Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

I moved from Substack to Ghost, which was fine

I have some long articles and think it would be good to add a table of contents.

Edit the layout to add it in

In order to have a custom layout I need to move from the small tier ($9mo) to the medium tier ($25/mo)

I can't justify that, I don't have enough subscribers. I don't want to install Ghost on my own machine - pain in the ass.

Can't I just pay an extra couple of bucks?

Ridiculous.

And there's no-one to email, of course.

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Shitty week. Tried to do a bit this morning and got social media sabotaged. Sleep for a bit, I think.

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I want an ice cream

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/history-5

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New Green Plenty article

Some thoughts on AI

https://www.greenplenty.info/some-thoughts-on-ai/

Think Asimov at his most boring when Hari Sheldon is explaining things.

Ah well.

I really enjoyed 3 Body Problem on Netflix

Remembered I'd read the first volume on Kindle unlimited ages ago but bought the trilogy

The second book is so hard to read. Full of people making speeches explaining things, like the SF written in the 1950s.

Really interesting characters with fascinating internal lives, but those speeches, just not necessary.

Needed a really good edit, but maybe it works in the original literary tradition.

Sticking with it because I want to know what happens.

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Don't get me started on Ubuntu changing how system services are loaded because pretty a few years ago.

Moved to later version and all my scripts had to be rewritten.

Better is the enemy of good enough.

Energy is better spent on actual pain points instead of forcing the other 95% of us to rewrite stuff every few years.

Has any other Linux head come across "doas"?

Man pages claim it's easier and better than sudo.

I just wanna get stuff done, why did someone solve a solved problem instead of doing something useful?

Sudo is at least 30 years old and just works.