Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
My new standalone @gotosocial server is set up, and I’m getting ready to migrate over to @kelson
This one (keysmash.xyz) will stick around for a bit while I look through bookmarks and boosts and old posts. If I read the docs correctly, I should be able to mark this account as moved and still be able to go through my archives afterward.
https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/user_guide/settings/#migration
Importing some of my photo posts from my old WordPress.com blog to my main, self-hosted blog.
“Taco Bell Programming” – sometimes you can just use different combinations of the same few Unix tools in a 10-line shell script instead of building super complicated distributed apps with the lastest tech stack.
https://web.archive.org/web/20120509141610/http://teddziuba.com/2010/10/taco-bell-programming.html
Oh please, it’s not “far left” to point out that Donald Trump is super-racist. That’s part of what his right-wing supporters like about him.
Oh this is cool: Fairphone is selling wireless earbuds that you can repair and that have replaceable batteries! https://shop.fairphone.com/fairbuds
Kid is writing “NaN” on his math homework to indicate undefined values. 👍️
Car shop found more extensive damage when they dismantled the front bumper assembly. Need to wait for parts.
Insurance already approved the original estimate. Here’s hoping they approve the update, because it’s a lot more.
I already returned the SUV we rented to haul stuff over the weekend. Sticking to walking and biking distance, and I can rent something smaller (maybe even electric?) for just the days someone needs to go farther.
I wonder if short term car rentals like Zip are still a thing….
This looks interesting:
For the better part of a century, people have said that comic books are dying. Crisis after crisis, the comic book industry has survived and lives to this day. So, to celebrate its harrowing journey into the 21st century, a satirical OGN about the history of comic books has taken shape. Introducing the ironically named Comics Are Dying: The Comic – a brief history and celebration of the comic book industry!
Interview with the writer who planned the book and teamed up with 100 artists:
You see, this whole project started because I am sick of pessimists, naysayers, whiners, bullies, and opportunists screaming from the heavens about how comics aren’t like they were when they were a kid. I see so many bigots and ignorant folk online complaining about diversity or inclusion and how they want comics to go back to the old days. I think that’s so stupid.
Comics are changing and they’ve always been changing. They’re art and no medium of art stays the same forever. Some of the stuff people complain about has been in comics for decades anyway, so it’s really just a “complaint of the week” for some people. Truly just a miserable lot of fandom. On a more positive note, I see and know the wonderful creatives working today and the heart and soul they put out into this work. But, the joy of it is that I’ve met so many people from all over the world living vastly different lifestyles, but they are unified in their love of this business we call home. It’s a great unifier and a source of creative community.
So, the only way to fight against those clambering for death is to live your passion and express your love on the page. That’s what this book is about. It’s a celebration of not only comics but the people who make them too.
Nice! The preliminary filter support in @gotosocial 0.15.0-rc1 can be managed in Semaphore, and works in Semaphone and Tusky timelines.
Unfortunately: Tusky can’t manage the filters, and both clients treat them as hide completely (without the option to use a warning instead), but I suspect that’s because GTS has only implemented version 1 of the api so far.
Also: Elk doesn’t seem to support filters on GTS accounts at all, though it can handle filters on Mastodon accounts. I wonder if it’s also the api level, or if there’s another issue going on with it.
Kid found a “5D Chess” game where you can move pieces backward through time and branch off new timelines, and also move them across timelines. But still following their usual rules for moves (ex. Move the knight forward 2 and over 1 timeline)
Got StreetComplete running under Waydroid! I don’t plan on editing with it on my desktop, but I can use it to find areas I’ve missed and do some armchair mapping with bing or mapillary images.
It looks like Waydroid still doesn’t get location pass-through from the host system, but I can at least tell it “download data here” and see, for example, where I haven’t mapped sidewalks yet.
I have been informed that Merge Dragons is, in fact, “a dragon drop game.”
Wtf? I don’t need Achievements in an ebook reader. And I especially don’t need push notifications telling me how to get them.
Kobo used to have achievements, but I turned them off like 10 years ago, about 5 minutes after I vought my dorat book from them.
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Bought my first book.
Either autocorrect is getting worse or my phone typing skills are.
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Opened the app to see if they still even have the feature, scrolled down and saw this.
You don’t say….
Speaking of Real Life, how weird is it that I just watched the episode referenced in the latest comic last week?????
House passes bill to prevent the sale of personal data to foreign adversaries – The Verge
Well, it’s at least a step in the right direction. Now if they can just pass a law that does the same domestically, and with allies, and just generally gets rid of the data broker industry entirely. #privacy
FFS, if you can afford a Mercedes, you can afford to pay for a toll road.
“A forb or phorb is a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid”
Well, that clears it up.
I got an email today from a local conservation society that does both habitat restoration and recommendations for gardening with native plants. One of the non-native plants they mentioned was… “California Burclover.” Apparently it’s native to the Mediterranean. (No surprise that it grows well here!)
Declaring this June 1 to be Jean Valjean Day, as it’ll be 24-6-01
(Ok, it’s reaching a bit, but it’s the closest we’ll get for a few centuries)