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jamez

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Xennial, exogamous xenophile. Humanist nerd, recidivist startupper. Maker of things, enjoys coding for expressive purposes. Dreams in tongues, hears in colors.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

jamez, to random
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Five terrifying words in a row:

"sufficiently chemically skilled malicious actor"

Finding the source is left as an exercise. Happy Weekend!

john_fisherman, to random
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Hey Fediverse!

You’re looking good to-day!

https://ift.tt/TlhQbc7

jamez,
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@john_fisherman If you don't mind passing through IFTTT, then it works!

jamez, to random
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"There is nothing truly beautiful except that which cannot be used for anything; everything useful is ugly; because it is the expression of some need; and those of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor and infirm nature. - The most useful place in a house is the latrine."
Théophile Gautier

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A revamped version of the Adventures Di Pinocchio, which will soon be up for grabs. I had a blast reading this aloud, in fact I think it would be great to find readers who would like to recite parts of it.

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Pontypool had one of the best post-credit scenes in the history of cinema.

jamez,
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Incidentally, the internet needs a repository of every post-credit scene of every movie with one. Would that be fair-use?

jamez,
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It's really interesting how a post-credit scene can either crown a movie or leave a bad aftertaste. I think I would have hated to see the blooper reel in Being There, glad they took that one off in non-theatrical releases.

jamez,
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@john_fisherman :emoji_squint:

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Why has the Internet never produced a recipe site that provides a flowchart instead of list of ingredients? It's such a more intuitive way to do recipes, and I have to mark up all of mine.

jamez,
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@ZachWeinersmith GPT-4 does a decent job at creating DOT files which you can then turn into images using vizgraph.

System Prompt: You are a flowchart expert. You take a cooking recipe and convert it to a graph using the DOT format. Emphasize the parallelism of certain tasks.

Prompt: [the content of https://keviniscooking.com/best-lasagna-recipe-bechamel/]

Output: see image.

It's not perfect, but it's a great start.

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It's off to a great cinematic year with Poor Things. Visually stunning, conceptually fascinating, delightfully strange and whimsical. Go see it, be open to be positively shocked.

jamez, to wordpress
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Still on the <=> front, it feels powerful to give readers the alternative to reply with comments on a post using either WP or Mastodon. Hat tip: @michael

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jamez,
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@john_fisherman @michael
Fred, this solution is not seamless: messages posted through WordPress will not federate forward (though messages posted through Mastodon will appear on the blog). I think @pfefferle is working on that one.

How to implement: install ActivityPub plugin + Michael client-side code!

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@pfefferle @michael
https://jamez.it/blog/2024/01/03/ive-just-finished-integrating-activitypub-into-my-wp-blog/
scroll all the way down.

jamez,
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@pfefferle @michael Here's a WP wraparound plugin, in case this helps.

https://github.com/zkg/wp-mastodon-comments

jamez, to System76
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New Year, New Laptop.
Last time I computed on something so light was on an ePaper tablet. Already love it.

jamez, to mastodon
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I've given some serious thought to creating a server just for the sake of merging this account to the instance bridging my blog to the . It just feels such a burden to maintain all that just for the sake of presenting a clean, single entity on Mastodon.

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@john_fisherman Reposting is not the solution we deserved, but the solution we needed.

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@john_fisherman It was recently micro-blogged.
https://mastodon.social/@jamez@jamez.it/111692373569614535

jamez,
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@smschumacher I'm glad to have shared that sentiment with you. I think many people who enjoy blogging AND the Fediverse would love a way to merge the ActivityPub WP plugin with their "regular" account.

@pfefferle do you have any insight as to what would be the most elegant way to unify social functions (boosting, favoriting, browsing) with the ActivityPub WP plugin?

jamez,
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@pfefferle @smschumacher Yeah, it's a tough one to crack, isn't it?

I have mixed feelings about going fully Fediverse (avoiding synchronization with WP comment system) because it forgoes the important capacity to moderate people's comments.

But really, there should be a more comprehensive way to control the entity generated by the ActivityPub plugin. I'll think some more about it.

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@pfefferle That's great to hear.

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I love the nerdy humor of NASA engineers. This is on the mount of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3gcFliV8O8

Rant: copy-pasting stuff out of Spotify is hard, I suppose it's their version of a walled garden. Next to that: copy-pasting lyrics out of any Japanese lyrics website is equally hard. It makes it hard for people to learn while singing along.

sake ga nomeru nomeru zo sake ga nomeru zo

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Do yourselves a favor and follow @jamez .

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@john_fisherman you are too kind, fratello.

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