So, I've started a new job. In said job, I'm editing a document which I've spent a couple hours working on. This is all being done in a browser.

I reach a point where I want to search backward through the text for a name, so my #emacs brain says, "Easy peasey, that's just C-r", which I press... reloading the page.

It's at this point I have a minor heart attack, and consider myself lucky that their web app frequently saves my work.

Got an email from our VPS provider today that there's been an ongoing outage. Things seem to still be running but limping along.

Hopefully things get resolved soon.

I FREAKING PASSED MY EXAM!!!!!

BOO-YAH! 🥳🎉

I've been studying my brains out for this stupid exam that I kept failing by one stupid question. I think I finally figured out what was failing me. Just like the prequalificaiton exam, I was rabbit holing on the wrong question.

With any luck, I will take—and pass—this exam tomorrow. Then I can actually start getting paid for my work.

I'm getting closer and closer to passing the entrance exam for this job. I also learned a little tidbit about why they're always hiring: apparently, "AI-generated" transcripts are inadmissible in US courts.* As much as they might like to, they legally can't replace this job with AI.

Combine that with the very small overlap between people capable of passing this exam and people actually willing to jump through those hurdles, and you have glut of available work.

* At least for now. Give the techbro billionaire class time to keep eroding the US legal system, and who knows?

So, there was a post on the fedi about a project Johnny Harris was working on. Some people in that thread seemed to think that he was untrustworthy, even going so far as to posit that he might be a CIA asset. I had no idea why they believed this, but it was echoed by more than one person.

I am familiar with Johnny's work. He always seems to do a good job of citing his sources (at least to my casual inspection). I asked about this distrust but received no response. Perhaps they thought I was sealioning?

So, I'm asking here: Is there an actual valid reason to distrust him that I'm simply not aware of, or is just stemming from the fact that he likes to shine light on things that some would rather not have light shined on?

#Today I added a take-out menu to my virtual sushi bar in #LambdaMOO. It took me longer to retrofit the code to make this happen than I care to admit.

Did I have more important things to do today? Probably. I just needed a break from reality for a while.

I just saw a Wal-Mart greeter shrink wrapped to a chair, holding a jar, trying to raise $50 for... something I couldn't read.

Dear Wal-Mart,

You're a billion dollar multinational corporation paying your employees the least you can possibly get away with. Why is this necessary?

Hey Fedi,

For those who don't know, my mother had a major #stroke a little over a month ago. We're very fortunate to live in a country (Canada) where we have free #healthcare, but as her discharge from the #hospital looms closer, we're having to raise funds to make #accessibility modifications to my parents' home so that she can return. Boosts are welcome (and appreciated).

gofund.me/a69e0cdc4

#a11y #MutualAid

Are there any #Lisp programmers out there who use a #ScreenReader? Given how messy Lisp can be to read without proper indentation (which I imagne wouldn't translate well on a screen reader) I can't see it is being an easy language to work in without being able to see it.

I've been thinking about a way to make an editor that lets you explore a Lisp program by walking through the forms in the program in a manner similar to the way one might navigate in a MUD. Is this a crazy idea, or one with some merit?

Can anyone recmmend a FOSS solution for converting an .azw file to .epub on Debian that isn't Calibre?

I thought maybe pandoc could do it, but apparently not.

Oh, this bottle of coconut water has "no added sugar"; I wonder if it's okay for my diabetes?

*checks the macros*

(It's roughly equivalent to a can of coke.)

*drinks it anyway*