Links 02/07/2024: Summer Plans, Unit of Selection, and Debian
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Gemini* and Gopher
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Personal/Opinions
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Summer Plans
It's technically summer, but, given that my partner is a teacher, I've always seen summer as that season starting after the end of the school year. Which, for us, happened today. And so now the next two months stretch out in front of us.
A week or so seeing her family out west; trips south to the States, twice. Maybe three times, depending on whether some super tentative and somewhat unserious plans with friends play out or not. I was hoping to visit my family, but my grandmother had a very bad fall a few months ago, needing hospitalization, and surgery. She's been healing slower than expected. And given that she's now in her 90s, things become more complicated. She needs a home care aide. My parents are looking. It's not a good time to come out. Maybe in the fall.
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š¤SpellBinding: DHIORTY Wordo: SCOWS
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Proving a negative
One of my wishes stretching back many years now is a āreverse timerā.
A normal timer is great at setting a maximum amount of time I spend on something. Letās say I wanna eat cookies and read smutty comics but I donāt wanna carried away because I also wanna do the dishes later. Setting a timer or an alarm, especially placing it far away so I have to leave my chair to go turn it off, is a great way to accomplish that. I use it all the time, itās wonderful.
But I what I would need at least as often is setting a minimum amount of time to spend, like working. With the comics & cookies, itās fine if I end it early because I get more motivated to do something else, but thatās the opposite of what I want when Iām in a little room and Iām working on something good. There, itās fine if I work a liāl longer than I planned; what I want is a minimum, not a maximum. Or I could set both if I really needed; if the āreverse time keeperā invention existed, I could set that to 20 minutes minimum and combine it with a traditional timer at one hour or whatever I needed.
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Accurate magazine title, really
I had an eye-doctor appointment today.
They still have magazines in the waiting room.
Everyone in the waiting room ā and I was the second-youngest guy there ā was on a phone. I donāt blame any of them; phones are portals to all kinds of interesting things.
I decided to retvrn to reading magazines. Itās not like Iād subscribe to any of these myself, and itās nice to peek outside my bubble when the opportunity presents itself.
I choose an issue of People, with Hugh Jackman on the cover. I check the date. Itās from this year, at least. Maybe a month or two old.
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Petri Nets Log #008
The PNEE implementation uses the collective (vs. individual) token philosophy. In general, along with high-level Petri nets, it doesn't pose a problem. However, without being able to match across different places in the "consumer" functions, it's seemingly impossible to implement any kind of RPC with high-level open Petri nets that's simultaneously reliable (the crux of the problem with collective token philosophy), and generally useful/usable (simple scenarios are possible, as long as the relevant flows are sequential, i.e., don't have parallel paths).
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Home, hearth, and family are key.
My ancestors fought in every war my country ever threw at them. Most of them weren't forced, they chose to join up. What the hell were they thinking? Join up, ship out, slave and bleed and die. Get home to everything lost, home family and land, in some cases. A hero's welcome in others. I know a few that got onto the field of battle and left; hiked out of there and never came back. Never got caught either. I guess that doesn't happen much now, the not getting caught.
Have you heard the song Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree? Do you remember the world when that song came along? I cry when I hear it. It's supposed to be about prison, but it's also about war. And all kinds of other painful places we go, too. What's the difference? And what do we get when we come home?
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Politics/Europe
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2024-06-30
Sorry a little late on this but I did update the Hololive EN gopher page with the 4 new talents from Hololive EN Justice.
The new talents seem fun and I'm glad that they have added more european talents as well.
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European Elections 2024
Well, I think those people do not want to vote because they believe that Europe is a distant thing, something that is far away from the But that is not true at all, in Europe they decide all our common policies which affects us all.
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Science
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Spending more time reading
My actual vacation for the academic year started late last week, after I finished a two day camp teaching kids about creative coding
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The glowing tire iron is melting my right palm, and yet....
New digs are probably driving a lot of much of my increased focus on letting go. I look at what needs to be put away: so much repurchase duplication for the storing of earlier instantiations hiding them to the point of imagining we never had them. And now we have two. Three. It feels a waste to keep them all. But then the "you never know" factor buries its fangs, complete with not being able to forget how the design of obsolescence as matured.
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Unit of Selection
I know text is an asynchronous medium and we wanna get away from ācult of the newā and give some older posts some love but even so, me replying to a post from the 1980s might be pushing it. šš»āāļø
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Technology and Free Software
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CLI and TUI
Real quick: Apologies to those who've been emailing me over the last couple of months. For whatever reason, my login was silently failing, so I didn't know about anything coming in until this week, when I didn't get an activation email for something. Need to find a better place for my regular mail to go to.
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Backing up data
I have a network-attached storage of the homemade, extremely hacked kind. It almost looks like it shouldn't work but it's been doing fine for a couple of years by now and with no sign of stopping any time soon.
I've been working on backing it up for the last few months (It's actually not that much data, I'm just very slow) by cataloging everything, compressing what I can and planning other stuff like what formats to use, how to tier stuff (some stuff is way more important than others) and where to put it in the first place.
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MacBook Down
Written On: Emacs on Dell Latitude E6430 (Debian 12)
Whelp! The power brick for my MacBook Pro decided to fail, so I'm on my Dell laptop now. I transfered all of my files earlier, but now I'm *really* glad I did so. This isn't something I was expecting to happen any time soon, so I get to figure out all new workflows with no real safety net! I mean, I was going to go this route anyway, but I was planning on it being on a RPi 400 or something, and not a sudden moment of panic.
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Kernel Bug Killed My Suspend
My Dell XPS-13 has become a problem. I love this computer (I am using it to write this). The problem is suspending. When I resume from suspend the keyboard no longer works. After a lot of searching it seems that this is a kernel bug. I close the lid on this laptop a lot throughout the day, so having to boot from cold every time I use it is just not workable. I ended up ordering a PinebookPro to bridge the gap, as I had some work that needed to get done and upgrading my OS and kernel and firmware did nothing to fix the problem. Nor did fiddling with the kernel settings via grub: i8042.reset, for example.
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Tech Cha-Cha
I looked down and my phone was at 38% charge.
This isn't much of an issue in and of itself but I had left it on the puck all night. I assumed I had an alignment issue in the dark and the induction unit just didn't kick on.
Walking into the radio room where I was going to be comping most of the day on 40m I tossed it on the back up charger. Nothing...
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Internet/Gemini
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2024 Week 25/26: Thoughts and Photos
Chess Over Gemini has begun to make changes in preparation to shut down. Today I removed the ability for new users to create player data, and I removed the ability for existing users to create new match invitations. Users can still respond to existing invitations and play matches. In about two months' time, the service will shut down completely.
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The Nostalgia Beret
The åæä½ē”ć instinct among smolnetters to wanna fully use old stuff like email, usenet, gopher, IRC, typewriters, old phones, PDAs, C64s, S-expressions, calligraphy, telnetā¦ I feel it too. Strongly. Thatās absolutely an aesthetic pull I share. I donāt always give in to it, because some things really donāt make sense, but I often do.
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