Heya, my paper got accepted. Now the problem is that I have to actually go there and do a presentation about it

Been noticing that any Anna's Archive PDF I throw into Zotero, then try to fetch metadata for the given PDF, yields an unknown error

Elections are coming, and guess what, the US is getting ready to do "land military training", closed its embassy for "security reasons", and Meta disabled ads from our central-leftist candidate

Nothing abnormal at all

Bought a Tangzu Wan'er 2, my first IEM, and honestly, it's not bad

I'm from the late 90s, so the concept of having wires is not bad to me (nor do they feel "nostalgic")

Why is this in landscape mode if I took it (and uploaded portrait mode?)

I've never heard the word "confusing" so much as I did here at work.

Everything is confusing; adding a toggle requires long discussions because it is "confusing" for the users

Then, at the same time, we have a policy of being extra-flexible with regard to what the user can/cannot do and not "babyseat" them

Go figure

Don't mind the electric cables. Look at the sky from yesterday

The amount of times my undergrad college advisor has looked at my thesis is: 3 times

The last time he said that I had added more chapters that he hasn't looked yet (I had not)

I dunno why, but for a long time I've been eager to know how other people work, what their desktops look like, and what a common day of using a computer looks like for them. I was drawn to #rice communities and /r/unixporn mostly due to that

I have no idea why

Used LaTeX to write my undergrad thesis and boy, it's so comfy

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/117236852747102365

Ultimately, I think it's kind of, with a lack of better wording, "people are more cowardly". Really, they just lack critical thinking to go and step up and say: "wait, should I concern with regards to the social/economical/technological implications of what this entitles? Should I be worried about the impacts versus the gain that an automatic summarization tool will give to me instead of just actually taking the time and reading the things? Should I just blindly ask to a server somewhere to plan and write things for me, slap my name on it and say that this is my project?"

The fact that this kind of thought never reaches their head is, so scary to me

RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117191718220401381

Not only that, it's the insurmountable amount of marketing and channels (being probably paid to) promoting this.

I've always nourtoured a hate for the so-called YouTube tech community, but sometimes it appears on my YouTube feed some of these channels promoting "Omarchy and how game changer" it is and how "you need to switch right now"

Pretty cool to copy stuff via SSH. Also it was interesting that the older model got faster when using the KoReader app, and have now night mode, which was unavailable on the stock Kindle app lol

Jailbreaken two Kindles today! One was the one I bought last year specifically to have more storage space + dark mode. The other one was my first one, handed to me by my previous employer as a Xmas gift (mid 2016).

The new one was a breezy: it used the Vera method. Literally the simplest thing ever. The old one took its time, but it's all set now.

Had a very strange thing happen to me this week:

I initially had a very strong stiff neck around Monday. Just a regular thing, nothing to worry about. Then, on Wednesday, while doing a bathroom pause, I heard a loud pop, and then felt an agonizing pain in my shoulder, neck, traps, and upper back. So strong that I wasn't able to move much in these muscles, and trying to stay straight didn't hurt as much as sitting.

Initially, I tried to brush it off, but after a couple of minutes I realized that this wasn't regular pain; I had to go to the hospital.

And so I stayed there from around 19h to 22h, taking intravenous painkillers and some other stuff.

Doctor dispatched me with "acute pain" and gave me a strong muscle relaxant and painkillers.

So far, the pain has reduced drastically; I was able to sit at the computer and tried to get back to dealing with my work shit.

However, there's nothing to indicate what it actually is; it just feels like my neck+traps+should+upper back muscles were beaten so much that they decided to stiff it up

I have an appointment tomorrow with another doctor to either prescribe something else or try to figure out what happened

> I agree, I expect to never screen share on the device I am running Alpine on.

On a discussion for a Wayland Compositor. Like, ok, perhaps *you* don't, but other people might want, or *need*, to do that

https://youtu.be/ck9iCwniMBk hell yeah

happy sysadmin appreciation day!

@ayo i appreciate and miss you :blobcatheart:​

Good design?

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117004005387778336

Soon, all knowledge will not be physical anymore, verifiable by you, with your hands, with a copy. It'll just sit behind a gated, digital wall