i spent this morning mostly absent-mindedly setting up zonelets because i realized sometimes i have things that i want to say but nobody i necessarily want to say to anyone in particular. i don't think a single person will ever read this blog, but it will be of at the very least minimal value to me. even if i never write a post after this one, i used an interesting tool to make something that exists in some capacity — that's pretty cool to me. it also helped me get slightly more familiar with css and html; my knowledge of it prior to this was more than the average internet browser, but still fairly minimal. i learned about exit characters, how style.css actually works, that you don't need a .ico file for favicons, and probably some other shit. neat.
of course like everyone else under the sun, i have been thinking a fair bit about unity and what it means for my friends who use it. personally, my interest was limited to dabbling almost a decade ago, and i am so thankful i haven't gotten any more invested in it than that. it feels like the company is laughably bad at preserving their footing; you never hear anything positive about unity changes/updates anymore, and it has been that way for quite some time. everyone is talking about the absurd pricing adjustments, nixing a very viable and helpful payment plan tier, and how the company does not value their customer's trust whatsoever. obviously this is all really bad, but it has me thinking a lot about telemetry and how much modern software employs it with "consent" only in the most legal and technical sense. i am concerned about privacy, but i am not a "privacy freak" compared to many, many people online. i like to think i have decent opsec and awareness, but i am still human, so i don't tend to bother reading the privacy policy beyond the headers. it really sucks that unity will probably get away with such an invasive injection into their dogshit blackbox software because technically every user agreed to it. class action lawsuits generally seem favourable to the consumer rather than corpo, but Dog knows my faith in the justice system (national or otherwise) slips farther from my grasp daily.
i am also taking a break from communicating with the vast majority of people in my life. i have temporarily uninstalled the 'scord (though i would revel in this being permanent, a suitable replacement contender hasn't shown itself yet), i have notifiactions disabled on the 'gram (i am still reading a lot of what i receive, but i don't have the energy to think about how to respond.) i don't really have anybody offline to talk to, so it's not like i am making a major change there. there are many reasons i'm indulging in social abstinence: i feel like i'm not going to be very pleasant to talk to anyway, i don't want to feel pressured to respond to messages, i don't want any temptation to traumadump, i have been talking to a *lot* of people daily for years so i want to try something new... the list goes on.
conclusion
zonelets is cool, unity is far from cool, i am socially exhausted.
today's album: "I Don't Like Shit I Don't Go Outside" by Earl Sweatshirt
i try not to listen to this album too often; it makes me really depressed. however, it's just about seasonal affective disorder time, so i will allow it today. also, the name fits how i've been feeling recently. i generally prefer to provide bandcamp links to records, but this is only on major streaming so youtube it is.