I’d be genuinely shocked if there was no overlap between Fediverse users and TCM…

Red House by Sarah Messer

In her critically acclaimed, ingenious memoir, Sarah Messer explores America’s fascination with history, family, and Great Houses. Her Massachusetts childhood home had sheltered the Hatch family for 325 years when her parents bought it in 1965. The will of the house’s original owner, Walter Hatch—which stipulated Red House was to be passed down, “never to be sold or mortgaged from my children and grandchildren forever”—still hung in the living room. In Red House, Messer explores the strange and enriching consequences of growing up with another family’s birthright. Answering the riddle of when shelter becomes first a home and then an identity, Messer has created a classic exploration of heritage, community, and the role architecture plays in our national identity.

I recently found this book at a book store in Vermont while on a road trip and I’ve absolutely fallen in love with it.

Yeah, neither is great. Needs to be called something like “Employee Business Relations” maybe?

Don’t get back together with her and don’t fucking stay with her into college. She’ll just break up with you, again, at Disney… again.

Boundaries. Establish them and defend them with every ounce of your being. If you don’t, most employers will grind you in to the dirt and send you out to pasture when you eventually crack under the pressure. Better to establish healthy boundaries up front. Not only will you find yourself more frequently surrounded by people you like and share mutual respect with, you will be happier and land fewer “shit” jobs because employers looking for people to send to the meat grinder will see that they can’t grind you down and you’ll be filtered from the hiring pool before you ever have to suffer at their hands.

100%. The rebranding of some HR departments as “People Officers” or “People Team” drives me bonkers. When push comes to shove, they will always protect the interests of the business before the interests of the employee. Full stop.

If I know the kids and they know me well enough that they call me “uncle”, then yes.

This is something I struggle with too. On the one hand, I don’t want to say all instances are bad but there exists, definitely in Asian countries, sex work that caters specifically to ethnically based fetishes. On the one hand, fine, whatever gets your jimmy’s off as long as it’s consensual but I also think that these are often going to result in more exploitative environments when they occur in lower income areas.

I’ll answer with a simple test. Do the following first on your phone and then on a piece of paper:

Design a thing, something physical; a box, a house, a chair, whatever. In addition to the diagram, this note must include a description of the item, the bill of materials, the dimensions and, if applicable, assembly instructions that you could confidently hand to someone else and have them follow. Ideally, you should include the dimensions of the object directly on the sketch itself.

Now give this to someone and see how accurately they can reproduce the item while you go off and make a phone call.

Yes! I saw his channel mentioned by others so I chose to leave it off my list but that channel is a true gem!

The majority of the content I consume comes from YouTube these days. Here are a couple of my favorite channels:

• Usagi Electric - old computers and vacuum tubes
• Diesel Creek - big equipment restoration and salvage
• Robot Cantina - silly car projects
• Look Mum, No Computer - analog synth madness
• RCTestFlight - RC cars, drones, etc.
• Project Air - experimental RC stuff
• BPS.Space - Amateur Rocketry
• Tasting History - Food history
• Tokyo Lens - exploring and discovery in Tokyo
• Integza - mad science stuff
• Jeff Geerling - Raspberry Pis etc.
• Nile Red - backyard chemistry
• Studson Studio - making models from garbage
• Mr. Chickadee - super chill, traditional woodworking

I have away more niche channels too for bicycles, retro computing and model building. Just too many to list here unless someone’s interested. I can make a list for a particular niche.

And before that, sites got slash dotted

I don’t even know where to start with this one…

There’s the “car wash and bistro”… yeah, they’re definitely serving more than just food in there

There’s the “carnival sweets and treats” that’s got no street sign or sign of any kind, for that matter, tucked in next to a coin laundry. It’s just some lady making funnel cakes, deep fried Oreos and other “carnival food”. As an added bonus, they have free arcade machines out front for you to play while you wait… yeah, I’m sure they bought those with all the money they’re raking in from fried dough…

I’ve got more but these are the two top fronts in my area for sure.

Holy cow, that’s absolutely wild! There are a handful of female heavy metal vocalists I follow who do a similar things to this and the contrast between clear singing voices and their growls is just something special. Eg. Kasey Karlsen

Juliana Chahayed

This post is obviously trolling, but if they’re not then OP you’re an addict and your GF is right to leave you. She’s better off finding someone who isn’t going to smoke themselves to death and saddle her with crippling medical debt when you inevitably get cancer and die a slow and horrible death, drowning in all the tar you coated your lungs with.

Have used both Zabbix and Prometheus for this. Highly recommend Prometheus over Zabbix if you can afford the time to learn it. It’s a bit weird at first but it’s so much easier to extend and manage then Zabbix in my experience.

You will need to set up Grafana to go along with Prometheus. But, again, it’s so flexible that you will end up being happier with it.

I also can’t recommend greylisting enough. If you haven’t already enabled it in postfix I strongly suggest doing so. It’s one of the easiest ways to reduce spam. By simply bouncing emails from new sources the first time and forcing them to retry, it cut my spam tremedously.

I have my mail server set up as a catch all so you can send to anything at my domain and it’ll land in my inbox. I use this to create usage specific addresses. If it’s something I know will produce spam, I just dev null anything going to that address. I can then also track where a spam source originated. For friends and family who email me regularly; they also know to append the current year to my email address, this allows me to rotate my email address every year.

I also run spam assassin and implement greylisting as well as blocking IP ranges from countries I know I’ll never receive legitimate mail from… it’s been an evolution.

100%. I’ve been running my own mail server for 10-15 years now and you’re spot on. I’ve wanted to migrate it to a more modern platform but I’m loath to relive the process of configuring postfix and dovecot. DKIM/SPF and Let’s Encrypt certs for IMAPS were also a bit of a headache to get sorted, and warming up the sending IP so gmail would stop sending me to spam… but once that’s all sorted it’s been very very hands off. I log in once in a blue moon to update it but otherwise it just sits and does it’s thing.