Me: Oh, that's a great idea for a toot! When I finish this task I will toot and the world will know it has been tooted!
Me, 2 minutes later, sitting down to toot: *dial tone*
*We're sorry, your call cannot be completed at this time.*
*click*
Me: Oh, that's a great idea for a toot! When I finish this task I will toot and the world will know it has been tooted!
Me, 2 minutes later, sitting down to toot: *dial tone*
*We're sorry, your call cannot be completed at this time.*
*click*
#WritersCoffeeClub Sep. 17: Do you agree with Somerset Maugham, who said "there are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
I think there are guidelines, but that they differ for each author, and often for each novel the author creates. They are things that must be discovered in the act of creation.
@octothorpe Starting to realize that on those alternate reality shows where they jump into the fascist world where everyone has a mustache to twirl... That's this world they're jumping to.
@octothorpe This election I'm voting for the cop, and so is the war criminal.
Fucked up it is.
To me solarpunk is about having a whole culture in maintenance mode. Preserving things, repairing things, fixing the broken in ways that are resilient, and if new things must be made, that they are both made to last and fully repairable.
@octothorpe It's a binary, though if you want to compile you can.
They also have a disk image, but updating that's slightly more of a pain than just updating the cask, so *shrug*.
When you're at a keyboard: https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#macos-specific-questions
I also had to use the --no-quarantine flag in homebrew which felt a bit gross, but understandable.
@octothorpe Yeah, I don't let anything install without my permission anymore, but its nice to have have the update notification.
Every weekend I do updates on my web server, so I could just add it to the maintenance list. It's just running a single script.
Just realized their releases page has an RSS feed to subscribe to.
@octothorpe Thanks for the heads up on it though. I hadn't heard of it and I'm glad to have options!
@octothorpe I don't use Safari much on desktop. If they can't support world-class ad blocking I'm not going to bother.
Librefox is usually only a few days behind FF main and comes with uBlock. So far my main complaint is it's a homebrew install and needs to be manually updated, which I can probably live with/automate.
Vivaldi is its own thing, and yeah, Chromium. But they took a hard stance against adding AI, which I like.
I have been trying to put my schadenfreude on a diet, but I cannot stop browsing the 2,300 comments on Mozilla adding a generative AI chatbot to Firefox.
At any rate, I'm being generous and giving Mozilla one release to remove the feature and then I'll be moving on. Librewolf and Vivaldi look like my leading options at the moment.
Hi folks, In the next few days, we will start the Nightly experiment which provides easy access to AI services from the sidebar. This functionality
(connect.mozilla.org)
Firefox users: Mozilla wants to know what you think of their new AI chatbot!
If you have updated to the latest version, go to Settings -> Firefox Labs, scroll down to the AI Chatbot and click the "Share feedback" link.
And let them know exactly what you think.
Guys, stop! Put down the tweezers. We *really* need to talk about what you're doing.
Seriously, is there any kind of good future that this serves?
Wichita Wingman - Glen Campbell
@octothorpe That is too much goosening! If it was the Canadian geese in my neighborhood, I'd be preparing to run as soon as they noticed at me.
@octothorpe So frustrated to see so many people dropping out of the world to be caregivers because there is no other option that we can live with. Hugs to you both. I hope you are able to find time to prioritize yourself when you need it. Wish I could provide more than comforting words.
@octothorpe I hope you have support you need. Caregiving, even for loved ones, can be challenging.
And thank you for masking. I see you.
@octothorpe Seems everything old is new again? Good spam filtering was one of things I regretted leaving when I moved email off Google.
My current host uses SpamAssassin which is just as "smart" (ie: dumb) as it was in 2001. It is imperfect, but it's good enough for my inbox.
My other sister is permanently disabled from long COVID and unable to do much of anything. My mother's sister was diagnosed with COVID on a Friday and was dead in the hospital by Sunday.
COVID is not over. It remains deadly and permanently disabling.
I'm not sure I have enough forgiveness in me if my elder sister kills someone via this virus.
Sister with compromised immune system did some air travel, brought COVID back to where she lives with my homeridden and immunocompromised mother.
Since COVID is in the house, Mom's nursing team will not come. So my (disabled, sick sister) is her only caregiver.
On Friday sis is all "No worries, we have masks, we'll keep Mom safe." Today it's "So, Mom has COVID, care team won't come until at least Saturday. I'm too tired to call Medicare."
I'm frustrated and sad and mad.
@octothorpe I haven't yet, although I did once overpower myself on endless mode and just walked away from the computer for a while waiting for something that could damage me to arrive.
Still haven't figured out how to kill death. I'm sure that will come.