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earthtoneone

@earthtoneone@mstdn.social

Writer of software, mostly #frontend, mostly #React. Pastimes include cooking, travel, cooking while traveling, serving the cats' every need, #embroidery, hiking, reading random studies on PubMed, and planning elaborate projects she will never start (#adhd). She still wears a mask.

Home is northern New Jersey USA, as it has always been (minus brief stints in Quito, Barcelona, Philadelphia, and South Carolina).

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mmezabet, to linguistics
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BRAIN ASPLODE!

I've never been able to spell "guarantee" correctly on the first try, and today I really looked at it to try to figure out why.

Which is when I realized that the opening "guar" sounds really close to "war" if you are someone who regularly says GUAO or GUËY.

Which is when I realized that a GUARANTEE is the SAME DAMN THING as a WARRANTY.

SAME. DAMN. WORD.

Fifty fucking years on this planet it took me to figure that out, ffs.

earthtoneone,
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@mina @mmezabet Guarantillera.. Warranty guarantillera

Duusi, to sourdough
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Today, a new baby is born into my growing fermentation family.

Considering on re-starting kombucha as well, although it's a bit too fiddly for my liking. But I do like it a lot. Kraut I tried to make once. That I don't like, but did get some from the store to teach myself to eat that too.

But sourdough and this are straightforward enough. Been fermenting from store-bought kefir for a few weeks and now moving on to the "real" stuff.

#fermentation #kefir #sourdough #FermentedFoods

earthtoneone,
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@Duusi Maybe you'd enjoy water kefir more than kombucha? If you haven't tried it already... It's dead simple because it's just water and sugar. My main problem was that the cycle is much faster (2-3 days) and I couldn't keep up with production! It also has a less funky taste than kombucha.

earthtoneone,
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@Duusi It's so simple - really just plain sugar and water. Some directions say you need dried fruit and a lemon slice - they're not necessary, though a little acid can help.

jenn, to random
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“Dear Renter,” sent me into orbit

earthtoneone,
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@jenn Huh. I got "Esteemed Peasant"

stephaniewalter, to random
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I might need a shirt that says "Coffee, because apparently, sacrificing people to Cthulhu is ** checks lawyer notes ** wrong (but I'm not 100% sure, I mean, really?)"
But, it might be a long text for a shirt.

earthtoneone,
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@stephaniewalter Brilliant 😆 How about

Coffee, because sacrificing people to Cthulhu is wrong* apparently

*[Citation needed]

stefan, to random
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Daylights Saving's

earthtoneone,
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...is what?? don't leave us hanging

gulserendipity, to knitting
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the strange sight that occurs when i cannot find at home a second size 3 needle 😬 i am trying to knit the sleeve of the baby cardigan with the needles of two other parts😊 or @knitting

earthtoneone,
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@gulserendipity @knitting "When two knitting projects love each other very much...."

stephaniewalter, to CSS
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Clamp calculator: an online calculator to generate custom fluid tokens (with clamp) between a set min/max viewport.
https://utopia.fyi/clamp/calculator/?a=365,1240,16-48

earthtoneone,
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@stephaniewalter Haa, I was literally doing the math (read: "close enough" estimates) in my head today and thinking "I'm sure there's a calculator for this somewhere..."

shauna, to random
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Fun to participate in a panel on open source that was 100% women and had absolutely nothing to do with being a woman in open source. I hope one day this will be so commonplace I don't even notice it.

earthtoneone,
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@shauna Yes! I used to host a tech women's meetup, and the topics of conversation were refreshingly geeky nearly all the time.

futurebird, to random
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My husband had this tradition at his old job as a journalist where if they had to work a long night on the way out they delivered "the parting shots" things you can say that sound good on the surface... until you think about it.

"Bill? This has been a day I won't forget easily."
"Sarah? You really wrote one of the articles of all time."
"Jake? Tremendous effort tonight."
"It was a crazy night, and whenever it was at its worst? Well you were right there."

etc.

Do you have a "parting shot?"

earthtoneone,
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@futurebird "I hope you get everything you deserve in life"

stefan, to random
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After driving a rental SUV for a week and also from Florida to New Jersey I can say: "SUVs are mostly useless space when you can just drive a car"

earthtoneone,
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@stefan That extra space isn't useless if it makes me feel BIG and IMPORTANT
/s

stephaniewalter, to accessibility
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Adventures with BeMyAI (8min): https://tink.uk/adventures-with-bemyai/
@tink tested BeMyAI, a feature added to BeMyEyes using chatGPT4 to describe a picture. It’s still hallucinating of course, but still impressive. Also, I totally want stir-fry vegetables for dinner tonight too now.

earthtoneone,
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@stephaniewalter @tink Selfishly, my initial reaction was "oh darn, now I'll get even fewer calls!". But I'm sure that many people hesitate to ask for help from a human, so this could really lower barriers. It's a little scary though. I wish these AI assistants were built with a little more "humility" and were clear about their level of uncertainty.

earthtoneone,
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@tink @stephaniewalter Oh, absolutely. I'm not a huge fan of the AI boom. But if they improved the UI, I could see this being somewhat useful.

earthtoneone,
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Yeah, I guess I'm thinking of a user like my mother, who wouldn't use BME unless it was urgent, because she would be anxious about "bothering" a human. It would never function as well as a human, but it might increase access quite a bit. (IF they refined it to where it's more good than harm)

eriquita, to detroit

Living in Detroit, you see some things. #icp #detroit

earthtoneone,
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@eriquita I thought this was so wholesome until my brain finished parsing "Icp"... eh, still fits?

earthtoneone,
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@eriquita Yeah, there was a lot of love and craft put into this.. warms the cockles of my heart.

earthtoneone, to random
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After the rousing success of -in-a-bag, I decided to try carrots-in-a-bag. It's only been a couple hours, but it's already bubbling away. (it did get a jump start from a little sauerkraut juice)

Heat-sealed bag of carrot sticks in brine with a sprig of parsley. If you look really close, near the top, you can see many tiny bubbles streaming up.

earthtoneone,
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@kkarhan haha don't worry, just parsley this time

stephaniewalter, to random
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Sharing this to break the curse of the earworm stuck in my head, hehe
Everyday, it's a-getting closer 🎵
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMezwtB1oCU

earthtoneone,
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@stephaniewalter I'm guessing you just watched Good Omens?

chu, to random

I think the thing I hate most about visiting people who live in suburbs are lawnmowers.

Honestly they are the worst. They make so much noise and you're burning fossil fuels to maintain something that is neither food, nor a cash crop. The entire idea of a lawn that needs this much resource is just beyond stupid.

At least switch to a push mower. When I visit my parents, I pull out the push mower I bought them. When neighbours see a gas powered mower out, they cross the street to avoid the noise and fumes. When they see me with my push mower, they stop to chat.

Lawnmowers are horribly antisocial and the lawn lovers don't even realize this.

earthtoneone,
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@jann Come now, don't sealion. The majority of people who have mowers chose to buy gas over electric or manual, which have been available for decades. This isn't about the people who can't choose, but those who have had the choice for a very long time (long enough that there should be plenty of free and cheap secondhand options for folks who need them)

Em0nM4stodon, (edited ) to random

:blobcatheart:​

Which of the following do you find the cutest:

earthtoneone,
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@Em0nM4stodon well, it's just... ::gesturing vaguely at profile pic::

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