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Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.

Do not underestimate his capacity to fuck things up.

‌ Today, I woke up to a couple 500 errors on my Nextcloud calendars on my phone. Huh, that's weird, but forgot about it and turned on Plex, worked totally fine. Eventually I tried to hit Nextcloud, which responded with the same Internal Server Error. Uh oh, did my

The massive radiation exposure had failed to give him superpowers.

The massive radiation exposure had failed to give him superpowers.

Well, that didn't last long. In one of my last posts, I set up a bash script to download the USA Today crossword in a Forkyz-readable XML file. I noticed that my script was able to download the Sunday USA Today crossword while Forkyz (for some reason) was

Our Lady of Sleeping Through It

Our Lady of Sleeping Through It

When implementing SSH private key login on my server, I realized this would not work with one use case: using my firewall as a jump box while at work. The previous way to login to my server from work was to: · SSH into my firewall (TCP 22 is only exposed

There was a button, and I pressed it.

There was a button, and I pressed it.

Never had to race the clock (and my metabolism) to get my thoughts out before I'm too stoned to. Years ago, before The Great Pause, we visited Ireland. Before the trip, I glanced at Reddit posts on how to be a "good" tourist. I learned that

Newton's third law, expressed as violence.

Newton's third law, expressed as violence.

I'm on one of my irregular "if you put trackers into a smart phone app, you should masticate a toaster" kicks, which means I'm scouring F-Droid for new apps/games. I found Forkyz, and even though ya boi has never been much of a

Well. This can't be good.

Well. This can't be good.

This is the 4th attempt at writing a personal blog that no one will see. I still have no idea what to write about, but I'm going to challenge myself to write something every day for a year and see if my writing improves. There might be a