On my blog: Short Fiction — ‘Neath a Sunless Sky https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/04/14/sunless-sky.html #fiction #freeculture
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This is how I play music. Find what I want on YT, download it to my dektop as an mp3 then I transfer it to a small mp3 player then I can plug that into a small speaker or a big one using a short audio lead
What should I do with my new domain?
I recently complained about domain registrars. But I also recently registered a new domain: j7s.me. A numeronym of my first name. And the .me TLD to show that I am a person. (And it is a short domain that was available.) ⌘ Read more
Easy: 2.34 miles, 00:09:32 average pace, 00:22:18 duration
quick and easy run. cut short by work meeting.
#running #treadmill
St Petersburg Distance Classic Marathon: 26.41 miles, 00:11:23 average pace, 05:00:39 duration
first marathon down. everything that could go wrong did. honestly i am just proud i did not quit. now i have to look at the run and figure out what i can tweak or add to my training. had a cramp start in my right quad at around mile 15. then around mile 18 both of my calves started to feel odd as if someone was lightly strumming my tendons. then they seized! this continued for the remainder of the marathon where i would walk then try to run and then stop when i had to. then during the entirety of the pace my nose would not stop dripping making it difficult to breathe. ha! also my shorts almost came down twice and i had to re-tie them while carrying my handheld water in my teeth. seriously, so many things i did not expect and had not happened in any previous runs.
really happy to be able to eat spicy food and have some alcoholic beverages again though!
#running #race
Pinellas County - 90’ (part I): 4.53 miles, 00:08:41 average pace, 00:39:21 duration
whoa this run felt great. seemed very fun effort while the heart rate was relatively low with a nice pace. it was very cold out, 42F with a wind chill of 38F, but it didn’t matter once the engine was going. unfortunately, halfway through the run code brown sirens were blaring and had to cut it short.
#running
Deals: Get Apple Watch Series 9 for $329, Series 8 for $249, Ultra for $730, Before Sales Ban Starts
If you’re shopping for an Apple Watch this holiday season, you’re running short on time. Not only is Christmas fast approaching, but a new twist has developed where Apple must stop selling Apple Watch models due to an ongoing patent issue. Apple will stop selling Apple Watch due to a patent dispute, starting on December … [Read More](https:/ … ⌘ Read more
Wine lovers thirsty for ‘genuinely good’ no or low alcohol option, as search continues for perfect drop
Alcohol products for those keen to stay sober have gone from niche to mainstream in a short span of time. But connoisseurs say finding such a drop replicating the mouth feel of real wine is like searching for “the holy grail”. ⌘ Read more
Pinellas County - Base: 4.54 miles, 00:10:07 average pace, 00:45:57 duration
whoa humidity! had to cut it short for code brown.
#running
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Catching COVID-19
So far, I had been spared from COVID-19. “Had,” focusing on the past, because now it has affected me, or us, after all. We had to cut short our vacation, which I used to share little glimpses of here on the blog. We quickly went back home, wearing masks the whole time and hoping not to infect more people. ⌘ Read more
Orange industry in Australia shrinking to the point of collapse as short-term contracts, lower prices hit growers
There are fears that short-term contracts and low prices for Valencia oranges could force some growers out of the industry. ⌘ Read more
Hold the pav. North Queensland mangoes set to be in short supply at Christmas after warm winter
A warmer-than-average winter will see fewer Queensland mangoes on supermarket shelves this Christmas, with producers warning a lower yield will lead to a reduced supply of the tropical fruit. ⌘ Read more
I was introducing someone I know to #Mastodon a few years back, starting with:
“So let’s find a server that suits your niche interests. What are you looking for?”
…thinking that I knew all the fedi communities pretty well.
They responded cheekily “Is there a european-foreign-policy server?”
Of course I came up short, and they ended up making an account on a generalist server.
But fedi has grown a lot since!
So happy that eupolicy.social, respublicae.eu and social.netwo … ⌘ Read more
It’s powered by a very silly macro library I also wrote tonight.
The inspect module and the short-circuiting or in #python are a match made in heaven 🐍 ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire release 1.1.1
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire.
This plugin allows you to automate TLS certificate management tasks. This is particularly helpful when your certificates are short-lived, like the ones issued by Let’s Encrypt.
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the [changelog] … ⌘ Read more
My June ‘23 in Review
So, another month is over and with it the first half of the year 2023. Time for a short review. ⌘ Read more
** summer’s lease hath all too short a date **
After the excitement of last summer I was hopeful for a chill one this year. So far, so good.
We visited the island where we used to live and started our family. We saw a few friends, and visited some fa … ⌘ Read more
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Dear Stack Overflow, Inc.
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Seems to me you could write a script that:
- Parses a StackOverflow question
- Runs it through an AI text generator
- Posts the output as a post on StackOverflow
and basically pollute the entire information ecosystem there in a matter of a few months? How long before some malicious actor does this? Maybe it’s being done already 🤷
What an asinine, short-sighted decision. An astonishing number of companies are actively reducing headcount because their executives believe they can use this newfangled AI stuff to replace people. But, like the dot com boom and subsequent bust, many of the companies going this direction are going to face serious problems when the hypefest dies down and the reality of what this tech can and can’t do sinks in.
We really, really need to stop trusting important stuff to corporations. They are not tooled to last.
My May ‘23 in Review
May is over, June has already started, so here is my short review of the past month. ⌘ Read more
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net That’s a dissembling answer from him. Github is owned by Microsoft, and CoPilot is a for-pay product. It would have no value, and no one would pay for it, were it not filled with code snippets that no one consented to giving to Microsoft for this purpose. Microsoft will pay $0 to the people who wrote the code that makes CoPilot valuable to them.
In short, it’s a gigantic resource-grab. They’re greedy assholes taking advantage of the hard work of millions of people without giving a single cent back to any of them. I hope they’re sued so often that this product is destroyed.
twtxt, as I believe it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it.
So, basically a .plan file for finger. But, on the web. like a *web*finger. We have come full circle on this loop!
Kev built his own microblog using WordPress and iOS shortcuts to separate his long and short posts. It sounds like this is a better alternative for him than micro.blog. Maybe with SQLite as the database he can even simplify this setup. ⌘ Read more
My March ‘23 in Review
And again a month is over, March comes to an end, April begins. A short review. ⌘ Read more
YAPC::Kyoto 2023 的參與，以及京都短行 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net it is from the generator. But in the actual go implementation methods are represented with a unsigned short. So 65k is the hard limit in go.
My February ‘23 in Review
And again a month is over, the shortest of the year. Here is my short monthly review. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net short version: context is a linked list that is passed down a call stack that can share timeout, cancellation, or other data as needed by lower functions in the call stack.
In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes
The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short!
I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction toward upping my accessibility game. The major remaining accessibility issues are around color contrast and some structura … ⌘ Read more
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My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My November ‘22 in Review
November is now over and it’s December and the Christmas season begins. But first a short review of November… ⌘ Read more
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Arnaud Joset: Updates: chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP
It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. It will be a short update post about two projects.
The first is chatty_server, a small XMPP bot I use to interact with my server. It allows me to get information about the CPU load, traffic, weather etc.
It also has a small feature to get reminder messages. There was a bug that allowed anyone to spam reminders. Anybody can add the bot to their rooster and could create random reminders t … ⌘ Read more
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Having no political party affiliation in a state with closed primaries means I often get very short ballots. Today’s had only two questions.
My July ‘22 in Review
In a moment, the next month is already over. After June, it’s now July. Time for a short monthly review. ⌘ Read more
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Gajim: Gajim 1.4.6
Gajim 1.4.6 fixes some bugs with the status icon and notifications. Emoji short code detection has been improved.
Several issues have been fixed in this release.
- Improved detection of emoji short codes
- Tray icon with
libappindicatorhas been fixed
- Groups are now preserved when changing a contact’s name
- Windows: Notifications shouldn’t appear in the taskbar anymore
Have a look at the [chan … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: My latest @locusmag column is “The Swerve,” a short essay about the shape that hope takes when happy endings are off the table:
https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/ 1/**
My latest @locusmag column is “The Swerve,” a short essay about the shape that hope takes when happy endings are off the table:
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net I just reread the spec and it seems to be even a bit outdated regarding machine-parsable conversation grouping. We long dropped the need to specify a whole hash tag with URL (#<hash url>), the simplified version without the URL (#hash) is enough.
The hash tag extension specification is kind of missing the same. However, I’m not sure if that short form is considered supported in general (as opposed to be a special case for subjects only) by the majority of the twtxt/yarn community.
Now the question arises, in order to keep things simple, should we even only allow the simplified twt hash tag for subjects and forbid the long version? This would also save quite a bit of space. The URL is probably not shown anyways in most clients. And if so, clients might rewrite URLs to their own instances. On the other hand, there’s technically nothing wrong with the long version in current parser implementations. And deprecating stuff without very good reason isn’t cool.
JD.com extends access to Tencent’s WeChat for three years with US$220 million in stock
JD.com is keeping its preferential access to WeChat’s 1.29 billion users, extending a partnership with Tencent that gives it a short cut on the platform. ⌘ Read more
Random thought: I think Freddie Mercury looked better with short hair than with long hair.
China’s live-streaming e-commerce offers lifeline to fruit farmers amid Covid restrictions and short season
Local farmers have come to rely more on Big Tech platforms to boost sales in recent years, but a tough season for some produce is proving challenging for some. ⌘ Read more