Mostly The Lonely Howls Of Mike Baying His Ideological Purity At The Moon
Day 3 of the #100DaysToOffload series:
It was recently in the news that the Google axe has once again fallen on one of it’s products. I can’t remember if it was Hangouts, or Google Cloud Print, or some other unfortunate product. The fact of the matter is, Google’s product body count should give anybody pause who is considering using one of their products.
Day 2 of the #100DaysToOffload series:
I’ve told this story before, and odds are I’ll tell it again. I just haven’t told it here.
Day 1 of the #100DaysToOffload series:
Many of the people reading this will come to my blog from Mastodon. I spend most of my “Social Media” time there, so that’s how most people will know me. For those that don’t, I want to give a brief explanation of what’s going on here with this #100DaysToOffload stuff.
My response to Kev Quirk's blog post, asking people to explain to the world why they have a blog.
It's been literal years since I've faithfully updated my blog. The old content has been sitting idly on Wordpress.com in a free account since I canceled the server I had GoDaddy hosting for me. I planned to self host, but having a pseudo-large family and a job that doesn't understand boundaries made the idea of hosting infrastructure in my home less and less appealing. So, things basically stagnated.
Lately I've been feeling the urge to write again, so I started looking at my options. I still didn't want to host in my home. I considered Wordpress since my posts were already there, but it just seemed like more than I needed or wanted. Most of the posts I'd put up before were basic syntactically. To make a long story short, I settled on write.as.
So, you want to comment on something on this page. I get it. Hopefully you have something nice to say. I fully understand and I want to support your desire to comment, but there's a few things I also want to do.
So, how do I work around those two points and still let you comment?
Well, this blog is powered by my friends at Write.As. I've configued the option to federate my posts out into the Fediverse so my blog can be followed there. If you don't already have an account, I'd highly suggest going to JoinMastodon and clicking the “Get Started” button. Choose an instance that works for you, and once your privacy respecting account is setup, you can find my blog posts listed under @blog at mikestone.me. You can also find me @mike@fosstodon.org if you have any questions or concerns.
I hope to hear from you soon!
Linux refers to the family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel. Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers and video game consoles, to mainframes and super computers. Linux is a leading server operating system, and runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world.
The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License. Typically Linux is packaged in a format known as a Linux distribution for desktop and server use. Some popular mainstream Linux distributions include Debian (and its derivatives such as Ubuntu), Fedora and openSUSE. Linux distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting utilities and libraries to fulfill the distribution’s intended use.
A distribution oriented toward desktop use may include the X Window System, the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments. Other distributions may include a less resource intensive desktop such as LXDE or XFCE for use on older or less-powerful computers. A distribution intended to run as a server may omit any graphical environment from the standard install and instead include other software such as the Apache HTTP Server and a SSH server like OpenSSH. Because Linux is freely redistributable, it is possible for anyone to create a distribution for any intended use. Commonly used applications with desktop Linux systems include the Mozilla Firefox web-browser, the OpenOffice.org office application suite and the GIMP image editor.
The name “Linux” comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The main supporting user spacesystem tools and libraries from the GNU Project (announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman) are the basis for the Free Software Foundation’s preferred name GNU/Linux.
– Stolen shamelessly from Wikipedia out of pure laziness
You can reach me via email or on Fosstodon.
Also, these days it seems we’re being watched constantly. If you want to send me something a little bit more secure, here’s my public key:
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Keep in mind that I don’t decrypt that stuff on my phone, so if you contact me that way it may take a little longer for a response. Also, if you’d like an encrypted response, you’ll need to send me your public key or at least a place I can look it up.
Once upon a time, I had free time to spare. I kept multiple blogs, each specifically for a particular subject that I found interesting and wanted to talk about. Now, I don't have nearly as much time, so I'm consolidating down to one blog. This one. Why not just post on social media you ask? I thought that was a great idea too, so my friend Kev Quirk and I founded Fosstodon. Still, there were times where I wanted to say more than a five-hundred character limit would allow. That's what this blog is for. I'm not planning on sticking to a particular subject, but I expect most of what I post here will be technology related, specifically FOSS. Don't be surprised if I deviate on occasion.
Hi, my name is Mike. I got started in IS/IT as a way to pay the bills while I was learning to code professionally. After college, I dutifully got a job as a programmer working with a company's proprietary language. It took me three years, but I finally realized that I liked IS/IT work better. I left my programming job and got a job working as a Server Application Support Engineer. Five years later I left that job to move across the country and found a new place that would let me play with their really expensive Linux servers, but only if I promise to write some code to automate their processes and make sure their stuff keeps working. Seems like a fair deal to me.