Mastodawn

I am tired.

I am going to rest for a bit, and then I am going to write with the defiance of a person who will not go gently into any kind of night, morning, midday, twilight, or golden hour.

I am going to defiantly write something to make anyone who reads it feel like they've had a vacation from the culture of unrelenting, shallow, petty, half-assed, cruel, misspelled, Grammarly-and-LLMs-are-my-editor, Jesus-is-my-blinker, coke-high-to-k-hole idiocy that too many cardboard-cutouts-self-identifying-as-people call their personality.

If I can't have a happy ending outside the page, by dog I will compose scandalously and deliciously hopeful prose.

StenPett / St Midium May 29

JA Westenberg May 28

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

StenPett / St Midium May 22

FediThing 🏳️‍🌈May 22

When you make it okay to be gay, it also makes it easier for straight people to deal with any same sex feelings they might have because they know it is normal too. There's less pressure and anxiety.

When you make it okay to be trans, it also makes it easier for cis people to deal with any gender non-conforming physical features they might have, because they know it doesn't define them. (For example about 10% of cis women at some point experience beard growth, baldness, deeper voices etc due to PCOS. This is a cis woman: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-63073375)

LGBTQIA+ rights are liberating for everyone, they free us all.

Aylesbury woman grows then shaves beard for PCOS awareness

Annette says she posts on TikTok most days to get the message out about polycystic ovary syndrome.

BBC News

StenPett / St Midium May 5

Distro hopping time.

Bored of Debian. Decided to try out OpenSUSE again for the first time in years.

Installing Tumbleweed now.

StenPett / St Midium May 1

I self-host as much as possible. Partly because I don't trust for-profit companies to have my best interest in mind (because they don't), and partly because I enjoy tinkering with server stuff. I used to have a Plex server, but I switched to Jellyfin a while back.

Now, it seems that was very much the correct move. Plex are all aboard the Enshittification Express, and are now demanding you pay a subscription to be allowed to stream your own, self hosted media...

StenPett / St Midium Apr 26

Just installed a new (as in built in 2024) Adlib card in my old IBM PS/1 PC. To test it, I'm going to practice debating far right extremists...

I'm happy to say the sound works gloriously

StenPett / St Midium Apr 23

Nick @ The Linux Experiment Apr 23

Time for another community poll!

In this one, I ask all of you how important Open Source / Free Software is to you, and how much of your daily system is made of open source software.

I ditched Google Forms for Cryptpad, hopefully this works well enough! Poll will close next Wednesday, the 30th. Don't hesitate to share it widely so we have a solid amount of answers :)

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/BvT5W22dNNspD405dLGF+TbJhAJD-FtRFLswi-uizWQ/

Encrypted Form

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

StenPett / St Midium Apr 16

I see quite a few people saying that Katy Perry's 11 minute joyride into space on Bezos' gigantic phallic symbol is an inspiration to women across the globe. This may be the case.

But I feel the accomplishment of Jannicke Mikkelsen is something more worthy of that honour.

* She is the first Norwegian astronaut.
* She was Vehicle Commander of the Fram 2 mission, the first crewed space mission in a polar orbit.
* She spent three days, 14 hours, and 32 minutes in orbit.
* She's also a film director, cinematographer, and photographer.
* And she lives in one of the coldest and most remote cities on earth: Longyearbyen.

I'd say that is more inspiring than barely crossing the Karman line, but that may be just me...

StenPett / St Midium Apr 12

Greg Apr 12

Quite proud of myself for successfully building a Windows 16-bit application that runs on Windows 3.1 - all dialog-based, and it makes network connections, too! Compiled with Visual C++ 1.52 on XP, it works on this old system. Consumes 14kb disk space and does everything in even less RAM :)

StenPett / St Midium Apr 11

For my birthday yesterday, my wife gave me a t-shirt that says (in Norwegian) "Everybody is someone else's weirdo".

I hope to be many people's weirdo! Weirdos make for interesting people!