Jeremy @jdormit@mastodon.technology

Weekend getaway in Vermont. We drank some whiskey at the Whistlepig Distillery tasting room, then hiked to Moss Glen Falls for some fall foliage. I think Vermont is more or less all about food, booze, and trees, which is basically my dream vacation.

From Bloomberg's feature on the Chinese microchip hack [0]:

> When a server was installed and switched on, the microchip altered the operating system’s core so it could accept modifications.

Hardware people, is this even possible? I'm a software guy, so I don't know what I'm talking, but this seems really implausible to me.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Here's the full setup:
- start the mysqld process
- start either the httpd process or a php -S localhost:5000 in /srv/http
- run vagrant start and vagrant ssh -c "cd /vagrant && foreman start in ~/mastodon
- make sure that /etc/hosts redirects mastodon.local and www.mastodon.local to 127.0.0.1
- start nginx to proxy requests to localhost to localhost:3000
- run ngrok http 5000 to get a tunnel to the wordpress instance that mastodon can use

Now WordPress and Mastodon can talk to each other...

My barely-coherent notes on what I finally figured out (running WordPress on localhost:5000 and Mastodon in a VM with port forwarding to localhost:3000) (1/2)

Running a Mastodon instance in Vagrant and trying to get it talk to a local WordPress instance (directly on the host) has been an exercise in extreme patience. But at least I learned something...

DR WHO DR WHO DR WHO

I'm 8 minutes into the premiere. So far it's v. good.

Anyone have a good resource for statistics about the #Fediverse (specifically #ActivityPub)? I'm interested in the number of actors, number of services, daily usage, etc.

Watching Solo for the second time. Star Wars still makes me feel kid-like excitement.