Skip to main content



Any time I create an account where the password policy forbids a certain class of character I know I might as well just hand my PII over to the data brokers directly.

Edit: autocorrupt

reshared this



Well, I've finally reached the point where I have to stop putting off getting new glasses.

Picked out new frames that are rather different from anything I've worn historically, and I can't believe how stupidly much I love them.

Sadly, it's going to take a couple weeks before they're ready, so I have to keep wearing my boring old glasses for a while.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I am at the โ€˜I really need to go have them checkedโ€™ stage of previous glasses, and have been for months ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ




NetHack spoiler
Wait, minetown is on an unlit level? That's a thing that can happen?
#NetHack


Me playing #NetHack: Why am I doing so poorly with this bow and arrow?

Turns out I'm not holding the bow and am just throwing the arrows.

I guess that explains it. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

reshared this

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

That's sometimes a good strat, if you have higher STR and don't want to spend time/inventory space swapping weapons.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Sensitive content




So, I learned that GrapheneOS doesn't support Samsung devices. That's unfortunate. Is there a decent alternative OS that I can put on my aging Samsung tablet? Support for the S Pen would be a must.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Yeah, unlocking the bootloader may be challenging.

It's why I've always avoided their hardware. The hardware itself is lovely, but their OS is kinda meh, and they're usually locked down.
Motorola/Lenovo, too.



Oh gods, I've started playing #NetHack again. So much for today's productivity.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

NetHack
As a side note, it still annoys me that I can kill something (non-undead) and its corpse can immediately be rotten when I eat it. How exactly does that happen?



Almost just fell for a spearphishing attack. These things can be scarily convincing if you're not paying attention. It was an email purporting to be from my VPS provider saying there was a problem with my payment information.

Apart from the fact that the email address it was sent from and the site it linked to were random domains obviously not associated with my provider, the fact that when I looked at the source of the message, the image of their logo was <img src="https://en.wikipedia.org/..."> was a bit of a tip off as well.

reshared this

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I got one "from" a service provider.

It said I had to log in to confirm something.

My password manager didn't fill in ID and password. I was just about to do it manually when my Spidey sense wondered why.

The login address was 1 character off. Another good reason to use a pw manager.

@bonaventuresoft




ph

I'm so mad at myself right now.

I went to a routine blood work appointment. I do this every three months, so I should know the drill. I forgot the appointment card. No problem. I booked it online, so they'll have it on file. Problem is, When I reached for my wallet to get my health card, it wasn't there. They need one or the other. I had to reschedule the appointment.

Worst part? When I got home, I found my wallet in my messenger bag. I had it the whole time. ๐Ÿคฌ



I laid down "for a quick nap" this afternoon. Just woke up. It's almost midnight.

I guess the sleep deprevation of the past week has finally caught up with me.





Our cat has had this little stuffed burrito toy since the day we picked him up from the shelter. He's never given a damn about it. Now suddenly it's his favorite toy. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ


My favourite #ADHD quirk: forgetting what I was saying as I'm in the middle of saying it.
#ADHD
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

and then giving a long-winded response to the thing you thought you were answering, whilst hoping that the padding you give will trigger something in your mind that magically makes you remember it!
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Same here, but I attribute it more to the short term memory issues I've got going on.


Just heard a kid address his group of friends he was physically seated with as "chat". Is this a thing?

Maybe I'm just old.

in reply to Darcy Casselman

The question for me is whether referring to people IRL is still irony, or has it simply become part of the lexicon.



Who's the maniac that decided that radishes were edible? I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.







Been playing around with the riticulum network. It's interesting but sideband kills the shit out of my phone's battery.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

In case anyone here is also using Reticulum, I can be reached at: lxmf@32f62870f2d7c418b59f1c5f9f1617e2

Don't know yet if it's something I'll use long-term, but it is at least interesting to play with for now.







For reasons I shan't get into, Katy had to adjust her diet for 24 hours, and I decided to do likewise so as to not make the experience any more unpleasant for her than it had to be. After reading the label, I have come to the conclusion that Ensure meal replacement shakes are not designed with diabetics in mind. They have about 75% of the sugar content of a can of Coke.

Oops...



At the hospital again for nearly two hours. Still waiting to see the one after-hours doctor they have on staff...

It's going to be a long night. I can already tell.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Ohh. I was more thinking about the quality&total experience. But my bad!



neti pot discussion (gross)
While my neti pot is really good at clearing my sinuses, it has an unfortunate side-effect. I'll end up with a small amount of water trapped in my sinuses which will randomly drain at some unpredictable point when I happen to tilt my head at just the right (or wrong?) angle.


I've been playing around with #OpenWeatherMap's air quality API. Interestingly, there seems to be some disagreement between its report and Environment Canada's. The former says "Good" and the latter says "Moderate Risk". Granted, they use different scales, but that still seems a rather significant discrepancy.


Time to go inside for some fresh air.

...weird that that's now the world that we live in.



I don't need an air quality report to tell me things are bad right now. I can see haziness in the air when looking at things that are less than a block away.

reshared this




Kitchener Public Library has discontinued their 3D printer program, but Waterloo Public Library hasn't.

In other news, I now have a custom phone holder for the car.

Edit: autocorrupt

reshared this



I'm getting old. Every time I get up from sitting today, my back screams at me.

This website uses cookies. If you continue browsing this website, you agree to the usage of cookies.

โ‡ง