📡 Ben 🛰 🏳‍🌈 @ben_zen@mastodon.social

I've been seeing lots of discussion of what to do about proprietary software on endpoints at #SeaGL2019 — but very little discussion about what to do about proprietary data collection and how we can make that more open, more user-controllable.

At #SeaGL2019 and loving it; there's been talks on amazing Makefile hackery, how to use Krita, discussing IPv6 & Multicast... Basically, a good time.

Update: it routes traffic, it filters garbage, and soon it will be a TLS-capable web server! And from there, I'll get LDAP fully working and somehow smash that and Wireguard together.

Well the router-server is taking shape. Can't actually route traffic with it yet but it's getting there.

So, none of the network equipment providers are really building routers I like. Clearly I should just build my own, right?

I, ah, discovered that the ARRL's podcast, "The Doctor is In", is available through Plex. I guess I found a bunch of listening to do. #hamradio

A normal day at work involves my dev box falling over because of a build at least once. Hopefully not twice.

Remember: building two massive projects at the same time on the same machine might not go well.

Wandered through IKEA, saw some stuff... and realized that the issues I have with the store have to do with the decision-making aspect; I can handle crowds and noise-I love going to fairs-but ask me to pick if I should buy a thing in that environment, and I get cranky. Add in lots of extra-bright lights, and there you go.

I have discovered a bunch of doom bands on Bandcamp who're putting out some really amazing releases. This self-titled album from Gorm, for instance: https://gorm.bandcamp.com/album/gorm

Boyfriend is playing new Doom; he and I both remarked that the human forces on Mars were clearly going too far, if they had _Demonic Activity sensors_.

Reading the ActivityPub vocabulary spec, and it's a little odd that `Collection` inherits from `Object` when really it looks like the standards writers just want to be able to say that something is either one or many of a given thing.

For example, images: the `icon` property, is defined as having the type `Image|Link`, but also shows using a list of `Image` objects (so, a collection?). It seems like the semantics for collections aren't quite right.

Just tried out the surface headphones, since I'm looking for some new over-ear headphones and, wow. They're nice. Also apparently really hard to get.