against which kitchen pots have proven surprisingly useful elsewhere. against all odds
long ago i shifted to vscodium, a packaged version of only the open-source base of vscode that provides most but not all of the available extensions. for two reasons: so that i didn't leak telemetry to m$, and so that i wouldn't get used to features that aren't open source. it's available in a lot of package managers, mac/windows as well as linux
she's put out a couple of albums - at least one, but i think two - but i've not listened. it's been a long road for her
there's something funny with beehaw and i can't figure it out. i am subscribed to !literature@beehaw.org that always says 'subscribe pending' even though i seem subscribed (it shows up in my 'subscribed' feed). and it looks like we had the promised upgrade, since i had to log in again.
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech noticing anything weird? i'll poke around on beehaw boards
ok, just wow
thanks to this post, i'm trying out searxng and then kagi, neither of which i knew. hopefully there's a searx instance configured roughly to how i'd want. i'm not philosophically opposed to paying, but search is a delicate thing to be personally identifiable - and i don't care what your privacy policy is, if you're taking my money, you can connect me with my clicks
nobody reads this junk here so i'll just shout at a cloud
a deadly education, naomi novik - this should finally unjam the block i've had on fiction; i don't do well with fiction when the world is burning. i've picked this up and set it down many times, but the novelty is that normally, a fiction book that stops after the halfway point to do world-building is one that will end up propping open a door. but in this one the late add increased my interest.
keep my heart in san francisco, amelia diane coombs - an adorable fluffy book set nearby that ended up on the to-be-finished pile during some political firestorm or other.
guide du routard, catalogne - americans don't want to see what i want to see and american guidebooks know it. i often drag in other people's guidebooks when i think about going other people's places.
i didn't realise that was out already! it's a different world to murderbot?
to a techie, i'd say, it's open source and if they ever overpushed politics, they'd find they'd become the fork as the community would fork away.
to a non-techie, i'd say, everyone's an asshole a different way, but they don't own the whole place like spez and musk do.
and i wouldn't argue. let them walk away haters. this platform isn't ready for everyone to come right now anyway.
i listen to the same genre of music i listened to as a teenager, which is, music for teenagers (receipts in profile links)
i have a paranoid indie bookshop around the corner. i buy an interesting one. and put it on the tbr pile 😛
but seriously while that's true (and i do work that pile, just not in real time), i'll see ideas most anywhere (social media, press) and throw them in my bookwyrm tbr list.
last week those merged, i actually bought a book i'd previously seen and put in tbr, and i guess i'm glad i found it interesting twice. it is… on the pile
same, until keepassdx had problems on my samsung phone, at least for a while, so i swapped it out for keepass2android