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kentbrew

@kentbrew@xoxo.zone

Web Guy, retired; he/him; made my fortune writing sketchy third-party JavaScript and browser extensions for places like #Pinterest; perpetrator emeritus of #Speculations, the magazine for writers who want to be read.

Currently messing around with #Tootski, a browser extension to help you boost, follow, favorite, or share from outside your home Mastodon server.

Also:

#Kauai #Goats #Dogs #Farming #Hacking #Writing

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kentbrew, to animals
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Miss Kaylee turned fifteen and a half the other day; now she won't quit bothering me about getting her learner's permit.

astronomerritt, to Eurovision
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Well, I did promise I'd come out to my brother if a non-binary performer won so I guess I'd better do it now. Just give me until tomorrow, I want to enjoy tonight without wanting to stress-vomit ๐Ÿ˜…

kentbrew,
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@astronomerritt you got this!

kentbrew, to Eurovision
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Great little moment from Bambie Thug to Nemo, right there.

kentbrew,
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And yes! Nemo wears the crown for the encore!

kentbrew, to Eurovision
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Ireland, Finland, Latvia.

kentbrew, to Eurovision
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is also the Olympics for stagehands. https://www.wsj.com/video/50-seconds-of-madness-behind-the-scenes-at-eurovision-2024/1A6C3665-4864-4630-94B0-F7282D342083

kentbrew, to Kauai
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Aurora visible in Kaua'i County, HI-- oh, wait, no, it's a hibiscus flower. Sorry, carry on with your skywatching!

kentbrew,
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@kingtor @soaproot nope, it is a crazy hibiscus hybrid. We have some orchids that are exactly aurora-colored but they are not blooming right now. See previous: https://xoxo.zone/@kentbrew/109700729839279126

ai6yr, to random

Seeing secondhand reports of aurora being visible in South Florida (Miami). Anyone out there able to confirm?

kentbrew,
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@ai6yr ooh, fingers crossed for Kaua'i, then!

kentbrew, to Eurovision
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Aussies were robbed. That is all.

kentbrew, to Eurovision
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Pretty sure I have never said "OH NOOOO!" this many times watching before. Finland for the win!

kentbrew, to Eurovision
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Shoutout to @ewanspence, who first showed me , way way waaaay back in the Yahoo! days. (Streaming right now on Peacock!)

kentbrew, to opensource
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This from @nzakas has me wondering whether the bad guys are already using large language models to analyze GitHub histories in search of single unpaid maintainers who can be pressured to open commit access. https://ckarchive.com/b/d0ueh0h4gn08duk4xx64otmx96444hl

BobHorowitz, to photography
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Happy Monday, everyone.

The orangutan's trial has resumed and once again I'm glued to the blow-by-blow reporting by @GottaLaff. With court now in recess for lunch, it's time to post.

Taken a few weeks ago, here is a picture of one of the courtrooms at the James R. Browning Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Yes, this place is as serious as it appears here.

kentbrew,
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@BobHorowitz @GottaLaff love your description of this photo!

kentbrew, to random
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Looking south from Orvieto, Umbria, 14 April 2024.

kentbrew, to random
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In case you're wondering why people are saying Google search results are worse than before, here's exhibit A: some random machine translation of "Aloha 'Oe."

kentbrew, to random
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It's going to be Vance, and that is huge, huge trouble. He's young, intelligent, well-spoken, and evil through and through. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-02/trump-auditions-vp-picks-before-wealthy-donors-in-palm-beach

kentbrew, to woodworking
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Work in progress: a set of three olive utensils. This is all very hard scrap wood that's been hanging around for a year so there are definitely power tools involved. Last step is my favorite: a very close rubdown with cabinet scrapers, which leave a super-smooth tool-finished piece that can be oiled without any sanding at all because the scraper cuts the fibers instead of tearing them.

kentbrew,
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@Peace_out_art thanks!

kentbrew,
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@ckoerner thanks!

kentbrew,
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@Peace_out_art I give away almost everything I make, otherwise I'd have a houseful of weirdly-shaped spoons. If you ever find yourself on Kaua'i, come on over and pick something!

kentbrew, to Software
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This guy gets it: "Thereโ€™s also this oily smell of AI and machine learning in the tech atmosphere, where I no longer feel relevant and I seem to have stopped caring about new tech when I noticed that 8 in 10 articles are about some new LLM or image generation model. I guess I like the smell of wood better." https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/woodworking-escape-from-software-absurdity/

simonbs, to random
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My side projects as I press play on yet another YouTube video about coffee.

Frustrated person saying โ€œWell, weโ€™re waiting!โ€

kentbrew,
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@axxl we had a disaster: coffee berry border beetles, which are tiny evil bugs that destroy your crop from the inside out. If you miss even one infested bean you wind up with a skunked batch of coffee. We're spraying, cleaning, and trying to do all the right things this year but it is super hard.

Free_Press, to news
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TRUMP TRIAL UPDATES ๐Ÿฟ

Bombshell texts show tabloid editor calling Stormy Daniels story โ€˜final nail in the coffinโ€™

Keith Davidson, former lawyer for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, testifies about details of hush money agreements

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-trial-live-updates-hush-money-gag-order-b2537390.html

kentbrew, (edited )
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@QueenValhalla @Free_Press yes, he sure has. https://deathcount.us/circle/

spocko, to random
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I need some help from my Mastodon html & #pdf experts.
I'm trying to download the #Trumptrial transcript for 4-22-2024.
It gives me an index
https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/transcripts/4-22-2024/

At the top "NEXT" starts with 00001.html & is incrementally increased. https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/transcripts/4-22-2024/00001.html
There are 121 pages of individual images in the middle of a page. It's NOT a single long PDF document.

  1. How do i download them all at once?
  2. How do I convert the images to a searchable PDF?

4-22-2024 Transcript for Trump Trial

kentbrew,
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@spocko huh, interesting, these are individual image files (presented as raw data:URIs in the HTML source) and not PDFs. It's almost like they wanted to make it as hard as possible to do what you want to do.

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