FYI, I'll be shutting down this instance and migrating back to Mastodon.
It's been fun daily-driving GoToSocial, and the software has become way more stable since I started using it in early 2022. However, my database somehow got corrupted such that migrations don't work, and I can't be arsed to […]

Software engineers: "Here is the documentation for my API along with example code. If the documentation is incomplete, it's a bug!."
Electrical engineers: "Here is the board. This pin is 'lcd', that pin is 'data', and those are 'debug'. Good luck figuring it out lmao."

I had a specific 4K Blu-ray disc that I always assumed was bad. However, I recently learned that I can make it work by shaking the drive for a few seconds after putting in the disc. Percussive maintenance wins again. 🔨
By the way, the movie was Joker. This is fitting because trying to debug the […]

Real ActivityPub has never been tried. /s

break this

There is a relatively new ARIN proposal to allow Internet resources (e.g., ASNs, IPv4/IPv6 blocks) to be allocated to individuals. For context, ARIN is the Internet registry for North America.
Historically, ARIN only dealt with incorporated organizations, so this might reduce the barrier for […]

"Oh cool, an independent musician released a CD!"

Price: $14.32 CAD
Shipping: $47.83 CAD
Total: $62.15 CAD

"Never mind."

It looks like, the CA/B Forum is updating the TBRs to basically kill long-life TLS certificates for websites starting in 2029 and reduce the maximum certificate lifespan to 47 days. This will make it impractical to deploy certificates manually and force people to use some form of automation (e.g […]

A brand called Little Garden recently started selling a spectrometer for ~$100 CAD based on the DIY Theremino spectrometer, and it's apparently legit. Damn.
For reference, a spectrometer measures the the visual light spectrum. They usually start at ~$1000 CAD, but you can do all sorts of things […]

One time, I was walking around at night, and I saw a cat by the trail in front of me. As I got closer to the cat, it noticed me, and it flew away. It turned out that the cat was actually a horned owl, and I couldn't tell the difference between the silhouettes.

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It turns out that there are Gashapon MiniDisc charms, and they look so adorable.

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I forgot how therapeutic packaging software (for Linux distributions) can be. Of course, there's the occasional build issue that I need to figure out, but 90% of the time I can just zone out and chip away at the backlog. It's great.