Notes – Page 34 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 17 Sivan 5783 (Tuesday 6 June 2023) · 2 minutes to read

I haven’t done one of these in a little while, so, morning fedizens, we’re doing Tuesday.

I’m catching up on WWDC stuff, which I swore I wasn’t going to pay attention to but honestly I’m cautiously excited about Apple’s coming new augmented reality headset.

Specifically, I’m excited that one of these things will likely have some sort of working relationship with VoiceOver, which means blind people can participate to at least some extent in augmented reality. Next, all I can think of is that I will be able to have SeeingAI in a headset, which means I would get to use all its cool features. It’s not sight exactly, but for me, this kind of crystalizes the idea of being able to use technology to provide some sort of sense of what has always been a very visual world which, quite frankly, I’m sick to death of hacking in order to get things done or live my life.

And yes, I’m very much aware of all of the pitfalls and problems surrounding all this stuff. I’m also aware that this could become just as much of a disappointment as self-driving cars have been.

In sportsball news, woot woot woot! My Vegas Golden Knights won game two last night, thus banishing the Florida Kittens back to their basket with no milk!

State College

55 °F Clear Sky

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· 10 Sivan 5783 (Tuesday 30 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

My Aunt Amanda has a website that she updates on the regular and I couldn't be more proud. She does #bookstodon things. https://amandairush.com/

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· 9 Sivan 5783 (Monday 29 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

It’s in the mid 80’sF here, so we’re staying inside with the air conditioner. I still have to call Digital Ocean about the Fail2ban issue, but I’ll get that done later this evening. Oh and we’re keeping up with the baseball game. Otherwise, not much, although we are rereading the Quinn Colson books, and I have a question.

Most of the characters in this series are on the low end of the income spectrum. And yet, they all somehow manage to have cowboy boots. Which are expensive. So, I’d like to know how they managed to end up with them.

State College

86 °F Scattered Clouds

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· 8 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 28 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Current status: Trying to figure out why I can’t ssh into this droplet, and can’t log in via SFTP either. Just getting connection timed out, no prompt. Why can’t things just work today? I’ve already power cycled FFS. https://acarson.wtf/2023/05/28/256711/ State College(3ft)
65 °F Scattered Clouds (https://acarson.wtf/?p=256711)

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· 8 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 28 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

I can’t remember who it was that was asking on the fediverse about parcing likes from Twitter in some sort of a useable format with dates, but I am here to tell whoever it was that the reason we can’t do this is because Twitter does not include so much as a unix timestamp in the like.js file contained in your archive, which is also why we can’t sort from oldest to newest in the HTML renderer. All you get is the text and expanded archive.
Welp so much for that project… https://acarson.wtf/?p=256695

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· 8 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 28 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

I was today years old when I realized you can press ctrl+shift+tab to move through open browser tabs in reverse order. I got desperate so I tried it.
Also, I’m drinking out of my WordPress mug today in order to celebrate WordPress’s twentieth anniversary because I’m grateful for everything WordPress the software, but especially WordPress the community, has given me over the last fifteen years. Happy birthday WordPress, and may we celebrate at least twenty more together!… https://acarson.wtf/?p=256692

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· 8 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 28 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

There’s a special place in whatever hell may or may not exist for WordPress plugin authors whose upgrade link is definitely in the tab order, but whose update/save settings button is an invalid hypertext reference that can’t be clicked using a keyboard no matter how you slice it and is definitely not in the tab order at all. https://acarson.wtf/2023/05/28/256689/ State College(3ft)
76 °F Scattered Clouds (https://acarson.wtf/?p=256689)

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· 8 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 28 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

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· 1 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 21 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’re doing sunday. I hope all of you are having a good one.

I slept last night, but not very well, so I’m tired today. On the other hand, it’s supposed to get to 75F today, so that’ll be nice.

We have lots of sportsball today. My Braves play in a little over an hour, the Rays start ten minutes later, and my Vegas Golden Knights start at 1500. We haven’t decided yet if we’re just going to keep the book going, or listen to one or more games.

Speaking of books, John and I have been rereading some of the Virgil Flowers and Lucas Davenport books. Those have established spots on our rereads list, and we’ve been enjoying randomly picking a book and rereading that.

State College

67 °F Clear Sky

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· 28 Iyyar 5783 (Friday 19 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

I really need to spend some time putting together a "subscribe" page for my site. Every post kind has its own feed, and while some of the kinds are quite busy, others might be worth subscribing to in your favorite reader in case you don’t want to join the fediverse or something like that. https://acarson.wtf/2023/05/19/255769/ State College(3ft)
71 °F Scattered Clouds (https://acarson.wtf/?p=255769)

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· 28 Iyyar 5783 (Friday 19 May 2023) · 1 minute to read

Afternoon fedizens, we’ve made it to Friday, and we’re a good chunk of the way through it on top of that.
Not much has gone right today. I’ll have to find a way to get in touch with a human at Audible because somehow my Audible account is no longer merged with my Amazon account, and when I attempt to re-merge, I can’t complete the second step. So as a result, Audible thinks I’m not a member, although I can see my library if I log into Audible with my username instead of… https://acarson.wtf/?p=255744