Let's Internet

Posted around 27 Feb 2025 from the I'm using up the time left to think Dept. · Link to this post

A month later and I finally realized that I forgot to include a link in the last update to the actual article. Whoops. That's fixed now.
I found a book on machine learning at a thrift store for $2. I'm not sure if that situation speaks more toward the subject matter or the area where I bought the thing, but Ibought it and added it to the list anyway. I probably won't read it any time soon (if at all), but it was too tempting to pass up.
Instead of working on content for the Internet radio station I've been futzing with, I've been researching audio equipment upgrades to make it sound more... good. I should probably set an actual date to make an announcement of this thing so someone might accidentally listen to it.
I started a small offshoot series called How to Internet that is going to contain some semi-tutorials and some opinions about how someone might want to use the Internet in a way that isn't just scrolling through a bottomless trough of garbage until your phone's battery dies.

I'm working at the crumb factory

Posted around 2 Jan 2025 from the I just need one sandwich Dept. · Link to this post

I wrote the obligatory 'why I left one billionaire's social media website and why replacing with a different billionaire's site isn't going to happen' post. I debated whether I should write it at all, but I was getting tired of repeating the same answers every time someone asked me why I wasn't on facebook or how bluesky is 'like omg, so much better, you guys!' (spoiler - it isn't).
I added a few tech books to my physical inventory, but I haven't actually updated the inventory on this site yet. I'll be doing that... soonish. I'd love to blame the long, cold, winter nights for my lack of motivation lately, but I've just been mentally exhausted since November.

Posted around 2 Jan 2025 from the Disregard the expense Dept. · Link to this post

I set up an Owncast server two years ago and then never used it. I realized that that kind of streaming just wasn't for me and I took the server down last week.
In its stead I set up an icecast server. I still haven't quite decided what I want to put on there (which is why there are no links to it yet). Setting up an icecast server is something that I've wanted to do ever since I found out about it a million years ago, but I just never got around to doing it until now.