masukomi

masukomi, 2 days ago to random

Wifey has decided to do battle with mosquitoes and dandelions.

masukomi, 2 days ago to transgender

New #transgender milestone reached:
Our tractor's fuel hole is nearly chest high on @dachary so I - being taller - became the one who refills it.

1st I go to grab a 5 gallon can of fuel (~35lbs or ~16kg) and am like "oof!" being caught off guard by the weight. Then, I go to lift it to my chest height to hold it over the tank & I am struggling. I need to get a stool to Captain Morgan my leg on, so that I can rest the can on my raised thigh / knee and tip it in.
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masukomi, 2 days ago to random

It turns out that there's enough solar activity to take a 2nd crack at the #Aurora tonight.

However, we're covered in clouds, and would have to drive 8hours - not counting stops - in order to get to a potentially cloud-free area that's at a higher latitude.

Unfortunately, I've been tired all day, desperately need a nap, and am the only one comfortable driving our ~12,000lb (5,400kg) 🚑 because it's effing wide & wifey hasn't practiced in it yet. But she's also pooped so. 🤷‍♀️

masukomi, 2 days ago to random

@iamada Tooted a bit ago about troubles getting their developers to contribute to a changelog.

I used to be a release manager at one co. I know the pain well, and i have a LOT of thoughts on it.

The short answer is that as much as we wish they would update one with / for each PR they wont, and if you're talking about literally editing a CHANGELOG file then you DEFINITELY do NOT want them to try.
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masukomi, 2 days ago to random

@bardi 's Tusks app is nice, but it's still early days.

I tried making my thread in FediThready because i prefer the way it chooses to chunk up long posts - and lets me control that if i want to - as well as how it lets me review the full thread.

However, FediThready can't post & doing a long thread 1-by-1 with the Mastodon UI is... "sub-optimal"

SO I used FediThready to make & review the thread & Tusks to post it. It worked quite well.

https://thirdculture.app/tusks
https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready

masukomi, 3 days ago to random

My phone saw some truly amazing things.

I mostly saw what looked like light pollution on the wrong side of the clouds. Occasionally we could see a brighter streak reaching up. @dachary was able to make out fainter things with more colors, but only tempting hints.

These were all long exposures on a jib with iPhone 15 Pro Max.

#Aurora

The same silhouette of trees and clouds, but all the colors in between are fading as if the saturation has been dropped and a green haze lays over things
A dramatically different photo. The bottom match is a silhouette of trees above that is an incredibly bright section very pale, green, almost white stripes, heading up at a slight angle to the right before being occluded by clouds a little higher there is a break in the clouds and you can see that it has transitioned to a beautiful violet.

masukomi, 3 days ago to transgender

Some positive news in the land of #transgender Bureaucracy.

Changing the gender on your license in Vermont is just a matter of filling out the form!

That seemed too easy so I kept digging and found a queer & trans support place and they're like "nope. No proof needed"

🤯 I… I… I could just go full "F"⁉️

a screenshot from a VT Pride center document saying: Changing Gender Marker at the DMV: Vermont DMV allows the choice of M, F, or X as a gender marker, which you can self-select; you no longer need to present a letter from a physician or any other documentation to change your gender with the DMV.

masukomi, 3 days ago to random

With the electrician now 3 hours late I'm starting to de-stress because I figure he just isn't coming.

So, trying to find something positive in this e🐄💩:

• I got a decent selfie out of it (see below)
• I found a pair of glasses that I like and can just replace lenses in next time I get my eyes checked‡
• I found & ordered some bras with a promising looking fit.
• i can eat lunch.

‡ hormones change eye shape (!!!) & I'm not thrilled with last prescription, so waiting is good.

masukomi, 4 days ago to random

Well, I think I have found out why the sizing chart suggested that I - a 35DD - should order a 40A.

Technically, this elastic can stretch to the 36 inch circumference that it claims. However, that is 8.5” (21.5cm) beyond its starting point!

What the actual fuck⁉️ Why would you do this to a person? This thing is SO tight! If I gained even a hint of weight and tried to wear this for a day, I’d have to go to the ER.

I will never buy this brand (Auden) again.

masukomi, 3 days ago to random

Well, i've been stressing the fuck out about this electrician showing up for over an hour and a half now. So.... that's fun.

No call. Just.... not here.

Side note: this is a ridiculously expensive job we're asking him to do. Not some little "can you rewire an outlet?"

But even that doesn't seem to make it worth an "i'll be late" or "not coming" call.

masukomi, 4 days ago to random

In ~10 minutes the only electrician who bothered to return our phone calls will be arriving, after
about 6 months of waiting.

I have to make a choice:

1. "femme it up" in hopes of increasing my meager chances of passing.
2. "butch it up" and go through multiple days of trauma as he works on our house.

I'm choosing 1, because "fuck you this is my house". Unfortunately tradespeople have a tendency to be extra trump-loving around here. So, this'll be trauma no matter what.

Yay.
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masukomi, 4 days ago to random

Just spent ... far too long digging into NY, VT, and NH laws defining the hoops required to get gender affirming care.

NY's hypocrisy can fuck itself. NH is going all-in on the fascism. VT is… meh.

ALL of them (probably all states) have laws assuming trans people are incapable of making the same decisions about their bodies that CIS people can and need to be approved by mental health professionals. They also require adherence to the gender binary to be trans enough to be approved.

😡🔪

masukomi, 4 days ago to random

I am exhausted while pushing the mower. I had just asked Siri to set a reminder and she omitted the most important words in that reminder.

Me: hey siri…
Siri: uh huh?
Me: oh, fuck it. Nevermind. I can’t
Siri: ok it’s deleted.
Me. ⁉️ what’s deleted⁉️
Siri: < reads me the definition of the word “deleted “>
Me: 😭

masukomi, 5 days ago to random

La kato ŝtelis mian seĝon!

Mi foriĝis ŝin el la seĝon de @dachary kaj nun ŝi havas mian

masukomi, 6 days ago to random

I don't know if i took my pills today, and the pill box was in a slightly wonky almost empty state because i forgot to take some evening pills last Wednesday. Double dosing on hormones would probably be ok, but double dosing on my ADHD meds? Uh... 🤷‍♀️ i dunno. Probably ok?

I have some slightly lower dose pills from when my script was lower. Maybe i take pills but use the lower dose ADHD med in case I've already taken it?

masukomi, 6 days ago to random

I keep thinking about #trangender men, and how much it must suck to finally start being accepted for the man you are, but then to ALSO find yourself a member of the group people most responsible for the world’s various forms of bullshit.

Like “Hooray!” Immediately followed by “Oh shit!”

masukomi, 7 days ago to random

Today I prepared loose leaf tea one handed while holding a 16lb (~7.25kg) cat‡. So regardless of what else happens today. I've accomplished something. 😉

‡ i gave her a sniff of the leaves and she approves of Golden Monkey.

masukomi, 7 days ago to random

"you have passed the test with flying colors"

Makes NO fucking sense. To fly your colors is to present yourself with your unfurled flag (your "true colors"). Which is related to how pirates would NOT show their colors to trick people into letting them get too close. OR how you could fly false colors to pass where you weren't allowed.

So, You have [done x] with flying colors means.... "You did X and claimed to be someone while doing it!" WHich is... uhh... ok?

masukomi, 7 days ago to random

Once upon a time Quark Express was the "king" of professional page layout apps & Photoshop the king of image editing. Then at a conference (MacWorld?), Quark introduced the most incredible "photoshop killer" anyone had seen. It had non-destructive editing with unlimited instant undo, on hardware that's laughably slow by today's standards. The live demo was AMAZING and had a crowd all day long.

And then, it disappeared & never came to market.

What as it called & what happened to it?

masukomi, 7 days ago to macos

Did a recent release of Sonoma break the ability for Shortcuts to send keystrokes? Because it USED to work, and Privacy & Accessibility stuff is still turned on to allow it to control this computer. And yet...

#MacOS #Shortcuts

masukomi, 7 days ago to random

Side view: normal.
Rear view: uhhh … er.. 🤷‍♀️

A rear view of the same dog. You can see his back paws are on the ground, not supporting his weight, and his butt has slumped down below the top of the hassock. He walked up to it, put his front paws on it and just flopped.

masukomi, 7 days ago to 3DPrinting

I reached out to the folks who bought my filament stackers on Printables & one of them was like "actually it's too big for my printer". I hadn't specified the dimensions initially.

After a little back and forth the's got a Prusa MK4 which apparently has a max of 210mm in one dimension!

Spools are 200mm! So, now I've modeled one with 3mm walls 🙀 which can't be printed with a 0.6mm nozzle, & has NO space for infill, & teeeny front alignment pins. 😢

#3DPrinting

masukomi, 7 days ago to random

I sat down to my computer this morning around 7:30 or so. Dr. asked me to look at 2 providers & tell them which I wanted a referral to.

Since then I've

• found a potentially significant security bug in Firefox
• switched back to Vivaldi
• read Tampermonkey Docs
• installed a WebDav server on our Synology
• assigned a domain name to an IP in our Unifi
• failed to do the same in NextDNS
• called a game warden
• made dog food
• called to have our septic tank emptied
• NOT done what I sat down to

masukomi, 8 days ago to infosec

This... not only doesn't seem right, but seems like it shouldn't be possible. A disabled extension is still running in Firefox.

toggling the enabled toggle back on and off again made it actually be disabled but... I'm thinking there's a bug in FF where under certain circumstances a disabled plugin can actually be running and you wouldn't know unless you had it pinned (and thus visible). This seems like a security issue.

#Infosec #Firefox

masukomi, 8 days ago to random

My computer has decided that it can connect to the network over wifi, but it couldn’t possibly connect to the internet. It’s probably the router’s fault.

Meanwhile, wifey is streaming a video and my phone is having no problem using the Internet over Wi-Fi.

And yes, I tried turning it off and on again (the Wi-Fi AND the computer)