And just what is this fresh privacy nightmare hell? Sure, Google - I'll believe you when you say that "they will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes." At least, not now. Not while they need people to stay opted in to the process to build the location database. What happens in a year or three, Google?
How much money or which government agency is going to make you change your tune, eh?
And now comes the part of my day where I throw up my hands in exasperation because I don't understand SCSS nor React and I can't figure out how to make the Quartz code style my site the way I want it to look. What's worse is that I'm trying to modify code that someone else has built, while not having a good handle on how styling works, which I'm sure is a very large part of my problem.
That and getting down to the nitty gritty of all the things I dislike about front-end work - all the bit twiddling and pixel tweaking falderall. I'm frustrated with the whole thing, so I'm done with it for now.
The good news is that while it's not looking exactly the way I want it to - which would likely have to be accomplished with some gnarly hand-written HTML+CSS code - it looks "good enough". There's a lot of space where I don't want it, but I can't figure out how to turn it off, so I'm done with it. The good news is that I was able to create an "OTS Links" sidebar component with some buttons on it, which was the goal for today.
If I just can't stand it anymore, I'll go pester some of the people I know that use Quartz + Obsidian and see how they did what they did.
@kaiserkiwi I'm probably also not explaining myself or the situation well, either. I'm assuming that the author intended this for less technical folks that just wanted to modify the site via config files.
And, while I could have used PHP, I didn't wanna (I believe you know my feelings on it :kekw: ). But, it probably would have been the best tool for the job and one that I'm much more familiar with, so you're right.
Continuing to learn hard lessons even in middle age, me!
Apparently, live #eurovision isn't available in the US. But that's okay. I'm team Jako (Armenia, I think) all the way, but I'm pretty sure she's not gonna make it.
Just as an example of just how bad my web design sense truly is, I've been agonizing for the last 2 hours about how best to display the following information on my digital garden notes:
published date
last updated date
status (how "complete" the note is)
read time
I've got last updated and read times in there, and it doesn't look bad. But I absolutely can't decide whether or not to put original publishing date in there, and whether to just use tags for the status versus a dedicated line of text. And, assuming that I want all that stuff actually in there, where would be the best place to put it and how it should be formatted.
The irony, of course, is that the whole point of a digital garden is to learn over time and have the site be fairly mutable as it (and I) grow.
This is why I should not be anywhere near a front-end. I can't even make the simplest decisions about information arrangement and layout of same.
@kaiserkiwi Thanks for the offer! I think I was able to finally come up with something that I'm happy with within the confines of the Quartz framework. I got all the dates on there that I wanted, and just decided to use multi-layer hashtags for the status (like status/PROTOTYPE) so that some of Quartz's tag features and search would work like I want.
Maybe later I'll devise some images or something to provide more of a visual signal about the status than just a hashtag.
But now that the offer of help is out there, I may take you up on that in the future! :bec_wink:
Happy 2nd Birthday :corteximplant: !!! 🥳🎉 It's been a great 2 years, although I've only been here for 1 and a half of them. :holdthepain:
I'm really happy and proud to be part of the community that has grown here, and I echo all the sentiments that @lucy posted earlier. I have never had a social media experience like the one I found here, and within 2 days of joining :corteximplant_b: I knew I had made a good decision for my "home" instance!
For those of you young'uns out there, this place is a lot like what things felt like back in the early days of the 'net and combined with all the other OTS stuff in the "family" has given me back an excitment that I lost so many long years ago. It's good to be here, with good folks, with lots of diverse interests but also lots of shared passion from all over the world.
I'm glad to be a part of it, and I'm so glad that everyone on #CORTEXIMPLANT decided to be a part of it too!
And much thanks to @revengeday for opening up his hobby project to us and giving all of us nomads a base camp to call home. You're a true street samurai, choom! :samurai: :silverhand:
So this means that when the deal is done, IBM will own Ansible, Terraform, Vagrant, and Vault. They've basically just acquired a complete DevOps stack which (I think) is all the industry standard stuff. Kinda makes me feel queasy for some reason...
And all it's going to take is one money-hungry exec or product manager to make that open-source software that everybody uses not be so open anymore....
@SynAck Terraform already has a viable fork in OpenTofu, Vagrant is increasingly irrelevant anyway, Vault would be easy enough to clean-room reimplement from scratch if need be, and Ansible would absolutely be forked should IBM change their tune. And while they certainly aren't knights in shining armor their overall open source behaviour has been comparatively decent (I actually expect them to return Terraform to its old license); Could've been much worse.
I really wonder what society would look like if people weren't forced to do jobs they hate just in order to live.
The fact that a capitalist system makes money by denying people the basic necesssities of life and then lays the blame for not being able to live at the feet of the people that the system has screwed is despicable.
Capitalism profits the most on the misery that the capitalist system itself creates. The fact that "work" is seen as both an ideal state of being as well as an "incentive" to get the basic necessities of life is reprehensible. Forcing people to start work as young as possible and then work until they've been completely used up through decades of constant work like so many cogs is abhorrent.
And the capitalists who perpetuate this system have likely never been anything less than affluent their entire lives. The irony is that their accumulated wealth allows them to be more of a "freeloader" than any person without a job. They have transferred their "work" to their money and the only "work" they do is to say, "put this much here".
Capitalism is a lie. It is the ultimate ponzi scheme. It is a system of control by which the wealthy control the rest of us. Capitalism devalues humanity to the point of insignificance.
@SynAck It's always incredible how this country was able to exist for this long. As someone from Germany it's absolutely unbelievable universal health care is such a pain in the US.
I mean were mad here when we have to pay for our glasses because this wasn't always the case. But paying for vital treatments like surgery or essential medication? What the fuck?
And the fact you can lose health care is just infuriating. How can the be legal?
@kaiserkiwi privatization in the name of competition in a place where money makes the rules.
The American version of capitalism centers the self and pushes all other altruistic tendencies to the wayside. Everything and everyone has a dollar amount associated with it/them here.
Hey, any of my choombas out there know where I might get my hands on a link to The Max Headroom Show that ran on Cinemax circa 1985 or so?
I never saw it because I grew up in a house where HBO was a gateway straight to hell, and of course that meant that "Skinemax" was out also. But I'd be interested to know if anybody has it archived somewhere so I could grab it.
There's not enough Max in either of the Max Headroom movies or series that I have.
"You see, I'm not one to beat about the large, black boots but the first requirement for any security guard is to be totally-totally-t-to-totally insecure. I mean, who else needs to dress like a riot control cop so that he can write down your name and tell you where to park your car?"
I did not take this picture (my karate sensei did), but it is representative of the view from Austin. While this picture appears to be an annular eclipse, it's just overexposure from the corona due to being shot on a phone (pixel 6, I believe).