The Backroad to Civilization

Post for January 6th, 2025:

Happy New Year!

The holidays are over and it's back to business as usual. I think I've

largely worked through my extended period of ennui, or at least enough

that I can be creative and productive again.

Nah, screw "productive", I'm not creating a product or growing a brand

here. I really need to get out of that mindset, that I'm "producing

content". I'm not. I'm just writing whatever's on my mind, storing it

on a public Unix system, and hoping to Hell nobody who reads my BS takes

me seriously. Not exactly a hot commodity.

I've considered blogging (as opposed to phlogging/gemlogging) again, but

I'm suspicious of most existing blogging platforms (privacy, AI scraping,

etc) and frankly don't want the hassle or expense of self-hosting. Hell,

I'm even cautious about what I post on the Fediverse these days,

especially now that the AI Cancer has Meta-stasised and Threads is

everywhere.

So, that said, if I commit to writing again (and I probably will), it'll

be here in Gopherspace, the Gemspace, or Finger @sparcipx.

Speaking of the Fediverse, I've moved servers/identities again. My main

Fedi account is now @powerword@friendica.world. I moved over to Friendica

because it handles Mastodon as well as Diaspora*, so I don't have to

juggle two apps or browser tabs. Everything is under one account without

jumping through a bunch of hoops.

I'm keeping my other Mastodon account @septemberagenda@mastodon.sdf.org

open for now, checking it periodically but focusing on my main account

above.

Anyhow, I should probably get some work done. My coworkers are back from

their Christmas/Holiday breaks and the support calls are rolling in. So

far, forgotten passwords are in the lead...