Wow, over on Warpcast they made channels into a members only (by invitation) circle-jerk club. They effectively turned me into a castaway 😄 
https://warpcast.notion.site/What-changed-1056a6c0c101800caee6ea8133f8f966 

 The iPhone 13 and iOS 18 are no match made in heaven. The battery drain is real 🙄 I'm not buying a new phone, greedy bastards 😄  

 A day after installing the macOS Sequoia update on my MacBook Pro, the MacBook went to sleep, never to wake up again. What a curious coincidence 😔 

 Look at her! She's a newborn. Are there any fellow #Tor relay operators on here?  
https://m.primal.net/KLAB.png  

 Some salty script-kidde using "Krebs on Security"  as the user-agent string for their bot is rather amusing.
https://m.primal.net/KDLx.png  

 The #OpenNIC domain "paranoidpenguin.geek" will live to see another year without visitors 🤔 
https://m.primal.net/KCLh.png  

 Happy birthday to #Slackware Linux. Cheers to 31 years.
http://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php 

 So yeah, I'm never coming back to Dallas again. USA #1 baby!https://m.primal.net/JSGY.png  

 To the person who keeps filling my mailbox with handwritten letters about Jesus being the greatest gift:  I'm praying each night that Satan's coming for you 🤘 

 #Apple magical thinking: "Actually, 8GB on a MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems"  🙃 https://m.primal.net/JJQL.png  

 The masters of #blackgaze are out with a new album, and you know that can't be bad. Les Chants de l'Aurore by Alcest.
https://alcest.bandcamp.com/album/les-chants-de-laurore 

 I watched episode 3 of The Acolyte, and when I thought this show could not possibly become worse, Disney again exceeded all my expectations.
#StarWars 

 Ulcerate's latest offering is progressive death #metal at its finest. Cutting the Throat of God. https://ulcerate.bandcamp.com/album/cutting-the-throat-of-god 

 Kubo v0.29.0 is released. Does anyone still care about #IPFS?
https://github.com/ipfs/kubo/releases/tag/v0.29.0 

 Sign in to prove you're not a bot. What is this annoying nonsense from YouTube?
https://m.primal.net/IeNb.png  

 Today is my first anniversary on Nostr. I don't feel a year older, but maybe slightly dumber 🙃 

 What happens when a developer sells his popular open-source project to a company looking to monetize the application? Nothing good, nothing good at all.

https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2024/05/raivo-otp-breaks-users-one-time-passwords/

#security #opensource 

 How did I miss this performance? Unplugged in Belgium by Saor. From an acoustic show in 2019 in Antwerp Belgium. https://saor.bandcamp.com/album/unplugged-in-belgium
#metal 

 Photobucket, now there's a name I haven't heard in an eternity. And what kind of shakedown is this? I have to pay five bucks to see if I have any content stored on their service 😂

Note to self: If a service was free yesterday, that likely means your data will be held hostage for money at some point in the future.https://m.primal.net/IKIa.png  

 Alright, getting pumped for Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk. Who do you have? https://m.primal.net/IIED.jpg 

#RingOfFire 

 Mind Burns Alive by Pallbearer was released today and you want it 🤘  https://pallbearer.bandcamp.com/album/mind-burns-alive 

 For a change of pace, Patrick Volkerding wasted no time rigorously testing the #Linux kernel 6.9 before rolling it out with Slackware-current 😮 

 I paid five bucks to join #Farcaster and all I got was a shadowban 😁 By design, Warpcast shadowbans every new user. #Nostr is better! 
https://warpcast.com/dwr.eth/0xf087945c
 

 I think Threads just might be my favorite social media platform for no apparent reason 😁 https://m.primal.net/IEtn.png  

 This repository is now trending on Github: https://github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB
It seems like #Microsoft once again has chosen to turn a deaf ear to user feedback.  

 For the first time since installing #Ubuntu Pro a year ago, Livepatch has fixed kernel vulnerabilities on one of my servers. Thank you for the free service Canonical, I guess.

https://m.primal.net/IBwd.png 

Backstory: https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2023/06/should-you-get-an-ubuntu-pro-free-personal-subscription/ 

 Pi-hole is a kick-ass network-wide ad-blocking solution. Here are my top 10 blocked domains on the home network. What are yours?

Netflix likes its telemetry huh?
#Linux
https://m.primal.net/IAsR.png  

 Ah why not, let's try this Fedora 40 upgrade. Maybe it will be a winner this time 🤔 


#Linux #Fedorahttps://m.primal.net/HzBV.png  

 Happy 87th Birthday Jack Nicholson!
What a fucking legend 👊 

 Death #Metal Friday recommendation: Solemn by In Vain https://invainband.bandcamp.com/album/solemn 

Killer album 🤘  

 Are there any MMA fans on here? What's your level of excitement for #UFC 300? I'm through the roof and ready for some beautiful violence tonight 😁 https://m.primal.net/Hugw.png  

 Stuart Winter of Slackware Arm sits down for a conversation with Slackware Alumni, David Cantrell. Enjoy these fascinating stories about the early days of #Slackware and #Linux. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaqKpYQbVw8 

 Bitcoin did not pay for these beers, but I'll enjoy them just the same 😁 Enjoy your weekend good folks of Nostr.
https://image.nostr.build/7f3c2d731df6a2a8ef8fa22224550baf23339c068129fde96d67844ef201b565.jpg 

 My #Arch Linux-based webserver had the backdoored xz package installed. I feel violated. Bleeding edge huh? Currently installing Windows Server 2022.... or not.  

 Metal Friday recommendation: The Way Of Ancients by Volcandra. How about some Kentucky melodic black #metal? Got this one off of "The Best Metal on Bandcamp, March 2024", and I gotta say I enjoyed it.
https://volcandra.bandcamp.com/album/the-way-of-ancients 

 So, I logged into #Vultr today and was greeted by their TOS update. Can anyone recommend a new and comparable cloud provider?https://m.primal.net/HpOk.png  

 Another unquestionably ingenious design by #Apple. Who would ever need to use their mouse while charging?  
https://image.nostr.build/fe74da9379427f71e40c42f7c5ee6ad7dd4e3cae9b87c4ad6bfae7e5490fed96.jpg 

 The US dollar is a scam 😱  
https://www.usdebtclock.org/

Use #bitcoin
 

 I'm thinking of picking up God of War (50% off) from my Steam wishlist, but does it run on #Linux? 

 Arch Linux wasted no time on rigorously testing kernel 6.8.1 before shipping 🤓 

 Apparently, it's of great importance to Akamai that I wait 30 seconds before filling in my 2FA code after logging in with Linode. Challenge validation, really? I don't need this kind of bullshit. Service canceled. 
#linode #cloud #akamai
https://image.nostr.build/72db5dbad949ee8c91892507c9f719b0663d6cc2d54bd02135979fa21e5b9e1a.png 

 I had to spend five minutes solving Google reCAPTCHA's to get into my 
Packt Publishing subscription account. That annoyed me enough to cancel 
the subscription when I finally was able to access my account. 

 I've been trying out Plasma 6 today, and it's been a pleasure so far. And she's quite the beauty if you ask me.
#plasma6 #kde #archlinux https://m.primal.net/HgtZ.png  

 Microsoft Copilot has gotten inside my head 😏
#Slackware #Linux 

 It is Bandcamp Friday! Time to add something new to my #metal collection 🤘 

 I hate these conferences and events where mingling is a part of the official schedule. I don't want to mingle, ever!  

 Maybe Brian Ortega will never see UFC gold, but man the guy has some serious fighting spirit. What an inspiring performance 👍 
UFC Mexico 

 My Apple watch clocked in a 15-minute sleep session while I was at the office working yesterday. I was completely unaware, and now I fear that I have become a victim of inception 😨 

 Just what I've always been missing in my life. An emotional AI assistant. Don't be sad Microsoft Copilot, it's not you, it's me.
https://image.nostr.build/3b20e8ca49197d6122d29fac450e24b4f2fcfbca35db4083a050ebc0d2ead389.png 

 Black Metal Friday recommendation:
Life Promised Death by Farsot https://farsot.bandcamp.com/album/life-promised-death
🤘🤘🤘 

 Close to 40% of my backlinks are from compromised websites driving traffic to fraudulent online stores. It's been going on since 2023. I'm surprised that hardly anyone is rasing any questions.
https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2023/10/about-all-those-k-html-backlinks-to-your-website/ 

 So, Year of the dragon huh. At least it sounds awesome :) 

 Centralized decentralization 🤔
https://image.nostr.build/67523a906d20f378446220eec12fa256d55383d6d300964f0f51be9b07bbeceb.png 

 Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! 

 I'm feeling rather jolly today. Does anyone want an invite to Bluesky (that other social network)? 

 Why go to work when there are still Nicolas Cage movies that I haven't seen yet 🤔 

 Them Nostr web clients are close to getting usable 👍 

 Go away Thursday, wake me up when Friday ends 🙁 

 I have traveled to the past to destroy your data 😜 

 Canelo vs Charlo, who do you got? 

 Apparently, I'll be getting no work done today. I'm not even joking 🙄

https://image.nostr.build/22980bb2b3395494c654438474881f440f4244d83ab0ac1347fb3e4d7d94be81.png 

 After being on the Bluesky waiting list for more than three months, I finally received my invitation. My initial impression was utter disappointment. Nostr is way more interesting.
https://image.nostr.build/3c5c7b398a06726278daa505075c6cb2cd3fce8f95ae379d151c77ed654248e6.png