A breakfast burrito is kind of like a quick quiche. 🤔️

Just run a web server and expose the specific files you want to share through that?

Yeah; @[email protected] uses þ a lot to mess with people trying to train LLMs off the Fediverse, IIRC, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else using it regularly.

Ah. Now I see why they had so many meals…

I’m a kitty cat

and I have a

box box box

in my

box box box 🎶️

The Expression Amrilato is a VN that’s mostly in Juliamo (i.e. Esperanto with some modifications like a custom alphabet). It’s mostly an Esperanto tutorial though with an isekai yuri plot.

Disney’s Atlantis had a custom conlang specifically made for it, but IIRC the dialogue was mostly in English still.

You might not be, but I am. I’m currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and have read a bunch of other titles from Project Gutenberg over the last few years.

I think I remember seeing that someone was running a group reading of Dracula in one of the vampire communities a while back, so I’m not alone even if I am perhaps in the minority.

This was my grandfather’s axe; the head’s been replaced twice and the handle three times since he owned it.

It’s the same pizza we had last week. / Eww! Shouldn’t you have gotten rid of it by now? / No – I mean, it’s just got the same toppings! We ordered it last night!

If you could swap memories with another person, which body is “you”? Well, that depends on what the meaning of the word is is… Mr. President.

An annoying amount of philosophy “problems” are really just equivocation about different kinds of equivalence.

These ramblings brought to you from my aging – though not yet lost – memories of long hours of procrastination during my sophomore year in college…

I went to a lot of different schools growing up. Some of them were not-very-well-funded public schools, but others were international schools for expats and private US schools – some of which might qualify. Most of the schools I went to had a cafeteria with a typical “go through the line with a tray and get whatever they cooked that day in bulk” kind of system. Some of them also had a store where you could buy snacks, prepackaged sandwiches, and such. I remember bringing lunch from home a lot – either sandwiches or leftovers from dinner the previous night, usually. One of the schools was so small it didn’t even have a real cafeteria for us and all the students (6th~8th grade in the US system) brought lunch from home and ate on fold up chairs in the multi-purpose room every day. I also went to a boarding school for a couple years. That one had a cafeteria system too – but the students were pressed into working on a rotation schedule (wiping down tables, cleaning dishes, and such – I don’t remember preparing any of the food). I don’t recall anything particularly outstanding one way or the other about the regular lunches there, but that one had periodic formal dinners (once a month or so, IIRC) where I had to get dressed up (e.g. put on a tie) and they broke us up into small groups of students and teachers. I remember those being stressful, but also having better than average food.

The internet is a testament to the power of applied interpretive dance; it wouldn’t be anything like it is today without those Al Gore Rhythms!

That’s a pretty decent response. The Google responses other people are posting are Cuil-tier.

There’s something else going on there besides base64 encoding of the URL – possibly they have some binary tracking data or other crap that only makes sense to the creator of the link.

It’s not hard to write a small Python script that gets what you want out of a URL like that though. Here’s one that works with your sample link:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import base64
import binascii
import itertools
import string
import sys

input_url = sys.argv[1]
parts = input_url.split("/")
  
for chunk in itertools.accumulate(reversed(parts), lambda b,a: "/".join([a,b])):
  try:
    text = base64.b64decode(chunk).decode("ascii", errors="ignore")
    clean = "".join(itertools.takewhile(lambda x: x in string.printable, text))
    print(clean)
  except binascii.Error:
    continue

Save that to a file like decode.py and then you can you run it on the command line like python3 ./decode.py 'YOUR-LINK-HERE'

e.g.

$ python3 ./decode.py 'https://link.sfchronicle.com/external/41488169.38548/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaG90ZG9nYmlsbHMuY29tL2hhbWJ1cmdlci1tb2xkcy9idXJnZXItZG9nLW1vbGQ_c2lkPTY4MTNkMTljYzM0ZWJjZTE4NDA1ZGVjYSZzcz1QJnN0X3JpZD1udWxsJnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV90ZXJtPWJyaWVmaW5nJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZmNfYml0ZWN1cmlvdXM/6813d19cc34ebce18405decaB7ef84e41'
https://www.hotdogbills.com/hamburger-molds/burger-dog-mold

This script works by spitting the URL at ‘/’ characters and then recombining the parts (right-to-left) and checking if that chunk of text can be base64 decoded successfully. If it does, it then takes any printable ASCII characters at the start of the string and outputs it (to clean up the garbage characters at the end). If there’s more than one possible valid interpretation as base64 it will print them all as it finds them.

If it actually worked reliably enough, it would be like having a dedicated, knowledgeable, and infinitely patient tutor that you can ask questions to and interactively explore a subject with who can adapt their explanations specifically to your way of thinking. i.e. it would understand not just the subject matter but also you. That would help facilitate knowledge transfer and could reduce the tedium of trying to make sense of something that’s not explained well enough for you to understand (as written) with your current background knowledge but which you are capable of understanding.

It doesn’t actually include all the media, and – I think – edit history. It does give you a decent offline copy of the articles with at least the thumbnails of images though.

Edit: If you want all the media from Wikimedia Commons (which may also include files that are not in Wikipedia articles directly) the stats for that are:

Total file size for all 126,598,734 files: 745,450,666,761,889 bytes (677.98 TB).

according to their media statistics page.

I had similar problems and couldn’t figure out how to get out of that cycle before it ended up with me having panic attacks, and anxiety/depression bad enough to be put on SSRIs. If you can’t relax and feel tense all the time, that is a serious issue! Nip it in the bud if you can.

What I eventually figured out is that I needed separation between my work and my personal time – and yes, those kinds of personal projects are still work even if you’re just doing them for yourself.

Decide how long you want to dedicate to working – then hold yourself to that. Like, actually write down the start and end times you worked so that you can prove to yourself that you really put in the effort. I use plain text files on my computer for this; do what works for you. After you’ve put in the time you committed to, you are OFF THE CLOCK. Stop working – even if you have to force yourself – and go do something else. Without guilt.

Nginx is running in Docker

Are you launching the container with the correct ports exposed? You generally cannot make connections into a container from the outside unless you explicitly tell Docker that you want it to allow that to happen… i.e. assuming you want a simple one-to-one mapping for HTTP and HTTPS standard ports are you passing something like -p 80:80 -p 443:443 to docker run on the command line, adding the appropriate ports in your compose file, or doing something similar with another tool for bringing the container up?

I’ve put drives into standby mode with the gnome disks GUI tool on my regular desktop when they were being noisy and I wanted some peace for a while. If the drive was mounted before I put it to sleep, trying to access something on the disk will cause it to spin back up.

Fuck no, I don’t agree with that at all. People mature at different rates, and the main reason IMO not to show sexual content to very little kids is that they literally don’t have the capability to understand it having not yet hit puberty. If you’re old enough to be interested in sexuality, you’re old enough that you’re going to start trying to explore it… and it’s a hell of a lot safer to explore it through media than through doing things IRL. I don’t think there’s anything particularly harmful about a ~13+ year old searching for boobs or dicks if they’re interested and want to see them; I did it myself. I may have gotten a few weird ideas about sex from seeing porn online when I was a teenager – that took me a couple years to sort through while growing up – but I never got an STD or got anyone pregnant from looking at porn!

I reached the point of being interested in sexuality around 9th grade – and I seemed to be on the late side compared to my peers based on things I heard from them in 7th and 8th grade. As far as I can recall, the first time I encountered something explicitly sexual was in a novel I found at a library when I was in 6th grade; I was more traumatized by the taboo around sexuality than anything in the book itself (which was a fairly tame sexual fantasy that the main character had involving comparing a girl’s breasts to fruit of various sizes, IIRC). I was not ready for that content yet, and that led to me having a formative conversation with my dad about the subject – i.e. it was ultimately a positive experience for me growing up, even though I was briefly uncomfortable for a bit while I was going through it. When I was a teenager, I was ready to deal with it and sought it out on my own. Speaking as someone who grew up in the goatse/lemonparty/tubgirl era of the internet, if I ran into something that was too extreme, I backed off and said “yeah, that ain’t for me!” I don’t think I would’ve turned out better if I’d been locked out of it.

Thanks for the ping! I’ll post a few links to some albums I’ve been listening to lately to help kick things off. Curious to see what other people like as well!

I wonder if anyone has ever passed messages between spacecraft as a peculiar form of delay line memory – or pinged a satellite at a predictable distance as part of a timing system…