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My Halloween: my sisters acquired a cute inflatable monster and a reflective witch picture for me to stick on the front of my house, and I acquired a bowl of sweets to leave out. My parents and I then visited my sisters for the afternoon/evening and when we got back about ⅔ of the sweets had gone! By my calculations that means at least 20 people took one. (Or more likely fewer people took multiple ones. 😛) And it didn't look like any local wildlife had had a go at them either, so that was good.
I went for a little spidey-walk too. Saw a few decorated houses, said happy halloween to a few people. 🙂
** I stopped posting new stories to X/Twitter last autumn, but have kept my account, and the thousands of stories I have written since 2013 are still available.
That will soon end. In the next couple of weeks, I'll try to upload my archive to the Internet Archive, then delete all my stories from X/Twitter.
If you know someone who only follows me there, please help them follow me elsewhere.
**
I'm not sure if you have presence on Bluesky, but if so there is apparently a (paid) service now that will import your entire archive from Twitter, I think with correct dates and everything. I don't know of one for mastodon, unfortunately.
the cute!
Happy Halloween! This is a little animated short film about two reptilian youths trick-or-treating on Halloween night. Their mysterious neighbor notices some...YouTube
I am old enough to remember televisions with cathode ray tubes. They were a nuisance, they took a while to heat up and start displaying an image. Then we got TFT televisions and they were great. You pressed the power button and bam! they were on and working.
Then some moron invented 'smart' TVs and now the TV takes longer to boot up and play moronic animations for all the unwanted software than it took the CRT TV to warm up. And the CRT set didn't spy on you.
This is not progress.
@mkj @kaaswe I could not agree more! My next car will be a classic of some sort but I am glad to see the EU legislating to mandate physical controls.
Now to get them to mandate separation of C&C networks from entertainment networks. Segregation of smart charging from everything else. Proper privacy controls.....
Roger and Ysengrin at the bar. Just a relaxing night out for two thirsty creatures.
#AnthrOhio2024 #werelion #werewolf #WerewolfWednesday #fursuit
The Fediverse is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one backup account migration to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.
#Fediverse #TheMatrix #AccountMigration
It looks like I'll be back at MFF this year for the first time since 2018. Not sure when I’ll be back again after this year, but thanks to my best friend I have a room and figured I’d give it a shot.
The reality is that the con is massively larger since I last went, and it was difficult to hang with anyone then. So my expectations are not particularly high when it comes to seeing anyone I really want to see.
But I will make my best effort, and if you want to see me, please let me know.
so goddamn many of activitypub's visibility issues would be solved if there was 'fetch past data'/ 'auto populate' functionality
- someone navigates to a profile page that wasn't federated with your instance before? request their latest 50 or so public posts instead of just showing an empty profile with "go to the remote page"
- keep track of public replies/likes/votes to a post and relay those to instances when someone expands the post (would solve so many of the "person a: people are being annoying in my replies; person b: I don't see anything")
doesn't need to be all past data, anything is better than the "you can't see it unless you were there (federating with them) already" problem we have now
Imagine setting off on a voyage 500 years ago, sailing for months, finding land that nobody from your country had ever been to before, thinking you “discovered” something, and there are already people there.
How embarrassing, right?
did encounter that "anti woke games" list on steam, and today I learned that
- wanting the world not to end is woke
- wanting people to not have depression is woke
- having characters that are divorced is woke
- implying that gay people existed in the 90s is woke
- not immediately telling the player that a character has a dick or pussy is woke
- having women being actual characters in the story is woke
- implying that invading other places is bad is woke
- not going out of your way to prohibit people from customizing their characters in any way the want is woke
I would encourage any Windows users to do everything they can to disable Copilot. Microsoft's spyware ... sorry ... user experience management will eventually pick up that it is being disabled and removed en masse and the message that this sort of enshittification is not going to be tolerated might start to permeate.
I know that it is a losing battle. MS still has not gone back to menus in place of it's godawful (ef)Fluent interface but it's worth a try.
Latest WIP of FASTER, a new racing game for the Atari STE. Video is from real 1 meg 8 MHz STE, and showcases recently added full soundtrack from scene musici...YouTube
people worrying about windows 10 support ending
the place I internshipped at (btw it's government): literally every computer, including from administration people, is still running windows 8.1 and shamelessly connected to the internet
A pretty good video on the manipulative nature of social media.
https://youtu.be/4maJty0vQjI?si=uF3jzTXI7hEzRcX7
The manipulative tactics that social media uses to keep you addicted 🧐For my video all about the mess that is subscription services: https://youtu.be/wVYG1m...YouTube
Ok, so no special talent in playing the saxophone, but a lot of other talents coming together here!
You can now stream this song on all platforms! :) Thanks for believing in meYouTube
Good friend's father just been admitted to a dementia care home.
A clever man, a witty academic.
However you are living your life, be aware that one way or another, it will have a final chapter.
Don't have any regrets. Live your life at 100mph.
It’s my birthday! So it’s time to party all the time, party all the time, party all the timeeeeeee~
#fursuitfriday #fursuit #furry
Nyckel, Ysengrin, and Kzin posing for the camera, Saturday at #WPAFW2024 ... what a great weekend!
#FursuitFriday #Werewolf #Buffalo #Kzinti
Oof, trying to figure out how to set up power for the new colo rack I need to have up and running quite soon now. (My colo provider has told me they need me to be out of one of my existing racks by the end of this year because they want to put an air handler there, so I'm trying to get a new one set up.)
At the moment I'm looking at:
1. 16A (unless it's 32A, some racks seem to have 32A sockets even if they are only on a 16A breaker) commando plug to plug in under the floor, cabled to a PDU with C19 sockets, enough for one socket per customer I want to meter separately (probably about 3 or 4 to start with).
2. A rack-mounted DIN rail (e.g. https://www.startech.com/en-us/server-management/adjdinkit) with meters mounted on it (e.g.https://www.eastroneurope.com/products/view/sdm230modbus).
3. A bunch of C19-C20 cables, one per meter, which I can cut in half and wire into the in/out of the meters, so their inputs can plug into the upstream PDU (item 1 above) and each have a downstream C20-to-multiple-C13s PDU connected to them, so each customer gets a dedicated PDU and I can meter each one separately.
4. Some twisted pair wire linking all the RS485 modbus connectors of the meters together and connecting to a terminal block with something like https://tripplite.eaton.com/support/U20930NIND at one end of the bus (not sure if I'll need to terminate the other end, or both ends, or if it'll be such a short bus it won't need that).
5. Some software on a server to connect using the USB-RS485 adaptor and talk modbus to the meters to take scheduled meter readings, so I don't have to visit the datacentre (a 4-5 hour round trip now that I've moved!) every month to bill customers.
6. Some method of adding new meters as and when I need them - I think as long as I can wire the new meter to its C19 and C20 tails and physically get at the DIN rail to mount it, and as long as I can add it to the modbus without electrocuting myself, it should be fine. Best way is probably to have 2 twisted pair tails connecting to each meter's modbus port before putting them in, then using terminal blocks to connect them up in a chain, so I don't have to touch the connections on the meter after they are live.
Phew. And one of my customers needs to move into the new rack on 17 November at the latest, because of scheduling. I'm not sure I'm going to have this done in time.
Hmm, I know there are people here who do electrics for a living - does the above look reasonable? I don't see any problems as long as each PDU has a suitable overcurrent protection device built in (most seem to).
The reason for all this is because the datacentre, which had for many years charged me based on average number of amps used over each quarter, has recently (in the last year or two) switched to charging based on exact number of kWh used each month, and given the power saving features in modern servers their power draw can vary a lot more than they used to. I used to charge based on amps drawn by a server on the bench at idle before installing it in the rack, but that is probably now resulting in me seriously undercharging, especially as some clients upgrade their RAM and disks after the initial install (and I wouldn't have a chance to re-measure power draw after an upgrade, especially when it's just adding hot-plug disks). So, this is why I'm now looking at "proper" metering.
I sometimes find it's really a problem not having anyone else to discuss business stuff with, given that I'm self-employed and have no employees - It's All Just Me™. Absolute freedom, but also absolute responsibility, and I have to solve every problem and learn every new thing myself.
Cowboys and Aliens is still good. I just checked.
It feels unique in the way it integrates pretty decent science fiction into a very believable Western setting.
"Boris Johnson ended the concept of shame in politics"
Pretty dangerous considering MPs shouting "shame" at other MPs is what the UK has in place of real written constitutional safeguards and limits on ministerial power.
“Johnson actually finally killed the contept of shame in politics.”There were lines we didn’t cross writing The Thick of It but Boris Johnson made politician...YouTube
One thing that seems to always be lacking in articles about the security of devices running Android and iOS, is how well they do at protecting our data from Google and Apple.
I'd really love to see one of the folks that does this and really knows their shit, talk about how much data collection and abuse Google and Apple do themselves, along side all the 3rd party data collection and hardening from things like malware and other forms of data theft.
#LLMs are the best. We should use them for everything
Seriously though, this is a great demonstration that LLMs can string together words without actually grasping the concept they're relaying.
https://buymeacoffee.com/archive.today
Archive.Today
Buy Me a Coffee@shved All stories from some time in 2017 to November 2022 are on my old profile @MicroSFF@mastodon.social
I migrated to this instance after the huge influx of new fedipeeps after the Musk takeover.
First I need/want to write the text of them out/screenshot them for my blog and collections on there. So many tweets. It'll take so long :(
@noodlemaz You can request a backup of your account. This will contain all your tweets and photos, among other things, in a compressed zip file.
The tweets are in JSON format, so you can see them in a text editor.(Or write, or get a friendly programmer to write a script to convert them to HTML. I wrote my own, but that is very specific to my needs.)
I do have the backup! That's a fair point, I could hopefully search it for text. I also have a lot of other people's tweets though, which will need typing out/screenshot before I delete the account (since you can't view them while logged out anymore)
Fuck Elno.
@ada_ada_ada @noodlemaz Er... Mine is actually a full C# desktop application, with filters, tagging, removing duplicates (typo-correcting posts replacing earlier), joining multi-tweet stories, and now also the ability to import Mastodon archives and merge with Twitter archives, and multiple html templates to export to.
I'll stick it up on GitHub with a MIT licence once I've polished it up a bit and fixed some bugs, but that won't happen soon.
archive.ph
Archive.todayI take it this is partly prompted by the recent changes to their TOS?
But hey, congratulations (and thanks) on sticking to more open and respectful platforms.
Step 1. Wait for them to get up and running again,
Step 2. Follow the instructions at https://help.archive.org/help/how-to-archive-your-tweets-with-the-wayback-machine/
How to archive your Tweets with the Wayback Machine – Internet Archive Help Center
help.archive.org@david42 Eh? I'm not moving, I've been on Mastodon for seven years. I'm on multiple platforms, and have been since a few months after I started doing this, in 2013.
This is just me giving up on my first (and largest, in terms of followers) platform, because I do not want to have any part in making it attractive for anyone.