This morning I received a spam email where the spammer accidentally CCed everyone, instead of BCCing them. They also seemed to have spammed many people named Donncha, so hopefully none of them reply-all asking to unsubscribe. It’s not the first time, but they included an “email address” that isn’t an email address. They used my @[email protected] Mastodon account. They also included my Gmail address, which is how I received the email. I started receiving email to this blog’s @[email protected] address and to photoblog’s @[email protected] address too, but I’ve blocked them already. If you publish the address of your self-hosted Mastodon […]
Fediverse
View at Home 0.1
View at Home is a simple Tampermonkey script to make interacting with Mastodon (and probably other Fediverse services) easier. When you open a Mastodon post, it’s not possible to comment or favourite it unless it’s on your own home instance. The usual way of dealing with this is by copying the link into the search box of your own instance and clicking the resulting link. This script will add a “View at home” button to the top left of the page when you look at a Mastodon site. By clicking on this button, it will search for that page on […]
Health
F***ing Kidney Stones
The pain I’ve felt in the last few days because of a tiny little stone inside in my body is worse than anything I’ve ever experienced. Absolutely excruciating and uncomfortable. It’s weird drinking lots of water only for my mouth to be dry moments later. I’m feeling ok right now, at this moment, but I doubt that it’s over yet. I’ve been to the doctor and following his advice. Yet again, feeling so lucky to be married to a wonderful woman who takes such good care of sick ol’ me.
Ireland
Blarney is Frozen
Schools are back this morning, but temperatures are staying around 2ºC (feels like -3ºC) which would be manageable except it rained around 4am this morning. Local roads are lethal, with vehicles already skidding and crashing. A double-decker bus skidded on black ice at one end of the village and blocked the road completely. Twenty minutes later, two delivery trucks jackknifed after coming down the hill coming from the opposite side of the village. I live on a hill, and watched cars come down it very, very slowly. Thankfully, no incidents there yet. Pictures come from the Blarney Blog on Facebook. […]