Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rnd [Star Trek TOS computer voice] in... stall... ing...

1 hour ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@QasimRashid ...and the fact that Black soldiers weren't allowed to benefit from the home loan programs that white veterans got after WWII. That one always seemed to me like a bit of a smoking gun. 👿

1 hour ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rnd Is fish in the apt repo, or would I need to download it from somewhere?

1 hour ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rnd Ok, I used it but I could only get it to pull up the most recent match. Is there a way to get a list of matches?

1 hour ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rnd That does pull up a search; I'll try to remember that next time I need it.

(Still: nonobvious. If it had been in a menu, I would have found it years ago.)

1 hour ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rnd Maybe I should try FishShell... but I kinda feel like if we're using GUI software to do CLI, it's better to use GUI for additional features rather than trying to implement them in CLI, with all its obvious limitations.

Also, I do use the up-arrow feature a lot for repeating commands, but that doesn't work very well across sessions or chunks of time. The command I want may be back there somewhere, but there's no obvious way to search for it.

2 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@billyjoebowers I actually feel rather sorry for her, based on this. She's clearly got some really deep issues, and she's with exactly the wrong people to help her work them out in a healthy way, but... that level of self-abasement reminds me a lot of myself at a certain moment in high school. :blobcatupsidedown:

2 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

You'd think that by now, "smart" terminal emulation software would have the ability to remember certain complex commands that it otherwise would take several minutes to [re]construct, or even let you set up templates for composing them.

#softwareGripe

2 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@CptSuperlative @idlestate I was going to go for "City of New Orleans" ... >.>

2 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@researchbuzz Kill them with satire. (...which I guess is not dead after all!)

13 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@farah If there doesn't seem to be anything much going on emotionally that might be behind this, then I'd say it sounds like me when I haven't eaten enough.

13 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@CptSuperlative I've been told that naming is one of the hardest problems in system design...

13 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rey yule gibbous all you got! [brain free-associating, please pardon]

14 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@somecat "my mind... to my mind... my thoughts... are one..." okay, my suspension of disbelief is broken now.

14 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat
autistic TMI-dump incoming, feel free to ignore

@alice

At age 61, I've only got one ex.

...that is to say, there is only one person with whom I once had an official relationship (marriage, which was not my idea). Despite continuing to have a positive opinion about me from everything I hear, she's never shown the least bit of interest in maintaining contact. It's just how she is; no hard feelings.

Of the other three with whom I had relationships that were less official but much more emotionally intimate (and none of which were what I'd call sexual):

  • one ex-friended me (was never officially "romantic", it's complicated, WTH is a "romantic" relationship anyway) and then self-unalived (this is the extremely oversimplified version)
  • one remained in regular contact but then had a cancer and got deactivated
  • one is still friendly but her neurodivergence is of the type that means she forgets to notice that time (months, years...) has passed...

You didn't ask, but I answered anyway. [is helpful] :blobcat_rss:

15 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@blogoklahoma It takes special skill! :blobcatupsidedown:

15 hours ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

Hey @Vivaldi -- there's a bug where if I have a progressive app set up but I also have a page from the same site open in the browser and I shift-click to open it in a new tab, the browser and all progressive app windows lock up and Vivaldi crashes.

Is there a proper place to report this?

1 day ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@RichardJMurphy This agrees with my (b.1965) observations: they're feeling betrayed because the system which originally worked well for them and promised a better future is no longer doing so.

...but of course that's not because the system itself went bad, but because opposing ideologies have been systematically dismantling it.

The result is they're voting against the system that they liked and which was taken from them, and they're voting for the arseholes who took it.

The underlying question for me, then, is: why are they so absurdly gullible?

1 day ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@skinnylatte
[mother of all facepalms]

1 day ago
Woozle Hypertwin
woozle@toot.cat

@rnd Me neither*, at least not formally. I should be out of shape, and I don't understand why I'm not.

*...unless lifting heavy grocery bags several times a week counts, I guess...

1 day ago