天空вℓσи∂ @skyblond@qoto.org

That's it. Today is the Lantern Festival, which is also the last day of Chinese Lunar New Year.

Tonight feels like a warzone (sorry for who really in a warzone). It has been years since the last time I heard the sounds of fireworks. Shame on the government for banning fireworks.

Zhajiang (fried sauce), the black/brown thing in the bowl doesn't look nice, but I guarantee you it tastes great.

Combined with noodles, you get Zhajiangmian (noodles with fried sauce), along with all the other ingredients, it's really good. I love my cooking skills.

Good lord, Israel and US launched a war with Iran when I was cooking? What have I missed?

But fuck it, I'm gonna end my 25th year on this planet on next month, then start my 26th year.

I might not do anything big and good, but I'm certainly actively enjoying myself doing shit stuff to revenge this society for bringing me here without any of my consent 25 years ago.

I can't imagine how I'm gonna live to 50 with my mental health being totally shit.

I think I might understand why depression can be deadly.

It started with the thought of the Spring Festival holiday ending soon and having to go back to work, which made me a little sad. Then I realized I hadn't done anything meaningful during the holiday, which made me even more unhappy.

A friend said they wanted to eat noodles (the one with soybean paste, a traditional dish from Beijing) tomorrow, but I couldn't find suitable noodles in Yunnan. The ones sold in supermarkets didn't meet my requirements, so I decided to make them myself. Since it's for tomorrow, I tried a new recipe today, attempting to extend the shelf life by reducing the dough's water content. But lower water content (33%) means the dough will be stiff. I have a Schneider mixer with a pasta attachment, but it seems like I broke it today, probably due to the stiff dough. So, it took me over five hours to make just 1 kg of raw noodles (which, if I was in Beijing, I can just bought it for like 3 USD with 15 minutes walk from my home to the store, round trip). After that, I spent another hour cleaning the kitchen.

Then I felt exhausted, and the broken mixer attachment made me feel frustrated. Just then, a thought suddenly popped into my head: I'm so tired, I don't want to live anymore. It just popped into my head so naturally that there is no alarm about it. Looking back, I think I was basically not looking forward to living. I wasn't looking forward to my friends coming home for noodles tomorrow, nor was I looking forward to resting tonight. If someone had suddenly broken into my place and said he was going to kill me, I probably would have said "ok, just do it".

Of course, soon another part of my brain started screaming that this is not correct, and only then I suddenly realized what terrible things I was just thinking about.

Well, I certainly know there is something wrong with my mental health. But I'm not daring to investigate it (for now).

I bought a stationary bike and found it much more tiring than riding a real bicycle. A regular bicycle can go downhill for 500 meters with ease, while the stationary bike can't glide at all.

Hopefully I can lose some weight with this. Yesterday I talked to the doctor about the pain in my right knee. The doctor said there is nothing wrong with the knee (for now), just me being overweight and my knee is not happy about that. If I don't start losing weight immediately, there will be serious issues with knee in the foreseeable future.

Luckily no one uses my shit I created as side projects (hopefully)

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The Internet Was Weeks Away From Disaster and No One Knew
by Veritasium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ

Now I'm using MeshCore, which is much much better than meshtastic.

Humanity won't have any hope as long as they are still using python.

I hate python.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
by Technology Connections
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

I really hate people or LLM talking to me like this. It sounds either obsequious or sarcastic.

Me, feeding in a section of a novel written by Hitomi Iruma, which is not age-limited (not R18, not R15, but for all ages).

Gemini: **PROHIBITED_CONTENT**

I should know that the tech world is going worse when they force everyone to rename master branch to main.

Don't be python, just use proper semantic versioning.

Yet another day to advertise for semantic versioning (and Linode database).

Today I was trying to upgrade my blog from typecho 1.2.1 to 1.3.0, which seems to be a not-so-big upgrade. Despite very slow update from the dev team (1.2.1 was released 2.5 years ago), they tend to maintain a relatively good backward compatibility. So I upgraded, and everything failed.

Turns out this update changed a lot of the internal stuff, especially how data is stored. So the themes and plugins are likely to be broken with the new version. In this case, by following the semantic versioning, they should release this version as 2.x.x. But they didn't. Shame on them (well, probably shouldn't say this, because the dev teams are working on this for free and for passion. I really appreciate their work and efforts, but I still feel a bit annoyed by them not following the proper versioning rule).

I create a snapshot for my server, so when things are not working, I can revert the files pretty fast. However, I do forget to back up the database, since during the update, the database schema has been changed. And the old version can't work with the new schema. Luckily, Linode (yes, I know they are now Akamai) offers amazing backup service. From their words: Databases are automatically backed-up with full daily backups for the past 14 days, and binary logs recorded continuously. Full backups are version-specific binary backups, which when combined with binary logs allow for consistent recovery to a specific point in time (PITR).

Yes, I can rewind to any point in time in the last 14 days, accurate to the second. Linode (and the low traffic of my blog) literally saved my day.

Also tried Qwen3 TTS, it can clone voice, you can give instructions, but you can't do both :(

Tried Reticulum with RNode. Sending messages over Lora works, but the UI is barely usable. Considering the main maintainer stops responding to the public, I think the project will die eventually. Very pity, but very likely to happen.

I don't like meshtastic, especially how it only works with certain hardware, and it must be Lora. I like reticulum since it works on multiple interfaces: local, internet, i2p, Lora, even KISS tnc using ham or not ham radio bands.

It is an ambitious project that you must build a lot to a certain point that your project is usable for the majority. Generally you can't count on them to use meshtastic factory erase firmware to reset the broken fs when the RNode firmware doesn't boot at all (blank screen, no response to rnodeconf CLI tool).

I do like this project very much, but the environment is not there (yet). And I'm not an adventurer. This is a very amusing 2 hours in my life, and I will keep moving on. Goodbye, Reticulum.

https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/1qi1ic2/mayday_from_belarus_licensed_operators_facing/