Midnight Wolf

removes feet

Judge: well technically

points gun at

robs

bang

‘it was their fault for being alive and possessing money’

Movies, TV, porn. That’s what I started with anyway…

20 up isn’t terrible; I made do with 10 for 8 years, and that included hosting said movies and shows to friends.

Straight women, just because I’m on a break

Me, disabled and using smart tech to improve a shitty situation, while reading your total lack of understanding or imagination of anyone’s situation but themselves: 🙄

So you’re offering to manage my ~40 services, and make sure that all the dependencies are met - and none conflict…?

I mean, I enjoy hosting things myself, but I’m not going to invite issues that have been resolved by simple solutions. I’ve been around the block with dependency hell, fuck all of that. Now if I was getting paid like 6 figures instead of zero, sure boss, whatever the fuck you say boss, job security all day long. But unless you’re offering, I’m sticking with the easy way.

I don’t see any options or mention of changing instances, beyond discord canary and public testing…? I might be blind

It’s been around a few years. I investigated it last year. It had a name change some times ago.

I can’t vouch for the code quality, but it’s too old to be slop.

I set this container up yesterday. Technically it’s running. But all the settings are in the fucking sql db, and I know fuck all about sql other than drop tables is funny meme from xkcd. But also, ignoring the settings, I would like to point out that there is effectively no client. I mean, there are two official ones - the depreciated one, and the alpha one, and the alpha one has a total of 4 releases with the newest being two years ago. How do you deprecate a client when the server is still in alpha? What the fuck? And on all pages it screams ‘this is alpha testing software, do not use as a daily’. Also the docs are, uhh… rough. If rough was falling 4 stories into a bed of poisonous cacti. It took me 3 hours to get the container running properly and finally poking at the db. It’s as organized as my bedroom (‘it’s somewhere in this dresser, I think…’).

The idea, the potential, is brilliant. Literally everything about getting it working though…

Actually, he is a cat. I am a wolf.

And this memory is rather clear, even though it occurred in the fall of 2007.

We definitely remember shit (heh) like this.

Kitty, grabbing the camera: yes, just like that. I mean, meooooow…

I remember in hs, freshman year, physical ed was a required course, and I was one of the guys who hated it. We’d run like 4 laps around the track, then up and down the bleachers, almost every day for a ‘warm up’.

So me and some old faces, some new, start lazy-assing around the track. Technically we are jogging, just. Like 6 of us. PE was our first class of the day and it was regular that someone didn’t have time that morning and would have to go take a shit. Coach was always annoyed but what you gonna do.

Well one day, we are jogging, and… Emmanuel? ‘mini’ if I remember right. He starts making noises, like, devastating noises. We are on like lap 2 of 4 and we slow down, even for our usual pace, so we can all stick together.

And then it happens.

He makes this wet, sloshing noise, and we fucking stop. And we all look at him, and he said ‘oh fuck, I think I sharted’. Omfg the mix of hilarity, fear, and pity, as he starts waddling down towards the building, and the coach is like ‘the fuck’ and is then informed of the situation. He was not annoyed that day, not that time.

Mini, if you’re reading this, you seemed like a cool dude. And you left a great memory in the brains of several that day.

Whoa whoa, let’s not go overboard here…

I have a owncast container setup, I’ve used it a few times. It combines a customizable webpage with the stream, kinda-sorta like a twitch page. Hook obs to it and you’re off. Took me a couple hours to get everything set.

My only complaint is that the stream will fall behind - not sure if obs or oc is to blame. Perhaps my nas being underpowered, though I was testing/watching with ‘source’ so it shouldn’t be transcoding. After an hour or two I can, watching my own stream, see it’s fallen back by like a minute. If I remember right it continues linearly, so more time = more discrepancy.

It’s nice though, so I haven’t bothered to try other solutions. I should re-test and see if it’s been fixed…

You vastly overestimate boomers-era individuals (and really the entire general population). Beyond turning things on and ‘everything magically works’, most know fuck all about tech.

I know that if I croak tomorrow, while my ex partners and a couple friends would be able to piece together things, 1) they’d have to be informed that I’m dead, 2) they’d have to be asked to help with my different hosts, and 3) they’d need to remember where I physically put the password in case of emergency to access the main host (with all of the family’s important shit, like all of it). Assuming they got those three things done, they would have to convey to the ex/friend how to access the main node, and then figure out my password manager master password, and the mfa (multiple options), or assume it’s inaccessible and use the physical password to retrieve the data and restore… on an OS none of them has ever used before.

Assuming all that is doable, after the restore is to maintain the system and the containers, perpetually, as well as continue paying for the domains so they can access the services hosted on the nodes, and continue paying for my vps and the backup storage strategy (two different companies on two different continents alongside the local copy).

As I have literally almost died before (I was supposed to have died, according to doctors who saved me), I have tried to make this hypothetical situation easy, and still it would astonish me if they get past like step #2.

Me, on a plane: sits

The person next to me: so you’re disabled eh? Tell me all about it so I can explain to you how it’s the government’s fault, and then indirectly blame you for not working with partial blindness, one good arm and leg

Or

The person next to me: I couldn’t help but notice the stickers on your luggage and laptop, with the gay flag and the paw prints, I can help you find Jesus again

Or

The people awaiting boarding when I hug and kiss my partner[1] goodbye and cry: is he, uh, you know, is your friend not coming with you?

Me: stewardess, I’m gonna need a new seat

Yeah, sure, ‘good’…

Instructions unclear, came to rapture propaganda

If they are dipped in chocolate first, then no problem at all