Clawing my attention span back from the void

25 months ago, the 28th of March, 2023, I made my account, and my first post here. in that time, I've changed quite a bit in many ways and stayed the same in other ways.

Dreamwidth has been and continues to be a good home for my posting. it does markdown and works under mothra(1), what more could you need? it's also played an important role in preserving certain civil liberties in the US.

I really don't have much to say here, other than "woa... nunber....", but it's been a good time posting here. I'll be back for one of these in 25 months or maybe more or maybe less. 32 is a nice round number.

anyways, happy blogging,
~aleteoryx

_{P.S.: no, I definitely didn't do it today because I forgot to last month, shut up!}

...almost 2 months. that's too long. i need to keep this place updated more.

What's new?

oh lots of things. i got sick, as i write this i've got a hellish fucking cough. the clearlungs is keeping it at bay but it's still painful. i have chorus later today, not sure how i'm gonna manage that.

i sunk the $9 on an uptimerobot paid plan, so there's now a status page for my stuff. we'll see whether i migrate to something self-hosted or not, but i figure a status page is the one thing that's foolish to selfhost.

i've started a new form of to-do list, on my remarkable. the only thing really new about it is that i rewrite it from scratch every day. it forces me to think about tasks more concretely. i also have a second list, the evertodo, for those things that i'll get to later. it's, uh, long. anyways, i'm thinking i'll add a "write something" daily task, try and keep this place updated more.

i started reading ficciones. borges is an amazing author holy shit. i have very little to say other than that i now see from where some of my previous favorite short stories draw clear and direct influence.

i've got matrix and jabber accounts now. @aleteoryx:constellatory.net(good homeserver! cool admin!) and @alyx@jab.aleteoryx.me. contact me if you dare.

i got a pixel fold. convinced my family that the last 6 years of no upgrades was worth funding such an investment. i do enough reading and shit on my phone where being able to say "fuck it, tablet" comes in handy. i've not been using the folding functions enough to properly justify the price tag, but it comes in handy now and again. i expect that when i start doing research on allegheny county parcel laws again, it'll be far more useful.

i've begun actually using my myanimelist account. it's been enough motivation to finally watch stuff. i'll post reviews of stuff as i finish shows.

all sorts of stuff. i started running my own authoritative dns server via powerdns. it's a good little program, and it works well for my needs.

i killed social.aleteoryx.me. it had been broken for a while, it would seem. i still have database backups in case i ever want to try resurrecting it, probably under glitch-soc or chuckya.

i started moving shit off the singular linode i'd been using for a while.

• mk.aleteoryx.me and books.aleteoryx.me are now living on a royale hosting vps together.
• airsonic is back on oci, as it should be.
• discourse is properly setup, and living on its own royale vps.

i setup a redmine install. unfortunately, it seems as though the inbuilt repo browser can't actually handle soft-serve, as soft-serve stores all repos with no working tree. i probably won't do much about this anytime soon, as i prefer cgit to the repo interface i've seen on other redmine installs.

i've discovered that leveldb has a tendency to create unreadable files under gocryptfs. frankly, i'm considering switching to a new encryption solution, as gocryptfs has too many random incompatibilities. steam updates tend to max out all of my cores, only in the kernel, and iirc this did not happen before moving to gocryptfs.

i wrote a bit of the script for the eventual major update to comics.marigold.town. no work has been done on the engine, but yknow, progress is progress.

i mocked up some code and datastructures for the scrobble.observer wizard v2.

i'm now running a public searxng instance. i need to poke at the csp config at some point until stuff stops failing to load, but that's a problem for later. for now, it works well enough that i use it and i've had it listed on searx.space.

Any upcoming plans?

well, when i get the time, i'm going to completely restructure my website. i'm thinking aleteoryx.me will become a mobile-friendly single-page site with links to various things, and the current site will end up at www.aleteoryx.me. i'd also like to have some sort of sso domain so that people i trust can have a unified login system to my things i host, but i'm not sure if sharkey supports ldap or anything of the sort. i've had good experiences running keycloak in the past, so i'll probably end up using that.

lfm_embed is going to get something of an overhaul with regards to theming. handlebars is proving too limited for any real use-cases, and i'm thinking lua may be the right choice going forwards. this is pending on free time.

i'll probably try teaching sharkey to send out normal reactions at some point, although from what i've heard *key federation code is nightmarish. it's a problem for later.

Anything in the news?

neil cicieriga released a demo off mouth dreams, it's ...baby one more time reworked as a symphonic rock song. it's pretty good.

Welp, I'm off.

alright, thanks for reading. i'll be back sometime soon, maybe with a sequel to that thing i wrote that one time.