jlj

twt.nfld.uk

An expat Canadian, confusing Brits for more than a decade. Grab a chair; he's just gettin' started!

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In-reply-to » Boston, I'm breaking up with you. #covid19 https://peguero.xyz/blog/bostonimbreakingupwith_you.html

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com I read that, in other, (relatively) comparable scenarios, paying people to participate is very effective.

I also read that, after recently changing the policy to require proof of vaccination for entry to all liquor and cannabis shops, Quebec saw a big spike in vaccine appointments. ^x^

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In-reply-to » @eaplmx da fuq? 😅 I don't know many spoken or written languages -- Only dozens of "programming" / computer languages 😂 Sorry my friend 🤗 -- One day we might integrate with a nice privacy respecting translation service for Yarn pods, but so far such a thing doesn't quite exist (yet?) 😢

@prologic@twtxt.net I was. Couldn’t get it migrated, when I was moving everything over to Portainer / Docker, and then couldn’t even restore the original set-up. 😅

Tbh, it was pretty useless, on my kit: it’d timeout on anything but the simplest translations. I’m still really hopeful about the project overall, but I’ve abandoned self-hosting it, at least for now.

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In-reply-to » 🥳 NEW: Several new features are in master right now, waiting to be released for the upcoming yarnd v0.12. I was going to release today, but I'd rather hold off for an extra day in case there are any niggling issues.

@prologic@twtxt.net No need to apologise – this is progress! Dogfooding is its own reward. 😁

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In-reply-to » I forgot to backup my Thunderbird profile using their software; restoring the directory structure from backup wasn't doing the trick, until I found a Mozilla support article explaining how Thunderbird uses profiles.ini. Bacon saved! Very happy.

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com I think there have been some major changes, particularly around cryptographic integrations. I’m pretty vanilla in my usage since ending my hiatus from it last year; prior to that, it was probably the mid 2000s, when I was last what you’d call an active user.

I initially wanted a palatable means of keeping on top of my spam awash cloud accounts, but it’s properly won my heart once again since.

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In-reply-to » 🥳 NEW: Several new features are in master right now, waiting to be released for the upcoming yarnd v0.12. I was going to release today, but I'd rather hold off for an extra day in case there are any niggling issues.

@prologic@twtxt.net Running it now. I think I hit a memory leak or similar on the old master… Noticed a few hours ago that my pod was unresponsive, and, once I was able to get htop up, finally, I saw that the load was up near 31.00 where normally it’d be 0.31(!).

Anyway, I’ve restarted on the latest master now, obviously.

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In-reply-to » Looking at trying out Solus today. 4.3 Live disc is ready! 🐧⛵

Is it based on Debian?

Doesn’t seem to be based on any distro, surprisingly.

I didn’t have many expectations, going in, but, I have to say, I’m having fun right now. This has kept my interest, and made me smile on more than one occasion.

I was just reading on their subreddit about big changes in the core team, though, so who knows where the project will be next year.

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In-reply-to » On the return of today's milk buy walk I had to take cover under some spruces for 20 minutes. When the rain was over and the sun came out it made for a fantastic play of colors. I wish I had my camera with me.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Oh, yeah, sounds like quite the missed opportunity. (Not to rub it in. 😛)

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In-reply-to » It's funny: I rank well for both "nfld" and "nfld" + "uk" – only losing out to non-fatty liver disease (and, fair enough 😂) – and while the former (rightly) brings up lots about the Canadian province, the latter is almost exclusive about the dog breed! 🐶😂

Wow. That’s the first time I’ve seen the option to edit or delete a yarn in recent memory. That changes the moment it’s replicated to peers, yeah?

I really came here to say that all of the sub pages that are indexed (on DDG, anyway) are Yarn.social conversations! Good advertising! 😁

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It’s funny: I rank well for both “nfld” and “nfld” + “uk” – only losing out to non-fatty liver disease (and, fair enough 😂) – and while the former (rightly) brings up lots about the Canadian province, the latter is almost exclusive about the dog breed! 🐶😂

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In-reply-to » 👋 @jlj @eldersnake I rolled out a new experimental feature to improve the Onboarding experience for new users called "Internal Events" -- Enable with internal_events. Currently the messaging is a bit hard-coded, but we can iterate on making that configurable (TODOs in the code).

@prologic@twtxt.net Oh, interesting! As you’ve probably seen, I’m terrible at keeping up with pod news, so I’m looking forward to the help – which branch?

Oh, and nice avatar!

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In-reply-to » Surrounded by her adoring fans. 😄 Media

Ha. Thanks, both. And she’s wearing a jumper that a friend of the family made especially for her with pockets. She’s obsessed with pockets at the moment, and very sad that the various pretty dresses we get secondhand are pocketless. 😂

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Revealed: Biden administration was not legally bound to auction gulf drilling rights

The decision to go ahead with the sale has damaged Biden’s climate credentials after the Cop26 talks in Glasgow where he said the US would “lead by example” in slashing greenhouse gas emissions. The president, who has called the climate crisis an “existential threat” to the US, said in a Democratic primary debate last year that under his administration there would be “no more drilling, including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill, period, ends, number one.”

This jarring contradiction has alarmed even some of Biden’s closest allies, with three Democratic members of Congress filing a brief last week with the federal court calling for a halt to the gulf lease sales. The three admitted that they are “deeply concerned” and “shocked” that the government is pushing ahead with the drilling “despite its own findings that the largest lease sale in history has not had an adequate environmental rights​.”

Unconscionable. :-( The US should have to fight for a seat at any climate conference from here on. Actions needed, ‘cause their words mean nothing.

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