Activity Log
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 00:02
Caught up on FB. Still keeping my account because friends and family, but I will continue to minimize my time there. And reevaluating some friendships.
So many war memes.
Oddly, no flags. Just blood lust.
It’s honest, I guess.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 01:04
hearing the boys and their loud cars out here in the international district and thinking of this article
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/animals-ecology/monkey-small-testicle-03082016/
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 03:57
As much fun as it is to watch my code run and not melt the database, I should probably go to bed.
Twitter: 2020-01-05 Sun 11:18
This thread made me angry.
https://twitter.com/sallylait/status/1213799174040379392
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 11:57
@requiem Glad you like it! Some of the novelty’s worn off for me listening to it so often over the last 20-odd years, but it is a remarkable piece of work.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 12:29
I can’t blame them, really. Paying attention to things is so stressful and depressing.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 13:59
In which I play with another site builder
https://randomgeekery.org/2020/01/05/building-a-starter-blog-with-nikola/
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 17:44
Installing CPAN dependencies so I look at a Perl library that won’t install the easy way.
Neil Stephenson said it first I think? Something about watching a familiar build process is like driving an old truck whose every cough and rattle you know.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 17:49
@rgx Yep, that’s the one!
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 17:49
https://hackers.town/users/rgx/statuses/103433616548534883
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 18:54
@rabcyr well done!
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:17
there are too many noises and my brain is not handling it well
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:19
@GeoffWozniak @rgx
🤔
what about highlighted code?
worth a shot
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:24
@GeoffWozniak @rgx yep. The only reason I don’t use Markdown for every toot is the cross-poster does a plain text (md stripped) version.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:25
@GeoffWozniak @rgx a decision which clearly I reevaluate on a daily basis 😆
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:28
@rgx @GeoffWozniak Oh goodness. I assumed that was standard across instances. I killed my .social account a while back. Maybe I should create a new one just to see what a vanilla instance looks like.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:32
@yojimbo @GeoffWozniak @rgx eh, my friends are the first class citizens, not the platform. I do what I can to reach them wherever they are.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:46
@rgx @yojimbo @GeoffWozniak I mean. I hate the platform and pretty much every aspect of it for my own usage, but I’d stop a bit short of calling my mom a conforming sheep.
I can see the utility of a centralized social platform for nontechnical users. If MeWe had an API, I’d push folks to that.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:47
@rgx @yojimbo @GeoffWozniak but yeah good lord every detail of FB past “centralized social platform for nontechnical users’ is just plain evil.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 19:49
@GeoffWozniak @yojimbo @rgx the folks who really really know me track me by my site, which has outlived a few favorite social networks so far.
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 20:06
https://hackers.town/users/drwho/statuses/103434046994646636
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 21:39
The difference between you & your government is much bigger than the difference between you & me. And the difference between me & my government is much bigger than the difference between me & you. And our governments are very much the same.
— Marjane Satrapi
BTW I highly recommend “Persepolis” for your graphic novel reading.
https://www.salon.com/2005/04/24/satrapi_2/
#nobirb
hackers.town: 2020-01-05 Sun 23:02
Musical mood
#NowPlaying
Apple Music Electronic — “I Miss Electronic” playlist
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/i-miss-electronica/pl.29db381de52845ccb1fa6c1a5af4177e