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I take pictures 📸 and live with two cats 🐈 🐈 and another human in #Portland, OR. 🌲 I love #photography, mostly with #fujifilm cameras.

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    @mitten @mihobu agreed there. I pay much closer attention to local news. I'm content to get a daily "top 5" newsletter, or just have a few RSS feeds that I skim and don't try to read deeply to have a sense of "what's up."

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    @mihobu These things -- national newspapers, NPR, etc. -- are narrow ideological products. There's a particular range of acceptable opinion and definition of "realism," with this subtle implication that if you don't doom-scroll or compulsively follow every development you're an "apathetic" moral defective.

    They mutually parasitize social media, with its ridiculous "posting is praxis" pretensions, trying to make us Bayesian sentiment units with a compulsion to appear "informed."

    No thanks.

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    @mendel Thank you!

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    EXISTENTIAL AI THREAT LEVEL: MAXIMUM

    https://comicskingdom.com/popeye/2023-11-17

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    @spacewizard Just scrolled around in there for a while. Amazed that some of these are still going.

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    Those of us who missed out on the first batch of X100VIs are probably in for a long wait. Maybe I should've waited a minute before selling the Q2.

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    @jbaty Any idea where the cutline is? Did you need to be "finger poised over preorder button" the day of the announcement? (Pre-ordered one, but maybe took a day or two to get around to it.)

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    @alans @jbaty 😭 I was resigned to probably having a wait in front of me because I dithered. I'd probably be more chill if every single Fujifilm supply chain story didn't involve "... because they look super cute." Oh well. Not like I'm stuck unable to take a picture, but with IBIS those things are Ultimate Travel Machines now.

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    I'm finding it more and more untenable to be unable to filter/mute things on the micro.blog timeline. This is definitely a weakness and as we have a contentious and all-consuming election coming up, over the next year I may have to limit my time there as I just cannot put myself in front of that kind of what-I-expect exposure.

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    @anniegreens I think it comes and goes with a few people. The overwhelming bias is toward "safe topics in an unfamiliar bar." Some folks have flareups now and then.

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    @mph I'm looking at silverbullet.md, just out of curiosity. It seems kinda neat, in its own way. Looks like if there were no Tiddlywiki, here's something that could do a lot of the same things. I don't know that I'm thrilled about the interface? Like, TW is a web page. You know what a web page is and how to interact with it. Links, textareas, buttons. You know what's editable and what isn't. Silverbullet is a markdown editor running in your browser.

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    @spacewizard That is really interesting! I like it!

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    Pretty stoked to walk my twins through installing their first interpreted language and writing and running “Hello World!” in it.

    (But much less stoked that it’s python, which has resoundingly won, to my chagrin.)

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    @lkanies Isn't .zprofile the analog?

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    It seems is not meant for files with long (see Denote) filename date prefixes so I should probably stop trying to shoehorn them in. They just get in the way. Darn.

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    @jbaty Front Matter Title will let you use the title: property to display file names. You can choose the context that happens in from a long list. Great for cleaning up the explorer in the sidebar and making your tabs more readable for day-to-day use, but sets you up for portability (or even dipping in and out from Emacs) for the long haul.

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    @jbaty

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    I'm bored with everything working well on my linux laptop

    maybe I'll disrupt my entire life by changing from Gnome, which I really like, to KDE, which historically I've always kneejerk disliked

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    @spacewizard that'll teach you

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    Have you seen this, @mph?

    I don’t journal, nor use paper, nor actually do things any more. And I don’t really expect it to be a fit for you. But I figured you might find the system interesting, even if not suitable.

    The Theme System https://www.themesystem.com/

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    @lkanies @iamabot

    Yeah, nice try.

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    @number6 Well, TiddlyWiki is an incumbent, so it makes sense that as trends come and go people will wonder how to make it look like the new hotness. Especially because its core fundamentals are so good. I expect it is going to survive most of the Zettel wave.

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    @spacewizard probably for the best.

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    @amerpie Thanks, Lou! I was pretty happy with the gas station one, just dialing my adjustments back and letting the colors be a little muted.

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    Sometimes, the by far best action is to force someone to quit.

    Some of my favorite days as a manager were when people resigned. Not good. But still true.

    https://mike.puddingtime.org/posts/2024-02-29-daily-notes/

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    @lkanies Whatever I was afraid of happening wasn't as bad as watching decent people resign themselves to the idea they were working somewhere it was okay to be that stunted (and that I personally might be okay with that).

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    Why the hell does the phone not send phone rings and timer alerts to headphones?

    Why have I had to learn to recognize silence as the mark that I’m getting a call or an alert has gone off?

    It’s been like this for years, and is clearly a choice. I hate it.

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    @lkanies You can set the phone to Announce Calls on headphones only. Then you have to hear a voice, too, but at least you're getting the "ring" in the headphones.

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    A lot of the emails I send from my @me.com address arrive in Spam with Gmail users. Any idea what I could do about it?

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    @tomk are you sending using Apple's own SMTP server or are you using another one?

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    Today’s inexplicably bad “feature” in Apple Music: there’s a “Discovery Station” which supposedly plays music that’s new to me, but that some algorithm thinks I would like. However, when I hit play on this “station”, none of the tracks go into the track history listing. So there is no way to look at back the tracks if I happened to like one or want to know more about it. I simply have no idea how this app is allowed to be this egregiously unusable.

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    @mitten I thiiiink they expect you to ❤️ stuff as it goes by? That presupposes a level of engagement with the app that a certain kind of checked out product person might presuppose. After all, as a PASSIONATE MUSIC CONSUMER I want to HEART MUSIC THE MOMENT IT GOES BY so I can TEND TO MY MUSIC APP AT ALL TIMES.

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    Is it okay not to care about main tech things and live your life? Or should I be concerned about everything that’s going on? Ugh!

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    @gabz A very useful thing someone said recently: "I think it'll be okay if I'm wrong about this in my back yard for three hours."

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    Interesting thread; something I didn't think about in my "is it worth it getting back into Perl" musings a few months ago: Perl's extreme dedication to backwards compatibility. I wonder where Ruby falls, on the whole, on the spectrum between Perl and Python re: being willing to break old things? I don't know top of my head, despite working with Ruby now at work.

    https://mas.to/@leonerd@fosstodon.org/111852394126442296

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    @spacewizard for my uses, the gem ecosystem is what provides pressure. Feels like every major marks the end of some idiosyncratic thing that solved a problem in a way I could understand. No idea how severe the changes are that drive that dynamic. It's always felt like a shaggy community to me.

    mph, to random
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    I love that the local paper tries to convince me I should turn off my ad blocker by showing me a special badge that they're "Better Ads Experience Program Certified."

    It's like having someone from Glidden in a lab coat pop a lead paint chip in their mouth and smile while they chew.

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    I need to unsubscribe from tech press sources for a bit. Decades ago, when that was my industry, I was bothered that I was a trained journalist, but that the tech industry had gotten so good at reducing reporters to stenographers. I'm good most years because at least I know the dynamics behind what I'm reading.

    But the uncritical cooing over AI features because some company let a tech blogger talk to a VP of product marketing on launch day? An industry this wealthy needs more accountability.

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    brunch walk
    https://mph.puddingtime.org/post/brunch-walk

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