Weeknotes 27
What happened
Sneak Preview
Monday I went to the cinema to see a sneak preview. And boy, oh boy, was it an experience. The movie we were graced with was Homestead a very american movie from a studio that seems to be heavily associated with the church of latter day saints, or mormons, as I think most people know them. It was a bad movie, the plot makes no sense, the dialogue was weird and off, and the characters all seems insane.
That's the thing I keep wondering about: Was I supposed to root for any of the main characters? They just seemed like ... quite unlikeable people, let's put it like that. But there was never any indication the movie was aware of that, any signs that these were supposed to be unlikeable, rather, especially in the end, it felt like we were supposed to be on their side, that they were supposed to be the good guys after all, but I just don't see it.
I admit a movie about the moral dilemmas of being the only one prepared in a apocalyptic scenario and how to ration your food and who to help, sound kinda interesting, but this wasn't it. The danger never seemed acute enough to warrant their exclusion, the moral dilemmas felt forced and inserted to creat drama, making them just no believable.
And I haven't even gotten into the constant forceful injection of faith and god, and the completely insane ending, consisting of:
- everything suddenly being ok, because god
- a trailer for what I now know to be the series that continues the story
- a plea from the main actor to add to a 'pay-it-forward' scheme, with the subtext 'This is not a donation'
Yeah why the fuck did I just pay do watch basically a long trailer for their series followed by them asking for even more money, which is legally is not a donation?
TLDR:, not worth it, don't watch, spent your time elsewhere.
Headscale
Anyway onto greater news, I finally figured out why my headscale hasn't been working and now I can vpn into my home net using tailscale. Next step is hosting firezone, and then I'll write a long blog post about which self hosted vpn is the best.
Talking about blog posts, I want to blog more, but have no idea what about. I think I'll try to write one post per week, apart from these weekly notes. I'm hoping that this will force me to come up with ideas. Let's see how it goes.
No Internetz
Wednesday afternoon half of my town was without connection for a few hours. The most probable cause I can think of is that one of the construction sites around damaged a cable or switch. This experience led me to discover two annoying this about my ISP:
- The help page the router presents for 'DSL connection timeout' has as the first solution to update your firmware. Yeah thanks I'll just code the update myself real quick, no biggie.
- They have no public incidents reporting, at least none that I was able to find. The only way I knew what was going on, was by opening their app and logging in
Valve 1und1 pls fix
This would now also be the place to talk about the general overreliance on an internet connection and the brittleness of the system, that without warning half the town can suddenly be offline. But I'm tired and don't want to overanalyse these things right now. Maybe next time.
Media
Bcachefs might be gone Kinda bummed about this since I've been waiting for a shiny, new, improved fs for a while now, and it seemed like bcachefs could be that filesystem. But alas Overstreets and Torvalds public feud kinda soured the hope. Honestly I'm more on torvalds side on this one making it even more annyoing. Ah well seems my drives remain ZFS for now.
Can't dig the swiss. I just think it's funny that DNS, one of the most important protocols ever in existence, still has to be told everytime that you want a result for the Internet, this thing that changed the world and is now everywhere, and not a Chaosnet record, the protocol that some dude at MIT developed in the 70s and no modern machine supports.
Yeah I know there's also Hesiod, but that makes it a bit less funny, so let's just ignore it.