Notices by brennen (brennen@mastodon.social), page 16

@jacobcammack i'm slowly putting together some blog notes on my own progress to using fewer proprietary services and controlling more of my systems:

https://p1k3.com/topics/self-hosting/

...i'm not sure the notes are that useful except as a way for me to remember what i'm doing.

in general, it's pretty hard - actually kind of impossible - to exclusively use open systems. i'd suggest taking it bit by bit and not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. we'll get there eventually.

@acg

@artsyhonker @dartigen not the worst thought.

the other thing you might try is looking for a cheap lab pipette.

@revenant i think there's a benign subset of the community with positive memories of _the cathedral & the bazaar_ and maybe his association with publishing the mozilla code or whatever who have just kind of subsequently missed the memo on his actual nature.

(he also clearly has a population of actual fanboys, but they can generally be written off on the same grounds that one writes off esr himself.)

@dartigen ('course i could be missing some crucial fact about australian import restrictions.)

@dartigen i bought one from jetpens while ordering some other stuff: https://www.jetpens.com/JetPens-Ink-Syringe/pd/22182

that said, $2.50 is extremely marked up and it looks like you can get a 10 count pack of the same thing (look for "blunt tip needles") for less than 10 bucks if you search around. a few hundred of them would probably be _really_ cheap per each. bunch of uses - my dad used to keep 'em around for gluing tricky joints in woodworking projects, for example.

@RussSharek the wording on my post is totally confusing here, but the syringe is just for putting ink in the pen...

...though now that you say this, i'm sure you could use a syringe to apply ink to paper. probably not great for writing, but maybe interesting for some kinds of calligraphic lettering or drawing styles.

@ajroach42 cool, was just reading over on github.

taking notes with #fountainpen, run out of ink, happen to have just picked up a syringe for doing refills and decide to give it a try instead of reaching for another pen.

totally lifechanging. takes like 30 seconds, no ink anywhere on my hands.

@ajroach42 404 hrm:

curl -I http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: GitHub.com

@theword_underscoresymbol that sounds like an unpleasant way to go through life.

i've been having some luck attending more to the "soil" part and less to the "US" part.

"Is everything okay, Brennen? Take 10% Off Your Next Order!"

first few milliseconds of reading this email subject: "well now that you mention it i've been having kind of a hard time..."

remainder of experience: "oh, fuck you."

@cypnk this is relevant to my interests.

@cypnk it _looks_ cool, but i'll bet it has most of the practical downsides of a hammock:

- it's cold if the air flows all around you

- you have to find a tree

- putting your weight on trees often damages them

- did i mention cold

@ink_slinger @allan

> Windows 10 is supposed to run fast even on older hardware.

lol

@ajroach42 full disclosure: i have an "RTFM" sticker on my laptop and probably always will, a bit of a totem from an earlier situation in life and also because it remains good _advice_, as far as it goes, though a bad way to interact with people.

but i pretty much agree with this. especially in an age when everyone refuses to actually WTFM.

@Loona82 nah.