I think I ate too much Greek yogurt and honey.

Every once in a while I forget that I feel fuller with less food on Wegovy.

My stomach is making all kinds of weird noises. The probiotics are launching a coup.

Oof.

I mean, gummy worms /are/ worms, but not in the traditional, colloquial sense. They are worms in a secret, third sense.

It makes me wanna go eat worms. But probably worms are not tasty. Unless they're gummy worms.

Why do I constantly feel like nobody likes me even though I know that some people do.

I have to laugh at how, on Truth Social, reposts/boosts are called "ReTruths" lol. That's gotta be quite the echo chamber. They have no respect for epistemic discretion.

Egh. My mom is sick, and now I'm getting chills and body aches. I hope this is just my immune system putting up a fight and that it wins.

@abcdw Hey, I know this is a fairly old post. Is there any chance you still have the config.scm file you used for getting KDE on Guix?

Ooh I love this idea. It uses a GTK UI but I want to write a tool that does the same thing but for the command line using the Rich library.

https://github.com/mfat/ports-info

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/my-disillusionment-and-aspirations/

Dissociated for like 10 minutes.

I have to take a shower.

#Ansible is cool. I love Ansible.

Today in Homelab:

I've decided I'm not going to use my custom-built NAS machine. I have all the data contained in an external NAS enclosure anyway. Instead of the custom-built NAS machine, I'm going to use my Orange Pi 5 Plus devices and make use of LXC clustering on it.

The reason for the switch is because I feel guilty that my custom-built NAS machine is using up electricity, and if I'm going to have my Orange Pi 5 Plus devices clustered, I might as well use those instead. They are low-energy ARM devices, they make zero noise, and they can do everything the custom-built NAS machine can do.

I'm going to see about maybe donating the custom-built NAS machine somewhere.

I think I'm going to setup an LXC cluster instead.

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/lxd/en/stable-4.0/clustering/

Honestly I feel like learning Rust is more straightforward than this.

So I spent around 4 hours yesterday and 2 hours today fiddling around with a K3s cluster. I got the cluster up and running. But, like, I have no idea wtf any of this means and I have no idea wtf I'm (supposed to be) doing.

There is so much to unpack and understand here. I feel like I need to take a deep dive course or something to have even the slightest idea what to do. This isn't as simple as running Docker containers.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/17/att-verizon-fail-to-inform-customers-about-major-salt-typhoon-hack/

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/17/dastar-dly-deeds/

Ah there ain't no Santy Claus 😠

So Stranger Things 5 is set to be released sometime in 2025. Not sure how I'm going to watch it, since I was using my brother's Netflix account, and Netflix doesn't allow that anymore now, because they're assholes.

I think my parents have a Netflix account, but it is connected to their IP address, so I'd have to connect to their LAN to use it. I could just install the Netflix app on my Windows 11 gaming PC and connect to my parents' wifi network.

Another thing about this is that I'm not directly contributing to Big Tobacco. The stuff I buy doesn't have chemicals that big tobacco companies add to keep you addicted. It's just plain natural tobacco. I would compare this to like small coffee roasting companies.

I order my tobacco from this place. I get three 16oz bags of OHM Turkish Red, each costs $14.22. Each bag amounts to about 2 cartons worth of tobacco.

I get five boxes of Top regular 100mm filter tubes, each costs $5.68. 250 filter tubes come in each box, so with five boxes it is about 6.25 cartons worth of tubes.

Shipping is usually around $15-16 for 2-8 business days.

So for $87 I get about six cartons of cigarettes.

In Cook County Illinois, which is the county I live in, a single carton of cigarettes from the gas station is upwards of $150.

https://www.smokersoutletonline.com/

Blog post: Update on homelab projects

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/update-on-homelab-projects/

I haven't been to bed yet, but I think I'm gonna take my morning meds (which includes Adderall) and pull an all-dayer today. Also coffee.

THEY ARE CALLED SQUIGGLE BREADSTICKS!

But if one's gotta go, might as well be one of the pretzels. The two pretzels taste the same anyway; it's a no-brainer.

Actually it's not really that validating, because this person's mental model of autism is probably as simplistic as this map of Europe:

In today's episode of "Ableist but unwittingly validating assholes".

Context: My first comment here was in reply to a post about having to memorize multiplication tables in elementary school.

One of my main gripes with dating apps is that most of them don't give you enough space in the profile to express yourself. Like I feel like my Fediverse/Mastodon profile gives more space to succinctly express my values and interests. And my Mastodon posts and boosts reveal more info about me that is relevant in a looking-for-significant-other/soulmate context than silly dating app questions or prompts.

Maybe this has been done already and I am out of the loop, but what if we did some sort of "Fedi-dating" thing where we use a specific hashtag, e.g. #fedidating in a post that contains a blurb and basic/outline dating info/preferences/etc. We can also use hashtags for our location, like for me I would use #chicago.

I realize that there are significant privacy concerns with this with regard to posting personal and even intimate details on the public Internet. But it's just an idea, maybe we can build upon it, or discard it entirely, I dunno.

Does anyone know if there is anything like this that supports 2.5Gbps throughput speed? I've only been able to find 1Gbps ones.

#networking #homelab

https://www.amazon.com/UCTRONICS-PoE-Splitter-USB-C-Compliant/dp/B087F4QCTR

Also, the OP here has quite a limited worldview to think that one has to be a child to play video games, and that there aren't adult women who play video games.

I don't think punching down on women (as a group) is a good thing, but also part of me like "Damn, what a burn against that individual."

I bought a sleep mask. Maybe it will help me get my proper beauty sleep.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KC5DWCC

One of my female OCs. I couldn't get into the Warden class -- it's just not my thing -- so I deleted this character a while back. But I still have a fondness for her.

i don't has any cheesy popped corns, but i gib u some anyway.

Babe what's wrong? You barely touched your Marlboreo cake.

It would be pretty neat if I could leverage #orgmode to organize config.el tho. Like orgmode embedded in .el. Or wait, is this possible? Has anyone done this?

I guess there's no real reason for me to stop using Doom Emacs. config.el is just a monolith of what otherwise would be in modularized .el files.

I'm going to prioritize setting up the K3s cluster first.

I'm going to install Guix into a VM first before committing to replacing my Fedora KDE desktop.

I've observed that KDE Plasma 6.1.4 is available on Guix, so yay!

You didn't hear this from me, but Firefox, Firefox-ESR, and a ton of proprietary firmware and drivers are available in Non-Guix. I don't need any proprietary drivers for my machine, but Firefox might be good to have available if I need it. Librewolf is in the regular Guix channel also.

One big thing that I need and that not having would be an absolute deal-breaker is Tailscale. This Guix user has a package module for it, which I may need to refine myself. Maybe the Non-Guix maintainers would be interested in adding it to their channel.

https://github.com/alam0rt/guix-config/blob/511afa54fa091d423a3e4c12a82f2d7a7d4b57e6/packages/tailscale.scm

Man, the Facebook algorithm has picked up a pattern of my liking GTA: San Andreas stuff and it's showing me more San Andreas content and it's giving me an itch to play the game. It's scary how subtly manipulative it can be.

And not just cultural differences, but also experiential differences. No two people have lived the same life. This fact influences our individual mental models of 'common sense'.

@tavi I agree, and that's an excellent proof, because art is about how it makes you feel. Not too long ago I read about how Picasso was a raging misogynist. Dalí was similarly shitty.

@spiegelmama Thanku. Ibuprofen helped a little. I can at least sit down now lol.

Also, for some reason I feel like LISP/Guile is more intuitive than the Nix language.

Homelab projects for this weekend:

- Try out Guix as a daily driver
- Take off the Doom Emacs training wheels and setup a custom Emacs config
- Setup K3s cluster on my three Orange Pi 5 Plus devices

I listened to a FOSS & Crafts podcast episode from April 2022 and it was about the 10-year anniversary of Guix. My brain is still like an impressionable 13-year-old when it comes to this stuff. 🙃

Oh man the pain is painful. Can't even fucking sit down. Good thing I have a standing desk.

This is nice #cli #tui #programming #scripting #shell #terminal

https://clig.dev/

Sooo, I think I'm gonna not serve digital archives publicly, but I will maintain a listing of all archived materials. If anyone wants anything from the list they are free to contact me.

But to be honest I do think people use that phrase too much in contexts when there are cultural differences in what is taken as 'common sense'.

I bet if I were a social media celebrity my OP here would have received thousands of 'likes' and people agreeing and retweeting without thinking about the logic too deeply lol. My sounding very matter-of-fact there is little but a rhetorical device.

Maybe I'm wrong tho. Maybe I'm the one who needs to check and update their model of /the set of instances in which people utter the phrase "well that's just common sense!"/.

If your response to anything is "well that's just common sense!", you probably should check and update your mental model of 'common sense'.

My dad is here now with my baby niece, and while it's good for both of them for him to play and interact with her the way he does, it's annoying and overwhelming to me and I just want quiet. I can put my noise canceling headphones on, which would help, but I can still feel all the noise. My feet are also cold. I gotta put warmer socks on. And maybe my comfy pants.

I mean, I know a lot of animals are more intelligent than most humans give them credit for, but I also feel like assuming they have cultures as complex as human culture is veering into PETA territory.

I tend to feel awkward referring to birds by their sexes "male" and "female" because I feel like I'm being an essentialist. But I think it's safe to say that birds probably don't have genders, because they don't have cultures as complex as humans, so the essentialism vs. social construct thing doesn't apply to them.

Corvids, on the other hand...I dunno, maybe I should just err on the side of gender neutral.

OK I'm getting fussy about the visual appearance of my website/blog again. Specifically regarding the readability of the monospace font. I think I want to use a sans-serif font. But I don't know if that would look good with my current Hugo theme. So I might change the theme too.

Glob help me.

Blog post: My NAS solution and other homelab projects

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/my-nas-solution-and-other-homelab-projects/

@Wuzzy Hi Goldie!

💜

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert-kahns-archives-of-the-planet/

"And that means policing in Memphis won’t need to change. It can continue to be as demonstrably awful as it is for the foreseeable future, free from the existential threat of, I don’t know… having to act like public servants who comprehend their immense power is supposed to be tempered by an equal amount of responsibility."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/10/memphis-mayor-shrugs-off-doj-investigation-of-pd-figures-trump-will-make-this-all-go-away/

@thegibson I have yet to watch Hackers.

I don't have patience to watch movies these days, tho, when there are plenty of things to do on my 'puter related to my special interests.

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web/

Me: Do you think the empty set gets lonely, even when it's with other empty sets?

Rubber duck: There are no /other/ empty sets. There is only /the/ empty set. The union of a set of empty sets is, simply, the empty set.

Me: Hmm. I feel sad for the empty set. ☹️

Rubber duck: (embraces hyperreal in a hug)

I feel like I have insomnia. I'm usually eeping by now but I am wide awake.

Ubuntu 10.10 was the last release to use the GNOME 2 desktop. 11.04 began the Unity era.

I'm /pretty/ sure the first day I tried Linux was December 10th, 2010. (Don't ask how I remember the date; I'm just weird with dates like that). A friend posted a question about Ubuntu Linux on Facebook and it piqued my interest. Some time later that day I was burning the Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat ISO to a CD and installing it on my 2006 MacBook Pro.

I was such a noob back then. I didn't know the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit computers and wasn't sure it mattered, so I mistakenly tried installing the 64-bit version of Ubuntu on my 32-bit MacBook Pro. I thought Ubuntu wasn't working because it wouldn't boot, then I learned I needed the 32-bit version. I remember enjoying the Ubuntu login jingle when the live install CD auto-logged into the GNOME 2.32 desktop.

https://www.osnews.com/story/141265/the-state-of-falkon-kdes-browser-is-much-better-than-you-know/

This is hilarious lol.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/09/trumps-fbi-pick-sends-bogus-legal-threat-to-msnbc-commentator-receives-threat-of-repeated-taunting-in-response/

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/09/court-says-new-jersey-law-forbidding-disclosure-of-cops-personal-info-doesnt-violate-the-1st-amendment/

Lol

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/10/fbi-official-reluctantly-touts-encryption-since-us-telecom-providers-are-still-compromised-by-chinese-hackers/

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/10/the-depths-of-wikipedians/#atom-everything

https://www.garbageday.email/p/trying-to-scold-the-entire-internet

I deleted my Apple account. Kind of forgot about it because I switched to Android three years ago. I was reminded of it because Apple sent me an email "Keep your Apple Account Safe and Secure", to which I obliged. It will take some time for Apple to process the deletion request, but soon I will be "safe and secure" from Apple, to the extent that is possible in the digital age.

I've noticed I've been getting these anxiety spells every evening lately. Like around 6 pm to midnight. It's general anxiety mixed with social anxiety.

I don't know what factors have caused this pattern to emerge. It could have something to do with my sleep schedule being shifted. It seems since around the time I moved back in with my parents in June, my sleep schedule shifted four hours later than it was. I've been going to bed around 3am-4am and waking up around 11am-12pm.

I am like an anxiety biscuit today.

@ajroach42 I hope it's having a good day.

Blog post: 20 years of mental illness

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/20-years-of-mental-illness/

(twitches nose)

Agh, gotta go trim my nose hairs. F***ing universe.

They must have believed in Santa as a kid.

Democracy and pluralism are fine, until the majority of a community in a pluralistic world are aggressively hostile to other communities, or oppressive, or oppressed by a powerful few.

I'm not equipped to think of a solution for this.

Gonna go eat some leftover pizza and play Skyrim until I start nodding out.

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/my-tentative-file-syncing-solution/

But I mean like, obviously there are times when my brain really needs such assistance, which was why I thought of this in the first place.

I...uh...think I should not think on this anymore for now. I'm confusing myself. Did I nerd-snipe myself with a mind-quack?

I'm going to have a cigarette.

My values and interests would have to be given as inputs to such a technology, and it could advise me on the best words, phrases, and social scripts to use in a given social situation, within those constraints.

For example, it would know that I like to be realistic and honest but it would also know that I care about others feelings, am a people-pleaser, and it would suggest more "emotionally intelligent" ways to express something.

Wait. At this point I'm basically wanting something to think and suggest decisions for me. Maybe I should just...you know...let my brain do that itself? Because that's kinda what it's for?

@shaknais Thanks! That sounds like a neat idea.

Does anyone know of good resources to learn about how web servers and the HTTP protocol work? I'm curious, and I figure it would be good knowledge to have. I'm looking for something that would explain it to me like I'm a first-year undergraduate CS student.

The Mozilla Developer docs are kind of terse. The Caddy web server docs only go so far as to tersely describe /what/ things do, but I need to know /how/ things work in order to put that into context.

#webdev

I ran out of clonazepam like five days ago, and thankfully I haven't needed it since then, but I need it tonight. Tonight, anxiety bad. I can't get more until Tuesday.

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/my-speech-language-technology-wishes/

Tonight's supper: Pizza topped with spinach and garlic.

git dah -u origin main --fus

I haven't fact-checked this but it looks about right, or so.

I'm gonna be a little scruffly today because I don't feel like shaving.

@philip_cardella Hi, I'm just curious what the basis of this claim is:

"I'm not going to #BlueSky no matter how much better the experience is for anyone right now because Bluesky is a honeypot trap run by crypto nuts who are notoriously white supremacist as a whole."

Recently an older family member was so surprised when I said that I'm an atheist. I was kind of taken aback by how surprised they were, but then it occurred to me how extremely offline they are and how extremely online I am.

@ireneista @JessTheUnstill @BernieDoesIt @me I'm not sure that I agree with that. At least not entirely. It gets fuzzy when we use quantifiers in language. I would at least vouch for the fact that the number of doctors who take pleasure in such things is non-zero, and that it ought to be zero.

I mean

The assassin's smile reminds me of Solas (Dragon Age) for some reason.

"He's wearing a Carhartt jacket. He must be pretty handy."

My Nook of Apocrypha digital archive is now using Caddy's `file_server browse` setting to list the contents of archive directories.

I was previously using a JavaScript that lists the contents of MinIO S3 buckets. I've realized that it's more performant this way. MinIO S3 buckets don't offer anything useful that I can't have with regular directories. Things like syncing with a remote aren't any quicker or more efficient than with good old rsync or rclone. I don't have to sync with a remote on a regular basis, anyway.

https://archive.hyperreal.coffee

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/06/telecom-industry-think-tank-feebly-tries-to-smear-community-owned-broadband/

https://daringfireball.net/2024/12/dont_throw_the_baby_out_with_the_generative_ai_bullshit_bathwater

I wanna be Chappell Roan's bf 🥺

@me In the U.S. many insurance companies won't cover the cost and won't allow the pharmacy to fill controlled substances until after 28 days have passed since the last fill. I'm not sure if there is a law that applies to the pharmacy generally, rather than the insurance company, regarding refill limits.

I got around this one time after 27 days by opting for GoodRx. GoodRx didn't have that 28 day limit because it's not part of an insurance company -- the pharmacy offers it as an option if you don't have insurance. I just had to pay $30 for a 30-day Adderall prescription, whereas with my insurance I only pay $10. $30 is still cheaper than without GoodRx or insurance.

https://birchtree.me/blog/squashing-links-on-social-media/

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/05/court-says-theres-nothing-unconstitutional-about-warrantless-seizures-searches-of-an-immigration-lawyers-phone/

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/05/doj-investigation-proves-that-if-a-pd-isnt-known-for-its-constant-rights-violations-its-because-it-hasnt-been-investigated-yet/

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/05/gogs-game-preservation-program-gets-tested-early-by-blizzard/

@funkybuddha Yup, and on the left some kinda hawk-like bird or whatever they have in Skyrim lol.

Stunning Skyrim wallpaper I found on wallhaven.cc.

I'm afraid to look it up on Urban Dictionary.

I recently heard the phrase "man math" on a podcast and I have no idea what it means.

I'm not sure that I *want* to know what it means, to be perfectly honest with you.

@pants Thanks, I considered that but wasn't sure how it would work with Nextcloud AIO. But maybe I don't need Nextcloud AIO -- all I need is a regular vanilla Nextcloud instance. So, I'm curious how you have Nextcloud installed? Are you running it via Docker or Nextcloud AIO?

Okay, #SelfHosted folks. What Nextcloud/Dropbox-like service do you run on your local/homelab machines and isn't public-facing? I've tried Syncthing but IME it has always been a pain in the fundament, and that hasn't changed this time around.

I want to be able to access the service through my Tailscale network.

Nextcloud and its desktop and mobile apps don't play nice if the instance isn't public-facing and doesn't have a valid SSL certificate. It's also kinda overkill for what I'd need it for -- which is just keeping a local directory synchronized with my other devices.

I have a natural flair for the impossible!

Okay, Nike, fine. But there's gonna be some huffin' and puffin' and cussin' and fussin' before I "just do it".

I'm 99% certain that Ozzy is a schizotype. He understands us all too well.

Yay, it ready for pick-up.

"Today’s leading AI systems are not only inherently unreliable because of their “stochastic” design — meaning they can produce different outputs for the same input — but they can’t even be tested in a useful way to establish exactly how unreliable they are."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/03/why-generative-ais-lack-of-modularity-means-it-cant-be-meaningfully-open-is-unreliable-and-is-a-technological-dead-end/

#emacs #python

https://slinkp.com/python-emacs-lsp-20231229.html

#emacs

https://olddeuteronomy.github.io/post/some-excerpts-from-config-2-functions/

https://www.404media.co/email/12f2e486-e76b-48d0-94d0-da2679f52182/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

https://www.404media.co/ftc-bans-location-data-company-that-powers-the-surveillance-ecosystem/

Excellent choice

https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-decision/

Watch out for those miserable clusters of fuckery.

Don't want to get fucked cluster-wise.

I'm going to sleep. Good night.

Gonna go to the 24-hour Walgreens to get some Chex Mix. I can pick up my other prescription, too, while I'm there.

I'm thinking I might also get some gummy bears but the last time I had them I basically inhaled them and that's no way to enjoy candy.

@thestrangelet Cockroach find u

So according to Steam the last time I played was December 14, 2022. So that means I haven't played it on in my gaming PC that I got in April of 2023. For sure gonna have it on ultra-high quality video and graphics settings this time.

@stellarskylark Same. I don't know why I'm like this.

I'm wondering if serving archives would be more efficient/performant just using a regular web server directory listing, instead of using a JavaScript that lists the contents of MinIO S3 buckets. 🤔

I hope one of the pharmacies that my Invega prescription was sent to that doesn't have it in stock will get restocked by tomorrow. Tonight is my last pill.

Everything about this is stupid. I get this prescription every three months. You'd think they'd take inventory and see how many customers have the prescription and how many refills are due and place their orders based on that. Or maybe it's a supply chain issue. Either way it's stupid and I hate it.

The cold weather and time of year gives me an itch to play Skyrim. I don't recall the last time I played it -- I'd have to check Steam -- but it's been a while.

Dom-marine sandwiches. THEY eat YOU.

i gib u pumpkim pie

@spiegelmama Good night! Am glad to have online friends like you. 😊

@spiegelmama Thank you! This bit of reassurance makes a difference to me.

Am sad or lonely or whatever again.

I hope Neve and Bellara see this

Upgrade to Mastodon v4.3.2 went happily snappily.

@thedarktangent I will try this! Thanks.

This web debugging stuff is not usually obvious to me. I know there's a lot I can learn from the browser's developer console.

@thedarktangent @drwho But, while you're here, maybe you can answer this question: For the sites I'm using the Bunny Fonts version of JetBrains Mono, I initially attempted to self-host the font. The fonts were stored in a directory called webfonts, which was in the same directory as the CSS file. When I followed this Digital Ocean guide on how to use a self-hosted font, it didn't work on my website.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-load-and-use-custom-fonts-with-css#loading-a-self-hosted-font-with-font-face

I know I had the CSS correct. But one thing that is different is that the CSS file I'm using is hosted in a static files directory at https://files.hyperreal.coffee/css. So the webfonts directory was https://files.hyperreal.coffee/css/webfonts. The CSS I added used the relative path to the .woff2 file, so `src: url('webfonts/JetBrainsMono.woff2')`.

(Note the webfonts directory I've since removed because I'm not using it. It was there when I attempted this.)

For some reason that didn't work. To be clear, the files.hyperreal.coffee site is a different subdomain from the site I'm using the CSS on. Could this be a Cross-Origin thing? I've also tried using the full URL, which didn't work either.

@thedarktangent @drwho I don't know. I just didn't think of it. I'm not trained as a web developer.

I'm currently using the Bunny Fonts version of JetBrains Mono with an import statement. I hope they hold true to their pledge of privacy. This is just on the sites where I have full control over the CSS. On my main website (hyperreal.coffee), I use Hugo, and the theme I'm using has the JetBrains Mono font stored in the static directory, so that's always been self-hosted.

https://psychcentral.com/adhd/adhd-paralysis#adhd-paralysis-defined

I Catppuccin'd the Jargonfile.

https://jargonfile.hyperreal.coffee/

@jaredwhite Awesome! I didn't know about this. Thank you so much.

Someone said this series is good and has strong #Dishonored vibes! I also know several of the voice actor names!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcane_(TV_series)

@666ky Yep. I feel like the staring into space, chainsmoking is like how I withdraw/step back for a while to give my brain some breathing space before prioritizing my tasks. And this tends to happen when I have several microtasks that aren't exactly something I'd put into a todo list right away, or at least until I get a handle on the 'big picture'. But like, the anxiety involved in this experience kind of causes the 'big picture' to be fleeting.

#neurodivergent folks (or anyone, really): you ever experience a kind of dead-lock brain thing where you have many things to do but you don't know which to do first and you feel kind of confused/disoriented/catatonic so all you end up doing is just staring into space, chainsmoking, or doomscrolling?

@drwho Thank you! This question just kind of occurred to me and I mean, it makes sense, so.

I love JetBrains Mono but I got my eyes on JuliaMono and Iosevka. 👀

Dear web developers,

If my website's CSS is using Google Fonts (e.g., JetBrains Mono) and has an "@import" statement that points to the font on \fonts.googleapis.com\, can Google track which websites are using said font by checking which IP address is making the request to the font API?

So basically would it be more privacy-friendly to download the fonts and place them inside the website's root directory and refer to them that way in the CSS?

#CSS #HTML #webdev

I hate spiders and centipedes and all insects basically but I can listen to this song without getting my nerves in a knot. One of the lesser known Ozzy tunes.

https://youtu.be/NZScuQgzgOU?si=D9DVrRIQvksuX0nd

Me: I want a dog that doesn't shed, or stink, or need to be fed, or taken to a vet. Basically a dog with zero maintenance.

Rubber duck: Soooo...like a stuffed animal doggo?

Me: Yes! ... Well, no. I want it to be alive and capable of having an emotional bond.

RD: Well, I don't think that set of constraints can be satisfied.

So I ordered tobacco that is made by a supposedly legitimate indigenous company. As far as I've been able to gather, the Native American branding isn't just a marketing gimmick. I hope I like it.

https://www.signaltobacco.com/

@kaylee Thank you!

It's shaping along quite well, I'll have you know. I'm damned proud of it.

#archiving #datahoarding

https://archive.hyperreal.coffee/

Like I get the thirst part, that's obvious. But why is it a trap? Trap implies a zero-sum game. Like is it meant to lure in thirsty people and trap them as followers? What precisely does the thirsty person /lose/ in that situation? It seems like a win-win for both parties.

Why do we call them "thirst traps" when it's just people showing off their bodies. There's probably some history behind that phrase that I'm unaware of.

Traps of thirst

Agh, I got a zit inside my nostril. It hurts when I touch it or blow my nose.

There are people in the world who are *dying* while I'm having a mini existential crisis over a goddamned smudge on my glasses.

There's a smudge on my glasses. My lens cloth is on the other table, so I'd have to move to get it. But I am too tired and comfy to move. So I must deal with the smudge.

@ohkrll Ah! I decrypted it. "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine".

I went to the 24 hour Walgreens and got some Chex Mix.

The rye chips and the squiggle breadsticks have a special place in my heart. And in my tummy. 😌

I think I'm gonna read 2600 41-3. The hacker/infosec content tends to lift my spirits. Though, ironically, it was an article in 41-3 that I read yesterday that kind of made me feel pessimistic. It's titled The Burnout Machine, written by Bioszombie. I'm not dunking on that article or its author, though, because it's part of the reality of the tech industry, and the message needs to be heard. But like 90% of the articles I've read in 2600 have been inspiring, so.

@LexPendragon I played A Link to the Past on SNES back in the day, but otherwise I never really got into the Zelda franchise.

I think I need to take a clonazepam and chill and play a video game. I haven't played anything since I finished Dragon Age: The Veilguard. I don't know what to play tho. Kinda not itching for anything in particular at the moment. Gamer's block or something.

Does anyone know of any #job openings with qualification requirements very similar to this one and preferably for an organization that espouses the same values? Please boost this if you can.

#linux #FOSS #privacy #sysadmin

https://tails.net/jobs/Linux_generalist/

I think I'd be a good fit for this job and I'm thinking I should send them an application anyway even though they state that the job is on hold and applications received after October 23, 2023 will not be considered. Maybe there's a chance they'll consider it. I don't know.

https://tails.net/jobs/Linux_generalist/

I'm angry. I think I have a migraine. I love my parents but I'm fucking sick of their toxicity. I want to get the fuck out of this house.

Why is it that every time I feel this way I suddenly lose confidence in my ability to find a job. I get pessimistic. Even if I find a job as a sysadmin/devops there's no guarantee that it will be secure and I'll work there forever and can count on a living wage. From the stories I hear, the tech industry is toxic af and they're about agile sprinting and glorifying workaholism. That kind of work ethic contributed to my mental breakdown 20 years ago at my first job and is a source of a lot of my trauma and social anxiety.

Why does everything have to be so fucked.

@roxy Yep, there are subtleties that are hard to describe that AI can't do. I think it has to do with emotion, which AI clearly doesn't have.

@joegrimer That's a load of BS word salad. Fuck off.

I don't need no stinkin' wpa_supplicant on my workstation PC. Imma disable the som'bitch. I dunno why I haven't done that already.

@joegrimer I have similar concerns. I like multiculturalism and pluralism, because in theory everyone's happy doing their own thing. I'm not a fan of paternalism -- I think communities should be self-determined, but I also think they should stay in touch with modern science and ethics and be aware of the empirically-sound benefits. Whether they decide to adopt these into their belief systems and lifestyles is up to them; it shouldn't be forced upon them.

As far as I've encountered, the left being more progressive means they are more open-minded and friendlier to multi-culturalism. Whereas the conservative Christian right wants to impose a very narrow and rigid theocracy on us. The left's positions on political issues and laws encompass multi-cultural freedom, so Christians can be Christians, Muslims can be Muslims, etc. Christians aren't harmed by pro-choice law; they are free to to think life begins at conception and not get abortions, while pro-choice people are free to choose abortion as an option. The conservative right wants to Christianize the nation, and make everyone abide by Christian-centric laws. I think this is unethical, narrow-minded, and most often founded on bigotry.

So yeah, I don't think multi-culturalism has failed, but it definitely has its work cut out for it.

The automatic negative (intrusive) thoughts I experience don't have any content that corresponds to anything in my life that I can narrate verbally. Their payload is mainly negative emotions, like loneliness, social anxiety, RSD, and sadness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_negative_thoughts

After posting this I now consider the rent to be paid in full. Am moving on now.

Sometimes I encounter the most low-quality posts in Facebook groups. Like they're not even on par with most of the shitposts I've seen. They're just plain bad and nauseating on an existential level. It invokes feelings of cynicism about the future of humanity. I am offended not by the content itself, but by the fact that it was imposed upon my conscious experience without my consent. I'm also empathically embarrassed and appalled that someone would even waste their time with such a content. Also that I'm wasting my time letting this live rent free in my li'l brain.

https://shop.defcon.org/

Yes

https://archive.org/details/md_music_sonic_the_hedgehog_2/02+-+Options+-+Masato+Nakamura.flac

@s31bz It's a neat way to keep the carbonation contained.

I ordered sushi for dinner, and I also got a Ramune, which is a Japanese soda. I couldn't figure out how to open it, so I had to look it up.

https://www.wikihow.com/Open-and-Drink-a-Bottle-of-Ramune-Pop

Pilgrims in the 1600s came to the United States to escape government-mandated religion in Europe, and these conservative Christian gonks want to put the Ten Commandments in *public* schools. That is not the American way, as the Federal Court -- not to mention the First Ammendment -- declares.

The Louisiana governor, Jeff Landry, defended the law, saying that children who are offended by the Ten Commandments in their school should simply not look at them. The same people who say this are the same people who are "offended" by LGBTQ+ because it goes against their religious beliefs. Yet they have idiocy-fueled temper tantrums when they're told to mind their own business or to simply "don't look at it".

The First Ammendment is utterly clear on this matter: government-mandated religion is not constitutional.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/11/25/federal-court-blocks-louisiana-law-mandating-posting-of-ten-commandments-in-school-classrooms/

The slate coasters make a satisfying 'clink' sound when I set my coffee mug on them 😊

https://raju.dev/finding-all-sub-domains-of-a-main-domain/

https://werd.io/2024/bluesky-ai-and-the-battle-for-consent-on-the-open

https://bits.debian.org/2024/11/openstreetmap-on-debian.html

@apex I tried Headscale, which circumvents the need for an OICD provider, but I find the that Tailscale website's UI is easier to use. There are community-created UIs for headscale but I've found them to be sub-optimal. Most things can be configured on the command line, but for the ACL and machine configuration I find Tailscale's web UI easier to use. So my choice is to eventually have Codeberg as a custom OICD provider, to reduce dependency on Big Tech corps.

@apex It is so much easier to configure than Wireguard on its own. You can have ACLs. You can basically have your own private network for your self-hosted services if you don't want them to be public-facing. Tailscale runs on almost every device, even containers and VMs. It uses Wireguard under the hood. You can invite friends into your tailnet to share your self-hosted services with them. Tailscale has a feature called MagicDNS, so you can refer to devices on your tailnet by their MagicDNS hostnames (which are whatever you name them). You can also configure your MagicDNS to use custom upstream DNS servers, like Mullvad or Quad9. You can even setup Pihole on one of your devices and use that as the MagicDNS server that all your devices' DNS will be routed to.

It's really a game-changer for self-hosting. One thing that slightly irks me is that you need to sign up with an OICD provider and the only obvious options are Google, Microsoft, GitHub (and possibly another one that I don't recall). There is a way to use a custom OICD provider, like Codeberg for example, but it's complicated to set it up. I intend to set it up for Codeberg soon - there are a few blog posts and other resources that describe how to do so - but for now I'm using GitHub. Once I set it up for Codeberg, I might write up a tutorial myself describing the nuances involved in setting it up for my use-case. The more info on it that is out there, the better.

I'm currently in the process of archiving old video games from Myrient to a MinIO instance on my local NAS.

Once I replicate my MinIO buckets from my local NAS to my remote NAS on a dedicated server on SeedHost (hosted in Amsterdam), I will make the ROMs publicly available.

What concerns me is the legal aspects. I have a general idea, but I'm pretty clueless about the legal nuances and gotchas. I think The Netherlands has more lax copyright laws than the US, and they tend to overlook downloading of copyrighted materials. SeedHost in particular is adamant about not monitoring customers' servers. On their knowledge base, they say "If we receive information that your server has [illegal] content, we will contact you about this with the steps required to fix the issue, if it exists." So I guess this means they would ask me to remove it, though, if they consider it not worth the risk to themselves. Suffice to say, data is easily replicated, even if it takes a while.

https://www.osnews.com/story/141232/us-copyright-office-strikes-down-proposed-game-preservation-dmca-exception/

https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/ICC_issues_arrest_warrants_for_Netanyahu,_Gallant,_and_Deif_over_alleged_war_crimes

It's almost like the phantom limb phenomenon. Phantom neurons, maybe.

@risottobias Oh, sorry, you said VPS providers, not VPN.

But with Tailscale you wouldn't need a VPS unless you want the services exposed to public-facing Internet.

Sorry again, my brain is all over the place. So for VPS provider I use netcup.de. They are based in Germany, but have datacenters in the US as well. I find the quality of the servers are good for the money.

@risottobias If you're looking to run self-hosted services and access them conveniently and keep them closed off from the public internet (or not), you should definitely try #Tailscale !! It's free for up to (I think) 100 devices.

Ah man. I'm in hyperactive/impulsive/brain-is-all-over-the-place mode.

I've got to go touch grass, meditate, and ground myself.

True story: Several years ago I donated $100 to an EA charity (GiveWell, I think) to buy mosquito nets to save people from malaria. For an organization that prides itself on Bayesian reasoning, they gave me no hard evidence that the money went where I thought it would go. And this is probably my own fault.

For all I know, I contributed toward rent payment for some Silicon Valley techbro's expensive SF/Bay Area studio apartment, and this could be framed as "contributing to the greater good" because it contributes to said techbro's "utility function".

I got a message from a stranger on Facebook who said, "Tell me honestly, if I gave you a $5000 Walmart gift card, how would you spend it? I'm looking to help 10 families out this season and you are number 9."

Obviously a scam, so I immediately blocked them. But, come on, *Walmart*?

Like if you want ppl to get the most bang for their buck, try Costco. And there are more effective ways to help ppl out that don't involve suspiciously DMing them on the Internet. Or maybe buy your local Costco's stock of some essential items and physically distribute them to families in need.

(My use of the word "effective" there is because that's the best word I could find to represent the concept. I am by no means alluding to the "EA" movement.)

Uh here's my Ko-fi page if anyone's feeling generous. I'm not exactly hurting for money at this time, so by all means prioritize your donation to less fortunate people. But here it is anyway, just in case. You never know 🤷‍♂️

https://ko-fi.com/hyperreal64

@mike OMG. This is such a good content.

@tavi I've had similar experiences.

CIA: Central Idiocy Agency

I played Sonic the Hedgehog 2 so much as a kid that whenever I hear the "Sega" jingle my brain immediately anticipates the Sonic 2 theme song.

"Oh no, he's capitalizing the word 'Universe' again. Is he taking his meds?"

So I no longer suffer from this malady somehow. I don't recall if SDDM received any updates on Fedora 41, but I can now login with SDDM as the display manager.

It's quite possible that it might stop working again due to some random fluctuation in chaotic forces of the Universe.

Imagine if #ArchiveBox was rewritten in #Rust 🤔

If only I was versed enough in Rust to even conceive of such a project beyond just "ArchiveBox but with performance improvements conferred by Rust".

My Nook of Apocrypha is currently under maintenance.

The Seekers are repairing things at the moment.

Please be patient.

Thank you.

I don't know why but I just find the trans catgirl thing adorable. Like if I were trans I'd be a catgirl.

@tavi If I ever see someone out in public with cat ears I would tell them that it's adorable. But I'm not sure if that would be giving them unwanted attention and make them uncomfortable, when my goal is to help them feel comfortable with it. Like if I was in line with someone with cat ears I would just be like "Hey I like your cat ears! 😊 ".

It turns out that cryptocurrencies aren't as decentralized as they are reputed to be.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/05/sufficiently-decentralized.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-18/doj-will-push-google-to-sell-off-chrome-to-break-search-monopoly?leadSource=uverify%20wall

https://werd.io/2024/bluesky-the-fediverse-and-the-future-of-social-media

https://werd.io/2024/elon-musk-algorithmically-boosted-republican-accounts-on-x-from-the

I'm sad and lonely and now I want human interaction but I don't have anything to chat about.

How do people just...talk...and enjoy the interaction, and feel like their need for human interaction has been satisfied?

Gotta take my meds. Then I'll eat some pizza rolls.

I think I'm starting to build up a tolerance to 1 mg of clonazepam. It doesn't do much for me anymore, and I have to take two to for it to have the desired effect.

I'm not sure if this means I should ask my doc to increase the dosage to 2 mg, or if I should take a break from clonazepam for a while to reduce my tolerance.

I've been taking it almost every evening lately because I've been tense. If I take a break from it, then I'll have to deal with more vicious anxiety demons. If I increase the dose, then the anxiety demons will be in check and I'd be relieved of the visceral aspect. But then I'd also still be building up more of a tolerance and I'd continue to need a higher and higher dose, which is not good.

I'm feeling lonely at the moment, but, like, I don't want to chat with anyone.

https://lemmy.world/post/22399756

Bluesky is an echo chamber.

Twitter is an echo chamber.

Truth.social is an echo chamber.

Your group of close friends is an echo chamber.

Your family is an echo chamber.

Your own head is an echo chamber (or maybe I'm typical-minding on this one, hehe).

You only care about an echo chamber when the chamber is not echoing what you want it to echo. Echo chambers are a fundamental part of our social reality. Just shut the fuck up and who cares.

Today, I donated $15.60 to Wikipedia. I also treated myself to a free knowledge t-shirt, a Wikipedia dinosaur coffee mug, and a set of slate Wikipedia coasters.

#wikipedia #wikimedia
https://store.wikimedia.org/

https://files.hyperreal.coffee/mastodon_20240216-20250131/media_attachments/files/113/544/113/374/941/557/original/22a33b967ec188e4.webp https://files.hyperreal.coffee/mastodon_20240216-20250131/media_attachments/files/113/544/114/609/056/829/original/a4e62292ea7c48b5.webp

I went to bed around 11 PM last night, and just woke up now at 7 AM. I slept pretty decently. Maybe my sleep schedule is back to normal now.

I'm okay but just feeling kind of down. I'm gonna continue reading 2600 41-3. I always find the articles inspiring and mood-lifting. Then I'm gonna do a sleep.

Well. I'm just gonna do a sleep now. I am tired.

I want friends, and I'd like to interact with them on a regular basis, but only online in a "free-floating" asynchronous way. I don't like having obligations and plans to do something at a certain time -- like, say, meeting up for coffee on Saturday night -- because I can't predict whether I'd have the spoons to do so at that time. I'm also bad at synchronous conversation and I have social phobia. Even having time obligations to do activities with online friends is burdensome to me. I used to be part of an Elder Scrolls Online guild where we would do group dungeons at a certain time and I'd find myself often passing on them, and then I end up disappointing the other members because they wouldn't have enough players. The "perfect" friendship to me is something like an online friend who I casually interact with, occasionally send each other memes or links to topics of interest, comment on social media posts, and all of these things are done on our own time at our own pace, with no expected hard obligations.

Just took it now. I don't want to wait any longer. I want to feel normal for the remainder of the day. Since I made the OP here I've felt distant even from myself. Like a husk. It should take ~<= an hour to fully kick in and satisfy the neurons that expected it 18 hours ago.

I can take it earlier than usual. Like 7 pm.

Invega has a 24-hour half-life.

I think I forgot to take my Invega last night. There is no Invega pill in my pill container for Saturday night, but I don't recall taking it, and I filled it last Saturday, so I would have taken the Saturday one then.

I feel tremor-y. My facial muscles are twitchy, especially my jaw. I'm somewhat irritable. Alogia, aloofness - we have family over but I've no energy or desire to talk. Other than that, I think I'm thinking rationally, for the most part. I think I can hold the line until tonight's dose.

Phishing scams have ruined web link-sharing and general information flow between people on the Internet. I sent a link about neurodiversity in a text message to my mom last week and she never read it because she wasn't sure it wasn't a phishing scam. It's good that she's vigilant about it, but Jesus Fucking Christ, it has hindered and delayed her understanding of something important to me. You can't just share links anymore, you have to add extra identifying context so that the person on the other end knows it's authentic. This isn't really /that/ big of a deal, but it should not be necessary to begin with.

If I understand correctly, I think the @VeilidNetwork team is working on something that would eliminate this problem for chat apps? I run a headless Veilid node on my server, so I'm glad to be playing a small part in helping to solve such problems.

Am just a goblin in the world, tryna to do a good. 🥺

I would nom the heck out of this blackberry grilled cheese sandwich.

For the record, this qBittorrent instance is running on a dedicated server hosted in Amsterdam. It's not in my homelab.

@phanuel It did go surprisingly well! I stayed for a "socially acceptable" amount of time. Not as many people showed up as I thought, so it wasn't too hectic.

This might be relevant. https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/bacteria-your-lungs-new-microbiome-study-shows-how-they-get-there

What I had in mind was like some kind of vapor one could inhale that has an immediate effect of cleaning out bacteria or toxins or what-not. My thinking was that even people with healthy lungs might have some kind of buildup in their lungs simply from breathing air. Maybe lungs have a sort of self-cleaning mechanism that works on the tissue itself, aside from the physiological response of coughing up irritants, and so such a lung-cleaning vapor isn't really necessary. Or maybe there is no buildup simply from breathing air and so a lung-cleaning vapor is not necessary. Obviously I'm not a lung doctor so I'm just talking hypothetically and based on limited information.

Earlier today, I cross-posted this OP on Bsky, and someone there replied and said the idea of "cleaning lungs" is dumb, and then in different words said that I was dumb for even thinking of it. They interpreted my post uncharitably and then insulted me. I called them out on this, and they apologized and deleted their reply. I forgave them, because I didn't feel too offended by it at that moment. But now, several hours later, I'm in a foul mood because of it, and it's occupying a non-trivial part of my thoughtspace. Part of me got over it earlier, but a deeper part of me is still distraught about it.

To be fair, conventional liberals might see us non-voting left-libertarians as complicit in fascism.

Is there anything one can breathe that sanitizes one's lungs? Preferably something recommended by actual medical doctors and not by some crank naturopath. Or do our lungs really need to be sanitized?

I feel like decades of breathing random air might produce some kind of buildup on our lungs, and maybe this is why elderly people have smellier breath, whereas a baby's breath doesn't smell like anything (or formula, sometimes).

The critical window of shadow libraries - Anna’s Blog
https://annas-archive.li/blog/critical-window.html

I think this is a fair criticism. Complicity is not exactly the same thing as direct wrong-doing, but it's often just as harmful.

I made an echo chamber.

https://asciinema.org/a/691725

I've been enjoying this podcast lately. https://cyberpunklibrarian.com/

@maddiefuzz It isn't?

Brain is trying to pull me down a rumination rabbit hole but I think I can escape. It doesn't feel strong enough. I've just got to start focusing on something in order to win out.

I liked a few genuine, gorgeous autumn photographs, taken by an actual meatspace human photographer, and now the Facebook algorithm is showing me obviously-"AI"-generated autumn crap. This is just stupid.

"She is super beautiful and clever and sweet."

This follows the distributive law.

super (beautiful and clever and sweet) = super beautiful and super clever and super sweet.

I just felt that writing it in its distributed form or with parentheses would have read awkwardly or confusingly.

The idea of a 'headspace' implies the existence of a 'headtime' and a 'headspace-time'. It's a four-dimensional construct.

@thegibson Setting aside the logical inconsistencies or "paradoxes" inherent in the idea of time travel, there are only a few things I'd change, too, I think. Most of them have to do with mistakes I made that cost me relationships I valued.

The Anna's Archive torrents are taking a while to download. I started them the other day, and only 5 out of 60 of them have completed downloading. Despite qBittorrent running on a 10Gbps network. Maybe the servers they are being downloaded from don't have high network throughput for uploading.

Listen, scarecrow, you are literally made of straw yourself. So yeah, you can say that I am, indeed, strawmanning, here.

@csolisr Okay, so I realize I was kind of confused with the terminology. The PDS is for communicating with Bsky. It's not an implementation of the ATProto itself, as I previously thought. I think Bsky is the only implementation of the ATProto, hence your post about hoping for an(other) implementation for self-hosting. Sorry for being wrong.

It doesn't help that the Bsky PDS repo itself lists their Discord server that I joined as "AT Protocol PDS Admins".

I don't understand the PDS code well enough to know whether it is abstracted from Bsky and can hypothetically be used for any AT Protocol implementation.

https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds

@ceresbzns Hello! You seem pretty cool!

@ceresbzns @csolisr The benefit is that you self-host your own data. It's not stored on Bsky servers. At least, that's my understanding.

The take that conventional liberals are pro-genocide doesn't feel like a correct or fair characterization to me. The root of the problem seems to be the system that enabled these candidates to be the only options. The vote was either for fascism (Trump) or for the possibility of a better life for vulnerable groups (Harris), regardless of Harris' foreign policy record. I don't blame people for choosing Harris, in this case. These candidates policies will affect them in a very non-trivial way, so it's reasonable for them to want the best possible outcome for themselves, even if they don't like Harris' foreign policy record. It's not like Trump would be any less supportive of genocide than Harris.

Domino's has been pretty aggressive with their promotional emails lately. Jesus Christ. I unsubscribed from them, but honestly I think it's time to start using Proton Mail's hide-my-email-address aliases for such accounts like Domino's and Jimmy John's and whatever other company is likely to send spam.

I disagree with this. I'm a left-libertarian, anti-genocide, and anti-colonialist, but I consider myself more pragmatic to an extent that I can't verbalize right now. It depends on whether I deem the action to be proportional to the harm, and in regard to defederating with mastodon.social, I don't think it is. I follow a lot of decent people on that instance whom I'd prefer not to be cut off from.

I'm uneasy about this extreme black and white thinking among far leftists. I think there is a clear and obvious difference between voting for Harris for other reasons besides foreign policy vs. being a direct supporter of genocide in the same way neo-Nazis are. Conflating those would be denying a non-trivial piece of reality. We can still promote anti-colonialism and anti-genocide without isolating ourselves from conventional liberals. Advocating to cut them off is based on a desire to punish them, and frankly I find any idea founded on a desire to punish to be scary and reminiscent of fascism.

Of course, this is the Fediverse, so it should be a decision made by individual instances.

If I see other reasons for defederating from mastodon.social, I will consider them. I just don't think the fact that they tend to be Biden/Harris liberals to be a good reason to do so.

https://eattherich.club/@fuckwork/113521734510554925

I don't have to use my treadmill today because I got a good workout shoveling snow 😊

Corporations aren't individual people.

"Okay but they're run by individuals."

Let's not pretend that the power/agency of a corporation run by a filthy rich CEO and shareholders is equal to that of an ordinary person.

@csolisr Ah, I see what you mean.

My personal opinion is that the PDS requiring Bsky is fine, and if I want something more decentralized I have the Fediverse/Mastodon. I see Bsky as an incredible alternative to Twitter/X, and the fact that we can run our own PDS that communicates with Bsky is great. I've setup a PDS a while back but it was still lacking in features. Once it gets to a point where I can import all my Bsky.social data, including posts, followers, and following, then I would consider switching to it.

@ceresbzns @csolisr As far as I know there is only the Bsky mobile app. You can login to your PDS from it though.

EDIT: There is a Bsky mobile app and the website app. So yeah, users are currently locked into official ones.

As an alternative to Twitter/X, this is acceptable to me. For complete and independent decentralization, I think the Fediverse/ActivityPub fills that role just fine right now.

I don't want to brush my teeth atm, but I gotta get it over with, I s'ppose.

I'm reminded of a sign in my old dentist's waiting room that had a cartoon rabbit holding a tooth brush, and it said "You don't have to brush /all/ your teeth, only the ones you want to keep."

And it's like, wtf, why do you gotta play mind games like that. Like obviously everyone wants to keep all their teeth. For the first half of that sentence I thought I was off the hook, but then it's like "No haha jk you gotta brush all your teeths my dude".

@burnoutqueen Oh, I see I was completely wrong about it. This source says "she says she'll follow the rule." My mistake.

https://whyy.org/articles/sarah-mcbride-bathroom-ban-united-states-house/

@burnoutqueen Ah I see, I wasn't sure what the context of your OP was. I'm kind of behind on uspol current news because I need to preserve my mental health. Based on the little info I had, I thought that's exactly what she was doing, so I was confused by your OP.

@csolisr Am I correct to assume that by your use of "proper" here, you are aware of the ATProto Personal Data Server and you find it to be currently subpar?

If not, then I want to just inform you that it is a self-hostable implementation of the ATProto. Though it's currently not considered production-ready. :)

@burnoutqueen What do you mean? I'm just curious, I don't intend to argue here.

Am a sad goblin. ☹️

As a left libertarian living in a conservative household, I am constantly subjected to the horrors of Fox News. I can't tell the homeowners to change the channel. They don't care how their views and attitudes affect me, because it's their house, and they have a right to be toxic assholes in their own house. As a disabled dependent, I still get medical insurance under my dad's plan, so I can't just up and leave, and I try not to burn bridges.

Often, trying not to burn bridges entails sitting stoically in the line of fire of angry bigoted vitriol toward political people and news reporters on the television whom my dad dislikes or disagrees with. He thinks he's being fair and balanced by tuning into CNN once in a while.."Yeah I like to hear both sides, I'm not biased", but this actually just amounts to him swearing and spewing vitriol at the liberals on CNN, because he never cared about "seeing both sides" in the first place.

Anyway, regarding Fox News, I just had to sit through a segment of the Greg Gutfeld show in which he mocked "wokeness" and made ad hominem attacks against the trans congresswoman Sarah McBride.

If this is how most conservatives think, then I'm legitimately scared for the future, and it reinforces my cynicism.

This is just a rough draft, not the final product - I just figure it's good to have the mirror up regardless. There are still some things I want to add to the description of the web page's contents. I want to personalize it. I'm the only one running the mirror, so using "we" doesn't make sense.

The entire site is generated statically from Go's template library, so the text that you see at the beginning of the page is hard-coded. I just have custom CSS at this time.

The code is forked from https://github.com/teamcoltra/AnnasTorrentMirror

I'm just gonna leave this here...

(My use of the above phrase doesn't actually coincide with how the phrase is typically used on social media. There is nothing particularly juicy or shocking about the link.)

https://annas-archive.hyperreal.coffee/

BredOS looks like a cute distro for my portable desktop 'puter.

#arm #aarch64 #sbc #orangepi

https://bredos.org/

@devopscats It is, rather, an /image of/ a traffic light.

This is my lovely wife Neve. She is super beautiful and clever and sweet.

#DragonAge #Veilguard

https://files.hyperreal.coffee/mastodon_20240216-20250131/media_attachments/files/113/512/942/962/118/338/original/1c1363aee2240065.webp

@tavi Ah, fair enough.

https://files.hyperreal.coffee/mastodon_20240216-20250131/media_attachments/files/113/512/466/356/034/462/original/07ea2ebfa4fe9b1d.webp

@tavi Dual boot?

Me: Well I suspect your intentions are less-than-noble.

Rubber Duck: Oh, no, my intentions are noble af. Trust me.

THERE SHOULDN'T BE FLIES IN NOVEMBER GODDAMNIT

@aspensmonster Thanks! I dunno, I think this fear is a remnant of trauma of my emotions being shamed by peers who didn't vibe with me.

I posted this here earlier but then I deleted it because I thought it was cringe.

But you know what? I'm not gonna let that fear control me. So what if I'm cringe. Life is too damn short to worry about being cringe.

@andrewrk @b0rk I've never used it before, but maybe something can be done with SSH X11 forwarding and xclip or xsel. If you're not on an X11 localhost then I dunno.

This is awesome. #privacy #digitalfreedom #eff
https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/

Took a clonazepam. Now drinking hot chocolate.

Am comfy. 😌

#KDE #Plasma

https://kde.org/for/activists/

I attempted to tthhhp a popcorn kernel shell into the garbage can and it landed right on the tip of my nose 🤣. I couldn't do that again if I tried.

An idea occurred to me that maybe I should create an Instagram account and join Threads. But then another, contrary idea occurred to me that I shouldn't, because I already have Facebook, Bluesky, and Mastodon, and the less Big Tech has its greasy, grubby meat-hooks on my data, the better.

The Scarlet Judge (ESO: Morrowind) 🤝 the Shadow Dragons (Dragon Age: The Veilguard)

#ESO #ESOFam #DragonAge #Veilguard

@volpeon Thanks for this. I guess writing alt-text isn't is hard as it seemed to me. Having some sort of formula for it makes it easier.

Good luck to you, too, Chappell Roan ☺️

https://youtu.be/vL92xyS0IEM?si=yKi69HY3y-DPBeKO

@cwebber So like, think of a pub, with activity.

@srfaudio If it just worked, I wouldn't be here asking about how to do it ;)

As per the other reply above, all I had to do was add my workstation PC's tailnet hostname in the KDEConnect app on my phone, by using the 'Add trusted device by IP or hostname'. This worked on my phone, and I'm now connected to my KDE desktop.

Otherwise, I don't think KDEConnect looks for devices on the Tailnet by default. Possibly there is a configuration difference on my phone such that it doesn't work by default on *my* phone.

@tendstofortytwo Awesome, that worked! Thanks!

Does anyone know if there is a way to use #KDEConnect over #Tailscale ? It would be so awesome if this was possible.

I know KDEConnect uses some UDP ports, which are open on my workstation PC's tailnet firewalld zone, so they should be able to reach over my Tailscale network. I'm not sure how to tell KDEConnect to use the Tailscale network.

@thegibson That's okay.

I'm also kind of worried about having to go to a family gathering tomorrow. There will be lots of extended family. I love them, of course, but being around people is nerve-wracking. I think they know I have social phobia, so they'll understand if I leave early.

Or maybe I should take this opportunity to get some exposure therapy.

I have a sad in the general sense.

I'm archiving data from civilrightsdata.ed.gov. I actually started writing a Bash script with sed, awk, and grep doing a buncha string gymnastics on URLs, with a dozen regex101 and StackOverflow tabs open.

Turns out all I need is this super handy Firefox extension. ^_^

#archiving #datahoarding #Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

Ah, I thought Elgar'nan's voice sounded familiar.

This is still going since shortly before I made the OP here. I only did the .gov TLD, and it is now on domains beginning with W.

HTTP connections timed out for a lot of them.

Blocky is a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local network written in Go.

https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/latest/

@lzg I would be OK with being represented by a stick figure.

https://www.404media.co/fyi-a-warrant-isnt-needed-secret-service-says-you-agreed-to-be-tracked-with-location-data/

#emacs #dns #nix #tailscale

https://cce.whatthefuck.computer/updates#20241107T142834.711602

#docker #podman #emacs
https://www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/emacs-docker-podman

My brain is in rumination mode. Ruminating about persecutory things. I have brief or fleeting persecutory ideas daily, but sometimes they grab me and drag me down their rabbit hole. I'm also super irritated about being stuck here at my parents' house. They are toxic af; my mom less so lately. I don't even want to verbalize the deal with my dad here because I don't want to get myself even more worked up over it. I'm just going to try to distract myself and play Dragon Age.

Goddamnit Facebook. How many times do I have to hide 'People You May Know'. I don't know who tf any of these people are.

😆 💙

This piece by Eric Franklin, from #2600 41-2, sums up exactly my thinking on "AI".

My left hand pinky now looks like the white stringy layer of an orange underneath the rind and the goblin in my brain is goddamned determined to pick it clean. It's glove time!

Making this today.

https://www.allrecipes.com/classic-italian-pastina-soup-recipe-7971739

hyperreal's facial expression when he chooses the 'heart' dialogue options with Neve.

And with that, I bid you good night.

(Rides off into the sunset on a giant slug.)

(It takes a long time.)

@viq I like this one https://github.com/bootandy/dust

Invidious devs have pushed an update that should improve support on residential IP addresses.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment-2466911978

@tavi I had a gyro (beef and lamb) with Greek fries from this new Greek place around here, and it was awesome. I'm gonna be burpin' up the gyro flavor for like the next 24 hours.

I'm considering running an #IPFS node but I'm uneasy about its adjacency to all that Web3 gobbledygook.

Your DMCA notices have no power here, mortal.

I bet Hermaeus Mora doesn't give a fuck about DMCA notices.

@jerry I think part of it has to do with what someone above mentioned about the state of technology you are born into being normal, taken for granted, etc. I also think communities like the Amish etc witnessed evil things -- like perhaps greed, profiteering, bodily harm to family/kin -- that were enabled or streamlined by electricity-based tech, and this solidified the notion that such tech is evil. So yeah I agree that there was some survival benefit and looking out for their community, and the cultural dynamics were probably more complicated than just "technology bad". And therefore I don't think they were that arbitrary, at least relative to the historical and cultural context.

My late grandfather who was a boomer and Catholic hated smartphones and the Internet, and he literally said "We should just use the regular telephone like God gave us." He saw technology as fragile and finicky and how it enabled such like phishing scams, digital crime, and large-scale harm.

This also reminds me of where we are at today with AI and such. The AI technology is being used by capitalists to exploit and enshittify society.

One of the purest MS apps has been defiled. A sad state of affairs.

https://www.osnews.com/story/141083/notepad-gets-ai/

I am sad now. I don't know why.

I think I'll play Dragon Age until I start nodding out.

@catsalad @jerry And pronouncing it like "gooey" is blasphemy! It's G.U.I.

Okay, so I uninstalled all the GDM crap, and I'm not using a display manager. I boot the system and it goes to a tty, from which I login to my user and run `startplasma-wayland`. It makes more sense to my goblin brain than using GDM. I think I can rest easy, for now.

This whole thing makes me uneasy and it's gnawing at my craw. Using GDM with Plasma doesn't feel right. I'm entering fussy goblin mode again.

@corbden Totally edit the shitpost. I think people who boost it would be notified, but I'm not really embarrassed by this. I was embarrassed the first time I did something like that years ago, but I just don't care about that anymore lol. It actually kinda adds to my whimsicality, which I've been trying to reframe as a fun, positive thing and not a personality flaw.

Okay GDM works, but I just gotta enter my password to unlock Kwallet upon login to Plasma.

I mean I guess I can just use GDM or LightDM. It feels wrong, but if it works...(shrug)

I might as well try COSMIC while I'm at it. `sudo dnf swap @kde-desktop-environment @cosmic-desktop-environment'

I'm currently experiencing this issue on Fedora KDE. I'm gonna have to swap KDE for Xfce for a while I guess. Ah well.

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/1919

Ah that's a crock of shit

@berryman

- The monitor is the portable monitor from the Orange Pi store. You can find it on their website.
- System 76 launch-configurable keyboard
- Orange Pi 5 Plus, 16G RAM, 8-core CPU

Orange Pi 5 Plus has a separate PCIe Wifi module that you can buy from their store, but I'm using a USB dongle.

I present to you...my portable desktop 'puter!

It's an Orange Pi 5 Plus running Armbian Bookworm.

#sbc #armbian #debian #orangepi5plus

@exchgr Ah. I can relate. I had a lot of good friends on Twitter, but I deactivated my account and am now just hoping they go to the Fediverse or Bluesky.

@exchgr Pixelfed? @pixelfed

@gamingonlinux It's really an ideal flagship.

I'm currently archiving these URLs in my ArchiveBox instance. #archiving #datahoarding

https://digital2.library.unt.edu/nomination/eth2024_bulk/

@dija To be fair, I didn't specify what OS I was using, so I don't blame you for suggesting a Windows tool. I guess I kind of made an assumption myself, namely that people who read my OP have contextual background information about my environment. I'm sorry for being harsh in my last comment.

@stesnac Looks delicious, but there seems to be more plate than food. 🤨

@hwine I've been reading Hypermodern Python Tooling and that's how I learned about uv. There is still a lot about uv that I don't know. I didn't know embedded requirements was a thing! Thanks!

@feld Yeah that's another problem I've had with Nim. The ecosystem of libraries is not nearly as large as Python's.

Yeah, IIRC I was trying to run Nim and Nimble on my Fedora machine and at the time, Nim was using an older OpenSSL library that wasn't available on Fedora, as Fedora had already upgraded to OpenSSL 3. So any binaries I created couldn't be linked to the proper library. IIRC this problem was remedied in a later release of Nim, as they began using OpenSSL 3.

@dija Bruh, reducing dependencies as much as possible is what I've been doing. That's what any decent software developer would do. You suggesting it here assumes I haven't considered it. The dependencies I have for some scripts are fucking necessary. Please don't make these daft assumptions about my projects and development goals. Jesus Fucking Christ. If this daftness and lack of regard for my perspective continues, I will block your ass.

Containerization would work, but it's kinda overkill for small scripts, and it still depends on Docker/Podman. As I mentioned in the OP, I want something that bundles all dependencies into a single binary that I can port to other machines of the same architecture. Nim has this feature, but I'm looking for something for Python. PyOxidizer and PyInstaller were mentioned above, they seem to be the most promising for my intended use-case.

@aoristdual These look promising! PyOxidizer is written in Rust, so maybe it's "blazingly fast!"

@jonny I'm interested in this too. I agree about climate data, and probably data pertaining to underprivileged communities, are the most at risk. I don't know where to even look for such data.

If you use Lemmy and/or Reddit, I'd recommend asking in the /c/datahoarder and /r/datahoarders communities, respectively. I'd also recommend using the #archiving and #datahoarding hashtags in the Fediverse. In the meantime, I'll boost this and see if anyone else knows.

@dija Python is a general purpose, dynamic, interpreted programming language that can be used to write small scripts.

"any language is going to require dependencies but they are either compiled into the program or already installed on the machine." Right. That's why I'm asking if there is a static tool that solves this problem.

"most non nix environment is not going to even have python installed let alone some special modules." most non *nix environment only includes Windows in 2024. py2exe is for Windows executables. I'm not interested in Windows here.

Does anyone know if there is something for #Python that allows one to create stand-alone dependency-free executables a la #Nim? This would effectively solve some of the annoyance of using Python scripts that are meant to be portable.

Er...uh...should I just learn some Nim? I had considered learning Nim a while back, but was discouraged because I saw that one of the core devs was an arsehat.

This photo was from 2008, I was 20 years old. I think right now, I'm about the same size I was in 2010. So I have about two years of weight to shed in order to be the same size I was in this photo. Given the rate at which I've been losing weight on Wegovy, hopefully it won't be long.

I haven't been exercising, but pretty much every day for the past few months I've been at a consistent calorie deficit. I've been eating meals on an average of 12-hour intervals.

So, uh, I'm back to using #Firefox again after about a month of #librewolf LibreWolf is great, but some websites just work better in Firefox even with LibreWolf configured to use non-default settings.

I don't know how to debug this as I have no experience with web dev, but the thing that works better in Firefox is Wasabi's payment interface. On LibreWolf, after entering my info, the submit payment button was grayed out. But on Firefox, I enter my info, and the submit payment button is clickable and I can submit my payment.

Does anyone know how I might fix this in LibreWolf, like by changing some settings? Or is this more of a bug in the codebase? Like presumably LibreWolf blocks that 'Submit payment' button element somehow for some reason.

Was driving today behind a car that had a high school sticker on the back, showing the school's mascot. Even though I went to a different high school, just the idea of the "high school spirit" nonsense brought back a sharp but ephemeral feeling of coldness, emptiness, and isolation.

I'm also kind of cold, so I swapped my shorts for my warm comfy pants. My comfy pants are big on me now that I've lost weight, but somehow this has no effect on improving my mood at the moment.

I'm in fussy goblin mode again. I should probably stay away from my workstation PC and play Dragon Age.

Mood is down. Intrusive thoughts are up.

@tavi I think I have a Chicago accent. Especially around family. Like we pronounce "something" as "sump'um'". When I have to speak to, say, the teller at my bank, I pronounce words more like the standard American way.

In Illinois there is Interstate 90 (or I-90), but in the Chicago area there are segments of I-90 that are designated by dead politicians names. Like one segment is called the Kennedy, another segment that runs downtown is called the Jane Bryne. I guess it's a way of referring to an area of the interstate when reporting news or in casual conversation.

My nook of Apocrypha now contains a mirror of The Anarchist Library.

https://archive.hyperreal.coffee/

https://hyperreal.coffee/posts/on-using-reproducible-python-development-environments/

@stellarskylark :hugs:

Was feeling irritable and anxious, so I was like, I better skip my usual post-dinner coffee, and I took a clonazepam instead. Now I feel calm enough to enjoy the coffee, but I don't want to add caffeine to my nervous system and mess up the clonazepam. I'll just let the clonazepam do its thang.

https://www.themarysue.com/this-dragon-age-the-veilguard-companions-story-ruined-me-in-the-best-way/

Tokodon, the KDE Plasma Mastodon client, is pretty neat. I'm going to try our mastodon.el too and see if I can get used to it.

So I have a new name for the abominations that take over the skin on my tailbone area: blight boils.

@nytpu :hugs:

At 36 years old, I haven't really noticed any significant slowing of my reflexes. But given that gaming is one of my hobbies and will be for the rest of my life, I'm concerned that games will get harder to play when I'm, say, 75 or 85 years old. This hasn't been considered yet because the vast majority of gamers are millennials or younger, but I wonder if they will eventually have to start making games with a "senior mode" that accommodates slower reflexes and cognitive decline.

Another thing that occurred to me is that maybe the time we spend playing video games will mean our reflexes and cognitive decline will be, on average, better than generations that didn't grow up playing video games.

"¿Por qué no los dos?"

Because this is a goddamn EXCLUSIVE OR OPERATION, bruh.

https://files.hyperreal.coffee/mastodon_20240216-20250131/media_attachments/files/113/423/688/620/258/844/original/d64df529dbd4aa58.webp

My skepticism/cynicism about voting being effective is largely from the article linked below. By participating in US elections, we're perpetuating colonialism and dehumanizing indigenous people.

However, there are still underprivileged communities that we would certainly help, at least in the short-run, by voting against Trump.

I don't like that this boils down to "whose rights should we care more about?"

https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

I'm conflicted about voting. On the one hand, there is this. On the other hand, I'm not sure if voting actually does anything substantial besides elect another straw figurehead, while the rest of the government is still ideologically variegated, the Supreme Court is largely conservative until they die, and the entire system remains at roughly the same stagnant equilibrium between two opposing ideologies.

I'm not sure that Kamala being elected would be the victory against fascism that we want to think it would be. We thought fascism was defeated when Obama was elected for two terms, but then Trump became President and reversed any progress we made. I feel like taking two steps forward and three steps backward isn't going to get us anywhere. Maybe those two steps forward are still better than six steps backward, at least for the duration of a non-fascist term, and so in the grand scheme of things an ephemeral period of progress is better than none. Maybe I'm just too cynical and pessimistic, and my opinion here likewise doesn't coincide with /how progress actually works/.

@kelidanovus Nice!

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/

Egh, the pain is flaring up again. I'm trying to play Dragon Age, and in order to be comfortable doing that I have to sit down on my 'puter chair, but it HURTS to sit down. Mother of gall and pox. Maybe a few magical Ibuprofen beans will help. They specialize in inflammation, after all.

So, at Walgreen's Pharmacy drive thru, there are two lanes. People tend to queue in the first lane, because that's just the inclination. But the pharmacy technicians will always alternate between lanes after each customer. So even if there are two or three cars queued in the first lane, if someone pulls up to the second lane, that person gets helped when the current first lane person is done.

Yesterday, I picked up my prescription, and there were three cars queued in the first lane. I pulled up to the second lane, and when the current first lane person was done, the pharmacy tech went to me, probably to the consternation of the next first lane person (I didn't turn my head to see their reaction).

I could have told the pharmacy technician to help the next first lane person. By all right, they were there before me, and should have been helped next.

On the one hand, I feel bad that I wronged them by basically cutting in line. On the other hand, I feel like the pharmacy tech should have been aware of the presence of the other cars in the first lane and helped them next. I feel like Walgreen's might have a policy that the pharmacy tech must alternate between lanes, no matter how many cars are queued in each lane, because this has always been the case for as long as I've been getting prescriptions from Walgreens. So maybe the onus of responsibility is still on me, and I did an anti-courtesy to the first lane person.

On the third hand, it's just a prescription pick-up, not a life-or-death situation, and it's not like the other people had to wait long for me--it took about a total of one minute to complete my order and leave. But...I still did sort of a selfish thing. I should have been more courteous. I will be more courteous in the future, should I find myself in the same situation. And for the record, this isn't the first time I've done this. I've also actually told the pharmacy technician to help the other person first before, but yesterday I decided to be selfish, because I just wanted to get home asap.

So I'm doing a quest with Neve, and I keep hearing this "clink clink clink" sound. I'm like wtf is that. Then I realized it's her Dwarven-crafted prosthetic metal leg 😆

Today I found myself in the unfortunate circumstance of having to listen to Mark Levin using insurrection-inciting language and emotion on his Fox News program. Complete unhinged whack-job. He also promoted misinformation about America being founded on the Bible, which is quite unambiguously debunked by the First Amendment itself.

For the record, this post won't be the intro to my autobiography.

I just realized I lived in Chicago for half my childhood and Palatine for the other half. We moved to Palatine when I was 9 years old. I think growing up half in the city and half in the suburbs had some effect on my general outlook on life. Or something like that. I dunno.

I had a pretty good childhood, though. Like, in general. The adolescent phase of childhood was when things started to get weird.

"Sleep now, or forever hold your peace."

Uh...can't I just do both?

It has been N days since I've made this post, for N >= 0.

https://chrismcdonough.substack.com/p/the-shameful-defenestration-of-tim

The right-wing libertarians/ancaps think we'd be better off relying on the good graces of corporations/CEOs to behave fairly and act like responsible adults. Below is just one example of how inane that argument is. PharmaBro gets butthurt and his response is to have a temper tantrum and make an extreme impulsive decision to teach the people who screwed him a lesson.

Am in love with Neve. I might occasionally simp-post about her. I don't care if it annoys anyone. I'm that much of a simp for Neve.

@4censord You can do that here too with a physical piece of paper, but you can also have the doc send it to your pharmacy electronically. Since the beginning of the pandemic I've been communicating with my doctor remotely via phone, so it saves me from having to go to the office and pick up physical paper prescriptions.

But even so, paper prescriptions wouldn't make a difference if the pharmacy doesn't have it in stock. The pharmacy has it on file in their system and in my account on their website I can choose which location to send it to to have it filled. The one I sent it to is supposed to receive a new stock today, so I should be able to get it today, unless the pharmacy technician I spoke to on the phone was lying or misinformed about when they're getting new stock.

@nytpu 😆

"YoU jUsT gOtTa WaiT fOr ThE mArKeT tO rEaCh eQuIliBrIuM"

Bro this has been going on for well over a year. If It takes that long (or longer) for the market to reach some kind of optimum then this system is not as efficient as you think it is.

"BuT iTs ThE rEgUlAtIoNs ThAt GeT iN tHe WaY"

I've never seen, read about, nor heard of any economic system that has zero regulations and can attribute its success and efficiency specifically to that. It's a bit of a stretch to rely on the good graces of corporations to behave fairly in a context of competition and profit-seeking.

Started playing the new #DragonAge. Oh my glob, this game is amazing. I am overwhelmed by my enthusiasm so these are the only words I can muster at the moment. Like I am stimming, rocking, and tapping so much right now. There is simply too much awesome to describe concisely with due justice here.

Opening up anxiety vectors on a day I ought to be relaxing is peak me.

Here's my internet archive.

https://archive.hyperreal.coffee

My doc sent a prescription to one pharmacy, but that pharmacy was out of stock. They have it on back order with their supplier, and they have no definite date for when they'll receive a new shipment.

Called my doc to have him send it to another pharmacy. That pharmacy is out of stock. Now I have to call various locations to see if any of them have it in stock.

Isn't capitalism supposed to be an efficient resource allocator? The Invisible Hand needs to stop jerking off and give me my goddamned prescription.

This screenshot is from 2013. I think I was using CrunchBang Linux at the time. It was a cute Debian-based distro in its day. #Halloween

#DragonAge: The #Veilguard is currently downloading on my gaming PC!

We're having company here for Halloween so I won't get around to playing it until later.

There is this archiving community Discord server that is so toxic, where its members are always so facetious and ironic that all meaning has completely evaporated from any discussion, and nobody can take anything with even a modicum of seriousness. I asked a simple question about the size a *public* archive and the response was "Bait used to be believable". What the fuck is even that.

https://youtu.be/3e1gkynGXXM?si=Y8TIymqOH3rB3qt_

I've updated this tutorial. #archivebox #datahoarding #rhel #fedora

https://techne.hyperreal.coffee/tutorials/setup-archivebox-on-rhel-compatible-distros/

Am a land-locked goblim

And I mean, for all intents and purposes, it was in fact going beyond expectations, since the expectations were based on traditional gender roles. But I don't think this in itself warrants extra praise/attention.

I feel like when I was a caretaker for my grandpa, I got more praise and attention for it among family members because of my gender. I feel like if I were a woman, it would have been more "expected" of me and it would be less...Idk...salient? As a man, it was perceived as going "beyond expectations".

https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/16/gamer-gate/#descartes-revenge

@siosm Hello! I'm curious about how you use Kinoite. One of the snags I run into when using Fedora Atomic lately has been terminal integration with toolbox/distrobox containers. Do you have a dotfiles repo or other configuration stored in git that I could look at for some ideas?

@siosm I see. I misunderstood whether my question was part of the goals of bootable containers. I see now that the main issue you are solving concerns updates.

@alxlg Ah. I thought this was already possible with ostree native containers IIRC. I might have my facts wrong. Or maybe the bootable containers is a development on that concept?

@siosm My question concerns the userspace aspect of the bootable container. What I have in mind is if I want to run Kinoite, but have a mostly mutable userspace similar to regular Fedora KDE. Kind of like having bootable toolboxes, but with graphical desktop components. I see that one of the features includes bootable containers having their own kernel and systemd functionality.

This looks promising.

https://www.amazon.com/SABANI-Portable-Charger-35000mAh-Power/dp/B0CNCJ5HMJ

I'm interested in the bootable containers concept. If I have the gist right, does this mean it would be possible to use a bootable Fedora container as a regular non-Atomic desktop on top of an Atomic system?

#fedora #kinoite #silverblue

https://containers.github.io/bootable/

Note: This has nothing to do with Raspberry Pis per se, but I used the hashtag because I figure people with Raspberry Pis might have some ideas about how to accomplish this.

I'm looking into making one of my Orange Pi 5 Plus devices into a laptop-like portable device. One idea I have is to use this portable monitor (linked below) and attach an Orange Pi 5 Plus to the back of it somehow.

The only problem with this is that it still requires the power source to be portable. As far as I know, there is no battery module for the Orange Pi 5 Plus. It can still work as long as I have a power source nearby to plug the power cord into, but this is not quite optimal for my intended use case. I would also need portable power source for the monitor.

An idea I have is to find some kind of external battery that I can attach to the back of the portable monitor, plug the Orange Pi 5 Plus power cord into it, plug the portable monitor power cord into it, and have them use the battery storage as a power source. Then I would just have to charge the external battery. The external battery would have to be sufficiently powerful.

#sbc #orangepi5plus #orangepi #raspberrypi

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/otherAccessories/details/Orange-Pi-Portable-Monitor.html

I have a massive headache. Someone please give me a lobotomy.

Fuck off, summer. 🖕

Nobody wants to hire a crazy person.

I want to move out but I have nowhere to go and no income.

I'm not in a good place mentally right now. I'm scared about the future.

I have a general sad.

https://youtu.be/Dddbe9OuJLU?si=c6OjzSjdfGF9UGPr

I got a green detox smoothie from that Tropical Smoothie place and man, my entire body feels...satiated. Like I don't know how else to describe this feeling of general physical well-being. I probably needed it. I think I'll make it a thing to get this smoothie like once a week.

North American territories that were once controlled by France.

#maps

Time to upgrade to #Fedora 41!

I really, deeply resent people who don't see their behavior as toxic, or think they're entitled to be toxic because they own the house you live in and pay the bills, and when you say anything about it they deny, rationalize, and loudly double down on their toxicity because /how dare anyone think they're toxic/. It makes me super irritated.

How much would it cost to have a 20x20 foot extension built attached to my bedroom, has excellent air flow, ventilation, and is separate from the rest of the house, so that I can smoke without having to listen to anyone talk about politics, or be stuck listening to political news media on the TV, or inhaling second-hand cannabis smoke. It doesn't even need to have heating, but AC would be nice in the summer.

It would probably be better if I just move into a place of my own, but that is still expensive, and I'd have to find a stable and sufficient source of income. And I'm very scared and pessimistic about my chances of being hired by anyone.

@nytpu Lol that's so weird

I've only used "we" in a sort of second-person singular manner when writing a tutorial, to convey a sense of "we're doing this activity together". For some reason at the time I wrote it, using "you" felt presumptuously personal. Also, maybe I was just a little lonely at the time.

In hindsight now, "we" seems just presumptuously inclusive in the second-person singular.

I don't think I've ever used "we" in an ideologically self-serving manner that amounts to typical-minding.

https://deadspin.com/who-is-we-1833100853/

I think "guys", "man", "bro", and "dude" are often used in a gender-neutral way. But like, they are quite obviously masculine-coded, and I don't think non-binary, or (trans)femme folk appreciate being referred to with masculine-coded words. Like some of them may not mind it all that much and may even use them themselves, but in general it's probably best to err on the side of caution and use gender-neutral words.

I tend to use "man", in the sense of "Oh man", to express mild or intense astonishment or dismay, but not to refer to a person.

Am kinda cuckoo. Not for Coco Puffs, tho.

Here are a few documentation gems I'm hosting at my domain if anyone's interested.

- A mirror of the Bash Hacker's Wiki
- Zsh manual as an mdbook
- Zsh guide as an mdbook

https://bash-hackers.hyperreal.coffee
https://zsh-manual.hyperreal.coffee
https://zsh-guide.hyperreal.coffee

@fionen Did you receive an .mbox file in your Google Takeout archive?

@catsalad I don't have a cat, but this still resonates, somehow.

@rk I think our system of checks and balances, and one president signing an executive order (yay, progress!) and the next president reversing it and doing more damage, enables a sort of stagnation, and I have kind of lost faith in it.

A treasure trove of #maps and data visualizations!

https://milospopovic.net/visualizations/

It's wild that much of peoples' political convictions are fueled by confirmation bias, and denial of being influenced by confirmation bias. Many don't even know what it is, nor have the meta-cognitive skill to observe its effect.

https://www.howtogeek.com/internet-archive-breached-again/

@20000lbs_of_Cheese That makes sense. I've never been confronted about it. I just have this feeling that people keep it a secret among themselves. Which I guess seems more like paranoia.

I don't know if I'm being self-aware or if my brain is being mean to me. I'm not exactly okay with this uncertainty, but I'm used to it in the back of my mind, just blinking like cursor block with a menacing vibe that nags me to fill in the answer.

Clippy: Hey, I see you're trying to answer an impossible question. I'm sorry, but I can't help you with that. Just remember to take your meds.

#privacy #youtube #android

https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

I just took a nice shower. Man, since I started hang-drying my plaid shirt-jackets, they've been drying really nice. I used to just throw them in the dryer with the rest of my laundry, but I found that they shrink and come out all wrinkly. Before hanging them, I make sure the pockets are straight so they don't dry all bunched up. I fasten the top button and straighten out the collar while they hang. Now it feels like they've been starched and pressed, the collar is nice and stiff. It's also great that I fit in them much better these days.

Now that I recall, I've only heard "the smell of the ocean salt" in either a video game or book, so it was likely just a literary device or something.

This is a descriptive non-description of the smell of saltwater. https://redlib.hyperreal.coffee/r/writing/comments/17z4f5u/how_to_describe_the_smell_of_salt_water/

I've never smelled the salt of the ocean / seas before. People say you can smell it and it's nice. I've only ever smelled the fishy algae of freshwater lakes. #maps

I try to think about how awesome next week is going to be but I just don't have that enthusiasm in me at the moment.

Intrusive thoughts are bad right now.

@tavi nah

I creep people out and that's why I don't have any friends or lasting friendships. I don't want to creep people out. But there is something wrong with my brain that prevents me from seeing the relevant blind spots. I don't feel like I chose to be this way. I don't know how to be any other way.

@sqrtminusone What do you mean by eshell + Alacritty? I know Alacritty is a terminal emulator. I'm curious how it works with eshell.

It's my lifeblood.

Interesting! #p2p #decentralized #git

https://radicle.xyz/

Today I'm going to finish reading the #2600 Hacker Quarterly 41-2 and get started on 41-3.

@BryanBennett Your mileage, and others' mileages, may vary, but that's just from what I've experienced using Eat. I'm like 70% confident that my experience generalizes to everyone using those zsh plugins and starship.rs.

It's interesting to see how the shapes of the land masses aren't arbitrary. Or at least not any more arbitrary than their respective plates.

Source: https://brilliantmaps.com/tectonic-plates/

#maps

The best #Emacs terminal experience I've had so far has been with Vterm.

The Eat package seems limited in its functionality, and does not play nicely with zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting, and starship.rs.

https://github.com/akermu/emacs-libvterm

@riyaco Buon giorno

Next week is gonna be epic.

Tuesday, 10-29: #Fedora 41 release day!

Thursday, 10-31: Halloween, and the release of #DragonAge: The #Veilguard!

I've successfully migrated my tailnet to a headnet using #Headscale, the open source version of the Tailscale backend.

https://headscale.net/

I think it's been about 30 days since I deactivated my Twitter account, or it will be 30 days soon. This means my account will become permanently inaccessible. I feel sad that I might never see my Twitter friends again unless they come here or Bsky.

I use this python-qbittorrent package a lot and it looks like it could use some help writing tests. https://github.com/v1k45/python-qbittorrent

The universe sees it.

(hunger pangs)

I guess it's time for supper now. It's been, what (checks watch), 13 hours since I last ate?

@jxself That's beautiful

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/25/the-fediverse-is-getting-its-own-tiktok-competitor-called-loops/

Someone seems to have an axe to grind with me and I have no idea why. Like I don't think I have wronged them in any way. It's possible I did or said something that wronged them -- people don't have axes to grind for no reason. I just don't know what it is that I said or did, and this person in particular doesn't seem to have values/beliefs that are different enough from mine that they'd have an axe to grind with me. It could also be subconscious envy that motivates them, but I feel it would be too self-serving of me to accept that as the only explanation, and there are plenty of things about me and my life that are unenviable.

Anyway, I gotta fold and put away towels now and then run some errands.

@PixDeVl Thanks! I'm also curious why it requires a subscription though. Once you request that your data be removed from these sites, doesn't it stay removed/they legally can't use your data anymore? Or is it a matter of new data sites popping up so they have keep up with them? Like at some point there's gotta be diminishing returns on the subscription value.

It's Friday, and I'm gonna have sushi for supper.

Not because I am a proper Christian. I'm not even an improper, blasphemous Christian.

I just like sushi, and it just happens to be Friday, is all.

This is interesting, but I have a few questions:

- Why does it cost money?
- Is the 'tool' they use open source?
- What kind of thing is this 'tool'? Is it software?
- Can the average person, or even a sufficiently skilled software developer, do these data removal tasks themself? Or is there a hard reason why something like Incogni is necessary to remove one's data?

#privacy #incogni

https://incogni.com/

@tavi I just respond in the most automatic way possible. Maybe they'll pick up on the non-verbal automaticity and be like "yeah this is weird I won't ask him that anymore". NTs only take hints from other NTs tho.

git pull (my finger)

I'm gonna try to pull an all-dayer. Maybe that will nudge my sleep schedule back into sync with the normal folk.

I wanna write a #Prometheus exporter in #Go but I don't know what to write one for. I think all the services I run already have Prometheus exporters.

I think Italians generally are more prideful of their regional origins, so that tended to be a salient aspect of our generational culture, whereas the Germans didn't talk about it much.

I don't know where in Germany any of my German ancestors were from, but I know where all my Italian ancestors were from in Italy.

Dear writers, I am begging you, please stop using the "loner with intrusive thoughts goes on a killing spree" trope. It's tired. It's a harmful stereotype. Find something better for your stories.

@famfo @domi @dns I don't have time right now but I'm bookmarking this. It looks interesting!

Okay, here it is. For now.

https://hyperreal.coffee/

@mms Yeah I've tried it, but I find it's not necessary. I just put the org files into the content directory as per the Hugo directory structure and it renders them as-is into HTML. ox-hugo converts the org files to markdown, but you don't need that extra org-to-markdown step.

Egh, I'm fussing about over my blog and website again. Ah well. I'll figure something out eventually.

All I know is: an org-mode static blog is kinda a pain to maintain. I want tags and RSS without having to write a bunch of hacky Emacs Lisp. Hugo static site generator supports org-mode as a markup language, so I don't need to convert everything to markdown, which is good. The main thing I'm fussing about is the theme selection. In the grand scheme of things, most people who would read it don't care too much about the aesthetics, as long as it's readable.

There is another thread going through my mind that makes me tempted to just proxy my Gemini capsule to HTTP and be done with it. Write a Python script that generates an RSS feed. I want the feed to contain the entire post, so that people using feed readers don't have to leave their feed reader and open a browser. I can put tutorial posts into my Techne site. My Techne site is now just a git repo on Codeberg, because it supports org-mode files, generates a table of contents, and has excellent syntax highlighting support.

How did Q reasonably expect James Bond to return the gadgets in "pristine order". Like do you not know the kinda shit Bond consistently got himself into?

I'm not into country/western but this Jelly Roll seems like a pretty stand-up guy.

When I say "brush my teeth", I mean brush my teeth, floss, and rinse with mouthwash. But it doesn't sit right with me. A more accurate phrase would be "clean my mouth", but that feels kinda awkward too.

https://bits.debian.org/2024/10/ada-lovelace-day-2024-interview-with-some-women-in-debian.html

On LibreWolf, I use the Container Tabs extension for Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, and Microsoft.

In other news, my spam folder on my Proton Mail account only gets like two or three spams a week since I have deleted my Gmail/Google account.

I was mentally and neurologically prepared to go return Amazon items to the UPS store but for some stupid reason the Amazon app and website doesn't show return options for these particular items. Motherfuckers. I'm on the verge of goblin mode. I'd take a clonazepam but I feel like I should be okay in an hour or so.

Rubber duck: Bro you just nerd-sniped yourself.

Me: No, *you* nerd-sniped me. 🤨

Rubber duck: (sigh) Do I *really* have to explain this to you, again?

https://floorp.app/en

Remember when autumn was autumn, winter was winter, spring was spring, and summer was summer? Those were the days, eh?

Or am I making this up? Was that ever really a thing? If you live in a deciduous region, does that coincide with your experience?

Am a real grumpy/irritable goblin at the moment. 😖

I bought these to wear when I'm in public or around a sizeable group of people. I'm reclusive and social/agoraphobic so I only go out if it's necessary, like to get groceries or my meds.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Y8NVW6Y

Whenever anyone comments on my stuff, my default reaction is that they are trolling, pranking, or using double language. I've been like this for a long time, and in general it hasn't increased or decreased with changes in my meds. I've learned over the years to give people the benefit of the doubt. Prior to that, I had to learn that there is a good reason to even doubt my perceptions in the first place.

Giving people the benefit of the doubt in these situations means I have to give myself time, come back to it later, and respond in a way as if the person is being genuine, ignoring whatever paranoid assumptions my brain wants to make about their state of mind. I haven't been perfect with this. I believe this visceral hypervigilance isn't something I can change. After almost 20 years, all I've learned is that I can control my responding behavior, not the thoughts/perceptions/suspicions.

I'm making this today! https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/ground-beef-vegetable-soup-gnocchi

@stellarskylark I agree!

My skin-picking is real bad today so I gotta put rubber gloves on.

It's weird, because the skin-picking is partly a stim, so I'm procrastinating putting the gloves on. I like the sensation under my finger nails of picking at the skin imperfections. But it's damaging my skin, and I really shouldn't be walking around with open sores like this.

Was gonna go to Hobby Lobby to get a rubbermaid bin but I forgot they are closed on Sundays because they're a buncha God-fearing arsehats.

Onward to the next horrible corporation I guess.

It seems to be in active development, but some bugs haven't been fixed in a few years since their initial reports. Showing the same person after disliking them was initially reported in 2022. It's a work-in-progress, but I think it's far from being competitive with more popular dating apps at this time. I think it's a good effort, and there is definitely a need for a dating app without dark patterns and creepy algorithms, but it doesn't have the funding for anyone but volunteer coders, so I think it will take a while for it to become viable.

Unfortunately, I'm kind of running short on time. I'm just about into the dawn of my silverfox years, and I've been kind of robbed of #dating experience in my prime years by mental illness and medication side effects. I really don't know how to meet people, how to talk to people. There is no "hey we have the same interests and values so let's be friends and/or lovers". There are a lot of trials and errors.

Since adolescent trauma, there has been this hardened shell over me that has prevented me from growing socially and emotionally as far as relationships are concerned. Today, I feel like that shell is becoming more brittle with age, and I've realized I've been harboring these simplistic, narrow, trauma-rooted beliefs about relationships. Still, when it comes to actually physically socializing with people, the trauma takes over my nervous system and emotions.

The only way I can envision how a relationship or friendship would begin for me is by meeting people online, like maybe on social media, who share my interests and values, and after interacting with each other for a while we've built a mutual trust, respect, and possibly attraction. For friendships, I'm fine with having online friends, but for dating I want to have physical intimacy, so I'd want to meet in person. My situation is such that I need people to get to know me online first, because social phobia/trauma, and mental illness prevent me from opening up enough in person when meeting people. This is why I try to be as authentic as I can online.

"That sounds rather...painful?"

I mean, it kinda is, like there is a subtle inkling of sadness, but it's part of a deeply felt wistfulness that is weirdly pleasant.

I'm glad someone uploaded this to the Internet. The low-chaos epilogue and music hits me real hard in the feels and carves a #Dishonored-shaped hole in my heart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM7TBRdferM

I've noped out of hosting a NewsBlur instance. The dependencies are a shit-show. The UI is outdated -- it still lists Google+ as a share service. Despite being self-hostable, the developer(s) don't really cater to self-hosting, as I've had to edit the docker-compose.yml file to make it work on Debian, otherwise it assumes the admin is hosting it on a macOS server (wtf?). I anticipate that maintaining it when there are updates to the codebase will be a shit-show. I wouldn't want users to place their trust in something this convoluted to maintain consistently. Nor is it worth the expense of hosting it on a dedicated VPS.

I've decided to host a #FreshRSS instance instead. It should be up and running very soon. I will make a pinned post later with links to the public services I'm running that accept sign-ups. 🙂 💙 :dance_cool_doge:

@morenonatural I mean, I would just continue to use Neovim on the remote host with a minimal config before doing what you describe. I thought SSHFS development was discontinued or something? That might work better for development purposes but I'm mostly doing configuration and sysadmin stuff on remote hosts, so a basic Neovim config is fine for me. It would be nice to use Emacs for everything though.

@viq Elasticsearch I can at least plan for somewhat. I know it initially allocates half of the available RAM. I can also adjust this by configuring the JVM options.

I think the best solution here is what @mekeor suggested. Start an Emacs daemon on the remote server, put my configuration on the remote server, and use the EAT package for multiplexing. https://codeberg.org/akib/emacs-eat

Yeah, uh, signed up for an account. The app is kinda broken. I click the X for some of them to see who's next and it shows the same person. Also, the user base is not much different from what I tend to get in other dating apps. Not sure why I expected it would be a buncha open source nerds. Wishful thinking, probably.

The account was free but my experience on it makes me feel like I'm some lonely baby boomer dude who was duped into some shitty spammy dating app. I want to delete my account and remove all traces of my having been on it.

@mekeor Ah that was poorly worded on my part. Can't think straight right now but I'm sure there is a better way to express the idea. I guess my first mention of "possible" was referring to something different than my last mention of "possible". Describing what that 'something' is eludes me at the moment.

Anyway, thanks for the explanation in the post you linked to. The Emacs server daemon doesn't bind to a port, but rather to a socket on the machine running it, so an Emacsclient can only connect to and draw frames on the machine with that socket. So it's not possible in that sense, given its current feature state.

But hypothetically I feel like the ability to connect a local Emacsclient to a remote Emacs daemon could be implemented in a similar way to how X11 Forwarding works with SSH. I don't know, though. And of course, that would open up an attack vector.

Intrusive thoughts are bad rn

This is it! https://alovoa.com/

Well it seems like the same issues happen with VSCodium and the Remote SSH extension. No easy way to edit with sudo without starting a new session. https://github.com/jeanp413/open-remote-ssh/issues

Fellow #sysadmins, #Emacs, and #FOSS people: If you use emacs -nw or emacs-nox11 in a remote SSH session, how do you deal with keybinding interference with terminal multiplexers? The only reason I use (Neo)vim in remote SSH sessions is because Emacs keybindings would interfere with my local Zellij instance and sometimes the remote Byobu/tmux session.

One possible solution is to change the Zellij keybindings. Another possible solution is just to connect to the remote systems via Emacs' tramp session and edit files that way, but IME that has been buggy and doesn't have a native feel. Plus if I have to use sudo to edit a file, it has to start a whole new tramp session. Another possible solution that may or may not be doable is starting an Emacs server on the remote host and connecting to it locally, but I'm not sure if this is possible yet.

I've tried more lightweight members of the Emacs family, like mg or zile, but those still have most of the same keybindings as regular Emacs and they are lacking in terms of configurability. I'd also like to have at least some basic syntax highlighting, nothing fancy.

Of course, VSCode has these features builtin with their Remote SSH Explorer, and even has a nice UI that allows one to select different SSH hosts. I feel like Emacs can be made to do exactly this, but tramp mode just feels... idk... clunky.

@benda It would only serve that purpose for the subset of #Linux people who are actively looking for someone to date. That's not usually what people want when they use that hashtag.

There is a FOSS dating app that might be more promising for me in terms of finding someone with shared interests, but I can't recall the name of it. The only word that comes to mind is "alveolar", which I know is not the name of the app, but I just feel like the name looks or sounds like that. So much for implicit memory.

My blog is an org-mode static blog. Maybe I should take a look at ox-rss: https://github.com/emacsmirror/ox-rss

My blog's RSS feed doesn't contain the contents of each post in the description tag, but I'm going to write a Python script that creates an entire XML entry for each post and updates the feed.

I'll start here: https://www.cyberciti.biz/python-tutorials/how-to-generate-rss-2-0-feed-quickly-using-python/

I'm wondering when the hell did I acquire this sort of "entrepreneurial spirit". I don't even like taking financial risks. (The impulse purchases I make have no bearing on this.)

@viq Yeah, that's what I mean. It would be more feasible to have a dedicated VPS for it.

I'm wondering if this is a matter of "if you build it, they will come". If I deploy the VPS with Vultr it would be super easy to scale the resources according to need. Self-hosted instances have 100% of the premium features. It's $99/year for those features on the official Newsblur app. $36/month to run a Vultr VPS with decent resources, but depending on the number of users I get I might have to scale that upward. I would of course charge users less than the official Newsblur app does, otherwise there would be little point in using my instance. But I might also put a limit on the number of users. And how I would go about charging users to sign up is another matter that I have zero experience with. I mean what comes to mind is like a mandatory donation on Ko-fi before their sign-up is approved, or something.

@viq @ketmorco Yes, by public-facing, I mean accepting sign-ups and accessible from the public Internet.

Does anyone here run a self-hosted Newsblur server that is public-facing? If so, how many users do you have? What is the resource usage like?

I'm trying to see if hosting a Newsblur server would be worth it. Even with docker-compose, the dependencies make it infeasible to run on my main VPS because of port bindings. It would take a while for me to set it up so that is integrates with the database stuff that is already running on my VPS. The web server is another matter, as the docker-compose script uses Nginx and haproxy, so it would be complicated to make the other dependencies work with the Caddy server I'm already running. It would be more feasible to deploy another VPS that is dedicated to Newsblur, but with the cost per month I'm not sure it would be worth it. Unless I charge users a small amount of monies each month...but these users have to, like, exist, first, before I can plan anything lol.

Who needs a blog when you can just have an RSS feed.

I am going to sleep now. It's 6 AM.

Good night to any friends I might have here. Good night to my Twitter friends too, even though they can't see this.

I'm gonna keep my feet tucked in my blanket, in case the boogey man comes through.

The bed bugs won't bite, because there ain't any bed bugs here. And even if there were, I'd be asleep, so I couldn't possibly not let them bite me. Bed bugs is gonna do what bed bugs do, which is bite people while they're asleep. But not me. But good night to bed bugs too I guess; they can't help themselves.

Have any server admins noticed #Mastodon has sometimes been kinda choppy since the update to 4.3.0? It's likely the issue is on my end somewhere, but I'm just curious about others' experiences.

It's like a combination of different feelings that I can't really verbalize.

Sometimes I don't know how to describe my feelings other than "bad". If anyone asks why I feel bad, I don't know how to respond. I try to search within me for an answer, but come up short. This is how I'm feeling right now. Bad.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise

Just finished all four volumes of #DragonAge The Missing! Omg I love Neve 🤩

"But the Ring camera is nice so I can see who's coming and going to my house."

You can have a camera installed that shows only your entryway.

"But it's good to have so we can keep an eye on the neighborhood. Neighborhood watch, and all that."

That would be fine if you got explicit consent from every neighbor whose house will be visible in the Ring network. Which you probably didn't, because Amazon markets the Ring camera in a way that would be most convenient for you. It promotes the false notion that it's okay and socially acceptable, so you weren't inclined to think it through, and now the grave privacy concerns are an after-thought. And because it's so convenient, it's gonna be hard to give it up, so you'll rationalize your under-informed decision to buy it.

It's spooky season so maybe I can have some fun with the neighbors. Put a black garbage bag over me and run around crouched down with my arms spread out. That ought to look horrifying on a Ring camera in the middle of the night. Would serve them right for being complicit in a surveillance economy. Good cardio exercise for me, too.

The neighborhood Ring camera network may not stop skunks from spraying me, but they'll capture it on camera, so we'd at least know who the culprit is.

The wage-slaves over at Amazon Megacorp who monitor these Ring cameras remotely ought to have a good laugh.

It's 1:35 AM. It's dark. The neighborhood is peaceful. It's 36 degrees Fahrenheit. This is perfect sensory conditions for an autisitc agora-/social phobic to enjoy a peaceful walk outside. But there are skunks lurking about at this time of the night, which would turn my little sensory dream walk into a sensory nightmare in an instant. And I don't have any Pokemon to protect me.

@nytpu If I saw "FPGA" out of context then I would assume it's a professional golf association for furries.

I was gonna do a selfie but I am very sad because I am not photogenic at the moment. I look like a goblin. It makes me very sad.

"Fresh squeezed" my ass! This is that powdered Country Time shit.

Lemons are kinda cute hehe 🤭

I received my #HackThePlanet stickers. There are five of them.

I'll put one on my car. Another on my laptop. I'm not sure where to put the other three, though.

In Angof the Gravesinger's Reachman accent: You will see, beast! You will see!

(Note: I can't do Angof's Reachman accent IRL. But I can do it online in text.)

For what it's worth, maybe my seeing this as a serious issue that endangers FOSS has made me sensitive to things that potentially further endanger FOSS and so I have taken some things more seriously than they were intended.

Re: Orange Pi 5 Plus: Looks like it's not quite at a stable enough build for me to use it as a router/firewall.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/orange-pi-5b-plus-boot/104674/39?replies_to_post_number=15

I'm considering doing this if I can find a way to get #Fedora Server onto an Orange Pi 5 Plus.

#networking #firewall #router #Linux

https://fedoramagazine.org/build-network-router-firewall-fedora-22-systemd-networkd/

Apologies to those who tend to identify people on the fediverse by glancing at their profile pictures and are confused by my current one. After the U.S. election I will change it back to the coffee cup.

RMS is a poison to the FOSS community.

The antidote is not "RMS makes me want to use proprietary software." Let's be realistic and reasonable.

RMS != FOSS.

You wouldn't give up your values and ideals to become a fascist just because a prominent leftist turns out to be an apologist for sex offenders.

@thomholwerda Oh gawd don't let RMS spoil it for you lol. RMS != FOSS

@governorkeagan Honestly that would be super convenient. I'm surprised there isn't a keyboard shortcut for that already. And if there is, I'm surprised it's not widely known. Maybe there is an extension for Firefox tho?

To those of us goblins who prefer to type out our RSS and Atom feed XML by hand:

I see you. You matter.

Nice

https://blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/Introducing-Our-New-Name/

@wyat@infosec.exchange My site has RSS for both the blog and the recipes section now.

At least...as far as tangible objects are concerned.

Apples are one of the best things to ever exist. In the history of existence.

Oughf, the pain is painful.

@PixDeVl The link displayed on the email is also malformed. If you just complete the final word to "unsubscribe" you'll get the right endpoint.

There is some validation though, because I received two confirmation codes in my inbox and it said "If you did not initiate this you can safely ignore this message." The last confirmation code I received is d33znUtz.

This made me literally laugh out loud 😆

Dinner: falafel and Mediterranean rice

Blog post: Home networking and preventing DNS leaks

https://hyperreal.coffee/home-networking-and-preventing-dns-leaks.html

@wyat@infosec.exchange

- I'm using systemd-networkd now and it is configured to not use the DNS from my DHCP connection. For good measure, I added my tailnet's DNS as a static DNS server in my systemd-networkd configuration.

- `resolvectl status` shows that I'm only using the DNS from my Tailscale tailnet. On the Tailscale web console, I have DNS configured to use Mullvad's public DNS for ad-blocking and malware-blocking, so that is where the DNS requests from each device on my tailnet are being sent to.

- I also have IPv6 disabled by adding a kernel parameter to the GRUB bootloader configuration. On Fedora 40, the command to do this is `sudo grubby --args=ipv6.disable=1 --update-kernel=ALL`.

- On the Mullvad website, their connection checker shows that I'm not leaking DNS.

- In most cases this is disabled by default in Firefox (I'm using Librewolf so it's the same thing), but I made sure that the browser's network configuration is set to use the system DNS resolver, rather than the options that are available from Firefox/Librewolf settings.

I'm thinking of getting my OPNsense device back up again. At my previous place of residence, I had AT&T internet, and AT&T had all sorts of configurable options in their modem that played well with my OPNsense device. At my current place of residence, I have Xfinity Comcast, and the only option I can configure on their modem that would allow me to use my OPNsense device is "Enable/disable bridge mode". When I first moved in here, I tried doing that, but for some reason the IPv4 gateway on my OPNsense device wasn't picking up anything. I believe I had everything configured correctly, the Xfinity modem was in Bridge mode, and the OPNsense router was assigned the public IP address from my Xfinity account. This was four months ago, and it's entirely possible I missed something in the configuration. It can't hurt to try again. The worst-case scenario is that I reset my Xfinity modem to factory defaults and continue to use that. But it would sure be nice if I could have more control over that portion of my Internet.

I'm currently trying to figure out how to prevent my Linux desktop from leaking DNS to Xfinity. My Linux desktop is part of a tailscale network that uses Mullvad's ad-blocking and malware blocking public DNS, but I still have DNS leaks because my main network interface is using the Comcast DNS servers from the DHCP connection. This StackOverflow answer seems promising. I would have to disable Network Manager and just use systemd-networkd.

As a minor convenience, I can look for a KDE Plasma taskbar applet that shows network connection info, because if I disable NetworkManager and use systemd-networkd, the only way of checking the network status is through the command line. It would be convenient to have something I could quickly glance at in the taskbar.

https://anonoverflow.hyperreal.coffee/exchange/unix/questions/579911/make-systemd-resolved-ignore-a-dns-server-and-only-use-the-one-i-specify

Oughf, nausea. I must sit here and wait for it to pass.

@lindsays Hi! I noticed you liked some of my posts, so I went to your profile and I thought you seemed interesting to follow. We seem to have some interests in common.

My dank internet archive stash. Mostly old computer and gaming magazines at this time. https://archive.hyperreal.coffee/

@caffinepwrd Okay I just ordered a 3 pack of the solid stick Fresh Alpine scent. The ingredients look promising. Thanks!

@caffinepwrd I haven't! I'm looking it up right now.

Does there exist a deodorant that doesn't effing burn my armpits? Even the Native brand burns. Good god almighty I swear deodorant is the work of the devil.

So I'm curious: what does #snac look like? I haven't been able to find any screenshots.

Am a feeling-okay goblin today.

Me: Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!

Rubber duck: Uh, actually, you kinda do.

Me: Oh.

Since I’ve been on a lower dose of Invega, I’ve noticed that I’ve had more spoons for maintaining my hygiene. This may be coincidental, or it may be causative.

In retrospect, during my adult years, my poor hygiene correlates with increases in my Invega dose. 2011-2019 were probably the most unhygienic years for me, and that coincides with being on 9-12 mg of Invega. Invega causes me to be fatigued and drowsy during the day, which means I have less spoons for maintaining my hygiene. Also, it’s one thing to not have energy for maintaining my hygiene, but it’s another to simply not care about it. Whatever Invega does to my brain chemistry that reduces positive symptoms of psychosis somehow also makes me care less about my hygiene. Barring other possible reasons, if it is the case that Invega causes me to care less about hygiene, then I would expect to get my “normal” pre-Invega hygiene habits back if I were weened off completely. It’s almost like Invega decreased positive symptoms of psychosis and traded them off for an increase in negative symptoms.

Before Invega, I cared a lot about my hygiene, sometimes even irrationally so. 2003-2006 me would never let me go a day without showering or cleaning my teeth. But, maybe this reflects more my values regarding hygiene back then compared to my values from 2011-2019. And the uptick in hygiene-consciousness today could be related to my general mental health improvement, which in turn could be related to natural changes in my brain as I’ve aged. Another possibility is that my reclusiveness could affect whether I consider taking care of my hygiene to be worth it. But if that were the case, then it wouldn’t explain why I’m more hygiene-conscious today, because I’m still just as reclusive. I want to be and feel clean for my own comfort and peace of mind.

I haven’t noticed any significant uptick in positive symptoms of psychosis since I’ve been on 4.5 mg of Invega (since early September). My general anxiety and social anxiety have remained about the same, with better and worse days, as usual. I’ve been more talkative, more energy to vocally and verbally express what’s on my mind. In fact, I feel like I’ve had more “content” available on my mind to express. The relation between energy levels, verbal/vocal expression/articulation, and thought content is not clear to me. Paranoia-related intrusive thoughts are not as prominent today, or they are more easily dispelled by reason.

Someone on Twitter a while back asked if I’ve ever been hospitalized. I never really needed to be. My personality made me more withdrawn and wanting to isolate. I’ve had times of paranoia-influenced quarrelsome behavior with other people, but it was never to the point of being a danger to myself or others. I also had other more intense moments, but if I describe those here then I would be airing my dirty laundry, so I won’t do that. For the most part, I’ve felt in control of my behavior. To qualify the previous statement: I’m more outspoken and comfortable expressing my thoughts and feelings in text on the Internet, so my social inhibitions are lower for what I consider appropriate to express verbally. If I feel paranoid and suspicious of people on the Internet, I’m more likely to express it verbally and confront them, whereas in person I’m more likely to escape, withdraw, and avoid confrontation.

The middle of the night is actually nice because it's the only time our house is quiet and I can focus without background noise or other distractions. My bedroom on the lower level has its perks, but it also has its drawbacks, namely that I hear and feel people walking upstairs. If I'm in an irritable mood (which is like 30% of the time), I am liable to have a meltdown from the noise.

I'm predicta-guessing Wendy's is gonna hit the jackpot with their SpongeBob collab.

If I migrate to another fediverse instance software and put my Mastodon posts into a static web page for posterity, this OP would really put the "post" in "posterity".

Man my asshole is being an asshole. It hurts like fucking hell. Like I'm sitting on a flaming knife. I gotta put this hemorrhoid cream on it that my doc prescribed. How tf is it supposed to heal if I have to use it every day during bowel movements? Motherfucker.

At least I haven't been talking out of it. That often has undesirable consequences of its own.

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/steams-new-disclaimer-reminds-everyone-that-you-dont-actually-own-your-games-gog-moves-in-for-the-killshot-its-offline-installers-cannot-be-taken-away-from-you/

https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/steam-purchase-license-california-law/

@defrisselle Or I'm also looking at IceShrimp, which has things like Pages and Galleries. Unlike its predecessor Firefish, there is active development. The current stable implementation is iceshrimp-JS, but they are putting most of their development efforts into iceshrimp.NET, and there will be a way to migrate directly from the former to the latter. I've used Firefish before and really enjoyed the UI experience.

@defrisselle Another idea that just occurred to me is that maybe I can export my Mastodon posts and put them into a static web page for posterity purposes. But first I have to see if I'd be comfortable using Pixelfed as my primary way of interacting the with fediverse.

@defrisselle Right, I know that. What I like about Pixelfed is that I can have things like photo albums and such. But if I have a Pixelfed instance that is federated, and it can do everything that Mastodon does and then some, it would be redundant to have both Mastodon and Pixelfed. If I do install Pixelfed, it would become my primary way of interacting with the fediverse. It would be great if I can somehow import my Mastodon data (posts, media, etc) into Pixelfed. Then I can just do away with Mastodon.

There are only a few things (maybe only two that I can think of at the moment) that slightly irk me on KDE.

One is that the emojis in KDE apps are not colorful; they are monochrome for some reason. Maybe there is a way to configure this?

Another is that for some apps that I use, I would really like to have notification badges in the taskbar.

These two things seem like something KDE should already have enabled by default. I mean, some apps (such as NeoChat) do have notification badges in the taskbar. I don't know if this is something that each individual KDE app has to implement in its own code, but it seems like this should be part of a common interface design that individual apps automatically plug into and it just works across the board.

@CiscoJunkie I recall having a similar issue with the Firefox flatpak on Fedora Silverblue a while back. Yeah, the issue is probably something to do with permissions. There was a way to make it work but sadly I don't recall what it was, nor whether the same would apply the Snap packages and AppArmor.

Aside from its aesthetic appeal, the ability to mold the desktop to my preferences -- rather than adapting to unchangeable predefined settings as in GNOME -- is the reason I like #KDE as well.

https://www.osnews.com/story/140538/why-i-use-kde/

I had a dream that I made an impulsive purchase of a MacBook Pro lol.

It's cool enough that we don't need the AC on, but it's warm enough inside that I have my window open. One of our neighbors has got their fireplace going, and it smells so nice.

So if I set up #pixelfed, and it can basically do the same thing Mastodon does and it can access everything in the #Fediverse, what would be the point, then, of having a #Mastodon instance? I mean, I would keep my Mastodon instance up anyway, but I feel like having two such fediverse instances is kinda redundant. Does that make sense?

I finished Tevinter Nights. My reading list includes the following:

- Dragon Age: The Missing, by George Mann
- 2600 The Hacker Quarterly 41-1 (I'm 75% finished with it)
- 2600 The Hacker Quarterly 41-2
- Hacker Culture from A to Z, by Kim Crawley
- Hypermodern Python Tooling, by Claudio Jolowicz.

That last book I read every day in a more concentrated fashion, while the others I read more leisurely.

Man I'm fucking tired today. Coffee ain't doing jack shit.

I guess I've just committed myself to the task of rehearsing a concise social script for this. So that I don't come across as rambling disorganized idiot when people ask me about it.

🤔
https://www.indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective/

Going to sleep now. At 4 AM. Like I have been for the past two months or so. Am a night goblin now, I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAmulKjcHoo

The world makes me sad. Why is even anything.

I showered earlier. I just took a clonazepam. I am going put my laundry away, shave, brush my teeth. Then I will chill here in delightful tranquility, all nice and clean and with a smooth baby face.

I will read Tevinter Nights. I have two short stories left in the collection.

I mean, I'm scared of things too. But not for stupid conservative reasons. I mean like, bugs and stuff. Not immigrants and stuff.

#Degoogle

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/08/water-thats-not-wet/

#FreeBSD #KDE #Plasma

https://euroquis.nl//kde/2024/10/08/freebsd14.html

@epiceneVivant Eek! I hate that.

Do you ever just be like "I wonder what Carrie-Ann Moss was doing on my 6th birthday on March 15th, 1994 🤔 "

Rubber duck: You know what your problem is? You have no flavor, man.

Me: Psh! What the hell are you talking about? I am BURSTING with flavor.

Updated for Mastodon v4.3.0

Blog post: Change default character limit on #Mastodon

https://hyperreal.coffee/change-char-limit-on-mastodon.html

@nightjar What does milked mean tho?

@btp I second newsboat if you like TUIs and Elfeed if you're into Emacs.

If you're on GNOME I would say Liferea, if you haven't tried it already.

On KDE there are a few using the KDE GUI toolkit. Akregator is one.

Nowadays I run my own Miniflux instance and prefer to read the feeds in my web browser. A lot of the time the feeds I subscribe to don't get parsed correctly in a separate feed reader app.

@spiegelmama I'm not a dream theorist, nor do I have any formal training in psychology, but I feel like the second paragraph in the text on this map over-interprets the reason for the dreams. I feel like dreams are more literal than that, but not precisely literal. I could also be typical-minding here in some way.

As an example: I sometimes have dreams where I get pulled over by the police, or miss a deadline, or forgot something important. My understanding of this is that it's part of my perfectionistic, "anxious", or "fussy" personality. I haven't gotten a ticket or pulled over by the police in over a decade, and I value having a clean driving record (and clean records in general), so the prospect of messing it up kind of lives in my head.

@spiegelmama Yes. I also find it interesting how most of the countries that are considered part of the "developed world" have "teeth falling out". I guess when dental care is something you are able to take for granted, and your society places a high value on dental hygiene or physical appearance, the prospect of losing your teeth can really live it up in your head. The snake countries seem to be ones considered "less developed", or they are just in a climate where deadly snakes are an every day threat.

@hacks4pancakes i offer to gib u hug 🥺

For the record, these "weird desires" do not coincide with any particular phases of the moon.

But maybe quantum mechanics has an answer.

#maps

https://brilliantmaps.com/the-genetic-map-of-europe/

#maps

@nightjar I mean, what other way is there to take it? 😆 You can't possibly get 'bred', because you're already born!

Or I dunno unless you're some kinda eldritch apparition that is yearning to manifest in the depth, height, and breadth of corporeal form.

@avgjoe@defcon.social Ah, no worries. Yeah, I change my mind about a lot of things too, but this feels like something I'm pretty resolute about.

@avgjoe@defcon.social Yeah it's real. I deleted my Google account earlier today, and I had my Gmail forwarded to my Proton Mail inbox, so Proton sent me an email informing me that the automatic forwarding was interrupted. There's nothing out of the ordinary about this situation that would warrant the question "how's that even possible". Maybe you just needed more context though.

@avgjoe@defcon.social What?

Oh, has it, now? You don't say?

I want some kind of snack. Not popped corns. Not chips of potatoes. Not iced cream. Like maybe some flaming hot Cheetos, or salsa verde Dorritos, or honey mustard & onion pretzels.

A while ago I read about how flies and other insects survive the cold winter. They die when it gets too cold, but the eggs they've left freeze. In the spring, the eggs thaw out and hatch, and the flies resume their normal breeding habits until the next winter. They don't even plan any of this. It just happens, as if led by an invisible hand. From an intellectual standpoint, it's really quite amazing how that works. From a visceral standpoint, I wish it didn't.

I think I should get a haircut now.

Since I've been on Wegovy, I've also noticed a decrease in another appetite that would require a content warning if I were to go into detail. Suffice to say, and euphemistically speaking, I feel noticeably less of a need for self-care in that department. I still do have the desire, and I still do self-care, but not nearly as frequently as I used to. I am not especially concerned about this, though.

It does make me curious what exactly Wegovy does to my body, how it affects my hormones, and how much of my food appetite and over-eating was actually a hormone-influenced compensation for my lack of fulfillment in that other department.

I have a lonely-sad again. I also miss my Twitter friends. Still not going back, though.

I did it. I deleted my Google account.

🎶 Come on, dance -- love the things around you! 🎶

https://soundcloud.com/raydar-releases/icu

EDIT: I realize the context of this may be a little fuzzy. This Halloween decoration is poking fun at anti-vaxxers who say stuff like "Do your own research, sheeple!" while denying actual scientific consensus on COVID and vaccines.

My brother and I had these back in the '90s.

https://youtu.be/U3JzmrKK2NA?si=4LRZIqRBkJr1pD-9

@dbug13 Hello, fellow Linux user and Emacs enthusiast!

I searched for "Dragon Age" and "RPG" on Bluesky. Found a lot of really awesome and cute people. I followed some of them, and maybe I can interact with them there if I have anything possibly valuable to add to their posts, but it also makes me sad that it's so hard for me to socialize and meet people IRL.

I've been wearing Old Spice deodorant since I started needing deodorant as a teen, and I've been loyal to the brand. Unfortunately, the huge red areas under my armpits that burn upon applying the deodorant probably mean I shouldn't be wearing it.

Today, I decided that I should give my armpits some time to recover, so I applied some aloe vera gel to the affected areas instead of deodorant.

Unfortunately, this also means I might be a little stenchy.

@anderslund Yes, another person on here who had the issue reported it to their bugzilla.

I cannot for the life of me understand what possesses the minds of people like this "Christian Dogwalker" to say shit like this.

Like I guess maybe it's a simple as that they are just stupid and haven't grown out of their shit-eating adolescent antagonistic tendencies.

I've been using my own #SelfHosted instance of SearXNG as my search engine for a couple months now, and not once have I had trouble finding anything I've attempted to search for. I rarely, if ever, need to go beyond the first page of results. This is good enough for me for the kinds of things I tend to search for.

I drink my coffee black, but every once in a while I have this weird desire to put a splash of almond milk or dairy creamer in it, and every time I do, I end up being like "yeah, no more of that, that doesn't taste right". I don't know why I do this.

@vwbusguy @andyy Have you all heard about the Obtainium app store? It lets you install and update Android apps directly from their Git(Hub|Lab) releases. I'm going to try that for KDEConnect. I'd rather avoid Google Play as much as possible. It's sandboxed on GrapheneOS, but still.

EDIT: Eh, never mind. The GitLab doesn't have release binaries that Obtainium can obtain. Guess I gotta use the Play Store or just wait for F-Droid to catch up.

@vwbusguy @andyy Weird, I was on 1.32.4 earlier but now it says 1.32.3 and it's working. I got it from FDroid, maybe they rolled back the package. There aren't any updates to 1.32.5 yet from FDroid. I also just went to the GitLab and 1.32.4 is not listed in the release tags.

KDEConnect v1.32.4 is currently broken on Android. It's impossible to use it at all as it immediately crashes upon opening. I hope the devs can push a fix soon.

UPDATE: There is currently a fix (v1.32.5) available in the Google Play Store.

#KDEConnect #KDE #Android

@ginsterbusch Same. I'm on GrapheneOS. It makes me sad.

To be more optimistic, though, I'd imagine some KDE devs also use KDEConnect on Android, so I would estimate a fix to happen sooner than "ages".

This is the clock we have in our garage. At the top of every hour, we hear an 8-bit rendering of a different bird song.

6 o'clock is cuckoo hour.

https://www.amazon.com/Belinlen-Singing-Clock-Light-Sensor/dp/B0CJ99F7N9

I just bought Hacker Culture A to Z ebook, written by @crowgirl I'm eager to get started on it! https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/211148450/hacker-culture-a-to-z/kim-crawley/

@SJohnRoss I wish Arkane Studios would create more content from the Dishonored universe.

It's happening. #Dishonored

My anxiety is bad today and I'm out of clonazepam. I forgot to request a refill from the doc this week, so I have to wait until Monday.

Okay, hear me out: ...wasabi ice cream.

That would be one cataclysmic brain freeze.

@funnelfiasco Survey time!

@funnelfiasco I don't think this is on the same level of intellectual depth as a topic for a PhD dissertation.

Random idle musings:

I'm probably not the first to notice a parallel between permissive BSD licenses with right-wing libertarianism and copyleft GPL licenses with democratic socialism.

But does this generally correlate with the political views of their proponents?

If it doesn't coincide and there are, for example, libertarians who promote the GPL, or democratic socialists who promote permissive BSD licenses, I'm not sure whether that's hypocritical.

In some sense it feels like it would be hypocritical. But then, almost nobody has consistent meta-principles, so it's the specifics and contexts that matter more than the general principles.

Like, when the universe designed me, I don't think it anticipated that I would have to exist alongside other humans and such. Kinda short-sighted, if you ask me. But what do I know. 🤷‍♂️

I just had some grapes. They were extraordinary.

I've been using Fedora KDE as my daily driver for a couple days now and I'm being normal and sane about it.

Idk, sometimes having to run updates and reboot gets on my nerves because I'd be in the middle of some task and the notification will be nagging me.

What I have been coming around to accept is that (1) it's okay if I don't update until I'm ready to do so, (2) I can turn off the notifications if they feel naggy, and (3) any security-critical bugs that are fixed with said updates /probably/ won't affect my personal system at home that is behind a NAT, so there is really no huge rush to run the updates.

I feel like I owe society and myself an apology for being such a basket case about this <-- but I intellectually understand that THAT right there is actually me still being a basket case. So, sorry not sorry, I guess.

I'm running a Lemmy instance now! Registration is open if anyone is interested in joining. :fediverse: :dance_cool_doge:

https://lemmy.hyperreal.coffee/

I'm actually eager to read this. I'm already somewhat skilled with #python and the book is written for the kind of professional job I'm looking for, so the contents are interesting and seem pretty smoothly digestible.

My goal is to read it from cover to cover, one chapter every two days.

We gotta save the informations for longevity.

Oh, I forgot to mention: I met Neve in that story and she's pretty cool!

I think I'm gonna have fried fish (and shrimp) for supper tomorrow. From this shrimp place near me.

Don't use Telegram if you're an activist looking for privacy.

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says, "Telegram was built to protect activists and ordinary people from corrupt governments and corporations — we do not allow criminals to abuse our platform or evade justice."

What an inane statement.

Bruh. A *corrupt* government or corporation is gonna use their power to deem activists protesting against them to be criminals. This ... this is precisely how government and corporate corruption *works*.

https://lemmy.ml/post/20944176

Whoa. TIL Bitwarden has their own authenticator app now! Time to switch to it and spend the next 30 minutes reauthenticating all my accounts.

"This helps protect our monopoly."

Yesterday, I read the the short story The Streets of Minrathous, by Brianne Battye. It's from the #DragonAge universe and is a precursor to the upcoming game Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The short story was part of a collection called Tevinter Nights. They've all been really good so far.

Everything is all good now. On Fedora KDE with normal sane healthy dotfiles not being version controlled. Backups are working. It took about 10-15 minutes and three reboots to get my desktop in order. I might just rest easy now. 😌

My solution for now is regular Fedora KDE without using Nix home-manager. I'll just use Nix + DevEnv for development stuff.

I am losing my mind over my distro decision. (That means I'm in mental debt.) I still haven't found a goldilocks distro. This isn't normal. It can't be. I should be satisfied with something by now. I'm broken. Goldilocks was lucky she even had an option that was "just right". That old fable doesn't take into account situations in which there ain't even a linear spectrum of rightness. There's all kindsa dimensions and nooks and crannies involved here and not one solution exists within my constraints.

I'm just gonna take a clonazepam and install Debian. To hell with Plasma 6 for now.

Egh, uh, maybe I should wait like an hour or so before deleting my Kinoite installation. Maybe I can make this work. The problem I am having at the moment that started this li'l episode was that my Nix/home-manager profile was conflicting with the toolbox environnent. Maybe after I've calmed down a bit I can just uninstall home-manager and setup my home directory the normal sane healthy way with GNU Stow. Maybe I shouldn't even keep my dotfiles version controlled to begin with. I have backups going back months and never once have I needed to revert to old git commits.

I feel smad when other people are mean to me. Sometimes these other people are highly-esteemed, so I feel like /I'm/ the one who was out of line. A lot of the time I don't understand what was out of line about something I said or did. Did they misunderstand? Did I say something dumb/weird unwittingly and they wanted to poke fun at a dumb person on the Internet?

@xgranade Nice! I'll bookmark your Gemini capsule. 🙂

Blog post: Rubber duck helps me debug my daily driver issues

https://hyperreal.coffee/rubber-duck-helps-me-debug-my-daily-driver-issues.html

I feel like "purchase" usually implies a transaction involving money in exchange for a good or service. This is what customers are doing, even if they're only purchasing a license (not the entire product itself). So maybe banning the use of "purchase" in advertising unless it's accompanied by more context about the nature of the transaction, like "purchase a license for $X", with further information disclosed about what the license entails.

https://www.osnews.com/story/140826/californias-new-law-forces-digital-stores-to-admit-youre-just-licensing-content-not-buying-it/

So the Twitter algorithm apparently thinks I have a thing for red-heads. Probably because I liked a bunch of thirst trap photos that just happened to be red-heads. I also just happen to interact with several red-heads in some fandoms/communities.

I mean, red-heads are beautiful and everything, but I don't like have a *particular* preference for red-heads, specifically.

Twitter algorithm: "But the data never lies, hyperreal."

Okay but the heuristics you've gathered from that data are flawed because they are based on something arbitrary and circumstantial, over which I had no preferential control to begin with.

It's by coincidence that the people whose photos I liked were red-heads. And all the Twitter algorithm does is "Ohp, that's another increase in the strength of hyperreal's ANN connection for red-heads. He definitely, absolutely has a thing for red-heads. Flood his timeline with more red-heads."

Aside from LibreWolf, GNU IceCat is a pretty good privacy-friendly alternative to Firefox. #FOSS #Privacy

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

I took a gamble and ordered a burrito from Chipotle. Hope it's good this time. 🤞🤞

Aw snap, I bumped into the my desk that holds my gaming PC which caused the mouse to move so it got knocked out of suspend mode. There goes a few bucks worth of electricity. It should go back to sleep in 15 minutes, tho.

My given surname: Serio
My Halloween surname: Scary-o

But like, the Halloween name is a play on the standard Italian pronunciation of my surname. My family pronounces it the Sicilian way, which is as if it were spelled "Sirio" (it rhymes with "cereal").

An idea occurred to me to look up how timezones work, how the scientists decided on them, to what extent are they arbitrary and to what extent are they based on something concrete, but I have other priorities at the moment so am shelving this for now.

magic-tape: a command line YouTube client that supports fuzzy searching.

https://gitlab.com/christosangel/magic-tape