@movq@www.uninformativ.de I lasted for a long time.. Not sure where or when it was “got”. We had been having a cold go around with the kiddos for about a week when the wife started getting sicker than normal. Did a test and she was positive. We tested the rest of the fam and got nothing. Till about 2 days later and myself and the others were positive. It largely hasn’t been too bad a little feaver and stuffy noses.

But whatever it was that hit a few days ago was horrible. Like whatever switch in my head that goes to sleep mode was shut off. I would lay down and even though I felt sleepy, I couldn’t actually go to sleep. The anxiety hit soon after and I was just awake with no relief. And it persisted that way for three nights. I got some meds from the clinic that seemed to finally get me to sleep.

Now the morning after I realized for all that time a part of me was missing. I would close my eyes and it would just go dark. No imagination, no pictures, nothing. Normally I can visualize things as I read or think about stuff.. But for the last few days it was just nothing. The waking up to it was quite shocking.

Though its just the first night.. I guess I’ll have to see if it persists. 🤞

Finally getting around to cleaning up and updating my todo.txt file. Maybe I should put a task in there to remind me to check it.

@prologic@twtxt.net we need to finally break away from twtxt URLs and embrace @nick@server to webfinger lookups.

Pinellas County - Long Run: 13.18 miles, 00:10:13 average pace, 02:14:42 duration
mmm, enjoyed it. at 0100 this morning i woke up to my right calf seizing (not sure if that is the right term). when i finally got up at 0500-ish to prep for the run it was still tight (still is hours later) but stretching helped out a bunch. do not think it affected the run really though. that or i just did not care because i was enjoying the low humidity too much.
#running

@prologic@twtxt.net thank you! Yup, a full half century. Quite weird feeling. I feel like I’ve finally earned my curmudgeonly personality 😆

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, it’s true. Thing is, Linux as a desktop operating system sucked in 1996 yet I adopted it then anyway because I wanted nothing to do with MS anymore 😆 I know it’s not for everyone but I’m pretty tolerant of a less-than-stellar experience if it means I can be free of big-company garbage.

I haven’t tried a Linux-based smartphone OS in a long time so I don’t have any idea how bad/good it might be. I figure when I finally break down and get a new phone I’ll experiment on my current phone.

Today I’m reading about how to save a copy of your secret keys outside a computer, using analog media, or sharing it by voice. For instance, for TOTP authenticators.

I found BIP39 coming from the crypto-wallets world:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0039.mediawiki

The user has to write down this passphrase

fragile mimic expect ketchup truth between thunder visit expose output powder derive process disagree razor
Which is carefully designed to be checksummed and it’s easy to say on a call

Finally deriving it into a set of bytes like

da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709

Do you know some alternatives not related to cryptocurrencies? 🤔

This is cf458. My dynamic ip changed finally after a year or more.

So given’s Google™’s recent policy changes where they now outright and blatantly just admit they’ll crawl, index and feed your (yes your fuckind) writings, thoughts, conversations, etc into their AI models; Should we as a small niche community (still growing) think about perhaps finally building Yarn.social v2 where we have encrypted feeds? 😅

I AM IN THE MOUNTAINS. finally. #life

I AM IN THE MOUNTAINS. finally. #life

we finally got a little rain yesterday. we are on the edge of drought.

I’m just hoping the Panthers can turn it around in the Finals. As a Lightning fan it wouldn’t be devastating if VGK won, but I’m rooting for Florida.

My desktop computer developed a really annoying vibration-induced buzzing sound a few months ago after I added some hard drives to it. It was one of these where it’d be more or less quiet, and then all of a sudden a buzzing would start. If you tapped the case, it often made the buzzing stop.

One by one I went through my components, and the day before yesterday I finally identified the guilty party, one particular HDD. Currently I have the case open and a piece of cardboard jammed under the drive in its tray. The computer has not buzzed since I did that, so it looks to me like securing that drive better will finally end this madness-inducing sound.

Wild that it takes so long to track down something like this and figure out what to do about it.

Commemorative Plaque
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Gah apparently I’ve gone and finally caught the wretched COVID virus 😢

Digan lo que digan al final el minimalismo se impone, entre menos porquería mejor.

❤️ 🎶: 雪の華 / JISOO - LIVE BLACKPINK ARENA TOUR 2018 “SPECIAL FINAL IN KYOCERA DOME OSAKA” by BLACKPINK

St Petersburg Distance Classic: Halfathon: 13.27 miles, 00:08:31 average pace, 01:52:59 duration
Great weather this morning and finally broke 2 hours in the HM! Didn’t catch the runner’s name but thanks to whoever ran miles 8 to 10 with me. Kept me in a good space and hopefully their marathon went well, too.
#running #race

It’s a nice feeling to finally clear out all the old “Syncing…” messages and global state discrepancies from my Syncthing nodes. The errors were all cosmetic–the files were syncing successfully–but they were annoying to look at every day.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

JUHU! Finally! The new NAS runs. Oh boy what a process. First I had to restart and redow everything three times. Sometimes things are not sooo super obvious and then you really mess up. Who decided at Asustor that you cannot move home folders off of the Volume 1? And Why are the Asustor apps so bad? Beside that, the machine, the NAS, is really nice. Updraded to 16GB RAM and I finally have NGINX PROXY MANAGER running. Now I can setup all services with nice names!

Tenía un rato sin escribir en el twt (twtxt.txt)
Ha sido un fin de semana de bastante descanso, antes de cerrar la semana final de clases y preparación de las clases de Enero.

He encontrado gusto de ofrecer clases para jóvenes, y me ando preparando para cursos más avanzados, y ¿Por qué no? Abrir una escuela o centro de capacitación especializado en tecnología.

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I guess Google Hangouts is finally dead.

Why is Google such a mess at making messaging apps? This has more or less been a solved problem for decades. Google Talk worked well enough, and since it was based on XMPP and Jingle it was perfectly suited to become a large-scale text/voice/video messaging system. If they’d run with that they’d have been able to dominate that space, I think. Instead, they’ve created and shitcanned half a dozen messaging apps and platforms, flailing around copying someone else’s app (now they’re trying to copy Slack I guess).

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After paying no attention to my twtxt file for a while, I finally learned today how to reply to someone properly. Now I need to start actually following other people…

Huh.. CloudFlare finally did the right thing.. Though reputation probably damaged.

I did a take home software engineering test for a company recently, unfortunately I was really sick (have finally recovered) at the time 😢 I was also at the same time interviewing for an SRE position (as well as Software Engineering).

Got the results of my take-home today and whilst there was some good feedback, man the criticisms of my work were harsh. I’m strictly not allowed to share the work I did for this take-home test, and I really can only agree with the “no unit tests” piece of the feedback, I could have done better there, but I was time pressured, sick and ran out of steam. I was using a lot of libraires to do the work so in the end found it difficult to actually think about a proper set of “Unit Tests”. I did write one (in shell) but I guess it wasn’t seen?

The other points were on my report and future work. Not detailed enough I guess? Hmmm 🤔

Am I really this bad? Does my code suck? 🤔 Have I completely lost touch with software engineering? 🤦‍♂️

Finally started Stranger Things and watched episodes 1 to 5 so far, I quite like it.

So it happened - the twtxt.xyz domain finally expired

@screem@yarn.yarnpods.com yah I finally saw all of Dave’s twts and figured he had explained Gog’s/gitea better.

About two years late, but I finally finished setting up an iOS Shortcut so I can post to my blog via ssh. http://a.9srv.net/b/

Extraordinary that I’ve managed to avoid DS9 spoilers for twenty years. Really enjoying this final season, so far.

Releases - yarn - Mills

Finally! 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net finally updated yarnd.. FORK!? Awesome!

@prologic@twtxt.net i think i finally suss’d out my hash issue.. now to figure out why im losing avatars on restart.

@xuu@txt.sour.is @adi@twtxt.net Private Messaging is finally done in the messages_poc_2 branch. If you have time to have a look and play with it locally and test it out that would be great. The plan is to release this as the first version which only supports “on-pod messaging” right now (cross-pod to come later).

Finally a day off!

I finally got to watch The VVitch

Why is programming fun? What delights may its practitioner expect as his reward? First is the sheer joy of making things. As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things, especially things of his own design. I think this delight must be an image of God’s delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness and newness of each leaf and each snowflake. Second is the pleasure of making things that are useful to other people. Deep within, we want others to use our work and to find it helpful. In this respect the programming system is not essentially different from the child’s first clay pencil holder “for Daddy’s office.” Third is the fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the beginning. The programmed computer has all the fascination of the pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate. Fourth is the joy of always learning, which springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task. In one way or another the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical, sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both. Finally, there is the delight of working in such a tractable medium. The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly re- moved from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. (As we shall see later, this very tractability has its own problems.) Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? | Hacker News

Finally creating PHP programs using Composer and Twig templates

My 2014 Android Moto-X is finally out-of-order - the battery life is close to flat-lining and when it boots it gets stuck for a really long time in the optimizing apps mode. The case is cracked. Goodbye old friend.

Requested my #hacktoberfest T-shirt and sticker pack! Happy I finally managed to participate and contribute this year.

Finally you can make G+ readable https://t.co/6VmXsXFD12