1. See a bunch of broken characters in output.
2. Set up test case to explicitly convert latin1 to utf8.
3. Baffle at the inability to break the test case in the way the real code is broken.
4. Look at HTTP headers on real code.
🤦♂️
5. Delete testcase & fix the damn header.
Because these days buying single-use foo would be irresponsible.
Coffee places: we want to look busy to attract more customers, so we want to …
Coffee places: we want to look busy to attract more customers, so we want to have an engaging place for people to stay, with tables for conversations, and counters, WiFi and electrical outlets for computers.
Also coffee places: we want to follow the modern design trend of ALL THE ECHOES ALL THE TIME.
Polarized…filters…yeah, that checks out
And the expendable sunglasses have done their job. I’m torn between “Great, now I don’t …
And the expendable sunglasses have done their job. I’m torn between “Great, now I don’t have sunglasses for a few days” and “Good f*ing riddance”
In other non-alcoholic beer news, Stella Artois makes a surprisingly good one. Which is probably …
In other non-alcoholic beer news, Stella Artois makes a surprisingly good one. Which is probably why I’ve only seen it on the shelf once.
Reminded me of the time I actually did get carded for buying root beer, back …
Reminded me of the time I actually did get carded for buying root beer, back in the day.
Um, yeah, i can show you my id, yes i’m over 21, no i don’t need to be to buy anything in my cart
Apparently you can’t buy “non-alcoholic dry hopped brew” at the self checkout either, I guess …
Apparently you can’t buy “non-alcoholic dry hopped brew” at the self checkout either, I guess because the word beer appears on the label after the words “not a” instead of “root.”
Crickets
This cricket hitched a ride inside on a jacket. I snapped a picture for #iNaturalist (yes, really), then started to pick up the jacket to take it back outside. It jumped onto my other hand. But it stayed there while I walked to the door and opened it with my other hand…and it jumped off as I was stepping outside.
Clover. One flower out of a field.
#Clover. One flower out of a field.
#nature #florespondence #flowers
And in related news, this confirms that @pixelfed now supports image uploads from @Tusky !
(That’s been the one thing missing from just using the Pixelfed website on my phone: it works great in a browser or as an installed PWA, but uploads can only start in the website. You can’t start with a photo gallery and share images to the site or PWA.)
Food, weird branding
Just Desserts
Kid: I hate this almond milk non dairy version of Phish Food ice cream!
Same kid: keeps sneaking the non-dairy phish food while we’re not looking.
Missing pixelfed posts
Stork’s bill in a finch’s beak.
Stork’s bill in a finch’s beak.
Apparently Skechers has a hiking shoe called “Terrabite”
Apparently Skechers has a hiking shoe called “Terrabite”
“Hey mom, ask me something in Spanish!””Um…. Dónde están mis pantalones?”Phone: “I’m not …
“Hey mom, ask me something in Spanish!”
“Um…. Dónde están mis pantalones?”
Phone: “I’m not sure how to respond to that.”
After losing two pairs of sunglasses in as many weeks, I wanted a cheap pair …
After losing two pairs of sunglasses in as many weeks, I wanted a cheap pair that I wouldn’t miss if it fell into a marsh while I failed to duck under a tree.
Well… I can’t say I didn’t get what I was looking for.
And yeah, that’s what I think happened to the pair i only had for 2 weeks. I put them in my shirt pocket when I went into the wooded area, and didn’t have them when I left the preserve.
In between, I hit my head on a branch and nearly went sprawling. Managed to catch my balance without landing face first in the mud. Picked up my hat (which managed to save me from any cuts on my scalp – my shoulder wasn’t as lucky). But I think the sunglasses must have fallen out when I stumbled.
I am working on a Mac laptop with a Windows VM, a Linux VM, an RDP…
I am working on a Mac laptop with a Windows VM, a Linux VM, an RDP to a remote Windows server, and SSH shells open to remote Linux servers.
I have no idea what shortcut keys to use at any given time.
Also I think I’ve got websites open in at least 4 browsers, some Firefox and some Chrome, split across the host and the two VMs.
And I thought finding the right tab was bad under ordinary circumstances!
At one point I had a reference page open in a browser on the host for something I was doing on a VM and I just could not switch windows consistently.
Why am I doing this????
Looking forward to finishing this project so I can go back to just using the host system and SSH shells
But hey, now I know you can drag and drop a file from the LXQt file manager in an Ubuntu VM running on a Mac to the Windows file manager in another VM that’s accessing a network share on a Windows domain over a VPN that the Lubuntu VM doesn’t know about and it ACTUALLY WORKS!
GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM
FOOLISH MORTAL!
Do you DARE look into the GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM?
— Um, can I turn the brightness down? Or maybe switch to dark mode?
ALL IS DARKNESS
— Wait, I thought you said it was glowing?
THE GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM CAN MULTITASK
— Ok, got it. Doom, glowing darkness.
— You *did* say it could run Doom, right?
IT IS *OF* DOOM, NOT *FOR* DOOM.
(the glowing rectangle prefers to avoid dependency loops)
— So what kind of doom are we talking about here? Classic, like fate? Or modern, like impending disaster?
— And why am I getting so many notifications from it?
FOOL! The GLOWING RECTANGLE OF DOOM TOOTS AS IT PLEASES!
Les Mis, goose, dream
I dreamed that Jean Valjean convinced Javert to rescue an injured goose like he helps rescue Marius in the original. Javert took the goose to the station, issued it its own photo ID (it was a modern retelling), and the goose proceeded to follow Javert around everywhere for weeks until it got homesick and wanted him to take it back to the lagoon where Valjean had found it. Somehow it managed to convey this to him and he brought it back.