I fear for the unauthenticated web

https://sethmlarson.dev/i-fear-for-the-unauthenticated-web

Had no idea my instance was down (again). Jokes on fate, though, that just means I had an excuse to move to a docker container with health checks. Try and fail NOW, Akkoma! (realistically I probably just set it up horribly the first time)

music holds untold power

im not sure any other medium can bring me to tears quite like hearing the same old songs, quiet ambience from a game i still play over a decade later.

C418 touched a generation.

Computers are a trap. You love computers right up to the point that you learn slightly too much about computers, and then you hate computers

The totally normal urge to give my server box a kiss for being reliable despite my best inadvertent attempts to knock it offline

So excited to finally get back home. My poor server really did its best not going offline without me being able to mess with it at all. I plan to make a piKVM to control it better when I get there, though, so that should be nice to have.

What a ride! Installed a new CPU cooler, but in the process bent a pin on the socket. Couldn't get it working again for days, figured it might have been the end for that PC despite the fact I JUST bought a new GPU. Then after I spent far too long carefully trying to tweak it back into place, it started to work again. I'd say I regret trying to install the cooler, but now my CPU hasn't topped 60C no matter how hard I push it, even when overclocked to 4.7ghz (up from 3.9). I'll squeeze every last bit of juice out of you yet, 3770K :P

incredibly based

u know enbies are pretty cute

Playing guitar is a lot more fun to me than piano. I still think that I can play a wider range of a song on a keyboard, but guitar just sounds so good even when you're not trying or you're messing up (which I do a lot), hah. The only downside is my fingers hurt

look up what the X in Xfce stands for this is the funniest shit I've ever seen

For my birthday I got myself a fully functional and actually useful for once ELK stack. It only cost me most of my day and a little bit of my soul that I had to imbue into the regexes.

Pretty pretty parsed logs...

My cursed webserver setup is out to get me once again... I'm going to be away from it for a while, and my way to connect to it remotely suddenly stopped working for no reason. It randomly decided to start working again a few minutes ago and I quickly got in and fixed it, but whew.

I put my email address on my website in plain text instead of munging it because I use spam as a sort of free intermittent functionality check so I don't have to test and make sure people can still send me stuff.

As a programmer, I’m required to have priorities.

Oh my FUCKING GOD

I finished dumping 99.99% of a very old, damaged, backup CDROM that was previously unreadable. It took 3 days and I was super excited to find out what old data I put on it. The disc had UDF sessions, because that was common at the time for just Adding Files to non-rewritable media.

So I mount that shit in my Windows 98SE box, and lo and behold, this is all that was on it.

I would be absolutely upset if it wasn't so fucking funny

#cdrom #DataArchival #retrocomputing

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