Word of Mouth
Answer: Lift my lifetime permanent ban. Heheh
I jokingly commented “I hope it was full” in a thread about Ted Cruz (aka Zodiac Killer) getting beaned by a beer can during a parade (or sumpin).
That was the last straw for the mods! How dare I “Promote or advocate violence” LOL
Nope. I joined a couple big Mastodon instances, then started running a solo on DigitalOcean. It’s a hobby. I’ll probably give up the self-hosted and continue on a regular Calckey account.
Also played with Pixelfed, and before that all the way back to Matrix/Rocket… and pre-AP good ole diaspora*. Basically, anything but corporate social media. I just don’t like it enough to deal with the bullshit.
I liked Reddit though, but haven’t been on there for more than a year, now.
Lemmy seems pretty cool though. I’m interested in playing with the tech. Seems like a good way to take my Rust skills to the next level.
Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS… I love how it combines tiling and stacking. Sure I could use workspaces instead of stacks, but with stacks… I can use both!
I’ve also used EXWM and am going to give it another whirl after I upgrade to emacs 28 with native comp
Lots and lots at work…
But my only real side project right now is a scheduler and supervisor… “If cron and supervisord had a super-powered love child”.
I’m very close to releasing v1 so I’m not gonna jinx it by revealing too much, but it’s already in production use by two companies, one of which is enterprise-level, using it to process MASSIVE data somewhere in the entertainment industry… and yes, it’s gonna be FOSS, with MIT license.
It emphasizes a declarative approach to reproducing clusters of orchestrated job-runners on low-cost cloud infrastructure. Makes it easy to scale and even map-reduce.
Includes 3 interfaces: CLI (for everything), API (for most things), and UI (for most things).
It’s gonna be sick heheh. I’ll be sure to come back here once you can pip install
it.
Don’t tell me what to do! Heheheheh