site updates

Just a quick update. Have moved the Neocities Uploader Script (NUsh) git repository from GitHub/GitLab to Codeberg. This is in part due to the Github Copilot debacle – a slurry of copyright infringement, breach of licenses and code-washing – and me deciding I don’t enjoy the GitLab user experience. Not to mention that Codeberg seems like a great endevour for the FOSS community. So all git repo links on the site should now point to Codeberg – should anyone find one that does not, please feel free to reach out via email or over Mastodon....

With everything going on with the world today, it seemed like a good a time as any to sit down and cancel unused domains and services from around the net in an attempt to shore up the bank account (a half filled sandbag should be enough, right? … Right?) I stumbled onto something unexpected. Some years ago I paid a small sum to get 25GB of storage on a far away server....

Roughly six months ago, after three years of part time/no-time/some-time work in the mountains, a random meeting lead to an amazing opportunity. A path towards a career as a Linux systems administrator. To cut a long story short, my new employer was looking for nerds and geeks living in the mountains that were interested in working as IT potatoes. Though I currently lack any official certifications, I was given a chance....

[Ed.2022-03-07: found an ancient backup in an online hole-in-the-wall, so have managed to recover some of the content!] As mentioned in the description, a few days ago the microSD card that serves as my hard drive snapped in half, and the USB I was using to backup my encryption keys broke. In other words, I have lost the entire documents folder of my computer. All things I have written for the past year....