Weeknotes Oct 12 2025

Highlights

Overall a slow-ish week, but on Tuesday I got to go see Shawn Mullins in concert again. Definitely one of my favorite songwriters, artists, and storytellers. The concert was at The Kate, which is a small performing arts center attached to the Katherine Hepburn museum. I’ve been to a few shows there, and quite like the venue. After money frees up might consider buying tickets to their full run of shows - there isn’t a bad seat in the house, and they bring in quite a wide variety of things.

At the same time, signups for the next round of archery season started for 16, and 2026 is looking to shape up just as busy as 2025. Pretty sure I’m going to be a shell of a person by the time all of this is said and done.

I’m mulling over the concept of privacy and how it relates to our third sphere - I’m still convinced there’s a blog post in there somewhere, but I can’t get the concepts to get themselves to clarity yet.

One Thing Learned

It’s not too late to plant my garlic. I knew that the goal for my area is “early October” in a general sense, but I’ve learned that the specifics are “2-4 weeks before the ground freezes,” which here is the end of November. Hopefully my source ships in the next few days, and all will be good.

Links

1. Lebanon Farmers Market Application: Fillable form for the Lebanon Farmers Market vendors to apply.
2. NOYB Wins Microsoft 365 Education Case: NOYB (None Of Your Business) privacy advocacy group wins a case against Microsoft, claiming schools were tracking students without consent using Microsoft 365 Education Suite.
3. Digital Reboot: Alison Wilder’s article on digital detox and personal reinvention in the modern world.
4. The Importance of Being Private: A talk video discussing privacy concerns in our increasingly surveilled societies.
5. The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life: A Harvard University Press book focusing on privacy in the digital age and its effect on our wellbeing.
6. Read This If You’ve Got Nothing To Hide: An opinion piece from The Next Web arguing that privacy matters regardless of one’s ‘skeletons in the closet.’
7. Textcasting GitHub Repository: A text-based audio transmission system implemented as an open-source project on GitHub.
8. HackerFriendly Website: A resource site for ethical hackers and cybersecurity professionals offering tools, tutorials, and articles.
9. The Third Place Internet: An essay discussing the evolution of internet spaces beyond the home (First Place) and office (Second Place).
10. Reducing Friction in Indie Web Connection: Blog post by Tracy Durnell detailing steps to improve user experience on an independent website.
11. Weird Web October: A curated collection of unusual, experimental web pages and experiences for the month of October.
12. Eternal September: Website dedicated to maintaining a continuous “new user” experience on Usenet and online forums.
13. Jennifer Lynn Simpson on Music of The Future Blog: A tag page showcasing various articles about composer Jennifer Lynn Simpson.
14. Onion Location Redirect: Blog post explaining how to set up a basic redirection service for .onion sites using Tor.
15. CaddyTor Moth Monster Blog: A tutorial on setting up a Caddy HTTP/2 web server as a reverse proxy for Tor Hidden Services.
16. Tor Onion Services Setup Guide: Comprehensive documentation from the Tor Project detailing how to set up and run .onion sites securely.

Fediverse Posts

• In which Kris drinks the devil’s beer for free
• Why encryption?
• Indie News Roundup
• And I ran…
• Concert night
• Layne Does Heroin
• Let’s Play Radio

Now Playing

Jennifer Lynn Simpson - saw her open for Shawn Mullins and quite enjoyed her as a solo act. Her studio albums are more finished and polished and pretty good.

Screen Time

Oof. Hate it. Really need to get this under control. Averaged about 8h/day totalling 59 hours, which the math claims is down significantly from last week, but I think that’s mostly my alarm clock.

• TikTok: 13 hours
• Alarm: 11 hours
• Reddit: 8 hours
• FireFox: 4 hours
• Discord: 4 hours
• Fediverse: 3-1/2 hours
• Signal: 2 hours

Some photos