He might as well answer in Russian.

A screenshot of "Life Is Strange: Double Exposure". Max has just come in thru a doorway and is looking towards, yet up and over the camera, with the light from outside spilling around her.

A screenshot of "Life Is Strange: Double Exposure", depicting graffiti on the wall of a dilapidated building.

A screenshot of "Life Is Strange: Double Exposure". Max is looking at a downward right angle as if she's pondering something. She's wearing a beanie with a little chili dog character on it. A snow covered tree is in the background.

Long time no see, Max.

Link: steamcommunity.com/id/gerowen/screenshots/

#LifeIsStrange #Gaming

If this is what winning feels like then he was right about one thing; I'm tired of "winning".

When he launched this war, the President vowed regime change and “unconditional surrender.”

What has he gotten? We went from Ayatollah Khamenei to Ayatollah Khameini Jr. - and are now negotiating over a 10-point plan written by the Iranians.

AGE vs. GPG (PGP) Encryption Benchmarking AGE vs GPG. Is it time to move on from the long trusted GPG utility?

I've finished my testing of #AGE vs. #GPG #encryption and published the results here:

open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/...

#Privacy #Security

Which means nothing will ever happen. He'll never be extradited, his loyalists won't allow it. So the only thing that will ever happen is mean words.

War Pigs YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc5N...

Honestly I'm kinda glad he taco'd on this.

A screenshot of the Windows "terminal" app with the following output that appeared immediately upon trying to open it: [error 3489660986 (0xd000003a) when launching `%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe']

Just set a brand spanking new #Windows 11 VM and installed the March update (KB5086672), and now powershell is broken. Literally all I've done is install Windows, Firefox, the virtio drivers and some Windows updates. Everything was fine until I installed the March update.

#Microsoft

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

26.4.6 · Marcus Adams / PyCheck · GitLab 6 April 2026 Marcus Dean Adams (gerowen@pm.me) Various code cleanup operations: Added some graceful exits in cases where the...

Made a few more touch-ups real quick while I felt like working on it.

gitlab.com/gerowen/pych...

I agree with you, but part of the reason, besides greed, is that activations are easily broken. One of the reasons photoshop got as popular as it is and crushed all the alternatives was because everybody and their dog pirated it back in the day.

26.4.5 · Marcus Adams / PyCheck · GitLab 5 April 2026 Marcus Dean Adams (gerowen@pm.me) Made several dialogs and messages more clear about what is happening and when. Moved...

I made some tweaks to a personal project called PyCheck. Its entire purpose is to put an icon in my applications menu that I can click to easily verify whether a file matches its original checksum without manually reading the whole hash.

Link: gitlab.com/gerowen/pych...

#Python #Programming

A screenshot of some log messages from my server showing the following: Connection attempts using mod_proxy: 141.226.93.211 -> 104.243.35.138:25: 1 Time(s) 141.226.93.211 -> 104.243.35.138:80: 1 Time(s)

Hmmm. An IP address from #Israel trying to use my home server as a gateway to an IP owned by #SaudiArabia.

#CyberSecurity

On the off chance somebody needs to send me an encrypted file, I've upgraded to a new version of #AGE and switched to a new post-quantum key to go along with that upgrade. You can find my new public key on my personal site at:

marcusadams.me/keys.html

#Security #Privacy

Soon to be appearing in midterm political ads for Democratic candidates nationwide. Thanks, Darnold. 🙏

This is absolutely fantastic.

ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social

Trump is asking Congress for even more money for war, offset by billions in cuts to domestic and social safety-net programs.

It makes this 1970s anti-war PSA all the more relevant today.

A screenshot of myself standing at the steps into Raya Lucaria. It's raining so everything looks slightly wet. The camera is angled slightly upwards to show the castle.

I'm standing in the "Church of the Cuckoo" area of the Raya Lucaria academy, which vaguely resembles the dining hall in Hogwarts.

I'm standing outside in a courtyard. It's raining so everything looks wet. There are two burning braziers and a fountain behind me.

I'm standing in a covered walkway with windows between the roof supports allowing you to see out to the rest of the castle.

Raya Lucaria academy in #EldenRing is basically #Hogwarts if Voldemort was headmaster and I was muggleborn.

More of my Elden Ring screenshots: steamcommunity.com/id/gerowen/screenshots/

#Gaming

Let's focus on something we ALL agree on:

#ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Omfg, fuck Argath. I should have let him die when I found him.

#FinalFantasyTactics #Gaming #FinalFantasy

Nextcloud Freezing/Hanging When Viewing Image Folders After Upgrading to 33 (Solved) I've had this issue off and on since upgrading to 33, but couldn't quite nail it down, until now.

I did a short write-up on how I fixed the issue with my personal #Nextcloud instance freezing/hanging after upgrading to Nextcloud 33.

Link: open.substack.com/pub/gerowen/...

#HomeLab #SelfHosting

I've re-enabled @ap.brid.gy bridge from my #Mastodon account to here. Many things I share exceed the #Bluesky character limit, so if you want to see more of what I post, either follow me directly on Mastodon (link in profile), or follow the bridged feed at:

bsky.app/profile/gero...

Damn they got me figured out, 😆

That's very clearly a civil war re-enactment.

The federal government "lost" my wife's loan once already years ago and we were unable to make payments because the number we had been calling to pay got disconnected. 10 years later they garnished a sizeable tax return without warning, then changed their mind and said we didn't have to pay...

It's $3.80 here in eastern Kentucky, and diesel is $5.30.

I've been using certbot for years and it's been awesome. The only time I ever had an issue is I had made a change to a site configuration and apparently certbot checks that, and even though the site worked fine, certbot didn't like a mistake I'd made and refused to update the cert until I fixed it.

That Funny Feeling -- Bo Burnham (from "Inside") YouTube video by boburnham

I said years ago that this could end up being one of the most important American songs of this century

How's my prediction doing

I've never heard of Uptime Kuma before, but have been using UptimeRobot for years because they're free and external to my network, and one issue we have in eastern Kentucky is unreliable electricity. So if my power goes and the UPS runs down while I'm gone, UptimeRobot will still work.