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  @andyc@mastodon.me.uk I'm watching it very closely! :)

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  @andyc@mastodon.me.uk @stefano @andy Uh-oh! @jack (https://social.baty.net)

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  @andyc@mastodon.me.uk I'll need to let this burn in for a bit before deciding whether to make it my One True Identity

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  @andyc@mastodon.me.uk @stefano I'm less concerned about the single-user instance thing as I was, since I'm trying to reel in my social media addiction, while still publishing and following enough folks to make it interesting. And yeah BSSG is pretty great, too.

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  There's always something interesting in @82mhz link dumps: https://82mhz.net/posts/2026/10/linkdump-no-127/

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  John Paul Jones' bass in "The Lemon Song". My god. #Vinyl #LedZeppelin

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  "I'm not aloud to sing in the house" 😆

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  The Smith Corona Standard (1934) was returned to me after an overdue CLA. It's such a beautiful machine that now works as good as it looks. And of course with a typewritten receipt :)

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  Sunday morning waffling https://baty.net/posts/2026/10/my-brain-on-a-sunday-morning/ #Linux #Emacs

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  I couldn't help but install an instance of the new #littleFedi ActivityPub server. It's at https://social.baty.net/. Now what? I don't dare migrate followers yet, so for the moment I have 2 ActivityPub identities 🙄. littleFedi has a static blog generator built in, so I tested that by copying a post from yesterday. I picked the most playful theme, for a change. https://social.baty.net/@jack/blog/2026/10/04/littlefedi/. Anyway, I like it, but still noodling over what to do with it. Cou...

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  An 8 TB drive attached to my Mac Mini is failing. A replacement costs $329.99. I paid $180 for the same drive less than 2 years ago. The whole "Storage is expensive now!" thing is kind of abstract until you actually need some storage.

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  OK, so I'm in the mood to migrate my identity to the new #littlefedi instance. I can do the official migration so that all followers move automatically. Or, I can just pin something here that says, "Hey, I'm over there now..." and let everyone re-evaluate following me on the new instance. I can't decide. Maybe a poll will help?

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  I made a contact print of the (found) negative that I pulled my avatar from and keep it pinned to the board behind my desk. Makes me smile every time I look at it.

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  "Hey Siri, what is half of two thirds?" is something I just said.

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  The new issue of County Highway arrived. I started an article on the cover and it said, "continued on page 14" so I turned to page 14 and almost passed out. More evidence that my attention span is shit.

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  The little Kodak Charmera doesn't handle highlights too well.

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  Neal Stephenson: Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain - Here's how to do it (https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your): About twenty-five years ago I stopped composing at the keyboard and switched over to fountain pen on paper. Since then I have written many thousands of pages that way. The manuscript of The Baroque Cycle was a stack of handwritten pages 42 inches high. Good lord, how cool is that? As a fountain pen using, hand-writing sort, I found this to...

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  I haven't finished a roll of film in weeks. This morning I ran across this photo from 2016, when I /was/ shooting a lot of film. What a trove! #FilmPhotography

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  RapidRAW just keeps getting better and better. And quickly. https://www.getrapidraw.com

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  My "Let's shoot and edit 8mm film" period was fun, but short-lived.

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  Game over. Leica MP. Mandler 35mm. HP5 #FilmPhotography

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  Just last week I ran into a photo in which my computer screen was running AIM and it made me all nostalgic. And then today: https://veronicaexplains.net/open-oscar-server/ 🤔

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  I hated this record when I first heard it, what, 45 years ago. It's grown on me since then. I'm not the biggest Scorpions fan, but you can tell they'd figured out who they wanted to be with this one. #NowPlaying #Vinyl

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  Ben Thompson, Stratechery: I think digital ads, particularly Meta-style ads that introduce you to things you never knew you wanted, a societal good. Thompson's and my worldviews continue to diverge.

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  Pretending to use the Crown Graphic while taking a self-portrait using the Linhof Master Technika.

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  The battery life of this writerdeck is amazing!

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  Accidentally middle-clicked the network widget on the panel (KDE) and it enabled Airplane Mode, which also disables Bluetooth, which rendered my mouse inoperative, which prevented me from disabling Airplane mode. I found the way to reverse this using a terminal. ~ ❱ nmcli radio all on ~ ❱ bluetoothctl power on It seems like there should be a way to toggle this using the Settings GUI (without using the mouse), but I can't find anything related to Airplane Mode.

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  I love science and space flight as much as the next boomer, but my attitude has changed over the past decade. Now, when some billionaire's rocket "experiences an anomaly", I cheer a little.

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  I chose Pika Backup (https://apps.gnome.org/PikaBackup/) for backups on Linux because it's very basic and simple to use, which is at least as important as features. Anyway, I somehow stepped on May's org-journal file and was able to browse the backups and quickly restore an earlier version. So, Pika Backup passed it's first real test for me. Nice.

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  This might be my favorite part about using fountain pens. Inks: iroshizuku shin-kai in the Lamy 2000. It's a beautiful blue. Noodler's Bernanke Blue in the Pilot Custom 823. The Pilot has a juicy nib so, being left-handed, I need a quick drying ink.