"Oh really? How do you know that?"

"Work won't let me change the home page from MSN."

"The Five Ws of Investigation" implies the existence of one or more "Ls of investigation".

computers started local-first and will go back to local-first

I still don't understand why everyone INSISTS that water bottles are "sixteen point nine fluid ounces" like some lunatic.

In other words, people get very upset when I call a water bottle a "half-liter".

This dystopian brainrot has got its claws in big time. "Clanker" is apparently considered a slur by our HR department. "Goes against the company vision for technology and inclusiveness for all, especially artificial persons.". 💀

Meanwhile I've had to call out not one but THREE hallucinations!

How is "forefather" fine and dandy but most spellcheckers complain about "foremother"? Ispell seems to be the only thing that gets it right, knowing it's a prefixed word.

I thought it was about seeing things through to the end and the hubris of overconfidence. The hare farted around doing Aesop-knows-what while the tortoise kept on truckin'.

Then again, that might be the "steady" part of "slow and steady wins the race".

Alt Text: Not Always Needed Write alt text that communicates an image's purpose without repeating page content. Focus on meaning rather than visual description.

I'd evaluate more if it's actually needed in the first place, like if it's just repeating what's already on the page. If so, I'd steer towards assuming the context from the previous image. Repeating yourself would bog down a screen reader.

www.nngroup.com/articles/alt...

Don't know why Org Mode has so much friction to use effectively. I can never get the syntax right. Obsidian—as much as I hate that it doesn't mesh with my system—Just Werx™.

IT'S ALIIIVE! No more fiddling with manual theme changes at night!

#Emacs

(dbus-call-method :session "org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop" "/org/freedesktop/portal/desktop" "org.freedesktop.portal.Settings" "Read" "org.freedesktop.appearance" "color-scheme")

After playing around with the D-Bus library for #Emacs and faffing around in D-Spy, it turns out I can grab whether the system is in light or dark mode! I could load up the Modus Operandi or Vivendi color schemes on init!

Now to play with those signals... "SettingChanged" looks promising.

Remember: LLMs and bots and AI-generated things should always be called ‘it’. Regardless of the style or tone of voice, there is only an ‘it’ there. Don’t humanize it.

Neat! But right now this is just more of a learning experience to 1) hopefully get back into the tech market since everyone's so bent on deskilling us and 2) I'm working on a crash-course for how it works and busting some myths like "Bluesky is federated".

As it turns out, it's getting easier to dip my toe into dealing with AT Protocol shenanigans. After whipping up a quick script to see if a domain/handle is associated with an AT DID, I might make my first AT service with Ruby.

tangled.org/strings/did:...

It is a bit ironic that there is one key bit of centralization in the AT protocol: the "verifiable data registry" at plc.directory necessary for decentralized identifiers (DIDs) with the PLC method to resolve with.

Of course, there is also the Web method (w3c-ccg.github.io/did-method-w...).

Not sure if that Solid project (solidproject.org/TR/protocol) has gotten off the ground in any other respect. Based on the media coverage of Bluesky—even hearing folks talk about it on the radio—I'd imagine AT has the best chance for take-off.

A much more literal take on "owning your data", if you may. It's about that and being able to maintain a continuous identity that continues to point to that data no matter where you keep it.

After this deep-dive recently into #ATProto, I think I understand the method by which it's "decentralized".

It's not "federated" like Mastodon/ActivityPub where multiple instances of the same software communicate. It's all about the PDS. Different layers, different purposes.

Grabbed the Crawling Collection on the Bundle of Holding since Downcrawl has been on my wish list for a while. I never expected Skycrawl to resonate better with me.

I rolled up a shattered Land whose Sol is lonely now they're gone and a Folk that can only be perceived in memories.

All the cool things you can do with anchor positioning and sibling-index() in CSS and Firefox STILL lacks them.

Image viewer. I just haven't changed it to open Inkscape yet.

It's actually pronounced “Pecan”.

WE HAVE AN ANSWER!

Discord's new age verification rules got you down? Allow me to suggest an alternative: Internet Relay Chat Launched in 1988, IRC was created by and for computer nerds, and it won't hold your hand but it also doesn't want to see your face.

I am absolutely not kidding

As much as I keep trying other fancier pens, I always come back to the Jetstream. A few different sizes and colors make that world of difference.

There's something I always hated about Chesterton's Fence. Rarely does it get spewed out with the original intent of getting to the root cause of why things are the way they are before reformation, but as a thought-terminating cliché to keep the status quo intact.

Right now it's only 31°F (0°C in peasantry units) and projected to get down to 20°F (-7°C).

Perfectly normal January weather. 🥶

#let d100TableThin(file) = [ #set text(size: 10pt) #let cols = 2 #let entries = read(file).split() #let n = 0 #columns(cols)[ #for chunk in entries.chunks(calc.quo(entries.len(), cols)) { for item in chunk { context { let size = measure([#item]) let stretch = if size.width > 60pt { 90% } else { 100% } enum.item(n, text(stretch: stretch, item)) } n = n + 1 } colbreak() } ] ]

#87 ("Technological") is too long to use the regular font. Thanks to conditional font stretching in my d100-building Typst macro, it squishes itself to fit.

This is probably some of the most complicated #Typst I've written yet but the fact conditional text stretching worked on the first try is more impressive.

Embrace your seething hatred for AI slop because you're right to do so.

Turning my laptop into an interactive GM screen via #Emacs was the best idea I've had in a million years.

Still a ways to go before it's usable but the basics are there.

39°F (4° in peasantry units) now, but 73°F (23°C) this evening.

Perfectly normal January weather. 🫠