series actually mainstream and i am a poseur? srsly i get more boosts talking about shitty ol' GNU M4 than badass necromancers in space

i don't have an opinion on the proposals offered by the parent toot for how to improve the fediverse, but i'm delighted to see twitter freaking out about it

reminds me of when microsoft, publicly dismissive and ridiculing of this new open source fad, got pantsed in the same way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

gosh i hope i can be part of a project that eats a billionaire's someday

helping someone set up passwordstore.org, my favorite password manager

it's basically pgp encrypted text files stored in git

so they need a gpg key

"wait so why do i have to give it my e-mail address?" they asked, concerned about privacy

🤔 huh.

now thinking pgp would be easier to implement/understand/use if the e-mail specific stuff was in a totally separate layer or wrapper from asymmetric keys and what you can do with them

@technomancy understood, but was still concerned that if a the gpg public key were associated with a non-fake e-mail address, it's possible one might accidentally publish it to a keyserver or something

to set up passwordstore on my android phone it's necessary to run openkeychain and that program makes it quite easy to publish esp if you're flailing around not knowing how gpg works

(and that's all regardless of whether i keep passwordstore repos on storage i have physical access to)

how uplifting would it be to see fedi mufos on the daily posing like that fart & shart license plate photo

i'd feel we are number one, and undefeatable, and everything will be okay

how did the circuituitous mess that i started with end up in this nice symmetrical regular pattern

(get it... circuit-uitous)
(wait is circuituitous really a word)
(oh no have i been pronouncing cir-cu-i-tous wrong for years, i can never return to this place)

turns out, schematics are useful

tfw struggling with then finally figuring out this pcb design

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welp i accidentally a whole usb connector because i was too eager to see routing actually happen

but the routing happened, look at that massive 64 pin bus. and not done yet, gotta weave tracks from all the pins on the left into it somehow too

pretty excited though, i've never made it this far through the design of a pcb before!

woo, got all my netlabels and power rails worked out

next, usb connector, power regulator, some capacitors and i'll be able to reattempt the pcb layout

inspired by @deshipu 's kleks 2.0

https://hackaday.io/project/182998-kleks-keyboard

thinking about a column-staggered, one-piece split keyboard, designed for the super-cheap 100x100mm proto-pack offering from various PCB manufacturers

https://dirtypcbs.com/store/pcbs/about

most of my keyboard designs don't get very far past the "noodling around in inkscape" phase, can i get this one all the way to physically existing?

well, well, well, if it isn't a hell of my own making

actually, gradually, making some progress on this thing

i think it's going better than other attempts because i'm not trying to cram every single feature i can onto it

instead i'm going to break out all the pins to a set of socket headers so i can plug wires into it. combination keyboard and samd21 development module

also, designing this backwards, pcb-first, no schematic

suspect that cannabis would be a fine or even superior replacement for alcohol in terms of its effects

while also being much better for my long term physical health

and on top of that it's legal in my state

but a lifetime of being uncool and avoiding it still makes me feel too awkward to stroll into one of the four giant local shops to ask for the starter set or whatever

i'll probably just have to wait until my kids are teenagers then they can help me figure it out

hang in there liver

moxie said nobodys ever gonna run their own servers

that prompted a lot of pushback on fedi, just have to make it easy to do so

but also floated around this time was the idea of "community hosting"

and that stuck with me and is really resonating, i want to reexamine all my projects with that in mind,

- how to design towards federation
- it's good actually if you "don't scale" because you want to limit the size of each instance

who coined this?

@art netfilter tables (a modern way to build a firewall on a Linux box, successor to iptablrs, uses the 'nft' command) https://netfilter.org/projects/nftables/

@danielhglus "X has Y energy" has "X has the Y nature" energy

@selfsame can his hands do ✌️ ✌️