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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 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. #woodworking #carving #spoons #wip

kentbrew,
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@Peace_out_art thanks!

kentbrew,
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@ckoerner thanks!

kentbrew, to Software
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This guy gets it: "There’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 “Well, we’re waiting!”

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 🍿

Bombshell texts show tabloid editor calling Stormy Daniels story ‘final nail in the coffin’

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 & experts.
I'm trying to download the 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.

brianvastag, to ocean
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Good morning from the east side of Kauai, where it's 7am and someone has constructed a jungle Stargate. See you in the other side.

kentbrew,
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@brianvastag by Lava Lava? Love that thing.

kentbrew,
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@brianvastag we had kalo doughnuts from Holey Grail this morning. So good! https://www.holeygraildonuts.com

courtcan, to til
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the top 5 hits in the year I finished (Abi '96!) were:

  1. "Lemon Tree" by Fool's Garden 🍋❤️

  2. "Insomnia" by Faithless ❓🤔

  3. "Macarena" by Los Del Rio 🎶💃❤️

  4. "Children" by Robert Miles ❓🤔

  5. "Killing Me Softly" by Fugees 😑

I even looked up the Miles & Faithless songs. They still ring no bells. Fugees gets a 😑 bc it got overplayed for a decade, which soured me in it forever & ever & ever.

We do the Macarena at sometimes. Still a banger. 😁

kentbrew,
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@courtcan if you're ever at a gathering of the kind of nerds who know how to do the canonical dance to REM's song "Stand" but you don't, the Macarena works just fine. Also you will irretrievably piss off some of said nerds. :awesome:

kentbrew, to random
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Happy Alien Day (4/26) to those who celebrate!

foone, to random
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You know,

kentbrew,
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@foone that's kind of you, but no, I do not.

kentbrew, to random
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Oh, no! Global Tetrahedron has acquired The Onion.

https://www.theonion.com/give-us-1-or-the-onion-disappears-forever-1851436787

xian, to random
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I'm finding now that we own an EV fewer occasions to say "Is there gas in the car? Yes, there's gas in the car!"

kentbrew,
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@xian how's your range anxiety?

kentbrew,
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@xian

kentbrew,
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@xian we have a pair of nearly-decade-old Fiat 500Es, which are 87-mile cars per EPA estimates. Once we were out in Scotts Valley with 30 miles left on battery ... but by the twin miracles of Vickie's driving and regenerative braking we made it home to our driveway before the car entered Turtle Mode. Which is exactly what it sounds like: when you have less than two miles left, the display shows a bright red turtle and the car won't go faster than walking speed.

spideyj, to random
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I'm considering changing my name. I already planned to change my middle name because it feels more femme than I'm comfortable with but I had been thinking I was mostly okay with my first name because at least in the US no one reads it in particularly gendered way (and in most places where my name does read in a gendered way, it's read as masculine).

kentbrew,
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@spideyj avoid Kent. Peak year for this name was was 1955, the height of the Lorrilard cigarette company's marketing campaign for Kents, which featured the "micronite" filter. Some years later it was revealed that the filters were made of asbestos. (And yep, my parents both smoked 'em.)

nk, to random
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Found an amazing art supply store in Sodermalm, bought some Hosho at a pretty good price. Printed some legopress relief, and that smooth finish is amazing

kentbrew,
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@nk this right here is why I love Mastodon. There are at least three words in here I've never read before so I am happily rabbit-holing away. :blobcatheart:

arstechnica, to random
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DARPA’s AI test pilot successfully flew a dogfight against a human

After flying against simulated opponents, the AI agent has taken on humans.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/darpas-ai-test-pilot-successfully-flew-a-dogfight-against-a-human/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

kentbrew,
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@arstechnica have you people seen NONE OF THE TERMINATOR MOVIES?!?!?

kentbrew, to random
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Just used PayPal for the first time in a long time and wow, it just seems barbaric in a post-Apple/Google Pay world. (The thing where you have to re-enter all the credit card details for the transaction if you have to add a new billing address is especially swearworthy.)

DeborahLeagueFineArt, (edited ) to photography
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Quilted mountain vista, early autumn.

ART - https://deborah-league.pixels.com/featured/quilted-mountain-vista-early-autumn-deborah-league.html

kentbrew,
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@DeborahLeagueFineArt this is lovely!

toor, to random
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Satire is dead. with an article stating that died behind paywalls. That article is - behind a .

kentbrew,
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@toor literally came here to say this and your toot is at the top of my feed.

If you or anyone else within the sound of my voice is anxious to stay on the right side of the paywall, whatever you do, do NOT open archive.ph and paste in the URL to a paywalled article.

Strandjunker, to random
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The Great COVID Cover-up: He fired our pandemic response team, went golfing, called it a hoax, went golfing, bragged 15 cases would soon be down to zero, and went golfing. — Let’s face it: Trump was directly responsible for our skyrocketing death rate. He’s a mass murderer.

kentbrew,
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@Strandjunker yes. See https://deathcount.us/circle/ for visualization.

kentbrew, to random
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Yeah, this totally tracks:

"Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

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