Jeepers, the upgrade path on Mastodon from the 4.2.x to the 4.3.x is scary enough for me to consider switching to the other twitter if I fail...

Thanks USA for capping off my crap week - Alpaca died, mowed over phone, dropped/cracked new phone, now Don the Con is back...

Seamless transition for a 10-y/o WordPress site (updated of course) to https://fosstodon.org/@classicpress #overdue

Not gonna lie - that SpaceX Starship 5 launch/catch video was pretty freaking awesome - highlight reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUSWUwbjTtQ

Gosh golly, the whole Wordpress / Matt Mullenweg vs WPE thing is such a slow-motion train wreck - the number of people on HN telling Matt to "shut up" (e.g. lawyer advice) is insane: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726197

Speaking of CMS's - all this brouhaha in the WordPress space led me to discover that the only WP Trademark subl-icensee is "Newmark" and that Newmark owns a heap of known hosting solutions and even Yoast (of the SEO Plugin fame). So much #TIL in one day!

I mentioned on LinkedIn the other day about discovering that a) there's another CMS that I was unaware (Silverstripe) of, b) that CMS was based out of NZ! Now today I discovered that an analytics solution that I had used when it was known as Piwik (now known as Matomo) is also based in NZ! #enzed #knowyourtech

Trying 'Skymoth' as a cross-posting solution between Mastodon and Bluesky because #lazy https://skymoth.app/

Was somewhat vindicated to find that another intelligent being is not impressed by Victorian government schools who enforce the learning of something that is meant to be "p" and "b" but clearly are not https://www.spelfabet.com.au/2024/08/australian-school-handwriting/

https://www.nytimes.com/audio/app/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html?referringSource=sharing - informative and enjoyable listen about the state of the American penny (so much #til )

#TIL Parkinsons Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law#First_meaning) given that it's a truism with me, somewhat amazed I haven't come across it before

Decided to create a BlueSky/bsky account before the land-grab. Looking forward to federation - https://bsky.app/profile/chud.space

Many of those IoTs are "Smart Energy Plugs":
- TP-Link (Kasa/Tapo - sort that out TP-Link!)
- Meross - too big
- Eve Energy - too big
- Arlec (Tuya) - poor energy monitoring
- Aeotec (Z-Wave) - Z-wave :(

@spudooli did you not get to the 110km zones??

#oldpostcomments

@fastmail sooo close to having a reminder...

I'm teetering on the edge of 100 Internet of things at Chudfarm - it is indeed a creeping obsession.

Tonight's itch was trying to resurrect someone else's repo to get a hot-water sensor behind another 3rd-party API...

@spudooli this is now done...I think... (only took me a week)

@spudooli welcome to Victoria! Drive up to Mt Macedon area and wave, and I'll wave back!

I'm going to assume that since the seriocomic.com site existed for _some time_ without an active RSS feed, the rule around GUID (the U being Unique) can be bent...

If I assume wrong - sue me.

@spudooli whispers back "<guid isPermaLink="false"> - i'll have to break that rule...