I need an SCP Foundation bot to post the page of an SCP, an Anomalous Object, etc. once an hour or so. I searched and haven't found one yet, but if anyone creates one, please publicize so I can follow. You will have a follower. Me.
RE: https://union.place/@jaythurbershow/117526791853471329
Another person saying they've given up on their dreams of success and even dreams of sustainability, health, and retirement are seeming impossible due to the environment that labor now happens in. I'm seeing this so much, now, people saying their dreams--not dreams of riches, just dreams of surviving without misery--are now unrealistic in the labor environment we have: programmers / coders / developers, visual / audio / video / performance / literary artists, content creators, entrepreneurs of all kinds, teachers (!!!), food service workers, production workers, and of course professors like me. I'm very lucky in still having a job for a while, even if it doesn't pay much. Many colleagues, people close to me, acquaintances, and thousands of voices online saying that teaching and higher ed are becoming toxic and unsustainable due to dynamics we would all recognize from corporate workplaces.
We done fucked up. We let the assholes turn our societies into machines that funnel money toward a tiny percentage of them, at the cost of everyone else's happiness.
A few months ago I bought the complete #Buffy the Vampire Slayer box set from ebay. Fairly reasonable price. It came all packaged and nice and had extras like the 20th anniversary comic and a coloring book, a fancy cardboard box for all the DVDs, etc. Then I went to rip the discs for my backups (and to stream to myself on Jellyfin) and got a warning from each disc (from MakeMKV) that they were made with a common burning program used by pirates, not by a factory process.
How likely is it that this was a false positive? The discs all seemed to rip just fine. If these are pirated, then holy shit the pirates did an amazing job. They must have some serious equipment like whatever it takes to make that fancy box and the color-printed info inserts, beyond just making the DVDs and printing them to look official.
Question for #bloggers and #web type people: Is there a smoother, quicker way to blog on #hugo ? I am getting to know the platform, and I like it (but don't know much about alternatives, being a WordPress escapee). I have it set up as a #blog on one domain. It takes around 5 minutes to post a blog entry, not including the time taken to write the entry. I don't use github, which seems to place me firmly in the minority of Hugo users. I also don't host this from my local machine; I have it on Opalstack (my no-nonsense webhost). My workflow right now is this:
Step 8 (second-to-last) should theoretically be much faster with rsync but I'm getting error messages from Opalstack's server with that. I think I need their help, so maybe just assume step 8 could be simplified to an rsync command.
Are there Linux packages/functions that simplify some of this? Should I just ditch Hugo and use something simpler if I'm only blogging? Is this pretty much what the future looks like for me?
#Suggestions and ideas welcome.
Lip balm. Does anyone (in USA?) remember circa 2010-2015 there was a seriously tingly lip balm? Not menthol; SERIOUS tingles. After half a minute or so it felt (literally) like dozens of small ants walking along your lips, gripping with all six little feet. The effect wore off after a few minutes, leaving a standard minty lip balm.
Then in about 2015 it was just gone. Nowhere to be seen. No store (that I could find) had it. Amazon didn't even have it. Anyone remember this? I think maybe the label had a skeleton?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@JMarkOckerbloom/116331107673146414
I feel this. Because of my research field I have frequently had to filter results so I don't get 10,000 hits for agricultral research on the grain-type plant called rape (see: rapeseed oil, which was rebranded as canola oil).
Me: [creates MS Teams meeting]
Me: [tries to join Teams meeting]
Microsoft: Hi, random criminal. No idea who you are, but maybe someone will let you into this meeting someday. I wouldn't get your hopes up.
OS Age Verification bils are not funded by a "grassroots coalition of conservative nonprofits." They're funded by #meta. This investigative work suggests it's all a massive operation to increase Meta's data harvesting (massively) whie handicapping Google And Apple.
https://masto.deluma.biz/@dogzilla/116227363139966735
Edit: It's been suggested that genAI was involved in making the reddit post. If so, (a) claims require more verification than usual and (b) the AI is pretty conversational in the reddit thread here.
Whoever did this set up a github repo with the information in it.
I'm much more entertained by the diagnostic opportunities of this variant on loren ipsum dolor but I decided to see if I can track down the quote, anyway. I don't think web search is going to help. I found a search engine claiming to provide "oldest results" (www.ae.studio/oldest-search) and it gives me a fisheries site from 2003. I think if I really want to know (and I guess maybe I might) I'll have to use book-specific search engines.
I'm working on a website for a consulting business with a friend of mine (note: the business has two consultants but no business at the moment; this is early steps). Using a Hugo theme I downloaded, and saw that it has some placeholder text (see image). I was interested in who wrote the text so I searched.
I still don't know who the author was, but now I have a fun way to find web pages that haven't been completed at businesses, universities, nonprofits, etc.
Here, you try! Just paste the following into your favorite search engine:
in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth
Someone at the ACLU is Big Mad, and is willing to throw a hundred million American workers under the bus because of their feelings. This is very bad.
https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/the-aclu-is-attempting-to-limit-the
Does anyone else have "somewhat diagnostic tinnitus"? I've had #tinnitus since birth, constantly, every second of every day (as far as I can tell). It actually doesn't bother me, which I realize is uncommon. When I'm very tired in the morning, the ringing is sometimes especially loud, letting me know I didn't sleep well. When I'm about to be sick, or when I have a fever (and/or maybe head congestion), the ringing--or at least one tone--drops very low, occasionally providing me an early-warning system for colds and flu.
Technically, aren't we all walking through time?
Depending on the definition of "passionate argument," I might or might not have Bingo.
Pretty sure the #translation #bot had a tiny little seizure here.
Sorry, @kieliscalling
Band name: Plausible Deniability
Genre: Ska, maybe
At the club, red and blue cop lights flash, the MC says "Hold up, everyone! It's the PD!" The band struts on stage in stripper-cop outfit with, aviator glasses. They rip off their outfits simultaneously, and one of them grabs a mic and says, "Don't bother telling anyone about this show. Nobody will believe you!" The drummer counts "1 2 3 4..." the horn section and bass kick in.
My #Thinkpad #T480 is on its way out. I think I bought it (lightly used) in about 2017 or 2018. I've replaced the keyboard, trackpad, screen, battery (more than once), HD/SSD, M.2 SSD (well, I added it), and I have placed many stickers on it. I suspect the motherboard is dying; the laptop freezes a few times a day and I can't get any response, not even TTY terminals.
Oh well. Sad day. Honestly, I'm thinking of just buying another used T480 from ebay instead of something new.
I CAN'T HELP IT. Every time I see "titles" written in a sans serif font, I have to read it 2 or 3 times before it stops being "titties."
As many other people have pointed out, Charlie Kirk's murder is part of a pattern of increasingly normalized political violence in the USA. Yes, he is one of the reasons for that escalation, and yes, his tireless work supporting white Christian supremacy provides lots of opportunities to say "karma, bitch!" (And I will not stop anyone from saying similar things), but the big, ugly message for me is that political #violence is increasingly the way America does things. This is very very not good.
