Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@yaelwrites "People who like cool things."

My next ⁨#weaving⁩ project is a ~3'x5' Rep weave rug. It will be the widest project I've done and will max out my loom's width. I had to buy more heddles to handle the 880 warp ends. I also had to convert the metric pattern to Imperial, and convert to the 5/2 cotton I'm using. ⁨

Drones with tasers, what could go wrong? #thisisfine https://investor.axon.com/2022-06-02-Axon-Announces-TASER-Drone-Development-to-Address-Mass-Shootings

It was an phosh machine, it kept my data clean
It was the best Deb smartphone that I ever seen
It had M.2 Redpine, givin' me WiFis
Knockin' it out with a switch on the side
Using all free software, so the code could be shared
I wanted to GNOME, and it was already there
Cause the phone start shaking, suspend was waking
The call was taken, and devs were making it

And you, swiped it all night long
Yeah you, swiped it all night long.

Someone in chat challenged me to write a parody based on swiping the #Librem5 "all night long". Challenge accepted:

@th I very much want a draw loom, along with the space to house it. Some day.

There is a #weaving saying: "Don't tie a knot when a bow will do." The idea of thinking through a process, and spending some time now to save more time later applies to so many areas of life.

To ship #Qubes 4.0.4 pre-installed on @purism computers, I modified Anaconda scripts on our Qubes OEM installer to support changing #LUKS passwords at first boot. It took *way* more effort than I expected to port these changes to Qubes 4.1. https://puri.sm/posts/qubes-4-1-now-available-for-pre-install/

Somehow, even after a lot of stirring, and waiting many minutes before eating my oatmeal, I still manage to burn my tongue in some minor way most days. #breakfast

Yankee craft brewers
Are always earning scratch
Because brewers in America
Use seven hops a batch

Never mind the other types
Of beers a brewer could make
They'll just add some fruit or haze
Or say this one's really dank

I'm so bored with the IPA
I'm so bored with the IPA
But what can I do?

(Apologies to The Clash)

Yankee brewer
He wanna make some ale
He tried in California
But now it's all that he can sell

Yankee dollar talk
To the cicerones picking suds
In fact it's giving orders
And they can't afford to filter trub

I'm so bored with the IPA
I'm so bored with the IPA
But what can I do?

@Wildbill Didn't they close a stretch of it again due to a mudslide? I don't know if my dream of driving the Ghia all the way down 1 will ever materialize.

@Wildbill The Ghia tops out at 70 (75 if going downhill, probably 60 up the grapevine) so I can only imagine all the cars flying past me on 5.

@Wildbill I'm planning on driving, if you want to car pool, but I was going to drive up Friday and drive home Sunday evening

I (finally) booked my hotel for SoCAl Linux Expo 19x in July. I'll be speaking about the OpenSnitch desktop firewall. Hope to see you there! https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/presentations/snitching-apps-snitch-you #security #linux #scale19x

@ajmartinez@fosstodon.org It depends on how far you want to go with everything being free. If you can stomach that those cheap PoE cameras run a blend of FOSS and proprietary code, you can get by with those on a private PoE switch connected to a separate port on a computer that doesn't act as a router, running zoneminder.

Keeps that whole potentially untrusted network off the Internet where any questionable bits you can't inspect might phone home.

Update: I'm looking forward to this clock winding down. I might replace the movement with a modern, quiet, battery-powered one though if I can do it in a reversible, non-destructive way.