Not sure how it happened, but someone got into my Gitea instance and caused some havoc. Got it shut down I think before they got very far, but it was a bit intense for a minute.
Took the time to change over to Forgejo instead of Gitea, which I've been meaning to do for a while. Installation was mostly smooth, now we'll see how it runs long term. Hopefully no more intrusions, but I'll be watching it closely.
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I have a nine day long break coming up at the end of April / bringing of May. Going to take the motorcycle out on a 1500 mile loop through Appalachia, calling asking the way and hoping to hit some of the famous mountain roads in Tennessee and North Carolina. Getting excited planning this trip. Tentative itinerary:
Day 1: leave from Northeast Ohio, make camp in Point Pleasant, WV where I'll visit the Mothman museum.
Day 2: Point Pleasant to a campground on the banks of the Red River in the Red River Gorge area. Ride through Nada tunnel and tour the gorge.
Day 3: across Kentucky and ride the Kentucky Rattlesnake (KY-192) to the KY/TN border.
Day 4: head south and catch the Cherohala Skyway into Robbinsville, NC. Possibly run the Tail of the Dragon, depending on arrival time.
Day 5: ride the Tail if I didn't get to the previous day. Head east, catch pay off the Blue Ridge Parkway until exciting and riding the Devil's Whip (NC 80).
Day 6: slowly explore the Blue Ridge Parkway, making camp somewhere near the North Carolina / Virginia border.
Day 7: the Virginia leg of the BRP.
Day 8: BRP to Blackwater Falls, WV. Visit several waterfalls in the area for photos and hiking.
Day 9: US 250 through Southern Ohio to New Philadelphia and then home.
This will be the longest loop I've done on the bike and a great chance to test all the tweaks I've made to the camping setup, as I'll be making and breaking camp every day. Super excited to get out there and explore again. Going to do my best to ignore politics and current events that entire nine days and just recharge.
[#]motorcycling #MotoCamping
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So based on the ads I'm hearing Amazon is entering the medical field now? I see no possible downside...
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I don't post nearly as much as I used to. It comes down to being busy, not a lack of interest in the fediverse. Working full time plus school is already time consuming, but I try to keep some of the hobby projects going as well.
I've got a few things on the pot currently. There's some nice low level Rust that I'm not talking a lot about because it's coming together slowly. Then there's a new from scratch seat cover for the motorcycle and a few other related projects.
So yeah, I'm still around but I'm lurking more than posting.
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Leaving, for the moment, the questions about what the next four years will bring, here's my spicy take. Not on how Trump succeeded in capturing the White House, but on why the Democratic party continues failing and floundering.
Biden used his final address to warn the country of the dangerous oligarchy forming, particularly at the top of the tech sector, which threatens our democracy.
It's not that he's wrong. It's that he's twenty plus years late. The oligarchy isn't forming, it's already here and fully formed. We've all been warning everyone about it for years already. His words sound like he's just now realizing what people have been shouting about, and he's wanting to go out by being the old grandfather speaking prophetic words of wisdom that we need to hear. As if we didn't already know. As if he and others of his kind haven't been in a better position than the rest of us to actually do something about it for the past fifty years and just kept fumbling the ball.
If that weren't the case, then said oligarchy wouldn't have been so well represented, and fully formed, sitting in a place of honor at the Trump inauguration.
F%*k Joe Biden and pretty much every other Democratic politician from his generation for being such massive failures. We didn't get here overnight. It happened on their watch.
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Had a meltdown a couple of days ago. It's been a while and I didn't see it coming this time.
I'm in college working towards my Computer Science degree. I'm close to being done with my general education requirements, but each and every one has been a distraction and an aggravation. Then I started a history class, which is more of a DEI class than history, found that my opinions class quite a bit with my professor, and for the first time since I went back to school started getting poor grades.
I'm not sure what really triggered it this time. My wife just started day shift in her job, so our schedule is off. Couldn't have helped.
Anyway, I spent Wednesday night unable to sleep, shaking, brain racing and kind of just rocking back and forth. I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have been able to speak for those few hours. It's taken the next couple of days to recover and feel human again, but at least my head is clear and I feel like a normal, rational person again.
Those of you who are prone to these sorts of episodes, take care of yourselves. I thought I knew my triggers and how to tell when I was getting overwhelmed, but this really snuck up on me.
[#]autism #actuallyautistic
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The further I get into my degree, the more such and tired I am of taking classes that have nothing to do with it. Especially classes that aren't introducing me to any concepts I haven't already encountered in life but which expect me to devote hours every day to writing about them.
This. This is gatekeeping. Don't give me busywork when I'm already middle aged and realize how precious time is, when I have to work for a living, when I've already proven that I can write coherently. All these classes prove it's a person's ability to do drudge work that is of no benefit to them, knowing that it is of no benefit, just because they've been told to. I've already been in the workforce for thirty years, I think I've proven that I have that ability.
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This year the Wreath of Khan includes a Micro Machines Reliant chasing the Enterprise.
[#]merrychristmas
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I've been compiling a bucket list of roads that I want to ride all over the world. There's the Transfagarasen in Romania, the Million Dollar Highway in Colorado, and today I added the Trollstigen in Norway.
[#]motorcycling
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It occurs to me that most of you have probably never ridden a vintage 70's motorcycle home from work in the crisp mid-November air while listening to Chuck Mangioni, but let me assure you that it...
... Feels
... So
... Good!
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It's definitely a well-worn tread, but it still works.
Personally, I think the only true defense against that is to own it. Be like Bernie Sanders. Hell, go further than Bernie did, and attack them for being heartless and backwards capitalists. Ask them point blank at every opportunity why they think that this time they can make capitalism work for more than just the chosen few. Beat that drum until they're cowering under it in fear, and then beat it some more. And the next time we have a candidate like Sanders everyone needs to get behind them rather than taking the cynical way out and supporting the status quo candidates like Clinton or Biden.
But more to my original point, Biden won because four years ago he was able to energize a ton of voters just by being anyone other than Trump. He barely pulled it off then, but that was the entire reason he won, full stop.
Then people had four years to cool off and realize what they settled for. Nobody actually wanted Biden, then or now. Then when he finally dropped out, we were left with Harris, who nobody really asked for either. This time around we needed a force of nature like JFK or Obama to take on Trump, someone who excited people and inspired them. What we were left with was Biden's understudy. I like Harris. I voted for her. I desperately wanted her to win. But she isn't that great inspirational unifying voice that was needed. I'm not at all surprised at the outcome, however much it saddens me.
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I really can't even express just how much I want this bike. I rode a Classic 350 at Royal Enfield demo days back in September, but as nice as it is you can't get around the limitations impressed by that little thumper. The 650 twins though, that's plenty of shove for me. I've been waiting patiently, hoping that the rumors of this bike were true.
[#]motorcycles #royalenfield #classic650
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Two more days until we get to decide which flavor of shit on our sandwich for the next four years.
Is that harsh? Maybe. But seriously, if either of the major party nominees truly excites you, then there might be something wrong with you.
I 100% get the argument that one of them is a fascist who has already demonstrated a willingness and desire to perform a coup. I even agree with that argument. If you're excited at the prospect of another Trump presidency, then you are at best gullible.
That said, I haven't seen much substance out of Harris. I seriously doubt that she could have gotten her party's nomination any other way than the way that she did. Was it the right way to go at the time? You bet your life it was. Biden was going to lose in a landslide, time was very short and if the Democratic party had taken the time to slug it out to pick someone new they may as well have just bowed out then and there. We could do much worse.
My argument is that we could also have done so much better. The fact that there was ever a Trump vs Clinton contest shows a huge problem in both parties. The fact that it was followed four years later by Trump vs Biden shows the Democratic party learned basically nothing from 2016. Even after Obama there is apparently a deep cynicism in the Democratic party that prevents them from choosing a truly inspiring candidate, instead just picking the body that has just stayed in the game long enough to win by virtue of seniority/name recognition.
I'm ok with Joy. But I'd prefer substance. I'll vote for Harris. But I'll feel unclean. Can we please do better in the next cycle?
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Patience does eventually pay off. The clock in our living room is right again!
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Zepernick Lake Wildlife Area, Columbiana County, Ohio, US.
[#]motorcycling #photography
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Morning ride out to Church Hill covered bridge. Elk Run Township, Columbiana County, just southeast of Lisbon, Ohio, US.
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I took a morning ride out to McClellan covered bridge this morning in Columbiana County, Ohio, USA. I have one more covered bridge in this county to visit and then the bike gets put up for the winter.
That said, next spring there are nineteen covered bridges in Ashtabula County that need visiting...
[#]photography #fallcolors #coveredbridge #motorcycling
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Teegarden covered bridge. Just South of Salem, Ohio, USA.
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Sandstone Falls, late afternoon.
[#]photography #westvirginia #waterfalls #hdrphotography #fallcolors
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And one more for now, at least until I get more editing done. This one is actually the entire frame.
[#]bridgeday #photography #westvirginia #NewRiverGorge
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