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.
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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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]
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.
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.
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. 🤦♂️
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.
"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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So my local big box store has been selling a brand of chips that I haven't seen since the 80s. They're definitely playing on people's nostalgia, and I'll be damned if it hasn't worked on me every single time.
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Don't self incriminate– use git wisely!
git commit --allegedly
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Why you have to be like that, trying to point the finger at others? You have 3 other fingers pointing back at yourself.
Also the quoting rules vary, line & row limits, space trimming, how decimals are represented, header or no header…
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.
Didn't there used to be a feature to automatically boost posts based on certain criteria? I thought it was a part of the "channels" feature, but I can't seem to find it.
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Oh shut the fuck up. Citizens are not competing with recent immigrants for scarce homes. They're competing with Wall St
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Stephen Schwarzman's hedge fund & others like it, own 1 in 7 homes in the greater Atlanta area.
It's not the immigrants making homes unaffordable. It's the hedge fund money laundering.
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Harlan Crow's RealPage is a price fixing "data broker" that got raided by the FBI, despite Crow buying a Supreme Court Justice.
It ballooned rents all over the USA.
Both GOP megadonors fund blameshifting propaganda about immigrants to evade scrutiny
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RFK Jr’s Housing Policy Gives Republican Mega-Donor a Pass
If Kennedy was serious about combating the rise of corporate homeownership—or the perception that he’s a de facto Republican candidate, for that matter—he would call out Blackstone’s nefarious influence by name.aidan-smith (Common Dreams)
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Yes. Harlan Crow, RealPage, and funding fascism are linked.
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Crow Cut Tax Bills by Showering Thomas with Yacht Trips — And May Have Broken the Law - Accountable US
New reporting today revealed that Harlan Crow, Justice Clarence Thomas’s billionaire benefactor, not only maintained a decades-long improper relationship with the Supreme Court justice while bringing business before the Court — but also personally pr…Emily Hoyle (Accountable US)
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Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
150,000+ Indigenous children suffered great harm at residential schools in Canada.
Residential schools were established with the purpose of erasing Indigenous cultures, spirituality, and languages.
Students lived in substandard conditions and endured physical, emotional, and sometimes sexual, abuse. One in twenty-five Indigenous children died while attending residential schools.
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So with Cohost shutting down in about 24 hours, a note to every remaining social media site: You should totally rip off the "Following" pane.
Cohost had a view where (as alternative to the normal linear feed), it showed everyone you follow, sorted by last post, and you could click to see recent posts. A problem with social media is the more you post, the more space you take up. Cohost "Following" made everyone take up the same amount of space, while still prioritizing recency. A nice compromise
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#PostOfTheWeek (season 1):
Darwin’s Natural Pet Products responded with an update on the situation:
“Darwin’s is confident our meals are safe. As we’ve also shared with our customers, we commissioned independent, third-party testing using conventional methods, which found that all lots tested negative for listeria,” said Gary Tashjian, CEO and founder of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products.
Argh! Why is @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 not telling me that there's a new version out? I'm on 29 and it's telling me it's up to date.
Maybe it's a PHP thing because I'm still on 8.2.20, but that should be supported.
This definitely looks like an instant buy for me, look at all that #ChronoTrigger inspiration!
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states? Call your reps and demand change, like they did in New Hampshire! Recently, it was brought to my attention that Illinois has a…
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Illinois Autism Registry Update
If you are new here, or you have missed me talking about this before, there is a thing in some United States where autistic folks are registered with the government. Are you in one of these states?…Resiliency Mental Health
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Dear CLI utility writers (*cough* nmcli *cough*) that assume a terminal width larger than 80 columns,
Could you just... NOT, please?
Use two lines per entry if you have to, pad it out, abbreviate something, I don't care. Just don't put important details after the 80th column, please! 😢
(I standardize on 80 columns because that's what old terminals used, and I'm doing more than one thing at a time, always. Thank you =)
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I actually don't think the commands should care about or respect your terminal width any more than it does your terminal height. `less` and similar can provide horizontal scrolling if necessary. And, it quite annoys me when I tool builds in a pager rather than using $PAGER from my environment.
That said, for reasons completely unrelated to terminal width, line/field lengths do need to be controlled. Otherwise human eye tracking stops working well.
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If you're interested. What tipped me to the adhd was the amount of work I'd put in over the years to compensating and dealing with it, without realising that was what I was doing, of course. But, I realised that I wouldn't have done this, if I hadn't had the problems to deal with.
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in reply to Kevin Davy • •@Kevin Davy It does make some sense from an ADHD standpoint as well. I get protective of my routines for a very pragmatic reason. The more I can leave to muscle memory, the more mental bandwidth I have available to more important things, and the less likely I am to forget some other important thing as a result.
This seems to go beyond that though. It's produced a rather visceral reaction in me that I don't feel I can fully explain by this alone, and it's by no means an isolated incident.
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in reply to Kevin Davy • •@Kevin Davy So, I can't go into too much detail here because it's about a parent rather than myself, but something you just said there just made a thousand watt bulb go off in my head.
Now I just need to figure out what to do with that information.
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Unknown parent • • •Yes the strong attachment to something like that, and the anxiety that comes with might having to replace it both resonate.
If you want to look into autism a little more, you can try some of the self tests at embrace-autism.com/
For the bag, check out if there is a repair cafe near you to see if the can help.
repaircafe.org/en/
Or if you have a sewer or leatherworking friend, they might be able to replace the snaps.
Repair Café - Fix Your Broken Items
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •One symptom of ASD is "resistance to changes in routine"
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Unknown parent • •@AriSunDog, Spooky Version! I imagine they'd be difficult to replace. It's a canvas bag, but the snaps are behind a thick leather backing that would probably need to be unstitched from the canvas first.
Honestly, if it could be repaired, I would 100% prefer that option, especially since apart from the snaps, the bag is in otherwise excellent condition. It's impressively well made.
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Just so you know, the ActuallyAutistic hashtag is a matter of self-identification. It's nothing to do with "formal" diagnosis or gate-keeping. It was invented in response to allistic parents of autistic children using hashtags like "autism" and "autistic" to elevate their own voices above actually autistic voices. Using the ActuallyAutistic hashtag means "I am autistic and I will speak for myself as an autistic person". The way you used it, the AskingAutistics hashtag would have technically been a better fit.
That being said, if you feel like you identify with the autistic experience, you don't need an external diagnosis or validation to prove that. Self-diagnosis is just as valid as any "formal" diagnosis, and doesn't make you any less autistic than someone who did get a "formal" diagnosis.
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in reply to Diligent Circle 丸 • •@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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