Category: Fediverse

Vivaldi and Alpine

(related to my high-contrast mode experimenting)

Went down a rabbit hole on differences between musl and glibc after reminding myself that Vivaldi only provides DEB and RPM packages for Linux, and the Arch package config I found that just extracts the contents of the RPM and repackages it for Arch isn’t likely to work on Alpine, since it uses the other C library…

Sick

I guess the fever explains why I’m so cold today.

Even with the heater and the desktop looking for asteroids.

It’s weird how many times I’ve caught respiratory illnesses that still test negative for COVID. Like, in 4 years, I’ve never had a positive result. Like, do the tests just not work on me?

>The latest storm was the third “thousand-year” event — one with a 0.1% likelihood of occurring in any given year — to hit So…

The latest storm was the third “thousand-year” event — one with a 0.1% likelihood of occurring in any given year — to hit Southern California this winter.

— LA Times in an article on trying to balance flood control and stormwater capture.

The current flood control system managed to handle 60% of average LA’s annual rainfall hitting in the space of three days. The current stormwater capture system can’t: 80% of that water is heading straight to the ocean. Projects to improving it are in the works, but increasing that capture is only going to get more important.

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Note: combine with locally-sourced water and link to water-management

uspol

As usual, the right wing conspiracy theory concerning (checks notes) Taylor Swift rigging the Superbowl so she can endorse Biden, which is apparently tantamount to fixing the election, doesn’t even pass the smell test.

The people who would listen to a Taylor Swift endorsement are going to hear it whether she’s at the superbowl or not. (Never mind all the country singers who endorse GOP politicians up one side and down the other.)

Readable Email and Web Pages…

New tech tip on my website!

Readable Email and Web Pages
It’s 2024. If you’re still designing websites or email like you would design an 8.5×11″ promotional hand-out on a sheet of paper, you really haven’t been paying attention to how people use the internet over the past decade.

#web-development #webDevelopment #css #usability #accessibility #howTo #techTips

On Wandering.shop

Here’s a metaphor…

“Here’s a metaphor to help you get a sense for how this complicated thing functions.”

“But it’s not really doing that!”

“That’s why it’s a metaphor, not a description.”

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See also: “Here’s an explanation in layman’s terms.”

“No, that’s wrong, that term only means this specific thing when used in the relevant technical jargon.”

“I’m not speaking to people who use the jargon, I’m speaking to the general public, who use the term in a much broader sense than you do.”

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And then there’s the flip side:

“I learned this thing was simple. These edge cases can’t possibly exist.”

“You learned the simplified version. The real thing is more complicated.”

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I guess it’s the whole map/territory thing.

uspol, immigration

The “bipartisan” immigration bill currently in Congress is a right-winger’s dream, but since Trump wants to run on anti-immigration, the GOP is suddenly opposed to it, arguing that it’s not draconian enough.

Nothing will ever be cruel enough for them, no matter how much Democrats do to appease them. Biden could do everything they asked for, and they’d still insist he was being soft on border control. They need it as a wedge issue. Appeasing them won’t win any points with their base, and it’ll alienate those on the left who want asylum seekers and immigrants in general treated like the actual human beings they are.

This bill is probably DOA at this point. But just in case, I sent a message to my rep advocating for more protections for asylum seekers, not less.

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Does SpamCop still work?

Does #SpamCop actually still work these days? Since changing my email provider I thought I’d set up a reporting account there. But they kept IDing my host’s spam filter as the source. And every form on the site discards your input if you hit back – even from a *preview*. Configuring mailhosts kicked out a 500 error. Same problem with the error reporting. When I tried to create a forum account, it blocked all access to the forums while I was waiting for the confirmation email. 🤦‍♂️

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I “signed out” of the forum that I wasn’t actually set up on, and was able to find that it’s a known issue with my mail provider…FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS

https://forum.spamcop.net/topic/44923-mail-hosts-does-not-recogize-all-mailchannels-hosts/

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Forum registration finally showed up.

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Oh hey, I can add my AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger and ICQ handles to my profile. In case someone wants to contact me. By a service that hasn’t existed for years.

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Wait, ICQ still exists?????
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

Contemplating adding the etymology…

Contemplating adding the etymology for a bunch of streets that are clearly named after rich American industrialists of the 19th and early 20th centuries (Carnegie, Vanderbilt, etc.), but remembering the computer lab in college where we allegedly named the servers after four Renaissance artists. Perhaps it’s best to confirm that there isn’t another pattern at work.

#OpenStreetMap

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Apparently a recent-ish issue of The Flash made a reference to the “Flush Man” name that the comic was published under in Arg…

Apparently a recent-ish issue of The Flash made a reference to the “Flush Man” name that the comic was published under in Argentina back in the 1980s

https://screenrant.com/flash-nickname-flushman-argentina-dc-comics/

I should look for the collection of cover scans that an Argentine Flash fan sent me ages ago!

#comics #TheFlash

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