So I spent a big chunk of my life living next door to Louisiana (Houston) and now I live next door to Quebec (Toronto) and it just this moment occurred to me to check if Quebec has beignets. Like, I'd simply assumed if I ever went liking for beignets I'd find them. So I asked a Quebecoise friend, and
yayyy i have a new sharps container. now i just have to figure out wtf to do with the old one. the city waste disposal website is mostly geared towards companies dumping medical waste
i think the craziest part about the internet industry deciding to blow everything up is that iโve been told half of modern programming is knowing how to google answers to issues youโre having
Re: The primary positive way in which people engage with the Star Wars prequels is by attempting to essentially write fanfic in hope of explaining apparent plot holes https://mastodon.social/@onelson/112384671651965851
@mcc i kinda wonder if this (and up thread from the linked post re:unbelievable scifi) happened bc these were one of the earliest movies to heavily use cgi for environments, which meant that there were fewer instances for someone to cut in and go โthis doesnโt make senseโ or โwe need to establish this betterโ) the way you might with more ppl on set seeing the results
Pondering the parallels between the Christian myth of Adam and Eve approaching a tree with a snake in it and attaining knowledge of good and evil, with the snake and the gained knowledge seen as evil; and the Buddhist myth (new to me) of Mucalinda, meaning the Buddha also sat under a tree with a snake and there also attained enlightenment but here the knowledge so gained is good and the snake is seen as a protector
Could invent some really fun heresies by developing this line of thought further
When Christine and I started dating I loved Star Wars and she loved Star Trek and we were like, ha ha, classic star-crossed geek scenario, this will be a running source of friction won't it. And then all these new shows and movies came out and it was like, wow! I got to see what was good about Star Trek, and Christine got an appreciation for Star Wars! And then they just kept making stuff and now Christine is complaining about how bad new Trek is and I'm complaining about how bad new Starwars is
There is an interesting article titled "Please Donโt Share Our Links on Mastodon: Hereโs Why!" about the startling load that Mastodon's mass-distributed link preview generation has on small independent webservers. But I cannot link it to you, because of a reason
@mcc i saw a lot of stuff in the comments to that article you didn't share where ppl said the person had misconfigured their site, but... if mastodon is the ONLY place where that is a problem it is probably still very much worth disabling i feel like?
Deeply unpleasant space opera setting where every species has just the one defining attribute and the defining attribute of humans is "the species with bones"
Just opened my ThinkPad and for the second time in three days the act of closing the laptop to sleep it, then opening it again had caused Ubuntu to hardlock. This time I got a very brief small printout about "amd ring 0 error", then it went back to a black screen and I had to hold down the power button again.
I thought getting a ThinkPad, getting AMD cpu/gpu and picking the Linux distro Lenovo lists as supported would mean I got a minimally functioning computer but I guess not.
idk i just think its kinda funny to hear a wikipedia admin talk about how hard they try to get new editors to wikipedia after, what, a decade of alienating trans ppl and their allies, aka the fastest growing group of fastidious nerds in the world rn
More rambling about problems with doing "bluesky" outside the blue sky walled garden (https://mastodon.social/@mcc/112340957577471735). Giving this one its own thread because I'm not sure I'm being fair.
So now I have a PDS working, the first thing I'm experimenting with is: Since I have my own data hosting, can I use this to make posts that are longer than 300 characters? And if I do, what happens? I want to crosspost from Mastodon; mastodon.social allows 500 characters.
@mcc at one of the branches i work at, they have two bins in the book drop with these names, and a matching keychain on the key to open the door to them
wrote an uncharacteristically long (and spoiler-y) review about a movie that I felt totally out with the other reviews on letterboxd about, so I figured I should post it where more ppl might actually see it:
@mcc i liked it quite a bit but it's definitely not as good as Corbijn's other spy movie, A Most Wanted Man, while having a lot of the same things people didn't like about that movie
