Found myself wondering how things are going over at post.news these days...

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Oh.

Life's to short to hold grudges. That's why I try to reserve mine for immortal beings such as vampires, long-dead philosophers, and corporations.

So it seems I accidentally broke sending out posts from this server about three weeks ago. So no one's been reading any of my stuff the entire time and I didn't even notice until now. Awkward.

The fact that the word 低音 is pronounced with two high tones breaks my brain every time I encounter it.

Here's a simple line to use if you ever need it: YouTube, Facebook, Xitter and the likes are mainstream media.

My personal infosec approach is to 1) observe some basic best practises against brute-force, data dumps or dictionary attacks, and 2) avoid becoming important enough to be targeted by anything more sophisticated than that.

Groups of people aren't like buildings. So you can safely ignore any line of reasoning that assumes that societies have foundations, or that companies and industries have fundamentals.

Inflation is just the natural decay of money. Everything that's valuable or worthwhile decays over time. Beware of those who show a vampiric urge to fight against it.

Only needed 16 lines of shell to create a basic microblog.pub client, allowing me to post directly from the terminal. Might be useful when I want to post some thought without getting sucked into the timeline.

Tang Seng on his return to Chang'an (probably): "Ultimately, while invaluable in their own right, these newly discovered texts raise more questions than they answer."

Decided to get the BlueSky bridge set up on this account. It's on my personal single-user instance, so no side-effects to worry about. Let's see how it goes.

None of the usual Mastodon apps work with microblog.pub (as it doesn't implement the Mastodon API), but posting from Indiepass seems to work. Or rather, if you're seeing this post that means it worked.

The neat thing about microblog.pub is that it supports long-form articles as well, so I'll probably start consolidating a bunch of my old articles on here as well. And who knowns, maybe I'll even write some new ones.

The import of my follows seems to be mostly finished. Lost about 40 in the process. Probably a bunch from old instances that disappeared at some point in the last seven years. Maybe also still a bunch of pending manual approvals that'll drip in over the next few days.

Alright, let try out another bit of Fediverse software! It's called microblog.pub and I was lucky enough to find it right before its flagship instance went down about a week ago.