I had a long-overdue physical with my doctor last week, and after explaining my various struggles with fibromyalgia, long COVID, and suspected ME/CFS she put me on two new medications, Singulair, for the persistent shortness of breath, and Lyrica (pregabalin), for the chronic pai … | Continue reading
For a while I’ve been using monitoRSS to broadcast a bunch of RSS feeds to various Discord channels. However, they’ve cut back on the free tier’s capabilities, and the paid tiers are rather expensive. So, this pushed me into finally creating rss2discord, a self-hosted RSS posting … | Continue reading
(via Hackaday) comments #indieweb #RSS #internet #comics | Continue reading
After figuring out a basic anti-bot measure for Publ, I decided to try building a simple experiment for Flask in general. | Continue reading
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This morning I was once again thinking about how to put some proper antibot behavior onto my websites, without relying on Cloudflare. There are plenty of fronting proxies like Anubis and Go Away which put a simple proof-of-work task in front of a website. This is pretty effective … | Continue reading
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I finally found the song I was looking for: it was “Lolita” by Moneyshot off the album Bliss. | Continue reading
Y'all probably know that my views on AI are somewhat nuanced. I’m not 100% “AI BAD!!!” but I’m also hesitant to rely on AI for a lot of things, and generally do not care for generative AI or any situation where you need AI to “reason” on things. | Continue reading
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I (not so) recently finished Echoes of Wisdom and after a ramble about the Zelda games I’ve played and enjoyed, Star implied that I should do a tier list. | Continue reading
I’m simultaneously doing great and not-great. | Continue reading
I only just learned from eladnarra’s blog that May is ME/CFS awareness month, which I guess is fitting given that throughout all of May I’ve been getting painfully aware that I may have been developing it on top of everything else. | Continue reading
Hey y'all, the Furality dealer’s den is open early this year, and this year it’s also free to the public. It’s a pretty incredible world and I’m glad to be a part of it! | Continue reading
I got very little done this week and I’m feeling pretty bad about it. | Continue reading
Some comments have happened on certain other sites from my last post about the Comma. Most of them are in the form of, “This person is insane/irresponsible/reckless for doing this.” | Continue reading
Wellp, my whack-a-mole approach finally got to be too much to maintain. The last day or so my server has been absolutely inundated with traffic from thousands of IP blocks, all coming from China, and I got sick of trying to keep up with it myself. | Continue reading
About a week ago I bought a Comma 3X from comma.ai, based on seeing a bunch of quite glowing reviews of it (and other FSD systems) from a number of car and tech reviewers I trust. In particular, since Kate of Transport Evolved has one and also has the exact same car as mine (2019 … | Continue reading
Whoops, it’s been a little while since I’ve posted here. Well, okay, here’s some of the stuff that’s going on. | Continue reading
There are so many papercuts with keeping isso running and I really ought to get around to writing something better. Working on software is the last thing I want to do right now though. | Continue reading
On SpinDizzy MUCK there are a bunch of “hug” verbs which are a bit whimsical and a bit nonsensical, and for reasons that are too silly to get into, I have been locked in an eternal battle with Austin in which I am constantly creating more. | Continue reading
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If you’re at all tuned into the EV space, you’ve probably heard of the Slate truck, for example from this Ars Technica article. | Continue reading
I’ve been using Gumroad as a digital asset store for years now, as well as for some of my physical goods. But I’ve been wanting to extricate myself from it for a while now, and recent developments have finally pushed me all the way there, and the timing was good given I’ve gotten … | Continue reading
Just a reminder that my choir, STANCE, is having our annual fundraiser show in a few short weeks (on May 3), consisting of both a talent showcase and a silent auction. This organization is super important to me since it helps us to celebrate trans joy and self-expression. The sho … | Continue reading
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Back in 2016, when Trump was first elected, so many people around me were despondent and telling me that they should just kill themselves before the rest of the world did it for them. Why should they bother going on, in a world that just wanted them dead anyway? | Continue reading
I’ve been going to physical therapy for vestibular rehabilitation for a few weeks, and right now I have good days and I have bad days when it comes to vertigo. Today was a bad day. | Continue reading
Okay so here’s what was being replaced: | Continue reading
The economy is in the shitter right now so I feel it’s a good time to write up some stuff about things I’ve been doing for a while to keep myself fed without it costing too much. | Continue reading
Wellp, the latest bathroom situation is something that could have been a lot less expensive, if I’d been a bit more willing to get some proper diagnosing this time around. I still think it’s a good thing that this work is getting done, but gosh, things didn’t have to go this way. | Continue reading
This video about cutting down on phone dependency has been making the rounds: | Continue reading
Some of my Tundra Trackers have been having an issue recently where they’ll get stuck in a flashing red light mode and refuse to connect or turn off. This is a known issue from Tundra and they have provided a sequence of steps to fix it. For some reason they opted to make it as a … | Continue reading
I’ve been accepted into Furality’s Dealer’s Den as a musician! I have a month to get my booth together and I’ve already got it like 90% done. It’s actually in an acceptable state already but there’s some more little things I want to do with the background video, and I’m learning … | Continue reading
Okay, it turns out that there was a lot of hidden magic on the SOMA Connect image that was infeasible to try to migrate/clone over myself, both due to dependencies on how the old-ass Raspbian image is setup in terms of networking, and a whole bunch of random/hidden scripts that d … | Continue reading
Last time I had a sorta-working shairport-sync configuration on my Raspberry Pi, but I didn’t have the SOMA Connect hardware actually working, and I had to make a bunch of compromises in order to get things to even try to start up without reimaging to the 32-bit Raspbian operatin … | Continue reading
I’ve got stuff going on, figured I’d ramble a bit for those who care. | Continue reading
I just watched this video about energy dependence and it got me thinking about some stuff. | Continue reading
Some folks wanted an update and didn’t see the webmention-based updates on the last entry. I discontinued the Effexor and the concerning symptoms subsided throughout the day, and I only had minimal withdrawal symptoms (basically just a few hours of extreme nausea and some really … | Continue reading
Wellp, as usual, saying anything vaguely optimistic about a new medication has angered the side effect gods, as over the course of yesterday I noticed over the course of the day I was having progressively more trouble breathing and swallowing and a feeling of swelling in my throa … | Continue reading
The only theory that anyone’s come up with for my vertigo issues that holds any weight is that they’re possibly vestibular migraines, so my neurologist put me on Effexor, which can help treat vestibular migraines. | Continue reading
Okay so back in 2021 I had my bathroom redone, and the contractor did an awful job of it, and in particular the plumbing for the shower itself failed a bit over a year ago because the person who did the plumbing was super fucking incompetent. | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo has been slowly rolling out AI “features,” and now they’ve decided to triple down on them. | Continue reading
No I will not be running it | Continue reading
People often talk about how bad AI is for the environment, but only focus on the operation of the LLMs themselves. They seem to ignore the much larger impact of what the AI scrapers are doing: not only do those take massive amounts of energy and bandwidth to run, but they’re impa … | Continue reading