hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 08:53

Leap Day is a good day to be unemployed in tech.

I mean not really of course, but at least I don’t have to worry about my employer’s CI/CD workflow melting for stupid reasons.

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 14:12

Hey self-hosted AFFiNE is slow, syncs poorly, and complains if you don’t use Chrome but at least it has dark mode am I right?

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 14:13

Relevant links for AFFiNE

https://affine.pro/

https://docs.affine.pro/docs/self-host-affine

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 14:15

“Sync” failing in the space between a fancy editor in my browser window and Postgres in a Docker container on the same computer and right now feeling that “THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS” vibe pretty hard ngl

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 14:23

I’m not even mad about storing notes in a database. Trilium does that and it hasn’t failed me yet (over the course of ~2 years since I started abusing it). But it uses SQLite, sitting right there on your hard drive. Postgres + Redis in containers is significantly more moving pieces than self-hosted notes might need.

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 14:28

MY FACE EXPLODED

but @IamMrsGeek said “bless you” so I’m fine now

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 22:54

uh first off (checks watch)

second off, THIRTY EIGHT CENTS dear god I make the big money for my genius don’t I. Well, no. Link’s a 404. Darn. Was gonna put it next to the 13-14 cents a month I get from Liberapay.

I kinda forgot I ever signed up for Flattr.

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 22:59

Made Python code suggestions and have the itch to refine those suggestions. But thankfully my warning system recognizes any further would make the code more clever and less readable. Bad.

hackers.town: 2024-02-29 Thu 23:45

Goat Simulator 3 has multiplayer.

We may have finally found a game I’m interested in playing with friends.

hackers.town: 2024-02-28 Wed 12:17

Nope. Bouncy Dog is not too thrilled about the vet.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 11:59

Marking the day of Leonard Nimoy’s passing on 2015-02-27 by remembering his greatest moment.

Bruno Mars - The Lazy Song (Official Alternative Video) - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 12:55

on the other hand the LLMs of the world today could use a little more uwu

and finding porn in every sand dune

good times

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 13:19

Bouncy Dog has no bounce due to a hurt leg, and will be spending most of the day in a baby sling wrapped around me. I don’t think he’ll mind.

Tomorrow’s vet appointment, that he might mind.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 13:28

Got a phone screen in a few minutes and can only hear out my left ear, but I’m not moving the dog. So this’ll be interesting.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 13:45

@hummingrain quickest darn phone screen I’ve ever had. Basically confirming I can work in their time zone and that their interview process sounds okay.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 14:13

Interesting to me that the key identifying characteristic of text-to-image models as anatomical irregularities and garbled text are ironed out, and IP Manifest Destiny ends up on the near side of this particular Overton Window —

the key defining characteristic remaining is the absolute unmitigated shittiness of most prompters’ tastes.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 14:22

@fasterandworse @drwho that’s something we can just start doing

Everybody else will just assume they’re behind on a hot new trend and start doing it too.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 14:30

https://hackers.town/users/lmorchard/statuses/112005574040478608

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 14:32

@lmorchard or webmake or WML or Muse or

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 15:40

feels pretty good forgetting about my wordpress dot com and tumblr accounts see adhd is not all bad

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 16:01

@WuMargaret @hummingrain Yep, and we’re already scheduling the next interview. However things end up, I’m appreciating the communication.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 16:03

@WuMargaret I know he’s not feeling good because he’s barely been underfoot when we get up to do stuff.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 17:52

@Viss @jerry I hope to god Seth Rogan immediately declared it was all a fanciful jest, because McKellan practically owned the stage before he decided to have a little fun with popcorn movies.

But to the point, yep you can change your focus and expand your horizons any dang time you please.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 18:08

@maddiefuzz I don’t care what folks say about his age, he’s a way better president than Trump.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 18:58

@genehack every time I see that one I kinda wish I still spent time on Plurk.

hackers.town: 2024-02-27 Tue 19:04

@genehack happens often enough they have a specific background

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 09:41

Sudden urge to dust off my Pi4 and set up Taskwarrior sync. A task which shouldn’t take more than half the day.

Ah yes I have an interview in 20 minutes. That tracks for my brain.

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 10:39

okay interview done. Now where’d I put the Pi?

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 14:35

After a while it takes a bit to remember that ten years is a long time.

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 16:50

Bouncy Dog being real subtle over here.

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 19:17

Watching Resident Alien and one of the actors looks familiar so I look him up. Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Smoke Signals, pioneer of First Nations media in Canada. No, No, No, nice – but no.

Ah!

Captain Joe Stonetree from Forever Knight.

Iconic television.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Farmer

hackers.town: 2024-02-26 Mon 22:59

Watch Sneakers, Hackers, and Office Space, and you’ve got pretty much the entire 1990s US tech culture history lesson right there.

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 12:59

The defenses in I’m confused what’s with the project descriptions at httpspkgx.devpkgs · Issue 5358 · pkgxdevpantry · GitHub got me worried.

“it would have been hard to write descriptions and add images to every single package…AI-based image and description generation might be the easiest and probably also the best for everyone approach.”

It’s like “aliens built the pyramids” except “AI built the package manager.” People are coming in without any understanding of community or organizational structure and deciding that instead of ropes and pulleys and a whole lot of human cooperation, they’re gonna use magic space aliens AI.

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 13:01

Like

rule one in process automation is know WTF you are automating. I’m not touching pkgx or whatever it’s called if they can’t figure out rule one.

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 13:13

@aburka I’m gonna guess they did, with as much justified flak as they’re getting for the automatically generated descriptions.

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 13:23

@aburka ohhhh that’s the homebrew dude?

I am somehow less surprised. He got extremely prickly when Homebrew users failed to adore him for adding telemetry.

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 13:30

See link to interesting course on sale for cheap at domestika. “This offer ends in 01h : 20m : 40s”

Get distracted for four hours. Go back to tab. Reload. “This offer ends in 02h : 58m : 26s”

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 15:09

Went exploring a little too far from home in #Valheim. Home sweet hovel.

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 20:18

how is it almost march already

anyways

2024-02-25 Snapshot

#Snapshot #Blog

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2024/02/2024-02-25-snapshot/

hackers.town: 2024-02-25 Sun 23:20

way more sailing than I wanted to do, but there’s a swamp between my last wandering pit stop and the Elder and I’m just not ready for that tonight.

#Valheim

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 06:39

Hrm. Ladybird browser will be more interesting when I can figure out how to log into hackers.town with it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 10:50

Body not relaying any pain messages but I sure am making a lot more Old Man noises than usual today.

hackers.town: 2024-02-24 Sat 17:27

One of my life’s lesser mysteries, but at least now I know why dasharez0ne used to be funnier (not unusual) and felt like a different kind of funny in 2016/2017 (kind of unusual).

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 11:05

Hm. Maintaining the blog and brain in #Logseq could work, with a little massaging by plugins like logseq-page-tags-and-hierarchy and logseq-plugin-short-namespaces

The hierarchy view for posts would be pretty darn long with every post in it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 11:31

logseq-page-tags-and-hierarchy adds a breadcrumb trail for pages in namespaces, which is much easier to deal with than Logseq’s default of SHOW THE WHOLE PATH AND NOTHING BUT THE WHOLE PATH EVERY TIME

Why namespaces? At some point — around a thousand notes for me — you need some way to disambiguate. UUIDs and namespaces are the two easiest ways to go, and I prefer readable disambiguation.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 11:56

@mwop depends on how you do your notes. I know some folks keep the bulk in their daily journal, only breaking out to separate notes when they are good and ready. They’ve kept with Logseq for a couple years and still only have a few hundred notes.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 12:10

@mwop Namespaces used simply are great in Logseq. Something like Course/AWS Certification or whatever. You feel the tediousness when stretching it past that, like post/2020/04/Kistler Tree. But I’m moving with a very specific purpose (path reflecting published path), so I grab a couple plugins and keep at it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 12:11

@mwop and under 1K pages, tags or crosslinks are more than enough.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 12:33

@mwop Oh a while back I did a tiny post endorsing tags as especially useful for outliners like Logseq

https://randomgeekery.org/post/2023/01/emulate-tldr-in-your-notes/

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 17:56

we’re gonna go to a kickboxing class! I am very excited to learn how to properly kick boxes.

(rereads class description)

well dang

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 20:06

Those boxes kicked back. Rude.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 20:26

@somarasu and I can vouch that skin color ain’t enough for their kind of White. Those shops get uncomfortable about anything past abled suburban cisnormative neurotypical etc etc

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 20:27

https://hackers.town/users/somarasu/statuses/111984311349724486

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 20:41

@somarasu yeah but before they sabotaged the company they made their team happy with relatable pop culture takes, hustle mindset, and food tourism, and isn’t that really what’s important?

Or something like that. I’m kinda just making guesses here.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 20:47

@somarasu yeah I might’ve been thinking of too specific a person on that one.

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 21:01

@somarasu I don’t know if you know the song, like the style, or even need music, but it’s definitely relevant.

THE GODS THEMSELVES - Tech Boys - YouTube

hackers.town: 2024-02-23 Fri 21:15

@somarasu Sure thing! I’ve kept it on standby when I need a certain kind of cheering up for a long time. Happy to share that particular medicine.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 09:39

Daystar found me

(hisses)

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 11:09

There’s the whole late capitalism aspect of generative AI, but also? I feel it’s some kind of apocalypse indicator that tech money has given up on clean structures, quality code, useful documentation, accessibility, etc.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 11:10

You can’t fix your tech debt, but we can make it so much easier to add to it that you won’t mind.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 13:17

Somebody asks what time zone and my brain starts from UTC offset, then tries to remember the name.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 13:41

I’ll care about Bluesky’s protocol when somebody pays me.

Or when I get bored maybe.

Look consistency is not my thing, okay?

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 14:00

Getting phone screen action again, which is more than I had for a few weeks there.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 14:03

LinkedIn wants me to know that someone at Amazon made a popular post.

“One of the perks of my job is early access to—”

aww yeah the remainders closet. I remember that. Got a head start on some great reading. Literally the only thing I miss from contracting at Amazon in the aughts.

“—some of our coolest new features”

What?! Who cares about features? Everyone’s got features.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 15:31

Coming in to help her figure out a new Confluence automation thing because who else would you bring in but someone with a blood oath against the tool you’re trying to tame.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 15:32

No but I’m having fun. It’s a new feature so documentation is closer to useful than Atlassian’s usual 3,000 word essay on how this button fits with Agile Development.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 17:17

#Valheim has set my survival game baseline expectation: can a tree kill you? No? Next game please.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 17:18

It’s not a real tree puncher if the trees can’t punch back.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 17:22

headlines i had to read twice to parse correctly

Musk claims Neuralink patient doing OK with implant, can move mouse with brain

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 18:21

Its topic and angle choices were such that I always thought of Vice as a good site for when I wanted to be depressed, but I will miss it.

hackers.town: 2024-02-22 Thu 20:27

If nothing else, this little experiment running #Windowmaker makes my monitor actually feel like 5120x1440 is a lot of pixels, which — you know — it should.

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 07:26

https://hackers.town/users/calcifer/statuses/111969932367748340

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 10:07

Fiddling about with aWindows Dev Drive. Thought I’d see if it makes any difference building my site. 10 runs each on a warmed-up build (image processing already done)

Yes, but not much. OTOH it’s expected to have a bigger impact dealing with things like package caches. You know, like node_modules with twelve million files.

I may fiddle more in the name of mad science, but I doubt any use case will reach WSL or Linux native.

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 10:09

https://hackers.town/users/lmorchard/statuses/111970561546029173

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 10:10

@lmorchard or at least include hurdy-gurdy music

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 18:04

#Valheim having a Seattle moment.

“We moved here for the view!”

The view:

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 21:03

It’s a Steve ’n’ Seagulls night.

#NowPlaying

Gimme All Your Lovin’ by Steve’n’Seagulls (LIVE) - YouTube

Self Esteem by Steve’n’Seagulls (LIVE)

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 21:36

@ceejbot

That was absolutely their signature. Mom was into them when I was a tot, so I was way more familiar with stuff like “Cheap Sunglasses” and “TV Dinners.”

Gosh what if they stayed with the TV Dinners video tone? Probably not top 20s. Oh well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-6mI708yWc

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 23:39

@ceejbot Absolute wizards, only missing the pointy hats.

I mean, from La Grange to Legs is an interesting and from what I hear very methodical journey.

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 23:41

@ceejbot (oh and so was I. Loved 80s ZZ Top, diving into 70s music of childhood has resparked some love for 70s ZZ Top)

hackers.town: 2024-02-21 Wed 23:44

Keeping an eye on the printer. HP won’t get away with anything while Jack and Barry are on the job.

#CatsOfMastodon

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 09:07

Got some minor productivity done in Linux, thought I’d reboot and try again on the Windows Dev Home thing. Better. Nothing to do with default browser, just Windows being Windows.

Incidentally, WingetUI is pretty sweet. Wonder if I can get its widgets working, or at least showing better error messages.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 09:08

apparently taking a screenshot of a window takes a lot of CPU

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 09:11

@rgegriff maybe add bash.org?

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 10:30

Her Zoom was playing everything full blast. She tried fixing it.

Next meeting she got no sound.

A perfect fix, I’d say. Fix the video next please.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 12:09

When Wondermark hits it hits hard and right in the tender bits.

1538; Reply None – Wondermark

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 12:26

Making the best progress I’ve managed so far on Learn Go With Tests because I gave myself to take it at whatever pace I need to.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 13:12

@blogdiva hadn’t noticed and now I can only picture the Sumerians as the original neckbeard, doffing their fertile crescent fedora with a “m’lady”

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 13:14

@blogdiva little-known fact-like idea that the Code of Hammurabi started out as a reply thread on a tweet by a female ruler

(mixing my Babylonians and my Sumerians but all in the name of a terrible joke)

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 13:18

My #FediCard:

Hi I’m Brian I like text and hate grammar

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 14:32

@blogdiva I dual boot because I can’t sit still, but I think you’ve got the smarter idea. As for gaming, Steam’s 80% or more of the way there for me on Linux.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 15:33

She fixed the plumbing and we didn’t even have to use explosives.

@IamMrsGeek is some kind of genius.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 15:37

@tk @IamMrsGeek we are saving them for company

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 16:50

Logging into Twitter for the joy of mocking folks replying to tweets from the previous decade like they’re current events.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 16:59

@Canageek mine makes a stupid kind of sense. January 31, angry twits doing keyword search for “Taylor Swift” and presumably hate-quoting.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 17:08

@Canageek obviously a Hasbro troll farm

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 17:50

Finally playing with some Crystal code for the first time in a few years. It’s fun.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 18:51

@johannab Oh absolutely. I was just cheeky because for a minute there I was effectively flooded by the collectable card game meme.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 19:10

We’re watching Dune. My first reaction: “She has a very big hat.”

to myself: “she must be de schmott gal”

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 19:13

reference: https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080514

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 20:45

Trying to help @IamMrsGeek with writing ideas by using my rusty TTRPG GM skills. Course, I gotta be careful that I’m providing interesting plot points and not directions to an insane tabletop session.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 22:34

This Dune feels more like the books than Lynch’s Dune, including frail-looking emo boy Paul. That’s closer to how I pictured him from the descriptions before the 1984 movie came out.

They’re changing some bits but the book came out over half a century ago. Some bits needed to be touched up.

hackers.town: 2024-02-20 Tue 22:38

@VE2UWY I was paying attention through Heretics of Dune, but was a little tired of it all by Chapterhouse and didn’t pay as close attention.