The Art Of Not Asking Why

I updated my old blog one last time. I like writing in Emacs, which is what I used to do on the old blog each time – but I also like having the option to not worry about it and just type away when I want to.

Made a couple of changes to How I browse the net: bookmarks, org-mode, and a password manager and trying something else to get this on Fosstodon.org.

It’s only appropriate to get serious about the Micro.blog section in my wiki at this point, isn’t it?

Added “comment on micro.blog / Mastodon” plug-in 💡. I hope this will help with comments from fosstodon.org 🦣 as well. Open to suggestions!

I was recently asked about bookmarks, and I realized my browser/bookmarks workflow might seem a bit odd…

• My main browser at home is LibreWolf, which is a privacy-focused Firefox fork (kind of what Brave is next to Chrome, but not really). It uses a Searx instance for searches.
• For work and “We don’t like your VPN” places (like my bank for example, or health insurance) I use Brave. I believe it uses its own search. (I switched to Google, as this is my “boring me, vanilla guy, nothing to see here” kind of deal.)
• For blogging at home, I use Firefox. It uses DuckDuckGo (the default) for searches
• For writing (journal and sometimes blogging) I use EWW, which is the Emacs’ built-in web browser. It uses Wikipedia as a search engine.

Sometimes I launch a URL directly from KeePassXC. I have a section of pages I visit often, so it’s another way of logging into those with the credentials ready to go.

I do have bookmarks saved where it makes sense. For example, my Brave browser has bookmarks for various bills-paying related sites; but LibreWolf does not have bookmarks I use often, because these are launched from KeePassXC.

Another way I sometimes browse the internet and save pages is with org-mode - but not the way you probably think. I don’t have a “bookmarks.org” somewhere or a file with different URLs. Instead, the links depend on the task or project they’re attached to.

For example, if I want to buy a new hard drive, I will have the task in org-mode and several links in it leading to search results across different sites. Another example is a link to a location, say a museum, I visited on a certain day. This works well because the connection I make mentally makes sense to me; if I want to find the model of the hard drive I purchased, for example, I will look up the task that had to do with it and find it. When I work in org-mode, the links will open in EWW. If I need a full browser (to visit the hard drive link from Amazon), I just need to press “&” to open my external default browser with that link.

Do you have your own weird way of saving locations on the net? Do you even bother? Or do you keep a tidy list in your Safari/Firefox/Chrome?

Transferred my domain to micro.blog successfully. taonaw.com will take you to the new blog now, complete with SSL, courtesy of @menton and the MB community.

The old blog will stay up with an alternative link. I hope to migrate posts over slowly, at least some.

The CSS is fixed, with the help of my partner. No more white highlights or pink ones.

to quote @manton: “The Alpine theme is a “Hugo theme for Micro.blog, based on Marfa theme, which was based on NeoCactus and Cactus for Jekyll.”

Alpine had a white color highlight for links, while the other (Marfa?) had pink ones. We had to find and adjust both stylesheets.

A bit of The Matrix thrown into a cheesy heroic story about freedom. Good for a chill night for easy viewing, don’t expect anything special.

The twist in this movie is not really a twist, because by this point we’re used to it, like turning around full 360. Bla bla aliens enslave humans, bla bla brain washing humans, bla bla somehow humans’ brains can’t be brainwashed completely, bla bla true love will unlock everything, etc etc.

Left unexplained: why do such advanced aliens need humans to fix their own machines? Why keep any humans alive? What’s the point?

Cool tech, cool toys, nice action, awesome drone noises. Tom Cruise with his Top Gun sunglasses is still flying like a bat from hell.