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There’s something really soothing to my brain that Fedora 42 came out on the same day that baseball players were wearing #42 for Jackie Robinson Day.

Stalwart has Proton-like on-receipt encryption which encrypts incoming messages against a destination’s public PGP key. I’m not sure I have the willpower to self-host email but it’ll be tempting once it gains calendar/contact syncing and push on iOS.

It’s nice to see the former Twitter building return its sign and clock to normal.

Starting off the season by emailing NBC Sports to ask that they please use a monospace digit font for the centered pitch clock countdown so it stops bouncing around.

Continuing what would be my normal complaining about baseball streaming costs, this year is such an improvement:

• $20/mo for MLB.tv Giants. No commercials‽ This is heaven.
• $26/mo for Peacock+Giants. Bad quality video, frustrating app. Easy “no.”
• $85+/mo for anything else.

Unlike macOS, iOS and Linux, Android does not support a CNAME to private domains (in this case a Tailscale ts.net) because its resolver doesn’t request after it encounters one; it just fails. A tad frustrating since it means a significantly more complicated DNS setup just for the one OS.

“AI-free since 1990” is a great tag line for SiriusXM; doubling-down on not doing algorithmic radio is hopefully a long-term strategic success for them. Human-curated just hits differently.

Enclosed is the platonic ideal of an encrypted pastebin: beautiful, performant, scriptable, open source and easy to self-host. It even supports file uploads.

Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.

I’ve been using my phone for sysadmin tasks as laptops are tough around young kids. Vim keybindings are so good! Significantly reduces the toil of editing on a phone. I want it in every app.

The new year means 20 new books on Standard Ebooks after entering the public domain. Nice assortment this year as well.

My meal kit delivery is arriving 3 days late tomorrow. I wonder what temperature the contents will arrive at: clearly unsafe, of course, but how unsafe?

send.djazz.se is a convenient way to send ePubs out-of-band to Kobo. Calibre and KoboTouchExtended automate it but the latter’s had a bug for a few releases causing whitespace issues and one of my books snuck through. It was easier to use this from my phone than getting out of bed to grab my laptop.

Arrived yesterday at an airport with less than an hour to departure time with a few checked bags. Barely made it on the plane, however one of the bags did not. Impressed with how fast American Airlines delivered it this morning. I enjoyed tracking it in Find My!

Gitea’s mirroring of Git repositories proves useful with how often legal projects like DRM strippers are taken down. The utility I use to download & remove Adobe DRM is gone but still available on my server and in my backups. Presumably this new tool for Apple Books will suffer a similar fate.