Hopes Notes

Well I got up a little later than I expected. Alex Murdaugh is going to be testifying for himself today.

Everyone on Mastodon, I have yet to pick an instance. Any recommendations? Twitter says they’re dropping external clients. I’ll still use it somewhat via the web interface and RSS, I wrote a post about that on my known blog, about how I’ll be tweeting like I did in 2007.

Cathy Russon, the producer of Law and Crime Network, the pool network operator of the Murdaugh case, did an interview for LA times. However I think the case draws more comparisons to the extremely famous 1995 case I revisited last summer, instead of the Durst case I followed in 2021. Although I thought this trial had the potential to last that long. Durst lasted 4 months.
[www.latimes.com/entertain…](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2023-02-21/murdaugh-case-tv-series-true-crime)

Good morning everyone. I’m up early because I went to bed really, really early lol. I’m also up early to follow the case of SC V. Alex Murdaugh, which actually doesn’t start until 6:30 pacific, and it’s only almost 5. I’m still perplexed as to why Micro.blog didn’t import all my known posts when I did the RSS import. It only took the ones from when I was here back in 2020/2021.

well, I’m back here on micro.blog. My host is in the process of shutting down it’s servers. I got free hosting for a couple years, which was nice. I even ran a Miniflux instance for a while. That was a lot of fun. Wish I could still do that!!
The service was a startup so doing a lot of pivoting!! First it was a service that was going to self host for you, and manage all that. Then he wanted to build a blog platform. Now doing something else serverless.

Pretty soon, this is going to be a Known instance. I’m sending domains over to the same service that manages my Miniflux instance. He’s going to set up WP and Known instances for me.

I’m beginning to think Kill the Newsletter isn’t a great solution for converting Newsletters to RSS. I’ve had problems wiwth it twice in a row now. This causes Miniflux to give me a bunch of feed errors I can’t fix when a site is down. This annoys me a lot, because I don’t like broken feeds.
Is there a better solution? I know Substack supports RSS, but if you’re not using Feedbin, Feedly, inoreader is there a good solution?

[https://9to5google.com/2021/05/19/chrome-follow-rss-feed/[https://9to5google.com/2021/05/19/chrome-follow-rss-feed/]

Shoot me now, OK?? I mean really?? No, Google isn’t reviving RSS, because it isn’t a living thing and doesn’t need reviving. Not only that, but it’s been around long after Google reader shut down.
Most of us have found our RSS reader replacements by now. Not only that, but we’re sticking with them. Google isn’t bringing back reader, they’re just putting back RSS in the browser. For heaven’s sake, maybe they’ll actually fix RSS preview in Chrome one of these days, OMG!!!

Wow, my router was giving me extreme fits a little bit ago. I couldn’t connect to the internet, it was saying it couldn’t obtain an IP address.It was working fine earlier today, and now not so much. I ended up bypassing it, and now I’m connected directly. It worked for a week, that’s it.

I’m having a service called cloudblast manage it for me. No, I have no affiliation with the service, other than the fact that I’m beta testing it.
It’s a service that will install self hosted apps on their servers for you. They’re in charge of the maintanence of the apps, and you get to use them. Kind of like having a VPS, but not really.
It’s gone extremely well these past 3 weeks or so. Although in the beginning, the instance did crash. I’ve wanted to set up an instance ever since the hosted version started archiving my unread items after 60 days last year. When I start paying for the service, I’ll probably ask for .more than what’s allocated already, when it comes to resources. Simply so that we can avoid any crashes in the future.
Oh yeah, here’s a link to this most epic service.
[[https://cloudblast.network]]