It is kinda insane though that we've had public/private keys since the internet started walking and somehow we end up with all these over-complicated or pointless ways to use them.

The only Epic Games Store games I have, I play through Heroic Launcher. In part due to lack of Linux support, but primarily because the Epic Games launcher fucking sucks.

Some nob on twitter was having a whinge about all these "woke games" that use game engines because they're too lazy/unable to code them themselves.

Godot vague-posted a response saying, "apparently game engines are woke now?" And asked people to share their "wokot games." Ensue further whingefest, complaining about discord mods, yadda yadda. Long story short, a project created out of anti-woke spite isn't one I'd rely on.

A few times since I started journalling I've reflected on how much information in a given day is lost due to it not being "interesting" enough to be written down - and - how the information that makes it through the filter of my own viewpoint could be interpreted by other people who don't live within my context.

In short: if post-apocalyptic humans have nothing other than my journal to rebuild the collective knowledge of our species... we're truly fooked. They'll know the horrors of Microsoft Teams or how friendly the bus driver was.

But for more important things, it made me really re-evaluate just how challenging the maintenance of our collective knowledge is and how as time goes on it gets harder and harder to correctly parse the original source ourselves: instead relying on the interpretations of others who had a closer frame of reference to ours - but - a lens of their own that we have to account for to.

I'm also in the market for an egg vibrator, apparently it makes for a really good breakfast if you scramble them before cracking into the pan.

There's a pretty cool write up by KittenLabs about their SolarCamPi project - it's pretty involved as far as DIY projects though, even down to stripping features out of the Raspberry Pi so it would use as little power as possible..

Awhile back I dabbled with a timelapse setup where I had a battery, GoPro and a Raspberry Pi with a 4G hat for remote monitoring - using Tailscale as the VPN - but that was never intended to run 24/7. I just set those up and accepted that they'd run for as long as they ran and then collect them.

Lots of 4G/WiFi solar security cameras around as another sort of 'all in one' solution - typically the main issue is they all want you to use their app. If you can find one with rtsp or ONVIF it's easier to make them work with whatever you want, though again you'd probably need a Raspberry Pi or something inbetween in order to create the VPN/Tailscale/WireGuard connection to keep it secure.

It's a purgatory of sorts.

• Can't sleep because I can't stop thinking.
• Been awake so long: now I'm hungry
• Have a snack, return to bed.
• Now I need to go to the bathroom.
• Return to step one.

My little brain broke when I started trying to figure out how big the number was... thanks for breaking it down even more intuitively, yeah it is way to large to have been correct!

walter is clearly saying something and is right of center framing, take this down immediately /s

I think they're winding down the project unfortunately, so I might have to get with the times...

It's a mix, I put two screenshots together. On the left is my monthly bandwidth usage from CPanel on the right is Awstats (though I hid some sections so the Robots/Spiders section was closer to the top).

It's super weird for sure. I'm not sure how the bots have managed to use so much more bandwidth with only 30k more hits than regular traffic, I guess they probably don't rely on any caching and fetch each page from scratch?

Still going through my stats, but it doesn't look like I've gotten much traffic via any API endpoint (running WordPress). I had a few wallpapers available for download and it looks like for whatever reason the bots have latched onto those.