Today's mood:

Hey everyone! #vultr just enshittified!

They re claiming ownership of all intellectual property you host on their VMs.

https://grimgreenfo.rest/notes/9rdle0uyo4d30029

Clear violation of copyright law.

[edit: muting this. I got too much to do. Like moving servers. And too many of you don't understand that contracts must be read as a hostile, abusive, manipulative party would interpret them. I've worked with too many bastards who did exactly that and got away with it. Capitalism is not polite.]

Email #sysadmin folks:

The Sieve docs say that all filtered folders are children of INBOX.

That's not how I filter my email. Most often, I create primary folders for categories like "OpenBSD," "FreeBSD," etc, then create subfolders for those.

Is the "child of inbox" thing important? Am I missing something here?

My blog now has an archive page. https://mwl.io/archives/23337

Not that anyone but me will use it.

Possibly the most useful article to appear in Low Tech Magazine.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/12/how-to-build-a-small-solar-power-system/

You've heard of Barbenheimer, but have you heard of:

Dear creators:

please, please, PLEASE set up your own web sites and distribute your work from there.

If you post your work only on Twitter and/or Reddit, it's gonna disappear. Soon.

Computers are like onions. Everything is layers built on layers, and every layer makes you cry. #sysadmin

If we've ever met in person and you've wondered "Gee, how did he get this way," I finally have a solid answer.

(source: https://www.tumblr.com/ejlandsman/135780556301/i-dont-feel-like-this-is-done-but-im-posting-it)

oh, right. Marketing. I'm supposed to do promotion and stuff here.

Ugh. Fine.

<deep breath>

"Books are cool! Buy books!"

There. Done.

I mostly agree with Kris Rusch's take on AI #writing https://kriswrites.com/2023/03/29/business-musings-ai-and-mediocre-work/