Trying to install #Debian on another machine, but #Windows is being stubborn. I accidentally let it boot into Windows 10 and now it's insisting on installing updates before it reboots. Holding the power button to force a shutdown appears to have been disabled somehow.
Fine, whatever. It's not like I have anything else to do tonight.
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June 29th, 8pm, Shakedown Street, Benson, OMAHA
No cover 🆓
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I got an entry-level Wacom tablet as an early birthday present. As I was forewarned, it takes a little bit of getting used to.
One of the tips I was given on how to get used to it is to ditch my mouse (trackball, in my case) and just use the tablet as my day-to-day pointing device. The only problem with this strategy is that, outside of when I'm actually drawing, probably 90% of my computer use is keyboard-driven (including the browser (qutebrowser) that I'm using right now).
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A video of my speech to Tri-Pride festival here in Waterloo Region on June 6. Runs about 16 minutes all told, probably 12 of them are me. The other four are a very kind introduction by the MC and former head of Tri-Pride and my good friend, Kamil Ahmed (he/him).
The reference to Jan Liggett and Adam Cooper near the end is to this story:
My speech has a few naughty words in it, so maybe don't put the sound up high if you're gonna be overheard by a prude.
Sorry about the sound quality - the wind was a bit fierce, and I haven't received the second angle we set up yet, which hopefully will have different windy bits.
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Thanks for sharing your story here! Waterloo Region is fortunate to have benefited from 30 years of your activism. And from your ongoing activism in this municipal election year!
And yeah, the wind noise is something, but your message got through 😀❤️
Ok, I toss this out every 6mos or so as fedi grows...
I'm gathering local connections of fedi folk in #Guelph and area. Get some low key meatspace hang outs going on.
Walks, masked movie nights or board games, knitting in a coffee shop, hanging out at the library...
I'm hoping to do more structured events at some point but am pretty low energy these days so keeping it simple.
We have a signal group to connect and organise. Hit me up if you'd like an invite.
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And I am once again looking to hire someone to come in for 2hr/week to help with food prep and house cleaning. Pays $20/hr, DT #Guelph
In particular, we're getting a weekly CSA produce delivery and need help to make sure we use it up. We're two burned out autistics, so aren't great at improvising or meal planning on the fly.
Just need a chill grounded person to help keep the basics under control so we can spend our spoons on building resiliency (and fun, we need fun!) .
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I'm not in your country but you are so seen right now
I myself have trouble getting through meal kit boxes due to all the food prep, but I still get them because I don't want to draw a blank at dinnertime and end up eating nothing but cereal every night, not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that, but I really like vegetables
I hope you find your helper!!!
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Anyone have ridiculous #InternetOfShit examples you're really fond of?
Toasters, coffee machines, or microwaves that don't work without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Vacuum, TV, or toothbrush botnets. Preferably something you have a picture of, from first hand experience.
I teach an #EmbeddedSystems class, and it's good to show examples of what *not* to do, in case they pursue the industry. (Boost for reach appreciated)
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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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Has literally anyone at literally any point ever offered a logically-sound rationale for said nonsense?
Because I am f***ing baffled as to how it became popular to say “your disorder in particular is fake” about ADHD of all things.
I don't have it myself, but as far as I can tell, it's a neurological disorder like any other, and I don't see anybody sounding off about epilepsy or Parkinson's being fake.
@ARGVMI~1.PIF @Shae Erisson I think it just stems from neurotypicals not being able to comprehend the notion that other people's minds work differently from their own. I don't have this issue so much because I've spent my life surrounded by neurotypicals, so I see this fact first hand every day.
Because they fail to grasp this concept, they're led to the conclusion that we're lazy and/or simply lack willpower, and it's our fault for not just "buckling down". Sadly, they end up inadvertently gaslighting us as a result. I've had to work very hard to try to reverse this conditioning.
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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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Did I mention that this week is SYNTH WEEK on Dubious Goals Committee?
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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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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •Welp, I've hit a snag. The installer doesn't seem to be talking to to the wifi card. The laptop has no ethernet port. I have a USB to ethernet adapter, but the laptop has only one USB-A port (and a USB micro port, weirdly?). The USB port is occupied by the flash drive with the installer. I've tried using a USB hub to make more ports available, but then the system can't see the flash drive.
I'm at a loss.
#Debian
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Luckily I've not had to deal with this situation, but I am aware of two work-arounds.
1. Best may be to include the driver you need - if you can determine what it is - on the install media.
2. Next best is to perform a minimal install to get a bootable system and then use the USB/Eth adapter to find, download and install the WiFi driver. (This will rule out the 'netinst' media.)
'lsusb' and 'lspci' should help to ID the WiFi module. Or documentation for the laptop may help.
HTH,
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Does the flash drive need to remain inserted after the installer boots? Quite often they don't.
And something else to consider, which I've found useful in similar situations in the past, would be a "live" USB key rather than an "installer" one. Often those are able to get to the point where you can remove the USB key, and then have enough of a system to pursue other install methods.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •Try to find the real boot, not Zindozs one in UEFI