Collecting my attempts to improve at tech, art, and life

2019-09-24

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Minor social network culling

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Ello? I only remember you exist because of your emails. Delete account.

MeWe? No API. Delete account.

Instagram? No API. Awful link handling. Delete account. Delete —del— I said “delete” dammit.

Maybe later. Uninstalled from my phone at least.

Oh right, speaking of emails. Classmates. What a terrible idea that was. Nostalgia is not my strong suit. Delete account.

That one took a minute.

Facebook? Well, that’s my main contact for too many folks. I can uninstall it though.

Oh, I can only disable it. Yeah you’re on the list now too, Samsung.

Leaving the rest because I have other stuff to do.

This note reflects entirely too foul of a mood. Throwing in a drawing from the other day. There. Now smile.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 00:16

A late night, but for better reasons than usual.

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 01:44

I probably shouldn’t unplug random medical equipment to charge my iPad.

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 02:23

SEATTLE WEATHER UPDATE

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced robot evolution into the NEXUS phase -

SORRY

WEATHER

CLOUDY

A BIT APOCALYPTIC

Nighttime Seattle skyline with clouds lit by city

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 12:18

No, brain. We are not going to explore parsing grammars with Lua. We are going to work.

NO NOT ON THE CARPET! BAD BRAIN!

Twitter: 2019-09-24 Tue 12:51

I love how REBOL (and its descendant Red) handles dates as a native datatype:

now/date + 7 == 30-Sep-2019

Except they parse but don’t output ISO-8601 by default. Alas.

https://doc.red-lang.org/en/datatypes/date.html

https://twitter.com/tedder42/status/1176577473485524992

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 15:57

Today is a particular mood

Scissor Sisters"Comfortably Numb"

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Nfl4UGkzTHJMZ7itDY3IU?si=pSaqvS3QQ124_EG7jPf5Fg

Twitter: 2019-09-24 Tue 16:40

I used to ignore or mute, but after the last few years I prefer block to either of those.

Less chance for them to bother someone else in your replies.

https://twitter.com/RedTRaccoon/status/1176536243053780992

Twitter: 2019-09-24 Tue 16:42

I’d also suggest you double check your keyword mutes if you’re just trying to get from one end of the day to the other.

Twitter: 2019-09-24 Tue 19:10

So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

https://twitter.com/ceejbot/status/1176660172074180608

Twitter: 2019-09-24 Tue 20:23

Teach the system to recognize crime by showing them how we think criminals act.

Good Lord. We keep carefully training computers to be as stupid as people.

Great news for criminals though. Pity about the rest of us.

https://twitter.com/hypervisible/status/1176567319872622593

Twitter: 2019-09-24 Tue 22:25

Now that’s realistic time management.

https://twitter.com/supershayne/status/1176225395466588160

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 22:41

In the spirit of general disgruntlement: trying out the Apple Music trial to see if I like it any better than Spotify.

Yes, I have my local music backed up. Though I hear it’s not such an issue now.

hackers.town: 2019-09-24 Tue 23:34

well hey the tests are giving me more interesting errors so that is sort of like progress