busybee fluffy rambles

There are so many papercuts with keeping isso running and I really ought to get around to writing something better. Working on software is the last thing I want to do right now though.

On the plus side, not a single person mentioned the broken comments to me, so I’m guessing nobody actually cares about them anymore. I only noticed things were broken when I was looking at one of my particular articles and was like, wait, where did all the comments go?!

If you’re at all tuned into the EV space, you’ve probably heard of the Slate truck, for example from this Ars Technica article.

I am super into the concept. I probably wouldn’t buy one, because it doesn’t actually fit any of my needs as described (also IMO it’s kind of fugly), but I really hope that they expand their offerings a bit. In particular, I’d love to see a four-door model happen (I don’t drive other people often but when I do they usually have accessibility concerns!), and the addition of power windows would be really nice as well.

I do have my doubts about whether it can actually launch for the anticipated price, but they’re at least getting a lot of hype right now, and I love the idea of a barebones modular vehice where you only add the stuff you actually care about.

If I were to get one I’d definitely want to add a CarPlay display and audio amplifier. Fortunately there are already plenty of things on the market that could be used for this purpose, and I’m sure those will be among the first things to be adapted for the Slate if/when the vehicle comes to market.

I also hope that the hype around this causes other manufacturers to realize that there’s a market for lower-spec EVs. I’d absolutely love to see a low-spec version of a Telo, for example.

I’ve been using Gumroad as a digital asset store for years now, as well as for some of my physical goods. But I’ve been wanting to extricate myself from it for a while now, and recent developments have finally pushed me all the way there, and the timing was good given I’ve gotten a Dealer’s Den booth at Furality Somna.

My digital assets are now primarily on itch.io, and physical goods are now just on Etsy for now, although I’m not a huge fan of Etsy either, and my physical books aren’t currently available anywhere (not that they ever sell to begin with). I guess I should look at my ko-fi shop as an alternative for that stuff.

Anyway. I’ve already sent (manually-generated) itch.io claim keys to everyone who paid for my VRChat assets, and for folks who bought my books on Gumroad they can request a download key as well if they want to be able to redownload it from itch.io for some reason.

Now to figure out if I can sell my shares in the company…

Just a reminder that my choir, STANCE, is having our annual fundraiser show in a few short weeks (on May 3), consisting of both a talent showcase and a silent auction. This organization is super important to me since it helps us to celebrate trans joy and self-expression. The show can be attended in-person or online, and tickets are available for purchase either way.

These funds will go directly towards supporting our upcoming Pride concert on June 20 and 21.

I will be performing one of my own songs, and in an ensemble for another song.

As I’ve been saying for years, the problem with Twitter isn’t that it’s centralized, but that it’s Twitter.

This post goes into some great details about what that means.

I wrote a bit about this recently, which importantly also includes some information about what you as a website operator can do about it, namely how to look up the CIDR of the abusers' netblocks and add denial rules into ufw if that’s what you use. I should probably expand it to cover other situations as well since not everyone can run ufw.