whistlewright ????

Sat, 20 May 2023 13:07:52 -0400

Started myself a website and am in the process of uploading stuff to it. Take a look at it if you'd like too.

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Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Sat, 20 May 2023 13:53:59 -0400

Great! A hand made tail.

Mon, 29 May 2023 06:52:49 -0400

Nice and simple ????

hosh

Tue, 30 May 2023 03:47:48 -0400

Glad that despite your reservations you have announced it here. Very nice work, indeed. and the source code is clean as a whistle

Subscribed to the feed but haven't yet found a way to be diligent about reading them.

whistlewright ????

Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:01:54 -0400

Because of a little thing I call life it has been a while since I have messed with my web development studies. So I spent most of yesterday really getting into learning VS Code, the preferred editor of the class. I spent a while figuring out how to get the editor to talk with github and learning a bunch of other tricks with the editor.

This morning I figured that it might me time for me to build my self a portfolio page, website, or whatever you call it. I wanted to use flexbox and could not for the life of me get it to work. I went back to the course videos and my memory was correct. I had it all typed out correctly. My memory was not as bad as I thought.

But, it still did not work as expected.

As I was rewatching the videos and checking my work vs. the sample I just happened to bump into the solution.

In CSS I identified the container I was trying to "flex" by a class. I forgot to put the class selector on it. Lost an hour and a half of my life because I forgot to put a . in a file.

Giac El Vecio

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:23:35 -0400

Take a look at your deliver report of this post, I'm writing directly in your page because this hub does not work well at the moment.

Trying warning rumbly people about the problem ;)

whistlewright ????

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 17:12:11 -0400

We've studies on the rise in electricity usage due to Bitcoin mining and the extrapolations on it's impact on the environment but has anyone seen a study on the effects of internet usage on the environment?

Let's face it, one can not buy groceries without the internet being used anymore

Cyborg 2-A ✅

Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:40:01 -0400 last edited: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:42:25 -0400

and people compare it to the "zero" cost of credit cards and government currency, which must utilize zero, according to the nuts against bitcoin.

you know, like printing dollars and the banks and all the credit card companies with all the employees, that costs nothing at all. but Bitcoin, well that costs a fortune and burns down all the trees and blasts carbon dioxide into the air. So use government issued money because it's free.

whistlewright ????

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 20:12:16 -0400

Ok, I started using TOR occasionally back before TOR was even at the 1.0 stage. It is kind of messy to use sometimes, like when you need to see a site that uses cloudflare or whatever it is called.

When I go back to the world on Tuesday my life will pretty much be online so I am looking at getting a VPN and running every device through said VPN.

But I am befuddled by all the information about VPNs out on the Innertubez.

Which VPN do you use and why?

For your info my devices run Debian or Ubuntu, Windows 11, and Android 12.

Marshall Sutherland (Posting with Hubzilla)

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 20:34:54 -0400

I've been using PIA for years. I must have had a decent reason to pick it back when I did, but I couldn't tell you with any certainty now. It has clients for all your platforms.

whistlewright ????

Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:29:20 -0400

xpil wrote the following post Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:16:30 -0400

pure #evil

Image/photo

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ghostdancer

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:32:38 -0400

@Sredni Vashtar @whistlewright ???? Who needs enemies with friends like those.

ghostdancer

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:32:11 -0400

???? Repeated @whistlewright ????'s Note

Shredni Vashtar

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 04:40:23 -0400

@whistlewright ???? Of course, I would never do anything cruel like that. ????

whistlewright ????

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:23:54 -0400

Sister Petra wrote the following post Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:59:08 -0400

IF I was clickbait, this is what I would say

7 daily habits to feel and do better you can start now:

1. 30-minute brisk walk
2. 20-minutes reading
3. Go to bed when you are tired
4. Replace highly-processed snacks with fruit or vegetables
5. Ensure at least one block of deep-focus work or play
6. Shut down devices when talking to people
7. Drink water throughout the day

whistlewright ????

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:08:12 -0400

Got SVG path partially in the program right now. Don't have the stuff in there for curves but we can do horizontal and vertical lines. $\o/$

whistlewright ????

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 15:12:05 -0400

ohohohohohoh.... svg really needs an offset button! Off to the drawing block boys and girls!

whistlewright ????

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:13:03 -0400

oops... I forgot about the difference between H and h and V and v.

Kinda makes a difference

whistlewright ????

Sun, 19 Jun 2022 16:24:04 -0400

well after an hour the offset button doesn't work por nada. I have more lines of codes for just the offset function than the other two combined. I think that I am adding too much poop on the cart here.

whistlewright ????

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 20:40:24 -0400 last edited: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:49:30 -0400

I haven't done this in a couple of years but it is D-Day so... Saving Private Ryan is in the DVD player. I am so allergic to this movie. My eyes always water at the end.

whistlewright ????

Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:54:15 -0400

I was not able to finish Saving Private Ryan on D-Day so I am going to finish it now

whistlewright ????

Tue, 31 May 2022 10:42:09 -0400

Have you ever sat and listened to a guy rant for 20 minutes about something that he hasn't got a clue about and thought yourself:

"Dude, your biscuits ain't buttered!"

whistlewright ????

Fri, 27 May 2022 21:31:13 -0400

Evening all! It is hotter than blue blazes around here right now. I think I saw 105F. That is what? 38 or 39ishC? It is hot.

But we have a three day weekend...

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Kris

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:28:42 -0400

@whistlewright ???? here we have cool temperature +31 but according to forcast saturday will be +36

whistlewright ????

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:50:24 -0400

We cooled off to about 36-38 this week. I am about to break out the sweaters.

By the way, I do live in the desert Southwest so these temperatures are nothing unusual for us.

Cyborg 2-A ✅

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 10:03:53 -0400

that's pretty hot so early in the hot season.

whistlewright ????

Sat, 07 May 2022 09:03:17 -0400

Looking for a book on Audible and came across the statement that we live in a "post-factual world." There is something existentially wrong with that statement but I can't quite put my finger on it this early in the morning.

A.min

Tue, 10 May 2022 18:10:37 -0400

Don't worry. It probably isn't true.

whistlewright ????

Tue, 10 May 2022 23:11:46 -0400

Is that a fact?

Hahahaha.... Did you see what I did there?

whistlewright ????

Fri, 06 May 2022 11:01:00 -0400

Might have just stumbled onto the title of my autobiography-

Playin' Bluegrass in my Beemer

Cyborg 2-A ✅

Fri, 06 May 2022 20:56:50 -0400

In the US the stereotype for 'Mexican Music' is that crazy polka music. I lived in Mexico for a whole year and never anybody playing that shit one time. I'd say actual "mexican" music is more like bluegrass. :)

Fri, 06 May 2022 22:41:08 -0400

Some of the best bluegrass I've ever heard comes from the Aussie outback. Go figure.

whistlewright ????

Sat, 07 May 2022 09:01:28 -0400 last edited: Sat, 07 May 2022 09:05:18 -0400

Some of the best I have heard comes from The Czech Republic and another good source is Norway.

EDIT: NOT Norway (which may have a bluegrass tradition, I don't know) but FINLAND. The folks I found look just like throwbacks to the hillbillies of Appalachia

whistlewright ????

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 15:53:19 -0400

LICK THIS SPOT

X

YOU MAY BE ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES!

whistlewright ????

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 20:05:36 -0400

This just in... The Mrs and I are once again empty-nesters!!!! $\o/$

Marshall Sutherland (Posting with Hubzilla)

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 20:28:33 -0400

Time to change the locks!

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:25:28 -0400

Peace and quiet again unless you got roosters!

Cyborg 2-A ✅

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:41:43 -0400

Beastie Boys - No Sleep Till Brooklyn (Official Music Video)

REMASTERED IN HD!Check out the story behind ‘Licensed To III’ here: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/licensed-to-ill-beastie-boys-album/Listen to more ...

whistlewright ????

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 11:59:27 -0400

This is just a test to see how a recording acts from zap to mastodon.

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Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:11:21 -0400

XMPP link not working?

whistlewright ????

Tue, 05 Apr 2022 20:00:18 -0400

@Zephan No the xmpp link doesn't work. Firstly, it is not a real address. I don't use the jabber.org account as it is flooded with spam and I do not have another account anywhere. Secondly, not all browsers read all URIs. I am guessing that zap can not read the URI for an XMPP account. It is ok, it works with a normal webpage and most browsers out there.

whistlewright ????

Sun, 03 Apr 2022 13:08:26 -0400

It is actually way prettier in html

whistlewright ????

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 10:36:17 -0400

Back before I got sick with the COVID I would do the occasional audio post. I think some people call those podcasts, I am not too sure.

Anyway, I had a nice little page template made with BBCode and saved so that I could have a "show notes" page for my poor-boy-podcast. You know, sort of a fill in the blanks and post sort of thing.

Well, every so often I go and clean out all of my posts. I guess I deleted that one even though it was a private to me only post.

Well, I guess I get to be creative again...

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:08:27 -0400

How do I DM you with zap?

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Sat, 02 Apr 2022 07:33:38 -0400

Thanks

whistlewright ????

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 08:54:25 -0400

This next idea is probably not "technically" a "DM" but I guess you could also set up a privacy group with just the intended recipient in it. The lock will show which means it is private but the envelope will not which means it is not direct. I reckon it would be as private as anything else though the recipient would have no idea who was in the group.

Tanja

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:43:02 -0400

@whistlewright ðŸ—¿

though the recipient would have no idea who was in the group.

The same is true if you select multiple people from the ACL, which is why I usually use @! for DMs. That way, everybody involved knows who else has access.

whistlewright ????

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:24:21 -0400 last edited: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:25:58 -0400

I am not sure but I think that this is my first fediverse account over on identi.ca. My fediverse birthday is 20 March 2010 according to the lower right corner of this pic.

I found this on the Wayback Machine by typing in http://identi.ca/

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 23:01:39 -0400

Hi boss! This is your old friend. Thanks for adding me.

whistlewright ????

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 22:02:35 -0400

So many years ago I found a collection of episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies that whoever posted them on archive.org claimed were in the #PublicDomain. I got all excited and posted about it somewhere. @Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} reminded me to be a grown up and not believe everything that I read on archive.

Fast forward a few years and I have discovered that 55 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies are, in fact, public domain. The entire first season and 19 episodes of the second season ended up there. At the time for their copyright renewal came up the copyright laws in the US were changing and somehow these episodes fell in the cracks and are now available to us.

$\o/$

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Marshall Sutherland (Posting with Hubzilla)

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 07:28:37 -0400

Is that the one where the dude had to climb up the telephone pole and hook his phone into the line to make a phone call?

I think that is Green Acres. Sort of the reverse. City folk moved to the country.

whistlewright ????

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:19:11 -0400

@Marshall Sutherland Geesh... I wasn't even thinking. I was pounding my brain trying to figure out what @Waitman Gobble was talking about. Of course, it was Green Acres. Duh!

The Hillbillies was better than Green Acres and had Ellie Mae too!

Cyborg 2-A ✅

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:22:46 -0400

oh my bad, many years of heavy drinking

whistlewright ????

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 21:38:23 -0400

Had some help breaking ground for a small garden today

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 01:04:50 -0400

Good helpers