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2026-05-08: I realized yesterday, I haven't left town in like, two months. Between moving and settling in and all that, I just haven't had the time or opportunity. I need to go out to a lake or something this weekend if weather permits.
Oh! Also! One really fun gift one of my friends gave me last weekend:
I greet people with "Howdy!" often enough that it tracks! I think I'll be putting this over my washer and dryer or something. This isn't the exact item, and mine isn't anywhere near this big. It's like, 3.5 feet wide. They also got me a little goose planter!
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2026-05-05: How the heck am i still writing "2025" on new blog posts in May?!?!?
Also, spent yesterday with a DEFCON 5 sinus headache. Still not feeling amazing but better than I was. Probably allergies. I hope it's allergies at least.
I also introduced a friend of a friend to Neocities! He apparently expressed an interest in the Indie Web to our mutual, who put us in contact with one another. Turns out, he ran across Onio's webbed site and youtube video about the Indie Web and wanted to check it out for himself. Small world!
Some advice he wanted was outside my wheelhouse. I keep things very simple since scope creep would quickly cripple my site. I don't have anywhere near the JavaScript and other coding knowledge needed to add fancy widgets and things to it without things breaking and me not being able to figure out a solution. I'd quit having fun with it if that got too overwhelming. Text, links, images and the occasional embedded video is about all I need for blogging and reviewing and shortform writing. That's sufficient for now.
Still no movement from my friend looking to switch to Linux. He's gonna need a three-day weekend to really sink his teeth into it. I'm hoping my advice is helpful and the process turns out pretty painless.
Playoff Basketball is back! My OKC Thunder have made it past the first round and are taking on a twilight-years LeBron James and the LA Lakers. Gonna see what kind of watch parties are going on in my area these next couple weeks. And if all else fails, I have a couple friends and a coworker I wouldn't mind hosting for a game or two. Ain't no way I'm going to a game unless someone else buys tickets though. They're gonna be expensive, my finances still need to recover from moving, and *jestures broadly at everything* things are kinda wack right now.
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2026-05-03: The housewarming party was good. Got the chance to catch up and celebrate this new chapter with my frens. I've got some cleaning up to do tomorrow.
I also got Bazzite set up on my gaming PC. I initially planned on putting one of my friends onto Fedora but he's not in a spot to give a ton of time to troubleshooting his computer. So, a pretty fool-proof gaming setup with a lot of stuff pre-configured will be a comfortable landing spot. He can spend a few months on it and try other things down the road.
Thing is, I never really used it. I ran into issues with how it keeps system files locked down. This kept me from installing my preferred VPN client, and I was too inexperienced and easily frustrated to get a manual VPN connection working. This time around, I got it figured out though! I'll use this for a few weeks in advance of him to give him pointers. Who knows, this might just be the best fit for this machine.
Anyways, I am full of late night pizza and chocolate dessert stuff. I'm gonna get around for bed.
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2026-05-02: I've got friends coming over for a little housewarming party! Snacks and sweets are ready to go and I'll be ordering pizza for dinner. We'll play some board games and some party games on console before we put a movie on. Really looking forward to a full house with some of my all-time favorite people.
Also, heads up to any followers using Linux. There was an exploit reported a few days ago in the kernel that has had system admin and cybersecurity folks scrambling. Basically, someone discovered a 9-year-old bug that violates normal admin privileges and permissions, allowing any user to get admin access with a tiny little Python script. The bad actor would need to have a degree of access to your machine (and both the knowledge and intent to do it,) so your average home Linux user isn't the main target. It's a real headache for folks running servers and stuff though for sure.
Regardless, update your computer ASAP. If you're a linux user using any remotely mainstream distro (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE), Those updates should have dropped in the last couple days. This all hit around the time Fedora released their latest version, so I imagine that was a part of their day-one updates if it wasn't already taken care of before release.
For a more detailed explanation, here's a video from a tech youtuber who can explain the nuts and bolts far better than I can:
Incidentally, this is one instance of analytical AI uncovering serious security holes in computing and networking. While I'm a vocal AI skeptic, I do appreciate this particular implementation of the technology, scouring code and finding exploits that a knowlegable person can dig deeper into. The obvious worry is that, for all the cybersecurity experts who are using these tools to patch things up, there are surely others trying to take advantage of exploits before they're discovered by others. This arms race has been going on for about as long as computer networking has been a thing.
Anyways, safe surfing everyone! Have a great weekend.