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I feel so seen

I feel so seen

Just learned about V-coding and I don't even know how many CWs it deserves if you decide to look this up, but definitely for SA.

Just learned about V-coding and I don't even know how many CWs it deserves if you decide to look this up, but definitely for SA.

Okay so I started using RSS again, right?But I'm a bit busy to sit down and read everything I want to read.So I figured out how to use...

Okay so I started using RSS again, right?

But I'm a bit busy to sit down and read everything I want to read.

So I figured out how to use piper to generate pretty dang good audio readings of the posts! I just have to copy and paste the post body to a file, then run a one-liner shell script on the text file.

But I don't know an easy way to get the RSS posts from my RSS aggregator (currently Akregator) into piper so I can have it read a series of posts to me. Copying and pasting is kind of high-touch, and I'd like to fold my laundry without interruptions while I listen to some of these.

My dumb hack question for anyone is which RSS aggregators will just write the cached messages as files in my filesystem? I'd like to use those so I can just feed it a diet of posts I want it to read me like a playlist.

Or is there a better way anyone knows of?

rant, phonesThey are the worst computers. The screens are so small you have to hold them relatively close to read them, and that's bad...

rant, phones

They are the worst computers.

The screens are so small you have to hold them relatively close to read them, and that's bad for my eyes in a way I can see just looking around after using a phone.

The keyboards lean so hard on inference because you can't be precise on a smooth non-tactile screen and I'm a weirdo that uses words that autocarrot hasn't learned yet.

You have to use your finger to cover up whatever you're trying to interact with in a way that makes it impossible to be precise without the silly magnifying glass. Text selection never does what I want. It's like trying to solder with oven mitts.

Browsing a restaurant menu where they give you a QR code and tell you to order on the phone is awful because there's not enough room to even glance at everything, you literally have to go item by item.

Their only redeeming qualities are having an internet connection (approximately) everywhere you go and having their own built in camera, and I would much rather have a cellular data only device with an IP and no phone number. I am seriously considering switching to that at the end of my current phone's lifespan.

Maybe 2% of the phone calls I've ever gotten were phone calls I actually wanted. I have similarly made very few phone calls. I would rather talk to anyone I know any other way than over the phone.

I want them gone from my life but I think society will just make it very hard if I do that.

rant, phonesI've never really liked phones but I'm starting to really hate them now.I'm at the point where if I'm not...

rant, phones

I've never really liked phones but I'm starting to really hate them now.

I'm at the point where if I'm not already using a service that requires a phone number, I need a DAMN good reason to use it.

Signal is on thin ice. Using phone numbers as identity providers is awful, and adding "secondary devices" doesn't bring in everything I want that is on my phone.

Telegram barely gets a pass, and only because I don't trust its security promises to begin with. If my threat model meant I had to make frequent use of secret chats I would abandon it, because the Telegram Desktop can't do secret chats.

Any service that treats desktop as a second-class platform at this point is on my shit list. If I can't access the full feature set on a computer I don't hate, I don't want it.

Any Discord "server" that needs my phone number is one I don't need to join.

Any 2FA that requires a phone number is asking my permission to use the worst second factor.

Any 2FA that tells me to open their phone app (especially their own authenticator) on my phone to prove that it's me instead of just letting me give them a TOTP code is also on my shitlist. Let ME choose my second factor, don't choose for me and don't choose my phone.

Nearly everyone that wants your phone number wants it so they can sell your data to brokers in a way that is easily cross-referenced with other data sources (they all get your phone number, so figuring out they're all the same person is easy).

Big tech wants you on phones because they know you won't keep meaningful amounts of data on it and you'll lean on the cloud for it instead, where they can get your data, and they're still trying to scan the content on your phone because it's not enough for them.

It's at the point where I will show a coupon QR code to a clerk and when they ask me what my phone number is I totally straight faced tell them I don't have a phone.

And this is ignoring how much worse phone UIs are for nearly everything.

So I had to get into my old phone that's been left alone for a few months now, so I could sync Signal messages over. I am very much not...

So I had to get into my old phone that's been left alone for a few months now, so I could sync Signal messages over. I am very much not a fan of Signal's approach of mobile as the only first class citizen platform, that's awful and stupid.

So anyway I had to get into my old phone, an iPhone 12 mini. After having an iPhone 16 for the past few months, I realize I really do miss the absolutely perfect size of the mini.

I would willing to give Android another shot if the grass looked any greener over there, but it really doesn't seem to be.

Everyone who says capitalism produces what people want are absolutely median human beings that don't know what they want until it's given to them.

I think I have made a mistake. I don't think I can go back from a 240hz monitor now. The mouse movement is sooo smoooooth

I think I have made a mistake. I don't think I can go back from a 240hz monitor now. The mouse movement is sooo smoooooth

Announcing my joy at discovering a new SSMS preview version has dark mode to my coworkers with "Good news, kindred creatures of the...

Announcing my joy at discovering a new SSMS preview version has dark mode to my coworkers with "Good news, kindred creatures of the night!"

Whose idea was it to make the word "diagram" so similar in shape to "dragon" that I have to double-take every time I...

Whose idea was it to make the word "diagram" so similar in shape to "dragon" that I have to double-take every time I read to make sure it didn't actually say "dragon"?

*growls at the second smart switch in the house to become an incredibly dumb switch at an extremely inopportune time*

*growls at the second smart switch in the house to become an incredibly dumb switch at an extremely inopportune time*

Is hot cocoa a stock, and is hot cocoa with marshmallows a soup?NoIt makes a stock, but not a soupHot cocoa with marshmallows is a soup

Is hot cocoa a stock, and is hot cocoa with marshmallows a soup?

No
It makes a stock, but not a soup
Hot cocoa with marshmallows is a soup

I think I have graduated above absolutely useless in Haskell to "getting the hang of it", but I'm probably a dozen epiphanies...

I think I have graduated above absolutely useless in Haskell to "getting the hang of it", but I'm probably a dozen epiphanies away from grokking it, and I'm still extremely slow writing it.

Okay, going to try to learn Haskell again using Advent of Code.

Okay, going to try to learn Haskell again using Advent of Code.

Oh, I think I understand what "Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds" means now.I used to think it was saying "Liberals are...

Oh, I think I understand what "Scratch a liberal, and a fascist bleeds" means now.

I used to think it was saying "Liberals are fascists", which is unhelpfully reductive.

What it really means is more like "A liberal, when feeling hurt, will lash out in the way a fascist would, at every group that doesn't agree with them, and so quickly they won't be recognizably liberal by the time the scratch bleeds." The emphasis is on the change liberals often undergo when pained.

Mood of the week.

Mood of the week.

Starting to change all my themes to tokyonight because, uh, well I don't have good reasons, but I also want to make things match.

Starting to change all my themes to tokyonight because, uh, well I don't have good reasons, but I also want to make things match.

Well this particular good faith biannual shot at Linux as a desktop OS has been the least painful so far.So now I've replaced the...

Well this particular good faith biannual shot at Linux as a desktop OS has been the least painful so far.

So now I've replaced the Windows SSD with a new SSD and it got Linux instead of Windows again.

Maybe someday I'll try Wayland too.

This feels silly, but I'm going to return a computer mouse for refund because the silly gamer software that you use to configure it...

This feels silly, but I'm going to return a computer mouse for refund because the silly gamer software that you use to configure it won't let me bind a button to F24, which seems to be the least conflicted key to use for push to talk.

I think I'm finally getting the hang of this Nix thing!Time to try doing something just slightly different that will demolish that...

I think I'm finally getting the hang of this Nix thing!

Time to try doing something just slightly different that will demolish that confidence.

Microblogs are so weird.I think the reason why I haven't used mine much is because it feels like conversation on them is so cheap, often...

Microblogs are so weird.

I think the reason why I haven't used mine much is because it feels like conversation on them is so cheap, often decontextualized, where engagement is measured more by breadth of people reached than by depth of conversation had, and I've always really preferred the latter. Anyone else feel that way?