Friends don't let friends use Title Case. Yet again I see examples of titles and subtitles that are inconsistent because Title Case is such a poorly defined and understood standard. Do. Not. Use.

I'm reading a book at the moment and one of the characters is making me SO angry.

He's a alcoholic, drug addict, misogynistic, conspiracy theorist and to be quite frank, the sooner he gets bumped off in this story, the better.

To whom it may concern:
I now no longer click on Mastodon links that lead to locations on Threads, BlueSky, or YouTube.
You may now return to your regularly scheduled scrolling.
#SocialMedia #MiniRant #Threads #BlueSky #YouTube

Hey, internets, Eye don't do YouTube videos unless Eye've got a DIY project.
And then Eye watch them on the DuckDuckGo app to filter out all the crap.
So if you can't be bothered to send me a Fediverse link, don't be bothering me.
#YouTube #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Video #MiniRant #TuckersBalls

I get a feeling people here don't appreciate posts from #BlueSky because when I add links from that site, which have included several from Senator #ElizabethWarren, nothing, no traction. Reason I echo posts from #AaronRupar, #RobertReich, #JeffTiedrich and several others have stopped posting on the #Fediverse and their message should be shared across this important platform in the fight to save #Democracy!

#MiniRant
#FightFascism
#KeepFighting
#StoptRump

Trying to focus on a needlessly complex SQL issue, and people keep interrupting.
So now I have the attention span of a goldfish.

Why are distribution packagers obtuse about naming library packages python3-dostuff instead of libdostuff? If there's already a libdostuff, why not either (a) call it package libdostuff-ng, if it's actually a next-gen improvemnet, or (b) libdostuff-py, if it's simply an independent implementation?
How this helps anyone outside maybe ego deficient python language developers, and them not much, I can't guess.

I mean, nobody at netlib's asking for their software to be called fortran-lapack. I hope. And if they are, don't take them seriously.
#python #minirant #packaging

Today is my first workday on standard time and let me just say how frustrated I am.

Rest? It was okay. Woke up sleep drunk yesterday, felt pretty rested today, which is very rare because of my night owl tendencies.

But my office smart lights turned on for their sunset offset at 2:30 and they're sitting on their warm white wind-down color. The one I use to help myself not be quite so awake.

I went out to try to find some metal bits I lost with a magnet on a string at 3:30 because it's miserable out and I knew I was losing light.

I have OPINIONS about standard time vs. DST. And they all boil down to "please for the love of GOD let me see the fucking sun!" Fact of the matter is DST doesn't make people not sleep; that shit became irrelevant with electric lights.

This should probably be a full #RantOfTheMoment, but you get a #MiniRant for now.

I've got less than a week to write my Episcopal Church confirmation letter and no idea what to write.

Usually these things just come to me, I hope this is no different.

I'm not even sure what goes into one of these. My life story? My spiritual journey? What's too much, or too little?

I don't like writing about myself, I can never come up with anything that seems meaningful to me.

Then again, maybe that's the point?

I've come to the sad conclusion that I have a second class account here. It doesn't matter one jot how often a post of mine is re-boosted nor fave'd, nor how recently that's happened, it never shows up on "Explore" whereas there are many posts there with far fewer re-boosts or faves posted within the same timeframe that do appear. Tell me again there's no algos. Go on, tell me. Convince me. #minirant

Der #Boomer, sorry,aber du warst schon locker um die 50, im Konzert gestern, der sich erst vor mich drängelt, um dann das halbe Konzert mit seinem IPhone zu filmen hat erst damit aufgehört als ich ihm vorgeschlagen hab, er soll doch die DVD kaufen -.-'
Immerhin, dann war das Handy den ganzen Rest nur noch 2 mal in mein Sichtfeld, das war voll in Ordnung.
Allgemein auffällig es sind selten die jüngeren oder nicht mehr ganz jungen oder die richtig alten ;) die mit ihren Handys dauerfilmen, das seid ihr in der Mitte. Kriegt euch mal ein Smartphones gibt es schon ne Weile, 30 Minuten Videomaterial mit schlechtem Ton schaut sich niemand normales mit euch an. Macht schöne Erinnerungen damit und gut ist.
Danke

Not going to link to the post, but it's about how a news site is letting you pay to not be flooded with cookies for ad purposes.

God, does nobody use an ad blocker?

Do yourself a favor:

1. Download Firefox
2. Install AdBlock Plus or Ublock Origin, doesn't matter which
3. Supplement it with NoScript
4. Enjoy the entire Internet being usable into the thousands of windows and tabs

Firefox has Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default. This means it essentially doesn't matter if anything serves you cookies; they're blocked cross-domain, so whenever a site requests them, Firefox serves it its own cookies right back. There's even a check mark to tell sites automatically not to sell your data.

All of these are solved problems.

Seriously can't wait for the 1st, gonna be headed down to The Grotto in Portland; hopefully it can help dislodge some stagnant energy.

Decided to reinstall Sims 3 on my laptop after not getting my Steamdeck, I'd opted to go through Facebook Marketplace; that was a big mistake. Oh well, you win some, you lose some; though I'm only familiar with one part of that expression...

Lo de @correos en Collado Villalba es para hacérselo mirar: me ha llegado hoy un sobre, enviado el 13 de mayo desde París, con propaganda electoral para las europeas.

Everyone who implemented a dropdown for number entries: Please don't do anything near UX ever again. Thank you very much.

Ich meckere ja eher selten(*), aber in diesem Fall muss ich das doch mal tun.
Morgen um 22:15 Uhr kommt eine neue Ausgabe der herausragenden Sendung die #Anstalt mit @clausvonwagner und anderen tollen Menschen und noch hat kein Mensch Bescheid gesagt! Wie kann das sein? Wann sind hier die Prioritäten verloren gegangen?

#Fediverse, das kannst Du besser!

https://www.zdf.de/comedy/die-anstalt

(*)= das ist natürlich erstunken und erlogen. Ich nörgele den ganzen Tag nur rum, aber das macht sich nicht so gut als Aufmacher für einen #MiniRant

Me: ultimamente tiene un bug donde si ves la lista del historial del botón atrás ó empiezas a escribir en la dirección pero para búsqueda se congela un ratote. *le dá la oportunidad a *
Firefox: *se bloquea*

*sighs* no hay para donde irse

(No me recomienden otros browsers que están peor, pesados, llenos de cosas que no se ocupan, con spyware y/o son estafas)

*abre surf ALV*

I'm really fed up with all the rain.
#Grumpy #MiniRant