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a non-technical observation
Transition in a nutshell: desperately trying to do complex calculations while your arm is being twisted painfully, in the hope of being able to reduce how much your arm is being twisted at least a little bit.
Undiagnosed gender dysphoria in a nutshell: not realizing that your arm is being painfully twisted and that this explains why you feel so ( Read more... ) -
server serendipity
Entirely by accident, I discovered that even though the version of Ubuntu currently installed on my virtual servers doesn't provide a package for LetsEncrypt, VirtualMin now has a script which requests certificates and installs them automagically.
So https://wiki.hypertwins.org/Main_Page and https://vbz.net (still under reconstruction) now should ( Read more... ) -
software gripe
I want a social network that lets me treat posts the way I would treat emails, i.e. file them in various ways -- and of course search within or across folders.
I want an email system that will let me share folders with other users -- e.g. so Harena & I could have a "for review" folder when I write a draft of an email that's coming from both of us. ( ( Read more... ) -
coding projects quick status overview
The status of Friendica on this site is that it needs at least:
* upgrade to latest version (currently 3.3.1; latest is 3.5
* SSL certificate, and force use of https:
Both of those things are on hold until I do the big server migration I'm planning Real Soon Now, to upgrade to the latest (LTS at least) Ubuntu and have a separate dev server so my work ( Read more... ) -
evil plans
So I've had yet another idea for a project -- possibly to go on the large stack of projects I'll never get to, except that this one dovetails nicely with the original concept for Issuepedia.
It's not really so much a new idea as the bringing of an old idea into sharper focus by virtue of the fact that I'm seeing more awareness of the need for it ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
Going to my network page on Friendica, which has been insisting on showing me nothing newer than 8 months ago, I randomly clicked on "December 2013" just to see if anything would happen.
And hey, suddenly I see Diaspora posts from @Will Hill and @Dr.Edward Morbius -- w00t!
(This all just goes to show the value of randomly trying things that can't ( Read more... ) -
Coding is a gateway drug to systems design
I'm being a bad, bad programmer this week, and totally indulging in my wish to have systems that work properly instead of just kluging stuff together to get it working as quickly as possible.
This is clearly why I don't deserve nice things ( Read more... ) -
Google Announces Discovery of Giant Black Monolith, Lifts Employee Gag Order
Google today announced the discovery of a large black monolith under their Mountain View headquarters. The monolith was discovered as a result of investigations into peculiar magnetic anomalies affecting everything from the order of posts and the stickiness of +1s on Google+ to results from its search engine -- explaining, for example, why a Google ( Read more... ) -
conspiracy theories
I originally asked this on Facebook: What's so terrible about conspiracy theories ( Read more... ) -
Harena dream
This may have been partly inspired by Harena's fitful sleep last night...
I dreamed that I had been out very late, doing something with the kids1 which somehow involved both the kids' Uncle Chris and PZ Myers (who seem to be oddly reminding me of each other, even though I can't easily define how), both of whom I was somehow supposed to connect ( Read more... )
