Happy New Year!
If you want to tell me, I'd love to hear about cool things that happened to people last year, whether it's completing a project, going to a new place or whatever.
Personally we discovered an outdoor amusement park for young kids, which was really fun to go to a few times, especially for their Halloween event
If you want to tell me, I'd love to hear about cool things that happened to people last year, whether it's completing a project, going to a new place or whatever.
Personally we discovered an outdoor amusement park for young kids, which was really fun to go to a few times, especially for their Halloween event
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I think the thing I find funniest in the world is the reaction of someone else to a pun so bad they can no longer say words
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Thinking about all the harm caused to my siblings and I because both my paternal grandparents and dad had favourite kids. My mom never chose any of us tho, and I will not engage with it either. It makes it really hard for this and other reasons to feel super comfortable having my dad be an active player in the lives of my kids 😔
Thinking about all the harm caused to my siblings and I because both my paternal grandparents and dad had favourite kids. My mom never chose any of us tho, and I will not engage with it either. It makes it really hard for this and other reasons to feel super comfortable having my dad be an active player in the lives of my kids 😔
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Hosting a webserver on my phone and using dynamic DNS to make it accessible, and disabling it when I get a call and renabling it when the call is over
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I think the answer is mostly no, if this wasn't a shitpost you could probably run it with a reverse tunnel
This morning our kids were sick and both managed to get us to feel bad enough for them to let them sleep in our bed
At 6:30 I awoke and put out stockings, and then at 7 our 1yo woke up crying, my wife started to walk him out of the room while I let the 3yo use me as a pillow, sensing my wife was about to step on a stocking I said "Watch out, Santa might have left something there"
The second those words left my mouth, my sleeping soundly three year old sat bolt upright and was awake.
Less than one second from asleep to awake for the day
At 6:30 I awoke and put out stockings, and then at 7 our 1yo woke up crying, my wife started to walk him out of the room while I let the 3yo use me as a pillow, sensing my wife was about to step on a stocking I said "Watch out, Santa might have left something there"
The second those words left my mouth, my sleeping soundly three year old sat bolt upright and was awake.
Less than one second from asleep to awake for the day
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A quiet Christmas
Thinking about how quiet this Christmas is. In the past I used to rush around all over the province to see all the family I could this time of year. And this year it feels at a standstill, moving slowly, with nothing on the agenda. I can't imagine going back to the business and even more can't imagine how I could possibly cope with even one large Christmas event through my very developed social anxiety. One day I may have to figure all this out but in the meantime, happy holidays to everyone, but especially those in the quiet stillness
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Cory Doctorow is just sitting on the Fediverse using it correctly "Your follow list is your job, you don't like it, stop following me" and people keep getting mad at him.
And honestly, I love it
Follows aren't endorsements or solidarity, they're "I want to read the things you say"
And honestly, I love it
Follows aren't endorsements or solidarity, they're "I want to read the things you say"
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Cory’s linklog was one of the first feeds I followed and I quickly discovered that. Holy fuck, can that guy fill pages.
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@mike @silverwizard Is there anyone who follows him and for whom this way of posting works well? Because it would be a shame if he posts all these long threads and nobody reads it.
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I love his threads, FWIW
both content and form
the only thing that I'm finding annoying is people's insistence in "teaching" him how to do what he's already doing. I admire how cool he is about that. I'd have long lost it.
now, if I were in his shoes, I'd probably have scripted the thread-posting long ago, using some CLI tool such as toot. heck, I'd have written the script and shared it with him if I used Mastodon myself
both content and form
the only thing that I'm finding annoying is people's insistence in "teaching" him how to do what he's already doing. I admire how cool he is about that. I'd have long lost it.
now, if I were in his shoes, I'd probably have scripted the thread-posting long ago, using some CLI tool such as toot. heck, I'd have written the script and shared it with him if I used Mastodon myself
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Yeah, his threads are usually good, but far better followed with RSS
And his gentle responses are definitely him being a class act
I am surprised he hasn't changed it to meet his needs - but very happy he is gently reminding people to manage their lives
And his gentle responses are definitely him being a class act
I am surprised he hasn't changed it to meet his needs - but very happy he is gently reminding people to manage their lives
@silverwizard made Christmas muffins but our lil 3.5 year old got a little heavy handed with the green food colouring and poured in a bottle of it 
A picture of bright green muffin batter seperated in a muffin tin ready to go in the oven
A picture of bright green muffin batter seperated in a muffin tin ready to go in the oven
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Thinking of renaming my "webserver" to "mysql server". Basically it hosts things with something like a traditional LAMP stack (BSD, perl/python/ruby/php, and stuff obviously, and OpenHTTP rather than Apache), rather than web services that back a different thing that a database.
Unifi, Charred, Emby, Homeassistant, Koha hell even my email server all use HTTP for a lot of their lives, but my "web" server is my "web" server.
Unifi, Charred, Emby, Homeassistant, Koha hell even my email server all use HTTP for a lot of their lives, but my "web" server is my "web" server.
The hardest part of computers is that people keep making bad things to make them easier, and then trying to justify the bad things rather than replace them
@silverwizard I saw this pattern summarized like this about AI:
Tech: We are creating X
Critics: Valid concerns
Tech: We'll address these when we get there!
Tech: *creates Torment Nexus*
Critics: Alarmed concerns
Tech: Welp, cat's out of the bag, there's no going back now!
Tech: We are creating X
Critics: Valid concerns
Tech: We'll address these when we get there!
Tech: *creates Torment Nexus*
Critics: Alarmed concerns
Tech: Welp, cat's out of the bag, there's no going back now!
Yeah - its definitely partially that, but also, there's just, bad tools and bad patterns that keep us from using good patterns.
PulseAudio
Kubernetes
Lets Encrypt
PulseAudio
Kubernetes
Lets Encrypt
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At least Pipewire seems like a decent replacement for that first one. If Pipewire is also bad I'd love to know.
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@hypolite
I honestly try to avoid using Linux, and if I'm using linux it's because I need to use linux weird idiocy, and so rarely use its extra pieces. So no idea.
Oh awesome! I love BSD but I had trouble figuring out how to use it, and now that my new computer is ARM I can't seem to get it to work at all.
@hypolite
@hypolite
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Yeah, FreeBSD and NetBSD arm support is complicated since dtbs are a pain
Arm efi is gonna make this better once it's done, but for now, the support is pretty good with the recent releases
Arm efi is gonna make this better once it's done, but for now, the support is pretty good with the recent releases
https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2022/an-html-first-mental-model/
oh shit! JS devs are starting to discover that browsers exist!
oh shit! JS devs are starting to discover that browsers exist!
An HTML-first Mental Model
... while building a fast movies app Overview The Movies App The TasteJS movies app is a showcase for different frameworks.Web Performance Calendar
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Some news site reported that not the Account "JoinMastodon" was banned on #twitter but #johnmastodon the "founder" of Mastodon.Now we have a new meme here 😂 (Just click on the hashtag :D )
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Star Wars was always apolitical just ask
Newt Ginger... erm
Nute Reagan...
Erm
Nute GunRay
The ... Trade monopolist
Newt Ginger... erm
Nute Reagan...
Erm
Nute GunRay
The ... Trade monopolist
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@silverwizard Then take your time, wrestle your way through Boba Fett and Kenobi, in the knowledge that the light of Andor shines at the end of the tunnel.
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It is intensely my fault that my son says turning on both his flashlights at night having a "hot spare"
Nonono, a cold spare is a flashlight sitting next to a fresh unopened package of batteries on a shelf in the closet.
Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on).
Tell him the optimal redundancy strategy for a flashlight is a warm spare (ready to hand with the batteries in but not powered on).
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I dislike the cold/warm distinctions. As the tradeoffs for warm usually make it cold or hot.
I think I agree if you use warm, my definition meets warm not cold
Also, if you can't put batteries on the flashlight, it's definitely not a spare when unbatteried
I think I agree if you use warm, my definition meets warm not cold
Also, if you can't put batteries on the flashlight, it's definitely not a spare when unbatteried
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Last night in a bid to see a walrus (at our three year old's request) we watched a show called Dangerous Waters on curiosity stream.
The Walrus search sent us to S2E1 and this show is the greatest bad reality TV show.
They wanna cross from Alaska to Russia on jetskis and spend the first half-hour of episode 1 discussing how prepared they were. Their MREs, their jetskis maintenance, the oil changes, the fuel cans.
They get to their first town on schedule, and spend hours knocking on doors asking to crash on someone's couch, they didn't think to arrange a hotel.
Stupid, but ok, fine. They can camp.
So they do it! They cross the Berring Strait! They land in Russia and!
THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY DETAINED BY THE RUSSIAN BORDER PATROL!
They spend the next episodes talking about how the low grade hotel they are held in is a gulag and being conspiratorial about their jetskis being searched.
This is the ideal reality show!
The Walrus search sent us to S2E1 and this show is the greatest bad reality TV show.
They wanna cross from Alaska to Russia on jetskis and spend the first half-hour of episode 1 discussing how prepared they were. Their MREs, their jetskis maintenance, the oil changes, the fuel cans.
They get to their first town on schedule, and spend hours knocking on doors asking to crash on someone's couch, they didn't think to arrange a hotel.
Stupid, but ok, fine. They can camp.
So they do it! They cross the Berring Strait! They land in Russia and!
THEY ARE IMMEDIATELY DETAINED BY THE RUSSIAN BORDER PATROL!
They spend the next episodes talking about how the low grade hotel they are held in is a gulag and being conspiratorial about their jetskis being searched.
This is the ideal reality show!
@hypolite ya, it was filmed years ago, right? I watched S1 a while ago, S2 wasn’t out yet. Amazed at the mix of brave/stupid and over/under hype. :)
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Thing I read said ~2012, and it's 6 seasons long.
And yeah - I just love how it's a lesson in prepper mindsets.
And yeah - I just love how it's a lesson in prepper mindsets.
FreeBSD recovery plan:
Ignore the fact that whenever I snapshot my zpool the disk goes from 1.5TB free to full, snapshot
Make a recovery USB and put in server
Make a small NAS with a rockpro64 and put an 8TB mirror on it
Move the server data to the rockpro so backups are close, cheap, and up to date
Remove storage card, replace, attach to disks manually
Try rebooting and hope to fuck my pool works on the new storage cards
If not, restore from backup
#FreeBSD #ZFS #OhShit
Ignore the fact that whenever I snapshot my zpool the disk goes from 1.5TB free to full, snapshot
Make a recovery USB and put in server
Make a small NAS with a rockpro64 and put an 8TB mirror on it
Move the server data to the rockpro so backups are close, cheap, and up to date
Remove storage card, replace, attach to disks manually
Try rebooting and hope to fuck my pool works on the new storage cards
If not, restore from backup
#FreeBSD #ZFS #OhShit
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Why yes, company that I expect to do business with exactly once in my life, I would love to create a special account on your website just for you and then get told that you won't let me access the thing I've already paid for because you don't like my name.
LifeTouch, for grad photos. To access anything from the actual photo session (paid for up front before you get the chance to pay more for prints) requires a session ID (from the receipt they gave me when they were taken), an access code (from the "OK, we finally updated our database" email), *plus* the name of the person the photos are of. I had to call customer service, and give them the information, and they told me my name was misspelled in that database (but not as recorded on the receipt) and what to tell the website to get it to let me in.
My son said I had to draw "the dirt shape", and I would love to listen to that band.
Hardcore or jangly folk punk
Hardcore or jangly folk punk
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I've been using XMPP since before Web2.0, I've used Matter most, Zulip, and everything
The problem is going where people are, not *any new place*
The problem is going where people are, not *any new place*
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Seeing more bullshit "HTML is a programming language" discourse, and uh, damnit
HTML meets some definitions of programming language, but would be way less useful if it was used that way.
Stop gate keeping Programmer as the only Good profession and understand that other roles and jobs are as valuable, and as part of the tech ecosystem. Programmer is not the Best Job or the Good Job, it's a fucking role and people who don't do it aren't lesser, so telling a designer they're a programmer because HTML is fucking patronizing and degrading to *their actual skills and profession*.
HTML meets some definitions of programming language, but would be way less useful if it was used that way.
Stop gate keeping Programmer as the only Good profession and understand that other roles and jobs are as valuable, and as part of the tech ecosystem. Programmer is not the Best Job or the Good Job, it's a fucking role and people who don't do it aren't lesser, so telling a designer they're a programmer because HTML is fucking patronizing and degrading to *their actual skills and profession*.
HTML + CSS is a presentation layer. Browsers have a built-in stylesheet to render certain HTML elements with default formatting.
JavaScript is a programming language that operates very well on HTML's DOM.
Calling HTML a "programming language" is disingenuous. Nothing is being "programmed".
JavaScript is a programming language that operates very well on HTML's DOM.
Calling HTML a "programming language" is disingenuous. Nothing is being "programmed".
Listen, the technical argument is long and complicated and there are valid views on both sides of that.
My problem is the side that says it's degrading to say it *isn't* because they think that only programmers get the seal of Good.
My problem is the side that says it's degrading to say it *isn't* because they think that only programmers get the seal of Good.
HTML is not a programming language... but web site design where the lines between "content" and "interactive user interface" is verrrry blurry absolutely requires the discipline of a programmer.
Arguably, anyone suggesting HTML, in and of itself, is a "programming language" says more about their notions of software development and "programming" than it says about HTML. Srsly.
Arguably, anyone suggesting HTML, in and of itself, is a "programming language" says more about their notions of software development and "programming" than it says about HTML. Srsly.
<h1>Title</h1> is not a program.
HTML should not be equated with "Web site design" nor "web application development" because you can absolutely design a Web site and hardly use any HTML at all.
HTML should not be equated with "Web site design" nor "web application development" because you can absolutely design a Web site and hardly use any HTML at all.
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So smarter people than either of us have argued about this
Is <script> HTML
Is CSS HTML?
Is DOM manipulation programming?
What about browser?
If you send a message from one computer to another containing instructions, is that programming?
What if you only control the message contents?
Make sure to answer in a way that doesn't remove PHP or Ruby on Rails.
But that is a fight I have no dog in, sorry.
Is <script> HTML
Is CSS HTML?
Is DOM manipulation programming?
What about browser?
If you send a message from one computer to another containing instructions, is that programming?
What if you only control the message contents?
Make sure to answer in a way that doesn't remove PHP or Ruby on Rails.
But that is a fight I have no dog in, sorry.
the <script> element is HTML of course, but it's not a program, the javascript INSIDE it is a program.
<h1> is not an instruction. It means nothing without a specific piece of software, and the fact that the rendering of content wrapped in <h1></h1> is not consistent across user agents and can be altered by also-not-html CSS or JavaScript reinforces that in my mind.
PHP is not HTML. PHP can contain bits of HTML for rendering.
HTML in and of itself is not a programming language.
<h1> is not an instruction. It means nothing without a specific piece of software, and the fact that the rendering of content wrapped in <h1></h1> is not consistent across user agents and can be altered by also-not-html CSS or JavaScript reinforces that in my mind.
PHP is not HTML. PHP can contain bits of HTML for rendering.
HTML in and of itself is not a programming language.
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I can reinterpret PHP with a different PHP implementation, see mail() for a very simple example
mail() means nothing without a different piece of software, and its behaviour changes between different computers on which I personally run it
mail() means nothing without a different piece of software, and its behaviour changes between different computers on which I personally run it
Then everything is a programming language. My shoe is a programming language. You don't have to convince me.
I, do not care about the argument personally.
I am not a programmer, and offended by the idea that being a programmer is more valuable than the other professions that occur in a tech company
I am not a programmer, and offended by the idea that being a programmer is more valuable than the other professions that occur in a tech company
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Trying to settle a fight between kids:
R, pretend this is S's
S, pretend it's R's
There, no you can steal the ball without a fight
R, pretend this is S's
S, pretend it's R's
There, no you can steal the ball without a fight
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Cw: mh, venting
I very much dislike being offered advice when I'm struggling, especially in regards to things I already know. My sister and mom and all my friends and immediate family know this, but my aunt and uncle and cousins are trying to help this extremely stressful situation by offering advice on topics that I am more knowledgeable about then them (mostly only because I know the situation better). It's like not bad advice but I'm stressed and I don’t want to hear it and the last thing I need is multiple calls per day giving me the same advice and asking for updates.if I have something to report I'll share it.
I very much dislike being offered advice when I'm struggling, especially in regards to things I already know. My sister and mom and all my friends and immediate family know this, but my aunt and uncle and cousins are trying to help this extremely stressful situation by offering advice on topics that I am more knowledgeable about then them (mostly only because I know the situation better). It's like not bad advice but I'm stressed and I don’t want to hear it and the last thing I need is multiple calls per day giving me the same advice and asking for updates.if I have something to report I'll share it.
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My first rule of sysadminning:
If someone forgets to do something important two weeks in a row, that wasn't their fault, that was the system designer's fault
If someone forgets to do something important two weeks in a row, that wasn't their fault, that was the system designer's fault
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@silverwizard The clarification is even funnier to me than the original attempt, which was also funny to me.
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