The spirit of Christmas.

#humour #memes #Christmas

Phishing scams are wild.

So competent that the plain/text part has no link.

> The Church of Odin will mount a lawsuit to put an end to Santa Claus, who they claim is an insulting parody of their God Odin the All Father, the real Father of Jul.

public.monster/~dmytri/odin-is…

How does Alberta's COVID-19 vaccination rate compare to other provinces? We asked

cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/how…

I'm sure that Quebec has pretty bad numbers too because of that piece of shit of Dubé (and Legault). $180 is the cost, and most no-choice-of-private-insurance don't cover it either.

#polqc #qcpoli

Before heading to the Hill Country to spend Christmas with my grandparents, I stayed up a little too late packing and writing. This post is a quiet reflection on the past year, family, and trying to slow down even when I am not very good at it.

taylorarndt.substack.com/p/pac…

Merry Christmas to those celebrating. Wishing you a gentle day.

#Christmas #Family #Reflection

Packing Bags and Packing Thoughts

^{Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)}

I GOT A STORY TO TELL ALL OF YOU.
AND @ChrisDuffley you might like this, so i'm pinging you in.
so it's Christmas day, right? around I dont' know, 9 ni the morning, we open presents. there's a few things I got like (yes) a brand new mini PC, small yetp owerful, and gummy bears, chocolate bars. that was it.....except it wasn't!
after my sister and I (at least I thought) was done, I get told there's an extra present waiting for me. I get drove to a hill as part of our property, and what to I find?
and i'm not kidding, what you're about to hear what I found is totally real.
a 100 feet #ham radio tower. yes, I now have a ham radio tower ready to be installed and, once I get my license, used! I can't believe it! this has to be one of the best Christmases ever!!

I don't know how it was done, but now I have a 100feet ham towert!

#Goals for the year 2026

* Buy new notebook
* Leave Windows 7
* Find someone who installs @linuxmint
* Photo shoot with black/white acrylic paintings with @weberjoerg
* personalized labels at Kekila juicemaker

You will be visited by three spirits.

#DoctorWho

From all of us at HKC Radio, we wish you a Merry Christmas.

As a result of some oddities surrounding schedules, we have chosen today to let you hear music on shuffel most of the day, and at a time TBD, run the Lessons and Carols service @coasterfreak88 submitted to us, in its entirety, as it was cut due to a technical error last night.

Replays will begin late tomorrow night after Christmas unwrapped and Home Alone II.

Je tady někdo z Břeclavi, Mikulova nebo Hodonína kdo by ubytoval zítra Japonce na kole? Jede směr Vídeň tak hledáme teď jak dojet a kde přespat.

#bikepacking #biketouring

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For Christmas, I got an Omega Engineering talking multimeter... I have one, but it's in storage, possibly forever, and they're damn near impossible to find at a reasonable price, if you find them at all.

Also got an Ebow for an electric guitar that I don't have, which is interesting, and an Orba2, which seems to be an odd little round thing that makes musical noises.

I had an Ebow, but lost it when I moved to New York.

"lightweight" and "electron" in the same sentence (pertaining to software)

My ironymeter needs fixing.

🌈 found on public.monster 🌈

Cool home page tkb0iz!! ❤️

public.monster/~tkb0iz/

public.monster

Remember when the web was fun? Upload your HTML and go live instantly.

^{public.monster}

I'm never quite sure whether Advent should run 24 or 25 days, so if you're of the "24" persuasion, consider today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent a bonus 🙂

Today it's rss2email¹, which is I read my RSS feeds². I prefer to read my RSS via email for a number of reasons:

• I don't need to learn Yet Another Set of Keyboard Bindings because I already know my MUA's key-bindings

• I can use any standards-compliant MUA to read my RSS feeds, whether I have them delivered to my mbox file and read with mail(1), or delivered to my normal mail account and read them via mutt/neomutt/Claws/Thunderbird/whatever

• I have offline access via OfflineIMAP/mbsync and any changes (deleting entries, read-status, flagging, stars, tags, filing, etc) gets synced back up to my server, even across multiple machines

• I have all the filtering power of my MUA

• plenty of utilities also speak IMAP, so I can write scripts to (post-)process my RSS feed too

• sharing an interesting article with friends is as simple as forwarding an email

• my backup process for email also automatically backs up my RSS feeds too

• because it runs from cron(8) on a schedule I establish, I have more control of my distractions (I usually run it around 4am gathering feeds for me to read with breakfast). I found if it ran hourly or even multiple times per day, I'd get sucked into constantly checking to see if anything new/interesting had arrived

• control remains with me on my machine rather than handing my reading habits over to some 3rd party RSS reader-service

And I love RSS because it is a pull rather than a push. If I subscribe to your email newsletter, I have to trust that you'll respect my email address and not share it or lose control of it, and cutting off email subscriptions is sketchy. But with RSS? I just stop polling that feed if I'm done with it and it's gone.

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¹ github.com/wking/rss2email

² blog.thechases.com/posts/readi…

GitHub - wking/rss2email: open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email

open-source tool for Windows, Mac OS and UNIX for getting news from RSS feeds in email - wking/rss2email

^GitHub

Ich habe den Eindruck, dass Matrix weitaus problemloser läuft als XMPP.

Bei XMPP kann sich nicht jeder Client an jedem Server anmelden (ich habe diverse Clients und Server, nicht nur meinen eigenen mit ejabberd, getestet). Und auch die Kommunikation zwischen zwei Accounts funktioniert manchmal gar nicht, manchmal nur in eine Richtung und irgendwie nur selten problemlos. Auch da wieder stark abhängig vom Client.

Ein Problem mit meinem Server mag sein, dass er unter einer Subdomain (xmpp.example.com) läuft. Ich mutmaße, dass nicht jeder Server bzw. Client damit zurechtkommt. Zwischen meinem Server und dem von Mailbox.org klappt jedenfalls gar nichts. Aber ich habe noch nicht einmal eine Möglichkeit gefunden, für Mailbox.org einen andeten Client als deren Web-Client zu verwenden. Ich glaube fast, die sind nur zu sich selbst kompatibel.

Manche sagen freilich auch, dass ejabberd recht eigenwillig sei.

Mit Matrix hingegen hatte ich bisher keine Probleme (auch da habe ich einen eigenen Server am Start).

#Matrix #XMPP #Jabber #ejabberd