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It's odd. Whenever I hear an argument that racism isn't a problem on the fedi, it always seems to be a white person expressing the opinion.

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Oh good, Let's Encrypt sent me an email about how they're no longer going to be sending notifications about expiring SSL certificates.

I do not foresee this causing me any problems at all. 🙃



I know this is very first-world-problem, but now that I have my favourite #FountainPen back in working order, I had to make a tough decision about which pen gets the boot from the limited pen slots in my messenger bag. I imagine it's a bit like choosing favourites amongst one's children.

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jonathan Lamothe
@Parker51 I mean, who only has four pens, right?
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I can't limit myself, I put different color ink in each pen to justify bringing them all.


Finally got the replacement barrel for my TWSBI Diamond 580 #FountainPen from the factory.

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[just back from Damascus]

“Yo! Saul! Long time no see”

- “I’m ‘Paul’ now”

“Say wha-“

- “Let me tell you about Jepup”

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Fun fact: VPNs stop working when you forget to pay the bill.

#ADHD is fun.

#ADHD

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Today I somehow fumbled an #org-mode keyboard command and made a file into an attachment on itself. I didn't know that was possible.

Fortunately, revision control came to the rescue.

#emacs #git



I swear my hobby isn't as sketchy as the tools would have you believe, though it can perhaps be as expensive.
#FountainPens

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

@Jonathan Lamothe are you also buying a significant amount of chemical mixtures especially brewed in small labs around the world?


TIL that tuning a glass pen with sandpaper (even the one included with the pen) should only be attempted by an experienced user.

Also, #today I gained a lot of experience in this area out of necessity after the fact. Still, I shan't be doing that again for a while.

#FountainPens



Went to put my PGP key on the new phone and realized it was less than two months away from expiry. Guess I should pay closer attention.


canpoli

More dead tree spam from the Conservative party addressed to my father (who has never lived here). This one was labelled "compliance request" with a red military stencil looking font that said "URGENT: CODE RED". This speaks to the way they percieve the intelligence of their supporters. I weep for the state of politics in this country.

It got a big fat "return to sender".



Is there a way to tell #Emacs #org-mode to omit yhe TOC and headline numbers when exporting to a text or markdown file? I'm trying to implement a #JohnnyDecimal system, so I'm supplying my own numbers and the 00.00-index.org file essentially is the table of contents.

Edit: Because not all replies federate, here's the solution I ended up with:

#+STARTUP: overview indent nonum
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
in reply to Arjen

Since the manual doesn't include examples, it can be confusing as to how to actually use those settings. For this case, add the following line:

#+OPTIONS: toc:nil num:nil

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I got a new phone because my old one was giving out on me. This one is a decided downgrade from the last one, but that's (mostly) fine.

Anyhow, the new phone doesn't support wireless charging. Because of this, I can no longer charge it on the night stand breside my bed. When I wake up in the morning, my impulse in my half-awake state is to just grab my phone and go, forgetting that it's now tethered to the wall. This was not going to end well for anyone, most especially not my charging cable/port.

I charge it in the living room now.


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Outbreak: #Influenza (not typed of subtyped)
Facility: St. Mary's General Hospital
Facility Type: Hospital (Acute Care)
Unit/Floor/Area: [Not Specified]
Location: #Kitchener #Ontario
Date: 2025-01-17

Public Health Unit: Region of #Waterloo, Public Health
Facility Tracking Hash: #RWPH0037
PHU Tracking Hash: #OnObRWPH

Click or follow tracking hashtags to see data for individual facilities or a specific public health unit.

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If anyone posts videos to #YouTube and doesn't want #AI garbage being made from their work, this might be useful:
youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8



I really should just set up my own #XMPP server. I've had no end of issues with SDF's lately.
#xmpp

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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

yup. Same over here. Idk what's the deal with @SDF #XMPP server but it sure needs some love and care ...

I just got an account on other ( a German based ) server and that was about it. No need to set my own server for the time being 👍


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We've trained an AI to replace your largest business cost, the CEO!
We've carefully measured the outcomes of using this AI, and it's far more successful than humans making the same decisions!
We've also trained AIs to replace your customers, your stockholders, and you.
Please report to the AI replacement center.

#microfiction

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I'm surprised that AWK is so bad at handling CSV out of the box.

Yes, I know about the --csv flag in later versions of gawk, but that isn't an option in this case.



I run a pretty tight budget. Twice a year, I get a fun surprise from my domain registrar (because I have two domains with them). They both come with a "free business card generator" that I have never used, but whatever.

Anyhow, every time a domain comes up for renewal, it's expected, budgeted, and paid for. All is good.

Then, about a month later I open my email and see an unexpected additional "receipt" from them. This sends me into a brief panic until I realize it's a $0 receipt for the business card bullshit.


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Not my circus, not my monkeys: good luck with all that
My circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey circus
Not my circus, my monkeys: I am running a successful monkey-rental service
My circus, not my monkeys: oh no, oh man

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hey everyone, noelle (a friend here in phoenix) needs $400 by sunday to not be homeless for February. it REALLY doesnt leave a lot of time but if youve got anything it would be greatly appreciated

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Its been over a month since I was let go and I still haven't found a lot of prospects for a new job. If you know anyone who is looking for an #iOS Developer for remote work I really could use the contact. Please boost.

#JobSearch #iOSDeveloper

linkedin.com/in/rhett-rogers-5…

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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jonathan Lamothe
@Jeff MacKinnon I'll have to check it out.

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Via the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (@asrg) ...

... here's a list of code designed to poison the well for AI web-scrapers

tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/1138674…

(thanks to @peterfr for pointing this one out!)


Sabot in the Age of AI

Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning.

🔻 iocaine
The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers.
🔗 git.madhouse-project.org/alger…

🔻 Nepenthes
A tarpit designed to catch web crawlers, especially those scraping for LLMs. It devours anything that gets too close. @aaron
🔗 zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

🔻 Quixotic
Feeds fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring #LLM scrapers. @marcusb
🔗 marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.htm…

🔻 Poison the WeLLMs
A reverse-proxy that serves diassociated-press style reimaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content. @mike
🔗 codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-…

🔻 Django-llm-poison
A django app that poisons content when served to #AI bots. @Fingel
🔗 github.com/Fingel/django-llm-p…

🔻 KonterfAI
A model poisoner that generates nonsense content to degenerate LLMs.
🔗 codeberg.org/konterfai/konterf…


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TIL Mormon vegans exist. I wonder how they reconcile that with D&C 49:18-19.
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friendica (DFRN) - Link to source
Jonathan Lamothe
@mibwright You know, the Bible did have something to say about eating pork. 😉

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DOOM: The Gallery Experience lets you take part in an art gallery opening with a wine in your hand all while wandering through the Doom’s E1M1 map full of classic masterpieces.

gamedevjs.com/games/doom-the-g…

#DOOM #gamedev #gamedevjs #Itch #Construct3 #JavaScript #HTML5

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Aargh! I thought I'd worked out a system to help with my #ADHD, and it was working for a while. Unfortunately, it involved using the alarm on my watch, which my brain is now just starting to filter out as background noise.
#ADHD

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good luck! having a reliable solution can be hard to find. You'll figure something out !
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Use a different alarm. Possibly something annoying and that you have to move to switch off.


I need to find more excuses to use my glass pen. It's totally not practical as a daily use pen, but it's soooo satisfying to use.

I need to write some fancy letters or something.

#FountainPens

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@alexa-488 I have not. Please tell me more.

Edit: Looked it up. I'm not sure how comfortable I am making my mailing address public, however I have been considering a PO box lately...

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@alexa488 You can also just write to the people who do feel comfortable posting. I've made a few good penpals that way.
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You don't have to post yours openly. I think there are various forums for sharing in a more limited manner, i.e. direct with someone. You can find addresses and mail to them first.

Pretty sure even short hand written notes count, so you could leave some fancy notes for people in your life who you appreciate.


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The argument that people are responsible for filtering their own feeds and so Content Warnings are unnecessary doesn't work when many of the ones arguing this also constantly make up new fucking nicknames for the people they're talking about, requiring the constant addition of new filters to block out unfunny snarky bullshit.

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in reply to Demon Queen Lucretia

I don't (and won't in certain cases) CW everything ever but if there's something I know SOMEONE out there might want to filter I try to get specific keywords in my post they might filter

Like for instance I wasn't gonna CW photos of my gerbils, I'm sure someone out there absolutely doesn't want to see rodents though, so I tried to be sure the word gerbil was in there

To some degree it involves some level of mind reading but it's something

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even moreso on a platform where 99% of the platform doesn't have an easy way to search the text of your post intentionally obfuscating words is silly. Like I don't recommend posting the words KiwiFarms on Bluesky but you don't need to find 500 new ways to put an asterisk in homestuck on here
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(the asterisk thing is wild to me anyway given that most platforms I've been on with text search will let you search tr*mp just as easily as trump)
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I get both sides of the CW debates and I have my own personal lines on what I find sensible or not, and on this account versus my other one I also accept that I agreed to follow certain CW rules on this instance and that's part of being a community even if I may not feel the same way on my own where I make the rules

But imo the best argument for NOT having to CW certain things is making an attempt to make sure people's word filters will work. You may not always get it right since like I said it takes a certain level of guesswork, and sometimes you just forget in the moment. But if you keep coming up with new nicknames for the worst people on earth it becomes impossible to keep up.

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(and frankly most of them aren't even funny let's get to the real important topic here most of these nicknames have the wit of micro$haft winblows)
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@Demon Queen Lucretia 2025 Edition I end up collapsing (auto-CWing) all of the offending user's posts. I don't know if Mastodon has this functionality though. A block would also be effective.

Though even still, it's sometimes a game of whack-a-mole.


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Reminder that intolerance of intolerance is not a paradox. Tolerance is not an absolute ethical stance, it is a social contract. If someone chooses to not participate in the social contract of tolerance, they do not get to benefit from it.

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Who was the genius that decided that Cult Pens' search bar should disappear as you're typing in it on mobile? This person belongs in UX jail.
#FountainPens


Hooray! I finally got my #BaystateBlue #FountainPen flowing properly again. It only took about a month of finicking with it. Now all I have to do is not leave ink to dry out in it for over a year again...
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I’m not surprised that it was a Safari. I’ve had similar issues with ink drying out on my LAMY nibs (not as badly as Parker pens tho).

So that nib doesn’t dry out on me, I’ve started using that pen daily for journaling. Justttt in case, I also have a little water container to dip it in if it gets dry.

in reply to Julian Lopez

@Julian Lopez I've now instituted a weekly pen cleaning day. Every inked pen gets cleaned every Sunday whether it needs it or not.


It blows my mind how the exact same ink can look so completely different between two different #FountainPens.
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It's the magical alchemy of pen, ink and paper that has many of us chasing that dragon into fountain pen and stationary stores to find the inky fix.
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@D. B. Stuck I may or may not have spent $200 on new inks today.

I'd say not to tell my partner, but she was the instigator. We're really bad at keeping eachother accountable for this stuff.

Good thing it's a three paycheque month. 🙃



Hmm... the server fell over on me this morning. Odd, but I figured maybe it was just a one-off. It just happened again. 🤬


Okay, so I've seen a thing were people will send a box of #FountainPen ink samples around by mail from person to person. Individuals will add and remove inks from this box, recording the changes in a log book. It seems like a really cool way to get exposed to new inks, and I'd really like to participate in one of these. Is anyone doing this in Canada?

This is an example of what I'm talking about.

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@Kevin Davy Maybe that's the route to go. I wish I personally knew enough people who were into the hobby locally to be able to bootstrap such a thing.
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Put the word out, see what happens and then work out the logistics, if anything comes from it.


When you have a vernier caliper, #OpenSCAD, and access to a #3DPrinter, a lot of things suddenly become possible.


Shaved my beard off for the first time in a while. I was definitely carrying a little less weight the last time I was smooth-faced. The beard was concealing it more than I realized.

This might've been a mistake.

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