My wife and I, we first met at the University, doing "English studies with Celtic languages". Today our friends from those times came to visit, and it was great to reminisce about our days as students, and talk about Welsh language and Welsh politics.
I did some investigation about reducing the power usage of my NAS while keeping reasonable performance, and in one scenario I calculated that I would need to spend almost 2000 PLN to have a saving of maybe 30PLN per month. And that mostly because of DDR4 prices. That is not great ROI.
Morning! (Not applicable to people in other time zones)
#Shabbat vegan dinner is a Dutch oven full of roasted new potatoes, beets and onions tipped onto mixed greens with sautéed chickpeas on top, all topped by a ginger-miso-mirin-garlic-tahini sauce. Plus a six-stranded challah. Gut Shabbes, #Mazeldon. (The dog has already stolen the challah cover off the table and attempted to bury it.)
I need to remember that if I'm feeling down, a quick scroll down https://genders.wtf will make me laugh uncontrollably. Today it was "Salutation Scale" that got me.
Thanks to @effy for collecting these!
@stfn i’m just always stunned that you can literally talk about any topic and find out that Marx already wrote about this in 19th century
I want to do so many things after work, but work is sucking out all my energy. Marx had something to say about that.
Of course it's a tongue-in-cheek, and generally pointless question, but I've seen heated debates who can be a called a "Linux person" :)))
I bought my wife a used Thinkpad, and installed Kubuntu LTS on it.
She uses it to do internet stuff, watch streamings, a bit of Jellyfin, writing in LibreOffice.
Is she a Linux person? :)
I just realized one thing: I totally stopped watching IT Youtube.
I used to watch that LTT news channel, some Gamers Nexus, Jeff G, Craft Computing, Explaining Computers, and now I can't be bothered to watch any of it.
Today I TIL there is a difference between su and su -
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7013/why-do-we-use-su-and-not-just-su
I miss the times when saying "I can has cheeseburger" was peak internet comedy.
"Net zero is not an arbitrary slogan, but a boundary dictated by the laws of physics."
#NetZero #ClimateDiary #GlobalWarming #Nature #Climate #Science #Health #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #CO2 #CH4
I've ported over a few small side project websites to my local Raspberry Pi Zero (named Hermes)
My main blog *might* be placed on my HP Thin Client running OpenBSD instead...we shall see!
Hello sloth valuers! #GoToSocial could use your help!
TL;DR, please help us by donating to our OpenCollective page so we (Tobi and Kim) can pay ourselves a basic monthly wage.
Long explanation:
In order to keep work on the GtS codebase buzzing along, Tobi and Kim have to perform the increasingly expensive chore of maintaining their flesh temples by consuming calories, keeping warm and dry (or cool and wet, depending on the circumstances), doing routine bodily maintenance, and so on. Not to mention paying for electricity, internet, etc.
The money we need for all this has so far largely been provided to us by NLnet, the Dutch organization that funds a lot of fediverse projects (among other interesting things). NLnet's support has been of incredible value. Indeed, without it GoToSocial would not exist in its current form; we'd have long since had to get "real jobs" and GtS would have been relegated to being a side project.
However, due to the way that funding from NLnet works, we get paid only for delivering features that we scope out long in advance of when the funding period actually begins. In other words, we get paid every time we merge a big feature, details of which are agreed up to a year beforehand. However, this payout happens only intermittently, since big features take a large amount of time to write.
As everyone who works on code knows, there's more to a project than just writing headline features. We don't get paid for spending time doing things like maintenance, bugfixes, small bonus features, refactoring, triage, helping people in the Matrix chats, code review, and what have you. So, the intermittent way that we get paid means we have to juggle working on very important but unpaid "maintenance" stuff, alongside paid "feature" stuff when our bank accounts start to look worryingly moth-filled. This causes semi-regularly panics in the both of us, as neither of us are particularly resilient when it comes to dealing with financial pressures.
To make working on GoToSocial more sustainable, then, we want to be able to pay ourselves--the two most active devs--a basic monthly salary for all the work we do that isn't big headline features. This will allow us to commit time to unglamorous but vital maintenance chores, without the constant background worry that by doing so we're going to end up running out of money at a critical moment. To make this happen, we need your help!
Thanks to all our donors on OpenCollective and Liberapay, we'd accrued enough unspent money over the years to be able to pay ourselves 1,000 EUR each, each month, for the months of February, March, April, and May 2026 (plus a little bit here and there from Liberapay). For transparency's sake, you can see those payouts here.
As you'll see from our OpenCollective budget, however, we don't make enough from donations to keep this up, and indeed at the time of writing we have only 2000 EUR left in our OpenCollective budget, which gives us ~3/4 of a month when accounting for ongoing hosting costs.
And so, we're asking you, dear sweet reader, sexy-ass cool reader, for a donation or two to our OpenCollective pot:
https://opencollective.com/gotosocial#category-CONTRIBUTE
With your help, we want to be able to raise about 2,500 EUR per month, so that we can continue to pay ourselves 1,000 EUR each per month, plus various other costs that are paid out of the OpenCollective.
Thank you for reading this absolute saga of a post, and for considering donating to us. We really appreciate it! :gtspat:
plans for tomorrow?
anyway, time to deploy
CPU temperature not great, not terrible
Another episode of working in my homelab
I would change one thing though, the method to make the graph line wider should be
plot.thickens()