Picked up a used #bicycle for @Katy Lamothe because the battery on her e-bike is not holding a charge any more. Our car is very small, but it wasn't terribly far so I had her drop me off for the pick-up and I just rode it home while she took the car back.
I am in much worse shape than I expected. We'll be working on that this summer though.
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I got three identical pitchers from the dollar store for making cold brew coffee. Recently one of them broke, so I picked up a replacement from the dollar store yesterday. This morning I noticed that the new one is slightly different.
This does not bother me at all.
Broke the #bicycle out for the first time this summer. I got this thing second-hand from Facebook marketplace a couple years back and never really had it serviced. I know I probably should.
Anyhow, the brakes were feeling kind of off, so I decided to have a look at them to see if it was a simple enough problem that I could fix myself. I don't know the first thing about bike repair, but after a few moments of following cables and using my eyes and brain, I was able to determine that whoever last did the brakes on this thing knew even less about what they were doing than I did.
Long story short, my rear brakes actually work now—though I should probably have someone who knows what they're doing have a look at it. I just lack the funds to do so at present.
Also, bike repair is less scary than I originally thought.
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Had to do a purge of the stuff in my bag. I was in denial about it, but it was starting to throw my shoulder out. Nothing in it was that heavy, but the cumulative weight was getting excessive.
Hard decisions had to be made.
@a.k.a. low-profile It's not that I'm getting rid of anything—apart from the dried out disposable lens wipes I found in the bottom of tje bag. It's about not carrying them on my person at all times.
I don't get rid of things easily, but on the flip side, I don't acquire things easily either.
The mere service of creating certificates isn't an issue - you can do that yourself. I did before Let's Encrypt existed.
The problem is that you need to use a service that is authorized by an authority trusted by major browsers - and all of the major browsers have strong US ties. So even if you could replace Let's Encrypt as such with a service that, in itself, isn't US-based, it wouldn't really solve the problem of being dependent on US-based entities.
Had to replace my glucose monitor because it turns out that they expire (who knew?)
Anyhow, I officially hate the new one. It's clunkier, has a worse interface (everything is pictographs instead of text), requires more blood, is slower, and the first reading I got from it was very decidedly wrong (presumably because I hadn't applied enough blood). It said 3.2 mmol/L. I'm pretty sure I'd be, if not dead, at least feeling a little off at that reading. Did a second test (with more blood) and got a more reasonable result.
Life pro tip: when charging your devices, it is helpful to ensure that both ends of the charge cable are connected.
In other news: I guess I'm using my spare earbuds today.
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Damn it!
I heard my alarm, silenced it, acknowkedged what it was for, and then proceeded to not take my pills. 🤬
#Monsterdon You know, schools are just buildings.
If there's a lawless zone surrounding the school building, you could just hold school somewhere else.
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#Monsterdon This is such an old-man premise for a movie.
The kids these days. They're out of control! Not respectful like we were back in the olden days.
If this continues we'll need to use institutional violence to keep the kids in line!
Who is this movie for?
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#Monsterdon This movie is like a right wing teacher's fantasy come to life.
Just watching it I can feel myself getting older.
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#Monsterdon If I was in charge of converting war robots to teachers, I'd probably have removed the ammo from their rocket launchers.
To prevent damage to the facilities if nothing else.
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#Monsterdon "It's ok, It's ok."
It's really not, though.
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#Monsterdon If I ran a high school in the LAWLESS FREE-FIRE ZONES I wouldn't leave the fire axe on the wall.
That's just asking for trouble.
#Monsterdon Is this supposed to be parody?
Or are we not supposed to notice this scene is a Terminator rip-off?
#Monsterdon Well, the second half was better than the first half.
I mean, it was still very stupid, but at least it wasn't a conservative old man's fantasy about how kids today don't have any respect.
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#Monsterdon This movie does raise an interesting philosophical question though.
How many gang members can die to save a single preppy girl and still be considered a happy ending?
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You are supposed to notice...in current fandom, it is recognized as an "homage"
(Hollywood stealing)
Still better than Steve Guttenberg doing Batman voice in 2 Lava 2 Lantula
Seriously, though. They could have waited a bit longer for the gangs to thin themselves out.
@Ben Ramsey @Andy L. Yeah, that made zero sense to me too. I mean, it's not exactly as though there was a whole lot about this movie thay made sense to begin with.
Now that we've set them at each other's throats, rather than letting the problem resolve itself, let's just kill them all.So, what was the point of this whole ruse then? I take it all back.
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Hey fedi,
I want to do some experimentation with #sixels. What's the simplest graphics format that I can export from #krita that I can then write a tool to convert into the sixel format?
My naïve guess would be bitmap, but knowing the formats of that era, I'm willing to bet there are at least a half dozen different incompatible .bmp formats.
So yeah, I was right about the technical debt present in .bmp, but all is not yet lost. I have a solution.
It turns out that GIMP supports exporting to the QOI format, which is actually pretty reasonable. It's an extra step, but hey, whatever works.
"You know that #ADHD meds are addictive, right? They're basically speed!" 🤡
Listen... if I were in danger of getting addicted, I wouldn't need daily reminders to keep me from forgetting to take them. 🤦♂️
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when teaching I describe TCP as a shared dream between two computers.
I also teach how to keep coffee shop Wi-Fi fair when one person is trying to steal all the bandwidth.
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@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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@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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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.
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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The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony.Cassandra Rose Clarke
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"If you dress sexy, you invite objectification and harassment."
"If you dress cute, you invite infantilization and pedos."
Your dick's poor boundaries shouldn't be our problem.
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Women also victim blame other women. This is a problem among conservatives and not limited to dick-owners.
HOWEVER: Men are the most vocal about it.
Source: I've been raised by a conservative family and I've heard this shit all my life, whenever something related made it into news, or something happened at my school or so.
It's disgusting and I hate it.
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.
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so, a "no tools" policy?
LLMs are a tool. And if people are NOT being responsible for their tools, then its a person problem.
Blaming a large vector array is pretty dumb, tbh.
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Many of my apps are small enough to fit on a 1.44 MB floppy diskwww.gingerbeardman.com
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. 🙃
"What's the matter, Jimmy? You've barely eaten your world."
"It just takes some time, okay?"
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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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Watching the live Epstein survivors' testimonies right now.
The system didn't fail these 1000+ girls.
Trafficking these girls *was* the system.
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in reply to DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) • • •@dfx4509b even the so called "sovereign" @nextcloud still ignore our call to remove github in the client side (meanin replacing app update and server update) forced call to github for critial update.
because if github close they lose any medium to update their client.
And since they completly ignore the problem that show their hypocrisy.
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in reply to DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) • • •@dfx4509b @nextcloud i don't even ask that much, i ask at the minimum, removing the hard dependency on github for client update / app install.
because they have backup of their source so be in github will not completly kill them if it stop.
Client update suddently broken with no other way to update than manual update is a ticking bomb waiting to explode.
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in reply to SkyBlitz • • •SkyBlitz
in reply to DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) • • •@dfx4509b @nextcloud people could but i find highly hipocrit to them that they simply ignore the issue.
Because again i can understand CI/CD on github make it harder, but i find unacceptable to force the user server to connect to github for actual update / app install.
Even more when they host themselve a file to "check" if there is an update only the download come from github.
Meaning to make ridiculous small economy of server bandwidth, they prefer endanger the update integrity of their user (if github come to block them).
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in reply to DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) • • •@dfx4509b @nextcloud not really since, all the binary are in github you would have to make a clone of it and to maintain it up to date clone it often.
but if github block them the "clone" would fall out of date too.
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in reply to SkyBlitz • • •So much for being decentralized and open-source then if even self-hostability and the ability to fork fails you.
This could extend to the entire Fediverse too as given A) a lot of the platforms are also hosted on Github or Gitlab and B) the large instances are hosted on Hetzner VPSes, the US could hypothetically block all three and it's byebye Fediverse.
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in reply to DFX4509B (Joshua Mason) • • •@dfx4509b @nextcloud it's why i stopped to use them and push people to NOT use them until they fix the issue.
I won't be complicit in sovereinty washing.
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in reply to SkyBlitz • • •At the same time, NextCloud still lets you host your own cloud and doesn't lock your stuff behind a subscription ala Google Drive or OneDrive, either.
And one can still self-host Fediverse instances locally if they have the hardware to spare for it.
Surely there are other open-source, self-hosted cloud alternatives besides NextCloud, though.
Still don't help that the US could hypothetically drop a digital nuke on basically the entire open-source ecosystem, the Fediverse included, by blocking GitHub and GitLab if they ever actually get hostile enough to do that.
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in reply to Misty • • •This applies even if you are in the US.
You should avoid any cloud dependency.
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in reply to Karl • • •@karl jut hope it's not one of those who run on us infrastructure, use US CDN and hide everything behind cloudflare ...
because making EU on US server is still US cloud.
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in reply to Misty • • •Yes, it is 100% risk, but the same risk exist with any in-the-cloud service no matter the geography.
Gov't overreach, or corporate decision/malfeasance can remove/restrict access.
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in reply to Misty • • •@ricobeck Well tbf there is a lot of decoupling happening. It takes time but things are moving. I‘m currently also part of such a project.
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