Notices by Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org), page 4

Someone has eliminated the mole.

#wildlife #animals #moles #death #riplittlebuddy

First time growing potatoes. So far, so good.

#gardening #plants #vegetables #potatoes

I planted six "Sweet Berry" (which are presumably sweet) and a variety that's supposed to produce large berries that I've already forgotten the name of. Snipped off all of the dead leaves, flowers and baby strawberries and popped them in. Just in time for rain 👍

#gardening #strawberries #diy #plants

On a whim this afternoon I built a small raised bed for strawberries. I used some old concrete blocks, cardboard, rotting logs, sticks, soild from some old planters, half-rotten hay and composted chicken bedding. All stuff I had lying around already, except for a light top dressing with bagged soil. Now I just need the plants and some straw mulch.

#gardening #plants #diy

Speaking of #Denver I got a chance to check out the local #MeowWolf #art installation, which was pretty incredible. It was the first one I've been to but now I want to see the rest. I've included photos, but it's really hard to convey with pictures. It's an experience. You kind of have to be there. 10/10 recommend.

Speaking of in-place upgrades, I recently returned from #RedHat Summit in Denver, #Colorado where I picked up a bunch of cool tricks with #Ansible, including some RedHat-supported playbooks that can pretty reliably upgrade #RHEL 7 to RHEL 8. This will make my work life much less miserable :)

#linux #joys

Since #debian 11 is nearing EOL I was looking into what it would take to update my router. I was pleased to see that #unifi has sorted out whatever licensing issues they had with #mongodb and now support versions greater than 3.6. Sadly, the newest version of mongodb supported in debian 12 is 5.0 which also happens to require #avx extensions which my older Celeron CPU doesn't have. So, it looks like I'll have to invest in new hardware. I guess on the bright side I can keep the old box around as-is as an emergency spare and start the new one from a fresh install instead of crossing my fingers and doing an in-place upgrade.

#linux #woes

I updated to Fedora 40, which now includes KDE 6 and along with it a native Matrix client called NeoChat. I played with it for a bit, and it seems to have most of the features I'm used to from Element (including some cool extras like user-defined emoji). However, it won't decrypt any messages in rooms from before I first signed in with it, which kind of sucks. I guess I'll check back on it in a few months and see how it's progressed.

#fedora #fedoralinux #linux #kde #kde6 #matrix #element #neochat

https://youtu.be/5h4P-26kHAw

This looks like something.

#film #movies #comedy #slapstick #blackandwhite

I saw Heilung this week on their US tour, and it was perhaps one of the best live performances I've ever seen. It was so much more than I expected.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

https://youtu.be/9PFz9FQsU8w

#heilung #music #folk #performance #art

I picked up Pacific Drive last week and I've been having a lot of fun with it. In a lot of ways it reminds me of The Long Dark, but much more light-hearted and less of a cruel grind.

The game starts you with perhaps the shittiest station wagon known to human kind, but you get to upgrade and customize it to your liking in play. This is a photo of the current state of my ride.The glow in the dark decals make it easy to find in the dark :D

#pacificdrive #games #videogames #ps5

Headed to Denver, Colorado next month to attend RedHat Summit, but I'll have free time in the evenings to check out the city. I already plan to visit Meow Wolf if I can. Any other recommendations?

#travel #denver #colorado #usa #meowwolf

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/red-hat-warns-of-backdoor-in-xz-tools-used-by-most-linux-distros/

#linux #xz #backdoor #security

I've been plugging away at #Returnal since January of last year (with a long-ish Hiatus to play through Baldur's Gate 3 twice), but today I finally beat it. I only died 260 times!

#games #videogames #playstation #ps5

Someone with no public posts and a suspect profile pic has been like-bombing my posts. Is this happening to anyone else?

#humor #trish

On a more positive note I watched Poor Things yesterday and it was fantastic. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I watched Netflix's 3 Body Problem over two days. It was definitely competent enough to be watchable, but the more I think back on it the less I like it. I haven't read the books, so it's hard to separate some of the flaws in the adaptation from flaws in the source material. Since it was adapted by the Game of Thrones team, it's probably safe to assume it was mostly the former.

One of my main criticisms is that it seemed to introduce a lot of different ideas but only very shallowly, which I am going to assume is book -> TV lossiness, but when you do that this aggressively I feel like it makes the whole thing seem like a messy pile of absurdity. Another issue is that it seems like this world-ending threat can only be solved by a small handful of people who just happen to all know each other already, though (paradoxically) several of them basically do nothing productive until the very end, as obvious set-ups for a sequel. The most egregious issue that I can probably safely blame on the book is the whole Panama Canal thing, which seems like an indulgent excuse to use a "neat" sci-fi concept, but is so over the top and absurd that it could only exist in (bad) fiction.

OK, rant over I guess. If you've read the book(s) let me know that you think.

#netflix #threebodyproblem #cixinliu #scifi #tv

https://youtu.be/tXLoP9iSU5Y

#otyken #siberian #music

https://youtu.be/GyxSvZOby54

#hocuspocus #focus #music