Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
Fridge lightbulb went out. Placed a pickup order at Target for a replacement. Added a few other things we don’t need immediately but could use soonish, figuring why waste an extra trip later. Got a notice at 9:30 that the order was ready, figured I’d wait until morning to pick it up.
I just looked at my email. They filled everything in the order…except the lightbulb.
Kids these days. When I was his age, we NEVER had Friend Drama over who was hosting the remote video chat!
“What do you want for a second dinner? You’ve already had two lunches!”
“You’ve become a hobbit! No, wait, you’re too tall for that.”
In “Final Crisis,” Darkseid’s death on Earth drags the planet down into a singularity, stretching time so that months pass on Earth while only a few minutes pass for the Green Lanterns arriving in our solar system.
Which fits right in with how it feels like ages since March 2020 and yet it also feels like we’re still stuck there.
Reading up on #IPFS and thinking about the old joke about how real hackers don’t do backups, they just upload everything to public FTP and let the rest of the world mirror it.
(an internet outage a couple of weeks ago got me thinking about async schemes like that and SSB)
Apparently Doc Brown was using the correct pronunciation of gigawatt with a soft J
https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/metric-si-prefixes
How on earth did we end up with gigabytes using a hard g?
(oh no, it’s related to the GIF debate, isn’t it?)
If you’re not familiar with Gemini, it’s sort of a stripped-down web or souped-up Gopher, very bare-bones and text-oriented. Perfect for blogging.
A bit more in this post, including links to info about Gemini and related software. (You do need a different browser to access Gemini links – I’ve been using Lagrange on the desktop & Ariane on Android .)
Still a bit rough around the edges, but my Gemini conversion for my Les Misérables commentary is up! The blog is now available both on the web and via Gemini.
It features commentary from two full read-throughs (in different translations) plus reviews of movie, stage, radio and comic adaptations.
Gemini: Re-Reading Les Misérables
Web: Re-Reading Les Misérables
Message from school district, which has been slowly opening up on-campus classes by grade and with precautions, mentioned an upcoming orientation for high school freshmen…because they haven’t been to on-campus high school yet. At all.
Oddly specific error: somehow my blog lost the post IDs for all the comments going back to 2002.
The comments were still there. Just not attached to anything.
I was trying to consolidate some posts earlier this week, and ran some optimizations too, so I think one of those broke it.
Fortunately I have a weekly backup of the db. I just restored a copy of the old comments table & updated the live one with the old values. Glad I know SQL. This would have been a major pain for someone who didn’t.
Incidentally…the status page is just lagging behind
Kid checks Down Detector for Roblox, sees a giant spike in down reports. Goes to status page. “Wait, it’s all operational?”
Me (mumbling): “always has been”
Remote work vs network outage.
Spent 1.5 hours on the phone with tech support troubleshooting everything that could be done inside the apartment. Everything inside is fine. The soonest they can send a tech out is tomorrow morning.
So glad the kid’s back on campus today, even though he refused to get out of the car for something like 20 minutes.
And at least I have the phone hotspot, even if the cell signal is flaky on this side of the building.
But I’m getting a clear reminder of the difference between applications designed to run locally with an internet connection and applications designed to run over the internet. Gmail is a lot easier to use on my phone than on my desktop right now.
(later)
Internet access is fixed!
The wind has been as strong and gusty as the storm a few weeks ago when the power kept going out, but it’s been rock steady, so I guess those repairs worked.
Why do I have so many clocks?
OK, I think the console has finished cycling through the accidental tab-hits on an empty command line and the long pause while autocomplete enumerates every executable file in the current path so it can give me an exact number when it asks if I really want to list them all
Ugh, no, it’s doing it on *all* tab-completion now (plus briefly flashing the screen white). I can’t remember what I had to do to fix it last time, and my search terms are failing me.
Oh, right, the flashing white screen is just the visual equivalent of the alert when sound is off.
Argh. you know what? It’s 5pm on Friday. Time to just reboot and deal with it on Monday
It’s still very experimental, but I’m messing around with #gemini at my new capsule, gemini://hyperborea.org
So far I’ve copied a few pages from my website and started a #gemlog. Mostly I’m trying to get a good sense of what works best in the ultra-minimalist environment. I’ll probably still be moving things around for a while.
Pages copied over so far include tech troubleshooting and some old MIDI files. The log’s mostly a subset of my blog so far (life, tech & entertainment catgegories), plus some recent posts on my early impressions of Gemini itself.
Just realized that I have a blog that will actually be hitting 20 years next year.
WTF
#old
