zalasur

zalasur, 1 year ago to random

Oh no, my favorite Bluetooth headphones are starting to disintegrate. I had these for a while, so I'm not too surprised. They still work fine but those little bits of fabric are falling off everywhere, including onto my clothes.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

It is s bit interesting that people tend to assume that the level of technological socialization that exists today has always existed.

A lot of the weird byproducts of the web we see today are the result of someone (or a bunch of someones) taking a protocol designed to serve hosted text documents structured to allow for hyperlinking to other documents and turning it into an applications platform.

Now, people are like why do web addresses start with www? It's so pointless! Well you see...

zalasur, 11 months ago to random

I've just been thinking and musing, and I want to share my uninformed opinion. 😅

It's kind of interesting that while this platform (Mastodon and the fediverse at large) is far more vibrant and bustling than it ever has been in any point in its history, people feel obligated to post about how this place is bad and it's dying because it's bad or the people are bad somehow.

(cont'd)

zalasur, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

EDIT: forgot to mention this was on Twitch

Today, I saw that some people were complaining about "soft porn" showing up under recommended channels when they went onto the main site.

So I logged on, and sure enough at the top of my recommended list I saw the streamer in question under the "Art" category. She was essentially nude from the waist up, and she was recording from her shower.

I don't know if there was some sort of weird A/B testing going on in the platform, but it was very odd to see.

zalasur, 6 months ago to random

"Has anyone on the fediverse ever made a trebuchet?"

Immediate reply: "How big a trebuchet are we talking about?"

zalasur, 2 months ago to fediverse

One of the downsides of self-hosting your own video platform is that you pay for everything out of pocket. It's not prohibitively expensive, but the costs do add up.

Today I'm deleting old streaming videos, but first I'm downloading them and sending them to a my local archive. Eventually I plan on backing everything up to optical drive, but for now the RAID 10 array I have set up will have to do.

Thankfully #PeerTube lets me do this easily.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

So I think Discord is doing a thing now where it's monitoring conversations in channels and sending notifications with the topic being discussed.

I was just sent a phone notification not because I was tagged in anything, but because some people were talking in chat and I got a summary of the conversation. I strongly suspect generative AI was involved.

zalasur, 6 days ago to random

Aw. I just got called a "young fellow" on the fedi.

I'm 48. 😂

I guess there are worse things. 😅

zalasur, 5 months ago to random

I'm going to update my video intro clip to include a little bit more verbiage including my real name.

I'm not Batman, after all. Heck, my LinkedIn profile is right there in my bio on Mastodon. I think that having my real name in the intro for my recorded content gives a clearer idea about who created it. "Zalasur" is my online nickname, but it's not really a persona.

zalasur, 9 months ago to random

I don't mean to yuck on anybody's yum but I sort of feels like there is a lot of premature celebrating with regards to Trump's indictments and grand jury hearings. He hasn't been convicted yet, and he's still the Republican front-runner for the Presidential election. Hell, he's even beating Biden in some polls.

I'm not saying people shouldn't feel joy at his misfortune (I certainly do), but I sort of feel like people are setting themselves for a huge disappointment down the road.

zalasur, 8 months ago to random

A little #feditip for your #feditips

So people have been noticing that you often don't see replies to posts on Mastodon. This is especially true if the post originated from a user who's on another instance from your own.

How to rectify the situation? Go to the source. On Mastodon, in the "three dots" menu next to each post there's an option to "Open Original Page". This will open up the post directly from that other instance and you'll see all the replies there.

zalasur, 6 months ago to random

"Package still arriving by 10 PM"

Oh, Amazon. We've played this game before. We both know you sit upon a throne of lies.

zalasur, 11 months ago to random

I know that weather forecasting is more of an art form than science at times, but I sort of have to believe the models are broken when they continuously forecast a 50% chance of rain three days out that consistently fails to materialize.

We were forecast to have thunderstorms all week this week, or at least a better-than-even chance of them each day this week. So far? One slight drizzle. That was it. The rest of the week doesn't look too good, either.

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

I want to take aside the people who think 80 column layout rules should be enforced by the typescript linter and ask them, "What is wrong with you? Did your parents not love you enough?"

For any computer manufactured after 1986, 120 column works just fine. The theory that 80 columns forces developers to "write cleaner code" isn't working. It's making the code harder to read and maintain.

zalasur, 5 months ago to fediverse

I'm going to upgrade my #peertube instance to 6.0.2 (a bugfix release). There will be a minute or two of downtime.

zalasur, 5 months ago to random

The Vue3 composition API feels like it was built by developers who hated object oriented programming so they decided to reinvent it, badly.

zalasur, 3 months ago to random

A weird thing about social media was that it kinda showed me that there are an remarkable number of people out there who really do exist and who know like 30 of the same people I do.

...and I've never met them once in my entire life.

Who are these shadow people who walk around out there???

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

You know, here's something that's always kinda bugged me as a web developer. It is the year 2024 and still the primary function of every commercial website in existence is to get you to sign up to their email subscriptions.

Email.

Subscriptions.

Like, why did they even bother with the website in the first place?

zalasur, 1 month ago to random

This weekend I'm going to do some long-overdue updates to the peertube server. I need to update my "About" page and clarify certain terms and conditions especially as they pertain to financial contributions. My channels could use a little sprucing up to make them a bit more visually distinctive. I also need to create a new channel for tech uploads where I'll post my vlogs to. And finally I'm going to create a redirect URL to make it easier for people to find my streams.

zalasur, 3 months ago to random

Going to get laundry done this morning and try to vacuums two rooms that are overdue.

Then lunch, shower, and dwarf fortress adventures later? Well see how quickly I can get all this done.

zalasur, 1 month ago to StarTrek

Ok fine, let's do this.

#StarTrekDiscovery #StarTrek

zalasur, 1 month ago to random

Oof, so I did a dirty deed today.

We have rabbits that like to hang out in our back yard. They are a pair we see quite often and a few days ago I saw one of them gathering grass over on the side of our house.

Neat! They are building a nest!

Not so neat: they popped off the cover of our window well leading to our basement and dug a hole under there. I would have missed it had I not been looking for it. It looked like a small pile of grass until I pulled it back and saw the hole (cont'd)

zalasur, 11 days ago to random

It's fun when you edit code that's been written by someone with the job title "Software Architect" and there are so many mistakes in it that it takes you two days to clean it up. 😅

zalasur, 9 days ago to fediverse

Today on Dwarf Fortress: The Sinister Start in the Plane of Myth, my citizens has a sad! 😢

I keep sending them outside to build the outside fort and they are getting fed up. But not to worry, I finished the roof so now they con complete their work in a smelly goo-free environment. Or, at least until I decide to build the fishing hut.

https://video.surazal.net/w/9HhmDj1WqnkgTzvXKsVKka

#PeerTube
#DwarfFortress
#Stream
#Streaming

zalasur, 4 months ago to random

On my agenda for tomorrow (my day off):

• Laundry
• Change air filters
• Clean dust out of smoke detectors
• Laundry
• Update my resumé

If I can get all that done early enough I'll also do a stream. Maybe. We'll see how tired I am. 😅