ADHD medication update #whatever. Probably going to be less post-y on this now. Saturday I went to give the house a small cleanup. Did the whole thing, reorganised wardrobes, drawers, linen cupboard, and half the kitchen. Took as much time and effort as I used to do just doing one or two of those. Good grief.
Sunday caught up a little in a pile of papers to read. Finally I see you, Amber and the Cretaceous Resinous Interval!. Love the info, not the process. Now it flows.
L'imbécilité et l'inculture politique, le confusionisme décomplexé, le néant de la pensée vaillamment et volontairement entretenu. Tout ça juste pour faire du bruit avec la bouche, du vent.
La "modernité" en politique, c'est ça.
Monstrous decision that says women’s lives are not to be protected, even in the face of a medical emergency. Gun owners are fiercely protected in Texas. Women, not.
A lot of people need to take a hard look at how they are voting or plan to. Who gets elected in Texas is one thing, but the Fifth Circuit is comprised of judges appointed by Presidents.
There is no reason why in this day and age that municipal, state, provincial, and federal #government cannot stand up their own #fediverse instances that they control to provide their citizens relevant information. Whether that be #mastodon, #lemmy, #kbin, #peertube, #pixelfeed, or #whatever. Why should we have to rely on #meta (#facebook and #instagram) or #x (#twitter) #databrokers for publicly funded and public relevant information and communication.
Sorry I kind of enjoy the rapid decay of #Twitter or #X or #whatever it's called tomorrow but it feels like we finally get to see centralized (social media) is not the way for the future
We still have a long way to go but that's okay, we take it slowly and make sure everything works correctly before shipping stuff and that's a feature also :mastogrin:
I'm happy to see so many people work so hard for this all and not because they are getting paid but because they love this❤️ Me included!
Whitespace in filenames is a major category error IMO.
OTOH, filenames themselves (and filesystems as presently incarnated) are also grossly insufficient for many needs. It's interesting to note, for example, that on Android (and possibly iOS), databases (usually sqlite) have emerged as the de-facto default persistent data storage mechanism, even for content which would normally be held on a filesystem.
I've long been looking at questions such as what a document-oriented filesysem (#docFS) or the World Wide Web as fileystem accessible (#webFS) might look like.
For documents, I've generally arrived at a naming standard which uses underbars (_) to separate elements, hyphens (-) for standard whitespace, and double dashes (--) to indicate punctuated / multiple element (e.g., multiple authors, or a subtitle following a colon or dash). Permitted characters are otherwise 7-bit ASCII alphanumeric ([A-Za-z0-9], with dot as a file extension only, and possibly parentheses.
That might have a publisher or journal title added (additional underbar-delimited element after the title(s). Additional contributors (e.g., editors, translator) might be mentioned. And it's possible some identifier (ISBN, OCLC, DOI, LoC call number) might be added, though those are supplemental.
The idea isn't to fully and completely or precisely represent all aspects of a document or work, but to usefully do so. So yes, that means that foreign charactersets aren't presented, that full author lists aren't included (for scientific paper these can number in the tens to hundreds), etc. But enough to find the work reasonably within a corpus through a directory listing.
Yeah, I'm familiar with Calibre, Zotero etc., and should really get more familiar with them. But they're clunky enough and not sufficiently universally available (e.g., on Android, where most of my documents live these days, via an e-book reader) that I'm not optimistic they're really a solution.
So perhaps, “It’s quick and usually cheap to find Fiction, but for Facts you have to take time and usually spend money”. But then, I’m an engineer and so that’s a more accurate title, but not click-baity enough I suppose. #Whatever
#CfP for "Queering the #Family : Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in #Literature, #Arts, and the #Media", which will be published in "#Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of #Queer Theories and Studies, 7 (Summer 2024)".
Pretty sure it's worth the trade