djsundog

djsundog, 3 days ago to random

a dragon
a dragon
I swear I saw a dragon

djsundog, 3 days ago to random

the year is 2025. to set up your new wifi router and enable wireless functionality you must take a photo of yourself with your face clearly visible while holding your government issued photo id in one hand and your most recent bank statement in the other and upload the photo to the international registry of wifi routers at which point your submission will be compared to data scraped from the sum total of data breaches during the 21st century to date and, if any discrepancies are found, you will be opted out of participation in the internet and your new router will self-destruct. otherwise, you can then craft an SSID for your network from one of the three choices offered by a dropdown selector. choose wisely.

djsundog, 3 days ago to random

I cannot accurately express how annoyed I am that Apple's wifi mapping opt-out is to modify your SSID to have #nobot - er - _nomap in its name.

Apple: the clueless opt-out techbro of tech companies that "care about your privacy"

(okay, all the tech companies are the clueless opt-out techbro of tech companies.)

djsundog, 4 days ago to random

if you're an android user and you get a text message from Gemini, Google's oft-renamed bullshit machine, do yourself and the rest of us a favor and

• long-press the message to select it
• open the three dot menu in the upper right
• select "block"
• leave the checkbox marked to "report spam"
• submit that shit

send every signal possible to the corporate drones that we don't want this bullshit invading our lives.

djsundog, 4 days ago to random

good morning fediverse :cofepats:

congratulations on not being banned from all tribal lands in the state of South Dakota unlike that state's shithead governor.

:blobpats:

djsundog, 6 days ago to random

if I had a centralized single-location non-computer business, my business would be safest if the software I needed to use had absolutely nothing to do with the internet. every time we push small businesses into the cloud we're setting them up for pain.

the cat still running his auto garage in eastern europe on a commodore 64 clone and a dot matrix printer will never ever succumb to ransomware or the whims of a cloud app.

djsundog, 6 days ago to random

I was doing a wiki rabbit hole about Tom Morello yesterday to make sure I hadn't missed any of his side projects.

I hadn't.

But I had missed the bit where his father was a participant in the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya and became Kenya's first delegate to the UN, and his uncle became the first democratically elected president of Kenya. And that's not to mention his mom's long history of activist work here in USia.

So yeah, that's how you make a Tom Morello, obviously.

djsundog, 9 days ago to random

the inverse of "make sure you have working backups of what's important" is "give yourself permission to delete digital detritus that no longer has any value to your life"

you do not need every email you've received for the last decade.

you do not need three copies of every photo you've ever taken with your phone.

you do not need the downloads folder for each of your previous twelve laptops.

you can delete some stuff.

djsundog, 9 days ago to random

we gon do what they say caint be done

djsundog, 9 days ago to random

it should infuriate you that thousands of people in the world manage to make life virtually unlivable for billions of people for no reason.

djsundog, 9 days ago to random

I'd like to thank our younger cousins who are patient with us older cousins who are bitter gen x kids that took on high doses of premium-grade propaganda as we detox. A bunch of us are doing the work, and we're trying to get it to spread, but as y'all have already clued into, it's damn pervasive and entrenched. We'll keep going and we've got your back.

djsundog, 9 days ago to random

yesterday I crashed pretty hard energy-wise. I've been pushing, trying to get a lot done on multiple fronts, and my body finally called me on it and knocked me back into sleep mid-day to try and recharge a bit.

still tired even after my nap, I decided to listen and go easy on myself and my body.

ended up spending my evening doing something I rarely do anymore: binge watching a video series.

1/?

djsundog, 10 days ago to random

Okay can I get a prototype or three for New Ellijay?

https://newatlas.com/transport/monocab-self-balancing-monorail-commuter-pods/

djsundog, 11 days ago to random

I would have uploaded this directly but the video came in at a half gig and by the time I got it small enough to appease mastodon it was even shittier than what the goog does with it, so here ya go:

a demonstration of the strength of a wisteria vine (and your chance to hear me narrate a silly short video if you've been curious as to what I sound like (this title has gotten long suddenly, yet nowhere near as long as a fiona apple album title probably, but whomst count))

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=bM8NfFTBPmk

djsundog, 13 days ago to random

the sun is chasing out the deluge of rain and clouds and the sky is lightening.

hail the damn orb. that fucker sure comes through.

djsundog, 14 days ago to random

Good morning fediverse :cofepats:

Any chance any of you have a favorite open source way of mapping and cataloging trees? I don't think I need a lot of bells and whistles but would like to have a journal of maintenance for each tree.

:blobpats:

djsundog, 15 days ago to random

what's your favorite weird, non-conventional, absurd, sketchy, or otherwise interesting group of folks you ended up involved with, and what makes it your favorite?

#poll #essayQuestion

djsundog, 16 days ago to random

over 25 years ago I met my wife online, playing a word game in a gussied up irc channel.

almost three years ago the two of us moved across the country to live in a small mountain town with folk I met in the fediverse.

the best parts of my corner of the so-called "real world" are so good because I sourced them online.

I am just saying. the world I live in is not the world I was born into in very real, tangible, and lasting ways, and anyone who discounts online interaction as "not real" is the one at risk for losing touch with reality.

djsundog, 16 days ago to random

my new fun fedi game is to just block any account that posts a web comic from anywhere at all with alt-text of "cartoon" or "comic" or some other super short nonsense.

djsundog, 17 days ago to random

NOAA always says critical infrastructure operators have been notified about geomagnetic storm activity, so if you didn't get a call from NOAA you're no longer on call, I make the rules.

djsundog, 18 days ago to random

good morning fediverse :cofepats:

toot-lab is back online, for now at least. storm came through and walloped the hell out of the north Georgia mountains.

gonna be a manual labor kinda day in Sundogistan - three or four down trees and chaos all around but so far seems everyone is safe and well.

be safe out there, fedi

:blobpats:

djsundog, 19 days ago to random

Steve Albini wrote one of the most important pieces that a musician pondering entry into the Music Industry can, and absolutely should, read a half dozen times before progressing beyond the local scene.

The Problem With Music: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music

RIP Steve, you were one of the best the industry had. 🤘

djsundog, 20 days ago to random

there are a couple new digital billboards in Ellijay that trigger a thought every time I happen to pass them: access control cannot be that stringent on a billboard way out here

djsundog, 20 days ago to random

here's a thing: divesting ourselves of the use of services that decide to start feeding our stuff into the AI maw? that's good. finding alternatives that respect us, even if it takes a little more effort, good.

but we don't have to wait for the corporate overlord in question to fuck up before getting out from under their control. there's no rule. we can just stop using their stuff whenever.

djsundog, 21 days ago to random

gonna make a t-shirt that says "my cool counterculture community is hosted on discord, an alexa top 1000 property, owned and operated by discord inc. under proprietary license."