Andrew Gioia @andrew@gioia.social

Trains all rainy weekend are the absolute best rainy weekends

#Daniel #photo

Our first successful 3d print! It was way too cold in the room but the cover we got today kept everything warm. #project #photo

Played school the other day and Danny said he needed "the blue thing" first. Bluey's dad always wears this when they play and I guess he picked up on it! 😛 #photo #Daniel

New 10 terapixel photo of the night sky showing 1B galaxies http://viewer.legacysurvey.org, the scale of #space is just impossible to appreciate

Our little boy James was born on February 3! Beth is home but he needs a little longer at the hospital, can’t wait to bring you home too little man and for you to meet your wonderful big brother!

Just upgraded #mastodon to 3.3. Unfortunately had to boost the droplet to 4GB of memory just to get through the asset precompile. Really hoping these heavy parts of the build process get fixed in a soonish release.

We finally got a few days where we could use these! #photo #daniel

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority...” —Carl Sagan

This was the biggest hit by far this Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

To defend against an Antitrust lawsuit, they decide to form a bigger Trust together... https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-facebook-agreed-to-team-up-against-possible-antitrust-action-draft-lawsuit-says-11608612219

Really cool 20 min documentary of a 1950s foundry/locomotive manufacturer. Absolutely insane lack of protective equipment O_O https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67iHmxQFB-s

Reddit's 52MM daily active users is surprisingly low to me, and this is up 44% since last year. I guess this is why they keep cranking out dark patterns and why that won't stop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25303423

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary Oliver

Christmas lights are up! Cant wait to get some shrubs on the front hill next year to make that look better for lights too.

Christmas music doesn't get any better than the Vince Guaraldi Trio 🎄

I think that YouTube as we knew it is going to be done soon. The latest monetization move with minimum compulsory ads on top of already heavy ad volume, 3-minute sponsor reads, Patreon plugs, product placements, all in ~10 minute videos (!) is on the downward half of the curve. I've loosely noticed I just don't use it anywhere near how much I used to.

All things will invariably end up like cable I guess.

#Daniel has been picking his clothes out more lately and I love it! #photo

Found out about two awesome #foss #privacy tools yesterday: https://nitter.net as an alternative privacy-minded Twitter frontend and a fantastic FF extension to auto-redirect to it (among other similar services): https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect. No more Twitter login nags and way more UI control.

Adding Vimeo to the list of companies that both secretly enable auto-renew and have a really hostile refund policy. I really wanted to like them but this ensures I never use their service again unfortunately.