It Was Yesterday
2026-01-28T18:10:08Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://soundcloud.com/bluey-sc/it-was-yesterday-feat-joff
I've been listening to this to moisten my eyeballs and that got me thinking what the movie can be about.
The series had one major family event: a wedding!
So the movie could cover another major family event: a funeral!
HDOT Announces Ground Transportation Modifications at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport as Skyline Launches Service
2026-01-28T18:09:00Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
“Also effective Oct. 16, all three rideshare pickup locations at HNL will relocate from the second floor to the first floor. At Terminal 1, the rideshare pickup area will be located curbside, mauka of Baggage Claim 6. At Terminal 2, two rideshare pickup areas will be relocated to the ground-level median across from Baggage Claims 19/20 and 31.”
Very nice. No longer will I have to exit the terminal at the departures level or move up to departures after baggage claim. That's how it should've been from the start!
QR Code in Correspondence
2026-01-28T18:07:51Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
The thing that really bugs me about QR codes in correspondence is that I can't immediately tell if PII is embedded in it.
So I always assume they're sensitive and shred them.
When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
2026-01-28T18:07:33Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Now up?
2026-01-28T18:06:26Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Hey, identi.ca is back up. Now to flush all my pending posts that were waiting for the past few months.
Planets
2025-10-10T21:01:36Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Hmm, every time I hear this on the radio, I imagine biscuits.Jupiter is always a stop-everything-and-volume-up moment for me. So majestic and noble!Experiencing this live is always a treat especially when it gets to Neptune and the choir comes in then walks out for the fade-out effect. What a way to finish an orchestral suite!GDM: Re-enable X11 support
2025-10-06T23:31:51Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/merge_requests/314
Ah, maybe I won't hold packages and see if my distro repo will have this revert soon.
For now, I've been holding onto my downgrade command in case my next regular update breaks GDM.
The CDC still hasn't issued COVID vaccine guidelines, leaving access in limbo
2025-10-02T22:08:59Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5559439/cdc-covid-vaccine-guidelines
As mentioned in my previous post, Hawaii has a much more communal culture than on the mainland.
As such, our governor has issued an emergency proclamation to allow everyone access to the vaccine: https://governor.hawaii.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/2509078-ATG_Proclamation-Relating-to-Pharmacist-Provided-Vaccination-Services.pdf
Glad I live here! I already received all the updated vaccines for the season.
» David Chung:
“[...] As such, our governor has issued an emergency proclamation to allow everyone access to the vaccine [...]”
Good for hawaiians, being kept a bit safer from the orange clown madness 😅
Lingering Culture Shock
2025-10-01T17:26:20Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Despite recently becoming American, there are still a few lingering culture shock for me:
- I still can't imagine miles. I can picture in my head 100m and so increments of 100m makes sense to me: 500m, 1km, 2km, etc. However, I can't picture what fractions of a mile mean: 1/4 mi, 1/2 mi, 1mi, etc. makes no sense to me and I end up preparing to exit much sooner than I normally would because of this.
- Gun culture. Fortunately, the concept of buying guns to protect yourself is not really a thing in Hawaii and Hawaiian culture is much more communal than on the mainland, which is why I feel comfortable here.
- And more recently, the concept that a failure to pass funding bills does not dissolve the legislative branch of government and trigger an election.
EDIT: typos
Date Announced: Bluey Movie Landing in Cinemas on August 6, 2027
2025-09-15T01:49:03Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://www.bluey.tv/blog/date-announced-bluey-movie-landing-in-cinemas-on-august-6-2027/
Surely this means more cues and polished album releases from Joff Bush and team, yes? Looking forward to it!
Also eyeing: https://www.bluey.tv/blog/look-inside-blueys-first-ever-piano-book/
More systemd-resolved woes
2025-09-08T20:31:18Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I discovered that by disabling IPv6, MMS wasn't working for me.
Thankfully, mmsdtng has a debug mode (mmsdtng -d) that revealed it wasn't able to resolve names. Yet I can resolve names just fine on my shell sessions and elsewhere!
It turns out that the the way dbus, which mmsdtng calls, resolves names is directly passing in the interface in question. So for the modem, it would be wwan0 and no DNS configuration was set for it in resolved.
After adding the necessary configuration (allowing wwan0 to resolve outside of wireguard), MMS started working for me!
Laundry Stage Select
2025-09-06T06:15:56Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I witnessed a technician using stage select on a laundry washing machine.
It makes sense to have such features for troubleshooting but that thought never occurred to me until today.
IPv6 and Mobile Data
2025-09-05T08:15:01Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
So the next struggle with the PinePhonePro was that I spent hours trying to figure out routing rules and such to get all traffic to go through my VPN (wireguard).
Whenever the modem reconnects, it seemingly circumvented my VPN tunnel as my IP kept changing. I was blown away that I can establish an SSH session through my VPN endpoint while still reporting a completely different external IP.
It turns out that my VPN wasn't setup for IPv6 and my mobile data was routing everything through IPv6 -- a traceroute finally revealed what was going on. No amount of setting ip route (with IPv4) would've worked. Disabling IPv6 on kernel boot got things working for me!
systemd-resolved
2025-09-01T02:30:48Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
After many frustrating hours staring at NetworkManager, wireguard, ip route, nslookup, etc. to discover why systemd-resolved refused to work on my home network (using pi-hole, which is why I want my VPN to work with it) and worked (127.0.0.53 resolved names) only if I was connected to mobile data, it turns out I just needed to disable dnssec! The trick was to see what "resolvectl query" was showing.
Allow downgrade was not enough. It had to be a straight "no".
This is also my first time with pmOS on systemd so there are some other things to adjust to.
Next critical issue with PinePhonePro and pmOS is FDE: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/2916
A Quick Community Update on PinePhone Pro and What’s Next
2025-08-31T10:51:54Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://pine64.org/2025/08/14/august_2025_short_update/
That's pretty disappointing. I attempted to replace the USB-C board (5 years of wear) on my regular PinePhone and broke it (so delicate) so I'm back to using PinePhonePro as my backup and wow, I forgot how snappy it was!
I was really hoping they'd move forward with the PinePhonePro devices so that my next one in line will still be a Pro. Unfortunately, I'll have to go back to regular PinePhones and save my Pro as a backup since it can no longer be replaced.
Perhaps they're planning a PinePhone2?
Flowers Waltz
2025-08-15T01:47:48Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Strange... every time I hear this waltz on the radio I now imagine orbiting ice cream cones.
Also, when I experience it in-person: https://www.myhso.org/concerts/2025-july-26-tchaikovsky-spectacularTwo Choirs Concerto No. 2
2025-08-14T03:24:15Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
Hmm, for some reason recently, whenever I hear this on the radio, I feel lifted up and being stuck there.Where's the beach?
2025-08-14T03:17:07Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
Whenever someone asks me where's the beach, I am reminded of this deleted scene from Lilo & Stitch: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7L2ZY9UFj60
General tip: no matter where you are on the island, move away from the mountain and you'll reach the beach.
New changes to Aeroplan Elite® coming January 1, 2026
2025-08-07T04:09:32Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://www.aircanada.com/ca/en/aco/home/aeroplan/elite.html
Boo! I was really hoping AC will avoid following what the Americans did to to their airline loyalty programs that focuses more on spending rather than flying.
Being half-way around the world was very advantageous to earn airline status.
What's worse is that a penalty is incurred for flying with partner airlines!