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claudinec

@claudinec@aus.social

#Archives and #GLAMR nerd, living on #Wurundjeri #Woiwurrung country.

#GenX #AsianAustralian #COVIDCautious #Introvert #Sober #Vegetarian

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claudinec, to random
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The old web never went away

https://www.claudinec.net/posts/2024-05-26-indieweb/

onepict, to random
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So that's me received the confirmation that my stuff is removed from Bigstack.

Which is good. It shows the Optout requests are being done.

Go to check again for librecasts old github account. Looks like I missed some.

Opens new ticket

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

While I did think it is important for Software Heritage to archive code, I wish it was done Opt-in.

It would be nice to be asked and for that code to be curated. This is not curation. This is automation.

claudinec,
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@onepict Great, I'm in the stack too. A bunch of Drupal configuration profiles for former clients (at least three major versions out of date), some half-baked ideas for talks and courses that I never got round to developing, and a bunch of forks for the purpose of making a single cosmetic pull request, or that I just poked around in for a few days before I got distracted by something else. No substantial contributions to software – those are either in private GitHub repos or never left my local network in the first place.

It does look like my CC-BY-SA website content isn't there, so I guess they are paying some attention to licences.

To the guys (and it is all guys, I think) saying "BUT ARCHIVES! PRESERVATION!!1!" Archives of any kind absolutely need to be curated. It's irresponsible and wasteful to collect/dump shit-tonnes of copies of copies of copies of stuff and trust some machine to sort it out. It's more visibly obvious in a physical archive that has to constantly buy boxes of boxes (ask me how I know) and occasionally has to move or build new buildings. Digital stuff still takes up actual physical disk space and the more crap you dump in, the more compute resources you need to sift through it all.

claudinec, to github
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I'm thinking again about moving from to . I firmly believe in paying fair prices for services that don't invade my privacy. My private repos stay inside my home network on a server. I don't use GitHub Actions. Issues and projects are handy but I can use other task tracking systems. I'd probably keep my GitHub account to follow other projects/discussions and for single sign-on needs.

If you've moved your personal code from GitHub to sourcehut, is there anything you regret or would warn others about?

claudinec, to random
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Woot, Fastmail's new Duo (partner) pricing looks like a great deal instead of our current family-of-two plan, and FINALLY I, living in Australia, can pay my email provider, also in Australia, in our own currency. Thanks @fastmail !
https://mastodon.social/@fastmail/112242091727489646

claudinec, to random
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As someone who reads science fiction and occasionally updates my blog built with a static site generator... the hashtag is a bit confusing these days. Maybe and are less ambiguous?

Daojoan, to random
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If you’re a solo creator / founder, don’t underestimate how powerful Apple Notes and Reminders can be. If you set ‘em up right you can save a bunch of money instead of buying productivity apps that cost a monthly fee.

A quick thread on my set up:

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claudinec,
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@Daojoan last year (after years of switching between Things,Todoist, and various other todo apps) I went back to Reminders because I discovered I could display tasks as time blocks in my calendar if I used BusyCal or Fantastical (yes, I can't make up my mind about calendar apps either).

Just last week I started experimenting with Apple Notes again, and discovered that when typing a hashtag in a note, it can autocomplete to tags that I've used in Reminders. So I don't have to rebuild my tagging system yet again!

claudinec, to random
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Some time during the Greater Melbourne Lockdowns (cue "pandemic time" handwave) I stopped reading fiction. In the last few years of the 2010s I was a member of somewhere between two and four book clubs (three of them were kind of the same crowd but with different themes and schedules) and I had finally returned to my childhood dream/cosplay of becoming a librarian. In 2020 the book clubs moved to Zoom and a dearly departed friend started yet another online reading group. After a year or two, fiction took a back seat as I focused on study – to be expected – and both screen-reading fatigue and Zoom fatigue took root – also to be expected.

But graduating and starting to cautiously return to the outside world didn't change my reading habits. Sure, I had been spending more time with audiobooks during my permitted-outdoor-exercise time and then during my hour-long tram commute, but something had happened to my attention in those indistinguishable days. "Serious" reading became a work thing – as both an information professional and a professional intersectional queer – so when it came to leisure time I turned away from the long pages and towards my renewed interest in comics. I didn't feel guilty or ashamed that I was reading less prose, but I missed the days when I had the attention span to spend a whole weekend absorbed in a novel.

One positive personal outcome of the current #HugoAwards ... thing ... is that it lit up a part of my brain that said, "remember when you read science fiction and hung out with people who ran conventions?" That, and catching up on how fiction magazines are being crushed by both Big Tech's urge to make every a streaming service and by spam from large language models, prompted me to look for what I'd been missing. I found my @WeightlessBooks login and grabbed the latest issues of Uncanny, Clarkesworld, and Forever. Maybe I'll even consider replacing some of my streaming-TV subscriptions with magazine subs.

The story to break my reading drought was "Marginalia" by @maryrobinette, a name I recognised and the first story in the current Uncanny. But I'm looking forward to discovering many new writers and new worlds.

claudinec, to RSS
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I remember when the primary definition of an online "feed" was an RSS or ATOM XML file published by a website to provide automated access to recent updates on that website or potentially some other site. We subscribed to feeds by actively choosing to add a feed to the feed reader of our choice, as one might (still) subscribe to a magazine or newsletter these days. We could recommend blogs or news sites to our friends or other people who "followed" us online by linking to their URLs on our own blogs or via email.

Let's reclaim that sense of a feed as a consciously chosen online diet – not a synthetic mashup generated by opaque algorithms.

I'm really turning into "old woman yells at cloud", aren't I?

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    claudinec,
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    @grueproof Happy new year and thanks for the tunes!

    claudinec, to random
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    I'm trying out iOS apps via https://www.radio-browser.info/users for listening to . Any recommendations for an app that uses artist-provided metadata and allows corrections to station info? I searched for and tried adding the RFF main and comfy stations to but got "unsupported URL" errors; adding the stream URLs manually worked though.

    claudinec,
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    seems to sometimes pull unrelated artist/album covers from Spotify – not very indie-friendly.

    claudinec,
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    @radiofreefedi no worries, I was happily following artist links from the bot and website, just looking at the other options. But now that I've seen the blog post referencing VLC, I realised that I can just drop the XSPF file in my VLC (iOS) application folder and it picks up the three playlists.

    Thanks for all that you do!

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    I reached a new milestone yesterday (since I started counting)

    100 days!

    claudinec, to YNAB
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    I keep flip-flopping between for convenient envelope budgeting and for version-controlled portable data that's fully in my control. I'm considering going (back) to (used it for a couple of years, used the original even further back) but as I know I'm wondering whether to try in case I want to hack my system further.

    Any opinions/experiences with the three plaintext accounting heavyweights? Or tips for making envelope budgeting less painful in this ecosystem?

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    Business Update: Apparently 50% of this months Patreon transactions didn't complete.

    If you're one of our lovely Patrons, I believe you would get an error on your account, so please check on your side of the fence...

    I'm speaking with them, but it seems that they've really $%& up royal.. so I might need to figure out another way to get support for this place that's stable. :bill:

    (We're running pretty lean, but I'm starting to look into cost saving measures anyway)

    There is something called https://opencollective.com/ which apparently has a lot more transparency which I like.

    Normally there are only 3-4 failed transactions, but 50% of them is weird and scary. :oofface:

    claudinec,
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    @jpm @aussocialadmin I was going to say it sounded like this Ireland issue... unless Patreon have managed to add another stuffup this month!

    Anyway, I'll always choose Liberapay or OpenCollective over Patreon and would be happy if this mess pushed more supporters towards a platform more aligned to fediverse values.

    claudinec, to novid
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    kicked out of the club after three and a half years

    claudinec, to random
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    I'm usually a few days behind on social media generally and in particular, so I've only just discovered that have quite publicly enforced their English-language-only policy and updated their code of conduct to allow for policing their users' behaviour on other instances.

    Looks like I'm moving to aus.social as my primary instance now. Good thing I've been making regular backups of my bookmarks and follow lists on both instances, 'just in case'. As a bonus, I'm cancelling my small regular donation to Fosstodon and rolling it into my support for aus.social.

    https://fosstodon.org/@mairin/110932035707504562

    https://fosstodon.org/@kev/110932586933979256

    https://hub.fosstodon.org/coc/#federated-accounts

    But wait, there's more: https://oliphant.social/@SpaceAce/110935361201711781

    Support aus.social! https://liberapay.com/Shlee/

    claudinec, to random
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    Completely unexpected email from my private health fund saying they're refunding members for elective and extras not claimed due to pandemic restrictions.

    > HBF promised not to financially benefit from the COVID-19 pandemic.

    > We promised that if we recorded any savings because members couldn’t use their health cover due to the temporary suspension of elective surgery procedures and Extras services, that this money would be returned to eligible members

    I mean it sucks that successive governments have cut back on public health funding, but if you have to / are heavily incentivised to buy private health insurance, then look for a non-profit fund that serves its members.

    https://www.cuahealth.com.au/faqs/covid-payment

    claudinec, to fediverse
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    Support your local admins! This week I finally set up recurring giving for my friendly admins (sorry it took so long). Check out your server's About page to see whether/how they accept contributions. (Note: I do use Patreon when I have to but I am far more likely to give via LiberaPay or OpenCollective if that's an option.)

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