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I really like the word "liminal" but I'm never sure when I can use it because I'm afraid people will take it as meaning generically "spooky". It means something specific. An in-between space. A space you're not meant to linger in. A place you're supposed to pass through, probably without thinking about it, which means if you ever *stop* in that place and let yourself be aware of it it has this particular feel. You know. "Spooky".

What I'm listening to today: "31564132452132131652131", 3121534312

The quietest of quiet drone ambient, a breath on your neck, empty room noise, except the room is an uncanny horror space. This seems to have been more an attempt to make a cool glitch video with atmospheric sound (this YouTube account has many such videos) than to make a piece of music but I like experiencing, analyzing this sort of ambiance as music. It's fun to pick apart the choices of frequencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7cEc8vRTmI

When I was young these superstores with every combination of every item were viewed as emblematic of the crushing impersonal dehumanization of capitalism. But now that I am old capitalism is still crushing, impersonal and dehumanizing but we no longer have the varied array of cheap consumer products

We've got this Kroger's ass local chain called "Homesense" and it's like, oh here's the sheet I want except oh wait it's only in white not gray. They only have the white in the wrong size. Oh also you can only get a fitted sheet not a regular sheet. "Well maybe we'll get different things in at the next shipment" Can you look in the computer and see if this item in white is something they have in the warehouse? "No"

Fuck, I miss Bed Bath and Beyond

What I'm listening to today: "Combination #7 ( • | 6 | • | 2 | 4 | 5 )", Mark Fell

Violins tuning up for five minutes. Sliding down the gullet of a giant greebly alien. We could talk about "drone" or we could talk about music for ritual purposes, it is the same thing, there is a part of us religion seeks to wake up but which music stimulates directly and so religion uses music. Drone cuts out the middleman. No spirituality just ॐ.

Jim O'Rourke is somehow involved here.

https://frozenreeds.bandcamp.com/track/combination-7-6-2-4-5

Holy crud I found Celeste

Poll: Did you ever use an RSS feed aggregator (whichever one)?

(People are asking if a reader and an aggregator are the same thing. I thought they were the same thing so I didn't distinguish. I don't know the difference. For purposes of this poll they're the same thing.)

Poll: Did you use Google Reader?

@ana yeah i keep thinking about how there used to be that whole xmpp infrastructure for alternate clients talking to google and then one day google just turned it off

@cstross I don't think this advice will address your *initial concern* of "wow the emphasis on onboarding and documentation has been lost". I've been using Linux since the 90s and my perception is we were all really focused on being the next desktop OS back then. And at some point Linux became an OS you run on virtual machines on servers, and that's where all the development emphasis goes, and desktops are an afterthought.

@cstross I mean it doesn't have to be Debian, but if Ubuntu is what you're used to, Debian will be closest to Ubuntu. And the frustrations that would have lead one to pick Ubuntu over Debian back in idk 2010 are a lot better now. Like, Debian infamously has old software, but now most software is installed via FlatPak (it's like Docker for GUI apps) so that's not really a problem anymore. (And Debian did a major release like last month, so AT THIS MOMENT, its versions are pretty fresh.)

@cstross @ulexus *raising hand* for the record, Ubuntu definitely works worse on laptops. I don't know if they expected you to use a laptop, but they definitely didn't succeed at the laptop experience.

I know this is not the most helpful thing to hear when you just finished installing, but one way to reduce frustration is to swap out Ubuntu for Debian. Ubuntu got… weird, at some point in the last 15 years. I used it for a year in frustration, switched to Debian, and a buncha problems evaporated

@ana There are elements to the atproto design which make it difficult for atproto to ever be hosted by a non-corporate entity.

If someone embodies all the evil and unpleasantness of the world, does that make them a Synecdouche

1 AM thoughts: I wonder who is the human who has circumnavigated the globe the most times. Like, left London travelling east and arrived back at London from the west.

I want to be difficult and say it only counts one way (like if you travel west London->London that's +1 but then if you travel east London->London that's -1) but that sounds unfair so let's say as long as you go 360 degrees of longitude one direction you get a point and the measurement resets.

Probably an airline pilot I guess

Do I feel like this computer is mine, or The Company's? Do I feel like The Company is trying to manipulate me? Do I feel like The Company feels that they own me? Does the computer feel like a sort of interloper, in my life, something that's wormed its way into my home, something I can't get rid of, something that will use this foothold someday to hurt me?

I like my Linux laptop that crashes once or twice a day. I like my Mastodon account where you can't really talk to anyone about anything but webdev or Rust. I like my Lenovo tablet that sometimes switches into Japanese for no reason. I like my Steam Deck that needs unique settings fiddling per game. I'm willing to put up with some friction & frustration from my computers & software. But what I can't ~abide~, and will twist my life into pretzels to avoid from my computers & software, is *malice*.

There are several things I wish I could change about Linux but my #1 desire is to be able to right click on an item in the "dash-to-dock" extension's bar of running applications and ask "what are you, and where on disk is your executable?"

OK so

I got a web app

I want the endpoints at /actions , and only those endpoints, to reject/not-receive requests that are not same-origin. Other endpoints (regular html pages; oauth callback) SHOULD be possible to link/redirect to.

I'm reading: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS#:~:text=for%20example%2C%20suppose%20web%20content

The 2 ways I can imagine doing this are:
- Check for Origin: header and reject request if wrong (will privacy plugins sometimes suppress this?)
- Send `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://me`, also use Post to force preflight