I feel bad for the millions of people who are more social than I am and who are basically forced to use the evil that is Facebook or risk being excluded from nearly all social activities.

That is a difficult dilemma. I solve it by not caring. But I know most people aren’t me and it’d be hard to do for them.

That so many people are attracted to objectively evil organization like Facebook is the real issue. Probably insoluble, a non-design flaw in humanity.

But it is an odd situation, that there are millions of people forced to use a platform just to have a social life, who despise said platform and wish it didn’t exist. I guess in some ways bars were that before, but at least bars didn’t track you, steal your private information, and sell you out to the government at the first opportunity.

Building a 12TB (16TB actual) software RAID 5 array takes a long time.

Glad the transformer that exploded last night didn’t do so while this was going on.

All data is backed up, so no real worries but still — drives have gotten larger while the software hasn’t gotten any faster or better.

These are my feelings exactly.

Artists who don’t want their work shared won’t be successful artists for long. People are still trying to return the world to 1970. Even with the depradations of the copyright industry and increasing censorship by Twitter, Facebook, et. al., the world is never going back to that time.

By the way, this site’s text and other works (mostly photos) that I produce and post here all have an “I don’t give a shit” copyright. Which means that you can do whatever you want with it. I don’t care if you give me credit, link back to me, sell one of my photos for a million dollars (but if you do, let me know how you pulled that off) or print my words on the side of a pony.

Do what you like. People will anyway, so why fight it?

But if you do something really amusing with anything of mine, at least try to let me know so I can laugh along (even if it’s making fun of me).