@Katy Lamothe and I went out for a walk in a little wooded area near the apartment, because... you know... health. We were immediately eaten by mosquitos, so we pulled the plug and came home with an emotional support pizza.
This was kind of the antithesis of what we were going for, but hey, I get to eat pizza. Thus, I'm going to call it a win.
BBOARD and the read new posts command is now scanning the REQUESTS board. Time to make a coffee, I guess.
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Now that we've replaced our (long overdue) mattress, it's only served to reinforce what trash our pillows are.
Damn it. 🤬
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Reading up on Sixels.
My god, some of the stuff hardware/software engineers came up with in the 80s was elegant AF.
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Interesting article on the whole phenomonon of AI replacing human workers:
cbc.ca/news/world/ai-agents-te…
I loved the marketing spin from an AI company that said:
She outworks everyone. And she’ll never ask for a raise
What this really means:
We don't have to ask for a raise. We'll just wait 'till you're dependent on our product and then jack up the price because you won't be able to do anything about it at that point.
If it weren't for all the people who are going to lose thir jobs over this nonsense, it'd be amusing to watch.
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So, I've struggled with restless leg syndrome for years. It always happens when I'm getting tired, and, frustratingly, makes it difficult to sleep. I thought it was something I'd just have to live with. It turns out, sleeping with a weighted blanket makes a huge difference.
Maybe that can help soneone else.
Also, it turns out I just really like the feeling of sleeping under a weighted blanket.
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.../cgi-bin. I've recently discovered that I can run #awk there, so I'm building a minimal DSL in awk and building it with that.reshared this
Been having some weird symptoms for like a week now. My casual resesrch reveals that it's in all likelihood nothing serious, but potentially not.
It's been going on for long enough that I should probably discuss it with my doctor, but I really don't want to because I know he'll use it as an excuse to take me off #ADHD meds again.
I'll probably wait until I've got my prescription refilled first.
Finally broke down and got a new mattress. Upon unboxing I noticed that the dessicant packs included did not say "do not eat". Does this mean they're edible?
Only one way to find out. 🙃
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Sooo... #Emacs's awk-mode really doesn't like it when I do something like this /[^]]/.
It confuses the hell out of the auto-indentation.
So I have an older netbook-esque laptop currently running Windows 10, and I'm sure it's not upgradeable. I've toyed with the idea of slapping #Debian on it to give it new life, but I've also been thinking about giving #BSD a go. Were I to do the latter, which BSD would the fedi recommend for an underpowered machine?
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Doing some more #art practice. I've read a bunch of stuff/watched a bunch of videos on how to draw decent looking anatomical proportions. They say things like: the body should be so many heads tall—though not all sources agree.
The thing I'm coming to understand though, is that the best tool I have for judging proportions is my eyeball. Does it look right? If not, it doesn't matter what the tutorial says. I need to trust my own judgement more.
I keep a time tracker in a git repository, partly because I find keeping such data to be useful, but partly just because I like to.
Anyhow, my last commit message was: "drawing & drugs". I feel like a lot of good art gets made this way.
Sadly, the drugs in question were for managing glucose and cholesterol, nothing fun. 🙃
Been doing some more drawing practice in #Krita. Trying to get better at drawing the things that are in my head rather than just recreating things I can see. I've recently discovered the lquify tool. It's really nice for nudging my line work into the shape I actually wanted it, but it feels like a cheat.
Then again, if I limit myself to what I could have done with physical media, I suppose I should also forego layers and undo—which I'm absolutely not going to do. I guess there's nothing wrong with using the tools available to me. I just don't want it to become too much of a crutch.
Very interesting! Some years ago I went through that exact train of thought while watching a speed-paint video, and now I use the free-transform tool quite often.
While you don't train accuracy, depending on your prefered style, it can be a fine tool to use imo. Even help train your observation.
Recently, however, I did notice the need to "get it right at the first try" when trying gesture drawing. So for my last drawings I've avoided using it and plan to do so for a couple months
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That feeling when you upgrade the OS on a VPS on another continent and it takes longer than expected to start answering on SSH after the reboot.
In other news, all my Debian machines have now been upgrded to Trixie.
So, today Katy and I had to go to the jewlery store for her rings' semi-annual warranty inspection. They've changed to a new electronic system, and they needed me to show them an email that they had sent (which was somehow different from the email they'd sent to Katy). Problem is, I'd already archived it, so it wasn't on the mail server any more and I had to SSH into my machine at home to read it in gnus... in a terminal... on my phone... that's a tiny font so it can accommodate an 80 column display.
The lady at the counter, who'd understandably never encountered this setup before, proceeded to pinch to zoom, which did succeed in increasing the font size, but left the text she needed to read off the bottom of the screen. She then got very frustrated trying to scroll it... because terminals don't work like that.
Yes, my setup is janky and weird, but it works for me, okay?
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This has been my experience with Northeastern University (Boston campus), and I never considered they could be throttling traffic, it always looked more like dropped packets, and so I assumed it was a problem with their Wi-Fi/lack in fiber, combined with how UDP is a bit more robust to dropped packets
I'll see if I still have some data on that after a nap
huntnewsnu.com/89834/editorial…
You have just gotten back to your dorm after three back-to-back classes, but your day is not over yet. You still have a bunch of work to get done, so you fire up your laptop and try to sign into Canvas. But something is wrong.news (The Huntington News)
@Maddie It's a thing ISPs here in Canada were doing a bunch until the CRTC (our equivalent of the FCC) told them to stop.
A lot of them kept doing it though because proving they were was difficult.
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I am not against AI, because "AI" is such an ill-defined term as to be nearly meaningless, so being either for or against it would be nonsensical.
That said, LLMs are a cancer. I am very much against LLMs.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@Jonathan Lamothe fuckfuckfuckfuck this is catestrophic! This is really bad. This holy fuck. Holy fuck. This press release is a doomsday scenario.
what the fuck
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