I was reading through some discussion on Hacker News about using RSS, and came across a project called Huginn. This looks like an awesome way to personally curate various sources from across the web. Meanwhile, I added links to RSS feeds to each page on the site. I didn't realize Hugo automatically generated RSS until today.

I'll probably be experimenting with Huginn and posting about it in the near future. It seems pretty slick out of the box. There are agents to check RSS feeds, web pages, and email (via IMAP); there's even an agent to process incoming webhooks, send email, and make calls.

And so we wrap up week four. And, for that matter, the month. This makes five posts thus far. I should probably add pagination to my blog. Wait one moment, please… Ah; that's better. You can't see it, yet, but it's there. I tweaked other things on the site just a tad. The background color is a tad warmer, which I find a tad easier on the eyes. I also added a horizontal rule for a bit of extra flare. At some point, I'll add some more content besides the blog, but I haven't decided what, yet.

I am not a robot. And even if I were, I would not be yours.

How did we arrive at a web that is increasingly hostile to actual humans? Efficiency. There is something to be said for slowing down to enjoy life, or to take time to do something right. Efficiency is not king; far from it. Lately, I find efficiency is often the reason I feel so busy.

Thanks to reCAPTCHA, many services and sites demand you do Google's bidding. What do you gain from it? Not much, really. I've encountered so many reCAPTCHAs during last week's delete shenanigans, I wanted to scream. It wasn't just tick-the-box, it was improve-our-shitty-AI-image-classification ad nauseum. On the other hand, this could indicate success at avoiding too much of Google's insipid crapulence. Small win?

Have you ever tried deleting an online account? I have. I have updated several I want to keep after changing email addresses, and several others I've deleted over the last week. And on requesting deletion, I have encountered varying levels of resistence.

Take Adobe, for instance. I had the username and password for the account, but I was coerced to accept a change in terms in order to sign in just to delete the account. Despite the prevelence of email in business, they have no obvious email address. So I tweeted them. After some discussion, they finally agreed to delete my account.

Today is the end of the first week of the year (assuming you count weeks according to the ISO). I've done quite a bit in the world of baz.bar, from setting up FreeBSD on an old eMachine and a couple of Orange Pis, to moving from Scrapazon Web Services to RackNerd, and setting up Kerberos, LDAP, Nextcloud, Postfix, and Dovecot.

I also upgraded OpenWRT, which basically meant setting most services up from scratch again, because the built-in backup is not nearly as robust as one would think. In fact, I had to install packages again, because the upgrade apparently erases them. Note to self: I should probably backup as much of the router data as I can to Nextcloud.