FediFetcher

fedifetcher a link to this landed in my mastodon feed the other day and i spent a little bit of time installing it and tweaking for my setup. running as a container via cron it fits the bill beautifully for filling in the missing bits of replies that are associated with a post in your feed. FediFetcher for Mastodon - blog.thms.uk

March 30, 2023 · steve ulrich

colson whitehead nails it

a reasonable take on the twitter situation. this pulltweet pretty much nails it. – this tweet has since been deleted. meta location: minneapolis, mn

March 9, 2023 · steve ulrich

2022 media diet

movies the eyes of tammy faye - i still cannot believe that this was jessica chastain. but tammy faye does come off looking better than i recall her being in the 80s. the lost daughter - uh, good, i guess? i could not get into it. the power of the dog - talk about a slow burn. brilliant. love and monsters - fumb dun the last duel - great, now i’m thinking about my heirs....

December 31, 2022 · sulrich

rclone (remote) token update

when your super spiffy rclone setup needs a token refresh … ssh into the server remotely with the requisite port forwarding enabled. ssh -L 53682:localhost:53682 username@server update the token rclone config update <myremote> env_auth true do the needful with your OAuth provider meta location: minneapolis, mn weather: 🌫 (Mist) +64°F

December 3, 2022 · steve ulrich

herd immunity?

random notes: COVID-omicron it’s been personally interesting to see how many of our initial assumptions/thoughts around pandemic recovery have turned out to be utterly useless. vaccines were supposed to deliver us the ability to develop herd immunity. fortunately, for COVID-wuhan they seem to have. but the never ending train of variants afflict those of us who’ve been vax’ing to the max. albeit to greater or lesser degrees of severity. it’s clear that COVID-omicron is worse than a case of the sniffles for many fully vax’d folks....

July 2, 2022 · steve ulrich