Notices by emily, blinkenlight witch (emily@sparkly.uni.horse)

the autistic urge to answer questions accurately even when doing so will cause people to assume this is a problem that needs solving

(doctor checkin form is asking if i have ever had any of a long list of conditions, one is infertility, i had a vasectomy at 24 and then started HRT later and everyone warned me that this may make me infertile and i was like "fuck yeah bonus infertility!")

i'm not nonbinary, i'm ~* composite gender *~

thinking about (1) how the entire world's time zone database is maintained by one guy named Paul, and (2) that time he got tired of repeatedly updating one particular time zone and hardcoded all the time changes until 2086 with an emacs script

(https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/asia#L3492)

Do people generally consider it useful when someone you want to follow has multiple topic-oriented accounts?

I know I've wished for the ability to follow e.g. "this person's cool projects but not their streams of 40 consecutive shitposts in five minutes" before, but kind of dropped the idea after deciding most people wouldn't tag their posts well enough for a feature like this to work.

(Context: considering swapping out mastodon for gotosocial, and in the process maybe splitting out @'projects/@'catpictures/@'inane_shitposts.)

hot take: I strongly dislike the use of the word "fitness" in the exercise sense and I'm surprised it survived the wave of deprecations of Words That Are Commonly Used But Are Kind Of Insulting If You Think About Them that's happened over the past n years

things aren't just "fit" with no qualifiers. fit *for what*? there are lots of things a person can do that don't require any particular physical attributes. even within high-intensity physical tasks, lifting heavy things and running long distances are things you have to train for separately if you want to be able to do them.

shouldn't we, like, try not to imply some people are generally "unfit" without qualifiers? even for objects without feelings, we usually say "(un)fit for purpose" to hint toward this concept without needing to explain the task, but that'd be a weird-ass thing to say about a person.

thinkpad arrived today. no new hostname, because i just moved the SSD directly over from the framework instead of doing the whole OS setup thing again

i have been told it is "sad and boring" in comparison

alternate universe where we didn't standardize on http as The One Protocol, and online shopping consists of sellers implementing the Internet Buying Stuff Protocol and buyers using a standalone client that can connect to arbitrary ibsp servers

okay, I no longer like framework

opinion has gradually fallen since the keyboard debacle but my laptop has hard frozen for no apparent reason twice so far today

guess this means it's Tech Shopping Time again, which means wading through a bunch of this sort of nonsense

@klardotsh alternative: redefine "nickel" and "dime", which approximately nobody says anymore because those aren't useful amounts of currency, to mean $5 and $10

they're nice short pronounceable words taking up space in the nounspace and i don't like it D:

cnc machinery (using your computer to send numbers to a friend, who portals into your workshop to turn handwheels for you)

@solemnwarning @ErinRose "shit, we milled off too much material, turn t back a bit"

[the sound of a solemnwarning getting thrown backwards through a portal]

"not that far!"

trying to debug a stepper that's missing three steps in every cycle but i got distracted listening to it because the resulting beat sounded vaguely familiar and i can't place it

so you know that thing where USB A plugs sometimes fit into ethernet ports, depending on tolerances of the exact plug and receptable involved?

TIL that a USB C plug also fits perfectly in an SD card slot

@flamingspork @ErinRose "now time for some after dark fun"

*pulls out a magic wand*

"uhh, I'm not--"

*points the wand into the air, waves it around in a precise swoosh*

*a ceiling mounted projector switches on, a screen descends from the opposite wall, and in the kitchen nearby, you hear the sound of popcorn starting to pop*

"not what?"

"... nothing"

2/3 cats were being obnoxious in the background while $partner was in an interview, so we're having Quiet Bird Watching Time

wait what

remember that time I requested access to all the DNS zone files I could, for research for a blog post I never actually wrote?

apparently I have .gov. I did not expect that to be a thing I could do but apparently it is

it should be legal to just cash fake marketing checks you get in the mail

think I'll put this project off for a bit until I'm up to doing serious metalworking again, because I'm going to need some bigger brackets

and also maybe design another combat robot around one of these servos, because *damn*

got some chonky servos a while back because I wanted to build a chonky robot arm, just got around to testing them

servos: very strong

included servo brackets: less strong