You don't have to take my word for it, go to https://whitepaperbooks.com and see for yourself

Another post liberated from Mastodon: "We're interoperable, so you can be sovereign. Digitally sovereign communications require open standards and interoperability: the freedom to pick and mix backend components, and the ability for separate deployments to federate and communicate on your terms. That's why we build on Matrix - the decentralised open standard no single vendor can own, control or shut down." https://element.io/blog/were-interoperable-so-you-can-be-sovereign/ Original source: https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/116883217004449409

They were a good website when they let people browse for and buy books.

"Private companies imprisoning customers to wait for the police feels so dystopian" https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/waymo-teens-drinking-shooting-objects-san-mateo/4110140/ Stolen from Mastodon. Original post: https://infosec.exchange/@iagox86/116887057051284561

requires a password to see if they have the book people want to buy?

Any normal sysadmin would just manually run commands to upgrade a VM from Debian 12 to 13. No me. I'm going to move slower and use this opportunity to safely test my backup and restore process. It's more work, but I earn more peace of mind as a result. Some people are just built differently.

The video was very illustrative. In many ways, I've got a much easier situation. A rain barrel that already filters out sticks & leaves, a fall in elevation instead of a rise, and not nearly that much distance to cover. On the flip side, I need to make sure I don't run the pump too long each day, or I'll run the rain barrel dry. I need to figure out how I'm going to split the water lines so we can use the rain barrel for things other than this pump/drip irrigation system. My pump isn't submersible, so I need to keep it dry.

That's fine. It's still fun to talk shop. Around 2009 I put Linux on a laptop of our property manager. I was renting a house woth some friends and she knew we were good with computers. She brought in a virus infected Windows machine and got it back with Linux and wobbly windows (for those who remember when that was all the rage). We showed her how to download games from the apt store (using the GUI interface) and she thought it was just the best thing ever. She'd thank us nearly every time we saw her after that. My point is, it wasn't some fancy advanced project tweaking server setting and being the first person to make two particular packages to work together or whatever. It was just a basic install and basic setup. But it made a real difference in someone's life. That's a new laptop she didn't have to buy, and a delay of laptop becoming e-waste. All hardware dies eventually, but slowing down the stream of waste is still valuable. If you can inspire people to give it a go, or do this kind of thing for a family member or friend, maybe it's worth hanging around on ActivityPub & nostr? Just some food for thought. In any case, you should do what's right for you. If social media is draining, I say bail on it and don't look back. ❤️

It is a tedious to separate each individual seed from one another so it can dry out and not be a huge clump, but these blondköpfchen tomatoes are totally worth that level of effort. They're like candy. In fact, when we get a bumper crop, we'll slice some in half and dehydrate them into a snack. No added sugar or spice. Just tomato. One ingredient. That's the kind of thing my family likes.

came through for me again at Steak & Shake. 40K sats in value, 21 sats in fees. Nice.

Ah, I see, so you're on the "innovation" side of the fence. 😆 I do admit, it was fun to read about this loophole being exploited. https://medium.com/@omkunalsharma/the-f1-loophole-chronicles-9eeea437f628 That's the troubke with writing rules. Specifying all the details leads to this, while the intent makes them subjective.

I heard everyone cheats in F1 racing. Is it true?

The art of collecting seeds

The secret to getting them to be nice and fluffy is to leave the butter and cream cheese out for 2+ hours to soften. Trying to beat it together when it's too stiff will result in denser clouds, which is okay, but inferior IMO.

Here's what they look like after being dished out.

How do I use 's vanilla bean paste? Today I used it in cream cheese clouds. 1 lb butter, softened 1 lb cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup powdered swerve 4 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract Wisk them together with the stand mixer, starting slow and working up to max speed for 1 minute. Plop onto a cookie sheet in 1 Tbsp chunks, and freeze for an hour. They're done. Box 'em and put them in the fridge or freezer.

Proof of work: 1.25 lbs of black raspberries. Homegrown and hand picked. Fun fact: strawberries are apparently way more dense than black raspberries, which I was extremely surprised to learn!

I have used BlueWallet in the past and that's been pretty well most of the time. It wasn't 100% reliable, but when it failed, I had a backup plan: coinos (custodial, web-based) and that worked. Had that also failed, I would have paid in cash, which is the ultimate failesafe. 😝

The only good review is an honest review. I tried to use wallet to pay at Steak 'n' Shake today. It did not go smoothly, but that may be my fault, at least in part. First, it failed. I manually bumped up the fee and retried. It failed again. A third time, this time also selecting the first hop. It acted like it was going to work, but just hung at the sending screen. The cash register timed out, then Zeus timed out. I tried again from the register, scanned the new QR code, selected the first hop, cranked the fee way up, and it sailed through exactly as I'd have liked to have seen the first time. In the end, I believe the core issue was the default fee being too low. I just checked my settings and it was set to 0 sats, 0%, so it looks like these failures may have been my fault. I've adjusted these to reasonable numbers and will continue to report back as I use the wallet with real world transactions. Shout out to for putting in the work and helping people on social media when they have issues. 🤙

Those things grow incredibly well here. You won't be sorry.