Notes – Page 50 – Amanda Unvarnished

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· 16 Tammuz 5783 (Wednesday 5 July 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Wednesday. And I haven’t done one of these in a little while.

First, welcome to all the new people checking out the fediverse by way of Mastodon and of course Lemmy and KBin. I know a lot of you are coming from Twitter once again, and while I think you and the communities you’ve built deserve way more than death by a thousand fuck-ups, I think you will be able to make a home here.

Second, I’m glad the Fourth is over. The fireworks have been going on here since over the weekend, and really, people who insist on setting them off for days seriously annoy me at this point. I mean hell, we’ve had absolute shit air quality here and you want to fucking add to it because muh freeeeeedom!? To say nothing of all the damn noise. Also you probably spent two-weeks’ salary on them and in less than 5 seconds you’ll be complaining about how expensive gas or groceries are.

Also, 303 Creative. I’m still furious about it, and I’ll probably write all my thoughts down in an article later because it’ll take way more than 500 characters to address. And no, it will not be civil.

Maybe some baseball later on today, and also, it’s hot out there Mr. Bigglesworth. Air quality seems to have calmed down though so there’s that.

40° 47.4 N -77° 51.007 W

87 °F Scattered Clouds

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· 16 Tammuz 5783 (Wednesday 5 July 2023) · 1 minute to read

Mmmm coffee. The nectar of the gods.

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· 7 Tammuz 5783 (Monday 26 June 2023) · 2 minutes to read

Get in fedizens, we’re doing Monday.

I have no idea what today has in store for any of us, but with the right amount of snark and memes and puppy pictures, we’ll have Monday conquered. Oh and hilarious audio. Don’t forget that.

I still can’t get over how much more enjoyable a lot of the image content is since it’s got alt text. I don’t think I’ll ever get to a point where I’ll take that for granted. In fact, I think that’s one of the things I’m looking forward to the least with Meta’s Project 92. It’s going to bring over a whole bunch of users who won’t be adding alt text to their images, to say nothing of the moderation disaster I suspect it’ll be given Meta’s record. This is part of why instances/servers who decide to pre-emptively block P92 when it does federate will get zero pushback from me. I don’t think Meta deserves any benefit of the doubt.

I think it’s supposed to rain again today, so we’ll see about getting some time outside. My sleep schedule is still fucked, but I’m going to try to stay up a little later today. I made it until 5PM yesterday. Hopefully I can sleep more than six hours tonight because I didn’t sleep that well last night, which was why I woke up around 1AM this morning.

No sportsball update in this post, I still have to check scores, but maybe one later with those updates.

State College

64 °F Clear Sky

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· 29 Sivan 5783 (Sunday 18 June 2023) · 1 minute to read

It's too early for PuTTY to be pissing me off this much. Taking a break for now.

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· 26 Sivan 5783 (Thursday 15 June 2023) · 1 minute to read

Absolutely loving the #RedditMigration, especially because people seem to be grasping that the fediverse isn't just Mastodon.

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· 24 Sivan 5783 (Tuesday 13 June 2023) · 1 minute to read

Send the asteroid. https://apnews.com/article/creative-ice-cream-flavors-8c48b97cfe72ebf7f4a985a08f4229a2?utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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· 23 Sivan 5783 (Monday 12 June 2023) · 1 minute to read

Get in fedizens, somehow we’ve wandered into Monday and we’re all gonna need to work together to get to the other side of it in one piece.

First, my sleep schedule is absolutely fucked, and I’m trying to get it back on track, mostly because work and the rest of society expect me to be up during the day and sleeping during the night, and just not conforming really isn’t an option.

Second, shoutout to everyone who is dealing with the Reddit migration. I’m pretty sure the Lemmy and Kbin server admins are absolutely swomped, as are the developers of said software, and if you’re trying to make the switch, show them a little flexibility and patience. Nobody was expecting Reddit to implode like this or so quickly.

In sportsball news, my Vegas Golden Knights are 3 to 1 in the finals, and next game is tomorrow night. I can’t wait to watch it.

State College

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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)