Trying to hit my website, get a PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR error on the HTTPS connection attempt that wasn't happening yesterday. Connect to a VPN, the site works.
I sigh and narrow my eyes at ISP - though, it could be some fuckery somewhere inside the house that will remind me I hate computers
@pandora_parrot @joelle Yeah, it's weird. All the big services were a long-distance call when I was a kid, so I never really got into them. I got my start in computer-mediated-socializing on dial-up BBSes run by individuals literally out of bedrooms.
Some sysops were adults, some were kids at school. Almost anyone could start one up as long as they could afford the computer & phone line. Not an insignificant barrier, but not entirely inaccessible.
When I eventually got on the Internet proper, folks were doing much the same thing with usenet and little web sites on university servers and eventually blogs. My first job out of college was at one of those tiny regional ISPs. It's been really grumpy-making to see all that consolidate back into a few silos.
Wait... The Onion bought Infowars? And this is not, itself, a story from The Onion?
https://apnews.com/article/onion-buys-infowars-alex-jones-6496f198d141c991087dcd937b3588e9
@catsalad (fetches and loads a shotgun with salt shells)
@evan Yeah, alas, I think API changes on X's side have hamstrung them. I remember there was one that was a browser extension that would auto-navigate through pages on X, but I think that got folks hitting rate limits and account bans
@fasterthanlime Awesome, I've never seen them live!
@thegibson Yeah, it's weird, like it seems like an architecture that convinces a bunch of folks to self-host a decent chunk of the system just to funnel all the stuff up into giant sky hoovers that do the end-user things.
Wendy Carlos is rad. Happy Birthday!
Shower thought: I don't think there's a single room of my house devoid of books. Every room, there's books.
Oh, wait: ironically we don't have books in the bathrooms. Every other room, there's books.
(which is weird, because I grew up with a huge stack of Readers' Digest on the back of the toilet at my parents' house. but water & steam fuck up books, so we don't keep them in there)
I wonder how many folks kept reading material in bathrooms when I was a kid as a throwback habit to when they had outhouses and no toilet paper growing up? 🤔
(I don't think I'm really that old, but my kid-hood did overlap with older relatives who'd had outhouses at some point in their kid-hoods)
