help I am trapped
in a major corporation

This reply from mozilla re firefox's TOU is fucking unbelievable in form and content. This is a formerly technically competant individual. I am reduced to looking for the hidden message in the formatting at this point.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1099130#39

#thunderbird's ssl cerficate checking is so secure that I had to tell my dad to disable it and use cleartext

why is a new, valid certificate something they insist on confirming each time letsencrypt mints a new one?

Today starting to clear ground for my second solar field. This will be located North of House and will hold a 12 panel ballasted ground mount array, 5kw. It will also serve as a firebreak on that side of the house.

gotta say it's nice when an org, who is funding my work, picks out some items from the todo list of infinite length and says, maybe work on these

I know that sounds a bit like a job job, but sometimes it's nice to be managed just a little bit, especially in these times

(thanks, you know who you are)

Doing my weekly installation and then removal of #firefox to check if it presents the Terms of Use to new users. Like Mozilla claimed they were gonna do in their blog 1.5 months ago:

"actually asking you to acknowledge it is an important step, so we’re making it a part of the standard product experience starting in early March for new users and later this year for existing ones."

... Still no sign of the ToU on a fresh install.

Spent $18.77 charging my #EV over the past 2 months. Drove 1194 miles, so $0.016 per mile.

Knoxville TN #handsoff

yesterday I poured some soup out on the cutting board and chopped it with a knife

at least I am not dealing with this actual KYC procedure, which can only be passed by an owl

ascending to the 4th dimension will surely be needed to make this horrible selfie KYC tool finally realize my head doesn't perfectly fit within their oval due to not being exactly the shape of an oval

stuck in KYC hell and now it wants pictures of all 4 sides of my driver's license

Solar panels installed on the planters I started on Friday.

Spring, time to start a new bed in the #solar field.

Just 20 minutes with a hoe got it level. Now to start filling the planters..

zen and the art of file management

also my bike's usual parking space on the porch is full of a stack of solar panels and it got wet and chain rusted. #solarpunk

I destroyed the old wheel by riding on broken spokes during covid lockdown. Limped it along with a repair after but it was never quite right. Then didn't ride last year and the bike went fully to pot.

Early morning trip to town to drop my bike at the bike shop for a new wheel.

At a cafe updating my NASA-adjacent haskell library since a couple of students in Madrid are using it for their theses.

Brunch soon with mom and sis.

One more cloudy winter day. Car and fridge are taking turns using the available solar power.

I need to be in more backchannel type of communications. Willing to possibly even install Signal if that's what it takes.

If you know me, hook me up.

deleted my main mastodon account a few days ago in a fit of pique

it turns out the internet is pretty damn dead and/or basic outside of mastodon though

anyway, new leaf etc.

downgraded to debian stable today just to have a version of gnome which works well with #paperwm

I guess my paperwm days are on borrowed time now. And that's the problem with building something on gnome-shell, nice sand castle you have there..