Kévin

I got an email from Storj, the object storage system I’ve been using and worse, recommending, since 2021. My account is so old school it got grandfathered in when they deployed new plans. That was the past though, Storj emailed me this on the 8th of March :

At Storj, we continually strive to enhance our platform to serve our customers better. We will be making an update to our account structure that will take effect starting in April.

What’s Changing?

You may have noticed a “Free Tier Coupon” that appears in your invoice. You can check your latest invoice to see the exact amount of the “Free Tier Coupon” you have. These typically are nominal amounts that have been part of our Free Tier offered to users to experience the product. We are discontinuing this program, effective April 1, 2024.

What Do You Need to Do?No action is required on your part as long as you continue to have a valid payment method on your account. 

Supporting You
As always, our support team is here to answer any questions or address any concerns you may have.  Please don’t hesitate to contact our help desk if you need assistance.

Looking Ahead
We’re excited about the future and committed to providing you with the best possible experience. We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we evolve.

Stay tuned for further updates, and thank you for being a part of the Storj community!

Warm regards,

The Storj Team

Well, they do say I can email their wonderful Customer Service Team for any questions or concerns, they are so excited about the future and all that shit. So I did

I wanted to express my displeasure regarding the upcoming change to the account structure with very short notice. I have been a long-time user of Storj and I would like to request some consideration to keep my existing grandfathered free tier going forward.

Me, Myself, and I

Kind of was expecting something, the spend on my account has always been under 50 cents, it would actually cost more to make me pay, so I was expecting some kind of half assed good will considering they just threw this at me with less than 30 days notice.

Thank you for contacting Storj. 

Thank you for reaching out to customer support regarding your free tier coupon on your Storj account. Please note our Terms of Service, which state “Company may change or eliminate any Promotional Credit at any time, without notice, including, but not limited to any coupon, or Promotional Credit designated as a free trial or free tier.”

As stated on our pricing page, and in an email sent to Pro Account users on or after February 27, 2024, and as announced in a forum post on February 27, 2024, Storj is deprecating the free tier effective April 1, 2024. As announced in the email you received, we are offering a grace period for impacted users to remove their data from Storj or add a payment method to continue using Storj by April 1, 2024. A 30-day free trial is now available through our sign up page.

If you wish to continue using the Storj Service, please see our documentation on how to add a payment method.

We hope you will continue to use the Storj service.

Storj

Well no dice, whatever, at least I had time to add a payment method by the 1st to start paying cents that I certainly hope Stripe will absolutely drain in fees. Except, no, I didn’t you know what is missing from any of those emails ? If you lack a payment method attached to your account THIS VERY MOMENT your account (even with the coupon that is very much still active and valid TODAY) will be heavily limited and it will absolutely break EVERYTHING silently.

I can accept less than 30 days notice when the end cost is almost nothing, I can accept being fobbed off, what I can’t tolerate is not being told you just fucked my account and that 12 days later I’d have to be fixing all the fucked uploads on four different WP sites at 4h in the god damn morning.

Thanks Storj you fucking clowns

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A Rant About Creative Works Being Held Hostage for Shareholder Profits

This is kind of a toot I was about to make but then when I think about it, I should probably do a blog post. Mainly because it’ll be a super long form toot and because Bridgy does the job, any comments in the thread I post this link to will be saved in the article discussion.

Some of my more recent posts about the series have basically been toxic fanboying for Ben Browder, and yeah sure there is an element of that in why I enjoy Farscape, it’s not the whole reason. Even with Ben I’m more pulled to this particular character than some of the other things he’s done, pretty can get you only so far but there is something over all about how he plays this character on this series that comes off as an all-rounded hot, not just pretty to look at.

Anyways, now that’s past we’ll move in to the main object of this post, intentionally lost media. I find myself really enjoying pre-2000 SciFi in general, not because from about 1990 onwards it falls in to that nostalgia category, but because of the work that was done in them to create a world with very little tools.

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I did a bit of a ranty rant on my microblog, so here it is in all its glory.

To be able to encrypt my iCloud drive I had to delete my old Macbook that can’t update to Big Sur because MacOS already takes 95% of the drive space, I had to move it to another iCunt account. Can I share a folder between the two ? No, just crash

@kevin the only good part about this whole shitshow is I’ve been able to add the second iCloud account as a part of the family plan so I can at least share licences, space, and other iShit

@kevin just now having to reupload the entirety of the documents that were on iCloud but are now going back on, effectively, the same iCloud account but whatever, I don’t decide these things or just make this whole process more easier

@kevin in the end, because the old MacBook can’t update, I can’t use Proton Drive for MacOS on it, so anything that I want on both machines needs to be on iCloud. The new MacBook is working perfectly with Proton Drive in lieu of iClout

@kevin and external storage is needed because MacOS is so unbelievably bloated neither laptop has a sufficient amount of space available to exist disconnected from the internet

It is done – while the old Macbook can’t encrypt shit on iCloud, Cryptomator can. So the ugly solution is – Cryptomator Vault > iCloud Shared Folder > Remount on New MacBook > Paf encrypted shared documents folder for 99 european cents a month

You might wonder why I’ve spent all this time doing this, I will not be told what to do by some California Tech Bro who is trying to planned obsolescence FOMO me out of a perfectly serviceable laptop while fucking over my privacy

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I have been stuggling a while with having a sleep pattern that didn’t have me sleeping all day long but also gave me a good exposure to the “quiet time” of the morning. At one point I managed to get something that I fell asleep in the evening at a normal-ish time and then wake up around 4h. It did vary slightly a couple times but it worked.

But as you can see from the top post, things are starting to destablise. My ideal range is around 21h-22h to about 5h, that gives me a couple good hours in the morning and since I have no social life to speak of with a life that depends on treking around first thing in the morning to get food, it works.

I’m hoping that this will be a short burst of waking up late, but from previous attempts I know it’s probably a very bad sign that things will just go wrong, brought on by yet another ghosting for yet another job no matter how many times I cross the street (it’s in the thousands right now).

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I came across two good comics today through Mastodon, I think they speak for themselves so basically this post is just here to send you over to them. Enjoy.

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This morning since it is Sunday I was going to take my usual quiet morning walk up to the supermarket and take the opportunity to relax the heating a bit, because this old place is not great for keeping heat let alone any of the shit my landlord installed in here being energy efficient.

Obviously it also doesn’t help that my oven is cheap crap, so any kind of cooking takes longer than it should while blowing those sweet and expensive kWh. But I digress, the decision I made in my bed surrounded by cats was this – fuck that, I don’t need much today and it’s not really worth it to save 3€. But I will need to go and grab some staples next week.

So that leaves me with a bit of extra time today as I don’t have two hours of clomping around in the freezing cold. Some of it I already spent with Jarod, who as a thanks got a bit grabby and sliced my face up, which means we’re going to have to do a nail trim.

For the rest of the day, I’m just going to do whatever, probably still have a pop at the whole Fediverse project that I accidentally got myself in to yesterday. I also decided I can have a treat and grabbed a panier surprise from the petrol station which is more than likely to be nothing more than a decent amount of snacks.

Other than that, I’m starting to like this new style, normally I’d just throw out a couple of toots and that would be that, but now I’m taking the time to just really ramble on a bit on the journal instead, with the brid.gy integration as well it is nice to see the immediate response of comments or likes come through as comments on the entry.

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Well it has indeed been a day, but here we are at the end of it (I hope). I think it has been the first real day in a long time that I’ve actually felt like I completed a thing.

So far I’ve been exploring the greatness that is brid.gy and got the glorious oh.mg on to the fediverse without getting shook down by Jetpack. I have to admit it took a bit of time to really understand what I was doing, I had a punt at brid.gy before but didn’t quite get it.

I also tried to get Known setup again on oh.mg, but I had some problems doing that with my webhost. There was an error with getting the database setup and since search engines are just AI noise I couldn’t get a coherent answer to rework the sql file to make it happen.

I decided I’d go extra and for shits and giggles use Bunny.net💰 to speed up Ouvaton a bit and try things there, it worked pretty well after diddling with the cache settings. That was my only complaint with them, is that sometimes things could be quite slow, where as HostMaria is quite well setup.

The other thing is that Ouvaton struggles a bit with SSL certs if the domain isn’t hosted on their DNS, so Bunny gets that problem sorted. With that I was able to set up OH.MG Auntie Social and OH.MG Réseau Anti-Social which I’ve been testing randomly for most of the day.

In between that I had some WordPress woes and let somebody know that scammers were hitting Tumblr with their photos and impersonating them.

I also ran across this gem of a video, which is a nice end before I pass out. Good night.

💰 represents a referral link to which I receive credit for verified signups towards my bunny.net account.

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Ok, so the last time I was using WordPress what I’m about to say was simple to do, basically edit the header.php file to effectively copy whatever creates this shit

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.oh.mg/2024/01/commodore-amiga-500-advert-from-1991/"/>

to make this

<link rel="alternate" type="application/activity+json" href="https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.oh.mg/2024/01/commodore-amiga-500-advert-from-1991/">

and put it right fucking here

but I can’t figure out how to do this basic task, it probably doesn’t help that everything I search churns up some bullshit LLM generated trash that just harps on about nothing and offers zero insight to how one could even start to try and inject this in to my code. I now know of every bullshit SEO plugin that won’t do what I want, but even after searching the files by hand I can not for the life of me figure out where this gets generated to hijack it to do what I want.

I use a plugin to inject my Matomo code, which is great, but I need to have this be dynamically generated so this is where the problem be.

If anybody out in the world knows, I’d be grateful for a comment, a toot, or an email.

Edit 15/01/24 – thank you to threadi who sent me a code snipet that I’ve implemented and also to vardumped who also did the same.

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As I’m working more on the oh.mg experience and fumbling my way through life, I’m discovering some of the quirks of WordPress and inter plugin shitfuckery.

Namely, posts that are translated to French or Catalan have an effect on the LiveJournal reposter does it’s thing. It would seem that if a post has a translated version it updates LiveJournal with the last one sent, problematically, if I set the translation to not update LiveJournal it will then wipe the original (English) version from LJ.

While not a huge problem considering that LiveJournal is subject to Russian law and thus allows for bullshit like this to happen

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The CBC for some unknown reason decided that they’d make a highly biased piece for us to pitty the poor landlords selling their rental properties, upheaving the lives of their tenants, and throwing them in to a brutal rental market in Toronto, and then get angry that the tenants demand financial compensation because how dare they have rights.

There are a lot of tired landlord quotes in this piece but the underlying truth is that these people are leeching off of the salaries and lives of others as “an investment”, then when its time for them to make a load of money from the tenant who has been paying their mortgage and hoof them out in to the street, start crying when concequences hit.

Their “small” landords are also rather interesting, the teacher who has a flat on Queen West is no doubt up to make a fucking bank off of that. The area is ultra premium price, so yeah she can afford to compensate the tenant for selling their home right under their feet.

They tried to frame the tenant organisation in a negative light, and honestly, in this whole sham of a landlord wank video he’s the only one who doesn’t come off as an asshole.

I’d like to say enjoy, but you’re not going to like this video much. It’s also available via Invidious too should you wish to let the CBC take an L on the ad rev for this one.

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