Got my Stadia to connect to my Mirage Solo VR
Give me a few more days and I'll be able to run my entire computing life off "things google made, abandoned, and tried to turn into ewaste and I bought for $10"
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I have invented a drink I call the St Lawrence Crossing
It's absinthe with maple syrup instead of sugar. (See - it's a Canadian Ferry and absinthe is the Green Fairy)
It's tasty
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My brain just thought the words "Etsy but ActivityPub"
Basically just - do ActivityPub, add a shopping cart, and try to manage the bots - so you can have art and craft and so on focused instances with sales inside them. I... have no idea how to make this work non-evilly.
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But ok - if you want to *scale* activitypub with commerce - this means that the question is one of community.
Building a community with a store is really fucking hard. You have all the problems of Ebay, Etsy, and Twitter. This means building spaces like systems for Art, Writing, or whatever. And that means supporting those people. This means figuring out how to discourage advertising and brands, while supporting people who create.
I don't think this is a needle I can personally thread. I should not try.
But someone should. We should try to figure out how to do capitalism without as many siphons in the middle, at least until we can get rid of capitalism.
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Fuck
I just realized that this is literally OnlyFans in a lot of ways. A social network for following creators who can sell things to you easily.
And course that - that immediately got moved toward Sex Work because that's the most tech savvy and mobile group, but I think there's something valuable here.
@Jay Hannah So in this case we're looking at small vendors - so this means that you're probably looking at:
Shipping is going to be integration with the local postal service
API integration with Stripe/PayPal/whatever is pretty simple
If you want to directly take payments that's PCI DSS and also other stuff
But that's all technical detail. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's all mostly solved problems with very common answers. But the "build a community based on selling without being a hellhole" is not even slightly solved.
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Holy fuck
I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!
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My neighbour has an above ground pool, which has some sort of tech on it that beeps like a failing UPS.
I am actually starting to have trouble sleeping due to my brain panicking that something is going down.
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This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.
And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!
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@Rye yeah! I'm at the noodling stage
I just my first main cert so feel like people can take me seriously, am dreaming about my next steps because I feel like the company I work for is about to collapse, and I want to do something that feels good
this all adds up to figuring out grant writing, where to look, and more yeah, I just need to, figure that out
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watch adb shell wm reset and then start wiggling the cable until the screen unfucks itself.Asking a bunch of python and JS devs for review on my current project
A bunch of fail2ban rules and a bash script that writes to sshd_config and fstab
Code review is a weird beast
"It's a thousand lines changed because I wanted to keep it small"
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I didn't eat for 24 hours, and then I ate a largish breakfast.
Now my stomach is mad at me
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Somehow, I don't have the jankiest Mac running OpenBSD at BSDCan
This is both surprising and unsurprising
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Everyone else is at or going to BSDCan and I'm trying work on making SSH behave on Linux :(
Tomorrow I go on the train, but, not until tomorrow.
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I know they don't let grownups in without kids
This is why I have a deep cover 3 and 5 year old
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Yup. Freezing is a known failure mode for air conditioners.
Hopefully it just means it's dirty or the fan has broken in it. Without enough airflow the evaporator coil will get too cold and freeze.
If the fan is ok and it's not dirty then it could have a more serious problem
@Bee O'Problem yeah, we had a massive spike of plants grow around it and left it for a day, and so I'm hoping that that's all it is.
If it's not that it apparently could be a coolant leak
My two year old walks up to me holding a stick "It's my shilleilagh!"
I stop
I skip a beat
I realize that there's a troll in True And The Rainbow Kingdom who calls his stick a shillelagh.
The real question is how can a 2 year old say Shillelagh pefectly
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I wrote a lil essay
In my twenties, I could hide my invisible disabilities because they were both invisible and I had already learned that people had judgments about them that I couldn’t always handle well. Hiding my disability was a goal to me, to keep me safe, but it backfired. Now, not only will I have to sit with the consequences, but potentially others will as well.
I learned watching people react before I knew that I should or could hide them - it taught me a lot about the implicit biases and judgments that people had, and in a lot of ways I was grateful for my experience being disabled with my natural openness, because it gave me insight I never would have found as easily elsewhere into how othering effects the people who are targeted by it. Hearing the kinds of things that were expressed to me about my illnesses, that I had no idea other people could even get it that wrong so easily, will always be in my head. I always worked tirelessly on myself so that I didn’t have to feel such intense effects that my disabilities caused me, and as it was I could hide my disabilities so effectively that other people were shocked when I divulged them. I also didn’t know one of them at the time, so it was really when I divulged the one I knew about. I lived a disabled life, but I lived the kind of idealized to able-people disabled life, which is to have a disability that is so hidden that you effectively do not (to them) have a disability. This has caused problems, and I’ve seen them. People will expect everyone who has my disabilities to be able to hide them as well as I used to be able to. Or to work tirelessly at themselves so their disabilities are not ever put upon another person. I feel like I have accidentally tricked these people into believing the worst about people with disabilities without them ever realizing the problem with their actions. I wasn’t even for the most part aware I was doing this.
One day I became a parent, and my ability to hide my disabilities was shaken, and yet there I was and I persevered through and nobody would be any wiser. But then I became a parent again to another little cutie, and I stopped any pretense at being able to hide anything. In fact, my other disability popped it’s head out too and made itself known to me. My house became a disaster I couldn’t even comprehend being able to do anything about. I stopped being able to live up to the demands of life in the ways that everybody expected me to be able to. The pressures to preform kept building, and in fact still do. I was living in chronic overwhelm and the only thing that made it calm down was the ability to treat my second disability with medication. Yet living is hard, let alone thriving. When I ask for support, I am often faced with a wall of nothing. When that is not true, I begin to rely so heavily on my single outlet of support that I burn them out, because there is often only one outlet of support that I get. I am trying not to do that, it’s hard and complicated. I am complicated.
People had expectations of me as a person, and I let them down. I had dreams and expectations of other people too. That they would help me when I needed help, and recognize that I was disabled and understand what that actually meant, and that they knew that when I said something about the situation I was in, that they should listen to that and hear it. I thought that by being honest with the people I was closest to, that I was letting them in on the crucial knowledge that I was a complicated person who might need grace and understanding and help sometimes. Actually needing help has always been a complicated thing, and so I would only ever call on people when I actually needed it. As it turns out, I needed it so infrequently that they thought I would never need help. Their expectations of me were molded as I was, as a young independent and secure disabled person. Their expectations of what disability looks like were shaped. Now I am an inconvenience and a burden, but that is clearly not because I have been disabled and always will be disabled. It is a character flaw, it is a problem, it is ultimately in my control that I need more than what I’m being given.
If you see my fall from grace, know that I did let you down. I should have advocated better when I had the strength. I should have explained what disability was and now instead of seeing a person who has things going on and is struggling under the weight of it all, all you’re going to see is an inconvenience, is a burden. It is complicated because I don’t believe that disability makes you need more than other people need, it only makes you need what you can’t do on your own. If we had different systems, if we had different connections, if we had different structures than we wouldn’t need things in the way we do. It is because we are not considered that the need is great. On top of that, needing should never make somebody a burden or an inconvenience, it should only ever make them a human being. Yet we live in this world where needing anything automatically makes you an inconvenience or a burden or both, depending on what and how you might need something. Being disabled in this world, means I cannot live up to expectations. It is not fair, it is not easy, and I have no control over it. This is the reality I need people to realize about disability.
I boot an old Mac I rarely use except when I need a mac. I run "brew update" and... it updates XZ
Painful :(
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BB :verified_cool:
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@BB :verified_cool: for some reason my brain assumed weechat was a bloated gui... I think it was crossed with psi (xmpp) or something.
For RSS I want something GUI since it is likely to contain images, but I might think about newsboat and w3m or something a while
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@Jonathan Lamothe I miss most things that pass me by, I follow a lot of people ›.‹
I've also written probably a half dozen RSS readers/makers before, so I'm not entirely worried
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@hotsoup RSS to an IRC room would be great, if I had a good rss
IRC over RSS sounds like a bad enough idea for me to take it seriously