Navidrome rules. Made the switch from Spotify some time ago, using the FOSS Tempo app on Android and Feishin on desktop, it’s been a lovely experience so far.

I had big Gavin Belson vibes with this one

Why is it that when I type my own name into my own company search engine, the fucking Internet rains shit‑bolts down on me? I want this to stop!

“Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,” said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).

“Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.”

He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps “end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content”, or adults “trying to get round blocks”.

Ah yes, there it is: won’t anyone think of the children. I expected that argument higher up in the article.

My housemate had a cat that, when you yawned, would look at you, and as soon as you were done, it would do a special meow. When fake yawning, the cat knew it was fake, no matter how well it was faked.

I love me some mechanical keyboards, consider me subscribed!

I’ve used Maybe for a while, I don’t understand how this will be valuable in a B2B context… Weird decision!

As soon as a capitalist has enough money.

last: All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai

Could not finish it. The story would not start, eventually I stopped caring.

Current: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes

Funny collection of stories that happened to him over the years. Very entertaining and funny.

Read as many diverse books on the subject, anything you can find, from Rich Dad Poor Dad to Intelligent Investor.

Then, after you think you know enough, read A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Malkiel, and eventually you’ll end up at the Bogleheads wiki and forum.

Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.

Damn it, on the very day my DVD burner arrived, right after the weekend when I switched to Fedora Atomic Sway. Oh this universe.

Your family is sick and hungry. You are penalized for each mistake.

Glory to Arstotzka.

Another round of ‘look at us working’ without any results.

I imagine some kind of schism and a(nother) American pope

Or be sad you weren’t born 10.000 years earlier with a 15 hour work week.

the focus on politics, economics, and law are all destined to fail because they are based around humans. They’re designed to guide humans, but we’ve left out the foundation of our existence, which is nature, clean air, pure water, rich soil, food, and sunlight. That’s the foundation of the way we live and, when we construct legal, economic and political systems, they have to be built around protecting those very things, but they’re not.

Powerful truth!

Currently reading: James Acaster’s Classic Scrapes. A funny collection of stories from his childhood, an enjoyable read. I’d recommend it if you’re looking for something light and funny.

Before this, I gave up on the book All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai, after about a hundred pages. I just couldn’t get into it, the story kept halting in favor of flashbacks and setting the MC’s backstory. I hate stories not starting soon enough with the actual story. Unnecessary to say, but I would not recommend this :)

Yes indeed! In my mind civilization and hierarchy overlap perfectly, am I mistaken? Care to hand me some examples where that is not the case?

It wasn’t meant to come over as cynical. I just wanted to indicate how this is not exclusive to these times. Before the modern age, there were already a lot of powerful people doing a lot of heinous things. I just wonder when the finger will start pointing, not at those in power, but at power itself.

a.k.a. the history of civilization