Does anyone have tips on finding/vetting contractors for exterior house work? Particularly given I will do a lot to avoid making phonecalls. I have some rotted siding and trim that needs to be replaced.... was hoping I could wait until I needed to repaint, but the woodpeckers have left a hole :\
one of the coolest things about art is that one day someone might pick the thing you made up and go "what the fuck?"
The trouble with crafts is you start out learning something sane and sensible like basketry and the next thing you know you're wondering if you can put old inner tubes through a pasta maker
Feels like the right day to repost this quilt
(In case you didn’t hear yet, #NASA fixed the broken #Voyager I — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth)
Some positivity.
I’ve been testing out silk painting for a future project, and I think it’s pretty cool. It’s easier to control the dyes than I expected, but the whole process is kind of involved and time consuming
How did you get your gender?
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Factory default 39% (414 votes)
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Bought it 0% (9 votes)
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Pirated it 9% (97 votes)
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Wrote my own 11% (116 votes)
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Copied a friend's 3% (42 votes)
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Malware 3% (39 votes)
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Data corruption 10% (112 votes)
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Uninstalled (it was bloat) 8% (91 votes)
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System update 6% (65 votes)
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Found it on a random rusty USB Stick embedded in a wall 6% (68 votes)
me: I will simply translate the kung fu comic from Chinese to English
original artist: I like baroque attack names :)
me: no
original artist: I like writing them in Traditional :) :)
me: no--!!
original artist: and when the attack is special enough, I like...
me: don't do this to me please I'm begging you
original artist: seeaaaaal scriiiiiipt! :D
A software personal recommendation question - photo organizer software? I have like fifteen years of convention photos I desperately need to sort out. Requirements:
- Ideally FOSS + works on Linux, willing to consider quality inexpensive Windows options.
- Can operate on files on a network drive
- Duplicate/near-duplicate detection
- Bulk tag/untag
- Keeps it's own metadata store, does NOT rely on file names or folder structure for metadata
- Can handle combo jpeg + CR2 shooting (ie, considers the pair a single item rather than two different files)
- Strongly prefer something with an actual install process rather than 'run this Docker container'
Xie Lian song pick, because I was listening to this album again driving home from eclipse-watching - VNV Nation - Resolution: https://vnvnation.bandcamp.com/track/resolution
(other very TGCF tracks from that album are "Nova (shine a light on me)" which feels a bit Hua Cheng, and also "Gratitude" which fits two different relationships that are uhhhhhh huge spoilers lol)
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Today I'm launching a project I've been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:
https://selfh.st/blog/introducing-selfhst-apps/
It's a supplemental tool to Awesome-Selfhosted and meant to be an alternate view focused on details that I personally find more relevant. And more importantly - it'll always be up-to-date as it's built on the dataset I use to monitor updates and releases for This Week in Self-hosted.
Feel free to reach out with feedback!
I embloggerated, about xz and Tidelift. Some key points:
- the first, angry, draft was titled "I told you so", because we've been saying volunteerism + increasing burdens + solo maintainership is a recipe for disaster since 2017
- money (and Tidelift) is not a magic bullet, it's a cornerstone—not enough by itself, but without money, other proposals will never hit scale
- there's many more things I wish Tidelift could do, but we need more scale first 😞
https://blog.tidelift.com/xz-tidelift-and-paying-the-maintainers
I think the #xz incident is teaching us that our infrastructure is dangerously fragile in the face of well-organized/funded attackers. The response isn’t “try harder” or “donate to your OSS project”, it needs to be institutional, professional, and at scale.
So, here’s my proposal, called “OSQI”, aimed at starting a how-to discussion: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI
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My Boston centric #eclipse info post on #DreamWidth:
https://nosrednayduj.dreamwidth.org/139899.html
You all probably know all this already anyway.
Screaming into a pillow over on twt at the danmei publisher who's like 'is it really necessary to have a summary to promote books? Isn't art-baiting simply enough?' and people are actually defending this stance.
the existence of moral support implies the existence of immoral support 🤔