I vanished from the earth for a week or so while dealing with work insanity and medical items, aiming to actually upgrade the instance to the latest version tonight if I'm not fried by then

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I am evaluating the 4.6.x mastodon upgrade and the costs I can reasonably cover for the digest emails/following email feeds... I hope to be able to enable those and upgrade this weekend

hey to the stupid ass openai bots that are slamming toot.garden and causing the streaming services to crash, can you please kindly fuck off

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Mmm. It's June, which means my moderation hat will be on tighter for trolls. While I'm at work if you make a report, you can also tag me in the replies and I'll see it sooner (the app for some reason doesn't send me a ping for reports anymore)

I have officially spent a total of $2000 on the instance since its inception, per my excel sheet that might be missing a few things lol

Wow, we're pretty high up now...

#pixelart #IndieGame

Finished spinning the Gray Suffolk roving on my #ladybugspinner! A 4 ply aran weight - so excited to turn this into a cozy winter hat 🥰 fiber was purchased from The Fiberists

Thank you firewall, for confusing me for a solid 20min when my ssh connection cut out while patching things for the mastodon instance. Yes, my outgoing ssh session that had been open for 15min prior was totally malicious

Sorry for the brief downtime, a critical security flaw was found in a software I use for backup last night, so I had to patch first thing and it required a reboot

I've managed to get a virus of some sorts that had destroyed my stomach, at the same time I'm coming off of my beta blockers

I feel like death

This is just beyond evil, and it's not even about the US, I don't want to make it about myself and those in the US, it's about greed, and the lives that are going to be lost because of it. Such a loss of life from war is always horrible, but this is on another scale as it's pointless, there's no reason but greed and power at play.

I don't usually get political online but I officially don't give a flying fuck. Gestapo be damned. How are a majority of the people I'm surrounded by not deeply concerned and angry over the president of our country threatening to wipe out a civilization tonight. What the actual fuck. I just. I feel like giving up. I'm powerless to do anything about this, yet an absolutely abhorrent event is staring at me in the face, plastering the name of the country I reside in on it, dragging me and everyone else into the fire as accomplices.

Probably going to update the instance this weekend, wanted to this last weekend but got very busy lol.

Will post an announcement once confirmed

I greatly dislike this lamp

#lux #dateeverything #gaming

I forgot my weather radio was still set to alert mode from traveling in the NY mountains and it just scared me so bad lmao. It's 4:40am and NOAA issued an emergency alert and it started wailing and flashing

My poor upstairs neighbors are probably like "what the fuck" - don't worry guys, me too

#weather

update apparently I accidentally left a continuous ping going on a VM for two months and I've been ratelimited

for whatever reason every site behind cloudflare is loading as slow as a snail for me and I have no idea why. going absolutely insane

also hello mastodon, I've been silent for a bit but have lurked in the shadows

https://ajnicoloff.me/climbing-back-from-setback/

little blogy blog post about it