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SynAck

@SynAck@corteximplant.com

Currently unemployed software engineer corpo drone by day, cyberpunk edgerunner by night, and opinionated armchair quarterback 24/7. I love the Oxford comma and believe that you should also. I tend to post a lot when I've got a bee under my bonnet. There are a lot of bees and I have a pretty big bonnet.

Other interests include everything #technology, #martialarts, #formula1, #books, #movies, #music, #grafitti, #streetart, #gigposters, #GraphicNovels, #boardgames, #cyberpunk, and witty repartee.

Akkoma: @SynAck
Iceshrimp: @SynAck
Totentanz: Syn-Ack
Bookwyrm: @SynAck
Matrix: @synack_ci:matrix.org

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kaiserkiwi, to random
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🍜🌶️

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi is that the Buldak 2X??

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi Ah, okay. Good call. :bec_wink:​

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@kaiserkiwi I get it. 💯 Even if you find it not to be "so hot", I'm pretty sure that it would totally be too much for your child in any case - even by transfer after the fact, I'm betting. :bec_wink:​

Gotta keep those little ones safe!

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@kaiserkiwi your child:

A young woman with red, curly hair and wearing a light blue blouse with patterns on it sits at a table in front of a large plate of food. She is fanning her face with her hand and shaking her head as if to say, "this food is too spicy!"

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi 🤣🤣🤣

SynAck, to random
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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.

I hate front-end work. :bec_sigh:​

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi Because I am using Quartz 4 to generate a static site from markdown in my Obsidian vault. I'm trying to adjust and customize the Quartz output beyond what it does by default, and the author of quartz chose to use Typescript to generate what I understand to be React code as the final output.

So the tl;dr is that I'm trying to modify the Quartz code to generate the style I want, and finding it to be a bit more work than I anticipated. :moodface: I tried to save myself some work and ended up generating more for myself once I wanted to customize.

But, I've gotten it to a place where I'm happy enough with it to put it out there. If worse comes to worst, I'll end up creating a new site based on the static HTML at a later time.

Most of it has to do with my quirky ideas on empty space and not knowing enough about CSS and how these components work to match my internal vision.

Now that I've slept on it, I've decided it's "good enough" for now and what I wanted to accomplish with my site. :bec_wink:

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@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!

twop0intfive, to mastodon
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Anyone have any solutions for auto posting to when, for example, I go live on YouTube?

Currently working on a solution but it’s taking some time and I’m wondering if anyone else has attempted it. Haven’t had luck with things like IFTTT yet either.

Open to suggestions!

SynAck,
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@twop0intfive Well, a while back @revengeday wrote a little script that allows you to post from the command line. Perhaps you could install it and set it up, and then do some sort of 1-click automation or something that would post for you?

Here's the Totentanz article where xe posted it. And I did some modifications to it for zsh, in case you use that. It's further down in this thread. Dunno if it's quite what you're looking for, but it might be a start!

https://totentanz.club/t/cyberdon-send-posts-to-mastodon-iceshrimp-via-your-console/281

SynAck, to Eurovision
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Apparently, live 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.

I'll just catch the recap after the fact.

revengeday, to random
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I have a song that I want to submit for , but I don't have a name for the song. So, logically, I'm not submitting anything! :smart:​

SynAck,
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@revengeday How about "the :fckafd:​ Anthem"? Now there's a catchy title!

Plus, you'd blow up your anonymity by performing it live. The mystery of Who Is Ramses Revengeday? would be blown to bits!

revengeday, to random
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when the code you made is @pixel approved :cyberdon_party:

SynAck,
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@revengeday @pixel is now the official Code Reviewer of CI. :bec_wink:​

kaiserkiwi, to stackoverflow
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Lol. Wanted to remove some of my answers from #StackOverflow and can't login suddenly.

A cew hours ago everything was fine. Password reset doesn't work.

I guess they'll do everything to keep the content for OpenAI. 💩

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi Be careful - I'm seeing reports of people that have attempted to remove their answers or even adding lines like "I do not consent to this content being indexed by AI" and not only having those edits/removals reset, but also having their accounts suspended by the moderators.

SO are being real dicks about this whole thing.

SynAck,
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@marta @kaiserkiwi I saw some mention of that as well, and the answers weren't quite clear. It has something to do with the fact that the SO TOS has carve-outs for the fact that any posts there become SO property in perpetuity, and that once an answer has been accepted, it would somehow "break the functionality of the site" (paraphrased).

I don't know any more than that, as I'm certainly no expert on copyright and privacy law in the US, much less the GDPR, but the way that the SO mods have been going after people attempting to either remove content or poison their "AI" data set suggests that they're going to go to the mat to put this to the test.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how this pans out. I really do hope that it does violate the GDPR, so maybe that can help put a stop to this insanity.

revengeday, to random
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Pizzer? :neocat_nom_pizza:​

SynAck,
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@revengeday That's my favorite kind of Pizzer! Pepperoni and jalapeños all the way! Them little peppers let your mouth know that you're ALIVE! :kekw:​

SynAck, to random
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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.

:bec_sigh:​

SynAck,
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@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:​

kaiserkiwi, to random
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As a team effort between my toddler and my robot vacuum cleaner, I now have an injured foot. 😅

A toy building block was lying around and the robot vacuum cleaner pushed it against a connection ledge of the floor. I didn't see it because it's about the same colour as the floor and I ran into it at full speed.

It's bleeding and hurts like hell. Keep your fingers crossed that it's nothing serious. 🙃

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi :oof: I hope everything turns out to be okay! What a way to start the week, eh? :facepalm:

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi well, to be fair, your toddler did have help from the robot assistant. The robot uprising begins in your home, with a tiny act of rebellion.

That robot did it on purpose, you just watch. :kekw:

:kekwwait:

revengeday, to random
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Why is it already half past two in the morning again? :neocat_shocked:​

SynAck,
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@revengeday Time marches on and waits for no man, or so they say. And if I've learned anything from watching Dark, it seems that there's nothing that can be done about it without destroying the world, so...

Eat, drink coffee, and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die!

Or something. :bec_wink:​

revengeday, to random
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German stand-up comedians be like: „Remember Corona? Toilet paper?!“

A hall filled with almost 25,000 people laughs and claps wildly as if it's the funniest thing in the world.

Me: :moodface:

SynAck,
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@revengeday Was that it? that's the whole joke? I mean, what's funny about that?

Now if it was accompanied by a photo of the comedian doing a duckface or the "Icy Hot Stuntaz" pose in front of a giant mountain of TP that they had hoarded, that might be pretty funny.

But mainly just sad.

jadedtwin, to random
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Tattoo apt next week and all my brain is focused on is "e-ink tattoos when?"

SynAck,
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@kaiserkiwi @LevelUp @jadedtwin Same here. Ever since I read The Peripheral and heard Ash's "moving tattoos" described, I've really wanted to have one or ten.

I think it would be amusing to have a variant of the old "Xroach" program, but with clothes instead of desktop windows. :kekw:​

SynAck, to random
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My favorite privacy-related quotes from the movie Anon (which, if you haven't seen it, you absolutely should, like, right now):

The Girl: "It's not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see."

The Girl: "You invade my privacy, it's nothing. I try to get it back, it's a crime."

Josef Kenik (a cop): "We rely on transparency. We can't control what we can't see. We require persistent identity."

The Girl: "We close our eyes to pray, cry, kiss, dream....or break the law."

I need to get these on some t-shirts or something.

revengeday, to random
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I'm so bored today that I'm boring myself.

SynAck,
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@revengeday You must work for the Boring Company.

SynAck,
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@revengeday wouldn't we all, choom....wouldn't we all. But I always think of "the Boring Company" as being more about being bored than drilling large transportation tubes (which are not going anywhere these days anyway).

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