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Hi everyone. My wife and I are trying to raise money again to hopefully get us out of the cycle of perpetually borrowing against our paychecks and from friends and also to get things like groceries, gas, and my wifeโs medication.
My wife had a rough transitional period between jobs after leaving a job that wasnโt paying them properly (i.e. they went an entire month without pay) which is what got us to this spot of constantly borrowing money and owing it back to people as well as taking advances from their paychecks.
Weโre hoping to raise roughly $600 as that is what my wife has estimated will help us out of this mess. Iโm a full time student so I donโt make very much money myself, so anything helps. We currently have no money for groceries or gas.
You can send money to help us with the following information:
Cashapp: Bxnshy
Venmo: Bxnshy
PayPal: payment@rubymayvalentine.net
I also have Zelle which would be a preferred option if you also have Zelle and are willing to DM me to exchange numbers so that you can send funds through Zelle since there are no platform fees associated with it.
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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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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
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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"โIโm here to rescue you,โ said the demon.
The man peered up at him.
โRescue?โ he said.
โYes. Why are you here?โ
The man hung his head. โI spoke blasphemy against the king.โ
โHow did you do that?โ
โI dropped a rock on my foot. Now my tongue is to be torn out.โ
The dark figure nodded sympathetically.
โA priest heard you, did he?โ he said.
โNo. I told a priest. Such words should not go unpunished,โ said the man virtuously.
Weโre really good at it, Teppic thought. Mere animals couldnโt possibly manage to act like this. You need to be a human being to be really stupid. โI think we ought to talk about this outside,โ he said. โWhy not come with me?โ
The man pulled back and glared at him.
โYou want me to run away?โ he said.
โSeems a good idea, wouldnโt you say?โ
The man stared into his eyes, his lips moving silently. Then he appeared to reach a decision,
โGuards!โ he screamed."
โ 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 ๐
#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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#Books #SFF #TerryPratchett #EPUB #Ebooks
The Complete Works of Terry Pratchett
Welcome to the comprehensive collection of the complete works of Terry Pratchett, a master storyteller and one of the most beloved authors in the realm of fantasy literature.T&H
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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 workโwhich 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 โค 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/ssโฆ
(All from security.stackexchange.com/queโฆ)
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
@dpiponi @_L1vY_
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 ไธธ 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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Oh hang on, it gets better.
Apparently signing into the app on my phone using biometrics seems to bypass 2FA. ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
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My bank required me to set up 2FA. Via SMS. Only method available! So I did, but I wrote to an old friend (who happens to be their chief data architect) explaining why SMS was not the way to go. She spoke to somebody, and sure enough they soon grew the ability to use an authenticator TOTP in addition to SMS. Only issue now is: NO WAY to remove SMS as a valid method.
At least it doesn't reject a GVoice number, which is way safer than a real SIM-based phone in the wild.
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I will not comment in that thread. I will not feed that troll.
...no matter how much I might really want to.
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@R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: I really don't want to look it up again.
The gist of it was that neurodiverse people should stay hidden and avoid drawing attention to themselves because there are bad people out there who would do them harm.
They seemed genuinely surprised that people took offense to this.
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"A doctor has issued a stark warning that the XEC variant of Covid-19 could bring back the dreaded masks and social distancing"
idk man maybe the thing to dread is the debilitating airborne blood plague, not the act of putting on a fucking mask. maybe this attitude is exactly why things are turbofucked right now
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> maybe the thing to dread is the debilitating airborne blood plague, not the act of putting on a fucking mask
Hey another time traveller! This time from 2020.
You'll be pleased to learn that after 4 years of mutation, what people in your time quaintly called "COVID-19" now comes in forms that are much more infectious, but much less lethal. Most people who get the 'rona report a bad 'flu, and some people get it without even noticing!
Honesty, it really is safe to go outside now.
Does #Haskell's microlens-platform really not have a function of type Int -> Lens' [a] a?
That seems an odd omission.
Working Turing Machine
What is a Turing machine?Depending on who you ask, it's either an abstract model of an algorithmic machine or an esoteric programming language. It's ...ideas.lego.com
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Don't self incriminateโ use git wisely!
git commit --allegedly
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Also the quoting rules vary, line & row limits, space trimming, how decimals are represented, header or no headerโฆ
There's an RFC but I expect more non-conformant files than conformant.
I'm now on so many meds with such complicated rules about when and how to take them that working out a medication schedule kind of feels like solvong the wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
I guess that's just what it's like to get old.
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