Mike Stone

Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon

No Available Internet

October 23, 2024

Well, that’s not exactly true, but close enough.

I’m sitting here, and there’s a guest WiFi hotspot here. I pull out my laptop and connect to it like a blithering idiot connecting to random hotspots with no concern for my security. Does it work? Well, kinda?

I can’t tell how fast the connection is. It won’t connect to anything on the web. I was able to pull down the repo that drives my web site, so I’m thinking that I’ll actually be able to publish this when I’m done typing it. I tried doing some brief updates to the system, and some of it work, but not all of it.

This kind of harkens back to my earlier post about how my computer is virtually all web based applications. I have a computer here, and I could be doing all kinds of things, but none of those things are installed. Instead, I find myself complaining in a blog post written in vim.

At least there’s vim. vim always works, no matter where you are. Thanks vim.

Day 26 of the #100DaysToOffload Series.

Offline Life

October 18, 2024

It’s been a while since I’ve put up a post. This isn’t going to be good for my 100 Days challenge since there are only so many days left in 2024, but there has just been things going on.

Failure Can Be Good

September 20, 2024

I think most of us have it in our head that failure is a bad thing. It’s understandable considering how we normally define failure. Failure is “not succeeding”, but sometimes not succeeding is just as good as succeeding.

The Nightmares Have Begun

September 17, 2024

I mentioned a couple days ago that I’d started my first class for this semester. I’ve barely begun, and we’re back to the same old nightmares.

A New Semester Begins

September 15, 2024

I was hoping to drag out a little bit more free time between college classes, but I also wanted to finish up two classes back to back before the end of the year. Unfortunately, time was working against me. If I wanted two 8 week courses done by December 31st, I had to get going now. So, tomorrow it begins.

Progress Report

September 13, 2024

On the 16th of August, I started up a new 100 Days to Offload challenge. So, how are things going?

emacs.ch Is Shutting Down

September 12, 2024

This isn’t a new development, but it’s something that I only learned today. The Mastodon instance emacs.ch is shutting down as of December 9th, 2024.

On Apple And Google

September 10, 2024

Today was not a great day if you’re Apple or Google. Today Europe’s top court ruled against both companies in fines they were appealing. In theory, this would mean Apple would owe over $14 billion dollars and Google almost $3 billion. The big question for me is, does this really matter?

A Little Wider Please

September 9, 2024

This will come as no surprise to people who know me, but I spend a lot of time on Fosstodon. It’s virtually a second job for me. As one of the two founders of the instance (along with Kev), that’s probably expected. Because I spend so much time there and I keep an eye on so much stuff, I don’t like to hop around between screens. I want to have a lot of stuff on the screen at the same time. To accomplish that, I use Mastodon’s advanced web interface. It allows me to put many different feeds on the screen at the same time, similar to how TweetDeck used to work in the old days. My only real day to day complaint is the columns aren’t wide enough. I want a lot of information on my screen, but I would prefer my columns to be just a little wider please.

The Joys of Aging

September 7, 2024

My eldest had their first sporting event of the year on Thursday. Since they’ve started high school, I’ve tried to volunteer where I can. This year my I can really feel my age.