Short temporal updates. Antisocial.
Sunday, 11 December 2022
Hello! Still here.
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Short temporal updates. Antisocial.
Hello! Still here.
Cold and wet today.
It is International Men’s Day soon.
Been reconfiguring computers. Running a mixture of Pop_OS! and Arch Linux on two of them now. One of my machines running OpenBSD is dying and another had problems, so I wiped one of them.
I like so much about OpenBSD but I wanted to switch back to Linux for a while. Linux is more performant and has better tooling available for software development and that’s what I’m focusing on at the moment. This will change at some point, but for now…
The purpose of a budget is to help thy purse to fatten. It is to assist thee to have thy necessities, and insofar as attainable, thy other desires. It is to enable thee to realise thy most cherished desires, by defending them from thy casual wishes. Like a bright light in a dark cave, thy budget shows up the leaks from thy purse, and enables thee to stop them and control thy expenditures for definite and gratifying purposes. – The Richest Man in Babylon
Lovely bright day today.
A great day to release a hastily-written blog post on formatting USB sticks.
Didn’t get on in time to mark it yesterday so marking it now. QE2 has died.
Trying out some web quoting ideas with a new plugin for FF.
In April 2017, Microsoft announced that Wunderlist would eventually be discontinued in favor of Microsoft To Do, a new multi-platform app developed by the Wunderlist team that has direct integration with the company’s Office 365 service.[2][3]
Source: Wunderlist - Wikipedia
The web is still a very young medium, and it has been influenced more than anything else by print media design. There is so much more that can be done with text on a screen than is being done today. Citations, drawing, chat, speech-to-text. There are opportunities everywhere, and the bar is low! If we are serious about unlocking the value of knowledge we should consider how to improve every part of the knowledge production stack, and that includes reading. As Laurel Schwulst says: “Imaginative functionality is important, even if it’s only a trace of what was, as it’s still a sketch for a more ideal world.”
Source: Welcome to Quotebacks by Tom Critchlow and Toby Shorin
Tired.
Ignore everything I said about Microsoft. They let me back in.
As someone once said, just go back to Taskwarrior.
Forget the moralising about freedoms, access to source code and the wielding of power over the innocent gen-pop computer user spouted by the likes of Richard Stallman and Co - MICROSOFT WOULDN’T LET ME LOG INTO MY OWN FUCKING MINECRAFT SERVER THIS AFTERNOON SO THAT I COULD ENJOY MINING DIAMONDS WITH MY SON and that makes them evil.
Because I reinstalled their shitty Microsoft Authenticator app on Android, I couldn’t use their shitty 2FA to log in and when I tried to use a backup method (emailed code instead), and they told me I’d “requested too many codes, please try again tomorrow” the first time I tried it. Really, Microsoft??
The beauty of it was, when you reinstall the Authenticator app, you of course have to log in to use it - and then they require you to use the Authenticator app to obtain the 2FA code to be able to log in.
This has led me to reconsider having a Microsoft account at all, but the rollcall of dependencies is long enough to fret about.
Although I barely use their shitty fucking software explicitly, thanks to their parasitic takeovers of previously morally and qualitatively good applications and services over the years (I’ll use Minecraft and Github as examples), I would have to pause to consider the consequences.
Yet the very fact that I’m scared off of walking away… The level of vendor lock-in - that should be the reason to go, right there.
I keep Windows 11 around on a partition but only really for Ableton Live. Shameful.
Their sinister “philanthropist”, media-bribing co-founder.
Their cringworthy appropriation of Linux.
Their placement of ads in their shitty file browser.
I could go on, and I could go on about how unfuriatingly hard it is to format numbered lists in MS Word. Just die, Microsoft. Right now?
And… They’re slowly ruining Minecraft. Everyone knows it. It’s only a matter of time before they kill the Java edition and eradicate the very last remnants of Notch. I’m sceptical about Github, where most of my code lives. Copilot is a repugnant idea. I hate VS Code [but God does everyone bang on about it]. The Xbox gathers dust beneath the telly so that’s easily killable…
I’d have to do a some careful dismantling but I am tempted. If I don’t get back on Minecraft by tomorrow night…
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