Blaise Alleyne @balleyne@floss.social

Omicron? I think Omnicron would be more accurate... since it seems scheduled to appear everywhere (ba dum tsch)

Me, when someone asks for help with proprietary software:
https://xkcd.com/2531/

Did not have a Trump AGPL violation on my 2021 bingo card...
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-group-agplv3/

Aha! I figured it out. I connected to the direct WiFi network from my laptop, ran `ip a` to figure out my IP address was 192.168.223.1.101, and found the WEB-BASED admin interface at http://192.168.223.1/

WHY DO THEY HIDE THIS

The HP Smart app can go die in a fire. I was able to configure the wifi setup using this hidden web admin interface. UGH

Printers have always been terrible, but I've gotten away without buying one since like 2008 or 2010... until today.

Now, they want me to install some proprietary mobile app just to set it up, and sign up for automatic ink purchase?!

Printers are shit. There is nothing new under the sun.
https://www.mixcloud.com/shotofjaq/damn-you-printer/

I've been used Tomboy for over a decade, but the last 5 years since I switched from Maemo to Android have been annoying, and I see it's being discontinued in the latest Ubuntu as well. Perhaps it's time to move on.

What's a next gen Tomboy alternative?

I like (a) some kind of wiki / linking, (b) native clients on desktop and Android, (c) sync

(I use Nextcloud notes for some things, but it's missing the wiki/linking aspect)

I call these conversations "Catholic Answers with Blaise" - this time, in podcast form
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XjrdrTPd1BksRHi25INuo

ps Spotify is the worst, and I'm only now realizing how viciously they've attacked the open podcasting ecosystem...

Residential schools and the devastation of state-perpetrated family breakup - a social conservative perspective on residential schools
https://thebridgehead.ca/2021/07/05/residential-schools-and-the-devastation-of-state-perpetrated-family-breakup/

I've just started using S3-compatible storage (with Digital Ocean Spaces). All my backups up until now use rsnapshot. How do you run backups for your S3 storage?

But which one am I? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74wUO54Sdg

Wanted: the ability to blacklist posts containing a user-defined set of keywords in my Facebook news feed.

I have a long list of terms ready.

(Frostwire, maybe?)

Canadian census asks: What language does this person speak on a regular basis at home?

English? French? Other?

My truthful answer would be English, and Bash.

I love this podcast. On lemmings, smallpox, and 5 star reviews.
https://the-anthropocene-reviewed.simplecast.com/episodes/penguins-of-madagascar-smallpox-vaccine-dZN9eB8z

I’m increasingly convinced that most of the non-conspiracy skepticism of public health measures comes down to misunderstanding exponential math.
https://blaise.ca/blog/2021/04/13/understanding-exponential-growth/

Supreme Court Sides With Google In Decade-Long Fight Over API Copyright; Google's Copying Of Java API Is Fair Use
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/techdirt/feed/~3/RmaxOcZSyiA/supreme-court-sides-with-google-decade-long-fight-over-api-copyright-googles-copying-java-api-is-fair-use.shtml

My home servers are up and running again. Expensive, but no data lost, and I'm repairing/upgrading my backup servers.

I'm currently sitting in a room with 27 TB of storage o.0