2026 Winter Olympics get underway with opening ceremony in Milan
2026-02-07T06:56:05Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
“But really, the most important question - which team had the best outfits? ”
Me shouting at the radio: "Canada, of course!"
And the righteous response:
“But my personal favorite, I will say, was Team Canada. They had these big maple leaf parkas. I got to see their fits up close on a tour of the Olympic village earlier this week. They looked really great. ”
Nice:
Clarification on speed limit for Honolulu-bound Likelike Highway prior to School Street
2026-02-02T20:10:27Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I was driving through this intersection following the flow of traffic, which exceeded the 11 mph threshold for citation had the speed limit really been 25 mph.
I freaked out a bit as I saw that 25 mph speed limit sign leading up to that intersection followed by confusion as I saw the 35 mph speed limit sign immediately after.
I don't drive often so was unaware the city clarified this.
However, I think they should just keep the signs at 35 mph mauka-bound while keeping it at 25 mph makai-bound. That is, in the posted image, the left signs should both be 25 mph (so drivers are given ample time to slow down with the reduced speed limit) and the right side 35 mph to prevent confusion (with the elevated speed limit).
Announcing Up Here: The New Bluey Album
2026-02-01T08:18:14Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
I don't recall Rhapsody in Blue being quoted in the series. I guess I have to rewatch it now...
Credit Card Payment
2026-01-30T18:00:08Z via Identi.ca Web To: Public CC: Followers
I feels a bit strange to pay only a quarter for a credit card, which was the balance this month.It was for city parking and so I think this transaction cost the city more to process this payment.My property taxes offsets this, right?Thriller
2026-01-29T17:37:38Z via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=dgDSXlXkJv4
Every time Thriller plays on the radio, I always follow that with listening to this recording session.
Vincent Price was amazing!
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.