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How much does the aurora borealis weigh?
It's pretty light.

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The reason so many firms push so hard to get you to use their phone apps rather than their websites is that the depth of invasive personal data they can gather via the apps is usually enormous in comparison.

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Ever had a restaurant deny you the discount they offer repeat customers because it's only available via their spyware app or via a dodgy QR code?

It's a good way to destroy your customer base.

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cult brainwashing (trigger warning)

I found some of my old notes from church. God, I really drank the Kool-Aid, didn't I?

Here's a sample:

When I negotiate my standards, I cheat myself of the blessings the Lord wants to give me.


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"The blessings he wants to give me?" Isn't he supposed to be an omnipotent being? I had no idea I was so powerful that I could tie his hands like that.

#ExMormon #apostake #NotACult

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cult brainwashing (trigger warning)

I also love how I was able to take down an idea, and then immediately contradict myself with the next one, e.g.:

- Heavenly Father did not put me here to fail.
- A failure is nothing more than an opportunity to learn.


This is the definition of doublethink.



Katy bought a bread slicer, so obviously I had to make a loaf of #sourdough #today to test it out.

Why does it have to take so long to cool?



Trying out #Friendica's #Bluesky bridge. If you've been followed there by @jlamothe.bsky.social, that's me.

Let's see if this post actually shows up there.

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For sure, I’d rather keep following you here. I just wanted to confirm your bridge is working but wasn’t sure if I was doing something wrong or your setup is somehow incomplete 🤷
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@ilyess It looks like there's a bit of lag in the bridge, but I guess that's to be expected.

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oooh, an Emacs blog post! Is it okay if I add jlamothe.net/blog/feed.atom to planet.emacslife.com so that it's easy for people to discover your future blog posts? I can add an Emacs-specific feed instead if you happen to have one (or want to make one).
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@Sacha Chua You're welcome to do so, but it's not really an Emacs blog, nor does it have anything resembling a regular schedule. My last blog post (before this one) was over a year ago.
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@Sacha Chua FWIW, the next blog post idea I'm kicking around is "finding a privacy-respecting continuous glucose monitor" which (probably) will have nothing to do with Emacs.
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ah, it's infrequent enough that I don't mind if other topics get in there. 😀 Thanks for sharing what you're learning!
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Jonathan Lamothe

@Aziz @Jon's Blog Yeah, for me, it's about the auto-repeating tasks. I can't get that with pen and paper, otherwise I'd go that route too.

I'm trying to take the lowest tech route possible these days.


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Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense
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I think this all aligns with the fact that Facebook remains the Facebook of social media.
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@jenn I’m still searching for the troff of social media.
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Just had a monitor fail in the most bizarre way posible. I got some weird screen flicker/tearing. I assumed that it was my video card doing someting wonky, especially since it would happen sporadically when playing Minetest, and would often persist for a while after. A reboot cleared it the first time it happened.

This time it was really bad though. The weird thing is that when I disconnected the HDMI cable, the distortion persisted on the OSD. Also, there was still very distinct remnant of the image that had been on the screen. It wasn't your typical burn-in, as it wasn't static. It was just... weird.



It's been over a year now since my last blog post. #Today I started working on a new one about my adventures with #org-mode. As an experiment, I'm trying to compose the post itself in org-mode, and then export to HTML for the site.

Depending on how reasonable the resulting HTML ends up being, this might be my go-to method of composing blog posts going forward.


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Worse than back to square one. I can't access it through a browser either.
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Hopped over to another server and all's well again. We'll see for how long.

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PSA: if you're using a laptop with a recent Intel CPU and running Linux, install and enable thermald if you do not have it already. you will likely notice substantial performance gains

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Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt:
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Jonathan Lamothe
@Krafting Can confirm. Just did the same. I didn't compare it word for word, but mine seems to have omitted the part about not ever repeating the prompt. The rest looked pretty much exactly the same.
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Imagine being the sorry excuse for a human being who wrote this.


It should come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying attention that I've grown disillusioned with capitalism over the past several years. What's interesting to me though is that any time I express this publicly, there are no shortage of capitalists who falsely assert that I am claiming that communism is the ultimate solution to everything. This is a false dichotomy.

I am not saying I have the answers to the world's problems. I just have eyes to see that the emperor has no clothes.

Edit: typo

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6 lines free for anyone that wants to play on this PDP-11/70 running Version 7 UNIX.

ssh misspiggy@tty.livingcomputers.org

Drop in "com" to have messages displayed on the terminals.

#retrocomputing #unix #vintage

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Current status: running a modified mand.c on the Decwriter II

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Hey #Unix folks recommend me your favorite games that can run in the terminal that aren't:

1) the most basic boring arcade stuff like snake or missile command

2) roguelikes/dungeon crawlers (love em but there's no lack of those)

3) chess, backgammon, etc., more meaty board games sure but there's already a million easy to find ways to play chess in a terminal

edit: 4) IF, I know where to find plenty of that, forgot this one

This is for my machine with no gui so when I say terminal I mean terminal not just like "text based and looks like it'd be in a terminal maybe".

#terminal #tui #linux

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

are you certain? It could last I checked!

[PRINT_MODE:TEXT] in data/init/init.txt

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@via unreachable The one in the Debian repositories can't. It looks like ASCII (actually CP437) but they're weirdly graphical tiles.
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@via unreachable I didn't have an init folder under data. I added it and got the following when I launched it, I got the following error:

Display not found and PRINT_MODE not set to TEXT, aborting.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@me it looks like Debian moved stuff around; try editing /usr/share/games/dwarf-fortress/gamedata/data/init/init.txt

Change [PRINT_MODE:2D] to [PRINT_MODE:TEXT], and you should get curses output.

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