Oh God,
I'm back on the Goulet Pens web site.
I'm normally pretty non-materialistic, but this never ends well for my wallet.
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Is there a large #FountainPens community on the fedi?
Anyhow, I have a dedicated blue #Lamy Sarafi that I used to use for my #BaystateBlue ink, because it's notorious for permanently staining everything it comes into contact with. A while ago, I accidentally let ink dry out in this pen, and I haven't been able to get the feed flowing properly since. I've cleaned the pen several times and left everything soaking in water for several hours on a few occasions. I've also tried changing the nib. Eventually, I just emptied it, cleaned it out, and left it sitting on a shelf for a while.
I recently pulled it out again, cleaned it once more, and inked it up. Same problem. I'm going to leave it sit inked for a bit to see if maybe capillary action will eventually set in, but if this doesn't resolve the issue is there anything else I can try? I can always replace the pen, but I'd rather not if it can be avoided.
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So my sister is confident that she can fix the bag mentioned in this post. Dropping it off with her. In the meantime, I've had to distill its contents into the absolute essentials and transfer them into a smaller bag for the day.
It's weird, but it'll do for now.
I've known I have #ADHD since I was first diagnosed in high school, but sometimes I wonder if perhaps I might be somewhere on the #autism spectrum as well. Let me explain a thing that's going on right now to illustrate what I mean.I have a canvas messenger bag. I've had it for years and love it. I keep my whole life organized in this bag. Everything has a place and I know exactly where everything is. Recently, one of the snaps that holds it closed gave out. Within a couple of days the second one went as well, so the bag just falls open, which is fine if I keep it upright, but is kind of a pain in the ass.
The place I got it from essentially has a lifetime guarantee. I'm sure I can trade it in for another "equivalent" bag, but I'm sure they won't have this exact one since it's been several years since I bought it. This causes me an enormous amount of anxiety, because the new bag will be different, and I won't just instinctively know where all its contents are (because the configuration of the internal pockets will likely be at least a little different). It's not just the act of replacing the bag, but knowing that it'll mess me up for weeks afterward too.
I feel like this dilemma could possibly be explained by ADHD alone, but I kind of wonder...
Does this resonate with anyone in the #ActuallyAutistic crowd? I am of course not looking for a formal diagnosis or anything. It's more of a curiosity.
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Just got it back. Holy shit! You'd never know anything had ever been wrong with it. One of the snaps is a little stiff, but that's a problem that will solve itself in time.
I have the greatest sister ever!
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I love living so close to a major Oktoberfest venue. For the past 10 minutes or so, someone's been screaming at someone else, over what specifically, I don't know. I can only make out bits and pieces.
My favourite was "you can't talk like that to me!" My friend, I don't know who said what to you, but I think you've waived your right to complain about that at this point.
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Busted out my old fountain pens and ink from storage. I'd forgotten how much I enjoyed them, but was subject to the eternal curse of the fountain pen enthusiast.
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Another question in the "is it just #ADHD or is there some #ASD in there too" series:
I've recently learned that some people with autism have a tendency to repeat back phrases verbatim when people talk to them before answering.
I do not think this happens to me (at least not with words I hear) but I do have a tendency to do this with written text, stuff on billboards when we're driving, that sort of thing.
I have no idea why I do this. It's not like it's everything I see either. It's just sort of a compulsion that occasionally strikes for no apparent reason. Is that a thing that makes sense to anyone, or is it just me? I guess I just write it off as a weird thing my mind does when it wanders.
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"“I’m here to rescue you,” said the demon.
The man peered up at him.
“Rescue?” he said.
“Yes. Why are you here?”
The man hung his head. “I spoke blasphemy against the king.”
“How did you do that?”
“I dropped a rock on my foot. Now my tongue is to be torn out.”
The dark figure nodded sympathetically.
“A priest heard you, did he?” he said.
“No. I told a priest. Such words should not go unpunished,” said the man virtuously.
We’re really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldn’t possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. “I think we ought to talk about this outside,” he said. “Why not come with me?”
The man pulled back and glared at him.
“You want me to run away?” he said.
“Seems a good idea, wouldn’t you say?”
The man stared into his eyes, his lips moving silently. Then he appeared to reach a decision,
“Guards!” he screamed."
— Terry Pratchett: Pyramids
I know this is meant to be humorous, but damn...
Pyramids - BookWyrm
It's bad enough being new on the job, but Teppic hasn't a clue as to what a pharaoh is supposed to do. After all, he's been trained at Ankh-Morpork's famed assassins' school, across the sea from the Kingdom of the Sun.bookwyrm.social
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FINALLY! Open-source LIVE CAPTIONS for your Linux desktop that run locally! No internet connection, no spyware!
github.com/abb128/LiveCaptions
FUTO is a company that grants young developers means to build awesome tools like this one. Tools that help digital sovereignty.
All I need now is a model that will translate all the Russians in #CounterStrike for me 😁
#Accessibility #HearingAid #Deaf #FUTO #FreeSoftware #FairSoftware #MachineLearning
GitHub - abb128/LiveCaptions: Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning
Linux Desktop application that provides live captioning - abb128/LiveCaptionsGitHub
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@_L1vY_ @libreture: The error message says that your phone and the server can't talk the same encryption algorithms.
The server only seems to allow the TLS 1.2 and 1.3 versions. TLS 1.1 and earlier do not work—which IMHO is ok nowadays.
Any chance that this is an older phone with an older OS? (Older as in older than lets say 8 years? TLS 1.2 is in use since 2008 and TLS 1.1 was deprecated in 2021. Maybe Android ≤ 7?)
Do you have more and more often similar issues with other sites?
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@_L1vY_: That's at least a possible reason. A phone from 2018 though should though be able to connect with TLS 1.2.
You can test this. If you can't connect to the first, but to the second, we've found the issue indeed.
This subdomain and port only supports TLSv1.2
tls-v1-2.badssl.com:1012/
This subdomain and port only supports TLSv1.1
tls-v1-1.badssl.com:1011/
Another more detailed way is to visit clienttest.ssllabs.com:8443/ss…
(All from security.stackexchange.com/que…)
Cc @Pineywoozle @sohkamyung @libreture
What website accepts only TLS 1.2 so I can verify client capability?
Is there a publicly accessible website which will only accept TLS 1.2 connections so that I can test to see if my application can successfully, securely connect to it? Background: I have an old V...Information Security Stack Exchange
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This is 100% a scam site. It's only been online for a few months, the owners are hidden, they say they're in London, but it's registered in Iceland, they have bot reviews on their home page, and they have reviews dated long before the site existed.
More than likely what they are doing is buying things from Humble Bumble and reselling them to harvest CC data, and in a few months they'll be gone.
I checked Reddit, and other people found the same stuff I did. Most people, and most "trust advisor" type websites suggest doing business there is probably not a great idea.
Just had the biggest scare of my life.
Some context is necessary. Katy works an evening shift, so we usually sleep in to 10-11AM. She also likes to sleep in absolute darkness, not a single photon in the room. To this end, we've taken drastic measures to ensure that we can have the bedroom very dark, even at noon.
This morning (and I use the term loosely) I woke up to notice that the outlet my phone charger and the nightstand lamp are plugged into was emitting a distinct orange glow. Nothing plugged into it is causing this; it's coming from the outlet itself.
I woke Katy up with an urgent sounding "ummmm". I thought we had a small electrical fire inside the outlet. I ran to the breaker box in the kitchen to throw the breaker for the outlet and grab a screwdriver so I can get into (and hopefully extinguish) the outlet.
Turned off the power and was reaching for the drawer with my screwdriver and Katy says "I think I know what it is."
Turns out, this outlet shares an electrical box with an outlet on the other side of the wall and the sun was shining on it. In the total darkness of the bedroom, the glow I was seeing was sunlight from the other side.
Anyhow, that's how the server abruptly lost power today.
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Aargh! Trying to get a continuous blood glucose monitor, but my pharmacy doesn't carry any that have a standalone reader. They all need to be paired to your phone with some proprietary app. There's no way in hell I'm forking that kind of data over to a black box that probably feeds it into some corporate cloud.
There are standalone meters on Amazon, but I doubt I can get my insurance to cover it if it's not coming from a pharmacy.
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Thought I was maybe starting to become somewhat proficient with the #soroban. Then I saw this.
At least I know how proficient it's possible to become.
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I've known I have #ADHD since I was first diagnosed in high school, but sometimes I wonder if perhaps I might be somewhere on the #autism spectrum as well. Let me explain a thing that's going on right now to illustrate what I mean.
I have a canvas messenger bag. I've had it for years and love it. I keep my whole life organized in this bag. Everything has a place and I know exactly where everything is. Recently, one of the snaps that holds it closed gave out. Within a couple of days the second one went as well, so the bag just falls open, which is fine if I keep it upright, but is kind of a pain in the ass.
The place I got it from essentially has a lifetime guarantee. I'm sure I can trade it in for another "equivalent" bag, but I'm sure they won't have this exact one since it's been several years since I bought it. This causes me an enormous amount of anxiety, because the new bag will be different, and I won't just instinctively know where all its contents are (because the configuration of the internal pockets will likely be at least a little different). It's not just the act of replacing the bag, but knowing that it'll mess me up for weeks afterward too.
I feel like this dilemma could possibly be explained by ADHD alone, but I kind of wonder...
Does this resonate with anyone in the #ActuallyAutistic crowd? I am of course not looking for a formal diagnosis or anything. It's more of a curiosity.
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@Diligent Circle 丸 Good to know. I was unaware of the other hashtag. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
As for how I identify, I guess my answer is... I don't really know. I have however learned a lot from the autistic community on the fedi, and am grateful for that regardless of my status.
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Just ran into some #Mormon missionaries in the wild. It's always interesting when they try to strike up a conversation with me.
[...small talk...]
Missionary: So, do you know much about our church?
Me: Yeah, I actually had my records removed back in 2019.
[awkward scilence followed by an abrupt change of subject]
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I know I'm late to the #Friendica channels party, but the "Quiet Sharers" channel is really quite nice. It only shows posts from accounts you follow that aren't frequent posters, helping you to find stiff you might otherwise miss.
This is how to do an algorithmic feed* right.
* Yes, I know that sorting posts chronologically is technically an algorithmic feed.
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So, I like to set filters that automatically collapse certain posts that I may or may not have the mental bandwidth to engage with at any given time. Friendica lets me do this by regex, but some of them are kinda ugly
Take my Elon filter for instance. I could filter on /elon/i, but that would falsely trigger on common words like 'melon' or 'belong'. I finally settled on /^(.*[^a-z])?elon([^a-z].*)?$/i, but that feels overly complicated. Is there a better solution?
Edit: proofreading is for suckers.
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Once again, for the people in the back: we don't build back doors because there is no way to build a back door that only good guys can walk through, motherfuckers.
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in reply to A cool crab wearing shades • •@A cool crab wearing shades Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like an ultrasonic cleaner may be more expensive than just buying a new Lamy Safari.
Though it may be a good long-term investment anyway. I'll have to explore that option.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •@neckspike You can also use the ultrasonic cleaner on other stuff. It works great on jewelry and such. And if you bought another pen it could still get clogged, and the cycle repeats.
I bought this one, and even at $40 it's a bit overkill for most things, but does a great job: amazon.com/gp/product/B087WN32…
Amazon.com: LifeBasis Ultrasonic Jewelry Cleaner Ultrasonic Cleaner Machine 850ml (28 Ounces) LCD Screen with 5 Digital Timer Watch Stand CD Holder for Jewelry CD DVD Watches Glasses Makeup Brush : Industrial & Scientific
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •If you have an ultrasonic cleaner, that might help draw the ink out.
Some people have soaked pens for days to get stubborn stuff out, a couple hours may not be long enough.
Also might use (or make) pen flush to help. Some people have used a little dish soap or ammonia but it can be tricky getting the mix right so I use pre-made pen flush.
The way Lamy pens are made can make it tricky to clean with a bulb syringe but that's usually the most effective way to do it quickly.
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in reply to Jim P. • •@Jim P. I've tried pen flush, but I'm told that one should not soak a pen in it, just flush it through.
I'm going to look into the ultrasonic cleaner option though.
I may also end up resorting to soaking in water for an extended period. I'm told that Baystate Blue is notoriously hard on pens, though the Safari is known for being pretty indestructible.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •yeah, soaking is just for water, generally speaking.
Before anything else, I'd let the section+feed part (without the nib on) soak overnight in room temperature water and then see what happens.
I won't touch Noodler's inks for many reasons but one of the big ones is that they do things like you're seeing. Not worth the hassle for me when there are so many other choices out there.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •you can try pen flush. Fill your pen with it and leave it overnight. Homemade pen flush: 200 ml water, 20 ml windex, 2 drops clear dish detergent
Although this may not work for Baystate which is notoriously somewhat corrosive
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in reply to Bearking • •@Bearking I'll keep that one in my back pocket. I know the purpose of ink is to permanently mark things, but BSB is insidious!
If it weren't such a gorgeous colour, I'd have nothing to do with it.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •vinegar is pretty safe in general and you can always dilute it. I think the safari has a plastic feed, too.
if it were me I would use a little dishsoap and an old toothbrush first and try to get into the feed's nooks and crannies. if the suds turn blue, it's working
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