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Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:56:25 +0100

please move on, there’s nothing to see here.

bye, micro.blog, the hosting service. thanks for the last 6 years (or so). it was the longest period of uninterrupted existence in the 20 years of the domain’s life.

see you on muhh.lol

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 07:37:02 +0100

Checked in at Straße der Menschenrechte

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 15:18:00 +0100

Finally started building that nice keyboard which was laying around for waaaay too long now.

The soldering of the controller part went well for the most part, but the computer crashed during the first test.
On the Mac behind a docking station, I only get an error message saying that the USB device is consuming too much power.
So there is obviously a short circuit somewhere. As far as I can see on the USB-C port. With its 16 pins in a very small space.

Sigh.

Now I’d like to put the thing back in the corner for another year…

Thu, 01 Feb 2024 18:39:34 +0100

She loves her big sticks.

grab your lost blog from the wayback machine

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:06:50 +0100

15 years ago today the “microblogging conference 09” happened in Hamburg #mbc09

This is the highpoint of my “microblogging journey” where I even had a dedicated blog about microblogging, blogulus.de. Ah, good times, discovering identi.ca and status.net and even meeting @evan himself.

Too bad the identi.ca shirts he had left didn’t fit.

me on mastodon

Additionally to going back a route down to remember Cem Basman I crawled around the wayback machine looking at what I did there 15 years ago on blogulus.de.
I really liked what I found there and wanted a local copy since I deleted the Drupal and its data in 2013. Probably because of sleep deprivation.

Anyways, I found the wayback machine downloader gem.

It only needed a gem install wayback_machine_downloader and a wayback_machine_downloader -t 20130828020930 -a http://blogulus.de to get a local copy.

It’s formatted in proper HTML that I can now incorporate as an archive in my own site and get inspiration from my ideas I had so long ago.

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:50:22 +0100

White valley

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 15:36:27 +0100

New year, new colors.

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 11:35:46 +0100

💫 Copy, Acquire, Kill— How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history

Meta’s sudden interest in ActivityPub and Mastodon doesn’t make much sense. There are a few impossibly consistent talking points floating through the Fediverse. Each tries to explain away the oddity of Meta’s presence.
I don’t buy any of it. This is a plan years in the making. And we’re watching Meta’s biggest hurdle play out in real-time.

A very interesting POV that matches a lot how I see it. And reminds me of what „everyone“ told Twitter to create in its early stages (~<= 2010): to provide plumbing aka infrastructure.

Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:05:05 +0100

RSS never died and remains the best way to follow what you love

Matt Birchler Swing back to the blog

jup.

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 07:35:56 +0100

Happy (winter|summer) solstice everywhere!

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 21:48:58 +0100

one can create posts in the past using the scheduling function in micro.blog.
just did that with this entry to journal my covid journey.

nice!

and what I noticed: I could toggle where crossposts should be sent to. Disabled everything in that case.

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 00:40:45 +0100

The week ends like it started. With a broken database cluster. At least tonight it’s running smoothly to restore replication and it’ll hopefully be done in 30 minutes. Not like on Monday night where it took 12 hours.

What a week. Thank gods it’s Monday.

Tales from isolation

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 13:43:47 +0100

Let’s not just dump all the crap to my status log but create a living blog post. Because why not.

2023-12-09 10:38 UTC 🤯 After three days of paralysis, I’m finally getting round to using my “free time” in isolation for nice things. For example, installing Proxmox on the workstation. And maybe solder that keyboard that’s been waiting for way to long now. Or continue the work on the new blog or finish setting up the Linux laptop with nixOS on it or rearrange to home office space or WAAAAAH.

11:43 – I’m happy to have made a decision, treat myself to a piece of chewing gum and pull out a big old filling. There’s now a gaping hole in my teeth and I have to laugh out loud.

14:30 – I successfully open the PC and swapped the SSD for a new one to install Proxmox on. Nice stuff, already learned a lot. Mostly that I’m not able to easily do what I imagined to do, namely to make a VM directly access attached hardware like the display, keyboard and things. Well, it’s probably possible, but I don’t know yet.

16:30 – With some lunch in my stomach I again got very tired. Back to just doing nothing but binge watch all the new The Walking Dead spin-offs.

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 16:28:19 +0100

💫 The personality of a personal website – Manu

Just be comfortable in your digital home. It’s all that matters

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:49:53 +0100

I’ve reactivated the keyboard on my big iPad to create a typewriter. Better than buying the next keyboard I’m not going to use.

And iAWriter is by far the most animating text creation tool I’ve ever used.

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:44:00 +0100

💉💉💉🦠💉🦠

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 20:29:06 +0100

💫 Let’s forget the term AI. Let’s call them Systematic Approaches to Learning Algorithms and Machine Inferences (SALAMI). – Quinta’s weblog

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 19:27:18 +0100

We don’t need more technology. Technology won’t fix human behaviour. We need kindness, we need compassion, we need a willingness to interact honestly with strangers online. That’s not something you can solve with a better protocol.

Manuel Moreale More new mindsets, fewer new technologies – Manu

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 15:50:17 +0100

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 21:06:08 +0100

The truth is, I really adore plain text files and enjoy the editors designed to work well with them.

That’s neovim, Obsidian.md and iA Writer for me.

Well, looks like I’ve started to write my „Defaults“ page.

a small test from the all new iA writer

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:46:19 +0100

a small test from the all new iA writer. A tool that’s been on my belt for many years but collected some dust. But it’s always been reliable when I wanted to get some serious writing done. Even when all my texts are handled by Obsidian.md nowadays.

This is to test the micro.blog integration and later on the micropub one.

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:54:05 +0100

I’m in the process of building my own CMS. Yeah, I know. The most basic thing is running on https://muhh.lol.

And since it’s supposed to be a fun, but long lasting project, I’m starting with OpenBSD and learning how to do it in its way. Which means I’m learning relayd and httpd now.

Next: RSS feed.

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:46:55 +0100

a micro.post to micro.blog from Obsidian using a nice new feature in micro.publish built by otavio.cc.

Well done, @otaviocc!

Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:55:51 +0100

I just rediscovered my first self-hosted fediverse instance mb.byzero.de, if laconi.ca counts as fediverse.

It does for me a bit and I still regret that I stopped continuing the journey with status.net to pump.io to the other things that eventually ended up in mastodon.

But it’s ok. 15 years ago would have been the best time, the second best time is today to be on the fediverse!

Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:23:55 +0100

Let people be wrong about things - about facts, about politics, about you. Leave them to it. Learn to walk away from and let it all go.

Sarah Tasker Manifesto for posting online in 2023

And allow yourself the same. Be kind to yourself.